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*It appears to be Kazansky cathedral, re-open in 1998: http://www.kazansky-spb.ru
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In a monastery, a trapeza (or refectory), is the dining hall where monks and pilgrims gather for food and conversation. The OrthodoxWiki trapeza serves as the main discussion point for our website. Please feel free to join in - ask anything, suggest an idea, make a comment. We're glad to have you here. For other, more specifically designated discussion pages, check out the Community Portal.
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- 1 Orthodox Dictionary
- 2 Barnstar
- 3 Project Ideas
- 4 The Real Presence
- 5 Interwiki
- 6 Language Boxes
- 7 Cathedral of St. Petersburg, Russia
- 8 Romanian speakers: pls help ro.orthodoxwiki.org project
- 9 WikEd editing tool
- 10 Orthodox Understanding of the the date of the Last Supper
- 11 Uncategorized Images
- 12 When does a hierarch begin his tenure?
Orthodox Dictionary
English - Russian - Greek - Romanian - Finnish - Swedish -> http://www.ortodoksi.net/dict/search.php HAP 00:47, January 5, 2007 (PST)
Asserted: We need to have an OrthodoxWiki barnstar. —Dcn. Andrew talk contribs 20:06, August 16, 2006 (CDT)
Project Ideas
Check out the discussion of project ideas at OrthodoxWiki:Project Ideas.
The Real Presence
How about a discussion of the real Presence according to Orthodoxy? It is hard to find good articles on this important topic online, and Eucharist is too brief in this regard. Willibald 23:59, August 23, 2006 (CDT)
Hello, I would like to request someone to put in MediaWiki:Recentchangestext the relevant interwiki [[bg:Специални:Recentchanges]] to the bulgarian recent changes special page. Thanks.
- P.S. And... I would like to make a proposal: this extension acts like a forum inside the wiki and is better for discussions. Gregg 17:38, August 26, 2006 (CDT)
- I've added the interwiki link and installed the forum extension. Haven't tested it out, but let's try it and see how it works. There's a sample forum here. — FrJohn (talk)
Language Boxes
Anyone interested in porting over some of the language templates (the boxes that indicate user proficiency) from Wikipedia? It might be helpful in identifying people re: the various localizations. — FrJohn (talk)
- I have started to do just that. Here is my personal "Babel project" with some of the work I've been attempting. I suppose recent changes and my user contributions would also provide a similar look. I hope the progress is satisfactory. Hellenica 21:46, November 30, 2006 (PST)
- I'm definitely liking these wikipedia imports, Hellenica. The language boxes are extremely useful (Spanish, anyone?), and the personal user ones are just fun.Gabriela 20:49, December 1, 2006 (PST)
Cathedral of St. Petersburg, Russia
I've looked throughout the interweb and I simply can't find any place that says what the main cathedral of St. Petersburg is. Is it the Transfiguration? Kazan? I would think St. Isaac's would be "it" but non confirmation. Any help?
- This may not be true today, but in the late Soviet days (1988, when I visited the city) when the present Partriarch Alexei was the diocesan bishop in, then, Leningrad he held services in Trinity Cathedral (the one recently damaged by fire) in the Alexander Nevesky Monastery, Lavra. Then, the Kazan Cathedral was a museum and St Issac's was closed. Wsk 12:16, December 3, 2006 (PST)
- It appears to be Kazansky cathedral, re-open in 1998: http://www.kazansky-spb.ru
- Yes, the St. Petersburg Cathedral in honor of the Kazan' icon of the Mother God is the diocesan cathedral according to the Russian "Orthodox Encyclopedia" (http://ezh.sedmitza.ru/index.html?did=64, data up to 2004, with updates since then). The same is listed at the diocesan page on the "Drevo" online encyclopedia (http://drevo.pravbeseda.ru/index.php?id=607).
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If you speak Romanian, please help also ro.orthodoxwiki.org - Fr.Julian
Dacă vorbiţi româneşte, nu ezitaţi să daţi o mână de ajutor şi proiectului ro: ro.orthodoxwiki.org - p.iulian Inistea 14:30, December 7, 2006 (PST)
WikEd editing tool
I've recently been using the WikEd tool on Wikipedia, with success. The author says it should work on other wikis running the latest WikiMedia software, which I know we do. Can someone with more technical knowledge than I take a gander at the page and let me know if the tool would work here? Thanks. --cholmes75 08:13, December 20, 2006 (PST)
- I just installed it (using the instructions on the page linked above), and it works just fine. For now, just paste the entire code into your User:username/monobook.js page. I don't see any reason why we can't make a template, as they have on en.wikipedia, but someone with more Wiki experience (and probably more authorization, possibly FrJohn) needs to make that happen. --Basil 06:37, January 5, 2007 (PST)
Orthodox Understanding of the the date of the Last Supper
I understnad that most Orthodox theologians, as do I, follow the Gospel of John and do not consider the Last Supper a Passover Meal. If I understand correctly, one of the consequences of this understanding is the fact that leavened bread is used in the Eucharist in the Orthodox church. Are there other consequences, results, etc. of this understanding? It seems to me that the Synoptics agree with John, but have been misinterpreted.
I am writing an article on the date of the Last Supper, i.e., was it the Passover Meal (night beginning Nisan 15)or was it the night before (night beginning Nisan 14)? Apart from, or maybe along with, textual consideradions, the way the early Greek-speaking church understood the Supper must, it seems to me, be taken into consideration.
Not using unleavened bread points in that direction. Are there other things? I would be interested in orientation in this general area.
Note: I am 81, Ph.D. from Vanderbilt in 1963 in Biblical Studies, and speak English, Spanish and French. I would appreciate knowing about any relevant articles in any of these languages.
Thanks for any help. James M. Beaty
Hows does one use the talk page to reply to another user? Thanks.
Uncategorized Images
Hello, I was wondering why in the uncategorized picture section of OrthodoxWiki there is pictures of the Pope? He does not relate to the studies or teaching of Orthodoxy ( At least not to my knowledge ). I know that there have been talks to try and create a greater friendship with the catholics and the Pope. But I still do not think there should be a picture of him on a Orthodox site. I am only 18 and I'm still trying to understand my religion more and I think people might get the wrong impression if they see the Pope on the OrthodoxWiki site. Am I wrong to ask this? Because on a earlier post I noticed that Dcn. Andrew said "OrthodoxWiki is dedicated to Orthodox Christianity." Thanks.
P.S. This is a great website and I learn allot from it.
When does a hierarch begin his tenure?
According to the canons of the Orthodox Church, at which point does a hierarch ascend his cathedra? That is, if he is elected by the flock of his diocese/metropolia/autonomous Church (where such elections are provided for) is he already considered to occupy his see? Or, will he assume his post only after his election is confirmed by the hierarchal superiors? Or esle, will he do so only after the enthronement ceremony (where such is provided for)? In different lists of hierarchs I have seen different dates marking the beginning of their tenure.
I thank You for Your attention and ask, if possible, to advise Church texts to confirm this point.


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The mission statement for Penobscot Theatre Company's Education Department states the following "PTC's Dramatic Academy is committed to providing students of all ages a training ground to explore the performing arts. Through collaboration with professionally trained instructors we strive to foster learning, growth, and skill acquisition amongst our students. In doing so, we look to build a greater community and inspire a lifelong love of theater." It is with great pride that we here at PTC would like to share with you a great success story. Former Dramatic Academy student Emma Howard, a Bangor native and local high school student, has put her training to use and makes her main stage debut as a professional actress in our current production of WIT. Emma has been involved with PTC's educational programming since fourth grade. She is also our youngest season subscriber and an active member of our Teen Council. We asked Emma a few questions about her many experiences at PTC:
What has it been like to perform in your first professional show?
