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Huntsville real estate foreclosures| Huntsville Alabama foreclosed homes
Home sales in U.S. fall 8% for September New house deals drop 27.5% for
Thursday, October 25, 2007
From staff and wire reports WASHINGTON - Sales of existing homes across the nation dropped in September as turmoil in mortgage markets added more problems to a housing industry in its worst slump in 16 years.
The National Association of Realtors reported Wednesday that sales of existing homes fell 8 percent, the largest decline to show up in records dating to 1999. The seasonally adjusted annual sales rate of 5.04 million existing homes was also the slowest pace on record.
The slowdown pinched prices. The median price - the point at which half the homes sold for more and half for less - fell to $211,700 in September, down by 4.2 percent from a year ago.
The 8 percent decline in sales was bigger than the 4.5 percent decline that had been expected.
While the Birmingham area had seen only modest declines this year, the number of housing transactions fell 15 percent in September, the biggest monthly decline in 2007.
The figure from the Birmingham Association of Realtors includes new home sales, which fell 27.5 percent last month, more steeply than the overall rate.
Jim Lawrence of LAH Real Estate, the association's president, said last week "a cooling off of the market had to happen" after years of record-breaking sales.
In the Birmingham area, sales prices climbed last month, with a median price of $164,200, up from $159,000 in September 2006.
Statewide, existing home sales fell 11.5 percent in September, according to Grayson Glaze, executive director of the Alabama Center for Real Estate at the University of Alabama.
Analysts explaining the U.S. decline blamed the bigger-than-expected slump on the turmoil that hit credit markets and mortgage markets in August as worries increased over rising mortgage foreclosures.
"Mortgage problems were peaking back in August when many of the September closings were being negotiated and that slowed sales notably in higher-priced areas that rely more on jumbo loans," said Lawrence Yun, senior economist for the Realtors.
The slowdown meant the inventory of unsold homes across the nation rose to 4.4 million units in September. At the September sales pace, it would 10.5 months to eliminate the overhang of unsold homes, a record length of time.
Economists fret that the levels of unsold existing and new homes will put further downward pressure on prices.
As Alabama's housing market enters the final quarter of the year, UA's Glaze said inventory will be a concern. At the current rate of sales, the state has a 10.4-month supply of homes, up nearly 37 percent from the 7.6-month supply in September 2006.
"The primary question is whether new construction will be curtailed in sufficient amounts to assist in reducing the oversupply of inventory, whether realistic sellers when pricing will take into account the current levels of inventory and the unknown impact of foreclosures as adjustable-rate mortgages continue to reset in the coming months ahead," Glaze said.
Yun said that the price declines should be put into perspective in that they are occurring after a five-year housing boom which pushed prices up to record levels.
He forecast that prices will decline by about 1.5 percent this year. That would be the first annual price decline on Realtors' records going back four decades


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Future Nuns came to bring the pain. That's right. And yes, you guessed it- hardcore from the brain. Inspired drums and guitar and bass and keys and great lyrics! Really, no kidding, really really great lyrics. Aaahh!! Try it!
Future Nuns came to bring the pain. That's right. And yes, you guessed it- hardcore from the brain. Inspired drums and guitar and bass and keys and great lyrics! Really, no kidding, really really great lyrics. Aaahh!! Try it!
DAY CREEPER's third LP, A Mirror to the Fire, is a stunning set of top-grade real deal Rock N Roll songs. This is prime post-decadal guitar music brimming with cleverness, nuance, and electricity. Aaron Troyer has an uncanny ability to put your problems to music in a way that will activate your frontal lobe. This is an aural jean jacket! This is impetus to quit your job and feel good about it! This is how I will get through the winter!
Following up their 2015 12" EP Root Nerve via Heel Turn Records, BLOODY SHOW is back to tell you the truth with Let America Pay! This is Rock N Roll from Ohio, AKA the diseased heart of America, sonically skewing off of EASTER MONKEYS-esque fire that delivers a stomach punch to those otherwise cuddling into bed to the white lullaby, and sends an emphatic and loud message of strength to the oppressed and courageous. Don't sleep on it - this front-to-back crusher full length cassette has more heart and power than the last thousand pieces of garbage they played on your local radio station!
SDR020 - Release Date 5/1/17
This cassette is Pretty Pretty's second round of buzzing and beeping homemade demos by two of the Midwest's best punkpop pens- Evan Wolff and Larry TeeVee. Pretty Pretty's Demo II contains those special bedroom inceptions of songs, bringing out raw but more strikingly individual and emotional recordings.
Release Date: 4/25/17
Bo and Emily Davis unabashedly take caramelized pop choruses and sing them with Agitation.. and hints dark comedy that will strike a chord with listeners from the discordant Midwestern USA and particularly anyone who celebrates the wonderful and awful Columbus, OH. Ipps (ex Necropolis) sound better than ever on this set of songs and prepare you for the living death that is your own adulthood.
This is Ipps sophomore LP, following up on the 2014 Superdreamer Records release for Everything is Real.
SDR018 Release Date: 3/28/17
50+ years after the Lollipop Shoppe was possessed by demons from the fiery eternity, those same demons are still succeeding in helping the next generation of diehard, snotty-nosed kids get their guidance on how to make the most of their split-second on Earth. Ian Graham fronts this buzzsaw duo with the kind of pissed off 'tude that helps people survive in times like these . TASTY goes full-blown bass mayhem on their Superdreamer debut.
"..short bursts of concentrated energy being ricocheted off of dingy Midwestern basement walls that would make Phil Specter speculate how two people can possibly fill so much sonic space." -Ghettoblaster Magazine
"A damn fun record." - Impose Magazine
2nd Batch
Release Date: 2/21/17
The Pink Owl returns with a full band thanks to a Tascam 488 cassette recorder. The ghostly punk junk-folk of his first album is replaced by a newly surfaced devotion to power pop, but the space-country vibe, attitude, and warble continue to be the essence of the singular craftsman that is The Pink Owl. 'Fully Delusional' is a one way ticket through a wormhole, and on the other side is a universe much different than the one you've come to know.
Release Date: 1/17/17
Winston is back with a second cassette in an 8-month span following the 2016 release of 'Too Close to Home'. 'XXXploration Date' continues to document his trek as he goes further into the future, gliding in an analog vessel fueled by tetrahydrocannabinol and blasting sheen, distorted sound waves from a Roland Jazz Chorus. Winston displays again how playfully he is able to convert reality into fully-charged compositions with enough electricity to fry crowds of people.
SDR015 Release Date: 1/17/17
Rocknroll of course lives on in the most essential ways- that is to say, the most fun and fundamental ways, and Aaron Troyer is an example of how vibrant and true that it can be when a songwriter comes fully into their own. After two (soon to be three) LPs as the primary songwriter of Day Creeper (at first via Tic Tac Totally then Superdreamer and Heel Turn Records) and a handful of full length, hand-dubbed, self-released and hook laden cassette offerings, Aaron's latest album, 'Faith in the Unknown' is the most clever and saccharine underground pop collection thus far.
Released 7/15/16
Psychic Wheels lays their clearest snapshots out as a last hurrah. Diametric tracks stretch out the spectrum of their catalog and attempt to sum it up simultaneously. Psychic Wheels has lived in an intersection previously not well-visited, playing in the fresh cross-hairs of a bubblegum pop sensibility and gloomier vibrations of reality via beloved and unholy, distorted electric guitars.
