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The Surprisingly Christian Hope of Chinese New Year
The Year of the Rat, or the Year of the Bat as it turned out to be, starting in Wuhan, is almost over. Another Chinese New Year is almost upon us, the Year of the Ox, which hopefully will drag bat-ridden plagues away, and plow up the field for something hopeful to emerge this spring.
Chinese sometimes explain this favorite holiday to me as "our Christmas." I am tempted to reply, "Yes. Because that is the day you celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ." But it is also a little like Easter, and a little like Passover. Anyway, the connections between Chinese New Year and the Christian Gospel are remarkable.
Red on the Doorframes
At Passover, Jewish families sprinkled blood on the door frame so the Angel of Death would "pass over" their homes and not harm anyone inside. Walk around a Chinese village after New Year, and you could swear Asian parents had the same thought. Bright red strips decorate the top and sides of every door, with gold, black or white characters written on them. (In the Qiang culture in the mountains of Sichuan, apparently it was the custom to sprinkle blood on doorposts.)
Legend has it that a monster called Nian, or "Year," prowls the streets at New Year's, so children must stay inside so it will "pass over." Nian is afraid of the color red and of firecrackers. The Christmas story also tells of a monster who killed children: the historical villain, King Herod.
New Life From Above
Odd that holidays celebrated in fear of death bring hope for new life. But now the sun returns and begins to warm the land. Nurseries set out daffodils and hyacinths. Bulbs send up shoots through the soil. In the foothills of the Himalayas, peach and plum trees begin to blossom, while further north, late winter rays cause them to bud tentatively.
Chinese New Year looks forward, like Passover and Christmas, to new life from above.
And whether their authors have known it or not, the strips of writing on door frames, called "spring couplets," often point toward a salvation which is greater than just the renewal of life in the spring.
The Third Spring Couplet
The man in this picture (see below) sold spring couplets at the train station 700 meters from my apartment in Shandong Province. Look closely at the third strip from left, and like the shepherds at Christmas, you may hear voices over your head.
Reading top to bottom, the first character, 天, pronounced "tian," means "sky" or "day" in modern Chinese. (Editor's note: not all computers will display all the Chinese characters correctly. This is unfortunately beyond our control.) In ancient China the character often referred to Heaven, Providence, or God. This meaning most often found in the earliest Chinese writings, especially the Book of Poetry, the Analects of Confucius, and Lao Zi's famous Dao De Jing, which western New Agers find mystical and not at all Christian.
The second character on this strip, 赐, means "give" or "bestow," from a high superior to his subordinates.
With what does the poet wish Heaven to bless the family behind this door? Three things: 平 (ping), 安 (an), and 福 (fu).
God Give Peace and Happiness
The first two of these three characters both together and separately mean "peace." Their formation is fascinating from a Christian perspective. Why does the first word for "peace" look so like a cross, with a person on either side, and a placard on top? Another Chinese character often seen at New Year draws this out: The traditional word for "come" (來) shows a man (人) on a cross (十) with another man on either side of him (人 人), as if it were saying, "All people ('person person') may come to God through the man on a cross.") In this first character for "peace," the two "people" are merely hinted at with slashes, but the suggestion is there.
The middle character (安) shows one woman, not two, three, or four, (女) under a roof. Both Jewish and Chinese practiced polygamy. But the history of both nations shows that hoarding multiple lovers is not the path to peace, and this truth is written into the Chinese language. In effect, this poetic line encourages us to find peace through monogamous love. Even Solomon admitted that "holding the one you love" (as the Blues Brothers put it) offers a better chance at harmony than his own Hugh Hefner lifestyle: "Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun" (Eccles. 9:9).
"God Gave Them Fu"
The final character in this strip, "fu" (福) or happiness, is the most popular character in the Chinese language. (Also in Japanese: it is part of my wife's maiden name, for instance.) You even see it hanging in western gardens and plastered on the t-shirts of Americans with a taste for eastern exotica.
Happiness is formed of four "radicals" or word-parts: "venerate" or "reveal (示)," hinting at the divine, "one" (一), "mouth" (口), and "field 田." (Two of those Chinese characters unfortunately failed to make the transition to this web page). This character may have originated as a picture of a sacrificial vessel, reminding us of a link between sacrifice, God, and happiness. That link was important in the ancient Book of Poetry, which was Confucius' Book of Psalms. But since "mouth" can sometimes be a "measure word" for animals or people, one could also read this character as referring to the blessing that God gave Adam in the Garden of Eden: "one person in the garden next to God." (Indeed, the Book of Genesis reads in Chinese, "God gave them fu," or blessed them.)
Hope That Comes After Three Days
Chinese New Year is also called the "Spring Festival," which is why one hangs "spring couplets." The Chinese word for spring (春, "chun") also contains what looks like a hidden message pointing to a Christian holiday we celebrate in spring.
"Spring" contains three parts, which read naively in modern Chinese (I am not saying this was how the character was formed), look like "three" (三), "days" (日) and "person (人)."
What happens to what person after three days in spring, that is associated with the hope of new life?
The Message of Spring
Spring couplets leave a bright impression with their splashes of red on doorposts, and the remarkable meaning to be found in their individual characters. Read as a whole, though, spring couplets often sound so Christian I am amazed to find them on the door of pagans. (Sometimes, ironically, next to more consciously evangelical spring couplets over the entryways of Christian homes next door, as in one case behind the train station pictured above.)
