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Oh heck yeah, loved loved loved the first one, and the setting for Dark Waters sounds awesome. There aren't enough pirate themed RPG games... I may have to install Risen and give it another play through, and btw anyone who played the Gothic series I-III, it was Piranha Bytes whom developed those, and that ridiculously horrible 4th part was from another company after PB was fired after the not so successful launch of Gothic III, but it was still an amazing game after the community patch fixed it up.Quote :Deep Silver reveals Risen 2TM: Dark WatersPiranha Bytes team to explore uncharted territories 21st February 2011 Hampshire, UK/
Deep Silver and Piranha Bytes today officially revealed their new game Risen 2: Dark Waters, the successor of the popular role-playing game Risen. With an expanded setting, a fresh story and characters and an all-new technical foundation, Risen 2 will expand the success of the Risen franchise worldwide.Set several years after the end of Risen, raging titans have devastated the world and pushed humanity to the brink of existence. Subsequently, monstrous creatures have risen from the watery depths of the sea and their attacks have brought all seafaring to a grinding halt. The hero, now a member of the Inquisition, is sent out to find out how to stop the chaos caused by these creatures from the deep. His quest begins with rumors that the pirates who frequent the southern islands are the only ones who know a way to get rid of the creatures once and for all and end their reign of terror.With an all-new pirate-based theme, Risen 2: Dark Waters aims to combine the most loved classic RPG gameplay mechanics of the original Risen with a fresh theme and setting on a huge variety of themed island locales. A third-person role-playing game set in a dark and gritty universe, Risen 2: Dark Waters maintains the most immersive features of the original Risen, with multiple approaches to every challenge allowing players to shape the game world based on their own decisions. These choices will serve to unlock new paths, features and additional skills for the character. Together with a highly interactive environment and a full day/night-cycle affecting countless aspects of the game world, Risen 2 will be set in the most immersive RPG game world so far.The eagerly-awaited successor of Risen will set sail worldwide for consoles and PC. For a first immersion into Risen 2: Dark Waters, three illustrations giving a first glimpse of the beautiful new game world can be found on the official game teaser site at www.risen2.com.


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Scattered areas within Pennsylvania are now at "Medium" risk for the development of scab in wheat and barley that is currently flowering.
Our current weather forecast includes a stretch of wet, mild weather that is conducive to the production and spread of spores. As the week progresses, many areas of the state will likely reach the "High" level for risk. Be prepared to spray a fungicide on fields that are at medium to high risk at flowering.
Remember, sprays applied PRIOR to flowering will NOT provide significant suppression of scab or toxin production.
Caramba mixed with a tebuconazole product, Proline or Prosaro would be effective on scab and give control of some leaf diseases and glume blotch. Spray nozzles should be angled at 30 degrees down from horizontal, toward the grain heads, using forward- and backward mounted nozzles or nozzles with a two directional spray, such as Twinjet nozzles.
Do not use any of the strobilurins (Quadris, Headline), or strobilurin/triazole (Twinline, Quilt, Stratego) combination products at flowering or later. There is evidence they may cause an increase in mycotoxin production.
Here is a chart to help tease out the best fungicide depending on what other diseases may be present in a given field: http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/ohiofieldcropdisease/wheat/OFCDwheatfungicides.pdf.
At this point in the season, the only way to reduce the scab problem is to spray. But in general, do not rely solely on fungicides, as they will provide at most a 50–60 percent reduction in scab severity and vomitoxin. A combination of choosing resistant wheat varieties, avoiding planting into corn or small grain stubble and residue management are also required to combat this problem long-term.
Keeping an eye on the FHB Risk Assessment Tool will become critical for those farmers who have wheat beginning to flower late this week and into the next two weeks. This forecasting site, at http://www.wheatscab.psu.edu/riskTool_2011.html, is an online model that helps us predict infection risk levels everywhere in the state.
Visit it at your convenience, or sign up to have updates e-mailed or texted directly to you. The maps on this site update at approximately 10:15am daily, so check back if you receive a "No Data" message.

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Measuring Up
Reframing Incentives & Rewards to Emphasize ROI
By Dawn Klingensmith
It is the best of times; it is the worst of times.
It is time to innovate; it is time to get back to basics.
It is time for the incentives industry to educate customers, politicians, media and the public. It is time for the industry to reeducate itself.
"It used to be true that our industry did better than most during recessions," said Bruce Bolger, executive director of the Enterprise Engagement Alliance (EEA), a Falls Church, Va.-based trust that will be guiding the incentives industry through an image makeover and a return to fundamentals. "That's no longer true. The industry has been hurt. I've never seen anything like it."
The economic crisis along with a spate of negative publicity surrounding incentive trips are forcing short- and long-term changes to take place. Opulence is out. For the time being, incentive travel has been somewhat scaled back. The industry will be rebranded, with emphasis on the concept of engagement.
Most important, incentive programs need to have built-in metrics that enable companies to validate return on investment, because that's how incentive planners can justify funding these programs in times of aggressive and sometimes desperate cost-cutting measures.
Fortunately, just as it's needed most, the research showing that incentive programs work has reached a critical mass. Incentive planners can draw from it to make their case. But that's not good enough. They need to be able to prove that their programs in particular benefit the bottom line, and by how much. How can they measure and communicate a program's worth? How can they justify implementing, retaining or revamping an employee incentive program?
"The same way they should have been doing it in booming economic times — by quantifying the objective at the very beginning," said Jim Dittman, president, Dittman Incentive Marketing, New Brunswick, N.J.
Although the Incentive Research Foundation's (IRF's) Master Measurement Model of Employee Performance states that "every job and every task can be measured," thereby proving incentive programs pay off, buyers and sellers of incentive products have often been guilty of skipping this step. The industry has seen widespread implementation of incomplete programs—in other words, users have been investing only in rewards and recognition and not in analysis. In fact, recent research by Globoforce, a program provider based in Southborough, Mass., showed 42 percent of all organizations are not measuring their program results in any way. While in some cases that's indicative of buyers' faith in incentive programs, it's bad for business. In these trying times, many incentive planners lack hard data to show upper management, shareholders, politicians and the public that well-designed rewards and recognition programs are wise investments rather than expendable perks.
Aside from continual analysis, rewards and recognition initiatives should be part of a comprehensive package that also includes training and communication programs, in order to maximize ROI, Bolger said.


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There is a tremendous focus in the STEM world on gender equity. The nation must provide greater access to the STEM enterprise for women and girls. That is absolutely true. The argument could not be more simple. The nation cannot realize its full potential if half of the talent pool is locked out of such critical fields. What appears to be happening; however, is that gender efforts primarily benefit white women and girls. From my vantage point, it is becoming increasingly clear that when the clarion call is gender equity, the image associated with that is a white woman. So, where does that leave women of color?
Left out.
I understand that it is easier for large public and private institutions' gender efforts to default to focusing on white women. It is an easier proposition. White men dominate the captaincy of the tech space. Without exception, they all have intimate relationships with white women in some form – mother, daughter, or girlfriend. When they look at white women, they see extensions of themselves and their loved ones. They do not want their own daughters, for example, to have their ambitions truncated or predetermined, or some other man to harass, inhibit, underestimate or restrict the infinite potential of their beloved little girls. Similarly, among the increasing number of white women holding leadership roles in the academy and in the public and private sector, they surely see younger versions of themselves in the next generation of white girls. It is a natural instinct to want the very best for them.
For black girls, and girls of color, the story is more complicated. Not only do they not have natural advocates, the images they are overcoming are more challenging. The country watched the white police officer in South Carolina snatch a young black girl out of her seat by her neck, smash her on the ground and then throw her across the classroom floor.
It was a math class.
In a nation with a history such as ours, that imagery is connected to a much longer and darker legacy – a legacy where white men have abused black women and girls with impunity. There is no intimacy there. It is not too many chapters back in our national narrative where that episode ends with the girl being whipped and raped – and the strange stillness of the young black boys indicative of the reality that if they moved they would be shot. The one other black girl who stood up to resist was also arrested. Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In notion doesn't work the same way for black girls.
Here too, it is clear why black women, and women of color, have to exhibit such grace and strength. They all too often have to cheer for and lift themselves up, sadly with little support except from each other. The unfortunate lament in the STEM world is that black men are in crisis and black women are forgotten. The additional power and resilience that are forged in black women make their entry into the STEM ecosystem even more valuable. They demonstrate the tenacity to persist despite unfavorable circumstances and the creativity to add color and beauty to any canvas as they paint themselves into the landscape. Those are the virtues of problem solvers. They are a national treasure to be sure.
Efforts towards gender equity that leave out black and brown women are irresponsibly incomplete. It is surely difficult and inconvenient for the champions of gender equity to come to terms with the different realities of women of color. That difficulty does not grant them a pass. Until women of color are squarely and measurably included in STEM gender equity efforts, those victories will be hollow.


