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The devil has no part in New Jerusalem nor in the entire new creation because he has been cast into the lake of fire (Rev. 20:10).
The devil is the father of lies, the source of lies is his nature, and in him is only falsehood, no reality (John 8:44). This is a total contrast to Jesus Christ who is the reality (John 14:6), the expression of God who cannot lie (Titus 1:2).
The truth has come to us in word of the truth of the gospel (Eph. 1:13, Col. 1:5). By our receiving this word of truth, the Spirit as the anointing entered into us.
Now the Spirit of reality is living in us, anointing us with the reality. This anointing "is true and is not a lie, and even as it has taught you, abide in Him" (1 John 2:27). When we abide in the Lord, we abide in the reality, the truth; here there is no lie, no falsehood. This is a foretaste of New Jerusalem.
In Revelation 14:1-5, 144,000 are on the heavenly mount Zion with the Lamb. Verse 5: "And in their mouth no lie was found; they are without blemish." "No lie" indicates nothing of the devil is with them.
Furthermore, they are without blemish. They have been washed by the Lord with the water in His living word (Eph. 5:26-27). This washing not only eliminates blemishes, all of which originated with the devil. The washing also imparts the Lord's holiness so that we "would be holy and without blemish."
The holiness matches the holy city, New Jerusalem. The city is not merely without lies, falsehoods, and blemishes. Much more, New Jerusalem is saturated with God's holiness and glory to express God.
Here is a summary of all posts about what is NOT in New Jerusalem.
Photo courtesy of U.S. National Park Service.

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Esther Freud first visited Walberswick, a village on the Suffolk coast in England, 30 years ago, when she was a young actress living in London and fed up with city life. She complained one day to her father, the painter Lucian Freud.
Her father, who died in 2011, told her, " 'There's this awful, dreary place where I had to go in my childhood, but maybe you'd like to go there,' " Ms. Freud recalled. "He called and made arrangements."
Ms. Freud stayed in a house called the Hidden Hut, a bungalow with "huge, great glass windows," she said. It was November, and cold and damp, and like the artists who flock to Walberswick for the tranquil setting and quality of light, she loved it.
"It was the most wonderful place I'd ever been," Ms. Freud said. "I kept going back. My dream for years was to own a home in this village."
Ms. Freud, who is 51 and the author of eight novels, does indeed own a home there now, a sturdy four-bedroom cottage built of stone, with a striking red-tile roof, that serves as a retreat for her, her husband and three children. (Their full-time residence is in London.) Its construction dates to around 1700, which makes the cottage perhaps the oldest of the 400 or so houses in the village, she said.
Inside, the old bones have been made visible, with massive exposed beams dominating several rooms. Parts of the house have high, slanted ceilings, as though you were in a hayloft, while other rooms reflect the low-ceilinged, light-deprived architecture of the period. Ms. Freud said she had the doorways raised so her husband, the actor David Morrissey, wouldn't bump his head.
That was a recurring problem in the first home she owned in the village, which, as it happens, is right next door to her current one and inspired her latest novel, "Mr. Mac and Me." The cramped house had once been a pub and an inn called the Blue Anchor, and during the 12 years she lived there, Ms. Freud discovered that the Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh had been a guest.
Mackintosh, who is most famous for designing the Glasgow School of Art, remains a celebrated figure in the design world, an artist as multitalented and uncompromising as Frank Lloyd Wright, a contemporary. But by the time he came to Walberswick, in 1914, he had difficulty securing commissions and had begun painting watercolors of flowers and landscapes. A stranger in the tight-knit village, and one with German artist friends to boot, Mackintosh was briefly accused of being a German spy during World War I.
"I started to do research about him, and the more I found out, the more I was fascinated," Ms. Freud said. "I discovered he'd had such a difficult and frustrated life. I started to feel great affection for him."
Pamela Robertson, senior curator and professor of Mackintosh Studies at the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, said the architect and his artist wife, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, probably viewed their time in England as a brief respite, though it turned out his architecture career was effectively over.
"They chose Walberswick because they knew it," Professor Robertson said. "Other artists went there because of the open landscape and big skies. The decision to leave Scotland wasn't seen as final in 1914, but then war broke out."
Ms. Freud's historical novel, set during this time, imagines a friendship between a young boy with artistic leanings and Mackintosh and his wife. The young narrator, Thomas, lives at the Blue Anchor with his family, which struggles to earn a living running the place.
"The fact that Mac had stayed there intrigued me," Ms. Freud said. "I wanted to write a novel set in this pub, using this building and its history."
It's not the first time Ms. Freud has used the Suffolk coast as a setting for a novel, or an architect living there as a central character. In "The Sea House," she wrote about a German Jewish refugee who was trying to re-establish his architecture career in England after World War II. Of another character in that 2004 novel, Ms. Freud wrote, "All his life Max had dreamt of houses."
Is there a personal theme here?
"Someone once wrote in a review that you really know what someone is interested in when they've written a few books," Ms. Freud said. "I've always been really interested in houses. I once thought: 'Oh, God. I want to live in every house.' "
It may be in her blood; the architect in "The Sea House" was based on her paternal grandfather, Ernst Freud, a successful architect who fled in 1933 from Nazi Germany to England, where he resumed his career. "He spent many years living in Walberswick, too," Ms. Freud said. "So there are houses everywhere here, cottages he transformed into Bauhaus-style structures."
But Ms. Freud attributes her interest in homes to the fact that growing up she never had a permanent one. She and her older sister, the fashion designer Bella Freud, had a peripatetic childhood. Their parents never married, and in the height of the hippie 1960s, their mother took the young girls to live in Morocco, a period Ms. Freud fictionalized in her acclaimed first novel, "Hideous Kinky."
"We moved and moved and moved," Ms. Freud said. "That made me obsessed with finding the dream home. But I really loved moving, which made finding the dream home impossible. It's a funny mixture."
She is less enthusiastic about decorating. She described her style as "kind of 1950s, slightly old-fashioned," and said she likes to find furniture secondhand, like the green Victorian dresser she bought in Portobello Market and put in the kitchen of her cottage. And while she cares about "the way things look," she said, she keeps her desire for visual beauty in check when home.
"If my study is really messy, that means I'm working," Ms. Freud said. "If the kitchen is a mess, it's because people are eating and living."
Fortunately, Ms. Freud had to make very few aesthetic improvements to her Walberswick home. When she owned the former Blue Anchor next door, the previous owners of her cottage were constantly renovating.
"They were ruining our lives," Ms. Freud said, laughing. "But we didn't have to do anything. They did so much work."
Her one improvement, aside from raising the doorways, is a wooden swing that she commissioned from a local craftsman and had installed in the back garden. She got the idea on a trip to the United States, she said: "I went to a place that had a pool house and saw exactly that swing. I asked the man, 'Can you recreate this?' And he did. We eat out there. There's an open fire area."
Ms. Freud wrote a good portion of "Mr. Mac and Me" in the cottage, or at friends' cottages in the village where she could work quietly. She also traveled to Glasgow to see Mackintosh's buildings and to speak with Professor Robertson, the scholar.
When Ms. Freud visited House for an Art Lover, a design Mackintosh never saw built, she was "knocked out," she said. "Just how beautiful it was. So modern compared to the dark Victorian buildings at the time."
But some of Ms. Freud's favorite works by Mackintosh remain the watercolors of flowers he painted while living in the village, she said: "They're on postcards for sale in the village shop. People who know me know I love Walberswick. They send me postcards of Mackintosh's flowers."
After Ms. Freud bought her cottage in Walberswick, a place where she has so much family history and for so long dreamed of owning a house, did she feel contentment and joy? Well, not quite. The restless childhood, she said, has stayed with her.
"When we did buy this cottage, I recall feeling this mixture of happiness but deflatedness, too, because now I would stop looking for a house," Ms. Freud said. "I like the dreaming. I like the fantasizing."


