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Earliest known piece of polyphonic music discovered
New research has uncovered the earliest known practical piece of polyphonic music, an example of the principles that laid the foundations of European musical tradition.
The earliest known practical example of polyphonic music – a piece of choral music written for more than one part – has been found in a British Library manuscript in London.
The inscription is believed to date back to the start of the 10th century and is the setting of a short chant dedicated to Boniface, patron Saint of Germany. It is the earliest practical example of a piece of polyphonic music – the term given to music that combines more than one independent melody – ever discovered.
Written using an early form of notation that predates the invention of the stave, it was inked into the space at the end of a manuscript of the Life of Bishop Maternianus of Reims.
The piece was discovered by Giovanni Varelli, a PhD student from St John's College, University of Cambridge, while he was working on an internship at the British Library. He discovered the manuscript by chance, and was struck by the unusual form of the notation. Varelli specialises in early musical notation, and realised that it consisted of two vocal parts, each complementing the other.
Polyphony defined most European music up until the 20th century, but it is not clear exactly when it emerged. Treatises which lay out the theoretical basis for music with two independent vocal parts survive from the early Middle Ages, but until now the earliest known examples of a practical piece written specifically for more than one voice came from a collection known as The Winchester Troper, which dates back to the year 1000.
Varelli's research suggests that the author of the newly-found piece – a short "antiphon" with a second voice providing a vocal accompaniment – was written around the year 900.
As well as its age, the piece is also significant because it deviates from the convention laid out in treatises at the time. This suggests that even at this embryonic stage, composers were experimenting with form and breaking the rules of polyphony almost at the same time as they were being written.
"What's interesting here is that we are looking at the birth of polyphonic music and we are not seeing what we expected," Varelli said.
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Included is some modern notation.
Here is a video of the piece being sung.
Not exactly the "My Little Pony" stuff we hear in most churches now.
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Turkish forces began crossing the Syrian border on Wednesday, launching an operation in Kurdish-dominated areas of the country's north, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced.
The Turkish offensive jeopardizes Kurdish-led forces who have been a key U.S. ally in the bloody fight against ISIS. Turkey says those same forces are linked to militant groups who stage attacks in a separatist movement against the Turkish government.
Late Sunday, the White House abruptly announced it was pulling troops away from the border and that Turkey planned to launched an offensive — a major shift in U.S. policy that followed a phone call between President Trump and Erdogan. Senior officials have said they were not consulted or informed about the change.
The Turkish military is working with the Syrian National Army, Erdogan said, adding that the area they targeting Kurdish fighters as well as ISIS extremists.
"Our mission is to prevent the creation of a terror corridor across our southern border, and to bring peace to the area," Erdogan said.
Ahead of the operation, Turkish soldiers used heavy equipment to remove a section of concrete border wall so that troops could cross, an official told Reuters.
A U.S. military official in Syria tells NPR's Tom Bowman that the Turkish airstrikes are "more expansive than shaping a limited incursion."
The U.S. is tracking people who are being displaced from the Syrian cities of Ras al-Ayn, Tal Abyad, Qamishli and Ain Issa, the official says, reflecting a span of some 140 miles along the north and northeastern border.
On Tuesday, Turkey reportedly struck the Syrian-Iraqi border to keep Kurdish forces from using it as a conduit to reinforce their positions, the news agency said.
Earlier, Islamic State militants reportedly carried out an attack on the city of Raqqa in northern Syria, including a post manned by U.S.-backed Kurdish-led fighters.
More than 3 million Syrian refugees are registered in Turkey, having fled brutal conditions imposed by both ISIS and their country's civil war. Erdogan said Wednesday that the long-anticipated offensive aims to establish "a safe zone, facilitating the return of Syrian refugees to their homes."
The operation is causing fear among the U.S.'s Kurdish allies. Mustafa Bali, a spokesperson for the Kurdish-led forces, said: "Turkish warplanes have started to carry out airstrikes on civilian areas. There is a huge panic among people of the region."
The White House decision to abandon posts along the border and give Turkey a free hand in taking on Kurdish groups has sparked a sharp bipartisan backlash in Washington.
Brett McGurk, who was Trump's special envoy for the fight against ISIS, also decried the decision in an interview with NPR.
"Presidents do a lot of things, but the most consequential are decisions of war and peace like this, and you can't make decisions on a haphazard basis after a single call with a foreign leader," McGurk said. "This is almost unprecedented."
Jens Stoltenberg, NATO's Secretary General, said via Twitter: "I count on Turkey to act with restraint & ensure that the gains we have made in the fight against ISIS are not jeopardised."
Human rights groups such as Amnesty International are also urging Turkey's military to act with restraint and ensure civilians' safety.
"Turkey has an obligation under international humanitarian law to take all possible measures to protect civilians and to ensure they have access to humanitarian aid," Amnesty International's Middle East Research Director Lynn Maalouf said in a statement. "Civilians wishing to flee the fighting must be given safe passage to do so."
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The process converts roughly 50 percent of the natural gas to acetylene—the other half is burned for the heat that drives the process, which still releases CO2 into the atmosphere—and nearly all of that acetylene to ethylene, and then ethylene to fuel. "Overall conversion rates from the [natural] gas to fuel-grade liquids is as high as 46 percent in optimal, real-world conditions," Rolfe says—as good or better than established facilities employing Fischer-Tropsch, such as Johannesburg-based Sasol, Ltd.'s plants in South Africa.