"May happiness fill humanity!"
"May the rivers and mountains of ten thousand miles again see fortunate days!"
"Let springtime fill the cosmos!"
Jesus Fulfills the Desires Expressed in Chinese Culture
Twenty-five years ago this month, my first book told "How Jesus Fulfills the Chinese Culture." As a relatively young American explaining the secrets of Chinese culture to those who knew it vastly better than I did, I wonder now at my youthful audacity. (Though that is an updated version.)
But then I analyzed the Chinese Classics for my doctoral dissertation, and found Jesus awaiting in even deeper layers of Chinese culture. Nor was it just a personal delusion. I also showed how great Western and Chinese thinkers who changed history, recognized some of these coincidences as well.
Speaking to young missionaries in an ancient Hakka village outside Hong Kong, I thus challenged them: "You want to share the Gospel with your neighbors? Walk around these back alleys and look! The message you wish to preach is plastered on doorways all over this town!"
Chinese New Year Celebrates Hope
In the Year of the Ox, do you fear growing Chinese power? The persecution of Christians and Muslims? Cameras reporting every facial twitch to Big Brother? The rise of Neo-Marxist Cancel Culture in America?
Chinese New Year brims with the sights, sounds, tastes and smells of the past. Xi Jinping would probably cancel New Years, too, if he could.
The White Witch in C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia also came to destroy. She knew that she was allowed, as an agent of entropy, to shed the blood of a sinner. But she didn't know the magic deeper than dissolution, than dormancy: that when an innocent was killed in a traitor's stead, death would die. New Year reminds us that the Angel of Death will some day pass over, that life is waiting in the cool earth, ready to come bursting forth in glory.
So celebrate the Chinese New Year, a reminder of a hope no enemy can defeat.
David Marshall holds an undergraduate degree in the Russian and Chinese languages and Marxism, a masters degree in Chinese religions, and a doctoral degree in Christian thought and Chinese tradition. His most recent book is Jesus is No Myth: The Fingerprints of God on the Gospels.


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Please note the vouchers will not display in Google Pay accounts for fans with Android phones. They will need to use either our app or account manager to view their F&B vouchers.
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Your object fields always have types, but there are scenarios where it makes sense to change the field type, without changing the object, so that display makes sense for the user. This week, Huyen shows us when this can makes sense and how to make the change in Skuid.
Component actions | Skuid tip of the week
You know that you can use Skuid's action framework to take actions on any of the components in our large library, but did you know that some components have specific actions? This week, Huyen shows us how to find them and the power they give you when building.
Troubleshooting tips | Skuid tip of the week
It's time for some troubleshooting! This week on Skuid tips, Huyen reveals some tried and true building practices for solving and preventing problems in your build-outs.
Design system style guides | Skuid tip of the week
Setting up a design system for your pages may start with a few adjustments here and there, but over time, it can grow into a lot of variants - too many to keep track of without a guide. In this week's tip, Huyen gives an example of a great way to keep track of all your variants in one place, making a reference for you and your teams.
Drilling into chart drill-downs | Skuid tip of the week
You can drag and drop charts into your pages for a high-level view of your data in Skuid. This week, Huyen shows us how to make your charts work overtime by placing interactions via drill-downs. Head to our documentation for more in-depth walkthroughs on chart actions: https://bit.ly/2PgQYlV
KPIs from aggregate models | Skuid tip of the week
Dashboards show high-level overview data, displaying the performance of your business. KPIs, or the "Key Performance Indicators" help you keep track of the particular metrics that are most important. With Skuid, you can build simple and powerful aggregate models to display those KPIs. Huyen shows us how.
Picking out the perfect picklist field | Skuid tip of the week
There are a lot of options out there for displaying lists of data for your users to make a selection from. Huyen is here to help you pick the best one for your purposes in Skuid. Check out the radio button, button groups, combo box, and custom options. Here's the cool article from the Neilson Norman group that Huyen mentions when comparing checkboxes vs. radio buttons: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/checkboxes-vs-radio-buttons/
Get fancy with formula fields | Skuid tip of the week
Formula fields in Skuid allow builders to show data on the front end of their pages without adding fields or objects on the back end. This week Huyen shows us how to use formulas to calculate a new data set from existing fields and to automatically associate images with a particular location. For a more in-depth explanation of Formulas, check out this article in our documentation: https://docs.skuid.com/latest/en/skuid/formula-function.html
Card view of accounts with related contacts | Skuid tip of the week
Let's talk context, specifically, showing a list of accounts with their related contacts using context in Skuid. Context is a powerful tool for showing the user what they want to see when they need to see it, so they get the right info at the right time.
Setting up a list-detail view | Skuid tip of the week
Huyen explains the setup of her Account Hierarchy Dashboard page to achieve the list detail view. When an account is selected from the list, the details conditionally show multiple related Salesforce Objects at the same time, on a single page.
What is human-centered design?
Human-centered design may sound like a no-brainer, but what does it look like in reality? Hear our vision for how app design and development should work to meet the needs of the end-user.
What's Skuid? Hint: your no-code app builder.
Modern thriving companies require agility at all levels, but more often than not, technology is the problem, not the solution. Disconnected SaaS systems, clunky legacy applications, and poorly designed user experiences kill agility. There are many tools to help create apps faster, but none that solve the experience problem. Quickly solving problems is at the core of business acceleration. Doing that effectively requires continuous designing, creating, and delivering useful, human-centered experiences. Skuid makes it easy to do that. With Skuid, you can rapidly deliver business agility with apps that people love to use.
