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CFP: Irish Gothic, Perugia, 5-6 December 2013Posted by Matt Foley on June 20, 2013 in Blog tagged with cfp, Irish Gothic
5-6 December, 2013
Confirmed Speakers:
• Professor W. J. McCormack (Former Professor of Literary History at Goldsmiths College, University of London)
• Professor Francesca Romana Paci (Full Professor, Università del Piemonte Orientale)
• Dr Laura Pelaschiar (Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Università di Trieste)
• Dr Derek Hand (Senior Lecturer in English, Saint' Patrick's College, Dublin City University)
Gothic studies have recently been expanding previous limits of what was once thought to be an historically well defined genre. The extent of continual change in Gothic denotation is such that it is now approaching the status of an inter-genre inter-semiotic category. This is even more the case with Irish literature. Not only because a remarkable number of Gothic writers are Irish, but also, and more significantly, because Ireland has provided an extremely fruitful cultural background for the particular narrative forms and devices that are usually associated with the Gothic. Moreover, Irish literature presents a "gothicness" of its own, whereby it seems to simultaneously adhere to and reject the ideological and aesthetic models implied by the very notion of Gothic.
At this conference we will explore the ways in which Irish Gothic can/cannot be considered part of the mainstream Gothic tradition, as well as investigating the origins and evolution of the genre in an Irish context.
We welcome submissions addressing any topic relevant to Irish studies, and encourage papers, which explore any aspect of the Irish Gothic in literature, film, and other media.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
• Irish Gothic vs English Gothic
• The Birth of Irish Gothic
• Theorising Irish Gothic
• Irish Gothic Modernisms
• The Uncanny in Irish Fiction
• Victorian Irish Gothic
• Irish Gothic Geography
• Irish Gothic in the Media
• Irish Gothic Art
• Irish Gothic and Psychology
• Irish Gothic and Imperialism
• Irish Gothic and Science
• Irish Gothic and Technology
• Irish Gothic and Popular "Goth" Culture
• Irish Gothic and History
Abstracts (250 words max) for 20 minute papers and a short bio-sketch may be submitted to Enrico Terrinoni (Università per Stranieri di Perugia) and Annalisa Volpone (Università degli Studi di Perugia): firstname.lastname@example.com.
Deadline for submissions: September 1, 2013.
Accepted speakers will be notified by September 20.
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This is the second year in a row that Kuntz is appearing on the national ballot, after being named first team All-American last year. At last year's NCAA Championships, she received the Elite 89 Award, which is given to the student-athlete with the highest GPA at the championship site. The mechanical engineering and physics major came second in the Pole Vault at this year's NCAA indoor championships with a vault of 12-11.50 and won the event at the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) outdoor championships last month for the third time in her career with a 12-01.50. She was named to the NEWMAC All-Conference and NEWMAC Academic All-Conference teams this year.
Konopka is being featured on the Academic All-District for the first time in her career following a very successful junior season. At the indoor ECAC Championships, she finished in first place in the Pentathlon with 3,453 points after earning personal best performances in all five events. She is the current MIT record holder in the event. She finished in sixth place at indoor nationals with 3,387 points and was first in the heptathlon with 4,420 points at the outdoor New England Division III Championships earlier this month. Konopka, who is a brain and cognitive sciences major, was named to the NEWMAC All-Conference and NEWMAC Academic All-Conference teams.
Just a sophomore, Manion is appearing on the national ballot for the first time. She received the Elite 89 Award at the 2012 cross country NCAA Championships, becoming the first MIT women's cross country runner to receive it. She finished sixth in the 6k at the cross country NEWMAC Championships (18:59.29). At this year's outdoor track and field NEWMAC Championships, she came in third place in the 10,000m with a time of 40:14.80. The mechanical engineering major has interned at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory and conducted research in the Langer Lab at the David H. Koch Institute at MIT. She was named to the NEWMAC All-Conference and NEWMAC Academic All-Conference teams for both cross country and track and field.
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Greendot wrote:Fourdegrees: Thank you for a very useful and great post! I have lots of 25's already but still found a few tricks that will come in handy, very nice!!
Poofah wrote:Probably the same thing: beat tamers with 2 pets plus a lowbie. You just have to fly around doing all the different ones rather than sit and kill Nishi over and over. This is what I've been doing anyway since 5.1, due to the battle stones.
Preferred line-ups:
Zusshi/Aki -- Magical Crawdad, Darkmoon Zeppelin
Dread Wastes guy -- Spawn of Onyxia, Darkmoon Zeppelin
Mo'ruk/Hyuna/Yon -- Emerald Proto-Whelp, Darkmoon Zeppelin
Air spirit -- Emerald Proto-Whelp.
Fire spirit -- Purple Puffer, Emerald Proto-Whelp
Water spirit -- a moth (needs to be 250+ speed) and a snail, however your lowbie will take several Tidal Waves so it has to have decent health.
Earth spirit -- I haven't found a good 2 pet team that reliably wins, so I forego the XP on this one. I'd love to hear if somebody has a good setup for this.
Uldum tamer -- Emerald Proto-Whelp, Darkmoon Zeppelin
Major Payne -- Fluxfire Feline, and a strider/skimmer
Antari -- Purple Puffer, Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling
Incidentally, has anyone found a battle-stone in the Pandaren Spirit Tamer bags? Wowhead doesn't list them as possible drops.
Poofah wrote:sure:
Crawdad: claw/shell shield/wish
Zeppelin: missile/decoy/explode
Emerald Proto: Emerald Bite/Emerald Presence/Emerald Dream
Spawn of Onyxia: Tail Whip/Healing Flame/Lift-Off
Purple Puffer: Surge/Healing Wave/Pump
Moth: Alpha Strike/Cocoon Strike/Moth Dust
Snail: Absorb/Acidic Goo/Dive
Crawdad is slow but safe: shield first, and make sure to use wish the turn before you drop below 50% health. So for example vs Aki you want to get the dragon first: shield first turn, Wish 2nd turn, or else you'll get low on hp and the dragon will trigger its racial and kill you. Then just claw til dead while renewing shield and wish on cd: cricket can't damage crawdad while shield is up, and then you get a few hits on the otter. Similar for Zusshi, if you get the elemental first: shield then wish, then claw and renew shield/wish on cd; then on the snail, claw first turn, shield 2nd (because he'll dive), wish 3rd, and then claw til dead.
Vs Mo'ruk/Hyuna/Orbis, start with Zeppelin, get the snake/worm first, missile first turn, decoy 2nd turn (the worm/snake will burrow this turn, if it has burrow), then missile til dead. Swap to Emerald Proto, kill the flyer, hit the last pet til nearly dead, swap to lowbie, take one hit (or just kill it if the lowbie is high enough), swap to Zep and explode.
