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The historical books from Genesis to Nehemiah, upon which the idea of the promise to the chosen people had been imposed later, were no doubt the backbone of Jewish mental unity, but they by no means complete the Hebrew literature from which finally the Bible was made up. Of such books as Job, said to be an imitation of Greek tragedy, the Song of Solomon, the Psalms, Proverbs, and others, there is no time to write in this Outline, but it is necessary to deal with the books known as "the Prophets" with some fulness. For those books are almost the earliest and certainly the best evidence of the appearance of a new kind of leading in human affairs.
These prophets are not a new class in the community; they are of the most various origins Ezekiel was of the priestly caste and of priestly sympathies, and Amos was a shepherd ; but they have this in common, that they bring into life a religious force outside the sacrifices and formalities of priesthood and temple. The earlier prophets seem most like the earlier priests, they are oracular, they give advice and foretell events; it is quite possible that at first, in the days when there were many high places in the land and religious ideas were comparatively unsettled, there was no great distinction between priest and prophet. The prophets danced, it would seem, somewhat after the Dervish fashion, and uttered oracles. Generally they wore a distinctive mantle of rough goatskin. They kept up the nomadic tradition as against the "new ways" of the settlement. But after the building of the temple and the organization of the priesthood the prophetic type remains over and outside the formal religious scheme. They were probably always more or less of an annoyance to the priests. They became informal advisers upon public affairs, denouncers of sin and strange practices, "self-constituted," as we should say, having no sanction but an inner light. "Now the word of the Lord came unto"-so and so; that is the formula.
In the latter and most troubled days of the kingdom of Judah, as Egypt, North Arabia, Assyria, and then Babylonia closed like a vise upon the land, these prophets became very significant and powerful. Their appeal was to anxious and fearful minds, and at first their exhortation was chiefly towards repentance, the pulling down of this or that high place, the restoration of worship in Jerusalem, or the like. But through some of the prophecies there runs already a note like the note of what we call nowadays a "social reformer." The rich are "grinding the faces of the poor" the luxurious are consuming the children's bread ; influential and wealthy people make friends with and imitate the splendours and vices of foreigners, and sacrifice the common people to these new fashions ; and this is hateful to Jehovah, who will certainly punish the land.
But with the broadening of ideas that came with the Captivity, the tenor of prophecy broadens and changes. The jealous pettiness that disfigures the earlier tribal ideas of God gives place to a new idea of a god of universal righteousness. It is clear that the increasing influence of prophets was not confined to the Jewish people; it was something that was going on in those days all over the Semitic world. The breaking down of nations and kingdoms to form the great and changing empires of that age, the smashing up of cults and priesthoods, the mutual discrediting of temple by temple in their rivalries and disputes-all these influences were releasing men's minds to a freer and wider religious outlook. The temples had accumulated great stores of golden vessels and lost their hold upon the imaginations of men. It is difficult to estimate whether, amidst these constant wars, life had become more uncertain and unhappy than it had ever been before, but there can be no doubt that men had become more conscious of its miseries and insecurities. Except for the weak and the women, there remained little comfort or assurance in the sacrifices, ritual, and formal devotions of the temples. Such was the world to which the later prophets of Israel began to talk of the One God, and of a Promise that some day the world should come to peace and unity and happiness. This great God that men were now discovering lived in a temple "not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." There can be little doubt of a great body of such thought and utterance in Babylonia, Egypt, and throughout the Semitic east. The prophetic books of the Bible can be but specimens of the prophesyings of that time.
We have already drawn attention to the gradual escape of writing and knowledge from their original limitation to the priesthood and the temple precincts, from the shell in which they were first developed and cherished. We have taken Herodotus as an interesting specimen of what we have called the free intelligence of mankind. Now here we are dealing with a similar overflow of moral ideas into the general community. The Hebrew prophets, and the steady expansion of their ideas towards one God in all the world, is a parallel development of the free conscience of man-kind.
From this time onward there runs through human thought, now weakly and obscurely, now gathering power, the idea of one rule in the world, and of a promise and possibility of an active and splendid peace and happiness in human affairs. From being a temple religion of the old type, the Jewish religion becomes, to a large extent, a prophetic and creative religion of a new type. Prophet succeeds prophet. Later on, as we shall tell, there was born a prophet of unprecedented power, Jesus, whose followers founded the great universal religion of Christianity. Still later Muhammad, another prophet, appears in Arabia and founds Islam. In spite of very distinctive features of their own, these two teachers do in a manner arise out of, and in succession to these Jewish prophets. It is not the place of the historian to discuss the truth and falsity of religion, but it is his business to record the appearance of great constructive ideas. Two thousand four hundred years ago, and six or seven or eight thousand years after the walls of the first Sumerian cities arose, the ideas of the moral unity of mankind and of a world peace had come into the world.


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Mirzakhani, who died Saturday, was a professor at the school since 2008. In 2014, the Iran native became the first woman to win the prestigious Fields Medal, often described as the Nobel Prize for mathematics. But unlike the annual Nobel awards, the Fields Medal is awarded once every four years.
Mirzakhani specialized in theoretical mathematics that "read like a foreign language by those outside of mathematics," Stanford said in a statement. Her primary subjects included moduli spaces, Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, Ergodic theory and symplectic geometry.
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Chapter Eight
After hearing Miranda say those fateful words, Hermione had retreated to her room as quick as her legs would take her. She laid awake in bed going over different scenarios in her mind of how Ron would have taken the news that she had slapped Miranda, and how she, Hermione, could explain why she had done it.
Now, alone in her bedroom, Hermione tried to concentrate on what she would say to Ron, but strangely, the scenarios all seemed to end with her lying across the kitchen table and kissing Ron passionately, who had forgiven her and unceremoniously dumped Miranda.
Hermione shook her head to clear her thoughts. The fact of the matter was that Miranda had provoked her. Hermione had been pushed to the edge; was it really her fault she had fallen? She wondered which angle Miranda might have played when explaining to Ron what had happened, and guessed it would be a version without any truth to it.