Skuid Chicago release | Hype Video
Our 2021 Chicago release is here. Aptly named after the beautiful harbors of Chicago, which offer stability, possibility, and a secure place to anchor, Chicago includes big enhancements, like a stunning new calendar component, an expertly guided path for upgrading existing Skuid apps and pages, and an expansion of the declarative toolkit to support your building experience. With Chicago, it's easier than ever to deliver better employee- and customer-facing applications.
Build amazing apps with Skuid.
So you know what Skuid is, what's next? How exactly do Skuid apps come together? Check out the three steps to building a Skuid app and just a few possibilities of what you can build.
Skuid Boston Release | Hype video
Is Boston a new product? Is Skuid moving? Has the Spark died? All great questions, but no. Recognizing the magnitude of our latest major release, we're moving to a new naming theme. We've chosen harbors, as they evoke images of stability and possibility. They're also architecturally diverse, well designed, and downright gorgeous. We proudly present the first release in this new theme: Skuid Boston.
Build Skuid apps fast with Mulesoft data
With Skuid and MuleSoft, organizations can turn disparate data silos into functional front-end web applications quickly with little web development experience. With Muleoft's powerful connection engine, access the data you need to build unified apps and pages with the Skuid UX toolkit. Customize and deliver applications using less time, setup, and code with the power of Skuid + MuleSoft.
Skuid and Lightning are better together.
Skuid and Salesforce have a long and lovely history. Originally released on the Salesforce AppExchange for Force.com admins, developers, ISVs, and end-users to customize user interfaces painlessly, Skuid now runs natively on Salesforce to add rich extensions to the UI of Lightning or Classic. In Lightning, Skuid works like a "super component" so that organizations can create an infinite number of custom components without writing code. Watch the video to learn more about how it works.
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Welcome to TownePlace Suites Medford
Explore Medford from lodging near Crater Lake
When searching for extended stay hotels Medford Oregon, our newly renovated TownePlace Suites is the perfect choice. Our all suite, short term rentals in Medford Oregon are ideal for families who are looking for more space during their stay. Extended stay business and leisure guests alike will appreciate amenities that fit all of your needs. Enjoy complimentary Wi-Fi, and a Netflix compatible Smart TV in every room at our Medford Oregon hotel. Spaciously designed suites with full kitchens, comfortable bedding, and an ergonomic workspace are all amenities we are pleased to offer. Complimentary breakfast every morning allows you to fuel up for your day. Looking for things to do in Medford Oregon? Our pet friendly hotel is close to many outdoor activities like Crater Lake and Table Rock! You'll find access to excellent restaurants, wineries, and shopping to enjoy during your stay just a short drive from our hotel. Allow the TownePlace Suites Medford to be your home away from home during your stay in Medford!
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Check-in: 3:00 pm
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Maximum Pet Weight: 60lbs
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TownePlace Suites Medford
1395 Center Drive, Medford, Oregon, USA, 97501
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Forty Seven
Directors: Ahmad Otraghchi & Alireza Ataollah Tabrizi, 2020, Iran, 80 minutes, Cast: Ladan Mostofi, Mehdi Ahmadi, Shaghayegh Farahani, Shida Khaligh, Mehrnoosh Satari, Rabeh Madani
The story of workers who cross a difficult road and mountain with heavy loads to make a living and risk their lives. These loads that are illegal, lead to a conflict between a group of young people, the head of the smugglers, and the police.
Screening with: Tattoo + The Small Red, Big Blue
Sunday, Sept. 19th, 08:30 PM
Ahmad Otraghchi & Alireza Ataollah Tabrizi
Ahmad Otragchi was born in 1980. After graduating in Mining Engineering, he started directing and screenwriting at the Iranian Filmmaking Center in 2000. In addition, he started his career with as a writer, editor, and director in Iranian TV Channels.
Filmography: A Simple Situation / Awaking Moment / A Narrow Path to the Breadth of Life / Cocoon / 47
Alireza Ataallah Tabrizi was born in 1981. After graduating in Electrical Engineering, he started to study filmmaking at the Iranian Filmmaking Center in 2010.
Filmography: A Simple Situation / Awaking Moment / A Narrow Path to the Breadth of Life / Cocoon / 47


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(Last Updated on May 31, 2021 by zimdaily)
HARARE – Presenter Phathisani Sibanda took a subtle dig at his former paymasters Star FM during the Champions League Breakfast Show on Power FM which he co-hosts with veteran broadcaster Tinashe Chikuse.
Phathisani who is known by several monikers he has coined over the years has assumed another title "Deacon" which is an apparent 'attack' on Star FM.
"Ndiri mu Deacon akatiza nevana vesangano (I am a Deacon who ran away with congregants)" Phathisani said referring to former Star FM listeners who have followed him to his current workstation at Power FM.
To buttress his point, the DJ chose Sharon Manyonganise's song Akatendeka boasting that only God rules his destiny.
"It is only God who will finish what he started in me, not a mere immortal," he said.
This adds to speculation that Star FM management frustrated out one of their founding DJs who had evolved to be one of the most followed presenters of modern times.
At Star FM, Phathisani was undoubtedly their main man with a huge following and several endorsements.
However, the presenter was frustrated by boardroom squabbles and constant overlooking for promotion which led to his way out.