For the Dread Wastes guy, get the crab first, tail whip until Whirlpool has 1 turn left, and lift-off on that turn. Hopefully that kills the crab: if it misses, you'll have to healing flame. Then the elemental will do sandstorm/rupture/aoe/aoe/aoe/rupture; try to lift-off or healing flame the ruptures, everything else does little damage. Zeppelin kills the porcupine easily.
Yon: Emerald Proto-Whelp uses basic attack first turn, shield 2nd turn, basic attack 3rd turn, then if you get hit with the burrow/lift-off, start Emerald Dream. Then just repeat; the turn your shield wears off is the turn that the chicken/rabbit will burrow or lift-off, so wait until the shield is fully gone before refreshing. You'll get a couple whacks on the goat, and Zeppelin wins.
Major Payne: fluxfire supercharges, wind-up, wind-up: bear is dead; then wind-up again, if the peep kills you, you rez and pounce until you die for good; if you survive the first turn, supercharge so you can kill the peep after your rez. Just remember that if the peep kills you with its wind-up, it'll bug out and prevent the rez. If by some miracle the fluxfire is still alive, pounce the flower until it kills you, then lowbie, then strider kills the flower.
Air Spirit: Emerald Proto, just keep up shield, heal as needed, he'll kill all three this way.
Fire Spirit: start with Puffer, insist on getting the fire spirit; pump, pump, surge, this kills the spirit unless he crits you or you miss. Then surge the dragon until you die; Emerald Proto kills the other two by keeping up shield and healing as needed.
Water Spirit: this is annoying because of tidal wave. Start with a moth, insist on getting the fish first. Moth Dust, Alpha Strike, Cocoon Strike to eat the Dive (but you'll take damage from whirlpool). Then alpha strike, and the fish should be dead. Moth Dust the skimmer -- if you miss, it's going to be a long fight and it'll get a lot of tidal waves in, which will wreck your lowbie. Let the moth die while fighting the skimmer, then get Acidic Goo up and Dive with the snail -- you need to dps the skimmer down asap. The spirit is the easiest, just make sure you Dive with 1 turn left on the 2 debuffs: after you come back up is a good time to swap to the lowbie, and then swap back and finish him off.
Eviver wrote:Not sure if this if this is actually possible but when I was doing the Spirit tamer quest before finishing it I thought I remember seeing the Thundering spirit give me the option of fighting him again after I already beat him. If this is true it might be possible for someone still on the initial spirit tamer quest to repeat fighting the spirits over and over again. if thats the case the fastest way to level might be to not finish the quest and fight the whispering spirit in the Jade Forest with a dragonkin and an suicide explode mechanical and running back to the nearest stable master.
I finished the quest so I can't verify and i have some doubt over if it really did offer me the choice to fight again wasnt really paying attention to it but did remember making a mental note that it seem odd.
Poofah wrote:
Snail: Absorb/Acidic Goo/Dive
Theaah wrote:
You might be thinking of how you were able to go and do dailies from them as soon as you finished the quest line with them?
Poofah wrote:Earth spirit -- I haven't found a good 2 pet team that reliably wins, so I forego the XP on this one. I'd love to hear if somebody has a good setup for this.
Instead of Spawn of Ony, can I use Ony Whelp? Also I never leveled any Moth, is there one in particular you recommend (you said get a fast one?)
Haven't used any snails so far whatsoever so asking that do you have any suggestions which snail (does it matter?) and moreover, which breed, fast or strong or what?
Ability lineup:
Bandicoon: Tongue Lash, Survival, Powerball
Darkmoon Tonk: Missile, Shock and Awe, Ion Cannon
Poofah wrote:This is interesting -- my biggest problem is killing the earth spirit with a single pet, without stunning him or otherwise causing him to switch out.
Poofah wrote:Just to update, a flayer is indeed absurd vs the water spirit: triple snap/reflect/rampage, he'll kill the skimmer and spirit.
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I'm a little embarrassed to admit, I've been visiting this site for over a year and only now got around to reading "The End of Faith." I assumed it was going to be a lot of preaching to the choir, and as such not worth my time. The first three chapters were pretty much what I expected. Had I not decided to read the whole book no matter what, I probably would have put it down.
Chapter four (on Islam) was better. I think Islam rightly deserves Harris's sharpest criticism. I think he also makes some good points in chapter five, where he identifies some specific problems caused by Christian influence over public policy in the U.S..
But by far the best part of the book in my opinion, and worth the price of admission, was the last two chapters, on the "science" of good and evil, and experiments in consciousness. In a way, it's a pity Harris didn't put these last two chapters first, as I think I might have approached the rest of the book with a more open mind. (Now I'm thinking I need to re-read it from the beginning.)
Anyway, if you've been putting off reading "The End of Faith" because you're expecting an atheist diatribe, I'd recommend giving it a shot. You might be pleasantly surprised, as I was.
The section on consciousness didn't hold my interest. I don't blame Sam for that. Maybe it's my personal prejudice, but whenever people talk about the nature of perception or consciousness, I picture stoners saying things like, "You ever really notice your hand before?"
My absolute favorite chapter in the End of Faith, the one that really made me start thinking was the chapter on the nature of belief. That chapter was very different from most of what I had previously read in other books on atheism. I think it is also the chapter that have had the most impact on my reasoning.
Maybe it's my personal prejudice, but whenever people talk about the nature of perception or consciousness, I picture stoners saying things like, "You ever really notice your hand before?"
Hey, man, what's wrong with that?
I more or less agreed with much of what Harris had to say before I eye scanned the text. Plus, I had heard his lecture for the Long Now Foundation (downloadable on their site) beforehand as well.
My biggest question about the book involves human nature: can we blame all of the ills Harris describes on religion? Would life be, or have been, any different without religion? People seem perfectly capable of nastiness without help, so should Harris argue about the "nasty" spots of human nature rather than pegging it on religious belief?
My guess is, were religious belief eradicated, that humans would find other rationalizations for strange beliefs not based on evidence. If Nietzsche is correct that falsity and error remain conditions for human life, perhaps we're in this situation for the long haul.
Other than that nagging question, I really enjoyed the book.
Ewomack, "blaming all ills on religion" is really a straw man created by Sam's critics. From my reading, Sam has said nothing of the kind.
Religion receives so much focus because it represents the overwhelming majority of "strange beliefs not based on evidence," and therefore poses a greater harm to society. There are plenty of secular beliefs that fit that description, and they all rightly deserve criticism, but they don't draw as much attention because the harm they pose is much less. Astrologers aren't trying to legally require public schools to teach about star signs.
