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The Lucy Hutchinson Conference, 28 November
August 15, 2013
Lucy Hutchinson is well known to seventeenth-century historians and literary scholars as the author of Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, a classic biography which sets the momentous life of her husband, a committed Puritan, republican and regicide, against the wider backdrop of the English Civil War and Restoration. This work, and a compelling though fragmentary autobiography, have been more or less continually in print since their publication from manuscript in 1806. Only recently, however, has the scale and range of her interests been recognized. Like her contemporary – and political rival – Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Hutchinson aspired to the new European model of the woman intellectual, and translated Lucretius' De rerum natura, the most passionate atheistic text of antiquity. From a radically different perspective, she later composed Order and Disorder, a major Biblical poem on a parallel subject to Milton's Paradise Lost. Underpinning her later works was an exceptional engagement with contemporary Latin and English theological writings. Many fundamental questions about her life and writings have yet to be addressed, and this will be the first ever conference to discuss them. It will bring together many scholars who are working on a new edition of her collected works (http://www.cems-oxford.org/projects/lucy-hutchinson) and others with an interest in seventeenth-century literature, politics and women's writing. Speakers will include Penelope Anderson, Martyn Bennett, Mark Burden, Elizabeth Clarke, Alice Eardley, Jonathan Gibson, Crawford Gribben, Erica Longfellow, David Norbrook, Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, and Blair Worden.
Registration by 21st November here. Inquiries to firstname.lastname@example.com
Dido in Oxford
June 24, 2013
Early Drama at Oxford (EDOX) is beginning a systematic study of plays written and/or performed in the Oxford colleges between 1480 and 1650. Exciting events for this year are headed by a unique opportunity to view stagings of two Elizabethan Dido plays, William Gager's Dido (1583) and Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage (21 September), and two related conferences, 'Theatrum Mundi: Latin Drama in Renaissance Europe' (13-14 September) and 'Performing Dido: Theatre performances and conference at Christ Church' (22 September). For further details, see the new EDOX website.
Poetics and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
June 7, 2013
What kind of knowledge does poetry give us? The fifth annual CEMS conference brought together an international array of scholars, and close to a hundred delegates, to explore and assess early modern responses to this question. In his introductory remarks, David Norbrook identified two potentially contradictory impulses behind the conference: to set early modern literary study within a broader intellectual world, and also to recognize the particularity of poetics and of the literary, at a time when they seem in danger of being subordinated to a very generalized history of cultures and mentalities, and beyond that to be eclipsed in the demand for education to have a direct economic impact. Luc Deitz gave a fresh perspective on Julius Caesar Scaliger's Poetices libri septem as a pivotal work in developing the concept of polymathy. Colin Burrow explored the paradoxes of gaining an individual voice through imitating the inimitable Cicero, showing how imitation involved forma as well as discursive content. Perrine Galant offered a striking case study of such imitation in Michel de L'Hospital's engagement with his public role through Neo-Latin verse. Jan Loop discussed the ways in which European scholars tried to assimilate Arabic poetics to Hebrew models before they developed a stronger sense of its cultural specificity. The limits of early modern syncretism emerged in other papers. Nigel Smith presented the work of the German poet Quirinus Kuhlmann, who rejected literary imitation in a turn to prophetic inspiration, and in the combinatory sonnets of his Himmlische Liebes-Küsse invented a form of word-sculpture. In his keynote lecture Ralph Häfner discussed the role of myth and poetry in the exploratory writings of a differently heterodox figure, Johann Albert Fabricius. Kristine Haugen showed with what zest another controversial figure, Isaac Vossius, dismantled traditional accounts of Greek prosody. In a lively round table led by Terence Cave, Gavin Alexander, Micha Lazarus and Martin McLaughlin reviewed the the themes of the day, which had indeed highlighted early modern polymathy but also in different and unexpected ways revealed the irreducible role of formal stuctures, and suggested ways of moving beyond the dichotomies of the utile and the dulce.
Early Modern Handwriting
May 1, 2013
The CEMS workshop on 'Describing, Analysing and Identifying Early Modern Handwriting: Methods and Issues' (25 April) may have had an arcane title but it drew over 70 attendees. This showed how far the study of early modern manuscripts has burgeoned since the pioneering work of Peter Beal and others. Many issues remain to be resolved, however. Methods of describing, distinguishing and identifying hands differ from scholar to scholar and, although the work of individual early modernists is often based on very substantial unarticulated 'tacit knowledge' about the dating and differentiation of script styles, little detailed work on the topic has been published. The workshop aimed to advance the process.
A panel on 'Problems', chaired by Colin Burrow, offered some case studies from a team who are working on a new editions of the letters of Queen Elizabeth. Jonathan Gibson showed how he had been able to identify the handwriting manual on which Elizabeth drew for her formal signature: a case here of the complex mediations between print and script. Carlo Bajetta and Guillaume Coatalen discussed the difficulties of identifying the scribal hands behind the queen's Italian and French correspondence: Bajetta suggested that for such identification, the overall mise en page, and small details that were not in the form of letters, might be more useful than the scrutiny of particular letters. A second panel, ' Solutions', chaired by Daniel Wakelin, outlined some divergent strategies. Tom Davis explained how he had put his own palaeographical training to practical use in advising on many cases of forgery, including the celebrated case of the West Midlands Serious Crime Squad. In court, what is being asked for is evidence that receives immediate assent without needing specialized interpretation, and this is done by assembling large bodies of evidence and presenting parallels visually. His website offers templates for comparing letter images which can be downloaded. Simon Horobin discussed the Late Medieval English Scribes project which uses a similar technique for the identification of scribal handwriting. Steven W. May showed how the close study of legal documents could help in the understanding of literary authorship. Julia Craig-McFeely, drawing on her work for the Digital Archive of Medieval Music, argued that the existing techniques suffered from the difficulty of considering individual letters independently of their processing the large quantity of information needed for secure identification of hands. She suggested that new technologies of digital imaging, developed by Ichiro Fujinaga and others, could both enhance the analysis of the larger mise en page and permit a more nuanced comparison of individual letters in their larger contexts. In a lively round table session, Gabriel Heaton, Peter Beal, William Poole, Heather Wolfe and Henry Woudhuysen expressed a range of views about the practicalities of different approaches to attribution, and proposed different perspectives from the practicalities of identifying a previously unknown manuscript for sale to the need to link narratives of English palaeographical history with the narratives established in the study of diplomatic. Finally, Giles Bergel chaired a session in which several project ideas were canvassed, and in one case executed (an online, shared bibliography for Early Modern Handwriting studies is now in progress at http://www.zotero.org/groups/early-modern_handwriting, and contributions are welcome). It was also suggested that a wiki-based dictionary of terms might be initiated. Giles Bergel proposed a large-scale project to compare engraved pedagogical exempla with their scribal copies, building on research in which Jonathan Gibson and several other participants were engaged. Similarly, Tim Underhill suggested that a new version of Ambrose Heal's dictionary of English Writing-Masters would be useful.
All participants felt there was a need for many more online images of manuscripts, either through a single portal such as Cambridge's Scriptorium or as separate resources. More online collections of images of manuscripts would greatly assist in the application of digital image-processing technologies, the potential of which was demonstrated through the example of Bodleian Ballads Online's woodcut-recognition engine. Image-recognition, as previously discussed by Julia Craig-McFeely, could help in e.g. classifying hands; identifying scribes; recognising distinctive words, glyphs, strokes or other scribal features. Regardless of the outcomes, it was argued that research questions needed to be raised early in the project planning phase, even for simple archives of images. Overall, there were many ideas canvassed and a sense that much could be done with both established and new techniques, particularly in combination.
Poetics and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
April 4, 2013
CEMS conference: Poetics and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
T. S. Eliot Theatre, Merton College.
Thursday 23 May, 10-6pm.
