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I haven't seen a copy of the new Conservative Party Policy. I suspect it will be a few days before it is released on their website.
Just a few notes on important policies that were passed:
Policy P-119, the resolution on Human Trafficking unanimously passed. It is now official Conservative Party policy to support legislation that would work to combat human trafficking. The proposal is worded as follows: The Conservative Party believes the government should take strong action to combat human trafficking and should take a lead in developing international agreements and protocols against human trafficking.
Policy P-203, on the Human Rights Commission passed. It is now official Conservative Party policy to support legislation that would remove authority from Human Rights Commissions to use Section 13.1 of the Canadian Human Rights Act to persecute free speech. This is an excellent resolution. The HRC's have long over-stepped their bounds. We already have laws governing hate speech and the HRC's have a record of punishing individuals for expressing legitimate, albeit controversial and sometimes unpleasant, views. The proposal is worded as follows: The Conservative Party supports legislation to remove authority from the Canadian Human Rights Commission and Tribunal to regulate, receive, investigate or adjudicate complaints related to Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.
Policy P-207 the resolution on protecting pregnant women and their unborn children, passed. This resolution was hotly debated, as some wrongly feel it could open a debate on abortion. Nevertheless, it is now official Conservative Party policy to support legislation that would increase penalties against those that harm an unborn child while attacking its mother. The resolution is worded as: The Conservative Party supports legislation to ensure that individuals who commit violence against a pregnant woman would face additional charges if her unborn child was killed or injured during the commission of a crime against the mother.
Policy P-211, a policy regarding the rights of religious institutions with respect to marriage, passed. The policy is worded as follows: The Conservative Party believes that Parliament, through a free vote, and not the courts should determine the definition of marriage. The Conservative Party believes that religious organizations should not be forced to perform marriages which are against their beliefs. The Conservative Party opposes polygamy.
Policy P-305, a resolution promoting income splitting for families of children under seven, passed. This is an important step forward for single income families, where one parent chooses to stay at home. The proposal is worded as follows: The Conservative Party believes the government should amend the Income Tax Act to eliminate all tax disadvantages to families including those who care for children at home and to recognize the economic value of stay at home parents by introducing tax fairness measures such as income splitting for couples with children.
A number of policies on crime were also passed.
List of votes on policy resolutions (ht: Stephen Taylor)
Dr. Roy's thoughts on the Convention
View from the Right
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Biocompatible Materials; Cell Culture Techniques; Dental Bonding; Dental Cements; Fibroblasts
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- Competence Center for Dental Materials
Research interests
Test protocols for cytotoxicity testing require fine tuning for oral biomaterials to obtain international comparability as the basis for risk assessment. Therefore my main research focus is to develop standardized test protocols for dental materials resembling conditions similar to the oral cavity.
Techniques, methods & infrastructure
Cytotoxicity of a variety of dental materials is tested using cell lines (e.g. L929 mouse fibroblasts, primary human gingival fibroblasts). Different test specimens and environmental conditions are applied. Protocols are in line with ISO 7405.
Selected publications
- Cytotoxicity of post and core composites as a function of environmental conditions.
- Comparison of marginal fit of cemented zirconia copings manufactured after digital impression with lava,
- Cytotoxicity of four categories of dental cements.
- Cytotoxic effects of dental bonding substances as a function of degree of conversion.
- Cytotoxicity and shear bond strength of four orthodontic adhesive systems.

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Bethel Star Apostolic Church, 328 Lincoln Ave., will be having a tent revival at 7 p.m. each night Thursday, July 24 through Saturday, July 26. Speaker will be Pastor Elder Michael J. Johnson Sr.
Monday, July 21: Boneless baked chicken breasts w/mustard sauce, stewed tomatoes, broccoli, peach slices, cornbread.
Tuesday, July 22: Baked pork chops, boiled potatoes, buttered green peas, fruit yogurt, whole wheat bread slice.
Wednesday, July 23: Tuna salad. Black bean and corn relish, mixed green salad, mandarin oranges, raisins, whole wheat bread slice.
Thursday, July 24: Closed.
Friday, July 25: BBQ chicken, corn, marinated cucumbers, tomatoes and onions, watermelon.
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The 39th annual reunion of the descendants of Jacob and Eleanor (Neley) Silvertooth Cocanougher will be held at The American Legion Hall on West US 150 at Perryville Sunday, July 27, 2014 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Potluck dinner will be served about 1 p.m. Bring family, friends, food, photos, family tree information, family artifacts, stories, and a smile. If you need further information, contact Mike Crain 859-368-3853 firstname.lastname@example.com or Bill and Beulah Cocanougher Jones 859-236-9695.
Christina James and Richard Cook of Saint Francis announce the birth of a 7-pound, 15.5-ounce daughter, Juniper Rose Cook, born July 7, 2014, at Baptist Hospital East, Louisville.
Maternal grandparents are James Jorgenson of Elkhorn, Wis. and Glenna Jorgenson of Glasgow. Paternal grandparents are Ronald and Kathleen Cook of Saint Francis.
Juniper Rose has one brother, Aaron Christopher James, and one sister, Jennifer Rose Cook.
Noah Ethan Bland will celebrate his 5th birthday July 22, 2014. He is the son of Caleb and Stephanie Bland of Campbellsville. Grandparents are Gayle Wise Carrico of Lebanon and the late Mike Carrico and Roger and Peggy Bland of Campbellsville. Great-grandparents are Pauline Wise and Valta Bland, both of Campbellsville.
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21th January SSC CHSL 2016 Tier-1 Questions Asked on all Shifts (Memory Based)
SSC CHSL (10+2) 2016 Tier 1 Questions Asked ( 21th January 2017) All Shifts
First Shift QuestionsGK Questions Asked on 21th January 2017 (Shift 1)
1) When was the Battle of plassey fought ?
2) Which president image on 5 US Dollar
- $1 George Washington
- $2 Thomas Jefferson
- $5 Abraham Lincoln
- $10 Alexander Hamilton
- $20 Andrew Jackson
- $50 U.S. Grant
- $100 Benjamin Franklin
- $500 William McKinley
4) Dynasty of shahjahan
5) Excretory organ of cockroach
6) No of highest award actress(shabana azmi,kangna,tabu,kamal hasan)
7) Winner of Alzan shah cup 2016
8) One question on type of employment
9) All India Trinamol Congress established in
10) One question was related to Evapotarion of water from plants
11) Architecture of Hinduism Buddhism jainism can be seen from? Ajanta or ellora caves
12) Kalakkad tiger sanctuary location
12) Kalakkad tiger sanctuary location
Quantitative Aptitude:
- √2cos^A-1=x
English Language and Comprehension:
- Synonym of carnage
- Synonym of cosset
- Death by breath....(smother)
Second Shift QuestionsGK Questions Asked on 21th January 2017 (Shift 2)
1) First ISRO satellite launched for education
2) Hyderabad is the capital city of - Telangana
3) Article 352 refers to
4) which of following is fleshy,spored and flowering plant
5) who made 400 runs in a test match - Brain Lara
6) one question about world heritage cites of india
7) Jahangir was son of which Mughal emperor - Akhbar
8) Number of loksabha seats of Maharashtra
9) Highest civilian award Padam Shri to - Priyanka chopra
10) Uranus position in terms of size
11) first viceroy and first governor general of pre indepence india
12) Discovery of India book authored by - Pt. Nehru
13) which of following caused by fungus - dermatitis
14) which chemical is used to remove nail polish
15) Malayalam is official language of which state
16) potassium ion in noble gas
17) Where is Dachigam National Park and Hemis National Park - J&K
18) Which medicine is help to cure osteporosis? - Risedronate
Quantitative Aptitude:
- If tan2A=x than x=?