The cause of these strange beliefs is not necessarily falsity and error. That's too general. The specific causes are the fears of death and of the unknown. Strip away everything else from any strange belief, and you have an attempt to deny that fear by either exerting control over the universe or postulating an entity or entities that have that control.


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With a breathtaking autumnal backdrop, the couple exchanged self-written vows that left many of the 95 guests sobbing ("even Dave's buddies!"). Dinner, under a tent, featured a cross-cultural menu of roast pig and pasta with garlic and rosemary. Following a first dance to Barry White's "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe," Lisa, David, and company hit the floor, partying until it was time to retire to the nearby lakefront bed-and-breakfasts. "I always think weddings are over too fast," says Lisa, "so I'm glad we were able to prolong this magical, memorable experience."—Hillary Quinn
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This post has been submitted by Ingrid, a Slow Food Rhode Island board member. Look for more on Ingrid and Josh's 100 Mile Diet challenge through August and September, and feel free to add your comments if you're participating in a similar challenge or are a locavore.
My husband, Josh, and I are taking the 100 Mile Diet challenge . . . again. Last year was our first try and we did July and August. This year, Josh and I chose to do it during August and September. Yes, yes, yes – we did choose easier months but no matter what months we choose, we still can't have chocolate or coffee!
One of our big inspirations last year (and continues to be) was the book Plenty – One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally by Elisa Smith and JB McKinnon. Elisa and JB did the 100 Mile Diet for a whole year living in Canada. Very impressive! In addition to Plenty, the great experience we had last year and the ever-increasing amount local products available to us now has continued to inspire us this year. We are regulars at the Farmers Markets at Goddard State Park, Hope Street at Lippitt Park, and the relatively new one in East Greenwich so our choices are quite varied.
We are just coming to the end of our first week and we have been enjoying blueberries from Schartners Farm, greens, tomatoes, country style ribs and a whole chicken from Pat's Pastured, peaches, apples, eggplant, onions, and . . . the list goes on. We also planted two small gardens at our house – one is for veggies and one is for herbs. Right now our parsley is going crazy! Soon we'll try a modified version of Fergus Henderson's parsley salad from his cookbook The Whole Beast. The best part is there will be even more local foods to gobble up in the coming weeks. We'll be posting a few entries on Slow Food Rhode Island throughout August and September so stay tuned!
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1855 Olive Emilie Albertina, the ninth of twelve children of Gottlob Schreiner, of German extraction, and Rebecca Schreiner née Lyndall, missionaries in South Africa sponsored by the London Missionary Society, is born on 24 March at Wittebergen mission station, Basutoland (now Lesotho). She is named after her three brothers, who died in infancy.
1857 Birth of Olive's younger brother, William Philip Schreiner, the future Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, a lawyer and an anti-British imperialist. He dies on 28 June 1919.
1861 When Olive is six, she begins a semi-nomadic pattern of moving from place to place, which will last until her death in 1920. The Schreiner family move to Kat River Mission Settlement at Healdtown, and a few years later to Balfour.
1864 Ellie, the twelfth and last child of Gottlob and Rebecca Schreiner is born. She dies the following year. Olive's novel, From Man To Man, is dedicated to her beloved sister. At about ten, Olive loses her orthodox faith.
1865 Gottlob Schreiner is dismissed from the Wesleyan Missionary Society for the misdemeanour of combining small trading with his missionary work. He undertakes petty trade.
1866 Haunted by debt Gottlob Schreiner is declared insolvent. Family disperses due to poverty.
1867 After Gottlob Schreiner's insolvency, Olive, together with her elder sister Ettie (later the temperance orator) and younger brother William, joins her elder brother Theo (school headmaster) and attends his school in the small South African township of Cradock, Eastern Cape.
1870 Olive works as a governess for her cousin Elise-Pauline Orpen, at Avoca, a small farm in the Colesber district. She begins to read books that introduce her to contemporary European intellectual debate.
1871 She meets free-thinking William Bertram at Hermon mission station. Reads his copy of Herbert Spencer's First Principles, which confirms her agnosticism. Bertram encourages her to read the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, which exerted an enormous impact on her intellectual development. Schreiner announces that she is to be called Olive, not Emilie any more.
1872 Olive works as a governess to a family in Dortrecht. Has a brief love affair with the twenty-six year old Julius Gau, a politician and diamond merchant. Joins her elder brother Theo and elder sister Ettie at the diamond-fields at New Rush (later known as Kimberley, Northern Cape), where she teaches children of local diggers. Olive starts drafting her three novels, Undine, The Story of An African Farm (earlier title versions: Thorn Kloof, Mirage), From Man to Man (originally titled Other Men's Sins), and short stories. Her asthma attacks begin at around this time.
1873 Olive meets Mary Brown (a British feminist) and her husband Dr John Brown at Fraseburg. Later the couple will devise 'the English plan' to enable her to train in medicine in 1881.
1874 Olive works full time as a governess in the Cape Colony and writes fiction in her free time.
1875 Undine nearly completed. Olive reads John Stuart Mill's A System of Logic. Teaches at the Fouches at Klein Ganna Hoek farm near Cradock.
1876 Father dies. Olive reads Goethe and Montaigne.
1887 Olive visits her mother, who converts to Catholicism and finds shelter in a convent.
1879 Early version of The Story of an African Farm is complete (not yet with this title).
1880 Olive sends the manuscript of African Farm to Mary and John Brown, who reside in Burnley, Lancashire. They pass it to the Edinburgh publisher David Douglas, who turns it down but advises editing. Olive works on suggested revisions.
1881 Olive travels to England to train for a medical career and seek a publisher for African Farm. Stays with brother Fred Schreiner and his wife Emma in Eastbourne, Sussex. Enrols as a nurse at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, but has to give up after several days because of ill-health.
1882 Olive goes to Endell Street Hospital in London to train as a midwife, but becomes ill and spends winter in Ventnor, Isle of Wight. Back in London, Olive meets a circle of women writers, socialists and social reformers, including Amy Levy, Eleanor Marx, Margaret Harkness, Dollie Maitland (Radford), Beatrix Potter (Webb), and Clementina Black.
1883 Chapman and Hall accept The Story of an African Farm on the recommendation of the eminent novelist, George Meredith. Published in two volumes in January, the novel proves as immediate success, and a second edition quickly follows. Fifteen editions will appear in Schreiner's lifetime.
1884 Olive meets Henry Havelock Ellis, a medical student with strong interest in literature and forms very close friendship with him.
