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Senior PR Account Director With A Difference!
- Recruiter
- May & Stephens Recruitment Group
- Location
- City of London
- Salary
- £60000 - £75000 per annum
- Posted
- 23 Jan 2013
- Closes
- 20 Feb 2013
- Ref
- Contact
- Angela Rosebery
- Sector
- Marketing & PR, Media & Advertising
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Are you a Senior Account Director who has the gravitas and business acumen for an Associate Director level role and to support the MD in all areas of commercial operations and business growth?
International, fast expanding PR Consultancy recognised as a leading name in the Technology and Corporate Communications sectors is looking for an inspirational Senior Account Director/Associate Director who can work as No.2 to the MD in driving the business forward. The role will be pivotal for taking the direction on all account management responsibilities whilst also supporting the MD on business development initiatives. Working on prestigious Financial Services and Professional Services clients the role presents enormous scope for a Senior Account Director who is ready for more responsibility.
*The remit of the Senior Account Director on a day to day basis will include: Client account management
*Business development
*Providing client counsel on strategy and campaign execution
*Team leadership
*Ideas generation .
A commercial, entrepreneurial approach to PR, social media and communications as a business proposition to clients is essential. 'Plain speaking and integrity' are the core values of this agency which has resulted in hem securing long term client relationships and market expansion.
The Senior Account Director will offer the following skill-set:-
*7-10 years PR experience
*Financial and Professional Services speciality
*Leadership qualities
*Client Account Management
*Business Development/client engagement expertise
Working in offices based in the heart of the City. This is an innovative and progressive role with excellent scope for continued professional development
May & Stephens Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.


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Check out this idiot's letter entitled 'Bad Mixture':
This lady thinks its a bad idea to mix gambling with professional sports. Why does the PG always publish letters from people who don't do any research on the topic on which they write? No wonder this paper is going under and can't turn a profit.

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Mohammed Falah Azzam has been through this before.
His mother's home was bombed in the 2008-09 Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip, which left hundreds dead and thousands of homes destroyed. In renewed fighting last week, an entire block of buildings housing his extended family was badly damaged in an airstrike that Israel said was aimed at a militant.
While none of his relatives was hurt, the 61-year-old retired schoolteacher once again has to worry about providing shelter for his family. Some relatives are sleeping in an empty shop, squeezed in with other family members. Others are spending their nights in rooms covered in plastic wrap to shield them from the winter rain because all the windows were blown out.
"This is going to cost thousands," Azzam said. "The longer I wait, the more damage will happen," he added, pointing to a heavily damaged building sitting atop tilting concrete columns.
Azzam finds himself caught again in a pile of paperwork to seek assistance, trying to secure hard-to-get construction materials. This time, he hopes the process will be smoother, thanks to both Israel's pledges to ease its longstanding border blockade and the newfound political clout of Gaza's Hamas rulers in the region.
Israel promised to ease the blockade as part of a cease-fire last week that ended eight days of intense fighting. But difficult negotiations lie ahead, and there is no firm timeline for lifting the restrictions.
Israel launched its offensive Nov. 14 in response to months of rocket fire out of Gaza. It carried out about 1,500 airstrikes during the fighting, while Palestinian militants lobbed a similar number of rockets into Israel.
The damage to buildings in Gaza appears less extensive than it was four years ago. The United Nations estimates 10,000 homes were destroyed or damaged, while Hamas has put the number at about 8,000, including 500 that were destroyed or heavily damaged. In comparison, U.N. relief agencies said as many as 40,000 homes were affected in the earlier round of fighting.
Israel says its airstrikes are aimed at militants, and it blames Hamas for the damage, accusing the group of using residential areas for cover.
Reconstruction since the 2008-9 fighting has been slow, in large part because of Israel's blockade. Israel imposed the restrictions in 2007, after Hamas, a militant group sworn to its destruction, wrested power over the coastal strip from the government of Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Under international pressure, Israel loosened the blockade in 2010 but maintained tight restrictions on imports of glass, cement, metal and other construction materials, saying they could be diverted for military use. Only U.N agencies and international organizations in the Palestinian territory are allowed to import such material from Israel for their own projects.