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This time last week, we had the privilege of sitting down with Rafael Nadal, who we are pleased to confirm will grace the cover of our next magazine. The world No 3, speaking at a promotional Golf tournament organized by Richard Mille in the South of France, revealed how the luxury watch brand convinced him to wear a watch on the court. Something he "never thought" he would do.
"It's really an honor to be part of the Richard Mille family," said Nadal. "For me, Richard is like a friend."
The two men share many similarities, having risen almost instantly to the very top of their respective fields, and sustaining that level ever since.
"What he did in his world, of high end watches, is really unbelievable and I admire him a lot," said Nadal.
During the photoshoot, Nadal wore his personal RM 27-01 with was modified with a red Velcro® strap. Although he denies wearing it as a good luck charm, he admits the two has shared some great moments together, including at this year's French Open.
The former world number one admitted 2014 had been a complicated year, but appeared relaxed ahead of his comeback, even fielding questions from our readers via social media.
Asked how the watch feels on the wrist during match play, Nadal said: "Seriously, I forget about it, it's like I'm wearing nothing. When I play tennis, I forget that I am wearing a watch."
A few days after we saw him, Nadal would rediscover his winning ways, again with his RM 27-0, easing to a 6-2 6-2 win over Simone Bolelli in the first round of the Swiss Indoors in Basel.
Photo Credit: Haute Time. For more information, please visit the official Richard Mille website.


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I agree, smaller teams are the way to go. Has anyone else tried setting 1 team to engage, and the other to assault? Or what about 1 group fixes and the other flanks? Most of the guys get wiped out anyway but it would be cool if these things worked. I dont get the sense that the defenders AI is influenced at all by being flanked, nor do they present easier targets from the side or rear.
thats a separate issue (inf mount/dismout restrictions). The bigger problem is that when you DO send your dismounts into town or any heavy cover area to assault other infantry, they will suffer HUGE casualties. Even with somthing like a 5 to 1 ratio, your casualties will be unrealistically heavy. It may have somthig to do with being prone or not.
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Trout replied to ashdivay's topic in General DiscussionAhh....Falcon 4! Has there ever been a better sim with more replayability?! Sadly the realistic sim has gone the way of the Dodo.......
I know its an armoured sim - its the best on the market. However, you should be able to dismount your troops and have them clear enemy infantry out of towns, bush and forest to remove the threat to your vehicles. As it stands now, even a single enemy squad will cause, IMHO, unrealistic casualties in the engaging/assaulting force. I think that is the biggest problem with infantry in this game Trout
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Trout posted a topic in General DiscussionLets start another one! How would you improve infantry in this sim? I'll start: -By default they should reboard their PCs when the PCs are given movement commands. PCs could then have an "embark without infantry" command added. -Infantry need to be less vulnerable to small arms when they are upright and/or hit the dirt sooner. Inf. vs inf. engagemnts just dont work right in this sim. -movement in windows. you should see SOMETHING in windows when infantry are present, not just tracers. The only way to deal with infantry in buildings now is to flatten every building in site!
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Trout replied to JIMIROTTENSOCKS's topic in General DiscussionYup, infantry are not very effective while moving. If they stay put in good cover they are nasty, but they are incredibly vulnerable when exiting or entering the vehicle, or when advancing with any command other than scout. I"ve been playing around with inf vs inf situations and you need WAY more than 3 to 1 advantage to attack or assault succesfully. I assume that with infantry vs infantry battles, the outcome is figured arithmatically? They dont actually SEE each other and shoot? Yes, they should be able to sprint to and from the carriers or when covering open areas. But they should also be harder to hit when shot at by AI. Also, 2 prone units within grenade range should hurt each other more. SInce SB is a military training tool, does it not give vehicle commanders the wrong ideas about the usefullness of dismounts on the attack? Trout
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Trout posted a topic in Scenario and Mapskeep dismounts from being left behind when their PCs take off?! I wish they had an "embark without infantry" command.... where the default "embark" would automatically hold the PCs until eveyone is loaded. Trout
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Trout replied to Trout's topic in General DiscussionWhat I meant was, the DEVELOPERS must do this, since clearly the player community has not. In the end you guys suffer for it because customers cant sort out the fun missions from the not-so-fun ones. Maybe you guys dont have time to do this, but you could certainly appoint a committee of volunteers. When you look at the number of downloads it is clear that there are lots of people out there playing these missions. So just put a formal mechanism in place for proper peer review.
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Trout posted a topic in General DiscussionHi, I'm a new customer for SB and I just wanted to say that I think this is a fantastic sim. I was always a fan of the old Microprose military sims (like tank platoon), but its been years since I've had that kind of enjoyment from an offline sim. One issue I have, however, is that without a dynamic or scripted campaign, you really have to rely on scenarios other people make. I find the rating system pretty useless and there are too many missions that are either too complex, or contain some sort of element that makes it less enjoyable. I saw the same problem with Dangerous Waters, which is an outstanding naval sim that has a limited appeal. Its just too much bother to find missions that are enjoyable. I think that even though the developers don't want get into producing content, what they really should do is set up a mechanism for rating and describing other peoples missions. They could even set up a campaign description and get volunteers to fill in the missions. Perhaps they could put together a committee of volunteers who could rate the missions and write a short 1 para review? Either way, they should get involved somehow in ensuring that customers, especially new ones, have an easier time finding the right missions. Trout


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Shovel Knight isn't going to be a playable character in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, instead having to settle for being an Assist Trophy (the Waluigi treatment). But Rivals of Aether announced today that it will be adding the indie game star to its fighting game.
Shovel Knight joins the Rivals of Aether Roster! https://t.co/JYC9QD2nyX pic.twitter.com/f2WH4HIKnJ
— Rivals of Aether (@RivalsOfAether) August 10, 2018
Rivals of Aether takes plenty of inspiration from Super Smash Bros. with its knock-them-off-the-edge mechanics, but it mostly features original characters. Rivals of Aether released for Xbox One and PC last year.
Shovel Knight is the game's second guest character after Ori, the star of the hit Metroidvania and Xbox exclusive Ori and the Blind Forest.
Shovel Knight has been one of the biggest indie hits in recent years, selling millions of copies. Its final DLC expansion, King of Cards, releases later this year.


