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We are excited to release the first miniature sheet in our new series Clematis Gold, which depicts clematis cultivated by world-renowned nurseryman and Guernsey grower, Raymond Evison OBE. Each of the clematis in the series has been part of the Gold Medal winning displays at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, the world's most prestigious horticultural event.
Beautifully depicted by botanical artist Gillian Barlow, the Sarah Elizabeth Clematis was created in memory of Sarah Elizabeth Groves, whose life was tragically cut short when she was murdered whilst backpacking, on board a houseboat on Dal Lake, Srinagar, Kashmir, on 6 April 2013. Sarah was just 24 years of age.
Raymond Evison said: - "Clematis Sarah Elizabeth was bred and developed as part of the Evison (R) and Poulsen (R) Breeding Programme, in the Guernsey-based clematis nursery. As with the development of all new clematis plants, Sarah's clematis took about 10 years from the pollination process to create a new plant, until it was launched at the Chelsea Flower Show.
"The Sarah Elizabeth is a breakthrough as regards its flower colour, being a unique shade of pink to any other clematis plant on the market. Its stunning prominent anthers reminds one of Sarah's delightful, naturally long eyelashes, which was behind the selection process of the variety to be named after Sarah, as well as its cheery brightly coloured sepals."
Having previously collaborated with Raymond Evison in 2013 for our 25 Years of Gold stamp products, we are delighted to be working with him once again for our Clematis Gold series.
|Date of Issue
|17 February 2021
|Gillian Barlow
|Joh Enschede
|Offset Lithography
|Stamp Size
|60mm deep x 50mm wide
|Sheet Size
|84mm deep x 118mm wide
|110gsm Gummed Stamp Paper (unwatermarked)
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Goldstone Ground Remembered
As Brighton & Hove Albion move into their new American Express Community Stadium, the club's supporters are looking to remember their former home.
Albion played at the Goldstone Ground in Old Shoreham Road, Hove, for 95 years from 1902 until 1997. After its controversial sale, the ground was demolished and redeveloped while the club went on to play in temporary accommodation for fourteen years.
A retail park stands on the site, but there is no reminder that it was once occupied by a major sporting venue - an arena of entertainment that admitted around 23 million spectators in its lifetime.
Now, in conjunction with Brighton & Hove City Council, Albion supporters are looking to install a "Heritage Board" nearby.
Tim Carder, chairman of the Albion Collectors' and Historians' Society which is dedicated to promoting and preserving the history of the club, is overseeing the project. He explained:
"When the Goldstone Ground was taken from us fourteen years ago there was no ceremony - just the sound of supporters dismantling the ground for souvenirs and protesting against those that sold it.
"Now, as we move on to the magnificent Amex Stadium, it's finally time to come to terms with the loss of the old ground and remember it in a formal and appropriate manner.
"A generation of fans that never knew the Goldstone Ground has grown up. A Heritage Board will allow us to tell our younger supporters and those not yet born something of the story of that well-loved venue."
Standing in the south-west corner of Hove Park opposite the retail park, the Heritage Board will be close to the Goldstone itself - that is the large rock which gave its name to the valley, Goldstone Bottom, and ultimately to the football ground. One side will display a history of the Goldstone Ground, the other will have an account of Goldstone Bottom and Hove Park.
Tim added:
"At the bottom of the board it will say 'Sponsored by supporters of Brighton & Hove Albion FC'.
"The cost of the Heritage Board is being generously underwritten by the Albion Supporters' Club, but I invite fans to make a small personal donation towards this tribute to what was, for many of us, a second home."
Anyone wishing to contribute to the project can do so via Barclays Bank account 60937320, sort code 20-20-62, in the name of "Goldstone Heritage Fund". Cheques or postal orders should sent to John Kirkland, 32 Buchans Lawn, Crawley RH15 9NZ.
Any excess income will be donated to Albion's award-winning charity arm, Albion in the Community.
Details of the unveiling will be announced at a later date.
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Dedicated to my parents in celebration of their 50th wedding anniversary. The musical elements are drawn from the date they were married, September 30, 1966. The piece is a jazz waltz with 9 small beats per measure for the month (September) and is 30 bars long for the day (30). The main melodic motive contains two consecutive intervals of a 6th for the year 1966.
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Just Tell The Damned Story (How To Stop Admiring Your Wonderful Prose And Pay Attention To The Tale You'Re Telling): Novel Writing
Be honest, now: Why do you read novels? For the brilliance of the writing? The characters? The overarching theme? Profound insights into the nature of the human animal and the relationships and moral principles that guide our lives?


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Ultra Worldwide enjoyed a historic year across Asia in 2015, by wrapping up a record-breaking 8-stop tour of the continent that saw hundreds of thousands of people attend Ultra events in the space of a mere 4 months.
2016 will see the Ultra and Ultra Worldwide brands continue to push the boundaries even further, bringing an unparalleled combination of cutting edge productions and the world's best electronic acts back to previous strongholds and new frontiers across the globe.
From June to September, the world's most international festival brand doubled its presence in the region in 2015, hosting debut editions in Macau, Singapore, Bali, and the Philippines, in addition to return events in Korea, Thailand, Japan, and Taiwan.
To celebrate this momentous achievement, and as it gears up for an even bigger Asian tour in 2016, Ultra Worldwide has recently unveiled 5 breathtaking aftermovies in the space of just 5 days, taking in the dazzling sights and sounds of Ultra Japan and Road To Ultra events in The Philippines, Macau, Thailand, and Taiwan.
What's more, hidden at the end of the official recap video for "Road to Ultra" (RTU) Macau, ULTRA Worldwide now announces the incredible news that its RTU show will be heading to Hong Kong for the first time this year!
The full list of Ultra Asia 2016 events is as follows:
- ULTRA Korea: 10th – 12th June , Seoul, Korea, Venue TBA
- RTU Thailand: 11th June – Bitec Convention Center, Bangkok
- ULTRA Singapore: 10th – 11th September – Location TBA
- RTU Taiwan: 11th September – Taipei City, Venue TBA
- RTU Philippines: 17th September – Mall of Asia, Concert Grounds, Manila
- ULTRA Japan: 17th – 19th September – Tokyo Odaiba Ultra Park, Tokyo
- ULTRA Beach Bali: Location and Date TBA
- RTU Hong Kong: Location and Date TBA
In other news, ULTRA Korea recently unveiled their official Phase One Lineup for this year's 3-day event, complete with some of electronic music's biggest hitters. Taking to the ULTRA Korea Main Stage in Seoul this June will be Afrojack, Avicii, Axwell Λ Ingrosso, and Martin Garrix. More names will be announced in the coming weeks.
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The Business Training That You're Looking For
As you might already know business training is quite necessary if you want your staff to be introduced to certain skills. There are also different forms of business training that exist today. Now, it is possible to take on vocational training. You can learn more about that here!
If you want your staff to learn something new, then you should know that there are different courses that they can take. These courses include off the job training, on the job training, an induction training. With that said, you should know that there are also business training programs that specialize in certain fields. In any case, business training courses are there to ensure that employees will be able to develop a business habit that will help the company run with maximum efficiency. You can also read more here to know more about the importance of organizational efficiency.
Having trained employees in your own company is something that's always crucial. Even if you have a small business, it's important to keep in mind that it won't be successful if you don't have reliable and trained employees at your disposal. Remembering these reasons is crucial when the time comes that you need to find a business training program for them. With that said, you'll want to find the business training provider that can help you choose to have various preferences when it comes to the training of your employees. If the business training provider has their own website, be sure to check it out! If you're looking for other business training provider options, you can do so if you view here for more
One other thing that you have to remember about getting the business training that you need for your company is that it will cost you funds. If you're in need to understand the significance of funding the business training for your company, you can read more now! In any case, you'll want to find out if you'll be able to get the business training funding that you need by contacting a business link advisor. If you're looking for the right business advisor, you can see more here. Also, if you have received business training funding in the past, then your company might still be eligible to get another funding.
When it comes to choosing the right business training provider, you should know that you have to make use of your online connection to the internet. Most business training providers today already have their own website which makes it convenient for you to check the services or this product that they are currently offering. It's also crucial due to the fact that you will want to discover more about the nature of their services or its special attributes. In any event, if you are having trouble finding the business training provider that you need for your company, this site might have the choice that you need.


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On March 14th, Carla Harris was named the next recipient of Notre Dame University's Laetare Medal, said to be "the most prestigious honor given to American Catholics". The ceremony will occur during the 176th UND commencement exercises on Sunday, May 23rd.