The resulting fuel has no sulfur. (Sulfur and mercury are removed as solids and can be buried or converted to useful materials.) And, it can be directly used in cars or other vehicles in some countries. (In the U.S., air pollution regulations would make it necessary to ship it to a refinery for final processing or blend it with a less aromatic gasoline.) "In a country like Saudi Arabia, you could fill your car up with the gas we make and drive away," Rolfe notes.
In the U.S. generating electricity or putting the natural gas into a pipeline often makes sense because of existing infrastructure. But in Nigeria, for example, oil companies flare some 850 billion cubic feet (24 billion cubic meters) per year at oil platforms that have no need to generate electricity because of the platform's remote location and no pipelines to carry off the natural gas. At such locations, Synfuels's process or Fischer–Tropsch could make financial sense. But the $150 million to $200 million that Rolfe says a Synfuels process plant will cost is just a fraction of the Fischer–Tropsch price. "If there's no pipeline, you're just burning money [by flaring] and hurting the Earth," Rolfe notes.
In addition, the Synfuels process can handle small volumes of natural gas—ranging from one to 300 million cubic feet (8.5 million cubic meters) per day. That is important because most oil wells do not spew a lot of natural gas, which makes the Synfuels approach useful even at smaller fields. Depending on the quality of the natural gas itself, the process can then make gasoline at a cost of roughly $31 to $63 per barrel (73 cents to $1.50 per gallon), depending on whether the natural gas is pure methane (more costly to transform) or has other hydrocarbons mixed in.
But the technology is not just useful for so-called stranded natural gas in the developing world; in Alaska, much natural gas is simply reinjected back into the oil wells from which it came either to boost oil production or simply avoid atmospheric venting or flaring. "With Synfuels plants, if you captured and processed all the natural gas that is being reinjected and wasted today, you could make 550,000 barrels (87.5 million liters) of gasoline a day," Rolfe says. That translates into money: Converting just 10 percent of the flared natural gas worldwide to gasoline sold at $70 per barrel would net $3.1 billion in revenue.
"From an environmental point of view, any use of natural gas is preferable to flaring," notes chemical engineer James Miller of Sandia National Laboratories. But "the economics would be highly dependent on what you do with the syngas components of this [process]."
"All of the syngas goes into heat or energy production," Synfuels chemist Ed Peterson says, and the company cuts down on cost by using such by-products to make energy and employing components built with cheaper steel alloyed with carbon as well as easy to maintain low pressures. Within the next three years, the company hopes to build four such plants in the U.S., Trinidad and Tobago, Nigeria, and Iraq and is negotiating in Argentina, Australia, Kazakhstan and Kuwait. "There's a huge impetus to stop gas flaring around the world," Peterson says. "This is just one of those ways."
Flame Off!: Turning Natural Gas Pollution into Gasoline
Rather than pollute the atmosphere by venting or flaring the natural gas that comes out of oil wells, a new technology would turn it into gasoline or other products
As if burning oil and all of its derivatives wasn't bad enough for the environment, there's also the natural gas that bubbles up as the oil is pumped out. This byproduct cannot be easily harvested in many cases—some oil fields are far from pipelines that can transport it and other options are very expensive. As a result, oil companies either release it into the atmosphere—a process known as venting—or burn it in a flare.


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Bill Gates says the IRS has to keep his tax return on a special computer because ordinary computers can't handle numbers that big:
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I don't have a real post for you today. I'm staring down the end of the first big edit to the sequel of Screwing Up Time. Nineteen single-spaced pages left. My goal is to get this edit finished before the new year. I'm not sure if I can do it because we're actually on vacation. And today is my birthday. But I'm still planning to edit--I'm a writer, it's what I do. Besides if I don't get some writing done, I develop a nervous tick. So, back away from the writer in the bubble and let her get her editing fix.
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Has the muse also gone on vacation? Maybe he will strike late at night, when others have gone to bed.ReplyDelete
Good luck with your editing, but don't work too hard today. You should celebrate your birthday too! Best wishes! :)ReplyDelete
Good luck with the edits! I hope you make it.ReplyDelete
OK backing away now. Please don't taser me. ;-P
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Trends in river floods: why is there no clear signal in observations?
Svensson, C.; Hannaford, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5256-3310; Kundzewicz, A. W.; Marsh, T. J.. 2006 Trends in river floods: why is there no clear signal in observations? In: Frontiers in flood research, 8th Kovacs Colloquium, UNESCO, Paris, 30 June - 1 July 2006. IAHS, 1-18.Full text not available from this repository.
Floods are of great concern in many areas of the world, with the last decade seeing major fluvial flood events in, for example, Asia, Europe and North America. This has focused attention on whether or not these are a result of a changing climate. River flows calculated from outputs from global climate models often suggest that high river flows will increase in a warmer, future climate. However, the future projections are not necessarily in tune with the records collected so far—the observational evidence is more ambiguous. A recent study of trends in long time series of annual maximum river flows at 195 gauging stations worldwide suggests that the majority of these flow records (70%) do not exhibit any statistically significant trends. Trends in the remaining records are almost evenly split between having a positive and a negative direction. This paper discusses factors that influence the results of trend estimates of floods, and that contribute to the general lack of compelling observational evidence of any long-term increase in extreme river flows. Recent results of trend analysis of observed floods are outlined. Expected impacts of indirect anthropogenic climate change are discussed, and a summary is given of the direct impact of man's influence on river flows in terms of catchment and river management. Different methodologies to detect trends are briefly outlined, and examples are given of how the choice of method can interact with climatological features to result in different estimates of trend. The examples illustrate the effects of using different types of flow indices and different periods of record. The effects on trend estimates of decadal-scale oscillations that have been shown to occur in many river flow records are discussed. Oscillations compound the problem of untangling trends from normal climatic variability as the cycles of the underlying climatic phenomena (e.g. the North Atlantic Oscillation) may also be predicted to change in a greenhouse gas-induced warmer climate. Initiatives to compile networks of pristine catchments with long river flow records are welcomed as a means of keeping scientific objectivity at the forefront of studies of change detection, an area of research riddled by uncertainty and speculation.
