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Managed and integrated by BT, PSN-certified Ethernet network enables private clouds for joined-up public services at less cost
Paul Brocklehurst's a man with a mission. He aims to fundamentally change the way council people co-operate, to deliver better and more cost effective public services. Encouraging collaboration and eliminating duplication are vital elements. And business process innovation is a critical success factor.
Managed by BT Global Services, the UniCORN high-speed, PSN-certified Ethernet infrastructure shared by Surrey and Berkshire was designed for precisely that purpose. As a foundation for fundamentally re-engineering the way things are done, it puts powerful transformational tools straight into Paul's hands.
The intent was to create a partnership of public and voluntary sector organisations across Surrey and Berkshire to aggregate demand and purchase networking services collaboratively. UniCORN lays the foundations for ever-closer public service integration and achieves scale benefits that each participant couldn't achieve alone."
- Paul Brocklehurst, Chief Information Officer, Surrey County Council
Uniting agencies to realise a joint vision
Surrey County Council and the 11 districts and boroughs within Surrey, together with the unitary authorities of West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead, Wokingham, Bracknell Forest, Reading and Slough have a joint vision for the future of public services. They plan to unite over 20 separate agencies (including emergency services, healthcare, and education) across 1,800 sites, replacing more than 40 separate networks with a high-speed Ethernet infrastructure known as UniCORN (unified communities over regional networks).
"We needed to find ways to deploy our people more flexibly, and unfailingly put in front of them the information they need to do their jobs," says Steve Wragge-Morley, head of business systems at Guildford Borough Council.
UniCORN had to be certified to the government's Public Services Network (PSN) standards, its Impact Level 2 security classification and GCF (the government secure intranet convergence framework). It also had to be able to interconnect with JANET, the education network, and GCN, the government conveyancing network.
A single, managed high-speed network for all
After a procurement process under stringent EU rules, BT Global Services was chosen to provide the UniCORN infrastructure. "BT put forward the most innovative solution," says Paul Brocklehurst, chief information officer at Surrey County Council. "Its infrastructure-as-a-service offer meant we could avoid major capital investment and conserve cash."
Under the contract a core BT Ethernet Connect platform running at 1Gbps sits at the heart of UniCORN. BT acts as a systems integrator for access connectivity from a choice of best-value service providers (including its own next-generation access technology). Rolled out in an aggressive 12 months, UniCORN will reach two million citizens.
As well as a wide area network (WAN), other UniCORN services include local area networks (LANs), internet access for all districts and boroughs via JANET, a PSN gateway, a hosted Cisco IP voice platform and BT Cloud Contact. The UniCORN team is also in the process of offering additional services to UniCORN partners such as SIP trunking, Wi-Fi and web content filtering for schools.
All are fully managed by the BT UniCORN team based in Surrey County Hall in Kingston upon Thames. Collaborative applications and fixed mobile integration are future services.
Bob Thomas, Strategic ICT Manager at Mole Valley District Council, says: "The UniCORN implementation has already seen great benefits for many residents through improved shared and joined-up services across the UniCORN network. This, together with significant cost savings being realised, gives me great confidence for the future."
Cost reductions with collaborative PSN connectivity
One of the first tasks was to replace the Surrey legacy point-to-point WAN with converged BT Ethernet Connect any-to-any connectivity linking 220 sites. With that vital core established, participating organisations started joining UniCORN. Each is able to choose network features like bandwidth and access speeds from a managed services catalogue to suit their needs and budgets.
Stuart Mitchenall, Head of Business Transformation at Tandridge District Council, says: "The UniCORN implementation of the shared PSN connectivity for Surrey authorities was conducted in a highly professional manner to a short timetable. The ability of the UniCORN team to pull together resources in a cost effective way has impressed us, and we expect to see greater exploitation of service-based solutions in all connected authorities." The PSN gateway enables local authorities to reduce cost and collaborate via a UniCORN connection.
As local authorities sign-up to the UniCORN partnership they are assigned a logically-separate security domain called an eLAN. Unfettered access to all connections in the same eLAN is automatically allowed, while access to other security domains is through defined protocols (with bilateral agreement). It's possible for a participant to have more than one eLAN. Each eLAN is secured to government standards up to RESTRICTED classification.
Hosted voice and contact centre platform
The cloud-based IP voice system uses the resilient BT One Cloud Cisco platform which is hosted at a BT data centre. At present serving thousands of users in 100 council offices across Surrey, it's providing advanced features like multi-party audio conferencing and follow-me phone numbers, while the council is avoiding call charges by carrying its internal voice traffic over the UniCORN infrastructure. Meanwhile, SIP trunking will offer savings on phone bills and external phone number flexibility.
BT Cloud Contact is a hosted, web-based contact centre service requiring no additional onsite hardware, capable of flexing up and down depending on demand. Surrey County Council acts as the global tenant with the aim of supporting all Surrey districts and boroughs as autonomous queues on the platform. That gives the ability to optimise resources and overflow calls at busy times, and save significant set-up costs, without the need for numerous separate call centres.
Service management with strict SLAs
The BT Service Management wrap includes a dedicated 20-person team of technical designers, solutions architects, systems integrators and project managers located in Kingston. Rigorous traffic and event monitoring from a network operations centre, also in Kingston, ensures core capacity and security stays ahead of ever-rising demand.
Meanwhile, a Thurso-based help desk manned from 08:00 to 18:00 offers fault logging and resolution against stringent service level agreements (SLAs) like four-hour onsite response for LAN support. Failure to meet those SLAs would result in financial penalties for BT.
New UniCORN participants have a direct relationship with BT as the principal service provider, while Surrey County Council assures strong overall contract management. Most UniCORN products are provided on a flexible per-user basis, with contract duration determined by the participant within an overarching framework.
New services and features are ordered via a BT web portal, which also enables users to track progress on trouble tickets. Meanwhile a BT account management team advises on more complex orders, like extending the BT Cloud Contact platform to new sites.
Schools learn to double network power for two-thirds savings
One of the earliest UniCORN adopters was Central Surrey Health (CSH), which provides community health services for adults, children and their families in homes, schools, clinics and community hospitals in mid-Surrey.
Mike Davis, director of information management and technology at CSH Surrey, says: "With UniCORN we not only saw a 25 per cent cost saving compared to our previous network, but also most problems are fixed before we even know about them."
Some 205 Surrey schools teaching a total of 40,000 pupils are now using the UniCORN high-speed Ethernet network. The schools are also provided with cloud-based web content filtering from BT partner, Smoothwall. Providing protection against all unsuitable site categories, this has now been extended to include Surrey corporate filtering requirements. The Smoothwall service is also managed through the UniCORN framework. Its functionality and filtering policies can incorporate public Wi-Fi access at locations such as youth centres and adult learning centres too.
Paul Brocklehurst says: "The schools that have joined so far claim they've doubled their network power for a third of the cost, compared to their previous arrangements." With educational establishments working ever-closer with social services, the NHS and the police, UniCORN promises to provide the platform to enable the necessary secure interaction.
New partners coming on board for best value advantages
As well as the two examples described above, some 16 other agencies have signed accession and partnership agreements and are at various stages of on-boarding UniCORN services, among them the Royal Berkshire Fire Service.