In the early modern period, poetry was central to every aspect of learned culture: it was the object of study of lawyers, medics, scientists, and theologians, not just literary critics. How did those disciplines understand poetry? To what kinds of unique knowledge did they believe poetry could grant access? And what role can poetry play for specialists in the history of those fields today? This conference should appeal to graduate students and scholars working across the disciplines of early modern studies, who are keen to contribute to a vital debate about the ways in which poetry can be studied within an interdisciplinary context.
Our conference will bring together an international group of leading literary critics, scholars of modern languages, orientalists, and historians to explore these questions in many different languages and social and national contexts, drawing on a huge range of published and unpublished sources. The conference and its themes will be introduced by David Norbrook, Merton Professor of English Literature and director of Oxford's Centre for Early Modern Studies. Speakers will include: Colin Burrow (All Souls College, Oxford) on imitation; Luc Deitz (National Library of Luxembourg), editor of the Poetics of Julius-Caesar Scaliger, will speak on the place of poetics within learned disciplines; Perrine Galand-Hallyn (École Normale Supérieure), co-editor of the most comprehensive account of European poetics, Poétiques de la Renaissance (Droz, 2001), on the connections between poetry and the law; Ralph Häfner (University of Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), author of Götter im Exil (2003), on the ways Johann Albert Fabricius used poetry to reconstruct the early history of the universe; Kristine Haugen (California Institute of Technology), author of Richard Bentley: Poetry and Enlightenment (2011) on seventeenth-century poetry and music; and Jan Loop (Warburg Institute/University of Kent), leading expert on Europe's encounters with the Arabic world and director of the Centre for the History of Arabic Studies, on the rise of aesthetic appreciation of Arabic poetry in Europe; Nigel Smith (Princeton University) on his new comparative study of the relationship between the rise of vernacular literature and state formation in early modern Europe. Terence Cave (St John's College, Oxford) will draw together the themes of the day by chairing a round-table discussion. The whole day will allow generous amounts of time for detailed questions and debate for each paper.
Organized by the Centre for Early Modern Studies and Merton College History of the Book Group. With thanks for the generous support of the OUP John Fell Oxford University Research Fund and Oxford's English Faculty.
Full: £35 / Grad: £20
Registration (by 16 May) here. For more details contact: email@example.com
Describing, Analysing and Identifying Early Modern Handwriting: Methods and Issues, 25 April
March 15, 2013
Methods of describing, distinguishing and identifying hands differ from scholar to scholar and, although the work of individual early modernists is often based on very substantial unarticulated 'tacit knowledge' about the dating and differentiation of script styles, little detailed work on the topic has been published. Most of the scholarship in the area focuses, in an ad hoc way, on high-status manuscripts and on the identification of hands associated with major figures. This one-day workshop will explore the potential for future collaboration on more comprehensive and systematic ways of understanding the variation between different hands in the period, and specifically the possibilities for a new project which will aim to produce substantial publicly-available material mapping key elements in the development of English handwriting between 1500 and 1700. Speakers and chairs: Carlo M. Bajetta (Aosta), Peter Beal (Institute of English Studies, London), Giles Bergel (Oxford), Colin Burrow (Oxford) Guillaume Coatalen (Cergy-Pontoise), Julia Craig-McFeely (Oxford), Tom Davis (Birmingham), Jonathan Gibson (Open University), Gabriel Heaton (Sotheby's), Simon Horobin (Oxford), Steven W. May (Sheffield), William Poole (Oxford), Daniel Wakelin (Oxford) Heather Wolfe (Folger Shakespeare Library), Henry Woudhuysen (Oxford).
The workshop will be held in the T. S. Eliot Theatre, Merton College, Thursday 25 April, 9.30-4. Organized by the Centre for Early Modern Studies and Merton College History of the Book Group, with the co-operation of the Bodleian Library Centre for the Study of the Book.
The workshop has been timed so that delegates can also attend one of Professor Richard Beadle's Lyell Lectures, 'Medieval English Literary Autographs 1: Fugitive Pieces', in the same venue at 5pm.
For registration, click here. For further details contact email@example.com; programme details will be posted soon at http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk. Registration closes Thursday 18 April.
Early Modern Dramatic Records
February 25, 2013
In the scant records of Elizabethan drama, one document that stands out is the 'plot' of the second part of a play on The Seven Deadly Sins (digitized images of which are available at the Henslowe-Alleyn digitization project). In a CEMS works in progress session on 'Doing Things with Records in Early Modern Theatre History', Holger Schott Syme (Toronto), author of Theatre and Testimony in Shakespeare's England: A Culture of Mediation (CUP, 2012) and Bart van Es, author of Shakespeare in Company (OUP, 2013) discussed the difficulty of moving from such records to firm grounds in literary history. Exploring a detailed image of the plot, Syme warned against the tendency to simplify elements that are in fact ambiguous palaeographically and in other ways. Van Es raised a different set of problems: critical value judgements often weighed the interpretation of documents without being fully scrutinized. If the discussion failed to produce a new consensus, it did help to raise some salutary doubts.


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The winery was built in the 1980s on a site which has always been known as Ciabot Berton. The small building (ciabot, in Piedmont dialect) which stands here once belonged to a certain Berton, who had attempted to set up manufacturing fireworks here, and had burnt out the building and destroyed its roof.

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The deadly civil war in Syria has taken a turn for the worse with a chemical weapons attack on a southern suburb of Aleppo. The regime have blamed rebels for the attack which has left 25 dead, and many suffering from breathing problems. Russia has also said that it has seen evidence that rebels were responsible for the attack.
However, rebel forces have said they lack the capabilities to deploy chemical weapons, blaming the regime. Western nations have been skeptical of reports that rebels carried out the attack.
With White House spokesman Jay Carney saying, "We are deeply skeptical of a regime that has lost all credibility and we would also warn the regime against making these kinds of charges as any kind of pretext or cover for its use of chemical weapons."
President Obama has previously warned the Syrian regime against deploying chemical weapons, saying it was a "red line" that could lead to US intervention.
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Chicken Tagine/
1/4 cup grape seed oil
1 large onion
5 cloves garlic
8 apricots
1/4 cup raisins
8 green olives
1/2 lemon
2 tbsp honey
1 tsp grated ginger
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp cumin
1 tsp chile pepper flakes
1/2 tsp turmeric (poor-man's saffron)
salt and pepper
2 1/2 c. chicken or vegetable stock
1 1/2 lbs chicken (Can be a combo of legs, wings and breast meat.)
Set the oven to 350. Start melting the oil in the pot on the stove top. Slice the onion and chop the garlic. Add it to the oil and let it brown. Add the fruit (I sliced in the apricots in half). Cut the lemon in half (use only half) and then slice the remaining half and add the slices. Add the olives, honey, ginger, spices and salt &pepper. Add the chicken broth. Let it simmer for about 5 mins, then add the chicken. (If you're using breast meat, you might want to cut the pieces a bit smaller.) Place the lid on the Dutch Oven, stick it in the oven, and let it cook for about 40 minutes. Remove the lid (to allow the chicken to brown and the sauce to thicken) and cook for an additional 15 mins. After this, if the sauce is still a bit thinner than you'd like, then remove the chicken, place the pot with the chicken-free sauce on the stove top, turn to medium heat and let some of the moisture bubble off (ie. "reduce" it).


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Popular cybersecurity companies of Canada
Canada ranks among one of the top Internet users with 32.12 million users in 2016. This represents an increase of 16 million over the 16-year period from 2000. With increasing Internet usage, we see an increase in cybercrime. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wants to deal with this matter in a strict manner. Side by side, there has been a growth of cybersecurity companies in Canada. Here is a look at this list.
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This service is based in Waterloo, Canada. It deals with mobile and data security. It provides a hyper connectivity EoT platform for BlackBerry users. The Enterprise of Things connects transportation with secure communication.
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Herjavec Group is a global winner of awards for cyber defense. It leads in the field of managed security services. You also get an incident response and identity features.
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New Estimate Summary for Light Vehicle Claims
In an effort to reduce administrative costs and be more environmentally
conscious, starting March 20, 2017, Manitoba Public Insurance estimators will no
longer provide customers with printed estimate sheets for all light vehicle claims.
