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Karmic Relationships III
1. Introduction to These Studies in Karma
1 July 1924, Dornach
For those of you who are able to be here today I wish to give a kind of interlude in the studies we have been pursuing for some time. What I shall say today will serve to illustrate and explain many a question that may emerge out of the subjects we have treated hitherto. At the same time it will help to throw light on the mood-of-soul of the civilisation of the present time.
For years past, we have had to draw attention to a certain point of time in that evolution of civilisation which is concentrated mainly in Europe. The time I mean lies in the 14th or 15th century or about the middle of the Middle Ages. It is the moment in the evolution of mankind when intellectualism begins — when men begin mainly to pay attention to the intellect, the life of thought, making the intellect the judge of what shall be thought and done among them.
Since the age of the intellect is with us today, we can certainly gain a good idea of what intellectualism is. We need but experience the present time, to gain a notion of what came to the surface of civilisation in the 14th and 15th century. But as to the mood of soul which preceded this, we are no longer able to feel it in a living way. People who study history nowadays generally project what they are accustomed to see in the-present time, back into the historic past, and they have little idea how altogether different men were in mind and spirit before the present epoch. Even when they let the old documents speak for themselves, they largely read into them the way of thought and outlook of the present.
To spiritual-scientific study many a thing will appear altogether differently. Let us turn our gaze for example to those historic personalities who were influenced on the one hand from the side of Arabism, from the civilisation of Asia — influenced by what lived and found expression in the Mahommedan religion, while on the other hand they were influenced by Aristotelianism. Let us consider these personalities, who found their way in course of time through Africa to Spain, and deeply influenced the thinkers of Europe down to Spinoza and even beyond him. We gain no real conception of them if we imagine their mood of soul as though they had been like men of the present time with the only difference that they were ignorant of so and so many things subsequently discovered. (For roughly speaking, this is how they are generally thought of today). The whole way of thought and outlook, even of the men who lived in the above described stream of civilisation as late as the 12th century A.D., was altogether different from that of today.
Today, when man reflects upon himself, he feels himself as the possessor of Thoughts, Feelings, and impulses of Will which lead to action. Above all, man ascribes to himself the 'I think,' the 'I feel' and the 'I will.'
But in the personalities of whom I am now speaking, the 'I think' was by no means yet accompanied by the same feeling with which we today would say 'I think.' This could only be said of the 'I feel' and the 'I will.' In effect, these human beings ascribed to their own person only their Feeling and their Willing. Out of an ancient background of culture, they rather lived in the sensation 'It thinks in me' than that they thought 'I think.' Doubtless they thought 'I feel,' 'I will,' but they did not think 'I think' in the same measure. On the other hand they said to themselves — and what I shall now describe was an absolutely real conception to them: — In the Sublunary Sphere, there live the thoughts. The thoughts are everywhere within this sphere, which is determined when we imagine the Earth at a certain point, and the Moon at another, followed by Mercury, Venus, etc. They not only conceived the Earth as a dense and rigid cosmic mass, but as a second thing belonging to it they conceived the Lunar Sphere, reaching up to the Moon. And as we say, 'In the air in which we breathe is oxygen,' so did these people say (it is only forgotten now that it ever was so): — 'In the Ether which reaches up to the Moon, there are the thoughts.' And as we say 'We breathe-in the oxygen of the air,' so did these people say — not 'We breathe-in the thoughts' — but 'We perceive the thoughts, receive them into ourselves.' They were conscious of the fact that they received the thoughts.
Today, no doubt, a man can also familiarise himself with such an idea as a theoretic concept. He may even understand it with the help of Anthroposophy, but as soon as it becomes a question of practical life he forgets it. For then at once he has this rather strange idea, that the thoughts spring forth within himself — which is just as though he were to think that the oxygen he receives in breathing were not received by him but sprang forth from within him.
For the personalities of whom I am now speaking, it was a profound feeling and an immediate experience: 'I have not my own thoughts as my own possession. I can not really say, I think. Thoughts exist, and I receive them unto myself.'
Now we know that the oxygen of the air circulates through our organism in a comparatively short time. We count these cycles by the pulse-beat. This happens quickly. The men of whom I am now speaking did indeed imagine the receiving of thoughts as a kind of breathing, but it was a very slow breathing. It consisted in this: At the beginning of his earthly life, man becomes capable of receiving the thoughts. As we hold the breath within us for a certain time — between our in-breathing and out-breathing — so did these men conceive a certain fact, as follows: They imagined that they held the thoughts within them, yet only in the sense in which we hold the oxygen which belongs to the outer air. They imagined that they held the thoughts during the time of their earthly life, and breathed them out again — out into the cosmic spaces — when they passed through the gate of death.
Thus it was a question of in-breathing — the beginning of life; holding the breath — the duration of earthly life; outbreathing — the sending-forth of the thoughts into the universe.
Men who had this kind of inner experience felt themselves in a common atmosphere of thought with all others who had the same experience. It was a common atmosphere of thought reaching beyond the earth, not only a few miles, but as I said, up to the orbit of the moon.
This idea was wrestling for the civilisation of Europe at that time. It was trying to spread itself ever more and more, impelled especially by those Aristotelians who came from Asia into Europe along the path I have just indicated. Let us suppose for a moment that it had really succeeded. What would then have come about?
In that case, my dear friends, that which was destined after all to find expression in the course of earthly evolution, could never have come to expression in the fullest sense: I mean, the Spiritual Soul. The human beings of whom I am now speaking, stood in the last stage of evolution of the Intellectual or Mind-Soul. In the 14th and 15th century, the Spiritual Soul was to arise — the Spiritual Soul, which, if it found extreme expression, would lead all civilisation into intellectualism.
The population of Europe in its totality, in the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries, was by no means in a position merely to submit to the outpouring of a conception such as was held by the men whom I have now described. For if they had done so, the evolution of the Spiritual Soul would not have come about. Though it was determined in the councils of the Gods that the Spiritual Soul should evolve, nevertheless it could not evolve out of the mere independent activity of European humanity even in its totality. A special impulse had to be given towards the development of the Spiritual Soul itself.
And so, beginning in the time which I have now described, we witness the rise of two spiritual streams. The one was represented by the quasi-Arabian philosophers who, working from the West of Europe, influenced European civilisation very strongly — far more so than is commonly supposed. The other was the stream which fought against the former one with the utmost intensity and severity, representing it to Europe as the most heretical of all.
For a long time after, this conflict was felt with great intensity. You may still feel this if you consider the pictures in which Dominican Monks, or St. Thomas Aquinas alone, are represented in triumph — that is to say, in the triumph of an altogether different conception which emphasised above all things the individual and personal being of man, and worked to the end that man might acquire his thoughts as his own property. In these pictures we see the Dominicans portrayed, treading the representatives of Arabism under foot. The Arabians are there under their feet — they are being trodden underfoot.
The two streams were felt in this keen contrast for a long time after. An energy of feeling such as is contained in these pictures no longer exists in the humanity of today, which is rather apathetic. We need such energy of feeling very badly, not indeed for the things for which they battled, but for other things we need it.
Let us consider for a moment what they imagined. The in-breathing of thoughts as the cosmic ether from the Sublunary Sphere — that is the beginning of life. The holding of the breath — that is the earthly life itself. The out-breathing — that is the going-forth of the thoughts once more, but with an individually human colouring, into the cosmic ether, into the impulses of the sphere beneath the Moon, of the Sublunary Sphere.