Then again, how could Miranda really explain why Hermione had hit her without explaining what she had said? "Oh, Ronald, all I said was she had a piece of toilet paper stuck to her shoe, and then she just hit me for no reason!" No, it just wouldn't work.
Whatever was said, the bottom line was that Hermione had slapped Miranda, and that was all Ron was likely to see.
Hermione contemplated going to his room to have this resolved before morning. However, Miranda would be there, and Hermione wanted to talk to Ron alone. Not to mention that he would probably need a while to calm down before he could talk coherently to her.
No, she would wait until morning when the dust would hopefully have settled. Hermione realised suddenly how tired she was and glad that Ron had appeared to wait until morning to deal with the situation. With Hannah already sleeping soundly, Hermione herself got ready for bed.
After a sleepless night, Hermione woke up early and took Hannah down for breakfast. Not even Molly, who was first awake and last asleep, was up yet, which gave Hermione a lot of time before Ron was likely to crawl out of bed.
As Hannah ate her porridge, Hermione took a piece of parchment and a quill from one of the drawers and jotted down,
I slapped Miranda.
- Hermione
Sighing, she walked over to the window and opened it, allowing Pig, who had been chasing a worm, to hop in. Hermione tied the short message to Pig's leg and held the owl in her hands.
"Please take this to Grimmauld Place and deliver to Harry," she instructed as she released the small bird and watched him fly away. Hermione didn't need to add anything else to the letter, as Harry would surely come straight over.
Returning to the table, Hermione charmed her knife to butter a piece of toast.
As soon as Ginny had finished her breakfast, Hermione pulled her upstairs, along the way grabbing Harry, who turned up a few minutes later.
"How did it feel?"
Hermione, who was pacing Ginny's room, stopped and looked at the redhead, her face white. "I shouldn't have done it. I shouldn't have lost control."
And yet, it felt so good. She deserved it, too.
"I still can't believe you did!" Ginny said, looking at her friend with admiration.
"I can," Harry said, taking a seat next to Ginny on her bed. "I was there when she slapped Malfoy." A dreamy sort of smile appeared on his face as he remembered that afternoon. "And anyway, you had every right to, after what she said about Hannah," he added, looking at the photograph on the bedside table of Hermione, Ginny and Hannah playing at a park.
"True, but I still shouldn't have done it," Hermione said.
"Miranda was trying to get a reaction out of you. She should have realised you would fight back," Ginny explained.
"Well, from her expression afterwards, I don't think she did," Hermione said with a small smile. She took a seat on the floor, pulling her knees up to her chest and sighed. "How do you think Ron took it?" She looked hopefully at her two friends, who exchanged anxious looks.
"Um �" Harry mumbled. "Well, you know Ron �"
With a sob, Hermione buried her head in her knees. She was torn over the situation. She had finally done something she had wanted to do for days; she had proved to Miranda that she wasn't a pushover or someone to mess with - and Miranda's expression had been priceless.
However, Ron's reaction was not going to be a good one. Hermione could already hear the yelling, the name-calling, and the bitterness. Hermione knew she was in the wrong, but so was Miranda; Ron had to see that. His anger couldn't be one-sided.
Hermione felt a hand touch her shoulder and looked up to see Ginny kneeling beside her; the other girl's expression was one of honest empathy.
"It's going to be all right, don't cry," Ginny whispered. Hermione, who hadn't realised she was crying, wiped her eyes and stood up. "Where are you going?" Ginny asked.
"The waiting is killing me, I have to talk to him now," Hermione explained, glancing in the mirror before she made her exit, sure she was leaving Harry and Ginny with the same feeling: this wasn't going to go well.
Hermione made her way slowly down the stairs, her hand holding the railing tightly as she listened for any indication of Ron. When she reached the bottom, she could hear voices from the kitchen.
"There's nothing I can really do, to be honest," said the voice of an exasperated Molly.
Peering around the door cautiously, so not to be seen, Hermione saw Miranda sitting at the kitchen table with Molly and a first aid kit, while Ron stood at the window, his back to them all. Hermione could tell by his posture that his arms were folded across his chest.
Molly was holding Miranda's face with one of her hands, where a shiny red mark had appeared, and was frowning.
"Are you sure? It really hurts," Miranda whined, wincing slightly as her eyes fleetingly shot at Ron, who still hadn't turned around.
"I've been a mother for over thirty years and have seen more cuts, bruises and illegal spells than you've had hot dinners," Molly explained, her usually soft voice pierced with frustration. "So yes, I am sure."
Molly released her hand and Miranda frowned deeply.
Disappointed that I didn't do more damage to show to Ron. Good thing I hit like a girl.
With a wave of her wand, Molly returned the first aid kit to its normal place in the highest cupboard and pulled herself up, stroking out the creases in her apron. "If we're done here, I know a little girl who needs her clothes ironed."
Hermione jumped back as Molly entered the living room. She opened her mouth to explain, but before she could say anything, Molly held up her hand.
"I've heard Miranda's side, however patchy it sounded, and I want to hear yours, but I think Ron wants to hear it first," Molly said, her kind eyes watching Hermione with compassion.
Hermione bowed her head. "I know, that's what I'm here for."
"Hannah has fallen asleep in Arthur's chair, so you shouldn't be disturbed for at least an hour," Molly explained, nodding her head behind Hermione, where the smallest Weasley was curled up in a knitted throw-over, her thumb resting in her mouth.
"Thanks," Hermione said, pushing back her hair as a small smile escaped her lips.
"I take it Ginny knows what really happened?" Molly asked offhandedly. When Hermione nodded, the elder witch added, "I'll see if she needs any ironing done too, as I'm doing Hannah's."