1885 Olive joins the radical Men and Women's Club convened by the free-thinking Karl Pearson, to whom Schreiner is strongly drawn. Attends the meetings of the Fellowship of the New Life, an organisation founded by Thomas Davidson, and influenced by the ideas of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Meets its members, Edward Carpenter, the radical socialist and homosexual emancipationist; Edith Lees, Edith Nesbit, Frank Podmore, Hubert Bland, Edward Pease, and Henry Stephens Salt, a noted literary critic, ethical vegetarian, anti-vivisectionist, socialist, and pacifist. She also meets George Moore, the Irish novelist and art critic, who is strongly attracted to her.
1886 Intellectual relationship with Pearson breaks down. Olive suffers mental and physical collapse, being increasingly dependent on medications which contain combination of laudanum, strychnine and potassium bromide. Leaves London for Shanklin, the Isle of Wight, next Bournemouth, Kilburn, and Harrow-on-the-Hill, hoping to improve her health. Leaves England for an extended stay on the Continent. Still working on From Man to Man. Writes introduction to Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Olive's physician, Dr H. Bryan Donkin falls in love with her and, for the next two years, repeatedly implores her to marry him, but she declines him.
1887 Stays in the Grand Hotel D'Alassio in Alassio, Italy, on the Italian Riviera; then in Switzerland at Arona, Belinzona, Gersau, and Clarens, where she meets Leslie Stephen; then stays at various rooming houses in Paris. Returns to London on June 10. Seeks publisher for her collection of allegorical and visionary writings.
1888 Rents a cottage in January in Hertforshire. Sojourns in June at Riva, Lago di Garda, Italy. Stays in Alassio, Italy, for two months (October-November); then goes to Mentone, France.
1889 Lives in Paris for almost a month and leaves for London in April. Meets the decadent and symbolist poet and critic Arthur Symons. Goes on a short holiday at the seaside with the poet and novelist Amy Levy on Aug 31; the itinerary includes St. Leone, Folkestone, and St. Margaret. Sadly, on September 10, Levy, who suffers from depression, commits suicide at the age of twenty-seven by inhaling carbon monoxide from a stove. Olive returns to South Africa in October. Stays with her brother Will and sister-in-law Fan at their home in Mount Vernon, Cape Town. Travels to Grahamstown in late November to see her sick mother.
1890 Moves to Matjesfontein, on the high Karroo, Western Cape, in March, where the climate and altitude will provide relief from her asthma attacks. Begins a series of periodical essays on South Africa (collected posthumously in 1923). Meets Cecil Rhodes, the owner of De Beers Consolidated Mines and later Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, and attracted by his forceful personality, Olive invites him to visit her. Settles in Matjesfontein.
1891 Dreams published in London by T. Fisher Unwin.
1892 Breaks with Rhodes. Meets Samuel "Cron" Cronwright, an ostrich farmer and freethinker, who begins to court her. Works on further allegories, including "The Buddhist Priest's Wife."
1893 Leaves for England in May. The Story of an African Farm is published in a Russian translation. Stays in Eastbourne with her brother Fred for a while. Goes to Millthorpe in June, to the retreat run by Edward Carpenter for himself and his friends. Dream Life and Real Life is published London by T. Fisher Unwin. Returns to South Africa in early October. She then lives in Middleburg, Eastern Cape Cape.
1894 Marries Samuel Cronwright, eight years her junior, on 24 February at the Karoo town of Middelburg. He, unusually, chooses to be called, Cronwright-Schreiner. Asthma attacks become severe during summer and force the newly-weds to leave for the better climate of Kimberley, Northern Cape, where they buy a property which becomes their permanent home until 1898.
1895 Baby daughter dies shortly after birth.
1896 The Schreiners travel to England to agitate for a peaceful solution to conflicts in South Africa. Publishes (with Cronwright-Schreiner) The Political Situation in Cape Colony.
1897 Travels to England with her husband to publish Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland, a fictional attack on Cecil Rhodes' segregationist and racist policies. The Schreiners remain in London a short while before leaving for the Continent, staying at various places until they arrive at Alassio, where they sojourn for about six weeks. Then they come back to London in early June, stopping off in Paris en route. They return to their home in Kimberley in September.
1898 Another close friend of Olive Schreiner, Eleanor Marx, the youngest daughter of Karl Marx, commits a suicide. The Schreiners move to Johannesburg.
1899 In August 1899, the Schreiners leave Johannesburg because of Olive's poor health, going to Karre Kloof, a farm of Cron's cousin, near Strydenburg, Northern Cape. Outbreak of second Anglo-Boer War in early October. Olive publishes a pro-Boer anti-war tract, An English South African's View of the Situation, causing offence to her brother Will, Prime Minister of the Cape Colony. Cron leaves for England in January.
1900 Prominent in the women's protest movement in the Cape. On 31 May, Olive speaks at a Volkskongres at Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, and on 9 July at a women's protest meeting in Cape Town. Lives under martial law in Hanover, where she is joined by Cron in May 1901.
1902 Olive visits Johannesburg and rescues fragments from what remains of her house; most of her manuscripts have been destroyed. Hanover becomes Schreiners' residence from 1902 to 1906. Works on Woman and Labour, From Man to Man, and several stories, including "Eighteen-Ninety-Nine."
1903 Olive's mother dies in Cape Town.
1906 Publishes pamphlet, 'Letter on the Jew', in the Cape Times (2 July).
1907 In October 1907, Olive and Cron move to De Aar where they live until 1913. Olive helps found Cape Women's Enfranchisement League "to promote an intelligent interest in the question of the political enfranchisement of women in the Cape Colony, and to advocate for the granting of the vote to them on the same terms as men."
1908 Supports South African federation. Letter on women's suffrage appears in the Cape Times.
1909 Publishes Closer Union. A Letter on the South African Union and the Principles of Government in London. Olive publicly shakes hands with Gandhi when he is about to depart Cape Town. Supports Gandhi's satyagraha movement.
1911 Olive's lifelong interests in gender and feminist issues culminate in the publication of Woman and Labour in London.
1913 Resigns from the post of Vice-President of the Women's Enfranchisement League because the League wants vote for white women only. In December, Olive leaves South Africa (without Cron) for England and the Continent, hoping to find medical relief for her deteriorating health in the spas.
1914 After the outbreak of World War One Olive stays in England until 1920. Sees Havelock at regular occasions and visits his psychotic wife Edith throughout her last illness and death. Becomes an uncompromising pacifist; her antiwar tracts and support of pacifist activities cut her off from former literary and feminist friends.
1915 Publishes "Who Knocks at the Door?"
1916 Publishes pacifist propaganda in Labour Leader.
1917 In October, Olive moves to 9 Porchester Place, Edgware Road, where she stays until she leaves for Cape Town in September 1920.
