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1. Discuss with your merit badge counselor the history of the game of chess. Explain why it is considered a game of planning and strategy.
2. Discuss with your merit badge counselor the following:
a. The benefits of playing chess, including developing critical thinking skills, concentration skills, and decision-making skills, and how these skills can help you in other areas of your life
b. Sportsmanship and chess etiquette
3. Demonstrate to your counselor that you know each of the following. Then, using Scouting's Teaching EDGE, teach someone (preferably another Scout) who does not know how to play chess:
a. The name of each chess piece
b. How to set up a chessboard
c. How each chess piece moves, including castling and en passant captures
4. Do the following:
a. Demonstrate scorekeeping using the algebraic system of chess notation.
b. Discuss the differences between the opening, the middle game, and the endgame.
c. Explain four opening principles.
d. Explain the four rules for castling.
e. On a chessboard, demonstrate a "scholar's mate" and a "fool's mate."
f. Demonstrate on a chessboard four ways a chess game can end in a draw.
5. Do the following:
a. Explain four of the following elements of chess strategy: exploiting weaknesses, force, king safety, pawn structure, space, tempo, time.
b. Explain any five of these chess tactics: clearance sacrifice, decoy, discovered attack, double attack, fork, interposing, overloading, overprotecting, pin, remove the defender, skewer, zwischenzug.
c. Set up a chessboard with the white king on e1, the white rooks on a1 and h1, and the black king on e5. With White to move first, demonstrate how to force checkmate on the black king.
d. Set up and solve five direct-mate problems provided by your merit badge counselor.
6. Do ONE of the following:
a. Play at least three games of chess with other Scouts and/or your merit badge counselor. Replay the games from your score sheets and discuss with your counselor how you might have played each game differently.
b. Play in a scholastic (youth) chess tournament and use your score sheets from that tournament to replay your games with your merit badge counselor. Discuss with your counselor how you might have played each game differently.
c. Organize and run a chess tournament with at least four players, plus you. Have each competitor play at least two games.


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Hi guys!!
We are two people planning on going kitesurfing in Brazil and the Caribien next year (Fall 2012 and spring 2013). Are looking at Cumbuco in Brazil, and Barbados in the Caribien. Do anyone have any recommendations, tips or advice on where to go, where to stay or other things, I would really appreciate it
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Following Jesus and speaking for Him will not always be easy. Having realistic expectations allows us to persevere and remain faithful. We can expect people to get offended by the message and to reject us. We can also expect God to empower us, provide for our needs, and to advance His cause despite the opposition.
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Mark 6:1-29
6 Jesus left there and went to his hometown, accompanied by his disciples. 2 When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed.
"Where did this man get these things?" they asked. "What's this wisdom that has been given him? What are these remarkable miracles he is performing? 3 Isn't this the carpenter? Isn't this Mary's son and the brother of James, Joseph,[a] Judas and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?" And they took offense at him.
4 Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own town, among his relatives and in his own home." 5 He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. 6 He was amazed at their lack of faith.
Then Jesus went around teaching from village to village. 7 Calling the Twelve to him, he began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over impure spirits.
8 These were his instructions: "Take nothing for the journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in your belts. 9 Wear sandals but not an extra shirt. 10 Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you leave that town. 11 And if any place will not welcome you or listen to you, leave that place and shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them."
12 They went out and preached that people should repent. 13 They drove out many demons and anointed many sick people with oil and healed them.
14 King Herod heard about this, for Jesus' name had become well known. Some were saying,[b] "John the Baptist has been raised from the dead, and that is why miraculous powers are at work in him."
15 Others said, "He is Elijah."
And still others claimed, "He is a prophet, like one of the prophets of long ago."
16 But when Herod heard this, he said, "John, whom I beheaded, has been raised from the dead!"
17 For Herod himself had given orders to have John arrested, and he had him bound and put in prison. He did this because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, whom he had married. 18 For John had been saying to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife." 19 So Herodias nursed a grudge against John and wanted to kill him. But she was not able to, 20 because Herod feared John and protected him, knowing him to be a righteous and holy man. When Herod heard John, he was greatly puzzled[c]; yet he liked to listen to him.
21 Finally the opportune time came. On his birthday Herod gave a banquet for his high officials and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee. 22 When the daughter of[d] Herodias came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his dinner guests.
The king said to the girl, "Ask me for anything you want, and I'll give it to you." 23 And he promised her with an oath, "Whatever you ask I will give you, up to half my kingdom."
24 She went out and said to her mother, "What shall I ask for?"
"The head of John the Baptist," she answered.
25 At once the girl hurried in to the king with the request: "I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptist on a platter."
26 The king was greatly distressed, but because of his oaths and his dinner guests, he did not want to refuse her. 27 So he immediately sent an executioner with orders to bring John's head. The man went, beheaded John in the prison, 28 and brought back his head on a platter. He presented it to the girl, and she gave it to her mother. 29 On hearing of this, John's disciples came and took his body and laid it in a tomb.


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It's clearer than ever that the predatory consumer finance industry is pulling out all the stops to advance its big Christmas tree bill.
Yesterday, in a quiet move that went mostly unnoticed by observers and completely unreported by the news media, House leadership removed one of the big hurdles that stood in the bill's way.
As introduced, the bill was "serially referred" to two different committees — the House Banking Committee and, if favorably reported there, to the House Finance Committee. Yesterday, however, the referral to Finance was quietly "stricken" thus clearing the path for the bill to move directly to the floor if it's favorably reported by the industry-friendly Banking Committee. This is in direct contravention of longstanding practice in the House which has always required such bills to get a Finance Committee review.
And you just know the fact that some of the Finance Committee chairs are long-time skeptics/critics of the small loan industry had nothing to do with that.


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Happy Easter!!
My 50 mile training run went off without a hitch. I can't believe how far I have come. It used to be that a marathon caused me to limp for a week. Now I can pull off a 50 and go for a 10 the following day; as I did today.
I increased my carbs to 160 g on Friday; up from my LL normal of 125. I had Cream of Wheat before bed and a big sandwich at lunch. Saturday pre run I had 3/4 c of oats and ate 2 Myoplex bars (1/3 each hour) and 1 1/2 roast beef sandwiches and 1 apple during the run. Post run was a large bowl of cream of wheat. I felt awesome during the whole run. No pain, fatigue at 8 hours, run lasted 10 hours.
What is very interesting to me, is that for the past 3 years that I've been running ultra's I am ALWAYS up 6-10 pounds post run. Now, I emailed Coach Dave Greenwalt and expressed my concerns regarding being up again today. I have always always always attributed this to the fact that I carbo load for a few days prior (50-100K distance races)and take salt/potassium caps during the run, and of course pretty much do a free day extravaganza of 4000 calories post run. Well, this post run..drumroll..I maintained my 9.5 pound loss. I'm stunned. How could I have had my head in the sand, in denial for so long? No, Julie, it wasn't only the carbs during the run and the salt caps. It's that you feel you can consume ANYTHING and deserve ANYTHING because you just ran 32-75 miles. Yes, the day following a long run I'm thinking to myself all day long 'I can have this, I just ran so long, I had to have burned 5000 calories' but don't realize how much I'm stuffing into my face. What a wake up call LL is.
