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My name is ghostfaceuk and I am 37 years old from the UK.
I would love if you guys could vote for me to become a delegate, my node will be called ghostfaceuk
For the last 10 years I have been and currently still am full time carer for my father, before this I was call centre operative for a good few years.
My interests include films, music and enjoying what free time I can get. I'm currently looking at attempting to learn linux and very basic python.
I am relatively new to the world of crypto only starting to get involved within the last 6 months or so. Currently running a single mining rig with a R9 280 and RX 470 4GB.
I have built and maintained computers for over 15 years.
I have been involved in the running and testing of the Ark testnet from practically the beginning and am part of the group recently dubbed the Magnificent 7 who have all been here and helped since practically the start.
I would like to set up a node in a profit sharing capacity. I know there are those out there like me that for whatever reason could not afford to buy many ARK or for whatever reason chose not to during the TEC and I offering to run a pool to help increase your holdings.
I will also be putting part of each months forging into a separate wallet available to be given out to help fund peoples ideas of how to promote/use Ark.
10% will be kept by myself to cover costs etc 90% will be shared between those whose have be generous enough to give their votes to set up the node.
The payments will be made to those who support the proposal weekly and at random times per day to avoid people vote hopping for maximum payouts. All payments will be based up the amount of votes provided by each voter, obviously those who give the most votes will get more of the payout. This will be automatically calculated and paid using a program provided by another long term Ark contributor and fellow member of the Magnificent 7: - Toons.
just a quick update to explain how my payment system works.
Payments will made to voters weekly at random times to avoid pool payment jumpers. the payments will be made via a automated system created by python maestro and fellow member of the Magnificent 7 group (ghostfaceuk, jamiec79, dafty, bcboilermaker, toons, sidzero and michaelthecryptoguy) toons.
the payments have a ceiling cap of 25% meaning no one pool member can receive more than a quarter of the share of that days payments thus enabling a more fair and even distribution between all the voters.
Pool hoppers detected will be blacklisted from any future payments (this includes any future addresses they try to use I pick up on).
You can use this calculator created by dafty to see what kind of return your vote will give you from my pool https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FGo3FkC3uSWXGHatPQyny2brMWjAIJsHFCR-Lhkl_m0/edit#gid=0
VOTE-FIDELITY A fidelity factor is implemented for voters. It is based on time vote is maintained during the last day. A vote that lasts a full day has a factor of 1, a vote that is active for one hour when payment is made gets a factor of 1/24. Vote has to be active when payment is triggered.
This is to ensure no one can join the pool, grab a large payout and then move their votes to another pool enabling me to reward the loyal long term supporters more an will hopefully eliminate pool payment whores from attempting this tactic.
I am now making payments once a week and using seven day true vote weight fidelity.
Another tool is now in use on my node to stop pool jumpers. True vote weight allows the payment script to look back over the fidelity period and calculate payments based on actual vote weight across the whole of the period. this stops someone moving for example 50k ark to a wallet voting for the pool getting full payment and then moving it to another pool.
True vote will only pay them for the period the ark is voting for my pool
I may not be able to get back to you straight away due to my real life commitment but I will answer you as soon as I can
Email - [email protected] Slack - @ghostfaceuk
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What is Switchgrass Poisoning?
Switchgrass, scientifically named Panicum virgatum, is a common addition to the diet of cattle, but it contains several different sapogenins that are photo and hepatotoxic for horses, sheep, and goats. When eaten in large quantities it can lead to liver damage, and exposure to the sun after consuming switchgrass may lead to a rash that may have open lesions. There are several types of hay that are safer for equines, such as alfalfa and oat hay.
Switchgrass, although a good addition to the hay and pastures of cattle, can be detrimental to the health of other animals, including horses, sheep, and goats.
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Symptoms of Switchgrass Poisoning in Horses
Symptoms of Switchgrass poisoning include symptoms of both photosensitivity and liver disease.
Liver Dysfunction
- Depression
- Incoordination
- Jaundice
- Lameness
- Loss of appetite
- Weight loss
Signs of photosensitization can occur on any part of the body but are most often found in places where the hair is sparse or in areas of low pigment. These signs can include:
- Bumps on skin
- Mouth ulcers
- Oozing sores
- Peeling or reddened skin
There are several types of hay available to feed your equine that are much safer than switchgrass. These can include:
- Alfalfa - Alfalfa is a legume hay, with a higher protein content and calcium levels, but it may trigger bouts of laminitis if fed to insulin resistant equines
- Coastal Bermudagrass - This is a high-fiber grass hay that is most commonly seen in the southern states; hay made from low-quality Bermudagrass can cause impactions in horses
- Oat - A type of grass with particularly tough stalks, oat grass is hardy and takes longer to eat, but it can be too high in sugar for insulin resistant animals
- Timothy - Timothy hay is higher in calcium than other grass hays and contains ample quantities of vitamins A and Ds, but is generally more expensive than other hays
Causes of Switchgrass Poisoning in Horses
The toxic element contained in the switchgrass is a naturally occurring steroid known as a sapogenin. This compound is the instigator of both the digestive upset that the patient experiences and the dermal reaction from the sap. Skin reactions to the sap generally start out mild and short-lived, but they do intensify and last longer with repeated exposures.
Diagnosis of Switchgrass Poisoning in Horses
The proper identification of the plant in the pasture may be sufficient to make an initial diagnosis. If you can obtain a sample of the plant, this will assist in the correct identification as there are several kinds of grass with a similar appearance. Your veterinarian will need to note information regarding estimates of the amount of plant material that was ingested and how long it has been since it was eaten. They will also gather a comprehensive history of the animal in question including as much knowledge as possible about the horse's medications, diet, and environmental elements.
Standard blood tests, including a complete blood count and biochemistry profile, will need to be evaluated to see if any infections are present as well as establishing the levels of liver and kidney enzymes found in the blood. A sample of any skin that has been affected by phototoxicity will be evaluated by cutaneous cytology. This microscopic examination will help reveal if mites, fungal infections, or allergies might be causing the rash. Phototoxicity is generally more conspicuous on areas that have low pigment or that are the most exposed to the sun.