New partners gain newfound flexibility and ease of procurement, knowing they are buying best value through the integrator model. For instance, they can add products and services through the UniCORN order management team in a timely fashion without the need for lengthy and resource-hungry procurement.
Steve Wragge-Morley says: "In every town we have many different functions, from council tax to rubbish collection, each with its own systems and processes. With UniCORN we can give our customers more joined-up services, while eliminating costly duplication."
Against the previous Surrey and Berkshire network arrangements, the innovative UniCORN infrastructure-as-a-service model gives a saving of more than £5 million over the seven-year contract. For example, the BT Cloud Contact service is offered on a pay-as-you-grow basis.
Local authorities adjacent to Surrey and Berkshire are taking notice. Encouraged by the existence of a high-speed Ethernet network right on their doorsteps, they're considering the clear advantages of opting-in to UniCORN to get best value straightaway.
Paul Brocklehurst sums up: "We estimate that new participants will each save around 20 per cent as soon as they sign up. Beyond that they'll see the powerful benefits of things like more collaborative working and elimination of duplication in the delivery of public services."
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Broward County established the following internal procedure to ensure the prompt and equitable resolution of complaints alleging discrimination on the basis of disability in the provision of services, programs, activities or benefits by the County. This grievance procedure is adopted pursuant to the regulations implementing Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended. 28 C.F.R. § 35.107 Any complaints relating to County employment practices should be directed to the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and Professional Standards (OIAPS) in accordance with the Broward County Equal Employment Opportunity Policy.
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My interest in genealogy started when I was a child. My dad's mom use to tell me that the family history book had been burned in a fire, but she knew we were related to Daniel Boone. I never forgot that, nor have I ever found the connection haha. Along with doing genealogy I spend a lot of my time doing photo restorations, namely for victims of Sandy through Care for Sandy, and also of family photos that I add to the books I write on our family history.
18 May 2008
My treasure
When I began my search for our ancestors more than three years ago my husbands grandmother had only one request. She wanted me to help her find where her mother was buried. She didn't know for sure where and she had never been to her grave.
Estelle Connor was only eleven years old and the oldest of four children when her mother, Flora Mae (Manning) Connor died two days after giving birth to her last child Geneva who also died and was buried with her. Grandma didn't even know the sex, let alone the name of the last child.
I took me nearly two years to find anything on Flora. However once the doors opened I was flooded with information on her. She was the youngest child of Thomas Manning and Mattie Smith. She was born 25 May 1911. It is said that her mother died of dropsy (heart attach) with a baby in her arms. The child had to be pried from her arms. We can only assume that since Flora is the last known child of Mattie that she was that child.
We don't know much more about her childhood. She became estranged from her father and three brother when she choose to marry a part Native American boy, Ernest Ghamo Conner. This is the only known photo of Flora. We believe this was taken shortly after their marriage.
I eventually found where she was buried in Amarillo, TX. Grandma finally got to visit her grave and was so sad when she discovered that only a brick size piece of cement marked their graves of her mother and youngest sister with only their first names on it. She then bought new stones for both of them before going back home.
I hope that some day I will have the opportunity to visit the grave of the woman that I worked so hard to find. She may not be the grandmother who inspired my passion for genealogy, but she was the one who kept me going until I found her.
4 comments:
- footnoteMaven said...
Oh Amy!
This is a wonderful article and a fantastic photograph.
It is a perfect belles and beaus submission.
Thank you!
Shades Of The Departed
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- Jewelgirl said...
Great story. I am glad you found
her and the history. It is always
terrific to have answers.
- Shelina said...
Great post! You probably know this, but her death certificate is available on family search labs and a photo of her headstone is on find a grave.


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This was the third consecutive year Zenyatta, who is owned by Jerry and Ann Moss, trained by John Shirreffs and ridden by Mike Smith, has been voted the honor for her Oak Tree accomplishments.
Zenyatta, who has earned eight of her victories at her home track, was also chosen older female.
Before a vocal and very enthusiastic on track crowd of 25,837, Zenyatta was able to overtake Switch in the final yards to capture the Lady's Secret for an unprecedented third time in succession.
Besides Zenyatta, other unanimous choices were Norfolk Stakes hero Jaycito as 2-year-old and 2-year-old male, Oak Leaf Stakes upsetter Rigoletta as 2-year-old filly, Yellow Ribbon Stakes heroine Hibaayeb as female turf horse and Goodwood Stakes winner Richard's Kid as older male.
In addition to female turf horse, Hibaayeb was also voted 3-year-old filly, Champ Pegaus, who won the Clement L. Hirsch Memorial Turf Championship, was turf horse and Smiling Tiger, who earned the biggest victory of his career in the Ancient Title Stakes Oct. 9, was selected sprinter as well as 3-year-old and 3-year-old male.
Joe Carl, a two-time winner at the meet for owners Norma and Maurel Bell and George Carter and trainer Dan Hendricks, was given the claiming horse honor.
The human winners were Bob Baffert (trainer), Rafael Bejarano, who edged Joel Rosario 35-34 for the top spot in the standings, as jockey and Alex Gonzalez (apprentice jockey).
Baffert, who won the training title in the last race of the meet when Tweebster prevailed as the 6-5 favorite, finished the season with 11 victories, one more than Doug O'Neill and John Sadler. The title was Baffert's second in a row at Oak Tree and fifth since 1997.


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Bali is an amazingly beautiful place.
The buying trips are very rewarding but also exhausting!
Below are some photos take on my visits,
showing the way we work with the artisans and how we trade.
Also there are some snaps showing what a delightfully quirky place Bali can be!
Choosing beads with Suzie.
Offerings for the Gods (note the cigarettes).
Happy kids on their way to school. I just love the uniforms.
What can I say? Only in Bali
One of our beautiful and talented artisans.
Kids on the back of motorbikes, always scares the life out of me.
A dazzling array of beads to choose from.
It is amazing what you can fit on the back of a bike.
The beautiful drive back to the villas, past the rice fields each day.
There is a certain honesty in Bali that cannot alway be explained, but this kind of sums it up! And yes it is a real shop.
Every morning the streets are littered with offerrings for the Gods.
Amazing crafts everywhere.
Bamboo scaffolding, it scares the life out of me! This gentleman is actually quite high up, with no safety harness or hard hat, and had just put his cigarette out!


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Does Drinking Make You a Better Parent?
Booze makes you a better parent—or at least that's what one in five moms and dads thinks. A new study reveals that nearly 20 percent of all British parents believe their alcohol consumption positively affects their parenting skills.
The study by the 4Children charity found that an alarming six out of 10 parents feel that their drug and alcohol use has no influence on their family life; only 9 percent reported that they felt like their booze habits had a negative impact.
This is because British parents view boozing it up "as normal as drinking tea," according to lead researcher Mark Bennett, director of policy at 4Children, who says their recent findings have uncovered a "silent epidemic" among British families.
"Part of the problem is people don't realize that they are causing problems by drinking to excess habitually," said Bennett. "It could first be one glass, which leads to another. If parents have had a bottle of wine or more, their ability to react to their child, especially a small child, will be impaired."
