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Henrici de Gandavo Summa (Quaestiones ordinariae) art. LIII–LV
Edited by Gordon A. Wilson, Girard J. Etzkorn
Henry of Ghent's Summa, art. 53–55 was composed shortly after Christmas of 1281, at the height of Henry's teaching career in the Theology Faculty at the University in Paris. These questions, which begin the "second part" of his Summa, are devoted to the Persons of the Trinity. They contain Henry's philosophical analyses of the theoretical concepts person, relation, and universals.
The text has been reconstructed based on manuscripts copied from a first and second Parisian university exemplar. In the critical study that precedes the Latin text, the editors argue that the manuscript, Biblioteca VATICANA, Borghese 17, which contains the texts of these articles and which has, in the latter part of this manuscript, many of the features of an exemplar divided into pecia, could not have been the exemplar divided into pecia for these particular articles. The volume concludes with the typical tables.


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Hamilton Zoo started its life as Hilldale Game Farm in 1969 under the ownership of Mr and Mrs Powell. They mainly raised game birds for the Acclimatisation Society, although there was also a small collection of exotic mammals and birds for viewing.
The 1960s and early 1970s saw a peak in the creation of new zoos throughout most western countries. In Britain three quarters of zoos date from this era. Hilldale was one of this generation's small traditional zoos, which after a number of years found it difficult competing with an increasing variety of other recreational attractions.
In 1976 Hamilton City Council stepped in to assist the zoo financially and bought the 14-hectare site, buildings and stock, and appointed a Zoological Trust to run the enterprise.
Closure for the zoo looked imminent, but in April 1984 Council resolved to continue its operation in response to a large public petition. The Department of Recreation and Welfare took over Hilldale's management.
Later it was recognised that a clear direction was needed for the zoo to continue. A concept plan was drawn up and as a result of this the Zoo Education Centre opened in 1987. The concept plan also saw the upgrading of zoo facilities with new exhibits, paved paths, boardwalks and intense planting.
To provide better leadership, the position of Zoo Director was created in 1989.
Over time there have been more changes and now there are over 25 people working at Hamilton Zoo.

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Despite not being officially released into the wild until April 7th, eagle-eyed genius MG has spotted this rare bird in Oxford Waterstone's. Quick, someone call Bill Oddie!
The Lesser Spotted Bigwoo is by nature quite timid, but its magnificently shiny plumage should make it easy to locate. If in doubt, apparently look for it amidst books about cake. And geese. (Yep, I'm in the Cake & Geese section. Who knew?) And do please report any further early sightings of this fine fowl: it's quite exciting seeing it on a shelf like that…
Then We Came To The End by Joshua Ferris (adult, contemporary). Office workers at a failing ad agency trundle through their mundane lives, which are shared through a collective voice. I haven't come to the end yet, however, so I'm not in any position to pass judgement: so far file under 'interesting conceit, but actually quite uninvolving'.
Musicals! Everyone loves musicals, right? Right? *looks hopeful*
Finally getting round to watching Die Hard 4 (liked the way they didn't bother pretending it was in any way related to the other films: didn't like the startling chunk of misogyny and racism that was applied to one character); eating very fine tortilla (and salmon, and risotto, and cheese, and actually I'm quite full just thinking about it); wondering why The Great Escape isn't on.


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This topic contains 61 replies, has 4 voices, and was last updated by Nayem 3 years, 9 months ago.
August 5, 2015 at 11:29 am #65361
Thank you Nayen. Very happy to test it..
I'll tell you if all is Ok.!August 6, 2015 at 1:12 am #65535
Nayen, Still with no look.. Don't work even with the new files you send me.
A question is: what exactly I have to put in paypal IPN configuration where say:
URL de notification: (here I have my site url) example: http://www.mysite.com
Or I have to put other thing?
thank. I don't know wy don't work..August 6, 2015 at 9:12 am #65555
I see, that should be in IPN URL Notification: http://www.misite.com/?action=wpuf_paypal_success
But still don't work.. Oh my god!!!
Always says when I try in SANDOBOX MODE:
Please check your email address and password and try again
And if I try in Live mode it pay but the user never get the subscription.
Very sad 🙁August 6, 2015 at 11:12 am #65565
Help please…August 6, 2015 at 12:00 pm #65569
Hello R&F,
We have tested again in our local server with Sandbox mode. It is working fine. In PayPal IPN notification – No need to insert any URL. The URL will automatically generate from the plugin.
Thanks.August 6, 2015 at 12:40 pm #65579
I don't know why. In all my test one time work. Just that I don't know what I did.
I do all my test in live. with $1.00 dollar and $0.50 – One time it work. but now I can't make it work again. Ufffff..August 6, 2015 at 6:29 pm #65738
Hello R&F,
I will suggest you to recheck your PayPal details and make sure there is no typo mistake. Because in our plugin there is no issue with the subscription.
Thanks.August 6, 2015 at 7:09 pm #65769
Nayen, Should I Use de last file you send me or the one that come with 2.3.6?
I mean paypal.php
thank.August 7, 2015 at 10:37 am #65824
Hello, Nayen.
Some update about paypal and IPN.
I test with SANDBOX, and all work perfect. (Finally I make it work in sandbox) But now my problem is in REAL LIVE MODE. IPN is received just sometimes not always.
Not all IPN Messages are received. Just some, and random.
In sandbox always IPN Messages are received. Without problem.
What do you think about this?August 7, 2015 at 5:12 pm #65845
KRISMemberPost count: 83
I sent you guys an email yesterday that Sabbir's sandbox account is generating random test Transactions everyday on my website. This has been happening after the pack activation problem was fixed.
Have you looked into why this is happening?
There are more random test transactions today. The same 4 transactions over and over again. Screenshot here – http://i.imgur.com/rnkpCv2.jpg
Note that my subscription packs and settings are now all Live on the website. So please, as you check this problem, do not delete or change my settings.
Thank you.August 8, 2015 at 4:27 am #65894
Finally I make it work as shoul be. YOU HAVE A WRONG LINK IN YOU PAYPAL.PHP
In the line 16 of paypal.php – where say:
$this->gateway_url = 'https://www.paypal.com/webscr/?';This is wrong..
Have to be:
$this->gateway_url = 'https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr/?';
As you can see you missing:
/cgi-bin/part. So I just Add that, and ALL WORK.
Remember to fix that in your next release of WPUF.
Thank.August 8, 2015 at 1:50 pm #65949
Thank for pointing us the mistake. I will notify to our developer team.
Thanks.August 9, 2015 at 5:09 am #66044
YvesParticipantPost count: 23
I think that Kris and R&F should deserve a lifetime licence for figting and helping with this vital issue 😉
Could someone send me this vital patch? Please.
YvesAugust 9, 2015 at 10:55 am #66060
We will release an update withing couple of days. This fix will be available there. Please keep patience.
Thanks.August 10, 2015 at 12:59 am #66175
YvesParticipantPost count: 23
Thank you Nayem.
This will be for the best.