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For songwriters who deeply resonate with the music of artists they love, it can be tempting to work out of the same playbook of your musical idols. But because music that embraces new ideas almost always proves to be the most impactful, imitating your musical influences is a bad idea. Here's a few other reasons why you should develop your own musical ideas and not those of songwriters that have influenced you:
Why You Shouldn't Imitate Your Musical Influences
Don't Know What To Write About In Your Music? Here Are Four Tips
Lots of potentially phenomenal songwriters often fantasize about writing music but can't bring themselves to write a song. For some, the problem is rooted in a lack of confidence and the paralyzing fear of being made vulnerable through music. But for other musicians, a complete lack of knowing what to write about is the culprit.
Knowing what to write songs about can be a challenge even for experienced songwriters, so this is a problem that plagues most writers eventually. Here's five tips designed to help get you thinking about what to write about in your music:
How To Delegate Tasks And Work As A Team
When I first started my company, I did everything myself. Emails, press releases, blog posts, social media posts, artist discovery, and a million other tasks that not only filled me with dread, but completely drained my energy. By year two, I was a walking zombie. I was irritable most of the time, and I was incredibly tired and overworked. Worse yet, I had done this to myself! It was a prison of my own making.
When you're in a band, it can become easy to default all or most of the tasks to just one or two people and let them carry the bulk of it. It's one of those things that tends to happen naturally because someone is really good at a certain task, or takes the initiative before anyone else, and before you know it, one person is doing everything from booking to press to social media. But not only will that burn them out over time, it's completely ineffective and unsustainable. Just because someone can do something, doesn't mean they should.
If you're the person who is already doing everything for your band, the first step is getting comfortable delegating tasks to them, and letting them know it's time to share the workload. If you're one of the band members who hasn't been picking up their share of the slack, here's how you can start.
The Music Industry's Playlist Culture And Our Attention Spans
In addition to delivering big profits to labels and publishers, playlists are helping new and unknown artists succeed in some profound ways. From popular independent playlists curated in dorm rooms to Spotify's insanely successful Discover Weekly feature, playlists are becoming a major way for listeners to learn about new music. The music industry has a lot to gain from this new trend, but is there a downside to our ever-increasing penchant for playlists?
Why Play Counts, Views, and Hits Don't Necessarily Translate To Success In Music
There's nothing more exciting for a new artist than finding out that listeners are starting to learn about and enjoy their music. But using play counts, views, and hits as the only metrics to measure musical success is a bad idea.
If you think about it, using statistics like views and plays to measure an artist's traction with fans is a relatively new thing. Sure, the music industry has relied on radio charts and record sales to gauge and understand what music is resonating with listeners and what music isn't, but those metrics are completely different than measuring how often listeners play a particular track on a streaming platform.
Trust In Your Own Process: Meet Fly By Midnight
Retro pop duo Fly By Midnight (Justin and Slavo) formed after a casual songwriting session in their NY based studio. After collaborating on several projects, they saw an undeniable potential for combining their talents.
Fly By Midnight recently submitted their song to one of our opportunities where they were picked from thousands of artists to perform at the Firefly Music Festival.
They just released their brand new single "Just Say It" and we're excited to share their brand new video here on the ReverbNation blog along with an interview where we spoke to them about how they got started, how they built their brand, and what's next for Fly By Midnight. Check it out below.
Why Healthy Habits Will Make You A Better Musician
For about as long as musicians have been writing music and performing, the world of music has been synonymous with things like terrible diets, late nights, and copious amounts of booze and drugs. But while unhealthy lifestyles make for good television, they can be hell on a musician's body. If making and performing music is something you plan on doing for the rest of your life, the bad habits you form now could keep you from being your best, or stop you in your tracks completely. It's not sexy, but learning how to take care of yourself will make you a better musician.
About The Money: Music Distribution As An Investment
Imagine you're a new, independent artist looking to test the waters of the business they call music. You have a soul-sucking day job, but hey, gotta pay the rent, right? Soon you'd love to quit and make music full time, but first you need to get some momentum going. You bedroom-produced a handful of songs and you're ready to get streamed. Got $50 to drop on digital distribution for those five songs? "Ayyyyyy, I haven't even bought a nice microphone yet!"
Do you really want to begin your career hundreds of dollars in the hole?
You can't catch your dreams if you go broke trying. That's why we're dethroning The Old Way with Select Distribution, the smart, budget-friendly way to get your music on the biggest streaming platforms in the world. The Old Way requires you to spend at least $10 per song and $50 per album to get on "hundreds" of streaming sites, apps, and stores. That's a fine offer for the more established artist with thousands of fans. That guy is confident he'll make his money back in a few months. But the up-and-comer, well, she needs to be a bit more choosy with her money. Want to do some quick math?


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The two sets of notes at the bottom of xinitrc#Configuration should be condensed in some way. The first five bullet points all concern which tty X is running on. I could create this as its own subsection, and contain the information there, though I am not entirely convinced that this is necessary/appropriate/needed on this page at all. Would it be more appropriate to merge the relevant sections into the Xorg article, perhaps? Pid1 (talk) 00:30, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
- First of all, the first 4 points are inaccurate. Back in 2013, this was indeed handled by the default
/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc, which contained
#!/bin/sh if [ -z "$XDG_VTNR" ]; then exec /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp "$@" else exec /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp "$@" vt$XDG_VTNR fi
- Now it contains only
#!/bin/sh exec /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp "$@"
- This will be more work than it seemed, we should investigate... Nevertheless, startx handles the
vtparameter, but plain xinit doesn't, so I'd say the note is perfectly suitable for this page.
- -- Lahwaacz (talk) 08:17, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for the insights. I will cross-reference the documentation with what is provided here, and update accordingly. Pid1 (talk) 13:01, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
propose to add to automatic startx
When combine automatic startx + automatic login to console, it may come to infinite loop/crash if (a) ~/.xinitrc goes wrong somewhere, after editing; or (b) after pacman -Syyu and Xorg crash. I propose to check if the last GUI session (startx session) really last long before start a new one.
if [[ -z $DISPLAY && $XDG_VTNR -eq 1 ]]; then if [[ -f /tmp/login-check-startx.flag ]]; then rm /tmp/login-check-startx.flag echo -e "\nFile '/tmp/login-check-startx.flag' found, maybe the last GUI session did not last long!\n" ## do nothing, start automatic console login else touch /tmp/login-check-startx.flag ( sleep 120; rm /tmp/login-check-startx.flag ) & exec startx fi fi ## Change '/tmp/login-check-startx.flag' to '$HOME/login-check-startx.flag' if you want that check also valid after reboot.
Triplc (talk) 20:42, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
- You might do that without the temporary file by simply looking at the age of the log file:
if [[ -z $DISPLAY && $XDG_VTNR -eq 1 ]]; then if [[ ! -e ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log || $(find ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log -mmin +2) != "" ]]; then exec startx fi fi
- Or even more simply, don't
exec startx, check its return code and drop to interactive shell on errors:
if [[ -z $DISPLAY && $XDG_VTNR -eq 1 ]]; then startx && exit fi-- Lahwaacz (talk) 21:10, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks Lahwaacz. But (a) so the age of a file is based on it's creation time, not update time. OK, i did not know that. (b) about the startx exit code, i am not sure that it will correctly set if i edit something wrong in ~/.xinitrc which make GUI session crash
.xinitrc redirection
Currently it point to Xinit. It would be better if the link pointed to the section related to it, Xinit#xinitrc. --AlonsoLP (talk) 09:10, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
there are 2 xinit examples which by themselves do not work as laid out, imo they should be removed and instead an optional note could be put (somewhere) that says something like:
- xinit can be executed instead of startx if you know what options to use
otherwise it seems frustrating to recommend examples which will obviously fail --Ubone (talk) 02:29, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
- xinit would not obviously fail if you specified the options in xserverrc. If you already have an X server started, you should also pass the
:display_numberoption mentioned in the note after the first example. -- Lahwaacz (talk) 07:35, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
- then replace or in #Usage with or if #xserverrc is configured: ? --Ubone (talk) 08:10, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
$1 session ?
i tried and the startx deliverd with arch seems to put xterm as $1, $2 contains the session:
$ startx openbox xinit xterm openbox -- /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc :1 -auth /tmp/serverauth.wh2MYgjhmj $ startx xinit /home/st/.xinitrc -- /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc :1 -auth /tmp/serverauth.8s9paxN6G8
this is different in your installation? how did you do that, Lahwaacz ? --Soloturn (talk) 16:01, 29 December 2018 (UTC)


