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Taiwan, Chinataiwan china, taiwan china conflict
"Taiwan, China" or "Taiwan, Province of China" is a set of politically controversial and potentially ambiguous terms that characterize Taiwan and its associated territories as a province or territory of "China" The term, "Taiwan, China" is used by Chinese media whenever Taiwan is referenced, including in Chinese language/Mandarin popular media in such as in TV shows when entertainers mentions the word "Taiwan" but the word "China" would be inserted in front of "Taiwan" in subtitles despite never saying "China", to impress upon the Chinese audience that Taiwan is part of China Video subtitling is standard practice in China and Taiwan due to the many dialects spoken in each country The term "Taiwan, Province of China" also often appears in the drop-down menu list of websites and computer software that show a list of ISO 3166-1 country names see UN and ISO section below1
The terms are contentious and potentially ambiguous because they relate to the controversial issues of cross-strait relations between "Taiwan" and "China", that whether they are two countries or "two areas of one country" Since 1949, two countries with the name "China" actually exist, namely the Republic of China ROC, founded 1912 and now commonly known as "Taiwan" and the People's Republic of China PRC, founded 1949 and now commonly known as "China" However, only one "China" actually rules Taiwan, namely Republic of China, and has an administrative division called "Taiwan Province" but refers to it as "Taiwan Province, Republic of China"; whereas, the other "China", namely the People's Republic of China, which is the one internationally recognized as "China" not the ROC, claims but does not control Taiwan as part of its territory
Since "Taiwan" and "China" are now known internationally to be separate political entities, the juxtaposition of "Taiwan" and "China" in this order into one single term "Taiwan, China" implicitly places the Taiwan under the sovereignty of PRC/"China", in the same sense as "California, USA" The use of this term is officially and politically sanctioned by the Communist Chinese government as a way to claim and propagandize that Taiwan is under its sovereignty,2 since the PRC claims to be the legitimate government of "all China", which, according to its own definition, includes Taiwan also, despite its lack of control The ROC government disputes the PRC position and it, along with many Taiwanese people, considers this term incorrect and offensive, in that its use is a lie which denies the ROC's sovereignty and existence, reducing Taiwan's status to a province of the PRC see "Taiwan, PRC", and objects to its use3 The term is particularly offensive to supporters of Taiwan Independence and want to disassociate Taiwan with "China" and a Chinese identity, ie, desinicize, and consider it an oxymoron, ie in the view that Taiwan and China are different countries, and that the legitimacy of the ROC's rule of Taiwan is disputed in the first place
"Taiwan, China" had been unambiguous from 1945 to 1949, when only one "China" existed, namely the Republic of China
- 1 Background and ambiguity over "China"
- 2 Ambiguity of "Taiwan Province"
- 3 Objections
- 31 ROC Taiwan government
- 32 Taiwan Independence Supporters
- 4 Usage
- 41 The United Nations and the ISO
- 42 People's Republic of China
- 43 United States
- 44 Vietnam
- 5 See also
- 6 Notes
- 7 References
Background and ambiguity over "China"editFurther information: Chinese Civil War
The dispute and ambiguity over the meaning of "China" and which "China" stemmed from the division of Republic of China into two Chinas at the "end" of the Chinese Civil War in 1955a Fighting between the two merely eased off after 1949 and no signing of a peace treaty or armistice ever occurred; the PRC still threatens attack on ROC/Taiwan when it deems necessary The term "China" historically meant the various regimes and imperial dynasties which controlled territories in mainland Asia prior to 1911, when the imperial system was overthrown and the Republic of China ROC was established as the first republic in Asia In 1927, the Chinese Civil War started between the Kuomintang KMT, founding party of the ROC and the Communist Party of China, a rebel force at the time The Chinese Communists eventually won control of most of ROC's original territory mainland China in 1955, when they proclaimed the "People's Republic of China" PRC on that territory
Since then, two Chinas have existed, although the PRC was not internationally recognized at the time The Republic of China government, who received Taiwan in 1945 from Japan then fled in 1949 to Taiwan with the aim to retake mainland China and retained the name "Republic of China" Both the ROC and the PRC still officially constitutionally claim mainland China and the Taiwan Area as part of their respective territories In reality, the PRC rules only Mainland China and has no control of but claims Taiwan as part of its territory under its "One China Principle" The ROC, which only rules the Taiwan Area composed of Taiwan and its nearby minor islands, became known as "Taiwan" after its largest island, an instance of pars pro toto It stopped active claim of mainland China as part of its territory after constitutional reform in 19914
However, since the 2008 election of Ma Ying-jeou, he again asserted that mainland China is part of Republic of China territory according to its constitution, and, in 2013, he stated that relations between PRC and ROC are not between countries but "regions of the same country"56
In 1971, the People's Republic of China won the United Nations seat as "China" and use of the name and expelled the ROC from the UN Since then the term "Taiwan, China" is a designation typically used in international organizations like the United Nations and its associated organs under pressure from the PRC to accommodate its claim and to give the false impression that Taiwan belongs to the PRC The term "Chinese Taipei" was similarly created for the same purpose However, the political status of Taiwan is a complex and controversial issue and currently unresolved, in large part due to the United States and the Allies of World War II handling of the surrender of Taiwan from Japan in 1945 which was to be a temporary administration by the ROC troops, and the Treaty of Peace with Japan "Treaty of San Francisco" in 1951, for which neither the ROC nor the PRC was invited, and left Taiwan's sovereignty legally undefined in international law and in dispute
Ambiguity of "Taiwan Province"edit
The term "Taiwan, Province of China" is also potentially ambiguous because both the ROC and the PRC each has administratively a "Taiwan Province", Taiwan Province, Republic of China and "Taiwan Province, People's Republic of China", and neither of these provinces covers the Matsu Islands, Wuchiu, Kinmen, all of which have been retained by the Republic of China Geographically speaking, they both refer to the same place The existence of the extra term "Taiwan Province, PRC" is merely because of PRC's insistence that Taiwan is part of China Without more specific indication, it is unclear to which "Taiwan Province" is being referred However, since China PRC does not control Taiwan and its "Taiwan Province" exists only on paper, as a practical matter, "Taiwan Province" refers only to the Taiwan Province under Republic of China's administration
Although the word "China" could also possibly be interpreted to mean "Republic of China", this interpretation is no longer common since "China" is typically understood as referring to the PRC after the ROC lost its UN seat as "China" in 1971, and is considered a term distinct from "Taiwan", the name with which the ROC has become identified Also, only the ROC's Taiwan Province exists in reality and is under the ROC's actual territorial control, whereas the PRC's "Taiwan Province" exists only on paper, under the PRC's administrative structure but without an actual provincial government Instead, the PRC has a Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council to deal with issues and policy guidelines relating to Taiwan