To make up the shortage, a bustling smuggling industry through underground tunnels along the Egyptian border has sprung up. While prices for key construction goods have come down, they still remain expensive.
During the recent offensive, Israel heavily targeted the tunnels, which are also used to bring weapons into Gaza. Residents along the border say that smugglers and tunnel owners are still inspecting the damage but that many of the tunnels still operate, though at reduced capacity.
Yasser al-Shanti, deputy of the ministry of public works and housing in the Hamas government, said construction materials will start flowing into Gaza again once the tunnels are up and running again.
But Hamas' real hope is that Israel and Egypt will lift border restrictions to allow large quantities of goods into the territory through proper border crossings.


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Number of officers is in keeping with safe community
As a former professor of criminal justice, it is necessary to address Kaan Kurt's closing paragraph in his letter to the editor in the Jan. 22 edition titled, "Station renovations are unnecessary." Mr. Kurt presented the premise that Jamestown does not need to pay for 15 police officers and offered as support the closing sentence, "It's not like James town has a lot of criminals or violence."
The Jamestown Police Department maintains three, eight-hour rotations every 24 hours, 365 days a year with a mandated minimum manning of two police offi- cers per rotation. Not infrequently, a rotation may require
a third or even fourth cer to be added. In manning
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have to be made for vacation time, personal time, compensation time and unavailability due to illness. Due to those considerations and the finite number of police officers and dependent upon upcoming events, it is not unusual for an officer's pre-submitted request for time off to be deferred. Nor is it unusual for any police officer's requisite off-time to be interrupted by a call to report in due to unexpected events.
Although, as Mr. Kurt noted, Jamestown's land mass is nine plus square miles, it is folly to overlook that the Town of James town includes an additional surrounding ocean area of 26 square miles which requires ongoing police oversight. The year-round population of over 5,600 residents significantly swells between May and October heightening the duty of diligence for the entire department.
The statement in support of why Jamestown does not need to pay for 15 police officers is relative, void for vagueness and thus falters. While Jamestown does not experience drive by shootings, gang-related homicides or a myriad of other mayhems, Jamestown does in fact have it's proportionate share of criminal activity which increases exponentially with the rate of the town's growth. That James town does enjoy a narrow margin of criminal activity inarguably resides in the high visibility of the presence of police officers on patrol.
In light of the above, and for sake of brevity, omitting their professional participation in various community outreach programs initiated by the police department, a complement of 15 police offi cers is statistically sound and justified. Karen Melucci Jamestown


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Whitehouse opponent Hinckley confident, 'we can beat this guy'
In today's unpredictable climate, some may think that that leaving a multi-million dollar business venture for the volatile political arena would be unwise.
"You hit the nail on the head with that one," joked Republican Senate candidate Barry Hinckley, who is leaving behind the Bullhorn Software company he founded in pursuit of the United State Senate.
A first time candidate, Hinckley hit the trail early, and has already been campaigning for seven months. He rode his bike through the state, talking about key issues in his candidacy, and on Sunday knocked on more than 100 doors in Johnston. Based on voter reaction so far, he is confident that a newcomer has a real chance at taking down incumbent Sheldon Whitehouse, who has served in the Senate since 2007, after a five-year stint as the state's U.S. attorney and a four-year run as Attorney General.
"People are dying for a change. They realize we need a new generation of new faces. A vote for Sheldon Whitehouse is a vote for the status quo," he said.
Hinckley fears that the status quo will leave the country worse off than it is now. That fear prompted him to run.
"I got to the point where I saw nothing happening and, as a parent, I feel that it's my responsibility to make sure that my children have the same opportunity that I had, and I don't see that happening right now," he said. "I'm going to take a risk for my state, my country and my family to make a difference."
