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Jan 1995: Eric Cantona attacks a fan who racially abused him
Feb 1995: English right-wing extremists riot at Republic of Ireland v England match causing the match to be abandoned.
June 1996: English fans, in London to watch England play Switzerland, attack two brothers and a woman of Asian origin, and a young black person.
Nov 1996: Manchester Uniteds Andy Cole is racially abused by Juventus fans
Mar 1997: Nathan Blake refuses to play for Wales after accusing manager Bobby Gould of making racist remarks in training.
Nov 1997: Chester City ordered to pay £2,500 damages after manager Kevin Ratcliffe is found guilty of racially abusing a black apprentice
Feb 1998: Large numbers of Leeds fans chant Youre just a town full of Pakis and Youre just a town full of niggers at Leicester City fans
Nov 1998: Bari FC, an Asian side in East London, are attacked and racially abused by opponents. One player is left unconscious after being beaten with a corner flag, kicked and stamped on
June 1999: Donald Findlay, vice-chairman of Rangers, resigns after leading players and fans in singing sectarian songs
Oct 1999: Coventrys Youssef Chippo is racially abused by a large number of Newcastle fans.
Apr 2000: A Turkish restaurant owner is beaten up and his restaurant torched in Sheffield by Leeds fans after two Leeds fans are murdered in Turkey
Dec 2001: Referee Gurnam Singh successfully sues the FA for racial discrimination.
Aug 2002: Neil Lennon, a Catholic, receives death threats before playing for Northern Ireland.
Oct 2002: Englands Emile Heskey and Andy Cole are racially abused by Slovakia fans.
Apr 2003: FA fined £70,000 for pitch invasion and racist abuse by England fans at Euro 2004 qualifier v Turkey.
Sep 2003: Englands black players are racially abused by Macedonia fans.
Apr 2004: Ron Atkinson resigns from his job with ITV after being heard on television describing Chelseas Marcel Desailly as what is known in some schools as a f*****g lazy, thick n****r.
Dec 2004: Four Blackburn fans are fined and banned from matches for 4 and 5 years for racially abusing Birminghams Dwight Yorke.
Aug 2005: 10 men are jailed for between 8 and 18 months for their part in a violent attack on a Portuguese-run pub after England's defeat to Portugal in Euro 2004 on 24th June. They were part of a mob which shouted racial abuse and hurled missiles smashing 37 windows at the pub in Thetford, Norfolk, leaving eight people injured and staff and customers forced to barricade themselves inside.
Nov 2005: Anderlechts Nenad Jestrovic is sent off for racially abusing Liverpools Momo Sissoko in a Champions League match at Anfield.
Jan 2006: Peterborough manager Mark Wright is suspended, and then sacked, for gross misconduct after a dispute stemming from the alleged racial abuse of defender Sean St Leger. In 2001 he resigned as manager of Oxford United after being fined and given a 4-match ban by the FA for making allegedly racist remarks at black referee Joe Ross.
Mar 2006: 39 people are charged following disorder and racist chanting at an FA Cup tie in Stoke between Stoke City and Birmingham City in February.
Jun 2007: Labour councillor David Phythian is given a 3-year football banning order for racially abusing Spurs player Pascal Chimbonda at a Wigan v Spurs match in April 2007.
Feb 2008: Avram Grant, Chelsea's Jewish manager, received antisemitic death threats in a package containing white powder. He reveals he'd received dozens of antisemitic emails and letters from people claiming to be Chelsea fans, many of which had been copied to Chelsea's Jewish owner Roman Abramovich.
Mar 2008: 2 Plymouth fans were given an indefinite ban by the club after they made racist remarks towards Watford players and officials


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The current heatwave is affecting the dispersal of flies at the moment. Perhaps a good opportunity to check for things of interest on windows.
I found Megamerina dolium in my shed the other day so if you've got something similar with a window, leave the door open and check it out from time to time. This one looks like a small black ichneumon.
In the last couple of weeks I've twice found males of the scarce clusiid fly Clusia tigrina on windows inside my house (mid Buckinghamshire - it turned up once here before some years ago, so maybe there is a local colony or maybe it's dispersing in favourable weather as Darwyn suggests).

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Being the writer, director and actor in your soul's life
An individuated personality usable for the soul's intent (which briefly stated is "the expansion of consciousness") requires an attitude of loving detachment.
We must thus strive to observe our "personal movie" and not just remain an unconscious player in our own or anyone else's film. After all, whether consciously or unconsciously, we are writing, producing, and directing our own script, and at the very least, we certainly are our own star having signed a contract before birth with Karma Studios, Inc.
Thus, the ability to witness ourselves (not to be confused with judging ourselves–boring and energy draining) is a major step towards actualizing and thus externalizing our soul's potential into our daily life.


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Venice Kayak supplies all basic kayaking equipment.
This includes kayaks, paddles, spray decks, life vest (PFD), paddling jackets and dry bags for the things you want to bring along, and insurance.
You should bring sports clothes and shoes suitable for paddling, a change of clothes for afterwards, and protective items for outdoor activities, such as sunscreen, a hat and sun glasses.
Clothing should be synthetic or woollen. Do not use cotton garments while paddling, as cotton will feel very cold when wet.
Food and drink
Food and drink is not included in the tours, but can be purchased before or during the tour.
We recommend that you always bring a bottle of water on the tours. Water and snacks can be bought in the bar on the Certosa island.
Full day tours in Venice and the lagoon have a lunch break included. We usually have lunch somewhere economic, where a meal is €10-15 per person. You can also bring your own lunch.
Venice Kayak's guides always brings a waterproof camera and takes photos of you during the tour. We'll send you the photos free of charge a few days afterwards.
You can bring your own camera. However, if the camera is not waterproof, you should be very careful not to get the camera wet. The salinity of the water is such that it only takes a few drops of water to ruin a camera or other electronics for good.
We don't recommend that you bring your own cameras if they aren't waterproof.
Don't take photos using your mobile phone during the tours.
Meeting place
All Venice Kayak trips start from the Certosa island where we meet in the hotel bar. If you come early, that is a nice place for a cup of coffee.
There is a restaurant on the Certosa island, the Certosino, which serves both lunch and dinner. You can reserve a table in the bar before the kayaking tour, and have your lunch or dinner there immediately after the tour.
There are toilets and showers available on the Certosa island. You should bring your own towel.


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When BuckHaven turned 3 years old, Davios' Northern Italian Steakhouse in Phipps Plaza wanted to celebrate. Friends, advertisers and supporters gathered on the lovely covered patio to honor our community magazine. Davios.com
O'Keefe Kicks Off for Youth Villages
The Youth Villages Inner Harbour Campus is one of Georgia's largest psychiatric residential treatment programs for seriously emotionally disturbed children and youth. Sponsors and supporters gathered at Capital Grille to launch their fundraising season. Produced by Sean O'Keefe Events. YouthVillages.org


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The Golden Hawk girls soccer team scored three goals in the first half on the way to a 4-0 win at Monticello on Monday, April 17.
Addie Rath, Ali Butters and Ireland Hostetler each scored to put Mid-Prairie ahead 3-0 with 7:31 remaining in the first half.
"On Thursday we were kind of slow to start the game, so that was our main focus today, to start right away, ready to go," Mid-Prairie coach Reid Kaalberg said.
"All-around, all 11 were one hundred percent ready to go. That was awesome for us obviously, we had three goals in that first half. Everyone stayed focused and aggressive right away and that helped."
Golden hawks top Washington
Ireland Hostetler and Addie Rath each scored three goals as Mid-Prairie defeated Washington 10-0 on Tuesday, April 11. Senior Ali Butters added two goals as the Golden Hawks bounced back from a season-opening loss at Clear Creek-Amana with a blowout of the Demons. Seniors Mikayla Ulin and Rachel Harapat each added a goal.
Mid-Prairie earns comeback win at Columbus
Addie Rath recorded her fifth hat trick in two seasons as the Mid-Prairie girls soccer team came from behind to pick up its first road win of the season, 3-2 at Columbus on Thursday, April 13.
Mid-Prairie trailed 1-0 at halftime and an 'own goal' put the Golden Hawks behind 2-0 early in the second half.
Mid-Prairie coach Reid Kaalberg said that his team settled down during the halftime break and approached the next 40 minutes with more focus.
Rath drew a foul and cut the lead to one with a penalty kick. Later, a Wildcat handball gave Mid-Prairie another PK and Rath scored the equalizer.
"We just needed to come out strong, because in the first half we didn't at all," Rath said.
"We looked like we didn't even want to be there. In the second half, we just had to step it up."
Rath scored the go-ahead goal on a breakaway.
"It felt good, because we were down and we really need that," Rath said. "We knew it was a team that we could get."
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At the hospital
Have you ever been to hospital or would you like to work in healthcare? This activity will help you learn new words used in hospital.
The noisy television
This resource is part of 'English in my home', which aims to give ESOL learners the confidence and the language to deal with situations they may encounter in their homes. in this lesson, Arjun's neighbour compalins about the television. Learners practise complaining politely and dealing with complaints.
A refugee, defined by the United Nations, is a person who is unable or unwilling to return to their country because of a well-founded fear of perse
Meeting a new friend
Tania and Jing meet on their first day at school. Listen to their conversation and try the activities.
Giving personal information
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This change bag will add just the right touch to your theme magic show or just cash in on the popularity of being a clown by telling the audience that this is your magic clown hat. This is a standard Change bag, which operates with only one hand that looks exactly like a wizard's hat. It measures almost 12" deep and is 7" round.
The handle is made from five layer marine plywood and is finished beautifully. The bag itself is made from wizard material and is festively finished.
Change a silk into some candy.
Change a white silk into a dove.
Change a red silk into a clown nose for a helper to wear.
All the things you use a regular change bag can be used with this Clown Change Bag.