When Molly left, Hermione took a deep breath and entered the kitchen, where she found Ron alone, sitting at the table, clearly waiting for her. He was staring at her, his brow furrowed and his lips pursed tightly. His wand was lying carelessly on the table, its handle protruding over the side. Hermione wanted to comment on the dangers of this, but the look on his face stopped her. Clearly, he was ready to talk now. She forgot about the wand and steeled herself for what he had to say.
"Well?" he asked shortly, his eyes not leaving her.
Hermione bit down on her lip and pulled the chair out so she could sit next to him. "Where's Miranda?" she asked, ignoring the piercing stare Ron was giving her.
"She went to Diagon Alley for Boone's Bruise Balm for her face; it seems someone hit her. Do you know who it was?" Hermione knew the question was rhetorical, but Ron's expression told her to answer.
"I can explain," Hermione began, taking a deep breath, ready to give her side of the story.
"You can explain why you hit an innocent person?"
"Innocent? After the things she said to me!" Hermione said, flabbergasted. She raised her eyebrows and watched Ron carefully for any hint of sarcasm. "What exactly did she tell you happened?"
Ron licked his lips, blushing pink as he spoke. "She said you were jealous of her � jealous because you're still � still -"
"Still what?" Hermione pushed.
"In love with me," Ron finished quietly.
Hermione stared at him, speechless.
I may still love him, but I am certainly not jealous of that tart.
Ron's features were mostly unreadable, though Hermione did pick up a sense of yearning in his eyes � yearning for the truth.
"Did she tell you what she said to me?" she asked, avoiding the previous statement. The last thing she needed was for Ron to find out about her unrequited feelings.
"Well no � she just said you were jealous and hit her out of spite," Ron answered, frowning. "Why, what did she say?"
Averting her gaze, Hermione looked out into the living room, where Hannah had woken up and was currently playing with one of her jigsaw puzzles. Hermione closed her eyes and took another deep breath before turning back to Ron.
"At first she was just trying to rile me � she said - she said I have no life �"
"That's it?"
"No. She � she implied that because I was a teenage mother, I was a scarlet woman," Hermione said, watching Ron's reaction carefully. "But when I didn't rise to her insults, she � she told me that Hannah would grow up to be a � a whore like me - Ron, she called our daughter a whore."
Even explaining what Miranda said caused rage to fill Hermione's body. It was bad enough she said it, but now she had to tell Hannah's father about it.
Ron's eyes widened as his mouth formed an 'o' shape. He stared at Hermione for a few moments, trying to comprehend what she had just told him. "You must have misheard her," he said quietly, when the shock subsided. "She wouldn't say that � how could you say that?"
Even though she had been expecting Ron not to believe her, her jaw still dropped at how quickly he came to Miranda's defence.
"Ron, I know it sounds awful, but I swear, I'm telling you the truth," Hermione said, a note of desperation in her voice. She stared at Ron for an answer, her hand clutching the front of her blouse.
"She told me you'd try and turn me against her �" Ron replied, not sure what else to say. His eyes were looking at Hermione with slight distrust.
"Merlin," Hermione said, exasperated. "Do you really think I would hit her unless there was a really, really good reason? She insulted our daughter, Ron! I admit that violence isn't the answer, and I'm not proud of what I did, but I promise you that I'm not lying!"
Hermione reached out and placed her hand on top of Ron's. She stared at him, not blinking, hoping he could read her features and see the truth.
His eyes narrowed as he pulled his hand away. "Oh, you're not lying? Why should I believe you? You've lied before, but Miranda never has!"
Feeling as though someone had kicked her in the stomach, Hermione's jaw dropped in astonishment. She thought after what happened between him and Harry in their fourth year, Ron would learn to trust his friends, but no.
"I've only ever lied to protect you!" Hermione protested, stung at his refusal to even consider her side. "But I'm not lying about this. Do you honestly think I'd say something so awful -"
"Keeping the fact that I have a daughter a secret for two years is protecting me?!" Ron bellowed, jumping up, his face red with fury. His arm knocked his wand off the table, which rolled across and floor and out of sight.
"Yes! It was!" Hermione stood up so she could be face to face with the tempered redhead. "How many times are you going to throw that in my face? I did it so you could have a future � a career! Something I can't put my full attention on at the moment."
Hermione exhaled deeply. He's going to bring that up for the rest of our lives, I can feel it.
"Ron, please," she said, her voice pleading. Her eyes were wide and appeared glossy. "We're not talking about what I did in the past. We're talking about Miranda, and what she said and why I hit her. Do you honestly believe I enjoy telling you this? Because I don't."
"Then why did you tell me?" Ron yelled, placing his hands on his head and grabbing at his hair in frustration.
He's kidding, isn't he? He can't be seriously asking me why I'm telling him this.
Blinking with disbelief, Hermione let out an indignant noise.
"Let me think," Hermione said, mockingly holding her chin as though in deep thought. "Oh yeah, because you asked!" she yelled back, clenching her fists together by her sides. "You wanted to know why I hit your precious Miranda, and I told you! It isn't my fault you're too dumb to realise that your girlfriend is bad news."
Ron bowed his head, avoiding Hermione's piercing gaze. After a moment, he looked up and said, "If I'm so dumb, why did you go out with me?" His expression was hard and the tone was serious.
Hermione opened her mouth to reply, but then closed it again. Oh, Merlin, how can he ask that? This is going worse than I thought � oh �
Clearing his throat as he steadied himself, Ron suddenly said, "Why don't you just admit you don't like her?"
"I don't like her," Hermione replied through gritted teeth. "There. Are you happy?"
"A-HA!" Ron shouted, pointing his finger at Hermione in triumphant. "I knew it. You hate her, so you're making up stuff about her!"
That � That unbelievable idiot.
Gawping at Ron as though he had grown an extra head, Hermione rubbed her temples with her fingers. "I really give up on you," she replied, her stomach sinking as she sighed dejectedly. She looked up at Ron, whose look of victory seemed to be easing off, and licked her lips.