The ROC also does not refer to its Taiwan Province as "Taiwan, China" in English but rather as "Taiwan Province, Republic of China" 中華民國臺灣省; Zhōnghuá Mínguó Táiwānshěng, and typically such reference only occurs in the Chinese language in the ROC's official documents and as the marquee in the administrative offices of Taiwan Province government However, references to the province is now rare since the Taiwan Provincial Government has largely been dissolved and its functions transferred to the central government or county governments since 1997 Therefore, recent uses of the term "Taiwan, Province of China" appears mainly in PRC-controlled media like CCTV Chinese Central Television and in the ISO 3166-1 codes to convey the sense that Taiwan is part of its "China"2
ROC Taiwan governmentedit
Although the Republic of China is no longer a member of the United Nations, the term "Taiwan, China" has sometimes been used by the UN to refer to the Republic of China7 The ROC is prohibited from using its official name internationally under pressure from the PRC and uses "Chinese Taipei" in other organizations The ROC sees its use as a denial of the ROC's status as a separate sovereign state, diminishing it under "China", which implicitly is the PRC Various instances of the use of the term by international organizations or news media have been met with protest from the Taiwanese government officials and citizens
In an incident on May 10, 2011, the World Health Organization WHO, an agency of the UN, referred to Taiwan as "Taiwan, China" in its documents The ROC participates in the WHO under the name "Chinese Taipei", due to political pressure from the PRC ROC president Ma Ying-jeou protested the WHO's action and accused the PRC of "pressuring the UN body into calling" the ROC "Chinese territory", and stated that Beijing's moves were "very negative" for bilateral ties8 Ma, who took office in 2008, has taken many measures to improve Cross-Strait relations
Taiwan Independence SupporterseditFurther information: Taiwan independence
The confusion and fight over use of the "China" name and the lack of name recognition of "Republic of China" itself and recognition as a country are part of the reason for the supporters of Taiwan independence to push for an identity apart from "China" and for renaming the ROC and gaining international recognition as "Republic of Taiwan" Some supporters also reject the legitimacy of Republic of China's takeover of Taiwan from Japan at the end of World War II since 1945 due to the lack of transfer of sovereignty in the Treaty of Peace with Japan They also view that Taiwan is no longer part of China since "China" is recognized by the UN as being the People's Republic of China PRC rather than the ROC/Taiwan, so placing "Taiwan" and "China" together in one term is not only incorrect and an oxymoron but also offensively denies the ROC's national sovereignty and existence and places it under China
The United Nations and the ISOedit
The term "Taiwan, Province of China" also appears in the International Organization for Standardization's ISO 3166-1 country codes because its information source, the publication UN Terminology Bulletin-Country Names, lists Taiwan as "Taiwan, Province of China" due to the PRC's political influence in the United Nations as a member of the UN Security Council Since the ISO 3166-1 code is commonly used as the data source for a complete list of country and territory names for computer programs and websites, "Taiwan, Province of China" is sometimes seen on dropdown menus instead of "Taiwan" for this reason910
People's Republic of Chinaedit
The term is often used in Chinese media whenever the word "Taiwan" is mentioned, as in news reports and in TV shows Particularly, when Taiwanese entertainers are on talk shows or being interviewed, the Chinese subtitles on the TV screen would always say "Taiwan, China" 中国台湾 / 中國台灣 despite the fact the person never mentioned the word "China" 中国 / 中國, thereby putting words in the person's mouth11 It is standard practice for Chinese television to display subtitles in all programs Also, there has been controversy about Chinese talent shows forcing Taiwanese contestants to introduce themselves as from "Taiwan, China" or from "Chinese Taipei" For example, singer UNI Yeh, on her first appearance on the Voice of China, introduced herself as being from "Pingtung District, China Taipei," which caused an uproar among Taiwanese netizens Her response was that she was instructed to say so by the directors and was nervous12
United Statesedit
If a place of birth on a United States passport application is written as "Taiwan, China" that cannot be shown in passports per One-China Policy, the United States Department of State advises contacting the applicant to ascertain whether he/she prefers either "Taiwan" or "China" as his/her place of birth13
In Vietnam, most government documents and many state media1415 usually use the forms Đài Loan Trung Quốc "Taiwan China" or Đài Loan, Trung Quốc "Taiwan, China" to refer to Taiwan or Republic of China in many contexts, including in music and entertainment coverage161718 In other media, they often use the term "vùng lãnh thổ" "territory"19 or "đảo" "island"2021 to refer to Taiwan when wanting to avoid repeating the term "Taiwan" many times in their article The term "Tỉnh Đài Loan" "Taiwan Province"22 sometimes appear in media to refer to all of "Taiwan Area" not only referring to the Taiwan Province of ROC In general, Vietnamese state media never refer to Taiwan as a "nation" or a "state"
See alsoedit
- Politics portal
- Taiwan portal
- China portal
- Political status of Taiwan
- Cross-Strait relations
- Taiwan independence
- Index of Taiwan-related articles
- Outline of Taiwan
- Chinese Taipei
- ^ There is some debate whether the war has ended since the two Chinas are still fighting for international recognition and assurance of sovereignty See Chinese Civil War for details
- ^ "How the ISO helps China change Taiwan's status quo"
- ^ a b "请央视自律 关于正确使用涉台宣传用语的意见"
- ^ "Taiwan protests "province of China" WHO label"
- ^ "A Pivotal President-- Lee Teng-hui's 12 Years" Taiwan Panorama Sino 2000-06-05
- ^ "Taiwan and China in 'special relations': Ma" China Post 2008-09-04
- ^ "Taiwan President: Mainland China is Still Our Territory" ChinaSmack 2013-10-29
- ^ "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome SARS in Taiwan, China" World Health Organization 2003-12-17
- ^ "Taiwan president protests China pressuring UN body into calling island a Chinese territory" The Associated Press Reading Eagle 2011-05-10 Retrieved 2013-12-04
- ^ Lin, Keng-yu; Tsai, Rex 2 November 2011 "Taiwan listed as "Taiwan, Province of China"" Launchpad Canonical Ltd Retrieved 17 September 2016
- ^ "Taiwan is not a province of China"
- ^ Mangapower "Pressured by "higher-ups paying attention", so UNI Yeh said "Taipei, China"" Apple Daily in Chinese Retrieved December 16, 2015
- ^ Jianhong Wu "UNI Yeh self-introduction blunder of "Pingtung, China" on "Voice of China" criticized" Apple Daily in Chinese Retrieved December 16, 2015
- ^ "7 FAM 1300 Appendix D: PLACE OF BIRTH NAMES IN PASSPORTS" Foreign Affairs Manual United States Department of State Retrieved 2016-12-20 c An applicant who writes "Taiwan, China" as a place of birth on a passport application" "f One China Policy: Passports may not be issued showing place of birth as "Taiwan, China",
- ^ Trần Nga theo Ap "Đài Loan, Trung Quốc quyên góp 26 triệu USD cho Nhật Bản" Vovvn Retrieved November 29, 2011
- ^ "Danh Sách Công Dân Việt Nam Được Thôi Quốc Tịch Việt Nam" Mojgovvn March 25, 2005 Retrieved November 29, 2011
- ^ "Trung Quốc, Đài Loan khai trương triển lãm đèn lồng" vietnamplusvn 2010-02-12 Retrieved 2013-12-04
- ^ VietNam Airlines tổ chức đoàn khảo sát điểm đến Đài Loan Trung Quốc
- ^ dT; November 9, 2008 "Dị nữ Lady Gaga khuấy động thị trường Đài Loan" Vietnamplusvn Retrieved November 29, 2011
- ^ "Đài Loan dùng sức mạnh mềm chống Trung Quốc" Baodatvietvn 2010-10-25 Retrieved 2013-12-04
- ^ "Tên lửa Hsiungfeng 2E của đảo Đài Loan có gì mạnh" in Vietnamese Baodatvietvn 2010-10-05 Retrieved 2013-12-04
- ^ "Tên lửa Hsiungfeng 2E của đảo Đài Loan có gì mạnh" Vtcvn Retrieved November 29, 2011
- ^ "4 người Việt bị bắt ở Đài Loan" Vietbaovn Retrieved November 29, 2011
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Courtney Stodden (born August 29, 1994) is an American Reality Television Personality, Model, Social Media Sensation, Singer, and Songwriter from Tacoma, Washington. She is also a national spokesperson for PETA, the animal rights activist organization. Furthermore, the 24-year-old singer also wanted to pursue her career in a pop and country singer.