- Cot 30 -- cot 45 = ???
- A dishonest milkman buys milk at rs 25 per litre and add 1/5 th water to it and then sells at rs 29 per litre.. what is profit %
English Language and Comprehension:
- Synonyms of jeer.
- Synonyms of Elf
- Synonyms of Batter
- Spelling of gimmicks
- Antonym of "imminent"
General Intelligence and Reasoning:
- Find odd in 243,729,81,9
- Find odd in mare,cub,horse,pony
- Rupee:India::Taka:?
Third Shift QuestionsGK Questions Asked on 21th January 2017 (Shift 3)
- who invented lens - Adolf Boston Eugen fick
- Bihu folk dance- assam
- Bio chemical laboratory of human body - liver
- No of rajya sabha members in west bengal -16
- bandhavgarh national park in? MP
- Capital of canada - ottawa
- First leader of opposition of lok sabha- AK gopalan
- Five point someone book is written by - chetan Bhagat
- National film festival started which year
- Continental drift theory
- Aurangjeb belonged to which dynasty
- Florine ka atomic number
- BP measures by
- Electron movement around nucleus - orbital
- Convert decimal 106 to binary
- Which committi gives opinion on reform in cricket?- lodha samiti
- How many steps in suryanamskar?
- Blood pressure measures by which instrument ?
- Which has more atom number from flurine? (Be,N,Na,O)
- In which form glucose stores in body?
- One question related to caves in maharashtra
- In which country communism id followed? China
- Caves near to Mumbai horbour-Elephanta caves
- Which of following have Low melting point
English Language and Comprehension:
- Synonyms of Buzz
- Correct spelling-banditry
- Idiom -Kick the bucket
If you remember any questions please share it via comments.
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Day Four
The inside of an old opera house in Paris, 1920s. An auction is taking place.
Lot 665, ladies and gentlemen: a papier-mache musical box,
in the shape of a barrel-organ. Attached, the figure of a monkey in Persian robes playing the cymbals. This item, discovered in the vaults of the theatre, still in working order.
May I start the bidding at twenty francs? Fifteen, then? Fifteen I am bid. Do I hear twenty? Twenty! Excellent! Twenty-five? Do I hear...yes, twenty five! Do I hear...yes, thirty? Do I hear thirty five? Thirty five? Going once! Twice!
Sold, for thirty francs to the Vicomte de Chagny. Thank you, sir.
The box is handed across to RAOUL as he studies it for a moment.
RAOUL (quietly, half to himself, half to the box)
A collector's piece indeed... every detail exactly as she said... She often spoke of you, my friend...
Your velvet lining, and your figurine of lead...
RAOUL looks deeper into the workings of the music box.
Oh my God! There's so much mayonnaise!!!
Day Five
Yesterday: Day Three
But before you go, some non-mayonnaise related nonsense.
And now...this!
Thanks for dropping by. Until next time, remember to be good to one another.
Oh, if you really, really are so very much tired of this, Doctor Who stuff is coming in 3 days.
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04/26/2004 – 21st Century Model Of Manufacturing Sustainability Opens Today In Dearborn
|Source: Ford Motor Company
DEARBORN, Mich., April 26, 2004 – Ford Motor Company today opened its doors of the new Dearborn Truck Plant, a 21st century model of manufacturing sustainability. The truck plant is a key part of the company's commitment to become a lean, flexible and green manufacturer.
"Ford is delivering on its promise to build a better world by showing there's a green side to the blue oval. We're putting in place today environmental solutions to challenges facing the industry and our planet," said Jim Padilla, chief operating officer, Ford Motor Company and chairman, Automotive Operations.
Today's event marked the official opening of the new Dearborn Truck Plant, giving media a first look at the 2.3 million-square-foot facility in the Ford Rouge Center.
The new truck plant, which is producing the 2004 Ford F-150, is Ford's flagship of 21st century manufacturing. Featuring Ford's flexible manufacturing system, the Dearborn Truck Plant is a model work environment that showcases state-of-the-art production in a setting that emphasizes quality, flexibility, lean processes, worker safety, comfort and environmental sustainability. It is the centerpiece of Ford's $2 billion revitalization of the historic Rouge site, and its final assembly building is what visitors will see as part of the Ford Rouge Factory Tour, which opens May 3.
The plant has begun production of the 2004 F-150 and will ramp up to full production later this summer. At full production, it will employ over 2,000 people and produce approximately 250,000 vehicles each year.
With its flexible manufacturing system, Dearborn Truck is Ford's most flexibly capable plant worldwide, able to produce up to nine different models off three platforms. It also is implementing world-class lean manufacturing standards that include synchronous material flow, in-line vehicle sequencing, waste reduction and team-based processes for problem solving and strict quality control.
In addition, Dearborn Truck Plant is central to numerous environmental initiatives that are both innovative and progressive. These include a smartly engineered, natural storm-water management system, which incorporates vegetated ditches, called swales; porous pavement, which allows water to trickle through tiny holes and into a storage basin; natural retention ponds, numerous plantings and the World's Largest living Roof, as designated by Guinness World Records™, atop Dearborn Truck's final assembly building.
"What you see at the Dearborn Truck Plant and Ford Rouge Center is really the manufacturing story that will propel Ford Motor Company well into this century," said Tim O'Brien, vice president, Corporate Relations. "We've incorporated our best manufacturing know-how into a world-class facility, where people and the environment are front and center. We've turned an aging icon into a manufacturing model that honors the past, optimizes the present and creates a positive imprint for the future.
Dearborn Truck Plant is Ford's first new U.S. assembly plant since 1987, when it partnered with Mazda to open AutoAlliance International Inc. in Flat Rock, Mich.


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In June 2005 on the island of Krk an ecological system of taking care of communal waste was introduced, under the now famous name Eco island Krk.
Eco island Krk represents a complete model of waste management, which is the first of its kind in Croatia that treats all types of waste.
6500 containers have been installed in 1400 places on the island in order to ensure the successful operation of the scheme.
Domestic waste is collected in five separate containers (organic waste, paper, PET waste, glass and other).
The island of Krk even has seven POSAMs, special collection areas (each local autonomy unit has one) where citizens may drop off larger household waste, old furniture, white goods, old cars , car tyres and dangerous waste free of charge.
In these special collection areas, citizens are recompensed with 0, 50 kn for each packaging product (PET waste, glass, aluminium).
The island of Krk gathers around 19,500 tons of communal waste per year, of which some 12,000 tons is gathered during the summer season.
Currently 30% of all waste is diversified.