Hinckley pledges that a vote for the new guy is a vote for significant change. At the top of his list is a Balanced Budget Amendment, implementing term limits and revising the nation's tax code.
The 45-year-old Hinckley has spent his personal money lobbying to revise the nation's 80,000-page tax code, which he believes is too cumbersome. He pointed to big businesses that pay relatively no taxes on massive income amounts, because they have lawyers that can navigate the system and use the code to their advantage.
"It's criminal that this tax code is in place," he said. "Small businesses pay taxes because they don't have the money to pay for fancy lawyers. We need a fairer, simpler tax code. I have a lot of experience in tax reform."
Fairer would include cracking down on those who do not pay taxes.
"We don't need more taxes; we need more taxpayers. We don't have enough people pulling the wagon," he said.
Taxes are as much a state issue as a national issue. When asked why Hinckley chose to go for a federal office rather than start locally, he said he believes starting at the top would impact government at all levels.
"If I can lead by example and reform taxes at the federal level, Rhode Island will follow," he said. "Washington, D.C., has not been living within its means in many decades."
Streamlining regulations and making America more business friendly is what he believes will bring jobs back and ultimately put the economy back on track.
"We need to deregulate. We need to make America the most competitive team in the world," he said.
Hinckley considers education to be an important component in making the state and country competitive. He has two children, both of whom he chooses to send to private schools.
"Our schools are failing so badly in Rhode Island that if you can afford it, you send [your kids] to private school," he said. "I believe in public schools but public schools should have to compete to educate our children. It's just like any other market."
He is a supporter of school choice, or vouchers that allow families to decide where to educate their children, rather than have it determined for them based on location.
"More competition will lower the cost of education and bring up the quality. We need more diversity in education; this one size fits all doesn't set up each of our youth up for success," Hinckley said. "If we are under educating our youth, businesses won't move here."
Job creation another component in rebuilding the economy. Ask Hinckley about economic development, and he'll quickly point out that he has real experience in creating jobs. Bullhorn employs 150, and his family is one and the same with Hinckley Yachts, which has been building boats since 1928.
"I've got a lot of experience in creating jobs. I know what goes into making a job; I know the formula."
Referring to career politicians, he added, "None of them have ever created one job and that, to me, is a pretty glaring reason we're in the situation we're in. The government can temporarily create jobs but ultimately, that temporary job creation creates a hangover. Sustainable, wealth-creating jobs always come from the private sector. The only way out of the mess we're in, is to re-grow the private sector."
In other words, Hinckley is an advocate for smaller government. Diminishing the role of government goes back to his demand for term limits. He will limit himself to two terms and, if he is successful in his campaign, plans to introduce term limit legislation immediately.
"It's very important to have representation of the people. The longer you're in Washington DC, the more you become disjointed from the people," he said.
Medicare is an example that Hinckley believes shows a lack of political will. He does not think that Medicare is sustainable as it stands now, but he doesn't see any politicians stepping up to make the hard choices. He likened Medicare reform to pension reform that Rhode Islanders are just now confronting.
"You can be a coward and not lead and watch this thing come to disaster, but doing nothing would be irresponsible. You have to crack down on waste, fraud and abuse and you also have to decide what we can afford," he said.
All of this, he says, goes back to leaving the country in better shape for the next generation.
"It's our duty, as Americans, to pass a country to our children that has money in the bank and not our debts. I've never met someone who has planned their will to pass hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt to their kids," he said. "What we're doing now is immoral."
Before many candidates have even decided whether or not they will run, Hinckley can already say the experience is the most rewarding of his life.
"I've gotten out and met real Rhode Islanders and it's really encouraging to meet so many amazing people who care. It's been empowering," he said. "I'm so confident we're going to beat this guy."
For more information on Barry Hinckley's campaign, visit www.hinckleyforsenate.com.


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OCLC and IZUM to investigate partnership to develop library information systems in the Western Balkans
DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 17 November 2011—OCLC and IZUM, the Institute of Information Science in Slovenia, have signed a Letter of Intent to investigate establishment of a strategic partnership to develop national library information systems in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia.