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FC: Dyemond Williams Me,Myself,and I!!
1: 1. Lupe Fiasco: Superstar 2. DC Don Jaun 3. Get Up: Mary Mary 4. All the Right Moves: One Republic 5. P.Y.T: Michael Jackson 6. Say Something: Timbaland ft. Drake 7. Super Jerk: Keke Palmer 8. My Addiction: Ryan Leslie ft. Cassie 9. Replay: Sean Kingston 10.Pretty Girls: Wale
3: I chose this song as my theme song because I really like this song. It also has a good meaning to it . It means you can become whatever you want to be without all the fancy gear and just acting yourself. It also means don't try to be something your not.
5: I put DC Don Jaun on my soundtrack because the song is a fun song to just listen to and dance to. It has a more funny meaning to it like someones who's in love with their selves. This song is just to represent that you shouldn't care what anyone says about you cause all you need to know that awesome and your on eyes.
7: I chose Mary Mary God in Me because it's a good song. I like the song because it's inspirational and fun to listen too. The song also represents my faith and Christianity as well. It's also represents how far gotten and how I've made it through all my thick and thins.
9: One Republic All the Right Moves, is a nice different song. I like pop and different type of music. OneRepublic is one of my favorite pop artist because I love there style. It has a really good meaning but the meaning is heard to understand. It means how you try to find someone to love like a old girlfriend or boyfriend.
11: I LOVE the song P.Y.T so much and Michael Jackson is one of my favorite artist. This song is fun and makes just want to sang and dance. The song is just a man trying to get a girl by flattering her. Also P.Y.T just mean Pretty Young Thing which all girls should feel like they are.
13: Say Something by: Timbaland ft. Drake is one of my songs on my soundtrack. The song is about relationships but I don't really need to worry about that. I love the melody and beat to the song. Plus Drake and Timbaland make music that I really like.
15: Keke Palmer: Super Jerk I really love this song a lot. It's just a jerking dance song for people who know how to jerk and just like to dance. It doesn't really have a meaning just that you can "JERK" to it. It would make anyone get up and bust a move.
17: Ryan Leslie ft. Cassie: My Addiction The song is different and nice. The songs meaning is that how a man falls in love with a women and can't get enough of her. It has a really nice to touch, melody, and beat.
19: Sean Kingston: Replay Replay is actually by Iyaz but Sean Kingston did a cover up. The song is a fun up beat and teenage love song. The meaning that it was was love at first site and that person can't keep that other person out of their head.


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I had a bit of chocolate left over after making chocolate covered Nutter Butters, so I decided to make these salted chocolate apricots. They are delicious! And adding fruit to chocolate makes it healthier, right?
All you need is chocolate chips, wax paper, coarse sea salt, and apricots. The directions are similar to the ones for the Nutter Butters (recipe can be found here), except I dipped the apricots in chocolate instead of rolling them in it (a pair of tongs helps with this), and then I sprinkled them with coarse sea salt before putting them in the fridge to harden.
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Founded in 1927 by Adam Breuer, Sr., Breuer Electric Mfg. Company began in a small facility at 852 Blackhawk Street in Chicago. Originally building and selling portable electric blowers for cleaning electric equipment, Breuer soon began designing and producing commercial and industrial vacuum cleaners, hot air blowers, electric insecticide sprayers, and dust collectors. It was at this time that the brand name "Tornado" was introduced. In 1938 the company moved to 5100 N. Ravenswood on Chicago's North Side.
In 2007 Tornado Industries was acquired by Tacony Corporation and operates as a subsidiary in the Commercial Floor Care division. Tacony is organized into four strategic business units; Commercial Floor Care, Home Floor Care, Sewing, and Ceiling Fans and Lighting.
Today, Tornado has become a leading innovator of "Best in Class" industrial and commercial cleaning equipment. With over 80 years of JanSan industry experience, Tornado provides in-house cleaners, contractors and facility managers across a broad-range of market segments with affordable, and innovative cleaning technology to meet the most demanding cleaning challenges.
Developed for cleaning professionals, by cleaning professionals, Tornado's machines are created to maximize cleaning efficiency and speed, minimize the impact of cleaning on indoor environments, and reduce the total cost of cleaning — all factors resulting in greater profitability for your organization. Tornado's industry-acclaimed products tackle the unique cleaning challenges faced in a variety of markets.


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Today you can get to know someone who does a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff at Murfie! As you know, many good changes to the site have recently been rolled out, and the people who make those ideas reality are our developers! Meet one of these folks today:
Where are you from? > I'm from Madison, but I grew up in Janesville and lived in Illinois and Louisiana for a while.
How long have you been working at Murfie? What is your role? > I'm a front-end developer, though all the developers cross into a lot of code areas. I've been here for about 8 months.
What do you like about working at Murfie? > It's so challenging and interesting, and I really like all my co-workers. It blows me away when I think about how much I've learned since I started here, and all of my co-workers are so creative and interesting.
What kind of music can be found in your collection? > Some jazz, singer/songwriter stuff, a bit of heavy metal, old punk, some swing, a bit of classic rock.
Who are your favorite artists/bands of all time? > That's a hard question. At least right now, I'd say Tom Waits, Gogol Bordello, John Lee Hooker, Regina Spektor, Peter Gabriel, and Morphine.
If you could have coffee with any musician, from any time, who would it be and why? > Janis Joplin – I don't think I can talk about why in a work-related blog post. :)
What album are you really digging right now? > Babel by Mumford & Sons.
Do you have any pets? > Yep, 3 chihuahuas and 2 cats. The total weight of cats exceeds the total weight of dogs in our house.
What is your favorite food? > Buttermilk biscuits.
What can people find you doing when you're not at Murfie? > Working on my house and garden, baking, reading, and playing with my goofy dogs.
Now you know more about Tiffany, someone who does a lot for Murfie! You can follow her on twitter via @squareleaf.


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Surplus property to be auctioned on June 5 at 10:00 a.m.
May 16, 2018
The City of Wahoo will be auctioning surplus property located at 11th & Pine in Wahoo at a live auction on June 5, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. at City Hall in the Council Chambers. The property consists of the South half of Lots 1 and 2 and all of Lot 3, Block 110, County Addition to the City of Wahoo. This property includes the 28' x 32' wood frame metal wrapped building that is located on the property.
City staff will be available on the following dates at the property and will have the building open and available for interior viewing and inspection:
* Tuesday, May 22, 2018 from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
* Wednesday, May 30, 2018 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
* Tuesday, June 5, 2018 from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
The property will be sold as is with no warranties, expressed or implied.
This property is currently zoned R-2. A listing of the Permitted and Conditional Uses of the property is included in the informational packet that can be accessed by clicking on the link below. This property is not zoned for commercial use. The structure located on this property is currently a non-conforming structure in R-2 zoning, so the requirements of Section 4.18 of the City's Zoning Regulations will apply. This is contained in the informational packet.
Please review the informational packet by clicking on the link below, and if there are any further questions please contact City Hall at 402-443-3222.