Treatment of Switchgrass Poisoning in Horses
If the consumption of large quantities of switchgrass was recent, then your horse's doctor will most likely perform a gastric lavage in order to remove as much of the sapogenins from the digestive system as possible. The administration of activated charcoal is also a standard treatment, utilized to prevent further absorption of the toxic compound into the bloodstream. There is no effective antidote for sapogenins, making most treatments beyond decontamination supportive in nature.
Examples of supportive treatments that may be utilized include IV fluids to prevent dehydration and combinations of electrolytes and sugars in order to adjust for any imbalances that may have developed. Animals that show signs of photosensitivity should be immediately moved out of the sunlight. Avoiding sunlight for 48 hours after the exposure will significantly reduce the likelihood that disfiguring skin damage will develop. In those cases where skin damage does occur, medications such as corticosteroids, anti-inflammatories, and antihistamines may be prescribed to ease the patient's discomfort. Medications like this may be administered either orally, topically, or by injection.
Recovery of Switchgrass Poisoning in Horses
It is important to evaluate the hay that your horse eats and the pastures that they graze in on a regular basis. Switchgrass is an excellent crop for bioenergy fuel, and although it is toxic to horses, sheep, and goats, cattle have no difficulty in processing this abundant plant. Switchgrass is often used as hay for cattle as they find it nutritious and palatable. The drying process does not destroy the saponins that are located in the plant, and if your horse eats dried hay comprised of switchgrass, then symptoms of toxicity may emerge. Because of its palatability it is often used in cattle grazing pastures, but it should be avoided in fields where horses, sheep, or goats visit.

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Alphabet Inc. tumbled the most in almost seven years after first-quarter revenue missed analysts' estimates and sparked fears that advertisers are shifting some spending to digital rivals away from Google.
A lack of answers on Alphabet's earnings call led to "frustration" for investors, Jefferies analysts wrote in a note. The stock fell as much as 8.6 per cent Tuesday, the most intraday since October 2012, and traded down 7.6 per cent to US$1,197.85 at 9:37 a.m. in New York.
Sales came in at US$29.5 billion, excluding payments to distribution partners, Alphabet said in a statement on Monday. Wall Street was looking for US$30.04 billion, according to the average of analysts' estimates compiled by Bloomberg.
Revenue from Google advertising rose 15 per cent, the slowest pace since 2015. That was a stark contrast to scandal-plagued Facebook Inc., which last week reported a 26 per cent jump in ad sales.
Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat attributed the slowdown to currency fluctuations and the timing of product changes, though she didn't explain which products and why that would hurt growth. On a conference call after the results, analysts repeatedly asked for more details, to the point where Ross Sandler from Barclays said he was beating a "dead horse" by asking again.
Ad revenue growth was solid on mobile, but barely present on desktop and tablets, according to data gathered by digital marketing agency Merkle. That contributed to the overall slowdown, Merkle's associate director of research Andy Taylor said. "It's unclear how Google might be able to ramp growth back up on these device types," he said. "A lot of the low-hanging fruit has long since been plucked."
Another concern is whether competition is starting to limit growth. Google's search engine is usually the first place consumers go when looking for products, letting the internet giant charge premium prices to retailers and other advertisers looking to reach customers online. But people have been increasingly going straight to Amazon.com Inc. to hunt for products and the e-commerce giant has been grabbing a larger share of the digital ad market, chipping away at Google's lead.
In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Porat shrugged off Amazon's foray into advertising and said there's still lots of room for growth for all digital ad companies because so much marketing money is still spent offline.
"Nearly half of ad budgets in the U.S. are still spent offline," Porat said. "Ninety percent of commerce in the U.S. is offline and we are focused on digital playing a big role in that."
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As we have suggested, what was eventually the largest of the mendicant orders in its numerous branches was what officially is designated as the Order of Little Brothers or Friars Minor (Ordo Fratrum Minorum, abbreviated as O.F.M.), but popularly is known as the Franciscans. The name Franciscan is appropriate, for not only was the order begun by Francis of Assisi, but it has never ceased to be challenged by the ideals of its founder. From time to time efforts, often stormy, have been made to bring its practice to conform to the difficult standards of that compelling genius.
Francis is one of the most winsome figures of Christian history. He was born in 1181 or 1182 in Assisi, an ancient town on heights overlooking the gorge through which the Tiber emerges from the mountains. His father was Pietro Bernardone, a well-to-do cloth merchant. He had little formal education, but he knew a little Latin and could read and write. He also knew French. His baptismal name was Giovanni, but the nickname of Francesco — Francis — was given him and was the one by which he was best known and remembered. He was ardent, charming, and sensitive. At first he was a play-boy, a boon companion of the gay young scions of the local aristocracy, and a leader among them in their revelries. Yet he seems to have possessed an innate refinement and is said not to have succumbed to grossness in speech or act.
The conversion of Francis to the life of religion was not a sudden dedication, but came as the result of a spiritual pilgrimage of many months which began in late adolescence. It was partly induced by illnesses and disappointments and was marked by painful and intense struggles of the spirit and in its earlier stages by relapses into the former way of life. Francis began giving himself to the service of the poor and in spite of his loathing for their disease, visited lepers and cared for them. He spent much time in solitude in the fields and hills. He was inspired by the love of Christ which had been driven home to him in the contemplation of a crucifix in a nearby chapel. His fellow-townsmen at first thought him insane. His father, enraged, kept him in confinement at home until his mother released him. Finally his father took him before the bishop to disinherit him and Francis, stripping himself of the clothing which he had had from his sire and standing naked before the bishop, declared that henceforth he desired to serve only "our Father which art in heaven." He set himself to repairing with his own hands the chapel where was the crucifix which had come to mean so much to him, begging stones and also his food. That task completed, he addressed himself to the restoration of other chapels. Among these his favourite was Santa Maria degli Angeli, the Portiuncula, a humble affair which after Francis became famous was enclosed by a large but gaudy church.
It was in 1209 at the Portiuncula during the reading of the Gospel at the mass that Francis, then in his upper twenties, heard the call which sent him forth on his life mission. He felt impelled to become a travelling preacher, proclaiming the kingdom of God and calling men to repentance, doing so in complete poverty, subsisting on whatever food might be given him, and radiating the love of Christ. He sought to imitate Jesus and to obey him to the letter.
