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"Muscle Shoals" is a must-see, new documentary directed by Greg Camalier, detailing the unlikely, utterly compelling location of Muscle Shoals, Alabama as a key ingredient in some of music's biggest hits sung by the likes of superstars including Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Alicia Keys, Wilson Pickett, The Rolling Stones, Jimmy Cliff, Bob Seger, Paul Simon, The Staple Singers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Percy Sledge and countless others.
The tiny town of Muscle Shoals is depicted as a magical, spiritual, music-infused brew of soul and folklore, lending a bewitching je ne sais quois to the musical stylings of so many rock and roll greats who travelled to the area to record and immerse in the juju. At the heart of the story and the scene is Rick Hall, founder of FAME Studios, the recording place, where so much incredible music was created. Overcoming crushing poverty and staggering tragedies, Hall brought black and white together in Alabama's cauldron of racial hostility to create music for the generations. He is responsible for creating the "Muscle Shoals sound" and The Swampers, the house band at FAME that eventually left to start their own successful studio. The Swampers emerge as a charismatic, wildly talented group of passionate musicians proud of their home town and the music they created.
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Johnson led 43 of the first 80 laps of the 160-lap race on an unseasonably cool day at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The temperature was 68 degrees when the race started.
Carl Edwards was running second, pole-sitter Ryan Newman was third, Kasey Kahne was fourth and two-time Brickyard 400 winner Tony Stewart was running fifth.
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The U.S. and European allies have concluded that Syria has used chemical weapons against rebels "multiple times," and the White House said it would provide additional assistance to Syrian opposition that "includes military support."
In a conference call Thursday afternoon, White House Deputy National Security Adviser for Communications Ben Rhodes said that the "intelligence community estimates that 100 to 150 people have died from detected chemical weapons attacks in Syria to date."
President Barack Obama has said that the use of chemical weapons in Syria's ongoing conflict would be a "game-changer," and that it serves as a "red line." Thursday, Rhodes said it had.
Obama "has said that the use of chemical weapons would change his calculus, and it has," Rhodes said.
For now, though, the White House was unspecific about the next steps it would take,
"We've prepared for many contingencies in Syria," Rhodes said. "We are going to make decisions on further actions on our own timeline."
Rhodes said that Russia has been notified of the chemical weapons findings but has not yet committed to having Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down. He added that "several allies" and the United Nations have also been briefed.
The Wall Street Journal reported that military planners have proposed a limited no-fly zone that stretches up to 25 miles into Syria, but the White House said it has not yet made a decision.
There is "no clear guarantee" that it would help, Rhodes said.
Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, urged Obama to consult with Congress on further steps.
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Representatives of a dozen agencies walked a bike path along the Tahoe City shore this fall celebrating their environmental projects. But they see rough water ahead. Julie Regan is with the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. "Right now we are facing a fiscal cliff."
Brian Stewars with Placer County agrees. "Yeah, we are concerned. The pot of funds has dwindled."
Since 1997 their work was paid for with money that largely came from proceeds of land sales in Southern Nevada. But since the housing crash, that $300 million has started running out. Victoria Ortiz of the California-Tahoe Conservancy says agencies already feel the impact, "through cut programs or diminished programs."
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Google Maps Guide to Beautiful Stockholm
Google Places' business photo shoots allows businesses to request an indoor Street View shoot of their premises. Once the imagery is captured and added to Google Places it allows potential customers to take a virtual tour of the business using the Google Maps Street View technology.
If Google are looking to see how they can best implement business Street Views with Google Maps they could do worse than check out CityFinder Stockholm. CityFinder is a Google Map of Stockholm's places of interest and attractions such as hotels, cafes, museums, and much much more.
The map includes more than 1000 360 degree panoramic virtual tours of cafes, restaurants, malls, parks, gyms, beaches, museums and nightclubs in the city. The map provides a great guide to the city and an invaluable aide to visitors.
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Cool, I have not seen a similar interactive map before with the same 360 degree quality. Much better than Google Business Photos and EveryScape.com
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- 1. Diane Douglas: Arizona's Queen of Common Core
by Jennifer Reynolds, Creator of Arizonans Against Common Core and member of Mommy Lobby AZ
The second rebrand of Common Core is no more than Lipstick on a Pig. Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas continues to travel around the state in 2018 on the campaign trail telling crowds that she "Stopped Common Core" as part of her 2014 campaign promise. This is far from the truth! Common Core was Rebranded a second time on December 19, 2016 when the 2016 Arizona English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics Standards were adopted by the State Board of Education (SBE) with an 8-1 vote. See Arizona State Board Of Education Approves Rebrand Of Common Core Standards and State Board Of Education Ignores Governor, Parents And Own Policy.
SBE member Jared Taylor was the only vote opposing the adoption of these standards and he stated, "The bottom line is that I am very disappointed that we kicked the parents to the curb and ignored the will of the voters when they elected Diane Douglas. Yet she led the way today; we just renewed Common Core."
Comments from Mommy Lobby, Arizonans Against Common Core, Opt Out AZ
IGNORED by Supt Douglas, ADE, SBE Exec Director, Gov. Ducey's Educ. Policy Director
Mommy Lobby AZ (ML), Arizonans Against Common Core (AACC), and Opt Out AZ reviewed the 1st and 2nd drafts of the 2016 Arizona ELA and Mathematics standards and submitted our comments directly to Superintendent Diane Douglas, as well as to the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) Standards Staff, Carol Lippert and Suzi Mast; the former State Board of Education (SBE) Executive Director, Karol Schmidt; and Governor Ducey's Education Policy Director, Dawn Wallace numerous times in 2016.
Comments Compiled by Parents and Teachers
IGNORED by Arizona Legislators, SLAPPED DOWN by Supt. Douglas
- 2. Open Letter to Dr. Bob Branch, Clueless About K-12 Classrooms
Dear Dr. Branch,
Several parents were shocked to read your comments in the 1-18-18 briefs. It's obvious that you don't understand what is really going on in Arizona's classrooms —which is very disappointing, since you are a candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction.
You have a massive misunderstanding on the recess issue. The traditional three 15-minute recess has been eliminated in most schools across the state. Many schools are down to one 10-minute recess per day, and some have no recess at all! These are not college students. They're young children! They need to move! Studies have shown that physical activity improves academic performance. Americans are well known for their creativity and ingenuity —unlike China where academics are all that matter. We foster entrepreneurs and inventors in the USA. Recess promotes these desirable American characteristics. Recess is correlated with improved student behavior in the classroom. Recess also promotes social skills and helps kids learn how to deal with bullying —which is the opposite of giving them "comfort lamas and safe places," as you stated.Click here to read more
- 3. Chairman Morris to Payson RoundUp: No GOP "Feuding" in Gila County
Follows is a September 2017 letter written by Gary Morris, Chairman of the Gila County Republican Committee, to the Editor of the Payson Roundup newspaper. It seems that this newspaper, like many others across Arizona, despise Republicans and will do all possible to defeat them. In this case, Arizona Sen. Sylvia Allen is the target.
The Roundup recently published a front-page story titled "Feuding factions in GOP" about disagreements between State Senator Sylvia Allen and Navajo County Republican Committee Chairman Steve Slaton. It was placed at the top of the front page fold (a position generally reserved for only BIG stories).
I'm a bit confused as to why a small story in a town 100 miles away would be pertinent, or of interest, to Roundup readers to rate such an important "headline" position — except for a political punch.
Could it be that the Roundup's true intent was to discredit REPUBLICAN State Senator Sylvia Allen? Or to also discredit any Republican candidate, committees, or clubs in Gila County?Click here to read more
- 4. Frank Riggs: The Only Candidate with a Record for Fighting to get the Feds out of K-12 Education!
An opponent of Frank Riggs, who is running for Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction, is promising to "get the federal government out of state education." That rhetoric sure sounds good. However, it's doubtful that Frank's opponent knows much about the federal government's role in Arizona, or how to get it out of the state without jeopardizing our rural communities and our most vulnerable student populations.
Frank Riggs knows that K-12 education is primarily a responsibility of state and local government. In fact, former Congressman Riggs is the only candidate with an actual record and legislative history of fighting to restore state and local control in K-12 education. But he also understands the truth about the federal government's involvement in K-12 education, and where the money is, how it's spent, and what it will take to replace those federal dollars.
Here's Frank Riggs in his own words:Click here to read more
- 5. Arizona K-12 School Finance Statistics: Why does Arizona Rank #49 in Per Pupil Spending?
You've heard that Arizona ranks 49 in per pupil K-12 spending. On its face, it sounds disgraceful. But that doesn't mean it's causal to education outcomes. It also doesn't mean that Arizona is stingy. There is much more to the story. The Arizona Tax Research Association (ATRA) has put together a 9-page document titled Arizona K-12 School Finance Statistics: Providing Context to a Complex Measurement, that provides factual information relating to the reasons and fallacies surrounding the commonly argued narrative that Arizona doesn't fund K-12 education adequately.