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Neer Dosa literally means Water Dosa is a delicacy from Kannada Cuisine that is made of just rice batter ground with fresh coconut. It is a very thin and lacy dosa that is very light and can be served with a simple chutney or an exotic Mangalorean chicken gravy.
It is a very simple and easy breakfast dish as it needs absolutely no fermenting. Just grind the soaked rice and pour on tawa and your lace and feathery dosa is ready!
- 2 cups raw rice (or mix of raw rice and dosa rice) (soaked for 3 - 4 hours)
- 1/2 cup fresh coconut (I peel off the brown skin and grate)
- Salt as needed
- oil as needed
- Wash and soak rice fore 3 - 4 hours.
- Remove the brown skin of coconut and grate it.
- Grind the rice along with coconut with water.
- Make sure you grind it to a very smooth paste.
- Now add lots of water and required salt to it and make a very very thin batter. Only if your battter is thin and flowing it results in a lacy dosa with the holes. You will end up in cracked dosa if batter is thick.
- Grease a tawa with oil and take a ladle full of batter.
- Pour in from outside to inside on the tawa. If you see any large gaps then fill them with some batter.
- Drizzle some oil in the sides and you may close the tawa and cook.
- Once done the edges will rise a little and you can take the dosa out easily.
- A non stick tawa is preferred to make these dosas.
Serve hot with any side dish of your choice. You can find a number of chutney recipes HERE
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A new version of mdfrm with some more fixes from Russell Steinthal to the -c output. I also added a DIAGNOSTICS section to the manual, just on general principals. (Ideally, I think every program should list its error messages and what they mean, but it's hard to find time to always do that in practice.)
I seem to be making very regular releases these days.
I finally found time and motivation to track down the long-standing bug in spin where paragraphs consisting entirely of inline macros or commands wouldn't get properly wrapped in paragraph tags. spin now understands block and inline context considerably better.
New version available from the regular place.
S/Ident needed a new release to include some additional requester library support that we wanted to use in Webauth 3.2.0, and I took advantage of the opportunity to clean up the documentation a bit. The new version includes the ticket expiration time and the local portion of the principal in the IDENT struct, and the man pages have been expanded and rewritten in POD.
I also cleaned up the S/Ident test server significantly and added a local implementation of krb_life_to_time for systems that don't export that function from the Kerberos libraries.
New version available on the S/Ident page.
Finally and at long last, we've released WebAuth 3.2.0. It now has support for S/Ident in the weblogin server, so we will be getting back some measure of single sign-on in our network again. There are also various bug fixes that have come out of the new www.stanford.edu testing.
Downloads and release notes are on the WebAuth v3 pages.
This is what I've been working on for the past week or so, and intermittantly for a lot of the summer. Now we have to do a weblogin upgrade next week, and then the new www.stanford.edu build is released the week after that, followed by a new webmail release after that.
Review: On Basilisk Station, by David Weber
I went into this book expecting it to be fluff, but given the good things that I'd heard about it, I really hadn't expected it to be this badly written. But it is. It's absolutely atrocious.
There are no actual characters in this book, not even the vaunted Honor Harrington, just emotions and stereotypes given names, cardboard cutouts who have no depth below their single defining characteristics. There is no character development to speak of, just predictable resolution of a ham-handed conflict that's telegraphed and painfully obvious. You know exactly how the only real character conflict of the book is going to play out from the moment it was introduced -- it's that cliched.
All of this is, even the painfully earnest writing style, is perhaps forgiveable. The book is, after all, feel-good fluff. There's no attempt to be a serious novel here, just light space opera. And I don't necessarily need a lot of believable character development in my feel-good fluff (although it's certainly nice). But there are more problems.
First, Honor Harrington is one of the most blatant Mary Sue characters I think I've ever seen in a published novel. A Mary Sue character, for those not familiar with the term, is most commonly seen in fanfiction, and is a viewpoint character representing an idealized view of the author (except generally female if the author is male), inserted into the starring role in the universe. The character is invariably uber-competent, initially misunderstood, provokes jealousy, doesn't play by the "rules," but eventually accomplishes such wonderful feats by doing things the way that they should have been done that everyone comes around to realizing how amazing they are. This is Honor Harrington to a tee.
Second, the villains. I almost didn't make it past the introduction where the villains are introduced. That the world is essentially the loyal military of a monarchy battling the evil communist welfare state is perhaps forgivable, if worthy of a few eyerolls. What isn't forgivable is that the villains are unbelievably stupid, walking cliches, regularly engaging in behavior that is completely incompatible with their supposed standing in the galaxy.
Now, I've thoroughly enjoyed books that have some of these same flaws. The Lensman series, for example. And once the book settles down into the business of the good guys beating the bad guys silly, it manages to pull on some feel-good emotional strings (although if I'd actually ever believed in the villains as a credible threat -- or, for that matter, as credible period -- the suspense and victory would have been much more effective). But the Lensman series was fun, and didn't take itself seriously, so you could just laugh at the absurdity of the dialog and go along for the ride, seeing how the next set of weapons will top the last. On Basilisk Station, on the other hand, tries to take itself far too seriously for the quality of the writing, and as a result is simply bad.
If you really, really need some feel-good military SF fluff and don't mind one-dimensional emotional point sources instead of characters, this book isn't worthless. But if you can keep from being knocked right out of your suspension of disbelief every ten pages or so, you're more forgiving than I.
Rating: 3 out of 10
It had been too long since I'd made a large music order, so I put together a nice, varied one.
The Alan Parsons Project -- Eye in the Sky
Alkaemy -- The Merlin Mystery
Blackmore's Night -- Fires at Midnight
Dire Straits -- Making Movies
The Goo Goo Dolls -- Dizzy Up the Girl
Jean Michel Jarre -- Chronologie
Billy Joel -- 52nd Street
Billy Joel -- The Nylon Curtain
Billy Joel -- Piano Man
Howard Jones -- One to One
John Cougar Mellencamp -- American Fool
John Cougar Mellencamp -- Scarecrow
I'd forgotten how good of an album The Nylon Curtain is, so I'm currently enjoying that.
Here, belatedly, is the latest haul from Powell's, filling in holes in my collections as well as picking up books I've been meaning to read for a while.
Iain M. Banks -- The Player of Games
David Brin -- Heaven's Reach
Jacqueline Carey -- Kushiel's Chosen
Laurell K. Hamilton -- A Caress of Twilight
Laurell K. Hamilton -- A Kiss of Shadows
Laurell K. Hamilton -- Nightseer
Barry Hughart -- Bridge of Birds
Ursula K. Le Guin -- The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin -- Tehanu
Ursula K. Le Guin -- The Tombs of Atuan
C.S. Lewis -- Out of the Silent Planet
C.S. Lewis -- Perelandra
C.S. Lewis -- That Hideous Strength
C.S. Lewis -- The Four Loves
George R. R. Martin -- A Game of Thrones
Walter M. Miller, Jr. -- A Canticle for Leibowitz
John Ney Rieber -- The Books of Magic: Bindings
John Ney Rieber -- The Books of Magic: Summonings
John Ney Rieber -- The Books of Magic: Transformations
Stanley Schmidt (ed.) -- Analog's Children of the Future
Jill Thompson -- Death: At Death's Door
The third Books of Magic collection is on backorder. I have the comics as well, but I like having collections like that in graphic novel form.
I've almost completed my C.S. Lewis collection at this point; I just have a few other non-fiction books of his that I'd like to have.
Analog's Children of the Future reprints "Emergence" by David R. Palmer, which is one of the best short stories that I've read. It's also been expanded into a novel, which I should hunt up at some point, but the short story is magical and I've wanted to own it for a decade.
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2nd to 4th Grade
Our 2nd to 4th grade Basketball Kids curriculum continues with an emphasis on core basketball and emotional skills from our Pre-K to 1st Grade program, but with an increased intensity, intermediate basketball techniques, and leadership development. Students in the 2nd to 4th grade program have a greater ability to follow a multi-step drill, demonstrate skills to their classmates, and compete against their peers, while simultaneously improving their speed, agility, balance, body awareness, and hand-eye coordination. All of this is done in a small group setting under the guidance of our expert coaches.
We offer three membership options:
Standard commits you to attending class the same day every week.
Flex gives you access to one class a week with the flexibility to attend whichever day fits your schedule that week.
Unlimited allows you to access all classes in a season. That's 16 classes in all!
We offer our classes for 2nd to 4th grade Basketball Kids on Sundays at 1 pm at Mercy Home in the West Loop.
Season 3
1:00 pm - Mercy Home
Sunday, May 6
Sunday, May 13
Sunday, May 20
Sunday, May 27
Sunday, June 3
1:00 pm - Mercy Home
Sunday, May 6
Sunday, May 13
Sunday, May 20
Sunday, May 27
Sunday, June 3
Can't commit to the entire season? Drop-in, and try us out!
Basketball Kids in 2nd to 4th grades will be taught our Listen, Learn, and Lead mantra throughout our 7 week season. Your Basketball Kids will be encouraged to Listen to coaches. They will Learn proper techniques and drills. And they will Lead their teammates with their words and actions. This program is built for basketball families and parents who want to give their kids a head start on learning the basics of social interaction, teamwork, hard work, and more.
Core Basketball Skills
1. Balance and core muscle stabilization
2. Passing, dribbling, and shooting
3. Footwork and agility
4. Speed and strength
5. Ball control and hand-eye coordination
6. Defensive skills
Core Social and Emotional Skills
1. Listening
2. Leadership
3. Communication
4. Teamwork
5. Goal Setting
6. Discipline
Mercy Home for Boys
1140 W Jackson Blvd
Chicago, IL 60607
Menomonee Club Drucker Center
1535 N Dayton St
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Helpful Tips to Prevent Pain Caused from BackpacksThursday, September 6th, 2012
Young children are suffering from back pain much earlier than previous generations, and the use of overweight backpacks is a contributing factor, according to the American Chiropractic Association (ACA). Loaded with binders, textbooks, and now even laptops, children's backpacks are often tripping the scales at over 30lbs. Lugging this amount of weight can certainly lead to significant back, shoulder, and neck injuries.
Here are few helpful tips:
- Backpacks should not weigh more than 10 percent of body weight. With a heavier backpack, children tend to bend forward to support the extra weight.
- Wear both shoulder straps is key! Lugging the backpack around by one strap can cause the disproportionate shift of weight to one side.
- Backpack should hang less than four inches below waistline.
- Choose a backpack with individualized compartments to redistribute weight effectively.
- Wide, padded and adjustable straps are very important. Non-padded straps are uncomfortable, and can dig into your child's shoulders.


