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Spiritual Help
The Way of Salvation
"Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'" John 14:6
"They replied, 'Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved - you and your household.'"
Acts 16:31
"That if you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." Romans 10:9
Comfort in Time of Lonliness
"So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand." Isaiah 41:10
"…God has said, 'Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.' So we say with confidence, 'The Lord is my help; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?" Hebrews 13:5-6; See also Psalm 23
Comfort in Time of Sorrow
"Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.'" 2 Corinthians 12:8-10
Guidance in Time of Decision
"If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind." James 1:5-6
"Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight." Proverbs 3:5-6
Protection in Times of Danger
"'Because he loves me,' says the Lord, 'I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. He will call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him. With long life will I satisfy him and show him my salvation.'" Psalm 91:14-16; See all of Psalm 91
"The LORD will keep you from all harm - he will watch over your life; the LORD will watch over your coming and going, both now and forevermore." Psalm 121:7-8
Courage in Time of Fear
"Finally, be strong in the Lord and his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand." Ephesians 6:10-13

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Click here to view an interactive map of the Northern Ireland dataset as currently collated by CEDaR.
The map is generated through the NBN Gateway using their Interactive Mapping Tool.
This species is mainly an epiphyte of twigs. Easily missed, it is often dismissed as the similar Amandinea punctata (described elsewhere) which prefers alternative habitats such as dusty tree boles and the root plate. Essentially, the thin, beige to brownish thallus is covered with a scattering of minute (0.15-0.3mm diam.), flat, black discs, which stand out from the thallus so are easy to see. A microscope squash (this can be done in seconds) will clearly show the one-septate spores and the brown, swollen tips of the paraphyses. Southern Ireland with scattered outpost in the north.
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|Simms, M. J., (2016). Catillaria nigroclavata (Nyl.) Schuler. [In] LichenIreland.
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Wagenmann to speak at Encouragers April 7
GRANGEVILLE — Offense and Forgiveness is the topic of Rita Wagenmann's message set for Thursday, April 7, at the Encouragers 11:30 a.m. luncheon at Oscar's Restaurant in Grangeville. A salad bar, soup and baked potato will be offered for the no-host lunch.
Wagenmann comes from a large Catholic family and was educated in Catholic schools. She is married to Dwight, who works at Idaho Forest Group, and has two adult sons and two granddaughters. She is a professional chef and crafter and is active in her church as Bible teacher and volunteer with children and the elderly. Her hobbies are gardening, decorating and basket making.
Encouragers meets on the first Thursday of each month at 101 E. Main. All are welcome.
Faith Lutheran sets church activities
KAMIAH — Faith Lutheran Church in Kamiah has changed its Sunday worship service time to 9 a.m. for the summer. There's always social time and refreshments after Sunday worship. The Rev. Gail Hart is the new pastor.
Men's Bible group meets every Thursday at 7 a.m. at the bakery, and the women's Bible study is on Thursdays at 10 a.m. at the church.
Faith Lutheran church is located at 6th and Idaho streets in Kamiah. Phone for Pastor Hart is 790-4515.
Nazarene church events in place for month
GRANGEVILLE — Grangeville Church of the Nazarene has several activities set.
A needlework fellowship group for women is set for its first meeting Wednesday, April 13, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Contact Myrna DeHaas for details.
A ladies Bible study takes place Tuesday evenings 5 to 6:30 p.m. at the church, while men's Bible study meets at Crema Café at 4 p.m. on Thursdays.
Sunday worship services are 9 a.m. with Sunday school for all ages following. Wednesday prayer meeting and choir are each at 7 p.m.
The church is located at 515 West North 2nd Street and also houses the Cornerstone Learning Center for preschool and kindergarten students..
Contact Pastor Bob Hislar at the parsonage at 983-2144 or firstname.lastname@example.com, www.grangevillenazarene.org or see the church Facebook page.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
aKing at Kirstenbosch... what a dissapointment – the sound engineer should be fired
This was, sadly to say, one of the worst kirstenbosch concerts i have ever been to.
Not to be too judgemental on the band (who i now call average), the majority of the reason everyone looked as if they were resiting the urge to cover their ears, was because of the sound quality.
After much discussion i learnt that it was infact the sound engineers fault my ears were being penetrated with what was less than permissable sound.
He is aKing's engineer. As aKing have never played at Kirstenbosch before it was very unwise on their behalf to request their ill equiped sound engineer to do the gig. He obviously didnt have a clue on how to set up and mix for the large area.
The guitars were too loud and that the 'backup' vocalists drowned out the singer. I feel sorry for aKing because this was there first really major concert in Cape Town. They have have a huge following in Gauteng and have had a couple of really good songs. One which i still really enjoyed when i heard it. Being invited to play in the Summer concerts is an honour AND a way to really get your band recognised by a large audience. What a pity for aKing, that the majority of people who went last weekend take away a skewed vision of what the band sounds like (barely recognisable compared to how the radio and music video sound).
It was terrible when i heard people around me saying that the khayelitsha back up vocalists who came on at the end to do there own stint, were "better than the band" (yes, a direct quote).
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Some time ago I argued that a problem with a certain sort of virtue ethics might not be fixable (in "Virtue and Right"). The banner 'virtue ethics' covers a variety of views united by not much more than the thought that ethics is in some way or other best approached through the idea of good character and virtue. My arguments set aside many of those views, especially those that, while giving pride of place to virtue, adopt a 'no theory' or 'anti-theory' stance toward the right. If you are anti-theory, then my train didn't leave the station. Indeed, perhaps the best version of virtue ethics is one that turns its back on a theory of the right. But the sorts of views I was interested in thinking about were those that aspire to such a theory in order to create an alternative to deontological or consequentialist theories of right action.
