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Kurtzman, MD, FACS Vice Chair, National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC) Waterbury Hospital Waterbury, CT Dr. Scott Kurtzman, a surgical oncologist, received his medical degree from the Albany Medical College of Union University in Albany, NY, and went on to complete a general surgery residency at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark. He completed surgical oncology fellowships at the National Cancer Institute, the NIH Surgery Branch, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City... Read more NAPBC Board of Directors Amy K. Alderman, MD, MPH, FACS Representing the American Society of Plastic Surgeons Dr. Amy K. Alderman has been in practice for more than 10 years, initially at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she was a tenured professor and now and in private practice in Atlanta, GA. 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Senior Program Coordinator -- Liberia
The Mitchell Group is a Washington, DC based government contractor specializing in international development work. Since its inception, TMG has offered substantive technical assistance to its clients and delivered results directly to the intended beneficiaries and stakeholders. We have successfully implemented more than 100 contracts worldwide (multiyear and short-term) for the US Agency for International Development, the US National Institutes of Health, the US Department of Energy, and our other clients.
The Senior Program Coordinator position is for a Clinical Research Program that provides comprehensive program coordination support to the NIAID Division of Clinical Research to support eradication of infectious diseases that include the global Ebola Virus Disease. This position located in Monrovia, Liberia.
Key Roles/Responsibilities:
The Sr. Program Coordinator:
· Conducts site supply needs assessments and identifies and requests program supplies to include, but not limited to; laboratory equipment/supplies, office supplies, and other operations supplies
· Oversees inventory logistics management (delivery and receipt)
· Coordinates in-country shipping and tracking
· Procures and manages equipment trainings and service maintenance agreements
· Communicates and interacts with high-level executive, administrative, technical and program management personnel, both internally and externally, to gather and compile information for dissemination
· Maintains various tracking systems using Microsoft Excel, SharePoint and other applicable job related software
· Compiles information, prepares reports, and handles informational requests from multiple stakeholders
· Assists in the collection and compilation of metrics data and operational accomplishments in support of reporting requirements
· Arranges and coordinates scientific meetings, seminars and conferences, including logistical matters such as locations, times, participants, agendas and schedules
· Oversees complex domestic and international travel logistics and arrangements per established Federal Travel Regulations (FTR)
· Prepares and/or assembles presentations, background information and related materials and information for meetings
· Prepares internal and external correspondence and memos, and transcribes and edits meeting minutes for final review
· Coordinates conference room scheduling/logistics and calendars for staff
· Receives telephone calls and makes proper referrals
· Assists with the monitoring of outside correspondence, including e-mail, fax, and mail
· Position located in Monrovia, Liberia.
Basic Qualifications:
To be considered for this position, you must minimally meet the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed below:
· Possession of a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university according to the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) in biomedical/clinical research or four (4) years related experience in lieu of degree
· Seven (7) years of progressively responsible administrative experience including two (2) years at the Program Coordinator or equivalent level
· Ability to perform and organize administrative processes to effectively and efficiently manage daily operations and coordinate program planning
· Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize multiple tasks and projects
· Experience in procurement acquisition and shipping
· Excellent communication skills, both verbally and in writing
· Proficiency in Microsoft Office software (Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint)
· Ability to stand, walk or sit for long periods of time
Preferred Qualifications:
Candidates with these desired skills will be given preferential consideration:
· International clinical research project support experience
· Health science or laboratory experience, particularly in infectious disease
· Familiarity with Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), Federal Travel Regulations (FTR), Department of Transportation (DOT) and International Air Transport Association (IATA) shipping regulations
· Experience working in Liberia or another African country
Vaccination Requirements:
· Employee would receive vaccinations required and determined by Occupational Health Services (OHS) and/or mandated by Federal Health Standard Regulations.
Application Process:
Applicants are strongly encouraged to attach a resume, cover letter, and list of 3 references in their application and email to liberiahr(at)liberiaerp.com no later than December 31st 2017.

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- Large Combo Deal$29.00Large Pizza, Large Garlic Pizza and 1.25L Drink.
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- Pork Ribs$24.90Smokey, Sticky and Slow Cooked Rack of Pork Ribs
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- Garlic Ciabbatta Bread$6.00
- Garlic Pizza$11.00with mozzarella topped with Fresh Herbs.
- Rustica Buffalo Wings$9.00True American Style Buffalo Wings served with your choice of Hot sauce, Barbeque, or Sesame Maple - SoyOut of stock
- Spinach Salad$10.00Baby Spinach, Smoked Bacon, Dried Cranberries, Maple Glazed Walnuts and Shaved Parmesan tossed in our house Mango-Poppy seed dressing
- Traditional Greek Salad$10.00Fresh Tomato wedges, Cucumber, Capsicum, Kalamata Olives, red Onion, and Feta topped with an olive oil Vinaigrette
- Rocket Salad$12.00Fresh Rocket Leaves, Goats Cheese, Cherry Tomatoes, Smoked Onion finished with our Fig Balsamic Dressing
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- The Baby CheesusDouble Cheese and Sauce. Chefs suggestions: anything goes!
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- MargheritaFresh Tomato Slices and Bocconcini topped with Fresh Basil
- HawaiianPremium Leg Ham with fresh chunks of Australian grown Pineapple
- PepperoniLashings of thinly sliced Pepperoni and double Mozzarella
- AustralianPremium Leg Ham, Lean Eye Bacon and a Freshly Cracked Egg
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- SupremePremium Leg ham, Spanish chorizo, Pepperoni, Roasted red Onion, Fresh Mushrooms, Green Capsicum and Kalamata Olives
- BBQ ChickenOven Roasted Chicken, Spanish Onion, Fresh Mushrooms and Bacon on a base of our house made BBQ sauce
- Veri Peri PeriOven Roasted Chicken, Wilted Spinach, Spanish Onion, Roasted Red Capsicum and Fresh Pineapple, finished with our Peri Peri Aioli Sauce
- Devine LambRoasted Lamb, Vine leaves, Roasted Onion, Fresh Tomato, Halloumi and Tzatziki sauce
- The Sloppy JoeA rich beef bolognaise base topped with premium Leg Ham, Eye Bacon, Garlic and Chilli
- Chicken PestoOven roasted Chicken, Spanish Chorizo, Wilted Spinach, Roasted Red Capsicum and Fresh Mushrooms Topped with a Pesto Aioli
- Rustica SpecialItalian Sausage, Pepperoni, Roasted Red Onions, Mushrooms, Crushed Garlic, Red Roasted Capsicum and Semi Dried Tomatoes
- BBQ Meat LoversPremium Leg Ham, Pepperoni, Oven Roasted Chicken and Bacon, with Roasted Red Onion on our own BBQ sauce
- The EsplanadeOven Roasted Chicken with Fresh field Mushrooms, Smoked Brie and Fontina Cheese topped off with Dried Cranberries and Maple Glazed Walnuts
Available only during 10:00 am - 10:00 am
- Prosciutto and PrawnMarinated Tiger Prawns, thinly sliced Prosciutto, Roasted Red Onion, Cranberries and Fontina Cheese.