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Deborah Parrish Snyder
1994 – Present
Exec. VP and shareholder, Global Ecotechnics Corporation, a Nevada corporation owning and managing several ecological and cross-cultural projects including: a pasture regeneration project in NW Australia (5000 acres); a rainforest enrichment project in Puerto Rico (1200 acres); a center for artists from around the planet in Central London; a conference center and organic farm in the south of France; and Silver Hills Properties (350 acres) near Santa Fe, New Mexico. GEC's Biospheres Division is designing and building advanced biospheric systems and semi-enclosed biomic systems.
1994 – Present
Member of the Board, Planetary Coral Reef Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation. Coral reef studies first conducted in Belize on Turneffe Atoll. Currently designing and installing marsh waste treatment facility in Akumal, Mexico and chartering the R/V Heraclitus for it five year expedition (1995-2000) to study previously unstudied ecologies of coral reefs in the Indian Ocean and South East Asia, and help to develop a scientific technique to utilize satellite imagery in monitoring the health and vitality of reefs worldwide.
1984 – Present
Publisher, Synergetic Press, founded in 1969, now a division of Global Ecotechnics. The press specializes in ecology books with focus on the biosphere, as well as works from the vanguard in fiction, poetry, management and drama. The publishing division is also creating educational programs and seminars for schools and universities in biospherics; and producing books, videos, and multi-media information on biospheres. www.synergeticpress.com
1985 -present
Director, Institute of Ecotechnics, a UK registered ecological think-tank which has organized and hosted over twenty international conferences on global trends and in the field of closed ecological systems. It conceived and set-up a range of ecological research and demonstration projects including: a pastural regeneration program in the NW Kimberley of Australia; a rainforest enrichment program in Puerto Rico; a high desert orchard near Santa Fe, New Mexico; built and owns an 82′ ocean going research vessel; and during the start up years of the Biosphere 2 project put together the scientific and applied research team that designed and built the unique facility for global ecology.
1988 – 1994
Director of Publications and Educational Programs, Space Biospheres Ventures, a research and development company engaged in design, development, and implementation of closed ecological systems for Earth and space applications. SBV designed, built and operated the Biosphere 2 experimental research facility north of Tucson, Arizona. In 1992, created and became Publisher of The Biosphere Press, a publishing imprint of Space Biospheres Ventures, and produced over twenty book, video and educational curriculum titles in ecology, biospherics, and nature.
1984 -1985
Editor-in-Chief of The Biosphere Catalogue, an environmental science publication taking an interdisciplanary approach to the study of the Earth's biosphere with contributions from some of the world leading figures in biological and technological fields.
1981 – 1982
Manager of 15 acre organic farm at Les Marronniers Conference Center, Aix-en-Provence, France. Member of managerial staff of the Conference Center responsible for hosting a wide variety of workshops and conferences in the arts and sciences.


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American Sunrise
Two Iraq veterans returning home to Milwaukee, Tom Voss and Anthony Anderson, fight to recover from their haunting wartime experiences. As their intense struggles with moral injuries and depression begin to seem inescapable, even affecting their relationships with friends and families, Continue reading
17th. Annual PUTT RUN Motorcycle Fund Raiser
Proceeds will go to help local Veterans through the Frank and Michael Baran VFW Post 5778 Continue reading
VFW to Deliver Veterans' Voice to Congress
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Next weekend, more than 500 members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S., the nation's largest and oldest war veterans' organization begin rallying in Washington, D.C., to voice the concerns of veterans directly with the nation's lawmakers during the 2017 VFW Legislative Conference, Feb. 26 – March 2. Continue reading
District 10 Fall Training – 2017
Fall Training and a short quick meeting will be held at the Ladysmith Post 2490, on Sat. Aug. 5, 2017 starting with registration at 08:00 hrs. More information as it arrives.


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Our Learning Center "CLICK HERE" ("Articles") will familiarize you with basic concepts, such as Estates and Trusts, Retirement, Tax Planning, and Investing.
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I thought we would share this video that Terryl Whitlatch found recently on her trip to Texas. It has been around for a while and is produced by the wonderful people at BBC narrated by one of my heroes Sir David Attenborough. We find it quite inspirational and beautiful. This is what motivates us at Art Explorers. We hope it does the same for you too, whether to brighten your day or to create something ... EnjoyClick on the Picture above or HERE
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This feature is new in the Solaris Express 10/04 release.
Further enhancements are available in the Solaris 10 1/06 release. See in Enhancements to Java Desktop System Release 3.
The Sun Java Desktop System, Release 3 for the Solaris 10 OS combines open source software with Sun innovation to offer a comprehensive, fully integrated, and interoperable desktop environment with an accessible, modern user interface.
The Java Desktop System provides a comprehensive desktop environment that enables users to navigate and work effectively with the applications and documents on their desktop. The system includes the following:
GNOME desktop environment
StarOffice productivity suite
Evolution mail, with calendar and tasks
Mozilla browser and email client
Complete set of software utilities and accessories
The Java Desktop System provides an intuitive desktop interface with familiar desktop themes and file manager views to enable users to work effectively and efficiently. Other features of the user interface include the following:
Easy to learn and use, especially for users with Windows experience, featuring:
Familiar desktop themes for file management and desktop configuration
Standard keyboard shortcut conventions
Direct access to files and servers using the "Documents" and "Network Places" directories
Familiar access to networked computers from a single "Network Places" directory
Comprehensive user documentation and Help
Desktop applications are well integrated in the Java Desktop System, providing interoperability between applications. Interoperability features include the following:
Drag-and-drop and copy or paste text, graphics, and other elements between applications
Universal printer selection of available printers on the network, to include printers on Windows networks
Single point of entry for directory and file management and networked computers
Direct access to content in data and files by single-click application launch for files contained in e-mail, Web pages, and file manager
In addition to providing interoperability between applications in the desktop, the Java Desktop System provides interoperability at the enterprise level. Features include the following:
Users can access data, files, and printers with both Windows and UNIX environments.
The system can connect to existing backend systems, including Sun Java System Calendaring and Messaging servers and Active Directory, POP3, LDAP, and SMTP mail servers.
For further information about the desktop, see the Java Desktop System Release 3 User Guide. For further information about the applications included in the Java Desktop System, open Help in the desktop and select the specific application from the navigation pane.
The Java Desktop System incorporates many new accessibility features to support people with disabilities. Features in the Solaris 10 OS include enhanced keyboard and desktop navigation, which make the desktop accessible and customizable. The new assistive technologies included in the release are gnopernicus, a screen reader and screen magnifier, and a GNOME onscreen keyboard (GOK).
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Earlier this month, former Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland passed away at age 48. Mary Forsberg Weiland, the mother of the rocker's teenage children, has penned a heartbreaking letter for Rolling Stone that communicates how complicated this entire situation is.
In the note, she asks that we don't glorify Scott's death as a rock and roll tragedy. She explains that his life—and his death—was about more than that.
"The outpouring of condolences and prayers offered to our children, Noah and Lucy, has been overwhelming, appreciated and even comforting," she writes. "But the truth is, like so many other kids, they lost their father years ago. What they truly lost on December 3rd was hope."
But the truth is, like so many other kids, they lost their father years ago. What they truly lost on December 3rd was hope.
She goes on to say that Scott had multiple illnesses, that he was paranoid, and that his children had never even been to his house. "I don't share this with you to cast judgment," she says. "I do so because you most likely know at least one child in the same shoes. If you do, please acknowledge them and their experience."
"Noah and Lucy never sought perfection from their dad," she continues. "They just kept hoping for a little effort. If you're a parent not giving your best effort, all anyone asks is that you try just a little harder and don't give up. Progress, not perfection, is what your children are praying for. Our hope for Scott has died, but there is still hope for others."


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This stunning image was sent to me by Kate (my guest blogger) in the week Pope Francis' encyclical on the environment was attracting a great deal of media coverage and comment.
The children in the photo are on a family visit to the magnificent Kimberley region of north-western Australia. They are at a spot on the coast of that region watching the sun set on the Indian Ocean.
The photo stirred me deeply, not only because of its literal content but also because of the symbolic meaning I saw in it. For me, a sunset represents the end of one day and the promise of a new one. It points to the future as much as to the past.
As I looked at the photo I took the glow of the sunset to represent the future of the four youngsters. This triggered in me (again) some uneasy speculation about the children's future and the future of humanity and planet Earth more generally. I know that I am far from alone in my deep concern. Among the articles written about the Pope's urging to heal the environment and combat climate change was one by Nobel Laureate, Professor Brian Schmidt. The title of the article says it all really: I fear for my grandkids and humanity if we don't tackle this (SMH, June 22, 2015).
Not surprisingly (and quite reasonably in my view), the encyclical identifies the roots of the problem as the rampant consumerism and quest for material growth in the rich nations, and the associated social and economic injustices that are depriving people in poorer nations of the basics of existence – food, water and a secure place to live.
But the encyclical takes the analysis of the problem a significant step further – into our mental emotional and moral relationship with the natural world. First, it puts paid to the ancient Biblical notion of human dominion over other creatures. Second it points to the increasing disconnect with nature in modern life arising from increased urbanisation.
I believe that this second point is the sleeper in the whole conversation about combatting climate change and restoring planetary health. It may even be the elephant in the room. We are hearing more and more about "decarbonising" the atmosphere – largely by transitioning from fossil fuel sources of energy to renewable alternatives. That is great and not to be contested, as decarbonising addresses a major source of accelerating global warming and climate change. But it only partially addresses a wider problem – that of the massive ecological damage being wrought by a host of other human activities. At the core of ecological health and productivity is biodiversity – the number of animals, plants and microorganisms on the planet. The richer the diversity of life, the greater the opportunity for medical discoveries, economic development, and adaptive responses to the challenge of climate change. At least 40 per cent of the world's economy and 80 per cent of the needs of the poor are derived from biological resources.
That is why declining biodiversity has to be a major concern, and correcting it, equally with arresting climate change, has to be a foremost goal of the 21st century. As we are all part of the problem, we all have to part of the solution.
We will do this best if we have our mental house in order as far as nature is concerned. There is overwhelming evidence that a love of nature is a powerful driver of action to save the planet. For that reason, the encyclical has to be commended for placing the growing disconnect between nature and ourselves squarely on the environmental and climate change agenda. Reversing that disconnect is a vital step in building an enduring, practical and vigorous commitment to planetary well-being.
I now see that "claiming our wildness" (restoring our kinship with nature) is much more than embracing nature in order to be happy, healthy and fulfilled at the personal level. It is also an investment in a sustainable future – not only for ourselves but also for our children and all the generations to follow.