Harris is a finance executive, twice named one of Barron's 100 Most Influential Women in US Finance (including this year) and in 2017 one of Essence Magazine's "Top 50 Women Who Are Shaping the World". She is also active in the public square, as a prolific public speaker (having given a TED Talk in 2018) and gospel recording artist.
She was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2015 and currently resides in New York City, where she attends the merged parish of St Charles Borromeo, Resurrection and All Saints in Harlem.
In honor of her momentous achievement, Jenarío Morgan offers a poetic reflection:
"Her genius"
The intelligence of a library, filled with knowledge and instruction
A voice like a sparrow that becking enterprising mergers, correlating strategies for tomorrow.
Her authenticity is clear like a lark singing,
Quoting dividends to set up capital economics that matters
Lifting hearts to Jesus in strong vibrant round
Her sounds to the heavens or Carnegie Hall
The presence angelic with her compassion
Mentoring, counseling helping you to feel ten feet tall
This magnificent black woman can do it all
Speaking at rallies, to help Harlem's neighborhood to a Renaissance, creating opportunity in children's eyes
Motivating Father's Homily with a stirring rendition of a strong Negro spiritual
Carla Harris, you are America's Shero
Jenarío Decarlo Morgan is a native Detroiter, resident of South Bend, husband, and father of two. Currently a paraprofessional at South Bend Riley High School, for 12 years he taught theology in Detroit—where he was the first diversity director for the local Knights of Columbus. (He is also a former Grand Knight.)


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If you follow me you'll see that I am subscribed to Ipsy and right now I am wanting to use everything I get. I have a negative habit of hoarding makeup and I made a solemn oath to use up all my Ipsy stuff after I get them. On the skyn ICELAND website here they state that this face mask is an every week 10-minute treatment that polishing and re-texturizes pores and skin to show a luminous, vibrant translucence for a brand new start. And truthfully I believed them from reading the packet just. Because this is a sample I received a packet and it was a Step 1 1 and Step two 2 processes.
Step 1 came out with a blue colored type of clay product and Step two 2 arrived very transparent and gel like. It experienced no smell that was unique, it was fundamentally odorless which was a good thing, as I favor face products without smell in any way. Step one 1: A blue clay that you massage all over your face. It did not burn or feel any uncomfortable way.
STEP 2: A gel like product that you massage over that blue clay such that it can be triggered. I absolutely love this product, I am inclined to buy products from them definitely. My face felt so rejuvenated and it had this glow. I am sold with this product definitely.
I am so happy I got to try out this because I'd not have heard about skyn ICELAND if it wasn't for Ipsy. I would definitely recommend the product! Thanks for stopping by and stay posted to get more blogging. Remember you can follow me on Instagram @trinibeautee, follow me on Twitter @eshelovesmakeup and you may LIKE my FB page on the right-hand aspect of the post.
On any given day, we face and generate significant amounts of free radicals from harmful diets, environmental pollution, and stress even. Consuming vitamin E-rich foods and applying the oil topically can lessen and prevent damage. To nourish your skin layer, apply vitamin E oil directly, or add several drops to that person and body moisturizer (or add it to coconut essential oil as a DIY moisturizer).
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- "The span of true love never do run clean."
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- 7 Best ANTI-AGING Oils to Make Your Skin Look Younger
- Mens epidermis is commonly exposed more regularly to damaging environmental elements
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- Use cleaning soap sparingly if your skin is dried out
Shea butter is the creamy excess fat extracted from the African Shea tree, which is considered sacred by many areas in West Africa. Studies show it is excellent at moisturizing pores and skin and also includes powerful anti-aging and anti-inflammatory properties. Shea butter has a rich, creamy texture that means it is perfect for use as a full-body lotion, or even as much face moisturizer.
To make your Shea butter experience even more indulgent, add a few drops of your favorite essential natural oils and combine them thoroughly before applying. As a bonus, Shea butter is also said to be excellent for improving the appearance of stretchmarks. Day We all know that espresso gives us a kick-start to your, but it also contains a ton of antioxidants that help fight signs of aging. Coffee's caffeine content could even assist in improving cellulite when applied topically.
Using coffee as a full-body scrub can help remove useless pores and skin cells while also increasing circulation and improving the looks of cellulite. Raw honey just got sweeter: You can not only grab a spoonful for its antibacterial benefits, nevertheless, you can also use it topically in reducing acne, inflammation, brighten epidermis, and lock in moisture.
Honey is a humectant, this means it attracts and holds wetness, which is great for keeping the skin supple. For a brightening and moisturizing nose and mouth mask, combine one tablespoon of natural honey with one drop of lemon essential oil. Apply, to that person and let sit down for a quarter-hour, clean away with tepid to warm water then. Sea salt is rich in a range of trace minerals, including potassium, magnesium, calcium, manganese, and zinc. It's naturally antibacterial, which helps manage acne and other epidermis conditions caused by bacteria.
Its coarseness also makes it ideal for use as a full-body scrub. Make a calming salt scrub by combining 1/4 cup sea salt, 1/4 glass aloe vera gel, 1/4 glass coconut oil, and 2-3 drops of your favorite essential oil. This will form a heavy paste you can rub over your body in the shower.


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Ring vs. Cove
Find Home Alarm and Security Systems near you
What is the difference between Ring and Cove?
Ring and Cove allow you to monitor your home from your cellular device. Although both companies offer affordable, reputable DIY home security systems, there are some important differences between Ring and Cove when it comes to cost and smart-home capabilities. Though Ring is the more affordable of the two, first responders, teachers and military personnel should check with Cove about special pricing.
|Installation type
|DIY or professional via X Line
|Installation fee
|None if DIY
|Upfront cost
|Equipment ranges from $60 to $1,010
|Varies based on equipment
|Trial period
|30-day free trial of Ring Protect Plus
|60-day money-back guarantee
|Contract terms
|None; discount for prepaying annually
|No term contracts
|DIY or professional via X Line
|None if DIY
|Equipment ranges from $60 to $1,010
|30-day free trial of Ring Protect Plus
|None; discount for prepaying annually
|Varies based on equipment
|60-day money-back guarantee
|No term contracts
Monitoring plans and pricing
|Monitoring price range
|Free self monitoring; $3 to $10/month for professional monitoring
|$17.99 to $27.99/month
|Monitoring options
|Professional or self-monitored
|Upgraded self-monitoring
|$3/month to store recorded video
|24/7 professional monitoring
|Starting at $17.99/month
|Upgraded professional monitoring
|Not offered
|Starting at $27.99/month
|Free self monitoring; $3 to $10/month for professional monitoring
|Professional or self-monitored
|$3/month to store recorded video
|Not offered
|$17.99 to $27.99/month
|Starting at $17.99/month
|Starting at $27.99/month
Security equipment
|Wired or wireless?
|Camera options
|Indoor and outdoor cameras
|Indoor and outdoor cameras
|Video doorbell
|Control panel
|Motion sensor
|Entry sensor
|Glass break sensor
|With Alexa-enabled devices
|Keychain remote
|Panic button
|Medical panic button
|Yard sign
|Indoor and outdoor cameras
|With Alexa-enabled devices
|Indoor and outdoor cameras
|Medical panic button
Smart-home features
|Smart locks
|Smart lights
|Smart thermostat
|Garage door control
|Works with Chamberlain garage door openers
|Temperature sensor
|Heat detector within smoke detector
|Water sensor
|Smoke detector
|CO detector
|Works with Chamberlain garage door openers
|Heat detector within smoke detector
|Mobile app
|Mobile app monitoring
|iOS rating
|Android rating
|Notification/alert options
|Phone, email, text and push
|Home automation capabilities
|Voice integration
|Amazon Alexa
|Google Home
|Other integrations
|Honeywell and Alexa-enabled devices
|Honeywell and Alexa-enabled devices
|Phone, email, text and push
Reputation on ConsumerAffairs
|Overall star rating
|Verified customer reviews
|Ring reviews
|Cove reviews
|Ring reviews
|Cove reviews
All information accurate as of publishing date.
Ring is a contract-free, do-it-yourself home security system that lets you monitor your property remotely. If someone breaks in, you will get a push notification from the app on your phone, tablet or computer. From there, you can ignore the alert or contact emergency services. You can also use the app to speak to people at your door.
Ring sells its equipment in bundles and a la carte. The company's 1080p high-definition cameras provide a 160-degree horizontal view and a 90-degree vertical view. Ring currently has three monitoring plans with options for both DIY monitoring and 24/7 professional monitoring services:
Ring plans
- Ring Protect Free: Ring Protect Free includes a 100% Wi-Fi connection, video sharing in real time, an intercom feature and theft protection for life. This plan does not include recording features.