I'm anxious to begin Leanness Lifestyle Bootcamp Intensive II; I can't wait!! I have struggled for so long, thinking my metabolism is just a dud, just broke, that I must have ruined it from starving myself years ago and this long distance running. It's not that. It's that I just can't eat many many carbs; as many other runners can and that I need to make other choices. I am finally choosing to make better choices for me.
That's an empowering feeling. I'm FINALLY being honest with myself. Peeling away the layers and feeling my emotions, getting to know who I am. Wouldn't one think you would know yourself after 40 years?


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In the first four parts of this article, I have discussed a number of well-known behavioral biases that cause investors to make decisions that are, to put it kindly, less than optimal. In this final installment, I summarize how best to avoid these costly traps.
As these blog posts have been published over the past couple of weeks, the issues are much in evidence. Apple (AAPL), long the darling of the market, has lost favor and Groupon (GRPN) seems to be following a relentless downward spiral. Surely many investors in Groupon must be asking themselves how they could possibly have seen the company as a good bet. Apple stock, which was trading at $700 in mid-September, is currently at $544, a decline of 22% in two months. The news that has come out on Apple does not seem sufficient to justify such a broad shift in the market's consensus as to the long-term value of Apple as a company. And, of course, we have the poster child of behavioral bias: Facebook (FB). How is it possible that the market's consensus view of the share value of such a widely held company could be almost 50% below its first day closing price of $38? As Warren Buffett is quoted as saying, in the short-term the market is a voting machine and in the long-term the market is a weighing machine. When voting overwhelms weighing, investor psychology is dominating.
Investing With Game Theory and Behavioral Finance in Mind
From the perspective of game theory and behavioral finance, what would be the best steps for investors to take?
1) Avoid the emotional lure of the 'the next big thing.'
People seem to be hard-wired to find novelty appealing. Combine novelty with a get-rich-quick scenario, and investors are likely to get hurt. I have mentioned a number of cases in the text above and the list is endless. Solar energy stocks are another recent example. First Solar (FSLR), for example, was at $140 in early 2011 and Goldman Sachs (GS) gave this stock a buy rating and a price target of $190. Today, First Solar trades at $25. Yes, the emotional draw of the narrative for solar power was compelling—still is, in fact. That does not mean that it is a good idea to invest at current prices because we want to believe.
2) Focus on objective arguments for investing decisions rather than falling into herd behavior.
If your reason for making an investment is that everyone else is doing the same thing, the outcomes are probably not going to be good. It is perfectly natural that we look at friends, work associates, and family for validation of our decisions, but using the 'wisdom of the crowd' to choose your investments, means that you are buying after the crowd already has. This leads to buying high and selling low.
3) Think carefully about the agency issues associated with investing. Are your interests aligned with those of your agents?
Consider whether the people acting as agents on your behalf have interests that conflict with your own. It is important to know who is an advisor and who is a salesman. When the CEO of a company gets an enormous stock option grant, he has an incentive to get the stock price to rise, but it is important to understand that if the price collapses, he does not have the same downside risk as the shareholders. Owning call options on a stock (employee stock options are more generally referred to as call options) gives you a very different risk-reward profile than a typical shareholder. You have a strong incentive to take big risks because your potential for gain is unlimited but your downside risk is fixed when you own call options. Taking bigger risks with the growth of the company increases your upside potential but does not increase your potential worst-case loss.
Similarly, when analysts give a stock a high price target, it is useful to think about their incentives. Analysts are not actually agents working on your behalf because you are not paying them. Think carefully about who is paying the analysts' salaries and bonuses before you make significant decisions on their advice.
The financial services industry itself is grappling with agency issues in the discussion of who should be bound by a fiduciary standard, i.e. who is legally required to act entirely in a client's interest and avoid all potential conflicts of interest.
4) Ask yourself whether you really have the expertise to select investments, as opposed to simply owning the whole market via index funds.
There are people who can make a good argument that they have expertise that allows them to build a portfolio that can out-perform a simple long-term buy-and-hold portfolio of index funds. Even among these people, most would be better off just owning the index fund portfolio. People have a natural tendency to believe that they can 'beat the system.' This belief certainly brings many gamblers to Las Vegas and many speculators to the stock market. It is always hard to face up to unpleasant realities, but being honest with yourself about your expertise is one of the most financially important decisions you will ever make.
5) Envision your future self
The study cited earlier found that looking at age progression images of our current selves motivates higher levels of saving. This may be worth a shot, and there are some free apps that will do this for you (search on aging booth at your app store). If you are lucky enough to live a long time, you will be very grateful to your younger self for making the choice to save and invest carefully. If you have children, they too will be grateful that you have taken the steps needed to be financially secure.
Related Links:
- Game Theory, Behavioral Finance, and Investing: Part 4 of 5
- Game Theory, Behavioral Finance, and Investing: Part 3 of 5
- Game Theory, Behavioral Finance, and Investing: Part 2 of 5
- Game Theory, Behavioral Finance, and Investing: Part 1 of 5
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By Dr. Dagna Constenla, Director of Economics & Financing at the International Vaccine Access Center at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dengue, also known as breakbone fever, is a painful and sometimes fatal disease spread by the bite of a mosquito. Patients that get dengue fever often have painful headache, skin rash and debilitating muscle and joint pains. In some cases, it can lead to circulatory failure, shock, coma and death. Though early and effective treatment can ease symptoms, there is no specific cure available for dengue. Because the mosquito bites all day and can breed even in small bits of stagnant water, efforts to control dengue by preventing bites and breeding are often expensive and provide limited relief.
A vaccine is coming though. After more than 60 years, the development of dengue vaccines has accelerated dramatically. Today, several vaccines are in various stages of advanced development, with clinical trials currently underway on five candidate vaccines. Trials in the most advanced stages are showing encouraging preliminary data, and the leading candidate could be licensed as early as 2015.
But unlike a new iteration of an existing vaccine, this is uncharted territory. How do we predict its use? Its cost? Cost-effectiveness? Its affordability? How will countries introduce it? To lay the groundwork for the vaccine's eventual introduction, experts from the Latin America and Caribbean region are gathering in Baltimore on March 6-8, 2012 not only to ask questions, but to develop guidelines and standards for costing dengue so that over the next decade, local, and regional decision-makers will have access to robust information on the true cost of dengue in endemic countries of the region.
As a core partner in the Dengue Vaccine Initiative, the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) at Johns Hopkins University is pleased to be hosting this workshop in partnership with the Pan-American Health and Education Foundation (PAHEF). For 3 days, more than 15 experts in health economics and epidemiology will work to assess the current evidence of dengue economics research, identify methodological strengths and weaknesses of this evidence, and foster consensus, where possible, on the best way to conduct dengue economics research.