The experience has been indescribable. We put a lot of time and energy into this but I've enjoyed it so much that it hasn't felt like work at all. Usually by the time I start tech for a show I'm so rundown that I dread coming to a rehearsal that will take up my entire weekend, but this wasn't like that at all. Before I started the show I was a little apprehensive about the time commitment, but now I find that whenever we have days off I just sit at home missing my cast and wishing I were back at the theatre. Working in a professional show has been unlike any other theatre experience I've had. It's not just due to the fact that I'm working with adults, because I've acted with adults before, but this is the most devoted cast I've ever been a part of. Months before we even had our first rehearsal, people were doing cancer research, reading about John Donne, and emailing back and forth to discuss new thoughts and discoveries. At the first rehearsal, Sarah was practically off-book. Since people did so much work outside of rehearsal we didn't need to waste any time drilling lines or focusing on something that wasn't pertinent to the entire show and the entire cast. So we made valuable use of our time during every rehearsal. In high school shows, most rehearsals are devoted solely to blocking, running lines, and re-blocking the scenes that everyone has forgotten about. Despite the fact that this show went up in half the time I usually spend on a show, we spent the first three rehearsals doing nothing but dissecting the text and having an in-depth discussion about the show. And we were never short on time. We shared ideas about the characters and themes of Wit, as well as the dramaturgical aspects of the play. We even took an evening to visit the hospital and talk with doctors and nurses so we could get feedback from them about what it's truly like to be involved with these kind of experiences. Then we could apply it to our characters and have a better understanding of the play as a whole. I had never done this kind of work for a show before, but I think it was an integral part of our preparation, and I wish that every cast could devote so much to a show. Everyone was extremely committed to their work and took it seriously, but we also had a great time doing it and had fun together. People did a lot of individual work for their characters, but there wasn't one person who put himself above anyone else in the cast. I was surprised at how included I felt even though I was "just in the ensemble," as I described my role at first. Every single person was encouraged to share any thoughts or concerns and we all contributed. When Kappy said that each person in the cast was equally as important as anyone else, she meant it; everyone had to work with everyone else to create such a beautiful ensemble piece. It's been wonderful to work with a group of such kind, brilliant professionals.
What turned you on to theater, and what prepared you to participate in a professional show?
The summer acting camp at Penobscot was actually my first introduction to theatre and what made me fall in love with acting in the first place, so it prepared me in many ways. I started in fourth grade, and even then we were treated like professionals and expected to act accordingly. The play we developed was a collaborative effort that required each person to create his own character and come up with dialogue. We had a basic storyline to start and then we used improvisation to develop our characters and relationships until we had a finished product. As I got older and had the opportunity to do the advanced acting camps and workshops, I learned more about acting technique, auditioning, and the business side of theatre, but even that first experience was enough to prepare me for work in a professional show. It taught us that acting was not about getting in the spotlight or stealing the show, but about collaboration. I learned just how important listening is. This is extremely important in a professional show, especially an ensemble piece such as this, where everyone has to work together and connect with everyone else throughout the show.
Why do you think theater is important for young people?
I think theatre is essential for anyone who wants to think critically and ask questions and live and be a human, but it's especially important for young people. We're at an age where we're still impressionable and we're constantly developing and changing our opinions about things, trying to figure out exactly what we think about politics or religion, and trying to create fixed identities for ourselves. In order to do this, we need things that make us think. We need to go to the theatre and see the humanity in characters that we never thought we could relate to, so we can start to ask questions. When actors portray characters honestly, we can relate to them and recognize ourselves in them, which gives us a better understanding of ourselves and the people around us. I feel like my generation also has the task of furthering social progress, and theatre can be an important tool in conveying social and political messages. I know a lot of people are still in the dark when it comes to mental illness. They're intolerant of it because it's unfamiliar so they don't understand it and it makes them uncomfortable. But anyone who goes to see a play like "The Boys Next Door" will leave the theatre with a completely different perspective. Actors give people humanity, showing audiences that it's possible to connect with people who are different from them. At this age we're also still in the process of determining what's right and wrong, and how to define morality. After going to see a show like "Equus," it's impossible not to have some sort of impression on the moral dilemmas that are presented in the play. We need plays that make us question. That's why "Wit" is such a masterpiece. It might make the audience feel things, but it's not a tearjerker that's designed to manipulate the audience's emotions and invoke specific feelings. It's a powerful, thought-provoking piece that moves the audience as well as engages their minds and asks questions of them. This type of experience is absolutely critical for people my age if we want to become more complete human beings.
Information regarding PTC's Dramatic Academy programming can be found at our website penobscottheatre.org under the Education tab or by contacting our Director of Education Jasmine Ireland at firstname.lastname@example.com or 947-6618 ext. 104
WIT will run through March 31st at the Bangor Opera House. Special BUY ONE GET ONE for all cancer patients and survivors with code: Survivor. Group rates available. Purchase tickets, subscriptions and gift certificates online at www.penobscottheatre.org, or through the Box Office at 207-947-6618.

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Happy Days! LOL
So the thing that's funny here is that I just realized I am in the city where Happy Days was set... that and Wayne's World. I am curious if anyone knows where that is.
I also noticed thagt someone fixed me up with a PM. The Pan De Vida sign in my sig really isn't right for the season. I'll have to take care of that.
We haven't fealt neglected. I figured if your family was as busy as mine, the goodies might not get made, much less sent out. With me working out of town, The holidays have proven to be very hectic!


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They're young and healthy and they work out at the gym several times a week. But Yorktown newlyweds Christa and Alan Riley felt they needed to do better.
The 20-somethings were afraid that their eating habits would catch up with them down the road. Both commute to work at the shipyard in Newport News, where Alan's a supervisor and Christa is in the Apprentice School. They routinely rise before dawn and put in 10-hour work days, punctuated by a brief 30-minute lunch break.
Neither gave much attention to breakfast, they drank sodas constantly, and regularly took the convenience route — eating frequently at fast food restaurants and heating up ready-made frozen meals.
"We were eating a lot of chicken nuggets, a lot of processed food," says Christa. "We needed to get away from the 'potato and corn diet'." Alan adds, "We wanted to get fitter. I was bored with the gym." They felt overwhelmed by the pace of their lives — and dissatisfied. Something was out of whack.
So they did some research on the Internet and found Rhonda Greene of Body-in-Balance in Newport News, who had just launched a health coaching component as a supplement to her exercise studio. She had all the qualifications they were looking for, says Alan, and the couple signed up for the six-month health coaching program (see sidebar) and once-a-week personal training. The latter has given them both more confidence in the gym they attend. They no longer just do cardio but mix up their workouts with strength training and stretching and have seen improved results already.
NEWPORT NEWS: At the studio
Using the principles of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, Greene works with Christa, while her employee Tirza Rampolla works separately with Alan.
In their second session, the talk of nutrition and eating habits quickly segues into a discussion of other areas of their lives. After following the digressions carefully, each coach deftly steers the duo back to their diets — what they're eating, when, and how they feel about it — and how that fits with their lives and reflects what's out of balance.
Alan's challenge is to start eating breakfast, to take time to enjoy his lunch — instead of wolfing a sandwich for 10 minutes then napping — and to select foods for enjoyment in order to gain weight. He's already decreased his soda intake and is drinking orange and apple juice. "It's probably more sugar than anything," he muses.
Christa needs to prioritize all her activities and learn what's important, what's OK to let slide and how to set effective boundaries. Already, in the first two weeks, she has made strides in her diet. "We were really potato people," she says, noting that she hasn't had one since starting the program. At Greene's urging, they're both incorporating more greens — and kale specifically — into their diet.
This week they're learning about grains and their nutritional value. Greene gives them a box of Trader Joe's quinoa (pronounced 'keen-wa'), low-fat chicken broth and a rosemary plant along with recipes. Rampolla advises them, half-seriously, that they'll need to return the live rosemary plant at the end of the program. "Keep doing your greens — add the grains," urges Greene. "They don't have to be bland, you can add your choice of condiments. You can eat healthy things, but if you don't like it, it doesn't do you any good."
YORKTOWN: At home
Ten days later, the Rileys are preparing a weeknight meal using the ingredients that Greene gave them. They're in the well-equipped kitchen of their town home working together.
"Here's the kenya," says Christa, struggling to pronounce quinoa, indicating the grain cooking in chicken broth on the stove. She says they've tried brown rice unsuccessfully and they really love Rice-a-Roni, so Rhonda thought the unfamiliar quinoa would provide the closest taste. Chicken is baking in the oven because the outside grill is out of gas. It's marinated in a Hawaiian glaze and sprinkled with rosemary leaves from the still-healthy plant on the kitchen table. Alan has chopped up an onion and green pepper to add to the grain for both taste and texture.
Both are enjoying trips to the produce aisles in the grocery store to buy fresh fruits and vegetables. "If it's fresh, it's going to go bad," says Alan, who finds that an incentive to eat what they've bought. Both came from homes where vegetables — including spinach and green beans — came from a can. "We had this misconception," says Christa. Now they both enjoy fresh spinach — and eat it raw.