Other alarming figures uncovered in the study include:
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I think the moral of this story is don?t tamper with things you don?t know much about. My favorite part is when Nita gets back at Joanne (the school bully), because Joanne was terribly mean to Nita. This book also has funny moments, in my opinion. I like the book because I think it's interesting, especially the parts about magic.
So You Want To Be a Wizard by Diane Duane is a great book that I would recommend to someone who is at least ten and has a big imagination, because at times the book is confusing.


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Honoré de Balzac, original name Honoré Balssa, (born May 20, 1799, Tours, France—died August 18, 1850, Paris), French literary artist who produced a vast number of novels and short stories collectively called La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy). He helped to establish the traditional form of the novel and is generally considered to be one of the greatest novelists of all time.
Early career
Balzac's father was a man of southern peasant stock who worked in the civil service for 43 years under Louis XVI and Napoleon. Honoré's mother came from a family of prosperous Parisian cloth merchants. His sister Laure (later de Surville) was his only childhood friend, and she became his first biographer.
Balzac was sent to school at the Collège des Oratoriens at Vendôme from age 8 to 14. At Napoleon's downfall his family moved from Tours to Paris, where he went to school for two more years and then spent three years as a lawyer's clerk. During this time he already aimed at a literary career, but as the writer of Cromwell (1819) and other tragic plays he was utterly unsuccessful. He then began writing novels filled with mystic and philosophical speculations before turning to the production of potboilers—gothic, humorous, historical novels—written under composite pseudonyms. Then he tried a business career as a publisher, printer, and owner of a typefoundry, but disaster soon followed. In 1828 he was narrowly saved from bankruptcy and was left with debts of more than 60,000 francs. From then on his life was to be one of mounting debts and almost incessant toil. He returned to writing with a new mastery, and his literary apprenticeship was over.
Two works of 1829 brought Balzac to the brink of success. Les Chouans, the first novel he felt enough confidence about to have published under his own name, is a historical novel about the Breton peasants called Chouans who took part in a royalist insurrection against Revolutionary France in 1799. The other, La Physiologie du mariage (The Physiology of Marriage), is a humorous and satirical essay on the subject of marital infidelity, encompassing both its causes and its cure. The six stories in his Scènes de la vie privée (1830; "Scenes from Private Life") further increased his reputation. These long short stories are for the most part psychological studies of girls in conflict with parental authority. The minute attention he gave to describing domestic background in his works anticipated the spectacularly detailed societal observations of his later Parisian studies.
From this point forward Balzac spent much of his time in Paris. He began to frequent some of the best-known Parisian salons of the day and redoubled his efforts to set himself up as a dazzling figure in society. To most people he seemed full of exuberant vitality, talkative, jovial and robustious, egoistic, credulous, and boastful. He adopted for his own use the armorial bearings of an ancient noble family with which he had no connection and assumed the honorific particle de. He was avid for fame, fortune, and love but was above all conscious of his own genius. He also began to have love affairs with fashionable or aristocratic women at this time, finally gaining that firsthand understanding of mature women that is so evident in his novels.
Between 1828 and 1834 Balzac led a tumultuous existence, spending his earnings in advance as a dandy and man-about-town. A fascinating raconteur, he was fairly well received in society. But social ostentation was only a relaxation from phenomenal bouts of work—14 to 16 hours spent writing at his table in his white, quasi-monastic dressing gown, with his goose-quill pen and his endless cups of black coffee. In 1832 Balzac became friendly with Éveline Hanska, a Polish countess who was married to an elderly Ukrainian landowner. She, like many other women, had written to Balzac expressing admiration of his writings. They met twice in Switzerland in 1833—the second time in Geneva, where they became lovers—and again in Vienna in 1835. They agreed to marry when her husband died, and so Balzac continued to conduct his courtship of her by correspondence; the resulting Lettres à l'étrangère ("Letters to a Foreigner"), which appeared posthumously (4 vol., 1889–1950), are an important source of information for the history both of Balzac's life and of his work.
To clear his debts and put himself in a position to marry Madame Hanska now became Balzac's great incentive. He was at the peak of his creative power. In the period 1832–35 he produced more than 20 works, including the novels Le Médecin de campagne (1833; The Country Doctor), Eugénie Grandet (1833), L'Illustre Gaudissart (1833; The Illustrious Gaudissart), and Le Père Goriot (1835), one of his masterpieces. Among the shorter works were Le Colonel Chabert (1832), Le Curé de Tours (1832; The Vicar of Tours), the trilogy of stories entitled Histoire des treize (1833–35; History of the Thirteen), and Gobseck (1835). Between 1836 and 1839 he wrote Le Cabinet des antiques (1839), the first two parts of another masterpiece, Illusions perdues (1837–43; Lost Illusions), César Birotteau (1837), and La Maison Nucingen (1838; The Firm of Nucingen). Between 1832 and 1837 he also published three sets of Contes drolatiques (Droll Stories). These stories, Rabelaisian in theme, are written with great verve and gusto in an ingenious pastiche of 16th-century language. During the 1830s he also wrote a number of philosophical novels dealing with mystical, pseudoscientific, and other exotic themes. Among these are La Peau de chagrin (1831; The Wild Ass's Skin), Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu (1831; The Unknown Masterpiece), Louis Lambert (1834), La Recherche de l'absolu (1834; The Quest of the Absolute), and Séraphîta (1834–35).
In all these varied works Balzac emerged as the supreme observer and chronicler of contemporary French society. These novels are unsurpassed for their narrative drive, their large casts of vital, diverse, and interesting characters, and their obsessive interest in and examination of virtually all spheres of life: the contrast between provincial and metropolitan manners and customs; the commercial spheres of banking, publishing, and industrial enterprise; the worlds of art, literature, and high culture; politics and partisan intrigue; romantic love in all its aspects; and the intricate social relations and scandals among the aristocracy and the haute bourgeoisie.
No theme is more typically Balzacian than that of the ambitious young provincial fighting for advancement in the competitive world of Paris. Balzac admired those individuals who were ruthless, astute, and, above all, successful in thrusting their way up the social and economic scale at all costs. He was especially attracted by the theme of the individual in conflict with society: the adventurer, the scoundrel, the unscrupulous financier, and the criminal. Frequently his villains are more vigorous and interesting than his virtuous characters. He was both fascinated and appalled by the French social system of his time, in which the bourgeois values of material acquisitiveness and gain were steadily replacing what he viewed as the more stable moral values of the old-time aristocracy.
These topics provided material largely unknown, or unexplored, by earlier writers of French fiction. The individual in Balzac's stories is continually affected by the pressure of material difficulties and social ambitions, and he may expend his tremendous vitality in ways Balzac views as socially destructive and self-destructive. Linked with this idea of the potentially destructive power of passionate will, emotion, and thought is Balzac's peculiar notion of a vital fluid concentrated inside the person, a store of energy that he may husband or squander as he desires, thereby lengthening or shortening his vital span. Indeed, a supremely important feature in Balzac's characters is that most are spendthrifts of this vital force, a fact that explains his monomaniacs who are both victim and embodiment of some ruling passion; avarice, as in the main character of Gobseck, a usurer gloating over his sense of power, or the miserly father obsessed with riches in Eugénie Grandet; excessive paternal affection, as in the idolatrous Learlike father in Le Père Goriot; feminine vindictiveness, as evidenced in La Cousine Bette and a half-dozen other novels; the mania of the art collector, as in Le Cousin Pons; the artist's desire for perfection, as in Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu; the curiosity of the scientist, as in the fanatical chemist of La Recherche de l'absolu; or the vaulting and frustrated ambition of the astonishingly resourceful criminal mastermind Vautrin in Illusions perdues and Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes. Once such an obsession has gained a hold, Balzac shows it growing irresistibly in power and blinding the person concerned to all other considerations. The typical structure of his novels from the early 1830s onward is determined by this approach: there is a long period of preparation and exposition, and then tension mounts swiftly to an inevitable climax, as in classical tragedy.