In order to make this work valuable to the entire Latin American region, the guidelines and outputs from this workshop will be made available in Spanish, Portuguese and English on the internet in the months ahead. And then the real work begins. Putting these guidelines to use so that we can improve the evidence-base for decisions in Latin America on how to use dengue vaccines.


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I think it's time for some intention, encouragement and best of all laughter. How about a giveaway of three fresh new books that I really think you will love?!
Before I start do you know that I think of my friends in two groups? Not 'online friends' and 'in real life friends' no way so many people are both. I categorize friends as 'friends who have been to my house' and 'friends who haven't been to my house yet'. That's pretty much how I classify everyone.
First up is Notes From A Blue Bike by my dear friend Tsh Oxenreieder who has stayed at our new house when we didn't even have a kitchen counter, and she's also stayed at our last house. And her family is coming next week to stay with us (hopefully) again while they are in Charlotte for a book signing–more info here. Tsh's blog is The Art of Simple, formerly known as Simple Mom.
Personally, this book is the perfect read for me after Uganda. I actually read this book months ago, but I'll be picking it up again for the reminders of how and why to be intentional. A quote from her book that stands out…Do the choices I make line up with how I really want to live? Bonus: this book is hardback and gorgeous.
Next another friend, who has been to my last house so many times I lost count, Holley Gerth. We eat cheese together. The heart of Holley's book You're Going to Be Okay is encouragement and hope. Who doesn't need that?!
For every woman who has been disappointed, who has watched a dream disappear, whose life isn't what she imagined it would be, bestselling author Holley Gerth has a heartfelt message of hope. It is possible to live with joy, resilience, and strength in both the good times and the bad.
Lastly, a friend who's yet to come to my house, Melanie, you know you have an open invitation, right?! Maybe you read Melanie's last book Sparkly Green Earrings? Her newest book, The Antelope in the Living Room: The story of two people sharing one life is a real, hilarious memoir about marriage. It's the one book I took on the plane with me to Uganda.
But in a world where Fifty Shades of Gray spent time on the bestseller list, maybe we need a book about a real relationship. A real, messy, beautiful, normal marriage and what an incredible thing it can be and what a gift it is to spend your life with a man who can drive you crazy and make you fall in love all over again in the midst of the mundane and the routine and the what's for dinner tonight and the soccer carpools.
Special thanks to the authors and publishers for providing these books!
This is a 24 hour giveaway (ends at 9am EST Saturday Feb 8), enter now, and the winner will be announced tomorrow! Leave a comment to enter to win.
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If you live in Manhattan and get hungry for pizza, you'll probably want your Google search for "pizza" to return local results. In fact, the more the search engine knows about your location and preferences, the better off you are. But does the same hold true for politics? Should Internet companies aim to serve you the news stories that best suit your taste?
Think of Tuesday's Slate/Intelligence Squared live debate in New York as a contest between pizza and politics. "Pizza" represents the consumer paradise companies like Google and Facebook dream the Internet will become. Politics, meanwhile, could suffer if we let profit-driven firms decide what information we see online. In utilizing customized search results (which all four panelists agree exist to some extent), do Americans imperil their democracy—or just improve their dinner options?\
Author-activist Eli Pariser believes the former. He joined University of Virginia professor Siva Vaidhyanathan to defend the motion that "When it comes to politics, the Internet is closing our minds." Across the aisle, Evgeny Morozov, a Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation, teamed up with Slate Group editor-in-chief Jacob Weisberg to argue the opposite—that the Internet nurtures new political perspectives. The audience was polled on the motion both before and after the debate, and the side that persuaded more people won. This month's laurels went to Pariser and Vaidhyanathan: While 28 percent of the crowd originally supported the motion, the final tally showed 53 percent in favor. Meanwhile, at the beginning of the night, 37 percent of the audience opposed the idea that the Internet was closing our minds, and 35 percent were undecided. Two hours later, 36 percent remained opposed and 11 percent said they were unsure.
The panelists at the debate seemed roughly on the same (web)page. All four grasped the Internet's vast potential to broaden horizons. All four wanted the Web to host national conversations that were rich, nuanced, and multivocal, especially in politics. (If they're anything like the debate itself, those ideal conversations will also be jokey and entertaining.) But as they probed the latest developments from Silicon Valley, the participants split along the lines of hope and pessimism. Eli Pariser, former director of MoveOn.org and author of The Filter Bubble, the book that inspired the motion, claimed that personalization on Facebook and Google builds invisible walls between people holding different viewpoints. According to his theory, attention has emerged as the hottest commodity in cyberspace. The companies that flourish are those that can command attentioni by displaying links people want to click on. And yet most users take special delight not in learning new things but in hearing their own beliefs echoed back at them. This incentivizes Google and other Internet actors to customize search results to confirm, rather than challenge, user biases.
Pariser wrapped his hypothesis in a moving personal testimony: He used to be a believer, he said, but then "the Internet changed." It went from a noisy commons to a handful of islands with no bridges. "This isn't the place that I would want to be," he said, referring to his position on the debate motion—but also, perhaps, to an archipelago of eerily concordant online communities.
Weisberg, a pioneer in digital media, took a less regretful tack. He seemed at once intrigued by and skeptical of what he deemed a purely "theoretical problem": that Web personalization might one day subtly edit our opinions. For now, he insisted, the empirical evidence for such a claim remains "laughably weak." To prove his point, Weisberg noted the proliferation of news sources beyond a token three cable channels, described watching the Arab Spring unfold on Twitter, and finally asked audience members to consult their own experience. Did they find that the Internet shut out opposing views? (Of course, as moderator John Donvan observed, the insidious nature of Google's new practices might blind people to their own blindness.)
While Weisberg stressed the lack of data to support Pariser's filter bubbles, his partner Evgeny Morozov provided historical context. "Technology always plays scapegoat when it comes to debates about the closing of the American mind," he said. Before Google and Facebook, CD players and headphones took the blame. Yet there's something especially alluring about a conspiracy theory that implicates shadowy corporate interests in our cognitive decay, Morozov argued. The Internet is a Leviathan we don't yet understand; greed is something we know to fear. That's why the "fairy tale" that ad-driven personalization closes our minds has such staying power.
"Do you still think Google is evil?" Donvan teased Siva Vaidhyanathan, a notable critic of the search engine. "The really important question is, does Google think I'm evil?" Vaidhyanathan replied. He mostly played wise-acre to Pariser's somber apostate. And while he agreed with Morozov that social filters expedite shopping, he challenged their utility for organizing the news. "When you want to learn about anything complex," he said, "the worst thing you can do is subject yourself to a social filter."
"You need better friends," Morozov interjected.
"You're the person I retweet most!" Vaidhyanathan shot back.
Weisberg also drew laughs when he tried to imagine a paternalistic gatekeeper supplementing Google's algorithms. "What kind of regulation do you want?" he queried Pariser. "If you're searching for a Lady Gaga video, [should] you also have to have a little bit of this interesting study from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office?"