SummaryClick here to read more
- 6. More Common Core Double-talk by Diane Douglas
When does "repeal and replace" not mean "repeal and replace"? When Supt. Of Public Instruction Diane Douglas says it.
Incumbent Douglas has been cranking out media releases, including taking a recent victory lap on the anniversary of the State Board of Education's adoption of "Common Core Rebrand #2." Her false "Common Core has been repealed and replaced" narrative has recently appeared in Frosty Taylor's 12/20/2017 Briefs. It also appeared in the 12/19/2017 issue of the Yellow Sheet.
For the record, the Common Core Standards haven't been repealed or replaced. At most, they've been "tweaked."
Don't be fooled by Douglas's red herring argument when she states:Click here to read more
- 7. Barry Jackson on "Teaching to the Test"
Barry Jackson, who tutors children in the East Valley, sent the following letter to Betsy Devos, United States Secretary of Education.
Dear Secretary DeVos:
For several months I have been tutoring a student whose school seems to spend an inordinate amount of time preparing students for standardized tests. First it was two days "reviewing" for a Galileo test. Now she says "we are not doing anything" but preparing for another standardized test, and this is taking several days. Along with "fall break"(two weeks) and "early release" Wednesdays, it is at least even money that she is learning more from me in one hour than she receives in a week in school.Click here to read more
- 8. High Stakes Testing - Expensive, Wasteful, Ineffective Child Abuse
Hopefully, you read the letter that educational tutor Barry Jackson sent to Betsy DeVos. In it you can see the damage that is being done to our children by the Arizona State Board of Education when they, along with then Gov. Jan Brewer and Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne, in 2010, brought the Common Core Machine to Arizona. They did this in hopes of "winning" millions of dollars from our federal government via Race to the Top.
Since that time, Common Core has been rebranded, twice. Further, the pro-Common Core State Board has ensured that the damage continues. These people consider themselves "experts," a term that is being met with cynicism by a growing number of critically thinking people.
"Board member Jared Taylor, who has been consistent in his opposition to Common Core, was the lone "no" vote.
"The bottom line is that I am very disappointed that we kicked the parents to the curb and ignored the will of the voters when they elected Diane Douglas. Yet she led the way today; we just renewed Common Core," stated Taylor. Arizona State Board Of Education Approves Rebrand Of Common Core Standards
If you have any doubts about the negative effects of High Stakes Testing, there are many others who agree with Barry Jackson. They also say it is counter-productive, expensive, wasteful, and it is also child abuse.
As you read some of the comments below from the real experts, both local and national,--there are thousands more that I have not quoted--please recall that the Arizona State Board of Education voted in April 2017, to make 90% of a school's A-F grade dependent on how well their students scored on the High Stakes test, AZMerit.Click here to read more
- 9. Claims About Frank Riggs' "Environmental Record" Are Flatly Wrong and Very Misleading
At a recent Legislative District meeting, an opponent of Frank Riggs, who is also running for Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction, asserted that two bills co-sponsored by former Congressman Riggs "...crippled the logging industry" and "crippled the fishing industry." The fact is that Congressman Riggs did exactly the opposite! His bills helped those industries! He was one of the strongest supporters in Congress of the resource-based industries and private property rights. Because of his opposition to the extreme environmental movement, eco-terrorists targeted Riggs and even rampaged through his office vandalizing it and dragging in a tree stump and chaining themselves to it.
Here is the Truth, as stated by Candidate Riggs:Click here to read more
- 10. Frank Riggs to Speak October 21 in Globe
Please plan on attending the Saturday, October 21 meeting of the Cobre Valley Republican Club. The featured guest speaker is Frank Riggs, candidate for Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction. The meeting begins at 9:30 am at 424 N. Broad Street in Globe, Arizona. Everyone is welcome!
Frank Riggs has served country and community as an Army veteran and former police officer. An education leader who gets results, he's been called "the most qualified candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction in Arizona History."Click here to read more
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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 4, by Edward Gibbon, [1788], at sacred-texts.com
The death of the Alexandrian primate, after a reign of thirty-two years, abandoned the Catholics to the intemperance of zeal and the abuse of victory. 59 The monophysite doctrine (one incarnate nature) was rigorously preached in the churches of Egypt and the monasteries of the East; the primitive creed of Apollinarius was protected by the sanctity of Cyril; and the name of Eutyches, his venerable friend, has been applied to the sect most adverse to the Syrian heresy of Nestorius. His rival Eutyches was the abbot, or archimandrite, or superior of three hundred monks, but the opinions of a simple and illiterate recluse might have expired in the cell, where he had slept above seventy years, if the resentment or indiscretion of Flavian, the Byzantine pontiff, had not exposed the scandal to the eyes of the Christian world. His domestic synod was instantly convened, their proceedings were sullied with clamor and artifice, and the aged heretic was surprised into a seeming confession, that Christ had not derived his body from the substance of the Virgin Mary. From their partial decree, Eutyches appealed to a general council; and his cause was vigorously asserted by his godson Chrysaphius, the reigning eunuch of the palace, and his accomplice Dioscorus, who had succeeded to the throne, the creed, the talents, and the vices, of the nephew of Theophilus. By the special summons of Theodosius, the second synod of Ephesus was judiciously composed of ten metropolitans and ten bishops from each of the six dioceses of the Eastern empire: some exceptions of favor or merit enlarged the number to one hundred and thirty-five; and the Syrian Barsumas, as the chief and representative of the monks, was invited to sit and vote with the successors of the apostles. But the despotism of the Alexandrian patriarch again oppressed the freedom of debate: the same spiritual and carnal weapons were again drawn from the arsenals of Egypt: the Asiatic veterans, a band of archers, served under the orders of Dioscorus; and the more formidable monks, whose minds were inaccessible to reason or mercy, besieged the doors of the cathedral. The general, and, as it should seem, the unconstrained voice of the fathers, accepted the faith and even the anathemas of Cyril; and the heresy of the two natures was formally condemned in the persons and writings of the most learned Orientals. "May those who divide Christ be divided with the sword, may they be hewn in pieces, may they be burned alive!" were the charitable wishes of a Christian synod. 60 The innocence and sanctity of Eutyches were acknowledged without hesitation; but the prelates, more especially those of Thrace and Asia, were unwilling to depose their patriarch for the use or even the abuse of his lawful jurisdiction. They embraced the knees of Dioscorus, as he stood with a threatening aspect on the footstool of his throne, and conjured him to forgive the offences, and to respect the dignity, of his brother. "Do you mean to raise a sedition?" exclaimed the relentless tyrant. "Where are the officers?" At these words a furious multitude of monks and soldiers, with staves, and swords, and chains, burst into the church; the trembling bishops hid themselves behind the altar, or under the benches, and as they were not inspired with the zeal of martyrdom, they successively subscribed a blank paper, which was afterwards filled with the condemnation of the Byzantine pontiff. Flavian was instantly delivered to the wild beasts of this spiritual amphitheatre: the monks were stimulated by the voice and example of Barsumas to avenge the injuries of Christ: it is said that the patriarch of Alexandria reviled, and buffeted, and kicked, and trampled his brother of Constantinople: 61 it is certain, that the victim, before he could reach the place of his exile, expired on the third day of the wounds and bruises which he had received at Ephesus. This second synod has been justly branded as a gang of robbers and assassins; yet the accusers of Dioscorus would magnify his violence, to alleviate the cowardice and inconstancy of their own behavior.
