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Chapter 2: Fireball
He dropped my arm. "Now that that's settled, let me bring you to the combat arena. Let's go, fireball." I spun around and felt a sudden flare of heat from behind me and I threw up a shield in the nick of time. There was an immediate sound of scuffling as security most likely threw Jay to the floor, which was proved to be true when I heard a thud. This idiot better control himself or he's going to get someone hurt. My fist clenched as I thought of little Rowan, who was currently in the RH, or Recovery Hall. I made a note to try and visit her later.
I kept walking, knowing that even without me security would bring him to the arena. I walked down a hall, noticing the white cameras following my movement and the doors opening as I approached them. Security was watching me through the cameras. The last door opened with a loud, low, beep. The door swung open, revealing one more door at the end of the hall that would lead to the arena. I sighed, watching as the door opened and revealed the dirt floor to me. I heard the sounds of Xenos fighting one another.
Stepping into the sunlight, I looked at the scene before me. There was a wide range of ages around me. Some as young as six were fighting against each other, albeit they were uncoordinated and stiff. Society even rejected kids so young and it pained me to see this. Little small children were cast away from their homes because they were born with an extra gift.
I felt another heat flare behind me and knew that my guest had arrived. Glancing over my shoulder, I saw a teenage boy in black and red struggling against two meaty security personnel. The last set of doors had been opened, waiting for my guest to go through them. I sighed and leaned against the doorway, waiting for his slow, but steady approach. I blew out a puff of air and ran my hand through my long hair. Security pushed him through the set of doors and they shut quickly behind him. The only direction he could walk now was forward. His eyes were aflame and glaring straight at me.
"If you want to survive here, you're going to need an attitude adjustment." I said coolly, and lifted myself from the doorway.
"I don't need you telling me what to do. I'm never going to stop fighting like you." He scoffed. "Following their orders and groveling at their feet like a pathetic animal." He spat, unmoving.
I narrowed my eyes and used my powers to slam him against the doors. They wouldn't break having been built to withstand our abilities. I stalked up to him and got right up in his face. "I do it to survive. And if you don't start 'following orders and groveling at their feet' you're going to end up dead. News flash. They don't care about our wellbeing and we're expendable. So you better fix yourself up before you end up just another failed file," I said dangerously. I lowered my mouth to right next to his hear and said lowly, "And don't you dare call me a pathetic animal. I have friends here that they won't hesitate to kill to make me comply. Maybe you don't care for others, but I sure do." I released him and spun around, angrily stomping towards the arena entrance.
My powers were flaring around me in an angry mess of purple. "Von!" I screamed. The black haired boy stopped whomever he was sparing with and gave me a look that clearly said 'what have you done now?' "Let's continue what we started." He saw him sigh and roll his eyes, quickly saying something to his previous opponent before approaching me.
As soon as he approached I lashed out, sending him a huge wave of my power; it was tangible and very deadly when used at its full capacity. I was held back by my Limitators, though. He quickly jumped up in the air, barely avoiding the attack. This was how I dealt with my anger and Von knew it, having fought me before when other situations brought me to this level of anger. Well, more like this level of rage. He sent a gust of condensed air at me and I dropped low to avoid the literally cutting wind. He came down at me hard, catching me off guard. I hit the wall of the arena with a loud thud. I fell flat on my feet and charged my friend. The world blurred around me and I focused on Von, blocking out everything else. Because of that, I hadn't even noticed as a ball of fire hit my side, exploding upon contact and very likely to have caused me minor burns.
I slid against the ground on my side, my left arm receiving scrapes. I turned to the perpetrator, glaring at him. "You 'wanna go at it, big boy? You think you're so tough?" I picked myself up from the ground, completely irate. I was tired of this boy. He kept pushing me and pushing me and pushing me and now I've snapped. His lucky day. I brushed the dirt off my grey tank top and black shorts. "Well then, bring it." I said, beckoning him forward.
"Mia." I heard a voice next to me say warningly—Von's voice.
I didn't turn towards him, keeping my gaze narrowed on Jay. "No, I'm tired of this guy and he's not going to stop until I make him."
Jay came at me and really quickly. I pushed Von away from me and spun to dodge the hit. His fist slammed into the ground and I performed a back handspring, avoiding his kick. I used my powers and threw him against the wall. Telekinesis was very convenient, but I learned hand-to-hand combat because when facing many, many people, I wouldn't be able to concentrate enough when they're all coming at me to only use my powers. Fighting hand-to-hand and using my powers at the same time was the most effective way to fight. Normally when sparing, I wouldn't use such a tactic either, wanting to push myself and not use the easy way to fight. However, this was Jay and I didn't care about using underhand methods to bring him down. He deserved it.
His body hit the side of the arena and the force of my telekinesis caused him to break the wall. He climbed out from the dent he made and glared at me murderously. He had superhuman durability, but I had thrown him hard enough against the wall to hurt him. But since he also had accelerated regeneration, he healed immediately. I watched in slight fascination as the large gash wound on his arm sealed. But there was no time to continue to watch, he sent a huge column of fire at me and I threw my shield up. Now, it was a battle of strength. This was a test to see whose powers were stronger. I fell to my knees under the pressure of his fire, struggling slightly to maintain my shield. I will not break, I will not break, I repeated to myself over and over. The air began to heat up and is started to get sweatier, it was getting really warm.
Suddenly, the column stopped, but I kept my dome shield around me, bracing myself for another possible attack. But the scene before me proved that nothing else would happen. I lowered my shield. Before me I saw Jay lying unconscious on the ground. Dr. Lorate stood over Jay, a needle in his hand, three more Observers and five security personnel beside him. I pressed my palms against the ground, breathing heavily in exhaustion.
"Mia." Lorate's voice called out. I pulled myself slowly to my feet and made the fifty yard trek to wear Lorate stood. Finally I made my way to him. All the other Xenos around me were still, observing the scene before them. "Mia," he repeated, condescendingly, "you were supposed to get along with Subject 1926." He gestured to Jay. "But then I hear word of you two fighting in the arena. I'll let you off this time, Mia, but you know what happens if you disobey me again," he threatened. I knew. He would torture my friends and force me to watch. I bit my lower lip, closing my eyes, and bowing my head in submission. "Good. I have taken Subject 1926 under my watch. He will be your new partner." My eyes snapped open and I began to protest. Lorate held his hand up, silencing me. "I want you two to work together from now on." I nodded slowly, showing that I had understood his command. "Now, deal with Jay. Take him to RH and stay with him until he wakes up. Call for me when he wakes. I want to have a talk with both of you, together." His gaze was hard and I nodded. Lorate reached and put his free hand on my head before heading towards the exit of the arena. I saw him hand the needle to one of the Observers as they made their exit.
Everyone remained silent and I fell on my knees beside Jay's still form. I sighed heavily before feeling a hand on my shoulder. I looked up to see Von. "Need a little help?" He offered. I smiled and nodded, giving my thanks.
My amazing friend picked Jay up and threw him over his shoulder. I felt another hand help me stand up and looked to see my other friend Korellia, who was three years older than I. She was blessed with the powers of light manipulation and empathy, the latter given to her as a result of a successful experimentation. This synthetically given manipulation made her a wonderful person to talk to. She knew exactly what to say to make you feel better. She rubbed my back comfortingly, knowing my frustration in the task given to me. I did not want to watch over the fireball. He was extremely infuriating!
We made the slow trek to Recovery Hall, doors opening automatically for us. The metallic hallways were cold and silent, making the sounds of our padding feet more obvious.
No one spoke during the beginning of our trek until Von spoke. "What happened, Mia?"
Korellia's arm around my shoulder tightened, giving me support after feeling my flash of anger. "Nothing I want to talk about right now, Von." He dropped the subject.
"Mia, who is that?" Korellia asked, gesturing to Jay.
"Jay," I reluctantly responded. "He just arrived today. Got caught after on the run, I guess, since he's just arriving now. He's sixteen, a stable level eight, and has six powers." I heard Von whistle, impressed. Six was a really large repertoire of powers. Normally, most only had about one or two. I, myself, only have three and still considered one of the more powerful and dangerous subjects in addition to the fact that my level continues to increase. "Fire Manipulation, Heat Manipulation, Superhuman Durability, Accelerated Regeneration, Night Vision, and X-Ray Vision. And now, apparently, my new partner."
My two companions were silent, taking in the information and no doubt tucking it away in their memory for any other person who might ask. Another thing about being in this metallic compound was that there were no secrets. Everybody knew everybody else's business but no one cared too much, because by everyone knowing everything, it brought us all outcasts closer together. It felt like family, because only your family knew everything about you—the good and the bad. But I don't mean that we're all a very big, cliché, happy family. We have our bad family members, but we learn to tolerate and deal with them as a real family does. We all face everything together.