1919 Olive suffers from depression.
1920 Cronwright-Schreiner travels to England after separation of five years. An aged and crippled invalid, Schreiner returns to South Africa. Dies of heart failure on 10 December in a rooming house at Wynberg, a suburb of Cape Town, and is buried in the Schreiner family plot in Maitland cemetery. A few months later, Cron, who has returned from Europe, obtains permission to have his wife's body exhumed and buries her in a coffin on top of Buffelskop mountain, near Cradock in the Eastern Cape, together with two other coffins, containing the remains of their baby daughter and the favourite dog Nita.
1923 Stories, Dreams, and Allegories and Thoughts on South Africa are published posthumously by London: T. Fisher Unwin. The majority of the essays were written between 1890 and 1892.
1924 Samuel Cronwright-Schreiner publishes his wife's biography, The Life of Olive Schreiner, her letters, The Letters of Olive Schreiner, and edits her remaining manuscripts for publication. Drops 'Schreiner' from his surname and remarries in England.
1926 From Man to Man is published posthumously in London by T. Fisher Unwin.
1929 Undine is published posthumously in London by Ernest Benn.
1936 Samuel Cronwright dies in Rondebosch, Cape Town, and is interred beside Olive Schreiner, their baby daughter and the dog Neta on Buffelskop, on which they had stood shortly after their marriage and had decided that they should be buried together there.
1966 The Story of an African Farm is republished.
1983 Olive Schreiner: A One-Woman Play, by Stephen Gray, is published.
2004 The Story of an African Farm, a film directed by David Lister, is released in South Africa.
Burdett, Carolyn. Olive Schreiner and the Progress of Feminism: Evolution, Gender, Empire. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.
Draznin, Yaffa Claire. My Other Self: The Letters of Olive Schreiner and Havelock Ellis, 1884-1920. New York: Peter Lang, 1992.
Schreiner, Olive. The Story of an African Farm. Edited by Joseph Bristow. Oxford: Oxford University, 1998.
___. Dreams: Three Works by Olive Schreiner. Edited by Elisabeth Jay. Birmingham: University of Birmingham Press, 2003.
Introduction to the Olive Schreiner Letters Online site
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Back towards the tail-end of 2011, and up into the very beginning of 2012, there was a lot of back and forth on whether or not Samsung would update the original line of Galaxy S devices past Android 2.3, Gingerbread.
We first heard that Samsung would be releasing a "Value Pack," or Android 4.0-lite, update for the Galaxy S with performance enhancements and certain features from ICS back-ported to Android 2.3. Just a few short days after the initial Value Pack announcement, a spokesperson with Samsung made it clear that no updates were going to be issued for the original Galaxy S.
Apparently that information wasn't accurate, because Samsung has officially released their Samsung Galaxy S Value Pack update today in Korea.
Available now through Kies 2.0, the Samsung Galaxy S Value Pack update is exactly what it's always been rumored as: a far cry from Android 4.0, but better than nothing. With the Value Pack update, Galaxy S users in Korea can expect performance enhancements and several features ported over from Android 4.0 like automatic font resizing, the ability to take pictures while filming video and face unlock (which Samsung has added blink detection to, making it somewhat more secure than Google's version).
US Galaxy S owners may be out of luck on this one. There's been no word of Samsung's Value Pack reaching the States anytime soon, and there's little reason to believe it will. If that situation changes, we'll be sure to update you.
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Why does a designer who can't abide Victorian style buy a grand old Victorian house? "It had a personality," says interior designer and homeowner David L. Smith. Not his favorite personality, but close enough. After previously renovating three historic homes and spending 28 years designing residences for others, David knew how to make the 1893 greystone his own. "My approach was to simplify and refine," he says.
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In the long, narrow living room, David divided the space into two comfortable seating areas. A 1940s French table (foreground) centers the cocktail area, which is close to the dining room and renovated kitchen.
A Belgian antique marble mantel replaced a crumbling old wood one in the living room. The bust was a gift to Chicago from Milan, Italy, for the Columbia Exposition in 1893, the same year that the house was built.
French doors open views from the living room to the back garden.
White paint transforms an ornate oak staircase from "churchy" to Chippendale in style, says homeowner David Smith. The white paneling sets off the curves of an antique Biedermeier chair.
A detail of the staircase
A Rose Tarlow chandelier adds scale and a rustic quality to the dining room. "I like to mix in things that are rustic or raw. It makes a room more elegant and relaxed," David says. The dining room connects to a narrow gallery, which features French doors to the back deck. Art on the walls are framed pages taken from a 1950 collection of Pablo Picasso's ceramic designs.
David tucked a TV into the island for viewing from the family room. Open shelves on the range side of the island keep cookware close at hand. A hall to the right of the refrigerator features a built-in bar.
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Twenty campus clubs representing cultures from around the world will come together on Sunday, April 6 from noon to 7 pm for the 44th annual International Food Fair at the Johnson Gym on the campus of Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Mich. This reflects a date change from the previously announced date of Sunday, March 30 .
Each spring, clubs representing the internationally diverse student body of Andrews University join together for this flavorful, cultural event. More than 150 volunteers prepare vegetarian fare representing cuisines from all corners of the earth—Southeast Asian, Caribbean, European, Korean, Brazilian and French, to name a few. Each booth will offer an authentic menu while also showcasing a bit of cultural flair with music and decorations.
Each year, about 5,000 visitors have the opportunity to try some familiar ethnic favorites, such as eggrolls, quiche and calzones, as well new dishes including samosas (a Southeast Asian triangular-shaped pastry shell with a savory filling of spiced potatoes, onions and peas), chapati (an Indian bread that is puffed up like a balloon) and kelewele (a fried plantain chip seasoned with spices and traditionally made in West African countries).
From the savory to the sweet, there will be plenty of desserts to tantalize visitors' taste buds. Exotic desserts—such as brigaderio (a Brazilian chocolate fudge candy) —are available alongside the traditional American favorites of strawberry shortcake and ice-cream.
In recent years, approximately $20,000 has been raised through the once-a-year International Food Fair, held annually since 1964. All the proceeds benefit the various participating international clubs.
Food tickets can be purchased the day of the event in the ticket office of Johnson Gym. Tickets are sold in increments of $5 and menu prices range from 50-cents to $6. There is no admission cost to the fair. For more information, please contact the office of International Student Services at 269-471-6395.


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The focus of Division III budget discussions sharpened significantly over the summer. In a late June meeting, the Division III Strategic Planning and Finance Committee approved a series of cost-cutting measures formulated by the Division III Championships Committee. The division is facing a $2.5 million budget shortfall in the coming academic year because of rapidly rising championship travel and game operation costs. To combat those rising expenses, the committees have recommended policy changes, some of which will limit reimbursements currently provided to participating institutions and hosts.