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Review by Melanie Tait
This book is intended for all leaders, formal and informal, who have faced difficult circumstances in the past, who are currently struggling with a difficult situation or who think they will face adversity in the future. The authors, Jerry Patterson and Paul Kelleher, find the metaphor of storms apt, as they say in the introduction: "Just as storms in nature always end and the sun comes out again, adversity in our lives always ebbs and we can emerge stronger from it."
Initially, Patterson and Kelleher review the history of resilience as a psychological concept and its connections to ideas like coping, risk factors and deficits. They then propose a looking at resilience as a four-phase cycle. Imagine that things are going along as usual when adversity strikes. First, there is a period of "deterioration," sometimes to the point of dysfunction. Once remedial actions begin, a transitional phase of "adaptation" starts. This is a place of survival, and it is important to move onward towards a more positive trajectory. The third phase is "recovery" - a return to the normal state. The fourth phase, or "strengthened resilience," is where one learns from adversity and grows from the experience. This cycle is illustrated through numerous real-life examples.
The authors then discuss characteristics of four different types of leaders and compare the assumptions and expectations of each, the strengths of their relationships, their varying senses of self-efficacy, their belief systems, energy levels and spiritual, physical and emotional resources. The interplay of these personal characteristics defines the type of leader: the realistic pessimist, the unrealistic pessimist, the realistic optimist and the unrealistic optimist.
Each leadership type is described through a case study involving plausible events and circumstances. The most effective leadership type is clearly the realistic optimist, for several reasons. Realistic optimists accept and speak openly about the realities of organizational life, even if the image is not pretty. They aren't easily surprised. They seek accurate data to understand more clearly, and they want to know how their own actions may have contributed to the problem. They want to make informed decisions about how to proceed. They also comprehend that sometimes giving up is the best alternative.
The book also includes a good discussion about values. Program values are the broad base of a pyramid, with educational values above those and core values on top. It is here that we find ethics, which the authors define as "a set of universal principles that transcend the mission, vision and values of any particular organization." The education leader Michael Fullan refers to this same idea as "moral purpose." Core values help define a person's character and are the soul of a leader. Educational values include such broad but important concepts as improving student learning. Program values include specific teaching strategies promoted as a way to support educational values. Leaders must sometimes reconcile discrepancies between competing values at the different layers. This may lead to a situation where leaders must rely on the courage of their convictions. The authors advise leaders to articulate and clarify their values and then take actions that are consistent with their values. They illustrate this with a diagram of what they call the "Personal Strengths Triangle," where reliability, character and authenticity connect saying, doing and valuing. This alignment contributes to long-term "strength resilience."
A third idea presented by the authors is the notion of "optimistic self-efficacy," which enables a person to influence events that otherwise might seem beyond their control. Optimistic self-efficacy helps a person affect complex organizational structures, to withstand criticism and to persevere despite poor odds. Philosophers and psychologists relate high levels of optimistic self-efficacy to higher levels of happiness. Physiologically, optimistic self-efficacy contributes to physical health and stress management.
The last segment of Resilient School Leaders focuses on ways that leaders can sustain and strengthen their resilience, realistic optimism and optimistic self-efficacy. Suggestions include setting short-term goals and noting those accomplishments, adopting effective self-management techniques and staying connected to others, including team members, mentors, those in one's work environment and people in personal relationships.
To sum up their discussion, Patterson and Kelleher list what they call the Six Strengths of Resilient Leaders:
An appendix introduces and highlights the leaders who were interviewed by the authors. This unique feature lends great credibility to the book and its premises.
This book is recommended for leaders who are looking for support in dealing with challenges or in helping others cope with adversity. Its style is appropriate for readers who appreciate a case study format with true-to-life examples, often featuring real people.
Resilient School Leaders: Strategies for Turning Adversity into AchievementJerry L. Patterson and Paul KelleherAssociation for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Alexandria, Virginia, 2005 175 pages, US$25.95(paper)


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Today I tell the story of a woman who was the first to attempt a most dangerous and frightening stunt, even by today's standards. Annie Edson Taylor, the first to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and live on October 24, 1901.
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- Niagara Falls (niagarafrontier.com).
- Annie Edson Taylor, Heroine of Niagara Falls | Legacy.com (legacy.com).
- This post has no title. (biography.com).
- HISTORY (poorhousestory.com).
- Poor Relief in the Early America (socialwelfarehistory.com).
- Annie Edson Taylor (1838-1921): American Daredevil (americacomesalive.com).
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Its not over till its over
Last Friday Art went to his scheduled clinic at IU University hospital. Blood tests showed his creatinine levels were climbing dangerously fast – a complete turn-around from last week. The result – he was admitted to the hospital. They tell us to bring a bathroom bag and some clean clothes to every clinic visit in case you need to be admitted.
Almost immediately the doctor thought a blood pressure medicine that he had started last week was causing the problem, so he stopped the pills. However, to be certain about what was happening, he scheduled a kidney needle biopsy late in the day on Friday.
Biopsy results came back late on Saturday. The doctors informed us that Art was experiencing the same problem with the immune complex clogging the kidney that happened 5 days after the transplant. Everyone thought this had been resolved with a series of plasma treatments where the plasma is replaced with an artificial product.
So the doctor ordered an emergency catheter to be put into Art's inner thigh to provide access to a vein and an artery so another series of plasma treatments could begin immediately. It was a painful experience but had to be done. Treatments were performed late Saturday night and Sunday morning,
We had planned on having our family Christmas on Sunday. Since Art could not be there we did a "FaceTime" session and displayed his face on a big-screen TV so everyone could see him and he could watch everyone open gifts. We even did a family picture with everyone gathered around the TV. It wasn't ideal but was still pretty nice.
Another plasma treatment was done Monday morning and in the afternoon the surgery team was ready to install a new central line. The ONLY good thing about it was that they gave Art some good drugs to help with the pain. It took about an hour but finally was completed. This was disappointing since the one he had had for 5 months had just been taken out last week. Later that evening a urologist came to Art's room and removed a stent that had been put in between the kidney and the bladder during the transplant surgery. Art still shudders when he thinks about the pain involved with the procedure.
On Christmas Eve Art had another plasma treatment using his new central line. A doctor then removed the emergency catheter from the inner thigh. He was finally discharged to go home.
More plasma treatments are scheduled (which take about 1 ½ hours per session) and some special treatments as they try to completely rid Art's body of the antibodies causing the problems.
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The 15 March 2013 military pay posting situation looks much like the last few. The actual payday, 15 March 2013, falls on a Friday. Most military pay will be deposited on Friday, but some banks and credit unions offer early direct deposit as a way to entice people to use their services.
On Thursday, 14 March 2013, financial institutions who deposit military pay "one business day early" will post military pay to their customers' accounts. This includes USAA and PMCU.
Chances are that Service Credit Union customers will have their military pay posted on Wednesday, 13 March 2013. Service Credit Union offers deposits "up to two business days" before the actual payday.
Navy Federal Credit Union uses a two-tiered system. Customers who have their pay deposited into an Active Duty checking account will see their pay pending on Wednesday, 13 March 2013, to be posted overnight and available for use on Thursday, 14 March 2013. Customers with any other type of checking account will see their pay pending on Thursday, 14 March 2013, to be posted overnight and available for use on Friday, 15 March 2013.
Some banks are more predictable than others, but there is never any specific time that pay has to be posted. For more information, see What Time Will I Get Paid?
If your pay doesn't get posted at all, see Why Hasn't My Pay Been Deposited? for the steps to tracing the trouble.