The sorted waste is processed in a modern recycling forecourt and is prepared for recycling, whilst the unsorted waste, is deposited at the Treskavac deposit using the most modern methods.
The aim is to increase the percentage of sorted waste by 5 % each year.
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We have a case that involves a resident's fall at a (physical) rehabilitation center and, unfortunately, the resident's ultimate below knee amputation. The basis of the claim is that the resident pressed her call button for assistance to the restroom. Assistance never came and, after approximately half an hour, she attempted to transport herself to the restroom using her walker. She fell when she reached the threshold between her room and the restroom.
The rehabilitation center claims that the call button was never pressed and they didn't know that she needed assistance.
In cases like these do facilities (whether rehabilitation centers or nursing homes) have a duty to ensure that call button systems work consistently and without interruption or, does the rehabilitation center and nursing home have to have actual or constructive notice that the system was not working in order for it to be found liable in situations like this? What do you think is fair to both the facility and the resident? If you had a family member in a facility and this happened, what do you think would be a fair resolution?


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Esri Press publishes books about the science, application, and technology of geographic information systems (GIS) in every aspect including education, business, government, health care and global community.
The Business Benefits of GIS: An ROI Approach presents a fact-based, benefits-focused methodology aimed at ensuring the sustainability of GIS initiatives by effectively demonstrating the success of the investment. Unlike other return on investment (ROI) books, the methodology addressed in The Business Benefits of GIS is based on an established framework, and was adapted by ESRI, in collaboration with PA Consulting Group, to combine the GIS expertise of ESRI with the professional management experience of PA Consulting Group, Inc. The result is a step-by-step framework with supplemental case studies, interactive digital tools, and templates that allow the reader to apply the book's methodology to GIS initiatives, and achieve consensus among stakeholders.
Visit the ROI methodology Web site to learn more.
David Maguire holds bachelor of science degrees in biology and geography from the University of Exeter, and received his doctorate from the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. Maguire has extensive experience implementing GIS solutions around the world, and has authored more than 100 publications on GIS.
Victoria Kouyoumjian started with ESRI in 1995 and, after managing the development and production of the ESRI MapObjects software product lines, now works as the IT strategy architect in the Technical Marketing Division of ESRI, focusing on emerging technologies and trends.
Ross Smith is a member of PA Consulting Group, Inc. and is based in Denver, Colorado, where he leads PA's IT consulting team. Smith is recognized as an industry leader in geospatial strategy development and return-on-investment models. He is the author of numerous articles on strategic planning, return-on-investment modeling, and organizational design.


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Jim Pettigrew CA: Standing the test of time
Jim Pettigrew CA reflects on a whirlwind year of meeting remarkable and inspiring CAs around the world, and presiding over an Institute in great health and with a bright future.
Time and tide wait for no man. Not for King Canute and certainly not for the president of ICAS.
It seems no time since I took up office 12 months ago. In fact, it seems no time since I set out on my own CA career when I qualified with Arthur Young McClelland Moores more than 30 years ago.
"So much to do and so little time," the White Rabbit told Alice.
The White Rabbit was not the first, nor the last, visionary thought leader to consider the test of time.
Warren Buffett opined that: "Time is the friend of the wonderful company and the enemy of the mediocre."
Don't we all know that?
Benjamin Franklin first observed: "Time is money."
We all know that!
While Martin Luther King encapsulated a greater cause when he told us: "The time is always right to do what is right."
That is a concept that every CA should practise as well as preach.
For me, my time as president has passed in an instant. Most of all, it has been a whirlwind of meeting remarkable and inspiring CAs across the UK and around the world.
But it has also been a 12 months of exceptional achievements in our Institute.
My presidential time opened and closed at the Admissions Ceremony where we welcomed many hundreds of newly qualified CAs into our professional community. That underlined for me that the quality of our education and the quality of our chartered accountants stands first and foremost in the firmament of ICAS.
I have also seen first hand over the past year the Herculean efforts of the staff in our education division to nurture our students through their education and the work that goes on day after day to grow our student numbers by encouraging more and more to train with ICAS.
It has also been a 12 months that has ended with our membership growing beyond the 21,000 mark.
It has been a period of huge progress in our digital journey to create a "Virtual ICAS" with the launch of CA Today and CA Connect and the delivery of many other improvements.
The last year has also seen the development of an important partnership with CIPFA; the growing success of the ICAS Foundation; and the launch of our hugely important initiative "The Power of One".
In the past 12 months I have travelled the length and breadth of the UK to meet our members. I have ventured overseas to Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada and Australia to meet our members there. I have also had the great pleasure of hosting nearly 1,000 CAs on the paddle steamer Waverley on the Clyde and the Thames.
Fellow CAs, I am delighted to report to you in this, my last column as president, that your Institute is in great health. It goes from strength to strength and those who follow me will not rest in their efforts to tackle the challenges of the future. Our mission is to create the leading global professional community.
It is now time to pass the chain of office to Ken McHattie CA. Ken and his fellow office bearers will do a magnificent job in continuing the evolution of our great Institute. That is assured.
My last words are not for our senior leaders, though, but for our students and newly qualifieds. I began my presidential journey with you. So, it is fitting that I end it with you, too. You are our future.
Let me leave you with the words of Gandhi. He claimed there are only seven things that could destroy us:
Wealth without work;
Pleasure without conscience;
Knowledge without character;
Religion without sacrifice;
Politics without principle;
Science without humanity;
Business without ethics.
Avoid these, and you – and ICAS – will stand the test of time.


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Published in the October 25, 2016 edition of the American Go E-Journal.
In this game between 3 and 4 kyu players, Kaz guides the reader through how to identify correct strategies as both sides' groups dynamically change between being weak and strong.
A longtime contributor to the American Go E-Journal, former insei Kazunari Furuyama has returned with his popular EJ column, now in sgf files and re-named "Lessons with Kaz". Visit his newly improved website, including the advice column and example problems.


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Parents seem eager to get their babies up and walking. So much so that there is a whole market in devices designed to do just that. Baby walkers have gained in popularity and many families use them instead of a playpen or baby yard. But baby walkers have more drawbacks than benefits.
Baby walkers are dangerous. Both in themselves and because they give baby access to things they should not be able to reach. Around 15,000 (yes thousand) babies go to hospital related to using a baby walker and a few have died. Some have fallen downstairs or caught themselves on the walker. Others have pulled down cups of coffee or pulled on electric cords. Babies who cannot walk are not mentally ready to walk and should not be in that position. The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued a warning against walkers and Canada has banned them.
Contrary to what you would think, being in a walker does not help a typical baby walk sooner. First of all, the walker holds them upright and they do not improve their balance while in a walker. Secondly, the foot pattern for moving the walker is different from that for walking. Some studies have demonstrated that babies who spend time in walkers are, on average, 3 weeks behind those who are not. In my practice, I have seen several babies qualify for services because they were delayed in motor skills. When the walker was removed, they quickly picked up the skills. Babies need to spend time moving around on the floor by themselves and standing at the furniture by themselves to develop the skills needed for walking. While walkers do not prevent typical development, for many babies they do slow it down.