Kind Regards,
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4:08pm PT by Graeme McMillan
John Boyega Reveals the Next Pentecost in First 'Pacific Rim: Uprising' Image
The return of the kaiju is just over a year away — but don't worry. The next line of human defense has already made itself known.
The first officially released image from next year's Pacific Rim: Uprising comes from star John Boyega's Twitter feed, showing his character — Jake Pentecost, the son of the original movie's Stacker Pentecost, as played by Idris Elba — sitting, surrounded by rubble, next to the doorway to a Jaeger, the giant human-piloted robots from the original movie. Boyega's caption? "I am Pentecost. 2018."
I am Pentecost— John Boyega (@JohnBoyega) February 7, 2017
2018#PacificRimUprising pic.twitter.com/36BEwIVRVD
That tweet, in turn, was shared Tuesday by the official Pacific Rim Twitter account, accompanied with "We're back!" — an apt phrase for the first tweet on that account in two and a half years. (The previous two tweets were both retweets from the Legendary Pictures account, announcing the second movie back in 2014.)
Alongside Boyega, the new movie — to be directed by Steven S. DeKnight from a screenplay by DeKnight, Emily Carmichael, Kira Snyder and T.S Nowlin — will feature Suicide Squad's Scott Eastwood, The Great Wall's Jing Tan and, returning from the original, Rinko Kikuchi. Guillermo del Toro, director of the first movie, will produce the new pic and also provided the basic storyline.
Pacific Rim: Uprising is scheduled for release Feb. 23, 2018.
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May 13th, 2012 | Happy mother's day!
On Thursday, it was my mom's birthday so we had our mother's day and birthday dinner that night.
I made chilled cucumber & avocado soup, lemon garlic & herb chicken, quinoa mustard & agave bean salad and gluten free chocolate lavender-citrus cupcakes with shortbread cookies on top. Everything was delicious.
I'll be posting the recipes to everything I made, but I'll be posting them one at a time since there are so many. Happy Mother's day everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful day today with your momma's and babies!


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St Patrick's was cold (so no potatoes were put in).
Easter was cold and wet so not much done outside.
This weekend was rainy (and cold), so again no seeds sown.
|A copper piece completely covered with mosaic tiles and grouted. Of course, once the grout dries it has to be cleaned up!


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"A Plan of the Town of Barnstable taken May 1795 by Samuel Bassett, from the Court house in Barnstable to Boston is 71 miles, taken on a Scale of 200 Rod to an Inch -
By Order of the Town"
This appears to be the original map made from the cartographer's notes. The pencil marks from the survey calls are still visible.
The map is made available only in a low resolution version, downloadable in a single file. If you have trouble viewing the photos in the Google's Chrome browser, try Firefox or Internet Explorer.
Click the link, below to open in a new browser tab.
Low Resolution, full map 14.65 MB


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HR Owen Ecurie – Rennsport Porsche
Britain's leading luxury motor dealer, HR Owen, has been named as a distributor for Rennsport. Ecurie, which is HR Owen's first multi-franchised dealership based in Cheltenham will cater to dealing in the restored Porsches. Rennsport is the go to place for Porsche fanatics, especially those who fancy classic or vintage cars. It restores special and bespoke editions of Porsche 911s and customises them to suit the tastes of individuals.
Rennsport, which is not affiliated with the Porsche company but works independently, has never appointed an official distributor in the UK before. However, HR Owen is known for its expertise and experience across several high profile brands such as Bentley, Bugatti, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati and Rolls-Royce. HR Owen's impressive portfolio makes it the obvious and perfect dealership for Rennsport.
Meanwhile, Ecurie is HR Owen's home of the BAC Mono single-seater supercar that also deals in Ferrari, McLaren, Bentley, Aston Martin and Lotus.
The Cheltenham dealership currently has two Rennsport Porsches for sale; the first of which draws Hollywood inspiration from Steve McQueen's 1971 film, Le Mans.
Backdated and rebuilt from a 1989 Carrera Sport Coupe, the car harks back to McQueen's 1969 personal car from the movie and comes complete with a 3.2-litre engine as well as fully galvanised bodywork finished in stunning Slate Grey with grey decals.
The Rennsport Porsche has been listed by HR Owen at £99,950.
Another incredible Rennsport creation in the HR Owen stable is a 1986 911 Carrera Sport Coupe which has been comprehensively rebuilt and backdated to the iconic 1969 design with specified upgrades. Made to touring specifications with a power hike making it capable of topping 258kph, the striking Viper Green 911 benefits from a full chrome package and costs £97,950.
Commenting on the partnership, Stephan Plant, HR Owen Ecurie's General Manager, said: "It's a true honour for HR Owen Ecurie to become the first and only distributor for Rennsport in the UK and something the whole team is relishing. Our talented staff has exemplary knowledge of the brands we represent, and we are perfectly positioned to continue bringing these unique creations to Porsche enthusiasts. As the UK's leading luxury dealer group, HR Owen is perfectly positioned to distribute Rennsport's stunning cars, which have already been the subject of plenty of interest from our clients."
Paul Cockell, Managing Director of Rennsport, summed up: "We are pleased to be working exclusively with H.R. Owen Ecurie, enabling our clients the benefit of their sales and pre-purchase expertise helping the customer tailor the whole package from start to finish. Every car is bespoke, meaning every deal is bespoke."
For more on exclusive the Rennsport Porsche model, please visit their website here


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Online music channel Ont' Sofa and broadcast television network Sub TV have partnered up to bring viewers Sub TV presents Ont' Sofa Sessions. The programme will be aired across the Sub TV network in student union bars across the country as well as their online platforms.
Sub TV is an interactive television channel for students' unions and universities in the United Kingdom. It is broadcast in over 100+ British universities and available to the public online, on mobile devices and smart TV's.
Simon Marriott from Sub TV says about the new partnership "Subtv are very proud to be working with the brilliant and talented Ont' Sofa. They are very passionate about exposing new music talent and live sessions, as are we here at Subtv, which makes this union a perfect fit."
Launching on the network this week Sub TV presents Ont' Sofa Sessions will be showcasing five new videos every week. Ont' Sofa has built a reputation for providing some of the best emerging talent in a no auto-tune, live atmospheric setting. Some of the acts the online channel has worked with include Becky Hill, Luke Friend, Mike Hough, Lunar C and Steel Panther.
Jason Odle from Ont' Sofa is very excited about the new merger "Expanding our audience reach is key to us helping unsigned and newly discovered talent to gain useful exposure. Working with Sub TV is an exciting privilege and perfect for this. We can't wait to show their viewers the talent we have been working with."
Sub TV presents Ont' Sofa Sessions will be airing at the following times every week
Mondays at 22:00
Fridays at 09:00 and 12:00
Sundays at 10:00
To watch the show, click the following link: www.sub.tv/live
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|Joan Rivers
How I get dressed
Joan Rivers: Comedian, 72, loves designer clothes - as long as they're free
Nina Myskow
Sunday 14 May 2006
Do you have the expression 'knock-off' in Britain? Yeah, well the very first outfit I bought with my own money was an Ann Fogarty knock-off in black linen-like fabric. Linen-like, not real linen. You couldn't smoke within 100 yards of it, and the buttons were turning black in front of you.