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The #1 New York Times bestselling author opens up about her first-ever erotica series, The Game Makers, and her writing process! Pick up a copy of THE PROFESSIONAL by Kresley Cole, the first installment in The Game Makers series, out Tuesday 5/6!
1. Tell us about The Game Makers series (the first installment, THE PROFESSIONAL, comes out tomorrow in print.)
Some trivia about the Game Maker series and THE PROFESSIONAL:
- The idea for Aleksandr Sevastyan, a Russian mafiya enforcer, came to me several years ago (incidentally, right around the same time I was introducing Russian vampires in my Immortals After Dark Series).
- I outlined and fleshed out numerous scenes with Aleksandr and Natalie (the masquerade, for one). When each of their encounters turned out more provocative than the last, I grew worried about showing them to my editor. I'd been writing about vampires and demons, and all the sudden, I was going to pop up with: "BDSM, baby! Can you dig it?!" So I decided to sit on the pages.
- I took some of those scenes and refashioned them for my 2009 release, KISS OF A DEMON KING.
- I've got outlines for books 2 & 3 of the Game Maker series (featuring Aleksandr's brothers Maksim and Dimitri), so stay tuned for more news!
- The book Natalie thinks about at the beginning of the masquerade scene is IF YOU DECEIVE, the last historical romance I wrote. The author with the weird first name is me.
2. Sevastyan's past has clearly shaped his present. Can we ever truly escape our pasts? And would we want to?
I think it depends on the individual and their particular circumstances. In Sevastyan's case, the hardships of his childhood have honed him into a fierce and ruthless enforcer. He'll need to draw on those traits to keep Natalie alive when enemies target her. But those same qualities will make it difficult for him to open up and fully trust her.
3. Did you always want to be a writer?
When I was a kid, if someone had asked me if I was going to be a writer when I grew up, I would've answered, "Never. Nope. Not in a million years." I actually hated reading and writing, didn't read for pleasure until I was in my teens. After that, you couldn't pry a book out of my hands, but writing came even later.
At one point, I wanted to be a meteorologist. I found out that meteorology involved math, so that was definitely out. I flee in the face of math.
I decided to try penning a romance because reading them was all I wanted to do.
I'd already been writing quite a bit for my undergraduate and graduate degrees, and my thesis taught me that I could complete a long work. Before then, I wouldn't have thought it was possible.
4. Describe your average working day.
I'm a very slow writer, so I try to spend anywhere from 8-10 hours actively writing (more if deadlines loom).
I get to the desk around 8:00 and warm up for about 30 minutes, responding to emails, and browsing a few sites. After that, I usually unplug the internet to avoid distractions, such as cat videos and Magic Mike gifs.
I eat lunch at the desk, scarfing down something high in protein to avoid any mid-afternoon food comas. Then it's back to hitting the keyboard. At night, I try to get in some kind of exercise (walking from the desk to the shower counts, right?)
After dinner, I edit what I wrote that day.
Then rise and repeat.
5. What advice would you give to aspiring writers?
Write, write, write. Then write some more. If there are any shortcuts to fine-tuning the craft, I haven't found them (if anyone out there has, please contact me stat).
If your goal is to be published, I think you should discover what's selling. You can still go against the trends and blaze a new trail, but it's good to be informed.
Lastly, I recommend joining a writers' organization that is geared toward the genre you're targeting. For example, I belong to the Romance Writers of America, which I found to be an invaluable resource as I set out to get my work published.


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I was born in Tehran, in downtown districts where honest warm-hearted people live as they always have. My mother passed away before I was two years old, but I passed a happy childhood with my father. As far as I remember, I was never deprived of anything. I was an energetic child and took up traditional Persian weight lifting at the age of fourteen - there was no other sport at the time. This was done in a place called Zourkhaneh where weight lifting was accompanied by the epic verses of Ferdowsi, recited by the late Morshed Baqer. I became a tireless and enthusiastic sportsman, as I continue to be today.
As for painting, it used to occupy my time and mind to the point where I lost track of passing days and weeks. Time still flies unnoticed when I am engrossed in lines and colors. Painting has been an ever-present companion in the lonely hours of my otherwise eventful life; I have never had nor needed a better friend. For years it was not unusual for me to spend over 15 hours a day working at my easel, increasingly absorbed by the extensive and varied world I have created for myself. I have been fortunate enough throughout my life, God be praised, not to have had to paint to earn a living, enjoying financial independence.
In the past, I have held 26 exhibitions of my works in Tehran and 9 in Abadan. In 1973 I was privileged to have a had a joint exhibition in the National onsultative Assembly with the works of the late Kamal-ul Mulk, which lasted 100 days. At this time, over 200 of my paintings appeared on magazine covers. These were mostly inspired from the daily lives of hard working people, and were themselves a source of inspiration to other painters. I seem to have fulfilled my desire to make a contribution to the cultural life of the nation. I have exhibited my works 5 times in the United States and once in Great Britain in the Lytton House library, where I was also interviewed on radio and the exhibition commented on in the press. Three exhibitions held in France were reviewed in Images du Monde.
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�Acappella� at the New York Musical Theatre Festival� at the PTC (Through Tuesday July 14, 2015)
Conceived by Greg Cooper
Book by Vynnie Meli
Music and Lyrics by the Acappella Company
Directed by Lee Summers
Reviewed by David Roberts
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It is difficult to imagine it getting any better: a group of talented a cappella singers (Broadway veterans and vocal band members), beatboxing, traditional American spiritual hymns, and a decent book about finding one�s voice and finding one�s way. All of that is featured in the new musical �Acappella� enjoying its weeklong run at the Pearl Theatre Company as part of the 2015 New York Musical Theatre Festival. Conceived by the show�s Executive Producer Greg Cooper, �Acappella� has been twelve years in the making and this NYMF run gives the creative team an opportunity to further develop what is already an entertaining experience about the journey of a young rock star from fame and fortune to the rediscovery of his faith in other and in self.
Jeremiah (played with a conflicted sweetness by Tyler Hardwick) gets the opportunity to tour with a popular �Boy Band� and leave his southern Georgia home. He also leaves his best friend Simon (played with a marvelous intensity by Anthony Chatmon II), his girlfriend Sarah (played with a powerful yet playful persona by Darilyn Castillo), his Aunt Leona (played by Cheryl Freeman who balances her character�s protectiveness with parental authority), and his church family and friends. While on tour, Jeremiah is inspired by the passion of a blues singer (Darryl Jovan Williams) and decides to return to his Georgia home during his brief furlough from the band.
�Acappella� deals with Jeremiah�s journey, his attempts to reunite with his best friend Simon and his girlfriend Sarah � who is now engaged to marry Simon, and with himself. The title has more importance than describing the lack of traditional instruments (the voice, after all, is an instrument): �a cappella� serves as a rich trope (here an extended metaphor) for the �unaccompanied� state all of the characters find themselves in. Even the small town they live in is no longer �attached� to its roots despite the Festival to celebrate its Anniversary. It seems no one can truly find a deep connection to others without first having a deep connection to self. Jeremiah has to be set free (�Set Me Free�) before attempting to reconcile with his past and redesign his present and future.
All of the cast members have outstanding voices. Tyler Hardwick (Jeremiah) has a strong well-supported tenor which easily soars into a pleasing falsetto. Anthony Chatmon II has a similar pleasing upper vocal range that counterpoints powerfully in his duets with Mr. Hardwick. Mr. Chatmon is also a strong actor who brings authenticity and believability to his character Simon. Darilyn Castillo�s vocal range is impressive and is showcased in her solo �We Are One.� Broadway veteran Cheryl Freeman rocks the traditional �His Eyes Are on the Sparrow� with perfect phrasing and interpretation. One wishes the talented Miche Braden had been given a solo that allowed her to display her dramatic (as well as her comedic) vocal strengths. Garett Turner, Darryl Jovan Williams (the Blues Singer who brings the house down with his character�s �Jesus in the USA�), and Virginia Ann Woodruff bring honesty to their performances as vocalists and actors.
The Vocal Band supports the action of the musical throughout with songs from The Acappella Company�s rich canon. Stand out numbers are �Swing Low Sweet Chariot,� �Set Me Free� in Act One, and �No Excuse.� The beatboxing was a breath of freshness replacing the traditional musical band or orchestra. Bassist Janelle McDermoth shines. Lee Summers� minimalist direction is appropriate for this musical and his staging is certainly engaging. Evan Feist�s arrangements are pleasing and supportive of the music and Leslie Dockery�s choreography showcases the movement talents of the cast. Kyu Shin�s scenic design and Sarah Johnston�s lighting design � again minimalist � are appropriate to the action of the musical.
As with any product in development, �Acappella� has room for growth. Its book needs some attention and certainly needs to flex its text to compete with the music. And that music, splendid as it is, needs to more uniformly connect with Ms. Meli�s book. Some numbers � albeit well performed and quite funny � do not move the plot forward. Among these are the numbers by Leona�s Group which provide comic relief and the opportunity to showcase the amazing talent of Miche Braden, Cheryl Freeman, and Virginia Ann Woodruff but do little to help the audience understand the conflicts of Jeremiah, Simon, and Sarah.
As it stands, �Acappella� is a moving testament to the strength of the human spirit, the importance of the human community, and the endurance and richness of personal faith. Clink on the link below and try to get tickets as soon as possible. The opening night performance was sold out.
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If you have traveled in the Maharashtra Road Transport Red Bus in the past, then you might be happy to know the introduction of Semi Luxury Buses on several routes by MSRTC. MSRTC has done a lot of improvement in the services recently including making it a point to start on time , however the destination time still varies like in the past.
One of the major improvements is the seats of the buses which are 2 X 2 now and can compare with seats of low cost air carriers. Another improvement is the facility of online bus booking provided by MSRTC. Now you can book the bus tickets from the comforts of your home and also select a window seat too ! For bookings the site url is : http://public.msrtcors.com/ticket_booking/index.php
However, some factors still require improvement like, better cleanliness inside the buses, reaching on time . Given the speed with which changes are made, may be soon we will have government Volvo buses.