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Building a National Knowledge Infrastructure
Unlike the United States — where private interests have walled off and Balkanized
much of the Internet — the Dutch are committed to collaboration both inside and outside the country. They have been a proactive force for international collaboration with scientists and network specialists in the EU, the United States and elsewhere with their Global Lambda In- tegrated Facility or GLIF.
And the more you learn, the more it is apparent that the Netherlands is building the electronic network and knowledge infrastructure on which the economy of the 21st century will be based. This report will explain their continuing technology direction -- a direction that on its own level is quite impressive.
So why is this happening in a country of only 17 million people, small and crowded with one of the highest popu- lation densities in the world? Why is this not happening in the United States or Canada or China or Brazil? Those are all big countries, rich in re- sources, that are supposed to "own the future." This is an important question.
We can begin with what any- body who has worked in technology knows. The real problems with technology are not, typically, the technology. The real problems have to do with intentions, models, gov- ernance, implementation, re- sourcing, and user support. It's not the technology, it's what you do with it. And that, in turn, depends upon what you have intended to do with the technology.
So when we ask the ques- tion, why are the Dutch doing it right, when so many other countries got it wrong, the answer begins with the fact that they have better inten- tions and a more inclusive process. In demonstrating admirably farsighted planning and negotiated discussion among their stakeholders, the Dutch are leading the world in making the ICT technology transition.
This is the change described by Carlota Perez that is common to all technology revolutions. Speculative or finance capital in the support and development of ICT must no longer predominate. So- ciety must shift to use of productive capital. In other words it must use money for infrastructure to install these ICT resources in society and treat them as knowledge in- frastructure. They become the logical follow on to roads and highways, canals, rail- roads, electric grids, airports water and sewage systems and electric plants. In the end they are simply an inte- gral part of the basic infra- structure of an advanced and civilized capitalist nation.
So, once again, it is not the technology so much as it is the thoughtful and careful way that technology policy is determined. It is the way that policy is turned into reality. And it is the way in which they continue to push edges in a never ending pursuit of technical excellence and ex- treme performance. And it is the counter-intuitive strategy in which geek values of open source software and collabo- rative networks are harvested into creating public/private partnerships that evolve into the business opportunities and a dynamic and competi- tive national economy.
John Hagel and John Seely Brown recently updated their sobering 2009 Shift Index: Measuring the forces of long- term change, which reveals that in the U.S., despite an economic focus on private good rather than public good, American businesses, includ- ing telcos, now earn 75% less return on assets than they did in 1965. One of the reasons, according to John Hagel, speaking at the 2009 SuperNova Conference in San Francisco, is that businesses have not been able to ration- alize the disruptive advances in technology which (thank you, Moore's Law) never stop advancing.
The severity of events is made more difficult because of the doctrine that the inde- pendence of the private car- rier is sacrosanct. The prob- lem is that the direction of technology has been moving ever more rapidly into the creation of network capability of almost limitless abun- dance. In contrast to this technology push, the invest- ment pull of the rules by which the share owner Cor- poration is governed de- mands that management take the opposite course and establish a regime based on scarcity - measured usage, constricted bandwidth, con- stricted user freedom and charging the user the very maximum that traffic will bear. The privatized carrier becomes a predator that feeds on society that in the- ory it serves. The result is an enormous gap between the technological capabilities at- tainable with state-of-the-art optical network technology and the reality enforced by share owner networks in their respective societies.
In the Netherlands, the ICT infrastructure ecosystem does have a strategy. It works for them. And it works for us. And that is to embrace those disruptive advances and use the improved pro- ductivity for the public good.
The COOK Report contends that the Netherlands, through the good fortune of rather unique circumstances over the past decade, has been able to articulate a vision whereby it begins to treat its information and communica- tion technology investment as an investment in public infrastructure rather than pri- vate share owner determined enterprise. The nation tele- communications infrastruc- ture is treated as a public rather than a private good. Partly this is for the purposes of science and research. But it has allowed the country to develop world leading tech- nology that operates along- side the share owner main- tained voice network of KPN as well as those of the MSOs (Cable TV companies) of the Netherlands.
In trying to understand the emergence of the Nether- lands as a leader in ICT infra- structure, again, this is not just about network technol- ogy or the network applica- tions. Rather the key lesson to take away is that the Dutch network and research effort has been built by means of an exceptional at- tention paid to the economic impact of the network as in- frastructure that contributes to the Dutch national interest.
And beyond that is another parallel story. It's the story of how history and economic circumstance shaped the character and confidence of the Dutch. It tells what can happen when a nation, toughened by centuries of challenges that would (liter- ally) sink most countries, learn how to work together to leverage technology at the infrastructure level and over- come impossible odds. It's a great story, and it starts in Chapter II.
I. How the Dutch Did It Right
When so many others get it wrong p. 1
II. The Netherlands National ICT Research Infrastructure
History, character, policy and pragmatism p. 5
iii. The Direction of ICT Infrastructure in the Netherlands in Early 2010 An interview with Wim Liebrand, Kees Neggers and
Cees de Laat p. 24
IV. TheAscent of e-Science
Promise of the 4th paradigm p. 41
V. Making E-science Work: The Middleware Solution
An interview with Bob Hertzberger p. 44
VI. Growing E-Science Domains for The Netherlands
Roadmap for a next generation of science p. 64
VII. Potential Customers with Global Agendas
An interview with David Zakim, MD p. 68
VIII. How A Progressive ICT Infrastructure Benefits the Economy
The innovation engine as open fabric p. 78
iX. SURF as an Economic "Midwife" for Technology Transfer
An interview with Hans Dijkman, Kees Neggers and Bob Hertzberger p. 85
X.Coming to Conclusions
Realizing the benefits of a re-usable infrastructure p. 91
XI. Re-thinking American Infrastructure
What has to change p. 95


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Hello from our directors!