Pariser's answer, though, took a fascinating turn. He suggested adding an "Important" button on Facebook to accompany the "Like" button. Without coercing or patronizing, this move would make it easier for users to propagate information they didn't necessarily endorse, such as a massacre in Darfur.
For a debate about something as remote and mysterious as the inner workings of the Internet, Tuesday's Slate/Intelligence Squared event had the aura of good friends hashing it out at a beer summit. Rarely did the panelists' bantering familiarity flare into impatience—although Morozov and Vaidhyanathan had some heated moments, such as when Morozov, the author or Net Delusion, mockingly asked his opponent whether he "aspire[d] to one global Utopia where people in China feel like people in India and Iran."
"Yeah, that would be really nice," said Vaidhyanathan.
The exchange crystallized a tension that had already surfaced a few times. If companies make poor information mediators, then what should take their place? Government? Morozov's remark hinted at the short distance between the beginnings of thought regulation, no matter how well-intentioned, and totalitarianism. And while Pariser and Vaidhyanathan were quick to deny that the Internet should be nationalized, the warning from a Belarusian born in the waning days of the Soviet Union made their idealism sound naive. Vaidhyanathan's later suggestion that nonprofits spearhead the organization of the world's knowledge seemed more credible.
Afterward, moderator John Donvan wondered briefly at the direction the dialogue took. "I thought our focus would be on the quality of political discourse," he mused, "but people seemed far more interested in the technical details surrounding personalization." In small ways, the Internet continues to surprise us.


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U.S. prosecutors are looking into the development of Boeing's 737 Max jets, a person briefed on the matter revealed Monday.
Richard K. Booy, 50, pleaded guilty last year to one count of mail fraud. Prosecutors say he swindled more than $1 million from 15 victims between 2012 and 2016.
Environmentally sensitive development of the Chicago River system would sustain more than 1,600 jobs per year while also improving water quality and recreational space, according to a new study.
There are 12 million infants and toddlers living in the United States, but the state in which they spend their first few years can make a big difference in their well-being for years to come, a new report finds.
Ald. Ariel Reboyras has represented the 30th Ward since 2003 and is now facing Jessica Gutierrez, the daughter of former U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, in his first runoff election.
The Illinois Supreme Court's decision comes one month after the state filed its request. With its ruling, former police Officer Jason Van Dyke will continue serving his 81-month prison sentence.
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The ACHIEVE program serves students on Individual Education Plans (IEPs) from grades 6 through 12 who have emotional and behavioral challenges. Students are provided with instruction to meet individual education plans, academic standards, and graduation plans in a small school setting.
The ACHIEVE Program includes differentiated academic instruction, community and vocational-based instruction, career/technical education opportunities, and development of transition skills. Co-located mental health services are available through a partnership with People, Inc.


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This press release was just received from the OGS -
"Create a design for a new Heritage Society certificate for The Ontario Genealogical Society.
As an addition to our current heritage clubs and societies, OGS is developing the First World War Society for genealogists who can prove they have one or more ancestors who served with the allied forces in the First World War.
We need a striking certificate for members of the First World War Society to proudly display, particularly as we commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the start of the First World War next year.
Prize: $500
Design Criteria
Each 8.5" x 11" portrait format certificate design must have,
- The OGS logo present somewhere on the certificate (.jpg of the logo may be obtained by contacting OGS provincial office email@example.com)
- Space for the name(s) of applicant(s)
- Space for the name of qualifying ancestor
- Space for the date of issue and signature of the OGS president
- Room for the OGS seal measuring 5.5 cm in diameter
Please visit the OGS site to view examples of our other certificates. We are looking for a design that will fit into our collection. Multiple entries are welcome.
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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) Adrian Peterson rushed for 210 yards at Green Bay the first time. He was, uh, limited to 199 yards for Minnesota in the most recent meeting.
So how much more can this man do? Will the Packers be able to finally stop him with their third try?
That's an issue for this Saturday at Lambeau Field in a playoff game full of intriguing story lines, when the Vikings and Packers will renew their rivalry in the wild-card round. Peterson carried the Vikings into the postseason with another standout performance in Sunday's 37-34 victory, even though the Packers continually sent a safety up to the line to crowd his running lanes as if he was on a blitz.
``They were a lot more physical in that game than they had been before,'' Vikings fullback Jerome Felton said. ``I think they were trying to box everything and keep it in the middle. I just remember thinking, `Man, they're coming downhill.' But I think we're just such a physical team that it wears on people. So he didn't have the 80-yard run, and he still had 200 yards rushing.''
Peterson had an 82-yard touchdown sprint on Dec. 2 during the 23-14 defeat in Green Bay, but his longest run on Sunday was 28 yards.
``I look forward to us having a better performance on defense,'' Packers coach Mike McCarthy said.
The Vikings, naturally, were anticipating more adjustments.
``I'm sure they'll come up with another wrinkle when we play them again,'' coach Leslie Frazier said.
One year ago on New Year's Eve, Peterson was lying in a hospital bed, hooked up to tubes and wires with a glazed look on his face, a carton of ice cream clutched in his hand, in the first hours after reconstructive surgery on his left knee. He sent that photo of that scene on Twitter, a stark contrast to the raucous stadium he helped ignite Sunday by spinning around, racing past and running through the Packers.
He needed a franchise-record 34 carries to get to those 199 yards, but five of those attempts went for no gain and five more lost yards. That proved again just how difficult it is to stop him, given the ferocity and determination he's running with, and the confidence with which the Vikings are blocking for him. Peterson finished 9 yards short of becoming the NFL's all-time leading single-season rusher, but even though the total resets next season he vowed to pass Eric Dickerson someday.
``God willing, I'll get it next year, or at least make it close,'' Peterson said.
Felton, picked for the Pro Bowl for his blocking prowess after signing a one-year contract, told Peterson after Sunday's game he'd break the record in 2013 if Felton is brought back.
All those individual accolades will be put in the background until next season, though. The playoffs are here.
``Once you get in, anything can happen. It's been done before. There's a precedent set for teams like this getting on a roll. Hopefully we can keep it going and become one of those teams,'' left guard Charlie Johnson said.
The Vikings haven't won an outdoor game this year, but their formula for winning is designed to work in winter: pounding Peterson into the line and relying on the defense to rack up sacks and force a turnover or two.
``When your players have an identity and they know what that identity is, they tend to think a little bit less about what some of the other implications or ramifications can be with the weather,'' Frazier said. ``They know mentally that this is what we are going to focus on no matter the condition. I think it has to be an advantage for you.''
Christian Ponder can't escape responsibility, though. Coming off a three-touchdown, no-turnover game, he'll need to complete enough third-down throws and medium-to-long-range passes to supplement Peterson's work on the ground.
``Green Bay had to play honest. They had to respect the pass game and when we're doing that, we're playing balanced football, we're a tough team to beat,'' Peterson said on Sunday.