They're also eating fruits, such as strawberries and grapes, for breakfast. "I don't think I'm ready for blueberries. Can you just eat them?" asks Christa. Alan has pushed himself to eat fruit cups in the morning on a couple of days and has now cut out all sodas; Christa is down to one Diet Coke in the early morning. She's gradually weaning herself, she says. He's easing into breakfast on the weekends when he can take time to prepare French toast, a favorite, and enjoy a leisurely start to the day.
Previously their familiarity with different foods extended to mac and cheese, beanie-weanies, pancake-wrapped sausage, snack and fast foods.
Both agree that it's fun to experiment. Eggs and spinach were a success; eggs and onions weren't. They've found that adding kale to shrimp and chicken makes the greens palatable. They haven't attempted salads yet. "Someone suggested putting pine nuts and cranberries in it. It sounds a little far-fetched," says Christa.
They like the encouragement and guidance that the program provides. "We're not trying to starve, but to be more healthy and prevent a lot of diseases from high blood pressure and high cholesterol," says Christa, who still has the occasional craving for Wendy's chicken nuggets. She's always enjoyed salty snacks, such as potato chips, so she has substituted peanuts in the shell for them. Alan has a sweet tooth and used to inhale candy bars. "I can put away a lot of chocolate," he says. "I'm not tall enough to gain weight. When I'm older I'll get rounder. I want to head it off at the pass."
Together, they've given up fast food outings, but they still dine out occasionally. Already, Alan's tastes have changed; he lamented a lack of interesting vegetables on a Valentine's Day outing when they had steak and lobster. And Christa noted that when out for Mexican food with friends she didn't eat any of the chips.
Savoring their healthy home-cooked dinner, they beam at each other. "This is fantastic. It tastes good," says Alan. An added benefit is the time they're spending together, sharing reactions to their new experiences.
"For the first time we have common goals," he says.
Rhonda Greene, a personal trainer and health coach, owns Body-in-Balance studio in Newport News. She coaches Christa Riley for 45 minutes to an hour every other Friday in a six-month program of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition; Tirza Rampolla, who works at Body-in-Balance, coaches Christa's husband, Alan Riley. The Rileys take one personal training session weekly in conjunction with the program. They started in February; we will check up on them at the end of the program in July.
In addition to individual coaching, Greene offers group sessions for up to 12 people; she also conducts health coaching over the phone.
Body-in- Balance. 12482-A Warwick Blvd., Newport News; 715-6906; http://www.bodyinbalance757.com.


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"As knitters, we can and should knit things that don't just mimic the styles we could easily find at stores. . . it's all the fine details, careful knitting, yarn choice, and interesting project elements that make each knitting project worthwhile."
Sweaterbabe is a pretty hard name to forget, and once you see her work, you'll have even more reason to remember it. Katherine Lee has been designing for about 10 years and knitting for over 30. Her designs are flattering and contemporary, and feature special little details that add a touch of femininity. Her fans couldn't agree more; Ravelry shows almost 4,000 projects knit in her designs! Katherine was kind enough to answer some questions, hope her answers leave you feeling inspired!
How long have you been designing?
I started by designing knitwear to be produced and sold in stores. I designed entire lines of knits in baby alpaca, from sexy knit lace dresses to monogrammed baby cardigans. In order to be able to produce the same designs more than once, I had to take meticulous notes and create charts to serve as really detailed production specifications.
|Ruffled-Strap Tank from Sweaterbabe.com's Fabulous & Flirty Crochet
|Shawl Collared Wrap Cardigan from Sweaterbabe.com's Fabulous & Flirty Crochet
|Three New Hat Designs
What is your "design process"?
I usually start with a yarn and a very vague idea of what I'd like to design. It's very often based on what I want to add to my closet to wear that same season!
I then get inspiration from people watching, shopping online, flipping through magazines, or just thinking about how best to use the yarn. I'll do a very simple sketch with notes on possible design details. I'll hunt for stitch patterns that will be incorporated into the design, and then I'll swatch to get the different gauges needed. The swatching always takes longer than I'd like, but I know that I need to do it since I can be extremely picky about how a yarn feels after it's knit up in a certain stitch pattern and at a certain gauge. Sometimes, even bumping the needle size up by one size can make the resulting fabric feel that much softer or let the stitch pattern show up that much better. . .
|#69 Cables and Lace Kimono Wrap Cardigan in Princess
Once I've got the gauges, I begin a lot of math to determine stitch count and stitch pattern placement, shaping, etc. I knit and adjust, knit and sometimes rip back, knit, knit, knit – all the while taking lots of notes down on what I'm doing!
Besides working on the couch in the living room and at the computer, I also have a room where I store all of my yarn and hundreds of samples in a big shelf. I call this my "yarn wall." This room is also where my big blocking table and other knitting supplies are located.
|#70 Lush and Lacy Cardigan in Lush
I believe the inspiration for the Lush and Lacy Cardigan really was that I wanted something that was unique, but in its subtle, lovely details, which is something I strive for in all of my designs. As knitters, we can and should knit things that don't just mimic the styles we could easily find at stores. . . it's all the fine details, careful knitting, yarn choice, and interesting project elements that make each knitting project worthwhile.


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Review: Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
Recently, I offered a big armful of books to the local veterans center to support a gift drive for Americans fighting overseas. I am not, as you may have read, a booster of the effort, and I hate to let anything go, so kind of condescendingly, I found myself wondering what awful books I could unload that a soldier would also like to read. (I also toyed with the idea of shipping over books with politically subversive elements in them, but (1) anyone sensitive to that is having a tough time of it already, and (2) those, I mostly want to keep.) So it was some Grishams, a couple old Conan novels that I meant to read when I was 14, a bunch of shitty steampunk stuff that I no longer feel guilty about avoiding, what little military fiction I had, and a few dated opinion collections of American history. A damn shame that I had finally unloaded my mother-in-law's collection of recent hardcover potboilers six months ago, those would have been perfect. It's a long segue, but the point is that the pile looks a lot thinner than usual (even as the number of books I will potentially read in it is unchanged), and I'm happy for the recent recommendations I've received. Cloud Atlas, with it's themes of power and subjugation, could have satisfied the effort of quiet evangelism that I had mind, but as it happens, it's also one that I'd rather hold on to.
Cloud Atlas follows along six individual stories, feeling out the dynamics of man's inhumanity to man along the way, examining this against the desire for peaceful coexistence, and looking at the motivations for institutional violence and for resistance (which overlap). Generally, Mitchell is telling stories of individuals against that larger backdrop. The crimes of power develop on a larger scale than the story, backed by contextual notions of state, military, religion, corporation or class, and Mitchell works out ways in which such coersion can arise from or feed back into individual behavior and whether knowledge and compassion are mitigating or damning. Civilization--is it worth it? The question isn't such a unique writing endeavor, but it's one which, I suspect, needs a higher quality bar to get the interest of cynical publishers, and I think it takes some sense of nuance to even ask. Exploring the question within a series of connected and ambiguous morality plays, over the arc of society's desperate conception all the way to its fall, Cloud Atlas reminded me a lot A Canticle for Leibowitz, which I intend as a compliment.
Structure is really this novel's bag, though, and Mitchell takes great delight in the interconnectedness between the stories, and the variations and the unusual architecture of the book. Mitchell lets six "soloists" play for awhile before interrupting them in the middle of their own story, jumping to the next solo, taking place sometime in the future, and in a different literary form. The novel moves through the 1850s, through modern times, and into a couple future civilizations, and then back down the chain. It's a great big pallindrome of a book. There's a strong implication that the human story he tells is circular, that the icon-carving tribe with its tenuous grasp of fallen civilization, is in fact the ancestors of the (non-fictional) Moriori that first soloist encounters in the Chatham islands just a few years too late. The protagonists are spiritually related, but I think it's safe to say that connection is in a purely literary, meta, sense. The voice and vehicle changes for each story (we go from traveler's diary, to personal letters, to mystery novel, to notes for a film script, to formal interview, to oral history), and the tie-ins are well-done, and neatly incorporate a handoff of both halves of the physical object of the telling (the book, the letters, etc.) between the protagonists of each section. By the end, Mitchell is vigorously shaking his own hand in terms of minor story details too.