FreshSight has been created, sustained and expanded by socially-driven students within Edinburgh's universities. As the Directors of FreshSight, we are indebted to our organisation which has challenged and inspired us since we first arrived in Scotland's capital. Our student-run consultancy operates in a world-leading hub for impactful innovation, rich with societal challenges worth solving and the talent to do so.
We wouldn't want to be anywhere else in the world.
However, we couldn't have lasted a decade if the world didn't come to us. FreshSight is privileged to have the opportunity to bring in global talent and perspectives, drawing on a student body of over a hundred nationalities. Our bespoke consultancy teams are built to ensure a cross-disciplinary approach, deploying insights from undergraduate linguists, MBA candidates and PhD computer scientists alike. Our capacity to leverage a diverse spectrum of expertise is at the heart of FreshSight's value.
FreshSight has communicated impact for world leading charities, emboldened CEO's to achieve financial sustainability, captured markets for social enterprises and designed fresh digital solutions to deeply rooted challenges. Our small leadership team will never have the skillset to tackle these projects alone. Instead, we are able to source, combine and nurture the excellence within academic communities.
As we celebrate our tenth birthday, we look forward to applying this model across new and exciting channels. FreshSight has strengthened its pro-bono program, further reducing financial barriers to high quality business services. For the first time, we will be partnering with an international client, working together to tackle a social challenge of global importance. We are also deepening our ties with the local third sector community, reflected in our commitment to longer and more ambitious collaborations with returning clients. Finally, we are working alongside national policy, exposing consultants to the cutting edge of social entrepreneurship as a transformative economic force.
Entering our second decade, we strive to inspire a community of change makers. As an ambassador for social enterprises, FreshSight seeks to encourage more and more people to pursue goals and careers with an impact.
We wouldn't want to be anywhere else in the world.
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In Situ & Real Time Spectroscopic Ellipsometry for monitoring Graphene growth was performed by OET and AUTh within GLADIATOR project.
OET together with of AUTh (LTFN lab) have shown for the first time the growth differentiation between mono- and multilayers graphene using Horiba's UVISEL spectrometer for in situ measurements of CVD graphene production to a customized Black Magic reactor from Aixtron installed at the LTFN of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
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Merry Christmas, pet lovers! All of my favorite people have been stopping by to say hi and drop boxes underneath the big inside tree. I was sniffing around and found my favorite ShopRite Bacon-Flavored Jerky Strips! I may have opened them a little early…
I also found this cuddly friend in a ShopRite bag waiting to be wrapped. I love Scrunchy Bear, but it's not a pet friendly toy… it's for the little boy across the street. That's okay, I'll stick with my Lamb Chop dog toy – Mom says it's safer to play with toys made especially for pups like me! Browse the pet aisle at your local ShopRite to find great stocking stuffers for your pup, like this Lamb Chop Dog Toy, or a Ruff & Whiskerz Stufferz!
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Explore the Kruger National Park on our 4 Day Johannesburg to Kruger Safari which will see you stay at a Main Rest Camp situated inside the Park. The tour will start and finish in Johannesburg.
This safari stays inside the Kruger National Park. The 4 day Classic Cape to Kruger Safari provides you with enough time on safari to see an amazing variety of wildlife that the Kruger National Park has to offer.
The Kruger Park is one of Africa's most famous National Parks. There are 147 mammal species found in Kruger which is more than any other wildlife reserve in Africa! Of these the Big 5 (lion, leopard, rhino, buffalo and elephant) are of course included. On this safari we include open vehicle drives and a sunset drive. This safari gives you an amazing African wildlife experience.
Today you make your way to OR Tambo International Airport for your early morning flight to the Kruger Park. A Fly in Safari affords guests a unique opportunity to fly directly into the Kruger National Park and be picked up and transferred in an open vehicle to the camp.
You will go out on your first Game Drive (SANParks Sunset Drive) after settling into your accommodation. A sunset drive affords you the opportunity to see nocturnal African Wildlife. The Kruger Park's rangers are allowed to return after the normal gate closing times. Note that this is not a private Game Drive and that other guests may be joining you on this drive.
(Children under 6 years of age are not permitted on open vehicle drives.)
On returning to the Camp, a three-course dinner awaits you.
Safaris are all about early mornings, getting out there and seeing animals! The time you go on your Game Drive varies according to the seasons and camp gate opening times. We have tea or coffee with muffins and fruit before departing on the Game Drive which will take approximately 3-4 hours. Your guide has an intimate knowledge of the park, which contributes a great deal towards brilliant sightings!
On returning to the camp brunch will be ready. You then have time to enjoy a swim, visit the museum or the park shop which includes African curios, general food items and drinks, take a walk around the camp, or simply relax at your bungalow. Be sure to bring your binoculars as Berg-en Dal Rest Camp is also a bird watcher's paradise!
After a siesta we set off on the afternoon Kruger Park game drive. We conduct all our game drives in specially adapted 4×4 open game drive vehicles to allow our guests the best possible vantage point.
We share African safari stories at the camp fire under the stars after a scrumptious dinner served at our camp.
The sun rises over our final day in the Park and we have one last chance to find the animals that have eluded us thus far. After breakfast, you are transferred back to the Airport for your flight to Johannesburg's OR Tambo Airport. On arrival in Johannesburg, your tour with us ends.


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It seems strange, but this is the first Labor Day weekend in a while where we've opted to stay home. Last year at this time, we made a crazy weekend trip to Guyana to see Kaieteur Falls. The year before that, we made another crazy long weekend trip to Argentina to see Iguazu Falls. Plus, the year before that (two years ago), Julie and her mom started a European trip that encompassed the UK, France, Switzerland, and Italy, and I was planning a little spontaneous trip with my mom to the American Southwest, which we ended up doing two weeks later . So indeed, I can't remember what it's like to just go through a weekend like this and do absolutely nothing.
I guess that's the way it goes sometimes. Perhaps we need this rest. Yet in the back of my mind, I still feel like we should capitalize on the extra day off to go to quick-hitting places like La Gran Sabana in Venezuela or something quick in the Canadian Rockies or something. Oh well, maybe next time...