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By: Audrey Mosdell
The Democratic primary elections are being held this week on Thursday, September 13th. But why is a primary so important?
This election will seemingly decide our governor for the next four years, as the state overwhelming pulls Democratic. Since Bernie Sanders and the 2016 election, politicians have been shaking up the establishment and changing what it really means to be a Democrat. To many young voters, "socialist" does not have the same negative connotations as it does to the older generation. Because of this connotation, there has been a steady influx of highly progressive candidates. Promises of free education, a reformed health care system, greener environmental practices, and stronger support for social programs resonate with many students.
Yet, while some are outspoken either through support for candidates or distain for others, a stigma still lies around Millennials having a very low voter turnout. According to the Pew Research Center based in Washington D.C., there is now a larger group of Millennials eligible to vote than Generation X (age 36-51). Millennials are quickly approaching the same volume of eligibility as Baby Boomers (age 52-70). They have the opportunity to truly change the landscape of the political future and yet allow voting turn out to remain only around 50%, according to Tuft University's Tisch College. To produce real change, 50% just isn't going to cut it.
New York Public Interest Research Group is Rallying students on campus to vote. Member Jehan Miah describes the primary as "the battle among the Democratic Party." He believes that his generation has the power to change what Democrat means in New York. This change of heart was already seen as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez upset the incumbent Congressman Joe Crowley in the 14th Congressional district this past June. Cortez, who is part of the Democratic Socialist Party could be the sign that change to the Democratic Party is already here.
This Thursday, Democratic candidate Cynthia Nixon is looking to upset centrist and establishment candidate Andrew Cuomo in the race for governor. Nixon has been described as a much more progressive and left leaning candidate compared to her opponent. Most of her platform is centered around New York City as she plans to fix the MTA and promises free education in all CUNY and SUNY schools regardless of financial need. Cuomo has long been haunted by the MTA as Mayor de Blasio demands assistance from the state. Governor Cuomo claims the subway to be a city problem, but the Mayor and Nixon are not so sure. Nixon's plan of free college education is the same message Bernie Sanders promised to the United States in 2016 that got a lot of students on board with his campaign.
Most critics of both the subway repairs and free tuition promises claim that these plans are very expensive, which is true. A lot of money is required to carry out these promises, and both Nixon and de Blasio believe a "millionaires' tax" is the answer. This solution challenges Cuomo as he is not for the millionaires' tax and consistently pulls funding away from both the MTA and public education.
"Right now is the time for change to happen," says Jaclyn Williams, a fellow NYPIRG member. "City college embodies diversity, low income, black, and DACA." This diversity provides reason for CCNY students to have their voices heard this Thursday. Now more than ever Millennials need to prove to older generations wrong and show them that they are a force to be reckoned with.


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I will admit, this title seems a little brutal. It comes after years of consideration about how people react towards the confessions of terrible sins. I am part of a Christian community, and as a part of God's church, I feel I must speak out regarding the topic of adultery. Few people enjoy discussing the topic of adultery. A woman confessing adultery fears this discussion at her core. The church as a whole rarely will bring up the topic unless someone in ministry has "fallen" into such a sin. Small groups discuss it if it applies to a particular bible story they are studying, but individual members will avoid confessing that they are struggling over feelings for someone other than their spouse. Should a women admit she has had an affair, she will often experience less than Godly reactions from her Christian family members. Lets be honest, this topic is spoken of more in the aftermath of adultery…as gossip. That's hard for me to admit but unfortunately it is true.
I want to proceed with the story of Jesus and one woman caught in the act of adultery. It begins in John 8 where Jesus was teaching in the temple courts. Many were gathered around to hear him. vs 3: "The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and said to Jesus, 'Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?' They were using this question as a trap in order to have a basis for accusing him."
I find it interesting that the greater concern was not for this woman and her sin, but for the sake of trapping Jesus. The primary purpose of the teachers of the law and the Pharisees was to elevate themselves over Jesus. They put their cares over the cares of God. God wants to reconcile us, the world wants to condemn. When we want to condemn, we are placing ourselves above God.
Vs 6 continues- "But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, 'If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.'
It's interesting to me that every time we attempt to discuss Jesus' judgement on someone else's sin, He chooses to speak to us about our own sin.
Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground. At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left with the woman still standing there. Jesus straightened up and asked her, 'Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?'
'No one, sir, she said.'
'Then neither do I condemn you, Jesus declared. Go now and leave your life of sin.'
This sounds like a simple story about Jesus extending grace to the fallen woman. I want to go deeper personally into this story with a question- who are you in this story? Who do you relate to?
Here are the characters:
- The individuals in the crowd learning from and watching Jesus with his transactions in the temple square as this story unfolds. You might relate to how they must have perceived the situation. If so, would you be curious about what exactly the details were with this woman and her sin? Would you be angry at the intrusion of the Pharisees and the teachers? Would you be irritated by the woman for putting herself in such a situation? Would you be frustrated at how Jesus seemed detached from the drama?
- The Pharisees and teachers. These are the people who really knew their bible verses. They spent their entire lives learning the word of God. They were well known and well accomplished citizens. Along came this Jesus who spoke with authority over the word of God. Before Jesus, they were the ones with the authority and respect. Now, people are following a different teacher. What reaction would you initially have to this situation? Would you want to test this new authority figure that is taking your followers from you? What would you really do if Jesus said, he who is without sin,
- Jesus. Can you relate to him as he is caring about the ministry of his Father? Have you ever been interrupted in the way that Jesus was interrupted on this day? Have you ever felt trapped like this and wondered what to do? The passage says that he "straightened up" two times during this story. The first time to speak to the accusers, the second time to speak to the woman. He never voiced irritation, just truth that leveled the playing field on that day. He completely depended on the wisdom of his father and let the story unfold. He was a man without sin so technically he should have cast the first stone, yet did not.
- The woman caught. If you have ever experienced shame you might be able to relate to this woman. Imagine, your most personal and embarrassing failures on display for all to see. How would it feel to have all those eyes upon you? What words would you hear from all the onlookers? Would you hope for anyone to save you? Would you be bracing for the first stone, then the second? Would you guard yourself or lay down to die?
- Finally, we have our last group of characters. These are the people outside the temple, who have never cared about God. They never would think to go listen to a teacher of the law. Maybe they have heard of Jesus, but were disinterested. This group of people may have heard the commotion with the teachers and the sinning women and thought, "more drama as usual". These people insist that private matters should be private. They will see the shamed woman exit the temple courts and watch to see what she does next. They might point at her and gossip. They may refuse to serve her and turn their backs on her, not wanting to be associated with such a woman. These are the people that will not accept her as a woman freed in Christ. They will label her as an adulterer for all her days. Let me add something I have said for a long time…stoning seems like an act of mercy to a woman confessing to a terrible shameful sin. Why? Because without Jesus, shame will bind her from knowing freedom. Without loving Christians pointing her towards the grace and mercy of a saving God, she will never know healing. Furthermore, the healing is never easy. There are consequences to a sin like this- painful consequences for both the adulterer and the victims. Truly, many women on a journey away from adultery will think that stoning may have been less painful.
- Are you still in the crowd watching Jesus, hanging on the next word or action since this event with the woman?
- Are you still holding a heavy stone?
- Are you considering your own sin?
- Are you leaving the temple courts freed but wondering "what do I do now?" Are you ready to repair the damage with those you have hurt?
- Are you still standing outside avoiding the woman or any woman associated with helping her?