I find that these metafictional, self-referential tricks are great when they add a sudden insight, and I think the formal arrangement of the elements increases the reader's overall engagement with this particular novel. Like with all tricks, what really matters is execution, how well you can pull them off. This sort of metanarrative does let you cheat a little, however, and the characters (and author) can't always stop themselves from a little critique, making notes on the limitations of the various storytelling media. There's a fine line between cleverness and excusing yourself for bad writing, between showing your authorial hand and distancing your readers from your characters. Mitchell stays north of it, but he gets closer than he needs to sometimes.
And it's funny what details you catch. A misplaced neologism really bugged me, (someone writing in 1931 wouldn't use the term "critical mass"). But I couldn't get myself to notice, even with effort, what spelling conventions Mitchell chose in his contemporary English and American sections. I found myself wondering how plausible the language developments in the future sections were. A couple hundred years from now, the people of his nightmare corporatocracy have evolved a slightly streamlined English, based more or less on spelling conventions from twentieth-century advertising, but I'm lacking the hook how such language should have made the geographic move to the southeast Asian setting. I liked better the voice he uses for post-civilizational section. The speech had an cadence, in which the rules of the parent tongue had obviously been loosened, improvised, and forgotten. Would a free-form language like that be the one preferred by the last tribe to hold on to writing? Well, that one works out, I think: we have the whole Middle Ages to attest to how speech can diverge from the writing forms of the dead empire.
There are also pitfalls inherent to using so many different narrative voices. I found that the solo sections didn't necessarily compare to one another equally, or even in both of their halves. The diarist Adam Ewing was a naive bore both times. The cynical urban gentleman Nick Cavendish was irritating on the ride up and funny as hell in his second act. The bigger problem is that Mitchell is consciously working with known literary types here, and as a reader, you need them to sustain some independent identity even if they satisfy the mold. The letters from Zedelghem were one of the best sections, thanks to Mr. Frobisher's witty epistolary voice, but also for the real sensitivity that was revealed beneath the character who otherwise felt he had been pulled out of Oscar Wilde's trope barrel. The mystery novel portion, on the other hand, proved to contain too much fast-rolling cliche for my tastes, with a grating present-tense narration. ("But that part's supposed to be pulpy," protests my inner David Mitchell. Maybe.) The science fiction future was very well evoked in the first half of the telling, and if (as its central character dares to observe) letting it devolve into an implausible chase sequence weakens its story, the resolution has enough geeky allegorical horror to be satisfying. (And it's great that Mitchell doesn't carry on the pretense that he's single-handedly reinventing the genre.) The after-the-fall section, deepest in the future or the past, may have been the most compelling on its own storytelling merits. As near-mythology, it's really the most canonical style he uses, but it also feels the most original.
Despite the fact that the book makes heavy use of textual tricks and authorial winks, I think it would actually make a great film. One reason is that none of the individual plots are really all that dense, and the the level of character development for the series of shorts is consistent with what you find in a well-done film, which makes more use of archetypical characters and other shortcut cues, appropriate to a medium with severe constraints on time and lengthy exposition. Anyone bought the rights yet?


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The joint venture company will be known as DSM Kemrock India. In the first phase, the new plant will have a capacity of 25,000 tonnes (conservative estimate) of composite materials per annum.
DSM Kemrock India expects revenues of nearly $50-million from the Indian market by 2015."This joint venture fits with all four growth drivers of our strategy DSM in motion: driving focused growth and provides an excellent opportunity to further grow our composite resins business in India. In addition, this joint venture re-confirms our longstanding commitment to India, a country that has become an important market for DSM," said Nico Gerardu, Member of the DSM Managing Board and responsible for the Performance Materials cluster."We are excited to start working with Kemrock Industries, a well-known and highly respected partner and market leader in India in composite parts. We are convinced that our joint venture will play an important role in the fast growing market for composites in India, as the number of applications and markets continues to grow. Our composite resins for instance do not only increase the yield of wind turbines, they can also replace metal in automotive applications," said Michael Effing, President DSM Composite Resins.
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In our Primary classroom we foster the process of self-creation by providing an environment in which each child can develop independently at his or her own pace while still gaining those social, physical, intellectual and emotional skills needed to develop to his/her full potential. Our environment is designed to provide the child the opportunity to interact with as many aspects of the world as possible (at their own level). The children learn through doing, experiencing the joy of individual discovery and mastery. An essential aspect of Montessori Education and IMSchools mission is developing awareness of the interrelatedness of all life and humanity's responsibilities toward it. To this end we have created rich cultural, science and geography areas and materials in addition to our didactic Montessori materials. Our Primary students also participate in a peace education program, learning to listen actively, communicate positively, and create compromise and solutions.
Students are required to be 3 years old as of September 1st of the Academic year they are joining, and fully toilet-trained to enter this program.
We moved to IMS Paoli this past year with our three young children - and we could not be happier. The teachers are amazing (Ghada, Senem, Kate), and they are accessible and personable. They truly care for our children as we do, and they provide the structured, creative environment that Montessori is known for. Compared to other schools we have tried, IMS Paoli has huge open classrooms with lots of natural light, an expansive outdoor area with playgrounds, plenty of space to run, and they raise chickens and plant gardens. Excellent school and location at IMS Paoli!
My daughter has been going to the International Montessori School of Paoli for 3 years. She really enjoys going to school. It is wonderful as a parent to know your child is happy and truly learning. Here the children learn at their own pace with help from the teachers. It is not a competitive environment like many schools. Feeling successful while having fun is a gift for my daughter that I am happy to have found! I feel confident sending her to kindergarten next year.
My son Michael has been going to this school for 4 years and we love it. We are very please with the level of education he is getting and are confident that he will be prepared for kindergarten. The staff is professional and the school is clean. We recommend this school to everyone we know.
My son is in the toddler class and is loving every minute. They have wonderful, caring teachers who truly want to be a great influence on the lives of children. Its always a struggle to decide to put a child in daycare but once we settled in my whole family benefited! I know that he is in a safe, loving and fun environment and can go to work without worry. Also, you can call with any questions anytime and they don't mind. They have lots of fun activities spread throughout the months and keep the parents pretty informed. Overall a great place for children!
The best decision!
I really mean it! It was the best decision me and my husband made when we enrolled our daughter at Paoli's International Montessori. My daughter is under the care of Ms. Senem and we couldn't be happier. She is a very caring and loving teacher (along with the amazing assistants), and we can totally see the improve on my daughter's social and development skills in general. We are really happy with Ms. Senem's dedication to all the kids under her care, and we are also really happy with Ms. Jacky and Ms. Laura, that were always willing and ready to help us in all the ways that we needed. I couldn't recommend more!
Great experience in multiple classrooms
Our family has two children at the International Montessori School in Paoli and we couldn't be happier! Our oldest daughter is currently enrolled in Ms. Melissa's Elementary program after completing last year in Ms. Ghada's Primary 2 classroom. We were thrilled to enroll our second born in Primary 2 this year after seeing how well our oldest did with Ms. Ghada and the other teachers. Our daughters love going to school everyday! We are so impressed by Ms. Melissa! She works tirelessly at individualizing the curriculum for each student and has great communication with the parents. The close community of learners that she is fostering has created strong bonds between the students. Our daughter is performing beyond our expectations and we know her love of learning has grown so much because of the attention she's given from the wonderful staff. We are forever grateful that we found this gem of a school!
My daughter was in Ms. Ghada's Primary classroom with the IM Schools Paoli, PA. We really loved the school and especially Ms. Ghada and team's efforts in giving individual attention and care. My daughter had an amazing change over the past year academically and in her social interactions. We are totally happy with the caring and happy environment she got there and appreciate all the efforts from all teachers. Joseph
Wonderful Experience
I was extremely picky when choosing a school for our daughter because of my experience as an elementary teacher. Jacky at International Montessori Schools Paoli answered all of our questions before we even asked them, which is something directors at other schools in the area were unable to do. Now, our daughter is enjoying herself and excelling at school, a testament to Ms. Ghada and the rest of the fantastic staff in her classroom! The active learning activities keep her attentive and thoroughly help her to retain the information being taught. Saturday and Sunday are her least favorite days of the week. We highly recommend IMS Paoli to everyone!