"You're unbelievable � if you're too stubborn to understand why I kept Hannah a secret, too one-minded to take Miranda's side over mine and too blind to see that I lo-"
Before Hermione could finish her sentence, a high pitched squeal cut her off.
Hannah was lying on the kitchen floor with her eyes closed, Ron's wand at her side.
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The first Tweet I spotted in this morning's time line was: "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." It was a Marcel Proust quote shared by @LouKavar. It made me think: In a world where an increasing number of us are declaring ourselves "spiritual, not religious," aren't we really describing the eyes through which we see the eternal God, our Father?
In a thought-provoking Huffington Post blog this week, columnist Jay Michaelson reflected on "A Better Way to Believe in God." Among other things, he looked at religionists' insistence upon believing scriptures that clearly reflect the limited knowledge of the ancient scribes, discarding empirical evidence proving these declarations inaccurate:
"Here in America, hundreds of millions of people believe in Intelligent Design, in life beginning at conception, and in a notion of a retributive God. Why? Not because of science, truthseeking, or logical inquiry. They "believe in" these things (notice the locution) because they think religion is at the core of their lives."
By contrast, the "new eyes" of spirituality see a God that is more accessible, more responsive, more loving, compassionate and forgiving. Our Father is someone whom we invite and delight in having as a companion and active participant in our daily lives, decisions and actions.
"New eyes" can't envision God as a male being who lives beyond the stars, visits Earth only to destroy every living thing, and hasn't told all of His kids how to return home. No, "new eyes" have captured Jesus's vision of God as a Father who provides His prodigal kids a safe, reliable and embracing place to turn when we need guidance, shelter, or have made mistakes. And there's a feast and new clothes, to boot!
This is not the God we met in church: the God whose brutally torturous and deadly punishments consistently exceed all crimes—the "smack-down God," as the Rev. Gaylon McDowell aptly characterizes Him—a Father whose behavior is frequently more human, and sadly, more inhumane than divine.
Perhaps we are increasingly seeing God with "new eyes" because while religion has encouraged us to build a personal relationship with threatening and fearsome God who uses deadly force, spirituality has helped us to build a stronger relationship that was, is, and always will be based on unconditional love. With unconditional love comes freedom—the freedom to choose how we see each other, how we see ourselves, and how we see our Father.
For those with "new eyes," no one is outside of the Father's Love. Every house is Father's House. And every day is Father's Day.


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Progress towards 2012
The Paralympics is the big one because it is at home and half of my family live in east London. You realise, now it is getting closer and closer, how big an opportunity it is so I am trying to avoid injury, stay fit and make sure I perform under pressure and on the big stage. That is my main thing at the moment. [Peter Norfolk and I] went to the Australian Open in January and played really well, winning the doubles. We have been playing together for two years now and we've only lost two matches.
Our youth and experience are a good match. Peter has won two gold medals so he has been there and done it and we have got my fitness, my youth and my excitement on the court. He is really good at the net and I am really good at the back so we complement each others' games really well. The reigning champions have never been beaten at the Paralympics but I think we can go there and win the gold. In the singles I am looking to get in the medal matches, as anything can happen then.
At the start of next year things start to get really, really close. [Peter and I] will play all our matches together and try and get as many under our belt as we can before London. The Australian Open next year is going to be a big one, as tournaments in America will be. If we can win there then that sends out a message.
The key really is not to change anything but to try and keep fit and not get injured. It is once-in-a-lifetime, so if I get injured it is going to be gutting. I usually train for six to seven hours a day at the National Tennis Centre in Roehampton. I try to get in about four hours a day on the court and also work on strength and conditioning and the mental side.
Born 11 October 1990, Middlesex.
Educated Haydon School, Pinner.
Favourite book I don't really read.
Favourite film The Italian Job, the original one.
Favourite band Chase & Status. Drum and Bass gets me going before I play.
Outside of tennis I ... support West Ham and Brentford and go to see them when I can. I am an ambassador at Brentford and pleased they are going to Wembley [in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy final] – but I can't go because I am playing in a tournament!
If I hadn't been a sportsman I ... have always been looking to go into the media and would like to be on TV after my career.
Key statistics
Quad doubles titles:
2010 titles Masters, British Open
2011 Australian Open
World's top five (doubles rankings)
1 A Lapthorne GB 3,777pts
2 D Wagner US 3,667
3 J Andersson Swe 3,526
4 N Taylor US 3,312
5 P Norfolk GB 3,303
Main rivals
The USA's Nick Taylor and David Wagner, double Paralympic champions in 2004 and 2008, the only two years quads has been staged at the Paralympics
Bas van Erp and Dorrie Timmermans, experienced Dutch pair who while their world ranking is not especially high, ninth and 15th respectively, Lapthorne expects to pose a threat in London
Olympic countdown
23-27 March 2011
Cajun Classic, America
25 May–1 June 2011
World Team Cup, Pretoria, South Africa
19-24 July 2011
British Open, Nottingham
29 August–11 September 2011
American Open
16-29 January 2012
Australian Open, Melbourne.
First half of 2012
Various warm-up tournaments (tbc)
Eton Manor, a purpose-built venue at Stratford, which also has swimming training pools.
In numbers
3 Peter Norfolk has won three Paralympic medals in the quad division, winning gold in the singles in 2004 and 2008 and silver in the doubles in 2004
2 Number of times the ball is allowed to bounce in wheelchair tennis, with the second allowed to fall outside the court
1976 Year wheelchair tennis was invented by 18-year-old Brad Parks after he was in a serious skiing accident that rendered him paraplegic


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MANHATTAN -- The growing presence of blogs make the new form of media a key way to inform consumers about safe food practices and to reduce the incidence of foodborne illnesses, according to a Kansas State University food scientist.
K-State's Doug Powell, associate professor of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology, is a co-author of the article "New Media for Communicating Food Safety" in the January issue of Food Technology, which is published by the Institute of Food Technologists.