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BBC Radio 3's World Music Archive
Praises to BBC Radio 3's World Music Archive, which makes available a decade of site-specific programming from across the globe, compiled and presented by the indefatigable Andy Kershaw and Lucy Duran. Given the financial resources and massive international audience of which the BBC can boast – and those in an age when nearly every other like minded outlet is hemorraghing both – it's no wonder that Radio 3 has consistently churned out some of the most well-wrought radio explorations into living vernacular music anywhere, in the spirit of mid-century folk-music programmers like Peter Kennedy and Alan Lomax, but far surpassing their geographical breadth.
The globally-accessible online archive features indigenous music from some of the world's most dangerous conflict zones, as well as its most inaccessible states. There are audio clips of singing waitresses performing sea shanties on the coast of North Korea, and harp-playing cowboys in rural Venezuela.
In all, there will be 100 hours of programming on the BBC's World Music Archive, alongside dozens of photographs of recordings being made in the most remote locations. Essentially the resource – a mix of entertainment, journalism and curation – comprises the output of Radio 3's world music programmes from the past decade. An index offers the music of 40 countries.
Kershaw, who recently returned to Radio 3 after two years off-air, is especially excited to have his back catalogue given a permanent platform. "There are documentaries here I'd forgotten I'd made, some of which uncover the music and the reality of life in the world's most extreme, secretive, feared and misunderstood countries," he said. "I'm amazed some these regimes let me out. Even more amazed they let me in. Since joining Radio 3 in 2001, it seems I have seldom been home. This archive would explain why."
Since recovering from a nervous breakdown, Kershaw has been back on the road, making shows in Laos, Thailand, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. He is about to head off to record further material in the Middle East and Southern Africa. "I haven't finished yet," he added. "Cautiously, I feel I'm getting the hang of this radio caper."
One of the highlights of the archive is a recording made for the Radio 3 programme World Routes, in which presenter Lucy Duran travelled to the mountains of Georgia,to hear ancient polyphonic singing. Radio 3's senior producer for world music, James Parkin, said the programme-makers were only able to reach the remote Svaneti region in a former Russian military helicopter flown by Georgian air force pilots. "BBC journalists frequently fly in military helicopters but not to record folk music," he said. "We went to a meadow where 25 men of all ages stood in a small circle and sang music that hasn't changed for 2,000 years and has probably never been recorded, let alone broadcast before. It was a very moving experience."
Duran described the sound of the choir as "singing of astonishing beauty" and one of her favourite moments on World Routes. She said the discovery of the music of a region provided a gateway to a better understanding of its society. "Finding out about the roots music of a country leads you right to the heart of its culture," she added. "Everything is recorded on location, and we talk to all kinds of people, getting insights into what it's really like to be there, and what makes them tick."
Another rare recording, made in Uganda in 2005, features a xylophone played in a hole in the ground in order to make it more resonant. "The first thing they did when we arrived was to dig a hole," said Parkin. "This instrument has never been anywhere. You have to go to that village to hear it. What we are trying to do is offer music that you cannot hear at a festival or buy in HMV."
Find the BBC World Music Archive here.


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What We Do Together
by Charles C. Cole
Table of Contents
parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Installment 6: conclusion
"Another Chance"
Scene 10: Week Two, Friday
DEEGAN enters the rec room. He dribbles a basketball, then spins it on his index finger. Someone claps from offstage. NORMAN enters. He is impressed but confused at the company.
DEEGAN: (Embarrassed.) Hey. (He stops the ball.)
NORMAN: Hey, yourself, young man. (Focused on the ball.) You here to deliver a basketball hoop? Because I've been waiting for, like, six dog-years for someone to get me a Pro-Dunk Basketball Goal Hoop, the one with the glass backboard.
DEEGAN: Wow! Sorry. No, actually I'm meeting someone. I was supposed to come yesterday, but (Trying too hard to be hip.) did you see the weather we had? Talk about wow! This girl/lady-friend of mine texted me completely unexpectedly. I couldn't say, "No." You know? Sometimes you just need a day in the sun to get recharged.
NORMAN: Not at my age. That wouldn't be such a great idea at my age. (Considering.) I may be old and out of the loop, but wasn't yesterday a school day?
DEEGAN: Yeah, but I'm suspended anyway. Long boring story.
NORMAN: (Wryly.) Good for you. A real nonconformist. I'm sure you make your parents proud. (Still focused on the ball.) Look, if you're not going to be needing that for the next hour or so. Ours are a little low on air.
DEEGAN: (Tentatively.) Yeah, sure. Why not?
NORMAN: Or you could just give it to me. You probably got two more just like it at home, right? A jock like you? (Taking it.)
DEEGAN: Not really, no.
NORMAN: So take one from school, when you get back. They won't miss it. If they catch you, tell them your parents' tax dollars paid for it. (Starts to exit, practices dribbling.)
DEEGAN: Hey, wait! Mister!
NORMAN: Jesus, kid! A little possessive much? I'm not going to hurt it. Fine, I'll bring it back when I'm done.
DEEGAN: What's your name anyway?
NORMAN: What do you need that for? Wait. You want the one I was born with or the one they gave me in Witness Protection? It's Sid, Sid Baron. Ask for me at the front desk. They'll take you to my room. (Snickers quietly.)
DEEGAN: That's not your name.
NORMAN: (Defensive.) Sorry?
DEEGAN: That's not your name.
NORMAN: I think I know my own damn name. Where do you get off, coming in here and making the rules?
DEEGAN: I know Mr. Baron. He's a friend of mine.
NORMAN: (Caught.) No lie? Well, you know, I'm old: I get confused. It happens. I probably heard it on the intercom recently. "Sid Baron." It's got a nice ring to it, don't you think?
DEEGAN: Just give me your name and you can take off.
NORMAN: Ask for Norman Convery. That's my real name. They'll find me. Unless you want me to keep the damn thing. Sure, you could donate it as tax write-off. Use the money to buy another one.
DEEGAN: I don't even know what that is.
NORMAN: No kidding? (Thinking.) They got forms at the front desk. Ask for one on your way out. You'll thank me.
DEEGAN: (Considering.) Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
NORMAN: Kid, at my age, every second I'm standing here talking to you, I'm getting closer and closer to death. Do you really want to see that? I don't think so. It's not for the faint of heart.
DEEGAN: "Sid Baron." Why did you use that name?
NORMAN: (Dawning awareness.) Right! You're that kid. Sid talked about you: the future high school drop-out. Poor old fart thought he could make a difference. Doesn't sound like it took. Well, lucky you, you just got a second day off in a row. Take it easy.
DEEGAN: Why? Where is he? Did he... die?
NORMAN: (Gently.) What? Nah, his daughter came in for him. It's "Take Your Grandparent to School Day" or something. "Many are called, but few are chosen."
DEEGAN: All right then. Good for him, getting out and everything.
NORMAN: (Studying him.) You think that's a good thing?
DEEGAN: Absolutely! He's a bright guy. This place probably sucks the life out of him. He needs to get out more and... get those old-people discounts and... the free donuts.
NORMAN: So, you're happy for him?
DEEGAN: Sure. Anything's better than here, right?
NORMAN: Well, then you're probably going to be ecstatic when I tell you he died yesterday.
DEEGAN: What?! No! How?
NORMAN: It was his time. But, hey, it's good news, right? If you follow your logic, anything's gotta be better than counting down to nothingness.
DEEGAN: I didn't mean it that way. You're crazy! You're one mean old prick, you know that?
NORMAN: Sounds right. You should have seen me when I was your age: a mean young prick who didn't take crap from anyone. Those were the days.
DEEGAN: Is Sid really dead or are you just messing with me?
NORMAN: He really freaking is. (Remembering.) Damn! Damn! Damn!
DEEGAN: What is it? Do you need me to call someone? What's wrong?
NORMAN: (Answering.) I'm getting old, or is this (Gesturing at himself.) too subtle for you? I forgot why I came in here. The mesmerizing power of a shiny, new basketball. You made my day, kid. Enjoy your life.