Francis at once set about preaching in his native town. Others, attracted, joined themselves to him. As their rule he gave them the command of Jesus to sell all and give to the poor and to go forth without staff, food, money, or a second coat, preaching the kingdom of God and healing the sick. They called themselves the penitents of Assisi. They made the Portiuncula their headquarters and built near it huts of boughs. For a habit, they wore tunics of the brown coarse cloth from which peasants made clothing. They went about, barefooted, two by two, preaching and helping the peasants in the work of the fields.
These early days were marked by mingled opposition and cordial response. Many deemed the brothers mad, pelted them with mud, insulted them, and tore off their clothing. Others were impressed by their patent sincerity and by their joyousness under persecution and in their espousal of their Lady Poverty.
Francis and his companions were not entirely unique. The time was one of religious ferment. There were numerous wandering preachers, many of them ascetics and some of them frowned upon by the Church as disobedient heretics. Contemporary Italy also had many bands or guilds whose members went about together singing hymns of penitence and praise.
Francis was no heretic. A humble son of the Church and a layman, he submitted himself to the constituted ecclesiastical authorities. In 1210 he and eleven companions went to Rome to seek Papal permission to pursue their manner of life. Innocent III, one of the greatest of the Popes, was then on the throne of Peter. After some hesitation and a careful investigation by members of his curia, for he professed fear that their manner of life was too severe, Innocent gave them tentative approval and permitted them to continue preaching. However, he made the quite natural condition that in each diocese where they preached they must first obtain the consent of the bishop and that they elect a superior who could be held responsible for their conduct. Francis was the inevitable choice for the headship of the group. Thus the Penitents of Assisi, a few years later called by Francis in characteristic fashion the Minor, or Humbler Brethren, became an order.
Returning to Assisi, Francis, now reinforced by Papal approval, was received with acclaim and throngs flocked to his preaching. He sought, with success, to heal civil strife in his home city between the feudal nobility and the townsfolk. His followers multiplied and obtained from the proprietors, a Benedictine monastery, the Portiuncula as permanent headquarters.
In these early days of the order, the Brothers Minor worked with their hands for their livelihood, supplementing the labour with begging when food was not otherwise to be had. Francis insisted upon absolute poverty, would not permit any of the brethren to have money, and is said on one occasion to have forbidden a brother to own even a psalter, saying that if he possessed one he would wish for a breviary, and that if he owned a breviary he would soon be haughtily commanding one of his fellows to bring it to him.
The Brothers Minor not only preached but also sang. Some of their hymns were improvised by Francis, for his was always the soul of a poet. Especially famous was his Praises of the Creatures, better known as the Canticle of the Sun.
Closely related to the poetic strain in Francis was a love for all creation and a joy in it. One of the stories which his early disciples cherished was that of a sermon which he preached to the birds, exhorting them to praise and love their Creator. They also declared that once when Francis was preaching the swallows made so much noise that he could not be heard and that on his charging them to be quiet until he had finished they meekly subsided. At another time he made nests for turtle doves that they might lay eggs and rear their young under the protection of the brethren. This love of nature seems to have increased with the years and never to have been more keen than in his last months when his body was racked by pain.
The preaching of Francis and his associates was unstudied and direct. It stressed the adoration of God, repentance, generosity, and the forgiveness of wrongs done to one by others. It made much of love for one's neighbours and one's enemies, humility, and abstention from vices, including especially the vices of the flesh. It advocated fasting and encouraged the confession of one's sins to a priest.
By his sincerity, joyousness, earnestness, and radiant love Francis rapidly won an increasing number to the Brothers Minor. At first he admitted those who applied without the novitiate customary in the older orders. Among those who sought entrance was Clara, a girl of sixteen, twelve years younger than Francis, a scion of the Sciffi, one of the noble houses of Assisi. He welcomed her with great affection and in 1212, three years after the decisive call had come to him, received her into the order. In spite of the bitter opposition of her father, she persisted. To her father's even greater wrath, a younger sister followed her. Other women came and a house was found for them in Assisi. Thus a second order, a woman's branch of the Franciscans, the Poor Ladies or Poor Clares, came into being.
Early, although not formally until 1221, there also sprang up what is usually known as the Third Order, or, more accurately, the Order of Penitents. Its members were not fully to follow the way of Francis and were to remain in the world and hold property, but they were to be sparing in food and drink, give aims, abstain from vice, accept the sacraments, and remain loyal members of the Catholic Church. One of its earliest members north of the Alps was Elizabeth of Hungary (c.1207-1231). The daughter of a king of Hungary, devout from her childhood, she was early betrothed in one of the dynastic matrimonial alliances which were common and at fourteen was married to the Landgrave of Thuringia. Her husband perished in a crusade and in the later years of her brief life she gave much of her fortune to the poor, founded a hospital, and in Marburg with her own hands cared for the sick.
Francis was enthusiastically missionary in purpose and practice. He himself traversed much of Italy, preaching. He wished also to go to the Moslems. He sought to journey to the Holy Land, but was thwarted by shipwreck. He went to Spain to open a way to Morocco, there to reach Moslems who had recently been defeated by a coalition of Christian princes and had taken refuge in that land. Illness stopped him and compelled him to return to Italy. Eventually, in 1219, he went to Egypt, in company with what is usually called the Fifth Crusade, He was deeply grieved by the lack of discipline and the vicious lives of many of these champions of the Cross. Yet from among them he won some who helped to spread the Franciscan movement to Northern Europe. He also presented the faith to the Sultan and seems to have gained the latter's respect. He returned to Italy (1220) by way of Palestine and Syria. Not content with himself going on missions he sent out his friars to various parts of Europe and to Morocco.
Francis quickly ran his course. October 3, 1226, when only in his mid-forties, he breathed his last in the church of Portiuncula where, seventeen years earlier, he had heard the call which had sent him forth preaching. In his later years he had been increasingly frail and had more and more withdrawn from the management of the order. His ardent devotion to Christ and his meditation of Christ's passion were crowned by the appearance of the stigmata, the wounds of his Master, on his own body. Death came peacefully and in the end painlessly. Two years later, in 1228, he was formally proclaimed to be a saint by his friend and the patron of the order, the former Cardinal Ugolino of Ostia, now Pope Gregory IX.