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Lauren Biddle to be remebered with Signature Polo Gloves benefiting PPSG
Lauren Biddle to be remembered with signature polo gloves to benefit Polo Players Support Group(PPSG) and the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. Lauren, a talented young polo player died in a tragic accident on October 21, 2018 while working and playing polo in New Zealand. In memory of her kind and fun loving nature, Hook Polo designed a pair of polo gloves with her initials on them as requested by family and friends.
$10 will be donated equally to the Polo Players Support Group (PPSP) and the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (for orphan elephants) via a GO FUND ME account in Lauren's name.
Dave Offen, president and co-founder of the Polo Players Support Group, said, "With heavy hearts PPSG is grateful to Hook Polo to be able to remember Lauren this way, assisting PPSG to continue its mission of providing financial support to seriously injured or ill players and grooms."
Daughter of polo players Tommy and Yvette Biddle, Lauren was a true horsewoman and jack-of-all-trades around the barn. Lauren knows first hand the difficulties of life in the horse community. Her father was the recipient of a financial grant from PPSG after a shoulder injury that left him unable to play polo for a several months. Lauren often expressed the close relationship she had with her father and would appreciate the efforts of Hook Polo to give back to a cause that helped him.
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At 32 years old, I first became a dad. As with most new fathers, I had no practical experience except for an occasionally visit with my niece and helping to change the dirty diapers of my little sister 20 years earlier.
I joined the dad club back in 2014 with the birth of my son, Daxton. It was frightening for both my wife and myself as our new son had a rough birth and spent the better part of the week in the NICU. Luckily for us all, his stay was mostly for observation after the first few hours. We had to pay very close attention to the clock, since even being a minute late for a feeding would mean a nurse would already be there rocking him with a fresh bottle in his mouth.
In 2016, we welcomed our daughter, Taylee. By this time, I felt like a pro. We were checked in the hospital by 9am and were a family of four by 10am. She cried, drank, pooped and slept. Everything a new little baby is supposed to do. We then went home and the terror of realizing two lives fully depended on me sunk in. I was anything but a pro.
Today, I balance a career in Information Security with raising kids, camping, biking and traveling. I also enjoy keeping a saltwater reef aquarium and swimming with my kids in the short summers of central Iowa. I never outgrew my love for video games and would even let my brothers' choose Oddjob as that just made victory that much more sweet.


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Turning to the secondary schools and the teaching of Latin, the similarities between Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican institutions appear to significantly outweigh the differences. In 1650, all of these institutions shared a similar humanist heritage: from the Schulordnungen or Kirchenordnungen of Philipp MelanchthontoJean Sturm's model gymnasium in Strasbourg, to John Calvin's schools in Geneva and Zwingli's in Zurich - all of which, in turn, drew on the methods established by the Brothers of the Common Life at the end of the fifteenth century. In addition, the Jesuits' Ratio Studiorum (1599) owed much to the modus parisiensis developed within the University of Paris at the beginning of the sixteenth century. On both sides of the confessional boundary one finds the same organization of studies by successive classes, lessons (praelectiones), and exercises (questions, debates, prose imitations); the same use of classical antiquity, in both its rhetoric and its ideals of 'rectitude and virtue', as a basis for the education of the Christian man; the same divisions into smaller groups to maintain order and avoid overcrowded classes; the same competitive emulation (compositions, prizes, public recitations) aimed at enriching school life. The same texts were also studied in the same order (in particular Cicero's Epistles - the model for the Latin essay - along with Virgil and Horace), although Catholics were perhaps more rigorous in eliminating classical authors considered lascivious or obscene. In the Lutheran schools, Terence was seen as one of the most useful authors for Latin conversation, whereas the Company of Jesus usually banned him completely. No doubt Greek was more frequently taught in the Protestant schools than in the Catholic, and indeed, the Greek New Testament was one of the texts most commonly read by the Protestants, second only to Isocrates's Discourses. No doubt also the textbooks used on the two sides of the confessional divide were not precisely the same. But here one must take into account the emerging market in school books with its own specialized authors, booksellers and printers. In Lutheran and Calvinist countries, the Greek and Latin grammar books written by the Dutch scholar Gerhard Johannes Vossius in the early seventeenth century had wide distribution in Holland and northern Germany, as well as in the French Calvinist academies. The Jesuits, for their part, remained loyal either to Father Emmanuel Alvarez's grammar book, often translated into the vernacular, or to the older manual by Despautere, revised and amended by one of the Jesuit fathers. Yet there was a clear tendency towards the standardization of textbooks, either for the sake of simplicity and clarity, or because they were favoured by a particular teaching order. It was above all on the question of
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The film La La Land, winner of seven Golden Globes and nominated for several Oscars, will be screened in English on Monday 23rd January at Nyon Capitole Cinema at 20:30.
Other events coming up
Want to take part in a traditional Swiss event? Every January there are lots of LOTOS going on around the town. These events are big fund raising events for local organisations and clubs. The event works in the same style as a Bingo game, a caller calls out a number and contestants cross off numbers on a grid on a sheet that they have purchased (this contributes to the fund raising). It's fun, fast, and an interesting experience. Most LOTOS are held in the Salle Communale in the centre of Nyon. See poster below.
Friday 20th January – Music – Sonic Trip Hop from Tunksten, band from Switzerland performing at 22:00
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Huawei's upcoming P8 flagship has been leaking like crazy over the last couple of weeks and the company has released a ton of teasers hyping up this device. Huawei has even released a teaser video which was rather odd and hinted at a great low-light capabilities of P8's camera sensor. Anyhow, this China-based company has announced a while back that they'll announce the P8 handset in London on April 15, which means the announcement will take place tonight.
The company has released a ton of teasers over the last week or so and you can check out all of those in the gallery down below. They're rather cryptic and each of them is hinting at a special set of capabilities or features of this device. That being said, Huawei will livestream the event later today, in case you're interested you can watch it via this link. The event will kick off in about 5 hours (at the time of writing this article), it starts at 3PM BST (10AM EST / 7AM PST / 4PM CET) and will go on for about one and a half hours according to the company. Keep in mind that Huawei might also announce the 'Lite' variant of the P8 handset considering that version has been leaking all over the place as well.
According to the latest available info, the Huawei P8 will feature a 5.2-inch 1080p (1920 x 1080) display, 3GB of RAM and 32GB of built-in storage. Huawei's very own HiSilicon Kirin 930 or 935 processor will power on this handset and you can expect Android 5.0 Lollipop to come pre-installed on this device with Huawei's Emotion UI on top of it. The 13-megapixel camera will be located on the back of this device (OIS included), and a 5-megapixel shooter will be available up front. The leaked render of this handset is also available in the gallery down below, so you can check that out as well if you're interested. Thin bezels and premium built is expected here.
The P8 Lite, on the other hand, is rumored to sport a 5-inch 720p (1280 x 720) display along with 2GB of RAM. The 13 and 5-megapixel camera sensors will be available here as well, same can be said about Android 5.0 Lollipop and Huawei's Emotion UI skin. This handset will quite probably look basically identical to the Huawei P8, but will sport lower-end specs and will be somewhat smaller.