- CapriMarinated Tiger Prawns with Roasted Red Onion, Cherry Tomatoes, all on Garlic Butter Base, garnished with Feta Cheese and Fresh Basil.
- Garlic Prawn and ChorizoMarinated Tiger Prawns, Chorizo, Spanish Onion, Roasted Red Capsicum topped with Lemon Aioli.
- CrocodileHouse Smoked Crocodile on Bush Tomato Chutney, Baby Spinach, Roasted Red Onion, Duck Fat Roasted Potato and Brie Cheese sprinkled with Pomegranate Arils.
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- Lasagne$13.00
- Spinach and Ricotta Cannelloni$14.00
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- Fungus AmongusMarinated Button and Field Mushrooms, Forest Mushrooms, Fresh Field Mushrooms and Dutch Smoked Cheese, garnished with Rosemary Ricotta and Truffle Oil
- RatatouilleClassic Mix of Capsicum, Zucchini, Eggplant, Spanish Red Onion cooked up with Fresh Oregano and Crushed Garlic topped with Feta Cheese and Fresh Basil
- PumpkinRoasted Pumpkin, Baby spinach, Roasted Red Onion, Goats Feta, Pinenuts and Garlic with a drizzle of Honey
- Cherry BombOven roasted Cherry Tomatoes with Wilted Baby Spinach, Roasted Red Onion, Kalamata Olives topped with Feta Cheese and Basil
- The 6 CheesesMozzarella, Brie, Halloumi, Fontina Cheese, Goats Cheese and Feta topped with Quince Balsamic
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- Born AgainShaved Vegan Ham, field Mushrooms finished with Kalamata Olives
- Fire and SpiceVegan Pepperoni, Roasted Spanish Onion, Fire Roasted Capsicum and Chilli flakes
- Neva Met HerbivoreShaved Vegan ham and Vegan Pepperoni, Roasted Spanish Onion, Fresh Mushroom, and Green Capsicum garnished with Kalamata Olives
- Sunday VegeROAST VEG topped with our House Vegan Pesto Sauce
- Garden of EdenAvocado and Pesto Base, Baby Spinach, Pumpkin, Artichokes, Red Roasted Capsicum, Cherry Tomato, Fresh Herbs and a drizzle of Garlic Oil
- Foragers FieldMarinated Field Mushrooms, Fresh Mushrooms, Kalamata Olives topped with Thyme and Truffle oil
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- Nutella Calzone$13.00Nutella, Strawberries, Sprinkled With Icing Sugar
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- Gelato$11.50
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- 1.25L Coke No Sugar$4.50
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Kastner Volleyball Sends 3 to Jr. Olympics
Fresno, CA —
In case you didn't know, the Rage Volleyball Club out of Stockton is AWESOME.
And here are some of the reasons they're awesome: 8th graders Alex Wright, Morgan Hebert , and Ashlynne Davis!
They all go to Kastner Intermediate right now.
They'll be at Clovis West next year.
These three and their teammates have now qualified for the junior Olympics in Minnesota!
That happens June 24-28.
The rage took first place out of 140 teams at a tournament in Reno to earn the trip.
But it's a pretty expensive one: $3,500.
The girls set up a Go-Fund-Me page if you'd like to help get them there.
Here's the link for that!


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Cities are getting better at combatting and responding to terrorist attacks, but the evolution of threats requires further coordinated worldwide action, said panellists during a Friends of Europe Policy Insight debate 'Terror and the city: boosting urban resilience to violent extremism' on 22 February.
Paul Argyle, Strategic Advisor to the Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Manchester attributed part of the widely-praised reaction to the Manchester attack in May 2017 on the basis of a generic response.
"We use the same plan when we respond to an incident, so that we have the same command-and-control structures. We then support that with plans for specific scenarios," he said.
The 2016 attack in Nice, when a truck was deliberately driven into crowds of people, showed the difficulty of dealing with attacks using vehicles. One way is to change urban design by restricting access to pedestrian areas with physical barriers.
Other solutions were proposed by the private sector, such as the use of drones for disaster recovery. Emmanuelle Pierrard, Head for Energy, Transport and Public Sector at Nokia Benelux explained that the company is investing in drones equipped with intelligence capable of spotting heat and motion, as well as in video and data analytics that could be used to spot an anomaly in a crowd, enabling security forces to act to prevent an attack.
Government structures are also critical. European Union initiatives such as the Schengen Information System have improved in their ability to track potential terrorists. But implementation is the responsibility of individual member states, some of whom are reluctant. Staying ahead of the latest violent methods deployed by terrorists needs constant learning, developing new techniques and adopting best practices.
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Last weekend we spend our time in Arniston also know as Waenhuiskrans in the Overberg. Main reason was we wanted to get away a couple of days from the Internet and just do nothing.
Therefore Arniston is the perfect place as you can not really do much there 😉 Arniston inherited its name from the transport ship H.M.S. Arniston which ran aground here in 1815. 372 of the passengers on board went down with it, only 6 survived.
The village's official name is Waenhuiskrans, named after a cave in the area which was big enough to house several ox-wagons in. It is the only town in South Africa with two official names.
Coming from Cape Town we decided to stop in Hermanus for lunch and saw a few whales near the shore. Heading east over Stanford, Napier and Bredasdorp we reached Arniston on Friday afternoon.
We checked in at the Arniston Seaside Cottages as we took our Rigdeback with us and they welcome dogs 😉
Saturday we made a trip to Cape L'Agulhasm the southern-most point of the African continent and made a nice walk along the beach there. As you can see from the photo our dog loved to be the southern-most pet of Africa at this point of time.
Next was the Bredasdorp Shipwreck Museum which gives one an brief overview of the rich local maritime history. Back in Arniston we decided on having dinner at the Arniston Hotel. The food was delicious, staff friendly and lightning fast and we had a nice end of a lazy Saturday. On Sunday after a 2 hour drive we where back in Cape Town.
Have you been in Arniston? How do you like it? Let us know and leave your comment in our Cape Town Active Blog. http://cape-town-active.com
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Thu January 19th, 2017
Main Space
Minimum Age: All Ages
Doors Open: 6:00PM
Show Time: 7:00PM
Event Ticket: $20 / $15
Day of Show: $25 / $20
Adam Tendler w/ JACK Quartet
Serial Copland
Piano Variations | Piano Quartet | Piano Fantasy
Serial Copland features the stunning abstract masterpieces of American composer Aaron Copland, including the Piano Variations (1930), Piano Quartet (1950) and Piano Fantasy (1955-57). Performed by pianist Adam Tendler and the JACK Quartet, artists recognized for their electrifying live performances and commanding interpretations, Serial Copland gives audiences a rare opportunity to experience the lesser-known side of an American icon.