Loving, experienced teachers
As a teacher, I was very concerned about finding the right childcare for my son. We toured IMS Paoli and immediately fell in love with the director and beautiful school. Our son loved the independence that a Montessori program provided and really thrived in the pre primary classroom. He had attended a traditional daycare previously and frequently cried throughout the day and was very unhappy when he had to go to school. He is now in the primary classroom and it is really amazing how independent, mature, and self motivated he has become. Our babysitter commented on his personality saying that he is more mature than a seven year old she babysits and I know it's due to the Montessori environment. Our 10 month old daughter goes to IMS Great Valley and Silvia is a baby whisperer. Our daughter did not leave my side for the first five months of her life but really bonded with Silvia. She is truly a gem. While I miss my children during the day, I have absolutely zero worries about them and know that they are happy and well cared for.
I wish I had found this school for my oldest daughter. But am so happy and thankful I found it for my second. She has come a long way since she started at International Montessori schools last year. She loves it and even goes to camp in the summertime with my oldest (who also loves it there). The variety of activities at her school have increased her independence and confidence more than words can say. She was very shy and quiet when she first started. Now she comes home telling me all about her friends and enjoys showing me what she has accomplished. Thank you to the international Montessori schools!
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International Montessori school at Paoli is the best place for kids to have fun and learn so much in the process. My kid has never been happier! The teachers are professional, polite and so engaged in exposing the children to different concepts on a daily basis. I just wished I had enrolled my child in this school earlier.
Child centered and full of care
We watched our child blossom within weeks of starting at the International Montessori School. The school and teachers follow a structure that helps enhance natural curiosity and set up students for future educational and interpersonal success. The curriculum is so natural that children fell comfortable exploring and learning at a pace that fits and benefits them at the same time. We find the teachers and staff to be very attentive.
Great care & peace of mind
We've had a great experience with International Montessori School Malvern. When I sought childcare for my daughter, my goal was to find a school with a smaller setting and warm, experienced teachers. IMS Malvern possesses both of these traits. My daughter has flourished in the environment and I have peace of mind knowing she is capable hands.
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My son is currently in his 3rd year at Paoli International Montessori School. He attends 5 days a week from 9-3 and began the pre-K program this year. We are all very happy with our experience there! When I first visited the school, the one thing that stood out in stark contrast to the other pre-K locations I visited was the mutual respect I saw between students and teachers. I was very pleased to learn that the Montessori method goes well beyond academics to teach life and social skills to the students. So, in addition to learning the three R's (he is so proud to be able to read and do math equations!), they reinforce being independent and respectful to those around you. They also foster a sense of community and self-esteem by allowing the students to teach other (usually younger) students how to perform activities in the classroom that are new to their classmates. The children also have a structure to the day that I didn't see evidenced in the other pre-K programs. Although they are given plenty of free play, a good portion of their day is spent doing "jobs" that reinforce the academic and life skills taught at the school. My son enjoys the activities and loves having a purpose to his day. The students are also enriched through introduction to other cultures, music, art, yoga, gardening, and the list goes on. If I had to list a con to the program it is that they have no introduction to computers. However, we feel there is merit to a program which enriches through a more traditional learning structure. Our son will learn about technology as there is no escaping it in today's world. But, in the spirit of a well-rounded child, we feel that this program is giving him the strong foundation that he needs at this age.
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This week's blog will highlight British Royal Weddings.
Save the Date: April 29, 2011. It's time again for another royal wedding. Catherine(Kate) Middleton will fulfill the dream of many little girls and adult women when she marries her prince, William of Wales. British royal weddings and marriages are especially captivating to a world audience, even more so with the advent of photography and 24 hour news coverage. This week's resources will satisfy your royal nuptial curiosity and highlight some of the more colorful couples in Britain's past.
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NEW! The Royal Wedding
Visit the official website for William and Kate's wedding. This site offers the latest news and provides details on the planning and ceremony.
NEW! BBC: A History of Royal Weddings
This page from the BBC will get you caught up on 100 years of royal weddings. This site offers timelines, video clips, links to the latest news and links to other sites on the Internet that highlight royal weddings.
NEW! The British Monarchy: Weddings
The Official Website of the British Monarchy maintains this page. It summarizes the important details, locations and traditions of many Royal Weddings, including the most recent ones. This page also links to other British Royal traditions, Royal household information, and biographies of Royal family members.
NEW! The Smithsonian: Ten Royal Weddings to Remember
"For centuries, British monarchs have had their marriages tested by war, infidelity, politics and diplomatic intrigue." Brought to life by the Smithsonian, this page details the reasons behind 10 memorable unions, whether the motive be love, alliance, or duty.
NEW! CBC News: Royal Marriages Throughout History
From the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, a summary of primarily British royal weddings throughout history. Some that worked out and some that did not.
NEW! Britannia: Monarchs of Britain
Got the royal itch? Check out this site by Britannia, which includes a complete list of British monarchs including biographies and timelines.
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Romney Confronts the Power of the Presidency
A Delicate New Balance on National Security
The Purpose of Spectacular Wealth, According to a Spectacularly Wealthy Guy
Charles M. Blow: Things That Really Matter
Methodists Vote Against Ending Investments Tied to Israel
Criminal Charges for 13 in Florida A&M Hazing Death
State Officials Throw Out Another Pearson Test Question
Dolan and Bishops Urge Albany to Raise Minimum Wage
The Christian Science Monitor
Florida A&M hazing: Charges could clip violent traditions
Occupy movement seeks new recruits. In New York, it found some. (+video)
'Torture memos' author can't be sued for harsh interrogations, court rules
Harvard and MIT to offer online courses. A step in lowering college costs?
The Miami Herald
Zimmerman's attorney: Trayvon's social media posts fair game
13 charged in hazing death of FAMU band member
The Star Ledger
N.J. Supreme Court to rule on salary cap for school superintendents
Watchdog group wants Attorney General to investigate ALEC's activities in N.J.
Recently out of Rikers, former Net Jayson Williams shows up at Union City soup kitchen to help mark milestone
Family, supporters of Malik Williams demonstrate outside Christie town hall in Garfield
Assemblyman John Wisniewski joins call for freeze on toll hike
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Medicare fraud: 22 indicted in metro Detroit as part of major U.S. crackdown
Community's help sought to find Detroit store owner's killer
Upkeep of Detroit may be sacrificed under budget cuts, official says
Right-to-work opponents get ready for battle over bargaining
Detroit Councilman Kwame Kenyatta won't run again, says city's problems tied to loss of hope
The Washington Post
Newt Gingrich formally ends presidential bid
Romney in Va.: Obama policies 'backbreaking' for small business
Obama administration plan would ease rules on some weapons exports
Prostitution scandal no laughing matter for ex-Secret Service agents
Federal Diary: Leadership chasm at DHS
Rapes shake Hyattsville area
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SCLC sets convention in Sanford, Florida area
Atlanta City Council to consider 2013 budget proposal
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Official: Cause of Tyler Perry fire 'undetermined'
Law will give options to prison
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Illinois Senate panel votes down pension reform measure
How Daley beefed up his pension payouts
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Union abandons California ballot measures in deal with hospitals
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American Heart Association: Tasers can cause death
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For someone who's never been arrested, I sure spend a lot of time at Cook County Jail lately.
As part of Occupy Chicago's ongoing jail solidarity effort for the NATO 5, who are facing terrorism charges, I have been attending as many court dates as my schedule allows. Most of these court dates are just for updates, or to set new court dates, but being there is an important show of support. At the first few I attended we pushed our luck a bit by standing and raising fists in solidarity, so much so that the judge has taken to reading a decorum order before calling any of their cases. He claims it's not really aimed at us, just meant as a point of information for "people who only know about court from TV," but since it uses words like "conduct of solidarity" and "protest," I tend to take it personally.
Here's what a NATO 5 court decorum order looks like:
All persons in the courtroom must remain silent during all proceedings. There will be no talking, noise making, standing, kneeling, waving, hand raising or other conduct of solidarity, camaraderie, protest, approval or disapproval in the courtroom or in the hallway outside the courtroom.
Going to court is always a bit of a hassle, but worth it to me in the end, even just to see a glimpse of them through the tinted glass that separates us from the courtroom itself. It makes the long drive, seemingly random security procedures, and waiting through other cases worthwhile.
