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Prior to being benched by her city editor, Aggie had made headway in her coverage of Elizabeth Short's murder. She interviewed Robert "Red" Manley, the first suspect in the case, and concluded he was innocent. Her interview earned her a by-line. As far as I know she was the only Los Angeles reporter to get a by-line in the case.
Several people have taken credit for uncovering the Black Dahlia moniker; Aggie among them. In her 1949 autobiography, Newspaperwoman, Aggie said that she came across Elizabeth's nickname when she was checking in with Ray Giese, a LAPD homicide detective-lieutenant. According to Aggie, Giese said: "This is something you might like, Agness. I've found out they called her the 'Black Dahlia' around that drug store where she hung out down in Long Beach."
Like it? Aggie loved it. Los Angeles, in particular the Hearst newspapers, seemed to have a penchant for naming homicide cases after flowers. Over the years orchids, roses, and gardenias would feature in many grim headlines.
Aggie longed to be back in the field chasing leads and sniffing out suspects, but she was officially off the case for the second time. About her newsroom embroidery project Aggie said: "Although I got damn tired of it, I kept my needle going until the quitting hour. Early the next morning the assistant city editor announced that the city editor had made an overnight assignment for me to go back to homicide and continue on the 'Black Dahlia' case."
Once again Aggie was pulled off the case, but this time she learned that her new assignment was the city desk. She said she was: "Completely unwarned. I was the most surprised person in Los Angeles." She had just become one of the first women in the United States to hold a city editorship on a major metropolitan daily!
Why had Aggie been removed from the Black Dahlia case in the first place? People are drawn to conspiracies, no matter how unlikely, and there are those who believe there was a cover-up and Aggie was getting too close to a solution to Short's murder. Theorists have suggested someone with enough juice got Aggie promoted to keep her out of the way. That doesn't make sense to me, as city editor she directed the activities of all the reporters working the case, and she wasn't the sort of person who would take a pay-off. Nevertheless, the timing of Aggie's promotion remains an intriguing part Dahlia lore.
With Aggie back in the thick of things, the Herald continued to follow every lead. Sadly, the victim of a homicide is often re-victimized by the press and the public. Murder victims lose their right to privacy; all of their secrets are revealed, and in an effort to fill column space while multiple leads were being tracked, the Herald looked to psychiatrists, Elizabeth's acquaintances, and even mystery writers, to speculate on the case, which they did with creative abandon.
The psychiatrist whose expert opinion was sought by the Herald was Dr. Paul De River, LAPD's very own shrink. He wrote a series of articles for the paper in which he attempted to analyze the mind of the killer. De River wrote that the killer was a sadist and suggested that: "during the killing episode, he had an opportunity to pump up affect from two sources — from his own sense of power and in overcoming the resistance of another. He was the master and the victim was the slave".
In one of his most chilling statements, De River hinted at necrophilia—he said: "It must also be remembered that sadists of this type have a super-abundance of curiosity and are liable to spend much time with their victims after the spark of life has flickered and died".
People who had only a fleeting acquaintance with Elizabeth (who frequently called herself Betty, Bette or Beth) were interviewed by reporters and they weighed in on everything from her hopes and dreams to her love life. Beth was, by turns, described as "a man-crazy delinquent", and a girl with "childlike charm and beauty". The interviews yielded nothing of value in the hunt for Beth's killer.
The cops weren't having any better luck.
NEXT TIME: The Black Dahlia case goes cold.


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We really, and I mean really, love granola around here. But of course, it's just not that great for you. All the oil that usually goes into a batch of granola makes it a pretty high calorie snack and let's face it, no one can stop after just a handful of the tasty stuff.
I've made granola with applesauce instead of oil in the past but this is by far my favorite version. It's loaded with nuts (I used walnuts and pecans) and sunflower seeds which makes it not only yummy but also filling. It's sweet but not too sweet and you can adjust the dried fruit amount to make it even sweeter if it suits you.
- 2 1/2 cups old fashioned oats
- 1 cup nuts pecans, walnuts, almonds
- 1/2 cup sunflower seeds
- 1/4 cup sesame seeds
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1/3 cup raisins
Preheat oven to 300F.
In a large bowl, mix together oats, nuts, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, brown sugar, cinnamon, and salt. Set aside.
In a small saucepan, warm the applesauce with the honey and oil over low heat.
Mix the applesauce mixture into the oat mixture and stir to coat everything. Spread the mixture onto a 9 x 13 baking pan.
Bake for 45 – 50 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes, until the granola is a deep brown. Remove from oven and stir in raisins. Cool completely before enjoying.


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The School of Media Arts & Studies is tremendously pleased with the recent collaboration between The GRID Lab and Associate Professor of Bioorganic and Supramolecular Chemistry, Eric Masson.
Prof. Masson created the computer game he's calling Orgomino which he plans to use in the classroom in coming semesters to help students study.
According to GRID Lab Director John Bowditch, "The most challenging part of the project was developing a game for a subject we know little to nothing about," said Bowditch. "Game development comes naturally to us, but organic chemistry not so much. So, developing a game with a limited understanding of organic chemistry has been an interesting challenge for us to overcome."
To learn more about Orgomino, read the complete article on The Athens News.
Photo Credit: The original Orgomino board game and inspiration for the App, provided by Eric Masson.
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NFL and Associated Press Want Photographers' Antitrust Suit Tossed Forever
On Thursday, February 11, 2016, the NFL and The Associated Press asked a New York federal judge to dismiss a group of professional photographers' second attempt at asserting copyright and antitrust violations over the use of their photos taken at NFL games. At the hearing, the league and the media body — along with their co-defendants in the case, including Getty Images and Replay Photos LLC — argued that the photographers had failed to allege any new facts or claims in their second amended complaint, instead simply rehashing their original allegations. The case was dismissed earlier in 2016, but without prejudice, which is why the photographers were able to file the complaint as amended.
The lawsuit spawns from seven plaintiff photographers claiming the NFL forced the imaging companies to provide stock photos without paying royalties. This, the plaintiffs allege, allowed the league to use the photographers' photos commercially without paying them for the privilege to do so. The defendants had filed separate dismissal motions in October 2015.
The NFL and AP told the court that the allegations made by the cameramen are insufficient to support antitrust claims, arguing that at their core the claims fail because "there is nothing unlawful for the NFL to collect its game photos or for the NFL to license [them]." They also stated that to replead is not the same as to reargue issues and claims, but the latter was the true nature of what the plaintiffs were trying to do.
The photographers originally filed suit in 2013, but Judge Sweet, who is still presiding over the case, ordered dismissal in March 2015. At the close of oral arguments at this most recent hearing, Judge Sweet stated he would reserve judgment for a time period in the near future.