My summer jobs were always in department stores so I could get discount. I worked at Lord and Taylor in New York and my pay envelope would come back saying: You Owe Us. Ann Fogarty was a huge designer, she was on the third floor. As you climbed higher, you got the cheaper stuff. I got the knock-off on the seventh floor. I got that and a little straw boater, and I thought I was the best-looking thing on Fifth Avenue.
I have loved clothes all my life, and most of my memories - good or bad - I can tell you exactly what I was wearing. I always had to have the latest thing. I was just hitting my teens when there was a terrible style called the Tube dress, which you wore with a big belt round the middle. I must have been 5ft 2 tall and 5ft 2 across, not a good idea.
But if I hadn't been a fat teenager, I would never have been funny. If I had been as skinny as one of those supermodels I would never have developed my sense of humour. You ever spoken to a model? Oh please. Cindy Crawford? Do you think anyone ever says, 'Stop it, stop it Cindy, you're killing me!'
When I married in 1967 I wore black. I married him in four days, and I was so glad to get married, I wasn't going to wait for the white dress to come in. I'd found this chump. I thought, 'This man's a fool!' I went to Bloomingdales, and bought a little black dress with ecru trim and a little green velvet running across the bodice. It looked very pretty.
I was still struggling, and there was a place called A S Beck, where you could buy cheap shoes and they'd dye them to match the dress. If you squinted until your eyes were nearly closed they looked good. I adore shoes, I always wear very, very high heels, not just because I'm a midget. Heels make even an ugly leg look shapely. No question. Thirty years ago at a New York fashion ceremony, I gave Manolo Blahnik the award for best young shoe designer. He was so excited, he said to me on the podium: 'Shoes for you, free for life,' but then as we left the stage, he said, 'shoes for life, 50% off'. And as I took him back to the table he said, 'shoes for life, 33 %'. I said, 'That's it', and I fled. So to this day I get 33% off.
I wear mostly Manolos, which are not just sexy and fabulous, they have a great last also. His shoes you can wear on the treadmill they are so comfortable. Also, a theatrical fashion designer once told me that whenever you're worried, pop the whole outfit with an insane colour shoe, and it looks great and he's absolutely right.
Colour is so important. I adore colour, and certain colours attract men. Every smart woman should wear pink, because it reminds men of the nipple. It's true! I was told this by a psychologist. Also Cecil Beaton advised me about pink. One of my many, many jobs I had on my way to semi-success, I worked for him when he was in New York, as his kind of Girl Friday.
He told me, 'Onstage, you must always have pink lights above, blue lights below, and grey velour behind you.' And to this day when I'm on stage, every light is pink. That's why I wear a lot of pink near my face too.
Outfits have become exorbitantly expensive. I just bought a coat and dress for $6,000. Outrageous. I'm in a very lucky position, because people lend me clothes. So two thirds of what you see me in, take a good look because it's going back tomorrow. But every season I try to buy two or three great things to wear to luncheons or fabulous dinners. I hang out with ladies who spend $15,000 on a gown and just don't blink.
It's tragic, I have no time to shop. I have a stylist in California who comes to my daughter's house with a rack of clothes, and it's done, in one fell swoop. I hate it. You know there are things out there you might have liked better, but he just didn't pick 'em. It's much more fun to go into a store, but I just don't have time.
Favourite designers? Anyone that gives me the clothes. There's a wonderful woman called Vera Wang. Embarrassing name, but not when your father owns Wang Industries. You get over it very fast when it's up there on a building. I wore Michael Vollbracht for Bill Blass this year when I was covering the red carpet for the Oscars.
I borrow jewellery too, like everyone else. For the Oscars I mixed my own little Joan Rivers bracelet, which I sell for $49 on QVC, with one million dollars of Fred Leighton diamond bracelets and gorgeous diamond and emerald earrings. If you borrow from Harry Winstone, they send a guard with you, which is hilarious, because he's always mistaken as your date.
I have masses of clothes, but you know what? At home I hate to get dressed if I don't have to, so often I wear a bathrobe. It's blue velour and I got it from a catalogue. And airline socks on my feet. I walk into the kitchen and the dogs throw up.
Casa de citas / Joan Rivers / Éxito
Casa de citas / Joan Rivers / Mi obstetra
Casa de citas / Joan Rivers / Sexo II
Casa de citas / Joan Rivers / Sexo I
Casa de citas / Joan Rivers / Ayer es historia
Joan Rivers en coma
Joan Rivers/ Constantly in the limelight and pursued by controversy
Joan Rivers / A life in pictures
Joan Rivers, pioneering comedian and entertainer, dies aged 81
Joan Rivers / Joan Collins, Adele, Paris Hilton, Rihanna and Liza Minelli / Quotes
Joan Rivers / Lenny Bruce
Joan Rivers / I was talking about my mother


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Thrills and sensations that only Africa can create; unforgettable sunsets, long golden beaches, bewitchingly beautiful nature. It is easy to capture the magic of Malindi. Every corner, every person, every instant…everything is enchanting.
The resort has 29 comfortable air- conditioned rooms, 5 pools, 2 bars, restaurant, spa and wellness center Medicallife the fabulous beach. The decor is great attention to detail and inspired with great finesse, the taste of Africa.
Kilili to every room overlooks one of the pools and has a fully furnished private veranda where breakfast is served each morning in order to make beautiful and memorable every revival.
The Resort & spa offers ample spaces where one can chat and relax. Lunch, a fresh and assorted buffet, is laid out in the restaurant which gives onto the sea. In the afternoon, you can enjoy a cup of tea or coffee accompanied by biscuits, whilst sitting around the pool.
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At all moments of the day, guests can order from the main bar and the snack bar on the beach.
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Laughter is one of the greatest sounds in the world. The deep laugh that causes your muscles to ache. It can help lighten moods and break the tension. Laughter can make all your troubles disappear even for a moment. After a good laugh, you forget your bills, your worries and the troubles of the world. Laughter is universal. It is a mechanism that every culture in the world has. Laughter helps increase blood flow, reduce stress hormones, release endorphins and help relieve physical pain. It has been discovered as truly the best medicine. Even the some of the darkest movies have moments of laughter.
My most favorite sound in the world is laughter. I love my daughter's laughter. I wish I could record it and post it. She has so many different laughs and each one brings a smile to my face. She has a laugh when she cracks up. You know the one where you throw yourself back and then forward, slapping your knee. She does that! Especially when we've figured out what she's trying to say. She has a laugh when she knows that she's about to get in trouble and she laughs hopeful to divert your anger and you'll forget her punishment. It's moments like that that I have a hard time keeping a straight face. Even through my darkest moments, my daughter's laughter can help me smile through my tears. It's like she can almost read my mood and know that mommy needs a pick me up.
I love hearing people laugh. Laughter helps make the world right even if it's just for a few moments. My best childhood memories are family gathered around a table or a campfire laughing at family stories. Laughter has help me through my darkest moments. When I'm feeling depressed or upset, I just put on my favorite comedy shows. "Friends" or "The Big Bang Theory" works great for me, even though I've seen the episodes countless times.