The faith of Egypt had prevailed: but the vanquished party was supported by the same pope who encountered without fear the hostile rage of Attila and Genseric. The theology of Leo, his famous tome or epistle on the mystery of the incarnation, had been disregarded by the synod of Ephesus: his authority, and that of the Latin church, was insulted in his legates, who escaped from slavery and death to relate the melancholy tale of the tyranny of Dioscorus and the martyrdom of Flavian. His provincial synod annulled the irregular proceedings of Ephesus; but as this step was itself irregular, he solicited the convocation of a general council in the free and orthodox provinces of Italy. From his independent throne, the Roman bishop spoke and acted without danger as the head of the Christians, and his dictates were obsequiously transcribed by Placidia and her son Valentinian; who addressed their Eastern colleague to restore the peace and unity of the church. But the pageant of Oriental royalty was moved with equal dexterity by the hand of the eunuch; and Theodosius could pronounce, without hesitation, that the church was already peaceful and triumphant, and that the recent flame had been extinguished by the just punishment of the Nestorians. Perhaps the Greeks would be still involved in the heresy of the Monophysites, if the emperor's horse had not fortunately stumbled; Theodosius expired; his orthodox sister Pulcheria, with a nominal husband, succeeded to the throne; Chrysaphius was burnt, Dioscorus was disgraced, the exiles were recalled, and the tome of Leo was subscribed by the Oriental bishops. Yet the pope was disappointed in his favorite project of a Latin council: he disdained to preside in the Greek synod, which was speedily assembled at Nice in Bithynia; his legates required in a peremptory tone the presence of the emperor; and the weary fathers were transported to Chalcedon under the immediate eye of Marcian and the senate of Constantinople. A quarter of a mile from the Thracian Bosphorus, the church of St. Euphemia was built on the summit of a gentle though lofty ascent: the triple structure was celebrated as a prodigy of art, and the boundless prospect of the land and sea might have raised the mind of a sectary to the contemplation of the God of the universe. Six hundred and thirty bishops were ranged in order in the nave of the church; but the patriarchs of the East were preceded by the legates, of whom the third was a simple priest; and the place of honor was reserved for twenty laymen of consular or senatorian rank. The gospel was ostentatiously displayed in the centre, but the rule of faith was defined by the Papal and Imperial ministers, who moderated the thirteen sessions of the council of Chalcedon. 62 Their partial interposition silenced the intemperate shouts and execrations, which degraded the episcopal gravity; but, on the formal accusation of the legates, Dioscorus was compelled to descend from his throne to the rank of a criminal, already condemned in the opinion of his judges. The Orientals, less adverse to Nestorius than to Cyril, accepted the Romans as their deliverers: Thrace, and Pontus, and Asia, were exasperated against the murderer of Flavian, and the new patriarchs of Constantinople and Antioch secured their places by the sacrifice of their benefactor. The bishops of Palestine, Macedonia, and Greece, were attached to the faith of Cyril; but in the face of the synod, in the heat of the battle, the leaders, with their obsequious train, passed from the right to the left wing, and decided the victory by this seasonable desertion. Of the seventeen suffragans who sailed from Alexandria, four were tempted from their allegiance, and the thirteen, falling prostrate on the ground, implored the mercy of the council, with sighs and tears, and a pathetic declaration, that, if they yielded, they should be massacred, on their return to Egypt, by the indignant people. A tardy repentance was allowed to expiate the guilt or error of the accomplices of Dioscorus: but their sins were accumulated on his head; he neither asked nor hoped for pardon, and the moderation of those who pleaded for a general amnesty was drowned in the prevailing cry of victory and revenge. To save the reputation of his late adherents, some personal offences were skilfully detected; his rash and illegal excommunication of the pope, and his contumacious refusal (while he was detained a prisoner) to attend to the summons of the synod. Witnesses were introduced to prove the special facts of his pride, avarice, and cruelty; and the fathers heard with abhorrence, that the alms of the church were lavished on the female dancers, that his palace, and even his bath, was open to the prostitutes of Alexandria, and that the infamous Pansophia, or Irene, was publicly entertained as the concubine of the patriarch. 63
For these scandalous offences, Dioscorus was deposed by the synod, and banished by the emperor; but the purity of his faith was declared in the presence, and with the tacit approbation, of the fathers. Their prudence supposed rather than pronounced the heresy of Eutyches, who was never summoned before their tribunal; and they sat silent and abashed, when a bold Monophysite casting at their feet a volume of Cyril, challenged them to anathematize in his person the doctrine of the saint. If we fairly peruse the acts of Chalcedon as they are recorded by the orthodox party, 64 we shall find that a great majority of the bishops embraced the simple unity of Christ; and the ambiguous concession that he was formed Of or From two natures, might imply either their previous existence, or their subsequent confusion, or some dangerous interval between the conception of the man and the assumption of the God. The Roman theology, more positive and precise, adopted the term most offensive to the ears of the Egyptians, that Christ existed In two natures; and this momentous particle 65 (which the memory, rather than the understanding, must retain) had almost produced a schism among the Catholic bishops. The tome of Leo had been respectfully, perhaps sincerely, subscribed; but they protested, in two successive debates, that it was neither expedient nor lawful to transgress the sacred landmarks which had been fixed at Nice, Constantinople, and Ephesus, according to the rule of Scripture and tradition. At length they yielded to the importunities of their masters; but their infallible decree, after it had been ratified with deliberate votes and vehement acclamations, was overturned in the next session by the opposition of the legates and their Oriental friends. It was in vain that a multitude of episcopal voices repeated in chorus, "The definition of the fathers is orthodox and immutable! The heretics are now discovered! Anathema to the Nestorians! Let them depart from the synod! Let them repair to Rome." 66 The legates threatened, the emperor was absolute, and a committee of eighteen bishops prepared a new decree, which was imposed on the reluctant assembly. In the name of the fourth general council, the Christ in one person, but in two natures, was announced to the Catholic world: an invisible line was drawn between the heresy of Apollinaris and the faith of St. Cyril; and the road to paradise, a bridge as sharp as a razor, was suspended over the abyss by the master-hand of the theological artist. During ten centuries of blindness and servitude, Europe received her religious opinions from the oracle of the Vatican; and the same doctrine, already varnished with the rust of antiquity, was admitted without dispute into the creed of the reformers, who disclaimed the supremacy of the Roman pontiff. The synod of Chalcedon still triumphs in the Protestant churches; but the ferment of controversy has subsided, and the most pious Christians of the present day are ignorant, or careless, of their own belief concerning the mystery of the incarnation.
Far different was the temper of the Greeks and Egyptians under the orthodox reigns of Leo and Marcian. Those pious emperors enforced with arms and edicts the symbol of their faith; 67 and it was declared by the conscience or honor of five hundred bishops, that the decrees of the synod of Chalcedon might be lawfully supported, even with blood. The Catholics observed with satisfaction, that the same synod was odious both to the Nestorians and the Monophysites; 68 but the Nestorians were less angry, or less powerful, and the East was distracted by the obstinate and sanguinary zeal of the Monophysites. Jerusalem was occupied by an army of monks; in the name of the one incarnate nature, they pillaged, they burnt, they murdered; the sepulchre of Christ was defiled with blood; and the gates of the city were guarded in tumultuous rebellion against the troops of the emperor. After the disgrace and exile of Dioscorus, the Egyptians still regretted their spiritual father; and detested the usurpation of his successor, who was introduced by the fathers of Chalcedon. The throne of Proterius was supported by a guard of two thousand soldiers: he waged a five years' war against the people of Alexandria; and on the first intelligence of the death of Marcian, he became the victim of their zeal. On the third day before the festival of Easter, the patriarch was besieged in the cathedral, and murdered in the baptistery. The remains of his mangled corpse were delivered to the flames, and his ashes to the wind; and the deed was inspired by the vision of a pretended angel: an ambitious monk, who, under the name of Timothy the Cat, 69 succeeded to the place and opinions of Dioscorus. This deadly superstition was inflamed, on either side, by the principle and the practice of retaliation: in the pursuit of a metaphysical quarrel, many thousands 70 were slain, and the Christians of every degree were deprived of the substantial enjoyments of social life, and of the invisible gifts of baptism and the holy communion. Perhaps an extravagant fable of the times may conceal an allegorical picture of these fanatics, who tortured each other and themselves. "Under the consulship of Venantius and Celer," says a grave bishop, "the people of Alexandria, and all Egypt, were seized with a strange and diabolical frenzy: great and small, slaves and freedmen, monks and clergy, the natives of the land, who opposed the synod of Chalcedon, lost their speech and reason, barked like dogs, and tore, with their own teeth the flesh from their hands and arms." 71
The disorders of thirty years at length produced the famous Henoticon 72 of the emperor Zeno, which in his reign, and in that of Anastasius, was signed by all the bishops of the East, under the penalty of degradation and exile, if they rejected or infringed this salutary and fundamental law. The clergy may smile or groan at the presumption of a layman who defines the articles of faith; yet if he stoops to the humiliating task, his mind is less infected by prejudice or interest, and the authority of the magistrate can only be maintained by the concord of the people. It is in ecclesiastical story, that Zeno appears least contemptible; and I am not able to discern any Manichaean or Eutychian guilt in the generous saying of Anastasius. That it was unworthy of an emperor to persecute the worshippers of Christ and the citizens of Rome. The Henoticon was most pleasing to the Egyptians; yet the smallest blemish has not been described by the jealous, and even jaundiced eyes of our orthodox schoolmen, and it accurately represents the Catholic faith of the incarnation, without adopting or disclaiming the peculiar terms of tenets of the hostile sects. A solemn anathema is pronounced against Nestorius and Eutyches; against all heretics by whom Christ is divided, or confounded, or reduced to a phantom. Without defining the number or the article of the word nature, the pure system of St. Cyril, the faith of Nice, Constantinople, and Ephesus, is respectfully confirmed; but, instead of bowing at the name of the fourth council, the subject is dismissed by the censure of all contrary doctrines, if any such have been taught either elsewhere or at Chalcedon. Under this ambiguous expression, the friends and the enemies of the last synod might unite in a silent embrace. The most reasonable Christians acquiesced in this mode of toleration; but their reason was feeble and inconstant, and their obedience was despised as timid and servile by the vehement spirit of their brethren. On a subject which engrossed the thoughts and discourses of men, it was difficult to preserve an exact neutrality; a book, a sermon, a prayer, rekindled the flame of controversy; and the bonds of communion were alternately broken and renewed by the private animosity of the bishops. The space between Nestorius and Eutyches was filled by a thousand shades of language and opinion; the acephali 73 of Egypt, and the Roman pontiffs, of equal valor, though of unequal strength, may be found at the two extremities of the theological scale. The acephali, without a king or a bishop, were separated above three hundred years from the patriarchs of Alexandria, who had accepted the communion of Constantinople, without exacting a formal condemnation of the synod of Chalcedon. For accepting the communion of Alexandria, without a formal approbation of the same synod, the patriarchs of Constantinople were anathematized by the popes. Their inflexible despotism involved the most orthodox of the Greek churches in this spiritual contagion, denied or doubted the validity of their sacraments, 74 and fomented, thirty-five years, the schism of the East and West, till they finally abolished the memory of four Byzantine pontiffs, who had dared to oppose the supremacy of St. Peter. 75 Before that period, the precarious truce of Constantinople and Egypt had been violated by the zeal of the rival prelates. Macedonius, who was suspected of the Nestorian heresy, asserted, in disgrace and exile, the synod of Chalcedon, while the successor of Cyril would have purchased its overthrow with a bribe of two thousand pounds of gold.