- Ring Protect Basic: In addition to all the features of Ring Protect Free, Ring Protect Basic comes with video saving and sharing features. Ring Protect Basic costs $3 per month and includes coverage for either one doorbell camera or a security camera.
- Ring Protect Plus: In addition to all the features of Ring Protect Free and Ring Protect Basic, Ring Protect Plus includes recording coverage for multiple devices at one address. Ring Protect Plus costs $10 dollars a month and includes 24/7 professional monitoring, extended warranties on Ring equipment and a discount on select accessories.
What Ring customers say
Customers describe Ring as easy to use and say they like the remote access to cameras through the app. Some customers experienced issues with video going offline, but overall, reviewers say having Ring makes them feel safer and that they like being able to detect motion and porch pirates and monitor deliveries.
Cove is a contract-free, DIY home security system that includes 24/7 professional monitoring. Cove has a three-factor communication strategy to reduce false alarms. If an agent gets an alert for activity in your home, they will try to speak to you through Live Assistant, a two-way voice feature on Cove's control panel and send you a notification by text message. You can respond to dismiss the alarm or dispatch emergency services. If Cove cannot reach you, they will call you on the phone. Cove will call emergency services for you if you cannot be reached those three ways.
Cove only sells their equipment a la carte, so there are currently no packages to choose from. Instead, Cove customers build their own systems. Once you have chosen your equipment, customers who choose to put money down instead of paying in installments can lower their monthly monitoring plan costs by $10 per month. Both of Cove's plans are professionally monitored 24/7, and there is currently no self-monitoring option.
Cove plans
- Cove Basic: Cove Basic includes 100% cellular connection, smash and grab protection, hourly automated system checks and 24-hour battery backup. All equipment comes with a one-year warranty. Cove Basic costs $25 per month with no money down and $15 a month with money down.
- Cove Plus: In addition to all the features of Cove Basic, Cove Plus includes smartphone control, voice integration and a $5-monthly equipment reward. All equipment comes with a lifetime warranty. Cove Plus costs $35 per month with no money down and $25 a month with money down.
What Cove customers say
Cove has mixed reviews on ConsumerAffairs. Many reviewers say that Cove has good products and a good support team, while others describe issues with equipment causing false alarms and difficulty canceling the service. Despite these issues, many customers say the system is easy to install and that they have positive interactions with the customer service team.
Bottom line: Ring or Cove?
The two biggest differences between Ring and Cove are the monthly costs and smart-home integrations. With home automation capabilities like smart locks, lights and thermostats, Ring is the best choice for those who want to use their security system to power a smart home. Also, Ring has cheaper equipment and lower monthly costs. Since Cove does offer a handful of professional discounts and cellular backup, possible exceptions might be customers in certain professions or users without access to reliable Wi-Fi.
- Ring is best for customers who want the best value as well as smart-home features.
- Cove is best for rural customers who can't depend on or have no access to Wi-Fi and those who qualify for the company's discounts for specific professions.
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Some of the common symptoms that Taking therapies could help with include:
We all get anxious. Anxiety has an important role to play. It prepares our body for 'fight' or 'flight' from something we perceive as threatening or dangerous to us. Modern life has its own triggers which can cause anxiety e.g. public speaking, whether or not we have time to do all the things we have to do, or even fear itself. There are lots of different types of anxiety including fears and phobias, panic, obsessions and compulsions, health anxiety, worry and post-traumatic stress.
Being shy is not necessarily a problem. Most people can feel a little shy and nervous in social situations at some point. However, some people struggle with this more than others. You may find that it starts to have an impact on the way you would like to live your life. For example, avoiding situations or cancelling plans, worrying excessively about what other people think of you.
Depression is characterised by feeling sad, hopeless and a loss of interest in things you used to enjoy. People with depression find their symptoms can persist for weeks or months and can interfere with work, social and family life.
Symptoms include:
- Continuous low mood or sadness
- Feeling hopeless and helpless
- Having low self-esteem
- Feeling tearful
- Feeling irritable and intolerant of others
- Having no motivation or interest in things
- Finding it hard to make decisions
- Not getting any enjoyment out of life
- Having suicidal thoughts or feelings of harming yourself
- Disturbed sleep (struggling to get off to or stay asleep, or sleeping too much)
- Changes in weight and/or appetite
- Feeling anxious
Your symptoms may cause you to withdraw from other people including your family and friends. You may also find going to work difficult and stressful and may take time off sick. As a result you may feel worse about yourself and lower in mood or self-esteem.
Going through a traumatic experience can take its toll on the mind as well as the body. You may experience feelings of fear, guilt, anxiety and low mood. It is entirely normal to be affected by something that has been traumatic, particularly if you felt your life, or the life of someone close to you was under threat. Some people experience their memories of the traumatic even as if it were happening again known as flashbacks, and may have nightmares about what happened. For most people these symptoms will gradually reduce over time. However some people will continue to experience flashbacks and nightmares.
- Specific phobias
- Panic disorder
- Agoraphobia
- Health anxiety
- Problems related to childhood trauma
- Bereavement


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Yes, the time has finally come and the countdown can begin! The Association for Talent Development organizes its annual international congress where more than 10,000 professionals participate worldwide, including the entire TICkA team!
At TICkA we ourselves find it very important to constantly learn, gain new insights and discover the latest trends in development.
This year we are going to Washington D.C. from May 19th to May 22nd where we meet Oprah Winfrey, Seth Godin and Eric Whitacre. In addition to these keynote speakers, we follow dozens of seminars on a variety of topics. All human capital challenges are discussed. Just think about leadership, artificial intelligence, team work, emotional intelligence and so much more. Are you curious to discover more, feel free to look at their website.
We will soon be launching a call on the TICkA social media in which we gauge your areas of interest. On Friday, June 7th, we organize the annual TICkA ATD Debrief where we share all our learning adventures with great enthusiasm.
All practical information about the TICkA ATD Debrief will follow, but make sure to already mark the 7th of June (12h30 – 17h) in your agenda!


text: To my fellas…At the L7 show in Toronto, someone left a "shit list" in the women's bathroom – a list of men "in the scene", for lack of a better word, who are known or alleged to have assaulted women. The list exists as way to warn women that these are men to watch out for. Men living in Toronto, eating nice food, partying and enjoying life with their friends (maybe with you), living it up while having created awful feelings and memories in others with their actions. The only reason this became more than hearsay is because a photo of it was taken and shared on Facebook. You can say "where is the evidence?" or "innocent until proven guilty", but a community is different than a court. People can be acquitted from crimes for a variety of reasons, even if they committed the act in question. If bad behavior goes unchecked, it continues. And this goes way beyond "bad behavior". Don't excuse predators because they're your friends. You have no need for a code of silence. You are not in the mafia. You are a barista. It's important to remember a list like this has always existed – women telling each other to watch out for people, but it's rarely in writing and even rarer is it made visible to men. We are lucky that it's being shared with us, allowing us an opportunity to discuss it openly. Don't let it pass us by. Men need to remember that women are always discussing and processing what has happened to them. Just because you don't hear people talk, it doesn't mean they're not talking. Because you never "got in trouble" for something you did, it doesn't erase the fact that you did it. The only way to be sure somebody wants to have sex with you is to ASK THEM. Anything less and you are deferring a responsibility that is yours alone. Communication is the only way to know someone else's boundaries – and respecting boundaries is key. If you are someone accused of sexual assault, instead of immediately going on the defensive, be honest and focus on your behavior and thinking. There's a reason you wound up on that list. And if you're not on that list, ask why we so often excuse these men we know, or even worse – excuse ourselves from the conversation, saying it's not our problem. It is our problem. Support victims of sexual assault, and don't let victimizers walk among us unchallenged. If you've been wrong in the past, you can admit it. You should admit it. Men have been conditioned to behave in some fucked up ways. I wish I could take back past behavior where I treated women poorly. It happened and there's nothing that can make that better. All I can do is move forward and try to be a better person. This is an opportunity – so much destructive behavior stems from fear and self-hate, and owning it is the only way to create even the possibility of forgiveness (which assaulters are not owed in the least) or at least the chance of peace being made. Don't let it pass us by. A lot of bad things come out of shame, self-hatred and guilt. Addressing your wrongs can be the first step to dealing with those feelings and reducing the chance of hurting people in the future. But we need to be honest with ourselves. Silence = shame = death.