What are your favorite sounds? What sounds can lift your spirits and help you feel like you don't have a care in the world?


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A functionally diverse student population has joined the self-directed management-track learners who once dominated adult-oriented universities. Facing classrooms of students with a broadening range of experience, ability and motivation, how can adult educators meet the dynamic needs of individual learners? Integrating contingency leadership models with collaborative learning processes may provide a partial answer that can help adult educators to build dynamic strategies for supporting student performance, satisfaction, and persistence.
Despite living in a society that holds cooperation as a core value, students in the Japanese higher education system typically study in a rigid lecture-test environment that neither supports nor condones collaboration in the classroom. I addressed this cultural cognitive dissonance during a lecture to Hachinohe University faculty about how to use group-learning methods to invigorate student development in traditional higher education.
This article provides the English and Japanese language resources from "Transforming the traditional classroom with team learning: The teacher's shifting leadership role in collaborative learning environments," a lecture presented by Brent Duncan to the faculty and adminstration of Hachinohe University, Japan on July 13, 2011.
Although academic and leadership literature tends to use "team" and "group" synonymously to describe a group of two or more interacting people, proponents of work teams and learning teams generally recognize important differences between groups and teams that can influence how leaders design, implement, and interact with teams. Distinguishing between a team and a group can help teachers to understand the proper leadership for the context.


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Before Meagan Murphy '15 took Physics in the Arts, she didn't know how the scientific principles of physics might apply to her.Now, she knows that they do, whether it's a question of playing the guitar or seeing her reflection in a window."I'm learning a lot of interesting things and how they apply to my life," says Murphy, of Chicago. She now knows how the air she blows into her instrument, the trumpet, makes sound waves and "how temperature change affects sound, so that I can better predict how my instrument sounds."Holly Nickerson '15, a political science and leadership major from Fremont, Ind., says she has learned how physics relates to playing the clarinet, and that "it's not just honking." Lessons about light refraction, cameras and lenses have improved her photography, too."Now I can deal with shadows before I shoot, rather than in the computer," says Nickerson, whose photos chronicle her life. "I am taking better pictures now and my family tells me they can see it."Erik Brekke (Physics) says that's the point of the class: teaching non-science majors to see the world and technology in a different way, by understanding the physics involved in light and sound, and how they are produced and perceived by the ears and eyes.Learning about waves, reflection, refraction, lenses, oscillations and resonance gives students interested in theatre, music, photography and painting new understandings about how their instruments work; the way sound travels; how to mix colors and manipulate lighting."For example, they learn that when they play an instrument there's more to the sound than blowing, and where their finger is," Brekke says. "They learn why it makes that sound, what affects the sound and why sounds differ. It's not just what happens, but why."Beyond that, Brekke says: "The idea is to teach them a better appreciation of the things they do or use. It's about a new way of thinking, of problem solving, of thinking about what happens and why."Maggie Berens '14, of Elmgrove, Ill., an elementary education major, says she is not only learning things she will use in her classroom, but also how to make connections and critically analyze what she observes. "In theater, the sound is transmitted through microphones, but when I'm in the theater I don't think about that. Now, I will slow down and explore that," says Berens. Besides attending three lectures each week, students have a weekly lab where they experience physics with such scientific instruments as motion detectors, tuning forks and mirrors.To demonstrate the relationship between sound waves and sound pressure, Brekke uses a visual device, the Rubens – or standing wave flame – tube. The tube, which has numerous holes in the top, is attached to a propane supply and a speaker is placed at one end. Changes in the sound affect the height of the flames.That demonstration and the labs, combined with what students learn in lectures and assignments, "open the world to them in a new way," Brekke says. "There's a lot most people haven't thought about in physical phenomena. We just take it for granted. Physics explains why technology works. I want them to think about where these things come from, why they work and how we can make it work better. It requires a different way of thinking."The lesson about light and lenses changed how Eddie Kepes '14, a business major from Homewood, Ill., perceives his contact lens. "It's weird to know about the science behind that little piece of plastic that goes into my eyes every morning."
July 8, 2012
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Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Bella's Twins ...
The good news Miss Bella finally popped, 2 very tiny little ewes, they so cute but boy so blotchy, just plain not very pretty. That ram next door is a merino and mamma Bella is a suffolk. This is Bella's second season and only one ewe last year. This time there were 3 girls, yes I did say 3 girls, one did not make it. She insisted having her babies under a big tree in the dirt, while I had put new hay down in the sheep shed for her.
Had been keeping an eye on her the whole day and just after the first one was born and on her feet, Bella popped out no 2 and ignored it, well I just went in and cleaned her up, splashed a little cold water on her face. That sort of shocks them and makes them draw in a deep breath, then they right to go, just like smacking a baby on the bottom kind of thing.
Baby no 3, was taking it's time coming and by that time Bella and her twins were safely inside the sheep shed, feed and watered. I had done the feeding round for the evening and had started making dinner, when Gayle our landlord/neighbour came for a stickybeak. Once again no more signs of anymore lambs, but while making dinner, she popped out no 3, Bella never cleaned it's little face, it died still in the sack.Sad but that nature for you.
Now we're just waiting for the brown ewe and Miss Lashes to pop in the next day or so. Little Stella is also expecting but atleast a month behind these girls. Tomorrow I am off to the Camden livestock Auction held every Wensday with Gayle, she's looking at some mixed breed sheep. I prefer to stick to Suffolks.
Well that's it for tonight
See ya
11 comments:
How very sweet. Those little babes will produce some interesting wool for yarn.ReplyDelete
Awwww, cuteness times ten!ReplyDelete
Loved this post. I know a farm is a lot of work, but new baby lambs must be exciting.ReplyDelete
Very cute! No babies here this year. So I'll enjoy yours instead :DReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 10, 2011 at 1:32 PM
So adorable.ReplyDelete
I do love seeing the little babies. We had one born so tiny and cold one year I was determined to warm it and put it in a little try inside the warm oven with the door open of course! She started to come around, but in the end she was just to small and weak. Can't wait to hear what names you will give these two girls. ~KariReplyDelete
BABIES!!!!!!!! This makes farming worth every hardship!ReplyDelete
Oh, I love the little, splotchy lambs!ReplyDelete
How sad you lost one of the lambs. That would have really upset me too.ReplyDelete
The remaining two are very cute though.
That is adorable , I love the little once .ReplyDelete
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Love all the black and white color on the lambs. Our suffolks just came out white with black heads and legs. Quite boring compared to yours. Too bad about the little one that was lost. We use to have to attend the every birth of our ewe Lorna's because she always had triplets and she always quit doing her mother thing on the last one. And I mean doing anything for she would even quit pushing. After I'd pull it out and clean it up, she would consider it worth her time. Animals can be the craziest things.ReplyDelete


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Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Paper Sweeties July Inspiration Challenge #33 - Red, White & Blue
8 comments:
- Maria said...
Awesome card with the hot air balloon! Such a fab patriotic card with all the red, white, and blue! And, great tutorial!:-)
- June 30, 2015 at 11:23 PM
- Karen Oliver said...