In the article, Powell and the other researchers describe how methods of informing consumers must evolve to fit a new generation of food handlers.
Blogs have become a common form of communication, and this is especially true for people born between 1977 and 1997 who grew up using the Internet, according to Powell. In addition, after the produce outbreaks in 2006, there was an upsurge of food safety news on the Internet, and consumers have continued to return to the Internet for information on food safety, he said.
Blogs on food safety are an innovative way to communicate with today's food handlers, Powell said.
"It is especially important to reach younger individuals, who at some point might handle food in a food service business and who get their information from nontraditional media like blogs," he said.
One such blog is Powell's barfblog.com, a site that receives more than 5,000 visitors daily. The site operates with the understanding that to compel audiences to change their food-handling behaviors, the messages should be rapid, reliable, relevant and repeated, Powell said. The blog is available at http://www.barfblog.com
The content combines pop culture references and current events with food-handling information to engage readers. The posts also combine food safety messages with personal experiences, which connect readers to the effects of foodborne illness on families and communities, he said.
"Up to 30 percent of all Americans will get sick from the food and water they consume each year. That's just way too many sick people," Powell said. "The site is all about providing information in a compelling manner, using pop culture and different languages, to ultimately have fewer sick people."
The other authors of the article include: Amy Hubbell, K-State assistant professor of modern languages; Casey Jacob, K-State research assistant in diagnostic medicine and pathobiology; and Benjamin Chapman, food safety extension specialist at North Carolina State University.


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Raising a family has been the most rewarding aspect of my life. We share in laughter, cries, and moments that will be remembered forever. I am so proud of my families every accomplish big and small. From my daughter Weslie becoming student council treasurer, Maddox learning to climb the stairs, Stephen learning to put the lid on the toothpaste after he brushes his teeth (now this was a challenge but happy we got it figured out 😜😂). To then of course working as husband and wife and creating a clothing line, working on different parenting skills, and continuing to be the best versions of our personal self which takes work and attention every day. But whatever it is our family finds that our endless support for one another is what truly is making our dreams become reality.
But it's not all merry all day every day, we to face challenges that we are sometimes unsure how to handle. The biggest being TIME. There never seems to be enough of it in a day. And I believe any parent knows this. I wake up in my days sometimes feeling like I'm just playing catch up, feed my baby, get Weslie to school, finish the emails, write this very blog, meeting #1, workout, walk the dogs, dishes, late to meeting #2, order for the new order for our clothing line, call about the fabrics, how many do we order? Where do we ship them, when will they arrive? groceries, did I leave the keys in the car?, change the diaper, prep for my weekend teaching gig, pack for your teaching trip, get flight schedule , shower (haha maybe) , pay the bills, tax season ahhh the worst, reschedule the event that was already rescheduled 3 times because our lives have become crazy town, pick up Weslie from school, don't forget Maddox in the car, put him in the stroller, put him back in the car, stop thru Starbucks drive thru even though it s 5 pm, get ready for the photoshoot, prep video shoot that's tomorrow oh my gosh that's tomorrow!, clean the house for the shoot, teach class on our online dance studio, feed you kids, prep dinner, make dinner, eat for the first time today, dishes again, Weslie homework, reading log, Weslie bed time, Maddox pooped, take that trash out, do the laundry cause he had a blow out and oh my goodness it's like a Monet of poop on the walls, get his last bottle ready, bed time story he's alseep, oh right and now I remember I have a husband so say hello and ask him how his day was, go over tomorrow's schedule, remember that we are not just business partners and we should do something together that's fun and cute so we put on Netflix, to then never see the show because it's already 10:30 and we fell asleep. Now onto the next day.
So needless to say its a balancing act for all of us. There will never feel like there is enough TIME in a day, to accomplish all the things we want to do while still being able to give as much attention to each of our kids individually, my husband and especially ourselves that we want. But the best thing we can do is remind ourselves that we are trying , we are doing our best. And don't be afraid to lean on those you love for support and also be patient with those you love and be that shoulder they need. The patience thing well I'm working on it myself. But I promise I'll try my best.
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Skipping ahead several months since last week's penultimate episode, Breaking Bad came to its conclusion last night on Walter White's 52nd birthday. During the jump, our protagonist had once again undergone a metamorphosis between his alter-egos of Heisenberg and Walter White (Bryan Cranston), and instead of floating between one or the other, they were one — a fully combined character with all of the good and evil he had battled during the seasons finally emerged and was acknowledged.
It was truly a new birthday for Walter White, one on which he could shed the dual lives he had been leading and, if only for one day, be the man he had been struggling to keep apart. Walter may have been alone on his birthday, but what looked like a tragedy to us was his coming-out party. He was shedding his old skin and embracing what he had become — a truly complex man who loved and hated with equal passion, who would have liked to have it all, but knew the only person he could please absolutely was himself.
The first stop to making his dreams come true included a visit to his old friends and business partners, Elliott and Gretchen Schwartz (Adam Godley and Jessica Hecht). It was his intent to give his legacy to his son, Walt Jr. (RJ Mitte), whether he liked it or not. Elliott and Gretchen provided a means to an end, and knowing he had them over a barrel by threatening them with hit men on their trail for every day of their lives thereafter should they stray from their assignment was icing on the cake.
It was a bit surprising that Walter didn't know earlier on that Jesse (Aaron Paul) hadn't taken over the empire for himself, but had been taken hostage by Uncle Jack (Michael Bowen), Todd (Jesse Plemons) and the Neo-Nazis. Kudos to Walter for the immediacy with which he was able to change his plans. We'll never know for sure what his plans were for Jesse, because when he discovered the truth, they took a new course.
First up was a fan favorite. Twitter went wild as Walt broke up the meeting with Lydia (Laura Fraser) and Todd, feeding the ricin capsule to Lydia in her beloved stevia for her transgressions. If you play with the big boys, expect to be burned. Apologies to the stevia industry, who may suffer as a result.