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Welcome to another Technique Blog Hop where we will be showing you a variety of shimmery techniques as we highlight a few of our current Close to My Heart products! If you have come here from Krista Hershberger's Blog, you are on the right path! When you are finished taking a look at my shimmery Out of This World cards and learning some Shimmer Brush techniques, you can click on the link at the end to move to the next blog. This blog hop is simple, fun, and full of ideas. If you get lost along the way, you'll find the complete list of participating consultants on Melissa's Blog.
For this blog hop, I had a hard time deciding what type to video to create – a tips & tricks or a process video – so I decided to do both. I had so much fun using my Shimmer Brushes to create these three Out of This World cards and I couldn't wait to share them with you.
Before we get into the tips & tricks portion of this post, I want to show you a few close-ups of those globe die cuts. These were cut using the Thin Cut from our Aurora Cardmaking kit. Aren't those just stunning?? I just love the look of old globes.
I used our Shimmer Brushes to create the splattered backgrounds and shade two of the globes. If you would like to know how I made each one of these, you are in luck♥. I will be posting a video tutorial on my YouTube Channel later in the week to go along with the video tutorial I have posted below.
♥ Today, I am going to give you a few Tips when it comes to using our Shimmer Brushes. I have also included a short little five minute video for you to view.
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As the US election approaches, I am reminded of a single week in November 2012 when 126 million Americans voted for their President, 1.3 billion Chinese were informed about their new politburo leaders and 60 million Coptic Orthodox believers had the identity of their new Pope revealed when a blindfolded boy picked his name from the three laid on an altar.
It was a quirk of timing that highlighted, in that one week, the different ways that nations and indeed churches are governed. With this in mind, it's fair to say that different governance structures divide the worldwide church now more than ever.
Biblical Decision Making?
The Coptic Church just mentioned appoints leaders by copying how the 12th apostle was chosen after Judas' death in Acts 1 – drawing lots. That is, you could argue, a Biblical way of deciding church leadership (!).
Most churches we would be familiar with rely either on voting by members to varying degrees, like US or UK elections or on the decision of existing leaders, like the Chinese Communist Party. Or, some combination of the two.
Where you put that dividing line is one of the factors that has created different denominations, from top-down Anglicanism or even New Frontiers to bottom-up congregational churches, or even Baptists. It is evident that either system can produce heroic or disastrous leaders.
Character Not Structure
Now, why the huge variety of church governance models? Simply because exact blueprints with watertight definitions are not found in the New Testament (NT).
Since church structure was still developing in the 1st century as the Bible was written, we get instead in 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1 (and to a lesser extent Acts 6, Acts 20 and 1 Peter 5) qualifications for elders (Greek: presbuteros or presbyter) otherwise known as overseers (Greek: episkopē or bishops), and qualifications for deacons (Greek: diakonos or servers/waiters), rather than details of how they fit into a structure.
So the NT concerns itself with church leadership character rather than organisation.
Quite frustrating you make think, if you're wanting to know exactly how a church should be organised. However it does mean that God, in his infinite wisdom, tells us the sort of people who should be elders and deacons but largely leaves it up to us to decide the exact structure, how they relate to each other and the rest of the church, in line with the flexible and evolving structure of leadership in the NT.
Changing Structures
So we are at liberty to choose whatever system works best, whilst anchoring roles and titles to the snapshots of the church-in-action we have in our Bibles.
The current Cambray model, of deacons but no titled elders (with said deacons carrying out some elder-like duties, 'el-cons' if you will) has worked well for the way Cambray has been structured in recent history, and loosely fits into a NT pattern.
Yet equally, there is a growing awareness that a different system – equally biblically permissible – may be the best way to organise the increasingly complicated, multi-faceted structure of Cambray if we want to be effective disciples in the 21st century: that of elders and deacons as separate.
The Pastor-Overseer
1 Timothy 5:17 is as near as the NT comes to defining the work of an elder/overseer: 'overseers who direct the affairs of the church !especially ['that is'] those whose work is preaching and teaching'.
In this sense, any church that has a 'pastor' (yet another Greek word: poimÄ"n or shepherd) who teaches the Bible already has an elder/overseer.
Therefore a discussion about 'having elders' at Cambray is not one of 'do we or don't we?', but of the extent to which the eldership should be a plurality (i.e. more elders than just the pastor).
My personal opinion is that the eldership should be extended to other character-qualified men whose work is teaching the Bible.
This would allow sufficient focus to be given to teaching, prayer and the vision of the church, whilst other key people – deacons or otherwise – could lead teams that focus on specific areas (e.g. finance, catering, welcoming, small groups, publicity).