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I am writing you this letter because I wish someone had wrote it to me. Before I married this wonderful man, I now call my better half, I was a single mother of three. Life was good, because I had decided it would be good. I had made a few promises to myself concerning my children and I was willing to put in the work to keep them. Now, please believe me, it was not easy. I missed some milestones in my children's lives, had many sleepless nights and wondered time and time again if it was worth it. Today I stand here and say yes, it was all worth it. I would do it all over again in a heartbeat. Now, if you don't mind, I would like to share a few things that allowed me to be where I am today.
#1. Get yourself some education. Education is power. Education will allow you to get another job if your current place of employment lets you go. What I have learned is people can take a lot of things from you, but they cannot take your education. Please don't say it's too expensive because community colleges make payment plans. Think of it as your future on lay-a-way! Plus, it makes your kids want to do better in life (trust me). Oh….and don't say you don't have time. There are online classes.
#2. Don't be your child's friend. They have enough friends. Your child needs rules, discipline, and nosy adult supervision. Yep, I'm that nosy momma. I still stalk C1's Facebook page and C3 does not have one yet. Get in their world, but as an adult. It shows you care.
#3. Find a great support team. I was blessed to have an amazing friend name Natasha who was like my kid's second mother. Kids get sick and you can't always leave work. Not only was she helpful with my kids but her family adopted us and invited us to all their family gatherings.
#4. Take time for yourself. You are no good for your children if you are not well physically, mentally and spiritually well. They need to see that their mom is okay.
#5. If you have boys, it is very important to surround them with positive male role models. For C2, it was his football coaches. These men were amazing. They pushed all the boys to excel in education as well as sports. Natasha's husband was an amazing role model also. That man was and still is the community father.
#6. Tell your children, especially your daughters, you love them every single day and shower them with hugs and kisses. I grew up in a family where this was not the norm. However, I soon realized we all need affection and positive affirmations. If we don't get it from home, we will look for it elsewhere.
#7. Apologize when you are wrong. Teach your kids it is human to make mistakes. It also teaches accountability.
#8. DO NOT, I repeat Do NOT, speak ill of the other parent in the presence of your children. Children are very smart. If the other parent does not do their part in parenting, the children will pick up on this sooner than you think. Remember when your child comes to you with questions about the other parent slacking do not speak ill of them. Just remind them they are loved and will always have you to count on.
#9. Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Leave bitterness and resentment with the past relationship. Don't make someone pay for someone else hurting you. You may mess around and miss your true love.
#10. Life will not always be this way. I know it may not seem like it now but in a few years the kids will be older, more independent and then leaving your house. So, enjoy them and don't sweat the small stuff.
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The Land of Teuhyo (Inspired by Dungeons and Dragons) Chapter 12: Always Kind to Me Misha looked away from the piece of stale bread that was shoved in her face. "Eat something." Nedjem said. "I've already eaten." He kept holding out the bread, but Misha looked up and glowered at him. Iah put her hand […]
Before she passed out, Bedivere saw Nedjem approaching from the darkness, his tattoos glowing golden and yellow fire radiating from his hands. She saw Iah in her peripheral as she knelt down by Bedivere, shouting something. Bedivere, though, heard nothing.
"I know a way." A strange voice spoke from the darkness, raspy and giggling. The two men jumped to attention, drawing their weapons and spells and looking around in the dark.
"I honestly can't believe you fell for that," Abramo chuckled, and Vulcan could hear his voice drawing closer. "But a dragon is a dragon, after all. The greed that killed your parents will be how you meet your end."
Misha shook her head. "To play with the mind and convince the body it is mutilated…You were touched by demons, my poor boy." She broke off at a whimpering noise and saw that Iah was biting her lip.
Iah dropped her pack to the ground and began digging around in it. "I know I packed it…Okay!" From her backpack, she pulled a sparkly pink dress lined with pearls and a skirt that cut off FAR above the knees. "Okay, Vulcan, put this on."
Hana pulled her knife and pointed it at Bedivere, then swung it around to the others. "You…w-will leave this town…" Her voice trembled and her throat croaked out the words "or the same fate…will befall you."
"I'll be right there! God!" He shouted back. Bedivere may have been cool when they first met but when it came down to the nail, she was freaking annoying. Vulcan ignored her protests to keep going and began rummaging about the nearly pitch black storeroom. There was actually very little down here, just stacks of paper, a few tools and a plank of drywall. Inside a well hidden box, though the shine of a gem caught his eye.
As he opened the door to the hall he found he didn't have to. Aeron burst out into the hallway, wielding his warhammer and wearing nothing but his boxers, screaming in his half-asleep state "MOMMA WE GOT ANOTHER GATOR!"
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Transfer to Vulcano where you can admire the beauty of this island and in particular the Black Beaches, the Hot Springs and the Sulfur Mud Baths. In the early afternoon, we will continue to Panarea with an external tour of the island to see Baia Calajunco, the small Zimmari's Beach and the headland of Capo Milazzese. Departure to Stromboli and visit of the island until sunset, then departure to admire Stromboli exploding by night, in particular the Sciara del Fuoco ("Stream of fire"), where the active lava flows. Return to Milazzo around 10.45 pm.
We will sail on board a wonderful wooden boat, equipped with all comforts. After a short stop for a swim, we will steer towards the Isola di Capo Passero, to dive in the blue sea in front of the Antica Tonnara and the enchanting Castello Tafuri. The full-day excursion continues towards the Isola delle Correnti, where you will have the chance to use the underwater mask and the flippers to see an amazing wreck right close to the shore. Lunch onboard included.
Departure from Marzamemi's port, where the staff will welcome you and give you a snorkeling kit. First stop at the "Grotte dei Sospiri" to admire these beautiful and natural caves and to take a swim in the clear water. We will proceed to the Isola delle Correnti, where we can use the undewater mask and the flippers to see an amazing wreck at about 6 ft depth. We will then sail to Portopalo di Capo Passero where we will admire the enchanting Castello Tafuri and the Antica Tonnara.
During the excursion on a boat with submarine view, we will discover the marine flora and fauna supported by a guide and admire the underwater archeological site of the "Roman Columns", supposed to be the remains of a Greek or Roman shipwreck. We will stop for a swim in the crystaline waters and in the end, visit the nice fishermen's village of Marzamemi.
After sailing around the Capo Milazzo headland, we will reach the harbour of Vulcano at around 9.15 am. You will have 8 hours to visit the island. We suggest: a bath in the Spa Waters and Sulphuric Mud and a visit to the splendid beach of Black Sands or a climb up to the crater of the volcano. Before returning to Milazzo, we will sail around the enchanting Scoglio della Sirenetta. Return to Milazzo around 7 pm.
We will sail to Lipari for the first stop, which is useful to explore the old town, the archaeological park or to go shopping. Route to the island of Vulcano, to admire the "Faraglioni", "Lo scoglio di Papa Giovanni", "La Grotta dei Angeli" and "Lo scoglio della Mummia". Stop in Vulcano, where you can choose to take a bath in the hot springs in the area of sulphurous mud, or the beautiful Black Sand Beach. Return to Milazzo around 5.30 pm.