The scene between Walter and Skyler (Anna Gunn) was artfully shot. As Walter remained hidden during a phone call between Skyler and Marie, as Marie shot down any belief that Walter was an actual criminal mastermind, a simple camera movement to the left showed Walt had been in the kitchen with Skyler during the entire call.
As you can see in the photo below, even when in the same room together, it would seem the obstacles between Walter and Skyler were insurmountable. There would never be a time when the two could reconnect, but Walter did what he could for his family by giving them closure, securing Skyler's bargaining chip out of her mess with the Feds and ensuring Walt Jr.'s future was secure.
Walter's final stop, quite literally, was to save the person to whom he had done the most injustice, the character the fans most needed to see triumph in the end. In what was an otherwise slowly paced and introspective reflection of a man's life as he both came alive and prepared for his demise, the last act of Breaking Bad's "Felina" was action-packed.
Walter devised an automatic killing machine in the trunk of his car fit for a macabre cartoon that gunned down every member of the Neo-Nazi clan except Todd. Walter had thrown himself onto Jesse, taking a bullet for the man whose life he had destroyed, effectively giving his own to save the other's. Giving the fans what they wanted being the theme of the night, and Jesse being the thematic hero, he was not only able to kill his captor with his own chains, but was given the opportunity to kill Walter — a chance anyone who knew Jesse well enough knew he wouldn't follow through. Jesse would rather Walter suffer in his own personal hell than put him there himself. Jesse chose freedom.
Walter was left alone with his baby blue, the creation of which set him free and brought him to life, and in front of it he died. A truly fitting end to the man who had undergone an evolution like no other in television history.
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Nevertheless, all three led their classes after the first two of seven races to be run over the weekend---Demourkas, with third and first places, shared first place in Farr 30s while Johnson of Seattle and Janov of Marina del Rey led the J/24 and Farr 40 fleets, respectively.
Demourkas, from Santa Barbara, developed her big-boat skills in Long Beach competing against her husband John on Farr 40s and 30s named Groovederci, but she hadn't raced here in six years while hitting the European Tour, where she won two Tour de France classics in Farr 30s.
Other than the lack of breeze Friday, she said, 'I would have been happier if I didn't let my husband get me in the first race.'
John Demourkas (1-3) has a piece of the lead, as does Rhonda Tolar on Wild Thing (2-2). In fact, three of the seven boats are skippered by women, a growing trend in the sport.
'Six years ago I was the only one,' Deneen Demourkas said.
Johnson (1-3), despite sharing the J/24 lead with David Klatt's Jaded (2-2) from Ventura, said, 'We were hoping to have more wind---and more sun, too, actually. That's why we came down from Seattle.'
After winning the J/24 Western Regionals, he had hoped to use the event to prepare for the class worlds at Buenos Aries in November.
Then there was Janov, who on the same waters just last month blitzed the fleet with Dark Star in the Farr 40 North Americans when the wind blew so hard that one day's racing was momentarily moved inside the breakwater. Now, with a 2-1 record in sharply different conditions, he already has a firm three-point lead over Frederic Scheer's Far Niente (3-3).
The regatta's namesake, Dave Ullman, is his tactician for this event, which was no doubt a factor.
'It was a really shifty day,' Janov said. 'But I don't want to say anything. It's too early. Talk to me after Sunday.'
The weather forecast for Saturday and Sunday isn't much better. Racing is scheduled to start at noon. The bigger boats are racing on two courses outside the breakwater, the smallest ones inside near the beach.
The latter include the largest class, the Open 5.70s, with 21 boats and the defending champion, Tracey Kenney on Hat Trick (1-3), tied for first place with Rich Festa on II havic (3-1). It could be a big year for the ladies.
Two boats posted perfect 1-1 days: Tim Carters' Viper 640, Viral, and Code Blue, a local Schock 35 co-skippered by Bruce Bennett and Bob Marcus.
Class leaders (after one of three days)
FARR 40 (11)---Dark Star, Jeff Janov, California YC, 2-1, 3 points.
PHRF-2 (7)—Amante (Choate 48), Richley family, Lido Isle YC, 2-1, 3.
PHRF-3 ( 7)---Tie among Nemesis (Melges 30), Geoff Longenecker, 3-1; Mile High Klub (Flying Tiger 10m.), Phillip Infelise, Alamitos Bay YC, 1-3, and eXigent (Columbia 30), Taylor Grant, Newport Harbor YC, 2-2, 4.
PHRF-4 (16)---Rival (J/35), Dick Velthoen, Ventura YC, 3-1, 4.
FARR 30 (7)---Tie among Groovederci, Deneen Demourkas, Santa Barbara YC, 3-1; Groovederci, John Demourkas, SLBYC, 1-3, and Wild Thing, Rhonda Tolar, Bahia Corinthian YC, 2-2, 4.
J/120 (10)---Start racing Saturday.
OPEN 5.70 (21)—Tie between II havic, Rich Festa, California YC, 3-1, and Hat Trick, Tracey Kenney, South Coast Corinthian YC, 1-3, 4.
J/80 (5)---Avet, Curt Johnson, California YC, 1-2, 3.
CATALINA 37 (7)---Team ABYC, Chuck Clay, Alamitos Bay YC, 1-2, 3.
VIPER 640 (15)---Viral, Tim Carter, ABYC, 1-1, 2.
J/105 (9)---Triple Play, Dave Vieregg, San Diego YC, 2-1, 3.
RANDOM LEG PHRF (9)---Rebel Yell, David O. Team, Newport Harbor YC, 1.
BENETEAU 36.7 (7)---Bella Vita, Marty Burke, King Harbor YC, 2-2, 4.
J/24 (12)---Tie between Hot Pursuit, Michael L. Johnson, Seattle YC, 1-3, and Jaded, David Klatt, Ventura YC, 2-2, 4.
SCHOCK 35 (7)---Code Blue, Bruce Bennett, Seal Beach YC/Bob Marcus, ABYC, 1-1, 2.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo is in Albany and New York City today with no public schedule.