Yet however we choose to organise ourselves, we must do it with the aim of creating a system to best encourage and equip one another to follow Jesus. That is our church strapline, and that is why we exist!
Please pray with and for the deacons, staff team and church membership as we all face the challenges of organising ourselves for gospel effectiveness in the 21st century.
With every blessing,
Tim Martin
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(2014) Project Newsletter Iowa Public Health Tracking, May 2014. Public Health, Department of (Health and Human Services, Department of)
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Dear Mr Sponsor Pants:
I am writing you to ask for help in clearing up the difference between Accept and Tolerate. There are so many "extensions" of each, plus they seem so similar yet very different, I am not sure where to start.
Accept vs Tolerate
Acceptance vs Tolerance
Acceptable vs Tolerable
Unacceptable vs Intolerable
Then I start to get into:
Accepting Intolerable Behavior
or even
Tolerating Unacceptable Behavior
Beyond this I am kind of stuck. It feels something like one is much healthier then the other. But I am not sure why or which is cleaner, or if both can be equally clean depending on how they are used.
Dear M.,
You wrote, "Beyond this I am kind of stuck" -- beyond this?!? If that's the case, it puts you much farther along than I am -- I'm still reeling from all your "this versus that" -- it's like some kind of World Wrestling Federation Philosophical Smackdown!
First, for the new kids, lets give some context as to where in the 12 Step world these ideas come into play. Briefly speaking (and roughly speaking too, so please, those of you who are great Recovery Literature Scholars forgive my shortcuts -- no directly quoted passages or page numbers today I'm afraid) the idea of tolerance is of course very much in line with the larger "design for living" which AA suggests. Specifically, AA states, "love and tolerance is our code." Elsewhere the AA literature talks about "... a real tolerance of others..." is how we may be of maximum usefulness when trying to carry AA's message.
Acceptance is an ideal espoused in the Serenity Prayer (The first line of which states "... grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change..."). There is also a very popular story in the back of the book "Alcoholics Anonymous" (AA's Big Book) entitled "Acceptance is the Answer" (and in the 3rd Edition it was called "Doctor, Alcoholic, Addict" but someone decided to change the name in the 4th Edition, and I'm enough of a curmudgeon to be grumbling about it still). This story details, as all of the stories do, what it was like when the author drank and used, what happened to bring him to AA and sobriety, and what his life is like now that he's sober. In his narrative he emphasizes strongly that when he is not "in acceptance" he is a much unhappier man.
I think that, if I can just roll up my sleeves and step into the ring with this tag-team of philosophical and spiritual combatants you've conjured up, it might be easier to say what I have come to believe they're not before I get into trying to pin a few of them to the mat regarding what they are.
I used to believe that if I accepted or tolerated something I agreed with it -- or that I had to come to like it. I am a word nerd, and I was shocked (Shocked I tell you! Shocked!) at how many terms I thought I was clear on but actually wasn't when I came to AA. Sure, I could use them correctly in a sentence, but I did not have real comprehension of the term until I looked the ideas up in a dictionary and then discussed them with other sober folks-- so I applaud your email query, M! (And these are some thoughts I've had on that whole dictionary thing.)
Here's a specific example to answer your question(s): I enter the bank lobby, and there is a long line. I can tolerate waiting in it, but that doesn't mean I like waiting in it. I can accept the fact that this is how things are in the bank right now, but that doesn't mean I agree with how the bank is running their business.
Your mad suffix action, as exciting as it is, (sort of like being a syntax ninja. Hai!) on "accept" and "tolerate" does not really change their meaning very much, for me. All things are in some way influenced by context, so I would caution you not to hypothetical yourself into loopy circular thinking about how the meanings may vary a bit with different useages. That way lies madness. (Madness I tell you. Madness!)
As for the "un" and "in" of unacceptable and intolerable ... well, those are loaded guns, for me. Indulging myself by throwing those ideas around is like playing with matches at the gasoline pump. All I'm doing is revving up for a good rant. And for this alcoholic -- who always secretly longs for the Julia Sugarbaker moment in which you can give someone a spitfire, super-literate dressing down, and they just stand there and take it while the studio audience "ooohs" and then we cut to commercial -- revving up for a good rant is equal parts ego-fantasy and resentment-machine.
Finally, your pair of little triplets there, about "accepting intolerable behavior" and "tolerating unacceptable behavior" -- for me, that's just a word trick -- logically the phrases are fine, but the larger meaning is moving away from the spiritual principle behind the ideas of acceptance and tolerance. I'm not supposed to accept or tolerate abuse -- and doing so, using the language of the Program to rationalize it, is about fear of confrontation, and has nothing to do with actual acceptance or tolerance in the spirit AA intends me to practice them (in my humble opinion).
Clearly you have an agile mind, and I salute your interest in learning more about how to better apply these ideas in your recovery.
But M, I think you think too much. For me, when I've been able to practice sitting quietly and listening, I can hear the "still small voice" inside which is the best authority on what and when to accept and tolerate -- or when not to.
Hope some of that was helpful, and thanks for writing.
Mr. SP


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Tim Mitchell brings modern feel to King Kong
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SOUTH AFRICA: Gearhouse's Splitbeam has announced that it will be providing lighting fixtures for the upcoming restaging of the 'all African jazz opera' King Kong. The production is taking place at the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town later this month and reportedly offer lighting deign that 'while remaining authentic to the period, will bring the piece in line with today's technological advances.