In the fever of the times, the sense, or rather the sound of a syllable, was sufficient to disturb the peace of an empire. The Trisagion 76 (thrice holy,) "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Hosts!" is supposed, by the Greeks, to be the identical hymn which the angels and cherubim eternally repeat before the throne of God, and which, about the middle of the fifth century, was miraculously revealed to the church of Constantinople. The devotion of Antioch soon added, "who was crucified for us!" and this grateful address, either to Christ alone, or to the whole Trinity, may be justified by the rules of theology, and has been gradually adopted by the Catholics of the East and West. But it had been imagined by a Monophysite bishop; 77 the gift of an enemy was at first rejected as a dire and dangerous blasphemy, and the rash innovation had nearly cost the emperor Anastasius his throne and his life. 78 The people of Constantinople was devoid of any rational principles of freedom; but they held, as a lawful cause of rebellion, the color of a livery in the races, or the color of a mystery in the schools. The Trisagion, with and without this obnoxious addition, was chanted in the cathedral by two adverse choirs, and when their lungs were exhausted, they had recourse to the more solid arguments of sticks and stones; the aggressors were punished by the emperor, and defended by the patriarch; and the crown and mitre were staked on the event of this momentous quarrel. The streets were instantly crowded with innumerable swarms of men, women, and children; the legions of monks, in regular array, marched, and shouted, and fought at their head, "Christians! this is the day of martyrdom: let us not desert our spiritual father; anathema to the Manichaean tyrant! he is unworthy to reign." Such was the Catholic cry; and the galleys of Anastasius lay upon their oars before the palace, till the patriarch had pardoned his penitent, and hushed the waves of the troubled multitude. The triumph of Macedonius was checked by a speedy exile; but the zeal of his flock was again exasperated by the same question, "Whether one of the Trinity had been crucified?" On this momentous occasion, the blue and green factions of Constantinople suspended their discord, and the civil and military powers were annihilated in their presence. The keys of the city, and the standards of the guards, were deposited in the forum of Constantine, the principal station and camp of the faithful. Day and night they were incessantly busied either in singing hymns to the honor of their God, or in pillaging and murdering the servants of their prince. The head of his favorite monk, the friend, as they styled him, of the enemy of the Holy Trinity, was borne aloft on a spear; and the firebrands, which had been darted against heretical structures, diffused the undistinguishing flames over the most orthodox buildings. The statues of the emperor were broken, and his person was concealed in a suburb, till, at the end of three days, he dared to implore the mercy of his subjects. Without his diadem, and in the posture of a suppliant, Anastasius appeared on the throne of the circus. The Catholics, before his face, rehearsed their genuine Trisagion; they exulted in the offer, which he proclaimed by the voice of a herald, of abdicating the purple; they listened to the admonition, that, since all could not reign, they should previously agree in the choice of a sovereign; and they accepted the blood of two unpopular ministers, whom their master, without hesitation, condemned to the lions. These furious but transient seditions were encouraged by the success of Vitalian, who, with an army of Huns and Bulgarians, for the most part idolaters, declared himself the champion of the Catholic faith. In this pious rebellion he depopulated Thrace, besieged Constantinople, exterminated sixty-five thousand of his fellow-Christians, till he obtained the recall of the bishops, the satisfaction of the pope, and the establishment of the council of Chalcedon, an orthodox treaty, reluctantly signed by the dying Anastasius, and more faithfully performed by the uncle of Justinian. And such was the event of the first of the religious wars which have been waged in the name and by the disciples, of the God of peace. 79
59 Dixi Cyrillum dum viveret, auctoritate sua effecisse, ne Eutychianismus et Monophysitarum error in nervum erumperet: idque verum puto ...aliquo ... honesto modo cecinerat. The learned but cautious Jablonski did not always speak the whole truth. Cum Cyrillo lenius omnino egi, quam si tecum aut cum aliis rei hujus probe gnaris et aequis rerum aestimatoribus sermones privatos conferrem, (Thesaur. Epistol. La Crozian. tom. i. p. 197, 198) an excellent key to his dissertations on the Nestorian controversy!
60 At the request of Dioscorus, those who were not able to roar, stretched out their hands. At Chalcedon, the Orientals disclaimed these exclamations: but the Egyptians more consistently declared. (Concil. tom. iv. p. 1012.)
61 (Eusebius, bishop of Dorylaeum): and this testimony of Evagrius (l. ii. c. 2) is amplified by the historian Zonaras, (tom. ii. l. xiii. p. 44,) who affirms that Dioscorus kicked like a wild ass. But the language of Liberatus (Brev. c. 12, in Concil. tom. vi. p. 438) is more cautious; and the Acts of Chalcedon, which lavish the names of homicide, Cain, &c., do not justify so pointed a charge. The monk Barsumas is more particularly accused, (Concil. tom. iv. p. 1418.)
62 The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon (Concil. tom. iv. p. 761 - 2071) comprehend those of Ephesus, (p. 890 - 1189,) which again comprise the synod of Constantinople under Flavian, (p. 930 - 1072;) and at requires some attention to disengage this double involution. The whole business of Eutyches, Flavian, and Dioscorus, is related by Evagrius (l. i. c. 9 - 12, and l. ii. c. 1, 2, 3, 4,) and Liberatus, (Brev. c. 11, 12, 13, 14.) Once more, and almost for the last time, I appeal to the diligence of Tillemont, (Mem. Eccles. tom. xv. p. 479-719.) The annals of Baronius and Pagi will accompany me much further on my long and laborious journey.
63 (Concil. tom. iv. p. 1276.) A specimen of the wit and malice of the people is preserved in the Greek Anthology, (l. ii. c. 5, p. 188, edit. Wechel,) although the application was unknown to the editor Brodaeus. The nameless epigrammatist raises a tolerable pun, by confounding the episcopal salutation of "Peace be to all!" with the genuine or corrupted name of the bishop's concubine:
I am ignorant whether the patriarch, who seems to have been a jealous lover, is the Cimon of a preceding epigram, was viewed with envy aud wonder by Priapus himself.
64 Those who reverence the infallibility of synods, may try to ascertain their sense. The leading bishops were attended by partial or careless scribes, who dispersed their copies round the world. Our Greek Mss. are sullied with the false and prescribed reading of (Concil. tom. iii. p. 1460:) the authentic translation of Pope Leo I. does not seem to have been executed, and the old Latin versions materially differ from the present Vulgate, which was revised (A.D. 550) by Rusticus, a Roman priest, from the best Mss. at Constantinople, (Ducange, C. P. Christiana, l. iv. p. 151,) a famous monastery of Latins, Greeks, and Syrians. See Concil. tom. iv. p. 1959 - 2049, and Pagi, Critica, tom. ii. p. 326, &c.
65 It is darkly represented in the microscope of Petavius, (tom. v. l. iii. c. 5;) yet the subtle theologian is himself afraid - ne quis fortasse supervacaneam, et nimis anxiam putet hujusmodi vocularum inquisitionem, et ab instituti theologici gravitate alienam, (p. 124.)
66 (Concil. tom. iv. p. 1449.) Evagrius and Liberatus present only the placid face of the synod, and discreetly slide over these embers, suppositos cineri doloso.