Table Seating: $20 advance, $25 day of show
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Adam Tendler has been called "an exuberantly expressive pianist" who "vividly displayed his enthusiasm for every phrase" by The Los Angeles Times, an "intrepid…outstanding…maverick pianist" by The New Yorker, a "modern-music evangelist" by Time Out New York, and a pianist who "has managed to get behind and underneath the notes, living inside the music and making poetic sense of it all," by The Baltimore Sun, which continued, "if they gave medals for musical bravery, dexterity and perseverance, Adam Tendler would earn them all." New York Times critic Anthony Tommasini wrote that Tendler played an outdoor performance of John Cage's music "captivatingly," and that "the wondrously subdued sounds silenced many, who listened closely even as street bustle and chirping birds blended in." London critic Frances Wilson described Tendler's memorized performance of Morton Feldman's Palais de Mari at St. John's Smith Square as "a concentrated listening experience…meditative, intense and beautifully poised." Tendler has performed solo recitals in all fifty United States, and his memoir about the experience, 88×50, was a 2014 Kirkus Indie Book of the Month and Lambda Literary Award Nominee. 2015 saw the release of his premiere recording of Edward T. Cone's 21 Little Preludes for piano on the Ebb & Flow label.
JACK Quartet
Deemed "superheroes of the new music world" (Boston Globe), the JACK Quartet is "the go-to quartet for contemporary music, tying impeccable musicianship to intellectual ferocity and a take-no-prisoners sense of commitment." (Washington Post) "They are a musical vehicle of choice to the next great composers who walk among us." (Toronto Star)
The recipient of Lincoln Center's Martin E. Segal Award, New Music USA's Trailblazer Award, and the CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, JACK has performed to critical acclaim at Carnegie Hall (USA), Wigmore Hall (United Kingdom), Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ (Netherlands), IRCAM (France), Kölner Philharmonie (Germany), the Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), La Biennale di Venezia (Italy), Suntory Hall (Japan), Bali Arts Festival (Indonesia), Festival Internacional Cervatino (Mexico), and Teatro Colón (Argentina).
Comprising violinists Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman, violist John Pickford Richards, and cellist Jay Campbell, JACK is focused on new work, leading them to collaborate with composers John Luther Adams, Chaya Czernowin, Simon Steen-Andersen, Caroline Shaw, Helmut Lachenmann, Steve Reich, Matthias Pintscher, and John Zorn. Upcoming and recent premieres include works by Derek Bermel, Cenk Ergün, Roger Reynolds, Toby Twining, and Georg Friedrich Haas.
JACK operates as a nonprofit organization dedicated to the performance, commissioning, and spread of new string quartet music. Dedicated to education, the quartet spends two weeks each summer teaching at New Music on the Point, a contemporary chamber music festival in Vermont for young performers and composers. JACK has a long-standing relationship with the University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program, where they teach and collaborate with students each fall. Additionally, the quartet makes regular visits to schools including Columbia University, Harvard University, New York University, Princeton University, Stanford University, and the University of Washington.
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Arizona's football team got curbstomped on the field Saturday night in Tempe, losing 58-21 to Arizona State for the Wildcats' worst loss in the Territorial Cup series since 1996.
But the night wasn't a total loss, as the NSFW video above shows.
Apparently, at some point during the loooooong night for the Wildcats and their fans, one older UA backer was getting teased by some younger mustard-and-maroon-clad guys in the upper deck. It's a good thing we live in an age where someone is always watching, or else we wouldn't have been blessed to see maybe the best kick-to-the-face found outside of a Jean-Claude Van Damme flick.
What's the lesson learned from this? Razzing the opposing team's fans is one thing, but if you take it past icing, him, bro, you're going to get a sensible shoe to the grill.
H/T to Deadspin for sharing this nugget with the world.
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From SaukValley.com: Charles R. "Cork" Walgreen III, 80, of Lake Forest, IL, former president, CEO, chairman of the board, and chairman emeritus of the iconic U.S.-based drugstore chain Walgreen Co., died Monday, Sept. 26, 2016, at his home in Lake Forest.
He was 80 years old, and the grandson of Charles R. Walgreen Sr., who founded the 115-year-old pharmacy retailer.
An avid sailing enthusiast and golfer, he was a member of Sailfish Point Club in Stuart, Florida, Lake Winnipesaukee Golf Club in New Durham, New Hampshire, and the Exmoor Country Club in Highland Park.
In 2004, he donated $2 million to his alma mater, the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy, to establish a professorship focusing on researching the socio-economics of health care policies, regulations, and ethics.
Walgreen III is credited with significant strategic changes that powered Walgreen Co.'s growth for decades to come.
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The numbers are in for the first big fundraising quarter of the 2018 election cycle, and like any important fundraising period, the results have provided both answers and questions for many campaigns.
As we've said many times in this space, fundraising numbers are often a good barometer of the relative strength or weakness of a campaign – particularly at this stage in the cycle. Fundraising reports are less informative the closer we get to Election Day because it is more difficult to account for independent expenditures, PACs, and other outside spending. But when you are a year out from the Primary and 18 months from the General Election, these numbers can be a terrific guide into how a race is starting to take shape.
Fundraising is about money, of course, but it is a mistake to write off fundraising reports as just a singular piece of financial information. Fundraising reports tells us how much money was raised, but also where it came from and how it was spent. Big donations from out-of-state interests tell a different story than hundreds of small-dollar donations within the boundaries of a given district.
Most importantly, fundraising reports tell us a lot about the perception and support for a particular campaign. Think of it like sports betting; people make all sorts of bets on a given sporting event, but by and large, the big money goes with the outcome that is perceived to be the most likely. Everyone wants to back a winner – it's human instinct. Of course, there are always exceptions to this rule – including some that we will point out in a moment – but in general you can learn a lot from early money in politics.
We've been sifting through fundraising reports for the biggest races in Colorado, and in a series of posts that follow, we'll tell you what we've learned …
If You've Got the Money, Honey, You've Got More Time
Wealthy candidates are not a new phenomenon in Colorado, but we're seeing the beginning of a potentially-troubling trend in the early fundraising reports from Q2: Candidates with deep pockets aren't even trying to raise money.
Former one-term Republican lawmaker Victor Mitchell has earned a lot of money from various business ventures over the years, and he's apparently planning on spending a good chunk of those earnings in his bid for Governor. Mitchell seeded his gubernatorial campaign with a $3 million check in February, but raised just $13,098 in the period ending on June 30. Likewise, Democrat Jared Polis is putting a lot of his own fortune into his bid for Governor and is only accepting contributions of $100 or less. Other candidates, such as Mitt Romney's Nephew (aka, Republican Doug Robinson), have said that they plan to rely on hefty sums from their personal fortunes in the months to come. This is a tremendous financial advantage for candidates who can afford it, but it's more than that; if you don't have to spend 30+ hours on the phone each week trying to raise money, that's more time that you can be out meeting voters and gathering broader support.