La Comédie humaine
The year 1834 marks a climax in Balzac's career, for by then he had become totally conscious of his great plan to group his individual novels so that they would comprehend the whole of contemporary society in a diverse but unified series of books. There were to be three general categories of novels: Études analytiques ("Analytic Studies"), dealing with the principles governing human life and society; Études philosophiques ("Philosophical Studies"), revealing the causes determining human action; and Études de moeurs ("Studies of Manners"), showing the effects of those causes, and themselves to be divided into six kinds of scènes—private, provincial, Parisian, political, military, and country life. This entire project resulted in a total of 12 volumes (1834–37). By 1837 Balzac had written much more, and by 1840 he had hit upon a Dantesque title for the whole: La Comédie humaine. He negotiated with a consortium of publishers for an edition under this name, 17 volumes of which appeared between 1842 and 1848, including a famous foreword written in 1842. In 1845, having new works to include and many others in project, he began preparing for another complete edition. A "definitive edition" was published, in 24 volumes, between 1869 and 1876. The total number of novels and novellas comprised in the Comédie humaine is roughly 90.
Also in 1834 the idea of using "reappearing characters" matured. Balzac was to establish a pool of characters from which he would constantly and repeatedly draw, thus adding a sense of solidarity and coherence to the Comédie humaine. A certain character would reappear—now in the forefront, now in the background, of different fictions—in such a way that the reader could gradually form a full picture of him. Balzac's use of this device places him among the originators of the modern novel cycle. In the end, the total number of named characters in the Comédie humaine is estimated to have reached 2,472, with a further 566 unnamed characters.
In January 1842 Balzac learned of the death of Wenceslas Hanski. He now had good expectations of marrying Éveline, but there were many obstacles, not the least being his inextricable indebtedness. She in fact held back for many years, and the period of 1842–48 shows Balzac continuing and even intensifying his literary activity in the frantic hope of winning her, though he had to contend with increasing ill health.
Balzac produced many notable works during the early and mid-1840s. These include the masterpieces Une Ténébreuse Affaire (1841; A Shady Business), La Rabouilleuse (1841–42; The Black Sheep), Ursule Mirouët (1841), and one of his greatest works, Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (1843–47; A Harlot High and Low). Balzac's last two masterpieces were La Cousine Bette (1847; Cousin Bette) and Le Cousin Pons (1847; Cousin Pons).
In the autumn of 1847 Balzac went to Madame Hanska's château at Wierzchownia and remained there until February 1848. He returned again in October to stay, mortally sick, until the spring of 1850. Then at last Éveline relented. They were married in March and proceeded to Paris, where Balzac lingered on miserably for the few months before his death.
Balzac did not quite realize his tremendous aim of making his novels comprehend the whole of society at that time. His projected scenes of military and political life were only partially completed, and there were certain other gaps, for instance in regard to the new class of industrial workers. Nevertheless, few novelists have thronged their pages with men and women drawn from so many different spheres, nor with characters so widely representative of human passions and frailties, projected with dynamic and convincing force.
Balzac was notable for his peculiar methods of composition. He often began with a relatively simple subject and a brief first draft, but fresh ideas came crowding in during composition until finally the story expanded far beyond his first intention. The trouble lay in the fact that Balzac tended to expand and amplify his original story by making emendations after it had been typeset by the printers. The original skeleton of a story was thus filled out until it had reached the proportions of a full-length novel, but only at a ruinous cost of printer's bills to its author. Even when the novel was in print he would frequently introduce new variations on his theme, as successive editions appeared.
Balzac's method was almost invariably to reinforce, to emphasize, and to amplify. There are lengthy digressions in which he aired his remarkably detailed knowledge of legal procedures, financial manipulations, or industrial processes, but at its best his style is remarkably graphic, fast-moving and tersely epigrammatic but richly studded with sarcasm, wit, and psychological observation. His command of the French language was probably unrivaled, and he was also an outstanding master of dialogue. His sardonic humour saves his more pessimistic stories from being uniformly dark, and he had a real gift for comedy.
Balzac is regarded as the creator of realism in the novel. He is also acknowledged as having helped to establish the technique of the traditional novel, in which consequent and logically determined events are narrated by an all-seeing observer (the omniscient narrator) and characters are coherently presented. Balzac had exceptional powers of observation and a photographic memory, but he also had a sympathetic, intuitive capacity to understand and describe other people's attitudes, feelings, and motivations. He was bent on illustrating the relation between cause and effect, between social background and character. His ambition was to "compete with the civil register," exactly picturing his contemporaries in their class distinctions and occupations. In this he succeeded, but he went even further in his efforts to show that the human spirit has power over men and events—to become, as he has been called, "the Shakespeare of the novel."
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history of Europe: Early 19th-century social and political thoughtBalzac wrote his huge array of novels as a "social zoology" that was to show what a bloody jungle society becomes without the church and the monarchy to restrain human passions.…
French literature: The historical novel…is implicit in some of Honoré de Balzac's works. Balzac's writing not only evoked the surface or the atmosphere of a precise period but also examined the processes of historical, social, and political transformation. Scott's studies of the aftereffects of the Jacobite rising can be paralleled by Balzac's analysis of…
novel: RealismStendhal and Balzac, on the other hand, admit no dreams and present life in a grim nakedness without poetic drapery.…
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Early works…and emotionally intensified translation of Honoré de Balzac's novel
Eugénie Grandet; and the French writer's oeuvre was to exercise a great influence on his own fiction. Dostoyevsky did not have to toil long in obscurity. No sooner had he written his first novella, Bednyye lyudi(1846; Poor Folk), than he…
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Barcelona have announced that Tito Vilanova will travel to France with the squad for the Blaugrana's Champions League clash with Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday.
The 44-year-old has been out of action ever since he was diagnosed with cancer in his parotid gland for a second time in December and subsequently travelled to New York a month later to begin chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment following surgery.
However, the Catalan giants have now confirmed that Vilanova will make the trip to Parc des Princes along with the rest of the team, although he is not yet expected to resume his managerial duties.
Vilanova's assistant Jordi Roura, who has filled in during the coach's absence, will hold Barca's press conference prior to the European encounter and should also oversee the side's pursuit of a first-leg advantage.
Barcelona squad for PSG trip: Valdes, Pinto, Alves, Pique, Cesc, Xavi, Villa, Iniesta, Alexis, Messi, Thiago, Mascherano, Bartra, Busquets, Alba, Montoya, Abidal, Song, Tello, Oier, Deulofeu.