The last door, the door to the RH, opened and our foursome stepped in. Dr. Patricia Green saw us and ushered us in. She was all the Xenos' favorite Observer. She was the compound's medical doctor, who took care of all the Xenos when they were injured. She was the kindest Observer that worked in the IEG—the only one who actually seemed to care and connect with the Xenos. Each and every one of us were like her children, even insisting that we call her 'Mom' within the RH, which I had done since I was a little girl when I had my first visit with her. She was pained to see us suffer during the experiments, but she remained working because she felt that she could provide us with all the love and affection that no one gave us here. And she knew that she could never help us to escape, though, and all of us accepted that. We didn't want her to risk that anyways. We loved her because she thought of us. She possessed kind, sparkling, brown eyes and short, light brown hair. Her small nose and delicate face-shape was a person to envy to all who ever saw her. She was the epitome of perfection.
She led us to a private room at the back. The Recovery Hall had previously been just the Recovery Room, having used to been just a single room until "Mom" argued that she needed more space to treat us all. And since we were sent on missions for the benefit of the country we deserved better accommodations when we're injured. She had won and received a whole hall to treat the Xenos that had been previously used for just storage. Since then, it was nicknamed the RH since Recovery Hall was just too much to say.
"Mia," she said, "who is this boy?" She had already told Von to place Jay on the white bed and excused both of my friends from the room. Korellia gave me one last look before leaving that told me to behave and if I wanted to talk later, she was willing and would be waiting.
She was seated on the between the two beds that were in the room and forced me to sit on the other, my feet hanging off the sides. "Jay. He arrived today. My new partner." I said as she dabbed at my scrape to disinfect it.
She hummed. "I see."
"Lorate told me to stay here until he wakes. He injected him with sedative."
She glanced over where he laid and nodded at me. "He should wake in about ten minutes if he was given the regular dosage." She finished dabbing my arm and collected all the medical supplies she had used. "I'll be right back," she informed me as she stood. "I'll go grab some restraints for when he wakes up."
I nodded and she left the room. I looked around me. I was a regular patient in this room. Most of the time, this room was reserved for me when I come back from missions. Even when I'm not hurt, I still come here to rest for a few days before returning to my other room and resuming my regular schedule. Lorate allows me to do this only because I'm his prized test subject and the other Observers don't bother me here.
Each of the private rooms had two beds with curtains that could be pulled around each. There was a seat beside each bed for any visitors, which was the only furniture present in the room. Any other medical equipment would be brought into the room depending on the patient's needs. The beds were more comfy than the ones in the regular rooms, which is also why I often stayed here after missions other than to be in the comfortable presence of Mom.
I swung my feet around as I sat and fell backwards to look at the metallic ceiling. Lifting an arm, I placed it over my eyes lying down for a minute before I heard the door open and the familiar click of Mom's heels.
"Mia, help me with this." Mom's voice said and I sat up, jumping off the bed to assist her. She handed me two sets of specially designed restraints. I stood on one side of the bed, with Mom on the other and we both fitted them into their locations on the specially made beds and placed Jay's limbs in each of them. They looked like simple metal cuffs, but they were definitely a lot more durable than regular cuffs.
Mom came around to my side of the bed and wrapped her arms around me. "You know you can come whenever, Mia." She pulled back and touched her finger on the tip of my nose. "And you know Dr. Lorate will let you, so don't hesitate to come to me whenever you want." I nodded and she gave me one last hug before leaving and tending to the other patients that she most definitely had.
I sat on the edge of Jay's bed, near his waist, and studied him. He was definitely a looker. His had high cheekbones and a straight-edged nose. His lips were thin and a rosy pink. I could see wrinkles between his eyes, showing that he often furrowed his brows. His jaw was delicate and he looked just a slight bit feminine. Some of his hair was in his face, so I leaned down, reaching my hand out to brush it away. His dark black hair was soft to the touch and I ran my hands through it more relishing in its softness.
I heard him moan and I froze, fearing I was caught. He mumbled something, but his eyes remained closed and I relaxed. His face scrunched in frustration, deepening the wrinkles, and he looked troubled. I moved my hand from his hair and rested it on his cheek. He seemed to relax and mumbled something I could not catch, again.
As the palm of my hand rested against his cheek, I noticed how warm he was. He nuzzled into my hand and I smiled a little. He wasn't so bad…only when he's sleeping though. Suddenly he groaned and I jumped away, knowing this time he was definitely awake. I stood above him, next to his bed. "You up, fireball?" Red eyes appeared and glared at me. I put my hands on my hip and glared at him back. I saw him struggling against his restraints in my peripheral.
"Release me," he growled.
"Sorry, bud, I don't have the keys." I rolled my eyes. "But I can get them if you stop struggling. We've been summoned to see the Head Observer upon your awakening."
"I don't know who or what you're talking about. Just release me!" The temperature in the room rose a degree I knew exactly what the cause was.
"Stop it, or I'll dump a bucket of water over you. That'll cool you down." I threatened. I was definitely that I liked him a lot more when he was sleeping. He froze. I was pretty sure that water was his weakness if he had Fire and Heat Manipulation. "Now, I can release you, but you'll have to not attack me and we have to go see Lorate." He rolled his eyes and I took this as a sign of affirmation. I poked my head out of the room. "Mom? You there? He's awake," I called out. I heard a door open and Mom appear behind a hallway corner.
"How is he?" she asked, hurriedly coming down the hall.
"Angry." I replied.
She laughed and handed me a device, knowing that meant that I should call Lorate. She walked in the room, me following in after her. She approached Jay and said, "Now, I'm going to undo your restraints and I am going to trust you not to try anything." She pulled a trigger button out of her pocket that would immediately release this set of restrains. Each of the restraints had been synched with a trigger device before use so that when the button is pushed, all of the restrains immediately unlatch. She continued to instruct him on something and I zoned out, focusing on calling Dr. Lorate.
I looked at the little rectangular device in my hands about the width of a pen. It was a simple metal device with a small button on the side. I pushed the screen and it came to life, a holographic screen popping up. Navigating my way through it, I found the contact list and found Lorate's. I pressed his name and it began the calling process.
Lorate's face showed up on the screen. "Hello Mia. I assume that 1926 is awake?"
I nodded and said, "Yes, sir."
He nodded back at me and said, "Very well. Meet me in your regular training room." Then, he hung up, the holographic screen disappearing.
Looking up I saw Jay sitting on the edge of his bed, rubbing his wrists. "Those probably wouldn't hurt if you hadn't struggled," I said. He looked up at me and glared. I approached Mom who was standing in front of the devil and handed her the calling device. "Come, the Doctor is waiting for us," I said, meeting his eyes and turned around without getting a reply. "Bye, Mom!" I called out and she returned the farewell.
I made my way to the exit, passing the many closed doors, which may or may not hold patients. There were the sound of heavy footsteps behind me and I knew he was following. After all, he had nowhere else to go. After exiting the private room hall, we made our way through the other hall that held a couple of large rooms where minor injuries were treated. The doors to those rooms were also closed.
The door opened on its own and I turned right, navigating the halls to my regular training room, the doors opening automatically because of security watching us, as usual. I felt a glare on my back the whole time and ignored it. Finally I saw the door to my regular training room. This room was similar to the one that I first met Jay in, but larger. Its properties were similar, with the observation deck and power-proof room below as well. This entrance, however, went straight to the room and not the observation deck, where I knew Observers sat to observe, as they always did during my sessions.
I knocked on the door and it opened. Dr. Lorate was smiling at me. "Hello, Mia." He glanced behind me and said, "I see you brought Jay, too. Good." He held the door open for me to walk in, and I entered.
Not hearing the (by now) familiar sound of Jay's steps I turned. "You better come in before you're forced in," I said. I heard him grunt and reluctantly walk in, Lorate closing the door shut tight after him.
"You two will from now on be training with one another as you two are now partners. I have taken on Jay as one of my private subjects. The two of you are to be our most deadly team on call, but that won't be true if you can't work together. Therefore, I have schedule for your private training sessions to be together. No fighting, either." He looked up to the dark glass of the observation deck and made a gesture. The room began forming holographic forms that were tangible. Buildings appeared as did opponents that were simply just black shadows. "Begin." Lorate said, before I saw him disappear in the elevator that led to the observation deck.
I turned to Jay. His red eyes locked onto mine and I said, "Just you and me, fireball. Let's begin." I grinned and went straight for a shadow.