This disadvantage is one of the reasons that Democrat Ed Perlmutter – at the time, the prohibitive favorite — withdrew from the gubernatorial race earlier this month. It also makes things much more difficult for candidates who also have a day job to worry about; Republican George Brauchler had an awful Q2 , and he's going to have trouble just keeping his campaign afloat while he maintains his position as District Attorney in Arapahoe County.
Candidates for Governor in Colorado can only accept maximum contributions of $1,150 from any one individual – technically, $575 for the Primary and $575 for the General Election – which makes it that much more difficult for non-wealthy candidates to catch up to their cash-flush opponents. Even if every person on your call list agrees to donate the maximum amount, it still takes hours upon hours of phone time to collect.
There used to be more of a stigma associated with wealthy candidates who sought to bankroll campaigns for higher office, which compelled them to spend more time and energy raising money. For whatever reason, that stigma seems to be fading.


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Public schools will walk away from this legislative session with a budget that's either good or very good, but money isn't everything. Education policy matters, too, and one piece of policy worth following is House Bill 2153, sought by Portland Public Schools. As approved by the House last week, it would allow a handful of school districts to serve as judge, jury and executioner for proposed charter schools.
Because the Senate – thank goodness – seems to place a greater value on educational innovation and parental choice, the bill's most obnoxious element may soon be eliminated. Even so, the process offers an unflattering peek at one of the Portland district's top priorities and the House's willingness to grant it.
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Address Oregon's tax structure
Grow jobs and income
Improve educational funding and function
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Charters are state-funded schools operated with some autonomy by parents, teachers or other groups interested in expanding educational choices. To protect both students and taxpayer money, charters operate with the oversight of the sponsoring entity, usually the local school district. Think of them as educational laboratories funded and held accountable by the public.
This arrangement isn't always a happy one, however. There's a built-in tension between charter schools and their sponsoring districts, which compete for students and the money that comes along with them. The process by which charters are established ensures that they're treated fairly, and it's that process that Portland Public Schools has tried to short-circuit.
A group that wants to start a charter school applies first to its local school district, which determines whether it meets numerous legal standards. If the local district gives the thumbs-down, applicants may ask the state Board of Education to sponsor the school. The state board usually agrees with the local school district, says Whitney Grubbs, policy adviser to the Oregon Education Investment Board. But the appeal option forces districts to take charter applications seriously. Without this check on their authority, local school boards presumably would stomp on prospective charters left and right.
The big boots behind HB2153 belong to Portland Public Schools, which would like to push charter school applicants to focus on areas district officials consider important, not those that charter applicants might consider important. To that end, the bill would allow districts to rank applications according to educational priorities set by the district and reject those found wanting. Applications rejected for this reason would not be eligible for appeal.
Not every district would get this special power, only those in which charter advocates have had the most success. To qualify, a district would have to have at least three charter schools (Portland has 10), and charters would have to serve at least 3 percent of students (it's 4 percent in Portland). Even so, limiting appeals would represent a disturbing step in the wrong direction.
The "whole point of the charter law is that you're able to allow for avenues and pathways for students to have different choices and some mechanism for creating competition within the district," says Grubbs. It's "concerning when you're talking about removing the only nonbiased review that an applicant could have."
Indeed. That's why Grubbs pushed the bill's supporters to restore the appeal option before it came up for a vote in the House. Supporters refused, and the House gave school choice a stiff-arm by a vote of 37 to 23. The Senate must be a much tougher crowd, however. David Williams, Portland schools' government relations director, says appeal-related amendments are now in the works.
That certainly would be an improvement. However, the law still would allow school districts to pit charter applicants against each other rather than reviewing them on their own merits, and that's inconsistent with the charter law's intent, says Kaaren Heikes, executive director of the Northwest Center for Educational Options.
She has a point. So why not let the bill die?


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Force by Habit
As a freelancer, it is crucial to develop habits.
Since I am no longer restricted normally associated with confinement to an office space, I need to learn how to manage my time properly.
When I started, I spend most of my time on Facebook and Youtube because nobody is regulating my online activity. As a result, I didn't get anything done.
It's a frustrating transition because you really need to want yourself to work. It's not because you have to. Without producing work as a freelancer, there will be no income for you. That's on top of looking for clients who are willing to roll the dice with you, which is another subject on its own.
However, I am confident to say that I have been killing it as a freelancer. I am now working with steady clients who pay handsomely. I am also able to balance the time to do my passion projects as an aspiring online entrepreneur.
All in all, I'd say the transition has been a success.
However, I'd like to go back to the importance of developing winning. And it's not just any kind of habit. It should be winning habits.
You need to learn how to train yourself to work in a certain rhythm and schedule so you can produce high-quality work on a consistent basis. Even with deadlines looming over your head, you will be able to manage because you have a system in place that allows you to process all the orders and get them done in an organized manner.
This is what developing winning habits has helped me with.
So how can you develop your own then?
There is no one-size-fits-all answer to this question. Everybody is different and requires a particular answer that suits their personality and lifestyle.
For me, I was able to develop winning habits through exercise.
I view exercise more as a way to maintain my health. At 32 years of age, I need to find a way to maintain my performance at an optimum level, both physically and mentally. Before I started my exercise regiment, I found myself tired all day, not to mention sluggish in my work.
By using exercise as a medium to improve myself in a holistic sense, I was able to focus more, do more, and kick ass.
An important note about starting with my exercise regiment: I didn't do this because I want to lose weight or look good. I believe this is such a bullshit reason to exercise. First of all, once you've achieved your goal, you tend to slack off and miss your exercise days until you're back to the same weight you started before you exercised.
I fell into the same trap before. Months before getting married, I started the Insanity workout by Shaun T. It's a highly effective exercise program that spanned two months of various workouts focusing on different parts of the body. While I only finished 1 1/2 months of it due to back pain, I lost 15 pounds.
However, I immediately regained the lost pounds eventually. Not to mention, the commitment required to pull out the whole program is not sustainable. I cannot sacrifice an hour a day, every day to exercise. Not to mention, the time it takes to prepare yourself, cool down, and take a bath will cost you another hour.
Therefore, after getting the weight back, I promised to exercise once again. This time, however, I'm doing this for the people I love. I'm doing this because I want to increase my resistance so I can keep working and provide for them. I'm exercising because I want to be strong enough to carry them on my back when there's a fire and they need to be carried out of a building.
(Honestly, this is one of the reasons why I am exercising. I told this to my wife and she found it silly. Still, I really feel strongly about it for some reason.)
Also, instead of exercising every day, I exercise every other day so I have a break once in a while.
The exercises I did were 30+ minutes of HIIT exercises from Fitness Blender (an amazing Youtube channels with lots of exercise programs for all levels – I highly recommend that you check this out). Below is my current favorite workout video.
Regarding going to the gym, I like the idea of working out with all the equipments in front of you at a controlled setting where other people share the same goals as you. But I thought to myself, if I can exercise in the comforts of my home, why do I have to leave?