Phathisani took a hiatus from the public only to resurface at Power FM much to the delight of his avid fans.
Credit to Power FM who managed the coup which has started reaping results if the rave reviews of the Champions Breakfast Show is anything to go by.
"It is like Barcelona losing Messi to Real Madrid, it is the biggest movement of a radio personality in recent years," said a prominent radio critic who requested anonymity.


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Join In On The Fun At The Pink Ribbon Run
Looking for a fun, family oriented weekend event with an emphasis on raising funds for a great cause? The 2021 Pink Ribbon Run will be held this upcoming Saturday, August 14, 2021 at the Capitol Complex in downtown Cheyenne with registration at 7am and the run starting at 8am. This timed 5k or 1 mile run or walk is a great opportunity to celebrate survivors of breast cancer, and remember those we have lost to this devastating disease. Registration is $35 per person, and is free for survivors. Everyone who registers receives a free event t-shirt for you to proudly wear as you support an amazing cause! You can register and/or donate online at wyomingbreastcancer.org/runfun/
This fundraiser helps support the Wyoming Breast Cancer Initiative grants for breast cancer education, early detection, patient navigation and survivor supports. Since inception in 2016, WBCI has granted more than HALF-A-MILLION DOLLARS through 75 Community Grants and 28 Early Detection Voucher Grants funding breast health services in all 23 counties across Wyoming. Lets keep the fight going Cheyenne - sign up today!


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Antioxidant for the maintenance of good health
Helps to maintain and to support cardiovascular healthAlcohol free formula
Drinkable ampoules | 20 x 10 ml
Royal jelly is known for its rich source of amino acids, carbohydrates, proteins, fatty acids, along with B-vitamins. Hence it is used as a general health tonic; for fighting the effects of stress and aging; and for additional immune support. It has also been shown to lower total serum cholesterol levels and provide cardiovascular support.
Bio Lonreco Inc.'s Royal Jelly + is a formulation used to support the strengthening of the cardiovascular system and maintaining proper cholesterol levels. It contains a rich source of royal jelly along with other synergistic nutrients, including Reishi, Policosanol, Omega-3, and CoQ10, to increase vitality and heart function. Studies have found that royal jelly has the ability to lower total serum cholesterol levels in people with moderately elevated cholesterol levels.
The amino acids in royal jelly are of significant interest to nutritionists and may in fact be the primary source of royal jelly benefits. Long associated with the ability to fight 'free-radicals' in the body, amino acids form the very basis of our chemical make-up, and are essential to growth and the ability to fight infection and disease. In most cases we cannot create our own amino acids, unless we ingest the 8 essential amino acids through the foods that we eat.
Royal jelly is also rich in nucleic acids, RNA and DNA. Gelatin, another significant component, is one of the precursors of collagen. Collagen is an anti-aging element that keeps the skin looking smooth and youthful. One of its key ingredients, acetylcholine, helps with mental clarity and improves memory. Its amino acids and gamma globulins aid in strengthening the immune system. It has also been shown to lower total serum cholesterol levels and provide cardiovascular support.
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Considered to be adaptogenic, it exerts a non-specific normalizing action on many organs and physiological functions.
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AXA Investment Managers – Real Assets announces that it has completed, on behalf of clients, the acquisition of CER-L, a high-quality logistics portfolio in Northern Italy for c. €270 million, from the Carlyle European Real Estate platform.
The 13-asset portfolio comprises 11 standing assets totaling c. 310,000 sqm and two development projects which have delivered a further c. 80,000 sqm and are expected to achieve a LEED Silver certification. The portfolio is let to a diverse range of domestic and international occupiers spanning the Food & Beverage, Fashion, 3PL and Energy sectors, on a weighted average lease term of seven years.
The portfolio is concentrated in Greater Milan, Padua and Turin, three of Northern Italy's most established logistics markets. All the properties benefit from excellent arterial connectivity within major national and international transportation hubs which form part of the well-established European logistics corridor.
This transaction represents the latest addition to AXA IM – Real Assets' c. €2.2bn European logistics portfolio and grows its exposure in the high-growth Italian market, which is characterised by a significant undersupply of institutional quality logistics space.
Nicola Cardani, Head of Transactions in Italy at AXA IM – Real Assets, commented: "This is a rare opportunity to acquire a portfolio of high-quality logistics assets let to strong covenants and achieve immediate scale in a country with a logistics market that, to date, has been underpinned by relatively low e-commerce penetration. The portfolio offers extremely resilient income from day one, with the medium-term opportunity to leverage the mix of vacancy and shorter leases to capture significant reversion. The European logistics sector continues to benefit from the structural shifts driven by the rapid growth of e-commerce, which has accelerated in recent months, as well as evolving changes to supply chains and our pan-European logistics platform is ideally positioned to take advantage of these trends on behalf of our clients."
Pic : Siziano, near Pavia ( Greater Milan)
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007
The Rain in Spain....
Coronet Films
Bid on the complete, original 16mm print on eBay through 5/1/07!
We here at ThinkStream Films think it most important to learn to speak well in public. The rewards of a clearly and naturally communicated speech are limitless. The pitfalls of not having this critical competency are equally as limitless, for example, one may be cursed with the unfortunate occupational title of "politician" or "world leader."