Oh I love this. That balloon is just great. The background looks so dimensional. What a great technique thanks for the video.
- July 1, 2015 at 12:21 AM
- Jill Norwood said...
Mynn you are so good at the videos!!! I had to shoot my last one 4 times and by the 4th time I was spent!!! Should have re-shot the next day when I was fresh! Lol! Your tutorial is wonderful! I am going to try it tomorrow for fun! Love your card! That balloon is adorable!!!! :)
- July 1, 2015 at 2:07 AM
- Larissa Heskett said...
SUPER FUN Card!!I LOVE that you used the Hot Air Balloon!! THANKS for sharing the Tutorial and I hope you have a Fabulous Weekend!! =)
- July 1, 2015 at 2:29 AM
- Julie Tucker-Wolek said...
So GORGEOUS! LOVING that balloon!!!!!
- July 1, 2015 at 6:51 AM
- KarinsArtScrap said...
this is a gorgeous card Mynn
Gr Karin
- July 1, 2015 at 7:38 AM
- Debbie said...
Oh my word! This is such a beautiful card, Mynn! Love all the textures and mixy matchy patterns! Just wonderful :)
- July 3, 2015 at 11:06 AM
- Cheryl said...
Another stunning card, Mynn! I LOVE the torn paper for the sentiment and the watercolored balloon. Thanks for the video tutorial. Your red and white stripes turned out beautiful.
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Deputy Troy was responding to the publication of Barnardos Children's Charity annual 'School Costs Survey', which found that lower income families in particular are struggling with the costs of school transport.
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I am very proud and honored to bring you a Story about "VOICES OF THE ANITWAR MOVEMENT."
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By:Victor Davis Hanson
Without quick victory, opposition to war usually arises. Civic dissent results when
conflicts drag on, offer no apparent resolution or clear purpose, and become especially bloody - the Athenian-Spartan deadlock
during the 27-year Peloponnesian War, for instance, and the stalemate on the Western Front in 1916 and 1917 that ruined a
generation of Europen youth. In this context, the American antiwar movement's role in opposing U.S. involvement in Vietnam,
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miles away. Fighting was to take place in cities and on difficult terrain, against adversaries who were often indistinguishable
from civilians and sometimes showed allegiance to both sides. Our enemies, it should be noted, galvanized support not on the
slogans of their own adherence to communism and authoritarianism but disingenuously through calls for Western ideas of freedom
and liberty. Quite unlike most great powers of the past, America had little interest in appropriating foreign land or treasure.
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before, and thereby allow the Vietnamese to live free of communist totalitarianism that had engulfed hundreds of millions
on the country's borders. Given both the strategic constraints and limited objectives, American soldiers were not customarily
asked to take and hold ground, occupy enemy cities or invade the north, the source of the aggression.
Instead, our troops were there simply to resist those who sought to impose their will
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and capitalist Japan - at worst, another independent though authoritarian South Korea or Taiwan that in theory could eventually
evolve into a liberal society if protected against communist aggression. If initially the United States reacted clumsily to
such baffling challenges, it began by early 1968 to achieve a series of important military victories. After the failed communist
Tet offensive of winter 1968, America - for all practical purposes - destroyed the Viet Cong network in the south for more
than a year. American military forces also inflicted a crushing military defeat on North Vietnamese regulars when nearly 50,000
of the enemy perished in the bloody battles at Khe Sanh and Hue. Tens of thousands more were wounded or missing. The controversial
and occasionally mismanaged Phoenix program, which targeted enemy operatives among civilian cadres, nevertheless had disrupted
and demoralized communist agents and infiltrators. A new, more accurate and sophisticated American bombing campaign that culminated
in 1972 and 1973 - aimed at conventional communist invasion forces and strategic command and control in North Vietnam - essentially
ended large-scale communist aggression from the north altogether.
INFLUENTIAL MINORITY. Despite the corruption of the struggling South Vietnam government,
American military and economic aid - coupled with land reform and political liberalization - had persuaded most South Vietnamese
they could sustain a viable anti-communist government. And so by 1973, an exasperated North Vietnam was mostly ready for a
cease-fire. The war appeared to be over. The Vietnam quagmire had evolved into a Korean-like armistice, enforced by fear of
American bombing should the communists renege on agreements. Yet less than two years later, after a series of treaty violations,
the north invaded the south and unified the country. A weary United States concluded it could do no more in the aftermath
of the Nixon Watergate scandals. A sophisticated, mature antiwar movement had, at last, convinced an influential minority
of Americans that defeat was preferable to continue and costly resistance. Throughout the war, there was, of course, room
for legitimate criticism of such a difficult and controversial mission, one that American military and civilian planners themselves
had not fully grasped for years - perhaps not even until 1969, when Gen. Creighton Abrams' aggressive steps to refashion operational
strategy began to show real success. Skeptics inside the military finally saw litle point to search-and-destroy missions and
complained that only 15 percent of more than 500,000 American troops deployed in country were actual combat soldiers.
Realists, in turn, wondered whether Vietnam was properly in the sphere of American
strategic interests. Other conservatives sometimes voiced worries that we were spreading American forces too thin, thus endangering
Europe, Japan and South Korea. They added that China and Russia were themselves sometimes each other's enemies, casting doubt
about the supposed worldwide dangers should dominos fall to communism in Southeast Asia. On the other hand, principled liberals
complained that bombing in the south was on occasion indiscriminate and callous. The New York Tiimes and The Washington Post
ran continual reports that a succession of South Vietnamese governments had proved venal, and after years of American support
seemed to grow more dependent on, rather than appreciative of, American support. Such a conundrum played itself out in the
American political arena. In 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson chose not to seek a second term. The resignation of a series
of administration officials followed. The George McGovern peace candidacy of 1972 advocated unilateral withdrawal. In reaction,
the Senate passed several resolutions curtailing American military options and aid. Peaceful protests and moratoriums were
near-daily events, even as Vietnamization accelerated and American soldiers systematically began to come home. The nation,
in other words, struggled to find either peace at any price or a negotiated settlement with honor. Liberals favored the former,
conservatives the latter.
ANTI-AMERICAN AGENDA. Quite apart from this legitimate national debate over both the
moral and practical nature of the American involvement, a hysterical antiwar movement arose that united traditional leftists,
socialists and communists with students and young American radicals on university campuses. The goal of such a loosely coordinated
group was not merely a change in American policy or even the withdrawal of American forces, but rather a clear preference
for a North Vietnamese victory and the unification of the country under a communist government - and perhaps a similar revolution
here in the United States. In other words, a large group of Americans actively worked for the defeat of their own troops in
the field, whom they saw as agents of a destructive capitalism and imperialism. Soon the movement tried to advance a serious
intellectual critique that might transcend the spread of Weatherman terrorist bombings and Students for a Democratic Society
thuggery on the streets. Its zeal, however, remained marred by flagrant untruths about the war and a visceral anti-Americanism.