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TITLE OF FILM: "The Big Country"
DIRECTOR: William Wyler
WRITER: Robert Wyler, Sy Bartlett, James R. Webb
STARRING: Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Charlton Heston, Carroll Baker, Burl Ives, Charles Bickford, Chuck Connors
James McKay (Gregory Peck) arrives in a small town out west to join his fiancé Patricia (Carroll Baker) after a period apart. McKay is East Coast born and bred and a fish out of water on the new frontier. He is a gentleman. He is not a showboater. McKay's behavior is in stark contrast to most of the characters he comes across, as well as Patricia, who is scrappy, spoiled and hot-headed.
Patricia's father, Major Terrill (Charles Bickford), is the owner of a large ranch and has been engaged for years in a fight with the owner of a nearby ranch, Rufus Hannassey (Burl Ives), over water rights, among other things. The war between the two families is having far-reaching effects. Hannassey has four sons who are constantly looking for trouble. Terrill's foreman, Steve Leech (Charlton Heston), is loyal to a fault. School teacher, Julie Maragon (Jean Simmons), owns a large chunk of land herself and is often in the middle of the two families' strong-arming.
In "The Big Country," McKay must come to terms with his new home and those who live there. He must ultimately decide if he can live in this world or if his character is too different to fit in with the likes of these men and women out west.
William Wyler is one of the most respected directors in the history of film. His career began in the silent era, where he directed 27 westerns for Universal Studios. He transitioned to talkies in 1930. From 1936 until his last film in 1970, thirteen of Wyler's films were nominated for best picture (with three wins). Personally, Wyler was nominated for the best director Oscar twelve times (with three wins). Throughout his career, he directed thirty-six Oscar-nominated performances (with fourteen of these actors winning). These are distinctions no other film director holds.
Part of Wyler's success is that his films are not boxed into any particular genre. He filled each film with such passion and expertise that there is little room to debate that Wyler had the ability to tell any story. His film credits include "Wuthering Heights" (1939), "Mrs. Miniver" (1942), "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946), "The Heiress" (1949), "Roman Holiday" (1953), "Ben-Hur" (1959) and "Funny Girl" (1968).
Wyler used California's Red Rock Canyon State Park and the Sierra Foothills as the backdrop for much of the film's action. The score, written by Jerome Moross, breathes of classic western and is larger-than-life. His use of strings and horns would make anyone want to mount a horse and ride off into the sunset.
Clocking in at over two hours and forty-five minutes, "The Big Country" spends a great deal of time on long transition scenes. In between scenes of play, the music swells, and the long shot is on full display. The editor could have cut these scenes out with no plot omissions. However, the western often need those moments to gain a true sense of landscape. And the landscape here is truly remarkable.
The casting is spot-on. Jean Simmons and Carroll Baker play opposing women with a depth not often seen in female characters of this era. Charlton Heston takes on a rare supporting role. His Leech (the name speaks volumes) is a great adversary to Gregory Peck's holier-than-thou McKay (similar in ways to his portrayal of Atticus Finch in 1962's "To Kill a Mockingbird"). On a side note, there is a fight scene between the two men about two-thirds of the way through the film that is beautifully shot. (Keep a look out!)
However, the true stand-out among the group is Burl Ives. He is not tall, dark and handsome, but he has the meatiest role in "The Big County." His deep voice and the rhythmic delivery of his lines makes it damn near impossible to not be entranced when he is on screen. The moment he threatens his own son with murder is one of the strongest scenes in the film.
Due to the expanse of "The Big Country," the film is able to touch on many themes classic to the western. There are ranchers protecting their lands. There is a Shakespearean-esque feud between families. The damsel in distress is front and center. There are campfires and drinking, gunfights and quick-draw duels.
The one western theme that "The Big County" omits is the calvary fighting Native Americans. In this film, the "good guys" and the "bad guys" are not defined by their race, but by their actions. This is a nice change of pace from most westerns of that time.
When the film was released, critics complimented the production's extravagant scenery. Variety's review summed it up best. "'The Big County' lives up to its title. The camera has captured a vast section of the southwest with such fidelity that the long stretches of dry country, in juxtaposition to tiny western settlements, and the giant canyon country in the arid area, have been recorded with almost three-dimensional effect."
According to the book "The Crowded Prairie: American National Identity in the Hollywood Western," written by Michael Coyne, President Dwight D. Eisenhower loved "The Big Country" so much, he screened the film four times at the White House. Perhaps, Eisenhower felt a kin to the film's cool and passive protagonist in the midst of a heated and violent world.
The academy deservingly nominated Jerome Moross for Best Score. Burl Ives won the Golden Globe and the Academy Award in 1958 for Best Supporting Actor.
The Western was one of the most popular film genres during the 1950s and 60s. Since the 1970s, the "classic" western film has been on the decline in popularity. Although they are not as in demand now, there have been some powerful westerns released recently. They prove the genre still has a lot of life left.
Quentin Tarantino used his twisted mind to tell a bloody and off-beat western, whodunit tale with "The Hateful Eight" (2015). And in 2017, Scott Cooper wrote and directed one of the best westerns in recent memory. "Hostiles," tells the story of a deeply flawed man who must escort an ailing Cheyenne chief and his family back home before the chief's death. The film stars Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, and Wes Studi. Each delivered an Oscar-worthy performance.
"The Big Country" is ultimately a film about the honor in character. Peck's James McKay does not need to prove himself to anyone. He is under the impression that the only opinion that truly matters is his own. The men and women who confront him throughout the film do not understand the moral code he follows. This conflict is what drives the film, and it is also a conflict that people today deal with often.
No matter what others around us may think or feel, it is important to remain true to ourselves. We must live our own lives by our own standards. After all, we are the ones that have to live with the choices we make.
"The Big Country is available streaming free on Amazon Prime. It is available for rent/purchase on VUDU, YouTube, Google Play and Apple.
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Why did I share the previous three "Energy" blog posts with you? Sometimes an experience is more telling then a theory. If the focus of my blog was to explain what it is that I do during a session, the explanation may come across as being too technical, or too cookie cutter. Hearing how an … More Energy, healing and you