NOTES: CB Antoine Winfield's status for Saturday's game is in question, after he aggravated his broken right hand Sunday and sat out most of the afternoon. His hand was swollen badly afterward, and Frazier said Winfield ``was in quite a bit of pain.'' ... DE Brian Robison played through a sprained right shoulder and finished the season with a career-high 8 1/2 sacks, one of which forced a fumble by Aaron Rodgers the Vikings recovered to set up a touchdown. ... Though the dates won't be set until April, the Vikings have their 2013 opponents lined up. Beyond the usual division games, they'll host Philadelphia (4-12 this year), Washington (10-6), Carolina (7-9), Cleveland (5-11) plus Pittsburgh (8-8) in London. They'll travel to Dallas (8-8), the New York Giants (9-7), Seattle (11-5), Baltimore (10-6) and Cincinnati (10-6).
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USA Field Hockey announces 18 player Junior World Cup roster
USA Field Hockey announces 18-player Junior World Cup roster
U.S. U-21 head coach Steve Jennings names U.S. roster for the 2013 Junior World Cup
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – June 28, 2013 - U.S. Under-21 head coach Steve Jennings has announced the squad that will represent Team USA at the Junior World Cup in Monchengladbach, Germany, July 27-August 4. Held every four years, the Junior World Cup represents the top international event for elite field hockey athletes under the age of 21.
The selection process for the Junior World Cup team spanned over four events, including the Women's National Championship, U-21 Women's National Championship, Futures Elite Championship and National Futures Championship. From the four events, 34-players were selected to attend Junior National Camp. The final squad was trimmed to 18-players plus three replacement athletes.
"We have selected a very talented squad and are excited to see their potential unfold over the coming weeks," said Jennings. "It will be a big challenge but the skill, speed and unity of our team will represent us in great fashion."
The team features three U.S. Women's National Team players, Teresa Benvenuti (Morristown, N.J.), Laura Gebhart (Mount Joy, Pa.) and Emily Wold (Freehold, N.J.), who is currently competing at the World League Semi-Final in London.
The U.S. qualified for the Junior World Cup by finishing third at the 2012 Pan American Junior Championships in Guadalajara, Mexico.
The Junior World Cup features 16-teams split into four pools of four teams each. Following pool play, teams will either move into a placement round for the bottom eight finishers or advance to the quarterfinal, semi-final and final round.
The U.S. has been placed in Pool A, featuring the Netherlands, Korea and Ghana. Pool B includes Argentina, China, South Africa and Canada. Pool C is made up of New Zealand, Australia, India and Russia and Pool D features England, Germany, Belgium and Spain.
The U.S. will open pool play at the Junior World Cup against Korea on Saturday, July 27, followed by the Netherlands on July 28. The U.S. will close out pool play against Ghana on July 30. The quarterfinals will be played on Thursday, August 1, the semi-finals on August 2 and the gold and bronze medal match on August 4.
The U.S. finished eighth at the last Junior World Cup, held at Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts in August 2009. The roster featured seven athletes who went on to represent Team USA at the 2012 London Olympic Games, including, Melissa Gonzalez (Mohegan Lake, N.Y.), Katelyn Falgowski (Landenberg, Pa.) Katie O'Donnell (Blue Bell, Pa.), Julia Reinprecht (Perkasie, Pa.), Katie Reinprecht (Perkasie, Pa.) Paige Selenski (Shavertown, Pa.) and Michelle Vittese (Cherry Hill, N.J.). The roster also featured 12-players currently on the U.S. Women's National Team.
The U.S. will depart on July 17 for the Netherlands for final preparations before the tournament commences in Germany. The U.S. will play against the Dutch team twice before heading over the border to Monchengladbach. Once in Germany, the U.S. will have a friendly match against New Zealand before opening pool play on July 27.
"The focus right now is purely to do our best and to take care of each moment," said Jennings. "Tournaments are always a challenge and it will be critical for us to be able to keep a level perspective throughout--for us to do well, we will have to be a complete team on and off the field. We will need to embody great resiliency in the toughest moments and celebrate successes with a commitment to consistent improvement. We look forward to the challenge!
The following athletes have been selected to the 2013 Junior World Cup:
Teresa Benvenuti (Morristown, N.J.), Lauren Blazing (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Marie-Elena Bolles (Phoenixville, Pa.), Emma Bozek (Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.), Samantha Carlino (Kennett Square, Pa.), Anna Dessoye (Mountain Top, Pa.), Maxine Fluharty (Millsboro, Del.), Laura Gebhart (Mount Joy, Pa.), Katie Gerzabek (Springfield, Pa.), Kelsey Harbin (Escondido, Cali.), Georgia Holland (Stony Brook, N.Y.), Aileen Johnson (Oceanport, N.J.), Ainsley McCallister (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Nikki Parsley (Milford, Del.), Hannah Prince (Gorham, Maine), Kelsey Smither (Suffolk, Va.), Tara Vittese (Cherry Hill, N.J.), Emily Wold (Freehold, N.J.)


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That includes 100 minutes, 250MB data (+1GB BlackBerry data) and some ridiculous amount of texts. Contract is for 24 months.
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It's always fun when you come across something new that you're passionate about – a new hobby, and new intellectual topic … the vegan diet! For several months or years, you can be engrossed in this topic, reading books, googling it, watching YouTube videos about it and having hundreds of conversations with whoever will engage with you.
But eventually, your new favorite topic is not so new anymore, and your interest might start to wane. For those of us who have been vegan so long that it's not new anymore, we can get a little stagnant. Personally, this has never made me want to revert back to my old ways of eating – since I am vegan for ethical reasons, it's hard to imagine I will ever go back. But I do get in a rut from time to time, and just get bored of reading vegan literature and getting into deep conversations about it.
When I feel I'm in a rut, I might read a blog or watch a video to get re-engaged. Often, I just choose to quit focusing my attention on the vegan diet for a while, and follow some other passion – read about Buddhism, learn Taiko drumming, or improve my tennis game. But one thing I have found that always gets me excited about the vegan diet again is finding new recipes.
I tend to be a bit lazy in the kitchen, and often resort to making fast meals that I know I like and are easy. Dal (lentils) over rice, salad and soup are usual stand-bys. But for Valentine's Day I made one of Mark Reinfeld's recipes (see the photo of Pistachio Crusted Tofu, below) and viola! I am excited to jump into vegan cooking again!
If you are feeling in a rut, try jumping on to VegWeb.com or one of the many other veggie websites, and see if the photos alone don't reinvigorate you. For me, there is nothing like spending time creating something and seeing the smiles and sighs of appreciation for a delicious meal! A small handful of my favorite vegan recipe sites are below:
- VegWeb: http://www.vegweb.com
- Fat Free Vegan: http://fatfreevegan.com*
- Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine: http://www.pcrm.org (Look for their healthy 21 Day Vegan Challenge Recipes – they have a free App!)*
- VegSource: http://www.vegsource.com
* Sites marked with an asterisk have tasty healthy vegan options – little to no oil, and focus on whole foods.