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this fulll Moon is in the sign of Libra this Sunday (Sonday) is resurrection sunday as the Sun has "return" to it begining spot to be resurrected.
The Prodigal Sun Has Return
this Prophetic Reading is centered around the biblical story of The Prodigal Son. he went on a journey of self discovery after losing his inheritance from his father he returned broken expecting his father to reject him. however, his father was overjoyed and return him to his place of glory.
although his brother stayed there with his father his father never lost any respect or love for the son that left. even his brother was jealous venting at the Prodigal's celebration to his father, but his father said we should rejoice because the son that was lost has returned.
your "Prodigal Son" could be money you loss that's returning back to you. or maybe a love or friend that left but will be returning back to the connection at some point.
just like the Prodigal son had to find himself we all have to find ourselves to live to our full potential and no one should be held back from that gift, the father understood this.
instead of having hatred or bitterness in your heart like the brother be more forgiving like the father when your Prodigal son returns.
Esoteric Note
the Sun has returned to the beginning in Aries the ram, the sacrifice. (Ephesians 5:2) like the Prodigal "sun" traveled out (Luke 8:1), the Sun travels the zodiac wheel back to Aries, where the Sun is exalted, the Son (Sun) resurrected. Resurrection Sonday (Sunday) alway happens after the Spring Equinox in the Ram, the sacrifice in the sign Libra. in-between the Full Moon in Libra and the New Moon in Aries, the Ram.
Libra is the sign about fairness, equality and balance in relationships. the Son, the Christ came to be a sacrifice, the judge, restorer of peace and was risen on the 3rd day, the highest point in the sky for all to see. (Revolution 1:7)


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Heading into the 2019 Emmys, the conventional wisdom had it that not only would Game of Thrones win Outstanding Drama Series but it would smash its previous record for most Emmys won by any TV show in a single season. Conventional wisdom also held that the Outstanding Comedy Series category was a dogfight between The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Veep, the most recent two shows to win that category. And it held that Outstanding Limited Series was a race between Chernobyl and When They See Us, with an outside shot for Fosse/Verdon.
The actual Emmys, as they so often do, had other ideas.
Some of the above happened, but a lot of it didn't. Game of Thrones won its fourth Drama Series trophy but failed to break its own record. Neither Mrs. Maisel nor Veep could vanquish Fleabag in several comedy categories. And while Chernobyl won Limited Series, it did so seemingly in a walk; When They See Us ultimately managed just two wins out of 16 nominations, only one of which was broadcast during the primetime awards.
If there was an overall theme to this year's awards, then, it was a dislike of inevitability. What the 2019 Emmys made clear is that, in an age when more and more broadcasters are dumping huge amounts of money into their awards campaigns in hopes of snagging a prize, the voters are still going to vote for what they like, no matter how many TV Academy members take home paychecks signed by HBO or Netflix brass. The result was a wild, unpredictable night — as well as a genuinely entertaining TV broadcast.
Here are eight winners and five losers from the 2019 Emmy awards.
Winner: Game of Thrones
Look, on the pure level of "Did Game of Thrones win Emmys?" ... yes. Yes, it did. The show won a staggering 12 awards total, tying the record it set in 2015 for its fifth season. It won Outstanding Drama Series for the fourth time, joining the august company of Hill Street Blues, LA Law, The West Wing, and Mad Men. It made Peter Dinklage one of the few performers to win four times for the same role and the first since Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston to do so for a drama.
But sometimes these things aren't about actual winners. They're about perception. And from that point of view ...
Loser: Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones should have won more than 12 Emmys. It just should have. After its record-shattering 32 nominations, after its 10 wins at last week's Creative Arts Emmys, after everything, it should have been able to take home more than two awards during the Primetime awards.
At the very least, it seemed to have Outstanding Drama Series, Supporting Actor in a Drama (Dinklage), and Directing for a Drama in the bag, which would have made for 13 total wins. But it lost Directing (to the incredibly same-y visuals of Ozark!), and it couldn't manage to best Julia Garner (again of Ozark) in Supporting Actress or overcome its own network mate Succession in Writing. And that's to say nothing of the lead acting races, where it was thought to have less of a chance at winning (it did, indeed, lose both, to Killing Eve's Jodie Comer and Pose's Billy Porter).
What has to be most galling to the folks behind Game of Thrones is that a resounding night at the Primetime Emmys was supposed to be the best argument they'd have going forward against the idea that the final season was kind of bad. Instead, the best they can now argue is that their haul was more of a Pyrrhic victory than anything else — yeah, technically they won a couple, but they lost many more at the Primetime ceremony.
A healthy suspicion is that vote-splitting felled the show many times, meaning that in categories where it had multiple nominations, it kept robbing votes from itself. (It's really hard to explain how Ozark won Directing otherwise.) But then consider that Dinklage overcame two of his castmates to win his category and that Game of Thrones lost the Writing category (where it had but one nomination and when the scripts were by far the most criticized element of the final season). Suddenly, a larger picture becomes clear: The show was over-nominated and people got a little tired of it.
In a few years, when people look at the Emmy record books and see that Game of Thrones won 58 awards across its eight seasons, including Outstanding Drama Series four times and that it had two years where it won 12 awards total — they're going to think (rightly!) that the Emmys loved this show. But from the vantage point of right now, in 2019, it's not hard to feel like team Thrones hoped everything would go differently.
Winner: HBO
Even with Game of Thrones' unsteady evening, HBO pretty well cleaned up. It won nine total awards during the night, leading to a smashing total of 34 when you add in the Creative Arts Emmys. And its wins were from a wide spread of programs — Barry and Chernobyl and Game of Thrones and Last Week Tonight and Succession. Plus it had the two biggest winners of the year when all Emmys ceremonies are added together, thanks to Game of Thrones' 12 and Chernobyl's 10.
Yeah, it was probably expecting to perform better in the Comedy categories (where only Bill Hader won for his lead performance in Barry), but you can't have everything. The HBO Emmy party should be pretty happy, all things considered.
But we can't abandon HBO entirely just yet. For the network had one other fairly significant loser ...
Loser: Julia Louis-Dreyfus
The Emmys have bestowed favor on Julia Louis-Dreyfus many, many times in the past. She's won eight awards as an actor, a record she shares with Cloris Leachman. (She's also won three awards for producing.) But though six of her eight acting Emmys are for her starring role on Veep, she didn't win for the show's final season of eligibility. The award went to Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge instead.
Louis-Dreyfus was heavily favored to win this year, and not only because she'd been on an unbroken winning streak for playing hapless politician Selina Meyer — the most wins any actor has received for playing the same character. In 2017, the day after she won her sixth Veep Emmy, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. A little over a year later, in October 2018, she announced that she was cancer-free. Veep's seventh and final season, which had been delayed for Louis-Dreyfus's treatment, premiered last spring.
That cancer-beating narrative made it seem like Louis-Dreyfus was due for a record-breaking win. But after she lost the Emmy to Waller-Bridge, when she and the rest of the cast of Veep arrived onstage to present a different award, she seemed to take it all in stride, cracking jokes in character as Selina Meyer: She lamented that she'd been told she'd be up there alone to present and referred to co-star Timothy Simons as "Jonah," his character's name. And given that Louis-Dreyfus has never failed to earn a nomination for any TV show where she's been a series regular since Seinfeld's third season, it's pretty clear this won't be her last time at the Emmys.
Winner: Amazon
In the race among the big three streamers to see who can become the biggest Emmy darling, Amazon has jumped out to a commanding lead. Hulu's eight Handmaid's Tale wins in 2017 feel like a distant memory, and Netflix still hasn't won one of the big three awards (Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Comedy Series, and Outstanding Limited Series) in its time competing.
But Amazon not only won Comedy Series for the second year in a row (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel in 2018, Fleabag in 2019), but it also had the second-highest awards total of the night with seven. And it boasted the night's winningest show with Fleabag, which won four awards. (Fleabag also won the Casting award and an Editing prize at the Creative Arts Emmys, which brought its overall total to six.) On top of that, Mrs. Maisel won eight awards in total, making it the third-winningest program of the year. Altogether, those wins show just how well Amazon's Emmy strategies have paid off.
And as if that weren't enough, it pulled off a pretty stunning upset in the Supporting Actor in a Limited Series category, where Ben Whishaw vaulted over several contenders from the much more hyped Chernobyl and When They See Us to win for his work in A Very British Scandal. Which brings us to ...