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In this chapel (of our Lady of Cloister – Cathedral of Tarragona) still today we do hear the words that sounded on the day of Assumption of Mary 1851: …
"...Cross the seas
Go to any part of the world
Without divisions among us…
Offering ourselves to God, ready to endure any work
For the sake of love of Christ". (Autobiography MAParis)
These are our beginnings, beginnings of shared determination, of the missionary community that was born and is being strengthened in the fidelity to God's will.
Happy Feast day to all sisters and all those who share with us the missionary life!
Renewing with joy our commitment of following Jesus, let us pray for each other; let's pray for the congregational journey of restructuration.
On this day our Foundress Antonia Paris gathered 4 girls with the readiness to leave the country and follow the way God has manifested them giving foundations to the new missionary religious community of claretian sisters.


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Don't ask how, we just did. Listen, we can show it to you, but you have to promise you won't show anybody. Seriously! Okay you can show one person, but don't go handing this around because then everybody will get 100% and that will defeat the purpose. I'm serious! Stop laughing!
Okay here it is. Oh, and don't get everything right, that will be too suspicious. Just get some things right and like two or three things wrong. What? It's a free A-, just take it.
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(I know, four falses in a row. Tricky bitch.)
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(He's asking for a 5 paragraph piece here, but below we've provided a very detailed version. Just memorize key points, that's all he's looking for key points. It's gonna be worth 45 points, so you wanna be as thorough as possible. Don't worry, read this over a few times and regurgitate the information, you'll be fine.)
Throughout the semester we've discussed the idea of "A world within a World" How has Vladimir Nabokov used this technique to engage the reader. Cite three examples and be sure to use specific passages from the books we've read. No direct quotes needed! Five paragraphs.
In Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita the narrator, as well as main character of the novel, Humbert Humbert portrays a variety of likes and dislikes throughout the novel that add to the complexity of his character. While he describes in detail his love for young teenagers, or nymphets as he calls them, he is also adamant in his distaste for other types of people. Although we are lead to believe that Humbert's personality is entirely fictional, much like the plot of Lolita, several similarities between Humbert's personality and Nabokov's exist which may leave the reader questioning the reality of this fiction. By creating similarities to himself in Humbert's character, Nabokov blends the reality of the outside world with the reality he creates in Lolita.
In his attempt to retell his earlier love affair with a girl named Annabel, Humbert chooses to describe his later encounter with her first, and only then describe their initial sexual escapade. In her article "Necrophilia in Lolita" Lucy Maddox claims that "For Humbert, beginnings—whether of texts or of lives—can be seen as significant only when the endings are known." (Maddox 363) This idea is even represented in the style in which Lolita is written as a whole, with respects to the forward Nabokov includes in his novel. The forward is laced with seemingly useless information and references to people the reader has yet to be introduced to. It goes on to explain the real life endings to all of Lolita's friends, whom the reader doesn't even know exist yet. And when it speaks of Lolita's death, Nabokov attempts to hide it from the readers who have yet to read his novel by writing "Mrs. Richard F Schiller died in childbirth giving birth to a stillborn girl." (4) Only readers who would have read the novel understand that Mrs. Richard F. Schiller is in fact Lolita. This shows that Nabokov too believed that beginnings had a greater significance and meaning, only if the endings were known. The connection between Humbert's writing style in describing his adventures out of chronological order and Nabokov's writing style in writing Lolita as a whole, brings closer the idea that the narrator and the author of this book are very similar.
More similarities between Nabokov and Humbert are more based on personality and less on writing style. In his article ""Even Homais Nods": Nabokov's Fallibility, or, How to Revise Lolita" Brian Boyd writes that Nabokov "was of a notoriously precise, even pedantic temperament, hard on anyone else's mistakes, exigent about particulars, insistent on an exactitude of detail and a delicacy of interconnection that make it natural to expect him to ensure the accuracy of all his work" (Boyd 1). Humbert also portrays this emphasis on details throughout the course of the novel. Through his ability to recount four years worth of actions in great detail, we realize that Humbert is as notoriously meticulous as Nabokov. Even when it comes down to addresses or types of products, Humbert is scrupulously detailed. "From a firm located at 4640 Roosevelt Blvd., Philadelphia, she ordered for our double bed a 'damask covered 312 coil mattress' " (Nabokov 78).
Even in relation to others Nabokov, as well as Humbert preferred to keep a low profile. Nabokov was known to be extremely shy, and according to a CNN article Nabokov once said in an interview "Socially, I am a cripple." Humbert too enjoyed life out of the limelight. Humbert's shyness is due largely in part to his apprehensive behavior in relation to his tenuous relationship with his Lolita. His fear of others finding out leads him to a life of superficial relationships with others and when he is forced to speak to people he just lives in fear that the next question they may ask will be about his relationship with his "daughter". "I imagined all sorts of horrors, and had to fortify myself with a pint of my "pin" before I could face the interview [with Dolly's teacher Ms. Pratt]. Slowly, all Adam's apple and heart, I went up the steps of the scaffold" (Nabokov 193). Humbert has to live his life in perpetual concern of others finding out his big secret, causing him too to become a social cripple.
There exists even more smaller similarities between Humbert Humbert and Vladimir Nabokov,(such as the fact that Nabokov was a French literature major, and Humbert was planning on becoming a French teacher. As well as the fact that he wrote Lolita on several road trips similar to the ones Humbert took out west with Lolita) but even more important than these similarities themselves, are what they represent (CNN.com). By creating a narrator like himself, Nabokov is able to produce two effects. Firstly, that Nabokov himself becomes less real, more like this fictional narrator he creates. This brings our world, the world we share with Nabokov closer to fiction. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, Humbert, as well as the story of Lolita become more real. By creating Humbert in his own image, Nabokov is adding a sense of realism into his fictional novel. This effect seemed to be intended from the beginning of Lolita with the seemingly real, yet fictional foreword. All of the sudden this story, fictional by nature, has taken a turn for the real, as our reality, has become more like a story. The result is this new world that Nabokov has created in which both the readers as well as Lolita reside.
This creation, in which the world that both we, and Humbert live in further solidified by Humbert's constant attempts at talking to the readers themselves. Several times throughout the course of the novel Humbert addresses the readers by referring to them as "ladies and gentleman of the jury". This communication between the readers and Humbert makes it as if we are not reading the novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov but rather we are reading Lolita a memoir by Humbert Humbert. All of the sudden we are thrust into this more fictional world because it is as if we are reading Humberts manuscript, when this manuscript is also just part of Nabokov's creation. This new reality is different for the reader, because it is closer to fiction then the reality we are used to. All of the sudden the reader feels remorse for this murderer and child molestor who under normal circumstances anybody would hope be locked away for life. The sympathy we feel towards Humbert is real, but the fact that we feel it for this seemingly fictional character depicts that we are in this whole new world. We become Humbert's audience now not Nabokov's, and Humbert's audience is just as real a part of this pseudo-real pseudo-fictional world, as Lolita herself.
One could argue that the basis of this new world, the fact that Nabokov is similar to Humbert, is insignificant. One may say that all of these connections between Nabokov and Humbert have no greater purpose; that Nabokov was not intending to create this so-called "new world" when he fashioned Humbert partly in his own image. However, regardless of whether this end result was inadvertent or not, Nabokov is still able to achieve something. Similarities in Nabokov and Humbert's personality bring Humbert closer to reality and Nabokov closer to fiction. This fact allows Nabokov to combine his two worlds, the real world and the world inside of Lolita into one. Nabokov's creation may never be proved to be purposeful or accidental however, to undermine the ingeniousness of it all by saying that this creation was an inadvertent one seems illogical. An invention's existence does not depend on the way in which it was created. In other words, just because this new world that Nabokov created may be accidentally formed, does not make it any less real.
This world in which characters in which both characters within Lolita as well as the readers coexist may have been hinted at during an interview with the author. In a question regarding his newfound fame, the modest Vladimir Nabokov once uttered the now famous quote, "Lolita is famous, not I." While on the surface, it would make sense that the work is more famous then the author, this quote can also be taken differently. Perhaps the "Lolita" that Nabokov was referring to was not the title of his work, but rather the name of his now famous invented nymphet character. By comparing Lolita's fame to his own, Nabokov once again blurs the line of reality between the fictional work and our world. It seems absurd that this Nabokov would say that his fictional character is more famous then he is but by doing so, this once again brings the outside world and the world Nabokov created in Lolita into one whole coexistence. Suddenly it is this seemingly fictional character is receiving this real fame, as our realness becomes meshed with Lolita's fiction.
By drawing upon his own real personality traits when forming the fictional character that is Humbert Humbert, Nabokov was able to create an identity in his novel, rich with realistic behavior. By realizing that not only Nabokov is similar to Humbert, but also that Humbert is like Nabokov, our reality and the reality within the novel itself are suddenly brought closer together. The result is a new world in which we read Lolita as if it is Humbert's work, in which we try to formulate thoughts and opinions about this fictional character as if he were real. By making Humbert an author, that is to say, by making Lolita a novel about a book, Nabokov is able to bring his fictional characters closer to his readers. Nabokov, author of Lolita, and more importantly, creator of this new world takes solipsism to new heights. His characters create not only a new world for themselves, but also a world that houses its readers as well. But perhaps this should come as no surprise, for Nabokov always stressed that the important relationships transcend the pages of his novels, they do not stay within them. "The true conflict is not between the characters in a novel, but between author and reader."
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8A.M. sharp. Like nearly every morning over the past few months, I hear the beating of wings accompanied by a series of loud, staccato clucks as she descends from her hideaway in the Chinaberry trees. Our little renegade. She follows me from the house as I walk into the yard and scoop a handful of feed from the bag of scratch, stooping and holding out my palm. She flicks her head from right to left, eyeing the grain, finally darting in to begin her meal for the day. After hearing the rustle of the bag of scratch, the six hens in the coop cluster together in the corner of the pen, poking their heads through the chain-link towards the food—and the bantam.
Our friend Amy had found this lovely bantam hen abandoned and half dead near her ranchito on the Santa Cruz River. She took her in, nursed her back to health and, knowing we were "chicken people," delivered her to our house last fall.
Chickens can be a finicky lot. Much like people, once they have settled into their order they don't like the established rules to be upset. They don't take a fancy to the outsider, the unknown, or change in routine.
So when Amy's pretty little bantam was introduced to our flock of six, they fanned out along the edges of the pen and chicken-patrolled back and forth as the newcomer stood stock-still in the center of the coop. After several minutes, at some unseen, secret chicken signal, they rushed the bantam. The bantam took a few pecks to the head and then began to scramble, squawking wildly about as the others chased her down with murder in their reptilian eyes.
I dove into the coop and grabbed her, saving her from the clutches of an early chicken lynching. We put her back in a cardboard box and re-strategized.
Our barrio roost is made of a couple of old two-by-fours set at four feet or so under a tin-roofed, ramshackle shelter, all held together with baling wire. It's an ignoble structure that serves a higher purpose. We call it the Kate Moss Coop because the famous supermodel once squatted inside while an equally famous photographer shot pictures of her holding our chickens for an even more famous international magazine. We thought all this fame would go to their little hen heads, but their egg laying stayed the same as ever. They say chickens, like supermodels, aren't the brightest of birds, though over the years of living with them (chickens, not supermodels) I beg to differ. There is great generosity in what they have offered up over the 20-odd years we have kept them in our barrio yard and though I can't have a philosophical debate with them, I can't lay an egg.
We decided to place the bantam back in the coop at nighttime, after everyone had roosted and settled in. In theory they would all wake up with the sun, assume the stranger had been there all along, and peck their way toward a new, harmonious brown and blue egg-hued future … all sunny-side up.
At 10 p.m., I plucked the bantam from her cardboard box and carried her to the Kate Moss Coop. Bantam in one hand, flashlight in the other, we silently approached the roost where all the ladies were lined up. Disturbed, the chickens stared broodingly down at the light. I shifted the bantam around to where her rear was pointed away from me and then scooted her gently between an Araucana and a Barred Rock. Her feet latched the two-by-four and I pulled my hands away. I backed out of the shed but before I was out, one of the hens next to the bantam began a nervous clucking, one that got louder and louder. Her rally cry alerted the others and soon they were all a flutter-cluck of chicken indignation. In fear, the bantam leapt from the roost and shot past my head.
I hadn't yet clipped the bantam's wings and rather than take any more abuse from the others—or me—she simply flew up and landed on the top rail of the six-foot chain-link fence. I could barely see her in the dark, but I could hear her as she flew up and hopped higher, branch by branch, into the Chinaberry trees and starlight above.
Sometimes I don't see or hear from her for days at a time, but she has been living wild and free for almost a year now. At times I even forget that she is in the neighborhood and then, unexpectedly, I hear the beating of her wings and her familiar clucking announcing her expectant arrival at our back door.
Gary Patch is a long time Barrio Viejo resident and designer. Concerned with the global homogenization of design and loss of historic aesthetics, Gary, along with his partner Darren Clark, strive to incorporate the local vernacular in a true-to-place, modern way. Some of their public works include the Cup Cafe, the Portrait Project in the Fourth Avenue Underpass, and the Rialto Theater's new R Bar.