'We want to get away from any preconceived idea of what a musical should sound like, to get rid of all the "Broadwaydisation", to stay true to the original and bring it into the 21st Century,' explained theatre director, Jonathan Munby. 'What we are staging in this new version are things that they could not do originally which is a heightened stylisation of the boxing scenes and the use of physical theatre.'
'Lighting has changed dramatically even in the last 10 years, let alone since the late 1950s,' furthered lighting designer, Tim Michell. 'Lighting design really started to sit on its own from the 1950s onwards and certainly in the UK, lighting designers such as Michael Northern and Joe Davies, laid the foundations of what we are today as lighting designers. I am hoping to bring colour and movement which was not possible in the day. "We're using practical lamps as well as moving lights which are clearly modern, I will be using a lot of tungsten instruments to give a warmer theatrical feel.'
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By Joanne Taylor
The heel of her shoe broke so as she spun onstage she was forced to remain on tippy-toes lest the crowd would see it. Of course this was the day the owner would come – the day with all the misfortunes. One actor had fallen sick and another had shown up drunk.
"The rest of us have to wow him," she thought, her skirt billowing out around her in a sparkling arc, catching the spotlights with its gaudy jewels.
If there was enough pizazz maybe he would continue the funding despite the rumours he was set to pull the plug. The music picked up as she circled around the stage, twirling and leaping and at a fevered pitch. When the music crescendoed she collapsed in an elegant curtsey, keeping her broken shoe tucked under so the front row wouldn't notice.
At least it was a good crowd, she mused. Despite her heart pounding and sweaty and broken shoed, she arose and elegantly exited, passing Dagmar as she did, his act a down to her up, his guitar playing as steady and true as Johnny Cash albeit he looked a lot more like Jimi Hendrix.
They put the kaleidoscope effect on the lights for his ballad so she was safe to hang at the side curtain peering out at the crowd to lay eyes on the owner.
The owner's son really. It was his father's money but his passion. His passion had been for a certain actress who didn't audition well. Hence the relationship ending, yet he continued to play patron. It had been months on the road and yet this was his first visit.
She could speculate but everyone already had, endlessly, so she kept quiet, waiting to see for herself.
In the kaleidoscope lights he seemed on the smallish side, hunkered down center stage left, three rows back. He wore black. His hair was black. He was intent on the stage and she couldn't read his expression.
"He has three girlfriends or more," Lucinda whispered in her ear. She was a terrible gossip, a spendthrift and as usual, irresistibly beautiful in all white, a dark gold painted on her eyes and a throwback 1950's red on her overly pouted mouth. "And he's taking us all out afterwards. For drinks. To celebrate."
Lucinda raised a brow at her. It was her "too good to be true?" expression. "If he has the money let's get him to spend it."
Casey shrugged, non-committal.
"Well, I'm ordering the most expensive thing on the menu."
Casey watched her stride out on stage and replace Dagmar in the spotlight. She raised her arms and started clapping above her head.
The crowd, anticipating, clapped along until her voice broke out over them, strong and honeyed and Lucinda sang her solo.
"Marvellous. Simply marvellous."
By Genevieve Clovis
"When people ask how we met, I joke that it was pretty much a Cinderella story. You see the heel of her shoe broke or rather it fell off. And, yeah, I admit that's where the similarity to Cinderella ends, but I still like the comparison.
"Even though it was her shoe that broke, she was way more Prince Charming than I could ever hope to be. I was a wreck when we met, but at least my shoes didn't break."
Paul paused in his storytelling a wistful smile spread across his face as he though back to when he first met his wife. He cleared his throat and continued.
"It wasn't just the heel. The whole sole fell right off.
"She was walking in front of me when it happened, but I hadn't noticed her. I was carrying a coffee, trying to get the damn lid open, and then her sole came off and tripped me. Right at the moment I opened the coffee lid.
"She got doused in coffee and I kissed pavement."
Paul chuckled and tried to rub the smile off his wrinkled face.
"Great first impression, eh?" There was a long pause as he contemplated his own question.
"It was a blistering hot day. I mean fierce, high thirties at least. The pavement was burning my skin and I jumped up right quick.
"And there she was. Dripping coffee, and standing on one foot like a flamingo looking for all the world like she didn't know whether to laugh or to cry.
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Tagging Essential Malaria Genes to Advance Drug Development
Posted on by Dr. Francis Collins
As a volunteer physician in a small hospital in Nigeria 30 years ago, I was bitten by lots of mosquitoes and soon came down with headache, chills, fever, and muscle aches. It was malaria. Fortunately, the drug available to me then was effective, but I was pretty sick for a few days. Since that time, malarial drug resistance has become steadily more widespread. In fact, the treatment that cured me would be of little use today. Combination drug therapies including artemisinin have been introduced to take the place of the older drugs [1], but experts are concerned the mosquito-borne parasites that cause malaria are showing signs of drug resistance again.
So, researchers have been searching the genome of Plasmodium falciparum, the most-lethal species of the malaria parasite, for potentially better targets for drug or vaccine development. You wouldn't think such work would be too tough because the genome of P. falciparum was sequenced more than 15 years ago [2]. Yet it's proven to be a major challenge because the genetic blueprint of this protozoan parasite has an unusual bias towards two nucleotides (adenine and thymine), which makes it difficult to use standard research tools to study the functions of its genes.