Released 5/9/16
Winston created this alone, and from necessity. It's an ephemeral collection of transmissions essentially about longing for love, crafted and sent from home via 4th dimensional chorus effects and cheap microphones. This is new life for Winston, and so happens to be new life for rockandroll.
Released 1/16/16
Columbus mainstay Will Foster (ex Guinea Worms), returns with analog sounds and analog formats. His new tape, The Cuss Set, documents a longer-haired take on punk rock and more deaf version of folk. A slew of accomplices listed on the insert bring their own beer to the party as well, enabling Will to reach new highs and new lows.
Released 11/21/15
Once asked why such strange and endearing music originates from Ohio, Lux Interior suggested that "It's the asshole of the Earth, the kids know there is no way out and they don't listen to ANYONE!" On Vernacular Splatter, big beats detonate and tumble like volcanic debris while lascivious guitars imitate the Doppler effect of passing sirens. Celine's voice is both mournful and righteous, burning white-hot like the ultimate rustbelt Cassandra warning of impending doom.
Released 9/19/15
The Pink Owl has made a cassette which stands outside of everything that's going on. It's some mutant form of glam and folk and rocknroll scrambled together by a modern-version of an Ego-Summit-type punk, recorded mostly on a four track with plenty of Echoplex, jangly guitars, and sneering attitude. The songs cut in and out and splash together as if you've received the only copy straight from the Pink Owl's pocket. There's buckets of bedroom Bolan here folks, but it's wearin' cowboy boots and it's been shot a billion miles into space.
The Pink Owl fronted a total-freak-rocknroll band in Columbus, Ohio called Red Feathers for the few years leading up to this release. The Pink Owl is set to release a full-band follow-up to this album at the end of 2016.
Released 3/28/15
Day Creeper is an antidote. They're X-ray vision through the bullshit. Here on their second LP, Central States, Aaron Troyer and gang acutely deliver their smartest set of unhinged, basement-born punk rock yet. It probably helps that this is their initial barrage as a four-piece, with a second guitar that sends them to complete power-mode, but something still feels more right than ever before. There's effortlessness abound here: the melodies, the infectious sarcasm, the whole damn thing is like they were born to make this record.
"Lots of non-teen pop construction underpinning their raunch projections." -Bull Tongue Review
"A new LP ripe with compelling hooks and robust songs, richly drenched with pure Midwest pop." -Victim Of Time
"The ten burns on this record blister forth with such resolute chord burstin' dark snot zeal, it's like falling in love all over again" -Fuckin' Record Reviews
"This quartet, here on their 2nd lp (they've got a few singles, too) come at it straight ahead with a minimum of bullshit" -Dagger Zine
Released 9/26/14
Everything Is Real is the insubordinate and addicting debut LP from Ipps. The songs are written and sung by Bo and Emily Davis, the same husband and wife team behind the currently dormant post-punk band Necropolis. Here on their first album as Ipps, they play stripped-down rocknroll more influenced by their adulthood than Pere Ubu, while skewing The Vaselines, Great Plains, V-3, and Smiles-era Fall (note the double drummer lineup), plus a dose of pop a la the Ronettes. This record is for punks who like sticky melodies and especially for those who love subterranean pop native to the area.
"My favorite record of the year [2014]" –Bela Koe-Krompecher (Anyway Records) via Dagger
"definitely heaps of talent and sincerity in Ipps' music" –Still Single
"Ipps fit nicely into Ohio's legendary lo-fi lineage." –Doom and Gloom From the Tomb
OUT OF STOCK Released 8/12/14 Brat Curse's debut album strikes a similar nerve to Columbus punk legends Gaunt, but brings their Dayton influences along too, making for a punk pop cleverness and catchiness that very few bands can broadcast.
Released 2/22/14
Psychic Wheels only full length album to date aspires to deliver on a multitude of punk and pop sub-genre influences and meld pieces of bubblegum pop and punk together in their own dark way.
Released 2/15/14
Comrade Question's first LP comes chocked full of Nuggets-style arrangements, but with a more modern recording sound that's very clean. Lee Mason's songwriting is here on full display, somehow traversing two eras at once.
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Adding to the fun, the hard drive in Steph's Mac died. She had no backups! As if her busted ankle wasn't already enough of a blow to her schoolwork, this was almost worse. All her pending homework, gone. I had to buy her a new hard drive for her Mac, and a new drive for time machine backups, and loan her my Mac while I was fixing hers. Stuff I can't really afford right now. To her credit, Steph did not let all this bad news distract her. She is working harder than ever at school. She practically lives there now.
Steph also moved into a new house. There is a seven-year-old girl that lives next door, and she is the KUH-YOO-TEST thing EVER. I have spent many dollars I don't have buying kiddie apps and books for my iPad, so I can watch her impatiently bang her way through them. I took a photo of this activity, but I can't show it to you, because you are all perverts and child molesters. Thanks a lot, internet. This is why we can't have nice things.
The seven-year-old lives with her grandparents, because her mother is a meth addict. I have met the mom. Many times, unfortunately. God, what a mess that woman is. All the more reason for me to try to give the kid some positive attention. Her grandparents have been really sweet about it. "She is so happy you are here," one of them said to me. This is reminding me that I need to have more kids in my life. They are such a joy.
I have gotten myself involved with a company that is a federation of contractors. They introduce you to pre-qualified clients who need contract work done — iPhone and iPad programming, in my case — and they take a cut of your hourly rate, if the job works out. Everything I know about this place is stuff I figured out myself, because almost everybody I've interacted with is terrible at communication. Despite that, I'm finding that I kind of like dealing with these guys. They are often ridiculously demanding, which could potentially be a problem, given how much time I spend ferrying Steph around during the day. But I always have my trusty iPhone with me, so I can answer emails, or take a Skype call, or look at a PDF, or whatever. I haven't started a paying contract yet, but I am very close. If the one I am angling for now doesn't work out, they will find something else for me to try.
Can I just say again how much I love, love, love my iPhone? I use that thing 40 times a day, for so many different purposes. Especially now, given that circumstances have forced me out of my usual self-imposed cocoon, blinking into the sunlight. Best tech gadget EVER. Steph is even more addicted to hers than I am to mine. Good luck getting her to look you in the eye, you'll do better if you send her a text message.
This girl I used to know in my twenties recently found me on Facebook. We have had a few phone calls, and a few emails, and a few text message exchanges. Before this, we had been out of contact for over 20 years. She is still exactly as selfish and impossible as she ever was. She suffers from something I like to call "pretty girl syndrome." People who are as attractive as she is become accustomed to other people doing almost all of the work in their relationships. I wasn't willing to call her ten times for every time she called me back, so we fell out of contact. But these days I am much better at managing her mercurial behavior. It takes a lot to get me flustered, in my advanced years. And there is a lot of good in her, despite her flaws. God knows I can always use a few more sane people to talk to.
So, that is my life right now, internet. It feels like the wheels are going to fall off at any minute, but they haven't so far. Knock wood.


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Here's a dessert that you would have seen on the three food channels we have on cable TV. My initial thought was cool dessert but I never got around to try my hand at it till recently when I had access egg-white sitting in my fridge.