Now, I have lost a bit of weight to start the year – five pounds and counting. I also feel more positive and productive throughout the day, not to mention stronger and healthier in general.
The habit of exercising has helped me develop and sharpen my skills, and I hope that, if you try out exercising, you would feel the same results.
How about you? Are you exercising? What is the reason why you exercise in the first place? Any recommendations for exercise videos that you'd like me to do? Feel free to comment below with your thoughts and let's talk about it!


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Most people are having problems with how to manage their finances properly. Those who are truly desperate to make a lot of money turn to investing binary options since it is one of the forms of trading that has high returns. But this is only possible if your prediction is on the spot. It is a very risky form of trading, but if you know your basics right, you will have great returns. Some even say that binary options, traded at Banc de Binary, are similar to gambling. However, there are other beginners of binary options trading that got victimized with using an auto trading software called the Quantum Code.
What is the Quantum Code? It is a software designed in the same way that other binary options trading software does. The purpose of the software is to utilize the algorithm made by the trader in predicting and getting signals. The software will alert the user of any possible trade; then the trader will be the one to determine whether it is a good bet or not. There are also features in which it will do all the trading by itself, but with constant monitoring so as not to lose a lot of their investments. Among these binary options software, there are some of them that claim to make you millions every month just using it. The offer does sound too good to be true, but it has victimized a lot of investors anyway.
The software Quantum Code is a company of the same name by the owner and CEO Michael Crawford. He claims to be a wealthy man with millions in the bank and also a philanthropist. He even picked up a name for himself, known as the "Millionaire Trader" and the "wizard of Wall Street." His name also got featured in one of the most popular magazines of all time, Forbes. These are all detailed in his video pitch as you enter the official website of the software.
But which part of the software is a scam? Scam software has common traits shared with each other. The first red flag is how they claim traders can earn millions from just using the software, especially when it is indicated with the figures $1,892,460. This is almost 2 million every month. This would only be understandable if you owned a lot of businesses and added to that you invest in stock markets, but generating almost 2 million per month from a single source is already screaming "scam".
Experts have even done their research by finding out who truly is this Michael Crawford. It turns out that the guy of that name that is behind the company and software Quantum Code. There is a name like that working in the New York Times magazine, but his position is an editor. What's more, he is not a philanthropist nor a famous millionaire. There is no address as to where the company is even doing its operations. If the address and contact number is non-existent, much less the man behind the operations is not even in the records, you can already tell that it is a scam.


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A few weeks ago I was in a meeting where someone asked the question "why has project management focussed on process and forgotten that it is actually people that deliver projects?"
Is the hypothesis posed by the question true – is it people that deliver projects and has the profession focussed too much on process? I think it is. How many times have we been into organisations where everyone has PRINCE2 – yet no idea how to deliver projects in the real world? Project management job advertisements seem to universally ask for process-based qualifications. There was even a Programme Director role I saw advertised recently, with responsibility for major capital programmes running into hundreds of millions of pounds, which asked for PRINCE2 accreditation. I may be missing something, but quite which of the PRINCE processes would have been relevant in such a role escapes me.
Reflecting back on my own career I thought that although I couldn't necessarily answer why we have focussed on process, I might be able to shed some light on how it has happened. Back in the 1970's and 1980's we did our formal management training, which was largely generic, covering both operations and strategy. Some of us, in professions such as civil engineering, also studied project management, which seemed to focus on planning, particularly critical path analysis and Gantt charts. Managers who were considered 'good' managers in other disciplines would be given projects to run. In the late 1980's early 90's, with the failure of a number of large projects (particularly in IT), we began to realise that successful project managers needed something more than general management and planning skills. New tools, techniques and processes were developed, evolving into PRINCE (now PRINCE2) which the project manager could use to supplement a generic management skills base and the developing Body of Knowledge.
In recent years these 'methodologies' as they are often called have become the required accreditation for project managers. The basic skill-set that used to be a prerequisite for any professional management role has somehow been forgotten in project management. As a profession, and particularly as we move towards chartered status, we need to bring it back.
Surely, if I want to be a good project manager then I need to be a good manager first. Project managers need specialist skills and knowledge to be effective in their profession – but fundamentally they need to be good managers, and that is really about knowing how to manage people.


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One of the most efficient ways of burning fat is through interval training or sometime better known as High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT). HIIT involves alternating between low intensity and high intensity work rates. Apart from being one of the most effective ways to burn fat, there are also other benefits of HIIT such as it helps to boost your metabolism and can help to break through plateaus.
Another great thing about a cross trainer interval workout is that the workouts tend to only last between 10 and 15 minutes instead of the 30 to 60 minutes of steady state cardio the majority of people do. You will also find that despite the workout being shorter you will still get an aerobic fitness level increase as your body will become more efficient and will actually help to improve your steady state workouts when/ if you decide to do one again.
I have put together a workout that you can follow and give it a go yourself.
I would only recommend this workout of users that have already built up a satisfactory level of fitness as this is a very intense workout and could be a bit of a shock to the system.
Step 1 – Warm Up
Spend 5 minutes getting your body ready for the hard part. Set a low speed on your elliptical trainer and maintain it for 5 minutes. I would then recommend to spend a couple of minutes stretching so that your muscles are nice a loose to avoid any pulls and possibly causing yourself injury.
Step 2 – The Workout
In this workout you have two different phases, the work phase and recovery phase. During the work phase you are going as fast as you possibly can at the maximum resistance you can handle. In the recovery phase you reduce the resistance to a level where you are able to catch your breath and maintain this level. Some people stop exercising during the recovery phase but I wouldn't recommend it as it is good to keep the muscles moving and get the oxygenated blood into the muscle and help the lactic acid to disperse.
Work Phase
Recovery Phase
Step 3 – Warm Down
Once you have finished doing all of you work phases it is important to warm down properly. Put the resistance down and maintain a nice and comfortable pace for between 3 – 5 minutes allowing your body to slowly cool down. You should also perform some stretches again helping to disperse that lactic acid and it will help with your recovery so that you are able to walk the following day!
This workout is simple but effective. Once you have done this workout a couple of times, if you find that you feel the recovery phase is slightly too long then feel free to reduce it, or try to increase the resistance in the work phase as you want to be working at your maximum intensity.
This is a great cross trainer workout but it can also be used on other types of exercise equipment so don't be afraid of giving it a go. I hope you enjoy this workout and it helps you to burn those few extra pounds of fat you want to lose.
If you haven't decided whether a cross trainer is right for your requirements, then make sure to take a look at our home cross trainer guide, which should help you find a good one.