And if you don't feel like cooking, find a great vegan restaurant close by at …
Happy Cow: http://www.happycow.net
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Play Thru League Information:
Play Thru League Information:
All U11 - U14 players will play in the Play Thru League. Teams in the Play Thru League will play other teams that are outside of OVYSL, and therefore, the players are required to travel to games. Fifty percent of the season games will be played in Morgan Hill and the other fifty percent of the season games can be played anywhere within the San Benito, Monterey and Santa Clara Counties.
Game Days: While we attempt to schedule games on Saturdays, some Play Thru games may be scheduled on Sundays due to field availability.
Register Early: Play Thru rosters (for age groups U11 – U14) will close when they reach their maximum capacity. Play Thru rosters, for any of the age groups, can be at maximum capacity (and therefore closed), even when online registration remains open. Therefore it is important to register early on. If a Play Thru player registers online, but the roster is closed, the player will be notified as such, shortly after practices begin and a full refund of the registration fee will be granted at that time. This notification and refund can only take place after all of the player movement and roster building activities are complete, and this process takes a number of weeks.
Friend and Coach Requests: Each player can request a coach (please enter coach's first and last name). Each player can request up to two friends. List the friends' names (first and last), in order of preference, as only one will be considered. If you have a carpool arrangement, list the friend's name in the friend request and indicate "carpool". It would be advantageous for BOTH carpool participants to request each other as "carpool" friends (clearly indicated) and to register early on. 'Coach' and 'Friend' requests are granted on a First Come-First Serve Basis, using the date and time of online registration, so it is advantageous to register early on. Requests are NOT guaranteed, but a conscientious effort will be made to grant them. Requests are limited by the requirement that the rosters within each age group/gender are of equal size. All requests must be entered during online registration.
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A state Senate hearing will look at what is causing the increase in releases for criminals.
Pamela Moss of Penfield would be 59 this year, but her life was cut short by James Moore. He murdered her in 1962.
Moore, 74, has been imprisoned for the crime for 45 years. He made a deal with the Monroe County District Attorney's office to serve a life sentence in exchange for not receiving the death penalty.
However, beginning in the early 1980s the laws began to change nationwide, and violent offenders who at one time did not have the possibility of being released are now eligible.
That includes Moore.
In 1982, Moore became eligible for release. He has gone up for parole every two years and has so far been denied each time.
He is staying put, but new evidence points to a rise in violent offenders — those convicted of murder, attempted murder, kidnapping or arson in the first degree — being released at higher rates across New York state.
Parole boards through October of last year interviewed 1,087 so-called "violent felons" and granted release to 118, or 17 percent, according to the Associated Press. That compares to release rates in the 5 to 6 percent range for inmates during the last two complete fiscal years.
State Sen. Michael Nozzolio, R-Fayette, will hold a special hearing of the state Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Corrections Committee on Jan. 15 to interview key officials about why more violent offenders are being released. These officials include the director of the Division of Criminal Justice Services, chairman of the New York State Parole Board and the commissioner of the Department of Correctional Services.
Nozzolio says the increase in release for violent offenders felons should not be tolerated.
"It has been widely reported that the Board of Parole is releasing a substantially higher number of violent felons from custody this year," said Nozzolio. "We took very serious strides to reduce the eligibility of parole and establish a zero tolerance for violent offenders."
The parole board is made up of 19 members. Members are appointed to six-year terms by the governor.
Each time Moore has faced the board he has been confronted by a local effort spearheaded by the District Attorney's office and a petition garnering around 100,000 signatures to keep him in prison, according to Monroe County District Attorney Mike Green.
Green says it is too early to determine whether there is an increased trend of violent offenders being released, but that in Moore's case it is clear that he should not be released.
"The family relied on the fact that he would serve life in prison and did not seek the death penalty," said Green. "This is one case that he struck a deal to stay in prison for the rest of his life and now he is asking to be released."
Moore will face the Parole Board again in July 2008.
Nozzolio's legislative hearing this month will determine if action is needed, such as new legislation to strengthen laws so offenders like Moore don't slip through the cracks.
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Milwaukee's winter parking rules take effect Sunday
Despite the lack of snow, there can still be parking problems starting Sunday if you live in Milwaukee.
This will be Marika Koenitzer's first winter on Milwaukee's east side.
"So far in the summer time I haven't had a problem. I'm a little nervous for the winter time," Koenitzer said.
She is nervous because inter parking rules go into effect Sunday, making it even harder to find a spot in a place they're already limited.
The real challenge will be when there are 4 or more inches of snow on the ground.
"It's terrible. It's absolutely horrid," Milwaukee resident Chuck Coakley said.
Coakley remembers another winter parking rule -- the snow emergency, when cars can't park in snow route streets otherwise they'll be towed.
"It makes it even worst and then when you get the snow. Two years ago, three years ago when we had the blizzard," Coakley said.
After more than 10 years in the city, he's learned his lesson.
"We have a spot inside of our garage inside our apartment complex," Coakley said.
"That's like gold?" WISN 12 News reporter Marianne Lyles asked.
"Yeah, it is," he said.
As for Koenitzer, she's bracing for the cold and a little exercise.
"Just long walks from wherever you park just to get back to the apartment," she said.
One of the many perks of living on Milwaukee's East Side.
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Joel Ward
Theme: "A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed."
-- Henrik Ibsen
Dale Hunter, Joe Juneau, Joel Ward. Whatever Joel Ward does over the remaining three years of his contract with the Washington Capitals, his name will be mentioned along with those of Dale Hunter and Joe Juneau as Capitals who ended a playoff series with an overtime goal in Game 7. It was the high point of what must have been a frustrating season for the newcomer who arrived in Washington as a free agent in July 2011.
Ward started well enough with points in his first two games as a Capital and going 4-3-7, plus-6 in his first dozen games. But when Ward notched that fourth goal in his 12th game, the first Caps goal in what would be a 5-3 loss to the New York Islanders on November 5th, it would be the last goal he would score for 26 games. And it wasn't as if breaking the goalless streak led to a deluge. When he broke the streak with a goal against San Jose in a 5-2 loss on January 7th, he promptly embarked on a goalless streak of 21 games.
It was a barren stretch that was part of a season in which Ward finished with full-season career lows in goals (six), power play goals (none), game-winning goals (none), and shots on goal (79). He was such a non-factor on offense that despite playing in 73 games he did not qualify to be ranked among forwards in shooting percentage. Not that it mattered; his 7.6 percent efficiency would have ranked him 229th of 282 qualifying forwards.
But there is a flip side to this story. There were 308 forwards who were on ice for more goals against than was Joel Ward last season. In more than 900 minutes of ice time he was on ice for a total of 25 goals, only 11 percent of the total number of goals Washington allowed last season (226). None of the other ten Capital forwards playing in at least 60 games was close to that low a total (Mathieu Perreault was on ice for 31 goals in 64 games). To put those numbers in a little perspective, Selke Trophy winner Patrice Bergeron was on ice for 51 goals in 1,500 minutes of ice time. Joel Ward might not be a Selke-level quality of defender, but he had a very effective season helping keep opponents off the scoreboard.