I love the simplicity of the Pavlova recipe. It's relatively guilt free too if you don't go overboard with the whipped cream (for those of you who think may be to substitute the full fat whipped cream for skinny I found it not so palatable). I went to town with the fresh fruit topping, which made it very pleasing to the eye too. Enjoy!
- 150 ml egg-white (approximately 4 eggs)
- 3/4 cup caster sugar (I dialed down on sugar)
- 2 tablespoons cornflour, sifted
- 3 teaspoons lemon juice
- 1 vanilla pod, seeds only
- Preheat oven to 150°C (300°F).
- Place the egg-white in the bowl and whisk until stiff peaks form.
- Gradually add the sugar, whisking well, until the mixture is stiff and glossy.
- Add the cornflour, vanilla seeds, and lemon juice. Whisk until combined.
- Shape the mixture into an aluminum pie dish.
- Place in oven to bake for 15 mins at 150°C. Reduce oven to 120°C (250°F) and bake for 1 hour.
- Turn the oven off and allow the pavlova to cool completely in the oven.
- Whisk the cream until soft peaks form. Spread over the pavlova, top with passion fruit and whatever fruits you fancy


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For many motorcyclists, mastering the various skills of riding simply means practicing manoeuvring, steering and the smooth change from one gear to the next. What is often overlooked is the skill of safe motorcycle braking. This is one of the most important skills that you must develop and that can save your life, as well as others on the road.
Admittedly, it seems to be such a straightforward thing to do. However, even experienced riders can get it wrong at times. The mistake made is to believe that braking is simply the action to stop. But it is actually more than that. It is essential in emergency situations where a sudden stop is needed, but if done incorrectly it can have disastrous consequences.
At Ride-Tek MTA we offer comprehensive courses designed to teach you how to stay in full control of your motorcycle at all times. From experience, we know that safe motorcycle braking can be a bit tricky for newbie riders to begin with. But with proper instruction and some practice in a protected environment, riders will be able to avoid life-threatening incidents. They can also maximize their control of their bike when on the open road.
So, what are the issues that every rider should keep in mind when it comes to stopping safely? And what is the best technique to use? We have compiled a brief rundown for your consideration.
Mistakes and Braking Technique
It sounds like a cliché, but like most clichés, it is true. No two motorcycles are exactly the same. Hence, being familiar with your bike and your bike's braking system is essential. This takes a little time using the system and (most importantly) how your bike reacts when it is applied. There are several types of motorcycle braking systems. For example, your bike might have anti-lock brakes or independent front and rear braking systems. Being familiar with your motorcycle's braking system is important.
4-Step Guide to Safe Motorcycle Braking
1. Evaluate the Scene – The first step is pretty obvious. You need to be fully aware of your surroundings at every stage of your riding. Keep in mind also that the road surface conditions have a very definite effect on your bike's braking efficiency. So, always keep your eyes peeled and always look ahead. Also, keep your speed in check to maximize your reaction time.
- Obstacles – These don't have to be large obstacles. They can simply be gravel or other small debris that can interfere with effective motorcycle braking. Remember, you may need to manoeuvre around obstacles. This way, braking hard may prove counter-productive.
- Road Surface – Road surfaces can provide varying conditions depending on the weather. At times it could be dry and hot, it could be wet. It could also be loose or frozen. It's worth noting that each of these will effect traction and the effectiveness of your brakes.
- Hot surfaces can be sticky with road tar softened by the hot sun.
- Dry surfaces are generally believed to be the most grippy.
- Wet surfaces offer poorer grip and the braking distance is further in wet conditions. You should always ride more slowly in wet conditions and readjust your following distances which will allow you more time to stop safely.
- Loose surfaces, like dirt or gravel roads, mean longer braking distances are needed. With skidding becoming a real possibility on this type of surface, a gentle braking technique is a necessity.
- Frozen surfaces are by far the most dangerous. This is where patches of hidden or black ice can catch you unaware. So, extra care is required if a rider is riding damp roads in winter, and extreme caution should be taken, keeping speeds as low as possible until the motorcycle is back on a more grippy surface.
2. Practice, Practice and More Practice – Again, this is pretty logical. But while many new riders believe in learning as they go along, the most effective braking practice has to be structured. This means purposefully gaining experience in a variety of different weather and surface conditions, but crucially taking extra care when doing so.
Find a safe place, like a car park or an open stretch of road in a quiet area. Set up some simple braking drills. Vary the scenario gradually, progressing from straightforward stops to braking while cornering. Remember, you cannot become a master in motorcycle braking overnight. However, the more you understand your bike, the more capable you'll be in controlling your bike.
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Gary Schumacher
Gary Schumacher, age 56, of Big Lake, formerly of Howard Lake, died Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008.
Gary was born May 7, 1951, in Minot, N.D. to Lloyd and Mary (Zuck) Schumacher.
He served his country in the US Army during the Vietnam War.
Gary married Betty Stahl April 8, 1972, at St. Elizabeth Catholic Church in Sykeston, N.D.
Gary and Betty farmed in Wing, N.D. from 1977 to 1986. They then lived in Howard Lake, prior to moving to Big Lake in 2001.
Gary was an independent contractor, installing tubular skylights. He was a member of Howard Lake American Legion, Central Minnesota Builders Association, and Mid Minnesota Builders Association.
He is survived by his wife, Betty of Big Lake; daughter and son, Jennifer (Matthew) Carlson of Becker, and James (Brenda) Schumacher of Princeton; sister and brothers, Kathy (Doug) Halzle of Langdon, N.D., Don (Karen) Schumacher and Eldon Schumacher of Jamestown, N.D., and Ron Schumacher of Sykeston, N.D.; and grandchildren, Lincoln and Isabelle Carlson, and Mitchell Schumacher.
Gary was preceded in death by his parents.
Funeral services were Saturday, Jan. 26 at 4 p.m. at Dingmann Family Funeral Chapel in Becker with the Rev. Chuck Pruett officiating. Visitation preceded the services, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the funeral home.


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How could a man be buried alive over alleged land dispute?
It could sound like a spiritualised deduction, but it is difficult to escape the thought that infernal demons were probably on the loose in Imo State, in the light of reports that a community leader in Eziali village, Mgbidi, Orlu West Local Government Area, Chief Oliver Ononaku, was buried alive over a land dispute. He was reportedly seized last December by a five-man gang allegedly hired by his antagonist, and interred in Ozara, a neighbouring village, after which his abductors demanded a N30 million ransom from his family, ostensibly for his release.
It may not be a bit far-fetched to think of demons at work, if the remark of another community leader, Chief Iroku Nduka, on the happening, is anything to go by. He was quoted as saying, "The community will begin a cleansing ritual to avert the wrath of the gods."
The claim that Ononaku was buried alive, if true, presents a heartrending picture of abysmal bestiality. The very thought of this possibility is nauseating. If, on the other hand, he was killed before burial, it does nothing to redeem his murderers. What foul fury sanctioned his elimination? Or did he just suddenly expire in captivity, and was entombed afterwards? From whatever perspective, it was a degenerate deed that must not go unpunished.
Indeed, that Ononaku's corpse has been located and exhumed by the police, and the inhuman gang members and their alleged sponsor arrested, is cold comfort. However, this seems the best that could be expected under the circumstances. At least, proper funeral rites for Ononaku can now be performed, and those allegedly responsible for his death can get their comeuppance.