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698059.post7939530901192575683..comments2016-09-08T09:42:42.288-04:00Comments on The Mumpsimus: Delany: The Polymath and Dark ReflectionsMatthew Cheneyhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698059.post-49672721270785341402007-05-07T23:12:00.000-04:002007-05-07T23:12:00.000-04:00Hawley is a very successful poet. He never had to...Hawley is a very successful poet. He never had to pay for his own publication, and until the end of his career hadn't needed to enter a contest to gain publication. His most successful book went through several hardcover and tpb printings, selling thousands of copies.

That puts him easily in the top five percent of all poets as far as popularity.NMhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698059.post-48556747613667185202007-05-07T22:38:00.000-04:002007-05-07T22:38:00.000-04:00Thanks especially for the description of the movie...Thanks especially for the description of the movie --it piqued my interest. I knew already that Fred Barney Taylor was no editor, so the shortcomings you describe do not surprise.Joshhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698059.post-46457580163103663082007-05-07T13:48:00.000-04:002007-05-07T13:48:00.000-04:00I haven't heard anything about a limited for it, b...I haven't heard anything about a limited for it, but I can ask...Matthew Cheneyhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698059.post-87956869266677568132007-05-07T13:23:00.000-04:002007-05-07T13:23:00.000-04:00Just swung over to Amazon to check out the book--n...Just swung over to Amazon to check out the book--nice evocative cover. I am a bit disappointed in that there is no mention of a hardcover, just the quality paperback--do you know if there are possibilities of a hardcover, limited edition or otherwise?

--Eric firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698059.post-46922578113904714932007-05-07T06:12:00.000-04:002007-05-07T06:12:00.000-04:00Thank you for your extensive outline. Will have tr...Thank you for your extensive outline. Will have try out Delany's work some time.

BlueRectangle Booksfirstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698059.post-76247624384001871192007-05-07T03:08:00.000-04:002007-05-07T03:08:00.000-04:00I haven't seen the film or read the book yet, so t...I haven't seen the film or read the book yet, so thanks for these early thoughts, Matt. After finally reading Dhalgren about a month ago, I'll be getting more into Delany's fiction soon.Jason Erik Lundberghttps://email@example.com