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Friday, 28 September 2012
Tidying up and sorting out in the Polytunnel
My tomatoes are finished and all the pots are full of weeds. It all needs emptying and composting and scrubbing out and sweeping up.
So, I emptied and dug and pulled and swept up...
And when I had some clear growing medium I planted out some spare Kale, Spinach and Sprouting Broccoli plants, which will stay inside the polytunnel and give us some nice, early, tender greens in the winter.
I already have some growing which we are already eating now - the pots on the left contain big Nero di Toscana and Red Kale plants.
I also picked some of the sweet peppers - they have done well this year and are now in the freezer, having been chopped up and roasted in olive oil.
I have more winter crops to sow in the pots, as and when I finish a bit more tidying up I will sow winter greens and carrots, so we have some tasty leaves and baby carrots to eat.
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I envy your polytunnel; the growing season was so naff this year at least my raspberries were going great guns! I'm trying to decide what to do with my small garden space - I'm considering doing some cold-frames on the rocks out back or maybe a bit on the patio outside as I have little use for a patio, really. Peppers look fantastic, what varieties did you plant?ReplyDelete
The thin curly red ones ones in the photo are HSL Nardullo, then next are (bigger)Marconi Rossa, then (lying down)Sweet Californian and the final pair of pots by the Kales are HSL Yellow BananaReplyDelete
All are really good in the polytunnel but the plants need to have a long growing season to do really well.I plant them inside in a heated propagator in Feb, then put them inside cold frames inside the polytunnel once the plants are about 8 inches high. By the time they are too tall to fit inside the cold frame with the lid closed the danger of frost has gone.
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The Anglo-Catholic History Society
The Society's lectures are published as card
booklets at £4.00, post-paid
Inaugural Lecture:
Prejudices & Perspectives—Anglo-Catholic History Reconsidered, Bishop
Geoffrey Rowell. (Out of print)
Tractarian Architecture on the
Ground, Roderick Gradidge. (Out of print)
British Museum Religion—Percy
Dearmer in Context. (Out of print)
Head Lice & Diamonds—The Birth of
the Sisterhoods. (Out of print)
A Lost Hero of the Faith, Richard
Kerr Kirkpatrick, 1821-1916
Sacramentalism & Pastoral Care—The
Oxford Movement and the Anglican Pastoral Tradition,
Peter Davie.(Out of print)
The Quest for Travers, Yelton
& Rodney Warrener. (Out of print)
The Fantasy of Reunion—The Rise &
Fall of the Association for the promotion of the Unity
of Christendom, Mark Chapman.
Charles Gore—Radical Theologian and
Defender of the Faith, P. Avis.
Donnish, Unrealistic or Even
Insincere—Sir Will Spens & Liberal Anglo-Catholicism
1900-1940, Alan Pigott. (Out of print)
Archbishop William Laud: A Study in Failure?
Fincham. (Out of print)
William Dodsworth 1798-1861:
Tractarianism in London, Stephen Young.
A Glimpse of Heaven. The Kebles at
Fairford, Hugh Greenhalf.
The Outer Limits of the Church of
England, Michael Yelton. (Out of print)
Being High Church in the Early 18th
Century, William
Church and Party: Anglo-Catholicism
and Prayer Book Revision, J.Maiden.
Priests Pineapples and Prostitutes,
St Peter's, London Docks.(Out of print)
Mr Purchas and the ProtestantsL How
the Battle of Brighton Undermined the Evangelical
Crusade Against the Ritualists, C. Sandeman-Allen.
Communicants Guilds in the Late
19th Century: Anglo-Catholicism in the Parishes, Dr
Jeremy Morris. (Out of print)
Anglo-Catholicism and the Orthodox East: William Birkbeck
the Quest for Unity 1888-1916, Dr Jeffrey Bibbee.
Their Proper Place. Archbishop Lang
and Anglo-Catholicism
1928-1942, Fr Robert Beaken.(Out of print)
Anglo-Catholicism, Theology and the Arts 1918-1970, Webster.
Hymns and the Anglo-Catholic Revival, Hilary Davidson.
Canon Liddon and the Priestly Ideal, Fr Barry Orford. (Out
of print)
A Tale of Two Monasteries: Kelham
and Mirfield, Alan
J.H. Shorthouse: Anglo-Catholic
Novelist, Raymond Chapman.
The Liturgical Legacy of Dom Gregory Dix, Simon Jones.
The Lampeter Movement 1887-1957, Grant Lambert Naylor.
(Out of print)
Preserving the Thaxted Tradition, Professor Arthur
The Victorian Persecution: Anglo-Catholicism
and Martyrdom, Dr Dominic Janes.
Canon Peter Green
(1871-1961): Priest, Evangelist and Writer, Bishop
Frank Sargeant.
Anglo-Catholicism and the Universities'; Mission to Central
Africa, Dr John Stuart.
Henry Edward Manning: From Lavington to Westminster, James Pereiro.
Methodist Responses to Anglo-Catholicism in Victorian
Edwardian England, Martin Wellings.
Father Atlay's Congress: The First Anglo-Catholic
Congress 1920, Canon Gunstone. 23 pp + 6 pp illustrations.
(Out of print)
Father Gresham Kirkby 1916-2006: Priest of the Kingdom of
God, Kenneth Leech. A5 illustrated booklet, 24 pp (Out of
Barbara Pym and Anglo-Catholicism, Tim Burnett.
The French Connection: French Catholic Influences upon
Anglo-Catholicism in the Second Half of the Nineteenth
Century, Peter Davie.
Society of Retreat Conductors: A History, John Tyers.
The Oxford Movement and the United States of America, Dr
Peter Nockles.
Icons and Anglo-Catholics, Stephen Stavrou.