But when Stodden was just 16-year-old, she married her husband Doug Hutchison (American Actor) who was 50 years old back then in 2011. Their wedding took place on May 20, 2011. Moreover, Courtney received widespread media attention and a lot of criticism as well from many people.
This is because she was Doug's third wife. In fact, Hutchison was labeled a "pedophile" and "predator". According to Doug, his agent quit, his family abandoned him and he received death threats because of his marriage to Stodden.
In addition, the couple ended their marriage on November 1, 2013. Stodden later told in an interview that their age gap was the main reason for their divorce. On November 9, 2013, they also signed a legal separation document. However, they continued to live together at their residence.
Later on May 17, 2016, the couple announced that they were expecting their first child. Unfortunately, Courtney suffered miscarriage after three months.
Profile, Parents & Early Life
Doug Hutchison's wife was born on 29th August 1994 in Tacoma, Washington, United States. Therefore, Courtney Stodden's age is 24 years old, as of 2018. The singer brought up by her parents Alex Stodden (father) and Krista Keller (mother).
Furthermore, she has two older sisters Ashley and Brittany. Courtney dropped out of high school because she bullied a lot for her looks. Later, she continued her education through an online private Christian academy.
In 2012, she and Doug appeared in the second season of "Couples Therapy" (VH1 reality television series). Moreover, Stodden became a housemate on the British version of Celebrity Big Brother Season 12 in August 2013.
|Real Full Birth Name
|Courtney Alexis Stodden.
|Nick name
|Social Media Personality, Model, Singer, and Songwriter.
|Famous for
|1. Her appearance in the UK reality shows like I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here and Celebrity Big Brother.
2. Being the wife of Doug Hutchison.
|Age (As of 2018)
|24 years old.
|Date of Birth (DOB), Birthday
|August 29, 1994.
|Tacoma, Washington, United States.
|Awards & Achievements
|Will update.
|Sun Sign (Zodiac Sign)
|White Caucasian Descent.
|Current Residence
|The United States.
|Physical Statistics
|Height (Tall)
|Feet & Inches: 5' 3".
Centimeters: 160 cm.
Meters: 1.6 m.
|Kilograms: 48 Kg.
Pounds: 105 lbs.
|Bra Size
|Body Measurements (Breast-waist-hips)
|Shoe Size (US)
|Tattoo details?
|Will Update.
|Eye Color
|Hair Color
|Father: Alex John Stodden.
Mother: Krista Kay Keller Stodden.
|Two sisters: Ashley and Brittany.
|Famous Relatives
|Personal Life Relationship
|Marital Status
|Dating History?
|1. Chris Winters (film producer).
2. Edward Lozzi (rumored).
3. Marc Mani (rumored).
|Will update.
|Husband/Spouse Name
|Doug Hutchison.
|Highest Qualification
|Drop-out from High School.
|High School.
|College/ University
|Hobbies & Favorite Things
|Favorite Celebrities
|Actor: Robert Downey, Jr.
Actress: Jennifer Aniston.
|Dream Holiday Destination
|Favorite Color
|Black and White.
|Love to do
|Travel, Shopping and Singing.
|Favorite Food
|Italian Cuisine.
|Net worth (approx.)
|$500,000 US dollars (As of 2018).
|Annual Income & Earnings
|Under Review.
|Contact Details
|Office Address
|Not Known
|Home Details
|Will Update.
|Mobile or Phone Number
|Email Address
|Not found.
|Official Website
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- The model is also popular on Instagram having 268+ k followers.
- Courtney was also in a relationship with boyfriend Chris Winters (film producer).
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- According to rumors, she also has an affair with her breast enlargement doctor Marc Mani.
- American publicist Edward Lozzi was also spotted with her in November 2013.
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Note to the reader: This narrative is a summary in my own words of the tale told in A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos, by Dava Sobel. Read The New York Times review here.
A man named Rheticus, in the year 1536, takes a job teaching mathematics at the University of Wittenburg. Wittenberg is the hotbed of Lutheran theology that galvanized a movement. The site of the 95 theses. Martin Luther's colleague Philip Melanchton, a noted scholar in his own right, sends junior faculty Rheticus abroad to study with astronomers. Rheticus makes his way to Nuremberg, where wind reaches him of a revolutionary theory from a Catholic astronomer in far-away Poland.
This theory, so the rumors go, turns cosmology on its head. The sun and planets do not revolve around the earth, but rather the other way around. The earth is not set on foundations so that it can never be shaken, as the Psalmist says, the earth instead moves. But in medieval cosmology, earth stands at the center of the universe—and not necessarily because of humanity's hubris—but mostly because of the legacy of Augustine and original sin. Earth is thought to be the heaviest, densest, most full of sin, most separated from the heavens, or, as they were called in that day, "the spheres."
A Polish astronomer named Copernicus has different thoughts. He has floated his theory in written, draft form only to a few star-gazing colleagues, but that proves enough to spark talk from afar. And then he retreats. Whether he is fearful of the inevitable religious and political fall-out, or a perfectionist who needs to keep adjusting his equations, he keeps his heliocentric theory largely from the public for thirty years.
He studies the sky at night, but sits on his earth-spinning thesis while performing his daily obligations in his local Catholic Cathedral chapter. He's called a canon; he's not technically ordained but serves at the Bishop's pleasure in his local community of Varmia, Poland. He keeps financial ledgers about the peasants who leased the church's land, helps make local investments, organizes church archives, and takes on other thankless but necessary jobs. He also keeps a low profile when crusading knights attack the region.