DEEGAN: (Frustrated.) Why are you here?! Do you have something for me? From Sid?
NORMAN: (Remembering.) Right. Sid had this on his dresser. I took it. (Pulls an envelope out of his pocket.) I think it's for you, if you want to go back to school. Maybe you don't. Sounds like the jury's still out. And you're talking to a guy who knows about juries. Anyway, take it. Now we're even. (Starts to EXIT.) Hey, if you got some time on your hands, ask the Front Desk where the hoops are. It's the corner of the playground covered in the most cobwebs.
(ESTHER enters unseen.)
NORMAN: I'll be out there, by myself as usual. Sorry about Sid. He was funny with that thing he did with slurping the Jell-O between his teeth. You ever see that? Of course, you did; he was a freaking one-trick pony. (Noticing ESTHER.) I mean: a good egg, that one, if you're into eggs. (To ESTHER.) Mrs. Kingsley.
ESTHER: Mr. Convery.
DEEGAN: Mom...
NORMAN: Mom?! Now I get it.
ESTHER: A little privacy, Mr. Convery, if you don't mind.
NORMAN: What if I did mind? Would it make a difference?
ESTHER: I'm sorry for your loss. I know he was a friend.
NORMAN: Damn right, he was. A good guy who died after spending the day riding around on city buses looking for your son. Thought you should know.
ESTHER: (Defeated.) I just heard. And I also heard it was you who lit the smoke bomb.
NORMAN: Are you kicking me out?
ESTHER: Everybody deserves another chance.
NORMAN: (With attitude.) Damn straight! (Starts to exit, softer.) Thank you. (EXITS.)
DEEGAN: Is it true, about Sid?
ESTHER: You had no idea. Sometimes they just wear out. He wasn't in the best of health to begin with. (Noticing the letter.) Is that the letter? Where did you find it?
DEEGAN: Mr. Convery had it.
ESTHER: Mr. Convery — Norman — found him. (Changing the subject.) Do you want me to read it to you?
DEEGAN: It's not going to say anything bad, is it?
ESTHER: Sid liked you but, let's be honest, you're not always easy to get along with.
DEEGAN: Meaning what?
ESTHER: Meaning, maybe I should read it first.
DEEGAN: Okay, okay.
DEEGAN opens the letter and passes it to her. (ESTHER reads silently.)
DEEGAN: Out loud would be nice.
ESTHER: "To whom it may concern, I'm asking you to consider giving Deegan Kingsley another chance. During his recent suspension, we spent significant time together at Charlotte-by-the-Sea where his heroic mother looks out for all of us... and I am a full-time resident. Though his visits were involuntary and our elderly community completely alien to him, Deegan only rarely took his frustration out on me. He listened attentively and even opened up that hard transparent shell he wears wherever he goes, a little. I'm, by no means, suggesting he is a changed man—"
DEEGAN: Prick. That's gonna help.
ESTHER: "But I do believe he sincerely wants to do the right thing and that, without the structure and inherent rules of the public school system, I fear we will lose him entirely with no road back."
DEEGAN: He really thought that? I thought he "got" me. I'm no lost cause. I never stole anything in my life. I never hurt anybody. I don't even do drugs.
ESTHER: Deegan.
DEEGAN: Once in a while. Peer pressure, Mom. Ever heard of it?
ESTHER: Do you want me to continue?
DEEGAN: Read it.
ESTHER: "Deegan is so close to giving up on himself and he doesn't even see it. My best guess is he's going to need to hit rock bottom before he can turn it around. I wish we could stop him, but he's got a lot of momentum. I wish his mom all the luck in the world."
DEEGAN: I'm not that bad. Has he seen what's outside these walls? So I swear and I skip school sometimes. It's just letting off steam. Everybody does it.
ESTHER: "I know Deegan's mother is going to... " (Reading silently ahead.)
DEEGAN: What?
ESTHER: (Dismissively lying.) It goes on from there.
DEEGAN: So, read it. Let's get this over with.
ESTHER: "I know Deegan's mother is going to hate me, but he deserves to know. She told me once in confidence that when his father was texting—"
DEEGAN: I don't want to hear this. It was a stupid, crappy thing to do. No excuses.
ESTHER: "His last words were: Worried about Deegan."
DEEGAN: That's bullcrap! Right? There's nothing to worry about! I'm here, aren't I? I'm fine; it's the world that's all screwed up.
ESTHER: Honey, I'm sorry you had to hear that.
DEEGAN: So what? Dad was texting about me when he died? His accident was my fault?
ESTHER: I didn't say that.
DEEGAN: Dad died because of me? That's a big freaking lie. Talk about blaming the victim.
ESTHER: Deegan!!
DEEGAN: Mom, he made a stupid choice and it cost him his life. How is that my fault?
ESTHER: You were sneaking out nights. Your friend, Tuggle, had just gotten himself arrested. Dad was concerned that it was just a matter of time...
DEEGAN: Tuggle was not my friend. He was a hanger-on prick who never listened to anybody. I only hung out with him because he could drive.
ESTHER: At your age, hanging out with a kid old enough to drive? What were you thinking?
DEEGAN: I turned out okay, didn't I?
ESTHER: Do you really want me to answer that now?
DEEGAN: I don't hang out with him anymore, do I?
ESTHER: Because he's in jail!
DEEGAN: Same results!
ESTHER: I don't blame you for Dad's death. I never wanted to shut you out. We're all we have, you and I.
DEEGAN: You blamed me? Nice one, Mom.
ESTHER: That's not what I said! Listen to me, young man: you are not an innocent bystander in all of this. Deegan, please! Really? Just own it!
DEEGAN: Own what? That I had a hand in...
ESTHER: I want to send you back to school, I really do, but why would they take you? What you do affects other people, and you need to recognize that.
DEEGAN: People make their own stupid choices.
ESTHER: To be sitting in a crowded school assembly when someone throws a smoke bomb? Who made that choice? You did.
DEEGAN: If the weather had been nice and we'd been outside...
ESTHER: But you weren't. If the crowd had panicked and someone had been trampled to death that would have been on your head. I know there are kids in that school that you still care for. What about Missy Hamel?
DEEGAN: What about her? We broke up ages ago.
ESTHER: But you're still friends. Would you want her to get hurt? Or your friend the art teacher, Mr. Lowell, who walks around with a cane. You think he can move fast enough to get out of anyone's way when they're scared and running and pushing? It could have gone so much worse! We were so lucky!
DEEGAN: People are sheep, Mom, I've seen 'em. Mindless, sleepwalking sheep.
ESTHER: Does that include you? Does that include me?
DEEGAN: I just want everyone to wake up, you know? There's more to life than rules.
ESTHER: But some of these so-called rules keep us safe. We can agree on that, can't we? What Dad did wasn't safe! Throwing a bomb—
DEEGAN: Smoke bomb.
ESTHER: Into an unsuspecting crowd wasn't safe. Was it?
DEEGAN: Missy hates me now. A lot of kids do.
ESTHER: Is throwing a smoke bomb into a crowd safe? Answer me.
DEEGAN: No.
ESTHER: Was it a good decision?
DEEGAN: I didn't think I was such a screw-up. I thought you were all overreacting to one mistake that only happened because of the rain. But, fine, I see your point.
ESTHER: Thank you. That's one baby step in the right direction.
DEEGAN: And Dad?
(ESTHER throws up her hands, then crosses her arms and cries.)
DEEGAN: Mom!
ESTHER: Don't ask me, Deegan.
DEEGAN: (Punching his own forehead with both hands, hyperventilating.) A little lightheaded here! The room's spinning.
ESTHER: Breathe, honey, slowly.
DEEGAN: (Calming.) Okay. Okay. I'm sorry about Sid. I'm sorry about Dad. I'm sorry about everything. What do I do now?
ESTHER: Earn their sacrifice. Make it worthwhile. Can you do that?
(DEEGAN nods.)
ESTHER: It's a start. You okay?