Now, using a creative new spin on an old technique, an NIH-funded research team has solved this difficult problem and, for the first time, completely characterized the genes in the P. falciparum genome [3]. Their work identified 2,680 genes essential to P. falciparum's growth and survival in red blood cells, where it does the most damage in humans. This gene list will serve as an important guide in the years ahead as researchers seek to identify the equivalent of a malarial Achilles heel, and use that to develop new and better ways to fight this deadly tropical disease.
Fighting Parasitic Infections: Promise in Cyclic Peptides
Posted on by Dr. Francis Collins
When you think of the causes of infectious diseases, what first comes to mind are probably viruses and bacteria. But parasites are another important source of devastating infection, especially in the developing world. Now, NIH researchers and their collaborators have discovered a new kind of treatment that holds promise for fighting parasitic roundworms. A bonus of this result is that this same treatment might work also for certain deadly kinds of bacteria.
The researchers identified the potential new therapeutic after testing more than a trillion small protein fragments, called cyclic peptides, to find one that could disable a vital enzyme in the disease-causing organisms, but leave similar enzymes in humans unscathed. Not only does this discovery raise hope for better treatments for many parasitic and bacterial diseases, it highlights the value of screening peptides in the search for ways to treat conditions that do not respond well—or have stopped responding—to more traditional chemical drug compounds.
Rare Disease Mystery: Nodding Syndrome May Be Linked to Parasitic Worm
Posted on by Dr. Francis Collins
In the early 1960s, reports began to surface that some children living in remote villages in East Africa were suffering mysterious episodes of "head nodding." The condition, now named nodding syndrome, is recognized as a rare and devastating form of epilepsy. There were hints that the syndrome might be caused by a parasitic worm called Onchocerca volvulus, which is transmitted through the bites of blackflies. But no one had been able to tie the parasitic infection directly to the nodding heads.
Now, NIH researchers and their international colleagues think they've found the missing link. The human immune system turns out to be a central player. After analyzing blood and cerebrospinal fluid of kids with nodding syndrome, they detected a particular antibody at unusually high levels [1]. Further studies suggest the immune system ramps up production of that antibody to fight off the parasite. The trouble is those antibodies also react against a protein in healthy brain tissue, apparently leading to progressive cognitive dysfunction, neurological deterioration, head nodding, and potentially life-threatening seizures.
The findings, published in Science Translational Medicine, have important implications for the treatment and prevention of not only nodding syndrome, but perhaps other autoimmune-related forms of epilepsy. As people in the United States and around the globe today observe the 10th anniversary of international Rare Disease Day, this work provides yet another example of how rare disease research can shed light on more common diseases and fundamental aspects of human biology.
Creative Minds: Interrogating a Master of Disguise
Posted on by Dr. Francis Collins
When I volunteered several years ago as a physician in a small hospital in West Africa, one of the most frustrating and frightening diseases I saw was sleeping sickness. Now, an investigator supported by the NIH Common Fund aims to figure out how this disease pathogen manages to evade the human immune system.
Monica Mugnier's fascination with parasites started in college when she picked up the book Parasite Rex, a riveting, firsthand account of how "sneaky" parasites can be. The next year, while studying abroad in England, Mugnier met a researcher who had studied one of the most devious of parasites—a protozoan, spread by blood-sucking tsetse flies, that causes sleeping sickness in humans and livestock across sub-Saharan Africa.
Mouse Study Finds Microbe Might Protect against Food Poisoning
Posted on by Dr. Francis Collins
Recently, we humans have started to pay a lot more attention to the legions of bacteria that live on and in our bodies because of research that's shown us the many important roles they play in everything from how we efficiently metabolize food to how well we fend off disease. And, as it turns out, bacteria may not be the only interior bugs with the power to influence our biology positively—a new study suggests that an entirely different kingdom of primarily single-celled microbes, called protists, may be in on the act.
In a study published in the journal Cell, an NIH-funded research team reports that it has identified a new protozoan, called Tritrichomonas musculis (T. mu), living inside the gut of laboratory mice. That sounds bad—but actually this little wriggler was potentially providing a positive benefit to the mice. Not only did T. mu appear to boost the animals' immune systems, it spared them from the severe intestinal infection that typically occurs after eating food contaminated with toxic Salmonella bacteria. While it's not yet clear if protists exist that can produce similar beneficial effects in humans, there is evidence that a close relative of T. mu frequently resides in the intestines of people around the world.
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Happy New Year!
Let's start the first sentence of this issue with a huge THANK YOU to all of you who took the time to come down and patrol the Refuge during six day shotgun season. The weather was interesting to say the least, but anymore, that goes without saying. It rained pretty hard in the days leading up to opening day, so trails were flooded and the Dike crossing was a mess. My veterans all knew to wear their rubber boots, but we had some loaners on the porch just in case.
Poor Mary Ann discovered that the handrail lashings across the Dike had gone slack and almost went ass over teacups when the rails gave way. Thankfully, she avoided the pain of a "Paula Baptism." I booked out there and tightened or replaced the ropes holding the cedar branches to their posts before someone did get wet.
Things really got dicey on day two, when the temperatures plummeted, and iced formed on the concrete and wooden boardwalks. Then the snow came down. Freya showed up first thing in the morning with her scraper and worked her magic as she walked, cleaning snow off the boardwalks.