Fearless' Take…
Let's dive a little deeper into that defensive thing for a moment. Considering that he struggled with his own offense, it is impressive that he was 45th among 368 NHL forwards playing in at least 40 games in his plus-minus/60 minutes at 5-on-5. He had the 14th lowest goals against/on ice per 60 minutes among those 368 forwards. His was the 15th highest PDO value among those forwards, a product of Caps goalies having a .944 save percentage when he was on the ice in those situations (21st). And it is not as if he was facing stiffs; Ward finished in the top half of those forwards (168th) in quality of competition faced (all numbers from behindthenet.ca).
Cheerless' Take…
Lemme get this straight. The Caps sign a guy to a four year/$12 million contract, largely off the fact that he could give solid third line minutes (he was fourth among forwards in average ice time in Nashville in 2010-2011), that he could contribute on the power play (he was third in power play goals for Nashville in 2010-2011), and could be sturdy in the post season (he led the Predators in total and power play scoring in the 2011 post season). So, he gets his average ice time cut by more than four and a half minutes a game, he fails to record a single power play point, and that overtime goal against Boston in Game 7 of the first round was his only playoff goal. The Caps bought a heavy duty pickup truck and used it as a lawn ornament.
The Big Question… Was Ward's season in 2011-2012 an aberration, or was it part of a slow decline in production?
17-13-10-6… 35-34-29-18… 12.8 - 9.7 - 6.4 - 7.6. That is Joel Ward's four-year progression in goals, points, and shooting percentage, respectively. There are 10 players that capgeek.com identifies as spot-on comparables with Ward in terms of his $3.0 million cap hit. Those ten players averaged 75 games played last season with a 19-23-42 scoring line. Ward was 6-12-18 in 73 games. He certainly showed glimpses early on of what he was brought to Washington for, but as the season wore on his offense dried up. To his credit, he played hard and responsibly in the defensive end in a system that valued those attributes. But at $3.0 million a year, 18 points is probably below the low end of expected contributions in the offensive end. Given the forwards the Caps have assembled for this season, can Ward expect to improve on his production from getting more than the 12:25 a night he skated last season?
In the end…
If you look at what projects as the Caps' top three lines, you can see an Ovechkin-Backstrom-Brouwer top line. On the second line you can see Mike Ribeiro centering Marcus Johansson and Jason Chimera. A third line might have Brooks Laich centering Wojtek Wolski and Ward. On the other hand, if the Caps want to get a player like Mathieu Perreault minutes, Ward could be fighting for fourth line time with Matt Hendricks, Joey Crabb, and Jay Beagle.
Ward suffered a lot last season from having a poorly defined role and was the victim of deployment decisions that seemed at odds with the reasons that made his signing logical. He might be embarking on a similar journey of uncertainty this season. Some of that uncertainty is a product of the Caps taking chances with the likes of Wolski or watching to see if last year's production from Perreault can be duplicated, if not improved upon. That makes for the possibility of opportunities for a veteran such as Ward. And as Caps fans saw in Game 7 against the Bruins last season, Ward is capable of taking advantage of an opportunity.
Projection: 78 games, 9-13-22, plus-12
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Saint Catherine's Monastery
St. Catherine's monastery
|Monastery information
|Eastern Orthodox
|6th century
|Justinian I
|Saint Catherine, South Sinai Governorate, Egypt
|28°33′20″N 33°58′34″E / 28.55556°N 33.97611°ECoordinates: 28°33′20″N 33°58′34″E / 28.55556°N 33.97611°E
|Official name: Saint Catherine Area
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|2002 (26th session)
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Saint Catherine's Monastery (Greek: Μονὴ τῆς Ἁγίας Αἰκατερίνης, Monì tìs Agìas Ekaterìnis), in Arabic دير القدّيسة كاترينا commonly known as Santa Katarina, its official name being Sacred Monastery of the God-Trodden Mount Sinai (Greek: Ιερά Μονή Θεοβαδίστου Όρους Σινά, Ierà Monì Theovadìstou Òrous Sinà), lies on the Sinai Peninsula, at the mouth of a gorge at the foot of Mount Sinai, in the city of Saint Catherine in Egypt's South Sinai Governorate. The monastery is Orthodox and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Built between 548 and 565,[1] the monastery is one of the oldest working Christian monasteries in the world, according to UNESCO report 60100 ha / Ref: 954. In the area around the monastery, a small town has grown, with hotels and swimming pools, called Saint Katherine City.
Christian traditions[edit]
According to tradition, Catherine of Alexandria was a Christian martyr sentenced to death on the wheel. When this failed to kill her, she was beheaded. According to tradition, angels took her remains to Mount Sinai. Around the year 800, monks from the Sinai Monastery found her remains.
Though it is commonly known as Saint Catherine's, the monastery's full official name is the Sacred Monastery of the God-Trodden Mount Sinai. The patronal feast of the monastery is the Transfiguration. The monastery has become a favorite site of pilgrimage.
The oldest record of monastic life at Sinai comes from the travel journal written in Latin by a woman named Egeria about 381-384. She visited many places around the Holy Land and Mount Sinai, where, according to the Hebrew Bible, Moses received the Ten Commandments from God.[2]
The monastery was built by order of Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565), enclosing the Chapel of the Burning Bush (also known as "Saint Helen's Chapel") ordered to be built by Helena, the mother of Constantine I, at the site where Moses is supposed to have seen the burning bush. The living bush on the grounds is purportedly the one seen by Moses. Structurally the monastery's king post truss is the oldest known surviving roof truss in the world.[3] The site is sacred to Christianity and Islam.
A Fatimid mosque was built within the walls of the monastery, but it has never been used since it is not correctly oriented towards Mecca.
During the seventh century, the isolated Christian anchorites of the Sinai were eliminated: only the fortified monastery remained. The monastery is still surrounded by the massive fortifications that have preserved it. Until the twentieth century, access was through a door high in the outer walls. From the time of the First Crusade, the presence of Crusaders in the Sinai until 1270 spurred the interest of European Christians and increased the number of intrepid pilgrims who visited the monastery. The monastery was supported by its dependencies in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Crete, Cyprus and Constantinople.
The monastery, along with several dependencies in the area, constitute the entire Orthodox Church of Mount Sinai, which is headed by an archbishop, who is also the abbot of the monastery. The exact administrative status of the church within Eastern Orthodoxy is ambiguous: by some, including the church itself,[4] it is considered autocephalous,[5][6] by others an autonomous church under the jurisdiction of the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem.[7][dead link] The archbishop is traditionally consecrated by the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem; in recent centuries he has usually resided in Cairo. During the period of the Crusades which was marked by bitterness between the Orthodox and Catholic churches, the monastery was patronized by both the Byzantine Emperors and the rulers of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, and their respective elites.