DEEGAN: You know, until this week, I never even thought of old people as having first names. Isn't that funny? I guess they're not so different from us after all.
ESTHER: Us, huh?
DEEGAN: What?
ESTHER: Did I mention I defended you to the fire marshal? That wasn't a pretty sight. Let me fax this letter to the principal. He'll probably want us in his office on Sunday to see for himself if you're worth saving. Oh, and did I tell you that you'll still have to apologize, in writing and in person? (Slides free hand into her pocket.)
DEEGAN: I can do it; the hard part is tempering it. You know, making it sound sincere. (Solemnly.) "I'm gonna try." How's that?
ESTHER: Very convincing.
DEEGAN: I really am, though.
ESTHER: I'm glad, because I hold the key to your happiness in my hand.
DEEGAN: The testimonial, I know. Can I see it?
ESTHER: I meant your cigarettes. (Removing them from her pocket.) I found them in the car. Don't lie to me.
DEEGAN: I'm trying to quit, I swear.
ESTHER: Really?
DEEGAN: Yeah, I'm moving on, to e-cigarettes, the cool socially acceptable way to kill yourself.
ESTHER: Deegan, walk me back to my office; we've got a lot to talk about.
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Indigo Canada is proud to announce the signing of a major agreement with VIA Rail. As of May 1st 2016, 22 VIA Rail stations equipped with paid parking between Winnipeg and Halifax will count on the Indigo teams based in Montreal, Quebec City, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg and Halifax to manage their parking lots. The handover between the VIA Rail teams, or other private operators, and the Indigo teams will occur in four stages.
Indigo has been already operating 4 parking lots out of the stations, and will be adding 18 new locations. During this term, Western Canada VIA Rail stations parking lots could also be added to the portfolio.
This strategic partnership will in particularly enables our Canadian teams to consolidate and expand our technology tools: smart customer assistance ConnecparkMD, smart parking new generation meters, online booking system and mobile app.
Our goal now is to ensure optimal transition and fulfill the expectations of VIA Rail passengers across Canada.
VIA Rail, independent Crown Corporation, operates the national passenger rail service in Canada for the federal government since 1977. The company's mandate is to provide bilingual, safe, efficient, reliable, economical and sustainable transportation services. VIA Rail mostly offers intercity trips on the Quebec-Windsor corridor, and long travel routes between Vancouver-Toronto and Montreal-Halifax.
VIA Rail in figures:
– 143 stations spread over 12 500km network linking 400 communities;
– Nearly four million passengers in 2015;
– Nearly a billion dollars in investment since 2007.


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some of our volunteers
Author, Author!
Many authors donated signed books. We thank:
Ken Auletta, E.L. Doctorow, Alan Furst, Peter Gethers, Harry Hurt, Kati Marton, Peter Matthiessen, Judith Miller, Olaf Olafsson, James Salter, and Michael Schnayerson
Thanks to our Guest Benefit Committee:
Ken Auletta & Amanda Urban, Andrew Bedini, Carl & Christine Bernstein, Christie Brinkley, Dr. Barry Browning, Jane & Jimmy Buffett, Ann & Howard Chwatsky, Chuck & Leslie Close, Eric Cohen, E. L. & Helen Doctorow, Alex Eames & Chris Leonard, Nora Ephron & Nick Pileggi, Ina Garten, Peter Gethers & Janis Donnaud, April Gornik & Eric Fischl, Laura Grenning, Mia Grosjean, Seth Grossman, Jennifer Hauser, Jim Henry, Mr & Mrs Billy Joel , Alexandra Leigh-Hunt, Lynn & Alan Kaplan, Donna Karan, Steve Kroft & Jennet Conant, Alex Matthiessen, Erica & Terry McSweeney, Susan Mead, Lorne Michaels, Judith Miller & Jason Epstein, Nicole Miller & Kim Taipale, Marsha Norman, Dan Rizzie & Susan Lazarus-Reimen, Kelly Ripa, Barbara Roberts, The Employees of the Sag Harbor Post Office, Rino Salsedo, Dorothy Sherry, Renee Shafransky & Nick Gazzolo, Russell Simmons, Joan Spivak & John Goldman, Nanette Stavis, Lynda Sylvester, Helen Samuels & Lester Ware, Roy Scheider & Brenda Siemer, Renee Shafransky & Nick Gazzolo, Cindy Sherman, Lynn Sherr, Donald Sultan, Linley Whelan, Anna Throne-Holst, Cati Van Milders, and Ken & Mimi Yardley!
Thank you for lending your good names!
Very special thanks to:
for her superlative performance. And to hear her great interview on hamptons.com talking about her music and Save Sag Harbor, please click on:
Alison by the Beach
Amber Occasions
The Bagel Buoy
Bay Burger
The Beacon
Bedell Winery
il Cappuccino
Channing Daughters Winery
Conca d'Oro
Cora Diaz Events Design Catering
Cynthia Battaglia Distinctive Catering
The Corner Bar
The Dockside
The Golden Pear
Java Nation
JLX Bistro
The New Paradise Café
Robert's American Gourmet Food
Sag Harbor Beverage
Schiavoni's IGA
The Seafood Shop
Sylvester & Co.
Townline BBQ
Vincenzo's Pizza
Special thanks to our amazing Children's Team coordinators, who rocked their little worlds with fun!:
Liz Joyce, of Goat on a Boat Puppet Theatre
& Suzan Lazarus-Reimen
Why did we have it? TO PREVENT THE OVERDEVELOPMENT OF OUR VILLAGE AND HARBORFRONT
Political Affiliations: NONE! WE ARE COMMITTED TO REMAINING A STRICTLY A-POLITICAL, NON-PARTISAN COALITION OF CONCERNED CITIZENS
You did us proud!
In spite of the harsh economic climate, we came together and had a smashing time
and a real success with our benefit last fall!
Our sincerest thanks to the artists, first and foremost, that made our November 29, 2008 benefit a great success (!), and to all the kind merchants who provided food and drink either at cost or as a donation. We most gratefully thank: Amber Bakery, Cavaniola's Gourmet Cheese, Sag Harbor Liquors, Channing Daughters Winery, and Schiavoni's IGA.
We most especially thank the First Presbyterian (Old Whalers') Church for once again being such a great friend to the community and allowing us to host our event there!
Instead of a gloomy-economy response to the benefit, we were deeply gratified that the community once again came together to celebrate, brainstorm, and support Save Sag Harbor! We thank you all! and a special tip of the cap to our wonderful volunteers, who know how to step up to the plate with grace and patience.
Our great Summer 2008 Alexa Ray Benefit and a big thank-you!
Alexa Ray Joel at the Whaling and Historical Museum for Save Sag Harbor!
After a day fraught with rain fears, the event turned out to be a great success! Alexa Ray Joel rocked Sag Harbor with a band even better than last year, the mood was totally up and festive, and many new people, and a younger crowd, were introduced to Save Sag Harbor. It was a most enthusiastic response! and you can read reviews in the Daily News and Hello Magazine.
Our heartfelt thanks to Samanthe Lobosco for her unstinting organizational skills in making this event happen, to Alexa Ray Joel for an outstanding performance, and especially to the Whaling Museum (Zach and Chris, you rock!) for coming through for us in such a magnanimous and celebratory way. And if you missed this event, don't forget the Lobster Bake at the Museum on September 12th (call 631-725-0770)!
We thank the entire community and our members for your support, and in continuing to help us all preserve the character and uniqueness of Sag Harbor!
And we want to warmly and specifically thank the following volunteers and merchants who helped make it all possible. Our volunteer staff was led by the intrepid Ann Chwatsky, assisted by her inimitable husband Howard, and included Ashley Baker, Cathleen Civale, Mercedes Condy, Deb Craven, Cooper Davis, Joe Fisher, April Gornik, Marilyn Lew, Bethany Peters, Bev Schanzer, Carol Schapiro, Jill Schoenbach, and Nanette Stavis.
We would also like to warmly thank Barbara Pintauro-Lobosco and Stephen Lobosco, the Law Offices of Mark Schwarz, Bettina Stelle, the Ostrow Family, and the Sag Harbor Police Department.