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While party boats out of Rhode Island continue to go out at every opportunity for cod and hake, ice fishermen on the Cape Cod trout ponds are being sabotaged. Waters partially freeze and then quickly go ice-free again.
The same waves of freezing and thawing that have plagued the ski industry this winter are battering our plans. Nevertheless, Jon Morgan just landed a huge 29-inch brown trout from an unidentified Cape Cod pond.
Higher elevation Berkshire lakes like Cheshire and Onota have held up much better during our weather's vacillations and big pike have been the reward. Local waters have been impressively producing, too. Lake Quinsigamond just gave up a 17-pounder, and Quaboag Pond has yielded several double-digit size fish, up to 15 pounds this past week.
Down in Connecticut, the Housatonic River continues to offer action for striper fishermen casting to holdovers and willing to numb their fingers.
Trout Unlimited plans
At 6:30 p.m. Monday, the Auburn Sportsman's Club will host the Central Massachusetts chapter of Trout Unlimited. Chapter President Peter Sterndale will present the fishing adventures planned for members.
TU meetings provide attendees with local stream knowledge, fishing tips and opportunities to network with some very skilled anglers.
In early April, they'll fish the Quinapoxet River. If the water temperatures reach the 50s, there will be some excellent early hatches to complement the first stockings.
The first weekend in May, TU will fish the Farmington River during the prolific Hendrickson hatch, which can provide some of the best rising action of the year.
In mid-May, Massachusetts will combine with the Rhode Island contingent of Trout Unlimited at Indian Hollow.
On Memorial Day week, they'll set off to North Conway, N.H., to fish the Saco, the Ellis and the Androscoggin for salmon.
In Early June, TU members will canoe down the Quaboag River. In mid-June, they'll be back for another weekend on the Farmington, where sulphurs and blue-winged olives should be hatching abundantly.
During July's full moon, members will spend a night fishing the tough Swift River at a time that won't require very fine, nearly invisible 7X leaders. Later, they'll venture to the Bamboo Fly Rod Museum in the Catskills. Central Mass TU invites members of the public to join them.
Archers doing their part
With so much developed land, archers are becoming increasingly valuable in regulating our local deer populations. MassWildlife Deer Project Leader David Stainbrook reports bow hunters took 4,416 deer during the 2013 six-week archery season. That's up from the 2012 total of 3,900. It wouldn't surprise me at all if in the near future, archers account for half of our annual total harvest. We have so many skilled bow hunters in Massachusetts — some of the finest in the country. Our state is greatly benefiting from their management efforts, reducing Lyme disease, vehicle collisions, and forest damage.
Wood duck success ...
Wood ducks had a very productive season in 2013, largely because of the nest box efforts led by MassWildlife Waterfowl Project Leader H Heusmann. With hard water to walk on, the team is now trying to check old nest boxes for signs inside that will help assess nesting success both of wood ducks and hooded mergansers, a gorgeous species which also makes use of them.
... now Kestrels need someOne raptor that has been getting very scarce in our part of the country is the kestrel, formerly called the sparrow hawk. While it does occasionally eat small birds, especially grassland species, it feeds heavily on insects like grasshoppers. It needs nesting cavities on poles and trees around fields. State ornithologist Drew Vitz is currently assessing appropriate habitats where nest boxes could be erected for them. Hopefully, by putting more serious emphasis on nest box placement, we can increase the population of this beautiful little falcon just as we increased our local wood duck population.
Goodbye Sen. BrewerSportsmen, naturalists, and conservationists are losing a great ally with state Sen. Stephen Brewer announcing that he will not seek re-election. The Democrat has been a champion for our causes and will be missed. Hopefully, his successor will follow in his footsteps, advocating for open space and outdoor traditions.
Abundant seals
It may be cold, but the gray seal pupping season has already begun. Mothers have to have a lot of blubber to keep warm and make enough very fatty milk to nourish their chubby pups. While the big numbers of seals make great white sharks and awed observers happy, they're consuming enormous quantities of fish close to shore off Chatham, where surf casters are frustrated by their overwhelming presence.
Any upcoming dinners?
This is the time of year local sportsmen are donating much of their game to the needy and hosting gourmet game dinners. Many T&G readers ask how to attend those feasts. All local clubs that want to invite the public should write me for inclusion in our calendar.
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This Day in Sports History — November 23
Here are just some of the notable sports moments that happened on November 23:
1943 — Philadelphia Phillies' owner William D. Cox was permanently banned from baseball for betting on his own team. (More info.)
1947 — Sammy Baugh of the Washington Redskins threw six touchdown passes, and his team beat the Chicago Cardinals, 45-21, at Griffith Stadium. (More info.)
1968 — Undefeated Harvard rallied to tie unbeaten rival Yale, 29-29, by scoring 16 points in the final 42 seconds at Cambridge, Mass. (More info.)
1981 — The U.S. District Court in Brooklyn convicted five former Boston College basketball players on charges stemming from their shaving of points to fix games during the 1978-79 season. (More info.)
1984 — Doug Flutie threw a desperation 48-yard touchdown pass to Gerard Phelan as time expired, and Boston College beat Miami, 47-45, at the Orange Bowl. (More info.)


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Memorial Day 2019
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The U.S. Marine Corps was created on November 10, 1775. It is a combined-arms task force known for its focus on aggressiveness and the offensive. The Marines have been central in developing groundbreaking tactics for maneuver warfare; they can be credited with the development of helicopter insertion doctrine and modern amphibious assault.
There are approximately 194,000 Marines actively serving today, with another 40,000 Marines serving in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves.


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Many of us never give much thought to our pancreas or what it does until there are problems. Pancreatic cancer is one of the scariest forms of cancer, as it is often hard to detect early and is difficult to treat. Pancreatitis, or inflammation of the pancreas, can cause a host of digestive problems and is often very painful for patients.
There are surgical options for patients with pancreas difficulties. On such option – pancreaticoduodenectomy is often called the Whipple procedure, named after the first doctor to perform the procedure.
In the Whipple procedure part of the pancreas, a portion of the bile duct, the gallbladder and the duodenum is removed. In some instances, a portion of the stomach may also be removed.
What was once a major open operation can - for some patients – be performed by doctors at Sentara using a minimally-invasive technique, offering benefits of smaller incisions and faster recovery.


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"Bob seems like a reasonable sort" - Andy Newman.
This post is the first of three planned oblique attempts to address the core contradictions at the heart of the Bob project, as well as to respond to some of the discussions at my more heated comment threads, such as this one, this one and this one. It starts with a report on a recent and not particularly important spat amongst the leftover remains of the British anti-racist movement carried out in the courts and in the blogosphere, amongst three of the heavier hitters of the UK-based but internationally read left bloggers, Harry's Place, Andy Newman's Socialist Unity and Richard Seymour's Lenin's Tomb. This spat is a good occasion to reflect on the meaning of "decency" and "indecency" in politics. In reflecting on this, the post touches on three areas: the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, the war on terror, and the etiquette of debate, with a kind of footnote on the anti-racist movement. All of these are illustrated with examples from British fringe politics of the 1990s and thus have a slightly autobiographical element, although I've done my best to keep self-indulgence to a minimum. I realise that the coherence of these elements might not be immediately apparent, but I would genuinely appreciate your responses, even if you only read part of it.