The apprehension of the suspects was not without moments of drama, and stretched the ingenuity of the police. It is laudable that creative policing was not only employed in this incident, but also brought about the desired result. According to the narrative, following the victim's disappearance and his kidnappers' demand for money from his family, the police force reinvented itself in this particular case. A police source narrated: "The money was made available and the suspects told them where to put it. But a plain-clothes policeman, who pretended to be a mad man, was planted where the ransom was dropped. When one of the suspects came out of the bush to collect the money, he was shot and arrested by the supposed mad man. The suspect confessed to committing the crime. It was his confession that led to the arrest of the man who hired them and other members of the gang.
They led the police to where Ononaku was buried. The body was exhumed and deposited in a mortuary."
Beyond the man's tragic death, the police approach had elements of risk taking and the comic. It does require mental elasticity to picture a policeman disguised as a lunatic, and getting away with the pretence. Here was life imitating art, and the mimetic capacity of the policeman that effectively played the mad man's role deserves applause. It is commendable that the police went to such great lengths to crack the case.
Against the background of criticisms of the police for alleged inefficiency, this is one instance in which the force has impressively demonstrated that it can live up to its billing as a crucial crime-fighting outfit. With the suspects in the net, the police must carry out a thorough investigation to get to the root of the matter for justice to be delivered. It is bad enough that Ononaku was abducted. Even worse, it is unacceptable that he lost his life in such repulsive circumstances. In the final analysis, the trial and punishment of the culprits must be pursued expeditiously to send a clear message to would-be kidnappers and killers that they will not be accommodated by the society.


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UCBSA issues statement regarding third Castle Lager/MTN Test
The United Cricket Board of South Africa has been placed in an extremely difficult position regarding the staging of the third Castle Lager/MTN Test match at SuperSport Park, Centurion, from tomorrow.
"We were informed this morning by the President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, Mr Jagmohan Dalmiya, that the Indian team will not take the field if Mike Denness is acting as Match Referee," said UCBSA Chief Executive Officer Gerald Majola.
South African cricket and the South African public in general cannot afford the cancellation of this Test match. Although the crisis has not been of our making, we have received reports of protests at South African embassies in India and our country has been caught up in this issue. The South African Government, through Sports Minister Ngconde Balfour, has instructed the UCBSA to take whatever action is necessary to ensure that the Test match goes ahead.
In view of these issues, the UCBSA has asked Mike Denness to stand down as Match Referee in the interests of cricket.
However, Mr Denness indicated that he was a properly appointed ICC Match Referee who was in South Africa to act as such and he could not step down from that position.
United Cricket Board Chief Executive Officer Gerald Majola telephoned ICC CEO Malcolm Speed to inform him that the UCBSA had no alternative but to ask Mr Denness to recuse himself and, facing his refusal to do so, had indicated that the UCBSA was unable to allow him access to the Match Referee's position at the ground for the Test Match.
Under the circumstances, South African Denis Lindsay, who serves on the ICC Match Referees Panel, has agreed to be available to stand in as Match Referee and the BCCI has agreed to him replacing Mr Denness.
"We sincerely regret that the matter has come to this, however we are pleased to announce that the third Castle Lager / MTN Test match will go ahead as planned. We are certain it will be a thrilling contest and we hope the South African public will give their full support to their team as they go all out to play for their country," concluded Mr Majola.


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Bernard Hopkins Talks To The Media – The great Bernard Hopkins is in Carson, California with his Golden Boy Promotions hat on for this weekend's HBO fights headlined by Jorge Linares vs Luke Campbell.
In this latest TBC segment our roving cameraman Marcelino Castillo caught Hopkins during one of his "stream of consciousness" rap sessions with the media. Here at TBC we could listen to a boxing mind like Hopkins talk all day and here the subject ranges from this weekend's Linares vs Campbell showdown to last week's GBP PPV featuring Saul "Canelo" Alvarez versus Gennady Golovkin.
Hopkins is part of the brain trust behind Golden Boy Promotions and this weekend sees the west coast promotional company spreading it's wings to work with England's Eddie Hearn and Matchroom Boxing to bring us Linares vs Campbell. Last week's Canelo vs Triple G promotion saw GBP working with Tom Loeffler and his K2 Promotions. As amazing as it is to hear Hopkins speak on boxing, it is sometimes even more eye opening to hear him go on about the business end of things.
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Hitachi Koki Printer Business to be Spun Off, Will Tackle On-demand Market
Wednesday, April 24, 2002
Press release from the issuing companyTOKYO, Japan--April 23, 2002--Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd. today announced that it would split off its printer business using the corporate split provisions of the Japanese Commercial Code. The decision was reached at a meeting of the company's Board of Directors held on April 23, 2002. Hitachi Koki and Hitachi, Ltd. simultaneously announced that, it was decided, in meetings of both companies' Board of Directors that, after the two companies agree on the details, Hitachi Koki will establish a new company on October 1, 2002 and, on condition that the split is approved at Hitachi Koki's general meeting of its shareholders, sell all its shares to Hitachi. Hitachi's printer business will then be merged with the new company. As a result of this decision, Hitachi Koki will be able to concentrate management resources on power tools, thereby enabling it to increase R&D capabilities and global sales strength. This, in turn, will further increase its competitiveness. By combining Hitachi's system solutions and color technologies with Hitachi Koki's high-speed printing technology, Hitachi will create a printing solutions company for the ubiquitous information society and expand its printer-related business. In today's rapidly changing global market where the pace of changing market conditions increases daily, corporations must stay ahead of market trends and provide a high level of customer satisfaction to survive. Under these harsh conditions, one key to survival is to make efficient use of management resources by reevaluating core businesses and concentrating management resources accordingly. Hitachi Koki has been producing power tools since it was founded. The needs of the Information Age helped turn high-speed printers into pillars of its business. However, taking into consideration the recent business environment, it was decided that management resources should be concentrated in power tools area. In the power tools business, Hitachi Koki will be able to take advantage of digital design tools, such as 3-D CAD, to strengthen R&D, shorten R&D time for new products and more quickly put attractive new products on the market. In addition, the company will expand its business by broadening hardware store sales routes in Japan and North America, forming strategic alliances, and becoming involved in merger and acquisition activities with accessory and consumable goods manufacturers to achieve globalization. In addition, more resource will be appropriated to the centrifugal separators business because it is expected that the life-science field will achieve increased growth rates. Hitachi Koki's printer business had been involved in joint business development activities with Hitachi's Information and Telecommunications System Group. As a result of this merger, such activities are expected to expand and improve as the two sides come together and are reborn as a new Hitachi subsidiary. The printer market was estimated at 3 trillion yen in 2001 and is expected to continue to grow steadily. Demand for color laser beam printers is forecast to grow at a 10% yearly rate. Under these market conditions, the newly formed company will combine high-speed printing technology developed by Hitachi Koki and Hitachi's color printing technology. This will allow the new company to aggressively expand business in the home digital and business area. The new company will focus on continuous form, laser beam printers and impact printers, for which Hitachi Koki already has a large market share, and also monochrome cutsheet laser beam printers, high speed color ink jet printers and medium- and low-speed color laser beam printers, etc. The company will also enter the on-demand printing service business as well as consumable products, including the recycling business. The new company will create printing solutions on a global basis based on Hitachi's system solution technology, thereby contributing to the realization of the ubiquitous information society.