Visiting hours for the NATO 5 always conflict with work and other obligations of mine, so I haven't been able to see any of them until this week, when I had a few days off. For me, spending my time off making visits to friends in jail is the new normal. I put out the word that I was planning a visit for Monday afternoon and found two small groups of friends also planning to visit. I met up with the earlier group and we left our stuff at an occupier's apartment within walking distance of the jail and set out on our way. (Note to everyone: being without my cell phone for several hours makes me twitchy.)
We walked about a mile to Division 9, the maximum security jail where the original NATO 3 are being held. It was a cool 97 degrees, abundant sunshine and humidity making us sweaty within minutes. We walked in holding only our IDs but were still patted down and sent through a metal detector. Inside we waited to sign in for our visits – I was seeing Jared Chase. I've never met any of them personally, but have been sending books from the Occupy Chicago library and Jared had sent me a personal thank you. So I figured he would be my first visit. When they asked me what my relationship to him was, I wanted to say "comrade-in-arms" but settled for the safer description of "friend." Then we sat on stone-tiled benches and waited to be called. There was a lot of bureaucracy and waiting involved, which isn't surprising, but does start to feel mind-numbing after a bit. When I was finally called I walked through another metal detector, got patted down again, then made my way to an elevator that took us up to the visitation room.
The visitation room has no air conditioning, and I soon felt sticky and claustrophobic. It is a long, narrow room made entirely of gray concrete, barely large enough to accommodate friends and family on one side of the Plexiglas, up to 10 or 12 prisoners on the other. With no phone I had no idea what time it was, because who wears a watch anymore? It's a tiny taste of what prisoners feel all the time, miserably uncomfortable and cut off from the outside. I must also admit that I felt my privilege, seeing the racial breakdown of the room. The number of young children visiting their fathers — and how routine it seemed for them — was heartbreaking.
Eventually a group of prisoners was brought in, and most of the people I had come up with had their visit. No Jared. I waited through the visit, which lasted 20 minutes or so. Then waited for the guards to exchange one batch of prisoners for another. Still no Jared. It had been at least an hour at this point, so I went back downstairs and asked at the desk. They told me to go back up and wait. I saw my friends in the outer waiting room, already finished with their visit to Jacob, another of the NATO 5, and felt bad for holding things up. But I would have felt worse if Jared came out for a visit and nobody was there. So up I went.
I sat in that sweltering room through another prisoner switch and watched as a third batch started filing in. By this point I had become friends with some of the other visitors, who were impressed at how long I'd been kept waiting. They began flagging down the guard and asking him when Jared Chase was going to be brought in. Soon some of the prisoners whose visitors weren't there yet chimed in as well. It was a surprising show of support to me, all these strangers wanting to make sure I got my visit.
About halfway through the third visit, they finally brought Jared in. I had been getting discouraged and wondering if it was worth sticking around, but one look at him gave me my answer. I introduced myself and he thanked me again for sending books. He is quiet-spoken and it was sometimes hard to hear him over the noise of 10 other visits in progress, but we managed to have a good conversation. He told me what other books he's been reading and asked for updates on the student protests in Montreal and the impending teachers' strike in Chicago. He hadn't heard much about the police violence and subsequent protests in Anaheim, so I filled him in. He told me he grew up in Anaheim. He wanted to make sure the others were getting visits as well, and I was touched at his concern. It would have been a lovely conversation had there not been a window between us, had he not been cuffed, had we both been free to leave the building.
But parts of the conversation were more difficult. He told me that he'd been "in the hole" (solitary confinement) all of last week, and hadn't been allowed visitors. The reason they gave him was that there "weren't enough cells." I could tell that he didn't buy that excuse, and neither did I. He looked sad and a bit lost when he said, "I didn't even do anything, and they put me in the hole all week." I wanted to give him a hug, because he looked like he needed it.
He told me he's getting lots of letters, and he really appreciates them. He's trying to write back to everyone but currently isn't allowed to have a pen, due to a prisoner stabbing last weekend that put them on lockdown. Hopefully he'll be able to resume writing letters soon. Looking in his eyes as he told me this, I felt a mixture of sadness and outrage. This man doesn't belong in a place where pens are considered weapons, and not in the metaphorical mightier-than-the-sword sense. He belongs in the streets with us, changing the world.
I reassured him that we haven't forgotten them, that we will continue to visit and write and send books and show up for court. But I could see that being in jail, and periodically in solitary confinement for no apparent reason, is wearing on him. As our shortened visit drew to a close, he thanked me for messages of solidarity from other occupied cities and gave me a solidarity fist on his way out.
I want to encourage anybody who is able to please visit those who are still incarcerated while they fight these ridiculous charges. I know the above story is full of frustration and bureaucracy, but it's so necessary and so worth it in the end. They are trying to break these guys down by randomly imposing solitary confinement on them and making it nearly impossible for them to see visitors. But we won't let the games they play keep us from supporting our comrades.
We will not forget them. We will not waver in our support, no matter what they do to discourage us. Our strength lies in our solidarity.
To learn more about the NATO 5 and our jail solidarity efforts, visit http://nato5.occupychi.org
To learn more about the Occupy Chicago library's efforts to coordinate book donations to the NATO 5 or to donate shipping funds, visit http://ochilibrary.wordpress.com/books-for-the-nato-5/
This story was originally posted at Occupied Stories.


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Congress must grant axe-wielders flexibility or Obama must hide programs to protect cybersecurity funding.
By the end of April, the Pentagon will be devoting less attention and fewer staff to network security under spending cuts set for Friday, according to budget analysts.
Mandatory, across-the-board decreases in funding will spare the salaries of uniformed Cyber Command members, but many of those personnel will be focused on sequester planning rather than operations. Meanwhile, their civilian peers face furloughs. Defense Department officials must reduce every program's budget by about 8 percent.
"That workload is going to detract from the actual mission work because you know jobs are at stake. Incomes are at stake," said Todd Harrison, senior fellow for defense budget studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
Certain contractors will be let go and civilians will be furloughed for one day a week starting mid-April through the end of September, under the 2011 Budget Control Act that resolved a debt-ceiling crisis. The skeletal programming could continue through 2014 because the $10 billion slashing each year won't sunset without new legislation.
Harrison said he would not rule out the possibility of long-term axe wielding. "I would call it a worst case scenario," he said. The sequester starting on Friday "was put in place as an unthinkable," but it is now likely, he said. "Now, this 2014 unthinkable [scenario] -- we have to start thinking about it."
Adversaries looking for weaknesses in U.S. networks are taking note of the sky-is-falling discourse as Pentagon leaders prepare for the worst, some defense experts say.
Jim Lewis, a researcher with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, who advises Congress and the Obama administration, said in the fall the notion officials are projecting that the military's guard is down could be a greater threat to national security than the reality of the military's strength. The bigger risk is "to the foreign perception of U.S. capabilities," he said. "They would decide we are more vulnerable and less competent."
Harrison said, "The rhetoric that is being used, our allies and adversaries are listening to that and we may be sending the wrong message."
Lawmakers could quickly change the course of events -- without sacrificing the fiscal constraints they voted for -- by passing a measure to grant officials a degree of flexibility when making cuts, according to research.
"The big question is whether the agencies can make tradeoffs among programs within each of the thousands of accounts that would be cut," said Ray Bjorklund, chief knowledge officer at market research firm Deltek.
President Obama might have created a loophole to permit tradeoffs by ignoring legislation related to the deficit deal, he said.
"The Sequestration Transparency Act of 2012 required the White House to illustrate the effects of a sequester down to program, project and activity level. The White House did not answer that data requirement under the act," Bjorklund noted. "I think the White House also resisted reporting at [that] level to ensure they will have enough flexibility to do what makes sense for national security."
He estimates that Defense cyber activities will be scaled back by about $600 million to $800 million total. The types of programs targeted, given some flexibility, might include departmentwide training to heighten awareness of the types of cyber assaults deserving of a U.S. military response.
Cyberwar rehearsals or security tests that employ simulations also could be hampered. "Comprehensive fit-out of new CYBERCOM mission facilities," as well as academic research into novel cyber defense and information operations could be dented, Bjorklund said.
Other analysts are optimistic that Congress can cooperate on legislative fixes to tighten America's national and economic security, especially in cyberspace.