It is through the articulate journey of young Tom Webb in this funny little film from Coronet, that we learn that no one will ever accomplish anything important in life without speaking well (especially like a "sports announcer"). We follow Tom as he progresses (with help from his dowdy speech teacher Miss Taylor) from a state of unintelligible babble to one that at least allows his classmates to "understand what [the hell] it is he is saying."
Once Mr. Projector viewed this film, he simply could not prevent himself from screening yet another fine film (albeit on a much larger scale), based on the very same subject matter (with a little help from George Bernard Shaw).


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Baby massage is a gentle and nurturing way to bond with your baby. The expression of love, caring and respect through touch has shown to have many benefits for children's development. Along with the emotional enrichment, the physical benefits range from helping to alleviate trapped wind, constipation and colic whilst promoting relaxation and improving quality of sleep.
Baby massage can benefit not just your baby, but you and your partner as well. Your loving touch stimulates the production of the feel good hormone oxytocin, alleviating the effects of postnatal depression, helping lactation in breastfeeding mums and offering a skin to skin activity for non breast feeding mums and partners. By learning to understand your baby's cues, you can develop better communication with your little one, along with gaining confidence by acquiring practical tools to soothe common ailments.
Each course will be for a 3 week block and run for consecutive weeks
Suitable for newborns to pre-crawlers
£35 per course
NEW Address: Sutton Community Dance, St Nicolas Centre, Sutton
Baby yoga uses positive stretches, movements, sensory play and relaxation in a fun and engaging way. These activities help develop body and mind awareness and coordination, strengthen and tone muscles, promote relaxation, improve sleep and build a lifelong pattern for exercise.
Along with movements to help relieve constipation, trapped wind and colic, we use nursery rhymes and songs to increase communication and aid baby's speech and language development.
For parents, we provide tools and techniques for breathing and calming both yourself and your baby. Offering strategies for relaxation to aid you every day throughout your child's life.
Each course will be for a 3 week block and run for consecutive weeks
Suitable for newborns to pre-crawlers
£35 per course
Address: Venue TBC
About me
I am a British Wheel of Yoga trained yoga teacher and have been teaching for over 10 years. Yoga was my first love before having a baby, which has led me to qualify in Baby Massage and Baby Yoga. However the best training for both has been with my little rascal Eddie, who in exchange for letting me do massage and yoga with him everyday, has taught me love, patience and to relish every moment.
We'd love to hear from you
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The home advantage is one of the best established phenomena in sports (Courneya & Carron, 1992), and crowd noise has been suggested as one of its determinants (Nevill & Holder, 1999). However, the psychological processes that mediate crowd noise influence and its contribution to the home advantage are still unclear. We propose that crowd noise correlates with the criteria referees have to judge. As crowd noise is a valid cue, referee decisions are strongly influenced by crowd noise. Yet, when audiences are not impartial, a home advantage arises. Using soccer as an exemplar, we show the relevance of this influence in predicting outcomes of real games via a database analysis. Then we experimentally demonstrate the influence of crowd noise on referees' yellow cards decisions in soccer. Finally, we discuss why the focus on referee decisions is useful, and how more experimental research could benefit investigations of the home advantage.
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Crowd Noise as a Cue in Referee Decisions Contributes to the Home Advantage
Christian Unkelbach and Daniel Memmert
The Home Advantage in Collegiate Basketball
Eldon E. Snyder and Dean A. Purdy
This study substantiates the notion of a home advantage for the sport of basketball. The findings indicate that home teams win 66% of their games and this advantage is as important for game outcomes as team quality. However, the advantage varies according to the quality of home and visiting teams. The paper provides a review of the Durkheimian perspective, which views the home team as a representative of the home collectivity that draws support from its fans. Additionally, the home advantage may be seen as an expression of Goffman, whereby the players are highly motivated to respond in a manner that will maintain their proper demeanor and self-esteem.
Rituals, First Impressions, and the Opening Day Home Advantage
Jr. Russell E. Ward
Durkheim's discussion on ritual and Goffman's theoretical work on first impressions are used to predict superior performance among home teams on opening day. Information on opening day game outcomes is compiled and compared with the results of regular season and championship play. The analysis reveals a greater home advantage for teams playing in opening day games than for home teams competing in regular season or championship games. When controlling for the effect of stadium attendance on the home advantage, the opening day home advantage exceeds that of championship competition. The results suggest that ritual activity and concerns for first impression management may be factors that condition home team performance, offering support for the assertion that performance is partly a social product. Further home advantage research can direct attention to cross-cultural differences in the opening day home advantage and focus on qualitative data collection to supplement the current abundance of archival data.
The Home Advantage in the National Basketball Association Conference Finals and Finals Series From 1979 to 2019: A Mediation Analysis of Offensive and Defensive Skills
Jeffrey D. Graham, Bolun Zhang, Denver M.Y. Brown, and John Cairney
In sports, the home advantage is a well-known phenomenon in which the host team tends to outperform and win more often than the visiting team ( Schwartz & Barsky, 1977 ). Several reviews and meta-analyses, examining both amateur and professional individual and team sports, have shown that athletes
The Home Advantage In Sport Competitions: A Literature Review
Kerry S. Courneya and Albert V. Carron
A home advantage in sport competitions has been well documented. The strength and consistency of the home advantage has made it a popular phenomenon in sport today. Very little systematic research has been carried out, however, and the home advantage remains one of the least understood phenomena in sport. It appears that much of the game location research has been arbitrary, and a clear sense of direction is lacking. The purpose of the present paper is to provide a conceptual framework to organize a comprehensive review of previous game location research and provide direction for future research. The review of literature indicated that the descriptive phase of inquiry has been completed, and it is time to address the underlying mechanisms responsible for the manifestation of the home advantage. Possible methodologies and areas of inquiry are highlighted and discussed.