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JOHN A. SVAHNJohn A. Svahn served as commissioner of Social security from 1981 to 1983. After serving for 1 year as Undersecretary of the Health and Human Services Department, President Reagan appointed him to his present position as Assistant to the President for Policy Development.
The tragic moment came at 4:59 p.m., November 5, 1982, just 3 days after Congressional elections that revolved all too deeply around the politics of the Social Security system.
That was when the Old Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund--the "big one" in Social Security parlance--went technically insolvent and had to "borrow" money to make the November payments. This occurred despite a 10-year stretch of sure signs of coming insolvency that should have been read by politicians of both parties.
Those signs were read by the system's 36 million beneficiaries and 117 million taxpayers--future beneficiaries all, or so they had hoped. As a result the potential political and social fallout of many more months of the Nation's failure to grapple once and for all with the long-term ills of the system would have been catastrophic.
Official Washington did grapple with the system's legacy of weaknesses. And it did so in record time in response to recommendations of the National Commission on Social Security Reform created by President Ronald Reagan and the leadership of both parties in both Houses of the Congress.
The Commission was as bipartisan and reflective of the forces that shape the system as possible. It represented the political leadership of the Congress, who make the laws that govern it; the private sector businesses and workers who pay the taxes that support it; and, in every member of the Commission, the taxpayers and future beneficiaries whose quality of life is now and will be affected by it.
Their good work led to my second memorable "moment"--the magic of definitive Congressional action in the small hours of March 25, 1983, and the White House signing ceremony presided over by President Reagan and the Congressional leadership on the blustery morning of April 20.
It was more than just a President's signature put down that day. It was a sure sign that Social Security will remain--as well it should--a program that will indeed keep its promises to generations to come.
It was also a sign that the American political system still works. And works well on issues of great moment.
My third memorable "moment" came in May, 1983. In retrospect, it was appropriately symbolic of my entire tenure at Social Security. Months and years of cries-crossing the Nation at once to warn of the ills of the system and to reassure present and future beneficiaries that whatever its ills, they would be cured. And months and yean of cries-crossing Capitol Hill to carry the same message about this most pervasive of all Federal programs.
That "moment" occurred somewhere in the Aegean Sea on a long-overdue family vacation aboard a small sailboat, utterly cut off from any but the faintest of communications via short-wave radio from real-life problems back home or anywhere else in the world, for that matter.
In fact, in a week aboard the sailboat, we heard only a 10-second snippet of news that faded in and out of clarity from an Armed Forces Radio station.
The snippet: ". . The Social Security issue is back in the news today. . ."
Indeed it was. Indeed it will ever be for years to come.
It was a heady time for the 9th Commissioner. A time of political angst. Of personal stress. Of private joy at the marvels of the Social Security system. Joy that the system could be made to work. And joy over the good work of the tens of thousands of good men and women who are the Social Security Administration and who are the best people in the best organization with whom I've ever had the priv liege to work.
That system--the Social Security Administration, itself--does indeed work.


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Colorado roller derby moms finish No. 3 in "Amazing Race"
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Mona Egender (left, racing to the finish line) and Beth Bandimere, the Colorado roller derby moms who competed in CBS' "Amazing Race" this season, said Monday they're proud to have finished No. 3.
"In retrospect, we wished we had slowed down a bit and paid more attention. Also, we're directionally challenged," Beth said by phone from New York, where they watched Sunday's finale. While they would have loved to take home the $1 million prize, they're proud to have finished. "And we were in every episode!"
They fly back to Colorado today and, in case life gets boring, said they can always run through DIA as if still in competition. Filmming was completed in December and they've been keeping the secret.
"It's been a bit of a letdown," after quite a surreal year, Beth said. When acquaintances ask how it feels to be a celebrity, she has a ready answer: "I'm still cleaning my own toilet."
Now it's back to derby business as usual. This weekend the team, 5280 Fight Club, plays the Texecutioners. (See the YouTube video of their last matchup.) The skate circuit beckons. Both credit their husbands with being incredibly patient.
Meanwhile the two-hour finale powered CBS to a ratings win for the night. "The Amazing Race" finished first in every demographic as well as in total viewers (a hair under 9 million).
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Guillermo Del Toro discusses his inspiration for his "Strain" trilogy of vampire novels, the first of which is due to hit bookshelves on Junes 2nd.
Robert Downey JR wants to play Edgar Allen Poe in a script written by Sylvester Stallone. I know, I thought he was off drugs too, this is so sad. (JOKE, people)
So, we decided the other day that this new Filmax flick "Paintball" has a cool trailer, but was really playing the paintball schtick up way too much for me to take it seriously. As you can see though, they've really kept it classy with the poster. UGH.
Adam Green is hoping he'll get to shoot "Hatchet 2" next winter. Nothing is set in stone yet, but the idea and the interest is there, now it's just all about the pieces coming together. I for one would definitely watch if Green were to turn out another hilarious slasher in this series.
Speaking of interesting, if not totally amazing slasher films, it turns out that there's a Tobe Hooper-less sequel to his "Toolbox Murders" remake currently in the works. This one promises to "rise far above the last Toolbox". Guess we'll see.
Joe Dante won't ever write or direct a "Gremlins 3", although he does see it happening at some point in the future (just without him, apparently). He also says he thinks the guys who made that infamous "fan film" should be responsible for another sequel, and that he's currently working on two spectacular Blurays of the original films.


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RIO DE JANEIRO—Brazilian researchers are turning to cloning to help fight the perilous decline of several animal species.
The scientists at Brazil's Embrapa agriculture research agency said this week they have spent two years building a gene library with hundreds of samples from eight native species, including the collared anteater, the bush dog, the black lion tamarin, the coati, and deer and bison varieties, as well as the leopard and the maned wolf.
While still in its early stages, with the birth of a clone likely years away, the project represents Brazilian scientists' first foray into the cloning of wild animals, said team leader Carlos Frederico Martins.
Scientists in other parts of the world have been cloning threatened species for more than a decade, though with a low rate of success, and sometimes with the criticism of conservationists who say more should instead be done to save endangered animals in the wild by protecting their natural habitats.
Martins said that any clones that eventually emerge from the Brazilian project would go to zoos, not into the wild.
"The idea is not to use cloning as a primary conservation tool," Martins said in a phone interview from a farm outside the national capital, Brasilia. He stressed that clones don't resolve one of the main problems facing species with dwindling populations, which is maintaining a sufficiently varied gene pool.
"Let's be clear that cloning can't be a substitute for protecting endangered animals' habitats," Martins said. "It's a way to aid zoos beef up their collections, particularly for animals that don't easily breed in captivity."
The Embrapa project's top candidate for initial cloning is the maned wolf, a towering canine 1-metre tall at the shoulder, with long legs and a thick red pelt. With an estimated total population of 23,600, the vast majority of them in Brazil, the maned wolf is classified as "near threatened" on the ICNU Red List of Threatened Species, which is widely considered the definitive source on threatened species.