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Guest input can be crucial during event planning, execution and evaluation. Gathering information and feedback from your guests before, during and after an event ranges in complexity. Here are some options.
You can simply observe: how are guests reacting? What problems have cropped up? Do guests look hassled and frustrated? Are there lots of long lines, or is foot traffic moving freely? Are guests relaxed, visiting, smiling? Do you have a number where guests can reach customer service? What questions or observations is the guest services area receiving?
You can talk with guests, one-on-one. Imagine a manager at a restaurant moving from table to table during dinner. "How is everything?" Depending on the reach of your services ask a general question and then get more specific. Make notes after you speak with people so that you can remember the highlights.
You can ask specific questions via email, or on social media. If you have guest emails, or an event Facebook Page or hash tag, you could use this to send out a question or two. "Is the event meeting expectations?" "What would you like to see next year?"
Or you can create a survey. This is a more complex process, but you'll get the best information from it. Survey Monkey is one of the leading services on the market. If your survey is ten questions or less, and sent to fewer than 100 users, you could work with the basic package, which is free. 100% of the Fortune 100 companies use Survey Monkey- you'll be in good company! They have pre-written questions specifically for event planners, or you can create your own.
Getting input from your guests allows you to make informed decisions based on the specific group of people you are serving. Gathering reactions mid-event can help you make course corrections, changing anything from a playlist to a dinner menu to a course offering. It might also help you create a more appealing event next year.
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We have recently been involved in the search for missing persons, boats in difficulty, people cut off by tides among others.
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Tom Smalling donated his time to re-develop the Technical Education Center Osceola website. The new website is mobile-friendly and showcases all that TECO has to offer the students.
Technical Education Center Osceola (TECO) was badly in need of a redesign. The existing website was built on Microsoft's SharePoint Framework, and over the years it had grown into a mess of content and styles. I donated my time & design skills to help showcase TECO and our programs.
When reviewing our expectations of the website, one of the biggest requests was to offer a mobile version of the website. We decided to use the Bootstrap Framework and began re-thinking how the content should display for each program and section of the website.
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Using the extended keyboard
The extended keyboard is only visible in the active terminal. By tapping the screen once the keyboard panel hides or reappears. On the keyboard panel, you will find different buttons. The white buttons are function keys and are editable. The gray buttons are navigation keys and are not editable.
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The power number for the 3PBT45 impeller is 1.19.The power number for the 3-blade paddle impeller is 3.28.Both 165 mm diameter impellers are assumed to have blade widths of 33 mm.A 2:1 mix of 1000 kg/m3 liquid and 8000 kg/m3 solids is a 3.33 kg/ m3 slurry.The power required for the mixer is 30 KW total with both impellers. The total power for both impellers is the sum of the two impellers separately.The shaft diameter needs to be 50 mm, not 35 mmThe answers by this expert are based on the best available interpretation of the information provided. The consequences of the application of this information are the responsibility of the user. If clarification is needed, please submit a further question.
Topic: Re: How can I calculate my power number and power required for two different impellers?13 December 2011
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Re: How can I calculate my power number and power required for two different impellers?22 July 2014 at 5:08amHi, After reading the answer, I understand that in case of multiple impeller stages (mounted on a same shaft), the total power is the sum of the partial power independent of what kind of impeller are mounted on? the space between the two or three impellers are not important too? is that correct ? Thanks for your expertise
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Re: How can I calculate my power number and power required for two different impellers?22 July 2014 at 9:20am
The power required by multiple impellers on the same shaft is usually the sum of the separate impellers. The power for each impeller should be calculated separately and will depend on the impeller type and even involve impellers of different diameters. In most cases, the total power is just the sum of the individual impeller powers, unless that impellers are close together. If the impellers are less than a half an impeller diameter apart, the total power may be slightly less than the sum of the adjacent impellers. The interaction between impellers is not a common or major problem.