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Reel to Reel: Janis: Little Girl Blue
Nov 2 , 2015 Doors: 7:00pm Show: 7:30PM
The GRAMMY Museum presents an exclusive screening of Janis: Little Girl Blue, directed by Oscar nominee Amy Berg (Deliver Us from Evil, West of Memphis), preceding the film's Nov. 27 theatrical release. Janis: Little Girl Blue reveals Janis Joplin in her most genuine, and rawest, form. The narration is in Joplin's own words, from letters that she wrote over the years, as read by Southern-born musician/actor Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power. The film depicts Joplin's evolution into a star, encompassing soul-stirring concert sequences, studio footage, and interviews with music industry veterans, collaborators and close friends such as Clive Davis, filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker, Kris Kristofferson, founding Grateful Dead member Bob Weir, and Joplin's younger siblings, Laura and Michael Joplin. Following the screening, Berg and Laura Joplin will participate in a discussion moderated by Bob Santelli, Executive Director of the GRAMMY Museum.
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P.T. Barnum's Greatest Showman: Razzle Dazzle and Not Much ElseCulture Watch
"There's a sucker born every minute." – P.T. Barnum
All of those people who saw the Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey Circus over the years, deliriously happy kids holding their hands, may not have been suckers, but there sure were a lot of them – millions of them – and they would all cringe at the mangling of the P.T. Barnum story presented in the new film about him, The Great Showman, starring Hugh Jackman.
The Greatest Showman, produced by Chernin Entertainment, TSG Entertainment and Twentieth Century Fox, that opened in theaters Wednesday, is something, but it isn't the charismatic story of the mercurial and controversial Barnum, the circus genius, a show in himself, a man who became an American icon, a household word and known throughout the world, and perhaps the universe, too (they've got to have big elephants, clown cars and trapeze daredevils on Venus, don't they?).
The movie about nineteenth century entertainment is a lot of razzle dazzle and not much else.
The over-sized Barnum, the KIng of the Circus and the King of Publicity, too, led an amazing life. He was a newspaper editor, started his own museum in New York in the middle of the eighteenth century, ran a state wide lottery business, created the "freak show," began the American circus, "the greatest show on earth," produced the coast to coast tour of "Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind in 1850, gave the world Tom Thumb, a dwarf, the Siamese Twins, the Feegee Mermaid and discovered the Cardiff giant. Not enough to get you to buy a ticket to his shows? OK, he even introduced an African-American woman he found somewhere and convinced people that she was George Washington's 161-year-old nurse. He wrote his autobiography that sold so many copies that it was said to be the number two selling-book in North America in the latter quarter of the 19th century. The Bible was number one.
Have I left anything out? Oh, yes, he was also a politician and served two terms as a state legislator in Connecticut and one as Mayor of Bridgeport (he ran for Congress once but lost). He lived in not one, not two, not three, but four spectacular mansions in Bridgeport.
That was his story. The movie story is quite different.
The Great Showman is directed by first timer Michael Gracey and written by Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon. The music is by the pair that wrote the songs for La La Land, so you've got to expect a lot of La La Land boy and girl romances in the film and thousands of people dancing in the streets, but they all really go overboard with pizazz and lots of noise and miss the controversial story of Barnum in this movie. The result is a very boring and artificial movie, a show biz fantasy with lots of songs that could have been about Irving Berlin, Sergeant York or Davey Crockett. In fact, Crockett in his coonskin cap and rifle Old Betsy might have looked good in some of the dance numbers.
The movie is grand larceny of history.
Here is Barnum's story, according to the film: he was the son of a tailor (dad was really a storeowner and just a part time tailor), had two little girls (he had four), had a romantic fling with Jenny Lind (he did not), created the circus with Philip Carlyle (it was James Bailey), went broke on the Lind tour (he made $15 million in today's money in profit on the tour), and met his first elephant in the middle 1850s (it was after the Civil War). New York Herald critic James Gordon Bennett constantly harassed Barnum (Bennett was the paper's editor and did not write reviews).
On the music side, The Greatest Showman has, the best I can figure it, one song that has a whole lot of different lyrics (oh well, so did La La Land). You walk out of the theater and ask yourself how they filled up two hours with one song played 457 different ways, none of them memorable. There is always somebody singing something and it gets annoying.
The real trouble with the movie is that it totally distorted the life of Barnum, who was at the same time a good guy and bad guy (I worked for the RIngling Bros., Barnum & Bailey circus for a few months, part-time, in 1990 and researched Barnum thoroughly) and in doing so misrepresents America in the middle of the 1800s and poisons our view of history. There is also little history in the film about New York in the middle of the 1800s, a wild time. Oh, there are hundreds of period costumes and old looking sets, but no real information about the era.
A scene I would like to have seen was the fame and money hungry Barnum's last days. He was so afraid of what people might think of him that he when he was about to die he convinced a newspaper to publish his obituary early so that he could read it. In one of his final acts, just hours before his death, he called the circus box office to see how many tickets were sold to the show that day.
The acting in the movie is quite good, thankfully. Jackman, the star of numerous films and stage plays, is terrific as Barnum as is Zac Efron as his made-up business partner Carlyle, Michelle Williams as his wife and Rebecca Ferguson as Jenny Lind. They sing, they dance, they argue, they fail and they succeed.
What the movie director and screenwriter never discovered was how Barnum became so successful in a country that was just busting open in the middle of the nineteenth century. How did he succeed with his freaks, frauds and bellowing elephants?
Simple – he gave the American people what they wanted. It worked in ancient Rome and it works today. They wanted a tiny Tom Thumb to ooh and aah over; he found them one. He even gave him a title, a General, put him on a horse and stuck a sword in his hand. You wanted a bearded lady, ten-foot-tall giants; he found them. People bought tickets to see all of them, and to watch his circus and his colorful clowns later. If the people did not want to do that he would not have succeeded.
He also succeeded because his customers in 1860 were far different than today. His heralded sideshows of freaks worked in the 1880s, but so aggravated people that by the 1960s they had pretty much ended. Protestors who decried his treatment of various animals, particularly elephants, eventually forced his circus to close last spring. In history, things change and the big top is no more.
Was there a sucker born every minute in the nineteenth century, though? Of course there was, and they are today, too.
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One year, I sewed costumes for me, Tyler, and my ex. Where did I find the time?
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One year, I sewed costumes for me, Tyler, and my ex. Where did I find the time?
This is Werewolf Tyler on the left and his buddy Death on the right:
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"You're lucky," people say.
After looking over both shoulders to make sure they're talking to me, I ask why. "Because you are a woman with stepdaughters! That must be so much easier."
What I want to say is, "Easier than what, unmedicated oral surgery? Holy bleep, didn't you ever go to middle school?"
What I usually say is, "Which would you rather play with, Barbies or Legos?"
I am, and pretty much always have been, a Legos kind of girl. I climbed trees, rode my bike everywhere, and practically lived at Chamblin Bookmine.
I think most girls, myself included, go through a phase where the mall is The Temple of Awesomeness, but I grew out of that phase a long time ago. It's perfectly normal that Jason's daughters are in a very materialistic, shopping-centered phase. But I can't relate to it, and I certainly won't indulge it. Additionally, it makes me kind of sad for them. There is so much more to life than iCarly and the latest novelty accessory (slap bracelets, silly bands, hair feathers – you name it, they have brought it to our house), but they have a hard time appreciating anything that doesn't come packaged in plastic or isn't advertised on TV.