Within the past two months, The New York Times, Apple, Microsoft and security contractor Bit9 have admitted falling victim to breaches that security researchers term "sophisticated" attacks -- a euphemism for nation state-sponsored intrusions. The White House issued an executive order requiring that agencies exchange with industry sensitive information about threats, and asking that industry do the same. The administration also released a strategy to counter cyber espionage, after computer forensic firm Mandiant tied the Chinese military to more than 140 spying operations in mostly English-speaking countries. And the Pentagon announced a planned five-fold uptick in cyber forces at home and abroad.
"I don't expect the across-the-board approach will last very long if at all," said Shawn P. McCarthy, an IDC Government Insights research director. "Given the current state of events, cybersecurity would be the least logical area to cut."
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A hefty version of the Spring edition of the Ottawa Branch News reached me today.
I say hefty because the last 19 pages of the News is taken up by the listing of surnames in the Index to Names Volume 41 (2008). The list contains the surname, the given name(s), and the page number.
The articles are very included in this edition are "Research at Salt lake City - Preparation", which talks about Elizabeth Kipp's trip to Salt Lake City researching Palatines; "Early Residents of Ottawa's Sandy Hill Neighbourhood"; "Online Genealogy Dictionaries and Lists"; and "The City of Ottawa Archives - a Wonderful Resource".
An intriguing article is one of changes in format coming to the News.
The format is going to change to a 8.5" x 11" journal style and the name is going to change.
Do you have a name for the new newsletter? They have received some suggestions already. For example: Ottawa/Bytown/Carleton - Roots, Genealogy, Ancestors, Families, Relations, Happenings. Suggestions are welcome!
And the editor is looking for someone to design the cover of the new journal. He is looking for someone with layout experience, and he says that it would only take a few hours to do this in consultation with the editor.
If you can help, please contact Edward Kipp at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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(Iš albumo The Big Bang)
Dainos video dar nėra
Hurricane's in the house..
[lord have mercy]
Land-lord, up in the house *come get it*
Rah digga, up in the house *come get it*
Rampage, up in the house *come get it*
What? baby come get it (rah: what? nigga come get it)
Chorus: lord have mercy, rah digga
L: turn the heat up
Cause we about to creep up *come get it*
L: it's off the meter
Plus we tear the street up *come get it*
R: ladies g'd up, what?
Don't smoke the weed up *come get it*
L: what? baby come get it (rah: what? nigga come get it)
[rah digga]
Check it, I come in sweeter than la femme nikita
Be all up in your hood like I'm a c&c two liter
The little honey that be doin her she thing
On some mya shit, like it's all about me see?
I bleed things, blunt slicer on my keyrings
Bra top, lots of g-strings, havin weed dreams
I'd be queen if this the 1900's
Cause niggaz gon get it, and e'rybody want it
I'm totin bags, eyes redder than a photo lab
The spins on your single, won't even top my promo ad
Hard drops quicker than jackers at the car lots
Couldn't get no harder if you went to school of hard knocks
The grimy bitch, sometime be punchliney bitch
So don't make me go there! (*starts singing to the p is free*)
Because the groupies are free, but the rhymes cost money..
Oh yeah!!
Chorus 2x
All my flipmode niggaz just bounce to this
All my rampage niggaz just bounce to this
All my hurricane niggaz just bounce to this
All my niggaz if you with me just, bounce with this
Okay, this is how it goes, pimpin all you, hoes
Catch em outside the shows, time to get the dough
Up in the studio, smokin the hydro
Writin the hot shit, you waitin for me to go
Threw on the ram' bounce, just shakin yo' ass yo
Bump this in your lex coupe or your expo'
Flipmode squad, we the ones in them videos
Catch us with the fly shit, but you don't hear me doe
Rampage, professional, just move your feet
We bout to make you do the jerk, get out your seats
Seven days a week and we the squad that don't sleep
Catch me in the street I'm on the midnight creep, so what?
Chorus 2x
[lord have mercy]
I walk the path, that allah made, +smooth+, like sade
Got pickup tracks -- high-beam with the fog rays
International capital, checks cashed in full
Damage your hood, natural, spend grands for goods
Traditional niggaz know -- scream on these players like
Dj call in some mo', invincible pretty flow
Grammar god, swing like gold from panama
Twenty-four carat charms, with smooth cuts like sarah vaughn
Here we go, here we go -- attitude
Spit the vocals hotter than soul food from baton rouge
Come, sharp-tongued like malcolm, on any album
Some got chrome like sly stone, what you about son?
Here it is, here it is -- handcraft the raw
Who the boss? human torch any fantastic four
Player, I be a point guard, controllin things
In the 4th quarter, it's all water like holdin springs
Chorus 2x
Dj hurricane in the place baby c'mon
Flip--mode, up in the spot baby c'mon
Ram--page, up in the place baby c'mon
Rah, digga up in the house baby c'mon
Lord have mercy in the place baby c'mon
Busta rhymes is in the house baby c'mon
Whylin out, for the night yeah c'mon
Hollis crew, represent baby c'mon
Dj hurricane represent baby c'mon
All the ladies c'mon, shake it baby c'mon
All the females c'mon, shake it baby c'mon..


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Forum of Firms Focuses on Practical Application of Group Audit Standard
Oct 07, 2010 | New York | English
Over 40 senior audit professionals from 20 international networks of accounting firms met yesterday to share their experiences and industry perspectives in applying International Standard on Auditing 600, Special Considerations—Audits of Group Financial Statements (Including the Work of Component Auditors) (ISA 600). The symposium, organized by the Forum of Firms, assembled a group of experts to discuss several aspects of auditing a group, including those business activities and entities (components) that are included in the group's financial statements.
"This symposium was designed to encourage participants to exchange views on challenges unique to auditing in a group environment, such as cross- border confidentiality considerations and differing ethics requirements," said Nick Fraser, chair, Transnational Auditors Committee. "More importantly, with an aim of seeking ways to more fully obtain the intended benefits of ISA 600, the participants also contributed practical solutions for further consideration."
Commencing with an overview of the key requirements of ISA 600, the symposium participants discussed a range of application issues, such as the engagement of and reporting by component auditors, communication with both management and component auditors about the group audit process, and determining materiality in a group environment. Led by speakers from across the spectrum of the Forum's membership, including France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the symposium concluded with a discussion on the importance of firm processes and controls that support group audit engagements.
"This event is the fourth symposium held by the Forum of Firms, and it has been a unique way to bring its members together to share and openly exchange views on present-day issues," said Robert Dohrer, chair, Forum of Firms. "The ISA 600 symposium is an example of the Forum of Firm's continuing commitment to promoting high-quality audit practice at a global level."
About the Forum of Firms
The Forum of Firms (www.ifac.org/Forum_of_Firms) is an association of networks of international accounting firms that perform transnational audits. Members of the Forum have committed to adhere to and promote the consistent application of high-quality audit practices worldwide, including the use of International Standards on Auditing, and the maintenance of appropriate quality control standards in accordance with International Standards on Quality Control issued by the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board. Through their organizations, members also conduct globally coordinated internal quality assurance reviews on a regular basis and have policies and methodologies that conform to the International Federation of Accountants' Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants. The Transnational Auditors Committee is the Executive Committee of the Forum of Firms and a committee of the International Federation of Accountants.


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For a taste of October's music, click here.
November's update comes with over 100 tracks spanning both new and old albums, and quite a bit in terms of the Yancey family. We've got hip-hop and indie rock, R&B and rap. Enjoy!
Black Milk, Tronic: An album that pushes the traditional boundaries of hip-hop with futuristic synths and musical approaches, Black Milk still puts out several songs that utilize nostalgic samples. I won't say much more because I've already written a full album review, but in my recent interview with Hieroglyphics members Opio and Tajai, they named Black Milk as one of the hip-hop producers they were liking the sound of recently. Read the full album review here. Don't Sleep On: "Long Story Short," "Bounce," and "Losing Out" featuring Royce da 5'9″
Bloc Party, Intimacy: When Bloc Party released their initial effort, Silent Alarm in 2005, it brought a distinct sound to the indie rock arena with Kele Okereke's emotional British accent and their hard charging guitars on songs like "Banquet." That album spawned a remix album before the release of what I viewed to be a lackluster sophomore effort on 2007's A Weekend in the City, an album that had three, maybe four really solid songs, tops. Thankfully though, Intimacy not only serves to take some of the band's music in another direction, but returns the indie sound on their rock songs to the top-notch form that looked possible from their debut. Intimacy still has driving drums and screaming guitars, but the band has started to utilize more in the way of drum machines and electronic flourishes that create a new dimension for them to explore and in some cases creates some of the most musically advanced songs the band has produced to date. Okereke's use of his voice is showing maturity, commanding more range of both pitch and emotion here. In some songs, it feels like the input they had on their work from Silent Alarm Remixes has prompted them to explore in new directions. A very solid album. Don't Sleep On: "Signs," "One Month Off," and "Talons."