What then is this out-breathing? It is the very same, my dear friends, of which we speak when we say: In the three days after death the etheric body of man expands. Man looks back upon his etheric body, slowly increasing in magnitude. He sees how his thoughts spread out into the cosmos. It is the very same, only it was then conceived — if I may say so — from a more subjective standpoint. It was indeed quite true, how these people felt and experienced it. They felt the cycle of life more deeply than it is felt today.
Nevertheless, if their idea had become dominant in Europe, only a feeble feeling of the Ego would have evolved in the men of European civilisation. The Spiritual Soul would not have been able to emerge; the Ego would not have grasped itself in the 'I think.' The idea of immortality would have become vaguer and vaguer. Men would increasingly have fixed their attention on that which lives and weaves in the far reaches of the Sublunary Sphere as a remnant of the human being who has lived here on this earth.
They would have felt the spirituality of the earth as its extended atmosphere. They would have felt themselves belonging to the earth, but not as individual men distinct from the earth. Through their feeling of "It thinks in me," the men whom I described above felt themselves intimately connected with the earth. They did not feel themselves as individualities in the same degree as the men of the rest of Europe were beginning to feel themselves, however indistinctly.
We must, however, also bear in mind the following. Only the spiritual stream of which I have just spoken, was aware of the fact that when man dies the thoughts he received during his earthly life are living and weaving in the cosmic ether that surrounds the earth. This idea was violently attacked by those other personalities who arose chiefly within the Dominican Order. They on their side declared that man is an individuality, and that we must concentrate above all on his individuality which passes through the gate of death, not on what is dissolved in the universal cosmic ether. This was emphasised paramountly, albeit not exclusively, — emphasised representatively, I would say, — by the Dominicans. They stood up sharply and vigorously for the idea of the individuality of man, as against the other stream which I characterised before. But precisely as a result of this a certain condition came about. For let us now consider these representatives — shall we say — of individualism.
After all, it was the individually coloured thoughts which passed into the universal ether. And those who fought against the former stream — just because they were still vividly aware that this was being said, that this idea existed, — were troubled and disquieted by what was really there.
This anxiety, notably among the greatest thinkers, — this anxiety as a result of the forces expanding and dissolving and passing on the human thoughts to the cosmic ether, — did not really come to an end until the 16th or 17th century.
We must somehow be able to transplant ourselves into the inner life of soul of these people, — those especially who belonged to the Dominican Order. Only then do we gain an idea, how much they were disquieted by what was really left as an heritage from the dead, — which they, with their conception, no longer could nor dared believe in.
We must transplant ourselves into the hearts and minds of these people. No great man of the 13th or 14th century could have thought so dryly, so abstractly or in such cold and icy concepts as the men of today. When the men of today are standing up for any ideas or theories, it seems as though it were a recognised condition for so doing that one's heart should first be torn out of one's body. At that time it was not so. At that time there was deep feeling, there was heartiness in all that men upheld as their ideas. But in a case such as I am now citing, this heartiness also involved the presence of an intense inner conflict.
That philosophy, for instance, which proceeded from the Dominican Order was evolved under the most appalling inner conflicts. I mean that philosophy which afterwards had such a strong influence on life — for life at that time was still far more dependent on the authority of individual men. There was no such popular education at that time. All culture and education — all that the people knew — eventually merged into the possession of a few. And as a consequence, these few reached up far more to a real philosophic life and striving. And in all that then flowed out into civilisation, these inner conflicts which they lived through, were contained.
Today one reads the works of the Schoolmen and is conscious only of the driest thoughts. But it is the readers of today who are dry. Those who wrote these works were by no means dry in heart or mind. They were filled with inner fire in relation to their thoughts. Moreover, this inner fire was due to the striving to hold at bay the objective influence of thoughts.
When a man of today thinks on philosophic questions or questions of world-outlook, nothing is there, so to speak, to worry him. A man of today can think the greatest nonsense — he thinks it in perfect calm and peace of mind. Humanity has already evolved for so long within the Spiritual Soul, that no such disquieting occurs, as would occur, for instance, if individuals among us felt how the thoughts of men appear when they flow out after death into the ethereal environment of the earth. Today, such things as could still be experienced in the 13th or 14th century, are quite unknown. Then it would happen that a younger priest would come to an older priest, telling of the inner tortures which he was undergoing in remaining true to his religious faith, and expressing it in this wise: 'I am pursued by the spectres of the dead.'
Speaking of the spectres of the dead, they meant precisely what I have just described. That was a time when men could still grow deeply into what they learned. In such a community — a Dominican community for instance, — they learned that man is individual and has his own individual immortality. They learned that it is a false and heretical idea to conceive, with respect to Thought, a kind of universal soul comprising all the earth. They learned to attack this heresy with all their might. And yet, in certain moments when they took deep counsel with themselves, they would feel the objective and influential presence of the thoughts which were left behind as relics by the dead. Then they would say to themselves, 'Is it quite right for me to be doing what I am doing? Here is something intangible, working into my soul. I cannot rise against it — I am held fast by it.'
The intellects of the men of that time, — of many of them at any rate, — were still so constituted that they were quite generally aware of the speaking of the dead, at least for some days after death. And when the one had ceased to speak, another would begin. With respect to such things too, they felt themselves immersed in the all-pervading spiritual — or at the very least, ethereal — essence of the universe.
Coming down into our own time, this living feeling with the Universal All has ceased. In return for it we have achieved the conscious life in the Spiritual Soul, while all the spiritual reality that surrounds us (surrounds us as a reality, no less so than tables or chairs, trees or rivers) works only upon the depths of our subconsciousness. The inwardness of life, the spiritual inwardness, has passed away. It must first be acquired again by spiritual-scientific knowledge livingly received.
We must think livingly upon the knowledge of spiritual science, and we shall do so if we dwell upon such facts of life as lie by no means very far behind us. Imagine a Scholastic thinker or writer of the 13th century. He writes down his thoughts. Nowadays it is easy work to think, for men have grown accustomed to think intellectualistically. At that time it was only at the beginning, and was still difficult. Man was still conscious of a tremendous inner effort. He was conscious of fatigue in thinking even as in hewing wood, if I may use the trivial comparison. Today the thinking of many men has become quite automatic. We of today are scarcely overcome by the longing to follow up every one of our thoughts with our own human personality! We hear a man of today letting one thought arise out of another like an automaton. We cannot follow, we do not know why, for there is no inner necessity in it. And yet so long as a man is living in the body he should follow up his thoughts with his own personality. Afterwards they will soon take a different course; they will spread out and expand, when he is dead.
So could a man be sitting there at that time, defending with every weapon of sharp incisive thought the doctrine of individual man, so as to save the doctrine of individual immortality. So could he be rising in polemics against Averroes, or others of that stream of thought which I described at the beginning of this lecture. But there was another possibility. For especially in the case of an outstanding man like Averroes, that which proceeded from him, dissolving after his death like a kind of spectre in the Sublunary Sphere, might well be gathered up again by the Moon itself at the end of that Sphere, and remain behind. Having enlarged and expanded, it might even be reduced again, and shape and form be given to it, till it was consolidated once again into a being built, if I may say so, in the ether. That could well happen. Then would a man be sitting there, trying to lay the foundations of individualism, carrying on his polemic against Averroes; and Averroes would appear before him as a threatening figure, disturbing, putting off his mind.
The most important of the Scholastic writings which arose in the 13th century were directed against Averroes who was long dead. They made polemics against the man long dead, against the doctrine which he had left behind. Then he arose to prove to them that his thoughts had become condensed, consolidated once again and thus were living on.