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Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) claimed during his convention speech Wednesday that President Obama is responsible for the closure of a GM plant in Janesville, Wisconsin. However, as many media outlets have noted, GM announced plans to close the plant in June '08 — long before Obama was even elected — and it ceased major operations in December of that year.
For proof, just ask one of the more prominent supporters of the Janesville plant shutdown — the George W. Bush Administration. After all, the closure was part of a broader GM restructuring initiative that the then-President supported. White House Press Secretary Dana Perino even praised it as evidence of GM "adapting well:"
The White House called the announcement a sign that the auto giant was "adapting well" to market shifts.
"It's a sign that Detroit continues to adapt and evolve and address the change in consumer tastes and attitudes. And I think that they're adapting well," spokeswoman Dana Perino said.
"And they'll make these changes, and hopefully be able to pull themselves up out of what has been a rough several years," she said. …
GM plans to shutter production at its Toluca, Mexico, pickup truck at the end of the year and its Oshawa, Canada plant will be closed in 2009. Plants in Moraine, Ohio and Janesville, Wisconsin, are slated for closure in 2010 "or sooner if market demand dictates," GM said.
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First off, I couldn't agree more with Matt Dentler about the annoying experience of going to see a major release like M:i:III on its opening weekend.
Even though I managed to avoid the overpriced Diet Coke, the up-selling concession workers and the temptation of the candy counter, I was forced to endure what appeared to be a Junior High School mixer, kids chatting during the "slow parts", texting one another, answering their phones, and kids maneuvering their way through the theatre popping up and down like so many whack-a-moles (what I wouldn't have given for a large polo mallet…)
That said, M:i:III is solid popcorn entertainment. J.J. Abrams took the keys to the franchise and handled himself quite well in his major feature directorial debut.
Those unfamiliar with Abrams' work in television, however, would be better advised to tackle ALIAS on DVD.
In the past three weeks, with some unexpected free time on my hands, between posing resumes and the like, I have been catching up on ALIAS at the strong urging of my friend Paul. (And he's a film professor.)
Doing so took some of the pop out of M:i:III–which only goes to support my argument that television is outpacing movies. If one of the most anticipated tent pole action pictures of the summer (itself a bog screen treatment of an old television program) pales next to the rich escapist complexity of a program like ALIAS, how do the studios expect to rebound?
Below is a brief index of similarities between ALIAS and M:i:III
In ALIAS, episodes often open with Syd in jeopardy. Season one begins with Syd being tortured vs. In Mi:III the scene begins with Cruise in jeopardy, being tortured, and with his fiancé in peril.
In ALIAS, Victor Garber drops the following insult, "I'm not impressed that your daddy plays golf with the President"vs. In M:i:III Laurence Fishburn says something eerily similar–I'd quote it directly but somone's cel phone went off…they answered. I swear the caller was in the theatre too, so they were having a cel phone conversation with one another inside the theatre!.
In ALIAS, Abrams often opens the action "mid-episode," cutting back to the events that lead up to perilous scene vs. In M:i:III, the action begins with the torture scene, and cuts back to the events that lead up to it.
In ALIAS Lena Olin stages a surprise escape by jumping off the roof of a building and pulling a parachute vs. In M:i:III Cruise stages his exit from a building by jumping out a high rise window, pullikng a parachute
In ALIAS Lena Olin uses a defibrillator to disable an embedded bug vs. In M:i:III Cruise attempts to use defibrillator to disable an embedded bomb in Kerri Russell's head.
In ALIAS most of Vaughn and Syd's early meets were set in supermarkets vs. In M:i:III Cruise and Crudup have a priceless meeting in a 7-Eleven.
In ALIAS Syd perpetrates a break-in at the Vatican vs. In M:i:III Cruise and company break-in to the Vatican.
In ALIAS Syd received phone calls from a pizza delivery service to set up covert meetingsvs. In M:i:III Cruise receives a phone call from a travel agency to set up a covert meeting.
Other J.J. Abrams touches:
Rambling tech geeks who ramble on with pop-culture non sequiturs: Marshal Finkman = Benji Dunn (Shaun of the Dead' star Simon Pegg).
Casting Keri Russell Felicity as Cruise's protégé along with his longtime personal friend Greg Grunberg ALIAS.
Early seasons on ALIAS dealt with the conflict between personal life and the secret life of an intelligence agent. Here in Mi:III, Abrams gives Cruise a personal life—the better to place his loved ones in jeopardy—another Abrams staple.
The home office in Mi:III looks eerily like SD:6 etc.
Despite his penchant for staging elaborate action sequences, and an obsession with extraction points, Abrams shows an uncanny preoccupation with tracking shots of an agent running to escape. In the end, it is the lowest common technology of placing one foot in front of the other that makes the difference.
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All In The Mind
new internationalist
issue 237 - November 1992
All in the mind
Experiences that seem paranormal may have very simple and
mundane explanations, argues Susan Blackmore.
Belief in the paranormal is Widespread and persistent. In many cultures it is practically universal and even in Europe and the United States about half the population believes in extrasensory perception (ESP). The most common reason they give is personal psychic experiences.
It might then seem stupid to deny that psychic experiences occur. Not so. We certainly cannot deny that people have the experiences, but we can question their interpretation. Perhaps they have misinterpreted as paranormal something which is actually quite normal.
I began research into the paranormal some 20 years ago, after having a long out-of-body-experience in which I seemed to float out of my body and travel across the world. Expecting to find evidence of the paranormal, my great hope was to show how fundamental it was to understanding the human mind.
My conclusion now is that there may well be no paranormal phenomena. The experiences are real enough but they are not paranormal. The way to understand the human mind is not to invoke spirits, souls, telepathic powers or psychic vibrations but to understand how our minds naturally lead us to misinterpret the world around us. Let's take the example of a dream that comes true. Suppose you dream that your favourite cousin is being buried in a coffin and the very next morning you get a call to say that she died in the night. What would you think? If you're human at all you'll probably think it must have been precognition (seeing into the future) or telepathy (mind to mind communication). You might try to calculate the odds of it happening just when you dreamed it. Could they be 1,000 to 1? 100,000 to 1? Surely they must be astronomical mustn't they?
No. And the reason is that we are asking the wrong question. After any event you can always imagine that the odds must have been astronomical - the number plate on your car having the same number as your theatre ticket; your thinking of a friend just as he rings; the falling tree which doesn't kill anybody. In retrospect any of these can look extraordinary, but could you have predicted any of them? With the thousands of things that happen every day, some coincidences are bound to appear extraordinary.
Dreaming death
One way through this tangle is to look at the chance of a death dream coming true for anybody. One British statistician, Christopher Scott, has calculated how often death dreams should come true by chance. He assumes only that each person has one death dream in their lifetime and works out how often that should coincide with the death of the person dreamed about. Allowing for how many people die each night, even in a small country like. England, he concludes that this startling coincidence will happen to someone once every two weeks. Now each of these events is pure chance, but the people involved will almost certainly think it was psychic - and be wrong.
This is really the crux of the issue. When we call something paranormal we are implicitly saying that it could not have been chance. But how good are our judgements of chance and probability? The answer is 'terrible'. Psychologists have long known that people aren't like computers when it comes to estimating probabilities. They use a variety of short cuts to guess, relying on dubious things like how easily they can imagine different outcomes.