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Writers' letters: Saul Bellow, Miles Franklin and William Styron
What does the correspondence of writers tell us about the lives of the literary figures we love?
There's a famous letter by the Czech born German-language writer Franz Kafka to his father that begins 'You asked me recently why I maintain I am afraid of you'. His father never saw this letter but it's reproduced on the web and it's now part of his literary oeuvre.
We can say writers' letters are a genre in themselves. They often form part of the archives of literary figures, along with their journals, notebooks and electricity bills. They give insight into the inner world of the writer, their personal relationships, sometimes their politics and often their ego.
Recently the letters of Bruce Chatwin, Philip Larkin, Giuseppe Lampedusa, and Saul Bellow have been published. Australian writer Miles Franklin's have been republished. And William Styron's are being sorted for publication.
Today I'm joined by three editors of writers' letters collections: Jill Roe on Miles Franklin, Benjamin Taylor on Saul Bellow and Blake Gilpin on William Styron.
Ramona Koval: What does the correspondence of writers tell us about the lives of the literary figures we love? There's a famous letter by the Czech born German-language writer Franz Kafka to his father that begins: 'You asked me recently why I maintain I am afraid of you'. His father never saw this letter but it's reproduced on the web and many other people have read it and it's now part of his literary oeuvre.
We can say writers' letters are a genre in themselves. They often form part of the archives of literary figures, along with their journals, notebooks and electricity bills. They give insight into the inner world of the writer, their personal relationships, sometimes their politics and often their ego.
Recently the letters of Bruce Chatwin, Philip Larkin, Giuseppe Lampedusa, and Saul Bellow have been published. Australian writer Miles Franklin's letters have been republished. And William Styron's are being sorted for publication.
Today I'm joined by three editors of writers' letters collections: Jill Roe on Miles Franklin, Benjamin Taylor on Saul Bellow, and Blake Gilpin on William Styron.
Jill Roe is an historian, she is Professor Emerita at Macquarie University. She is the author of the biography Stella Miles Franklin: A Life and has just republished My Congenials, a collection of letters by Miles Franklin. She's in our Sydney studios
And in the studio with Jill is Benjamin Taylor, editor of Saul Bellow's Letters. He is a member of the Graduate Writing Program faculty at The New School in New York City and teaches at Columbia University. He is author of a book of essays Into the Open and two novels; Tales Out of School and The Book of Getting Even.
Blake Gilpin is a postdoctoral fellow at the US Studies Centre, University of Sydney. He's working on a collection of William Styron's letters, in collaboration with Styron's wife Rose, and a biography of Styron. His first book to be published is John Brown Still Lives, on the legacy of slavery. He joins us from Vineyard Haven on Martha's Island in Massachusetts.
Welcome all of you to The Book Show. But first, let's look at these three writers. They've all had long lives, Saul Bellow and William Styron were in the same milieu, Miles Franklin was a generation before them, but they were all very different. Benjamin, you edited the Saul Bellow letters. The Canadian born American Nobel laureate of Russian extraction was born in 1915, died in 2005 just before his 90th birthday, wrote books like Herzog, The Adventures of Augie March, Mr Sammler's Planet, Revelstein, Others. What do his letters tell us about this writer's life?
Benjamin Taylor: I went into this imagining that I was going to assemble these letters and have an autobiography before me, but what I discovered is that letters and autobiography are two very different things. Autobiography is the result of long reflection and properly comes towards the end of a life, letters register the heartbeat of any particular day and are in the heat of the moment and are streaming with raw emotion and unreflective urgent accounts of what's actually going on.
So I felt, reading these letters through, that I was somehow past the integument of any self-analysis or self-understanding and right there with him as he was struggling on any given morning or afternoon of his writing life, his romantic life, his life with friends, his life among enemies too.
Ramona Koval: You don't think they were conscious performances?
Benjamin Taylor: No, not at all, and he never gave a thought to the posterity of his letters, not at all. One interesting thing, if you look at the manuscripts of Saul Bellow, he always began by writing things out in notebooks. They are full of scratch-outs, scratch-outs everywhere, writing was rewriting for him. But the letters, the handwritten letters which are about half of what I have published, have no scratch-outs in them whatsoever.
Ramona Koval: Jill Roe, the first volume of Miles Franklin's letters called My Congenials was first published in 1993. There is now a new volume which has been updated with notes. What was her attitude to her letters compared to Bellow?
Jill Roe: 'Just a quick tap' was what she said. She wrote lots of letters, she was a very fast typist in later life, well, ever since she went to America actually, and so unlike Saul she kept heaps of stuff, especially when she came home in the 1930s. Writing for her was part of her extrovert side where she kept contact with the wider world. When I first read these letters I was preparing a biographical dictionary entry and I realised what a great cache of stuff this was. I think Miles probably hoped someone would think that one day.
Ramona Koval: What about you, Blake? William Styron died in 2006, just shy of 81, he is the author of novels including Sophie's Choice, The Confessions of Nat Turner, and that memoir of his long-standing depression, Darkness Visible. Last year William Styron's letters to his father were being published, but a complete collection of his letters is being compiled, and looking at this complete correspondence, Blake, what more do you think we can discover about him?
Blake Gilpin: I think the interesting thing is he changed a lot as a correspondent. So at first I think he was very much, as Benjamin was describing Saul Bellow, he was describing the events that he was living through and without much consideration. But as he became more established as a writer, especially into the '50s and '60s, he really started at least talking maybe sort of humorously that these letters were going to end up somewhere. You know, 'someone is going to collect this correspondence some day', that appears in dozens of letters. I mean, it's always a joke but there is some sort of awareness behind it that he is an important person and that these things that he might be just throwing down the page were going to be interesting to somebody someday. I don't think it censored him at all but it definitely...he was a very grudging letter writer, he didn't just sort of toss these things off, he spent a lot of time and he hated to sit down and do it because it meant that he was taking time away from the arduous process of trying to write fiction.
Ramona Koval: Jill Roe, read us a letter by a Miles Franklin, an early one.
Jill Roe: I bow to the inevitable here. Miles is a wonderfully witty letter writer but I'm going to read the first letter we have about the completed manuscript of My Brilliant Career, if that's okay. It's written when she is 20 and she is sending the manuscript off, she sending it off from Bangalore, the family farm near Goulburn in 1899 to Angus and Robertson. She says:
Dear Sirs
Herewith a yarn which I have written entitled My Brilliant(?) Career I would take it very kindly if you would read it and state whether or not it is fit for publication. Nothing great has been attempted, merely a few pictures of Australian life with a little of that mythical commodity, love, thrown in for the benefit of young readers (always keeping in mind should there be readers of any age). There will be no mistakes in geography, scenery or climate as I write from fact, not fancy. The heroine who tells the story is a study from life and illustrates the misery of being born out of one's sphere.
Awaiting reply,
Faithfully yours,
SMS Miles Franklin
Ramona Koval: So when you read that you get a sense...if it's a 20-year-old girl, she's sort of throwing up her work for review, she wants to warn you not to edit anything about geography, scenery or climate because she knows what she is talking about. She reminds you that she is miserable being born out of her sphere, just to get you a little bit on her side. But it's very direct, isn't it, as well
Jill Roe: It's very sharp, isn't it. I should say that when she signs herself SMS Miles Franklin, that is to disguise that she is a woman writer.
Ramona Koval: So do you think she's trying to get a boy's voice in that?
Jill Roe: Well, she says elsewhere that she was trying to pose as a wise old man, but it doesn't sound like that.
Ramona Koval: She wrote to Dymphna Cusack, 'Creative activity and congenial and stimulating association with one's fellows is the nearest happiness one can get.' Was that her approach to letter writing, when she wasn't writing to publishers?
Jill Roe: She had many close friends around the world, she called them 'my congenials' which is a very Miles sort of thing to say, and she certainly wrote freely about her thoughts and feelings to them. So yes, I think that is true, but I should say this, that in 1943 she wrote to Dymphna Cusack saying that she just been through her files and thrown out all her love letters, so there would be no details on that part of her life. So we don't know about that level of intimacy, except perhaps that she thought enough about them to burn them.
Ramona Koval: Benjamin Taylor, a recurring theme in Bellow's letters is an apology for not writing. He begins a letter to Cynthia Ozick, 'I can write a small book more easily than a letter, why is that?' And to Martin Amis he says, 'I used to be a ready correspondent but somehow over the years I've lost the habit of writing letters.' Where did letter writing fit into his life?
Benjamin Taylor: For someone who was such a grudging correspondent he wrote a lot of letters. I think he is always protesting a bit too much. What he is really saying is I'm sorry to be so long in responding, but when he gets to it he is an excited and dramatic and dramatising letter writer. Here is an example to Martin Amis, this is an old man's letter, it is written on the next to last day of 1990 from Ontario where he is on holiday with his wife Janis at her parents' farm. He and Martin Amis have apparently been reporting to each other on their dreams. Other people's dreams and usually very interesting, it's one's own that we are interested in. But there are three dreams reported in this letter, so vivid and so entertaining that I thought I would read his account of these three dreams to Martin Amis:
Dream number one: I identify Tolstoy as the driver of a beat-up white van on the expressway. I ask the old man at the wheel of this crumbling van what he can do to keep his flapping door from banging against the finish of my car. When he leans over to the right I see that he is none other than Leo Tolstoy, beard and all. He invites me to follow him off the expressway to a tavern, and he says, 'I want you to have this jar of pickled herring.' He adds, 'I knew your brother.' At the mention of my late brother, I burst into tears.
Dream two: A secret remedy for a deadly disease is inscribed in Chinese characters on my penis. For this reason my life is in danger. My son Greg is guarding me in a California hideout from the agents of a pharmaceutical company.
Dream three: I find myself in a library filled with unknown masterpieces by Henry James, Joseph Conrad and others. Titles I have never seen mentioned anywhere. In shock and joy I open a volume by Conrad and read several pages, sentence after sentence after sentence in the old boy's best style, more brilliant than ever. 'Why the hell was I never told about this?' I ask. Certain parties have been holding out on us. I am indignant.
He writes to Martin Amis, 'I depend on these dream-events to sort me out. Or perhaps to document my disorder more fully.'
Ramona Koval: They are great dreams. Do you think that's true? I mean really, does he really dream of Tolstoy and Conrad and Henry James regularly, do you think?
Benjamin Taylor: Well, what Freud said, all we have is the report on the dream, there is no direct access.
Ramona Koval: But it is fun to work it out, isn't it. You know, Tolstoy's car wrecking the finish of his. Who is the genius here?
Benjamin Taylor: Just the arbitrariness of dreams and the higgledy-piggledy nature of them and the way the scene changes without any interface, that all does seem to me a realistic account of what dreams are like.
Ramona Koval: But I do love the idea of Tolstoy offering to give him the sacred jar of pickled herring.
Benjamin Taylor: I even proposed that the book be entitled I Want You to Have This Jar of Pickled Herring...
Ramona Koval: That would have been a great title, or at least a subtitle.
Benjamin Taylor: ...but Penguin nixed that.
Ramona Koval: I just wonder, is there something of the style of writing we associate with the novels, is that apparent in the letters, or is this a completely different form of writing practice? Blake, what do you think about how that applies to William Styron?
Blake Gilpin: I think there was a lot of back and forth between his correspondence and sometimes when he was coming up for a breath and talking to his peers, especially other writers, about the difficulties of having...whether it was writer's block or whether he was having a real patch of success, producing a lot of pages, these breaks where he would grudgingly sit down and try to write a letter, I think that was a way that he was mediating between those different phases.
So I really think of it as part of that larger whole. In your introduction you said that there are these different genres and we think of the letters now as being a separate part of a writer's output, but I think that there's a real connection that I see, especially intense in Styron's early career, that this is all part of a flowing number of words, and some of it is going into the books he's writing, and some of it is going into his correspondence. And that's really apparent in the language as much as it is in the details of what he's writing.
So I really think that there's a real powerful connection and without one...I mean, especially without the letter writing, I think he would have been tremendously isolated. He was a very neurotic man and so you see this vacillation between great periods of confidence and just absolute despair, and I think that writing letters often helped him modulate those a little bit rather than just give in to this totally manic swing between the two.
Ramona Koval: I wondered if you had an extract of a letter to read us?
Blake Gilpin: Yes, I actually have one that's pretty representative of that. This is actually a letter he wrote the year before his first novel was published in 1951, and this is to his mentor, William Blackburn, who was an English professor at Duke University. It says:
Dear Professor Blackburn,
I seem to have mailed my last letter to you just before I received yours. But anyway, I want to thank you for your nice words of praise, and criticism too, which were accurate and to the point and appreciated. I'm very glad that generally speaking you looked upon the book and found it good, for although I like to feel myself Olympian and aloof from either criticism or praise in the manner of the grand artiste, I know that I'm really not that at all but actually just dying to hear a good word spoken, especially from you whose words are always so just and right.
In general I think that so far I have accomplished what I set out to do, at the cost of a lot of effort, but worthwhile effort. I think that my next work will be a little easier to write on account of all this present strain and toil. Of course when I read the manuscript over myself I'm often not satisfied with anything, but that comes only in moments of over-critical and over-reproachful despair. Actually I just don't think I can change very much at all, except for a few minor phrases and the passage I mentioned.
My natural bent seems to be rhetorical and in this book I have to fight against the inclination all the time, realising as I finally do that the scope of this particular novel, despite my visions of grandeur, is too limited to allow many purple patches. However, I'm not a devotee of the Hemingway tight-lipped mumble school, as you know, and eventually when I mature and broaden I expect to use language on an as exalted and elevated a level as I can sustain. I believe that a writer should accommodate language to his own peculiar personality, and mine wants to use great words, evocative words when the situation demands them. I believe in infinite artistic restraint, but I also believe that the lean, spare style of our time can be and is just as artificial as the more orotund and high-flown passages in Tom Wolfe. Somewhere there is an in-between and I aim to find it.
Ramona Koval: What about Benjamin, do you think that there is very much of the style in the work that appears in the letters? Of course Bellow is known for his book Herzog which was a novel in letters, but those Herzog letters seem to be very different from the ones that Saul Bellow wrote. Saul Bellow isn't Herzog.
Benjamin Taylor: No, absolutely not, Herzog is an invention. Herzog is, as Bellow was always quick to describe him, a failure, a man who has a manuscript that he can't turn into a book. That was never Saul Bellow's problem, and Herzog is a man who in despair, in the grip of a breakdown, begins manically writing letters. There are certain points of similarity between Herzog and Saul Bellow, but the differences are what strike me. And the letters I've collected are one-and-all letters that were posted and sent, stamped and put in the mailbox. The letters of Moses Herzog are unsent letters, first to people he knows, then to people he does not know, then to people you couldn't send a letter to. How would you send a letter to Spinoza, for example, or God, or one's dead mother? Those are the people in the latter half of that novel that Moses Herzog is writing to. So I don't think that Saul Bellow's letters resemble Moses Herzog's, no.
Ramona Koval: But the writing of Bellow, is there any sort of rehearsal of voice in those letters?
Benjamin Taylor: I say in my introduction that I think the letters are a third voice. From what I know of Saul Bellow's speech and from what I know of his writing, the letters conform to neither, they gave him an outlet for a kind of freehand sketching of things that would gain solidity only in the fiction. You might think of these as the doodling of a great artist rather than his canvases, or the sketches, the sketchbook.
Ramona Koval: Jill, what about you? Do you think there's much relationship between the writing of Miles Franklin and her letters?
Jill Roe: I've been very interested to hear what my fellow panellists are saying about a continuum and about the vitality and spontaneity of correspondence. And what I guess is different about this collection, My Congenials, is that in accordance with the publishers commission it's a collection of letters by and to, so that although 60% of them are by Miles, about 40% are letters that she has received. So you get a sense of a conversation, and therefore you get more of a sense I think of a distinct genre in this approach. You also get that vitality which, in the best of her writings, is there. She was very good at topical writings, would have been a good journalist. And in the letters she is telling people all around the world what's going on, and some of it is very funny. Is that a good answer though?
Ramona Koval: It's a fine answer, it's your answer and we're sticking with it! You've raised a good point that yours is a collection of letters to and from, so I want to talk about the whole editorial process, about how you've all managed to get your hands on the letters of these figures, all of whom have rich archives. Jill, how did you manage to get permission to use the letters of the other people that were writing to her? That sounds like a lot of work to get everybody to say yes.
Jill Roe: Yes, that was very hard work, especially as Miles is a generation earlier than the two other writers we're talking about, and therefore tracing copyright owners could be quite complicated. However, when it was finally done, everyone seemed...I never had anyone say no. So although it's tedious...editing has its tedious side too, and you are glad when it is done. Copyright is an important matter, I should say, in this modern age, and people need to be thinking a bit more about it in my opinion.
Ramona Koval: So you were aided of course by the fact that she kept carbon copies of letters she wrote, but that was later in her life, wasn't it. How many letters would you have to have sorted through the collection?
Jill Roe: An estimate of the surviving correspondence, that is by and to, is about 10,000, and this volume, this one volume, contains a bit over 500, and it doesn't contain very much professional correspondence, though necessarily it contains some. So Miles gave her papers to the State Library of New South Wales, they own the copyright on her work, all of that sort of manuscript work, and I spent a long time in the State Library of New South Wales, which I came to think of as my spiritual home.
Ramona Koval: Benjamin, what was your approach in doing this collection?
Benjamin Taylor: I began at the University of Chicago Library where the archives of Saul Bellow are housed, and in those archives are a number of carbons and photocopies, almost never made by Saul Bellow though, made by a series of secretaries. And then from about 1984 on, everything that left the house or the office was photocopied by his wife Janis. So my labours were greatly speeded by her having done that. She was very, very provident in those years. I then went to a number of other research libraries where his correspondents had deposited letters they'd received from him. But you still have to go hat in hand to individuals who hold letters, and that's a tricky business when you are asking someone to hand over love letters that she received many years ago.
Ramona Koval: And given that Saul Bellow had five wives, that meant he had four divorces, that must have been a little bit tricky because not all of them were happy divorces, if there is such a thing.
Benjamin Taylor: No, not one single one of those four divorces was happy, and yes, as recently as this morning I opened my email to an angry note from a former wife of Saul Bellow. So I would have to say that I knew I wasn't going to please everybody and I haven't pleased everybody by what I've published, and things were withheld from me. But that's the nature of this; letters get lost, letters are thrown out, letters are withheld from an editor who wants them. Eventually you just go with what you've got.
Ramona Koval: There isn't very much sweet-talking between Janis and Saul Bellow, Janis his fifth wife, and I understand this is because they didn't write to each other.
Benjamin Taylor: No, they were never apart and so there was no occasion to letters, though she certainly dominates the last quarter of the book, she is everywhere in the letters he does write.
Ramona Koval: And she did act as his secretary, as you said.
Benjamin Taylor: She began as his student, she then became his assistant, she then became his secretary...
Ramona Koval: She moved up the pecking order.
Benjamin Taylor: In the fullness of time he was interviewing her for another sort of job, and she became Mrs Bellow, yes.
Jill Roe: Miles never had such a help. Good idea.
Ramona Koval: But how do we know though, Jill, because we don't know what her romantic life was like.
Jill Roe: Well, we certainly know that she didn't have anyone at home filing her letters or are doing her footwork, and male writers often do or often have (I'm not sure that the world has changed that much). She did remark from time to time that if only she did have such help at home, life would be a lot easier.
Ramona Koval: Blake, as we said earlier, you're in the middle of putting together William Styron's collected letters, you're doing it in collaboration with his widow Rose. So what's your approach?
Blake Gilpin: I've collected all the letters and that has been sorting through thousands of letters, very few of which are actually Styron's outgoing correspondence, and then collecting them from whoever we can get them from. And that involves knowing who he was corresponding to, writing to those people saying 'Do you know where these letters are?' and obviously that is a lengthy and complicated process.
But after that stage I transcribe everything and then Rose and I go over it together. And sometimes she remembers things that no one else knows about, which is a really unique aspect to this collection. She'll remember a party that Styron is describing in 1953 and we can put that into the scholarly apparatus, which I think is really great. Other times she's just saying 'I think this letter is good' or 'I think this letter is bad'...
Ramona Koval: And what about other sorts of editorial decisions? Do you feel a little bit inhibited by the widow on your shoulder?
Blake Gilpin: Not at all because I think she wants his reputation to live on and I don't think anything that we are looking at is damaging to that. I have to say that may happen when we meet with Random House at the final stages and they say 'we think this is too controversial' or 'we think this is too sensitive', but that definitely is not her take on things, which I think is really refreshing.
Ramona Koval: And Benjamin, you worked with a widow too, but Bellow was a much more swashbuckling kind of romantic figure during his life probably, there were a lot more women and lovers and ex-wives to be sensitive about. How did you manage that with Janis's sensitivities?
Benjamin Taylor: We never had any but the most congenial disagreements about what letters should be included. She was a dream to work with. She agreed with me absolutely that the point of the book was to reveal the man in all his parts and to censor nothing, and I will always be grateful to her for that.
Ramona Koval: So how do we think about these things as literature? How do Bellow's letters compare to other major literary figures' correspondence in terms of literary value?
Benjamin Taylor: If you were to establish a scale with Keats and Byron at the top, I guess I would say Bellow is somewhere short of that absolute standard, but he is among the very greatest 20th-century letter writers. In my own culture they include Flannery O'Connor, Hart Crane, Katherine Anne Porter and others, and in England Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. These are stupendous letter writers, and reading over the full record of Saul Bellow's letters I would put him alongside them.
Also in the United States we had wonderful letter writers who were poets; Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, for example, poets of that generation, the generation after Hart Crane whom I mentioned. Not every great writer is a great letter writer, and you could make a list of the very best writers of the century just past who were perfunctory correspondents, but Saul Bellow was an inspired correspondent.
Ramona Koval: And Blake, what do you think with your guy?
Blake Gilpin: I find different writers to be such different correspondents that I tend to think of it less as a horse race and more as an insight into that writer's work. And so I find it fascinating...I'm also often envious, reading the Bellow collection I just thought, man, if this was a selection! Because we are dealing with an opposite problem with Styron which is that he didn't save all his own letters and he was not a voluminous correspondent, so...
Ramona Koval: And you are dealing with someone who has a major depressive illness for a lot of his life, so presumably a lot of the time he just didn't feel like writing.
Blake Gilpin: That is true. The period in which he was writing the most and I think his most important work which is basically from 1945 until 1980, he was writing a lot of letters. As Rose and I have discovered, we don't want to include ones that are talking about his boat expenses, that's just really not very interesting to anybody. But he's writing amazing letters to his family and he is corresponding with all the most important 20th-century American writers, and I think that correspondence is absolutely fascinating, both in its gossipy aspects and in its literary one.
Ramona Koval: What about you, Jill? There are collections of Patrick White's letters edited by David Marr and Henry Handel Richardson, Christina Stead, how does Franklin compare with these letter writers?
Jill Roe: I'm not going to get into those stakes either, but what I'm going to say is that Miles is one of the great letter writers in her own style, and partly this is because she has such vitality. If you look at the Henry Handel Richardson collection, not very much has survived, there are very significant runs but there is not the same diversity to them. If we talk and confine our attention to women writers, then there is a great tradition of women letter writers in this country and Miles is right there in it, and without her we wouldn't actually have some of the fine collections that we now have because she actually was there writing the letters, perhaps because she had time.
So I don't know whether I want to think very hard about the comparison between male and female letter writers, but there may well be one. With Miles we're talking about the great era of letter writing, everyone wrote them and there is great diversity in them, and women wrote heaps of them and it's significant as to what has survived and what did not. But anyway, Miles's letters are significant in their own right.
Ramona Koval: So what survived and what did not, and I suppose that's the last question today, about the future in letter writing and emailing, and somehow whenever there is a big investigation of some bad behaviour somewhere, somehow all those things that we thought we deleted can be found somewhere in some great computer in the sky. So I've stopped worrying that emails are gone and lost forever because I think they probably aren't. So what about the culture of emailing and letter writing? Do you worry for future biographers about what they might be dealing with, future collectors of literary production?
Benjamin Taylor: The great enemy of biographers in the modern age was the telephone because what you blather way into that thing is lost forever, and people don't have long phone conversations anymore, they have email, and so I think there is a net gain for biographers. I'm not of the gloom and doom school here, these things, if they are saved, and apparently things we think we haven't saved are in fact somewhere...I don't know very much about this but I gather that in the future some deliberate effort to save everything will result in a complete archive of the emails people have sent...
Ramona Koval: Imagine going through that lot!
Benjamin Taylor: What a terrific boon for biographers of the future.
Ramona Koval: Thank you all for joining us today, it's been fantastic speaking with you. Benjamin Taylor, the editor of Saul Bellow's Letters, published by Penguin, Jill Roe is the editor of My Congenials: Miles Franklin and Friends in Letters, published by 4th Estate, and watch out for The Collected Letters of William Styron, edited by Blake Gilpin with Rose Styron, it's going to be published by Random House, probably out early next year, 2012.
- Benjamin Taylor
- Editor of Saul Bellow: Letters. He is a member of the Graduate Writing Program faculty at The New School in New York City and teaches at Columbia University, he is author of a book of essays Into the Open and two novels Tales Out of School and The Book of Getting Even.
- Jill Roe
- Historian and Professor Emerita, Macquarie University. She is the author of the biography Stella Miles Franklin: A Life and has just republished My Congenials a collection of letters by Miles Franklin.
- Blake Gilpin
- A postdoctoral fellow at the US Studies Centre, University of Sydney. He's working on a collection of William Styron's letters, in collaboration with Styron's wife, Rose, and a biography of Styron. His first book to be published is John Brown Still Lives, on the legacy of slavery.
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I was amused to read that Hopkins pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson feels he was "profiled" for an audit by the IRS because he was critical of President Barack Obama ("Ben Carson says he was targeted by the IRS over his beliefs," Oct. 3).
Dr. Carson says he is thinking of going into politics and running for office. Perhaps he should do a skin test on himself because it seems awfully thin for the new career he seeks.
I have been a strong supporter of President Obama in the last two elections. And I, too, was audited by the IRS. To what do I attribute that? Bad luck? Good governance?
It concerns me that Dr. Carson feels that he is so important that the IRS would single him out for an audit. He should be happy that he has not had to endure one in the past.
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PHOENIX — The founder of two chains of natural foods grocery stores has resigned after he was arrested in a child prostitution sting in Phoenix.
Sunflower Farmers Market CEO Michael Gilliland was accused of soliciting sex online with someone who identified herself as an underage girl. He faces a charge of felony child prostitution.
Hoffman withdrew $1,200 hours before death: sources
Philip Seymour Hoffman withdrew a total of $1,200 from an ATM at a supermarket near his New York City apartment the night before he was found lifeless in his bathroom with a syringe still in his left arm, sources told NBC News.
- NYC mayor will skip St. Pat's parade over gay ban
- Indiana man back home 18 years after abduction
- 32 states in the path of another wild storm
- Judge vows quick ruling on Va. marriage ban
- Hoffman withdrew $1,200 hours before death: sources
Gilliland resigned from Sunflower, which has locations in seven states. He also founded Wild Oats Markets Inc., which was acquired by Whole Foods Market in 2007.
Gilliland was one of eight men arrested Thursday in the sting.
Sunflower said he told the company he believes he is not guilty. He could not be reached Saturday on his cell phone.
Sunflower's president and COO, Chris Sherrell, was named acting chief executive by the company's board of directors. He has been with Sunflower since it was formed in 2002.
"Sunflower appreciates the respect that Mr. Gilliland has shown for the company by his action so that his personal affairs will not affect the company," Sherrell said.
He said the change in management will not affect Sunflower's operations or its plans for expansion. The chain has 32 stores in California, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and Texas.
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Can someone explain tarot cards to me?
I get that tarot cards can tell the past, future, and present, but that's about all I know. I want to know why there are so many different kinds of them. Do they all read the same thing just different pictures? Someone please expain IN DETAIL!
Answer by Rooker
How is it when this question doesn't pertain to religion people answered it thoroughly as if it is pertain to religion, but when I ask a question (How does Paleoanthropology link with modern evolutionary synthesis?), people quick to write that it doesn't belong in this category?
Answer by SPL Texas
One of satans devices to make you invite demons into your life to control and destroy your body mind and spirit.
Run to Jesus for safety eternally!
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They make the big business happy and rich
Answer by Average Mike
Tarot cards are a complete and utter hoax. They simply serve to demonstrate and underscore some people's gullibility.
Does anyone have a set of tarot cards that they dont want and maybe a book also?
I just want a set of tarot cards and like an instruction booklet or something that will teach me how to use them i think its interesting.
Answer by YFB
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My wife who is a Tarot Master, says for me to leave Tarot as an uknown entity and don't bother the unknown. She has locked up her tarot cards so I can't get at them and my advice is to leave well enough alone. The same applies to the "ouija board".
So what you don't know won't hurt you.
how can i learn to read tarot cards?
i'm interested in learning how to read tarot cards for myself and friends. what's a cheap place online to get cards, what's an easy way to learn to read them? and how comes some people say they are bad?
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hey my mom erad tarot cardsw there is a book that comes with them study it…
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Go to your local Hastings, they should sell some Tarot cards, and you can usually get a set that includes a book on how to read. People think they are bad because they were used by Pagans (Earth worshippers, not devil worshippers like popular belief). Most people don't realize the four suits of playing cards are based off of the 4 suits of Tarot (swords, pentacles, cups and coins).
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Hi waitress,
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Amazon.com has dozens of different decks. If you search a little, you'll find one that's inexpensive. There are many used decks for around $ 10.
To learn tarot, try these websites:
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8 Most Common Expression and Their Unbelievable Origin Stories
Posted on Jan 30, 2017
New words just keep popping up in the English language, and everyone adopts them really fast, but have you ever wondered who made a certain word or expression up and how? Well, we're here to help. Here are some commonly used expressions and their origin stories.
1. The First Thing We'll Be Talking About Is "Xmas"
Everyone knows that it is a shorter word for Christmas but you will be shocked to find out how long it's been around.