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the army of the dead then, we find all in whom life is
found wanting. There are those who are luckless by
nature - cripples, cowards and fools for the first
essential of luck was a sound body and sane wits. Even
in modern times, the peasants of the north have been
inclined to place the deformed in the same ill-omened
class as thieves and honourless murderers; and when in
olden times care was taken as far as possible to avoid
the entry of such wretched beings into existence at all,
it was because any lack of the full external human
character was regarded as a crime, and not as a
misfortune in the modern sense. Others again, were born
lucky, and then one fine day before they were aware,
came the giant thrusting his head up in the midst of
their luck. Death could leap out on a sudden, so that
the man without warning felt his soul sundered. A defeat
was peril enough. If the strong man met a stronger, who
drove him suddenly out from land and luck, then he sank
down, surely and beyond help, into the base estate of a
niding, gradually losing both will and power to assert
himself. Among the defeated and captured, all nobility
was forced out by servile fear and inactivity. There is
a force of reality in Fafnir's words when he reminds
Sigurd that his father fell unavenged, and that his
mother had been taken as a slave: Had you grown up in
the circle of kinsmen, one might see you in mighty
strokes; now, you are a thrall and a captive, and men
know that one in bonds is ever trembling. When
the Norwegian poet, filled with the Christian conviction
of the uncertainty of earthly things, seeks
an instance from life showing the falseness of riches,
he says: They did not believe, Unnar and Sævaldi,
that luck could fail them, but they became naked and
bereft of all; and the thought of its own speed tears
him headlong into the concluding line: and they ran
as wolves to the forest.
can hardly wonder, then, at the restless eagerness with
which Earl Hakon the Younger thrusts aside the thought
of lucklessness when Olaf spiritually follows up his
victory over him by saying: It is no lie that you
kinsmen are handsome men, but there is an end of your
luck (hamingja). Nay, answers Hakon, nay,
this is no unluck (unhamingja) that is come upon us, it
has long been so, that chieftains have taken victory by
turns; I am as yet hardly grown beyond child's years,
and we were not prepared to have to stand on the defence;
we did not look for strife, and it may yet come about
that we prove more fortunate another time. The
feverish breathlessness of these words betrays a lurking
fear, which the experiences of the past have stamped
down into the soul. And on the other hand, if the wreck
of life were not so unmistakable a fact, there would
have been no room for the paradox that men at times lost
their freedom and yet seemed to retain something of
their luck. She was the queen's washing maid or
slave woman and yet not altogether luckless, says
a Norse version referring to Alfhild, Olaf's mistress
and mother of Magnus the Good.
the fall might come stealthily, as when powers and
fortune in some inexplicable fashion withered away, and
a man felt his leap and his blow fall ever wide of their
mark. In the Beowulf's description of King Heremod we
feel the growing uneasiness of the body-guard, as they
watch the niding grimace day by day showing through the
features of the prince: He did not grow up for the
joy of the Scyldings, but for slaughter and bitter death
to the Danes. Swollen with ire he caused the undoing of
his board-fellows, his shoulder-companions, till he
passed, the proud king, lonely from this joyful world.
And yet the mighty God had raised him high above all men
and strengthened him with power and blissful command,
but in his breast grew blood-fierce thoughts. He gave no
rings to his Danes, as was due. Joyless he bided the
time when he gathered the harvest of his deeds:
long-lasting war in the land, when he, as it is
actually stated, fell among giants, the rabble of
Utgard, and ended his life as a niding.
Iceland, we have, in the Grettir saga, the story of a
man in whom barrenness grew from early times. He was
strong and quick-witted enough to all appearance,
fearless and active, but his counsels and his actions
always went apart, so that the results recoiled upon
himself. It would seem as if his great struggle with the
monster Glam formed the commencement of his unluck, and
this is also a good old thought, which naturally finds
expression in the curse of the dying creature, when he
declares that his conqueror's every plan shall from
thenceforward turn to misfortune and dishonour. But even
before this fateful event the marks were visible in
Grettir. There is a record of the words his uncle spoke
before the combat with the monster: It is truly said
that luck is one thing, quickness another, and again:
There are men who see a little way ahead, but cannot
guard against what they see. And far earlier even
yet, wise men such as Thorarin the Wise had seen enough
to beware of the wild fellow with his iron strength;
when his foster-son Bardi has engaged Grettir's help for
his great expedition of vengeance, Thorarin earnestly
protests: True enough, Grettir is a man far beyond
others, and weapons will be slow to bite on him if his
luck holds, but I have no faith in that luck; and it
were well for you not to have only men of ill luck in
your following. And it was settled as Thorarin
Glam had prophesied, so it came about. When Grettir
once, at a critical moment, saved the life and health of
his companions by swimming across to the mainland of
Norway and bringing back fire to the outlying rocks
where they were near to perishing, he brought about,
against his will, a misfortune that gained him many
bitter enemies in Iceland. When he came rushing into the
house, covered with ice, the people thought him a
monster, and laid about with sticks and brands from the
hearth, so that he barely managed to escape with the
glowing embers he had taken, but the sparks had caught
the straw on the floor, and in the morning nothing
remained of the place but a heap of ashes. And among
those burned to death were two sons of Thorir Skeggjason
of Adaldal, a powerful Icelandic yeoman. Grettir obtains
permission from King Olaf to clear himself of suspicion
by the ordeal of fire, but in the carrying out of the
test, his unluck runs away with him, and he
strikes a boy who jeers at him, knocking him down, and
this in God's house. Again the melancholy word is spoken
of him: You are a man of sore ill luck, Grettir, and
it will not be easy to amend it. And now he drifts
irresistibly into endless outlawry, farther and farther
into nidinghood, till he ends as the miserable victim of
showing of the growth of nidinghood in Grettir is one of
the greatest and most poignant pieces of evidence as to
the power of mortal fear upon men's minds. One might go
so far as to admire the freebooter, but one could not
wrest the thoughts and words in which admiration must be
clothed up out of the deep soil of uncanny gloom in
which they were rooted.
too, of northern modes of thought is the disinclination
to stop at a certain deed as the starting point of
nidinghood; men felt constrained to hark back and find
the symptoms in earlier acts. Thus when Sigurd Slembi,
the Norwegian pretender of the 12th century, came to
claim the crown to which he considered himself sole heir
after the killing of his brother, his unlucky deed at
once sets folk thinking of his birth: If you are
really a son of Magnus and Thora, then your birth was
unlucky, and so also it has fallen out, if you have
slain your brother. True enough, the single act, or
refraining from action a murder, cowardly behaviour,
breach of oath, unavenged killing, stealing form an
absolute beginning, giving birth to nidinghood in the
life of the person concerned; it is the source of his
unluck, as men say in Norway. The Northman would
thoroughly understand, and heartily agree with, the
utterance of the Anglo-Saxon anent those retainers of
the king's who by their base flight brought shame upon
their race; when he says: No more shall any of their
clan now grasp joyously at the gold, this now
would strike the Northman's ear with all its fateful
weight. But the source sets thoughts on the
look-out for earlier symptoms. It was the man's
misfortune that he failed to take vengeance, but why was
no vengeance taken? Well, there is not time to ask for
an answer, for all remember at once something that
happened long ago. The niding's whole past is raised up
to witness against him, because nidinghood, when all is
said and done, is but the outcome of an inner flaw in
luck. He would never have committed this first villainy
of his, if he had not been inwardly marked by his
constitution. What the Northmen mean by source is really
this: at this moment the villainy that lay hid in him
came to light in this act, and from this act his whole
life was infected.