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Two-and-a-half-year-old Andrew Cappers yesterday showed Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg where his hand, dipped in paint and pressed against a small piece of canvas, had left its mark in memory of his father, James C. Cappers.
Andrew's handprint appears in one of scores of canvas panels now on display at the American Museum of Natural History on Central Park West, in an exhibit of work by children who lost their parents in the Sept. 11 attack and in the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993.
The display, which will remain at the museum through May before traveling to schools and art centers around the country, is a therapeutic art project conceived by 16-year-old Ali Millard, who lost her stepfather, Neil D. Levin, in the 2001 attack.
After viewing the collection of panels at the museum - a montage of fire trucks, American flags, rainbows and heartbreaking stick figures in stovepipe hats - Mr. Bloomberg reflected about the work. ''There's nothing more poignant than a child remembering a parent,'' he said, adding, ''You wonder many years from now when they look back what they will remember and what they will think.''
Almost 200 children, from toddlers to teenagers, painted the one-square-foot canvases.
Ms. Millard, whose mother, Christy Ferer, is the mayor's liaison to the families of Sept. 11 victims, said she encouraged children to reflect on memories of their parents, rather than on their deaths. One little girl painted a panel of mountains and streams to remember a summer vacation with her family.
The project, ''Art for Heart,'' was coordinated by the 92nd Street Y and sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. Some of the early canvases were displayed for troops in the Middle East, and during the second anniversary event held at the World Trade Center site.


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I last met Tony Caro a week or so ago at the Frieze Masters art fair. He was, as always, gloriously friendly and un-self-important, being wheeled around with his wife, Sheila Girling, an important artist in her own right, in among the booths containing works of antiquity and an installation by Richard Long, one of Caro's former pupils and himself now an Old Master.
I always liked Caro. He was, as his obituaries have pointed out, admirably unstuffy; to meet, one might have mistaken him as a retired engineer, which is what he first trained to be, rather grizzled, normally in a sports jacket and slacks, a product of the time he spent in the United States in the early 1960s, teaching in Bennington College, Vermont and exhibiting in New York.
I first met him in 1979, during a dinner at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he had been an undergraduate and was an Honorary Fellow. He lent across the table and asked me if I knew whatever happened to his first work of sculpture, a bust of the then Master of the College, Charles Raven, which he had done as an undergraduate. I didn't, and haven't been able to find out since.
Although Caro was always regarded, rightly, as a master of the avant-garde, the heir to Henry Moore, the first person to take sculpture off its pedestal and down on to the floor, the British equivalent in sculpture to the American abstract expressionists, and a hero of the early 1960s, he was, to meet, unexpectedly conservative. Indeed, he occasionally expressed unexpectedly conservative views about the younger generation of the artists in meetings at the Royal Academy, a consequence of the nearly invariable tendency for artists, if they live long, to outlive the aesthetic beliefs of their era.
This occasional conservatism was partly generational (Caro was 89 when he died on Wednesday), and partly a product of his upbringing. He was the son of a stockbroker in Surrey, who wanted him to go into the family stockbroking business. Educated at Charterhouse, where his housemaster introduced him to Charles Wheeler, the British sculptor who later became president of the Royal Academy, Caro was at Cambridge during the Second World War. He was secretary of the squash club.
Caro in 1996 with his 'Goodwood steps' (John Robertson)
At its tail-end, he served in the Fleet Air Arm and then, against the wishes of his father, enrolled as a student at the Royal Academy Schools on 10 December 1947, the only sculpture student in his year. His training under sculptors like F.E. McWilliam and Maurice Lambert (described as "The Master of Sculpture"), both at the Royal Academy Schools and at Regent Street Polytechnic, was highly traditional; the curriculum still required him to copy works of Greek, Etruscan, Romanesque and Gothic sculpture, and to learn to draw, morning and afternoon. A report at the time described how "the new students who have come as probationers since the war are more satisfactory than those who were there before the war. The former are in a more teachable frame of mind, and more willing to put their faith in their instructions. The older ones are just as enthusiastic, but to have had their studies interrupted by six years of war is, to put it mildly, unsettling, and in some cases it has blunted the edges and left them aggressive, over-confident on their own judgment and unaware of their own inexperience."
Caro married Sheila Girling in 1949, and together they moved to Much Hadham in Hertfordshire, where Caro worked as an assistant to Henry Moore. He continued to study drawing at the RA, and during the early 1950s, in Much Hadham and later in Hampstead, worked in clay, plaster and sometimes in bronze as a figurative sculptor.
What, then, led to the revolution in the way he worked and thought in the late 1950s? The first key influence, as Caro often acknowledged, was the American critic Clement Greenberg, who first came to visit him in his studio in 1959. Greenberg was a powerful and dogmatic force, who had argued the case for abstract expressionism in a series of influential essays. He encouraged Caro to change direction.
The second key influence was his visit to the United States on a Ford Foundation and English Speaking Union grant in 1959. He travelled the United States from east to west, meeting all the leading artists of the time, including David Smith, Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Richard Diebenkorn and Ed Keinholz. Afterwards, his work changed radically, became abstract, and he started using steel instead of bronze. In an interview with Laurence Alloway, published in 1961, he said that "America made me see that there are no barriers and no regulations". In 1963, Bryan Robertson held an exhibition of his work at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, which was the high point of a revolution in his art and consolidated his international reputation.
The third key influence that led Caro to change was the teaching he had received from Henry Moore himself. As often happens in a master-pupil relationship, the pupil ends up doing precisely the opposite of what the master wants. Moore was about large-scale form; Caro was spiky and angular. Moore used marble and stone; Caro used steel. Moore was about physical sensuality in the treatment of the human body; Caro was about grammar and geometry in the treatment of abstract form. Moore described sculpture as 'like a fist'; Caro thought of it as cubism.
As it happened, Caro's revolution was unexpectedly short-lived. The next generation of sculptors, which included artists such as Barry Flanagan, Richard Long, Bill Woodrow (whose exhibition at the Royal Academy opens next week) and Gilbert and George, all of whom are always said to have been influenced and taught by him, apparently already regarded him not as a revolutionary but as a fully paid-up member of the international art establishment; a pure formalist at a time when the next generation was going pop conceptual. Just as Caro had reacted against the teaching of Moore, he as someone to react against, while assimilating some of his influence.
Later in his career, there is no doubt that Caro had a long view of the practice of art and became increasingly interested in the relationship between his own work and those of the Old Masters. In 1986, he started making work that was inspired by Greek pediment sculpture. In 1998, he had an exhibition at the National Gallery. In 1999, he started to work on a series of sculptures inspired by Duccio's The Annunciation (1311). The once-revolutionary sculptor was beginning to view his work within the long context of history.
Caro's attitude to the Royal Academy of Art was, as one might expect, always ambivalent. He was several times encouraged to be an RA, but always refused until, towards the end of his life, he accepted becoming a so-called Senior Member on 9 March 2004, the year of his 80th birthday. He then made up for lost time, playing quite an active role, encouraging us to put on an exhibition on Modern British Sculpture, which he would have liked to carry on the narrative from a famous RA exhibition of British sculpture organised by Bryan Kneale in 1972. He wanted Penelope Curtis's exhibition, held in 2011, to demonstrate how the work of his generation of sculptors had evolved. In the end, it was a much broader survey of British sculpture, placing Caro's work of the early 1960s in the context of changes in the practice of sculpture through the twentieth century as a whole.
Caro would have liked to be able to shape the way that the history of his career was written, but, sadly, this is seldom possible. He was certainly a figure of extraordinary importance, but now the great revolutionary changes of the early 1960s are themselves a part of the broad brush of history.
Charles Saumarez Smith is chief executive of the Royal Academy of Arts (royalacademy.org.uk)