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Civil society organizations raised the issues of transparency of the RCEP negotiations and the trade deal's potential effects to various social sectors last May 10 in Manila.
Agriculture has always been on top of the World Trade Organization's (WTO) agenda from the very start. Since it was created two decades ago to replace the GATT, WTO's trade liberalization policies immediately found its way to open up agricultural trade markets in the Global South. Being the primary economic sector of the developing world, efforts to cut down tariffs on agricultural goods while allowing rich countries to dump heavily subsidized products devastated local economies and pushed the people – peasants, farmers, fisherfolk, indigenous people, rural women and youth, to deeper poverty.
On the opening day of the 10th Ministerial Conference (MC10) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Nairobi, global activists welcomed trade ministers from over 100 countries with a protest. Some 200 activists from 12 countries joined grassroots organizations in Nairobi, Kenya to protest 20 years of the WTO's broken development promises. Simultaneous actions were held in the Philippines, Indonesia, Pakistan and other countries spearheaded by the Asian Peasant Coalition and the International League of Peoples Struggles.
20 years of WTO have been 20 years of opening up the world to transnational corporate plunder and the languishing of billions of people in poverty, landlessness, unemployment, precariousness, and environmental catastrophes. The 10th WTO Ministerial in Nairobi is set to perpetuate the same neoliberal free trade agenda, and more! Corporations and governments are pushing for new rules to strengthen corporate control and reverse the hard-won rights fought for by people through their collective action.
A few days ago, the United States, Japan and 10 other countries from the Pacific region arrived at a final agreement to approve what has been cited as the largest regional trade accord in history, The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. The trade deal focuses on lowering trade barriers to goods and services, tightens intellectual property (IP) laws and establishes an investor-state dispute settlement mechanism.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement was signed on 4 February 2016. This initiated an ongoing ratification process with the agreement set to go into effect when the collective gross domestic product (GDP) of countries that ratified equals at least 85% of the total GDP of all 12 countries party to the signing: Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, Singapore, United States, Australia, Peru, Vietnam, Malaysia, Mexico, Canada and Japan.
Two decades since the establishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO), over 60 agreements and numerous ministerial trade negotiations have led to empty promises that continue to fail developing countries and their people. Throughout its existence, the WTO's mandate to set rules for an international trading order has resulted in unfettered liberalization causing far-reaching and disastrous impacts in the economy, agriculture sector and food systems of people in the developing world.
New free trade deals across regions such as the Transpacific Partnership Agreement, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, and Trade-in-Services-Agreement, among many others are being negotiated that will have far-reaching implications for peoples in both the global North and South and for the future of the world economy. But these deals will neither benefit the democratic majority nor rescue the world economy in crisis.