The merchants include:
Urban Zen, 4 Bay St (who generously provided the tent!)
Wolffer Estate Vineyards, 139 Sagg Rd
Cavaniola's Gourmet Cheese Shop, 89-B Division St
Amber Bakery, Long Island Ave (across from the P.O.)
Grappa Wine Bar, 62 Main Street
Ziggy's Food + Drink, 964 Sag Harbor/Bridgehampton Turnpike
Cuca Romley, Wintertree Gallery, 125 Main St
Emporium True Value Hardware, 72 Main St
Bridgehampton Florist, 11 Main St, Bridgehampton
And thanks to Sag Harbor Beverage, and Tripoli Patterson for helping provide extra refreshment!
We want to especially thank all contributing artists:
John Alexander
Linda Alpern
Tulla Booth
Derek Buckner
Jeff Carpenter
Ann Chwatsky
Deborah Craven
Molly Dougenis
Jameson Ellis
Eric Fischl
Francine Fleischer
Dorothy Frankel
Ralph Gibson
April Gornik
Mia Grosjean
Jean Holabird
Stephanie Joyce
Doug Kuntz
Laurie Lambrecht
Susan Lazarus-Riemen
Stephen Longmire
Rima Mardoyan
Elaine McKay
Steve Miller
Kimberly Monson
Mark Mulholland
Jill Musnicki
Dennis Oppenheim
Warren Padula
Barbara Pintauro-Lobosco
Joe Pintauro
Peter Reginato
Dan Rizzie
Susan Rockford
Randall Rosenthal
Susan Rowland
Reynold Ruffins
Peter Sabbeth & David Sokolin
Blair Seagram
Ned Smyth
Caren Sturmer
Donald Sultan
Kathryn Szoka
John Torreano
Michael Viera
And our amazing volunteers!
Ann Chwatsky
Howard Chwatsky
Mercedes Condy
Deborah Craven
Gene Deporis
Molly Dougenis
Merete Evans
Mia Grosjean
Susan Lazarus-Riemen
Stephen Longmire
Helen Samuels
Beverly Schanzer
Carol Schapiro
Jill Schoenbach
Nanette Stavis
Robby Stein
Lester Ware
Jayne Young
And thanks to our merchant-benefactors:
Amber Bakery
Cavaniola's Gourmet Cheese Shop
Channing Daughters Winery
Sag Harbor Liquor Store
Schiavoni's Market
Bay Street Theatre
and most especially to the
First Presbyterian (Old Whalers') Church!
Sag Harbor Art Walk and
Save Sag Harbor Art Benefit
Thank you for your support
and participation!
We had a great time, and we hope you did, too!
And November, 2008....
We want to thank EVERYONE involved in Saturday's [June 27, 2009] very successful Art Day. Thanks to all the galleries who participated, to Tulla Booth and Rebecca Cooper for spearheading the Art Walk, and to all the great galleries of Sag Harbor for their participation, including:
Canio's Bookstore and Gallery, Delaney Cooke Gallery, Gallery B, Gallery Merz, Grenning Gallery, Kramoris Gallery, Sylvester and Co., The Gallery in Sag Harbor, Tulla Booth Gallery, Urban Zen, and Wintertree Gallery.
And thanks to all the incredible artists in our benefit:
Nancy Achenbach * Jim Albinson * John Alexander * Linda Alpern * Casey Anderson * Barbara Asch * Mary Ellen Bartley * Gary Beeber * Tulla Booth * Derek Buckner * Ann Chwatsky * Lucille Colin * Carolyn Conrad * Deb Craven * Mark Dalessio * Miriam Dougenis * Jameson Ellis * Ben Fenske * Pat Field * Eric Fischl * Francine Fleischer * Dorothy Frankel * Melissa Franklin * Amelia Garretson-Persans * Ralph Gibson * April Gornik * Gordon Grant * Mia Grosjean * Jean Holabird * Bryan Hunt * Stephanie Joyce * Shea Keating * Lisa Kiss * Doug Kuntz * Laurie Lambrecht * Susan Lazarus-Reimen * Stephen Longmire * Rima Mardoyan * Elaine McKay * Kimberly Monson * Mark Mulholland * Jill Musnicki * Warren Padula * Joe Pintauro * Barbara Pintauro-Lobosco *Melinda Camber Porter * Gerald Pryor * Paul Rafferty * Ramiro * Peter Reginato * Dan Rizzie * Susan Rockford * Randall Rosenthal * Susan Rowland * Reynold Ruffins * Bastienne Schmidt * Blair Seagram * Peter Solow * Sabina Streeter * Kathryn Szoka * John Torreano * Michael Viera * Dan Welden * Nelson White
You are all art stars for us, and we so appreciate your participation!
We were happy to be graced with a great Save Sag Harbor video Jeremy Katz of Brown Bag Design Studio did, which ran on a loop in the gallery during the event. You can see it on youtube (minus the copyrighted Bob Dylan song) HERE!
VERY SPECIAL THANKS to Michael and Efli Eicke, for letting us use their magnificent Christy's Art Center, and to Billy Joel for removing his motorcycles from the space for our show. Billy Joel's Motorcycle as Art and Icon show is back up till July 19th. Don't miss it!
We also sincerely thank our friends and neighbors who helped make our event cost-effective with their generosity: Bridgehampton Florist, Cavaniola's Cheese Shop (newly expanded!!), Cynthia Battaglia Distinctive Catering, Sag Harbor Liquor Store, Schiavoni's Market, The Wharf Shop, and Water Street Wines and Spirits.
And last but hardly least, we thank our spectacular volunteers without whom, since Save Sag Harbor is an all-volunteer effort, we would simply not be able to succeed.
Monica Brennan * Lisina Ceresa * Ann Chwatsky * Cathleen Civale * Mercedes Condy * Deb Craven * Cora Diaz * Molly Dougenis * Amy Eller * Merete Evans * Stephanie Joyce * Alexandra McNear * Beverly Schanzer * Carol Schapiro * Jill Schoenbach * Carla Simons * Nanette Stavis
bidding at the benefit
This page celebrates some of the early events we've had as friend- and fund-raisers.


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James, the Brother of the Lord, apostle of the Seventy
Dates of commemoration
(Church calendar - Dec 31) Movable feast - Sunday after the Nativity of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, holy ancestors
Saint James the Just, also called James Adelphos and James the Brother of Our Lord (died AD 62), was the first Bishop or Patriarch of Jerusalem. According to the Protoevangelion of James, James was the son of Joseph—along with the other 'brethren of the Lord' mentioned in the scripture—from a marriage prior to his betrothal to Mary. He wrote an epistle which is part of the New Testament. St. James is commemorated on October 23; on December 26 and also on the first Sunday after the Nativity, along with David the King and St. Joseph; and on January 4 among the Seventy Apostles.
Jerome, De Viris Illustribus, quotes Hegesippus' account of James from the fifth book of his lost Commentaries:
- "After the apostles, James the brother of the Lord surnamed the Just was made head of the Church at Jerusalem. Many indeed are called James. This one was holy from his mother's womb. He drank neither wine nor strong drink, ate no flesh, never shaved or anointed himself with ointment or bathed. He alone had the privilege of entering the Holy of Holies, since indeed he did not use woolen vestments but linen and went alone into the temple and prayed in behalf of the people, insomuch that his knees were reputed to have acquired the hardness of camels' knees."
Paul further describes James as being one of the persons the risen Christ showed himself to (I Corinthians 15:3-8); then later in I Corinthians, mentions James in a way that suggests James had been married (9:5); and in Galatians, Paul lists James with Cephas (better known as Peter) and John, as the three "pillars" of the Church, and who will minister to "the circumcised" (that is the Jews) in Jerusalem, while Paul and his fellows will minister to the Gentiles (2:9, 2:12).