Before death claimed him, Francis had the mingled joy and pain of seeing the Order of Brothers Minor quite outgrow him and the deep grief of knowing that it was already beginning to depart from the simplicity and poverty of its first days. In his last months he sought to stem the tide by dictating his will. In this he commanded all the brothers to work at some honourable occupation, not for gain but for a good example, and to flee idleness. Only when they were not paid for their work were they to beg. They were not to receive churches or habitations. The will expressly forbade the brothers to seek a bull which would relax this interdiction or to introduce glosses or modifications in the rule or the will.
Yet before and after the will was dictated the worldly wisdom of Innocent III in declaring the primitive Franciscan ideal too severe for human flesh and blood had been confirmed by the event. Organization proved necessary. Early the Brothers Minor assembled annually at Portiuncula. In 1216 at the request of Francis, Ugolino became the pro tector of the brotherhood. His guidance had much to do with shaping the next stages of organization. In 1220 a Papal bull prescribed a novitiate of one year as a prerequisite for full membership, fixed the garb, and declared the vows to be irrevocable. In 1221 the order was given a new rule, much longer than the original one. Francis was not an organizer or an administrator. He was too impulsive, too subject to changes of mood, too unpredictable, to carry the load of running a great organization. The actual management passed into the hands of others, within a few months to one of the first companions of Francis, Brother Elias, whom Francis, as minister general, appointed his vicar. In 1223 another rule was adopted which made begging rather than labour with the hands the normal method of support. To the intense indignation of Francis, Brothers Minor were beginning to establish themselves in the universities which were arising in Europe. Francis distrusted scholarship as a perversion of the original purpose. Preaching was not being given its former primary place, but Brothers Minor were becoming advisers in the Papal curia. No longer was the marriage to Lady Poverty being strictly observed, but collectively property was beginning to be acquired. Theoretically the property was not held by the order, but by friends or by the Pope in behalf of the order. Structurally the order had become fairly elaborate. Every group had its custos, or head. The groups were organized by territorial provinces, each of which had its minister and its chapter. Over all was a general chapter and a minister general.
After the death of Francis further relaxation of the primitive ideals entered and a sharp division disrupted the pristine brotherhood of love. On the one extreme were those who wished to hold to the manner of life which had been followed by Francis in the initial years of the fellowship, with its absolute poverty and its itinerant preaching. This group, a minority, who came to be known as the Zealots or Spirituals, were given prestige by the presence of several of the earliest companions of Francis. On the other extreme were those who desired a complete relaxation of the rule of poverty. In the middle were the majority, moderates, who would maintain something of the primitive poverty, but who wished the order to establish itself in the universities, develop scholars, and acquire influence in the Church. The conflict between these strains was acute. Indeed, no large order of the Catholic Church has had so explosive a history or has been rent by so many schisms.
It was the moderates who before many years obtained control. The first minister general after Francis, John Parenti, who served from 1227 to 1232, favoured strict conformity to the wishes of the founder. Yet it was under him that Pope Gregory IX declared (1230) that the will of Francis was not binding. In 1232 John retired under pressure, and Elias was elected in his stead. Although he had had the confidence of Francis, Elias departed from the strict observance of the latter's wishes. He was an extraordinarily able promoter and administrator. Before his election as minister general he had, with the support of the order's great patron, Pope Gregory IX, begun the erection of a huge church in Assisi as a memorial to Francis, a structure which was a visible denial of the ideals of the Poverello. For it Elias gathered funds from many quarters. Under him the order grew rapidly, its missions were extended, new provinces were organized, and its strength was augmented in the universities, institutions which then were in the first flush of their youthful popularity. He encouraged scholarship. Elias was autocratic and the pressure which he employed to raise the huge sums for the memorial church provoked criticism.
Opposition arose, not only from the Zealots, against whom he had taken stern measures, but also from the moderates, especially in some of the universities. In a dramatic session of the general chapter in the presence of Gregory IX in 1239 Elias was deposed. Under his immediate successors further relaxation in the rule of poverty was effected. John of Parma, who became minister general in 1247, although of aristocratic stock and an accomplished scholar, was of the Zealots and insisted upon a strict observance of the will of Francis. However, after a decade he resigned and was followed by Bonaventura. Bonaventura was a philosopher and mystic, was known as the Seraphic Doctor, and was eventually canonized. He held the post for more than a quarter of a century, until in 1273, having been made a cardinal, he also resigned. A man of action, courteous, humble, cheerful, tactful, courageous, a stirring preacher, he has been called the second founder of the order. A moderate, he brought the Brothers Minor more and more into conformity with the monastic tradition. He took action against the Zealots and during his administration some of the more extreme of them were imprisoned.
The Spirituals or Zealots did not tamely submit to the trend towards moderation. In a variety of ways they protested. Some of them were profoundly influenced by the writings of Joachim of Flora (or Fiore).
Joachim was born in 1130 in Calabria in the extreme south of Italy and except for his wanderings spent his life there. He early began preaching, then entered a Cistercian monastery, eventually was ordained priest, and, reluctantly was made abbot. Desiring a stricter way of life than he had found there, he left that post. Disciples came to him and he founded a monastery, that of St. John of Flora (Fiore). He was released from his obedience to the Cistercians and in 1196 the new order, that of Flora (Fiore), obtained Papal approval. It never became large. Joachim himself died in 1202. He was, then, an older contemporary of Francis of Assisi.