I (as most of you should know by now) LOVE the snow. I had fun while I worked, making tiny snow people with snow companion dogs, following animal tracks and reveling in the fact that no one could trespass without giving themselves away. That reminds me of the local news article I once read about a bandit who broke into someone's house after a snow storm. It was a very short criminal career!
Although statistics indicate that the number of licensed hunters is decreasing nationwide, as well as in New Jersey, it doesn't seem to apply in these here parts. The Refuge is surrounded mostly by farms (which are hunted privately by their owners) and forested land owned by the municipality (open to hunters). We see a lot of orange next door during six day. Thankfully, most of these people have learned to respect the boundary between us and them. However, it is important to remain vigilant and show that we are out there keeping everyone honest. So here is to my Patrollers who stepped up to wear the orange for Unexpected.
Mother nature is showing us she means business this winter. Temperatures in January and so far in February were mostly freezing or below one morning the bank thermometer read -2 degrees! We haven't had a good cold winter in New Jersey for quite some time. I tend to measure the severity of winter by how much firewood I burn. So far this year, I have burned as much or more than all of last winter. The stove has been going 24-7 except for the periodic pause to unload the ashes and make room for more wood. As difficult as it can be to battle the cold, I think it is healthy for this geographic region to experience prolonged freezing during winter.
Our native species have evolved to withstand freezing winters with antifreeze-like elements. The destructive progress of invasive bugs that have moved in from the south, like the emerald ash borer and the southern pine beetle, as well as foreign insects like the gypsy moth, may be checked by this prolonged cold snap. The Refuge, as well as surrounding township forests, has taken a terrible blow from a southern pine beetle infestation, with huge swathes of dead pitch pine trees. The dead trees pose a dangerous threat in high winds, ready to snap off and fall with a powerful gust, and they wreak havoc on the trails when they land. Hopefully, the beetles' momentum will be slowed by this cold weather.
The pond is frozen solid now with no evidence of beaver activity whatsoever. They kept their ice holes open as long as they could, but they are now sealed up so thick with ice that we can walk over them. We have been casting corn out upon the frozen water for the ducks. They come and push through the snow with their breasts to find the hidden kernels.
During patrol week, I followed the tracks of two large otters from Main Pond to the irrigation reservoir at Station 19. Then, last week at dawn, as the cold winter sun began filtering through the trees and shining on the white snow-covered ice, I saw a small dark figure hopping along the vegetated bank. The size of a cat, it jumped and bucked along the edge of the ice, diving in and out of the snowy brush. It was a juvenile otter! It was very unusual (and very dangerous) for this little guy to be out and about without parental supervision. He worked his way around the pond edge to the sitting area in front of the cabin. He came up and inspected the patio and chairs and then went back out onto the ice and disappeared. Hopefully, he got to where ever he was going.


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Day 5 – My Journey: Fasting to Fortify – Spirituality-Science; Time-Space
Fasting on My Journey to My Soul Purpose
How can I claim to be a spiritual being if I don't follow Divine Guidance?
Each path is extraordinary and unique. The onus is on each of us to find our individual path and walk it. No one can lead you on that path and it is inappropriate for others to follow your path for each path is unique. There are those spiritual energies of a positive polarity and those existing on the material plane, who may help guide you in a general direction, but make no mistake, this path is yours alone to walk. Many may walk with you, parallel to your path and cross it, but like you they must honor their individual paths.
On this journey, we must use our intuition to seek out knowledge and information that will help us on our paths. Then use this knowledge to bolster ourselves on this journey. Reconciling this information on many levels is imperative, for the world before us is a perceived reality and to understand this truth one must delve into the world of science. It is in the reconciliation of Quantum Theory and the channeling of energy that we will unlock the secrets of The Universe. Within our space-time existence, we follow the laws of science created by space-time. It is in time-space, outside of space-time, that miracles occur, where science or the laws of science do not restrain our reality, our consciousness. We can remove our consciousness from this existence and create profound change as an individual, outside the collective consciousness1. This gift allows us to create profound change and perform what many perceive as miracles, but this ability is only accessible to those of the highest vibration. This is not only about clear, centered and balanced energy, this is about intention. Your intention must be of the highest good of all, never just the one. One cannot request this honor, it is bestowed upon the individual by energies such as Metatron2. We must release any negativity we carry, reconcile out past in the present, love the self and the world around us unconditionally and always act for the greatest good. This is what is being ask of us, this world provides the journey, the paths and the lessons preparing us for transcendence.
Consider the possibilities
Question: What exists outside space-time?
Answer: Ian Miller, PhD, FRSC, chemist, theoretician, author
This depends on what you mean by "spacetime"? One interpretation is that it is a mathematical construct necessary to make any headway in General Relativity. That by itself does not make it a physical entity, so your question then would be, what lies outside that mathematical construct, which I guess would mean extra dimensions as these are not within your definition.
There seems to be another interpretation that it is a physical entity, that can be sliced, bent, strained, etc. Either there is a physical entity or there is not. If there is not, then the answer is nothing physical, or everything physical, depending on how you interpret "what exists". If there is a physical entity, then either spacetime is a mathematical construct to superimpose on it to describe what happens, in which case I return to para 1. If spacetime is the physical entity, than I don't think we know because we cannot as yet define that entity.