Acts provides clear evidence that James was an important figure in the Christian community of Jerusalem. When Peter, having miraculously escaped from prison, must flee Jerusalem, he asks that James be informed (12:17). When the Christians of Antioch are concerned over whether Gentile Christians need be circumcised to be saved, they send Paul and Barnabas to confer with the church there, and it is James who utters the definitive judgment (15:13ff). When Paul arrives in Jerusalem to deliver the money he raised for the faithful there, it is James to whom he speaks, and who insists that Paul ritually cleanse himself (21:18).
A debated passage, often characterized as a Christian interpolation, in Josephus' Jewish Antiquities, records his death in Jerusalem as having occurred after the death of the procurator Porcius Festus, yet before Clodius Albinus took office (Antiquities 20,9)—which has thus been dated to AD 62. The high priest Ananus took advantage of this lack of imperial oversight to assemble a council of judges who condemned James "on the charge of breaking the law," then had him executed by stoning. Josephus reports that Ananus' act was widely viewed as little more than judicial murder, and offended a number of "those who were considered the most fair-minded people in the City, and strict in their observance of the Law," who went as far as meeting Albinus as he entered the province to petition him about the matter. Their agitations led to Ananus being deposed as high priest.
Eusebius, while quoting Josephus' account, also records otherwise lost passages from Hegesippus (see links below), and Clement of Alexandria (Historia Ecclesiae, 2.23). Hegesippus' account apparently varied from what Josephus reports: the Pharisees, upset at St. James' teachings, first threw him from the summit of the Temple in Jerusalem, then stoned him, and at last broke his skull with a fuller's club.
The Protevangelion of James (or Infancy Gospel of James), a work of the 2nd century, also presents itself as written by James.
Holy relic type
unless specified otherwise below, "holy relic" means a fragment of a bone of the saint
1. Holy relic
2. Holy relic
Location of the holy relic in the Cathedral:
1. Icon of the Synaxis of the Apostles, east wall of the Cathedral, in front of the north kliros
2. Icon of Apostle James, wall along the staircase to the choir balcony
Tone 4
As the Lord's disciple you received the Gospel, O righteous James; As a martyr you have unfailing courage; As God's brother, you have boldness; As a hierarch, you have the power to intercede. Pray to Christ God that our souls may be saved.
Tone 4
When God the Word, the Only-begotten of the Father, Came to live among us in these last days, He declared you, venerable James, to be the first shepherd and teacher of Jerusalem And a faithful steward of the spiritual Mysteries. Therefore, we all honor you, O Apostle.


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The potential of phage therapy in cystic fibrosis: Essential human-bacterial-phage interactions and delivery considerations for use in Pseudomonas aeruginosa-infected airways
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As antimicrobial-resistant microbes become increasingly common and a significant global issue, novel approaches to treating these infections particularly in those at high risk are required. This is evident in people with cystic fibrosis (CF), who suffer from chronic airway infection caused by antibiotic resistant bacteria, typically Pseudomonas aeruginosa. One option is bacteriophage (phage) therapy, which utilises the natural predation of phage viruses upon their host bacteria. This review summarises the essential and unique aspects of the phage-microbe-human lung interactions in CF that must be addressed to successfully develop and deliver phage to CF airways. The current evidence regarding phage biology, phage-bacterial interactions, potential airway immune responses to phages, previous use of phages in humans and method of phage delivery to the lung are also summarised. © 2017 European Cystic Fibrosis Society.
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The rumours are true!
Kathrin deBoer, Ricky Fabulous and DJ Modest are playing a special Belleruche one off show for us at Together!
The band was formed after Ricky and Modest, who played bizarre turntable and guitar sets in London bars, bumped in to Kathrin in the market one day; she did some singing over a cup of tea with the pair and Belleruche was born.
They made turntable soul music for Hippoflex Recording Industries & Tru Thoughts Records, between 2006 & 2013.


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I brewed beer in college and wanted to restart the hobby. As my finances are a substantially better than when I was a starving student I decided to upgrade the setup hopefully resulting in a more fun experience with more consistently good beer. This is the setup I am currently putting together and hope to have first brew day in a couple of weeks. The milling and fermenting equipment along with the steel pot and hydrometer are hold-overs from my college days.
I'll update with actual pictures from brewing, fermenting and kegging when the days arrive.


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The school operates a quality care service for pupils both before and after school, term-time only. Whilst the school provides this service, parents should be aware that the scheme has to be self-financing and, therefore, has to be run on strictly business lines. This service is registered with Ofsted, and the staffing ratio is one adult to every eight children.
The children are offered a wide mix of activities and leisure pursuits to choose from, light snacks are available, and the scheme has proved very popular.
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"Diorama Building" with Bronte Stead | Ages 8-12yrs | Thursdays 4.30-5.30pm | Term THREE 2019
"Diorama Building" with Bronte Stead | Ages 8-12yrs | Thursdays 4.30-5.30pm | Term THREE 2019
A great hands-on program that teaches the skills of building dioramas and scale model projects.
Bronte Stead is a local artist who loves to build things from scratch. He will show you how to turn several household rubbish items into a stunning miniature scale building. No prior experience needed.
Workshops run from 4:30pm – 5.30pm Thursdays at Bluebird House (Cnr Carr & Swanston Streets, South Geelong), commencing 18th July until 19th September for Term Three 2019.
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Understanding scale & realism in miniature
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Bronte Stead
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Working with young people for over 10 years, Bronte understands the significance of nurturing personal growth & creativity in youth.
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Level design and folk representations of the world
In lessons from first-person shooters, Robert Janelle curiously describes the quirks one can find in FPS:
"Red Barrels Always Explode When Pierced By Bullets You Run Faster When Holding a Knife You Can Fit ANYTHING In Your Pocket Coloured Doors Are Locked Green Liquid is Harmful Helpful Items Are Just Lying Around Crates Break Into Splinters When Pierced"
Why do I blog this? a video-game world is a "microworld" in the sense that it's a close environment with its own rules and processes. As an artifacts crafted and designed by humans, it embeds values and folk mechanisms about how the world could behave. It's then curious to see what are people's projections as the one described above. Would a game level be boring/non-challenging if it replicated the material world?


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How many years have you been a physiotherapist?
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Posted 10-26-2013 at 08:58 AM by softlyfalling
I am, first and foremost, a poet and I am wondering if it would be appropriate to use one of my poems for the description for a photo or group of photos. And, if so, how can I get that to format correctly so it does not look like prose?
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We are already well into the Fall season with tickles in our throats, watery eyes and nose sniffles. So why such a problem now and what can be done?
The fall season brings along mature plants with seeds flying through the air. Some will sprout in decayed leaves but some will become part of the decay. Leaves fall and create mulch but that mulch is decay, mold and stale water to make our noses sensitive. And what happens with all those bugs which shed their wings and skin this time of year? They are part of the mulch which is being created!
The pollens from all the mature plants are flying through the air. Some are beautiful like the parachutes from the dandelion. I love the seeds of the bee balm and basil floating in the air. Are all of these causing our sensitivities to blossom too? We know for a fact that the infamous ragweed and goldenrod with their spores floating around in the autumn air are huge enemies for many.
And then there is the mold or fungi. It is in our homes, yards, cars and storage bins all summer long, just growing but then in the fall with cool days and nights it flourishes. On top of that we close our doors and turn on the heat without changing that furnace filter and BOOM more mold and dust mites grow.
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007
I have no business sense- none.
She told me the site I designed, all in Flash, wouldn't play on her Blackberry and it wasn't serious enough, etc. I made a crap Dreamweaver single page for her today, and posted it, because I felt sorry for her as she struggles to put her old html site back together, but probably will never take a lesson from her again.
(By the way, if you're ever looking for long ago web sites, an amazing site is the waybackmachine.
They never seem to have everything from your long ago site, but they have a lot.)
When you charge low prices you get the lowly worm treatment. At age 58 you'd think I would have learned this, but no. At least I didn't do it on spec...
The work I did I should have charged $1500 for. I quoted $500. insane. I accepted $250.