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Having universal knowledge; knowing all things; infinitely knowing or wise; as, the omniscient God.
God is Omniscient – How Much Does God Know?
He knows everything:
Psalm 139:1-4 Knows all about us
Isaiah 46:9,10 Was at the beginning and knows the end
Matthew 11:21 Knows all outcomes
1 John 3:20 Knows all things
Psalm 44:21 Knows the secrets of the heart
And the list could go on and on. Gods knows it all, but what does that mean for us?
God is Omniscient – What That Means For Us
This means that God knows everything. So there is no way we can hide anything from Him. . God knows you heart, He knows your thoughts, God knows all those things that you try to do in secret away from others. What you are hiding away from your wife or husband, your family your friends, God sees it. The Bible says that God knows what we are going to do and to think even before we know ourselves.
Think about that one for a moment or two. Before you come up with all your plans or ideas God has already seen the outcome good or bad. I don't know about you but this makes me want to be a little more careful about what I am thinking and how those thoughts influence my plans. Jesus said that it is not what goes into a man that makes him unclean, it is what inside the man that makes him unclean. God knows us better more than we want to admit because it would mean that we would have to clean up our act.
Even Christians are not immune to thinking things that we shouldn't or do things that we are not supposed to. Being a Christian does not mean that we are immune to sin, it just means we must be more careful because we realize in our minds and our hearts that God has known us before we came into this world, He knows us now that we are living in this world and he will know us when we cross over at the end of life in this world. Still not so sure about how much Gods knows about you well here is a list of six things that God knows about us that might just make you think a little bit.
1. He knows the number of hairs on your head. Matthew 10:30.
Do you know the number of hairs on your head? God does because he knows everything.
2. He knew the exact time and date of your birth and he knows the exact time and date and even how you are going to die. Psalm 139:16
People put a lot of faith in fortunetellers or psychic because they want to know how much longer they have to live. Fortunetellers or psychics do not know how long you have to live, only God knew when you were going to be born and only He knows when you're going to die.
3. He knows if you are going to get married and to whom you are going to marry long before you even meet the person. Psalm 139:1-4
God knows your wedding plans long before you even meet the person you are going to meet, date, get engaged to, plan a wedding with and eventually get married to.
4. He knows if you are going to continue to walk with Him. John 13
This is a scary one to me; because in my heart I do not want to believe anyone who truly knows the Lord would walk away from Him, but He knows those that will even before their hearts harden to His love.
5. He knows each and every step you take each and every day, each and every word you are going to say each and every day and each and every thought you are going to think each and every day. Hebrews 4:13
Walk, talk and think God knows. It is as simple as that.
6. He knows what we are capable of. Psalm 44:21
God knows what you are capable of doing good and bad, he knows your potential, he knows your dreams, your ambitions and He knows your outcomes. Picture yourself twenty years from know, thirty years from now. What will you be doing? Maybe watching your kids graduate, maybe enjoying, maybe you will be in Heaven God knows what you will be doing and what you are capable of doing for Him.
God knows not only about us but all of history. He created the world and He knows when the world will end.
7. He knows your family tree.
Since God knows everything about history He knows all who have come before and all who will come after us. He knows your family tree. How well do you know your great, great, great grandparents? Not to well I would image. You may have photographs of them or have heard stories about them but chances are have never met them. You do not how they laughed, what they cried over. The joy they felt when their first child was born, but God does.
God knew your past relatives just as well as He knows all about you. Just as well as He knew Adam and Eve, Abraham Lincoln and the billions of other people who have lived, are living now or who are yet to be born. That is an awesome think about. Can you remember all the people you have know in your lifetime? How well do you remember them? Do they remember you?
8. He knows when the world is going to end. Revelation 11:18
God knows the date and time down to the second when this world we now live on is going to end. He knows when our time is up, but we don't. It could be tomorrow, next week, next year or not in our lifetime. The important thing is to be ready that is to know Jesus Christ as our Savior and live our live according to God's word.
If God Were Not Omniscient What Would It Mean For Us?
1. He could not run the universe and it would be in chaos. Think about how much knowledge and understanding it takes to run a business let alone run a universe. The planets must be aligned right, the earth must have the right balance of axis, rotation, oxygen etc. or we would not be able to exist.
2. He could not have written the Bible. Without knowing what was to come how could He have predicted the coming Messiah, the rise and fall of nations and any of the other prophecies?
3. He could not claim to know us as well as he does because all of what He knows about us would have to come from observation not because He is all knowing.
4. He could not claim to be the only God because He would have no way of knowing of there was another God out there.
5. He could not offer us hope. Without the knowledge of what is to come He could not ever offer us hope of a better life or even eternal life.
Since as we have seen God knows everything we do and because He also knows what we are thinking, He also knows the reasons or motives we have for doing them. So in our lives we should commit ourselves to doing everything with the realization we are doing it for God. We must yield ourselves to Him daily, and do what He wants us to do and be what He wants us to be
1. Why is it significant that God knows everything?
2. Since we cannot hide anything from God because He knows everything, why do we act as if we can?
3. How do you feel knowing right now as you read this that God knows what you are thinking?
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When you buy the three phase UPS, check the UPS specification and whether your load is considered inductive, capacitive or resistive. Efficiency of 50% Load and 100% load of UPS Protection features inbuilt in system. Appropriate rating gives system to calculate load and finalize.
~SURESH GHOBLE, EMI/EMC Design Engineer, PUNE, INDIA
Look for the highest possible reliability. Everything else is secondary. Although more expensive and less efficient, soma applications deserve a UPS with an output isolation transformer.
~Selim A, Engineering Consultant, Istanbul, Türkiye
Full commissioning effort with power quality measurement is a must when starting a UPS. Manufacturer's claimed performance standards should always be validated, especially for batteries.
~Facilities Manager, Las Vegas, NV
Load study is very important 1. Harmonic details 2. K factor 3. Type of load like heater, compressive, inductive, compressive 4. Peak current 5. Rated load 6.Initial torque load
~VIBHAKAR L PATEL P, Soltion provider cum marketing, RAJKOT, India
Advise them to measure the load and see which type of load there is before they do any buying. Ex: How big is the capacitive or inductive load and the total load in kw.
~Gunnar H, Technical Support, Oslo, Norway
Look to long term usage, high ambient temperature loading factors & over-specify KVA to allow for missing loads (there are always missed circuits).
~Roger W, Estimating Procurement Manager, Overland Park, KS
Make sure you have a good support contract and make sure the UPS is sized correctly for the load, not too big or too small.
~Engineer, Sault Ste. Marie, Canada
Understand redundancy features and implications research batteries - life versus cost, operating temp, recharge time.
~Bruce T, Engineering Consultant, Perth, Australia
Manage power distribution so phase loads don't shift when restarting multiple power supply computer systems.
~Jere R, Network Manager, Jeffersonville, KY
They should thoroughly check specifications of UPS system with the battery offered.
~Sudhir KULKARNI, Area Manger Marketing/Business development, Mumbai, India
Yes , make sure when upscaling a server park, to upscale your UPS as well!
~Didier S, Design Engineer, Veldhoven, The Netherlands
Check & review after sales support & maintenance contract
~Lazaro G, Technical Staff, Manila, Philippines
Buy high frequency design only.
~S DATTA, Marketing/Sales, New Delhi, India
May soon test as a solution.
~Tomasz K, General Management, Cracow, Poland
Is there any advice you want to share with users to help them avoid common errors in selection or usage of three phase uninterruptible power supplies?
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COMPRESSOR has very high initial torque almost 10 times than rated & hence during battery operation, UPS will get tripped. So capacity of UPS will require very high capacity. Heater load will be beneficial, as it will improve your power factor. UPS should at least give you 150% load capacity for 10 seconds, so that for any initial torque it does not get tripped . It must have an isolation transformer at output side else IGBT will be blown off frequently. For industrial usage, SCR based rectifier will be highly reliable compared to IGBT based rectifier. As IGBT is a highly switchable & sensitive device & hence tends to fail frequently.
~VIBHAKAR L PATEL P, Soltion provider cum marketing, RAJKOT, India
While selecting the UPS they must be aware about type of load they are going to put on prospective UPS, whether it is inductive load or low inrush current load. If they are buying for inductive load they should prefer isolation transformer technology, or for it load they can opt high frequency technology.
~RAKESH B, Marketing/Sales, DELHI, INDIA
When supplying motor loads make sure your UPS is able to handle back feed from load. Make sure you have a solid neutral, both at by pass as well as normal operation.
~Selim A, Engineering Consultant, Istanbul, Türkiye
Following: 1) Check KVA/KW capacity at Ambient Temperature .i.e 40 Deg C. 2) Check Battery sizing calculation. This is a must to get proper backup and check economics.
~Sudhir KULKARNI, Area Manger Marketing/Business development, Mumbai, India
UPS must be an On-line (Double-Conversion) type. Protection as follows: Lightning, Over Voltage, Power Failure, Short Circuit, Surge
~Gunnar H, Technical Support, Oslo, Norway
For example if you calculate that you need a 37.5 KVA UPS, consider purchasing a 50 KVA, the cost is neg. & ROI is more palatable.
~Roger W, Estimating Procurement Manager, Overland Park, KS
Ensure that a UPS (10-yrs. min.) experienced, licensed professional engineer are part of the user's team.
~Ralph J, P.E., Chief, Senior Electrical Power Engineer, Sterling, VA
Ensure it meets all regulatory requirements (back feed protection, warning labels etc).
~Bruce T, Engineering Consultant, Perth, Australia
Check UPS loading relative to battery size, request for battery sizing detail
~Lazaro G, Technical Staff, Manila, Philippines
Online UPS is a must when choosing a solution for critical applications.
~Facilities Manager, Las Vegas, NV
The three phase inverters should be able convert back to single phase.
~Jerry G Sales and installation, Marketing/Sales, Muskogee, Muskogee
Actual load calculate on 1 to 0.7PF.
~SURESH GHOBLE, EMI/EMC Design Engineer, PUNE, INDIA
Buy a UPS which gives input pf 099.
~S DATTA, Marketing/Sales, New Delhi, India