Through his writings Joachim exerted a wide influence. He was esteemed a prophet. He gave an interpretation of the human drama for which he claimed Biblical foundation. To his mind history had three ages, or dispensations, that of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. He complicated this pattern by others, three of them of five ages each, another of seven ages, and still another of eight ages. The three ages, of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit received his chief emphasis. They overlapped. That of God the Father began in Adam and ended in Christ. In it men followed a carnal life, marrying and giving in marriage. The second age, that of God the Son, began with Uzziah and was to be consummated in the year 1260. In it life was a mixture of flesh and spirit and it was the age of the clerics. The third age, that of God the Spirit, is that of the monks. In it men are to live a purely spiritual life. It was inaugurated with Benedict of Nursia and is to last until the end of the world. The third age is to be marked by a gift of the Holy Spirit, that of contemplation, and in it the whole Church is to become a contemplative society. The first period was one of law, fear, labour, and slavery. The second was one of grace, humility, truth, discipline, and filial service. The third is to be one of love, liberty, happiness, and contemplation. Here is to be the culmination of history.
It can readily be seen that this bold scheme of history would have an appeal tor many, including those of the tradition of Francis of Assisi. The teachings of Joachim profoundly shaped the thought of the Spirituals and also of many outside Franciscan ranks. They reinforced those who attacked the corruption in the Church and the Papacy. Quite understandably the latter hit back. In 1225 one of Joachim's books and in 1259 his other works were officially condemned by the Church. Any who favoured his views, including the Spirituals, were under suspicion and some of them fell afoul of the Inquisition and were killed.
The Spirituals were eventually in several schools and in various parts of Europe. Fascinating though their story is, we must not take the space to recount it. Some were in Ancona, others in that hotbed of heresies, Provence, and still others in Tuscany. Some completely withdrew from the Order of Brothers Minor. The extremists among the seced-ers were known as the Fraticelli, or "Little Brothers." They exalted the ideal of poverty and the mission of Francis of Assisi. Some of their groups were protected by one or another member of the nobility.
Fairly typical of the Spirituals — if anyone can be called typical of so diverse a set of movements and of men — and also of the sharp contrasts and the religious ferment seen in Italy in the thirteenth century, was Jacopone da Todi (c.1230-1306). A scion of the nobility, wilful, high-spirited, extravagant, vain, arrogant, perhaps a Doctor of Laws from the University of Bologna, disdainful of religion, a brilliant intellectual, in his late thirties he was shocked into the religious life, perhaps by the death of his young wife. He revolted against his earlier habits, gave his goods to the poor, and, dressed meanly, seemingly half-mad, urged his fellow-townsmen to repentance and fought his besetting sin of pride. He joined the Franciscans and became a leader of the Spirituals. Mystic, poet, drinking of that fountain of mediaeval mysticism, Dionysius the Areopagite, a wandering lay missionary, he became involved in Italian politics, for five years languished in prison at the command of the Pope, was released by a new Pope, and spent his later years in, contemplation and in communion with the "Infinite Light."
Various attempts were made to restore unity in the Order of Brothers Minor. For a time a Papal bull following the Council of Vienne, in 1312, seemed to give promise of success. However, the vigorous measures against the Spirituals taken by John XXII, who came to the Papal throne in 1316 and who instituted a severe persecution of them, drove some of the extremists to declare that the Pope was Antichrist or the forerunner of Antichrist, that the Roman Church was the harlot of Babylon described in the Apocalypse, and that the sacraments of the Church were obsolete. The tension was heightened when, in flat contradiction of the findings of the general chapter of the Franciscans in 1322 which declared that Jesus and the apostles had stood for absolute poverty, John XXII, in a bull in 1323, denounced this view as false and heretical. In 1322 John ended the fiction by which the Pope held property for the use of the Franciscans and turned it over directly to the order.
In spite of these internal difficulties and secessions and its departure from strict adherence to the ideals of Francis, the Order of Brothers Minor continued and never ceased to play an important role in the Church.
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Dr Zalasiewicz said: "Palaeontologists call preserved animal-made structures trace fossils. Most animal species make only one – or at most a very few – different types of trace. For example, dinosaurs made footprints and worms leave burrows. Just one species, though,Homo sapiens, now manufactures literally millions of different types of traces that range from nano-scale to city-sized.
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Sometimes writing a blog feels a little bit like confession – or at least how I imagine confession might feel. Forgive me readers, it has been two weeks since my last posting. I've had my parents in town here in London – a rare treat as they live in Australia. It's been really lovely to show them around how we live in our new house and we even managed a sneaky trip over the long weekend to Champagne to taste lots of different varieties of everyone's favourite bubbly drink. We even managed to choose one for the Wedding and come back home to the happy problem of trying to store mountains of champagne. However, none of that detracts from the fact that I owe you some more recipes from my recent celebration of springtime. I'd been playing around a little before that meal about how to get the most out of vegetables and how to keep their flavour. This way of cooking carrots genuinely means you end up with something that is just _so_ … I suppose the only word is…"carrotty".
In truth, that's one of my favourite moments in cooking – when you make something so pure and so honest that it tastes more like its ingredients than the ingredients did in the first place. Think slow cooked tomato ragus or a really well cooked steak. They both have that intense feeling of being exactly what they are. That doesn't necessarily mean they have to be simple or even recognisable by site. I've been lucky enough to go to some great restaurants and both Noma (Rene Redzepi's restaurant in Copenhagen) and Fera (Simon Rogan's restaurant in London) produce exceptionally technically complicated dishes which taste pure, simple and intense. Whilst my parents were here, we went to Fera and some of the dishes Simon Rogan and his team are turning out are truly incredible.
For me, I used two vibrant vegetable purées to act almost like a sauce and offset the meaty monkfish and spiced, nutty farro. They bound the whole springtime lunch together but in order to cope with such strong flavours they really needed to sing of what they were. It was here I remembered something I'd read in one of the myriad cookbooks G kindly puts up with dominating our living room (I think I've used all of them at least once…I think). This particular gem came from Heston Blumenthal's book Heston at Home. He talks about how different vegetables retain their flavour differently depending on the liquid in which they're cooked. For carrots, the chemicals that give them flavour dissolve in water but not in fats like oil or butter. This means that they are more likely to retain their flavour if they're not boiled but rather cooked in a little butter. In fact, what I do is put sliced carrots in a pot with a knob of butter and salt over a very low heat and covered with a lid and foil so the carrots steam in their own liquid.If you're worried that you can't get the heat low enough and the carrots will burn then add a little water – really as little as possible to stop the carrots caramelising, a tablespoon will do. The absence of lots of water locks in the flavour of the carrots. A quick blitz and a little bit of a season and you're off to the races.