Travel and the Home Advantage in Professional Sports
D. Randall Smith, Anthony Ciacciarelli, Jennifer Serzan, and Danielle Lambert
That the home team wins more than half its games is well-established. One factor said to produce this home advantage is travel between venues, which is seen as disruptive for the visiting team. Unfortunately, the media and athletes have been more supportive of travel effects than the research literature. While players continue to speculate that travel matters, empirical results find little support for travel factors. In the present paper we demonstrate that, at least for some professional sports, team travel can exert a very small influence on the outcome of the contest even after the quality of the teams competing is controlled. We conclude, however, that the belief that some factors confer an advantage to the home team is more the product of social forces than the influence those factors regularly have on game outcomes.
Effects of Travel and Length of Home Stand/Road Trip on tie Home Advantage
Kerry S. Courneya and Albert V. Carron
The present study investigated the effects of season game number, series game number, length of home stand, length of visitor's road trip, home travel, and visitor travel on the home advantage in minor league Double A baseball (N= 1812 games). Initial analysis indicated that the home team won 55.1% of the games (p<.001). Forced-entry multiple regression analyses determined that the combined main and interaction effects of the predictor variables explained less than 1.2% of the variance in win/loss outcome (p>.49). Chi-square analyses revealed that the variable of length of visitor's road trip produced the greatest change in the magnitude of home advantage. When the length of visitor's road trip was cross-tabulated with the length of home stand, me change in home advantage was statistically significant for the home team's later series (p<.05). The implications of these results for the various home advantage explanations are discussed, and future directions for home advantage research are offered.
Aggression as a Potential Mediator of the Home Advantage in Professional Ice Hockey
E J. McGuire, Kerry S. Courneya, W. Neil Widmeyer, and Albert V. Carron
Little research has been conducted on the role of various behaviors in contributing to the home advantage in sport competitions. The present study investigated whether player aggression mediated the relationship between game location and performance in professional ice hockey. Based on the subject-defined delineation between aggressive and nonaggressive ice hockey penalties established by Widmeyer and Birch, 13 measures were used on data collected from the official game reports and penalty records of the National Hockey League for the 1987–1988 season. Both macroanalytic and microanalytic research strategies and analyses were employed. Initial analysis revealed that home teams won 58.3% of the decided games. Further analyses showed a significant interaction between game location and performance. Home teams incurred more aggressive penalties in games they won whereas visiting teams incurred more aggressive penalties in games they lost. Implications for the potential role of aggression in contributing to the home advantage are discussed.
Subjective Judging and the Home Advantage in Female Collegiate Division I Gymnastics
Timothy Baghurst and Inza Fort
The purpose of this study was to investigate the home advantage in female collegiate Division I gymnastics by apparatus and determine the performance effect of the Judges' Assignor System (JAS) introduced in 2005 on each apparatus. Participant teams (N = 15) were selected based on their ranking in the top 25 nationally at the end of each regular season from 2003 to 2007. A repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) revealed home scores for each apparatus were significantly higher than their respective away scores, with the largest differences occurring in the uneven bars and floor exercise. Additionally, a repeated measures ANOVA to assess the JAS impact on scores revealed that home performances yielded higher scores than away for all apparatus, and scores for all apparatus were lower both at home and away since the introduction of JAS. Results are assessed based on current research, and application for judges and coaches is discussed.


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The Riverview Land Preserve. RLP will be performing spring gas well drilling project beginning Monday, May 8, 2023. The project will include gas well drilling and pipe installation.
As such, there may be loud banging noises from time to time from the drill rig as it drills deep gas wells. In addition, there will be open trenches for installation of piping.
These drilled wells and opened trenches will be covered & closed each evening at the end of the work day, but there may be instances during the normal work day of loud noises and odors.
Contact the Riverview Land Preserve office at 734-281-4263 with any questions.
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The design of the Library takes advantage of the strategic position, the connectivity and the qualities of the site to create a unique building and a rich public space that is strongly rooted in its context. The site of the Library becomes a central point in creating the missing links between Jarosława Iwaszkiewicza street and the Catholic Church, as well as intensifying the public program and establishing a human scale in the entire area.
The concept for the new Municipal Public Library (MPL) in Szczecin is to create a social condenser and a new reference point for the district of Prawobrzeże, by compressing the traditional functions of the library into an efficient central volume and dedicating the largest part of the building around it into encounters and activities for the users. The volume of the Library is therefore designed as a simple and efficient elongated box that is positioned on the northern side of the site, allowing for a framed passage to the adjacent church on the north side and a large landscaped public space on the south.
The volume of the building is divided in three functional zones that are interconnected by a large corridor on the south side. The western zone contains the entrance, the main hall and the adults' library functions. The central zone comprises of two levels: on the ground floor it accommodates most of the library rooms that need isolation, the administration offices and the utility services – on the first floor it houses a large auditorium hall that can host big events or be divided by movable partitions into separate rooms for smaller gatherings.
On the western zone of the building there is the children library, the staircase and the elevator to the auditorium's mezzanine. The southern corridor that connects the three zones functions as an internal street of circulation, but also as an informal reading area with large bookshelves walls on the one side and playful movable furniture on the other side. The interior space of the library provides large open spaces and a clear organization that is flexible to future changes and adaptations.