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The next-generation Audi A6 is said to feature some new lightweight construction inspired by its smaller sibling, the Audi TT.
The new Audi A6: high tech
If we worry – prematurely – that the looks could end up being an enlarged photocopy of the Audi A4, there are no such concerns under the bonnet. This new A6 will be a significant new model: it's the first mainstream Audi saloon to usher in a new construction method.
So far Audi has offered aluminium construction on its lower volume cars, such as the R8, TT and A8, but the A6 will also get a multi-material spaceframe to snip away excess flab – and improve handling, economy and emissions in the process.
Related news: GermanCarBlog, P4MR, Audi A6
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I know I shouldn't, c'mon it's IE, but sometimes I like to switch browsers just to test out some stuff and I've noticed I can't quote posts at all in IE. The editor opens up on the bottom but the quote isn't inserted.
I wonder if this is a skin issue or if it's na issue in IPB itself.
Using IE11 on Windows 8.1.


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China Oil Refining Falls to Eight-Month Low; Power Output Gains
China's crude processing fell to the lowest level in eight months in April as refineries shut units for maintenance and industrial production expanded at a slower pace than forecast. Electricity output increased.
Refining in the world's second-largest oil consumer dropped to 9.36 million barrels a day last month, according to data published today on the website of the Beijing-based National Bureau of Statistics. That's the lowest since August and 8 percent below December's record.
China's apparent oil demand, or domestic throughput plus net imports, was 9.66 million barrels a day last month, also the weakest since August, the data show. Industrial output rose 9.3 percent from a year earlier, compared with the 9.4 percent median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey. China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (386), or Sinopec, the nation's biggest refiner, will cut processing by 1.5 million metric tons this quarter from an earlier plan because of higher fuel stockpiles, ICIS C1 Energy, a Shanghai-based commodity researcher, said last month.
"April was this year's first peak for refinery maintenance," Li Li, an oil analyst at ICIS C1 Energy said by phone from Guangzhou. "Sinopec also cut processing amid sluggish fuel demand."
The nation's biggest refineries reduced their average operating rate to 80 percent as of April 3 because of maintenance, compared with 88 percent in mid-February, according to Oilchem.net, a Shandong-based industry website. PetroChina Co. (857)'s Dalian refinery, its biggest, shut a crude distillation unit with a capacity of 4.5 million tons a year on March 15 for a month, according to a company official.
Power, Coal
China generated 399.4 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in April, up 6.2 percent compared from the same period last year, today's data show. Output in the first four months climbed 3.8 percent to 1.59 trillion kilowatt-hours.
"Power growth in April might partly be due to ample rainfall in parts of southern China," Helen Lau, a Hong Kong-based analyst at UOB-Kay Hian Ltd., said by phone. Hydropower output in the first three months of the year jumped 22 percent while thermal power climbed 0.5 percent, she said.
China's domestic thermal coal demand and prices will stay around current levels this month, according to Lau. Power-station coal at Qinhuangdao port, the benchmark price for the nation, was unchanged from a week earlier at 605 yuan ($98.43) to 615 yuan a ton as of yesterday, according to data today from the China Coal Transport and Distribution Association.
China's ethylene output in April climbed 3 percent from a year earlier to 1.25 million tons, the statistics bureau data showed.
To contact Bloomberg News staff for this story: Jing Yang in Shanghai at firstname.lastname@example.com; Sarah Chen in Beijing at email@example.com
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Alexander Kwiatkowski at email@example.com


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As the various Republican candidates engaged in their alleged debate recently, usually with sound and fury signifying nothing, the issue of whom they would hire for key jobs if elected kept running through some minds. In view of the fact that so little data of a new and penetrating nature resulted, hiring policies might have spiced up things considerably.
The idea is not new. In recent months, an "election year" that runs at least a year too long has led some notable people, many of them former businesspeople and public officials, to bring up the matter of how candidates would pick advisers once they got into office.
For example, which personality would a given candidate propose as a vice presidential running mate, should the nomination be secured? How about a secretary of state or a chief of staff? Then there are other key positions: secretary of defense, Supreme Court justices, an attorney general who would avoid another fiasco.
Look at some of the appointments of President Bush. He went with Dick Cheney as his vice president from the outset. He had the popular and accomplished Colin Powell in a key post until Powell became disenchanted with the directions that were being taken, particularly where the Iraq war was involved.
Granted, candidates who provided wish lists of the people they would like to bring on board after being elected might put some prospects in an uncomfortable position. Others, of course, would love such attention. But the candidate worth his or her salt could figure out ways to minimize difficulties for possible selections.
When the next president takes office in January 2009, the United States may be mired in one of the most difficult situations our nation has ever faced. These are treacherous and demanding times, and we are engaged in a war that will last for years.
Nobody can do a job like that of the presidency alone. Why not have a more open and lively discussion about who might be among the hired help and why the resulting "team" would result in something substantially better than what we now have?
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Our research research focuses on:
1) the collation of evidence for the prevention of obesity in children and adults, and dissemination and translation of this evidence into policy and practice,
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3) the development of tools to assess dietary intake and physical activity levels at population level. The need to assess and reduce health inequalities underpins this programme of work.
The Obesity Related Behaviour (ORB) Research Group's main interests are:
- Health inequalities
- Evaluation of community interventions for the prevention of childhood and adult obesity
- Measurement of dietary and physical activity behaviours using novel methods at population level
- Systematic reviews
ORB has close links with other departments at Durham University;
These interdisciplinary partnerships are essential for the production of world class research and evaluation.
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Themes and Meanings
(Comprehensive Guide to Short Stories, Critical Edition)
This story is a wicked satire of American academia, shown here in three of its guises: a college going bankrupt, "a new experimental college in Oregon," and a pretentious Eastern college that is "an exact copy of a college in England, right down to the gargoyles and stained-glass windows." None of these colleges inspires confidence in American higher education, nor do the faculty members shown: mousy Mary, tediously copying out her lectures; egotistical Louise, expert on Benedict Arnold; Dr. Howells, native son of Utah, with his "porous blue nose and terrible teeth"; the young professor who talks around the pipe in his mouth; and assorted other members of the faculty menagerie. They are shallow, conventional, and phony, like bad actors in an academic commedia dell'arte, with Louise as stage manager. The only exception is the "brilliant and original" professor who is fired.
If the trustees make an example of the outspoken professor, the author makes an example of Mary, but of the opposite sort: She illustrates what can happen to people who sell themselves out for security. From the professor's firing, Mary takes warning: "She shared his views, but did not sign the protest petition. She was, after all, on trial herself—as a teacher, as a woman, as an interpreter of history." The irony of these words reverberates through the story because Mary is a failure in all three respects because of her career of self-censorship. She stifles her own ideas until "without quite disappearing they shrank to remote, nervous points, like birds flying away." She deliberately molds herself into a faintly ridiculous role until her eccentricities, jokes, and hearing aid qualify her for the ranks of the collegiate grotesques. However, ultimately, Mary's self-betrayal does not prevent her from being betrayed by her college and by her colleagues, who tend to accept her at face value.
Mary's betrayal by the system, however, might also be what saves her from it. As a college history teacher, she has denied not only her own authenticity but, ironically, her involvement in history. Her hard knocks, along with the Oregon rain, begin to cleanse her soul, to make her see that even a college campus is not a safe refuge from life. In the story's remarkable ending, Mary at last finds her own voice via a "brilliant and original" interpretation of history that encompasses herself and the system.