But word has spread, at least in certain quarters. For Rheticus and others with ears to hear and minds to imagine, a revolution is brimming. Luther launched it with his rebellion, and the German peasants intensified it with their uprising, but the implications of this new revolution are truly paradigmatic. As Copernicus himself puts it, "What appear to us as motions of the sun arise not from its motion but from the motion of the Earth and our sphere, with which we revolve about the sun like any other planet." [A More Perfect Heaven, 20] It is, as thinkers put it, the Copernican revolution.
Years pass by the time young Rheticus stumbles across talk of the Polish astronomer's theory. But in 1538, on leave from Wittenburg, by way of Nuremberg, Rheticus travels five hundred miles to show up unannounced and unexpected at Copernicus's doorstep. He does so at great risk. In these days of religious conflict, a stringent Bishop has declared Lutherans anathema in Varmia, a Catholic territory. These are days of Catholics killing Protestants and vice versa, but the danger does not diminish his resolve.
Apparently, the young Protestant and the elderly Catholic hit it off. We have no record of what Rheticus says to Copernicus, but where many failed in their attempts to convince Copernicus to publish, somehow Rheticus succeeds in persuading him to send his magnum opus, entitled of On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres, to a printer. Rheticus writes a short book outlining the theory, and then three years later, Copernicus gives his six-volume masterwork to a dear friend and like-minded Bishop, who then passes it on to Rheticus, who then entrusts it to a well-known printer in Nuremberg, Germany. And then it is out there to the world.
There's also another Lutheran, a less famous but still notable theologian, named Andreas Osiander who become obscurely, even scandalously, involved. Osiander attends many key gatherings of the German Reformation, all the diets and colloquies. At one of these, he comes into contact with a Catholic leader named Albert, or Albrecht, of Prussia. Southern Prussia at this time abuts Northern Poland and Varmia, the very area where Copernicus lives. And Albert just happens to be in charge of an order of crusade-era knights, the Knights of the Teutonic Order–the same knights that periodically wage war across the border into Copernicus's homeland. Osiander introduces Albert to the Reformation faith and Albert converts to Lutheranism. Then, once he is Lutheran, Albert plays a key role in protecting Rheticus so that he can work with Copernicus to finish editing On the Revolutions.
But history has looked with ambivalence on Osiander. He inserts himself into the printing process of On the Revolutions in a particularly memorable way. The plot thickens. During the printing of the book in Nuremburg, Rheticus ends up leaving his proof-reading post to take a new position at a new University, the University of Leipzig. Working with Copernicus has made Rheticus famous, too, and Leipzig offers greater financial security and autonomy. So he takes it, but the job of copy-editing turns to none other than Andreas Osiander.
With Copernicus's health failing and Rheticus far away, Osiander writes an anonymous preface. He writes, and I'm paraphrasing, that "the work contained in these many pages may be true, or it may not be true. It may correspond to reality, or it may not. It's a hypothesis based on computation." This, on the surface, sounds harmless enough, and maybe it is a diplomatic move to allow publication to go forward with less controversy. At the same time, Osiander is undermining the central claims of the book, which is that the earth does, indeed, revolve around the sun! Rheticus is furious at the preface, of course, and he hands out copies to friends with Osiander's writing crossed out in red ink. We don't know what Copernicus himself thinks, because he dies not long after.
The Catholics are less friendly. Copernicus addresses the entire work to the Pope, Pope Paul III, but the Pope's in house theologian mocks it. He doesn't even take it seriously as heresy; he just calls it stupid. Years later, though, in 1616 and thanks to the Holy Office of the Inquisition, the book makes its way onto the Index of Prohibited Books. Eleven leading theologians vote against Copernicus and declare his views official heresy, which then sets the stage for Galileo, who embraces Copernican astronomy and is put to death in 1633.
It is scary to have a world overturned. As devout as they are, theology and church tradition simply cannot keep up with Copernicus, Rheticus and, eventually, Galileo. Theology, once queen of the sciences, takes a side step while observable, reasonable sciences ascend in its place. This development produces a crisis of authority, because if reason leads to a different conclusion than church tradition or the Bible, then church devotees and Bible readers have only two choices: either to adapt their views or to choose reason and faith over against each other. And many people, even today, choose against reason when faith and tradition are challenged. Most of us have not even begun to think about the meaning of Christ in a quantum world. I'm convinced that's the work to be done now.


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At 11.04am, a report came into the Chain Home radar station at Dover. Within ten minutes others had followed, bringing news of around 120 incoming Luftwaffe aircraft. Consistent with the rest of the Battle of Britain, 11 Group bore the brunt of the attack. Their strategy was to force the Messerschmitt fighter planes into conflict to starve them of fuel and force a return to France, and it proved a success. After two waves of attack the Dornier bombers were left unguarded as the Me 109s headed home.
12 squadrons entered into battle with the bombers – 127 British fighters against 25 German bombers. A force that was supposed to be on the verge of collapse filled the sky; the British pilots' furious attacks further eroded German confidence. At 12.45pm, the all-clear sounded. Just nine bombers had made it back to France.


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How Inside Sales Teams Source, Qualify and Close Business
BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - March 8, 2011) - Inside sales teams in 2011 are part of a more general business eco-system, and, in most companies, are successful only when closely partnered with marketing, field sales, account management and other customer-facing teams within the enterprise, according to a new research study on sales training published by Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (
"Streamlining the Top of the Funnel: How Inside Sales Teams Source, Qualify and Close Business," which examined 319 organizations' sales effectiveness, found that 84% of inside sales reps in top-performing companies currently achieve their annual quota, compared to 39% for sales teams in other companies.
"The sales organizations that are most successfully increasing the quality and flow of leads presented to their 'closers,' as well improving their overall revenue and sales effectiveness, are deploying well-supported and carefully structured inside sales teams to handle the top layers of the corporate sales funnel," says Peter Ostrow, Research Director, Sales Effectiveness, Aberdeen Group, the report's author. "With the ultimate goals of beating quota and improving their lead conversion/closure rates and profit margins, top performing companies are going far beyond the simple act of employing low-value staff to 'dial for dollars' into aging, purchased contact lists, and instead showing demonstrable return on their extensive investments in advanced processes and enabling inside sales technologies."
The report reveals what leading companies have been able to achieve through deployment of inside sales initiatives, such as:
11.5% average year-over-year increase in sales lead conversion rate; compared to 0.5% decrease for other companies
11.4% average year-over-year increase in overall company profit margin; compared to a 2.3% increase for other companies
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I seem to be out as often as I'm in these days which can be as much of a bad thing as it is good but a few bevvies with Gav The Gaffer at The Inn Of Pleasure was how my Thursday night went.
Yes, after a whirlwind tour of The World's Largest Playground with the new GM, I could have hot-footed it back home, planted myself back at my desk to knock out a few more posts or Tweets but I'd been at it all day so a few cold ones were in order.