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Today, Jae Franklin celebrates life with the release of her EP Cheers to Life. Going through the ups and downs of life while living all around the world, Jae displays her perspective on life and what she is thankful for. Take a moment and listen to this talented future soul artist.
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Numerous studies and research have shown that allowing electronic devices in bedrooms overnight has negative effects on children's health and wellbeing. A quick search will lead you to many of the most recent reports. Most notability, children don't sleep as well when they stay up late and/or wake up during the night to use their devices, check social media, text and Snapchat, etc.
|February 2016 Grade 5-12 Parent Survey
Over half, 55.4%, of parents stated they keep technology out of their kids' bedrooms overnight.
This is a sizable increase from the results on last year's survey when 43.9% of parents surveyed stated that they kept devices out of their kids' bedrooms at night.
38% of parents of 9-12 grade students keep devices out of bedrooms overnight.Furthermore, you might assume that this only is the elementary or middle school parents who do this. However, when you break the data down and just look at high school parents, 38% of our parents of current 9-12 grade students keep devices out of bedrooms overnight. This number has also increased from last year's survey when 32.7% of 9-12 parents responded that they keep devices out of their kids' bedrooms.
|Families are encouraged to keep the iPad and other
technology in a central location to charge overnight.
Put the iPad to bed, but not in the bedroom
Parenting experts suggest parking all technology devices, from cell phones to iPads, in a common spot overnight to discourage late night, unmonitored use and sleep disruption. Don't allow your child to sleep with the iPad, laptop or cell phone. Remember to model appropriate use and balance of technology in your own life, too!
As mentioned last week, sometimes our kids tell us that everyone else else gets to do something except them, such as keep their phone in their room overnight.
"My phone is my alarm clock."
|Cellphones at our house are kept out of
bedrooms overnight, even parents' phones.
Related posts:
- Five Ways to Raise Digitally Balanced JOMO (Joy of Missing Out) Kids ina FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) World
- District Digital Citizenship Committee: Tonka Schools Campaign to Raise Awareness of Cyber Safety at Home