There were indeed these inner conflicts, before the beginning of the new age of consciousness. And they were such that we today should see once more their full intensity and depth and inwardness. Words after all are words. The men of later times can but receive what lies behind the words, with such ideas as they possess. But within the words there were often rich contents of inner life. They pointed to a life of soul such as I have now described.
These, then, are the two streams, and they have remained active, fundamentally speaking, to this day. The one — albeit now only working from the spiritual world, yet all the stronger there, — -would fain impress it upon man that a universal life of thoughts surrounds the earth, and that in thoughts man breathes-in soul and spirit. The other stream desires above all to point out that man should make himself independent of such universality. The former stream is more like a vague intangible presence in the spiritual environment of the earth, perceptible today to many men (for there are still such men) when in peculiar nights they lie there on their beds and listen to the void, and out of the void all manner of doubts are born in them as to what they are asserting today so definitely and so surely in their own individuality.
Meanwhile in other folk, who always sleep soundly because they are so well satisfied with themselves, we have the unswerving emphasis on the individual principle.
This battle, after all, is smouldering still at the very foundations of European culture. It is there to this day; and in the things that are taking place outwardly at the surface of our life, we have after all scarcely anything else than the beating of the surface-waves from that which is still present in the depths of souls, — a relic of the deeper and intenser inner life of yonder time.
Many souls of that time are here again in present earthly life. In a certain way they have conquered what then disquieted them so much in their surface consciousness — disquieted them at least in certain moments of their surface consciousness.
But in the depths it smoulders all the more, in many minds and hearts today. Spiritual science, once again, is here to draw attention also to such historic facts as these.
But we must not forget the following. In the same measure in which men become unconscious, during earthly life, of what is there none the less, namely the thoughts in the ether in the immediate environment of the earth — in the same measure, therefore, in which they acquire the 'I think' as their own possession — their human soul is narrowed down. Man passes through the gate of death with a contracted soul.
The narrowed soul has carried untrue, imperfect, inconsistent earthly thoughts into the cosmic ether, and these work back again upon the minds of men. Thence there arise such social movements as we see arise today. We must understand these too as to their inner origin. Then we shall recognise that there is no other cure, no other healing for these social ideas, destructive as they often are, than the spreading of the truth about the spiritual life and being.
Call to mind the lectures we have given here, especially the historic ones taking into account the idea of reincarnation and leading to so many definite examples. These lectures will have shown you how things work beneath the surface of external history. You will have seen how that which lives in one historic age is carried over into a later one by men returning into earthly life. But everything spiritual plays its part, between death and a new birth, in moulding what is carried by man from one earth-life into another.
Today it would be good if many souls would attain for themselves that objectivity to which we can address ourselves, awakening an inner understanding, when we describe the men who lived in the twilight of the Intellectual or Mind-Soul age.
Some of the men who lived at that time are here again today. Deep in their souls they underwent the evening twilight of an age, and through the constant attacks they suffered from the spectres of which I have now spoken, they have, after all, absorbed deep doubts as to the unique validity of what is intellectualistic.
This doubt can well be understood. For about the 13th century there were many men — men of knowledge, who stood in the midst of the life of learning, almost entirely theological as it then was — men for whom it was a deep conscience question: What will now become?
Such souls had often carried with them into that time mighty contents from their former incarnations. They gave it an intellectualistic colouring; but they felt this all as a declining stream. While at the rising stream — pressing forward as it was to individuality — they felt the pangs of conscience. Until at length those philosophers arose who stood under an influence which has really killed all meaning. To speak radically, we will say: those who stood under the influence of Descartes! For many, even among those who had their place in the Scholasticism of an earlier time, had already fallen into the Cartesian way of thought. I do not say that they became philosophers. These things underwent many a change. When men begin to think along these lines the strangest nonsense becomes self-understood. To Descartes, as you know, is due the saying 'I think, therefore I am.'
Countless clever thinkers have accepted this as true: 'I think, therefore I am.' Yet the result is this: From morning until evening I think, therefore I am. Then I fall asleep. I do not think, therefore I am not. I wake up again, I think, therefore I am. I fall asleep, and as I now do not think, I am not. This then is the consequence: A man not only falls asleep, but ceases to be when he falls asleep. There is no less fitting proof of the existence of the spirit of man than the theorem: 'I think.' Yet this began to be the most widely accepted statement in the age of evolution of Consciousness (the age of the Spiritual Soul). When we point to such things today, it is like a sacrilege — we cannot help ourselves!
But over against all this, I would now tell you of a kind of conversation. Though it is not historically recorded, by spiritual research it can be discovered among the real facts that happened. It was a conversation that took place between an older and a younger Dominican, somewhat as follows: —
The younger man said, 'Thinking takes hold of men. Thought, the shadow of reality, takes hold of them. In ancient times, thought was always the last revelation of the living Spirit from above. But now, thought is the very thing that has forgotten that living Spirit. Now it is experienced as a mere shadow. Verily, when a man sees a shadow, he knows the shadow points to some reality. The realities are there indeed. Thinking itself is not to be attacked, but only the fact that we have lost the living Spirit from our thinking.'
The older man replied, 'In Thinking, through the very fact that man is turning his attention with loving interest to outer Nature, (while he accepts Revelation as Revelation and does not seek to approach it with his thinking), — in Thinking, to compensate for the former heavenly reality, an earthly reality must be found once more.'
'What will happen?' said the younger man. 'Will European humanity be strong enough to find this earthly reality of thought, or will it only be weak enough to lose the heavenly reality?'
This dialogue truly contains all that can still hold good with regard to European civilisation. For after the intermediate time, with the darkening of the living quality of thought, mankind must now attain the living thought once more. Otherwise humanity will remain weak, and with the reality of thought will lose its own reality. Therefore it is most necessary, since the entry of our Christmas impulse, that we in the Anthroposophical Movement speak without reserve in forms of living thought. For otherwise it will come about, more and more, that even the things we know from this source or from that — as for instance, that man has a physical body, an etheric body and an astral body, — will only be taken hold of with the forms of dead thinking.
These things must not be taken hold of with the forms of dead thinking. For then they become distorted, misrepresented truth, and not the truth itself.
So much I wanted to describe today. We must attain a living, sympathetic interest, a longing to go beyond the ordinary history and to attain that history which must and can be read in the living Spirit, which history shall more and more be cultivated in the Anthroposophical Movement. Today, my dear friends, I wished to place before your souls, as it were, the concrete outline of our programme in this direction.
Much has been said today in aphorism. The inner connection will dawn upon you if you attempt, not so much to follow up with intellect, but to feel with your whole being, what was desired to be said today. You must attempt to feel it knowingly, to know it feelingly, in order that not only what is said but what is heard within our circles may be sustained more and more by real spirituality.
We need education to spiritual hearing, spiritual listening. Only then shall we develop the true spirituality among us. I wanted to awaken this feeling in you today; not so much to hold a systematic lecture, but to speak to your hearts, albeit calling to witness, as I did so, many a concrete spiritual fact.


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Ottawa Bluesfest
Ottawa, ON
What started as a three-day blues gathering in 1994 has become a multi-weekend genre-bender featuring some of the world's biggest acts. Through it all, the RBC Ottawa Bluesfest has maintained close ties to its community, giving local acts a stage and educating youth in blues culture.
The inaugural festival kicked off with Clarence Clemons as a headlining act. It quickly began to add jazz acts and pop performers to its lineup. But while Bluesfest maintains its roots through acts like its All-Star Blues Revue, it now offers a truly omnivorous musical buffet at which attendees can sample B.B. King one night and Björk another. These eclectic performances all take place at the scenic LeBreton Flats Park. With the Canadian War Museum at one end of the grounds and the Ottawa River at the other, the event provides an idyllic concert-going experience.