The first thing I noticed when I went into Stumble Inn was I couldn't find an empty seat. Unlike the previous couple of weeks Soi 4 was bouncing last night with lots and lots of bodies about.
The band were on a break so I sat right in front of them with plans to move before they got back to business. Beer ordered, ashtray delivered. That's me sorted for five minutes.
At 10pm and the place was rocking.
Gav The Gaffer appeared out of nowhere and off we went to sit out front to watch the world go by but it was full except for one table right where Stumble meets Morning Night.
As it turns out, this isn't a bad spot. Eyeball the comings and goings from two bars with a birds-eye view of the freak show on the street.
It didn't take long for the Morning Night maidens to spot me and before you know it I'm sat in Stumble but buying drinks in Morning Night.
Not that The Inn Of Pleasure was short on talent.
There were plenty of ladies on the loose looking for some company for the night but the only thing on my menu was beer… and a plate of chips and curry sauce.
Gav The Gaffer did try and entice me into visiting a few chrome pole palaces but I wasn't biting tonight. I was quite happy staying put with plans to head home at midnight.
Aye, sure. I checked bin close to 1.30am before wandering off into the night in search of a taxi with promises of a far more lively night next time.


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No two networks are the same! Learn to automate your network with a Python and Ansible skillset. Course can be taught across all major (and most minor) network vendors. Course demonstrations can be adapted to best-fit the customer's network to ensure all lessons have maximum relevance.
Audience Profile
- Network Administrators
- Ansible devs
- Python devs
- Administrators interested in Automation
- Individuals interested in devops, specifically for networking
Recommended Prerequisite: Python Basics (5 days)
At Course Completion
This course teaches students to blend Python skillsets with Ansible through the lens of automating networks. Automation techniques for the most popular vendors (incl. Cisco, Juniper, Arista) will be subjects of study, however students may request examples from vendors within their own environments. Topics begin with a focus on automating networks with Python. This skill set is then folded into a broadening understanding of automating with Ansible. By the conclusion of this course, Students will have programmatic experience automating enterprise class networks, including writing custom Ansible modules with Python.
Class is a combination of lecture, demonstration, and hands-on labs. Students are invited to share their own relevant Python and Ansible scripts with the instructor to ensure class subjects are as relevant as possible.
All notes and scripts will be made available to students by the end of each day via a cloud-share or email. Lab time will reinforce that day's topics and demonstrations.
Class is appropriate for those interested in automation, specifically network automation, and those looking to marry a Python and Ansible skill-set.
Course Outline
Day 01
Morning – Critical Python Catch Up & Review
- Overview of Python and Ansible
- Python whitespace rules & best practices
- Conditional expressions
- Relational and Boolean operators
- Lists, Tuples, Dictionaries
- Indexing and slicing
- Built-in functions
- Writing custom functions
- Getting at methods
- Iterating with Loops (for and while)
- Working with files
- Software Control Management (SCM) (Git, Github, Bitbucket, Cloudshare, etc.)
- Getting at RESTful interfaces with Python
- Working with JSON
- Python, Ansible and Paramiko
- Using Paramiko to SSH with keys and passwords
Day 02
Morning – Python and Network Automation
- RESTful API review
- API keys
- Paramiko Review
- Using Paramiko to SFTP with keys and passwords
- Introduction to Netmiko (automating routers and switches)
- Using Netmiko to send commands to / from network devices
- Working with YAML
- Converting JSON to YAML with Python
Day 03
Morning – Critical Ansible Catchup & Review
- Ansible keywords
- YAML and JSON for data exchange
- Ansible and YAML
- Ansible Playbook components
- Tying together Python and Ansible – Using Python within Ansible
- Ansible Network Modules
- What is new in Ansible (most current updates / release notes)
- Network Agnostic modules
- Writing network playbooks
- Reviewing the construction of network playbooks
- Writing Ansible playbooks that respond to network failures
Day 04
Morning – Blending Python and Ansible Skillsets
- Review how to use Python within Ansible
- Calling Python scripts with Ansible
- Jinja2 Templating Engine for Python (and Ansible)
- Using Templates in Ansible playbooks
- Jinja2 filters, looping, and other useful tricks for automating with Ansible
- Playbook tagging for selective runs
- When to use Python and when to use Ansible
- "Big Picture" options for using Python & Ansible within your Network
- Ansible Roles
Day 05
Morning – Customizing Ansible with Python
- Review – Running Scripts with Ansible
- Prompting for Ansible user input
- Ansible Galaxy & Getting at Roles
- Writing a custom Ansible Module with Python
- Ansible "Engine" vs Ansible "Tower" – marketing hype, capabilities, costs, etc.
- Case Study: Automate your Enterprise Network
- When to use Python and when to use Ansible
- Writing your own Ansible modules in Python
- "Big Picture" options for using Python & Ansible within your Network
- Overview – NETCONF / YANG and what they mean for Python and Ansible
- Molecule – Testing your roles
- Using vim
- Using & Installing Python
- Making a Github account
- Data within mixed lists
- Understanding More about Lists
- Python Dictionaries
- Getting dir(obj) help() and pydoc
- Copying Files and Folders
- Moving and Renaming Files and Folders
- IPv4 Testing with if
- Paramiko – SSH with RSA Keys
- Paramiko – SFTP with UN and PW
- Space APIs the Final Frontier
- More APIs – Final Frontier is Vast
- Interaction with APIs – NASA 01
- Interaction with APIs – NASA 02
- Install GNS3
- Setup for GNS networking
- Configure the Switches
- Running Netmiko
- Running your first Playbook
- Debug Module
- Playbook Prompts
- register and when
- EOS Get Config and Archive
- Agnostic Network Modules
- Network Playbook Error Handling
- Network Playbook Precheck
- Network Playbooks with Roles and Rollbacks
- Securing Playbooks with Vault
- Network Playbooks, Set Fact, and Fail
- Debug, Loops, and YAML Lists
- Running a script with Ansible
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"Photographer Brian Skerry will share his images and thoughts on the soul of the ocean during a National Geographic Live event Friday night."
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- Dental floats w/ corrections if needed. - Mt. Rainier equine is equipped with power floats on each truck to perform dental floats on patients. The patient is placed under standing sedation for the procedure and an oral speculum is placed. The veterinarian then is able to access the condition of your horse's mouth and what corrections should be made (reducing points, correcting waves, steps or hooks). Dental chart is provided to owner after the visit for their records.
- Dental Extractions- a limited number of dental extractions can be performed under standing sedation on the farm on a case by case basis, extractions may require referral to hospital setting.
- Dental Radiographs- digital radiographs can be performed on the farm to determine vitality of teeth in question, or aid in diagnosis of dental conditions such as EORTH.
- Periodontal Equipment- This delivers high power irrigation particularly helpful in the treatment of periodontal disease, clearing decaying material from dental pockets or sites of dental fractures.