The five proposed changes (see table below) will eliminate an estimated $2.17 million from the championships budget in the 2014-15 academic year, which falls about $340,000 short of balancing the budget. A sixth option – eliminating the newly implemented softball superregional tournament structure – will be considered in the fall once the championships committee reviews the actual costs from this year's event, the first year of the new format. The Division III Management Council, Presidents Advisory Group and, ultimately, Presidents Council, will consider the five proposals in the late July and early August meetings. The councils would consider any changes related to softball during the fall.
And while the committees may be on the cusp of winning the battle to balance next year's budget, the war against budget overages in the long term is far from over. Even with these new cuts in place (excluding the potential softball change), the division is predicted to incur deficits of $870,000, $1.4 million and $2.1 million through the academic years spanning 2015-2018.
The finance committee also recommended that the division lower its reserve policy from an amount equal to 80 percent of the division's annual revenue to 50 percent. Spending that balance down will provide some short-term relief, but can't be relied on in perpetuity.
"By attaining a balanced budget, the necessity to utilize resources from cash reserves would be eliminated," said Alan Cureton, president of the University of Northwestern – St. Paul and chair of the Division III Strategic Planning and Finance Committee. "This would be a significant and positive step for Division III as we protect the cash reserves for the future."
To ensure a balanced budget in the coming years, other changes will be explored, including: increasing membership dues; making cuts to non-championship programs (which currently account for 25 percent of the division's annual expenses); and changing the current championships access ratio of one bracket position for every 6.5 teams competing in Division III.
Championships and finance committee members alike agree that altering the division's access ratio might be necessary as a long-term solution to the budget problem. Reducing the number of teams that have access to championship events would result in lower travel, per diem and game operation costs. But committee members know that striking a balance between fiscal responsibility and access to championships for student-athletes will prove to be a tremendous challenge. A spring membership survey indicated a strong desire to avoid access ratio reduction in lieu of other championships policy alternatives, and any change to the current access ratios in team or individual-team sports would require a vote from the membership.
The budget planning discussion, including membership feedback, will continue throughout the fall. And at the 2015 NCAA Convention Division III Issues Forum, delegates will have an opportunity to receive an in-depth review of budget issues and options, and make recommendations for next steps.
Strategic Planning and Finance Committee Proposals:
|Current Policy
|Recommended Change
|Estimated Favorable Impact to Championships Budget in 2014-15
|Reimbursable travel party size is squad size plus five others (plus 10 for football)
|Reduce travel party size by 10 percent across all team sports
|$1.1 million
|Host teams receive a half-day per diem on the date of competition
|Eliminate host per diem
|Individual per diem at championship events is $95
|Reduce per diem to $90
|Schools that host championships at non-predetermined sites currently receive an honorarium ranging from $575 and $1,450 depending on the number of days of competition
|Eliminate host honorarium at non-predetermined sites
|No rule pertaining to gap between championship selection and competition dates
|Create a minimum three-day window between championship selections and first date of travel to save on airfare
|Total savings: $2.17 million


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Even if you spit, hire a designated driver and plan your route with the efficiency of a mom navigating Costco, there are only so many wineries you can visit in a day. Which is a problem in California, home to nearly 3,000 wineries. Most of them make terrific wine. And most of them are willing to pour you a taste.
This is where the three itineraries below come in. They include not only plenty of tasting but also tours that involve more than staring at fermentation tanks. And none requires spitting, unless it's your thing.
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I had lunch with Los Angeles Unified School District Supt. David Brewer earlier this year at a restaurant near downtown Los Angeles and almost choked. Not on the food, but the prices.
I wasn't that hungry, fortunately, so I had the Chinese chicken salad, which cost an eye-popping $28.95. Brewer wasn't famished either, so he just had an appetizer, the crab cakes, and those ran $16.95.
Over lunch, he defended himself against widespread criticism that he's the wrong man for the job and has been a big disappointment. But instead of talking about students, he went on and on about building a "matrix" system and "vertical" as well as "horizontal articulation." By the end of it I had an expensive stomachache.
The L.A. Times picked up the tab, but Brewer had chosen the restaurant and he seemed to know his way around there, so I started wondering if his tastes always run so high-end. To find out, I called the school district and requested all of his expense reports dating back to his hiring in 2006.
When the documents arrived, much of the information had been blacked out. Why? Because several high-level officials use the same credit card account, I was told, and I hadn't asked for their expenses; only Brewer's.
But there wasn't much listed for Brewer, other than airfare and hotels, so I asked if perhaps his restaurant tabs had been blacked out as well?
No, I was told by the district's lawyer. He pays for meals and other things from an expense account that was written into his contract. He just gets that money and doesn't have to account for it.
How much?
Forty-five grand, I was told.
Not bad at all. I could see myself developing a Pacific Dining Car habit with that kind of pocket money.
He also gets a $3,000 monthly housing allowance, the district lawyer added. All of which sits on top of his $300,000-a-year salary.
Just a month before that lunch, I had been to a meeting at my daughter's public school, where parents were asked to donate $500 per child or we'd lose three instructional aides. No telling what will be asked of us now that bigger cuts are looming.
Meanwhile, as the L.A. Unified school board seems ready to finally admit its blockheaded blunder in hiring a Navy man with no education experience to run the nation's second-largest school district, Brewer is fighting to keep his job. And he's still collecting -- in expense account payments alone -- the equivalent of one year's pay for a starting teacher.
Friday morning I had breakfast at a more reasonably priced restaurant, the Original Pantry Cafe, with Ben Austin, a current school board candidate and former deputy to ex-Mayor Richard Riordan. Austin, who now works as a consultant for the Green Dot charter schools, said he'd give the heave-ho to the admiral if he had a vote, but the problems are bigger than Brewer.
They're tinkering with a bureaucracy that needs to be blown up, Austin said.
"These are revolutionary times and they're going with pilot programs."
The only way to look at the job, Austin said, whether you're an administrator or board member, a teacher or union official, is to point to the nearest school and ask yourself:
"Would I send my own daughter there?"
A lot of public elementary schools in L.A. Unified, like the one in my neighborhood, are pretty good. But once middle and high school come into play, most people have three lousy choices:
Take whatever you get at the neighborhood public school.
Come up with the $25,000 for private school.
Or devote half your life to cracking the magnet school code.
My wife told me the other day that it's time to start playing that game. Before she completed the first sentence, I felt stabbing pains behind my eyeballs, but she had only begun the torture.