While Bluesfest has expanded consistently over its lifetime, it still retains its focus on the Ottawa music scene. The event gives the capital city the chance to see a range of bands that might not otherwise stop in town while still putting local acts on the bill. Its website boasts that in 2007, 40 per cent of the festival's Canadian performers were from Ottawa. From roots-rocker Amanda Rheaume to the garage-punk of the Steve Adamyk Band to the smooth R&B of Pipahauntas, the festival books Ottawa-based bands that reflect the event's musical diversity.
Bluesfest also fosters musical involvement in the local community. Its "Be in the Band" program offers music equipment and lessons to Ottawa teenagers, with a specific focus on at-risk youth. "Blues in the Schools," meanwhile, brings music teachers to local schools for two-week workshops that let kids learn about blues performance and history. From outreach efforts to the main event, Bluesfest has become an integral part of Ottawa's musical landscape.

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Andrew Kirell / Mediaite: Ronan Farrow 'Sort of Stinks on TV' and May Get Cancelled: NY Daily News Source
Chez Pazienza / The Daily Banter: Quote of the Day: Is the Show Over for Ronan Farrow?
ZIP / Weasel Zippers: MSNBC Boy Wonder Ronan Farrow's Show On Verge of Being Cancelled After Finishing 708th In Ratings …
Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller: Ronan Farrow's ratings continue to not improve
Jonah Goldberg / National Review: 708 with a Bullet — From the Daily News, on Ronan Farrow's rough start:
Justin Gillis / New York Times:
Panel's Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come — YOKOHAMA, Japan — Climate change is already having sweeping effects on every continent and throughout the world's oceans, scientists reported Monday, and they warned that the problem is likely to grow substantially worse unless greenhouse emissions are brought under control.
Discussion: Firedoglake, BBC, ThinkProgress, The Week, Washington Post, News Desk, The PJ Tatler, Hot Air, The Verge, Gothamist, Guardian, Mashable, The Agonist and Gawker
Matt McGrath / BBC: Climate impacts 'overwhelming' - UN
Joe Romm / ThinkProgress: Conservative Climate Panel Warns World Faces 'Breakdown Of Food Systems' And More Violent Conflict
Ryan Cooper / The Week: The new IPCC climate change report makes it official: We are flirting with self-destruction
Steven Mufson / Washington Post: U.N. climate panel: Governments, businesses need to take action now against growing risks
Elizabeth Kolbert / News Desk: Is It Too Late to Prepare for Climate Change?
Stephen Kruiser / The PJ Tatler: UN Climate Panel Goes Full Stephen King To Extort More Money From Wealthy Countries
Jeff Dunetz / Hot Air: "Ghostbusters" or global warming?
Christopher Robbins / Gothamist: UN: Guess We'll Just Try To Adapt To Catastrophic Climate Change
Emma Bryce / Guardian: IPCC's out: our agricultural road map
Andrew Freedman / Mashable: Climate Change May Lead to Food Shortages, Civil Conflicts, Climate Panel Warns
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
How You, I, and Everyone Got the Top 1 Percent All Wrong — Unveiling the real story behind the richest of the rich — For years, I've been making the same embarrassing mistake about U.S. economic inequality. Sorry. — I've written, over and over, that the most important divide …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Outside the Beltway, The Daily Caller, House of Debt and Business Insider
Mickey Kaus / The Daily Caller: The 1 percent vs. the .1 percent
Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider: You'll Never Look At The 'Wealthiest 1%' The Same Way
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
DHS document: 68,000 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions released in 2013 — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials last year released 68,000 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions, undercutting Democratic claims that President Obama has strictly enforced immigration laws.
Daniel Horowitz / RedState: Obama Releases Criminal Aliens, Most Republicans Yawn
Jessica Vaughan / cis.org:
Catch and Release — Interior immigration enforcement in 2013
Catch and Release — Interior immigration enforcement in 2013
Discussion: Hot Air, Fox News, The Other McCain and The PJ Tatler
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain: 'Hundreds of Thousands of Deportable Aliens' Released Under Obama Policy
Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Althouse
Caroline May / The Daily Caller: Report: Obama administration released 68,000 convicted criminal aliens last year
Tom Boggioni / The Raw Story:
Judge: Probation for du Pont heir in daughter rape because 'he would not fare well' in prison — A Superior Court judge who sentenced an heir to the du Pont fortune to probation for raping his 3-year-old daughter wrote in her order that he "will not fare well" in prison and suggested …
Discussion: Scared Monkeys, Gawker, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Shakesville
Scared Monkeys: Judge Jan Jurden Sentences du Pont Heir, Robert H. Richards IV, Probation for Raping …
Melissa McEwan / Shakesville: Today in Rape Culture
Cris Barrish / delawareonline:
Judge said du Pont heir 'will not fare well' in prison
Judge said du Pont heir 'will not fare well' in prison
Discussion: Firedoglake, Hot Air, Business Insider, The Daily Caller, FreakOutNation, Taylor Marsh, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Liberaland
Allahpundit / Hot Air: Rich man who pled guilty to raping his young daughter gets probation because he wouldn't "fare well" in prison
Erin Fuchs / Business Insider: A Du Pont Heir Was Given Probation For Raping His 3-Year-Old Daughter Because He Wouldn't 'Fare Well' In Prison
Eric Owens / The Daily Caller: SICK judge didn't lock up trustafarian child rapist because HE MIGHT GET HURT
Anomaly / FreakOutNation: Affluenza: Judge gives du Pont heir probation for raping his young daughter, says he 'wouldn't fare well in prison'
Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money: The Ladder of Law Has No Top And No Bottom
Olga Khazan / The Atlantic Online:
Other People's Pathologies — Over the past week or so, Jonathan Chait and I have enjoyed an ongoing debate over the rhetoric the president employs when addressing African Americans. Here is my initial installment, Chait's initial rebuttal, my subsequent reply, and Chait's latest riposte.
Discussion: The Dish and Bloomberg View
Andrew Sullivan / The Dish: A Nation Defined By White Supremacy? Ctd
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg View: Read Stuff, You Should: Rhetoric of Poverty
Los Angeles Times:
Democratic turnout seen as key to party's retaining Senate control — The Democratic Party is tackling a historical weakness: the failure of Democratic voters to show up for midterm elections. — Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe gestures during a news conference in Richmond.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: How To Get Marginal Voters to the Polls
Eliana Johnson / National Review:
Inside the Koch-Funded Ads Giving Dems Fits — In one of the ads Americans for Prosperity (AFP) has put on the air this year, a thirtysomething actress stands against a white backdrop and looks into the camera. "People don't like political ads," she says plaintively. "I don't like them either.
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Sheldon Adelson: Wild card — Plus, Zeidman suggested that Adelson's personal feelings on the various 2016 possibilities won't factor into his decision as they did in 2012. "None of them have a 20-year history like Newt Gingrich did," Zeidman said of the former House speaker's relationship with Adelson.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Las Vegas Review-Journal
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: Was the "Sheldon Primary" A Big Joke?
Steve Sebelius / Las Vegas Review-Journal: Christie clear winner of Adelson primary
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Sheldon Adelson: Wild card
Sheldon Adelson: Wild card
Discussion: ABC News, Informed Comment, Taylor Marsh, Talking Points Memo, his vorpal sword and Mediaite
Michael Falcone / ABC News: Deadline Day — NOTABLES — THE CLOCK IS TICKING …
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo: Former Bush Strategist Rips GOPers For 'Kissing The Ring' Of Sheldon Adelson
Hart Williams / his vorpal sword: The Party of the Empty Chair
Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Report: Review finds torture methods not key in bin Laden hunt — A forthcoming Senate report concludes that waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques did not provide any key evidence that aided the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the Associated Press reports.