Illa J, Yancey Boys: I've read a few reviews of this album that basically mock Illa J's approach and state that he only made this album because he got posthumously released tracks from his big brother J Dilla. I think these reviews miss the point of the album in that Illa J doesn't fancy himself a rapper or hip-hopper, he's a self-described singer/songwriter, so it only makes sense that what he does over Dilla beats is going to be different from Dilla's output when he was alive. On this album, the younger Yancey proves himself musically diverse and extremely relaxed, while also recognizing the importance of respecting Dilla's production. The tracks here are laid back and jazzy, and Illa takes no effort to listen to, he's that easy. Click here for the full album review, and click here for my interview with Illa J. Don't Sleep On: "R U Listenin'?" feat. Guity Simpson, "We Here," and "DTFT" feat. Affion Crockett
J Dilla, Welcome 2 Detroit: With the way underground hip-hop is structured and feeds into the mainstream, it's often possible for fans to miss an initial classic album from an artist, and then never check it out once they've gotten big because it gets lost in the new music. With Illa J's debut album dropping this month featuring almost exclusive production from Dilla, it only made sense to make sure people were aware of J Dilla's initial solo offering and the way it intersects with the rest of the hip-hop genre. On Welcome 2 Detroit, Dilla's signature melodic and stoned out beats are in fine form with lyrical help from other Detroit rappers such as eLZhi (WIH6) and Phat Kat. The album, released in 2001, still sounds fresh and innovative today and features several tracks that showcase Dilla's ability to fuse other sounds into his hip-hop such as the co-produced (Karriem Riggins) "Rico Suave Bossa Nova" and "B.B.E. (Big Booty Express)" which Dilla seems to have created in order to slip onto future releases of the 1977 Kraftwerk album Trans-Europe Express. Don't Sleep On: "Shake It Down," "It's Like That," feat. Hodge Podge and Lacks, and "Pause" feat. Frank-N-Dank.
Jedi Mind Tricks, A History of Violence: Underground hip-hop mainstays Jedi Mind Tricks return for their 6th studio album with more hard hitting tracks, masterful production and intricate lyrics. The conspiracy themes from previous albums remain here, and the production draws from interesting samples such as the strings and haunting foreign lyrics on "Monolith" and the sparse flute in "Trail of Lies." The lyrical deliveries on these tracks are tight, concise and deep in content, and on the whole, the album is a display of exceptional craft from artists working together with a common musical vision and knowledge of their strengths. Don't Sleep On: "Trail of Lies," "Death Messiah," and "Heavy Artillery."
Kanye West, 808s and Heartbreaks: Following the death of his mother, I was wondering what the latest output from an artist so in touch with his emotions and personal experiences would sound like. On the one hand, I could see West shaking off the events of the last year or so and putting out his most bouncy and sample-laden disc to date. On the opposite end of that, I could imagine West delving deep into what was going on and producing an intensely personal album. On 808s, West moves in a direction completely opposite of the roads he's traveled before, and comes out all the better for it. Let's be clear. 808s is not an album for anyone expecting the continuation of sound and work from West's previous three albums, and it's not an album that everyone is going to enjoy musically. Using an 808 drum machine and extensively using Auto-Tune to sing rather than rap, West has produced a stripped down and emotionally raw album. Heavy on synths and in points retro-80s sounds (tracks here could have made an Aphex Twin or Tricky album), West lays bare what's going on with him and refuses to apologize for the new direction of his music. What's amazing is that while I think the roster of musicians today who could completely change course from one album to the next and do so successfully is small, Kanye does make that list with this album. Dark, personal and musically adventurous, 808s and Heartbreaks exposes West as the musician he is rather than the hip-pop clone machine he's often typecast as. Don't Sleep On: "Paranoid," feat. Mr. Hudson, " "Bad News" (which features a sample from Nina Simone's "See Line Woman") and "Street Lights."
Ludacris, Theater of the Mind: While some artists are out to create philosophically moving pieces, or to in some way further the hip-hop culture, Ludacris doesn't concern himself with such lofty ideals. He's about making money. A lot of it. On his 6th studio album, Ludacris returns with the formula that has made him the hottest rapper in the South's history… pulsing and grimy beats full of horns and deep bass kicks meet with quick delivery lyrics touching on sex, violence, money and his ability to outsell other rappers. Keep in mind, I'm not saying that this formula doesn't work for him and doesn't have its place within rap and hip-hop, but it is without any sort of creative growth that Luda moves forward. If there's any doubt about the kind of sales Ludacris would like to see, this album is the most saturated rap album I've seen in years in terms of cameo appearances. Ludacris is the lone rapper on only 2 of the 15 tracks, getting guest appearances from Floyd Mayweather (yes, the boxer), Chris Rock (yes, that comedian), Jamie Foxx (still an actor?), Common and Spike Lee (one of them is a rapper, right?), Nas, Jay-Z and current Top 40 mainstays T.I., The Game, T-Pain and Lil Wayne. This approach either means that he intends to make a lot of money based on name recognition of his guests or he realizes that to put out an album that only has him on it, he'd need to come up with full lyrics to all of his songs, a task that might seem daunting (I mean, how many times can you really come up with new raps about rims and Cadillacs?) While musically and lyrically this album isn't challenging, it has certainly produced some tracks that we're sure to be hearing in clubs and parties very soon. Don't Sleep On: "Intro" (only a minute of rapping, but well worth it, and one of only 2 songs with just Luda on it), "Undisputed" feat. Floyd Mayweather, and "Wish You Would" feat. T.I.
Opio, Vuture's Wisdom, Vol. 1: The first in a trilogy of albums to be released by Opio from Hieroglyphics with production by Architect. The idea behind the albums is that people are saying hip-hop is dead, or at least that's the popular expression lately. Vulture's Wisdom refers to the ability to pick what's left of life from the bones of the deceased, and this album shows that Opio hasn't lost any of the edge that has carried him through more than a decade in the industry as a part of the Hiero Imperium. Be on the lookout for my interview with Opio and Tajai, where they discuss their plans to release a new single every week in 2009. Don't Sleep On: "Don Julio," "Mind, Body and Soul," and "Some Superfly Shit."
Singles… these are the songs where the full album just didn't cut it, but the songs deserve their time in your ears. Check out "4 Wind," a multi-lingual remix of the cut from Breez Evahflowin and Dirt E. Dutch's Troublemakers album, and the radio ready hip-pop of T-Pain songs "Can't Believe It" featuring L'il Wayne and "Karaoke" featuring DJ Khaled where T-Pain goes off on the rest of the industry (funny coming from the guy who did "Bartender") and claims the only cool rappers are Kanye West and L'il Wayne. Well, at least he's consistent. There you have it, the November update… up next is the second installment of last year's 11 Songs to Be Thankful For.


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Country duo Sugarland has spoken out following Saturday's stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis (where they were scheduled to perform) that took the lives of five people and injured more than four dozen others.
"We are all right after our stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair tonight. Many of our fans and friends in Indianapolis may not be," the band said in a statement released to Access Hollywood on Sunday. "Please keep them in your thoughts, prayers, or whatever form of strength you are able to send. They need you. Thank you."
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Sara Bareilles — who finished her opening act performance roughly 30 minutes prior to the stage collapse — also spoke out, comparing the tragedy to "a bad dream."
"The accident at the Indiana State Fair felt like a bad dream. The weather changed in a matter of minutes and the stage collapsed in a matter of seconds," the "Love Song" singer said in a statement. "We are shocked and saddened by this horribly tragic circumstance and we are all praying for those affected. The emergency response was incredibly speedy and the people of Indiana as well as the crews from the show were beyond brave and working hard to help each other.
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"My heart aches for the lives lost or injured as well as their families," the statement continued. "We will do whatever we possibly can to help heal the hurt from this very sad day."
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