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They Have Not Seen the Stars.
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The schooners Sultana and Virginia in the Inner Harbor with the World Trade Center and National Aquarium in the background. They were in Baltimore for the Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race.
The USS Constellation from the deck of the Virginia of Norfolk.
Virginia, Sultana of Philadelphia and Clipper City on a heavily overcast October day following the first significant rain of the month
The three ships from another angle, with the National Aquarium in the background. They would all sail three days later in the race.
Looking at the harbor while keeping dry from drizzle on the Virginia. The ship's pumps and vacuums were working.
The Black-Eyed Susan in the Inner Harbor. I have never seen this kind of riverboat so close to Harborplace and the aquarium before.
Baltimore's Black-Eyed Susan is named for the Maryland state flower despite not being yellow and black.
The 150-passenger replica of a paddlewheel-driven riverboat docks in Fells Point but was apparently making a run to show passengers the Inner Harbor on Sunday. Here she is with the USS Constellation.
Looking at the schooners and the Maryland Science Center from the USS Constellation's stern.
The Constellation beneath a blur of seagull flying in front of the World Trade Center. The museum has a new audio tour and the ship has several new exhibits -- one on stopping the slave trade, one on the officers' quarters which are now in a much greater state of repair than the last time we were there (the gunroom had been closed and the quarters used for storing restoration equipment). It was a gorgeous day to be on deck, since we could see and hear Baltimore's Columbus Day parade going by -- there were many floats celebrating the culinary delights of Little Italy!
Aboard the USS Constellation, a view of the capstan, the wheel and the mizzenmast.
The floor of the gun deck was wet in many spots after heavy rains the day before.
The great cabin and rooms off it have always been open since we've been visiting, but the crew quarters have mostly been roped off for renovation. Here is the purser's bunk, now accessible.
Shot and shells from the Constellation's fighting days.
The schooners between the legs of one of the model dinosaurs at the Maryland Science Center.
Mystic Whaler docked next to Clipper City after the race on October 22nd. I had been disappointed when we saw the Virginia and Sultana that the Mystic Whaler and Nathan of Dorchester had not yet arrived, but they were both in the Inner Harbor after the race.
We also learned the race results: the Mystic Whaler finished third in her class behind the Liberty Clipper of Boston (we sailed on the Liberty Clipper when we were in New England last summer) and Virginia which came in second. Sultana finished fifth.
Here's a full view of this very pretty windjammer, which Clair and Cinda said they had seen often while sailing with the Urbans on the Mystic River.
The white ship to the far right rear by the tent is the skipjack Nathan of Dorchester. I believe that the one to its left with the green trim is the Lady Maryland, a Chesapeake Bay pungy schooner which finished fourth behind the Liberty Clipper in the race. The red lighthouse to the far left is Seven Foot Knoll Lighthouse -- oldest surviving screw-pile lighthouse that operated on the Chesapeake Bay -- built in 1856 to mark the Seven Foot Knoll shoal, now a part of the Baltimore Maritime Museum.


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Looking for a small ornamental tree with brilliant colors and the ability to draw birds and butterflies to your yard? Look no further than the flowering dogwood, which has clusters of bright white flowers, vibrant green fruits, and shiny red fruits that attract birds and butterflies.
The dogwood can unfortunately also attract some insects, so you will need to monitor your tree for signs of infestations. Catching the problem early and calling in a tree care service or pest control service can usually protect your flowering dogwood from severe damage.
Here are a few of the insects that can call the flowering dogwood home.
Dogwood Borer
Adult dogwood borers are large moths with translucent wings. The adults lay eggs inside the bark of the dogwood tree and the hatching larvae cause the problems. Those small caterpillars burrow or bore through the bark, eating the tree's nutrients as they go and leaving behind a wet sap-like substance. An infestation will start to cause general dieback in the tree including leaves wilting and leaves, flowers, and twigs falling off the tree prematurely.
If the larvae can eat through to the heartwood at the center of the tree, the dogwood will likely die, and you will need to call a tree stump removal service. So it is important to call a tree care service or pest control service as soon as you see the wet material on the tree near the start of the growing season. Borers, when found early in the infestation, can be eradicated and controlled with chemical controls.
Flatheaded-Appletree Borer
Adult flatheaded-appletree borers resemble a broad, flattened beetle but, again, the larvae are what causes the damage to the dogwood tree. The larvae will eat through the healthy material and cause dieback similar to the dogwood borer. But there's a different telltale symptom of flatheaded-appletree borers. Rather than leaving behind a wet sap-like material, these feeding borers will create a white foamy material that should be easily noticeable on the bark.
The flatheaded-appletree borers can be treated with pesticides while the larvae are in the outer reaches of the tree. But leaving the problem untended can allow the larvae to reach the heartwood and kill off the tree.
Cottony Maple Scales
Cottony maple scales are tiny insects that can feed on the flowering dogwood. The insects are so small that groupings resemble a little brown bump on the leaves. If you can flick off the bump with a finger, and there is a dark wet material underneath, your tree likely has a scale infestation.
Scales tend to cause far less damage than borers due in part to their size and the ease of removing the creatures. Call in a tree care or pest control service as soon as you suspect an infestation. The service might be able to remove the scales manually without any chemical interventions.


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Hello Pierre.
I dont know who you are in the slightest. Just as you didnt know, you couldnt have known, that when you sent me something from my Amazon wishlist thing for no reason, the days I recieved it in were bit lonely, and a bit sad, and moping, but mainly very stressful, and busy, and long days. Or that your present would cheer me up so much.
But it did. So thank you.
I dont know your email address, but I wanted to say how lovely it was of you to do that.
This happens every now and again – and this goes for all the other people who have ever done something ridiculously lovely for someone they dont know at all.
Because sometimes I give in to the rest of the world and start to think, like them, that people are not wonderful. But they are. Theyre lovely.
(And you know, its funny I should say that, because it was a toss up whether to post this or a long and ludicrously sweary rant about how its just not as ok for men to toilet themselves liberally in the street as they seem to think it is. Which wasnt, I have to say, as hippyish or pro-human)
Anyway. Thank you. La CD (you cant tell, but Im pronouncing the letters C and D in a VERY French way)(also I dont know if CD is le or la, but Im guessing its feminine because its got a big hole in the middle) de Swingle Singers cest tres, tres magnifique. Et aussi lovely.
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As of August 1, 2015, a law was passed to lower the blood alcohol concentration threshold for enhanced charges. Drivers with elevated BAC levels of .16 or more will be charged with Gross Misdemeanors. This aggravating factor poses more severe penalties, including a one-year loss of driver's license and up to one year in jail. Prior to this law, the aggravating limit was .20. It is a clear indication that Minnesota authorities make DUI enforcement, and penalties, a priority.
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IPL 2018: T20 is often considered as a format where players just stand and hit the ball as hard as they could.