Discussion: Liberaland
Bradley Klapper / Associated Press: Senate Torture Report Examines Hunt for Bin Laden
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Hopes Frustrated, Many Latinos Reject the Ballot Box Altogether — AURORA, Colo. — As the weather warms, Lizeth Chacon is anticipating a new season of registering Latino voters — yet dreading experiences like one late last year, when she came upon a skate park full of older teenagers.
Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog
Michael Lewis / New York Times:
An Adaptation From 'Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt,' by Michael Lewis — Before the collapse of the U.S. financial system in 2008, Brad Katsuyama could tell himself that he bore no responsibility for that system. He worked for the Royal Bank of Canada, for a start.
Discussion: Bloomberg View and The Verge
Matt Levine / Bloomberg View: Michael Lewis Doesn't Like High-Frequency Traders
Russell Brandom / The Verge: Inside the fight against high-frequency finance


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I'm not going to complain about the muggy, soggy humid hazy heat we've been having this week. I am however going to share with you ten delicious, cool, icy, blissful-looking glasses of coolness that I'm pining over! Check out these 10 refreshing drink recipes!
10 icy cool drink recipes for summer heat relief
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AcroYoga Brighton Closed Group
December 27 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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The closed group is a 6 week course on Wednesdays 7pm for intermediate students. Cost is £80 – which works out at less than £10 per hour for group personal training specific to AcroYoga – bargain!
Sessions will be tailored to your needs and progression will be steady over the next 6 weeks.
There will be a good focus on conditioning so you will build new strength as well as new skills, which will be your reward for your commitment and consistency.
The space is a lovely new studio in Hove.


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In-person language lessons with a tutor can be a great experience, but if you're unable to find an affordable private Spanish tutor in Dothan, online learning may be a good option for you. To take lessons with a Spanish tutor in your area, you may have to pay more to cover their travel costs or travel to their home, and the average cost of private Spanish lessons in Dothan is over $20 per hour. With online learning, you can save on travel expenses and have access to top tutors from around the world.
Many students who try online language lessons with a tutor are pleasantly surprised by the experience. At LanguaTalk, lessons are 1-on-1 to ensure you get your tutor's full attention and can make rapid progress. Lessons are conducted via video call, allowing you to communicate with your tutor and share learning materials, as if you were in the same room. Give it a try with a free trial session and see for yourself!
You can watch Spanish tutor intro videos, check their availability, and read reviews from their students on their profiles. You'll also see which learning needs, ages, and levels the tutor is comfortable with.
Are you new to LanguaTalk? When you sign up, you'll get a token for a complimentary 30-minute trial lesson. Use this to meet your chosen tutor and decide whether you want to keep taking classes with them or look for a Spanish tutor in Dothan instead. (Please note: not all tutors offer a free trial lesson - some charge 30% of their regular lesson price.)
Facundo C
Facundo C
Hello everyone!
My name is Facundo and I am from Uruguay, a small country in South America. I am a passionate tutor and I have been teaching over the past 5 years.
Here are some examples of what to expect in my classes:
. Grammar exercises situated to your Spanish level
. Development of fluency and confidence through conversation practice in a relaxed setting
. Pronunciation techniques
. Learning materials targeting your language goals.
Hope to see you soon!See Reviews From Students
Raquel S
Raquel S
I consider myself to be an easy person to talk to, patient and fun. I have experience teaching different kinds of students from kids to adults in both online and classroom setting (more than 1300 lessons online + 3 years of classroom setting experience). I have been implementing a combination of the Flipped classroom and communicative approach into the lessons and so far, I have seen great improvement in my students' ability to communicate.
Flipped classroom programme: It'll especially boost your Speaking skills in an organised, structured and visual way. Materials will be sent every weekend (video lessons, PDFS, flashcards, grammar games...) and all skills will be covered. In class, we'll try to practice what you learnt through speaking activities.
Flex lessons: They can be a mix of structure lesson (the one above) and flexible lessons. You can also choose practicing your Spanish through my interactive magazine (B1-B2) which includes: articles, videos, expressions ... In class we can do debates and discussions around these topics.
Conversation programme: Based on the books "Conversar en español I & II". We'll do lot of controlled speaking practice. The course also includes access to the Power Points , audio files and notes from the lesson.
See Reviews From Students
Karim M
Karim M
¡Hola! 😄 I'm the cheerful Mexican teacher you've been looking for to learn Spanish!
My name is Karim and I hold a degree in Foreign Languages and a certificate as a Language Teacher from the University of Cambridge. I've been teaching Spanish since 2014 and learning languages for 10 years now. So I know what it feels like to struggle with a foreign language both as a student and as a teacher.
Generally, I'm a dynamic, joyful, and patient teacher, so there's no problem if you're a beginner and '¡Hola, amigo!' is the only phrase you tell your Hispanic friend; or if you're intermediate and you'd like to improve your level to travel or study abroad. You'll be taught by using the best teaching methods and approaches to become fluent enough to be able to speak with more than 450 million people around the globe. 🌎
Your lessons will be fully customized according to your own needs. In general, we will have conversations based on your goals and interests so that you actively learn and practice vocabulary and structure. You won't be taught too many grammar rules unless you require this.
So, what are you waiting for? Hit the "book trial" button and prepare yourself for a thrilling journey!
I very much look forward to speaking with you in a trial lesson! 😉
Warm regards,
KarimSee Reviews From Students
Alexis M
Alexis M
I have been teaching Spanish for 2 years now with students from all ages and nationalities😀.
Whether you are just starting or you have been learning Spanish before I can help you develop your Spanish skills so you can communicate with people that speak Spanish from every Spanish speaking country. Do not keep waiting.😁
I like to adapting my study plan depending on the needs of the student.
Did you know that 21 countries in the world have Spanish as an official language and 31 as an unofficial one? That means that if you learn Spanish you will speak the language that 15% of the countries on the world speak.
Don't forget to book a lesson so we can start working on your Spanish skills together. 😊See Reviews From Students
Gloria M
Gloria M
My name is Gloria. I was born in Barcelona but nowadays I live in a quiet place not far from the city. I am bilingual in Spanish and Catalan and I also speak English and French.
I have been teaching Spanish as a second language online since January 2015 and I have been teaching private classes in other topics to teenagers for about 15 years. Before teaching I had jobs related to my Higher Technical Certificate in Administration.
I know how hard is to learn a language, I know it because I earned two certificates in languages, my First Certificate in English at the Polytechnic of Central London and a Certificat de la Langue Française à l' l'Alliance Française de Paris.
But what about my lessons? if you book lessons with me, we are not going to do only grammar. We are going to speak!
I will plan lessons according to your needs, level and desires and I'll correct your mistakes throughout the lesson. I can help you with your pronunciation, vocabulary, expressions and grammar and we'll focus on your needs based on our conversations.
Speaking is the most difficult goal to achieve and you'll talk with me without any pressure. Step by step, we'll improve your ability to speak naturally.
If you have time to study on your own I'll give you homework after the class.