67 See, in the Appendix to the Acts of Chalcedon, the confirmation of the Synod by Marcian, (Concil. tom. iv. p. 1781, 1783;) his letters to the monks of Alexandria, (p. 1791,) of Mount Sinai, (p. 1793,) of Jerusalem and Palestine, (p. 1798;) his laws against the Eutychians, (p. 1809, 1811, 1831;) the correspondence of Leo with the provincial synods on the revolution of Alexandria, (p. 1835 - 1930.)
68 Photius (or rather Eulogius of Alexandria) confesses, in a fine passage, the specious color of this double charge against Pope Leo and his synod of Chalcedon, (Bibliot. cod. ccxxv. p. 768.) He waged a double war against the enemies of the church, and wounded either foe with the darts of his adversary. Against Nestorius he seemed to introduce Monophysites; against Eutyches he appeared to countenance the Nestorians. The apologist claims a charitable interpretation for the saints: if the same had been extended to the heretics, the sound of the controversy would have been lost in the air
69 From his nocturnal expeditions. In darkness and disguise he crept round the cells of the monastery, and whispered the revelation to his slumbering brethren, (Theodor. Lector. l. i.)
70 Such is the hyperbolic language of the Henoticon.
71 See the Chronicle of Victor Tunnunensis, in the Lectiones Antiquae of Canisius, republished by Basnage, tom. 326.
72 The Henoticon is transcribed by Evagrius, (l. iii. c. 13,) and translated by Liberatus, (Brev. c. 18.) Pagi (Critica, tom. ii. p. 411) and (Bibliot. Orient. tom. i. p. 343) are satisfied that it is free from heresy; but Petavius (Dogmat. Theolog. tom. v. l. i. c. 13, p. 40) most unaccountably affirms Chalcedonensem ascivit. An adversary would prove that he had never read the Henoticon.
73 See Renaudot, (Hist. Patriarch. Alex. p. 123, 131, 145, 195, 247.) They were reconciled by the care of Mark I. (A.D. 799 - 819;) he promoted their chiefs to the bishoprics of Athribis and Talba, (perhaps Tava. See D'Anville, p. 82,) and supplied the sacraments, which had failed for want of an episcopal ordination.
74 De his quos baptizavit, quos ordinavit Acacius, majorum traditione confectam et veram, praecipue religiosae solicitudini congruam praebemus sine difficultate medicinam, (Galacius, in epist. i. ad Euphemium, Concil. tom. v. 286.) The offer of a medicine proves the disease, and numbers must have perished before the arrival of the Roman physician. Tillemont himself (Mem. Eccles. tom. xvi. p. 372, 642, &c.) is shocked at the proud, uncharitable temper of the popes; they are now glad, says he, to invoke St. Flavian of Antioch, St. Elias of Jerusalem, &c., to whom they refused communion whilst upon earth. But Cardinal Baronius is firm and hard as the rock of St. Peter.
75 Their names were erased from the diptych of the church: ex venerabili diptycho, in quo piae memoriae transitum ad coelum habentium episcoporum vocabula continentur, (Concil. tom. iv. p. 1846.) This ecclesiastical record was therefore equivalent to the book of life.
76 Petavius (Dogmat. Theolog. tom. v. l. v. c. 2, 3, 4, p. 217 - 225) and Tillemont (Mem. Eccles. tom. xiv. p. 713, &c., 799) represent the history and doctrine of the Trisagion. In the twelve centuries between Isaiah and St. Proculs's boy, who was taken up into heaven before the bishop and people of Constantinople, the song was considerably improved. The boy heard the angels sing, "Holy God! Holy strong! Holy immortal!"
77 Peter Gnapheus, the fuller, (a trade which he had exercised in his monastery,) patriarch of Antioch. His tedious story is discussed in the Annals of Pagi (A.D. 477 - 490) and a dissertation of M. de Valois at the end of his Evagrius.
78 The troubles under the reign of Anastasius must be gathered from the Chronicles of Victor, Marcellinus, and Theophanes. As the last was not published in the time of Baronius, his critic Pagi is more copious, as well as more correct.
79 The general history, from the council of Chalcedon to the death of Anastasius, may be found in the Breviary of Liberatus, (c. 14 - 19,) the iid and iiid books of Evagrius, the abstract of the two books of Theodore the Reader, the Acts of the Synods, and the Epistles of the Pope, (Concil. tom. v.) The series is continued with some disorder in the xvth and xvith tomes of the Memoires Ecclesiastiques of Tillemont. And here I must take leave forever of that incomparable guide - whose bigotry is overbalanced by the merits of erudition, diligence, veracity, and scrupulous minuteness. He was prevented by death from completing, as he designed, the vith century of the church and empire.


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Q&A with fiveandspice
Describe an early food experience that has influenced the way you think about food and/or cooking. There are quite a few. I've pretty much always loved eating, and then my mother provided me with some really great illustrated children's cookbooks when I was young. I found them so inspiring and would sit imagining what it would be like to eat the foods in them. It didn't take long to decide that I was going to go ahead and just make them and find out (though usually it was the sweets I really wanted to make, and those were the ones I wasn't allowed to make except on special occasions). I first cooked a dinner for my family when I was in grade school, and that feeling of feeding others and seeing them enjoy it together around the table, well apparently it was addictive.
What's your least favorite food?I still don't like oysters. And I'd be lying if I said I loved turnips.
What is the best thing you've made so far this year? Oh goodness, that's a hard question. Well, besides the recipes I've contributed here :)... I often find the things that I cook that I like best are fairly simple weeknight meals that are all about the ingredients. One that comes to mind was an evening a little while ago when I made pan roasted steak with a red wine sauce, molasses glazed brussels sprouts, and some roasted kabocha squash sprinkled with preserved lemon and olive oil. Simple and really delicious. Oh, and also, my husband and I went to Italy this fall for our honeymoon and got to take a cooking class with a hilarious nonna who spoke no English. But, with her we made mind-blowing bagna cauda, wonderful ravioli, and a stunning hazelnut cake with zabaglione (and that was only about 1/3 of the courses. It was a really good evening).
Describe your most spectacular kitchen disaster. Well, I think the only major fire I've caused was when the cake I was baking for my youngest brother's confirmation set ablaze. That was bad. And actually, come to think of it, that's a lie. I've started other fires. Memorably, my mother accidentally gave our electric krumkake iron (for a particular Norwegian cookie) to Goodwill a couple of years ago. Urgently needing to make the cookies before Christmas and without time to get a new iron, we borrowed the neighbor's which you use stovetop, the old fashioned way. Being totally unused to this we overfilled the iron. This led to unstoppable batter overflow which promptly exploded into flames on the stove. We managed to put out the fire relatively easily. But, I think we only got about a half dozen cookies made total.
What is your idea of comfort food? Norwegian food. Meatballs and gravy or fishcakes. I'm also a sucker for grilled cheese if I'm having a rough day.
Apron or no apron? I try to remember to wear an apron because if I don't, I can guarantee that I'll spill something on myself within seconds.
What's your favorite food-related scene in a movie? I love Babette's Feast. But, I also really love the scene in Chocolat where they discover the mayor in the chocolate shop covered with melted candy. That actually happened (sort of) to an acquaintance of mine, a vegan raw-foodist who also didn't eat any sugar. He was working for a catering company with some close friends of mine, and they had a disaster where the chocolate fountain exploded. My friends went to get someone to help fix it, and when they came back this other guy had gone semi-crazy in the face of all that chocolate and was shoveling it into his mouth and smearing it on his body!
If you could make a show-stopping dinner for one person, living or dead, who would it be? My answer to this is different every day, I think. But, one person I'd always have liked to eat with is Oscar Wilde, clever and an appreciator of good food.
You prefer to cook: a. alone, b. with others, c. it depends on your mood Usually alone, unless there's the time and relaxed atmosphere for orchestrating other people and how they can best pitch in. And, then there are some people who work similarly to me and we can just cook together easily with a minimum of instructing or consultation or anything and it turns out well.
When it comes to tidying up, you usually: a. clean as you cook, b. do all the dishes once you've finished cooking, c. leave the kitchen a shambles for your spouse/roommate/kids to clean. I clean as I cook, but even so I usually leave a fairly decent disaster for my husband to clean up.