At 2:30 p.m., the bishops of New York, who are in Albany in advance of tomorrow's annual Catholics at the Capitol advocacy, are scheduled to meet with Cuomo. They'll speak to the media directly after that get-together and meet with legislative leaders in the afternoon.
Pro-choice advocates will be deploying clergy who support the Reproductive Health Act to counter the Catholic Conference's lobbying against the RHA.
At 9:30 a.m., Assemblymen Andrew Raia and Joe Lentol hold a press conference to announce their sponsorship of new legislation to increase the penalty for killing a police animal. LCA Press Room (130), LOB, Albany.
On a 12:30 p.m. conference call, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand jumps on the minimum wage hike bandwagon, announcing a new effort to increase the federal hourly rate from $7.25 an hour to $10.10 over the next three years, with future increases indexed to the rate of inflation.
Also at 12:30 p.m., the SUNY Board of Trustees holds its open formal meeting, SUNY College at Purchase, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase. (A public hearing will be held at 3 p.m.)
Sens. Tom Libous and Kathy Marchione and Assembly members join evangelical Christians to celebrate New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms' annual lobby day, (8 a.m. – 2 p.m.), Empire State Plaza Convention Center, Albany.
This morning's Q poll finds Republican voters disapprove of Cuomo for the first time since he took office two years ago, leaving him with an overall 55-27 percent job approval rating.
New York's annual minimum wage would rise to $9 an hour over three years under a tentative deal struck by the governor and legislative leaders.
The minimum wage hike – New York's first since 2009 – will not include indexing or a so-called "training" wage and will be part of the budget, although there's no full deal yet.
A deal is expected today, which needs to occur if bills are going to be printed and aged in time for passage by the end of the week.
That deal may also include a compromise on Cuomo's desire to decriminalize public possession of small amounts of marijuana, allowing just NYC to pass its own law on the matter. This is a sticking point with Senate Republicans.
Senate Republicans appear to have won $700 million in tax cuts and credits for businesses and middle income families. Included in that deal is an alteration of an assessment on utilities that Senate GOP lawmakers have pushed for.
Also expected in the final budget deal: An early extension of the 2011 tax reform deal (AKA the millionaire's tax) and additional school aid.
Writes the DN's Bill Hammond: "After two years of mostly sober money management, Gov. Cuomo shows worrying signs of falling off the wagon. The symptoms first appeared in his budget proposal from January, which included gimmicks of the sort that Cuomo rightly used to ridicule."
Bodega owners insist Mayor Bloomberg's latest anti-smoking push would snuff out up to 90 percent of their tobacco sales, costing them thousands of dollars a week in revenue while creating yet another black market for scofflaws.
The Campaign for Primary Accountability PAC has Rep. Charlie Rangel in its sights again for 2014 (assuming he indeed seeks re-election).
EMILY's List is focusing its political muscle this year on mayoral races, giving early endorsements to female candidates across the country – including NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn.
As expected, Hillary Clinton's video in support of same-sex marriage has re-ignited speculation that she'll run for president in 2016.
At the very least, Clinton is signaling an intent to stay engaged in politics, even though she has departed Washington – for now.
Cuomo has quietly tapped Jeffrey Wise, a longtime advocate for the disabled, to head the new Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs.
GOP NYC mayoral hopeful John Catsimatidis and his Gristedes supermarket chain are finalizing a $1.45 million settlement with female workers who claim they were discriminated against due to their gender.
All four Republican members of the NYC. Council are going to back Joe Lhota in the GOP primary for mayor.
Tom Allon dropped out of the mayor's race and immediately went to lunch with Lhota, though he said he won't likely endorse any of his former opponents.
Real estate mogul Stephen Green is hedging his bets in the NYC mayor's race, giving campaign cash to both Quinn and her Democratic rival Bill Thompson. And he's not alone in splitting the proverbial baby.
Assembly Republicans aren't planning any disciplinary action against Assemblyman Steve Katz following his marijuana possession arrest.
Assemblyman William Boyland Jr., who is already facing bribery charges, was slapped with additional charges of falsely securing tens of thousands of dollars in travel reimbursements from the Assembly by submitting travel vouchers when he was not working on legislative business.
GOP Rep. Tom Reed is the latest member of New York's congressional delegation to join the bipartisan No Labels movement. Tea Partiers aren't thrilled.
Members of the NYC Council lambasted Bloomberg's administration for failing to address the rise in city homelessness, demanding the mayor develop new strategies to do so before he leaves office at year's end.
New Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz gets high marks for his work ethic, but a Buffalo New survey of WNY leaders found some don't like his politics and find him "bland."
Poloncarz runs his own Twitter feed, and it shows – for better or worse.
The number of people killed on New York City streets last year in accidents that involved a speeding motorist increased by 65 percent over the prior year.
North Hempstead Supervisor Jon Kaiman, who briefly explored running for Nassau County executive this fall, has decided not to enter the race.
Dentists overcharged the state Medicaid program $3.2 million for dental services between 2006 and 2009, including bills for fillings and root canals to 465 patients who have no teeth, according to the Office of the Medicaid Inspector General.
Principals at more than one in 10 New York City public schools didn't flunk a single teacher for at least eight years, according to an analysis of city data by The Wall Street Journal.
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer stood in front of the shuttered Hotel Syracuse and urged the Treasury Department to allocate $75 million in federal tax credits for central Upstate development projects, including a reopening of the historic hotel.
The Essex County Board of Supervisors is expected to pass a resolution opposing New York state's new gun law at a special meeting tonight.
A dozen protesters were arrested outside the Inergy property on Seneca Lake, and a rally and march were held in downtown Watkins Glen as activists stepped up their efforts to halt the company's proposed LPG storage facility.
The shamed son of FDNY Commisioner Sal Cassano quit his city EMT job and was publicly rebuked by his father for posting racist, anti-Semitic rants on Twitter.