But before you make a decision, you can book a trial lesson to find out if I am the right person to help you learn Spanish.See Reviews From Students
Luis V
Luis V
Hola a todos, me llamo Luis y vivo en Cáceres, España. I live between Madrid and Seville, so my accent is in the middle of these two. I am a methodic teacher, I use "The Thinking Method", combining Transferrable words from English and the most common words in Spanish to build up those sentences to achieve better communication. I also love history and culture (film, music, literature, geography) ¡Nos vemos en clase!See Reviews From Students
Alexandra R
Alexandra R
Passionate about languages and intercultural exchanges, I have taught English and Spanish as foreign languages for over 15 years in Puerto Rico, France, and online. I have had the opportunity to teach a wide variety of students from various backgrounds, integrating multicultural teaching resources to diversify learning styles. I happen to believe that there is not one and only way of teaching or learning a foreign language. Therefore, I adapt my lessons and methods to the students' objectives, needs and interests. My goal is always to offer an open, honest, communicative and supportive environment in which every student can feel motivated and appropriately challenged.See Reviews From Students
Cristina L
Cristina L
Hello dear students!
My name is Cristina and I'm a Spanish / Catalan native speaker from Valencia (Spain).
If you find yourself thinking...
- I'm stuck even after studying Spanish since childhood
- I'm afraid others won't understand my pronunciation
- I can't think in Spanish, I have to translate everything
If that's how you feel, I can change that. Here's how I know:
- I hold a BA degree in Translation Studies from Valencia University and a MA degree in Legal Translation (University of Alicante). I have also a postgraduate certificate in Modern Foreign Languages Teaching from Canterbury Christ Church University. Apart from my degrees from university, I hold certificates in teaching Spanish as a foreign language and in professional proofreading from European University of Madrid. And if that is not enough for you I am also an examiner for the Cervantes Institute, and that means that I perfectly know how DELE exam works ;).
- I have 4 years of experience in teaching Spanish as a second language in a secondary school and a private company in Italy and another year of teaching experience in two Secondary schools in England. I also have 3 years of experience teaching adults in online platforms (+1300 hours taught).
- I use a communicative methodology. That is, I analyse your needs to create tailored and challenging lessons with the best resources to communicate and write clearly and effectively.
- I can guarantee a friendly and supportive environment during our lessons.
And lesson after lesson you'll get the strategies, practice and support to get unstuck, speak clearly and sound natural. You'll definitely be able to participate in discussions, feel in control when you speak and organise your thoughts in Spanish.
I have been studying and teaching languages most of my life and I understand the difficulties of learning a new language. So worry not and let's start this adventure together!
CristinaSee Reviews From Students
Angela Rosario L
Angela Rosario L
I offer conversation practice and structured courses, from absolute beginner to C1, grammar drills and homework if you wish. Wide experience with adults and senior students. I will provide you with notes and examples from our lessons, during the lesson in Google Docs, or after the lesson, via e-mail. You don't need to decide in advance if you prefer Latin American Spanish or European Spanish, I can teach you the main differences and help you decide.
In our first lesson or trial we will figure out how your learning plan will be, depending on your individual needs, learning style and goals. If it's your first online lesson, there's no need to stress, I'm very understanding and patient.
Oh and to tell you a little about me...I love animals, languages, reading and traveling.See Reviews From Students
Melina R
Melina R
My name is Melina and I am from Peru. I studied foreign languages at the National University of Cajamarca in the north of Peru and I got a degree in Education – Foreign languages. I speak Spanish (native) and English (B2) very well.
I will help you to learn Spanish for you to achieve your specific goals taking into account your needs, your level and your learning process. Our lessons will include videos, everyday Spanish conversations, slides and more. We will also have cultural activities such as gastronomy, music and tourism. The four skills to learn a foreign language will be included as well: reading, writing, listening and speaking, and you will also have the grammar so that you can understand the language and produce it.
I have worked with people from different ages and levels and I have helped some of them to pass international exams. Over the last 20 years I have taught English and Spanish and I always try to do my best for my students to enjoy the lessons, have fun and above all to learn.
I like meeting people and sharing my experience with them so I hope you can be one of them. If you book a trial lesson with me you will not regret it.
See you soon,
MelinaSee Reviews From Students
If you're new to LanguaTalk, we'll provide you with a credit for a free trial lesson. Many, but not all, tutors offer these for free. If they do not, the price will be reduced to 30 percent of their full lesson price, so you can still try a session at a minimal cost.
Trial lessons are 30 minutes long. They allow you to evaluate whether the tutor is a good fit for you and experience learning online. The tutor will assess your level and try to understand your needs and interests so they can customize any lessons you decide to take. You will be encouraged to speak in Spanish as much as possible, but you can also speak in English if needed.
If, after your trial lesson, you don't feel that the tutor is right for you, you can schedule a trial lesson with another tutor for 30 percent of their full lesson price.
Lessons are conducted one-on-one, allowing you to receive personalized attention from your tutor. lessons are conducted via video call, and you can use any device with a stable internet connection and a webcam to join the lesson.
Your tutor will create a customized lesson plan based on your goals, learning style, and current level. During the lesson, you will have the opportunity to speak, listen, and interact with your tutor in real-time. Your tutor may also provide you with additional materials, such as audio recordings or written exercises, to help you practice and consolidate your learning.
The advantage of taking lessons online is that you can learn at any time and from any location. When you select a tutor, check their calendar to ensure that they have available slots that fit your schedule. Some tutors may have limited availability due to high demand from other students.
On LanguaTalk, you can find highly qualified tutors who offer personalized 1-on-1 Spanish lessons based on your goals and learning style. Here's how it works:
1 - Search for a tutor who meets your needs by reviewing videos, ratings, prices, and availability.
2 - Schedule a trial lesson. Many tutors offer a 30-minute trial for free, while others offer a discounted price.
3 - Take your personalized lessons with your chosen tutor via video call. Or, you can try a different tutor if you prefer.
You don't need to enter any payment information to book a free trial session. Please only book a trial if you are interested in taking lessons. Prices vary by tutor, and you can use filters to find a tutor who fits your budget. You can pay for each lesson individually or purchase multiple lessons at a discounted rate (view a tutor's profile to see their pricing options).
We're confident you'll enjoy learning with LanguaTalk. We are trusted by students around the world because of our transparency. We ask students to rate each lesson, and we display these ratings on the tutor's profile.
99.8% of lesson ratings are 5 stars. This is because, unlike other platforms, we only accept the top 10% of tutor applications.
To see our full list of frequently asked questions or get assistance from our friendly team, click the '?' in the corner of the screen. You can also watch videos of students sharing their experiences with LanguaTalk below.
Most students take 55-minute lessons. However, some tutors also offer the option of 30-minute lessons. If this is available, it will be noted on their profile (below their pricing and above the 'Buy Lessons' button).
In general, we recommend 55-minute lessons for most students. You may want to consider 30-minute lessons only if you have an intermediate level and only want conversation practice, or if the lesson is for a child.
If you prefer not to learn online with tutor, LanguaTalk may not be the right choice for you. Instead, you can search for tutor, we recommend giving online learning a try as it is often as good as in-person learning and allows you to access better tutors at a lower cost. You can also book a free trial session to see if it is right for you.
Some tutors on LanguaTalk may offer local lessons, but most only provide online lessons as it is more convenient and allows them to work from home. In addition, many tutors do not teach Spanish in Dothan as they live elsewhere in the world. If you book a lesson with a tutor, you should assume that it will be online unless the tutor specifically states that they offer in-person lessons in Dothan.
Sometimes students tell us that they're not sure about learning Spanish online because they think it'll be completely different to learning face-to-face. But usually when they try it, they find that the experience is almost the same and they often build a solid relationship with their tutor.
Once you start a video call with your chosen tutor, you'll be able to communicate with them as if you were in the same room. The tutor will typically also share learning resources with you (newspaper articles, YouTube, etc.) and you'll be able to collaborate in real-time using a tool like Google Docs or Dropbox Paper.