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Revista de biología marina y oceanografía
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GONGORA, María E; BOVCON, Nelson D and COCHIA, Pablo D. Fish bycatch in the Patagonian shrimp fishery Pleoticus muelleri Bate, 1888. Rev. biol. mar. oceanogr. [online]. 2009, vol.44, n.3, pp.583-593. ISSN 0718-1957. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-19572009000300006.
The catch of non-target animal species, known as bycatch, and their discard are main problems in fisheries management. The prawn or shrimp trawl fisheries in particular are recognized for their incidence in the global discards. In Argentine Patagonia there is an industrial shrimp fishery based on the species Pleoticus muelleri, of high commercial value. Since 2001 an on-board observer program collects information about all species caught. We analyzed the composition of the bycatch of fishes in the Patagonian shrimp fishery and the frequency of species occurrence. The data analyzed correspond to the outrigger freezing fleet, which catches more than 75% of the total shrimp landings in Argentina. We identified 67 species of osteichthyes, chondrichthyes and myxini, corresponding to 42 families. The families with the larger number of species were Rajidae (9), Clupeidae (3), Ophidiidae (3), Zoarcidae (3), Nototheniidae (3) y Paralichthyidae (3). Of the 67 species reported as bycatch, seven had not been reported before in the San Jorge gulf and adjacent waters: Atlantoraja cyclophora, Brevoortia aurea, Diplodus argenteus, Pagrus pagrus, Micropogonias furnieri, Sarda sarda and Paralichthys patagonicus.
Keywords : Solenoceridae; non-target species; San Jorge Gulf; ecosystem-based management; Argentina.


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Hunger 101
What is Hunger? And, who is experiencing it?
Hunger is a condition in which people do not get enough food to provide the nutrients for fully productive, active lives. Hunger, food insecurity, and poverty are all inextricably linked in our community and we are living in times where it is getting harder and harder for families to make ends meet.
As a result, many people are finding themselves skipping meals or cutting back on the quality or quantity of food they purchase for themselves and their families. Many families also have to make the difficult choice of choosing to buy food or pay for housing or medicine.
An educational project of the Gallatin Valley Food Bank, Hunger 101, is a flexible curriculum that offers a broad range of multi-session curriculum programs, stand-alone interactive sessions, and diverse small group activities that explore the issues of hunger and poverty in Gallatin County/Montana, the US, and the World. Click here to download a copy of the curriculum
Hunger 101 is designed to open people's eyes by sharing information, activities and ideas with children, teens, and adults of all ages.
The curriculum increases awareness of food insecurity, hunger, and poverty while addressing the causes and consequences of these serious problems.
The program encourages participants to form their own opinions on the issues surrounding food insecurity, hunger, and poverty and explore possible solutions.
Hunger 101 also includes a workshop that we can lead for you at your school or organization. Please contact the Food Bank to request a Hunger 101 workshop.


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Bank of England's Saunders edges towards rate rise
[LONDON] Bank of England policymaker Michael Saunders said on Friday that he expected growth and inflation this year to be higher than the central bank forecast two months ago, and saw scope for rates to rise modestly while still boosting the economy.
Mr Saunders, in a speech to small businesses in London, said he did not want to commit to how he would vote at next month's Monetary Policy Committee meeting, as there was still plenty of data to come.
But he said that despite uncertainty about the exact terms on which Britain would leave the European Union in 2019, policymakers were not obliged to keep rates on hold until everything was clear.
"I judge that the current policy stance is clearly accommodative," he told members of the Federation of Small Businesses.
"While not prejudging what I or the MPC might decide on monetary policy - a modest rise in rates would still imply that considerable stimulus remains in place, helping to support output and jobs," he added.
The minutes of the BoE's last meeting in March showed that in addition to one policymaker - Kristin Forbes - backing an immediate rate rise, other unnamed MPC members were also considering doing so.
Mr Saunders said he "would not be surprised" if consumer price inflation reached three per cent later this year or in early 2018, and said economic growth could maintain a year-on-year rate of two per cent through this year and next.
The BoE's February forecasts showed growth slowing to 1.6 per cent in 2018 from two per cent this year, and for inflation to peak at less than three per cent.
"I want to stress that this prospective near-term inflation pickup does not imply that Brexit Britain will face persistently high inflation. Nor does it signal that the MPC has gone soft on our low inflation remit," Mr Saunders said.
"Over time, the appropriate monetary policy can and will ensure that inflation returns to the two per cent target," he added.


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American Legion Post 108 To Hold Patriots Day/9-11 Remembrance
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The Amador American Legion Auxiliary will hold a Patriots Day/9-11 Remembrance tomorrow from 9AM – 11AM at American Legion Post 108 on Sutter Hill. The Patriots Day/ 9-11 Remembrance will begin at 9AM with a special ceremony and moment of silence, followed by light refreshments and snacks. American Legion Post 108, Auxiliary Unit 108, Jackson Fire Department, Sutter Creek Fire Department and CAL FIRE will be in attendance.