The Thruway Authority has proposed tweaking the design of the new Tappan Zee Bridge. (Subscription).
New Court of Appeals Judge Jenny Rivera was sworn in yesterday.
In most of the 25 or so categories, New York ranks at or near the top in how much it levies in taxes, according to the D.C.-based Tax Foundation.
Lincoln Restler will not challenge NYC Councilman Steve Levin this year, freeing the Brooklyn Democrat of his most high-profile potential opponent.


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Global PDA production slows down
Component shortages to blame?
The momentum behind the PDA market appears to be slowing, according to the latest data from Japan's Nikkei Market Access.
Last year, some six million PDAs were produced, twice the number knocked out during 1998. However, Nikkei's estimates for 2000, while still higher than 1999's figures, show reduced growth. Nikkei reckons 10.7 million PDAs will roll off production lines this year, a year-on-year increase of just 78 per cent.
Still, 10.7 million palmtops is still a heck of a lot of devices, and given the component supply problems noted earlier this year by Palm, the production numbers could easily fall below end user demand for these devices.
Nikkei's numbers show Palm leading the market with 3.25 million PalmOS-based units produced during 1999 - 53.7 per cent of the market. Some 1.73 million Windows CE-based machines were built (28.5 per cent) alongside 537,000 EPOC-based devices (8.9 per cent).
The PalmOS' share of the market is likely to increase throughout 2000, thanks to Handspring's popular Visor and Sony's upcoming Palm-based PDA. Retail figures for 2000 show the PalmOS' market share up in the 80-90 per cent range, though how that will translate to production share remains to be seen. ®
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text: [[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mr_beans_holiday_1811.jpg]]A second movie based upon the ''Series/MrBean'' series, ''Mr. Bean's Holiday'' was released in 2007 and has the character traveling to France. It was less Hollywood-sy than ''Film/{{Bean}}'' and Bean mumbles more and speaks far less intelligibly.----!!This film provides example of:* AsHimself: Played with. At first it ''looks'' like Willem Dafoe will be this. Then we learn he's a director, not an actor (although ''that'' is [[BadBadActing subverted too]]), and his name is Carson Clay.* BadBadActing: Carson Clay.* BigBrotherInstinct: Twice by Mr. Bean. The first time when he makes a drunk go away that was staring at Stepan and again when it looked like Sabine was being shot at by Nazis and he tackles her to the ground. * BilingualBonus: Plenty throughout the film for speakers of French, and a fair bit of Russian as well.* BookEnds: "La Mer" plays at the beginning and the end.* BrickJoke: After he causes Stephan to be separated from his father, Bean tries to amuse him with his antics, causing the kid to slap him across the face in annoyance. Later in the film the duo gets separated and when Stephan finds him again in the cafeteria he greets him by happily slapping him across the face again. And then he introduces Bean to the musicians that he hitchhiked a ride with. All of which ''proceed to greet him by slapping him across the face as well''.* ChekhovsGunman: Or more like Gunwoman. In a 'blink and you'll miss it' moment, Sabine is filmed giving change to an accordion player in la Gare du Nord, right at the beginning.* {{Determinator}}: Nothing, not being saddled with a kid and kidnapping accusations, rampant hens, a maniac director filming a horrendously epic ''yoghurt commercial'', having to drive through the night and dress as someone's grandmother will stop Bean from getting to that beach.* DisguisedInDrag: How Bean gets past the highway checkpoint after he is a wanted man.* EarnYourHappyEnding: A more mundane case. All Bean wants to do is go to the beach at Cannes, France, but he had to go through a lot of stuff in order to do so.* ExtremeOmnivore: Bean will not wolf down oysters, but he ''will'' wolf down those langoustine ''with the shells still on''. Make of that what you will.** FridgeBrilliance: [[Series/MrBean The one time he had oysters]], he had a massive diarrhea and a nightmare that led to him [[ItMakesSenseInContext stealing Danny la Rue's dress to get back to his own room.]] * HumbleGoal: Bean just wants to go to the beach.* IntergenerationalFriendship: Bean and Stepan.* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Mr. Bean* LeFilmArtistique: Carson Clay's ridiculous art film that Mr. Bean's friend Sabine has a part in.* LighterAndSofter: Compared to the previous film, ''Film/{{Bean}}'', which was rated PG-13. Unlike the previous film, ''Mr. Bean's Holiday'' was rated G.* MatchCut: From a model train entering a tunnel to a real train leaving one.* TheNotLoveInterest: Sabine.* PrimaDonnaDirector: Carson Clay.* RareGuns: Of all the franchises for this trope to apply, ''Mr. Bean's Holiday'' shows one of the commercial actors playing a Nazi soldier holding the very rare MP-41 submachine gun. About the only other movie this gun has appeared in is ''Film/EnemyAtTheGates''.* RealityHasNoSubtitles: Happens with the Stepan the Russian kid and the short film. Anything that Mr. Bean can't understand is untranslated, but thankfully rather irrelevant to the story.* RoadTripPlot* RunningGag: Bean telling people "Gracias", thinking it's french.* SixIsNine: The winning raffle ticket is #919, but Bean misreads his as #616.* StarMakingRole: In-universe for Sabine. Mr. Bean's meddling gets her a bigger role in Carson Clay's movie, and by the end she's a star.* TheStinger: After the end credits, Mr. Bean records his feet writing the word 'FIN' in the sand. As he finishes, the video camera battery dies out.* SuddenMusicalEnding* TookALevelInKindness: Mr. Bean, compared to the shorts and first film.* TraumaCongaLine: Mr. Bean went through one that lasted for at least a [[OverlyLongGag third of the movie]].* VideoCredits* YouJustRuinedTheShot: Mr. Bean does this twice in succession to Clay's [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII WWII]]-themed commercial. First by wandering into the set, then, after being put as an extra, by carrying his camcorder while shooting.----


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