Baby walkers are big pieces of equipment. Even the manufacturers suggest that a baby not use a walker until they can stand at furniture by themselves. It is recommended that babies spend no more than 15 minutes at a time and no more than 2 sessions a day in a walker. This is a costly and space consuming piece of equipment for such short use. By the time a baby stands at the furniture, it won't be long before she is walking independently and the walker will be of no use anyway.
Bouncers and stationary standers do not move around and many of the safety issues can be avoided. These do have activities to keep baby entertained while mom is cooking, without letting baby move around. Play yards have the advantage of allowing the baby to move independently and to have the activities changed by changing the available toys. Play yards (Play pens) take up more space than standers. Babies should not spend extended amounts of time in any of these pieces of equipment but there are times when you need a safe place to keep baby entertained for a few minutes. Walkers are not the answer.


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Redefining and refining community theatre
Minnesota has a thriving theater community and Woodbury has contributed to that, boasting an impressive local scene that all began with the Woodbury Community Theatre.
Like many of the flourishing community organizations, the Woodbury Community Theatre was created by a small group of likeminded people with a little idea and a lot of passion.
In 1975 three women decided to put on a one-night production of "Heavens to Betsy." Lenore Weir, director, recalls this event became more than anyone at the time had ever envisioned. It was such an incredible success that the show was sold out that first night.
"The next year they said, 'That was fun … let's do a big show this time and include all of the community.'" Weir recalled.
So, in 1976 that same group of women put on a production of "Sing out Sweet Land" at the newly opened Woodbury High School. Because of the past year's success, the Woodbury community was eager to participate." Sing out Sweet Land" was a booming success with more than 120 community participants as actors, stagehands and helpers.
That was the year that Weir joined the Woodbury Community Theatre.
"A friend in my neighborhood said that they needed help," she said. "I worked backstage that year and then Margerie asked if I would consider being her assistant."
Margerie Wex served as the leading director of Woodbury Community Theatre from its inception until her death in 1990. Wex's vision was not only fostered by the mere idea to put on a play in 1975, but it stemmed from a personal passion of her own.
"She had a theater background and adored it," Weir said.
It was also part of her dream to have a permanent facility for all of the activities and productions put on by the Woodbury Community Theatre. Many others shared this sentiment and because of this, in 1995 community efforts were launched to make the dream a reality.
Many groups banded together, including a group called Arts Connection led by Dan Matthews, and also District 883. These groups continued to work together with enthusiastic community support, but in 2009 something very special happened.
"In 2009 Merrill donated just over $2 million," Weir said. Dorothy K. Merrill had been a Woodbury resident for 40 years and she too had a passion for arts in her community. With the donation of $2.3 million, Woodbury developed the Merrill Community Arts Center that became the official home to Woodbury Community Theatre.
Merrill Community Arts Center continues to show tremendous musicals and stage plays for all ages.
"A full season is six or seven shows," said Weir, who directs a majority of the shows in any season. Weir is currently excited about the next big production, "Legally Blonde."
"It's much more fun than the movie," she said.
Supporting both the Woodbury community as well as the Easy Metro Symphony Orchestra, the Merrill Community Arts Center continues to make a lasting impact through theater arts and beyond.
Key Dates
- 1975: Woodbury Community Theater puts on its first production
- 1976: "Woodbury Community Theatre puts on their second production intentionally involving the Woodbury Community.
- 1995: First efforts to secure an Art Center in Woodbury begins.
- 2005: Arts Connection and School District 833 agree to partner in creating a Center for the Arts as part of a new high school to be built in the district.
- 2006: Arts Connection provides leadership to help pass the East Ridge High School construction bond referendum.
- 2007: Arts Connection serves on Architect Selection and Design Committees for ERHS.
- 2007: District 833 School Board approves the design by Arts Connection of an adjoining arts' facility, to be added to the ERHS mainstage theater, and Arts Connection fundraising to include the sponsorship of ERHS mainstage theater seats.
- 2008: Arts Connection Design Team, which includes District 833 representatives, completes first design for new Center for the Arts.
- 2009: District 833 School Board approves first year Center for the Arts Use Agreement and confirms schedule for initial affiliate arts' groups, Woodbury Community Theatre and East Metro Symphony Orchestra.
- 2009: Dorothy K. Merrill, 40 year Woodbury resident, makes $2.3 million gift to help support the development of the art center.
- 2010: Final building design and budget are prepared and Arts Connection and District 833 develop a go-forward budget and 99-year use agreement plan for the new Merrill Community Arts Center.
- 2011: Arts Connection purchased an additional off-site building at 380 Rivertown Drive for "backstage" and visual arts work.
- 2012: Arts Connection name changed to the Merrill Community Arts Center, and two campuses are established — one on Rivertown Drive in Woodbury and one at East Ridge High School.
- 2013: Black Box Theater opens, providing theater space for smaller performances.
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At work, I have the luxury of having a large LCD display to do design work on. But at home, I have a cute 12-inch Powerbook. The size is great for fitting into my backpack, but the 1024 x 768 resolution can become a little tight. Here are the 5 things I do to give me a little more room.
I know some of them may be obvious to the power user, but since most people aren't power users, I'm going to assume that some will find these helpful:
- Make your icons smaller on the desktop
Many Mac users like to keep a lot files and folders on the desktop. Because the default icon size is ginourmous, it's not a great habit, and one I'm trying to be better about. Until then, the quick way to tame that desktop is to make the icons smaller. To do this go to the Finder, choose "View" in the menubar and select "Show View Options." In the window that pops up, slide the icon size slider to 16 x 16. Next, set your "Label position" to "Right." Finally, go to "View" and select the "Arrange By" option that suits you. When you return to your desktop, you'll have a much neater desktop.
- Exposé yourself When Apple came out with the Exposé feature, I almost wet my pants. The ability to see all opened windows at once was a Godsend for those with tiny displays. I like to active Exposé by mousing over to hot corners instead of the hitting the function keys. You can do this to your liking by going to the "System Preferences" and changing your "Dashboard & Exposé" settings.
- Hide your Dock or position it to the side Ideally, you should set the Dock to Hide automatically until you mouse over the edge of the screen. If you must have it visible, set the Dock position to the left or right of the screen. Since I view a lot of web sites and work with files that are generally longer than wide, I'd rather not have the Dock eat away at my screen's vertical space.
- Use applications that support tabbed windows Safari and Firefox both support tabbed windows for browsing websites. This concept is making it's way into other applications. iChat, sadly, is not one of them. To add tabbed windows to iChat you can download the free add-on, Chax. The alternative is to use Adium instead of iChat. It's free, supports multiple instant messaging services, and you can customize the interface to take up less screen space as well.
- Quicksilver for a better tomorrow When you have a lot of windows open, it's often a pain to go back to the Finder to look for files or launch applications and other tasks. Enter Blacktree's Quicksilver, a free utility that can be called from anywhere within the operating system to launch applications find files, search websites, scale images, and much much much more. It's like a Swiss army knife for doing almost any Finder related task. I could go and on and on with the joys of Quicksilver, but here are some better written, more in-depth overviews and tutorials written by productivity guru, Merlin Mann of 43 folders:


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[Ed. note: This is the 23rd in a series of essays by the @U2 staff about U2-related visuals and videos. Some essays may be informational and educational, while others may be more personal.]