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Recent years have witnessed increased international commitments to eliminate cultural practices deemed harmful to women, particularly female genital cutting, child marriage and intimate partner violence. Addressing an urgent need to share insights across disciplines, this two-day workshop brings together evolutionary and cultural anthropologists, demographers, sociologists, political scientists and economists, working to understand the origins and drivers of so-called 'harmful cultural practices'. Invited speakers will share their recent work questioning and informing current efforts of the international development sector, and government and multilateral agencies seeking to discourage harmful behaviors and promote female empowerment. Discussion sessions will focus on cross-cutting issues such as context-dependency in the evidence for harm, the motivations and interactions of multiple actors that maintain ostensibly harmful practices, methodological considerations when working with sensitive research topics, and the evaluation and design of behavior change initiatives.
The workshop is generously funded by the UCSB College of Letters and Science and the Broom Center for Demography. Image: Taken from a poster advertising the dangers of early marriage in Mwanza, Tanzania.
Please see the following link for more details: https://davidwlawson.wordpress.com/2018workshop/


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In this lovely guest post the question of whether or not playing the popular PC game League of Legends, or any game for that matter, is good for us as gamers. Check out his opinions on the matter and be sure to share some of your own!
Is Playing League of Legends Good For You?
Written by Jamal Asskoumi
Blogger, Journalist, Entrepreneur and Video Game Addict.
To my fellow League of Legends (LoL) addicts we can probably think of nothing better than playing a competitive game of league, and have subconsciously convinced ourselves that we becoming better human beings by doing so. But is it really any good for us?
As it is already what we believe, I think that we should first discuss the benefits. While there are many, the one that seemed the most impressive was a study carried out by surgeons who played League of Legends (obviously not while in surgery), and were 27% faster and made 37% fewer errors than surgeons who did not. I know, most of you aren't surgeons and this is not applicable, but it's the principle behind this statistic which is outstanding, the playing of League was able to enhance your mind's concentration! As all LoL players are familiar, it takes a high degree of concentration, one that is not matched by any other game, so much so that the concentration translates to other aspects of life. Great huh? While the next statistic is fairly generalised, it applies nonetheless, gaming reduces stress levels by 17%. Yes, League of Legends is a game, so it does apply. There is nothing better than coming home from a stressful day at work and unwinding by screaming at teammates, telling them that they do not know what they're doing, that's the life.
Now to the segment we had all been dreading, I could pretend that there aren't any cons and we could all live in our peaceful and delusional world, alas I cannot. I'm sure the most common disadvantage of league is its time-consuming trait, within a few games, hours have flown by. Although this is all down to the player, it is extremely easy to lose track of time, especially with the inability to see the time on the monitor while in-game. Riot games have managed to put out a very polished final product, which they were kind enough to make free to the public, the irony is their graciousness comes at a price. The implementation of riot points has made it almost impossible to be successful at the game without spending any money, be it through champions or runes, you will end up purchasing something in-game.
Although I wasn't able to cover all areas of pros and cons, I hope this overview gives you a great enough insight as to whether or not League of Legends is good for you, as long as you play in moderation, I'll allow you to make that conclusion yourself.
Want to contribute a guest post to LSZ? Drop me a line at email@example.com and let's work something out! We here at LSZ would love to feature some fresh work and new perspectives, plus everyone benefits, so why not?


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Move existing project definitions from projects/gsoc_2011/ to projects/project/ . The goal for this reorganization is to remove any knowledge of the projects classification from the file hierarchy: the classification goes into tags, and projects indexes automatically list projects based on such tags. Also, the current gsoc_2011 name was wrong anyway, because GSoC 2011 has already concluded and projects would have had to move to a gsoc_2012 directory anyway. Lastly, yes, "projects/project/*" is slightly redundant. But I want to keep the project lists from the projects "database" clearly separated. This is as proposed in www@.
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David Haas, Professor, obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 1989 and joined the University of Georgia the same year. He teaches courses in late Romantic and early twentieth-century topics. His research focuses on Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Russian opera, Russian music criticism, and music and literature. He is the author of Leningrad's Modernists (1998) and the translator of Boris Asafyev's Symphonic Etudes (2007).
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Early Days have been manufacturing baby shoes in the UK for over 60 years.
Their latest "Leather Collection" is the result of years of shoemaking experience by the two brothers Tony and Michael Bolton the founders of the company back in 1952, both now long retired this expertise has been passed on to Michael Bolton's two sons.
The process starts in the selection of using top grade Italian softee leathers. Each skin is examined carefully for weight, softness and any faults that may effect the finished shoes before being sent through to the cutting department.
The individual components are cut out of the leather skin using a Cutting Press and a strip knife
Once the uppers have been cut each component is split down to the optimum thickness to ensure each pair of finished shoes is completely uniform.
The uppers are then prepared for the closing room where skilled machinists sew around each component ensuring the edge stitching is tight to the edge without any variation.
Once the uppers have been closed the soles are meticulously stitched on to our exacting standards, a critical operation in ensuring perfect fitting.
Turning and lasting are where the shoes gain their unique shape. Skilled hand lasting, together with some carefully guarded secret operations developed by Early Days, ensures each pair of shoes has beautifully crisp rounded toes and heels.
Finally the shoes are fitted with their insoles and carefully examined for any defects before boxing and labelling.


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Want to speak or present at the FIRST ever Open Stack Ireland Day? Want to share your Open Stack learnings or activities you have been working on within your company or with other external partners? Then we want to hear from you! To submit an idea or idea(s) and be in with a chance to be part of this jam-packed and informative event, submit your details into the form below.
The deadline for submissions is 29-Apr-2016. After submitting, you will receive a confirmation email and one of our team members will be in contact with you after the closing date to let you know if you have been successfully selected! Best of luck – you can submit as many ideas as you wish – the more the merrier! We want to make this day as fun, interesting and as successful as humanly possible – with the help of your good self!
THE CALL FOR PRESENTERS IS NOW CLOSED – THANKS FOR ALL YOUR SUBMISSIONS – WE HAVE NOW FINALISED OUR EVENT PROGRAM http://www.openstackdayireland.com/program


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Epic Name:JDK11-Misc-nonblockers
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Currently Jenkins does not support Java 9, but we may want to do it soon. I have created this EPIC to start aggregating issues reported by users.
Assumed that many of the components in Jenkins will need updates for Java 9 support. For example:
- ASM 6.0 supports JDK 9 as of 23 Sep 2017
- Jetty 9.4.8 supports JDK 9 as of 21 Nov 2017 (using ASM 6.0)
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JENKINS-46523 FATAL: Could not initialize class hudson.util.ProcessTree$UnixReflection
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JENKINS-36792 Jenkins fails to start with Java 9 / 10 on Debian / Ubuntu
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JENKINS-52012 Java 11 Preview Availability in Weekly Releases
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INFRA-1101 Provide jdk9 on ci.jenkins.io
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JENKINS-51805 Java 11 GA in Weekly Releases
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JENKINS-51833 Jenkins & Java 10+ Hackathon prework
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JENKINS-54426 Jenkinsfile Runner fails on Java 11: NoClassDefFoundError: java.sql.Date
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Jenkins supports Java 9 on Debian if you install OracleJava8 by Webupd8 and replace the binary files with java 9 files from http://jdk.java.net/9/ (or at least it did)
I do not recommend this as it gave me errors in the settings I was not able to resolve by myself. Additionally, I just tested this on a new server and it now says that the version is not supported which is the way it should be.
I went with sudo update-alternatives --config java.
Is this planned to be fixed in time for the end of Java 8 support?
See Oracle Java SE Support Roadmap: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html
End of Public Updates for Oracle JDK 8
As outlined in the Oracle JDK Support Roadmap below, Oracle will not post further updates of Java SE 8 to its public download sites for commercial use after January 2019.
Ing. Christoph Obexer in the community we do not ETA and roadmap for it right now.
There are some changes happening in the background, and there is a general agreement that we should do it somehow. But the timing may differ.
If the support does not get delivered by Jan 2019, using other JDK distributions may be a temporary solution if you need a Java update. Too early to talk about it now IMHO, the Java 8 EoL date may change again.
Java 9 is EoL, so I have renamed ticket to Java 10. It does not change the scope much. Java 11, ehm, may be fun
I just wanted to add that I ran into the same problem when upgrading our jenkins server to Ubuntu 18.04. Antony Gelberg's solution `sudo update-alternatives --config java` solves it for me. For those who are interested, here is what happens after executing the command
There are 2 choices for the alternative java (providing /usr/bin/java).
Selection Path Priority Status
- 0 /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/bin/java 1101 auto mode
1 /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/bin/java 1101 manual mode
2 /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java 1081 manual mode
After I switched back to java 8, and then `sudo service jenkins start` jenkins comes back to life again.
> Java 9 is EoL, so I have renamed ticket to Java 10. It does not change the scope much. Java 11, ehm, may be fun
Java 10 will also be EoL soon, in September 2018. On the other hand (Oracle's) Java 11 will be a 5-year Long Term Support version. 11 might be a better target version, instead of pursuing the current rabbit down the hole.
> Java 10 will also be EoL soon, in September 2018. On the other hand (Oracle's) Java 11 will be a 5-year Long Term Support version. 11 might be a better target version, instead of pursuing the current rabbit down the hole.
That's correct. We will definitely change the version when really start working on that seriously. Stay tuned
After some consideration I created a separate EPIC for Java 11: JENKINS-51805
If some tasks here are not feasible for Java 11, we can just close them as "Won't fix"
Just in case somebody is interested, we are going to have an online "Jenkins & Java 10" hackathon next week.
Everybody is welcome to join, see https://jenkins.io/blog/2018/06/08/jenkins-java10-hackathon/
Latest status update is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nIz1STmwOVMJ3vx68m6Xc4pv2oEKDRdyeYUNI8zZJsg/edit#heading=h.1478tpp0nycs
We drive this story as a part of Platform Special Interest Group in Jenkins
We have announced Java 11 support preview in 2.155+ : https://jenkins.io/blog/2018/12/14/java11-preview-availability/
Any feedback will be appreciated
Java 11 support has been officially released in Jenkins 2.164.1. https://jenkins.io/blog/2019/03/11/let-s-celebrate-java-11-support/