The wolf could prove easier to clone than the other species in the library because it's a good candidate for interspecies cloning. A skin cell from the wolf would be inserted into the egg of a common dog from which the nucleus had been removed, and then implanted into the uterus of a dog, which would serve as the cloned wolf pup's surrogate mother.
Nearly all the samples in the Embrapa team's gene library were culled from the bodies of dead animals, generally road kill brought in from the Cerrado, the vast tropical Savannah that surrounds Brasilia. Sperm, eggs and skin cells are collected from the cadavers and stored in liquid nitrogen at -196 degrees Celsius, Martins said.
If officials approve a pending partnership with the city's zoo, staff there will be trained to take samples from live animals from its collection, Martins said.
"The idea is to be able to expand the gene library to include more samples and also more species under pressure," said Martins.
The cloning of animals became a reality in 1996 with the birth of the Dolly the sheep. Dolly developed a virus-induced lung disease and was euthanized at age 6 — about half the life expectancy of her breed — but she gave birth to four lambs.
Cloning remains a difficult enterprise with a success rate of about 5 per cent to 7 per cent. The first reported cross-species clone, a wild ox called a gaur which was born to a cow in 2001, died of dysentery two days later. Martins said new techniques might boost the Brazilian team's success rate to about 12 per cent.
Martha Gomez, a senior scientist at the Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species in New Orleans, applauded the Brazilian effort but cautioned that any actual clones could be a long time off.
"I like the idea because I feel that it's important, but it's a really big challenge," said Gomez, who has used house cats and interspecies cloning to produce African wildcats.
"When you talk about cloning, you not only need the people, you need the infrastructure, the resources and the animals," she said. "The cloning between species can be very different. It's not going to be the same to clone a jaguar or a wolf, and cloning a tamarin is going to be even harder," Gomez said.
"I think they can do it, but it's a very long term project, that's for sure."


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A few months ago, the people who live in the home were struck by incomprehensible tragedy — a highway accident that claimed multiple lives.
I don't know this family or anything about them. Not their names, how their voices sound, what they like, or where they are from.
I know of them only as a passer-by, as someone who drives, or occasionally walks, past as they cut the lawn or lug groceries from the car.
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Daily routines and future dreams shattered.
The tough, seemingly impossible, tasks of picking up the pieces and moving on.
Facing birthdays, holidays and significant dates without someone they loved dearly and depended on.
I wonder how they are coping with it all, if they're finding comfort, if there's anything I could possibly do to help. Nothing comes to mind.
I don't know what caused the accident.
But I do know we report too many such tragedies in the pages of our newspapers, that too many families are missing loved ones because of highway tragedies, that far too many of us still haven't adjusted our driving habits to limit the number of people who lose their lives on the road.
Many of us get behind the wheel each morning and race at high speeds to wherever we're going. Some of even respond to texts or emails along the way.
We repeat that reckless behaviour at lunchtime, on the way home, on weekends.
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'Bachelorette' Ali Fedotowsky in No Hurry to Marry Roberto Martinez
On the sixth season of 'The Bachelorette,' Roberto Martinez won the heart of Ali Fedotowsky and proposed to her during the finale. But with no wedding in the year since, and given the dismal success record of relationships borne from the 'Bachelor' franchise, many have been wondering if the couple has split.
Not so, Fedotowsky says.
"We're still engaged; we're still living together. We just don't feel the need to walk down the aisle right now," she said, adding, "We didn't meet in the most traditional way — we had a very short courtship and we only knew each other nine weeks before we got engaged."
The couple had planned to tie the knot in August but the nuptials were scrapped when Fedotowsky, 27, had to have knee surgery. But that doesn't mean there's trouble in paradise.
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Celebrating USSA Thanksgiving
For skiing and snowboarding athletes, Thanksgiving often becomes just another day. For some, it's a competition day. For others, it's just another travel day during a long journey to far flung destinations in Europe. This year, though, a few athletes took matters into their own hands and hosted USSA Thanksgiving several weeks before the actual holiday.
"Because a lot of us are going to be out of town for Thanksgiving, I thought it was really important to get everyone together and celebrate before we're scattered across the world," slopestyle skier Emilia Wint said.
"Since I don't get to spend Thanksgiving with my family, it was nice to be with people who feel like family," snowboardcross athlete Jackie Hernandez said.
Wint, along with fellow slopestyle skier Jess Breda, organized the event while another slopestyle skier, Ashley Battersby, offered her house in Wanship, Utah, as the location. Dozens of athletes were invited and asked to bring their favorite Thanksgiving dish to share.
"My favorite part of USSA Thanksgiving was the collaboration," cross country skier Noah Hoffman said, "Every single person contributed a vital part of the meal. Everything was homemade. Everyone clearly put a lot of time and effort into their dish and many of us were cooking way out of our comfort zones."
From turkey to pie, all of the traditional foods were present at USSA Thanksgiving. And with over 20 athletes contributing to the dinner, there was no shortage of good eats.
"I would say the best food contribution was by Mac Bohonnon," Breda said, "He made mashed sweet potatoes with some sort of crust on top. It probably could have been considered a dessert with the amount of maple syrup and butter that were in it and it went perfectly with the tart cranberry sauce!"
"The butternut squash stuffing," nordic combined athlete Nick Hendrickson said, "I actually don't know who brought it, but it rocked."
While many of the recipes were tried and true favorites, there was one Thanksgiving staple that required a little bit of experimentation: turkey.
"Emilia and I were in charge of the Thanksgiving staples: turkey, cranberry sauce and gravy," Breda said, "But this was our first time ever cooking a turkey and we cooked two! We cut out the turkeys' backbone and broke the breast bones so the turkeys laid flat and each cooked in under two hours. It was quite an experience!"
Despite the nontraditional scheduling of the holiday, the athletes were excited to have the chance to get together with teammates and celebrate the spirit of Thanksgiving.
"I have not been able to enjoy Thanksgiving with my family since 2004," Hoffman explained, "As a skier, missing holidays becomes normal. Consequently, it felt very special to do Thanksgiving with my USSA teammates, who have become some of my best friends."
Since the dinner was held in Wanship, just a short drive from the USSA Center of Excellence in Park City, Utah, athletes from a variety of sports and disciplines were able to attend.
"We had friends from slopestyle, snowboardcross, halfpipe, freestyle aerials, one of our strength interns and a couple nordic skiers," Hendrickson said, "I've never seen a more tight knit group of athletes in the gym than this summer."
Despite the busy schedules and Olympic season looming ahead, it was an opportunity to relax and enjoy the true spirit of the holiday.
"It was just a good way to get together and have some fun before the season kicked off," Wint said, "We didn't do much of the traditional Thanksgiving practices, but the vibe was there, so I don't think they were necessary!"
"My family Thanksgiving is all about having fun, laughing and being with people you care about," skicross athlete Whitney Gardner said, "And USSA Thanksgiving was all of that!"


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While writing letters to the editor, thoughts come to mind for critics who contend that God�s written word reflects myths and hearsay and that history is void of evidence proving that Jesus existed.
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While writing letters to the editor, thoughts come to mind for critics who contend that God�s written word reflects myths and hearsay and that history is void of evidence proving that Jesus existed.
To the contrary, with research, one finds that many names and deeds that permeate the Old and New testaments are verifiable in historical documents or have been proven true by archaeology.