This leads to an interesting hypothesis. Perhaps people come to believe in the paranormal because they misjudge the probabilities of everyday events. If so we would expect the believers (often called sheep!) to make worse probability judgements than the disbelievers (or goats). Recently this has been confirmed in our own experiments at Bristol University in England and at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. When asked a variety of probability-based questions, the goats performed better than the sheep.
Psychic illusions
Memory can also create psychic illusions. Memory does not bring back a perfect copy of the past. It couldn't. Rather we reconstruct what happened and how. In the process, whether we are recalling the events of the Gulf War or reliving the sensual delights of last evening, we contract, expand, simplify and distort to produce a convincing and coherent account. We remember the things that fit in and forget those we would rather not accept. We fill in missing details to cover the bits we never paid attention to - often filling them in correctly, but also often not.
There is nothing wrong with this process. It is memory doing its job. No finite brain could hold precise information on everything that ever happened. It has to be simplified and pushed into shape. But the consequences are important. Of all the chance events that happen in our lives we are likely to remember the strange coincidences and forget the meaningless ones. So the strange ones appear to happen more often than they really do. We start to look for an explanation, cannot find one and so we call it paranormal. But actually no explanation was ever required. The perfectly normal processes of chance and memory led us astray.
Memory tricks us in another way. Every day thousands of fortune tellers, palm readers, clairvoyants, astrologers and New Age 'channellers' are peddling their 'insights' for big fees. Many people spend money they cannot afford; some spend literally fortunes on getting psychic advice.
And is it good advice? Memory is at work here too. Imagine you spend half an hour with a psychic. How many pieces of information will you be given? Perhaps a few hundred, a thousand? It is hard to say but you can be sure that you won t remember them all, and the ones you do recall will be the ones that fit - the ones that make sense, the ones you want to hear. The rest will be forgotten and you may not realize they were ever said.
US magician James Randi has long been the scourge of mediums and psychics and his book The Truth about Uri Geller claimed Geller was using standard magic tricks to do his feats. Randi recently transcribed a man's session with a psychic. He asked the man how many names the psychic mentioned and how many of those meant something to him. About halt a dozen was the answer, and they were all correct. When Randi counted there were actually 37 names in the transcript.
The point is not that the man was somehow incompetent. We are all like this. Our memories drop facts which don't fit in. For most purposes it doesn't matter - but one consequence is that it makes us believe in the paranormal when we really don't need to. Believing in the paranormal may give us a delightful sense of mystery, of being in control, of having access to special advice, but if it is a false sense the price we pay may be counted in more than just dollars.
All this implies that psychic events may be just an illusion. The obvious comparison is with visual illusions and the comparison is closer than you might think. We don't see visual illusions because our brains aren't working properly - quite the reverse. Visual illusions are the inevitable consequence of the way our visual systems work - a way which for most purposes is extraordinarily efficient, so efficient that no human-made computer vision system comes anywhere close to being able to 'see'.
In Figure 1 everyone sees the top line as longer than the bottom one. The reason is simple. Your visual system interprets the sloping lines as receding into the distance. If they were, the top line would be longer. The same effect is at work in Figure 2. It is the effectiveness of distance perception that produces the illusions - not something going wrong.
I suggest it is just the same with psychic experiences. Our natural tendency is to look for pattern and meaning in everything around us (can you see any pattern in Figure 3?). When we see patterns we cannot explain we look for explanations. If none is to be found we conclude it must be psychic - and we draw the wrong conclusion. If this view of psychic experiences is correct we might expect 'sheep' to see pattern in random shapes more easily than goats'. Our recent experiments in Bristol confirm this.
Another experiment concerned psychokinesis, or mind over matter, rather than ESP. If the same theory is applied we could see psychokinesis as an illusion of causality. We wish something to happen, it does, and so we conclude that our wishing was responsible - like driving up to traffic lights and willing them to change. If this too is an illusion then 'sheep' should be more prone to it than 'goats'. In experiments with a computer coin-tossing game we found that 'sheep' were more likely to think they had controlled the randomly flipping coin. We concluded that their proneness to this illusion of control may lead them in ordinary life to look for psychic explanations.
This way of understanding psychic experiences may underlie everything from precognition and telepathy to psychokinesis, but what about that out-of-body experience that first set off my quest for the paranormal? Or the dark tunnels that people close to death fly through to emerge into the light? These have little to do with probability but they may also have little to do with the paranormal.
Understanding out-of-body experiences means understanding our normal way of seeing the world. Normally we imagine that we are a self inside our heads looking out. In fact this is a mental construction. There is no little person in there. Rather our brains are constructing a model of the world from a viewpoint behind the eyes. The question then becomes: why should I suddenly seem to see the world from somewhere on the ceiling instead? The answer may be because I am dying and my brain can no longer construct a normal view of the world; because I am in terrible pain or am so relaxed that I feel I am floating. But why should even these experiences result in a bird's-eye view?
Ceiling with a view
The answer is that many memory models are in bird's-eye view anyway. For example, try to recall the last time you had to speak in public. Do you see the scene as though from where your eyes were? Or do you see yourself 'down there'. Many people see themselves as though in bird's-eye view. It is my suggestion that this view is simpler for the brain to construct when under stress and so this bird's-eye view takes over and seems real. This fits with recent experiments showing that people who have out-of-body experiences have better spatial imagery skills, are better able to switch viewpoints in imagination and are more likely to see themselves in dreams.
The tunnel too invites a normal explanation. In the brain's visual system there are far more nerve cells devoted to the centre of your visual field than to the edges of what you can see. Imagine now that the brain is dying. The first cells to be affected are the inhibitory ones which damp down the activity of other cells, with the result that there is widespread random activity in the brain. In the visual areas this means lots of activity in the centre and less towards the edges. And what will this look like? Possibly a bright light in the centre which gets bigger and bigger as the activity increases, in other words a light at the end of a tunnel.
If tunnels, out-of-body experiences and visions of various kinds can one day all be explained, doesn't that deny the very basis of spirituality? Certainly not. These experiences can have profound effects on people. Even if the light is a matter of brain activity, passing down that tunnel and feeling you have left your body can make you reassess the meaning of your life and glimpse the very fragile nature of the constructed self'. All this, it seems to me, is the true basis of spiritual experience and should not be ignored.
Hunting for the paranormal is not the way to understand the human mind; explaining our most puzzling experiences maybe.
Susan Blackmore is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of the West of England. She is author of The Adventures of a Parapsychologist and Beyond the Body.
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I first heard Kaki King when she played solo guitar on the Late Show with David Letterman. Kaki is a guitarist steeped in the traditions of folk and jazz guitar playing, but she plays her instrument in a manner unlike any other guitarist I know: plucking the guitar with both hands, tapping it and slapping it, taking advantage of amplification to explore the sound-making possibilities along the entire instrument, from top to bottom.