Anglo-Catholicism in the Sunburnt Country: Australia
1840-2012, David Hilliard. (Out of print)
Athelstan Riley and the Lost World of Anglo-Catholicism, William Davage.
(Out of print)
The Marquis d'Oisy: Aesthete, Exotic and Enigma, Dr
Julian Litten.
The Place of Archbishop Richard Neile (1562-1640) in
Anglican History, Dr Andrew Foster.
Father Robert Dolling, Canon Terry Louden.
The Place of Meeting: Anglo-Catholicism and the First
World War, Dr Robert Beaken.
Isaac Williams: The Principle of
Reserve and the Oxford Movement, Dr John Boneham.
Catgut and Iron: Father Benson
and the Cowley Fathers, Bishop Geoffrey Rowell.
Gilbert Hunter Doble: Cornish Anglo-Catholicism in a Celtic Context, Dr Elizabeth Macfarlane.
Anglo-Catholicism in Ghana, Canon Andrew Grant.
Rethinking Christendom: Anglo-Catholics and Society between the Wars,
Revd Dr Mark Chapman
Anglo-Catholicism in North Staffordshire c.1833-1903, Canon J. Roger Williams
The Rise and Fall of a War-Time Parish:
All Saints, Walworth, Malcolm Kemp
Michael Ramsey and the Reformation,
Paul Avis
E. B. Pusey: The Imaginative Revolt
Against 'Common Sense', George Westhaver
The Catholic League and the Second
Vatican Council, Michael Fisher
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Alfred Hope Patten: his life and times in pictures, by Michael Yelton.
A life of the founder of the Walsingham shrine with many unpublished pictures. 1st ed., 2007, 98 pp. Reprint available only from the Shrine Shop at Walsingham:
www.shrineshoponline.co.uk Also there is further information
on the Latest Publications
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Ernest Charles Shearman (1859-1939): an Anglo-Catholic architect, by John Salmon. A pioneering volume on one of the last Gothic architects.1st ed., 2009, 194 pp, £15.00
One Part of London: aspects of Anglo-Catholicism in Camden, by Michael Farrer. An account involving many famous churches,
and the author's own reminiscences. 1st ed., 2009, 148 pp, £10.00
The Twenty One: an Anglo-Catholic Rebellion in London, 1929
by Michael Yelton. The stand taken by incumbents against Bishop Winnington-Ingram. 1st ed., 2009, 92 pp
(Out of print)
Mother Agnes of Leeds: Agnes Logan Stewart 1820-86, by Stephen Savage. A short life of a pioneering religious who was a protégé of Dr Pusey. 1st ed., 2007, 32 pp, £5.00
St Saviour's Hoxton: An Extraordinary Story, by Michael Farrer. A lost East London 'Anglo-Papal' parish. 1st ed., 2002, 44 pp,
illustrated (Out of print)
The South India Controversy and the Converts of 1955-56: An Episode in Recent History. 1st ed., 2010,
illustrated, 80 pp, £8.00
Robert Linklater SSC: a life, with memories of Father Lowder, by Peter Marr. The interesting and varied life of a
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Father Wilson of Haggerston: a life simply offered, by Trevor Jones. Revised and enlarged life of a famous slum priest in the East End of London. 2nd ed., 2008, revised with many new illustrations, 64 pp, £6.00
A Complete Parish Priest: Peter Green
(1871-1961, by Frank P. Sargeant. Life and work of a
well-known priest in a poor parish in Salford, Greater
Manchester. 1st ed., 2011, illustrated softback, 156 pp. The book is now out of print as a hard copy but available as an eBook. Contact Amazon for a Kindle edition
Mission Accomplished: Five Lost Churches of Leeds,
by Stephen Savage. Illustrated softback, 146 pp, £12.00
The Church of the Holy Spirit, Beeston Hill, Leeds,
by Stephen Savage, 2012,
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Dispatches from the Home Front, by Bishop Frank Sargeant.
An extended review of Canon Peter Green's
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More Empty Tabernacles: Another Twelve Lost
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Anglican Abbott: Dom Denys Prideaux by
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Autistic children seem to be largely unaware of other peoples' mental states - and the task for educators is to develop learning programmes better suited to their desperate needs, suggests Simon Baron-Cohen.
Autism was the term that Leo Kanner used to describe the 11 children he saw in his clinic in Baltimore in 1943. The term came from the Greek word autos, meaning "self", and seemed an appropriate description of their behaviour. The children appeared cut off from the social world, instead living in their own, private world. The tragic implication was that such children were unable, for whatever reason, to connect with humankind. The question was: Why?
The search for the cause of autism has led to a number of false starts. In the 1950s and 1960s, Bruno Bettelheim, working in Chicago, thought it was induced by "refrigerator parents"; he thought the parents were insufficiently emotional to form a natural bond with their child. The theory was that as a result of failing to form the primary bond with the parent, the child never went on to form any other bond with anyone else. For Bettelheim, the implication for treatment was clear: "parentectomy" (removal of the child from the parents).
This turned out to be a blind alley, since studies showed that the parents of children with autism were just as caring as any other parents, and were not neglecting their child. More important, children who are in fact seriously neglected do not typically show the symptoms of autism. Bettelheim's thesis was just one instance of the psychoanalytic dogma of parent-blaming (and usually mother-blaming) in post-war child psychiatry.
In the 1970s, Michael Rutter, working in London, characterised autism as always accompanied by language delay. (Indeed, this is one of the diagnostic criteria). This new theory at least drew attention to the possibility that the problem was a result of inborn abnormalities in the child (and not in the way the parents had treated their child); but it was a theory that Rutter himself later disproved. His studies showed that when children with autism and children with specific language impairment were compared, the latter group made a better social adaptation. Their problem with language was a clear handicap to developing relationships, but it was not insurmountable.
In contrast, children with autism did not seem to find ways to circumvent their language difficulties, so as to form relatively normal social relationships. Rutter concluded that there must be other cognitive deficits that prevent the child with autism from entering into the social world.