Winner: Openly queer performers
No openly gay actor of color has ever won the Lead Actor in a Drama Series category — or, at least, that was the case before Billy Porter won for Pose. And though other openly gay actors have won in the supporting categories before, this felt different. Whishaw thanking his husband, Mark Bradshaw, from the stage is the sort of thing that still feels new at the Emmys, which have often lagged behind the Tonys and the Oscars in terms of queer representation.
And even when the 2019 Emmy winners weren't queer themselves, they often took a moment to shout out, say, trans rights (as Supporting Actress in a Limited Series Patricia Arquette did, nodding to her late sister Alexis Arquette, a trans woman). Or you'd have someone like Fleabag's Andrew Scott, an openly gay actor who wasn't even nominated but was such a big part of season two that creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge spent a significant portion of her Comedy Series acceptance speech praising his work.
And speaking of Phoebe Waller-Bridge ...
Winner: Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Phoebe Waller-Bridge is on top of the world. She won three Emmys — for starring in, writing, and producing Fleabag — and as if that weren't enough, she created Killing Eve, which won Jodie Comer the Lead Actress in a Drama Series award. Waller-Bridge is a British writer and actor whose demeanor combines "acidic" and "goofy" into a cocktail that works surprisingly well, and now she is headed off to help write the next James Bond movie and could theoretically do just about anything she wants going forward. (Her next TV project is an HBO series called Run. We're instantly into it.)
She may never have it this good again, but in 2019 it's really good to be Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
Loser: Netflix
The streaming giant came into the evening poised to win big, with 27 nominations. That meant it was second only to HBO (which had 34).
But while HBO won nine of its awards, Netflix only won four. Jharrel Jerome took home the lead actor in a limited series Emmy for his performance in When They See Us, Ava DuVernay's miniseries about the Central Park Five. Bandersnatch, the choose-your-own-adventure Black Mirror movie, won in the television movie category. And Ozark took home two awards: one for supporting actress Julia Garner and one for Jason Bateman for directing.
That's a disappointing showing for Netflix, which for the past several years has been eager to rack up major awards. In 2013, the Netflix original series House of Cards became the first streaming-only TV series to be nominated for major awards, garnering four nominations and winning one (for director David Fincher). Its paltry haul this year likely hurts even more next to streaming rival Amazon, which turned its 15 nominations into seven wins, with shows like The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Fleabag taking home some of the night's biggest honors.
What's more, When They See Us was considered Netflix's prime contender to win lots of Emmys, but it could only manage two wins out of its 16 nominations — for Jerome and for its casting (awarded earlier, at the Creative Arts Emmys). Director and writer DuVernay couldn't overcome the Chernobyl juggernaut.
But Netflix has repeatedly poured money into awards campaigns and shows no signs of slowing, with movies like Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story and Martin Scorsese's The Irishman on the docket for the upcoming Oscar season as well as a slate of TV and movies in contention for the Golden Globes, which take place in January. With deep pockets, big ambitions, and development deals with many hot talents like Ryan Murphy and Shonda Rhimes, it's likely that Netflix has years of Emmy showings in its future.
Winner: Michelle Williams's speech
Williams won Lead Actress in a Limited Series for her tremendous work in FX's Fosse/Verdon, and she gave the night's biggest and best speech, calling for equal pay for women — especially women of color — and declaring that she's ready for a world where women might thank their bosses, as she could, "for allowing her to succeed because of her workplace environment and not in spite of it."
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Loser: Diversity (especially racial diversity)
The Emmys rallied after the early winners provided white face after white face. After all, both the Limited Series lead actor Jharrel Jerome and Drama Series lead actor Billy Porter are black, and as mentioned above, this was a good year for queer representation.
But by and large, the 2019 Emmys were among the whitest in recent memory. Of the 12 acting winners, only Jerome and Porter were winners of color, and the three writing and three directing categories were all won by white folks, with only Waller-Bridge's win in Comedy Writing adding a woman to a mix that was otherwise comprised entirely white men.
Some of this is just a function of the shows that were up for awards. Popular, racially diverse series like Atlanta weren't even eligible for this year's ceremony.
Still, for whatever reason, the Academy didn't nominate plenty of very good actors of color who might have been terrific winners (like, say, anybody from Pose who wasn't Porter). The Emmys' strides in diversity over the past five years have been heartening, and there was plenty to celebrate in 2019. But it also felt as though all involved had taken a step back, even if moments like Jerome's win were electrifying.
Winner: The casting categories
Don't look now, but the casting categories at the Creative Arts Emmys are becoming some of the most important harbingers of larger success. For instance, Fleabag won only two Creative Arts awards — but one was for casting, which has now called the correct Outstanding Comedy Series winner for the last five Emmy ceremonies.
The record for calling Outstanding Drama is a bit spottier, but the Creative Arts award for casting has called three out of the last five. And Limited Series casting has called seven of the last eight (though the one that missed was this very year, as When They See Us won for casting but ultimately lost Outstanding Limited Series to Chernobyl). If you want to win your Emmy pool, this is a category to pay attention to.
Winner: Thomas Lennon
The always entertaining actor and writer Thomas Lennon was the guy providing quick jokes to shepherd viewers in and out of the ceremony's ad breaks, and his "random facts" about the various winners as they marched up to the stage were often very funny, like this bit about the cast of Saturday Night Live.
He was a highlight in a production that mostly moved efficiently, to the degree that toward the end of the show, a female announcer simply started reading off lists of nominees to keep things moving, a decision that mostly worked.
And, also, the show featured this gag, which is great, even if Lennon had nothing to do with it. (Consider this "winner" slot one for a telecast that mostly succeeded.)
Loser: Inevitability
The Emmys' 2015 switch to a voting system where everybody in the TV Academy gets to vote on the awards (rather than restricting voting to specific members of blue-ribbon panels) initially coincided with dull years when shows swept their way to the win — see also that first time Game of Thrones won 12 Emmys. But the 2019 Emmys showed that the new system has introduced a sense of wild unpredictability to the awards. Would a show like Fleabag ever have won under the old system? Probably not. The same is true for Succession's win for Writing, a decision surely bolstered by the show's stellar second season airing while voting took place.
Emmy voters in 2019 seemed to chafe against the inevitability of certain narratives. Sure, they would give Game of Thrones some trophies, but not enough to shatter any records. And they might have enjoyed Veep and Mrs. Maisel at one time or another, but this year, they loved Fleabag more.
It turns out that passion still counts for something at the Emmys, even with how big and bloated and corporate they've become. Game of Thrones can win 12 awards. But it can't win everything. And in and of itself, that's a good sign for the Emmys' future.
Correction: Fleabag won two Creative Arts Emmys, not just one.


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With the postseason underway, and I nearly finished with The Baseball 100 by Joe Posnanski, I got to thinking about my favorite baseball books. I suspect that The Baseball 100 will jump toward the top–if not the top–of the list. But what are my favorites right now? My list of books I've read since 1996 has quite a few baseball-related books on it. Here is my selection of the best ones, in my opinion:
- Ball Four by Jim Bouton. A classic in the genre, and one that set the stage for the modern baseball tell-all.
- Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville: A Lifelong Passion in Baseball by Stephen Jay Gould. Gould is best known for his books and essays on paleontology and evolution in Natural History magazine. But he was a huge baseball fan, and I love the way he thinks about the game in these essays.
- Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty by Charles Leerhsen. Everything I knew, or thought I knew, about Ty Cobb was dispelled by this book. I read it in the offseason. Always a good time to read baseball in order to make it a year-round sport.
- Yogi: A Life Behind the Mask by Jon Pessah. The book made me love Yogi even more.
- Casey Stengel by Marty Appel. Possibly the most remarkable career in baseball ever.
- Red Smith: On Baseball by Red Smith. Reading this book cemented the idea that when I grow up, I want to be a baseball writer. Unfortunately, I read this book when I was 46 years old. Fortunately, I still haven't grown up.
- Great Baseball Writing: Sports Illustrated 1954-2004 edited by Rob Fleder. An absolutely remarkable collection of baseball writing.
- Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella. The first time I'd read this book was in the aftermath of 9/11. I'd seen Field of Dreams many times before I read this book. I love Field of Dreams but this book was far and away the best thing about baseball I'd ever read.
That all said, I am enjoying The Baseball 100 so much that I suspect it will end up as #2, possibly even #1 on the list by the time that I finish.
Of course, for as many baseball books I've read, there are countless I have yet to read. Some that I want to read, or have been wanting to read for some time include:
- The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created by Jane Leavy
- Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- The Summer Game by Roger Angell
- The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
- Bill James' Historical Baseball Abstract by Bill James
And, as always, I am open to suggestions.