On piece of evidence that there may be a physical entity is the constancy of the speed of light. That means that there is a constant base permittivity and permeability, which suggests that something is giving rise to that property.3
1Elephant Journal: "Connecting to the Collective Consciousness"
2Joanne Walmsely on Blogspot: Angels, Archangels and Ascended Masters – Archangel Metatron
3Quora: "What Exists Outside Space-Time?"
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Image 2 credit: Physics: Stack Exchange-Young's Double Slit Experiment Intuition on Constructive Interference in Two Dimensions


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In an ever-evolving world of aviation, there are more and more strategic partnerships being formed between airlines, as they seek to reposition themselves and adapt to a market in constant evolution. These partnerships have pushed airline cooperation to a new level, even more than the traditional big global alliances. In December 2016, Virgin Australia and Air Canada announced such a partnership.
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The rationale behind the move is pretty straightforward and solves a problem for Air Canada and Virgin. Per the Air Canada news page, the CEO of Air Canada Calin Rovinescu stated that "This agreement with Virgin Australia lays the groundwork for a mutually beneficial commercial cooperation that will offer Air Canada customers more travel options and frequent flyer benefits when traveling within Australia and New Zealand." This deal solves the problem for Air Canada which has daily flights from Vancouver to Brisbane and Sydney. But with no Star Alliance partners in Australia, there are very few options for passengers to make domestic connections on the same ticket.
The deal is not as big a problem solver for Virgin Australia since it already has a transpacific partnership with Delta. The main benefit for Virgin would be increasing the options for its transpacific clients, as well as strengthening their position in the Australian domestic market for incoming transpacific passengers. Although Delta is likely to remain the most important partner for Virgin Australia on trans-Pacific routes.
The Deal
The deal is structured in several phases. First, in early 2017 the companies will implement a codeshare agreement. This will give Air Canada passengers the option to book flights to 10 additional destinations in New Zealand and Australia. Virgin passengers arriving in Los Angeles will be able to carry on to Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary, and Montreal.
In the longer term, it will be possible for Air Canada passengers to earn Aeroplan miles on their domestic travel within Australia, although the details have yet to be announced. The second step of the agreement will see both airlines offering reciprocal redemptions for both their frequent flyer programs. There is also the plan for Virgin to codeshare Air Canada flights between Canada and Australia.
This is a great mutually beneficial deal for Air Canada and Virgin Australia and should help Air Canada grow its transpacific market, especially if it adds more routes into Australia. For Virgin, it will only strengthen its position and increase its market share in the domestic Australian market.
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Zainab's Message on Day of the Girl
Before attempting to tell Zainab's story, I would like to mention that I have 3 daughters, one only a few months shy of her 3rd birthday. I feel that it's important to share this simply because I thought of my own daughter as I was asking Zainab if she could remember anything about Syria, before she was forced to escape with her family at the tender age of three.
Her house in Syria was facing a school; she remembers hearing children laugh and play from the main balcony of her house. Twelve-year-old Zainab remembers her parents sitting together on the same balcony for hours on end and laughing the night away with her brothers. Thankfully, her memories didn't take up room in the few suitcases the family took with them at the beginning of the conflict. Dad has disappeared, his memory is met with silence and sorrow. Zainab's mother is Um Ibrahim, single parent to five boys and a girl. The family arrived in Za'atri Refugee Camp in 2012 thinking they'd escape the conflict for a week, but here they are seven years later.
Unfortunately, stories like these aren't hard too find. Since the start of the conflict, the Syrian crisis has displaced more than 6.6 million people internally and seen more than 5.6 million Syrians scattering across its borders in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan.
Zainab reminds me so much of my daughters as she describes her morning routine. Her mother, Um Ibrahim, smirks as Zainab explains that it takes her 30 minutes to get up and look presentable for school, and only five minutes to get there. She's quick to share what her father told her: "Go to school as you were going to a party, honour yourself, your friends and teachers."
"I love science, that's my favourite subject in school. I want to be a doctor when I grow up. I like taking care of my younger brother when he's not feeling well. I get him water and make sure he's comfortable and resting," she continues.
Zainab'sdetermination is obvious. You can see Um Ibrahim's radiant pride while listening to her daughter dream about her future.
"Education is so important. I regret that I didn't finish school, and that's why I always want to make sure that Zainab does." sI remember when we got the news that one girl from Za'atri got one of the highest grades in Jordan. What a proud moment that was for all of us here in the camp. That is something that I want my daughter to see and work towards."
Like her mother, Zainab has a definitive opinion about her academic success, "I think it's important for girls to go to school so that when they grow up they can do whatever they want to do. That way they can read, they can become doctors, they can do all that!"
The humanitarian crisis in Syria has devastating consequences for women and girls. From food insecurity to loss of educational opportunities, lack of health services and access, and high rates of gender-based violence, women and girls are facing the strain of the crisis. World Vision is addressing the needs of refugee women and girls and empowering them to learn skills and earn decent incomes. We're also helping them address gender-based violence, early marriage and child protection.
When I asked Zainab what her most profound dream for her future is, she immediately responded "I want to be in Syria. I just want to see my home and be with my aunts and uncles there, I miss them dearly."
I have seen Zainab and her mother happy. They are still going through a hard time and are still struggling. Even though Um Ibrahim has been through a lot of sorrow, her daily sacrifice for her children and her only daughter offers protection and gives them strength for the future. Their smiles are her reward. She knows deep inside her that in a near future, a peaceful Syria will benefit from a young female Doctor named Zainab.


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