Manuscripts and icons[edit]
The monastery library preserves the second largest collection of early codices and manuscripts in the world, outnumbered only by the Vatican Library. It contains Greek, Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, Hebrew, Georgian, and Aramaic texts.
In May 1844, Konstantin von Tischendorf visited the monastery for research and discovered the Codex Sinaiticus, dating from the 4th Century, at the time the oldest almost completely preserved manuscript of the Bible. It left the monastery in the 19th century for Russia, in circumstances that are now disputed. It was later bought by the British Government from Russia and is now in the British Library. Prior to September 1, 2009, a previously unseen fragment of Codex Sinaiticus was discovered in the monastery's library.[8][9]
In February 1892, Agnes Smith Lewis identified a palimpsest in St Catherine's library that became known as the Syriac Sinaiticus and is still in the Monastery's possession. Agnes and her sister Margaret Dunlop Gibson returned with a team of scholars that included J. Rendel Harris, to photograph and transcribe the work in its entirety.[10] As the manuscript predates the Codex Sinaiticus, it became crucial in understanding the history of the New Testament.
|The Icons of Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, Egypt, J. Paul Getty Museum
The Monastery also has a copy of the Achtiname, in which the Prophet Muhammad is claimed to have bestowed his protection upon the monastery.[11]
The most important manuscripts have since been filmed or digitized, and so are accessible to scholars. A team of imaging scientists and scholars from the USA and Europe is using spectral imaging techniques developed for imaging the Archimedes Palimpsest to study more than one hundred palimpsests in the monastery library. [12]
Works of art[edit]
The complex houses irreplaceable works of art: mosaics, the best collection of early icons in the world, many in encaustic, as well as liturgical objects, chalices and reliquaries, and church buildings. The large icon collection begins with a few dating to the 5th (possibly) and 6th centuries, which are unique survivals, the monastery having been untouched by Byzantine iconoclasm, and never sacked. The oldest icon on an Old Testament theme is also preserved there. A project to catalogue the collections has been ongoing since the 1960s. The monastery was an important centre for the development of the hybrid style of Crusader art, and still retains over 120 icons created in the style, by far the largest collection in existence. Many were evidently created by Latins, probably monks, based in or around the monastery in the 13th century.[13]
The oldest known icon of Christ Pantocrator, encaustic on panel
13th century Byzantine icon of St. Michael, the Archangel
Emperor John VIII Palaiologos
Icon of Saint Catherine of Alexandria
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- Syriac Sinaiticus
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- Agnes and Margaret Smith
- ^ Din, Mursi Saad El et al.. Sinai: the site & the history : essays. New York: New York University Press, 1998. 80. ISBN 0814722032
- ^ Pilgrimage of Etheria text at ccel.org
- ^ Feilden, Bernard M.. Conservation of historic buildings. 3rd ed. Oxford: Architectural Press, 2003. 51. ISBN 0750658630
- ^ The official Website describes the Church as "διοικητικά "αδούλωτος, ασύδοτος, ακαταπάτητος, πάντη και παντός ελευθέρα, αυτοκέφαλος" or "administratively 'free, loose, untresspassable, free from anyone at any time, autocephalous'" (see link below)
- ^ Weitzmann, Kurt, in: Galey, John; Sinai and the Monastery of St. Catherine, p. 14, Doubleday, New York (1980) ISBN 0-385-17110-2
- ^ Ware, Kallistos (Timothy) (1964). "Part I: History". The Orthodox Church. Penguin Books. Retrieved 2007-07-14. Under Introduction Bishop Kallistos says that Sinai is "autocephalous"; under The twentieth century, Greeks and Arabs he states that "There is some disagreement about whether the monastery should be termed an 'autocephalous' or merely an 'autonomous' Church."
- ^ The Orthodox Church of Mount Sinai CNEWA Canada, "A papal agency for humanitarian and pastoral support"
- ^ "Fragment from world's oldest Bible found hidden in Egyptian monastery". The Independent, 2 Sept, 2009.
- ^ "Oldest known Bible to go online". BBC News, 3 August 2005.
- ^ Soskice, Janet (2009). The Sisters of Sinai: How two lady adventureres discovered the hidden gospels. London: Vintage. pp. Chapter 14. ISBN 978-1-4000-3474-1.
- ^ Brandie Ratliff, "The monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai and the Christian communities of the Caliphate." Sinaiticus. The bulletin of the Saint Catherine Foundation (2008).
- ^ Schrope, Mark (Sept. 6, 2012). "In the Sinai, a global team is revolutionizing the preservation of ancient manuscripts". Washington Post Magazine. Retrieved 2012-09-07.
- ^ Kurt Weitzmann in The Icon, Evans Brothers Ltd, London (1982), pp. 201-207 (trans. of Le Icone, Montadori 1981), ISBN 0-237-45645-1
Further reading[edit]
- Forsyth, G. H.; Weitzmann, K. (1973). The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai - The Church and Fortress of Justinian: Plates. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-472-33000-4.
- Soskice, Janet (1991). Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Found the Hidden Gospels. London: Vintage. ISBN 978-1-4000-3474-1.
- Sotiriou, G. and M. (1956-8). Icones du Mont Sinaï. 2 vols (plates and texts). Collection de L'Institut francais d'Athènes 100 and 102. Athens.
- Weitzmann, K. (1976). The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mihnt Sinai: The Icons, Volume I: From the Sixth to the Tenth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- Weitzmann, K.; Galavaris, G. (1991). The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai. The Illuminated Greek Manuscripts, Volume I. From the Ninth to the Twelfth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-03602-0.
External links[edit]
- Saint Catherine Area World Heritage Listing on UNESCO's Website
- Official Website of the Holy Monastery of St. Catherine at Mount Sinai
- Chapel of St. Helen
- St. Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, Egypt
- Camberwell/St.Catherine's Project
- St Catherine Project (digitisation) video
- Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai Getty exhibit
- Early Icons from Sinai, Belmont U
- St. Catherine's Monastery (Sinai) (OrthodoxWiki article)
- The text of the Charter from Muhammad can be read here or here.
- At a Mountain Monastery, Old Texts Gain Digital Life article from New York Times
- Information about the town of St. Catherine
- "Monastery of St. Catherine". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.
- Prophet Muhammad's Letter to Monks of St. Catharine Monastery
- More on Saint Catherine's Monastery and Mount Sinai
- Caucasian Albanian Alphabet: Ancient Script Discovered in the Ashes [St. Catherine's], Azerbaijan International, Vol. 11:3 (Autumn 2003), pp. 38-41.
- The Albanian Script: The Process - How Its Secrets Were Revealed [St. Catherine's], Azerbaijan International, Vol. 11:3 (Autumn 2003), pp. 44-51.
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- National parks of Egypt
- 560s architecture
- Archives in Egypt
- Byzantine sacred architecture
- Hesychasm
- Christian monasteries in Egypt
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