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According to WKYT, the alleged victim first asked 39-year-old Christopher Davis to leave the Lexington Public Library on January 27 after someone reported observing him use a public computer to access pornography.
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By building bases and using weapons systems in densely populated residential areas, including schools and hospitals, Ukrainian troops are endangering civilians while defending their country against Russia's invasion, Amnesty International stated in a much-criticised report.
By setting up military bases in residential areas, the Ukrainian troops are violating international humanitarian law and endangering the civilian population by turning civilian objects into military targets; the ensuing Russian strikes have killed civilians and destroyed civilian infrastructure.
"We have documented a pattern of Ukrainian troops endangering civilians and violating the law of war when operating in populated areas," Agnès Callamard, Secretary-General of Amnesty International, said in a press release.
"The fact that the country has to defend itself does not absolve the Ukrainian military of its obligations under international humanitarian law," she added.
In certain other areas, in which Amnesty International concluded that Russia had committed war crimes, such as in some areas of the city of Kharkiv, the organisation did not find evidence of Ukrainian forces located in the civilian areas that were unlawfully targeted by the Russian military.
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Between April and July 2022, Amnesty researchers spent several weeks inspecting Russian attacks in the Kharkiv, Donbas and Mykolaiv regions, where it inspected the attack sites, interviewed survivors, witnesses and relatives of attack victims, and conducted remote sensing and weapons analysis.
Throughout these investigations, evidence was found of Ukrainian troops launching (counter) strikes from inhabited residential areas and setting up military bases in civilian buildings in 19 cities and villages, instead of what Amnesty called "viable alternatives" such as military bases or densely wooded areas nearby, or other structures further away from residential areas.
However, specialist in urban warfare studies John Spencer also told the New York Times that these suggested "alternative" are not realistic for Ukrainian forces. "To say, 'Don't be in the urban areas' does not make sense. The Russians are advancing to take cities. Ukrainians have to go into defence in the cities to stop that from happening."
"If the Ukrainians moved out into the open and brought the fight to the Russian military, the war would have already ended – they would have all died," Spencer said.
He added: "If the Ukrainians moved out into the open and brought the fight to the Russian military, the war would have already ended — they would have all died."— John Spencer (@SpencerGuard) August 4, 2022
According to the Amnesty International report, survivors and witnesses of Russian strikes in the Donbas, Kharkiv and Mykolaiv regions told the organisation's researchers that the Ukrainian military had been operating near their homes around the time of the strikes, exposing the areas to retaliatory fire from Russian forces.
International humanitarian law requires all parties to a conflict to avoid locating, to the maximum extent possible, military objectives within or near densely populated areas.
"The Ukrainian government must immediately ensure that it places its troops away from populated areas, or it must evacuate civilians from areas where the army is active," said Callamard. "Armies should never use hospitals to wage war and should only use schools or homes as a last resort if there are no viable alternatives."
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In recent months, Amnesty also documented many Russian attacks that were carried out with inherently indiscriminate weapons, including internationally banned cluster munitions, or with other explosive weapons with wide area effects.
The organisation stressed that the Ukrainian military's practice of locating military objectives within populated areas does not, in any way, justify these indiscriminate Russian attacks.
"All parties to a conflict must at all times distinguish between military objectives and civilian objects and take all feasible precautions, including in the choice of weapons, to minimise civilian harm," said Amnesty. "Indiscriminate attacks which kill or injure civilians or damage civilian objects are war crimes."
In the meantime, experts have denounced Amnesty's report, saying that accusing Ukrainian armed forces of putting civilians at risk while they are, in fact, defending them from the Russian invaders is a "grave accusation" that Russian media will undoubtedly pick up.
"Ukrainians are defending themselves, Russia is deliberately attacking Ukrainian civilians and levelling cities. The scale of alleged violations is just incomparable," said Ukraine expert Olga Tokariuk. "Equating two sides at the time when interest and support to Ukraine are fading is morally questionable at minimum."
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The head of Amnesty International Ukraine, Oksana Pokalchuk, also took to social media to criticise Amnesty's publication, saying that the data used did not come from Amnesty Ukraine, but from international researchers.
"The Ukrainian office was not involved in the preparation or writing of the text of the publication," she said in a long Facebook post. "And, unfortunately, at the initial stage of this report, we already entered a dead end where our team's arguments about the inadmissibility and incomplete of such material were not taken into account."
The Ukraine office "has done anything possible to prevent this publication," but "multiple objections were answered with a firm no," added Pokalchuk. "We are very sad by the fact that after all possible arguments from our side against this report, we have not been heard."


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|Emigrant guides were published in the early nineteenth century but they became more popular starting about 1840. They contain information about numerous aspects of the emigrant experience, from major decisions about transportation and destination to directions on what type of crop to plant. Each guide is different but they have many features in common… see below for a list of topics that may be included.
Some early publications that were called traveler's guides or trail guides and had much of the same information as an emigrant guide. All of these guides played a key role in influencing immigration and migration by encouraging people to move to a new location. And actually, these types of "guides" are still published today albeit they may be in digital format and more readily found online! Think of city websites that share all types of information that can be used by someone interested in moving to that location (i.e. www.cityofbastrop.org/page/homepage). And one can 'Google' any particular topic and location to find more detail!
Lodging • Finding employment • Geography of the land with maps and other diagrams • Distances and cost of travel • Roads • Food supply • Climate • Economic benefits • Modes and cost of importing and exporting • Business opportunities and decisions • Government structure • Land laws and how to obtain land • Agricultural advice about climate, soil, minerals–what grows, growing season, available game, and types of livestock that thrives • Educational opportunities • Mail rates and schedule • Health concerns specific to the area of settlement–diseases, fevers • Indians residing in the area or along the route traveled • Wild beasts found in the area • Advice on how to succeed • How to assimilate into a new society • Naturalization laws and citizenship process • Advertisements of businesses from the area where the emigrant was going and more!
The Texas State Historical Association:
Andrews. Guide to Texas Emigrants. 1935
Texas Decordova, J. The Texas Immigrant and Traveller's Guide Book. First edition. Austin: De Cordova and Frazier, 1856. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009038308 or…. a reproduction on Amazon: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009038308
Lawrence. A History of Texas or the Emigrant's Guide to the New Republic by a Resident Emigrant, late from the United States. New York: Nafis and Cornish, 1844.
Tetzlaff, Otto W. The Emigrant to Texas: A Handbook and Guide. Bremen: Schuenemann, 1846. Reprint, Burnet, Texas: Eakin, 1979.
Texas Almanac and Emigrant's Guide to Texas. Galveston: W. D. Richardson & Co. Published for years 1869, 1871, 1873. https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eft01


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- Justin Brownlee
If you have been to Anchor Church on any given Sunday, you have probably worshiped this song with us: Surrounded (Fight My Battles).
Let that be your song of worship today.
Today's Declaration of Hope:
Prayer surrounds us and worship guides us.
Today's Scripture:
Psalm 55:18 says "He rescues me unharmed from the battle waged against me, even though many oppose me." Psalm 139:5 says "You have surrounded me on every side, behind me and before me, and You have placed Your hand gently on my shoulder."
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The student sitting at his or her desk, confounded by a complex math problem, asks, "What's the point of this? How will I ever use this?" The image is a cliché, but we've all seen it or experienced it ourselves. If students don't see how a subject relates to their lives or, more importantly, to their future, what's the point? Flagler County schools are working to change this mindset with a new future-focused, career readiness program, starting as early as elementary school.
The district launched the program under a simple broad based banner called Flagship Schools. Each school offers its own unique approach. The goal is to begin the college and career readiness process much earlier and more comprehensively, says Flagler Superintendent Jacob Oliva, who first unveiled the plan at an April school board workshop, where the board gave its unanimous support.
The program is based on science, technology, engineering, and math initiatives, also known as STEM, with an eye toward preparing students for employment in area industries. The district will apply for grants to help offset the cost.
The flagship initiatives are to be incorporated into the normal daily curriculum, with more STEM-focused after-school sessions, though some of the details still need to be worked out. The decision to go ahead with the Flagship Schools came after several brainstorming sessions with school leaders on how to better prepare students for both college and their careers. The point of starting early, Oliva says, is to enable the students to "understand where those opportunities are going to take them." The programs will culminate at the high school level where working relationships have been established at Daytona State, Embry-Riddle, and the Flagler Technical Institute.
"We're not telling people they're going to have to pick what they want to be in the fourth grade," says Oliva. What they're doing, he says, is merely adding special content that's pertinent to viable jobs, yet still adheres to Florida educational standards. "And we know that when students can see relevancy in what they're learning and how it pertains to the real world, they tend to buy into it more and do a lot better."