Protesters claimed that Ho Chi Minh was a modern-day Lincoln who turned to violence only after he had been thwarted in the
1956 elections by American machinations. In fact, "Uncle Ho" was a hard-core communist dictator whose cadres decades before
the Americans arrived had driven a million refugees south, suppressed all dissidents and murdered as many as 100,000 during
forced land collectivization. Beginning with the 1954 partition of the country - when nine of 10 refugees headed south, not
north - until the 1976 "election" when 99.98 percent of the "electorate" voted for a communist-unified government, the North
Vietnamese had proved themselves ruthless in suppressing dissent - again, long before, as well as after, American intervention.
Critics as diverse as Noam Chomsky and Martin Luther King Jr. claimed that America had waged a war similar to Nazi Germany's
- an unintended, though prescient, evocation of Hitler's methods, since after 1975 more than 2 million Vietnamese fled the
communist takeover, perhaps more than 100,000 perishing in transit in leaky boats and through starvation. As one communist
official admitted to Stanley Karnow, "Open the doors and everyone would leave overnight." Indeed, more civilian Southeast
Asians died after 1975 - through failed escape attempts, the holocaust in Cambodia, executions of political prisoners, starvation
in re-education camps and ethnic cleansing of Chinese - than during the entire decade of American involvement. The antiwar
mythologies central to the movement involved every aspect of the war. Critics claimed we had poisoned the Vietnamese countryside
and starved peasants. In fact, only 10 percent of the countryside was subject to the spraying of chemical defoliants where
3 percent of the population lived. In contrast, thanks to imported American agricultural techniques, rice production soared
by 1971 to 6.1 million metric tons - the largest harvest in South Vietnam's history. Under American pressure, 2 million acres
of farmland were redistributed to some 400,000 family farmers.
Stories of military incompetence, general chaos and near-insurrection were standard
television fare, but hardly accurate characterizations of soldiers at large. Incidents of drug use in Vietnam, while worrisome,
were no higher than among similarly aged civilians. Blacks and Hispanics did not die in inordinate numbers but suffered losses
almost precisely at percentages that reflected their proportion of the American population. Indeed, 86 percent of all battle
dead were listed as Caucasian. True, regional and class distortions did exist in the terrible American sacrifice, but not
of the type that affluent campus portestors wished to publicize: white, southern enlisted men from the middle and lower classes
died in numers not commensurate with their demographic profiles. Nor were tens of thousands of crazed veterans traumatized
for life, purportedly in shame and depression over fighting a dirty war. In fact, 97 percent of veterans were granted honorable
discharges. Despite hysterical accounts and melodramatic television shows and movies, Vietnam combat veterans showed no higher
incidence of mental illness than did the general population. Nor did they experience bouts of permanent psychological trauma
at rates higher than those found among World War II or Korean veterans, despite being subject to a much more complex combat
experience with far less domestic support and encouragement.
No matter. Critics escalated their attacks with rhetoric that increasingly was near
treasonous. Allen Ginsberg, the newbeat poet, wrote "Let the Viet Cong win over the American army! And if it were my wish,
we'd lose and our will be broken and our armies scattered." Journalist David Dillinger claimed the North Vietnamese did not
torture POWs, at least not in comparison to the U.S. government: "The only verified torture associated with the American prisoners
held by the North Vietnamese is the torture of prisoners' families by the State Department, Pentagon and the White House."
Stanley hoffman wrote in The New Republic that the communist victory of 1975 was "an important lesson" to Americans since
"a collectivist society was likely to produce greater welfare and security for its people" - and "at a cost in freedom that
affects a small elite." Nor did antiwar activists limit their efforts to public pronouncements. Hundreds visited Hanoi in
the very midst of the fighting and used their trips to issue propaganda statements and live broadcasts, misrepresenting the
effects of American bombing and the status of American POWs. Activist Anne Weills summed up best the feeling in a later reflection:
"You should understand that it was considered a great honor to be able to go to Vietnam, for us in the antiwar movement, and
to meet Mme. Binh in Paris(who led the communist delegation)." Writer Susan Sontag came from Hanoi gushing that communist
North Vietnam deserved "to be idealized."
POSTBELLUM MYTHMAKING. While some veteran protestors, like Jane Fonda - who named
her son Troi(later changed to Troy)after a North Vietnamese saboteur and issued statements calling for an American defeat
- have subsequently expressed some remorse, many have not, and indeed persist in their postbellum mythmaking and unapologetic
support for the Vietnamese communists. Chomsky, who visited Hanoi in 1970, still claimed well after the war that the United
States started the conflict and had waged genocide thoughout: "We attack a country, we kill several million people, we wipe
the place out." Some academics remained even more unrepentant than Chomsky. In an article titled "Rembembering the Tet Offensive,"
David Hunt waxed eloquent about the surprise holiday attack on American soldiers. "More generally, the Tet Offensive made
a powerful contribution to the rebuilding of some sort of socialist presence in the United States," he wrote. "Carried along
by the momentum of their endeavor, we wanted to be associated with the Vietnamese revolutionaries and to figure out how our
newly discovered vision of 'power to the people' might be realized here in the United States." It is hard to calibrate the
exact effect of propaganda on military operations, but North Vietnamese and American veterans both later claimed the visits
of Fonda, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and others to Hanoi, coupled with the constant domestic criticism of the war
effort, directly affected morale and the conduct of the campaign itself. Gen. Giap, in a series of postbellum interviews,
confessed that the North Vietnamese were ready to cease aggression under the weight of the 1972 and 1973 bombing campaigns.
He then directly associated the reprieve with the welcome efforts of the radical antiwar movement. Indeed, he told French
television that his most important guerrilla ally during the war was the American press. The Vietnam News Agency as early
as 1966 wrote, "We praise the American peace champions. The movement of the American people to protest against the war of
aggression has really become the second front against the U.S. imperialists." Another communist official, Bui Tinh, claimed
that Fonda's Hanoi visits, press releases and much-publicized photo-ops in enemy batteries had helped the communists "to hold
on in the face of battlefield reverses."Snap appraisals by journalists and reporters often mischaracterized the actual military
situation on the ground. Tet was a stunning U.S. military victory but was reported back home as an American setback, prompting
Walter Cronkite to announce to millions of Americans that the war simply could not be won. Communist atrocities such as the
murder of more than 3,000 innocents at Hue went unmentioned. President Richard M. Nixon's bombing campaigns of late 1972 proved
as effective in thwarting North Vietnamese aggression as American cessation of support in 1974 and 1975 was in encouraging
communist resurgence. But after Watergate and years of protests - in December 1972, The Washington Post ran headlines such
as "Terror Bombing in the Name of Peace," while The Boston Globe blared "The Reign of Death Continues" - many Americans began
to hope the entire Vietnam mess would just go away. As to the nature of the radical antiwar movement, fear of the draft in
itself does not entirely explain the vehemence of the protests nor does the undeniable prominence in the ranks of Old Left
Trotskyites and Stalinists. Of more interest were the class and educational faultiness that slowly emerged. Few working-class
children flocked to demonstrations; likewise, rural people were less likely to oppose the war than those in New York or San
Francisco. Nixon's much-caricatured silent majority, in fact, reflected a blue-collar nation that entertained a visceral dislike
of commnism and even well until the early 1970s felt victory in Vietnam was both possible and critical to check communist
adventurism elsewhere. In contrast, among a largely upper-middle-class elite, Vietnam became a rallying cry for an entire
social and cultural agenda that often sought to portray the United States as a rogue imperialist nation, one that practiced
deep class, gender and racial oppression. In this view, the United States alone was seen as responsible for much of the world's
misery - not the Soviet Union that in 1968 brutally invaded Czechoslovakia, nor communist China that had recently butchered
millions of its own people during the Cultural Revolution of the early 1960s. Ironically, the very success of the quarter-century-old
Cold War in checking communist aggression had allowed a new generation the luxury of forgetting the Berlin Airlift or the
invasion of South Korea and Hungary, and thus in its security and bliss, of fancying that communists, like the North Vietnamese,
were not all that different from European socialists, or even American leftists who called for massive government action to
refashion American society along more egalitarian lines. And for the less political, opposition to the war became more a cultural
brotherhood or perhaps even a youthful rite of passage than an ideology - as Pavlovian as long hair, rock music and the easy
use of drugs.