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Monday Book Pick: Conquistador
Filed under: Monday Book Pick, Science Fiction
Conquistador by S.M. Stirling
Another alternate history book by Mr. Stirling. In this novel, a WWII Veteran, shortly after the end of the war, finds a gateway to an alternate Earth, one where Western Civilization didn't take hold. The planet is lightly populated with people and still mostly an untamed wilderness. Most of it takes place in California, and what would be California in this alternate world.
A fun and exciting read, with a nifty Sluggy Freelance reference near the end.
An Open Letter to our Dear Leader
Filed under: Free Speech, Our Dear Leader, Politics
Lou Pritchett is a former vice president of Procter & Gamble whose career at that company spanned 36 years before his retirement in 1989, and he is the author of the 1995 business book, Stop Paddling & Start Rocking the Boat.
Mr. Pritchett confirmed that he was indeed the author of the much-circulated "open letter." "I did write the 'you scare me' letter. I sent it to the NY Times but they never acknowledged or published it. However, it hit the internet and according to the 'experts' has had over 500,000 hits.
Here is the text of the letter.
Dear President Obama:
You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.
You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.
You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.
You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.
You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.
You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don't understand it at its core.
You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming others.
You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.
You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame America' crowd and deliver this message abroad.
You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.
You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.
You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.
You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.
You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics against certain banks and corporations.
You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.
You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.
You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient.
You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.
You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O'Relllys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.
You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.
Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.


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Everybody likes to dress up occasionally. Whether it's your favorite shirt or a nice pair of sneakers you've been saving for a special occasion, it feels good to wear your finest duds. Nobody can compete with pop sensation Rihanna, though, who trumps anyone when it comes to a special outfit. RiRi attended the Crop Over Festival in her native Barbados over the weekend and sported one of the most extravagant, jaw-dropping ensembles I've ever seen. She posted plenty of pictures of it online and the comments by some guys were as thirsty as a jog through the Sahara desert.
Here's Rihanna twerking because you know you want to see it.
The "dress" (what the hell do you call that?), which was made for Kadooment Day, the biggest day of the festival, was inspired The Hunger Games' Mockingjay. Lauren Austin, the lead designer of famed costume band Zulu International, was the one who crafted this masterpiece. What do you even do with a piece like that after you've worn it? Does it sit in Rihanna's closet next to an old Mickey Mouse sweatshirt? Or does it go to a a museum somewhere? Or does it get sold online for hundreds of thousands of dollars for some creepy dude to wear to sleep? So many questions!
Here's the rest of Rihanna's incredible pictures. Forget the outfit, the festival looks like so much fun!


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Bravo promises "Farsi-filled fun" from season 2 of "Shahs of Sunset," premiering on Sunday. The reality show about six young Persian-American friends, "Shahs of Sunset" follows Reza Farahan, Mercedes "MJ" Javid, Mike Shouhed, Asa Soltan Rahmati, Golnesa "GG" Gharachedaghi and new girl Lilly Ghalichi, as they embrace all life offers in Beverly Hills.
This season Reza is in a self-proclaimed "gay life crisis." MJ wants to find a nice guy. Mike has met a beautiful girl he thinks could be "the one." Except that she isn't Jewish, which is his requirement. Asa is in a financial crisis. GG is starting a business with her sister, but her temper continues to be a problem. And newcomer Lilly seems to have it all; rich, thin, successful and a wealthy and powerful on-again, off-again boyfriend. But there's a crisis brewing.
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Telling Your School's Story (Keynote/Workshop)
When is the last time something amazing happened in your school? How many people knew about it? The work done in schools all across the globe is spectacular. Kids gather, learn, leave and make the world we live in a better place. So…amazing things happen all the time. Telling the story of schools helps create a narrative that builds culture and gives everyone in your community an identity. Utilizing social media and being the chief storyteller in your district is a great way to celebrate the success of students with parents and the community. FIND YOUR AUDIENCE…BUILD YOUR BRAND…CELEBRATE KIDS!!
Hacking Leadership (Keynote/Workshop)
Water is amazing and seemingly always finds a way. It has the ability to form, replenish our system, power equipment, and can wipe out entire cities. Leaders have the same properties. Some end up conforming to their environment as water would with a cup or bowl. Some have the power to wipe out entire populations and others lift the level of the land. The best leaders take little openings and create space for those they lead. They find the smallest cracks of opportunity and create a path that was not there before. They shape the land. They find a way. Hacking leadership is about finding innovative solutions to issues that have plagued the system for years, and implementing them tomorrow. The focus is on practical application. We all know the problems exist, but knowledge of problems does not make our daily life in schools easier. Utilizing the tools in Hacking Leadership will allow you and your team to find the openings and create space for those you lead. Space to learn. Space to teach. Space to thrive.
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The heart is essential to life. It pumps the blood through the body to ensure all of the nutrients get to their desired area. All great schools have HEART. Honesty, Empowerment, Authenticity, Reflection, and Trust are anchors to great schools. The HEART of great schools not only identifies the amazing things happening in these areas, but also emphasizes a process to remain HEART Healthy and avoid Cardiac Arrest.
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We've all walked down a hallway or stepped into a room where we know getting what we want is going to be a struggle. In these times we tend to shut down. Many times people won't even enter into a conversation unless they are convinced the outcome will be favorable to them. This mindset completely inhibits the opportunity for growth. Creating a culture of YES helps leaders see the opportunities for those they lead as opposed to the reasons why ideas won't work. Developing an environment where trust and YES are the default can transform the learning for students and staff.
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Ever feel like you arrive at school, go through the day, and wonder if anything actually got done? The day-to-day operations tend to impede our opportunity for administrators to grow and learn in their position. The administrator in a school is responsible for leading a learning organization. If we are going to lead the learning in schools we need to find a way to do it together. Too often administrators are left on an island because they are the only person in the building with a particular role. This session provides a road map for taking ownership of your learning, while still leading the work done at the building level.
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Get Out of Your Comfort Zone: Now People!! (Workshop)
Amazing things rarely happen in comfort zones. The mental habits we form put us in a place from which we rarely venture. Stepping outside of your comfort zone can be challenging, but the benefits of modeling that type of risk taking as a leader are essential to the growth of your staff. Taking the first step outside of your comfort zone is clearly the most difficult. Connecting current practice to new modes of learning can help us all realize our ability as leaders and propel our staff to places they never thought possible.