For the peas you also don't want to lose lots of flavour. In this case, the trick is how long you cook them for. Peas' fresh taste disappears as they break down, this is why fresh peas out of the pod taste so much better than peas you've boiled for fifteen minutes. It's also why I always use frozen peas and not fresh peas. Not only are frozen peas cheaper but they're actually fresher, nowadays peas are flash frozen within hours of picking and this stops them breaking down. Fresh peas may in fact be days old and have lost far more flavour. So unless you're eating them from the pod, which remains one of the best food experiences of all time, I would always recommend frozen peas. However, there are two tricks to using frozen peas and they both relate to cooking the peas for as little time as possible. Firstly, you want to cook your peas in rapidly boiling liquid for no more than a few minutes. Secondly, if you add frozen peas to boiling liquid, it cools it down significantly and this increases cooking time – so you should defrost the peas first. This is most easily done by taking the peas out of the freezer and placing them on a clean tea towel for 20-30 minutes. Honestly this makes all the difference! For my pea purée I cooked them in a little chicken stock, blitzed them and passed them through a sieve before seasoning.
I really hope you guys enjoy these recipes as much as I do! Both these purées can be kept in the fridge for up to a week and you only need to gently reheat them over a low heat to serve – that's why I love them for dinner parties
Carrot purée
- 1 kg carrots, peeled and sliced into thick rounds
- 1 large knob of butter
- If necessary, 1 tablespoon of water
- Sea salt and black pepper
- Place the butter and water (if using) in a heavy bottomed pan with a fitting lid and heat gently (a very low heat) until the water and butter have combined or just until the butter is melted.
- Add the carrots and season with salt and pepper
- Place a foil layer over the pan and put the lid on top, keep heat on a very low setting and cook the carrots for 15-20 minutes or until tender but not mushy
- Purée in a blender. if necessary, loosen with a little tepid water. If you want to increase the richness (I don't find this necessary) add a knob of butter to the pan.
- Allow to cool slightly and then season with salt and pepper.
TIP: You'll see I say to let the carrots cool slightly after blending. This dramatically alters the taste and will increase the "carrottiness" – you'll end up needing less salt and it tasting better. If you want a more technical explanation, it alters the mouth feel as some of the fat and sugars (both naturally found in the carrot and in the small amount of butter) cool. This more creamy mouthfeel alters the way you taste the food (think cold stew versus hot stew).
Pea purée
- 2 cups frozen peas
- 2 cups chicken stock – depending on the strength of the chicken stock, I sometimes use equal parts chicken stock and water – you only need enough to cover the peas
- Sea salt
- Defrost the peas on a tea towel for 20 minutes
- Meanwhile place the stock (or stock and water) on to boil and when rapidly boiling, add the defrosted peas and cook for about 3-5 minutes or until tender but with a little bite
- Remove the peas with a slotted spoon and transfer to a blender, add a little reserved stock and blend on high for a full 1-2 minutes. Adjust the consistency by adding more stock – don't season at this point
- (Optional) Strain the purée through a fine sieve or chinois, you will need to push the liquid through the sieve. This will remove the pea shells which otherwise leave the purée grainy
- Season the purée with salt


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Authors Last name - Graham
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Other ideas are welcome. Maybe something that would show sunset at a zoo
There will be two covers of this design - the one with the above information delivered as a pdf and with working files in case we need to make changes down the road - and a second cover as a jpg for the eBook - ISBN 978-1-941746-28-8
The winner of the contest will also be invited to use the same graphic element to design a dust jacket for a hard cover version of the book for and additional payment of $100. If you cannot do this portion of the work your designs will not be considered.
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New Zealand's political opposition was jolted by an abrupt change at the top on Tuesday as the Labour Party leader quit amid dismal polling numbers and a rising star, Jacinda Ardern, took over just weeks before a general election.
Ms. Ardern, 37, has been seen as leadership material since she became Parliament's youngest sitting member at age 28. But with the New Zealand election campaign already in full swing, and the face of her predecessor, Andrew Little, still on the billboards, Ms. Ardern joked to reporters Tuesday morning that she had just accepted "the worst job in politics."
Mr. Little nominated Ms. Ardern, previously his deputy, to replace him after two polls this week showed support for the left-leaning Labour Party hitting just 24 percent, its lowest level in decades.
Ms. Ardern said she would run a "relentlessly optimistic" campaign, despite the perils of taking over so close to an election, while Labour's numbers are at rock bottom.
She said she would move quickly to put her own stamp on the party and help Labour run "the campaign of our lives." Ms. Ardern said she would take the next 72 hours to take stock of the party before announcing its new direction for the final weeks of campaigning. The election is set for Sept. 23.
Mr. Little had led the Labour Party since November 2014, but he had failed to make headway in the polls against a long-serving National Party-led government, and support for Labour had steadily declined over the last six weeks.
"We've not been able to get our message out about the things that actually matter," Mr. Little said, talking about the "disturbing and disappointing" polls.
Doubts over Mr. Little's leadership had grown over the last 24 hours after he admitted in a Radio New Zealand interview that he had to take responsibility for the party's dismal polling and had considered resigning. He said senior Labour members had told him not to.
But at Tuesday's Labour Party caucus meeting he did just that, despite insisting just hours earlier that he would not step down.
Labour has been plagued by leadership woes since Helen Clark, the former prime minister, lost her last general election in 2008. Since then, Labour has cycled through five leaders, including Mr. Little, with none managing to make a significant dent in the popularity of John Key, the long-serving prime minister from the National Party.
Mr. Key resigned in 2016, saying he didn't have another term in him, effectively handing the prime ministership to his deputy, Bill English.
But the Labour Party continued to struggle; in June, it was embroiled in controversy involving an internship scheme in which young volunteers from around the world had arrived in New Zealand to work, unpaid, to help the Labour campaign. Some of the interns complained to the news media about their living conditions.
In New Zealand's parliamentary system, parties outside the two largest typically build coalitions to support the government so it can pass legislation. In the last month, the Green Party has been rising in the polls to 15 percent support as Labour has been on the decline.