Radically changed social and economic conditions in the 1960s explain much as well.
The Great Depression was a distant memory. Millions of youth instead came of age in the booming economy of the 1960s and suddenly
found it possible to travel and take time off from school without the drudgery of constant work - an ethic enhanced by parents
who wished their children something better than they had known in the 1930s and 1940s. An enormous expansion of the university,
massive influxes of federal dollars into education and generous tenure all contrubuted to the rise of a new professorate that
had the numbers, time and money to take to heart its vision of a new education - one that sought not merely to impart knowledge
or practice disinterested inquity, but rather to insist on radical remedies for perceived social injustice. What can we learn
from the dark years of the Vietnam protests? A small minority of Americans remains profoundly pacifistic, whether on pilosophical
or religious grounds. Willfully ignoring the past utility of war to free slaves, dismantle Nazism, end Japanese fascism and
hold back Soviet totalitarianism, such citizens practice a funny sort of morality that views sin only as the commission of
war, never as the disavowal of force that allows wrong to continue. Thus, it was supposedly immoral to bomb a murderous communist
elite in Hanoi, but moral to stand by and allow millions to be butchered in Cambodia and sent into camps and exile from Vietnam.
Wealth, security and faith in the therapeutic culture also have contributed to insulating millions of Americans from past
fears of hunger, disease and bodily injury. Rarely at work or in their upscale neighborhoods do such privileged utopians encounter
physical danger or criminals, and so are led to think that our nation's enemies are either misguided, uneducated or in need
of mediation, rather than simply aggressive evildoers who cannot be reasoned with, but only defeated. Fonda and Chomsky in
their daily sheltered lives quite literally had never quite encountered somone like a North Vietnamese Stalinist with two
decades worth of murder to his credit. Others still did not like America in the raw and opposed it in near-automatic fashion.
Yet most often, such an unhappy group in universities, the arts and the media - then and now - purportedly left as imperialisic,
corporate or exploitative. But in fact, its sneers inevitably are minifested as reactionary dismissals of the less-educated
popular culture of Wal-Mart, NASCAR, McDonald's and video games - the new opiates of the supposed unthinking masses. Much
of intellectuals' criticism of America, then, is in fact attributable to the snobbery and biases of their class. In the nearly
three decades since the fall of Vietnam, these minority factions have not been able to unite to repeat their Vietnam-era success
in appealing to millions of Americans to oppose the use of force in Kuwait, Panama, Serbia, Afghanistan and Iraq. In the post-Cold
War age of a professional army, such recent conflicts were waged against facists such as Saddam Hussein, Manuel Noriega, Slobodan
Milsevic and the Taliban - not communists who claimed egalitarianism as their creed. And they were short and economical in
terms of casualties and treasure, and so threatened neither a conscripted youth nor our economy. But should we ever again
find ourselves in a long war that is either costly or waged against purported leftists, the ghosts of Vietnam will surely
haunt us again.
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Unless you have been living under a rock since Christmas, you are probably aware that Chris O'Dowd believes that X Factor viewers are racist.
The 34-year-old Irish actor of IT Crowd fame claimed that black hopefuls on the ITV talent show were at a disadvantage because voters did not support ethnic minorities.
"Generally, my favourites go out in the first few weeks and, of course, because the viewing public is so racist, all the black, strong singers go out in round five every year," the self-proclaimed X Factor fan said.
Although the comic was not the first to debate racism in the competition, he still managed to ruffle a few feathers.
As you would expect X Factor boss Simon Cowell branded him "ridiculous" before firing off a list of previous black star's which included boyband JLS, 2008 champ Alexandra Burke, and Leona Lewis, who is half black.
"He [O'Dowd] is ignorant, it's actually insulting to hear him say that. And it's insulting to our audience," the music mogul told Entertainmentwise.
TV's Mr Nasty was not alone. Even some of O'Dowd's fans accused him of pulling the race card and being intentionally controversial.
"It's a bit bigoted," one viewer told IBTimes UK when we asked people their opinions on the street. "I'm from Yorkshire and I don't see and racist connotations within the X Factor.
"The man needs a good slap to the face. He needs bringing down to earth with a shadow of a doubt."
Was O'Dowd trying to rock the boat or simply saying what many people were are afraid to?
"I wouldn't describe voters as racist but there's something more subtle going on which makes it harder for contestants with a darker physical complexion to win the public vote," Operation Black Vote Simon Woolley said.
"Generally, the 'blacker' the artist, the harder it is for the public to warm to them."
Last year's finalist, Hannah Barrett, revealed that she was subjected to racist abuse from the black community during her stint on the show because she was considered to be too dark to be successful in the music industry.
"People say, 'You're black and ugly' and nasty things like that," she told Reveal magazine at the time. "The sad thing is that most of them are made by black people who just have lighter skin than me."
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On February 1, a series of fitness classes at a climbing school are also fundraisers for the Mayor of Todmorden's charity.
Steve Mason will be running three of his Boulderfit classes at Climbing Skool, Vale Street, Todmorden.
Anyone wanting to come along to any of those classes pays £7 per class and all proceeds go to the Mayor's Charity - this year Coun Michael Gill has chosen Independent Living and the Hippodrome Theatre as his chosen charities for 2014-15.
The Mayor said: "Participants can chose to get sponsored to raise more.
"The challenge to those who wish to, is to take part in all three classes.
"Five of steves regulars are already taking up that challenge.
"Space is limited so they need to book via Steve or Climbing Skool."
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Hartford Assembly of God is focusing on missions this month! All month long we will be hearing amazing first hand accounts of how God is working in people's lives locally and internationally in big ways. This week we are happy to host Rachel Powell as she speaks on her time as a missionary in Thailand.
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The golden ratio is also called the divine proportion, golden mean, or golden section it is more pleasing to the eye. Human anatomy is based on the golden ratio, we have one mouth, one nose, two eyes, three parts of a limb, and five fingers or toes on a limb. People are not the only examples of the golden ratio. The golden ratio can be found in everything from nature to architecture. 1,1,2,3,5,8,13 thes are the first few numbers of the fibonacci sequence. This pattern is proprtional to the golden ratio. The golden ratio is a big part of our lives.