Our "Like A Video" segment usually highlights a music video or live concert footage, but this month I'm thinking about a movie that features the music of U2 and a screenplay by Bono. …read more
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Watch: The new bomb proof bin designed by Birmingham company
A special bin designed to withstand a terrorist bomb blast has been launched by a Birmingham company.
The Elonex blast-proof bin are made from the same material and technology used on armoured military vehicles and are designed to be used in public places vulnerable to terrorist attack.
Litter bins were removed from many rail stations and public buildings during the 1990s following the explosion of an IRA bomb in a litter bins at Victoria Station in 1991 and Warrington in 1993.
The company, based at Edgbaston Stadium is offering 100 free of charge to councils, city centres, sports stadiums, airports and train stations to road test them on the streets of Britain. It hopes to win orders from all over the world.
It believes the bins are the answer for keeping vulnerable buildings and visitors safe and clean.
With a weight of 1.3 tonnes each the bins can also be used as safety barriers to prevent vehicles from ploughing into pedestrian areas.
They also have digitial screens which can highlight warning messages in the case of emergencies, as well as display adverts or public information.
Chris Green of Elonex said: "It has a reinforced steel chamber. That chamber will withstand very very high pressures and retain a blast. So if a bomb goes off what you won't get is a blast going off to the sides. It will keep the blast contained."
He added that there would be no fragmentation of the material either.
The company says the patented bins have been subject to rigorous testing and are Home Office and Ministry of Defence approved.


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Fairfax County (Va.) PD's Lt. Edward C. O'Carroll responds to a question posed by an audience member during TASER International's public seminar on personal safety. Photo courtesy of TASER.
Lt. Edward C. O'Carroll of the Fairfax County (Va.) Police Department provided expert safety tips at a free public seminar at TASER International's Scotsdale headquarters.
The Aug. 14 seminar stressed proactive personal safety.
O'Carroll, an executive counselor with the Refuse To Be A Victim personal defense program, addressed safety topics such as precautions that should be taken if you're approached by a stranger in need of assistance; what you should do if your car has broken down after nightfall and you are unable to contact a tow; and the possible repercussions of leaving a spare key with a repairman.
Personnel performed demonstrations of TASER electronic control devices (ECDs) at the event. Seminar topics included "The Psychology of the Criminal, Home and Automobile Security," "Travel and Technological Security," and "Mental Preparedness and Self‑Defense Training Options, Personal Safety Devices, and Physical Security."
TASER International's Refuse To Be A Victim program helps citizens increase personal safety by encouraging the public to make the decision not to be a victim. The program teaches individuals to develop an overall personal safety strategy before any safety concerns arise.
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Joyce Collins
Joyce Collins (born 5 May 1930, Battle Mountain, Nevada, US; died 2010) was a jazz pianist, singer and educator.
Collins began playing piano professionally at the age of 15 while still attending Reno High School in Nevada. Later, while studying music and teaching at San Francisco State College, she played in groups and solo at various jazz clubs, eventually going on tour with the Frankie Carle band. In the late 1950s, Collins settled in Los Angeles, working there and also in Reno and Las Vegas, where she became the first woman to conduct one of the resort's show bands. During this time Collins worked in film and television studios, spending 10 years in the band on the Mary Tyler Moore Show and also on comedian Bob Newhart's shows. In 1975, she recorded with Bill Henderson. Their Street Of Dreams and Tribute To Johnny Mercer albums were Grammy nominees. Collins continued to work in films, coaching actors Jeff Bridges and Beau Bridges for their roles in The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989). Beginning in 1975, Collins taught jazz piano at the Dick Grove Music School. Collins wrote and arranged extensively, including a program, performed live and on radio, tracing the involvement of women in jazz as composers and lyricists. She appeared twice on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz radio show, most recently in 2002.[1]
Although she performed mostly in solo, duo and trio work, Collins occasionally sat in with big bands, such as that led by Bill Berry. She also recorded with Paul Horn and under her own name. Her first album appeared in 1961, her next, Moment To Moment, after a long gap. Centered mainly in Los Angeles, Collins worked farther afield in places such as Mexico City, Paris, New York and Brazil. A gifted, fluent pianist with a strong sense of time and knowledge of the historical role of the piano in jazz, Collins made a considerable impression as a performer. Her composing and arranging talents are also worthy of mention. She sang pleasantly and with a delicate understanding of the lyricist's intentions.[2]
She died on January 3, 2010.[3]
- Girl Here Plays Mean Piano (Jazzland, 1961)
- Moment to Moment (Discovery, 1981)
- Sweet Madness (Audiophile, 1990)
- Embraces the Heart of Brazil (Audiophile, 2005)
With Bill Henderson
- Live at the Times (Joyce Collins & Dave Mackay, Discovery, 1975)
- Joey Revisited (Steve LaSpina's, Dave Mackay, Joyce Collins, Jerry Coleman, Monad, 1976)
- Street of Dreams (Joyce Collins & Dave Mackay, Discovery, 1979)
- Something's Gotta Give (Dave Mackay, Jim Hughart, Jimmie Smith, Joey Baron, Joyce Collins, Pete Christlieb, Discovery, 1979)
- A Tribute to Johnny Mercer (Joyce Collins & Dave Mackay, Discovery, 1981)
With Paul Horn
- Paul Horn and the Concert Ensemble (Libbie Jo Snyder(f/pi), Bruce Emarine(f), Tim Weisberg (f), Joyce Collins(p/h), Chuck Collazzi(g), David Parlato(b), Bart Hall(d), Ovation, 1969)
- ^ Joyce Collins in Studio on Piano Jazz
- ^ Encyclopedia of Popular Music
- ^ Artsjournal.com


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This is a typical Pan Abode cabin with an oil stove for heat. It has sleeping space for 4 to 6 people. An old CCC shelter is on site providing an additional covered area. The cabin rests on a level bench overlooking Admiralty Creek and a large grassy tidal meadow. Facilities: 2 single wooden bunks, 2 double wooden bunks, Cooking counter, Broom, Oil stove (uses #1 stove oil, NOT provided),Table and benches. The water source is poor. Admiralty Creek has a tide water influx at high tides. Treat all water before using. Bring your own #1 stove oil, sleeping bags, sleeping pads, cooking stove, lantern, pots, pans, plates, utensils, food, toilet paper, garbage bags, fire extinguisher, and fire starter. Please follow the oil stove directions carefully. You are in brown bear country. Bears frequent the area and trail particularly during salmon runs July through August. In addition to fishing, popular activities include wildlife viewing (brown bear, deer, and waterfowl can often be seen in the nearby area), berry picking and beach combing. The Admiralty Cove-Young Lake trail is a 4½ mile trail that departs from the cabin and ends at the North Young Lake cabin. It is a relatively flat trail and follows the creek at each end of the trail. The round trip hike can be fairly strenuous when conditions are very wet.
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Saturday, December 7, 2013
What We've Learned Lately About Evangelical Ecclesiology
Matthew 23: 1-4
Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, "The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat, so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger.