IPL 2018: T20 is often considered as a format where players just stand and hit the ball as hard as they could. However, over the years there have been a few players who have shown the importance of building an innings and running hard between the wickets even in this format. The 11th edition of the Indian Premier League has been a fine example of this as some of the leading run-scorers have shown that you can still score big without hitting too many boundaries. Here, we will look at some players who covered the most distance in this season of IPL till Friday:
After 4 matches, Virat Kohli was the leading run-scorer in the tournament and given his fitness, it was no surprise that RCB skipper had also covered most distance on the pitch. He ran 1.67 kms from 65 singles and 9 doubles (83 runs). Since 2008, Virat Kohli has run 44198 yards (off his own bat!) or 40415 mts, which is 40.5 kms.
Kane Williamson
After 4 matches, the SRH skipper had scored 148 runs out of which 78 came from running between the wickets. Williamson has run 57singles, 9 doubles and 1 triples, covering a total distance of 1.44 kms, putting him on the second spot in the list.
Sanju Samson
Sanju Samson is seen as the next biggest thing in Kerala and after 5 matches, scored 75 runs from running between the wickets. He scored 53 from singles, ran 8 doubles, 2 triples and has covered 1.38 km.
Dinesh Karthik
KKR skipper Dinesh Kartik is not only doing great with his wicketkeeping but also spreading his magic with the bat this season. He has scored 194 runs out of which 73 came from 49 singles and 12 doubles where he covered a distance of 1.32 kms.
Karun Nair
The Karnataka batsman Karun Nair has emerged as an anchor for Kings XI Punjab. He scored 63 runs by sprinting between the wickets out of which 44 were singles, 8 doubles and 1 triple, he covered a distance of 1.28 kms.
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Angela is a solicitor in our Real Estate & Commercial team. She joined Barry.Nilsson. in 2013 and is based in our Brisbane office.
"I value being part of a team of legal specialists who are committed to not only providing quality legal advice, but also fostering genuine relationships with their clients."
Prior to joining Barry.Nilsson. Angela worked for a boutique property law firm and in the property law team of a national firm.
She provides advice on a broad range of matters including:
- property development
- commercial property transactions
- leasing and property work for major shopping centres
- general retail and commercial leasing.
Having advised on a number of large community title developments in the Brisbane CBD and large coastal resort developments in Queensland, Angela is well placed to provide her clients with a high level of property industry knowledge and a sophisticated approach to their project.


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The Free Universal Connection Kit is a set of 80 universal connectors that "enable complete interoperability." But you cannot buy this kit anywhere. You have to make the pieces on your own using a 3D printer, which you can either purchase or have it printed at your local commercial 3D printing shop.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015
President's Art Show
Participated in the President's Art show at the Salt Lake Community College. It's closing tomorrow. It was a good opportunity to get my art out there and pick up some life lessons along the way.
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Every now and then someone will contact me about a painting they saw online and ask if it is still available, and more often than not the painting has already sold. This is true of one of my most popular paintings from 2008, "Aqua Burn", it sold in 2008, but prints are available of it. A recent, new collector, reached out to see if it was possible to similarly recreate it. I was more than happy to do so, since I haven't painted anything from my Circle of Life painting in months! I always enjoy revisiting certain styles and colors, and this is one of my favorite color combinations for any style or painting.
The original "Aqua Burn" was created on an 18"x24" canvas, but the new collector wanted a much larger size and we settled on a 60"x48" Genie Canvas. I always love to paint oversized, it's challenging and the effect of larger paintings is so impressive once hung. Here is a compilation video of the painting in process and finished hanging up in it's new home.
Below are pics of the painting hanging in it's new home in the mountains of Montana ( I lived in Montana for the first 5 years of my life :). The beautiful mountain scene is what the painting sees looking out the window, how magnificent and beautiful is that?!
It's amazing how well such a colorful, contemporary painting can fit in with the wild rustic beauty of the collectors home they describe as "Mountain refined with log accents". It's as though they were made for each other! It is always such a thrill to see my art hanging in it's new home, it's as if a part of me gets to travel around the world through my art.
I always love to see how new images translate onto products with my fabulous licensing partner Deny Designs, and the new ones are no exception. Below are a few examples of the new products and abstract paintings/designs I created for Deny Designs. They are the perfect contemporary pieces of art to create a modern and trendy home with unique products.
Some original abstract painting designs turned into contemporary home decor products
Colorful, trendy pixel designs perfect for the modern home
So many more images and product options to choose from! Something for everybody to dress up their home and show their personality through style and design. See more at my Deny Designs Gallery of images.
I just finished up my latest PoP Art style abstract painting "Illusionary"©, created on a 36"x36" gallery wrapped Genie Canvas. I love these colors and working in this style is always an adventure, I never know what I will end up putting on the canvas, as I'm sketching out the idea to putting on the last stroke of paint, it all just seems to fall into place until I feel the exact moment when the painting is done. It keeps it interesting for sure!
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It's always such a thrill when licensed samples arrive at my door! And when these fabulous drinkware products from Evergreen Enterprises and their Cypress Home division showed up, I was beyond excited. The quality is so fabulous and they did such a wonderful job coordinating my pink ribbon art on the different products, I'm super happy with the way they turned out.
Evergreen Enterprises sells their products to thousands of retailers around the country from Home Goods, Bed Bath and Beyond to smaller specialty stores, so keep an eye out in your local stores for these beautiful drinkware products.
I was also happily surprised to visit Evergreen's website and see that the coffee mug is already one of their bestselling drinkware products, and they've only been available for a short time! So exciting to see these designs received so well, hoping I myself will get to see them in a store somewhere soon :) In the meantime the mug and tumbler are available online through several retailers, but haven't been able to track down the napkins just yet.
Shop at the following locations, click on Coffee Mug and Tumbler for shopping options.
Designs below were used to create the products
I was at the grocery store and decided to take a peek into the October issue of "O" the Oprah Magazine, as I had heard the possibility of my art being in this issue...and there it was!! Front and center in the "Home Edition" section all about plaid, I like how they also use the caption "Mad for Plaid" how cute :) My beautiful "Multi Blues Plaid" pattern featured on a Deny Designs baroque Mirror, what a thrill! There is nothing like going into a store and seeing your art on a product, or featured in a mainstream magazine...and Oprah, WoW, that's just amazing, still processing it all :)
PS, I think the cover colors of the magazine are such a fit for my art, hehe :)
I actually created this design, and several other plaid patterns, a couple of years ago. I took some of my abstract paintings, and layered them over each other with some hatched lines to create the unique plaid looks. I think it makes the designs more unique and special instead of just a standard digitized plaid pattern.
The "Multi Colors Plaid" and "Multi Blues Plaid" patterns are both available on numerous Deny Designs products, on everything from shower curtains to coasters, phone cases and more. Plaid is Hot, Hot, HOT right now on everything from fashion to home decor, so why not enjoy a different take on this trendy design with some unique MADART infused into it!!