In parallel with this line of research, Beate Hermelin and Neil O'Connor (Psychological Experiments with Autistic Children, Pergamon Press) and also working in London, found the first clear evidence of cognitive deficits in these children. They seemed to process information differently to normal children, and seemed specifically impaired in extracting "meaningful structure" from stimuli.
For example, whereas the normal child can recall more information in a word list if the words are meaningful, children with autism seemed equally good at memory tasks whether the items to be recalled were meaningful or meaningless. This gave an important clue that when children with autism perceive the world, they might see it very differently from the rest of us. But how was this going to explain their uniquely social difficulties?
A big impetus for autism research came from an unexpected direction: researchers in developmental psychology were tackling the question "How does a child become social?" The answer seemed to be: by becoming a proficient mindreader. That is, when the normal child (and adult) sees a social situation, he or she interprets the situation in terms of people's mental states - their thoughts, desires, intentions, beliefs, and so on. What came as quite a shock was that the normally developing child, by two years old, understands that people might be pretending; by three years old they understand that people might know something or be ignorant about something; and by four years old they understand that different people can have different (and even false) beliefs about the same situation.
For example, the normal four-year-old child can understand that if John (correctly) thinks the money is in the drawer, and Andy (mistakenly) thinks the money is in the biscuit tin, when asked where Andy will look for the money, the four-year-old child will respond "in the biscuit tin". That is, when considering Andy's behaviour, they disregard the real world (where the money really is), and instead attend to where the money is in Andy's mind.
Josef Perner and Heinz Wimmer (working in Sussex and Salzburg universities respectively) published these findings in the journal Cognition in 1983. This effectively turned the field of child development upside down. Four-year- old children, whom Piaget had characterised as being "egocentric", were in fact constantly monitoring two realities: the real world, and the world as it has been represented in the mind of the person they are interacting with.
Our group in London immediately raised the question: might children with autism be abnormal in their developing mind-reading ability? If, as the earlier work implied, children with autism have difficulties in finding meaning, and if the most important meanings to detect in the social world are the mental states of other people, might children with autism be failing to monitor mental states? Our first report, published in Cognition in 1985, suggested this was indeed the case. In the above scenario, children with autism mostly responded that Andy would look in the drawer, where the money really was, if he wanted to find it. They appeared to disregard Andy's mental model of the world, and instead only refer to their own model of the world.
The subsequent decade of research has extended this finding in relation to almost every aspect of mindreading. Thus, children with autism perform worse on tests of ascribing almost the full range of mental states (intentions, knowledge, pretence, deception, imagination, and so on). It is as if they suffer from a specific form of "mindblindness".
It is specific in that this difficulty is not related to their general intelligence or language levels - since comparison groups of children who have learning difficulties or language problems (but who do not have autism) can mindread at a higher level. And it is specific in that children with autism can perform all sorts of other non-social tasks that involve reasoning and logic at a level that is appropriate for their IQ.
So, if children with autism really are mindblind, what must their world be like? It is very hard to imagine a world devoid of mental things. People move about, interact, say things, but without a notion that they behave as they do as a result of the mental states they hold, their behaviour must presumably appear quite unpredictable, possibly even frightening. Consider a quite ordinary situation: Mary, sitting at the breakfast table, suddenly leaps out of her chair, and runs into the other room. The normal person might make sense of this by interpreting her behaviour as follows: maybe Mary forgot something important in the other room, and wanted to get it. Or maybe Mary thought there was something in the next room and wanted to show it to everyone. Referring to her thoughts or her mental states gives us a way of making sense of her otherwise rather odd behaviour.
Now consider a child with autism sitting at the same breakfast table. Why did Mary jump up from the table and run into the next room? It is hard to come up with non-mentalistic interpretations of behaviour. (Behaviourist psychology tried this for a few decades, but it does not come naturally to humans to read behaviour without reference to mental states. Moreover, many social situations are entirely novel, so it is hard to come up with a "behaviourist" interpretation that will fit). One might expect that the child with autism, suffering from mindblindness, would either turn away from the social world - it is simply too confusing without a mindreading ability - or would struggle to interact with the social world in an odd and repetitive manner, attempting to understand (and control) these complex objects (people) that do things unpredictably. The result might either be that the child opts to avoid social situations, or that the child displays stilted and stereotyped social responses, such as always asking a person the same question, or always working to engineer social situations to follow a strict script, to make them more predictable. These are in fact two of the classic responses that children with autism show in social situations. How might their mindblindness have arisen? Currently, this is a hot question, and several options are on the agenda. One is that it has arisen for genetic reasons, since autism itself appears to be strongly heritable. This might mean that in the normal case there are genetic mechanisms that build neural mechanisms for understanding the social world in mentalistic ways. This genetic theory implies that our brains might have evolved to mind-read, because of the benefits of being able to do so. Among such benefits are the ability to deceive - the possibility of deception entails manipulating the beliefs of another person (see panel, below). Having a mindreading capacity also confers other benefits: being able to recognise another organism's intentions, and being able to monitor what the other organism knows or needs to know. In autism, an abnormality might therefore exist at the genetic level and at the neural level. Certainly, there is plenty of evidence for neural abnormalities in autism, though there is still no consistent evidence for one part of the brain being abnormal in all cases of autism.
A final option is that the mindblindness is a consequence of some other neurocognitive abnormality, which is critical for mindreading to develop. These are all currently the subject of research.
Finally, can anything be done? Thankfully, some few individuals with autism seem to develop degrees of mindreading, though often later than they normally should, so the problem is probably not "all or none"; it may rather be a case of severe delay. But for the majority who do not overcome it (and even for those who do), there is a need to have a greater understanding of their problems, to tailor education in a specific way to encourage mind-reading skills to develop, or to circumvent mindblindness. Parents and teachers have for decades proven to be highly creative in efforts to help these children, and we await with anticipation the outcome of the first trials in helping to overcome mindblindness.