death can just as easily strike from behind upon the
doer of quite harmless acts. If the clan have not
strength to carry through their kinsman's cause by force
of arms, or at worst by a fine, and therefore buys peace
by sacrificing the culprit, then he becomes a hopeless
niding and a wolf-man for such honourable acts of
aggression as homicide or open violent attack upon his
neighbour's goods. And the peril lies in wait for a man
beyond the grave as well as here. A hero who prefers
death to a life in shame, and buries himself under his
honour and his luck, has not by any means ensured his
existence for ever. If he be given up by his kinsmen, or
fall as the last of his people, so that none is
left to take up the inheritance, then there is every
danger of his turning evil, and haunting men and beasts
as a demon the more terrible in proportion to his might
in the days of his life. It is not only the thoughts of
the living that are bewildered by pain when the clan is
obliged to leave one of its members unavenged when
they must let him lie unholy, as the Northmen said, with
a word intimating that the unavenged is deprived of his
dignity and worth.
dead man sickens and pines away with the living, and the
future before him when life stops is so horrible, that
the fear of the family's dying out can throughout many
centuries compete with all the terrors of hell and
deprive them of their power over men's souls. And the
danger will at all times be equally great, however many
happy years the dead man may have behind him. There are
nidings yonder, out in the world of night, who were once
honest dead; they have not found reincarnation, because
the clan declined and became extinct; they have not been
kept alive by clever and careful kinsmen, and then comes
the time when men learn who it was that lived on the
place in former days.
is no terror in the dweller of a barrow when he can be
proved to be a kinsman. In the saga, Hervor goes out
confidently to her father Angantyr's barrow and greets
him as one of her own; and the dead warrior has not
forgotten his frith and his honour; he gives friendly
warnings and hands out his wonderful sword as a free
gift. If, on the other hand, there lay strangers in the
barrow, whom none living could reckon as kin, then the
place was simply unsafe and unheore. In the dragon
stories, we find, under the somewhat foreign dress,
homely experiences of the fact that every lonely or
forgotten hero takes on habits of ferocity. The cruel
dragon that proved the death of Beowulf lay brooding on
the remains of an extinct clan. The last man of the
tribe hid his treasure in the cave with a lament for the
noble heroes whom death in battle had carried off to the
last man but one; there he ended his life, and the old
enemy, the walker in the twilight, lay down upon the
gold guarding the treasure that was no use to himself.
We can safely conclude that at first, the hider of the
treasure himself, or those nearest to him, once so noble
and bold, filled the place of the monster. The Northmen
are quite familiar with the idea of a dead man turning
into a troll over his goods, and jealously guarding the
gold with his niding's venom.
simple separation from family and land is enough to
imperil life itself; no man could live more than a
certain time upon the store of soul in himself. It is
ill to live in unland, said the men of the north, and
the word carries with it more than an indication of the
character of unease. The ancients had no doubt their
homesickness, but such a popular word is not calculated
to give any idea as to what it was that rose and fell in
the mind of an exile when he sat, like Hengest in
the Beowulf far from his ancestral seat and
thought of home.
was an amputation, only the worse in that it was not a
limb, but the whole man that was amputated; and a man
from one of the Germanic tribes taken by force from the
circle of his kin and set down in some civilized inland
town as the guest of the Roman people as the
Sigambrian chiefs were by Augustus might well arrive
at the point of preferring death. Or did he perhaps take
his own life for fear of death, because he saw no other
way of slipping back into life again, than by letting
his soul return to its proper environment? The southern
peoples understood but little of the feelings of a
couple of native chiefs, and did not care to understand
more; they knew that the barbarians could not endure the
state and killed themselves from disgust of life,
as Dio Cassius says. But their sufferings become more
acute when we have the sentence translated into the
language of those cast out.
Outlawry, then, is a terrible weapon in the hands of society against criminals who will not do right. The weapon hits so hard because it strikes the very nerve of life itself. The outlaw is thrust out, not from society, but from life. But then again, the effect of the sentence depends entirely upon the condemned man's kin, whether they will execute the curse by severing his vital artery. For though the whole known world excommunicate a man and declare him given over to all the evil spirits, it has not the slightest effect upon his spiritual welfare as long as his kinsmen maintain him and suffer him to drink of their source of life always provided the kinsmen themselves have a luck strong enough to ward off the mighty force of words that pours in upon them.
Among our forefathers we may find lofty examples of submission to the general will, side by side with astounding contempt for law and order. Their social conscience was more active, and therefore more elastic than it can ever be among people who seat a judge upon a codex and place a regular policeman behind the offender, ready to deal with him according to instructions. Nowadays the ideas of right are more or less uniform throughout the whole of a population; the fear of justice hardly attains to anything that could properly be called veneration, and defiance dwindles for the most part to an uncertain taking advantage of circumstances and searching for loop-holes in legal paragraphs. In the Germanic society, the means of law were legal adaptations of everyday forms and drew their force from the inner experience of the parties at law. Consequently the feelings of men face to face with legal condemnation were of a wider and more plastic character than nowadays. Men could feel themselves enslaved by a word, and they could with sovereign contempt disregard the most solemn anathema; one would be stricken numb by a sentence of outlawry, while his neighbour regards it as a mere insult, possibly even of too slight a character to awaken his interest. If the means of law take root, then they hold with a terrific strength, but where they fail to grasp honour they drift empty away. Obedience to law and defiance of law words only applicable in the looser sense are alike in power, because they come from the same stratum of the soul; they do not annul each other, but can exist side by side, even in one and the same person, without any sense of schism.
We know that far into modern times, the common people have preserved their old estimate of outlawry. The kings were generally progressive men in league with the ideas of law and royal rights that were propagated by western civilization and the Roman church. The peasants stuck to the old law that lived in the hearts and not in books. No wonder that the king's conviction that right is right and must be right comes fiercely into collision with the peasants' failure to get beyond the fundamental morality that right must be felt to be right, or it does not exist. The slayer sits at home under shelter of old-fashioned kinship, and the king sits in his court in the light of modern culture, ransacking the language for words strong enough to use for these obstinate fellows who let a decree of outlawry pass over their heads without moving from the spot. It is insufferable that they should prosper in their unrighteousness, says Hakon Magnusson in 1315. And in 1315, the king is right; the peasants are in process of becoming defiers of the law, not because their feeling and sense of right have altered, but because the law has changed; it has at last been liberated from the tutelage of experience, and placed under the mighty protection of logical conclusions. But yet the peasant had no feeling of being wrong, because the experience of the ancestors was still strong within him. A man is no outlaw as long as there is a body of kinsmen willing and able to keep him; not until he has been severed from life does he become a dangerous being, driven out and shunned.