The main hall is a double high space that offers grandeur and a sense of monumentality that highlights the public character of the building. The internal street offers an informal reading and activities zone that can be ever changing and customizable by the users and the staff of the library. The central space of the library contains most of the bookshelves and closed rooms on the ground floor, defining the identity of the library and organizing its interior layout.
The large auditorium space on the first floor of the central area works as a continuation of the main hall, by having its main access point through the podium of bookshelves and reading areas of the adults' department on the western zone. The internal facades of the auditorium are glazed and open to the public spaces of the library, exposing its activity to the visitors and inviting them to participate – although visual separation is also possible through the use of curtains.
The envelope of the building is a simple rectangular form that adapts to the parameters set by the context, the internal organization of the Library and the continuity between the inside space and the exterior landscape. The sloped roof enhances the domestic scale and character of the Library, makes more efficient the use of the interior spaces and creates a playful volumetric interaction with the roof of the central volume that accommodates the auditorium.
The porosity of the façade and the extension of the interior space to the exterior highlights the public character of the Library and creates more possibilities for informal happenings and open-air events during the spring and summer months. The outdoors public space of the Library is designed as a series of programmatic stripes that emerge from the interior of the building and extend to the exterior.
The stripes contain outdoors public program and landscaped areas when intersected by perpendicular zones of activities, creating an urban patchwork of uses or a mosaic of events for the Library users and the district of Prawobrzeże at large. The materiality of the building is austere and limited to the fundamentals, so that the Library adopts a timeless and robust identity as a modest landmark in the city. The structure is out of concrete to provide thermal mass and reduce the heating and cooling demands in the winter and summer respectively. Source by Architects for Urbanity.
- Location: Szczecin, Poland
- Architect: Architects for Urbanity
- Project Team: Irgen Salianji, Karolina Szóstkiewicz, Karolina Duda, Konstantina Lola
- Status: Competition project
- Year: 2018
- Images: Courtesy of Architects for Urbanity


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11 Mar Toasting Wisconsin's angel and VC imagination
Chicago, Ill. – After being in the trenches in trying to help companies get formed, get going, and get financed, and more recently finding the right space for them to get set up and grow, I have the distinct impression that there are now more new Midwestern companies getting started than I previously have seen over the last 10 years. However, I see a number of these early-stage companies struggling to get funded.
What does it take to get new young bioscience companies going? Is there any exact formula that if you follow – presto: you have a successful company?
In California and Boston, it is often the case when a well-known entrepreneurial scientist from a major research-based university has his/her next great idea, that several venture capitalists will clamor to throw money at them to help get it started. And they are committing not just $1 million or $2 million in start-up money, but often more than $10 million plus.
Now here in the Midwest, we all know that it is different, and that we are hard-pressed to raise that first $1 million. Talk about sheer agony! Yet two Illinois companies raised more than $40 million in their first round of financing, and other Midwest companies have followed suit in the last two years. (Granted, both Illinois companies are following the "specialty pharma" model, which shortcuts drug discovery and development to quickly get to the marketplace).
There are a couple of Midwest entrepreneurial scientists that do command this kind of East Coast/West Coast panache, including Chad Mirkin at Northwestern University, but not many (yet!) So what do the rest of the start-up companies do? Is there a successful formula?
Well, the key ingredients seem to be:
• Good cutting-edge technology from a major research-based university (with significant National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, and Department of Energy) funding.
• An entrepreneurial professor who not only understands the technology, but also "sees" the commercial application to significant diseases where there is still an unmet patient need.
• University tech-transfer organizations that realize that they need to help company formation to commercialize this technology rather than create obstacles, and put together deals quickly.
• A seed-stage VC that is willing to not only nurture the company, put in the first money, help syndicate the deal with other regional Midwest VC's, and find an initial part-time CEO.
Wisconsin model
But is this enough? Wisconsin, which has long followed the above model, doesn't think so, and a few years ago created the Act 255 angel tax credit legislation which spurred the formation of angel groups and investment AND company formation.
Now Wisconsin is taking a bigger risk and further ratcheting up its stake in new company formation for the state: Gov. Jim Doyle has a new plan to further boost investment in Wisconsin start-ups. This plan, called Accelerate Wisconsin, is an extension of Act 255. The original plan not only focused on angel investors but also venture capital funds.
Under the new proposed plan, angel investors would receive up to $4 million in tax credits, up from $1 million previously. Additionally, the state had previously allocated up to about $35 million in tax credits for certified venture funds, and about $30 million for angel investors. Under the changes, the former level would go up to $100 million, while the angel investor level would be increased to $87 million.
Wow, talk about putting your money where your mouth is on new company formation! This plan would clearly put Wisconsin at the forefront of innovation in early-stage financing, the most difficult part of raising money for a new company.
This plan has not been voted into legislation yet by Wisconsin's Senate, but if it does come into play, it clearly puts Wisconsin in the leadership role in the Midwest (and in many other parts of the country) of resolving a chronic problem: raising that first-round of money!
Wisconsin ranks 19th in the nation for total federal research dollars, $589 million last year, versus Illinois' 8th position with about $1.16 billion in federal research dollars. But Wisconsin is further leveraging its federal research dollars with angel investor dollars in an imaginative and creative way.