Simon Baron-Cohen is with the University of Cambridge, departments of experimental psychology and psychiatry. He is the author of Mindblindness (MIT Press/Bradford Books, 1995).


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Gambia's President Adama Barrow's party from which he resigned to lead the country's unity government was unable to win a super majority to have bills passed without seeking support from other members of parliament.
Of 53 seats, the UDP won 31 and at least a two-third majority is needed to win a super majority. At least 66.67% of parliamentarians must vote for a bill to have an overwhelming support.
With Barrow likely appointing five Members of Parliament, UDP will need to swing at least one vote, which will likely come from the only independent candidate, Muhammed Magassy of Basse.
Gambia's former President Yahya Jammeh did not have to worry about a majority. During his 22-year rule, his APRC party maintained a super majority.
The autocratic ruler often bypassed the parliament and uses executive orders and presidential decrees to run the small nation.
It is the first time in the Gambia's history that a particular party, especially one backed by the president did not have a super majority in the House of Representative.
Pro-democracy activists are calling on Barrow not to appoint anyone to the parliament and have that part of the legislative law repealed as part of the country's constitutional reform.
This is the first major vote for the Gambia since the unceremonious departure of Jammeh. The turnout for the election was low. Only 42% of some 800,000 voters cast their ballot, electoral chief, Alieu Mommar Njai said.


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The kidnap of children is a rare occurrence but parents can help allay their fears by talking openly to their children
Article by Linda Daly of the Irish Independent Mothers & Babies supplement, discussing the research behind RED RIBBONS, and how we each need to plan ahead.
In her novel RED RIBBONS, Dublin author Louise Phillips tackles the issue of child safety during that pre-adolescent transitional period. The book opens with the abduction and murder of two 12-year-old girls. "I picked that age because something happens when children reach pre-adolescence and forge their own independence. It's a very vulnerable time for you as a parent and for them as young adults," she says.
In Red Ribbons, Phillips, herself a mother of three and grandmother of one, details the worst fears of any parent. "I didn't set out to write the book to scare people but I wanted to give a good emotional insight into something like this. It's almost a subject we don't talk about," she says.
"When I was growing up, we played on the street. As time is going on, there's less of that happening. To an extent, our children are missing that interaction with the street. That can be a good thing in some ways but it can also be a bad thing, especially when they're taking that leap to meet friends."
In the course of her writing Phillips did a lot of research, working with detectives in Rathfarnham and Tallaght garda stations in Dublin. She says she discovered the importance of parents putting certain safeguards in place. "For example, if a child, elderly person or someone with a disability goes missing, straight away they are assigned to category one, which is high risk," says Phillips. "These are grouping that are more susceptible to something going wrong."
Phillips acknowledges that child abduction isn't something that happens every day, but says it is important that parents and children plan for the unforeseen. "Sit down with your children and discuss a plan. Know all the mobile and landline numbers of their friends, and know where they are going to be and what time they're due back," she says. "When a child or a young adult goes missing, every second counts, especially those moments directly afterwards. The closer you are to pinpointing that moment, the better. You don't want a situation whereby you're ringing Mary to find out Jane's mobile number. You need to have those things in place. When you're frantic, it's not the time to be looking for all those pieces of information."
Phillips says it's important to let children know that the 'boogie man' may not look dangerous. "People who do bad things don't display clues. They can be charming, inoffensive, friendly, helpful, and very capable of manipulation. They tend to plan or have thought about their actions for a protracted period beforehand, and will actively endeavour to gain the trust of another, to manipulate and coerce."
She says communication with your child is key to ensuring their safety."Talk openly and honestly with your son or daughter about the very thing you want them to avoid, becauses sometimes facing our fear can be the best way of avoiding it."
Red Ribbons is now available in paperback at bookstores nationwide, as well as Tesco and Dunnes Stores. Phillips' second novel, The Doll's House, is due for release in August.
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Last month, the Endangered Species Act turned 40 to much fanfare and publicity. But not everyone is celebrating.
Four decades ago, President Richard Nixon sealed the deal with the aim of protecting and saving threatened and endangered plants and animals.
To its credit, it has done just that. Of the 2,000 or so species that have been listed, just 10 have gone extinct.
"From my perspective as a scientist, conservationist and a hunter, this is a powerful and important piece of legislation to help recover plants and animals at risk of extinction," said Robert Suydam, senior wildlife biologist with the North Slope Borough.
But the Endangered Species Act has additional implications for those living in the Arctic. Scientists and hunters alike can appreciate what the act stands for, and some have grown uneasy over the years with the ever-present possibility of more listings and thus more red tape.
Suydam cited the bowhead whale as an example of a species that was on the list and marked as endangered but has made a comeback. Alaska Natives have been hunting bowhead for centuries; they remain an important part of subsistence culture and a main food staple.
The Endangered Species Act provides an exemption for Alaska Natives when it comes to marine mammals, Suydam said. In the past 40 years, bowhead populations have rebounded and done incredibly well, Suydam said. The most recent population count, done in 2011, was about 17,000 bowheads.
With well-managed hunting practices, good management and mitigation of oil and gas exploration they recovered, he said.
The success of bowhead populations is one triumph for the act. But recently, the boundaries of the act have gotten a little muddy.
With each potential new recruit to the Endangered Species Act, additional pressure is put on Alaska hunters, including those on the North Slope. The groups and individuals involved in the process are consumed with red tape, paperwork, and occasionally lawsuits.
"One of the downsides of all this activity to petition new species has meant that the agencies have had to put more of their resources, including people's time, into addressing these petitions for listing and the legal action associated with them," Suydam said. "Less and less resources (are being used) for collecting information and implementing management strategies that are meaningful. It seems like the ESA is being used to try and regulate greenhouse gases."