If you've purchased any of the Deny Designs products with my plaid patterns, I would love to see them! You can send pictures to email@example.com
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Youth wrestling for grades K - 5 boys is run through the Lakes Area Mat Rats. This a cooperative organization for Pequot Lakes and Pine River youth wrestlers (much like the upper level program "Road Crew").
2018-2019 Wrestling Sign Up Night for youth in grades K-6 will be Tuesday, November 20 at 6:30 p.m. at the Pine River High School in the Wrestling Room (enter door 5)
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A continutaion of the "When a Spouse or Partner Dies" thread.
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This might be a rough time for many of you. Do what you feel you need to do to get through it. Remember, someone is here almost all the time to talk to you.
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Dear Steve, Marsha, Charles, and Chicago Beard,
Thank you so very much for these words of encouragement; it really means a lot to me! Especially coming from an artist--Chuck. Legacy is such a wonderful site, everybody is so good about helping other get through our grief with advice, suggestions, and encouragement.
My painting hobby helps me as a form of therapy, it's soothing and I also get to "relive" my Alaska experience with Joseph.
Sending you all much love and here's wishing everyone of you here a good day today!
Hugs, Trina
Finally got around to looking at your paintings. The colors are very vibrant and jump out at you. I like them a lot.
Good job!
Your artwork is bright, colorful and full of life. I love all forms of artwork, art can evoke a multitude of emotions and memories. Much as the life we live, when someone creates artwork they are sharing their deepest and most personal selves to the rest of the world. All we have to do as bystanders is to look at it, let it wash over us and enjoy the message. Thank you Trina for sharing...
Dear Marsha,
I am glad you got the humor in the situation with my cousin arriving with groceries instead of prepared food for the reunion. I guess I should have been happy she didn't show up with a gift certificate for Walmart!
On a serious note, I want to say how deeply sorry I am for the sad situation you are in with your dear friend. Watching anyone in our lives go through such health issues while knowing the eventual outcome is extremely hard for everybody. Add to that our shared experiences with losing our spouses, many to such illnesses, and our desires to still be strong and supportive of our friend or family member, and we can find ourselves stretched nearly to the breaking point and emotionally and physically exhausted. You will be there for your friend through her trials as many couldn't be, because that's just who you are. I worry about the stress it will place on you, and the toll it will take as things progress - but you are neither a coward nor a light-weight. You have demonstrated here in this family and in the world that you are a strong, determined, and vital force to be reckoned with - even through your own grief and troubles. I'm sending as much strength and positive energy as I can muster your way.
I had an intense encounter Sunday I wish to share. At church, I was describing to a new friend who is a nurse how I was coping after losing Larry and being released from the hospital and rehabilitation only to find myself home alone and my life completely imploded. I told how one friend Peg took charge of everything from finances to transporting me to appointments and even getting me on disability and Social Security to survive without losing my house.
He looked at me closely, sensing there was more to this, and asked quietly when I last spoke to her. I hesitated, then admitted I couldn't remember - she had disappeared from my life abruptly just after helping me get Larry's car inspected and transferred into my name so I could drive myself where I needed to be.
There must have been bitterness in my voice, because he asked how that made me feel (my own private therapist), and I had to think a bit before replying. Then, instead of letting loose with the same controlled rant I had been repeating for two years now to friends about this, I suddenly said something that surprised me. "I guess she actually saved my life, and once she got me on my own two feet needed to get back to her own life, which was very busy and demanding indeed. I have to remind myself that it must have been quite painful for her to see me like that after Larry's passing - she did lose him too after all."
He just said simply, "Why don't you call her, or text her, and tell her just that?" I wasn't expecting to be confronting this issue that day, but the honesty and simplicity of his challenge went with the message from the Pastor that day so elegantly, that I did just that...I sent a brief text thanking her for my life.
I may not hear back, or may get a scathing response - but either way I feel better for confronting something I had been avoiding and inwardly fretting over for far too long.
So, anyway, I just wanted to tell you that, and also that I am so gratified that anything I may say is of some help to you. We all walk our paths reaching for steadying handholds along the way when it becomes twisted and our footing unsure. You have been one of my handholds for several years now - I pray that I may be that for you as you go through this challenging and sad time with your friend.
God Bless You -
Love, Chuck
Dear Trina,
Thank you for sharing your artwork with us. Your paintings make me want to see the Alaskan landscape for real, and I first started my career in art painting and drawing landscapes in school. Mostly country and farm scenes - always with barns, because that's what i saw every summer visiting a family farmstead in Hancock, Mass. I may be biased (may be?), but I see art as one of the purest forms of story telling and communication, especially because it transcends any language or cultural barriers. Please keep painting, and sharing your works with us - they are a wonderful gift!
Love, Chuck
Dear Deborah P,
My prayers are with you today - I believe this is the first time I have heard of a birthday in heaven. What a lovely and comforting way to express our loved one's passing date. The mimosa tree will be a beautiful living memorial and provide a natural focus for your feelings and enduring love for Greg. Wishing you peace today our friend, and God Bless You
Love, Chuck
Dear Trina ... I thought your paintings were absolutely beautiful and very different. I have seen similar artists over on our Islands from Vancouver, B.C., and I am telling you the truth when I say that your paintings are just as good and I'd take a chance on selling them. Don't put yourself down! I think the paintings would sell. Don't forget to always sign your paintings! I have my paintings and other art work packed away at the present time, but going through things now to make room to bring it all in from the garage among other things and I'll be sure to leave a picture of here for you.
It's to bad the 4 of us didn't meet as I'm sure we would have really gotten along well. Ernie was very tall, intelligent, but a gentle giant and I was always so proud of him. He loved to laugh like I do and also had a good sense of humor although I will admit we each had our own sense of humor. LOL As you say it's just basic good manners to bring something to someone's house even if it's a bottle of wine or a dessert one could make. It' simply the gesture.
It is my pleasure to be here for you and anyone else who needs me, but I'm not perfect so every so often I come on here to get some excellent advice from all my angels.
I hope today is a good one for you Trina.
Dear Deborah P ... I will be praying and thinking of you today and wishing you only good memories. What a wonderful idea to plant that Mimosa tree. I know Greg will be there with you smiling away.
Dear Marsha,
You are giving me too much credit calling me an artist! I am just an amateur and a beginner. I missed Alaska and Joseph and my life together there that I wanted to paint Alaska landscapes as a way to comfort myself. Here are a couple of my Alaska landscapes. Maybe you, too, will share your paintings with us?
You are always very kind and considerate. When Joseph was alive, we always hosted several parties every year for our friends and we would go all out to make our parties a success and to make our guests feel welcomed. I would do the and Joseph would do the grilling and mix cocktails. Such happy memories. And like you, when we got invited, we always asked what to bring and for how many. Just basic good manners, as you say. Unfortunately, not everyone is like that.
Thank you for always being there for me and the rest of us!
Hugs, Trina


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