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Thursday, October 30, 2008
Erika and Ed's Wedding. San Francisco
Ceremony at Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park and reception at Foreign Cinema in San Francisco.
Erika and Ed have been together for about 12 years and decided this was the year they were going to tie the knot. They moved away from the San Francisco area many years ago but it has remained one of their favorite places. So much so that they returned to get married!
They worked in reverse and hosted an intimate dinner the night before the ceremony. Close friends and family were invited to celebrate with them. Erika and Ed met with me a little before the dinner to photograph around the unique Mission District restaurant. It was getting dark but we managed to squeeze in a few good frames. This particular area of San Francisco really amazes me because of its juxtaposition of old with new and discount with luxury. It's definitely a neat part of town to wander around in.
Erika and Ed chose to have their ceremony on the Monday following the reception because it was a special date - her grandparent's anniversary. That morning they got ready at the Hyatt Embarcadero. Ed wore a blue pin stripe suit and Erika wore a custom made dress with a large blue bow. Golden Gate Park was very pleasant that morning with the sun beaming down as they exchanged vows at the pagoda near the Strawberry Hill waterfall. The simple ceremony was very personal as most of the audience had contributed small facts about the couple to the officiant. Afterwards, it was all smiles, hugs and cupcakes! A friend and pastry chef made the treats you see in the tower. They looked pretty tasty! Afterwards, friends and family left for Dim Sum giving us some private time to photograph the new married couple.
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Owned by Jordan Herewini, Harlan Creative was started out of love for all things creative – with a particular focus on graphics design. A natural love for all things to do with weddings from as far back as she can remember – led her to design bespoke stationary for couples all around the world.
Learn More About Harlan Creative
What inspired you to start your business?
I have always had a passion for weddings and have found it increasingly difficult to find stationery that is unique and not your usual run of the mill. I wanted to get into the business of creating stationery that really shines out from the rest.
What services do you offer Brides & Grooms?
From signage, to wedding invitations, to on the day stationery, all bases are covered. No design is unachievable, so in terms of what I am able to do is quite diverse.
Do you have wedding stationery packages?
I can definitely tailor packages to suit my couples, stationery needs differ from client to client so it is forever changing.
What is your most frequently requested stationery?
In terms of my design style, I always like to have added special touches to really transform a design. This seems to be a niche that couples can really appreciate, so you will often see my designs incorporate foil printing, letterpress, wax seals or calligraphy of some sort just as that added something extra.
Are you able to cater for customized wedding stationery? If so, what have you done recently?
All my stationery is bespoke. After all, your wedding day is one of the most special days of your life, so stationery should also be reflective of this.
How much lead time do brides need to book custom made stationery?
As early as possible is always recommended as I can get booked up fairly quickly, but a minimum of 3 months from when you would like to send out stationery is always recommended.
Where do you get your inspirations for your stationery from?
From all avenues really, which I think is so important! Fashion, wedding magazines, interiors… art! In order to keep my designs fresh I feel its really important to draw inspiration from places you wouldn't typically do so.
What do you enjoy the most about what you do?
The best part of what I do is without a doubt seeing a couples dream come to fruition. I am so fortunate that I get to work with some pretty creative couples and stylists, so more often than not I get full creative license to create something truly special and unique to their special day.
Top tip for couples to consider while choosing wedding stationery?
Cheap is not always best! There are always so many factors to take into consideration when choosing stationery, so finding a reputable stationer is always recommended. Stationery sets the tone for your day, so carefully considered design should be a representation of this.


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Bicton Student Wins Bronze at Youth Olympic Games!
Published: February 22, 2016Bicton College Bicton 16-18 | event
A Bicton College student has won bronze for Team GB at the Youth Olympic Games in Lillehammer. 17 year old Kelsea Purchall, who comes from Exeter, went into Saturday's one-person bobsleigh event ranked No. 1 in the world for her age and she recorded the fastest runs in three out of the six heats in practice.
In snowy conditions in Norway, Purchall finished with a combined time of 1.57.67 from her two runs, 0.26 seconds behind Germany's Laura Nolte who took gold, with Mercedes Schulte from Austria claiming silver.
In an interview for the Team GB website Kelsea said: "I'm amazed to win bronze and I didn't think it was going to happen after my first run and sitting in fourth. The whole atmosphere is amazing and hopefully now I can push onto the seniors and test myself at that level.
"I get such a buzz from driving sleds. I used to play a lot of rugby but I've really got the bug for bobsleigh and this is what I want to do."
Kelsea is currently studying towards an advanced apprenticeship in sporting excellence and is also a key member of Bicton College women's rugby academy team. Rugby Coach at Bicton College, Chris Richards, played a key part in Kelsea's success by mentoring her and putting her in contact with the Great Britain Youth.
Chris said: "I am very proud of Kelsea. She has achieved so much this year and has been a great role model for many students at Bicton College. I believe the future is very bright for Kelsea."
Kelsea was also selected to be the Great Britain flagbearer at the closing ceremony of the Lillehammer games. Kelsea added: "I feel honoured to represent Great Britain at the Youth Olympic Games and privileged to be selected as the flagbearer."
Kelsea, who has not been in the sport for long, has been growing from strength to strength and is still ranked number one in the world for her age category. Kelsea has been consistent throughout her races and won gold and silver in the qualifying races in Calgary.
Kelsea continued: "I am so overwhelmed with the amount of support I have received. It has been such a great experience and I have loved every moment."


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Val Tvoar – In Light You Believe ... but in Darkness You Dwell
Heliaed Records – 2016
Rock, Metal, Stoner
Rated: ****
The big man behind this album is Val Tvoar himself, guitarist for Soul Thrower, he apparently wanted to prove his multi-instrumentalism and production skills to himself. And to the rest of the world as well obviously by releasing his first solo-record titled: In Light You Believe…. But in Darkness You Dwell. 'Throughout the album, on both the Light and Dark side, those Kyuss, Mastodon and occasional Fu Manchu influences come shining through, with radio-friendly 4/4 progressions that are approachable, yet inventive and edgy.' That's what the man writes about the album himself. And it is in fact very spot on. Which proves the man is able to set goals and attain them. Without a doubt the tracks on the album sound like those American stoner bands of old. And without a doubt those songs are all damn pleasing to the ear. With a tasty nineties alternative edge as well, especially on tracks like I Am You and Three Shovels of Dirt. I guess those songs also point towards the bonus tracks on the CD version. For the earlier released more grungy EP Into The Unknown is present on the physical album as well. What a treat. No less than four extra fast paced tracks that move towards the new-grunge of the Foo's and radio-friendly punk. So in short, we've got an album spinning over here that has no weirdness, no battleships or out there tracks. But an abundance of heavy hitting commercial viable and luscious rockers that are all damn fine written and performed. Hats off to Val Tvoar and his heavy magic!
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