For example, polar bears are listed as vulnerable on the act's list but not necessarily due to declining populations. Instead, it's due to the possible threat to the bears' habitat -- sea ice. The changing criteria for deciphering an animal's fate is becoming more and more counterproductive, causing concern among hunters, Suydam said.
"There's an increasing burden on North Slope communities because of all these listings," he said.
Polar bears were listed as a threatened species in 2008 under the Endangered Species Act due to rapid demise of sea ice habitat. Then, in November 2010, officials designated 120 million acres of coastal areas, sea ice and barrier islands as critical habitat for polar bears.
Most species have been listed as a direct result of population decline or disappearing habitat. "(But) the listing of polar bears and ring seals and bearded seals are based on projections, rather than numbers actually dropping," Suydam said.
"We've moved into a new era with the ESA, where the scientific models that are looking at potential effects are being used to make the decision," Suydam said. "Sometimes scientists don't always get it right, not because of any ill intent. This new approach is a concern as well."
Addressing the problem at hand -- greenhouse gases -- would perhaps better serve those directly affected by the act than simply adding more species to it.
Working closely with subsistence hunters and the communities in the areas that depend on these species would be a better use of resources, Suydam said.
"The world is changing in many different ways, in ways that we all need to be concerned about," he said. "There are some well-intentioned groups that are trying to use the ESA, but I don't know if that's the best approach."
In Kotzebue, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service scientists at the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge continually work to clarify the legislation for locals, said Brittany Sweeney, the refuge's environmental education specialist.
"We just make sure that people have the best information," Sweeney said. "We don't make the regulations but we do have a lot of local contacts, so we always try to share information."
To date, 99 percent of the species protected by the ESA have avoided extinction. Implemented by both the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 1,400 domestic species of plants and animals and 600 foreign species are currently protected under this law. The ESA is responsible for the successful recovery of the bald eagle, the black-footed ferret and the California condor, among others.
"The Endangered Species Act has played an integral role in wildlife conservation for four decades, giving us the ability to work with partners across the nation to prevent the extinction of hundreds of species, recover many others, and protect fragile habitat that supports both species and people," U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe said in a press release. "We face enormous challenges as we seek to sustain and build on this success, which is why we're committed to improving our ability to work collaboratively with landowners and other key stakeholders at a landscape scale."
Species, both flora and fauna, can receive protection under this law by gaining a listing of "endangered" or "threatened." According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, there are five factors in determining a species' fate: damage to habitat, overutilization of the species, disease or predation, lack of existing protection or other factors affecting the species. Garnering a spot under the law means advanced habitat protection, extensive monitoring and restrictions or a ban on removal.
"The ESA has done some really good things," Suydam said.
And while it's important to keep the act strong, he said, it's important to "address the real reason why species are having a hard time."
This story first appeared in The Arctic Sounder and is republished here with permission.


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Get ready for the 2016 Paralympic Games by getting to know some of the stars of Team GB...
The Rio Paralympic Games 2016 are just around the corner, which means it's time to get excited for the stars of Team GB!
Whether they've won medals in the past or are gearing up for their very first Paralympics, these athletes are ready to take on the rest of the world.
To get you in the spirit, we're taking a closer look at some of those fighting for a spot on the podium this year...GOOD LUCK!
37-year-old CBE David is one of the most recognisable stars of Team GB, and has won a total of six gold medals at the 2008 and 2012 Paralympic Games. David has been a wheelchair athlete since childhood and has won the London Marathon six times...will he make the Rio Paralympic Games his best one yet? We hope so!
With a gold medal from the 2012 Paralympic Games currently sitting on Jonnie's mantlepiece, we're hoping he can add another before the end of September! Jonnie, who was awarded an MBE in 2013, is a 100m sprint runner and has broken multiple records in his career....not bad for a 23-year-old!
British road and track racing cyclist star and former swimmer, Dame Sarah Storey, is a multiple gold medal winner in both disciplines (yes, really) and she also competed for England against able-bodied cyclists in the 2010 Commonwealth Games. With 11 gold medals in total, Sarah is considered equal to the likes of Tanni Grey-Thompson and Dave Roberts, who've got cabinets full of medals too!
What a great feeling it must be to be a superstar Olympian at 21-years-old! Eleanor aka 'Ellie' Simmonds OBE shot to fame in 2008 when she won two gold medals for Great Britain in Beijing...despite being only 13-years-old. In 2012 she won another two gold medals, even setting a world record in the 400m freestyle.
Paralympic powerlifter Ali Jawad was just 16-years-old when he took up the sport. At the London Summer Paralympics in 2012 he narrowly missed out on a medal, finishing in fourth position, so he's certainly hoping to clinch a medal in Rio. Ali is also a world record holder, having lifted 190kg at the 2014 IPC Powerlifting World Championships.
Para-equestrian Anne Dunham has been passionate about horses since the age of 16, but she didn't start competing until the age of 40. Anne was sadly diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at the age of 27 and has been using a wheelchair ever since, of course this hasn't stopped her from winning five gold medals!
With success in the 100m, 200m and 400m sprints under her belt, Georgina Hermitage is certainly one-to-watch in Rio. Although she has never competed at the Paralympic Games before, Georgina set a new world record at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha. All we can say is good luck Georgina!
Somali British wheelchair basketball player Abdi was selected to play for Team GB at the Beijing Summer Paralympics in 2008, where the team won a bronze medal. Now, he's ready to take on the reigning champions from London 2012, Canada, at the Rio Paralympic Games.
Cycling star and former swimmer Jody has represented Team GB at five Summer Paralympic Games, as well as multiple World Championships. He has a whopping haul of 21 medals, including an MBE. Let's hope he can add to his medal collection in Rio!
Team GB won 120 medals at London 2012, which means they're officially aiming for 121 this time round. YOU CAN DO IT!!


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