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Professor Jan Stenger
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Research interests
Research interests:
- Greek lyric poetry, especially choral lyric
- Epistolography in antiquity
- Greek literature and culture in late antiquity
- Ancient Christianity
|Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala
|Senior Fellow, Cluster of Excellence TOPOI, Humboldt University Berlin
|EURIAS Senior Fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
|Senior Fellow, Cluster of Excellence TOPOI, Humboldt University Berlin
|Senior Fellow, Cluster of Excellence TOPOI, Humboldt University Berlin
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|MacDowell Professor of Greek, University of Glasgow
|Visiting Professor, Classics, LMU München
|Visiting Professor, Classics, Universität zu Köln
|Junior Professor, Classics, Freie Universität Berlin
|Assistant Professor, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel
Selected publications
Stenger, J. (2004) Poetische Argumentation: Die Funktion der Gnomik in den Epinikien des Bakchylides. Series: Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte (69). de Gruyter: Berlin. ISBN 9783110181272
Stenger, J. (2009) Hellenische Identitaet in der Spaetantike: Pagane Autoren und ihr Unbehagen an der eigenen Zeit. Series: Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, 97. de Gruyter: Berlin, Germany. ISBN 9783110213287
Stenger, J. (2011) Pindar und der 'Protz' Xenophon (fr. 122 M.): Von der Positionierung im politischen und im literarischen Feld. Philologus, 155(2), pp. 199-228. (doi:10.1524/phil.2011.0014)
Stenger, J. (2012) Libanios und die öffentliche Meinung in Antiochia. In: Kuhn, C.T. (ed.) Politische Kommunikation und öffentliche Meinung in der antiken Welt. Series: Alte Geschichte (Stuttgart, Germany). Franz Steiner: Stuttgart, pp. 231-254. ISBN 9783515100762
- 2003: Dissertation award of Dr.-Helmut-und-Hannelore-Greve-Stiftung für Wissenschaften und Kultur, Hamburg
- 2009: Publication Grant for the monograph "Hellenische Identität in der Spätantike", Johanna und Fritz Buch Gedächtnisstiftung
- 2009: Research grant, Project "Localisation in ancient Greek and Syriac" (Principal Investigator), Cluster of Excellence TOPOI
- 2009–12: Research grant, Project "Antioch: Ideal and reality" (Principal Investigator), Cluster of Excellence TOPOI
- 2009–12: Research grant, Project "Prosody and theory of affect in the 18th century" (Co-Investigator), Cluster of Excellence Languages of Emotion
- 2011: Conference grant for the international conference "Notions of Literature in Late Antiquity", Fritz Thyssen Foundation
- 2012: Conference grant for the international conference "Cityscaping", Cluster of Excellence TOPOI (together with Therese Fuhrer and Felix Mundt)
- 2013: Arts & Humanities Award (workshop), Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 2014: Conference grant for the international conference "Semantiken der Stadt in der Spätantike", Cluster of Excellence TOPOI (together with Claudia Tiersch)
- 2014: Senior Fellowship, Cluster of Excellence TOPOI, Berlin
- 2015: Senior Fellowship, Cluster of Excellence TOPOI, Berlin
- 2015: Publication Grant for the edited volume "Late Antique Conceptions of Literature", Fritz Thyssen Foundation
- 2015–16: EURIAS Senior Fellowship, Project "Gaza: Tradition and Leadership in an Ancient Learning City"
- 2016-19: Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, Project "The Age of the Pedagogue: Late Antiquity and the Metamorphosis of Education"
- 2016: Conference grant for the international symposium "Being Pagan, Being Christian in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages", Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (co-organisers: Maijastina Kahlos, Katja Ritari, William Van Andringa)
- 2017: Senior Fellowship, Cluster of Excellence TOPOI, Berlin
- 2017–18: Fellowship, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala
Supervision areas
- Greek lyric poetry
- Ancient letters
- Greek rhetoric
- Late antiquity
Current research students
- Sarah Graham, PhD project "Classical Elements in Early Christian Depictions of the Underworld" (first supervisor)
- Joel Leslie, PhD project "Valentinian I, His Sons and Decline in the West" (first supervisor)
- James McDonald, PhD project "Athens or Jerusalem: Education and Identity in the Poetry of Gregory of Nazianzus" (first supervisor)
- Classical Civilisation 1A and 2A, lectures and seminars
- Greek 2A, 2B and 2C
- Greek Epic (Honours level)
- Greek Education in Late Antiquity (Honours level)
- Greek unprepared translation
- Latin 2B and 2D
- I have also taught Greek lyric poetry, Greek epic, Greek historians, the Attic orators and other topics in the Universities of Kiel, Berlin, Cologne and Munich.
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Research projects
Gaza: Tradition and Leadership in a Learning City
Gaza in Palestine underwent, in common with other cities, a profound transformation during the sixth century AD in society, economy and religion. What is significant about Gaza is its thriving culture, as documented by ample literary and material evidence. The key questions of this project are: how did major figures of religious and secular life create educational authority in the urban context and attempt to shape through their leadership Gaza as a 'learning city'? To what extent did these attempts respond to the challenges of change? The investigation focuses on the strategies through which cultural visions were disseminated across the civic community and relates them to modern uses of learning for the promotion of urban regeneration. The objective of this pilot study is to gain insight into the situational nature of learning across times and cultures.
For this project I received funding from the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE Arts & Humanities Research Workshops 2014) and the EURIAS Fellowship Programme (Senior Fellowship 2015/16 at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies).
The Age of the Pedagogue: Late Antiquity and the Metamorphosis of Education
This study addresses the controversy over education in the late Roman Empire from 300 to 600 CE. It proposes that the main driver behind the radical reconfiguration of classical teaching was the conviction that instruction can operate as a force for social change. Analysing texts and practices, it explores the ascent of pedagogy to a pervasive category of thought over that period, as well as examining the values and functions assigned to education, both formal and informal. Finally, it argues that the characteristically late-antique answers to the problem have influenced their medieval and modern counterparts up to the twenty-first century.
How can teachers and schools enable students to be successful individuals, and contribute to building healthy communities? This central problem has been addressed by education departments, academics, practitioners and the wider public for considerable time now. A modern observer cannot help but be struck by the fact that similar controversies occupied the Roman mindset during late antiquity (c. 300 to 600 CE); stakeholders in ancient schooling developed competing ideas on how to prepare young people for life in an unstable world. This project aims to produce a monograph that, for the first time, makes sense of the centrality of pedagogic theory and practice at the turn from antiquity to the Middle Ages; it intends to revalue a key moment in the intellectual history of Europe, for the benefit of the modern debate on education.
This three-year project (2016-19) is funded by the Leverhulme Trust (Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship MRF-2015-062)
Additional information
- Member of the Mommsen-Gesellschaft
- Member of the Cluster of Excellence TOPOI, Berlin (http://www.topoi.org/person/stenger-jan/)
- Convener of the study programme "Ancient Languages and Texts", Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies (2011-12)
School of Humanities, Department of Classics, 65 Oakfield Avenue,


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This testimony involves a superficial hospice and definitely not a professional one.
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Judy Bragg, RN provided care for her son who had leukemia, just as she had done for two other of her children. She understands the disease and she knows that when they do die what is normal and what is not.
Judy Bragg, RN was forced to watch her son die prematurely. He was killed by a chemical cocktail administered by her daughter-in-law while her son insisted that he did not want the medications.
Her daughter in law had not visited her husband, Judy's son for eight months while he was in the hospital. She showed up one day, pushed him into a hospice program using her authority as wife and his fate was sealed.
Judy had turned her back for just a minute and it happened. There was no way she could stop it.