But when the curse has been uttered, and the clan has renounced the condemned man by taking part in the oath whereby the law-thing swears him out, or the thing-men by clash of arms have assumed obligations among themselves against him, the outlaw is dead. He is flung out from the life of men, and may be hunted as far as men hunt wolves, because he is a wolf, vargr, void of luck and pleasure. As an outlaw and a niding he bears the wolf's head, that is to say, originally, he is transformed into a wolf, running wild on the heath and rending carrion. And yet he can, by one step across a threshold, enter into life again, if only he can find a circle willing to receive him into its own life and regenerate him into a brother. The moment he is greeted in a house and offered a seat, the bestial nature falls from him, and he is once more a man.
The words uttered by
Gudrun in the Greenland Atlamál as to her own and her
brothers' achievements in their youth, might indeed be
spoken with the literal earnestness of prose: We
freed from the forest him we wished to save, we gave him
luck who nothing owned.
In the Old Scandinavian, it is possible to frame such an expression as this anent the underworld: Men die into that world, and without commenting on the genuineness of this form of speech, we may take the word as a useful hint, indicating that death then was a more complex idea than it is now (or seems to be, for our words are complex in their way, and when we say that a thing is simple the words mean nothing but that we ourselves are placed at the focus of the thoughts concerning it). There was always, in a way, the need of a more precise definition of what men died into. The terms of life and death, which now appear so unconditionally opposite, were rather two groups of states and their reverses, linked into each other. Now, the process means cessation of life, whereas in those days, it was a transition from life to life; now, to die means the great cut into existence, but to the ancients the transition from one state to another that left the life of luck untouched, could never rank as a catastrophe. If then we would not relinquish the essential part of our word, its bitterness, its reference to the end and altering of plans, its regard to the thinning of ranks, its absolute halt! then no etymology can help us to equivalents in the ancient tongue. We must give up hope of finding an exact counterpart in that culture, but in the transition from luck to unluck we come nearest to the irreparable conversion, which we denote with that stern word.
This death could befall a man in living life, and he could just as well meet it in the kingdom of death, or at the transition between the two. In this possibility, that to expire might mean the passing of the soul, lie the seriousness and the peril which made the change a crisis, not only for the departed, but also for those nearest to him. Those left behind took all precautions, we may imagine, though we do not know very much about the ceremonies attending death. In the Icelandic literature, we do not find any other precautionary measure directly described beyond the nábjargir, the saving of the corpse, which appears to have consisted chiefly in pressing the nostrils together, but we may doubtless take it that earlier times had a more comprehensive ritual. There was no doubt something of ill omen about a corpse not yet so treated, not least when the catastrophe had been caused by violence, so as to leave vengeance due. Presumably a kind of inquest was held in order to arrive at the cause of death; when the wounds had been counted, one of the assembled kinsmen would solemnly assume responsibility for setting matters right, and place himself at the head of the undertaking by carrying out the nábjargir. In other cases also, where anything unusual in the manner of death might seem to suggest that an unluck had fallen upon the house, there might be reason for care in dealing with the body of the departed. When Gudmund the Mighty, the chieftain at Modruveffir, froze to death from within on hearing a man relate a strange dream, the mistress of the house forbade any to touch the corpse until his brother Einar had inspected it; the latter's wisdom at once discerned the cause, that it was the power of the dream that had turned his vitals to ice, and thereupon he attended to the body. People who had been slain by monsters were more than others apt to walk in an uncanny sense, and the same took place where a pestilential sickness raged. Balance and security were not restored until the funeral feast had been solemnised with due rites and ceremonies, and the dead man had been shown to his place, shown to Valhal, as the phrase runs in later language, by a modernising of an ancient formula. Nevertheless, we must not lay emphasis solely on the uncanny side; for with people who were firmly set in their luck, this interregnum was after all only a brief pause, wherein life was brought to a standstill for a while; there were sure means of re-establishing safety both for the dead and the living. In doubtful cases, on the other hand, where vengeance was uncertain, where luck stood but indifferently on its feet, there was death in the house.
The idea of annihilation has shown itself a hard one to grasp, and thought still fumbles without being able to discover pure nothing or sheer cessation. Our forefathers had practical reasons for trying to effect an absolute death. To live in a district with demon souls was not to be thought of; they were too uncanny and too massive. Somehow or other it was necessary to conjure them over into the wilderness of demons, where they had their kinsfolk and acquaintance. But after all, Utgard lay very near to the world of men, and one never knew when these ill-boding creatures would be at one's doors again; none could be sure but that he might find himself squeezed one evening late. It was better perhaps to bind the spook bodily, by heaping stones on him or driving a stake through him, or moving him over to some outlying reef where the excess of moisture would reduce his mobility. But it happened often enough that all precautions proved vain, however thoroughly they might be carried out. Then destruction was heaped upon destruction, the head, perhaps, first chopped off, then the whole body burned and the ashes strewn in the sea, in the hope of thus reducing the soul to atoms so small as to be practically non-existent. But the cessation of existence itself, as the last and decisive opposite to life, was never reached. Thought and hand thrust their object out to a boundary and dumped it down into a mist, but this mist was after all nothing but forgetting. Renown contains, as we have seen, in a literal sense the highest form of soul and the strongest pressure of life, and thus it is also literally true to the ancient sense that the opposite pole of life is a deep forgetfulness where none knows one's name or one's place.


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"My boyfriend and I love going to Salvadorian restaurants in DC and ordering these hot and cheesy corn cakes with curtido (a condiment resembling coleslaw) and hot sauce. In the restaurants, you see the cook making these very fast, and I'm always amazed by how thin they get the outer layer of dough without any holes. The filling always stays inside, waiting for you! You have to work with this recipe several times to get it right, but it's worth trying if you want to do your own pupusas. The most important suggestion I have is to always, always use masa harina flour (fine ground cornmeal made from dry hominy). North American corn meal is not an adequate substitute and you'll get an extra greasy, uneven result. You can find all of the ingredients in a Spanish store or bodega."
Salvadorian Pupusas
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READY IN:35mins
Ingredients Nutrition
- 5 cups masa harina flour
- 4 cups water, approximately
- 16 -24 ounces canned refried beans
- 3 cups soft white cheese
- light vegetable oil or light olive oil
- In a large mixing bowl, gradually stir water into masa harina until dough forms a ball that can be handled.
- Into another bowl, empty the refried beans. Place the grated cheese into a separate bowl.
- Divide dough into about 25 pieces. Roll each into a ball and flatten between the palms of your hands to about 1/2-inch thick. Put a spoonful of beans and a small handful of cheese into the center of each pupusa. Flatten again with the filling inside.
- Heat a heavy, wide-bottomed or flat skillet until hot. Brush with oil and cook pupusas on each side 4-5 minutes until a pale golden-brown. The outside should be firm.
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