Our research indicates that the average cost for private Spanish lessons in Dothan is between $25-$35 per hour. Online tutors do not need to travel to you and often live in countries with a lower cost of living, so the hourly cost is generally lower.
There are several options for learning Spanish in Dothan, whether you live in the city center or the suburbs. You can use an app or software program to learn basic vocabulary and grammar. You can also join group lessons with Spanish tutors in Dothan if you prefer a social learning experience. Alternatively, you can take one-on-one lessons with a private tutor, which is more expensive but may be the most effective option if you have a good tutor. Learning online may make private tutors a more affordable choice. Prices vary based on the tutor, but are generally cheaper than in-person lessons in Dothan.


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Troubleshooting & help
If you don't have your original media, you can download Photoshop Elements. You need your serial number, Adobe ID, and password to complete the installation. If you have your original discs, see Install Photoshop Elements from a DVD.
Yes! You can download a trial version of Photoshop Elements. You need to sign in with an Adobe ID and password to download a trial. For detailed instructions, see Download and install non-Creative Cloud trial apps.
Sign in to your Adobe accounts page with your current Adobe ID and password. From there, click the Security & Privacy tab, and then click Change under Password. For more information on changing your password and other account information, see Manage your Adobe ID account.
Sign in to your Adobe accounts page with your current Adobe ID and password. Click the Plans & Products tab, and then click View your orders under Order History. Click the order, and then click the printer icon. For more information, see Adobe Store | Online order and payment FAQ.
You can quickly correct red or glowing eyes using the Red Eye Removal tool. For additional tips on retouching photos, see Retouch and correct photos.
For a quick fix, choose Enhance > Auto Sharpen. If you want to touch up only a specific area in your photo, use the Sharpen tool. For more details, see Sharpen photos.
You can rotate the entire photo or a selection within a photo. In the Edit workspace, select what you want to rotate, then choose Image > Rotate. For details and additional rotation options, see Transforming.
Try using the Auto Smart Tone feature. For photos that appear tinted or off color (usually from using a flash), try the Remove Color Cast command.
If you've taken multiple shots of a group, use the Photomerge Group Shot option to pick and choose the right shot of each person. For instructions, see Guided mode - Photomerge edits.
Use the Text tool to add text to your photos. You can add horizontal or vertical text, or type the text along a shape or path. Use preset shapes, like a heart or circle, follow the shape of an object, or create a custom path for the text. For step-by-step instructions, see Add text.
Yes! Quick mode includes a Frames panel with several predesigned frames. Learn how to adjust the size and placement of the photo in the tutorial, Apply effects, textures, and frames. You can also create your own frame using the Guided mode Frame Creator.
Yes! In Expert Mode, choose Filter > Filter gallery to see a sampling. The Filter menu includes additional artistic, brush stroke, and sketch filters. Play with the settings on the right for just the right look. For step-by-step instructions and tips, see Filters.
Yes! The Create menu lets you choose from various projects and templates. For instructions, see Create a greeting card and Create photo calendars.
This error occurs when the scratch disk has run out of space. To resolve this issue, see Scratch disk full error on launching Photoshop Elements | Mac OS.
Due to recent changes in the way Facebook is working with third-party developers, direct upload of photos and videos from desktop products to Facebook is no longer supported. For more information about this issue and suggested workarounds, see Unable to upload photos and videos to Facebook.
Photoshop Elements lets you import many types of files. See Supported file formats for a complete list.
You might face this issue when Photoshop Elements is installed at a custom location that contains double-byte characters in the location path. To resolve this issue, see Photoshop Elements crashes on using the crop tool or photo collage.
You might face this issue when Internet connection is lost while downloading an online template. To resolve this issue, see Error downloading photo collage templates.
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Tim Connelly said recently that he had already exceeded his dreams by becoming the assistant general manager of an NBA team three years ago. The 36-year-old Baltimore native might be raising his career bar again.
Connelly, who never played on the college or pro level after graduating from Towson Catholic, was named Monday as the new executive vice president of basketball operations for the Denver Nuggets.
Connelly had spent the past three years with the New Orleans Pelicans — formerly the Hornets.
"I want to thank the Kroenke family for this incredible opportunity and for putting their faith in me to help lead the Nuggets to new heights," Connelly said in a statement released by the team. "I am also very grateful to Dell [Demps, the Pelicans' general manager] and the Pelicans organization and want to thank them for preparing me for this next chapter of my career. I am looking forward to building a strong foundation that has already been established in Denver."
Said Nuggets majority owner Stan Kroenke: "We are extremely excited to have Tim join the Denver Nuggets organization. He comes from a great basketball background, possesses an incredibly strong work ethic and is a wonderful person. His passion and energy for the game of basketball are contagious and I am confident that he will be a great fit with us in Denver."
It marks the second time in less than a month that one of the four Connelly brothers now working for NBA teams was promoted to a new position. Younger brother Pat was recently named assistant general manager of the Phoenix Suns after working for the Washington Wizards.
Older brother Joe is director of player development for the Wizards. Younger brother Dan is a scout for the Utah Jazz.
Tim Connelly, whose first NBA job was as an unpaid intern with the Wizards in 1996 while attending Catholic University, will jump into his new job immediately.
According to the Denver Post, Connelly will interview two candiates this week for the head coaching vacancy left when longtime Nuggets coach George Karl was fired following a 57-win season.
The Post reported Monday that Connelly will interview Indiana assistant Brian Shaw and former Memphis Grizzlies coach Lionel Hollins, who, like Karl, was not retained despite his team making the playoffs.
Connelly will also have to decide whether to offer All-Star guard Andre Iguodala, an unrestricted free agent, a new five-year contract. The Nuggets pick 27th in next week's college draft.


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Can we fight or even overcome cancer in an atmosphere of peace and tranquility? Filmmaker Danic Champoux believes so and in his documentary, Sessions, he dispels many of the clichés associated with the disease, using empathy and humour to reveal the extraordinary resilience of human beings.
Shot over the course of a year in the common room of an oncology centre, where patients regularly meet when undergoing chemotherapy, the film invites viewers to look at cancer from a new perspective. Sessions chronicles the patients' intensely emotional encounters, deftly capturing the love and joie de vivre that brighten their often stressful days. Never denying the distress of cancer patients, and that of their families and friends as well, Sessions is, above all, a work of deep humanity and a sensitive portrait of life's mysteries.
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The Public
The Astronomy department provides a range of services to the broader community, including public observing at Washburn Observatory, at Space Place, and through the Universe in the Park program.
In addition, UW Space Place hosts regular public presentations about current astronomical topics and a museum highlighting the contributions by UW Madison to Astronomy and Astrophysics and to Space Science.
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If you're "probably up to no good," President Obama wants to kill you
Since they chanted "Drill, baby, drill!" at the 2008 RNC, maybe they could chant "Kill, baby, kill" at the 2012 DNC when they re-nominate President Obama:
Mr. Obama has placed himself at the helm of a top secret "nominations" process to designate terrorists for kill or capture, of which the capture part has become largely theoretical. He had vowed to align the fight against Al Qaeda with American values; the chart, introducing people whose deaths he might soon be asked to order, underscored just what a moral and legal conundrum this could be.
Mr. Obama is the liberal law professor who campaigned against the Iraq war and torture, and then insisted on approving every new name on an expanding "kill list," poring over terrorist suspects' biographies on what one official calls the macabre "baseball cards" of an unconventional war.