The Illinois Biotechnology Industry Organization has created the Propel program, which creates a group of experienced biotech-savvy, mentors for young companies and matches them up. This effort has been well-received by young companies and quite helpful and motivating, but these companies are still challenged by raising seed money!
Watch out Illinois and the other Midwest states! This is the kind of creative thinking needed to create new companies and new jobs at a time when traditional manufacturing companies have been scaling back. Bioscience companies, on average, have salary levels 2-3 times as high as these traditional manufacturing companies.
See you soon!
Previous articles by Michael Rosen
• Michael Rosen: A tale of two biotech cities: Chicago and Baltimore
• Get set because here come two Olympics, athletics and biotech
• Michael Rosen: 2007: M&As and IPOs continue in the Midwest life science sector
• Michael Rosen: U.S. can learn from growth of biofuels in Latin America
• Michael Rosen: 2007: The best and worst of times for Big Pharma
This article previously appeared in MidwestBusiness.com, and was reprinted with its permission. The article is not meant to be a stock recommendation.
The opinions expressed herein or statements made in the above column are solely those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Wisconsin Technology Network, LLC.
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in Living Hope, Stillness, Stories of Hope
For as long as I can remember in my adult life, I was always moving. I was raised to be a type-A perfectionist, with my father the quintessential model. He was always moving, always busy – even on the weekends, we'd hear him up at 6 a.m. painting the exterior of our house on a rented cherry picker or meticulously washing all our cars before the day started.
I was raised to believe that stillness equaled laziness, save for one exception – when we were on the water. It was my father's only respite, the only place we saw him sit, contemplate, and savor life. It's also the reason why I believe that his Heaven has to be on a body of water somewhere. Naturally, being on the water had the same effect on me. It was the only place I gave myself permission to be calm and unburden myself with the list of expectations I felt required to fulfill.
My proclivity to take on too much increased exponentially as I became a high school teacher, wife, and mother. At first, it fulfilled me, having so many people need me and getting that satisfaction and high from being able to satisfy those needs. It doesn't take a genius to know that, after several years, I burned out.
I lost myself, whatever shreds still existed, and my life became a succession of panic attacks, self-medication, and despair.
I wanted to reclaim that part of my youth, that girl who felt at one with the water, calm and still.
But I had no idea where to find her. She wasn't in yoga classes, self-help books, or Bible studies. She wasn't even in therapy. I was lost. I spiraled into a never-ending cycle of busyness in an attempt to divert my attention from the fact that I simply wasn't happy. I wasn't joyful. I didn't even know who I was anymore; I just fulfilled whatever role was needed – wife, mom, teacher, daughter, sister, friend. But I never was me, because looking back on it, I didn't know if she fit into the life I had so carefully created.
Then the bottom fell out, and my husband and I got a divorce. More truthfully, I left him. Somewhere inside, the gumption buried within pushed me to walk away from what had become an extremely unhealthy dynamic, and with each agonizing day, I ironically grew closer to that girl on the water.
I began the Practice of Stillness when the expectations of the perfectly manicured lawn and life were ripped away and, instead of pushing away the pain with distractions, I chose to face the void and embrace the Stillness.
I had no dinner or table to prepare, no parties to attend, no people to impress. My life was in shambles, but the fluff burned away in the fire. I had nothing but time. With each passing day, I felt small parts of my soul opening again, reintroducing themselves. The hard part about Practicing Stillness is that you must be willing to consider your life with honesty and transparency. The Stillness opens your heart to the dark and ugly truths you always knew were there but never wanted to acknowledge.
At the heart of my busyness always was avoidance – of pain, of discomfort, of having to actually change. I would do anything to avoid those feelings, and more often than not, I would use external things as a coping mechanism, whether it be work, alcohol, or even the noblest of professions, motherhood. We easily can wrap ourselves in the shroud of the Pinterest-perfect mom, humble servant to all – and while that life can certainly be noble to some, for me, it was just one more train car to Destination Avoidance.
I remember the first time I allowed myself to be still in the immediate wake of my separation; a friend had invited me to the lake to kayak out to an island, and I, being very avoidant of the outdoors and the discomfort it brought, was very reluctant to go. Nevertheless, I forced myself on, and as I paddled out listening to the gentle lap of the water against my boat, I felt reborn. I turned my head upward toward the bright sun and breathed in deeply, experiencing an exhilaration that made me feel more alive than I had felt in years. And for the first time in months, I was Still. The racing thoughts of my divorce quieted, and for those brief ten minutes, I was transported back to my dad's boat. My soul was calm, despite the raging fire that seemed to consume my life; and with each breath, I felt my very being awaken as if from a deep sleep.
I've chased that moment ever since, and it still humbles me when I am able to Practice Stillness. I know now that being near or on the water instantly brings me there, but in the chaos of daily life, I find moments to turn off my phone, to go outside, and to allow myself to sit quietly. I allow myself the discomfort of the gut check, the honesty, to take inventory and see if there are any dark parts in my body that need attending to.
That's the great thing about The Practice of Stillness – once you give yourself permission to look inward and you start bringing the dark spots to life, the freedom that exists in its place is addictive. Those dark spots don't seem as daunting anymore, and Stillness becomes a quicker inclination than the cover of avoidance.
It seems counterintuitive that Stillness is an active choice, but it is. I still have to force my soul, my mind, and my body to quiet itself, just like I did that day on the kayak. But, oh, the replenishment it brings. This is Living Hope.