Then there's the String Devils, a site I thought looked really cool, oh never mind, it will just keep me awake again tonight. Innovative web design is no career unless you really absorb and love the metallic look where everything looks like toasters.
I've never had business sense, even though I'm generally sensible. I always feel sorry for the people paying me- eek- enough.
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- linda said...
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- Nov 6, 2007, 10:04:00 PM
- linda said...
Sally, this is such a generous post.
I was just getting to know Anne when I designed the web site for her that you helped me with. It took me months to figure out what to charge.
Later, I designed a card for her. When we were driving to the printer, she wanted to write me a check. I said: "Oh. I'll figure out my fee and let you know. I'll be much better this time about billing, I promise. It's just that the business end is impossible for me. I'm terrible at it."
She said––referring to our first experience working together––"I know. I was shocked. I was really shocked."
All I can say is, I have the same kind of business sense you have, only worse.
- Nov 6, 2007, 10:04:00 PM
Sally, yes, thank you so much for this post. Really we all feel this way. I hate figuring out to charge. Really people never want to pay what I would want! I never ask enough; I am so afraid. It gets crazy trying to estimate how many hours something will take; of course I estimate too low.
Last spring I suddenly had way too much business and raised my rates.
Now I have almost no business, which was sort of the point but still a shock to my bank account.
It's true the people who want to pay the least are the most demanding and insufferable!
I've started thinking: regardless of number of hours, etc., what is it worth to me to go through this hell - and then put a price on it like what a vacation I want would cost.
One time I designed a whole site (working for only - get this - a gourmet home-cooked dinner) only to learn after I finished that their Internet service provider for their free site had a template you had to use, and so they never even used my site (I was really a rookie at web design then).
- Nov 7, 2007, 8:42:00 AM
Linda, what did Anne mean: was she shocked you charged so little?
- Nov 7, 2007, 8:42:00 AM
but what happened with the String Devils site?
- Nov 7, 2007, 8:56:00 AM
- linda said...
Sally, more thoughts. It's easy to see how you would have this kind of business sense. You worked for that animation company here in SF for 10 years where the owner basically paid you to work on whatever you wanted. He recognized what you have to offer. After an experience like that, it must be a little surprising when others don't recognize what you have to offer.
Also, there's probably a little of your mom in you. I can't help thinking about the story you told about your mom and her book. (Now I can't find it on your blog--but I remember something about her not wanting to give the book out to her friends until she dies, because she doesn't want them to think she's "showing off.") You probably don't strut your stuff.
Other Sal: No, what I meant was that Anne just came out and said that she was shocked to discover my business sense was so bad. I still have no idea what she thinks about what I charged.
And Other Sal, when you say: "I've started thinking: regardless of number of hours, etc., what is it worth to me to go through this hell -" sometimes it's not hell at all. Though it always takes time, sometimes the work's very fulfilling. That makes it all the more demoralizing when somebody decides to go back to a rickety 10-year-old template.
Back to you, Sally C:
Also, you're lighthearted. Lots of people are terrified of lightheartedness when it comes to their business. Not to mention that you're ahead of your time. (She can't see the site on her Blackberry!!)
- Nov 7, 2007, 9:45:00 AM
I guess the hell I meant is the part where they don't use your work.... or want it changed. Doing the work the way you want to do it is not hell, you're right!
And the client who offered me dinner for a site she never used ... was my boss's wife, which made it all the more awkward.
- Nov 7, 2007, 9:56:00 AM
- Namowal said...
How frustrating! Few things are more crazy-making when you go out of your way to be nice, reasonable, generous, hard-working, fair, etc.. and you end up being slapped in the face and stomped on. I've been there and I've seen it happen to others in all sorts of contexts. It's not fair, but it seems to be the way of the world. :(
- Nov 7, 2007, 10:55:00 AM
- linda said...
Nanownal: This must be what they mean when they say "No good deed goes unpunished."!
I do think there's some truth to "When you charge low prices you get the lowly worm treatment."
But I refuse to believe this is "the way of the world." I think we have whole lot to do with the way people treat us.
At the same time, working for friends and associates can be tricky.
Sally, if I can't shut up, it's just because this subject strikes such a familiar chord with me.
- Nov 7, 2007, 12:27:00 PM
- Sally said...
I really appreciate all your comments. Gee Linda, we were meant to go in business together! I remember doing a major amount of work designing a catalog-- for a plate of cookies, when I thought there was money coming soon. An evil rubberstamp company not to be named. But I won't go there.
New day, no job, just the way I like it. I do think you were quite on the mark Linda with your comments about Gregg Snazelle and my mother. I also sort of thought it might be a Southern thing, even though I'm not Southern, but had enough in my background to feel like it.
My computer has been doing this rotten thing of suddenly getting major vertical jitters. I've run various programs through to see if it's a virus or something and nothing's shown up. I got a long post typed up here when it went into the spazzy attack.
I was really so bummed by this particular job upset because I'd tried so hard to make the site look friendly, funny and not weird. And Molly loved her sheep herding lessons, which I don't think she'll be getting any more of.
Maybe there's something to this need to have a site play on a Blackberry- or an i-phone. Or maybe the phones will all come around to Flash. Anyway, I took her files off the server, deleted them from my hard drive, and then felt a good bit better and actually slept well.
As for the String Devils, imagine building a big site in Flash for free, (they asked the audience if anyone would help them), barely getting a thank you, then getting a long list of sites they'd like their site to look like from the bandleader's wife-- (after the site was on line two months!) and then discovering they didn't even link to the site from their myspace page. MUSICIANS! Now they seem to have another group name. But I'm keeping that one on line as an example site.
- Nov 7, 2007, 12:59:00 PM
- Namowal said...
I came up a bit snarky on my "way of the world" statement, Linda. I think it works more like this- when you go out of you're extra super nice to a friend, you're usually treated nice in return. When you're extra super nice in a business context (friend or not), you risk being exploited. Not that I advocate being dishonest, ill-tempered or mean, of course. As you pointed out, treating people well yields better results than treating people badly.
- Nov 7, 2007, 1:42:00 PM
Regarding:"Maybe there's something to this need to have a site play on a Blackberry- or an i-phone."
Definitely! That's what I mean when I say you're ahead of the curve. I'm sure the phones will play Flash in the near future.
- Nov 7, 2007, 2:33:00 PM
Just off the top of his head at 6 a.m., Pat says check monitor scan rate in advanced settings: try 60 Hz or odd number like 65 or 75 Hz. If you are running two monitors that are set at different scan rates, try setting them the same. (It depends on the video adapter.) Did you recently update to Windows XP Version 3? It might have installed the wrong video drivers.
I do think, from Virginia DeBolt's presentation and book on accessibility, that we might want to consider when designing a site adding alternate code for mobile devices so those people still see something (it's not going to be pretty, but it can be functional).
- Nov 8, 2007, 5:00:00 AM
Of course, I've never actually done the separate code for mobile devices, because I'm so burned out after completing the original code. But I know I should do it.
- Nov 9, 2007, 4:52:00 AM
- Sally said...
Sal, it must be nice having tech support at home! The vertical jitter thing hasn't repeated yet, fortunately.
I wish I'd added that content for lame browsers as you mention, because then she might not have gotten angry at her site in the first place. But when they talk about wanting this video and that video and these pictures and those pictures all on their site, I just thought there were no tech limits.
- Nov 9, 2007, 8:27:00 AM
Yes, it is a huge help having Pat there to help with tech problems. I miss him, though, when he's out solving everyone else's tech problems....
Yes, sadly, most clients have no idea what's involved when they ask for this and that!
- Nov 9, 2007, 1:43:00 PM
I just can't stop. I DO think there may be something to what you said about being Southern contributing to our assertiveness difficulty. Even though my parents were midwestern, I was raised in the South among many Southern women.
- Nov 10, 2007, 5:00:00 AM


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We trust that consumers will continue purchasing a case and screen protection, but the continued focus on larger phones got us thinking about other "essentials" they can purchase to enhance their "giant" phone usage. One category to consider: phone grips.Read full post
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