Mark 10: 42-45
And Jesus called them to him and said to them, "You know that those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
Acts 19: 23-29
About that time there arose no little disturbance concerning the Way. For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen. These he gathered together, with the workmen in similar trades, and said, "Men, you know that from this business we have our wealth. And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great many people, saying that gods made with hands are not gods. And there is danger not only that this trade of ours may come into disrepute but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis may be counted as nothing, and that she may even be deposed from her magnificence, she whom all Asia and the world worship."
When they heard this they were enraged and were crying out, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!" So the city was filled with the confusion, and they rushed together into the theater, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians who were Paul's companions in travel.
In the last few weeks we have witnessed another scandal upsetting the apple cart in mainstream evangelicalism. Without commenting on that directly, I thought I would highlight what this latest incident reveals about the kind of ecclesiology in vogue among modern evangelicals and their celebrity pastors:
1. It is virulently anti-democratic. When the power structure of a church is in the hands of a few, and the congregation's role is limited to adopting the pastor's jargon and vision and following blindly, dictators are easily bred. This is more likely in churches where the congregation's call to act as Berean-like watchmen is diminished or outright challenged by bully pulpits with a "do as you're told" attitude, which discourages and silences any healthy criticism meant for the good of the body. In these environments the role of the celebrity pastor is indistinguishable from the rulers and authorities in the secular world who lord authority over the people, and therefore cease to fulfill Jesus' command: "whoever would be first among you must be slave of all".
2. Silence. Whereas Paul and Jesus taught the church to practice discipline on the basis of two or three witnesses, today there is a pervading air of silence when a celebrity pastor falls from grace or is questioned about his impropriety. Where congregations are effectively silenced or threatened with censure, you would expect the wider church to speak up for their sake. But aside from independent bloggers, radio apologists, and pastors at odds with the evangelical subculture, evangelical parachurch organisations that seem to function as an accountability group for pastors instead become enablers for further transgressions. When the money and prestige that a celebrity pastor brings might be at stake, its easier for parachurch groups to remain silent and even to call for boycotts on anyone who would dare to criticise. Rather than protecting the congregations of wayward pastors, these groups are ultimately self-serving, looking out for their "old boys network" (built on the cult of personality) when it comes under attack. The behaviour of Christian leaders in this respect is no different from the Ephesians who rioted when the apostle Paul threatened their livelihood based on the manufacture of shrines of the goddess Artemis. When an idol is challenged, even one in the shape of a celebrity pastor, Christians can and do respond with anger at the thought of their idol being toppled and brought into disrepute, especially if worldly gain is on the line.
3. Lack of accountability. With congregations at the mercy of the celebrity pastor leadership model, what accountability is there? With the rise of the unbiblical practice of vision casting, pastors tie elders and the congregation into a covenantal arrangement where all agree to follow the pastor's supposed 'vision from God', or otherwise "get thrown under the bus". Unfortunately in this arrangement elders become little more than 'yes men' who exist much like everyone else to bow down at the pulpit. Since most churches in this seeker-sensitive/purpose-driven mould follow the Baptist model of autonomy, it leaves Christians without a wider hierarchy for them to appeal to in cases of false doctrine and pastoral malpractice. Silenced within by controlling pastors and unquestioning elders, and silence without with no Bishops or synodical authority to call to for help, Christians often feel forced out to the detriment of their faith and spiritual well-being.
4. Higher standards. In both letters to Timothy and Titus, Paul stresses the ethical standards required of pastors and elders to Timothy. One of these standards is that "an overseer must be above reproach". Is this true of celebrity pastors today? The recent cases of Mark Driscoll's alleged plagiarism, Stephen Furtick's financial spending, and Ed Young's "sexcapades" on the roof of his church building prove that the higher standards Scripture commands of pastors doesn't somehow apply to them. Again because they are protected by powerful forces within and without that rely on their book sales, conference appearances, charisma, etc. And also due to the pastor's own spiritual pridefulness and blindness to their own sin and need for repentance. This spiritual blindness can lead to hypocritical messages issued from the pulpit when they speak out on issues in which its revealed that they haven't followed their own advice. Similarly Jesus warned the crowds of the Pharisees' hypocrisy: "they preach, but do not practice". When pastors fall into hypocrisy because of lower ethical standards set for them, church ministry suffers and the spread of the Gospel is undermined, as the outside world looks on with cynical eyes.
What is our response to these errors, betrayals, and outright idolatry within the body of Christ? It would be easy as Lutherans to shrug off much of what we witness as evangelical hi-jinx, however Paul does warn us to not imagine ourselves beyond temptation. We should watch ourselves putting any pastor on a pedestal, and likewise we should keep a watchful eye for Lutheran pastors building a foundation on their personality and who think themselves beyond reproach and correction. For such leaders, the Scriptures carry this warning for those betraying the cause of Christ:
1 Corinthians 3: 10-15
According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.
In the name of Jesus. Amen.
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Insightful and concise. You make many valid points. When Jesus's role in a church is relegated to that of a supporting act and the pastor is up front occupying center stage, the kind of problems you point out naturally follow. The value of a historical liturgical service is, from what I've seen, naturally Christ-focused, rather than leading up to the moment when "the man of the hour" assumes the platform and brings "the message" from God.ReplyDelete
It's a short walk for celebrity pastors to begin to bully others and silence those who don't fall in line. My daughter blogged about this here: http://natalietrust.com/?p=1258#comments.
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'Lawless' Director's Heist Thriller 'Triple Nine' Gets Release Date
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Casey Affleck, Anthony Mackie and Kate Winslet star
John Hillcoat's heist thriller Triple Nine has been slated for a release on Sept. 11, 2015.
The Open Road film features a strong cast, including Chiwetel Ejiofor, Casey Affleck, Anthony Mackie, Woody Harrelson, Aaron Paul, Kate Winslet, Gal Gadot and Norman Reedus.
Hillcoat directed the project from a script by Matt Cook. The story centers on a crew of dirty cops that is blackmailed by the Russian mob to execute a virtually impossible heist. The only way to pull it off is to manufacture a 999, police code for "officer down," but the plan is turned upside down when the unsuspecting rookie they set up to die foils the attack.
Anonymous Content, Sierra/Affinity and Worldview Entertainment are financing and producing.
The film from the Lawless director currently has the 2015 date to itself.


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La Suède engage 7,5 millions d'euros pour le Fonds spécial ClimDev-Afrique
The Swedish government has pledged to commit €7.5 million to a special fund of the Climate for Development in Africa Program (ClimDev-Africa) established to pool resources and finance demand-driven projects in Africa that intend to generate and disseminate climate information to all levels of society. This pledge and other expressions of interest and intent to partner with ClimDev-Africa in delivering objectives came during a high level roundtable hosted by ClimDev-Africa on 25 April 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden.
The meeting was chaired by Ms. Charlotte Petri Gornitzka, Director General of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), who pointed out that the meeting was timely in the context of the Stockholm+40 Partnership Forum for Sustainable Development and the UN Conference for Sustainable Development (Rio+20). SIDA supports the ClimDev-Africa Special Fund and encouraged others to do as well to help it reach the €20 million required to begin operations.