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Today we say goodbye to our fashion editor Kim Forrest, who is moving to D.C. We couldn't convince her otherwise, and she's managed to free herself from the handcuffs we tried. (Thanks a lot, lame magic handcuffs!)
We thought it best to grieve the loss/celebrate all she's done with a mini party in the fashion closet (a.k.a. her home away from home). And I also want to re-share her wedding pictures, which perfectly sum up all the style and grace she has brought to the pages of Brides Local Magazines and Brides.com. We love you, Kim! —Julie Raimondi, Editor in Chief, Brides Local Magazines and Brides.com


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On Tuesday 23rd February, Microsoft will be hosting an Office 365 in Education event for students and teachers in partnership with Coretek. This guest blog comes from our education partner Coretek outlining what you can expect from the Office 365 in Education Event.
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Union renters insurance covers both liability and the loss of personal possessions for you or your family. In other words, it covers everything that your landlord is not going to cover. The landlord has their set of responsibilities, which means you, as the renter, have your own set. It is a major misconception that the landlord is going to cover the contents within the rental home. The truth is that they are only going to cover the contents that belong to them.
And if someone were to be injured on the property, some renters think that the landlord is responsible. This is another common misconception. You will need to refer to your lease agreement regarding who is liable if an accident occurs somewhere on the property. First, it is a matter of who is at fault. For example, the landlord is the one mowing your grass and they cause injury to someone, so they are responsible.
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Your possessions don't have to be in your house for them to be destroyed or damaged. You are covered near and far by your Union renters insurance, which is a perk that many individuals like about their Union contents insurance. You can be a student on spring break, take your laptop with you, and be compensated for it if someone breaks into your New Jersey condominium or hotel room and steals it. This is something that is unique to renters insurance in New Jersey.
The reason why your belongings are covered by your renters insurance in Union while you are on vacation is because your Union renters insurance is on your belongings and not on the rental property itself. So when you take your belongings to your condo, you have nothing to worry about. Although it is an inconvenience for your belongings to be stolen, you are not going to have to face the financial consequences of the loss.
Even if you place your belongings in a storage unit in Union, NJ, your Union renters insurance will cover the items while they are in storage. Although the storage company may offer protection, everything will need to be covered in the Union, New Jersey storage unit if you have renters insurance. This means not paying for something you already have.
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The liability portion of your Union renters insurance is very important. First, it covers you in case someone is injured on the rental property and you are at fault. A number of incidents can occur. Those incidents include slip and fall accidents, tripping over obstructions, and other such incidents. However, there are some liability issues that could be the responsibility of the landlord. For instance, a structural issue that causes an injury is something that you or someone else could seek damages for from the landlord.
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The Kirov Ballet
Lincoln Center Festival 2002
Lincoln Center Festival 2002
Choreography: George Balanchine
July 20, 2002
When the curtain opened on Emeralds, there was a gasp from the audience. A stage full of dancers in emerald green with a simple, jewelled frame of a set was breathtaking. The impressionistic music of Gabriel Fauré leads us through a pleasant landscape of romantic style neo-classicism. But just as we are about to relax and let it unfold in front of us, we are confronted with an unusual duet in which the soloist walks en pointe across the stage, nobly accompanied by her cavalier. Daria Pavlenko walked nicely, very nicely. Zhanna Ayupova was lovely, but not quite strong enough in the ballerina role.
Rubies is the jazzy centerpiece of the trio, with music of Igor Stravinsky. The Kirov delivered an excellent rendition. Irina Golub was flirtatious and sassy in the lead, and really captured the essence of the piece. Daria Pavlenko was back as soloist and had a chance to shine here. She was commanding, with good attack and an understanding of neo-classic style. Viacheslav Samodurov looked like he was having fun in a chase scene (a thread carried over from the walking sequence in Emeralds?) and was happily commanding in his dancing. A word of praise is due for the male quartet and the female corps who helped make this a sizzling performance.
Diamonds appeared to be a homage to the roots of Russian ballet. There was a reverence in the Kirov's interpretation that was not so visible in other troupes' renditions. This showed in the opening duet for Sofia Gumerova and Danila Korsuntsev. Gumerova looked a bit uneven technically, but danced this duet with a love and care that made it resonate. Korsuntsev was much more appealing here than as Siegfried in Swan Lake. His neutral but noble dancing and lack of acting were assets here. The corps shone here as well.
Starting with the simplest of steps we would see in a Petipa ballet, Diamonds moves on to typically Balanchine moments. There is a line-up for a Polonaise very similar to the closing of Theme and Variations. Some time later, another line-up occurs, but on a swell in the music the women unfold their legs in an open, high extension to the front, and then bow forward. It is a ballet equivalent of the singing of a national anthem, or saluting an invisible flag. It was very powerful.
Many of the dancers grasped the Balanchine style, with only occasional lapses into more Kirov-looking port de bras. Differences had to do with attack; where Balanchine dancers might arrive in a high penchée arabesque as the result of a burst of energy, the Kirov dancers would place the leg in a high arabesque. It was more a position than an energy. Some of the men, especially in Rubies, had a bit of a challenge with the upper body, which does not retain its verticality when there is a hip thrust occurring. The resulting lines were not the ones we are accustomed to in City Ballet dancers. But the ballet as a whole seemed to take on a new meaning and lustre and turned out to be the perfect closing to the New York ballet season.
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Fundamental Gospel Baptist Church
Below are instructions for getting to the church facility via the major highways. Please stop by to visit
us for a service or other event.
ANY HIGHWAY, GET ON HIGHWAY 13: Take BROADWAY TERRACE EXIT. Go East on Broadway Terrace toward hills. Stay on Broadway
Terrace going left at every stop sign but not sharp lefts. You will go 3/4 way up the hill and round a bend, take a RIGHT
down the hill onto TAURUS AVENUE. At the bottom of the decline on the left is the meeting place at 152 TAURUS AVE. Beige
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Victoria Street
Victoria Street
Past the Health Center is a Playing Field belonging to the Calderglen Academy on Calder Street.
This used to be an open field where the farmer from the Stonefield Farm allowed his cows to graze. This is now only used for the outside activities associated with the Academy.
On the other East side of the street there is now a bowling green belonging to the Blantyre miners welfare.
From here to the Main Street in High Blantyre, all the rest of Victoria Street is taken up by a Council Scheme, which I have only ever heard it referred to as Morris Street Council scheme. Margaret, this is the scheme that your Dad and cousins spent a few years. The scheme has gone through at least 3 types of renovations over the past 70 odd years, but they are still standing.
Victoria Street had a funny ending to it when it finished at the Main Street High Blantyre. It had narrowed down to a passage way not even wide enough for a cart to past through, only wide enough at its widest point to let 2 pedestrians shoulder to shoulder pass.
Continuing the conversation between Thomas Dunsmuir Hartman in Chicago (known as TDH or Drapadew) and originally from Logan Street, Blantyre and Margaret in Queensland Australia on TalkingScot.
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