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"Cappuccino, please." Most times, this phrase means you are ordering a cup of Italian coffee. But at Junior's — the quintessential restaurant on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, famous since 1950 for its cheesecakes — you can have your cappuccino inside a cheesecake. It's bursting with coffee, cream, and, of course, cheese. They decorate it with bittersweet chocolate curls and dust it with cocoa, just like cups of cappuccino are topped off in the coffee bars.–Alan Rosen and Beth Allen
Cappuccino Cheesecake
- Quick Glance
- Makes one 9-inch cheesecake
IngredientsEmail Grocery List
- For the sponge cake crust
- 1/3 cup sifted cake flour
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- Pinch of salt
- 2 extra-large eggs, separated
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 drops pure lemon extract
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
- For the cheesecake
- 1 recipe 9-inch Junior's Sponge Cake Crust
- 1 tablespoon instant freeze-dried espresso or coffee
- 1 tablespoon hot water
- Four 8-ounce packages cream cheese (use only full fat), at room temperature
- 1 2/3 cups sugar
- 1/3 cup cornstarch
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 extra-large eggs
- 3/4 cup heavy cream
- 8 ounces bittersweet or semisweet chocolate bar, for chocolate curls (see note)
- 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
- Coffee beans (optional)
- Make the sponge cake crust
- 1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C) and generously butter the bottom and sides of a 9-inch springform pan. Wrap the outside with aluminum foil, covering the bottom and extending all the way up the sides.
- 2. In a small bowl, sift the flour, baking powder, and salt together.
- 3. Beat the egg yolks in a large bowl with an electric mixer on high for 3 minutes. With the mixer running, slowly add 2 tablespoons of the sugar and beat until thick, light yellow ribbons form, about 5 minutes more. Beat in the extracts.
- 4. Sift the flour mixture over the batter and stir it in by hand, just until no more white flecks appear. Now, blend in the melted butter.
- 5. Now, wash the mixing bowl and beaters really well (if even a little fat is left, this can cause the egg whites not to whip). Put the egg whites and cream of tartar into the bowl and beat with the mixer on high until frothy. Gradually add the remaining sugar and continue beating until stiff peaks form (the whites will stand up and look glossy, not dry). Fold about one-third of the whites into the batter, then the remaining whites. Don't worry if you still see a few white specks, as they'll disappear during baking.
- 6. Gently spread out the batter over the bottom of the pan, and bake just until set and golden (not wet or sticky), about 10 minutes. Touch the cake gently in the center. If it springs back, it's done. Watch carefully and don't let the top brown. Leave the crust in the pan and place on a wire rack to cool. Leave the oven on while you prepare the cheesecake batter.
- Make the cheesecake
- 7. Dissolve the instant espresso in the hot water in a small cup and let stand. Put one package of the cream cheese, 1/3 cup of the sugar, and the cornstarch in a large bowl. Beat with an electric mixer on low until creamy, about 3 minutes, scraping the bowl down several times. Blend in the remaining cream cheese, one package at a time, scraping down the bowl after each one. Increase the mixer speed to medium and beat in the remaining 1 1/3 cups sugar, then the vanilla.
- 8. Blend in the eggs, one at a time, beating well after adding each one. Stir the dissolved coffee into the cream, then beat into the cream cheese mixture just until completely blended. Be careful not to overmix! Gently spoon the batter on top of the cooled sponge cake crust.
- 9. Place the cake in a large shallow pan containing hot water that comes about 1 inch up the sides of the springform. Bake until the edges are light golden brown and the top is light tan, about 1 1/4 hours. Remove the cheesecake from the water bath, transfer to a wire rack, and let the cake cool for 2 hours (just walk away — don't move it). Leave the cake in the pan, cover loosely with plastic wrap, and refrigerate until completely cold, preferably overnight or at least 4 hours.
- 10. To decorate, release and remove the sides of the springform, leaving the cake on the bottom of the pan. Place on a cake plate. Cover the top with chocolate curls and dust with cocoa. Decorate the center of the cake with a few coffee beans if you wish (be sure to remove them before serving). Refrigerate until ready to serve. Slice the cold cake with a sharp straight-edge knife, not a serrated one. Cover any leftover cake and refrigerate, or wrap and freeze for up to one month.
- Buy a thick bar of bittersweet or semisweet chocolate and use at room temperature (not straight from the refrigerator). Stand the chocolate bar vertically, slightly on an angle, against a flat surface, such as a chopping board. Slowly scrape down the bar with a vegetable peeler, allowing the chocolate to fall away into a pile of soft curls. Using a wide, flat metal spatula, carefully place them on the cake.
Cappuccino Cheesecake Recipe © 2007 Junior's Cheesecake, Inc. Photo © 2007 Mark Ferri. All rights reserved. All materials used with permission.
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MEMPHIS, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- No. 1 seed Marin Cilic fell in the quarterfinals Friday and Feliciano Lopez ended the run of Jack Sock at the U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships.
Kei Nishikori, seeded fifth, ousted Cilic 6-4, 6-2 and will now meet Marinko Matosevic in the semifinals.
Matosevic fought off No. 7 seed Alexandr Dolgopolov 6-7 (6-8), 6-2, 6-4.
Lopez defeated Sock 6-4, 6-3 to close out what had been a big week for the 20-year-old American.
Sock had played in only one ATP match this year and lost that one before defeating No. 2 seed Milos Raonic and James Blake in this event. Sock had an unbeaten, 80-match career as a high school player in Kansas and should make a big move up the world rankings next week from his current position of No. 168.
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This is a long watch, but do watch it. Its illuminating, thought provoking, and sums things up really really well.
It must be screened at every school. They're the ones who'll have to face it. They're the ones who'll need to discard everything we've taught them to be true and right and relearn, rediscover, experiment. All the while burdened with a terrible terrible legacy that we would have left them with.
The energy, oil economy decided everything, and the monetary system that encouraged growth, has needed more and more and more of it. The bacteria-in-the-bottle analogy is chilling.
Growth (as currently pursued) indeed is a huge problem - its a brave thing to call that one out in the current madness for it as the panacea that can bring democracy, solve hunger, provide for all and solve anything at all.
Alternative energy, conservation, recycling - these are all twigs we're trying to use to try and hold against the ground to stop the bus hurtling rapidly towards the cliff. Nothing will "solve" it unless we relook at - or are forced to relook at - how we continue to live, and how many of us do.
Our lack of acknowledgement, our inability to understand and react appropriately to this fundamental truth is apalling, scary and frustrating.
There's no way of continuing the current way we live and hope technology will solve it enough so we can get away without having to do anything.
Thankfully, the movie does suggest a few fixes, and they're all tough. I don't see many willing or able to adapt to live the better life, and we'll eventually do when forced to.
- Question growth, globalization : they're pure bad as practised, NOT good.
- Walk, cycle more since you'll have to. Drive less. Way lesser.
- Buy less. Please. Everything,
- Buy local, seasonal, unpackaged.
- Fight fears and imagined inconveniences - the big ones haven't hit yet.
- Doing "more physical work" is NOT a bad thing.
- Get out of banking/globalized currency - its tough but make a start
- A few ideas
- Potlucks to substitute restaurants
- Barter skills and services
- Co-operate for manpower needs, don't always buy it
- Use everything longer
- Optimize the hell out of everything
- Slower, less commercial forms of entertainment
- Grow some food
- A few ideas
- Learn more about the land, growing food, water
- We've lost half the topsoil in the last couple of 100 years!
- We've completely lost any understanding of the carrying capacity of a place
- Learn more about building homes from stuff around you
- Re-invest in community - time and effort, not money
The current financial economy and monetary system are indeed a ponzi scheme. Frustrating that we're so wedded to it and almost powerless to fiind a way out.
Sometimes I think our faith in technology is a mere betrayal of our conceit, but it might just be the stupid-filter masquerading as smartness and intelligence. Our total lack of ability to connect the dots is apalling.
Or maybe we're just too scared to ask questions, change lifestyles that deviate from the marketed/accepted status quo.
2048, I'd say, is the new doomsday. In less dramatic ways but figuratively, yes. I'll probably die before that but in a terrible state of mind.
We're soooooo screwed. Sorry, kids, that we couldn;t see this, couldn't behave ourselves and were too weak to improve things in the face of the instant pleasure.


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The Challenge Sale ends today, so I thought it fitting to present you with a small preview of the gaiants! Yes, the gaiants are those strange tree-men that I just showed you a preview of. In the upcoming Mor Aldenn setting, these fey giants are a playable race, but of course, they can be used by the GM as well, perhaps as a friendly NPC in an otherwise unfriendly forest… or perhaps as a protector of the forest.
Well, you can use them any way you like, but here is a simple write-up of a gaiant druid. We'd love to hear what you think about them… if you think they are too powerful!
A mystical tree-man stand tall and proud among the trees before you, almost blending into the surroundings. His skin is textured like bark and moss seem to grow where another would have hair. The gem-hued eyes glow with a primal allure.
Gaiant CR 2
Gaiant druid 2
Usually N Large humanoid (giant)
Init +0; Senses low-light vision; Perception +6
AC 11, touch 9, flat-footed 11 (+2 natural, -1 size)
hp 17 (2d8+8)
Fort +9, Ref +0, Will +5
Speed 20 ft.