The ClimDev-Africa partners, including the African Development Bank (AfDB), the African Union Commission (AUC) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), sponsored the event with host, SIDA. Over 50 participants attended the meeting, including Hon. Terezya Huvisa, Tanzanian Minster of Environment and Vice President of AMCEN, and Mrs. Rhoda Tumusiime, AUC Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture. Eight donor nations were represented at the meeting, including Germany (KfW), France (AFD), Ireland (Irish Aid), Saudi Arabia (Saudi Development Fund), Finland (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Canada (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), UK (DFID) and Sweden (SIDA).
The Swedish Climate Ambassador visited the meeting in a demonstration of the importance of the roundtable to Sweden.


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The essay's approach has been copied many times. In his book a modest Proposal (1984 the evangelical author Frank Schaeffer emulated Swift's work in shakespeare a social conservative polemic against abortion and euthanasia, imagining a future dystopia that advocates recycling of aborted embryos, fetuses, and some disabled infants with compound intellectual, physical and physiological. (Such Baby doe rules cases were then a major concern of the us pro-life movement of the early 1980s, which viewed selective treatment of those infants as disability discrimination ). In his book a modest Proposal for America (2013 statistician Howard Friedman opens with a satirical reflection of the extreme drive to fiscal stability by ultra-conservatives. In the 1998 edition of " a handmaid's Tale " by margaret Atwood there is a" from "a modest Proposal" before the introduction. 24 "a modest Video game Proposal" is the title of an open letter sent by activist/former attorney jack Thompson on he proposed that someone should "create, manufacture, distribute, and sell a video game" that would allow players to act out a scenario in which the. Thompson 's fear and loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw journalist includes a letter in which he uses Swift's approach in connection with the vietnam War. Thompson writes a letter to a local Aspen newspaper informing them that, on Christmas eve, he was going to use napalm to burn a number of dogs and hopefully any humans they find.
Or if, by any accident, while his wife lies in with one child, he should get a second upon the body of paper another woman, he might dispose of the fattest of the two, and that would help to breed up the other. The more i think upon this scheme, the more reasonable it appears to me; and it ought by no means to be confined to Ireland; for, in all probability, we shall, in a very little time, be altogether as poor here as you are there. I believe, indeed, we shall carry it farther, and not confine our luxury only to the eating of children; for I happened to peep the other day into a large assembly parliament not far from Westminster-hall, and I found them roasting a great fat fellow. Well, adieu, you begin now to wish I had ended, when I might have done it so conveniently". 23 Modern usage edit a modest Proposal is included in many literature courses as an example of early modern western satire. It also serves as an exceptional introduction to the concept and use of argumentative language, lending itself well to secondary and post-secondary essay courses. Outside of the realm of English studies, a modest Proposal is included in many comparative and global literature and history courses, as well as those of numerous other disciplines in the arts, humanities, and even the social sciences.
22 The uncontrolled maxim fails to take into account that a person who does not produce in an economic or political way makes a country poorer, not richer. 22 Swift also recognises the implications of this fact in making mercantilist philosophy a paradox: the wealth of a country is based on the poverty of the majority of its citizens. 22 Swift however, landa argues, is not merely criticising economic maxims but also addressing the fact that England was denying Irish citizens their natural rights and dehumanising them by viewing them as a mere commodity. 22 The public's reaction edit Swift's writings created a backlash within the community after its publication. The work was aimed at the aristocracy, and they responded in turn. Several members of society wrote to Swift regarding the work. Lord Bathurst 's letter intimated that he certainly understood the message, and interpreted it as a work of comedy: February 12, 1729-30: "I did immediately propose it to lady bathurst, as your advice, particularly for her last boy, which was born the plumpest, finest thing. You know women in passion never mind what they say; but, as she is a very reasonable woman, i have almost brought her over now to your opinion; and having convinced her, that as matters stood, we could not possibly maintain all the nine, she.
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18 While Swift's proposal is obviously not a serious economic proposal, george wittkowsky, author of "Swift's Modest Proposal: The biography of an Early georgian Pamphlet jungle argues that to understand the piece fully it is important to understand the economics of Swifts time. Wittowsky argues that not enough critics have taken the time to focus directly on the mercantilism and theories of labour in 18th century England. "If one regards the modest Proposal simply as a criticism of condition, about all one can say is that conditions were bad and that Swift's irony brilliantly underscored this fact". 19 "People are the riches of a nation" edit At the start of a new industrial age in the 18th century, it was believed that "people are the riches of the nation and there was a general faith in an economy that paid its workers. 20 Furthermore, "in the mercantilist view no child was too young to go into industry". In those times, the "somewhat more humane attitudes of an earlier day had all but disappeared and the laborer had come to be regarded as a commodity".
18 Landa composed a conducive analysis when he noted that it would have been healthier for the Irish economy to more appropriately utilize their human assets by giving the people an opportunity to become a source of wealth to the nation or else they must. This opportunity may have included giving the farmers more coin to work for, diversifying their professions, or even consider enslaving their people to lower coin usage and build up financial pdf stock in Ireland. Landa wrote that, "Swift is maintaining that the maxim—people are the riches of a nation—applies to Ireland only if Ireland is permitted slavery or cannibalism" 22 louis. Landa presents Swift's a modest Proposal as a critique of the popular and unjustified maxim of mercantilism in the 18th century that "people are the riches of a nation". 21 Swift presents the dire state of Ireland and shows that mere population itself, in Ireland's case, did not always mean greater wealth and economy.
13 In structure, johnson points out the same central theme, that of cannibalism and the eating of babies as well as the same final argument, that "human depravity is such that men will attempt to justify their own cruelty by accusing their victims of being. 12 Stylistically, swift and Tertullian share the same command of sarcasm and language. 12 In agreement with Johnson, donald. Baker points out the similarity between both authors' tones and use of irony. Baker notes the uncanny way that both authors imply an ironic "justification by ownership" over the subject of sacrificing children—Tertullian while attacking pagan parents, and Swift while attacking the English mistreatment of the Irish poor. 14 Defoe's The generous Projector edit It has also been argued that a modest Proposal was, at least in part, a response to the 1728 essay the generous Projector or, a friendly Proposal to Prevent Murder and Other Enormous Abuses, by erecting an Hospital for.
15 Mandeville's Modest Defence of Publick Stews edit bernard Mandeville 's Modest Defence of Publick Stews asked to introduce public and state controlled bordellos. The 1726 paper acknowledges women's interests and while not being a complete satirical text has also been discussed as an inspiration for Jonathan Swift's title. 16 17 Mandeville had by 1705 already become famous for the fable of The bees and deliberations on private vices and public benefits. John Locke's First Treatise of government edit locke commented: "be it then as Sir Robert says, that Anciently, it was usual for Men to sell and Castrate their Children. Let it be, that they exposed them; Add to it, if you please, for this is still greater Power, that they begat them for their Tables to fat and eat them : If this proves a right to do so, we may, by the same. Economic themes edit robert Phiddian's article "have you eaten yet? The reader in a modest Proposal" focuses on two aspects of a modest Proposal : the voice of Swift and the voice of the Proposer. Phiddian stresses that a reader of the pamphlet must learn to distinguish between the satirical voice of Jonathan Swift and the apparent economic projections of the Proposer. He reminds readers that "there is a gap between the narrator's meaning and the text's, and that a moral-political argument is being carried out by means of parody".