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Since the BET Awards this year were held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles hosted by Queen Latifah, Die Famous Die Young mobbed Hollywood with they're posters.
Biggie and Marilyn Monroe were definitely my favorite.
Here are the winners from the evening:
~Viewers' Choice Award – Rihanna ft. Young Jeezy "HARD"
~Best Female R&B Artist – Alicia Keys
~Best Male R&B Artist – Trey Songz
~Best Female Hip Hop Artist – Nicki Minaj
~Best Male Hip Hop Artist – Drake
~Best Collaboration – Jay-Z & Alicia Keys
~Best New Artist – Nicki Minaj
~Best Group – Young Money
~Video of the Year – Beyonce & Lady Gaga
~Video Director of the Year – Hype Williams
~Youngstars Award – Keke Palmer
~Best Actress – Mo'Nique
~Best Actor – Idris Elba
~Best Movie – "Precious"
~Best Gospel – Marvin Sapp
~Centric Award – Monica
~Subway Sportswoman of the Year – Serena Williams
~Subway Sportsman of the Year – Lebron James
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London, Aug 8: After a poor show in the opening Test match against England, the Indian batsmen would like to rectify their mistakes and apply themselves diligently when India will face the hosts in the second match of the five-match series, starting here on Thursday.
In both the innings of the first Test which the tourists lost by 31 runs, all the batsmen, apart from skipper Virat Kohli failed. No other batters supported Kohli, who at the other hand fought valiantly. Kohli scored 149 in the first innings while the other batsmen could only score 107 runs combined. The story of the second innings was more or less the same as Kohli top-scored with 51 runs in 93 balls.
So, in the second test, the Indian team management may make a few changes in the batting department, bringing in experienced batsman Cheteshwar Pujara in place of Lokesh Rahul, who scored 4 and 13 runs respectively in both the innings.
The management could also replace underperforming opening batsman Shikhar Dhawan with Pujara and ask Rahul to open the innings with Murali Vijay.
In order to win the second Test, the batsmen — Ajinkya Rahane, Hardik Pandya, Vijay, Dinesh Karthik — need to click in unison because the bowlers are doing their job handsomely. Talking about the bowling, in both the innings off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin scalped four and three wickets respectively. He was well supported by pacers Ishant Sharma and Mohammad Shami. Umesh Yadav was also impactful.
Pacer Jasprit Bumrah has been ruled out of the second Test as he has not fully recovered from a left thumb injury, bowling coach Bharat Arun confirmed on Tuesday.
Despite that the team management could make a few changes, bringing in a second spinner to add more firepower, depending on the nature of the wicket at Lord's. (IANS)


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WALTHAM, Mass. — The Brandeis University softball team placed two members on the 2018 All-University Athletic Association second team today, as junior catcher Keri Lehtonen of Oneco, Connecticut, and sophomore pitcher Scottie Todd of Tampa, Florida, were honored. This is the second All-UAA selection for both players.
Lehtonen was a first-team honoree in 2016. This season, she led the Judges with a .375 batting average, 25 runs scored, 13 extra-base hits, nine doubles, seven stolen bases and two triples. She also topped the squad in on-base percentage (.455) and slugging (.558) and finished second with 17 RBI. She finished fourth in the UAA in on-base percentage and triples, sixth in stolen bases and doubles and seventh in batting average. Lehtonen had 11 multi-hit games this season and three games with multiple RBI, including two games with five runs driven in (Feb. 17 vs. Frostburg State and April 20 at NYU) and another with four (Feb. 18 vs. Shenandoah). Lehtonen will take a .385 career batting average into her senior season.
Todd was a second-team honoree as a rookie last year. She went 6-8 in the circle but posted a 1.52 ERA in 101.1 innings pitched, as she allowed just 22 earned runs and 40 total. Todd struck out 52 batters and walked 20. She finished second in the UAA in ERA after leading the league as freshman, and ranked 39th in all of Division III. Todd was fourth in the league in innings pitched and fifth in victories. She tossed seven complete games this season, including a 5-0 shutout of NYU on April 20, a game in which Lehtonen drove in all five Brandeis runs. Todd also blanked Fitchburg State, 7-0, on April 11. She enters her junior season next year with a 1.47 career ERA as she now owns the two lowest single-season earned-run average marks in school history.
Lehtonen is a 2015 graduate of Plainfield High School.
Todd is a 2016 graduate of Strawberry Crest High School.


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