It's kind of like that popular game "(Bleep), Marry or Kill" but without the "(Bleep)" or "Marry" part. The Times story at least starts out with something of a pro-Obama spin -- the anguished liberal, blah blah blah -- so it's better to get the straight story on this from Salon's Glenn Greenwald:
[I] want specifically to highlight this one vital passage about how the Obama administration determines who is a "militant." The article explains that Obama's rhetorical emphasis on avoiding civilian deaths "did not significantly change" the drone program, because Obama himself simply expanded the definition of a "militant" to ensure that it includes virtually everyone killed by his drone strikes. Just read this remarkable passage:
Mr. Obama embraced a disputed method for counting civilian casualties that did little to box him in. It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent.
Counterterrorism officials insist this approach is one of simple logic: people in an area of known terrorist activity, or found with a top Qaeda operative, are probably up to no good. "Al Qaeda is an insular, paranoid organization — innocent neighbors don't hitchhike rides in the back of trucks headed for the border with guns and bombs," said one official, who requested anonymity to speak about what is still a classified program.
This may be the ultimate example of something we've seen a lot in the last three and a half years, which we'll call, "If President Bush did this, liberals would be outraged." For what little it's worth, I'm fairly outraged. I do certainly approve of the raid and killing of Osama bin Laden and believe there was a time when al-Qaeda was stronger and more of a threat that these kind of attacks could be justified with solid intelligence.
But today the harm that's caused by raining death from machines in the sky down onto far too many civilians -- including someone's son, brother, or father who wasn't "up to no good" at all -- vastly outweighs any good. Righteous anger over the killing of civilians creates new terrorists faster than the killing of any old ones. As for the morally indefensible position that any male killed in such an attack is "probably up to no good," isn't the Obama administration saying the EXACT same thing that George Zimmerman said about Trayvon Martin?
Ponder that for a moment.
One more revolting thing is the news that a political adviser, David Axelrod, sat in on some of these meetings at which it was decided who would live and die.
If Karl Rove had done that (which he did, by the way). liberals would have been outraged.
UPDATE: Actually, the similarity with Zimmerman is even greater than I first thought. What he said to the Sanford police dispatcher was that Trayvon Martin "looks like he's up to no good." Thank God Zimmerman didn't have drones, huh?


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class pipeline :
pipeline object is a FIFO queue of HTTP calls. It is called
"pipeline" because it is processed asynchronously: Requests may be
sent to the HTTP server independently of whether responses of the
previous requests already arrived or not.
Furthermore, a
pipeline object may keep connections to several
servers at once. (More exactly, it has a FIFO queue for every
server it is connected with.)
pipeline object keeps track what is happening, so you need
not to care about the details of communications. The API is
simple: Create a
pipeline object, do some setup (add authentication
methods; configure the proxy to use), add the requests, and
run the pipeline. The rest is done automatically. To get the results,
you can either memorize the requests you wanted to know yourself
and ask every request object about the reply of the server; or
you can specify that a callback function should be called once
the request is processed (with positive or negative result).
It is possible to add further requests to the pipeline from within
these callback functions.
If you want to have several pipelines, or some cooperation with
other network services, you may specify a
For example, to have two pipelines working concurrently:
let ues = Unixqueue.create_unix_event_system() in
let p1 = new pipeline in
let p2 = new pipeline in
p1 # set_event_system ues;
p2 # set_event_system ues;
Unixqueue.run ues (* run p1 and p2 in parallel *)
This works not only with pipelines, but with every network client
or server which is compatible with the
Unixqueue design.
method event_system :
method set_event_system :
Unixqueue.event_system -> unit
method connection_cache :
method set_connection_cache :
connection_cache -> unit
method add_authentication_method :
basic_auth_method -> unit
method add_auth_handler :
auth_handler -> unit
method set_proxy :
string -> int -> unit
set_proxy name port:
sets that an HTTP proxy
name listening on
port is to be used
method set_proxy_auth :
string -> string -> unit
method avoid_proxy_for :
string list -> unit
"localhost"; ".our.net"
method set_proxy_from_environment :
unit -> unit
http_proxy and
and set the proxy options from them.
method set_socks5_proxy :
string -> int -> unit
avoid_proxy_for setting is
method configure_transport :
channel_binding_id -> transport_channel_type -> unit
configure_transport id transport: Configures that messages with
channel binding ID
id are exchanged on
By default, there is only a configuration for
Http_client.http_cb_id, i.e. for normal unencrypted channels.
method set_tls_cache :
tls_cache -> unit
method set_transport_proxy :
channel_binding_id ->
string -> int -> (string * string) option -> proxy_type -> unit
set_transport_proxy id host port auth ptype: Sets a special
proxy for the transport identified by
id. This overrides
set_proxy_auth, and
set_socks5_proxy for the
given transport.
method set_transport_proxy_from_environment :
(string * channel_binding_id) list -> unit
set_proxy_from_environment, this method inspects environment
variables and configures the proxy settings. This function, however,
is more flexible, and can use different environment variables for
different transports.
The argument list has pairs
(var_name, id) meaning that the
environment variable
var_name configures the proxy for
For instance,
means that these two variables are used for the respective
[("http_proxy", http_cb_id); ("https_proxy", https_cb_id)]
The variable
"no_proxy" is interpreted anyway.
method reset :
unit -> unit
No_reply (i.e. you get the exception
No_reply if you try to access the response).
If there are callbacks for these requests, the callback
functions are invoked.
The queues of open requests and replies are cleared. All
connections to all servers are inactivated.
Inactivation means that open connections are given back
to the connection cache for further reuse if the state
of the connection allows this; otherwise the connections are
method add :
http_call -> unit
method add_with_callback :
http_call -> (http_call -> unit) -> unit
After the call has been processed, the callback function
is called. This function is called for every call that
leaves the pipeline, it does not matter whether processing
was successful or not. Invoke
status on the message
to get what happened; either some status information from the
server is available (perhaps OK status), or an exception is
method add_e :
http_call -> http_call Uq_engines.engine
c is added to the pipeline, and
when it is processed, the returned engine transitions to the
`Done c.
method proxy_type :
string -> proxy_type option
proxy_type url returns
Some pt if a proxy would be used for this
url, and
None if a direct connection would be made.
method proxy_type_of_call :
http_call -> proxy_type option
method channel_binding :
http_call -> channel_binding_id
method run :
unit -> unit
object and will be raised once the state of the object is
Under certain conditions (serious network errors)
run does
not catch the exception; it simply cleans its own state up
(aborting the errorneous network connection). In this case,
simply invoke
run again to continue.
run terminates normally if the pipeline becomes empty.
The engine handles the following HTTP return codes itself:
method get_options :
method set_options :
http_options -> unit
method number_of_open_messages :
method number_of_open_connections :
method connections :
(string * int * int) list
(host, port, queue_length)
method cnt_new_connections :
method cnt_timed_out_connections :
method cnt_crashed_connections :
method cnt_server_eof_connections :
method cnt_successful_connections :
method cnt_failed_connections :
method reset_counters :
unit -> unit
cnt_new_connections: Is increased when a new connection attempt
is started (that may fail or timeout in the future). Reconnects
do not count.
cnt_timed_out_connections: Is increased whenever an established
connection times out. Usually, it is immediately reconnected.
cnt_crashed_connections: Is increased whenever an established
connection crashes. Usually, it is immediately reconnected.
cnt_failed_connections: Is increased when a timed out or
crashed connection exceeds the maximum number of errors, and it is
not tried to reconnect.
cnt_successful_connections: Is increased when all HTTP calls
have been replied.
cnt_new_connections = cnt_failed_connections + cnt_successful_connections