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Lewis argues that the essay speaker uses "the vocabulary of animal husbandry" 10 to describe the Irish. Once the children have been commodified, Swift's save rhetoric can easily turn "people into animals, then meat, and from meat, logically, into tonnage worth a price per pound". 10 Swift uses the proposer's serious tone to highlight the absurdity of his proposal. In making his argument, the speaker uses the conventional, textbook-approved order of argument from Swift's time (which was derived from the latin rhetorician quintilian ). 11 The contrast between the "careful control against the almost inconceivable perversion of his scheme" and "the ridiculousness of the proposal" create a situation in which the reader has "to consider just what perverted values and assumptions would allow such a diligent, thoughtful, and conventional. 11 Influences edit Scholars have speculated about which earlier works Swift may have had in mind when he wrote a modest Proposal. Tertullian's Apology edit james Johnson argued that a modest Proposal was largely influenced and inspired by tertullian 's Apology : a satirical attack against early roman persecution of Christianity. James William Johnson believes that Swift saw major similarities between the two situations. 12 Johnson notes Swift's obvious affinity for Tertullian and the bold stylistic and structural similarities between the works a modest Proposal and Apology.
Critics differ about Swift's intentions in using this faux-mathematical philosophy. Edmund Wilson argues that statistically "the logic of the 'modest proposal' can be compared with defence of crime (arrogated to marx ) in which he argues that crime takes care of the superfluous population". 6 Wittkowsky counters that Swift's satiric use of statistical analysis is an effort to enhance his satire that "springs from a spirit of bitter mockery, not from the delight in calculations for their own sake". 7 Rhetoric edit Charles. Smith argues that Swift's rhetorical style persuades the reader to detest the speaker and pity the Irish. Swift's specific strategy is twofold, using a "trap" nurse 8 to create sympathy for the Irish and a dislike of the narrator who, in the span of one sentence, "details vividly and with rhetorical emphasis the grinding poverty" but feels emotion solely for members of his. 9 Swift's use of gripping details of poverty and his narrator's cool approach towards them create "two opposing points of view" that "alienate the reader, perhaps unconsciously, from a narrator who can view with 'melancholy' detachment a subject that Swift has directed us, rhetorically,.
measure, and the goodness, nor. Therefore i repeat, let no man talk to me of these and the like expedients, 'till he hath at least some glympse of hope, that there will ever be some hearty and sincere attempt to put them into practice. Population solutions edit george wittkowsky argued that Swifts main target in a modest Proposal was not the conditions in Ireland, but rather the can-do spirit of the times that led people to devise a number of illogical schemes that would purportedly solve social and economic. 2 Swift was especially attacking projects that tried to fix population and labour issues with a simple cure-all solution. 3 A memorable example of these sorts of schemes "involved the idea of running the poor through a joint-stock company ". 3 In response, swift's Modest Proposal was "a burlesque of projects concerning the poor" 4 that were in vogue during the early 18th century. A modest Proposal also targets the calculating way people perceived the poor in designing their projects. The pamphlet targets reformers who "regard people as commodities". 5 In the piece, swift adopts the "technique of a political arithmetician" 6 to show the utter ridiculousness of trying to prove any proposal with dispassionate statistics.
Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution when he states: "a young healthy child well nursed. He uses methods of argument throughout his essay which lampoon the then-influential. William Petty and the social engineering popular among followers of, evernote francis Bacon. These lampoons include appealing to the authority of "a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London" and "the famous. Psalmanazar, a native of the island. Formosa " (who had already confessed to not being from Formosa in 1706). In the tradition of Roman satire, swift introduces the reforms he is actually suggesting by paralipsis : Therefore let no man talk to me of other expedients: Of taxing our absentees at five shillings a pound: Of using neither clothes, nor household furniture, except what. Laplanders, and the inhabitants of Topinamboo : Of quitting our animosities and factions, nor acting any longer like the jews, who were murdering one another at the very moment their city was taken : Of being a little cautious not to sell our country and.
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A modest Proposal For preventing the Children of desk poor people From being a burthen to Their Parents or country, and For making them Beneficial to the publick, 1 commonly referred to as, a modest Proposal, is a, juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously. Jonathan Swift in 1729. The essay suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical hyperbole mocked heartless attitudes towards the poor, as well. British policy toward the Irish in general. The primary target of Swift's satire was the rationalism of modern economics, and the growth of rationalistic modes of thinking in modern life at the expense of more traditional human values. In English writing, the phrase "a modest proposal " is now conventionally an allusion to this style of straight-faced satire. Contents, synopsis edit, this essay is widely held to be one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the history of the English language.


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With a face devoid of most expression and seemingly locked into a permanent grimace, the Barbarian Lord maintains "the finest farm in Garmrland." Aided by a ruthless but somewhat hapless witch, nefarious neighbor Skullmaster seeks to destroy him and take over that farm. As the two lock horns in a power play, the Barbarian Lord finds himself battling a variety of foes, from sea monsters to ghosts to trolls. Though the lines between good and evil are distinctly drawn, the Barbarian Lord is a complicated kind of hero who certainly doesn't shy away from killing (or impaling or slashing…) any opponent who dares cross his path; his personal motto seems to be "[t]here is more honor in battle than in trickery." This plot is nothing if not action-driven, the multitudinous battle scenes and abundant swordplay (and excellent sound effects) making this an excellent choice for readers interested in Game of Thrones but who perhaps aren't quite ready for some of its more mature subject matter.
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Ms. Jacobs is perhaps best known, however, as publicist for such prominent musicians as Ella Fitzgerald, Sy Oliver, Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughan, Duke Ellington and Della Reese. She also worked very closely for many years with Louis Armstrong, for whom she began as a public relations specialist and, in 1969, assisted in organizing the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation according to the great musician's last wishes. She served as executive vice-president of the foundation, which among other things helps finance music education programs for children. These programs range from concerts in public schools and libraries to music therapy programs in the pediatric wards of Beth Israel Hospital. Most illustrative of Louis' design and plan for the foundation is the series of Young People's Concerts under the aegis of Jazz At Lincoln Center, directed by Wynton Marsalis along with the Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp in New Orleans.
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Sword Art Online Board Game: Sword of Fellows is a cooperative dice based battle game from Japanime Games, Arclight Games, and Kadokawa. You can order it through Kickstarter right now.
The game has each player chooses one of six characters from the series and team up with others to face challenges of <<Aincrad>>. You roll dice and use your character's "Sword Skills" together to win. The game is very short and easy to learn.
There are only two reward levels for this project, Standard Game and Deluxe Game. The Standard Game (for $25 pledge) is the basic game. The Deluxe Game (for $35 pledge) is the game but with upgraded foil cards and a special edition box. Add-Ons are available to buy extra copies of the game, both standard and deluxe.
The game has already reached its $10,000 goal (in a few hours) and now is over $30,000. There are no stretch goals listed, but if they do want to add them might I suggest more character cards, more scenarios, and maybe some fancy new dice. Just what I would like.
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