Last summer we found ourselves shopping for first day of school outfits. One of the girls decided she wanted denim shorts as part of her outfit. "You already have denim shorts, so that's good," Jason said. "No!," she exclaimed, "I have to have NEW denim shorts!" She chose something else, just because it meant her whole outfit would be new.
I have to keep reminding myself that this has nothing to do with the divorce. However, it has everything to do with the culture – large and small – in which these girls were raised. While I am familiar with the larger consumer culture, my upbringing was 180 degrees from theirs, and I continually struggle with the clash of values. I was brought up to value experiences; they have been brought up to value things.
Tyler is also materialistic, but not to the same degree, and not consistently. He finds his treasures on the playground – a rock that he believes is a fossil, a rubber band, a paper clip – but he also wants a PS3 and a new Nintendo DS for Christmas (not. happening.). On the other hand, his favorite gift from last Christmas was a small laughing Buddha statue I got for $2.00 at an antique store. I'm sure a lot of that has to do with his gender, but also because he was raised in a debt-averse household (both before and after the divorce).
But back to my original point.
There is no magic formula that governs which combination of step-parents and step-children will be successful, for the simple and obvious reason that all parents are different, all children are different, and all divorces are different. The pressures and tensions that are brought to bear on the relationship between you and your stepchildren are actually unique. YOU ARE A SPECIAL, SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE. I don't say that often.
Jason and I have found that, even within our own household, the relationship between him and Tyler, and me and the girls, is vastly different. We have learned to meet each child where they are, instead of trying to force-fit them into little boxes of our own design. In return, we try not to let them manipulate us into being their "ideal" parents (imagine the inmates running the asylum). I'm sure the girls would like me better if I bought them trinkets every time they came over, but most reasonable adults understand that doing so would be only a cheap, flimsy victory. When the trinkets dried up, so would their affection.
So no, I'm not "lucky" that I am a woman with stepdaughters. I am lucky that my stepdaughters are generally well-behaved, smart, and respectful children. I am lucky that they love my son, and he loves them. And I am especially lucky to have a partner who is committed to building a household that works for THIS woman, and THAT man, and THOSE kids – not some idealized combination of the three.
(drumroll) It's that time again!
Apparently I spoke too soon, as the weather abruptly cooled off last Wednesday, leaving us Floridians at a total sartorial loss.
I was greatly amused while walking around Tyler's school, where most of the children were wearing last year's too-short jeans and too-small jackets, which had been hastily pulled from the back of the closet.
I wasn't as amused when I discovered that, even though the restoration company claimed to have delivered all our clothes…..
…..my winter clothes were nowhere to be found in the stacks of boxes. When Jason called, they were all, "oh, THOSE winter clothes!" and promptly delivered MOAR boxes. Because that's clearly what we needed.
In my desperation to stay warm, I did something I don't normally do: wear leggings out of the house. Apologies in advance to those with dignity. At least I didn't try to pretend they were pants!
Leggings (of shame): Old Navy
Dress: Old Navy
Cardigan: Target
Flats: Shoe Station
So that was Thursday. Friday morning I woke up to 39-degree temperatures, crippling dizziness, and a hefty serving of nausea. So I consider this a victory.
Pants: Target
Pink tank: Ann Taylor Loft
Cardigan: J.Crew via Urban Thread
Purple Converses: Target
Saturday: Moment of Truth. This is how I look when I just don't give a darn, aka most of the time.
Jeans: Ann Taylor Loft
Flannel Shirt: Target
Fleece: L.L. Bean
Purple Converses: Target
Monday: I found an infinity scarf at Target that I liked. I had mentally matched it to 2 or 3 different outfits, but was pleasantly surprised to find out it matched my Electric Salmon Jacket of Indifference, too. Now I like the jacket much better.
Pants: J. Crew, via Urban Thread
White Tee: Target
Jacket: Chadwicks
Scarf and Shoes: Target
I FORGOT TO TAKE A PICTURE ON TUESDAY. Which is terrible, because honey, I looked fly. Chocolate tweed pencil skirt, white button-down, chunky turquoise necklace, brown wedges.
Aaaaaaand Wednesday. This sweater (from Target) is super-soft. I love it.
Pants and tank: Ann Taylor Loft
Cardigan: Target
Shoes: Shoe Station
Cat: Evil
There's my cat, lurking in the bottom right of this photo. She rarely allows herself to be photographed, preferring instead to plot our demise from the shadows.
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Jason found a job! I repeat, Jason's long dark tea-time of the soul, a.k.a. unemplyment, is OVER!
Tyler is excited.
VERY excited.
I am just thrilled for Jason that he found something so quickly. The job market is rough out there (in case you've been living under a rock for the last three years).
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So, it's still hot here. Monday, the high was 90 degrees. Ouch. Fortunately, it gets cool enough at night to sleep with the windows open.
Tank: Gap
Crops: Ann Taylor Loft
Necklace: Etsy.com
Friday: Outfit was boring, but I thought I'd share one of my favorite necklaces. It's the tiniest, cutest little elephant I've ever seen. I bought it with my friend Jennifer in San Antonio, Texas, and I wear it when I need a little extra strength.
Dress: Old Navy
Cardigan: Ann Taylor Loft
Necklace: Etsy.com
Shoes: Target
Tuesday: I love this shirt. It's lightweight and comfortable. The pants I'm not as much a fan of, as they feel about an inch too short. However, I am too cheap to get rid of them.
Shirt: Target
Necklace: Elephant
Pants: JCrew favorite fit
Glasses: Make me look vaguely smart, no?
Wednesday: Finally cooled off (it was 62 degrees on my way to work)(This counts as "chilly" in Florida).
Trousers: Ann Taylor (original flavor, factory outlet)
Tank: Ann Taylor Loft
Origami Sweater: Target
Necklace: circa 1999
Beagle: Would like some ham
Last week, over at the under-construction house (no longer the burnt-up house!), the walls and ceilings went up.
Family Room, Thursday:
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And so on Saturday (and Sunday!) we finalized our paint colors. Turns out it's quite intimidating to pick out all the colors for all the rooms, all at once. Especially when you don't have floors or furniture or light fixtures.
Most of the living areas (foyer, hall, living room, family room, kitchen) will be Sisal by Martha Stewart Living, which is a nice neutral khaki color. You can see it here (on the bottom) with our first runner-up, Cozy Cottage by Behr:
I really wanted to like the Cozy Cottage, but it was just too yellow when applied to the wall. Having moved from a house that was painted, inside and out, with the Yellow Paint of Much Despair, and having watched almost every mid-2000s episode of "Trading Spaces" where some designer opens a can of paint and declares, "We're going to use a soft, buttery yellow!" I am TIRED OF YELLOW WALLS. My Pinterest boards are swathed in grays, turquoises, plums, and greens.
The other question mark in our paint line-up was the master bathroom. The bedroom will be painted a medium gray. The bathroom is TINY, and the walls are tiled halfway up in white, so I wanted to try something colorful. My first attempt was a rich purple…..that looked like dried blood on the walls. Oops. We finally settled on Zen, by Behr, which looks great with the pewter accent tiles:
We are positively hurtling towards the finish line on this involuntary whole-house renovation.
From the "horribly embarrassing" files, I realized when I was flipping through my pictures that I wore the same skirt last Wednesday, this Sunday, and this Monday. Granted, one of those times was for about 2 hours to go to church, BUT STILL. The stress must be getting to me. This week I also took an envelope to my boss to sign (left the letter on my desk). Sigh.
On the other hand, despite my life being in shambles, I did manage to get dressed every day this week (even if I didn't take pictures).
Sunday: I wore this to church.
Skirt: Ann Taylor Loft
Tank: Ann Taylor Loft
Blazer: Goodwill
Funky necklace: My mom ("Moo, when were you so stylish?" "The 70s.")
Monday: When I ordered this jacket, the color was listed as "New England Red." Which is apparently code for "shocking salmon." However, it fits and is comfortable, so I'm just trying to roll with it.
Skirt and tank: Ann Taylor Loft, AGAIN
Jacket: Chadwick's
Necklace: Etsy
Tuesday: I spent some time in the laboratory trying to accessorize with a scarf. I have a long cotton voile scarf I got at Old Navy a couple of years ago, so first I safety-pinned the ends together to see how it would look as an infinity scarf. It looked…. like I had a fluffy car tire around my neck:
Then I tried the weave, with much more manageable results:
Trousers: Ann Taylor Loft
Tee: Target
Scarf: Old Navy
Skillz: Mad
Which brings us to Wednesday:
Skirt: Target
Pink Tank: Ann Taylor Loft
Black top: Ann Taylor Loft
Necklace: The Other Side Vintage, Tallahassee, Florida
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Homeless vigil set for tonight on the steps of Denver's City Hall, will honor 140 dead
The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless will host the 23rd annual Homeless Persons' Memorial Vigil, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. tonight at the Denver City and County Building, 1437 Bannock Street.
Speakers will include Denver Mayor Michael Hancock and Coalition President John Parvensky. Several hundred people are expected to attend the candlelight, name-reading ceremony.
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Saturday, November 10, 2012
Anastasia State Park Camping
Date: 11/10/12 – 11/12/12
Location: St. Augustine, Fl
GPS Coordinates: 29.866680, –81.275344
This is out second trip to Anastasia State Park. I guess we must like it!! Not going to write another review of this campsite, but to see the previous trip report click here.
Campground: Anastasia Beach
Campground Website: http://www.floridastateparks.org/anastasia/
Site Number: 111
Price: $28 night
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The Monu-Mental About ... series are not coffee table books full of pretty pictures and little substance, but practical guides to the monuments themselves. From now on you will not have to simply be content with sitting at home and looking at nice pictures of places and wishing you could experience them: you will find out how to go and see them for yourself!
Tom FourWinds is the owner and creator of Ireland's leading website concentrating on the historic and prehistoric monuments of Ireland - megalithomania.com. He is not an archaeologist, but a man with passion for Ireland and its heritage.
Through megalithomnania.com he tries to bring the wonder and, in some cases, the plight of the monuments of Ireland to people's attention. There is so much more to Ireland's historic and prehistoric heritage than the monuments in the Boyne Valley or the Blarney Stone.
Megalithomania.com not only tells you about monuments across Ireland, but also provides locational information so you can see these amazing monuments for yourself.
Monu-Mental About Prehistoric Antrim is available from all good bookshops and directly from myself at www.megalithomania.com.
I have already started work on the next book Monu-Mental About Prehistoric Mayo, which looks as if it is going to be a larger book than the other three. I have to talk to my publishers about that, though, to see if this is ok. If not then I'll have to pick another county in Connaght - probably Clare.
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FAILURE SOMETIMES IS GOOD7:56 am
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Proverbs 24:16 AMPC
For a righteous man falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked are overthrown by calamity. [Job 5:19; Ps. 34:19; 37:24; Mic. 7:8.]
If there was anything I was terribly scared of, it was failing. As a child, I have always been the sunshine in everyone's heart. Good at almost anything. I could be called up to do things my peers would shy away from and I would give it my best. I could speak my mind with boldness, I could stand in front of a crowd and make a speech without feeling scared. Long story short, I had a great childhood because I never failed. Failure was never my thing, I had a phobia for failure I would cry my eyes out if I came out of any class second best. Let me just say, I had to be on top or no place else.
Fast forward years later, I have failed so many times. I have failed in many areas I can't even begin to tell it all. I have had to resit for exams more than twice, this is my second blog the first one failed, I have failed to grab so many opportunities, I have come low to even less than second best, I have failed in relationships, I have even failed God or my close friends. I would say I have had a fair taste of failure. One thing I have learnt from failure is this for every time I failed I learnt new lessons. For every time I failed, I looked for better ways to make things work. I would say I learnt my life's greatest lessons from times I have failed.
Right now I know this for sure, failure is one of the best things that can happen to us. You haven't lived if you haven't failed. I know you might fail that exam today, you could be told you are fired or even be told you are not qualified. Fail forward!!! Don't be afraid to fail forward it is better than remaining stagnant due to fear.
Prayer: Father, help me overcome my fear of failure.
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I received a beautifully rebuilt coil ring from ReCoil about two months ago, and am just now mounting it. When I checked my clearances I got a surprise..
With the coil ring mounted to the block and a full set of shims under each bolt, my clearances ended up WIDER on one side by .020". After cutting an additional shim and raising it .020" I ended up with .028" at the top and both sides and close to .040" at the bottom. Now, I realize that additional clearance at the bottom is normal to allow for crankshaft "droop", but why did I start off with the ring being .020" low on one side? Re-Coil uses a surface grinder as a final operation to make sure the mounting surfaces and coils are all parallel, so the only thing I can think of is that the package may have been dropped in shipping and twisted slightly. Trust me, cast iron CAN bend a limited amount....I've seen it. Does anyone else have an idea for the discrepancy?
As mounted right now, everything should function just as intended.
When you rotate the flywheel is the clearance the same on both sides? It could be caused by the flange being crooked. If the same on both sides after rotation, I would suspect something else is off by .020.
Check the field coil on a surface plate with a depth indicator - you'll see what the issue is.
Just went through this a month ago with one of Mark's field coils - it was perfect on the coil faces and the 4 mounting bosses.
The crank shaft flange was machined true by the machinist who did the engine work. I was there when he verified it. When rotating the flywheel the clearances remain the same at all points, just greater on the one side. The mounting surface on the block where the ring mounts shows no abnormalities at all.
By the way, I'm using a brass feeler gauge so as to not be misled by the magnetism.
Since I've shimmed up the ring, the flywheel clearances are now pretty uniform. I may have to add a .006" shim on the upper bolt directly above where my .020" shim is as it seems to have a bit more clearance at that point. The right side has fairly consistent clearances at all points tested. Its as if the ring is warped slightly on the left side.
Steve, I'll remove the flywheel again and rig up a dial indicator. I have confidence in Mark's work...it's what happened to it during shipping that concerns me. Make no mistake, the entire assembly is quite usable as it is, I'm just stumped by what would cause this.
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I,ve never found it as simple as putting in one shim!
George, I'm with Frank on this one. Refitting a coil and expecting it to go back just as it was is a bridge too far. It often takes multiple shims at different points and a lot of trial and error to get the coil plate in the optimal position. Folks often devise a way of lifting the trans on and off just to make this operation easier.
It pays to check the four mounting holes on the coilplate. When the plate is dipped prior to baking the insulation, that material will be around the holes too. Given that your plate has been surface ground to true up the magnet keeper heights, this should not apply in your case.
Hope this helps.
Allan from down under.
I did just that as I've set up dozens of these "monsters" - just can't hoist them off like I used to !
This video at then 2:30 mark will address the question of the mag plate "uneven adjustment" problem. (Adjust one side, the other side gets wacky)
You are correct Bill. If you space one side with a shim to lift it, the other goes down, and the two holes in between require shims too so the plate is not warped. This means lots of juggling and different shims to sort it out.
I use strips of shim when doing the job to save having to remove the plate each time. Once the plate is set correctly, the strips are replaced with shims for a permanent fix.
Allan from down under.
Thanks Bill and Allan.........I followed the exact same procedure when setting my magnet clearances. I couldn't figure out why it wasn't "leveling out"! Now I see the situation was pretty much normal. I'm going to add a couple of thin shims this morning and should be done. Oh, by the way, a quick spin of the crank produces voltage which is the whole point!
Thanks again everyone for relieving my mind...