Melee mwk quarterstaff +2 (1d8+2)
Ranged sling +0 (1d6)
Spell-like Abilities (CL 2nd)
1/day–entangle (DC 14), goodberry, guidance
Druid Spells Prepared (CL 2nd; concentration +4)
1st –cure light wounds, detect pits and snares, longstrider, speak with animals
0 (at will)–detect magic, detect poison, light, resistance
Str 14, Dex 10, Con 19, Int 11, Wis 14, Cha 17
Base Atk +1; CMB +4; CMD 14 (18 vs. bull rush and trip)
Feats Great Fortitude
Skills Handle Animal +7, Heal +8, Knowledge (geography) +4, Knowledge (nature) +9, Perception +6, Spellcraft +4, Stealth -4, Survival +8; Racial Modifiers +2 Heal, +2 Knowledge (nature)
Languages Common, Giant
SQ amaranthine, gaiant magic, hedge sage, nature bond (owl animal companion), nature sense, rooted, wild empathy +5, woodland stride
Environment forests
Organization solitary, pair or family (3-6)
Treasure standard
Special Abilities
Amaranthine (Ex) Gaiants do not suffer penalties for age, and do not require sustenance and rest the way most characters do. Gaiants require approximately one day of restful sleep, rooted in the forest, every lunar month. When a gaiant sleeps in this manner, a gaiant only requires one hour per day of rooted rest and one hour per day of sunlight. Gaiants who fail to sleep monthly in this manner gain the fatigued condition until acquiring a day of rooted, forested sleep.
Gaiant Magic (Sp) Many gaiants develop a strong eldritch connection to the spirit roots of the world. A gaiant with this trait who has a Charisma score of 11 or higher gains the following spell-like abilities: 1/day—entangle, goodberry, and guidance. The caster level for these effects is equal to the gaiant's level. The DC for these spells is equal to 10 + the spell's level + the gaiant's Charisma
Hedge Sage (Ex) Gaiants receive a +2 racial bonus on Heal and Knowledge (nature) checks.
Rooted (Ex) Gaiants receive a +4 racial bonus to their Combat Maneuver Defense when resisting a bull rush or trip attempt while standing on the ground. A gaiant can spend a move action to gain an additional +4 bonus to CMD for 1 round versus a bull rush or trip while standing on the ground.
Often confused for treants, gaiants are a race of fey-giants whose peaceful forest empire once covered all of Ossindrillon, and more. Longer-lived than even elves, most gaiants are devotees of a natural tradition known as the Estoic Circle, a belief that all life resides within a sphere, each being connected to each other by spirit pathways called roots. Known amongst the other civilized races as defenders of nature, in truth it is not nature, but balance that guides the gaiant people.
The solemn and reclusive gaiants reside in the deep forests of Ossindrillon. Gaiant clans will occasionally gather to form villages, but these serve as temporary meeting places that soon disband. Of course, "temporary" to a gaiant can mean several decades. Gaiants that do travel outside of Ossindrillon struggle to reconcile the imbalance with which most races live in their environments, especially near large cities.
Gaiants average 9 feet in height and weigh upwards of 900 pounds. Gaiants are impossibly long-lived, measuring decades as others do years.


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EventsAbrams Spotlight Production Presents "Elf the Musical Jr"
Date: Dec. 15, 2019
The last show of the 2019 season is our kids musical- Elf the Musical Jr! Based on the hilarious holiday film, this fish-out-of-water comedy follows Buddy the Elf in his quest to find his true identity! Elf Jr. is a kid friendly version of the modern day classic with lots of toe-tapping songs and dance numbers including "Sparkleyjollytwinklejingley" and "There is a Santa Claus." This production showcases our talented youth in the area, so stop out and come see this show stopping performance! Elf the Musical Jr will be presented December 6, 7, 8 and 13, 14, 15.
Location: Byng Community Theatre
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Millie Brown is a performance artist from London whose art includes vomiting all over the canvas. In her piece titled "Nexus Vomitus," Brown sips on brightly-colored drinks until she sticks a finger down her throat to regurgitate "art," all while opera singers perform a cappella in the background. If there are any art critics out there, please do explain this one to us.
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- USD Sanford School of Medicine
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Imperial College London
- Pasteur Foundation Fellow, Institut Pasteur
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Cell Division
Chlamydia is amongst the rare bacteria that lack the critical cell division protein FtsZ, and how these organisms manage to divide in its absence is an intriguing and unanswered question. We have recently shown that Chlamydia may use an alternate protein, MreB, to substitute for FtsZ (Ouellette et al., 2012). Our current project goals are (i) to determine if the Mre system in Chlamydia is a functional substitute for FtsZ, (ii) to characterize its interactions with the known chlamydial cell division proteins, and (iii) to identify novel chlamydial division proteins and regulators that interact with MreB using a system for monitoring protein-protein interactions in bacteria (Ouellette et al., 2014).
Chlamydial Persistence
Most bacteria respond to amino acid limitation by engaging a stringent response, which is a transcriptional program used to adapt to nutrient-poor conditions. Chlamydia lacks the genes necessary for implementing a stringent response. We have previously shown (Ouellette et al., 2006) that Chlamydia has an unusual response to tryptophan limitation: it globally increases transcription while translation is globally decreased. This disconnect between transcription and translation is unusual in bacteria. Our goals are to understand how and why Chlamydia responds in this way.


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Covering the Crimson
Harvard welcomes hockey coverage by accredited writers, broadcasters and photographers under the guidelines below. Accredited members of the media can receive press releases via email by contacting Jeffrey Weinstein in the Office of Athletic Communications at email@example.com or 617-495-7692.
Interviews with members of the coaching staff and players must be arranged through Jeffrey Weinstein.
Please note that student-athletes' telephone numbers will not be released to the media per Department of Athletics policy. If a telephone interview is necessary, arrangements will be made for the student-athlete to call the requesting outlet. Players will not be available for interviews on gameday until the conclusion of the contest.
Media Credentials
All credential requests to cover Harvard men's ice hockey should be received at least 48 hours in advance. Requests should be directed to Brock Malone in the Office of Athletic Communications by mailing him at Murr Center, 65 North Harvard Street, Boston, MA 02163; calling 617-495-7692 or emailing firstname.lastname@example.com. Harvard reserves the right to accept or reject credential requests for any reason.
Scouts must purchase tickets through the ticket office, as they will not be issued press credentials.
Credentials can be picked up at the ticket office at Bright Hockey Center, which opens an hour before each game.
Press-Box Guidelines
The Bright-Landry Hockey Center press box is located at the west end of the arena (far end upon entry), and a valid press credential is required for entry, both into the arena proper and into the press box. Unauthorized transfer of credentials is prohibited.
The Bright-Landry press box is a working press area, and cheering and disruptive behavior are strictly prohibited. Cheering or any abuse of media credentials is grounds for removal. Game statistics and shot charts will be available following each period.
Postgame Procedures
At the conclusion of games at the Bright-Landry Hockey Center, interviews with the visiting coach and players will be available following a 10-minute cooling-off period. These interviews will be under the direction of the road team's SID outside the visitors' locker room. Coach Donato and requested Harvard players will be available immediately following, outside the Harvard team hallway. Writers on deadline will be given first preference for questions.
On the road, Harvard coaches and players will comply with postgame procedures set by the home team. Please see Jeffrey Weinstein to request specific players for postgame interviews.
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Noritake porcelain was made in Japan after 1904 by Nippon Toki Kaisha. A maple leaf mark was used from 1891 to 1911. The best-known Noritake pieces are marked with the M in a wreath for the Morimura Brothers, a New York City distributing company. This mark was used primarily from 1911 to 1921 but was last used in the early 1950s. The N mark was used from 1940 to the 1960s, and N Japan from 1953 to 1964. Noritake made dinner sets with pattern names. In 1914, white dishes with a cream border and a spray of flowers, the first porcelain dinnerware sets, were exported to the United States. There may be some helpful price information in the Nippon category, since prices are comparable. Noritake Azalea is listed in the Azalea category.
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There's no doubt that communicators are in content overdrive these days. Content is the fuel for social conversation, search engine visibility and e-mail campaigns. Potential customers seek education, not the hard sell. Quality content attracts, qualifies, convinces and converts.
However, in order to achieve the objective, the content your brand publishes has to have a point, and by point, I really mean "business objective." And the content needs to be mapped to that objective, offering a relevant call to action that truly interested readers will be happy to take.
For many marketers, this is obvious stuff. However, the aforementioned enthusiasm for publishing creates both risk and opportunity for brands.
On the downside, a brand can lose control of the content it publishes, dissolving signals into indistinct noise, and creating an uneven experience for the audience. The results? A very leaky funnel that garners some attention but ultimately encourages the audience to look elsewhere.
On the upside, a brand can achieve alignment across the content published, and even more importantly, can turn content that's not traditionally considered a conversion opportunity – such as press releases, transcripts of the CEO's speeches, FAQs and exec bios — into just that.