Flagship Schools is also tied to growth industries identified by the Flagler Department of Economic Opportunity, a county government agency. According to Helga van Eckert, department director, those industries are agriculture, aviation and aerospace, green technology, health sciences, high-tech science, logistics/manufacturing, and marine research.
Businesses that are either considering a move to Florida or an expansion of an existing facility will always consider the qualifications of the available labor pool. "One of the first questions that these industries are going to ask is what is the education system like," van Eckert says. The local business community has been very willing to work with the Flagler school district in setting up mentorships and other types of partnerships.
The first partnership to get underway was with the Flagler County Education Foundation. Garry Lubi, Senior Vice President and Commercial Manager for Prosperity Bank, who in June became president-elect of the Foundation, has conducted training sessions with school leaders on economic development.
"I don't know if I'd want to call it a program," Lubi says of the flaglship initiative. "It's probably more of a strategic planning process." While the concept for Flagship sounds promising, its ultimate success will depend on how it is executed, and whether the district can not only get students excited, but also the rest of the business community. That last part falls to Lubi.
Step one, he says, is to effectively communicate the goals of the program to the overall community. "Through various business organizations, in particular the chamber of commerce, Rotary Clubs, and other organizations," Lubi says, "we need to increase awareness among the business community about what's going on in our schools, and about how they can become engaged or volunteer and support this initiative as well."
The recruitment drive for volunteers is still in its early stages. In the works over the next three to six months are workshops or focus groups that will explore the best way to reach out to area businesses.
Within the Flagship curriculum itself, Oliva has given each school principal creative control to work with teachers to determine how best to prepare students for the targeted industries. Cathie Zanella, a health teacher at Bunnell Elementary School, was handed a very visible role with her school's green energy flagship, as a result of her efforts to keep the school's vegetable garden going after it lost its funding from the University of Florida Extension. The greenhouse garden, part of Zanella's nutrition curriculum, made her realize the importance to students of hands-on experience.
"When the kids got in there and were able to have ownership, when they got their hands dirty, when they planted everything, watched it grow and then harvested it, the excitement was incredible," says Zanella. "I don't know who was more excited, the students or me. To have them go and pick a little cherry tomato off a plant and just pop it into their mouth was really a whole different side of teaching."
So strategizing about Bunnell Elementary's flagship evolved from agricultural science to environmental studies, before the school settled on the cross-curriculum subject of green technology. "They can be farmers, they can do anything in the solar power world, they can be chefs. It's a way to introduce them to a broad variety of things to become interested in," Zanella says. Strategies for integrating the subjects into the Bunnell Elementary classrooms are being worked out by Flagler STEM coordinator Jose Nunez, who has also played a major role in teacher training.
Some businesses have already extended their support for Bunnell's efforts, Zanella says. A Jacksonville company, WeatherSTEM, donated a weather station to the school. AT&T provided a STEM grant and St. Augustine-based Cornucopia Gardens, LLC, supplied an aquaponics unit—a 150-gallon fish tank that rests under a vertical garden—so that fish waste acts as a fertilizer.
Kathryn Crooke, a science teacher at Indian Trails Middle School, is a major player in the school's multi-pronged flagship program that integrates health science, engineering and applied robotics, business and computer sciences, and outdoor sciences. She says she was "ecstatic" when Oliva came to them with the district's new vision.
"I'm a firm believer in change. I think it's really good, a breath of fresh air," says Crooke. "With the change in our economy, and the academics, the expectation levels are advancing for our kids and for our teachers. If you're familiar with the standards of the state of Florida, and with what's required of our kids, expectations are growing."
She and her peers at other elementary schools and high schools have spent many hours interviewing representatives from both in-state and out-of-state colleges to better understand exactly what sorts of students the colleges are looking for.
At Indian Trails, the flagship classes will be offered at first as electives. Incoming seventh graders will get a taste of each program through "wheel classes," which will alternate every nine weeks. If a student demonstrates ability in one program, he or she can jump ahead to full-blown flagship classes after school.
Eighth graders will choose one or two focus areas to specialize in, with the option to take Flagship classes after school if that better accommodates their schedule. Each program requires about 20 hours of field experience, Crooke says, and she too emphasizes the value of hands-on experience. "When you see things for real, and you're able to touch them and manipulate them, and break things down, that's higher level thinking," says Crooke.
The school district's nod toward a more job-related curriculum—part of a national trend—does raise troubling issues for some educators. Is the traditional, broad liberal arts curriculum in danger of disappearing? Crooke, for one, doesn't think so. "That'll never go away," she says. "The arts program is for another group of students, not that they're any less capable of technology, but art is what motivates them." With the right manipulation of their schedule, students can get a taste of both approaches, but, says Crooke, "They'll be busy. I don't think it's going to pull kids away. I think it's just going to help fill in the gaps for kids who don't have their niche. I think we're trying to cover all the areas."
With that in mind, not every school in the district is taking a strict STEM approach to their flagship effort. Old Kings Elementary has chosen for its initiative the FranklinCovey time management consulting firm to help foster its The Leader in Me program. The idea here is to emphasize cultivation of leadership qualities, specifically what the program calls the "seven habits of highly successful people." The school received a grant from the private I Am a Leader Foundation, aimed at providing services dedicated to building student character.
According to Old Kings Principal Robin Dupont, "The jobs our children will have when they graduate do not yet exist. But, there are certain 21st century life skills we can teach our children now." Among them, she says, are working in teams, communicating, taking initiative, setting goals, resolving conflicts, innovating, building relationships, caring for health, dealing with diversity, and prioritizing time. "The seven habits have been sought after by top leaders of companies and governments around the world for well over two decades and overlap with the 21st century skills," she says.
According to Oliva, there is no risk in the Flagship endeavor that students will find themselves pigeonholed too early on in their school years. Education is not being replaced by specialization. Every student still needs to pass the Florida standardized assessment, he says. "This is just an extra little layer of programming to give students an opportunity to get excited about learning." It's not an overhaul, he emphasizes.
Additionally, if a family decides their child is better suited to one school's flagship than the one in which their child is enrolled, they have the option to transfer, if the other school has room. With the impending changes, Oliva says, "Someone who doesn't start looking ahead towards college or career readiness until ninth grade may find themselves a little behind, because some of these programs have prerequisites."


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|A painting by People's Artist, painter and art critic Uyên Huy. — Photo courtesy of HCM City Fine Arts Museum
By Thu Anh
HCM CITY — An exhibition of paintings and sculptures by People's Teacher, art critic and painter Uyên Huy is opening at the HCM City Fine Arts Museum.
The event, called Một Thoáng 49, Chào 70 (Goodbye 49, Hello 70), features 54 works in lacquer, oil, acrylic, mixed media, metal, ceramic and poly paint.
Half of the works came from the artist's latest collections, which were created in the last three years.
"My showcase shows my love and passion for the country and life," said the 70-year-old Huy.
Huy, whose real name is Huỳnh Văn Mười, was born in 1950 in Sài Gòn. His love for painting began at an early age after he began studying art on his own before enrolling in the Gia Định Fine Arts School in 1964.
In 1973, he won the Esso Art Prize for his work Nhạc Chiều (Afternoon Music). He then worked as a lecturer in painting at the Gia Định School in 1974.
He has worked for several prestigious art schools, including the HCM City University of Fine Arts, HCM City University of Architecture and Đồng Nai College of Decorative Fine Arts.
He has organised more than 70 group exhibitions in VIệt Nam and many other countries.
Huy has also won several top prizes for painting and criticism presented by local and foreign fine arts associations and organisations.
In 2016, he released Mỹ Thuật Thành Phố Hồ Chí Minh-Một Thoáng Hôm Nay Một Chút Xưa (HCM City Fine Arts during the 20th Century), a book about trends in 20th century arts in the south, with more than 200 black-and-white and colour images.
His 650-page book features documents and photos of contemporary paintings and sculptures by artists living in the south, particularly in HCM City.
The role of fine arts in Sài Gòn (now HCM City) between 1975 and 2015 is also included, as well as new trends created by young artists.
His book is a valuable resource about Vietnamese fine arts in the đổi mới (renovation) and international integration period.
His book Mỹ Thuật Đô Thị Sài Gòn-Gia Định Từ Năm 1900 Đến 1975 (Urban Fine Arts of Sài Gòn-Gia Định from 1900 to 1975) was released in 2014 and received the Critics' Award presented by the Việt Nam Fine Arts Association.