The way it works, she said, is that we have to start applying to magnet schools.
Say what?
Our daughter's perfectly happy at her neighborhood school.
We're supposed to apply to schools she's not likely to get into, she explained, because then "you get points if you're rejected." You work toward building up enough of them that by middle school you've got enough priority to get into the magnet you were aiming for all along.
She did not appear to be kidding.
"What if we apply and she gets accepted now, at one of the magnet schools we don't want her to go to yet?" I asked.
"I don't know," my wife said.
This is why people move to South Pasadena.
And it's why we don't have time for more of David Brewer's on-the-job training.
As for the race angle and reports that some local leaders would like to keep Brewer, an African American, where he is, I say that if the house is burning and children are at risk, you want experience at the fire hose, regardless of skin color.
Austin said he thought Brewer had good intentions. But, he noted, 90% of the district's students don't go to college and 50% don't graduate.
"It's an understatement to say the system is broken. And you need more than just little cuts in bureaucracy; you need to change the job of the bureaucracy."
Austin believes there's hope in the Green Dot model, which is now getting its most challenging test with its recent takeover of L.A. Unified's perennial disaster: Locke High School. It's way too soon to know if dividing the school into small campuses, and giving teachers more authority but requiring more accountability, will produce results.
But as it is, Austin said, there's little accountability in L.A. Unified. Brewer got a four-year contract and Dining Car perks with no performance standards, and although the vast majority of teachers are solid, getting rid of the lousy ones is mission impossible.
"It's all about politics and never about the kids," Austin said.
Brewer, if you ask me, doesn't deserve as much blame as do school board members who were gullible enough to be dazzled by a guy with laudable desire but no applicable credentials.
For future reference:
If a superintendent candidate comes in quoting the corporate management book "Good to Great," as Brewer did, suggest that he apply to run Nabisco, not a 700,000-child school district.
Of course, the perks probably wouldn't be nearly as good as they are at L.A. Unified.


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Whether you're heading to your high school reunion next week or just going out with your hometown crew, here are two hot trends that'll up your cool-girl style game. But something we don't encourage wearing anywhere? Granny panties under a sheer skirt. If you think we're joking, keep reading …
Down: Flashing your granny panties: We thought this trend was over two months ago, but two stars won't let it die. Kristen Stewart and Krysten Ritter practically mooned us on the red carpet in sheer dresses that showed off some seriously unattractive undergarments. Ladies, the lining in your designer gowns is there for a reason.
Up: Peplum party outfits: Along with sparkle and shine, expect to spot a lot of festive peplum-accented looks during the holidays. Kicking off the trend was Emma Stone, who looked incredible in a navy peplum top paired with a glittery emerald-green skirt (both by Burberry), and Dakota Fanning, who chose a salmon-pink floral above-the-knee design.
Up: The cutout spectrum: Skin-baring dresses are still big, only now the styles range from peek-a-boo to look-at-me. Both Alessandra Ambrósio and Allison Williams wore subtle versions this week, while Diane Kruger and Christina Ricci went for way more revealing designs that caused our jaws to hit the floor. Kruger showed off about, oh, 80 percent of her upper body in cutout white gown, while Ricci flaunted her belly in a jewel toned Richard Chai Love mini.
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2. Will Joe Flacco snap out of his road woes?
On the road, Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco has completed just 52.2 percent of his throws for 719 yards, three touchdowns and four interceptions for a 62.7 passer rating. Conversely, at home, Flacco has completed 66.5 percent of his throws for 1,612 yards, 10 touchdowns and three interceptions and a 108.3 passer rating. There's not much of an explanation other than the obvious factors of nerves, crowd noise and facing some good pass rushers -- as Baltimore has allowed 11 sacks away from M&T Bank Stadium and eight sacks there. Flacco has had his moments against the Steelers, going 4-4 in the regular season while losing both of his playoff starts to them. He has passed for 1,809 yards, 10 touchdowns and four interceptions on 56.2 percent accuracy for an 83.7 rating against the Steelers. And he's been especially sharp in the past three games against Pittsburgh, averaging 263.3 yards per contest with five touchdowns and zero interceptions. The Ravens will require another strong performance out of Flacco against the NFL's top-ranked defense, which will be playing without injured standout safety Troy Polamalu. Last season, Flacco connected with wide receiver Torrey Smith for the game-winning touchdown pass as he orchestrated a crisp drive to finish the Steelers off in a pivotal Sunday night game. Now, here's another chance for Flacco to replicate that showing.
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Winter Preview
High school juniors, seniors and their families are invited to come visit us Presidents' Day, Feb. 19, 2018 to experience a typical day at Harding. Complimentary breakfast and lunch will be provided for all preview guests who register online. Space is limited, registration ends one week before the event.
We can't wait to meet you! This is a free event for all registered guests. Register Here!
Preliminary schedule for Winter Preview:
|7:30 a.m.
|Breakfast & opening session, back of Heritage Cafeteria
|9 a.m.
|Chapel, Benson Auditorium
|9:45 a.m.
|Campus tour; begins from Chapel seats
|10 a.m.
|Attend class or appointment of your choice
|11 a.m.
|Freshman Bible class: Faith and Mission of the Church, McInteer 150
|12 p.m.
|Lunch in the Heritage Cafeteria
|1 p.m.
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Over the last five years, North Carolina soybean growers have been putting fewer seeds in the ground yet harvesting roughly the same amount of soybeans. The result, as one might expect, is a healthier bottom line.
Indeed, Jim Dunphy, a soybean specialist at North Carolina State University, estimates that soybean growers statewide made about $26 million more in 2006 than they would have had they continued doing what they were doing in 2001.
It was Dunphy, a North Carolina Cooperative Extension specialist in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at North Carolina State, working with Extension agents across the state, who persuaded growers they could reduce seeding rates while maintaining yields.
Extension has a long history of conducting what are known as on-farm tests, experiments with different farming practices done on private farms under the same environmental conditions neighboring farmers face. Farmers can then see the results of these tests at field days, events where farmers are invited to tour a field and see the test, and other meetings.
Using funding from the North Carolina Soybean Growers Association, Dunphy said 96 on-farm tests of seeding rates were done across North Carolina between 2002 and 2005. Those tests compared seeding rates ranging from 25,000 seeds per acre to 200,000 seeds per acre.
North Carolina growers typically plant well more than one million acres of soybeans, while the crop's farm gate value is approximately $200 million annually, making soybeans the state's third most valuable field crop behind tobacco and cotton.
Until recently, Dunphy said North Carolina soybean growers typically planted around 200,000 seeds pre acre for what are known as full-season soybeans, which are usually planted in May. Growers used slightly higher rates for what are known as double-cropped soybeans, which are usually planted in June.