Re-thinking non-marketing content
Your buyers are definitely reading content your organization has published that sits outside your conversion funnel. To get started, it's important to ask why they're doing that. What questions are your customers asking that's answered by this other content? Let's take a look.
- FAQs: Frequently asked questions are often frequent for a reason – because the brand hasn't adequately informed the audience at other (and possibly more appropriate) junctures in the relationship, such as during training or the 'getting started' phase. However, interest in FAQs also comes from non-customers, when the solution or product they're using falls short.
- Press releases: The workhorse message of the PR department is remarkably popular and credible with your brand's non-media audiences. Why? First and foremost, people do take press releases seriously – they are, after all, an official, approved and on-record statement from the company.
A while back, PR Newswire engaged Forrester to do audience research on PRNewswire.com. That research identified an important segment that we called "product researchers." Product researchers are people who visit our web site – and read press releases – expressly seeking information on a product or service. They comprise 15% of the traffic to our web site, and more 60% arrive there via a search engine. Furthermore, they frequent visitors – almost half visit PR Newswire's web site weekly, and 20 % visit daily. And what are they reading? Press releases. What are they looking for when they visit our site? The latest news, company updates, facts and links to more information.
- Exec bios: Who reads those other than the media? You might be surprised. References to company execs abound in discussion groups – and the experience and perspective they bring to an organization absolutely resonates with audiences. Their points of view, career paths and alma maters are all potential connection points with your audience.
Now that we're thinking about all these "other" forms of content, it's time to consider how they might be tweaked in order to support your customers' buying journeys.
The content needs to have a point.
All content needs to have a point, meaning that ideally, it inspires the reader to take another action – one that the company directs. Whether that's clicking on a link to a video or going to another web page offering more detail, these actions represent more engagement and interest on the part of your reader.
So as you're reviewing your content, determine whether or not it falls into the realm of attracting audience, garnering attention or attaining customers. Let's break this down a bit.
Attraction is the first step in building a relationship with your audience. And today, brands need to express more value in the attraction phase than merely saying "Hey! Look at me!" Even at that early stage of engagement, attraction is often driven by earned media, such as social shares of content. So as you're thinking about content that attracts, ensuring that it's widely sharable is important.
Content that attracts audiences includes: Press releases, infographics, and blog posts
The next phases in the buying journey are marked by getting – and keeping – your audience's attention. Doing this requires a brand to provide a thoughtful progression of content, designed to anticipate and answer questions as the readers consume the content.
Content that keeps attention includes: webinars, side decks, e-books
The last step phase is that in which the brand attains a customer (or an advocate.) During this phase, the opinion is swayed, the prospect is converted and the deal is closed. Good content can help move the prospect toward the buying decision, by removing doubts, answering questions and affirming the decision the prospect is about to make.
Content that attains includes: buyers' guides, demos, case studies, testimonials.
Synching content to the objective
We've experienced the disconnect that arises when content and the call to action aren't in synch, such as when a web site you're browsing casually requires registration for full access to an article. If you're not far enough along in the buying process, chances are good you'll skip registering, and see information elsewhere. And therein is the risk for communicators. Disconnects between the objective of the content and the call to action can drive interested readers away.
Synching content's objective to an appropriate call to action requires the publisher to consider which stage in their customers' buying journey the content supports – even for some of the non-traditional content we noted above – and build stage-appropriate CTAs into the content. The only thing worse than driving readers away by "going for the kill" too quickly is failing to provide a next step for them, forcing them to go elsewhere for desired information.
This excellent deck from Eloqua is loaded with ideas for developing content appropriate for different stages of the buying process:
Putting "other" content to work
In order to plug leaks in the funnel, we need to be sure that we're putting all of the content our brands publish – not just the traditional marketing messages – to work for the brand. And no, I'm not taking about turning every communication into a sales pitch. Far from it. However, if you know that press releases, FAQs and other owned media are used by your audience, it's a good idea to revisit – and tweak – that content to make it even more attractive to your audience, and ensure that it supports the buying journey. Here are some ideas:
- Press releases: Most press releases include calls to action for media and industry analysts, in the form of press contacts and high-resolution media. However, brands can easily build CTAs for potential prospects into press releases easily and unobtrusively by embedding a link to a next step from a key phrase in the press release that is likely to appeal to potential customers. (See: Embedding calls to action for multiple audiences in press releases.)
- Executive bios: This oft-overlooked page is a great place to showcase your brands' leaders. Demonstrate their chops by aggregating interesting content – such blog posts or articles they've written or some videos – that highlights their expertise – and underscores the fact that the organization is run by very bright people who build great product and know their stuff. These links can lead straight into the content stream for the related business area.
- FAQs: Probably the best opportunity to acquire interest and qualify prospects can be found within the FAQs on an organization's web site. Within each question and answer are opportunities to deliver tightly focused information that informs and influences the reader. Review related content, and build it into the FAQ. Fill any content gaps, to ensure prospects have access to a robust and relevant set of useful information.
Aligning content to the buying cycle and incorporating relevant CTAs isn't the sole domain of the marketing department. Aligning content – and objectives – across the universe of brand messaging will deliver a more coherent face to your audience, and ultimately, build qualified interest for your brand.
Published previously February 7, 2013 on PRNewswire's Beyond PR by Sarah Skerik, PR Newswire's vice president of social media, and will be leading a session titled Driving Qualified Audiences Into the Funnel Using Rich Media and Distribution Networks for All Access pass holders at next week's Online Marketing Summit.


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SMDM Steve Austin (Khakis) 8-Inch Action Figure:
It's been a long time since the world has seen collectibles of the original Col. Steve Austin, "a man barely alive," so Bif Bang Pow! is excited to bring these 8-inch scale Six Million Dollar Man action figures to loyal fans of the celebrated TV series everywhere. Continuing Bif Bang Pow!'s successful partnership with EMCE Toys, these truly unique figures feature multiple points of articulation, series-true fabric clothing, and a retro style that hearkens to the bestselling "Mego" action figures of the 1970s and 1980s... only better than they were before... better, stronger, and maybe even faster!
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Easy Origami
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Here is a collection of 32 simple projects for novice origami hobbyists--clearly illustrated and with easy-to-follow instructions that even beginning paper crafters can follow with success. Subjects range from an ultra-simple hat, cup and pinwheel to more challenging (but still unintimidating) pengiun, pelican and piano. Also included are the figures of a swan, lantern, cicada, pigeon, fox, rabbit and twenty other popular origami subjects. Paperback, introduction, contents, symbols, instructions, 365 illustrations, 48 pages.
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Citra soldier, 20, killed in Afghanistan
Pfc. Markie T. Sims dies in explosive attack
A Florida soldier has been killed in Afghanistan.
The Department of Defense says Pfc. Markie T. Sims of Citra died Saturday in Panjwal, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device.
The 20-year-old was assigned to the 38th Engineer Company, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, under control of the 7th Infantry Division, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.
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Washington Mut. Bank v Phillip
2010 NY Slip Op 52034(U)
Decided on November 29, 2010
Supreme Court, Kings County
Schack, J.
Further, the verification of the complaint was not executed by an officer of WAMU, but by Benita Taylor, a "Research Support Analyst of Washington Mutual Bank, the plaintiff in the within action" a resident of Jacksonville, Florida, on June 4, 2008. This is the same day that Ms. Maio claims to have communicated with "Mark Phelps, Esq., House Counsel." I checked the Office of Court Administration's Attorney Registry and found that Mark Phelps is not now nor has been an attorney registered in the State of New York. Moreover, the Court does not know what "House" employs Mr. Phelps. [*5]
Both Mr. Phelps and Ms. Maio should have discovered the defects in Ms. Taylor's verification of the subject complaint. The jurat states that the verification was executed in the State of New York and the County of Suffolk [the home county of plaintiff's counsel], but the notary public who took the signature is Deborah Yamaguichi, a Florida notary public, not a New York notary public. Thus, the verification lacks merit and is a nullity. Further, Ms. Yamaguchi's notarization states that Ms. Taylor's verification was "Sworn to and subscribed before me this 4th day of June 2008." Even if the jurat properly stated that it was executed in the State of Florida and the County of Duval, where Jacksonville is located, the oath failed to have a certificate required by CPLR
Ms. Maio should have consulted with a representative or representatives of plaintiff WAMU or is successors subsequent to receiving my November 9, 2010 order, not referring back to an alleged June 4, 2008 communication with "House Counsel." Affirmations by plaintiff's counsel in foreclosure actions, pursuant to Chief Administrative Judge Ann t. Pfau's October 20, 2010 Administrative Order, mandates in foreclosure actions prospective communication by plaintiff's counsel with plaintiff's representative or representatives to prevent the widespread insufficiencies now found in foreclosure filings, such as: failure to review files to establish standing; filing of notarized affidavits that falsely attest to such review, and, "robosigning: of documents.
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