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A new collaboration beer is brewing in Kansas City
There's a new collaboration beer brewing in Kansas City -- but this one's not fromBoulevard. Santa Fe Brewing Company
, a New Mexico microbrewery, is teaming up withCentral States Beverage Company
, a local distributor, on a beer that will be on tap only in Kansas City bars later this year. The announcement comes in the midst of American Craft Beer Week, a nationwide celebration of local and independent craft breweries.
The brewing team includes three cicerones (or certified beer experts), two or three home brewers, and a chef. At least two of the team members are from Kansas City: Home brewer Corey Wood and chefJosh Eans
. Eans, the interim executive chef atThe American Restaurant
, was featured in Ink magazine asone of the biggest beer nerds in Kansas City.
The style of the microbrewery's new collaboration beer hasn't yet been determined -- but Central States marketing director Jon Poteet says it will likely be a "bigger beer" with a relatively higher alcohol content, or ABV. The beer doesn't have a release date, but Poteet says it will likely hit Kansas City taps sometime between September and November. The beer will be conceptualized in Kansas City but brewed in Santa Fe.
Santa Fe Brewing Company started distributing its beers, which include Happy Camper IPA, Imperial Java Stout, and Santa Fe Pale Ale, in Kansas and Missouri less than a year ago. Sidenote: A friend from Texas recently gave me a six-pack of Happy Camper IPA cans, and I've been hoarding them in my fridge. The beer has a bright floral, hoppy flavor and comes in a really cool, minimalist can (see photo).
In other beer collaboration news,Boulevard is teaming with Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. on Terra Incognita
, a Smokestack Series beer that hits shelves in mid-June.
For more on Kansas City's blossoming beer scene, check outthis beer lover's to-do list.