Double-cropping refers to the practice of growing a crop such as wheat over the winter, harvesting the wheat crop in the spring, then planting soybeans right behind the winter crop. Higher rates are necessary for double-cropped soybeans because the plants don't grow as large in the shortened growing season. The higher rates produce more plants, which helps make up for the yield lost to smaller plants.
The on-farm tests showed that growers could cut the number of seeds they put in the ground roughly in half without diminishing yield, Dunphy says.
This year, Dunphy asked county Extension agents who work with soybean growers to report on acreage in their counties and estimate seeding rates in 2001 and 2006 and any changes in yield. Dunphy says 50 agents representing 75.5 percent of North Carolina's soybean acreage provided information.
The agents indicated that growers have decreased seeding rates by just over 24 percent. On average, growers were planting about 68 pounds of seed per acre in 2001, while in 2006, the number dropped to just over 51 pounds per acre. During the five-year stretch, agents estimated that yield actually increased by around 5 percent.
The bottom line: Growers used less seed so their production costs declined. Yields were up a little, so they made a little more when they sold their crops. Dunphy estimates that statewide growers made about $26 million more in 2006 than if they had used the same seeding rates they were using in 2001.
Dunphy says most growers are now planting fewer seeds. "The more on-farm tests we had, it (lower seeding rates) became a pretty convincing argument," Dunphy says. "It was proven so many times in so many fields in so many counties."
Dunphy says he wasn't surprised by the results of the on-farm tests. Previous seeding rate experiments indicated lower rates might produce yields comparable to higher rates. And seedsmen, farmers who grow crops to produce seed to sell to other farmers, had commented on lower seeding rates.
Dunphy explains that when a new variety of a crop becomes available, the amount of seed available to seedsmen is often limited. Seedsmen often plant a limited number of seeds, so they tend to be aware of the yield from unusually low seeding rates.
Dunphy says adoption by North Carolina soybean growers of lower seeding rates has become so widespread in recent years that seed dealers have noticed a decline in sales.
Growers tend to use higher seeding rates as insurance they will end up being able to harvest a viable crop, Dunphy says, but his tests indicated, "Farmers were buying more insurance than they needed."


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– Madison Rayne, who had her TNA contract expire this week, has been tweeting about how she will be back in the future, likely after she gives birth some time.
– As noted on Wednesday, Taeler Hendrix tweeted that she asked to be released from her contract. Apparently this is true as she was offered the same deal she had been under but turned it down and let it expire. The other talents named were indeed released.
– Regarding reports of talents being paid late, apparently it's office workers also and not just TNA wrestlers. A source says it would "surprise you greatly" at some of the talents who are being paid late.
– TNA's Bruce Prichard has been making a play for former WWE star MVP to come in. If he does sign, he won't be able to use the MVP name. MVP has been trying to pitch a reality show on prison life and being in TNA could open doors to Spike TV for the project.
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|Head Golf Coach
Buddy is no stranger to athletics in the state of Maine. He played golf, baseball and basketball at Eastern Maine Community College in the early seventies. His baseball team won the Small College Conference Championship in 1971. Since receiving a degree in Business Administration in 1972 he has been involved in coaching at many levels. Buddy focused his attention on golf, baseball and basketball and has coached at the junior high and high school level in S.A.D. #37 and Jonesport-Beals High School. Over the last 15 years Buddy has coached the golf team at Jonesport-Beals High School and has led them to several appearances in the Maine State High School Golf Tournament.
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I don't want to jinx it, but I'm pretty sure fall has finally come to Nashville. To celebrate, I decided to knit a new shawl.
And drink coffee out of a new mug. It's very yellow and though it's been hibernating on a shelf in my kitchen for some time now (as part of my souvenir mug collection), this morning it seemed like a good way to start the day. I feel like a bit of a cheat because I've never actually been to the Mystery Spot, but my sister assures me that it is indeed as awesome as it sounds. And she's been … and she bought me the mug … so it's someone's souvenir, at the very least.
But the real interest is next to the mug: Terra in that very lilac Ultra Alpaca I bought a while ago. So far, it's a dream: squooshy and soft with lovely heathered depths; easy enough to knit while reading, and just enough variety to prevent wandering away. Actually, I find knitting to be the perfect way to get through some otherwise, um, difficult academic reading … I don't necessarily want to keep reading, but I do want to keep knitting. "Just one more row" = "just a few more sentences/ pages/ chapters". That's how I got through some Judith Butler (whom I like very much but who is not know for her transparent prose stylings) on Sunday. Everyone wins.
But especially me. New shawl on the way + completed reading in the works = very happy day. Now, I have to get to physical therapy, where they do not let me knit. In fact, last time it was me and a very large man who called me "grad student". Is this how some athletes feel in literature seminars? I was definitely a fish looking for some water.


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iGills - is this my next dive computer and camera rig
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Posted 18 August 2012 - 02:01 PM
I think this shows a couple of interesting trends:
* Smartphone cameras will eventually kill all, but the very top segment of compact cameras.
* As more cameras get a touch screen interface, we will get housings with built in electronics and controls
Posted 18 August 2012 - 04:23 PM
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Posted 19 August 2012 - 10:40 AM
I never log my dives or transfer data from my dive computer so having my dive data stored on my phone is of little interest. I can't see me pulling out my phone and showing off my dive profile to my friends at the bar.
This seems like a complete gimmick to me that isn't needed and shouldn't be taken seriously. All your phone is doing is displaying data, an iphone is not exactly the cheapest display screen in the world. It's also not as convenient as my current dive computer, but i am sure there will be a wrist strap accessory for sale. Oh and perhaps they will also sell add on filters and lenses. The images and video will more than likely still be less than brilliant with such a tiny lens.
Call me a cynic, but i don't see this as a good idea or a needed product.
Posted 12 February 2013 - 07:26 PM
The images and video will more than likely still be less than brilliant with such a tiny lens.
Call me a cynic, but i don't see this as a good idea or a needed product.
You have some points there. But with the smaller lens - just look at some of the gopro videos... that's a pretty tiny lens!
Also, I like the idea that if I get lost at sea I can use it to make an emergency call. That's one function I think is really nice (even though admittedly you won't get phone reception at every dive spot, this could be a potential life saver).
Anyone get one?
Posted 13 February 2013 - 11:20 AM
I buy my own photographic kit. Diving equipment manufacturers and diving services suppliers get even-handed treatment from me whether they choose to advertise in the publications I write for or not. All the equipment I get on loan is returned as soon as it is finished with. Did you know you can now get Diver Mag as an iPad/Android app?


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