The results suggest the Greens have been the beneficiaries of Labour's disarray.


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Pat Ruppel at Plain Talk and Ordinary Wisdom is one of my favorite bloggers. Recently, she wrote Defining Words, discussing a theory about language, i.e., that one, single word can be used to describe a city, the dominant mindset of its citizens or . . . an individual.
I have many writing tools to which I turn regularly, including, of course, the dictionary and thesaurus, as well as many books by an eclectic group of authors about the techniques and magic of writing.
But imagine for a moment that all of the tools upon which you rely are not available. Further, pretend that you have been asked to write an autobiography. And you must do so using just one word. Just one. One.
Consider your life right now. What is the one word that describes how you respond to the world around you, what dominates your thoughts and dreams, how you envision yourself (which may be very different from how other people might describe you)? Has that one descriptive word changed over the years? Do you think it might change in the future?
I spent some time thinking about those questions and concluded that the word I would use has not changed over the course of many years and I do not believe it will change.
The word I would use is: Driven.
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"Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you." ― Walt Whitman 🙏
Overlooking the setting sun and coastal California redwoods during a solo dining experience tonight.☀🌲
The healing process can be very humbling and emotionally challenging and the last few weeks have presented a pretty deep emotional low for me so I have been doing everything I can to keep positive. Lots of prayers, meditation, alone time, sleep, connecting with the Earth, creativity, mass quantities of fruits, veggies, herbal teas, and medicinal mushrooms, connecting with my mom, connecting with my daughter, and connecting with true friends have been my uplifting recipe and I do feel I am on the upswing.
I do have absolute gratitude for every aspect of this process, many lessons of humility, patience, and acceptance have come to me in the past few weeks, so I hold onto the lessons as medicine and continue to move forward with my face toward the sunlight.🙌
Tonight's dinner was preceded with prayers to God, the Sun, the Angel of Sun, the Angel of Light, the Angel of Faith, the Angel of Relationships, the Angel of Peace and basking in the setting sunlight. This plate I lovingly prepared for myself was awesomely beautiful, grounding, and uplifting✨consisting of avocado, raw cauliflower and purple cabbage rice, fat free raw zucchini pesto smothered maitake mushrooms over a bed of spinach then drizzled with lime juice, sprinkled with red onion, sea salt and cayenne pepper.
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Electoral reform or smokescreen for the foxes
You can fix the gate, build a larger, stronger perimeter fence, improve the food – but the foxes will still be looking after the chickens. How is it that such honorable souls as our MP's require rules, regulations, guidelines and laws to show them right from wrong.
All these MP's are active advocates of a system harnessed during the Thatcher era, you have to help yourself, no one else is going to look after you.
I don't know anyone yet who has declared that they have enough money to live off. How could they, not knowing how long you're going to live. The money is an unquenchable thirst, and our MP's were only helping themselves like anyone else who advocates a "dog eat dog" and "I'm alright Jack" system of economics.
We need to look at other ways of living our lives, pulling together a moving forward in a more sensible, sustainable and secure way for all of us.
If we don't start thinking outside the box there is a danger of the chickens voting for Christmas in the next General Election – same old politics !


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Entertainment, Tech Intersect at Conference
Entertainment, Tech Intersect at Conference
Big thinkers from the worlds of technology, entertainment and design gathered in Monterey, Calif., for a four-day, no-holds barred, non-corporate exchange of ideas at the annual Technology Entertainment Design (TED) conference.
MADELEINE BRAND, host:
This is DAY TO DAY from NPR News. I'm Madeleine Brand.
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And I'm Alex Chadwick. It's too late now to get to Monterey, California for the TED conference. You missed it for this year, but musician David Bowie, former Vice President Al Gore and Amazon.com founder Jeff Basos did not. They and nearly 1,000 other well-connected and well-off thinkers were there for several days of talk and technique in technology, entertainment and design, TED. NPR's John McChesney was there too.
JOHN McCHESNEY reporting:
If you've come here for years, you're known as a TEDster, part of a very elite community. If it's your first time here, you're known as a TED virgin. Venture capitalist Roger McNamee, who is shifting his investments from technology to entertainment, is one of those.
Mr. ROGER McNAMEE (Venture Capitalist): The key thing for me is to find filters, insights that help me understand where I should spend my time, and the beauty of this conference is it brings together into one place incredibly thoughtful people from three enormously important sectors of our society, the technology world, the entertainment world and the design world.
McCHESNEY: Tom Riley is a TED veteran who helps organize the conference.
Mr. TOM RILEY (TED veteran): It's talking about the future by the people who are making the future.
McCHESNEY:One cynical observer quipped that TED attendees sometimes seem to believe that they are the future. TED has always been dominated by technologists from Silicon Valley. They're still here, but these days they're joined increasingly by biologists, architects, anthropologists and filmmakers, just to name a few of the many professions found here. They sit through four days of speeches, punctuated by heavy deal-making conversations in the corridors, but TED veterans say there's an increased emphasis here on doing good. Lori Yoler(ph)a venture capitalist.
Ms. LORI YOLER (Venture Capitalist): This year it's an interesting theme though of capitalism and altruism, would be the two themes that I'm pulling out the most, and can they co-exist?
McCHESNEY: Former Vice President Al Gore was the featured speaker. He gave an hour-long presentation on global warming and received a lengthy standing ovation. In fact, so many speakers here took shots at what they call the Bush Administration's anti-scientific attitudes, TED impresario Chris Anderson had to keep insisting that the conference is non-partisan.
Tom Riley says there are plenty of Republicans in the audience, but this group feels that it has to take on some of the big problems of the world because no one else is.
Mr. RILEY: There have been extraordinary quantities of wealth generated by the people in this audience, and they have a lot of means at their disposal or they have a huge corporation behind them or a venture capital firm, and I think that there's also a sense that certainly the U.S. government is a discredited way of making strategic change.
McCHESNEY: The highlight of the conference is the TED prize, given to three people each year. In addition to $100,000.00, each winner gets to make a wish for something that will change the world. Two of this year's winners were Jehane Noujaim, who made the film Control Room, and Larry Brilliant, a former World Health Organization official who helped eradicate small pox in it's last stronghold, India.