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SHSU Update for Week of September 3
Campus Charity Campaign Kicks Off"Committed to Caring" is the theme of the 2000 State Employee Charitable Campaign, which is under way at Sam Houston State University. This is the only workplace giving campaign approved by the Texas Legislature.
The thrust of the campaign will run during September, according to Mary Evelyn Collins, SECC campus chair and Public Communication Department faculty member.
Materials for the campaign are being distributed to the campus by committee members the week of Sept. 4-8. Charities which benefit from the campaign will also set up information tables in the Lowman Student Center Mall Sept. 5-27.
The charities and the dates in which they will be set up include:
Sept. 5: SaafeHouse of Walker County;
Free ice and filtered water will be available at the tables. New SECC logo insulated mugs will be for sale for $4.
Faculty and staff may give by payroll deduction, check or cash. All donations must be accompanied by a completed pledge/donation form and returned to the committee member distributing the forms.
Any committee member can help any faculty or staff member with explanation of the form. All information is confidential.
Last year the faculty and staff gave in excess of $10,000 to the campaign, designated to a wide range of charities. Each donor must designate a charity or charities to receive the gift. Each charity that has proven to the SECC policy board in Austin that it is a true non-profit delivering the services promised is listed with an individual number.
Faculty and staff are urged to check the numbers that they list for charities carefully in order to get the donation to the right place.
Members of the committee are: Sandy Baker, Public Communication; Gayle Bullard, LSC; Charles Capps, College of Business; Jeanette Collins, Cashier's Office; Paula Culak, Public Safety Office; Allison Dean, Mathematics; Lovell Henry, Custodial; John Holcombe, Political Science; Beverly Irby, College of Education; Emmette Jackson, Photography; Sherrill McDowell, Athletics; Melissa Morphew, English; Janet Mullings, College of Criminal Justice; Carol Reinke, Advancement; Carol Simpson, Academic Enrichment Center; Mac Woodward, Sam Houston Museum.
Calls can be directed to Collins at 936-294-1970 or to Baker at 936-294-1497.
Graduate Students Win Research AwardsCollege of Business Administration graduate student Dana Grant has already raked in $500 for resource management research and a paper she completed this summer, and is in now vying for a $1,500 prize and the honor of having the paper published in a journal.
Another business administration graduate student, Richard E. Martin, won second place in local and regional competitions, and a total of $400 in the Donald W. Fogarty International Student Paper Competition sponsored by the American Production and inventory Control Society (APICS).
Both papers resulted from research the students conducted under the guidance of management and marketing faculty member Vic Sower.
Grant's paper is entitled "Using Manufacturing Techniques to Improve Scheduling and Resource Allocation for Repetitive Projects," and Martin's "The Human Side of Quality: Keeping People in the Equation."
The competition begins with students submitting papers to the Houston chapter of APICS, in competition with Texas A&M, the University of Houston, and other Houston-area universities.
Winning papers at the chapter level go on to the Regional Level, comprised of Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Colorado, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Mexico, and then to the national level.
SHSU students have a record of excellence in this competition. Since 1993, SHSU graduate students from the College of Business Administration have won first place in the Chapter Level competition five times, second place seven times, and third place twice. In addition, SHSU student papers have claimed first place once, second place three times and third place twice in regional competition.
Kappa Sigma Chapter Recognized For ExcellenceThe chapter of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity at Sam Houston State University was recognized for excellence in chapter operations for the 1999-2000 academic year by Kappa Sigma at the Fraternity's Leadership Conference Program held at Southern Methodist University on July 28 and 29.
The Leadership Conference Program of Kappa Sigma was held in five geographical locations in the United States and over 1,100 undergraduate and alumni leaders were in attendance. The program focused on Kappa Sigma's four core values of fellowship, leadership, scholarship and service.
The Lambda-Phi Chapter received the "Scholarship Award: Above All Fraternity Fall 99." The award was presented to the chapter at the closing banquet of the conference.
Kappa Sigma Fraternity is the fourth largest college fraternity with chapters on 207 college and university campuses throughout North America. Kappa Sigma has initiated over 200,000 members. The fraternity was founded at the University of Virginia in 1869.
Stowe Book Presented To Marshall CenterCharles R. B. Stowe, a professor at Sam Houston State University and a captain in the United States Naval Reserve, recently presented Gary Guertner, dean of the College of Defense and Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, with a copy of his book "The Implications of Foreign Financial Institutions on Poland's Emerging Entrepreneurial Economy." The book will be kept in the Center's research library.
"Transition economics is one of our subject matter areas" noted Dean Guertner. "Captain Stowe's research will be of interest to a number of our faculty and staff. The Marshall Center is pleased to receive his book."
Stowe became the first American to earn a Ph.D from the University of Warsaw School of Management in 1998 and his dissertation was published by Edwin Mellen Press in 1999.
At Sam Houston State University, Stowe serves as director of the Office of International Programs and teaches courses in law, including international business law, and entrepreneurship in the College of Business Administration. He earned his bachelors from Vanderbilt University; Masters of Business Administration from University of Dallas; Doctorate of Jurisprudence from University of Houston, and his Ph.D from University of Warsaw, Poland. He has been teaching at Sam Houston since 1982.
Campus Radio Announces ProgrammingKSHU 90.5, the SHSU campus radio station, has announced its programming plans for the 2000-2001 academic year.
Faculty adviser Craig Stark said daily programming runs from 6 a.m. until midnight, and longer on weekends.
Program titles include Classics, a Concert Hour, Dialogue, Jazz in the Afternoon, Acoustic Cafe, Modern Rock, Monday Madness, Deutsche Welle Festival Concert Series, U. N. Radio, Celebration, The Download--MP3.com Radio, Cinema Classics, Night on the Town, The Essential Mix, Sabado Latino, Rock N Roots, Beale Street Caravan, The Blues Session, After Hours North, Folk and Acoustic, Folk Stage, Classic Rock, Rewind and Roll Wit It.
For more information, contact Stark by e-mail or at 936-294-1347.
Classes As Scheduled MondayOffices will be open and classes held on Monday (Sept. 4) at Sam Houston State University.
Holidays for faculty, staff and students for the 2000-01 academic year will be Nov. 23 and 24 (Thanksgiving), Dec. 25-Jan. 2 (Christmas/New Year's), Jan. 15 (Martin Luther King Jr. birthday), March 15-16 (Spring Break), May 28 (Memorial Day), and July 4 (Independence Day).
Spring break for students and faculty will be March 12-16.
BriefsPaintings by Dana Saulnier and Pamela Marks are on display in the Gaddis Geeslin Gallery through Sept. 14... "A Brief History of Time Travel," an exhibit at the Walker Education Center of the Sam Houston Memorial Museum, is on display through Sept. 24...An exhibit of Alabama-Coushatta Indian Baskets and Crafts is on display at the Sam Houston Memorial Museum Rotunda through Sept. 30...Working With Windows--Level I will be presented by the Small Business Development Center at 2424 Sam Houston Avenue from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday (Sept. 5), with a $25 fee, with details at 936-294-3737...Web Page Design will be presented by the Small Business Development Center from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday (Sept. 7), with a fee of $25, and details also at 936-294-3737...The SHSU Alumni Association invites Bearkat supporters to bring a picnic basket and join in the food, friendship, family fun and door prizes at the alumni tent in the parking lot on the west side of Bowers Stadium from 5-7 p.m. before the first Bearkat home football game of the season Thursday (Sept. 7).
SHSU Media Contacts: Frank Krystyniak, Julia May
This page maintained by SHSU's Office of Public Relations
Director: Frank Krystyniak
Communications Coordinator: Julia May
Located in the SHSU University Advancement Building
Telephone: 936.294.1836; Fax: 936.294.1834


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Nov 18 2008
The Dying Seas – Our Imperiled Fisheries
Our seas have been dying, for a long time. 90% of the world's fisheries are imperiled, and things are only going to get worse. Though seemingly innocuous, farm-raised fish are often one of the worst environmental offenders (story in NYT). Wild-caught tuna fisheries are one of the most imperiled, but the ubiquitous sushi delight harbors consumer dangers with often toxic mercury levels (article). The picture is bleak, but there are relatively simple steps consumers can take to influence the market. This article outlines some of the scary facts about fisheries as well as the simple steps consumers can take.
Here are some quotes from the article:
- "One study, in 2006, concluded that if current fishing practices continue, the world's major commercial stocks will collapse by 2048."
- "Nearly one-third of the world's wild-caught fish are reduced to fish meal and fed to farmed fish and cattle and pigs."
- "Why bother with farm-raised salmon and its relatives? If the world's wealthier fish-eaters began to appreciate wild sardines, anchovies, herring and the like, we would be less inclined to feed them to salmon raised in fish farms. And we'd be helping restock the seas with larger species."
- "The message is optimism," said David Festa, who directs the oceans program at the Environmental Defense Fund. "The latest data shows that well-managed fisheries are doing incredibly well. When we get the rules right the fisheries can recover, and if they're not recovering, it means we have the rules wrong."