He did not consent to this medical process nor to these medications. He was in his right mind but had the hospice program pushed on him by his wife.
Judy states that this hospice was superficial and was not professional. In this program she touches upon the hospital and insurance business aspect of encouraging the premature death of patients, including those who are not terminal.
This is the first part of a series on this topic involving Judy Bragg. Judy worked for decades as a Registered Nurse in OR. Before her retirement, the last five years of her career were in facility resource management. We are going to touch upon what facility resource management is all about. This series is going to open your eyes and your innocence will be taken away.


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The most glaring omission from the classic ingredient list would be red palm oil, which apparently gives this dish it signature flavor. Since I don't think I ever had it, it's hard for me to say, but what I can tell you, is that this was incredibly delicious even without the mysterious oil.
Like most of the world's great fish stews, this is usually made with several types of seafood, but this is what I'm calling the weeknight version. Using a whitefish, along with scallops, shrimp, clams, etc., is lovely, but then you do have to worry about timing, so that everything finishes at the same time.
By using one fish, this really is quite a simple recipe, and the little bit of slicing and mincing involved is well worth the gorgeous, and very tasty results. I really do hope you give this gorgeous Brazilian fish stew a try soon. Enjoy!
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 yellow onion, thinly sliced
1 teaspoon salt, plus more to taste
2 tablespoons tomato paste
4 cloves minced garlic
2 teaspoons paprika
1 teaspoon ground cumin
cayenne pepper to taste
1 can (14-oz) coconut milk (not low fat!)
1 teaspoon soy sauce
1 1/2 cup sliced assorted sweet and/or hot peppers
1/4 cup chopped green onion
1 1/2 pounds sea bass, or other firm white fish, cut into chunks
1/4 cup chopped cilantro leaves
2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice
serve with rice


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Ted Turner wasn't wrangling ponies on his ranch, Tom Ford had jetted off to New York to receive the CFDA Lifetime Achievement Award, the town was bereft of luminous locals. Stop and think what to do when The Boys Are Out of Town. There are any number of scenarios that arise, the most logical solution was to spend a slothful Saturday afternoon at a classic Santa Fe dining spot. Southwest regional influences amid elegant surroundings at The Compound Restaurant, heritage rich and authentically housed in a cozy adobe.
Recognized by Gourmet Magazine's Guide to America's Best Restaurants and The New York Times as a destination not to be missed. Chef Mark Kiffin's authentic regional ingredients brought to the Southwest United States by the Spaniards are enhanced by contemporary seasonal ingredients. The Compound Restaurant pairs sophisticated cuisine with professional service in an elegant adobe building designed by famed architect Alexander Girard. Before its incarnation as a restaurant, this adobe home was the centerpiece of a group of houses on Canyon Road known as the McComb Compound. The whitewashed interiors boast an enticing mix of simple elegance and bursts of bright modernistic color. Make sure to look overhead, where whitewashed vigas balance out vibrant Navajo ceiling tiles, and a snake discreetly traverses one of the interior room's ceilings.
The Compound Restaurant is the perfect location for a Proper Saturday Lunch – when you are in the mood for relaxation and high style, crisp white linens and first-class service. Think lazy Saturday when an optional afternoon siesta is penciled in your diary. A little decadence is always necessary to survive our busy lives, mosey up Canyon Road when you are longing for a chilled glass of Champers or a martini, neat! My dear local friends introduce me to newer more notable restaurants every time I visit. Who knew Santa Fe was a mecca for such grand dining?
The seasonally changing menu has a few signature dishes: Lobster & Mango Salad, Sweet Bread & Foie Gras and Chicken Schnitzel that are always offered. The restaurant, opened in the late 60s, is now run by Executive Chef Mark Kiffen, winner of the James Beard Award for Best Chef of the Southwest in 2005. The interior, designed by noted mid-century designer Alexander Girard, is notable for its bar, a conversation pit; patrons are at eye-level with the bartender. You can lunch there or in one of the whitewashed airy light filled dining rooms. In warmer weather opt for one of the breezy outdoor patios with their distinctive Old World feel.
The stylish and intimate Compound Restaurant on Santa Fe's Canyon Road attracts devoted locals and out of town visitors with an elegant Southwestern-meets-Mediterranean fine dining menu. In the earlier part of the 20th century, when Santa Fe was far away from the rest of the world, movie stars, industrialists, and socialites visited, where they enjoy a secluded getaway. Eventually, Will and Barbara Houghton acquired the main house and converted it into a restaurant. It was their decision to bring in designer Alexander Girard, who gave The Compound Restaurant its distinctive look. Girard is best remembered locally for The Compound Restaurant design and his generous donation of more than 106,000 pieces to Santa Fe's International Folk-Art Museum.
The Compound Restaurant has received many local and national accolades. Chef/Owner Mark Kiffin, has embraced the restaurant's history and continues to preserve a landmark tradition of elegant food and service, while celebrating in an invigorating art filled atmosphere
Spring Pea Soup
Pea Bavarois, Morel Duxelle & Spring Vegetables
Sweetbreads & Foie Gras
Cėpes, Cayenne and Spanish Sherry
Butter Lettuce & Tomato Salad Champagne Vinaigrette
House Made Papardelle Pasta
House Made Fennel Sausage with Tomato, Garlic & Sweet Herbs, Crispy Broccolini
Seared Sea Scallop
Vegetable Stew, Cream, French Butter & Crispy Pancetta
Main Course
Jumbo Crab and Lobster Salad
Mango, Red Onion & Butter Lettuce with Tangerine Vinaigrette
Stacked Salad
Romaine, Tomato, Ham, Blue Cheese and Hard Cooked Taos Eggs, Avocado Ranch Dressing
With Buttermilk Roasted Breast of Free Range Chicken
Compound Pastrami Sandwich
Our Own Cured, Roasted and Smoked Pastrami, Corn Rye Bread, Beer Braised Sweet Onions, Horseradish Mustard Mayonnaise, Cabbage Slaw, Chips
The Compound Burger
Lone Mountain Ranch Waygu Beef
Avocado, Tomato, Griddled Bulb Onions and Aioli with French Fries
Available with Roasted Poblanos and White Cheddar Cheese
Chicken Schnitzel
Capers, Parsley, Lemon and Sautéed Spinach
Organic Scottish Salmon
Spring Vegetables, Saffron Butter Sauce
Seared Rare Tuna Nicoise
Tomato, Nicoise & Pichiline Olives, Hard-Cooked Egg, Fingerling Potatoes, Red Onions, Green Beans & Dijon Shallot Dressing
Wild Mushrooms and Organic Stone Ground Polenta
Shaved Parmesan & Arugula
Beef Tenderloin Stroganoff
Organic Taos Mushrooms & Buttered Pappardelle Pasta, Creme Fraiche & Dijon Demi Glace
House Made Pappardelle Pasta
House Made Fennel Sausage with Tomato, Garlic & Sweet Herbs, Crispy Broccolini
Something for every mood! Highly recommend The Compound Restaurant , Santa Fe.


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New Player Survival FAQ
Item guide
Map and quest guide
Monday, 20 July 2015
Troll alert
Some think it funny to hang around the thief door and try to block anyone running away. Probably works quite well, so the ability to close the door is useful.
And here is a lonely player:
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