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CAPA to Manage McCoy Arts Center in New Albany
The board of directors for the McCoy Community Center for the Arts in New Albany voted recently to approve a management agreement with the Columbus Association for the Performing Arts (CAPA) to provide management services. CAPA will oversee theatre operations, programming, ticketing and other shared services at the McCoy.
"CAPA's arts expertise and national reputation will enable the McCoy to provide exceptional services to our patrons while utilizing our financial resources with cost efficiency," said David Martin, Chair of the McCoy Center Board of Trustees. "Instead of employing one executive director, the McCoy Center will have access to an entire team of specialized experts from a company that has been operating in our community for more than 40 years."
The McCoy Center is a 786-seat venue which opened in 2008 through a partnership between the New Albany Community Foundation, City of New Albany, Plain Township, and the New Albany-Plain Local School District.
CAPA provides similar back office services for CATCO, the Columbus Symphony, Franklin Park Conservatory, Friends of the Drexel, Inc., and Opera Columbus.
More information can be found online at www.capa.com and www.mccoycenter.org.


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The Korean martyrs St. Andrew Kim Taegon, St. Paul Chong Hasang and their companions were canonized by Pope John Paul II during his pilgrimage to Korea on May 6, 1984. This ceremony was the first canonization in modern Church history to take place outside Rome.
Christianity was introduced in Korea by a group of Catholic laypersons in 1784; the laity kept their faith alive until the first religious missionaries arrived in 1836, over half a century later. During four separate persecutions of the Church — in 1839, 1846, 1866, and 1867 — 103 Koreans were martyred, including St. Andrew Kim Taegon (the first Korean priest), and St. Paul Chong Hasang (a lay apostle). Eleven of the martyrs were priests; the other ninety-two were lay persons (forty-seven women and forty-five men).
1. The laity (ordinary men and women who are not ordained or called to be religious sisters or brothers) can play a very important role in establishing and preserving the life of the Church. It was lay persons who brought Catholicism to Korea, and who preserved it (without the benefit of the Mass or other sacraments) for over fifty years until the arrival of missionary priests.
2. Much Church history is written from a Western perspective, but it is important for European and American Catholics to remember that other cultures have much to contribute to the life of the Church, and are entitled to hear the gospel. Instead of worrying about being criticized for "cultural imperialism" (in which the Church is supposedly guilty of "imposing" its religious beliefs on other cultures), we must remember that Jesus instructed His followers to "Go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them … teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you" (Mt 28:19-20).
From Johnnette Benkovic's Graceful Living: Meditations to Help You Grow Closer to God Day by Day
Hold fast to the will of God and with all your heart fight the good fight under the leadership of Jesus; conquer again the diabolical power of this world that Christ has already vanquished.
— From the final words of St. Andrew Kim Taegon
Given the tenor of our times, in what ways am I called by God to "hold fast" and conquer the diabolical powers of the world? In what areas of influence can I be effective in some way?
Other Saints We Remember Today
St. Eustace and Companions (c. 118), Martyrs; St. Eustace is the Patron of protection from fire (temporal or eternal) and of people in difficult circumstances.