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The view from an airplane offers a perspective of the world that is one-of-a-kind. American photographer Alex MacLean has been captivated by this vantage point ever since the 1970s, and he got his pilot's license just to spend more time observing humanity from the clouds. In his work, he seeks to capture the relationship that people have with their environment, to chronicle things like pollution, resource extraction, and urban development, and the incredible way these phenomena manifest.
"Through sort of abstract and engaging patters, those things will draw people into it to hopefully think about these issues. It really is about combining art and information," the photographer says of his work.
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Walgreens is my new best friend! Why you may ask? Simply put, the #WalgreensRX app. I can now get refill reminders and more! Let me explain.
Life is busy and even though I am lucky enough to not have to work outside the house, I still have errands to run, bills to pay, meals to fix, budgets to be balanced, and a very busy family to take care of. I am sure if I thought about it long enough, I could add many more things to this list. I find that I don't often have enough hours in the day to remember to do everything. I needed some help!
Work Smarter, Not Harder has been a mantra of mine for a few months. One of the ways I accomplish that is the Walgreens App (free online!). Can you believe this app will remind me when to take my medicine? In my life, that is worth its weight in gold! I take medicine for my high blood pressure on a daily basis, but I have to admit that there are days when I forget. No longer, I have the app set to remind me at the same time every day! Because of this, my blood pressures is normal. Isn't that great?
Remembering to call in my prescription has also been something that has been difficult for me to remember to do. I wake up thinking about it and as my busy day goes on, it just slips my mind. Guess what? You got it, the Walgreens App takes care of my medication refills for me too! I can get a text or an email – I just set up the reminder to suit my needs.
If you have a question, you can chat with a live pharmacy professional, 24 hours a day. Middle of the night questions will easily be answered!
If you have been hanging around Feeding Big for a while, you know I like to save money. Here is another reason why I love the Walgreens app – free 2-day shipping on your prescriptions anywhere in the 48 contiguous United States! How great is that?
Have I convinced you to pick up your phone and get the new #WalgreensRX app? I promise you, you will love it!
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Do you ever wish there was a simple course for getting started in Affiliate Marketing?
There is - it's called AffiloBlueprint, and we're releasing a shiny new version of it on Tuesday May 29th!
AffiloBlueprint 3.0 is our step-by-step blueprint for anyone, from total newbies to seasoned pros, to get started and learn techniques for succeeding in making profitable niche websites!
Today I wanted to give you a bit more of a heads up and tell you a bit about what'll be in the course, as well as what's new since the previous version.
Even more bang for your buck
This brand new AffiloBlueprint includes all the great lessons of the previous version, including teaching you about:
- Doing your Market Research
- Finding profitable niches
- Creating a quality affiliate website
- The best SEO methods to get your site ranking
- Getting started with email marketing
- Taking email marketing to the next level so you get the big commissions
- How to succeed with the Google content network
All these lessons have been overhauled and updated for 2012 (including post-Panda and post-Penguin updates). We've also expanded several sections, including:
- More than tripling the link building and off-page SEO strategies we teach you
- Adding a very important section where you'll learn how to think like a millionaire
- An upgraded detailed training in email marketing (the cornerstone of my online marketing empire)
- Teaching you in-depth about content creation
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Now, with over 80 videos, all voiced by Mark Ling, we cover just about every angle of affiliate marketing, while keeping things simple enough for anyone to follow!
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So, the Hot One Inch site hasn't yet updated with this year's artists and their button art. I've been asked enough (which is kind of awesome) by people who couldn't make the show to see my submission, so here it is – my 2012 submission: LaLA! The Singing Mushroom. You may recognize him from such works as: La La! The Singing Mushroom pronto print (still available for sale).
Here's a video of the night in time lapse. Now you too can enjoy the show without having to stand in the rain or be elbowed in the face by an enthusiastic trader (your loss).


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International Tibet Network News Digest & Analysis: 20 December 2013
Self-Immolations, Protests, and Restrictions in Tibet
Respected Tibetan monk burns himself to death in Gansu - RFA
19 December | Tsultrim Gyatso (43) burned himself to death in Gansu province on Thursday in protest against "suppressive Chinese law," saying in a suicide note that he wanted to "sacrifice" his life for the interest of the Tibetans, according to sources.
Last words of Tsultrim Gyatso - Burning Tibet
19 December | Tibetan poet and writer Bhuchung D. Sonam has translated Tsultrim Gyatso's final message on his blog, with a photograph of the hand-written note.
Diru crackdown: senior Tibetan Buddhist scholar beaten to death in police custody - TCHRD
19 December | A senior Tibetan Buddhist scholar known for his keen intelligence and mediation skills died while being detained in police custody. Ngawang Jampel, 45, was among the three monks from Tarmoe Monastery who were detained on 23 November 2013 while on a vacation in Lhasa.
Tibetan teen detained over freedom posters in Driru - RFA
18 December | Sonam Tobgyal, 16, a resident of Driru county in the TAR's Nagchu prefecture, was taken into custody on Nov. 26, a day after he posted notices declaring that Tibetans have no freedom under Beijing's rule, sources reported.
Joint statement: Spanish government Tibet lawsuits- International Tibet Network
19 December | Tibet campaigners deeply concerned about Spanish government threats to close down Tibet lawsuits. Decisions by Spain's independent judiciary to indict and order arrest warrants for former Chinese leaders have angered China.
Grasping hearts with an iron fist in Tibet - China Digital Times
18 December | Reports from BBC and Reuters on the depictions of minorities in China and the continued restrictions and surveillance of Tibetans.
North Korea is more accessible to foreign journalists than Tibet is - Washington Post
17 December | Dr. Carole McGranahan discussed the rising trend of Tibetan self-immolations – a form of political protest against Chinese rule – and the challenge of understanding Tibet's turmoil. [Video of 1-hr lecture available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fDLqEVMu7WY]
Free jailed Tibetan singers, stars tell China - Free Tibet
16 December | Peter Gabriel, Thom Yorke and Ed O'Brien (Radiohead), Serj Tankian (System of a Down) and Tjinder Singh (Cornershop) are the first signatures on a petition launched by Free Tibet calling on China to release eight singers jailed in Tibet for songs celebrating Tibetan culture and calling for freedom.
Opinion and Analysis
Next year in China: The top ten stories of 2014 - The New Yorker
18 December | Evan Osnos speculates on emerging news themes from China, with unrest in Tibet and Xinjiang at the top of the list for 2014.
Infected with politics - Tibetan Political Review
18 December | The editorial board writes, "WHO and China Turn Public Health into Political Battleground" over a Tuberculosis research prize.
This Tibetan filmmaker has been in prison for 4 years - It's time for the Chinese government to let him go - Huffington Post
17 December | Amnesty International advocates for the release of Dhondup Wangchen.
How China distorts its minorities through propaganda - BBC


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Serves: Makes 8 to 10 servings
- Nonstick cooking spray
- 2 to 3 medium sweet potatoes, cut into 4-inch sections, ends trimmed
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 16 ounces chopped crimini mushrooms
- ¼ cup finely minced shallot
- 1 teaspoon minced fresh garlic
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt, divided
- ½ teaspoon pepper, divided
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
- 10 ounces frozen spinach, thawed and squeezed dry
- 16 ounces ricotta cheese
- 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese, divided
- ¼ cup plus 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese, divided
- Marinara Sauce:
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- ¼ cup finely minced shallot
- 1 teaspoon minced fresh garlic
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon pepper
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1 (28-ounce) can crushed tomatoes
Procedures:Preheat oven to 375°F. Prepare a 13- x 9- x 2-inch baking dish with nonstick cooking spray.
Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a 12iinch skillet over medium heat. Add shallots, garlic, salt, pepper and Italian seasoning. Cook, stirring 2 minutes or until shallots are softened. Add crushed tomatoes and bring to a simmer. Reduce heat and stir frequently for 10 minutes or until ready to use.
Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a separate 12-inch skillet over medium heat. Add mushrooms, shallots, garlic, ½ teaspoon salt, ¼ teaspoon pepper and Italian seasoning. Cook, stirring 7 to 8 minutes or until the mushrooms have released their juices and are starting to brown. Stir in balsamic vinegar and cook, stirring 1 minute. Add spinach and stir into mixture. Remove from heat and allow to cool. Set aside.
Attach bowl and flat beater to KitchenAid® Stand Mixer. Add ricotta cheese, 1½ cups mozzarella cheese, ¼ cup Parmesan cheese, remaining ½ teaspoon salt and ¼ teaspoon pepper into bowl. Mix on speed 4 to combine. Add cooled mushroom and spinach mixture and mix on low speed. Set aside.
Attach Spiralizer Attachment to KitchenAid® Stand Mixer. Center one sweet potato section on fruit and vegetable skewer; attach to Spiralizer. Attach peeling blade and fine spiralizing blade and position at end of sweet potato. Position medium bowl under blades to catch spiralized sweet potato and peel. Turn stand mixer to speed 4 and process until blade reaches end of sweet potato. Repeat with remaining sweet potatoes to yield 8 cups.
Coat bottom of prepared pan with ⅓ cup marinara sauce. Arrange half the sweet potatoes over sauce. Add half the ricotta mixture over sweet potatoes and top with half of marinara sauce. Layer remaining sweet potatoes, ricotta mixture and marinara sauce. Cover and bake for 45 minutes.
Uncover, top with remaining Parmesan and mozzarella and bake uncovered for 20 to 25 minutes or until the sweet potatoes are tender. Allow to rest for 10 minutes before serving.