It includes information and visuals of the ancient cultures of Champa, Óc Eo and Khmer which influenced the southern city.
Information about specific events, artworks, characters are also featured.
In the book, Huy highlights the role of three French schools: in Bình Dương in 1901, Đồng Nai in 1903, and Gia Định in 1913, which offered training for students in handicraft and decorative arts.
These schools laid the foundation for the famous Indochina Fine Arts College in Hà Nội in 1925.
Both books were published by the Fine Arts Publishing House.
"I have for several decades worked in painting and teaching. For me, teaching is a duty that a veteran artist like me should be involved in. I want to impart my love for art and experience to younger generations," said Huy, chairman of the HCM City Association of Fine Arts.
Huy's exhibition, Một Thoáng 49, Chào 70, will be open from 9am to 6pm at the HCM City Fine Arts Museum at 97A Phó Đức Chính Street in District 1, and will close on Tuesday. — VNS


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HyperX Cloud Flight S Wireless Gaming Headset with Qi Charging Review
The HyperX Cloud Flight Wireless Gains New Clarity, Finds Its Qi
The Cloud Flight S is the newest gaming headset from HyperX, and while it shares many of the features of the previous Cloud Flight – 50 mm drivers, closed ear cup design, 2.4 GHz connectivity – it adds the option of Qi wireless charging. In fact, HyperX calls this "the first free-standing Qi-charging wireless gaming headset", adding an interesting alternative to the usual USB cable.
In this review we'll check out the design and features (along with listening impressions) of the Cloud Flight S, which is available beginning today for a list price $159.99 USD.
Product Specifications
- Part Number: HX-HSCFS-SG/WW
- Driver: Dynamic, 50mm with neodymium magnets
- Type: Circumaural, Closed back
- Frequency response: 10Hz–22kHz
- Impedance: 32 Ω
- Sound pressure level: 99.5dBSPL/mW at 1kHz T.H.D.: < 1%
- Element: Electret condenser microphone
- Polar pattern: Bi-directional, Noise-cancelling
- Frequency response: 50Hz-18kHz
- Sensitivity: -40.5dBV (1V/Pa at 1kHz)
- Connectivity: 2.4 GHz (USB dongle)
- Range: Up to 20 meters (wireless range may vary due to environmental conditions)
- Battery life: 30 hours (tested at 50% headphone volume)
- Wireless Charging: Qi (wireless charger sold separately)
Manufacturer Description
"The HyperX Cloud Flight S gives you an impressive 30 hours of long-lasting wireless gaming freedom. It's the first free-standing Qi-charging wireless gaming headset, giving you the convenience of both wireless charging and 2.4GHz wireless audio connectivity. Activate HyperX custom-tuned virtual 7.1 surround sound and unlock an extra level of immersion from your audio entertainment with a touch of your earcup. Adjust the balance of game and chat volume easily by pressing the onboard controls, bypassing all those system menus. If you want to further tune things to your wishes, you can customize the intuitive earcup controls with easy-to-use HyperX NGENUITY software."
Packaging and Contents
The Cloud Flight S arrives in the usual HyperX packaging, with solid protection for the headset and a basic complement of accessories inside. In addition to the headset itself there is the 2.4 GHz USB dongle, a USB charging cable, the detachable boom mic, and paperwork.
Design and Comfort
The Cloud Flight S carries the familiar HyperX design language, with an all-black aesthetic punctuated by the white logo on each ear cup.
From a functional standpoint there's more going on here than with the usual gaming headset, beginning with the complement of physical controls (and inputs) at the base of each earcup. The left side offers power on/off, 7.1 surround on/off, microUSB charging input, and mic input; the right side contains the volume roller.
The construction feels very solid in general, free of the dreaded plastic creaking sounds or any other unwanted noises during handling and use. The included boom mic also holds its position well.
Regarding comfort, this 320 gram / 11.3 oz headset (with mic) offers a solid padding level, with fairly thick pads for each ear cup that also provide good sound isolation, and a softer pad for the headband that offers adequate comfort.
I wore the headset for multiple long sessions and found it quite comfortable even after a few hours of constant use, and here the moderate clamping force (pressure against the ears) and overall light weight contributed. Everyone is different, but these seem neutral enough to please most people.
Sound Quality
I have previously described HyperX headsets (such as the previous Cloud Flight Wireless) with terms like "bass-heavy" and "smile EQ" (where the bass and treble are more prominent than the midrange, making a "smile" shape on an old graphic equalizer), but these sounded different to me.
HyperX describes the sound from this headset as having "crystal-clear highs, mids and lows", and clarity is definitely the word here. In my listening sessions I noticed a more prominent treble, with high frequencies a bit louder to my ears. The midrange is a little "forward" (louder) as well, so these essentially provided what I felt was a mid/treble boost.
Bass response was actually lower than I expected, in part (I felt) due to the accentuated mids and (especially) highs. Bass is certainly there, and testing using a tone generator I was able to get these to produce low frequencies I could literally feel down to 20 Hz before they rolled off sharply. You really can actually hear deep bass with these – but not as much as I would have expected (with a flat EQ) as the bass gets pushed to the back of the mix by default.
All of these subjective observations about the sound are just that: subjective. I personally favor a "brighter" (more highs) sound, so I appreciated the clarity of the Cloud Flight S. I think many people these days are used to more bass, particularly with gaming headsets, and there some simple EQ tweaking will add it back in, though – oddly – the HyperX software does not include a graphic equalizer function that I could find (more on the software later).
As to the microphone, this is going to be best for chat – which is clearly what it is optimized for. The boom itself is great, being easy to adjust and holding its position well. There's not much else to say, and for streaming this won't rival a dedicated mic.
Onboard Controls
I mentioned EQ adjustments above, and here the Cloud Flight S has an interesting onboard implementation. In addition to the physical controls (power, 7.1 surround, and the volume roller), there are touch controls built into the left earcup. These controls can be customized using the HyperX NGENUITY software (more on this later).
Game and chat audio balance
Quickly and easily adjust the balance of game and chat audio with the earcup controls, so you won't have to waste time digging into system menus.
Qi Wireless Charging
The Qi wireless integration is contained within the left earcup, and to charge using this method requires standing the headset on its side. I was impressed by how well it actually worked to set a pair of headphones on up their side like this; between the weight distribution and magnets it felt perfectly stable during the charging process.
It works better than expected, but I'm still a little confused about the addition of Qi charging to a PC (and PS4) gaming headset. The addition of Qi wireless charging feels out of place here. Also, not being unable to use the headset while it's charging – something you can do when charging wireless headsets via USB cable – is not ideal.
Also, given the association of Qi with mobile devices I was surprised this headset wasn't Bluetooth compatible, where Qi charging might make sense if you were to use this headset with your phone and could share a wireless charger. Or, perhaps you already have a wireless charging pad on your desk and can now conveniently charge up your headset with it as well?
HyperX NGENUITY Software
Using the latest beta version of NGenuity via the Windows 10 app store (a compatible version is not available directly from the HyperX website) I was able to customize the onboard controls and tweak the settings to some degree, but I felt there could be a lot more in the way of customization.
The four onboard buttons can be set to any of a variety of functions, including volume control, mic mute, and game/chat EQ settings. The surround function can also be toggled in software, with the addition of an automatic enhancement that is tailored to popular recent games.
The Cloud Flight S Wireless headset has good build quality and comfort and a reliable 2.4 GHz wireless connection. The sound favors mids and highs, and while this does provide more clarity some manual EQ will be needed to add the powerful bass these are capable of to the mix.
The Qi charging aspect of this new model works well, but I'm not sure of how useful it will be to gamers – if I'm right in assuming that most would be more likely to charge these via USB, which would allow for use during charging. On the other hand this feature arrives alongside the customizable onboard touch controls, which I found to be quite useful. Between these unique features I don't think the $20 increase in cost from the previous Cloud Flight wireless headset ($139.99 to $159.99) is unreasonable.
Bottom line, if you favor clarity over bass these will not disappoint you in the sound department, and they have more than enough comfort and battery life to keep you going through long gaming sessions. The added functionality of the onboard buttons gives the Cloud Flight S above-average utility, as does its optional Qi charging. In the end I found this to be an solid wireless headset with enough interesting functionality to stand out in a crowded market.
Review Disclosures
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How Product Was Obtained
The headset is on loan from Kingston/HyperX for the purpose of this review.
What Happens To Product After Review
The headset remains the property of Kingston/HyperX but will be on extended loan to PC Perspective for the purpose of future testing and product comparisons.
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