Although finding documented proof that Jesus existed beyond the Bible is difficult, its sparseness is not surprising. Even while he healed the sick, the lame and the blind and raised the dead, He encountered anti-Jesus voices plotting to quiet Him.
Start with Annas and Caiaphas, the two high priests who lacked the godly appointed Levite priesthood bloodline. According to history, Rome decreed their position (heartofhosea.org/caiaphas.html). Therefore, when Jesus� teaching threatened their political position and religious reputation, there is no question that Rome, not God, received the high priests� loyalty.
Next, mix in the original 71-member Sanhedrin religious council that had grown to include scribes, Pharisees, more �priests � the captain of the temple and the Sadducees�.� Then add �as many as were of the kindred of the high priest�.�
After Jesus� crucifixion, they were all �grieved that (the Apostles) taught the people and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.� (Acts 4:1-2, 6).
All those politically motivated naysayers wanted Jesus� teachings neither preached nor talked about when He lived, let alone after the crucifixion. Thus, we can suspect the Sanhedrin�s far-reaching pals, who paid the tomb guards to lie about how Jesus� body disappeared, would also have no guilty conscience against removing names, falsifying documents or destroying historical evidence.
Altering historical evidence is not unheard of. Even today we muffle the Christian voice and are considering altering history in our schools because literary classics and past truths offend present-day society. Imagine, in only a few hundred years, not 2,000, how our suppressed past-truth will affect certain, specific research and mindsets.
Nonetheless, perhaps Saint Paul was aware of history manipulation even when he told Porcius Festus: ��None of these things are hidden�for this thing was not done in a corner.� (Acts 26:26).
Clearly, Paul referred to Jesus� barbarous public trial and crucifixion and His resurrection after three days buried in Joseph of Arimathea�s tomb. Surely, he meant Jesus� appearance at the sepulcher to �Mary Magdalene and the other Mary� (Matthew 28:1). Undoubtedly, he considered Cleopas and his companion, who met Jesus on the road to Emmaus after his resurrection (Luke 24:15). Paul likely remembered Jesus� appearance to His disciple when Thomas was absent and again eight days later when Thomas was present (John 20: 19, 26).
Remember, Paul wrote that Jesus appeared to �above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part (remains) unto this present (day)�.� (1 Corinthians 15:6) Why would Paul write that when any one of the 500 could have disputed his words?
Further we must be mindful that when Paul, while named Saul the Christian killer, met the risen Lord on the Damascus road (Acts 9:3-5), his life changed forever, as do all lives when they accept Christ as their savior.
That is why Christians obey Jesus� command to spread the gospel beyond the church. Christians want all to hear that �whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.� (Romans 10:13)
�How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? (And) how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? (And) how shall they hear without a preacher?� (Romans 10:14)
That is why the gospels were written. That is why Paul and others wrote letters.
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Strengths: Turning Stuff, Looking Good
Weaknesses: Eloquence
First Appearance: First Intermission 43 (Named), First Intermission 49 (Action), LIAB 21 (Seen)
Vanna is a Turnamancer formerly in the service of Unaroyal, now working under contract for Faq. She has decreased the time needed to pop Faq's heir by 20 turns, as well as increased production in Faq's other two cities. She also helped to turn Duncan Scone. During the Battle of Jetstone, she prematurely ended Gobwin Knob's turn. She was implied heavily to have been linked to Charlie (another caster could also have been linked with Charlie when she did this.) She pledged to Queen Bea that she would only work for Royal sides.
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Vanna is a reference to Vanna White of Wheel of Fortune fame. Before 1997, the letters on the puzzle board were printed on rotating triangular prisms that were turned manually by White. (Since 1997, the puzzle board has used computer monitors with touch screens. White still is the hostess of Wheel of Fortune but she no longer turns the letters.)
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A Big Talk Over New Digs
More than 100 people turned out for an informational forum at the Bay Street Theatre organized by its management team and members of its board to discuss the theater's future home last Thursday.
"We wanted to be candid with the community who supports us," Murphy Davis, Bay Street's artistic director, said.
Residents, business owners, and board members made it clear that they want the theater to remain in Sag Harbor. Many spoke out demanding it, for reasons ranging from cultural to educational to economic, and offered ideas about how it could stay.
"It's not just about the rent," Tracy Mitchell, the theater's executive director, said in addressing a rumor about the reason behind a move. She added that Patrick E. Malloy III, a businessman and Sag Harbor landowner, has been a good landlord. She mentioned other expenses that make it a struggle to keep the not-for-profit theater afloat: Besides the $185,000 annual rent, which increases every three years, it costs $200,000 to house actors and crews, and other money is spent on rent in Riverhead for the construction of sets.
Mr. Davis sought to dispel another rumor — that shows were not well attended. He said the theater, which holds 299 people, did "very well." Robby Stein, a Sag Harbor Village Board member who also serves on the theater's board, pointed out that theaters don't live on that revenue; they depend on grants and donations, too.
"If we increase our earnings, it's not a game-changer," Frank Filipo, the chairman of the theater's board, said. "The theater's fixed costs are raised, and having to raise more and more money each year is very difficult." He added, "We are proud of the work done here. Everything is done at the highest level of professional entertainment."
"We want to stay in Sag Harbor if we can," Mr. Davis said to loud applause.
The theater needs to invest in a long-term home, Ms. Mitchell said, ideally in a place where expenses would be lower and the theater could own the property.
During a lengthy discussion of the possibility of a joint effort with Pierson High School, which could use an auditorium, it was suggested that a theater could be built adjacent to school property. One of those who pushed for such a collaboration was Peter Solow, a Pierson art teacher. He worried about the psychological effect of losing the theater and said it was as essential as the school.
Ms. Mitchell welcomed the idea of a partnership to benefit students and said it would help that the school, for the most part, wouldn't use the space at night or in summertime.
Among other Sag Harbor possibilities, Ms. Mitchell said the cinema on Main Street had an asking price of $12 million. The site of the recently closed Stella Maris School is not for sale, and if it were rented the Catholic Church would still be involved, which could affect programming.
Many in attendance thought that the 14,000-square-foot former Schiavoni plumbing facility on Jermain Avenue deserved more looking into, though there are questions having to do with the village code and residents' acceptance of increased traffic.
The property, Ms. Mitchell said, has enough room to house actors and workers, build sets, store props, and accommodate administration. And it is close enough to work with the school — "all the things we want to do."
"I love the building," Mr. Murphy said.
In Southampton, what will soon be the former Parrish Art Museum on Job's Lane might be the most financially viable option, according to Ms. Mitchell, and a workable agreement is being pursued. Museum officials have proposed a 50-year lease, and drawings of an outdoor pavilion adjacent to the museum are being developed.
The "cold, hard truth," Mr. Davis said, is that a decision needs to be made in 30 to 60 days. Mr. Filipo clarified that the theater does not have to move at that time — it will be on Long Wharf till 2013, with "great stuff this year," he said. But as the decision nears, interim locations may have to be considered.
Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr., the village attorney, who grew up in Sag Harbor, talked about the improvements he saw when Bay Street came to the wharf and called the theater critical to the economic health of the village. "We need to do everything to keep you here," he told the board.
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