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Stubby is an open-source Lotus Notes database (available as a project on the OpenNTF site) that helps you create Apache Axis "stub" files that can be used to call web services from a Lotus Notes 7.x environment. The files that are produced can be used in Lotus Notes/Domino 7 (client or server) with NO modifications to the client or server, and NO external library dependencies.
In order to help with the documentation, I've included some pages here that address the following topics:
Also, don't forget to read the Help (i.e. -- About This Database) page within the database itself. When you open the Stubby database, you can just click the "Help!" button at the top of the main view to open the document, and you can read the information on the various tabs for help.
Providing Web Services in Domino 7
Note that Stubby allows you to easily consume a web service in Lotus Notes 7. The ability to provide a web service in Domino 7 is available natively. For more information on providing web services in Domino 7, a good place to start is this series of articles on the IBM developerWorks site:
Practical Web Services in IBM Lotus Domino 7: What are Web services and why are they important?
Practical Web services in IBM Lotus Domino 7: Writing and testing simple Web services
Practical Web services in IBM Lotus Domino 7: Writing complex Web services


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During the year a 2+2 GT car the Bentley Continental was released which replaced the old tolls Royce based R and T continental. The coupe has a six point zero liter twin turbocharged W12 engine which creates a DIN rated motive power output of the horsepower 256 412 kW, 552 bath and 650 Newton meters of torque that is 479 lbf.
In the United Kingdom a luxury car was produced by Bentley motors limited. The car was named as the Bentley Mulsanne. The name of the coupe is derived from the historical pedigree of racing, which includes ...
The Mulsanne like Arnage retains the 6750 cc/411 in six point seven five liter OHV engine which was modified to meet the regulations of the euro emission. The engine of the coupe is much lighter and improve efficiency of fuel variable cam phasing is used.
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You couldn't accuse Dominic Cooke of playing it safe during his final days at the Royal Court. Before Christmas, he directed Martin Crimp's dizzyingly experimental In the Republic of Happiness; a few weeks back he opened Bruce Norris's boisterous, period-drama assault on capitalism, The Low Road. His final production, performed in the small upstairs space, is a new play written and directed by Anthony Neilson, which apparently didn't even have a title until a month ago, never mind a synopsis.
That's not too surprising in the case of Neilson, who's become increasingly interested in projects workshopped with his casts. The armature of this process is on display here: seven actors address each other by their real names, wear T-shirts bearing photos of their childhood selves, sometimes perform script in hand. Even their final title – Narrative – seems sardonically resistant to interpretation.
The scenelets they perform on Garance Marneur's cool white set are jump-cut, often fraying into each other, connected at tangents. A mother (Christine Entwisle) pleads with us to sign her petition against a drug she believes has driven her son to suicide; an actor (Brian Doherty) is on the phone, trying not to be written out of something that sounds like Foyle's War; a man splits up from his uncomprehending partner ("Tell me five things that are good about me," she begs; he gets stuck at four). Breakups spawn breakdowns; themes of failure, embarrassment, loss, abuse congeal.
It's rich territory, enlivened by Neilson's surreal humour, but after nearly two hours this stream of open-ended shorts becomes monotonous. Some are little more than sketch-show gags, albeit good ones: I loved the suggestion that Gangnam Style was a CIA-funded conspiracy. Others are punishingly over-extended.
And with its obsessions with confession and therapy, disconnection and alienation, and a cast of metropolitan PR and performer types, this material bears too obviously the mark of the rehearsal room. The most resonant moments are those that toy treacherously with language: a YouTube-style video on North Korea seeded with surreal inaccuracies; a woman (disconcertingly wearing bison horns) trying to contact a friend who might be in the afterlife, but could just be on the end of a poor Skype connection. "Please, Sophie, I'm scarce," she sobs. "My weirds are word."
The cast are lively and fleet, particularly Zawe Ashton and Imogen Doel, who spark brightly off each other as soon-to-be-ex-lovers on tragically different wavelengths. Ultimately, though, you begin to feel the project is insubstantial as well as deliberately inconclusive. "Why did you expect?", we're asked, riddlingly, at the end. Both less, perhaps – and more.
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And so it begins... the competitors are at their easels, the model on his stand, and the timer ticking. The fast-paced nature of the quick sketch, coupled with the competitive factor of the event, could make the room a stressful space -- fortunately, we have a group of wise-cracking artists from around the US that keep the energy high.
|The first brushstrokes of the day
Competitor Pseudonyms
The Artiste
Gilby Vanderbeer
The Crimson Chin
The Mahler
The Amazing Paint Pusher
The Abstract Dunderhead
|The lovely Santiago as our morning model
Look out for today's portraits, which will be posted late this evening on our Facebook page. The competitors will be labelled by their pseudonyms, and their identities revealed Thursday night.


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Fluor Corp. announced Wednesday that its Daniel International subsidiary has been awarded a contract by General Motors Corp. to manage construction of an automobile painting facility adjacent to a GM assembly plant in Canada. The value of the contract was not disclosed.
The painting portion of the plant will employ robot technology and occupy about 500,000 square feet. The plant is scheduled for completion in late 1986.
Daniel International is a worldwide engineering, construction and maintenance subsidiary of Irvine-based Fluor.
CompuSave Corp. of Irvine, which is developing an automated catalogue system to sell merchandise through outlets such as supermarkets, announced Wednesday that its common stock will be included for trading on the NASDAQ National Market System March 19.


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Songs & Poetry
When I was a child I wrote poetry as a way to cope with my mother's death. My poems eventually turned into songs and I realized at an early age that it only took a few good lines to make things work with music. I was a natural at it and it was easy for me to come up with something "catchy." I do believe that some poems can be put to music, but the poem will never stay intact or in it's original form unless it becomes a "spoken word" musical track. In spoken word you do not have to fit words or lines to a particular melody or musical line and you just speak through it. Spoken word only works if you stay with the beat though so it helps if you are familiar with writing songs or have the rhythm to make it work. Not everyone can do that or change a poem to a song. Music and melodies change things and they only work with certain lines or lyrics.
When I was writing my newest album, I had to go through various poems to see if any of them worked with an electronic music track that I already produced. It was interesting to see that not many did. Infact, the poem that I did eventually put to music changed a lot. I chose a few lines as my musical hook or chorus and then repeated them throughout the track. I did not originally write it that way when I wrote the poem. Then I found myself trying to create verses and I had to pick the best lines from my poem that fit the story of the song. The main theme " Of loss" is the same in both and one can hear some of the same lines, but the song took the poem to a different level. I had to pick lines from my poem that conveyed the story of my song. It then took on a life of it's own.
So as Dylan quoted, "Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem." From his liner notes on Bob Dylan 1963's The Freewheelin.' I would have to say that it is true what he says for most people who write both, but if you are skilled you can make a poem into a song no matter what, even if you have to change and rearrange the original poem. You may lose some of it or a few lines now and then, but it still can work if you make the lines less wordy and let them flow with the music. Like I said out of all the poems I had written for my first poetry book, this particular poem was the only one I could make work with that already finished music track. If I could not find a poem for it, I would have just had to write a new song that works with the melody and production.
I have always admired talent that could do both like Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison and Lou Reed to name a few. There are not many artists that can do both and create something pretty magical in their poetry and songwriting. I am excited about the fusion of spoken word and music in the future and the different groundbreaking ways that artists are venturing into this genre. I think it will open up a new frontier for poets who love to write poetry and also love music but do not know how to write or produce songs.
In today's music market, it does not take much to get a hit if you have a good hook, a record label with money behind you or line that is repeated a million times. I mean songwriting these days is not rocket science when it comes to hit radio plays. Anything can sell if it feeds the machine. I have always been a passionate artist who always wanted to tell a story in my music and poems and I have always believed that I was put on this planet to make a difference.
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A song my kingdom for a song
Or is it just a poem
Sorry just horsing around like a king of some far off land
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An interesting hub GPAGE..give me singer songwriters any day rather than standard pop music..I loved Van Morrison for that reason too & the Moody Blues & Neil Young of course etc etc..you make some good points to think on..Cheers
Loved your hub, you gave me much food for thought and thought for food, LOL. What I mean is, I was a songwriter and singer "back in the day." I was fairly good and made some good money it was an unforeseen talent of sorts I found I had in college and after. I could have taken it quite far, the offers were there, but I chose a medical career. Anyway, back to my point, when I wrote my music it was quite lyrical and story bound. It was what was happening and it flowed, and although I had a good hook or chorus it was much less repetitive. However, now in my writing of poems or articles I find myself more repetitive, almost on purpose. I suppose it's because I feel people are not getting it and find myself drilling a point. I find both are needed and have their place, lyrical flowing story and repetitive. Thank you for making me think of my work in this way, great food for thought, for both genre's of my writing. Peace and many blessings to you :)


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In addition to the performances and artwork on display, a Kid's Store will offer gifts for under $5 and gift wrapping activities. "It's fun to have the kids wrap their own presents," said Rosie Chapp, manager of the Museum Store.
Happy Holidays, Laramie! is held from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 6. The exhibition will feature nearly 1,000 original works of art by Albany County students, which will be on view through December 23. The event is free and open to the public.
Happy Holidays, Laramie is sponsored by First Interstate Bank and funded in part by Bank of the West, First National Bank and UniWyo Federal Credit Union.


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Jero's Metamorphosis (1973) is more substantive than The Trials of Brother Jero (1964), in that it is a full length stage play. Jero's Metamorphosis remains on similar terrain to the earlier work, though Brother Jero's appetite for power has increased. Indeed the image in the opening stage direction recalls the brevity and succinctness of Soyinka's revue sketches: "On the wall, a large framed picture of a uniformed figure ... indicates that Jero's diocese is no longer governed by his old friends the civilian politicians. As Jero dictates ... it is obvious that he has his mind very much on this photograph" (Soyinka, The Jero Plays, London: Methuen, 1977, p.47). The play's coherence centres on …
McLuckie, Craig. "Jero's Metamorphosis". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 02 February 2004
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