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During the Summer Vacation, you are advised to get a copy of
Robin Robbins' edition of the Complete Poems of John Donne (Longman,
2010). This is the set text for the course. The Library has six copies, and you
will be expected to bring this edition, and only this edition, to class, where
we will often discuss Robbins' textual choices and material in his notes. This
is also the only acceptable text to use when you prepare your assessed work for
this unit. Should you revert to using the A J Smith (Penguin) text, or texts
cut and pasted off the Luminarium site, your mark may well suffer if you
discuss without noticing that there is an attribution problem poems that
Robbins considers doubtfully Donne's, or present quotations from texts which
contain inferior or minimal editorial handling. The Luminarium compiler has
improved her texts, which used to be based on a late Victorian edition of the
poems, but it is not a suitably scholarly resource for your purposes. If you
buy your own text of Robbins' edition, then you can make your own annotations,
place your post-it notes, etc. It is currently £19.99 on Amazon.
This summer would also be the time to read a biography of
Donne. R. C. Bald's John Donne: A Life gives all the facts. John Stubbs'
biography, Donne: The Reformed Soul (Penguin, 2007) can also be
recommended, but it does perhaps register the pressure to make the biographical
subject interesting for a commercial publishing firm. Stubbs, for instance,
mentions early on that Donne's family had personal bodily relics of Thomas More
(one of his teeth). But by the end of the book, he cannot quite resist
suggesting that Donne's devoutly Catholic mother, who died earlier in the same
year in which Donne himself died, 1631, had smuggled the head of Thomas More
into Donne's Deanery – as the Catholic skeleton rattling in Donne's closet. The
head had been long buried with More's daughter Margaret.
You might also read John Carey's book, John Donne:
Life, Mind, and Art (Faber, 1981, second edition, 1990). Read it sooner
rather than later: it offers a very compelling psycho-biographical reading. If
you read it close in time to writing assessed work for this course, the
invisible presence of John Carey will reach over your shoulder and start tapping
at your keyboard. (You might regard this as very helpful indeed, but it is far
better if you can see the author your own way.)
Two major projects are underway in
relation to Donne's works: the 'Variorum' edition of the poems,
under the general editorship of Gary Stringer, and the new Oxford
edition of the sermons.
Four volumes of the Variorum edition of
the poems have been published:
Volume 2, The Elegies
Volume 6 The Anniversaries, and the
Epicedes and Obsequies
Volume 7 Part 1 The Holy Sonnets
Volume 8 The Epigrams, Epithalamions,
Epitaphs, Inscriptions, and Miscellaneous Poems
The Variorum edition aims to collect
and digitise every 17th century manuscript variant, and apply a
computerised stemmatics programme to deduce the full family tree of
manuscripts, and therefore arrive at which readings are the most
authoritative. It also aims to summarise the whole body of Donne
Early this year (2014), the first
volume of the projected 16 volumes of Donne's sermons was published
(David Colclough's edition of the 'Sermons preached at the court
of Charles I')
These are complex editorial projects,
and the editions are best suited to the postgraduate researcher.
This brief bibliography is divided into
i) general books and studies of particular topics and ii) studies of
Each list is by
date of publication.
i) General books on the poetry of the
period and topics within the poetry might include:
ii) Studies of John Donne
To come to an understanding of Donne,
you might best begin by reading some English Petrarchan sonnets. A
sampling of Samuel Daniel's Delia sequence in the
Everyman Elizabethan Sonnets (ed. Evans rev. Booth): would
give you an insight into the type of thing Donne was in artistic
reaction against.
The first critical description of
'metaphysical poetry' remains highly interesting and relevant to
our understanding. It was written by Dr Samuel Johnson in 1778, and
published in his Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the
Works of the English poets (1779-1781) in his life of Donne's
follower, Abraham Cowley. It is disconcerting to see lines from Donne
which have been much admired in the late 20th century adduced to the
contrivances of Cowley in illustration of the idiosyncrasies of the
metaphysical manner.
20th Century Commentary
On-line resources
Find Renaissance author web sites via
'The Voice of the Shuttle', the 'Web Page for Humanities
Research'; http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/eng-ren.html
You will probably already be familiar
with the Luminarium site: www.luminarium.org/renlit/
which has a John Donne sectionwww.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/
BUT Anniina Jokinen as the site
creator made some very poor choices of copy text for her online
versions of the poems. Improvements have been made, but her texts are
simply not reliable.
Similarly, the LION database took its
text of John Donne's poems from editions older than that of Herbert
Grierson established a reliable canon of the poems. This is why LION
turns up lots of items which are simply not John Donne poems. I have
tried to volunteer myself to edit the collection down, and even sent
a list of 'Dubia' too them, but nothing has been done to delete
http://johndonnesociety.tamu.edu/ is the new home page of the John Donne
Society and its journal (only the contents are available on-line),
currently at http://www.csus.edu/org/donne
http://www.global-language.com/donneframe.html offers a searchable Donne concordance
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(Literary Essentials: Christian Fiction and Nonfiction)
Simply Christian begins by listing reasons to believe in God: the longing for justice in a world where there is much injustice, the search for spirituality in a culture that beckons us to a wholly material world, our craving for permanence in relationships that no matter how great will end in death, and those fleeting experiences of beauty in a world where there is so much ugliness. These are "echoes of a voice" that point to a Creator. Though N. T. Wright is clear that these echoes are neither proofs that compel belief nor unambiguous pointers to the Christian God, they may open the minds of the honest to look for something more than the flat scientific materialism and drab consumerism of modern Western culture.
Not all truth is the result of observation and experiment, Wright notes. We observe the moral chaos around us but we know the world was made for justice; and we know that our thirst for spirituality, relationships, and beauty are real. Such knowledge requires resources beyond those available to the scientist and engineer. Philosophy, then, is an appropriate place to begin, but the god to whom philosophy points is ill-defined and virtually unknowable. Whatever or whoever is ultimately responsible for these echoes is not simply another element or part of this universe. So what is "God"? There are three basic options.
The first option is pantheism. Here God and the universe are one. God is everything and everything is God. (A slight variation is panentheism, where everything is God, but God is more than everything in what is called the universe.) The fundamental difficulty with this option is its inability to deal with evil. If we are all one with God, then what we call evil and tragedy must not really be bad since they are themselves divine.
The second option is that God and the universe are utterly distinct: God created the universe but now allows it to run on its own. This is the Deist position that became popular in the eighteenth century...
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The world of Formula One has paid tribute to former medical delegate Sid Watkins who died on Wednesday night at the age of 84.
Watkins, an on-track surgeon for 26 years from 1978 through to 2004, led a crusade to improve medical facilities in Formula One, helping to dramatically cut the number of deaths and serious injuries in the sport.
Throughout his career in F1, Watkins' actions helped save the lives of Northern Ireland's Martin Donnelly, Finland's double world champion Mika Hakkinen and Austrian Gerhard Berger, among others.
Watkins worked tirelessly to improve safety in the cockpit, on the track, and the medical support at circuits alongside the likes of Britain's triple world champion Sir Jackie Stewart and FIA president Max Mosley.
Confirming Watkins' passing, McLaren Group chairman and close friend Ron Dennis said: "Today the world of motor racing lost one of its true greats.
"No, he wasn't a driver. No, he wasn't an engineer. No, he wasn't a designer. He was a doctor and it's probably fair to say he did more than anyone, over many years, to make Formula One as safe as it is today.
"Many drivers and ex-drivers owe their lives to his careful and expert work, which resulted in the massive advances in safety levels that today's drivers possibly take for granted."
One driver who credited Watkins for saving his is Rubens Barrichello, who suffered a huge crash during qualifying for the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola in 1994, the same race that claimed the lives of Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna.
Barrichello, now racing in Indycars in the United States, tweeted:
Other F1 drivers tweeted their appreciation of Watkins, including Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button while former driver and BBC commentator, David Coulthard, said that "Sid Watkins was one of the best men I have met in my life, totally selfless".
Watkins was a close friend of Ayrton Senna and was deeply upset when the triple world champion was killed at Imola. He returned to the public eye last year in the film, Senna, when he recalled trying to persuade the Brazilian to give up racing at Imola after Ratzenberger's death.
He told Senna: "What else do you need to do? You have been world champion three times, you are obviously the quickest driver. Give it up and let's go fishing."
F1's current medical delegate Gary Hartstein, who learned his trade for seven years under Watkins' wing, said: "For a long time I wanted to call him every time I had to make a decision. Then I just started thinking 'what would he do in this situation?'
"And finally, for better or for worse, I realised I was doing just what he'd do (but probably not as well).
"He kinda had a big place in my life for a long time. Just about the most extraordinary person I've known."
Watkins became the first Professor of Neurosurgery at the London Hospital in 1970 when he was also appointed to the RAC medical panel.
He was approached by Formula One ringmaster Bernie Ecclestone in 1978 to become an on-track surgeon at grands prix and he was also the chief medical officer for FIA, the sport's world governing body.
Upon stepping down, Watkins focused on his role as president of the FIA Institute for Motor Sport Safety through to December last year, continuing only in an honorary position.


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In this lucid exposition, an acclaimed interpreter shows that the book of Revelation is to be read as a unified work of religious poetry aimed at extricating Christians from Roman society, in which they were living quietly and peacefully. Thompson considers connections between Johns negative view of society and his social location as a wandering prophet, compares his visionary experience with that of other prophets and seers, especially in Judaism, notes similarities between the depictions of Christ and Satan in Revelation and portraits of heroes and demons in other writings of the time, and emphasizes that Johns vision of heaven and the future were intended to infuse everyday Christian life with confidence in the goodness and ultimate triumph of God.
Thompsons commentary on Revelation is written in an engaging literary style and, by presenting perceptive comparisons and contrasts with both Greco-Roman and Jewish literaturecanonical and non-canonicalhe highlights the distinctive features of this book. He deals effectively with the rhetorical and even the epistemological dimensions, while offering an illuminating and convincing proposal for the structure and thematic development of Revelation. In short, it is a most revealing and insightful analysis of this challenging early Christian writing, as it shows how this book addresses perennial human questions about divine purpose and human destiny. -Howard Clark Kee


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TITLE: When I Die (poem)
By Amber Riebe
When this body finally dies,
promise me you won't cry.
Smile and cheer because when my body dies
my soul will finally be set free!
I'll be flying with the angels in such a beautiful place.
This soul will finally stand in His amazing grace.
I can't wait until I can leave this old body of mine,
the best day of my life will be the day my body dies!
When my body dies I'm gonna fly high
to that big party beyond the crystal sky!
The gates are open wide;
I just can't wait to get inside!
Why not come along with me?
Your price has already been paid, admission is free!
The invitation's open to everyone.
God made sure of it by sending His only Son.
Believe in Him and He'll add your name to the guest list.
This is something you surely don't wanna miss!
It's the best party there will ever be
and it's gonna last for eternity!
I can hardly contain the excitement building up inside!
I just can't wait until it's my turn to die!
At this party you won't find a single frown!
If you're not completely convinced by now,
would it help if I mentioned you'll be able to trade
your sorrows in exchange for a heavenly crown?
This is an offer that simply can't be beat!
I'm so excited because up there is where I'm gonna be!
When I get there Jesus will say, as He puts His arm around me,
"I'm so glad You're finally here! Come in and enjoy My party!"
Yeah, I can't wait for this body to die
so I can go to that big party beyond the crystal sky!
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