Jehane Noujaim's wish is to start an international film festival which will simultaneously show films from around the world in many, many cities and villages on the same day.
Ms. JEHANE NOUJAIM (Filmmaker): I'm hoping to be able to program films that allow people to cross borders and meet each other so that we can increase our understanding and communication with each other.
McCHESNEY: Features and shorts will be bought or commissioned for the festival. Preliminary price tag, $10 million, much of which will come from the TED community, along with technological assistance. Dr. Larry Brilliant made this wish.
Dr. LARRY BRILLIANT (Former World Health Organization Official): My wish is that we create a global early warning system to protect humanity from our worst nightmares.
McCHESNEY: Things like Avian flu or the Ebola virus. Price tag, another $10 million. For Larry Brilliant it was a doubly blessed week. He was also hired to head up the new Google Foundation, a $1 billion fund created by founders Larry Page and Sergio Brinn, who were all over TED. And TED's philanthropic fervor even spilled into its entertainment break with a performing troop of Ugandan kids representing the nearly 2.5 million children orphaned by AIDS back home.
John McChesney, NPR News.
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As a 501(c)(3) educational non-profit organization, AIM's purpose is to educate the public about the health, environmental, and economic benefits of buying foods directly from farmers and other food producers. To help fulfill this mission, we have recently aligned our signature educational programs – Diggin' the Market, Diggin' the Classroom, and Diggin' on the Farm to offer experiential learning opportunities to the next generation of eaters. In the 2017-2018 school year, AIM's education team Tyler Thayer "Mr. Green Jeans" Thayer and Mimi Choudhury "Ziggy Stardust" taught 2,600 students about California-grown food either at the Market or on a farm through the Diggin' the Market series. We're also updating our educational Website to make it easier for schools and community groups to learn about these programs and how to enroll.
With the new school year upon us, our programs are in full swing! On almost any given Thursday, Mr. Green Jeans is leading school children and chaperones on a fun-filled, fact-finding tour at the Marin Thursday Civic Center Farmers Market. What better way to learn than to visit the farmers market where fruits and vegetables are directly sold? Or spend a day at the farm and see first-hand the connections between the environment, agriculture, rural living, and our food origins? Recently, students from San Domenico participated in a service project where they gleaned produce leftover from the harvest at Green Gulch Farm. To serve the entire Bay Area, AIM has also expanded its educational farm partners in the East Bay. We are excited to welcome to the Diggin' on the Farm program: Chetwyn Farm, from our Hayward Farmers Market. Chetwyn is a small family farm located in the Hayward Hills that farms a variety of tree fruits, included delicious avocados year-round!
AIM has also formed a new partnership with Novato Unified School District, specifically with School Food Service Director Miguel Villarreal and Chef Emilie Green, to make Farm-to-School a reality in Novato! Novato Schools are participating in the Wellness in the Schools Program, where over 3,000 K-8 students will participate in cooking and nutrition labs. Nearly all the produce will be sourced each week from farmers at the Thursday Marin Civic Center Farmers Market. For instance, Novato's schools purchased 17 cases of peppers, on average, each week from The Peach Farm, a farm located in Winters that participates in the Civic Center market. Additionally, the Allen Sports Club (ASC), a free after-school sports program for middle and high school students at Dominican University of California, has come to AIM for support in creating healthier snacks like sliced apples and vegetables, rather than chips and candy. Matt Gaulding, the ASC Director is now shopping the Sunday Marin Civic Center Farmers market to buy healthy produce options directly from farmers!
In addition to educating and providing local food access for school-age children, we also focus on meeting the older adults' needs. Since July 2018, we have organized Diggin' the Market tours senior housing and community sites, in partnership with the Interfaith Food Justice Collaborative. Participants in these tours learn how to navigate the farmers market to buy healthful, fresh foods direct from farmers. Older adults who receive Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program checks, a federal nutrition program, are eligible for "Bonus Bucks" redeemable for free fruits and vegetables at the Civic Center farmers market or Rollin' Root stops. In the coming year, AIM will be working on strategies for creating senior-friendly Civic Center markets focused on accessibility to seniors (with more seating and shade).


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Mindy Kuhel Lahiri is a familiar spot where we first met her in the 2012 premiere. I felt that I've not had to get ripped from the womb of the show, which is nice.
In Season 1, we're introduced to the then-medical resident at her ex's wedding, giving an embarrassing speech and getting arrested for biking while intoxicated. After her speech at the wedding of Morgan and Tamra, Mindy peddles off to profess her love to Danny and, after an awkward misunderstanding, the two finally get their rom-com happy ending. We have the rest of our lives to argue," Mindy says to close out the series. The way that TV is set up is very helpful for when a show comes to an end because as an actor, you've got acting, but [as a showrunner] you still get to edit for three months and after that ends you get to do a sound mix. In Season 1 when we were first introduced to Mindy Lahiri, she was at an ex's wedding and gave a big speech and then she got on the bike and it was like she was pedaling away from, I guess you can say, her past.
She'll likely be making quite a few rounds on press tours for these highly-anticipated movies.
The subject of her pregnancy and whose sperm was used to fertilize her egg is bound to come up. Perhaps, some are speculating, because the father is none other than Cory Booker.
Indeed, the celebrity gossip world was thrown for a stunning loop this week when sources confirmed that Kaling is pregnant with her first child.
Whatever works for her and her mystery man, we guess, right? When we did 24 episodes in Season 1 and 26 episodes in Season 4, I really thought this is a lot of dating. I really love the cast and the writers, so I didn't necessarily know. Chris [Messina] and I are still close buds, so I could see it happening it in the future.For the 117 episodes that we did, we really squeezed that orange to its fullest. DEADLINE: reboot, and it's been like less than five years since the office was on the air. But right now I haven't begun to even think about it.creator Mindy Kaling, whose character, after six seasons of relationship woes, ends the series in the full-circle manner, leading her back to Danny (Chris Messina).
The series finale, aptly titled "It Had to Be You," sees Dr.She's great doctor, good mom, but also could be very vicious and sarcastic and weak and cowardly.