OCLC and IZUM will investigate forming a partnership to integrate core products and services from both organisations to provide an effective management and information discovery environment for libraries within COBISS.Net, the network that connects autonomous COBISS (Co-operative Online Bibliographic System and Services) library information systems of different countries and their current research information systems.
OCLC and IZUM will look into ways to develop, localize and implement OCLC Web-scale Management Services and COBISS applications. They will plan to load records from the union catalogues of participating countries into WorldCat and from WorldCat to the catalogues of the libraries within the COBISS.Net network. The organisations will also look into ways to distribute OCLC products and services in the nine countries.
"Convergence of synergies is always the best possible way to make progress," said Davor Sostaric, Director of IZUM. "This is especially true in development processes. I am sure we will all benefit from such a partnership. IZUM's well-established services in the COBISS.Net countries combined with OCLC's worldwide network of library services will be a great step forward for the whole region."
"IZUM has successfully supported library cooperation and provided library services in Eastern Europe for decades," said Jay Jordan, OCLC President and CEO. "Our mission and goals are similar. We look forward to working with IZUM and the libraries and systems they represent to facilitate library cooperation worldwide."
"We are delighted to reinforce our relationship with IZUM," said Eric van Lubeek, Managing Director of OCLC Europe, Middle East and Africa. "OCLC and IZUM libraries and their users will certainly benefit from such a partnership—in Europe, and around the world."
About IZUM
The Institute of Information Science (IZUM) is a public institution established by the Government of the Republic of Slovenia as an information infrastructural service for Slovenian science, culture and education. Along with other agents of information activities in the country, it ensures Slovenia an entrance to the streams of the modern world's information society. This defines its mission; its functions are specified in the Foundation Act, passed by the Government of the Republic of Slovenia. According to the Research and Development Act, it is defined as a public infrastructural institution and registered as a research organisation as well. According to the Librarianship Act, it is defined as a library information service in the COBISS.SI national bibliographic system. IZUM provides the same reference model of the COBISS to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia; all these systems are interconnected and thus represent the core of the COBISS.Net regional network.
About OCLC
Founded in 1967, OCLC is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing library costs. More than 72,000 libraries in 170 countries have used OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend, preserve and manage library materials. Researchers, students, faculty, scholars, professional librarians and other information seekers use OCLC services to obtain bibliographic, abstract and full-text information when and where they need it. OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the world's largest online database for discovery of library resources. Search WorldCat on the Web at www.worldcat.org. For more information, visit www.oclc.org.
OCLC, OCLC Web-scale Management Services, WorldCat and WorldCat.org are trademarks/service marks of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. Third-party product, service and business names are trademarks/service marks of their respective owners.
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W Retreat & Spa Maldives has been named "Best Hotel in the Maldives" by readers of DestinAsian magazine in their annual Readers' Choice Awards for 2013.
W Maldives - a private island and luxury playground in a wonderland of white sand beaches, turquoise lagoons and breathtaking reefs. W Retreat & Spa Maldives offers jetsetters an exclusive escape, and indulgence in a pristine seaside sanctuary.
With a total of 2,909 respondents, W Hotels Worldwide has been recognized to provide consistent and unsurpassed standards in excellence and service with three awards which includes W Retreat & Spa Maldives, W Retreat & Spa Bali and W Taipei.
This year, two new award categories have been added: the best individual hotels in Maldives and Koh Samui. "These two island destinations have emerged to become important luxury holiday destinations of travelers in the region and they deserve their own categories in the RCA," says Ronald Liem.
Steve Delefortrie, Director of Operation at W Maldives said, "When our guests visit the retreat, they expect an experience that is a universe away from the norm. This Readers Award from DestinAsian magazine is a testimony of the service that we provide to our guests on a daily basis. I could not be prouder of the Talent of W Maldives and more grateful to our loyal guests".
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With my interest in country music and the classic groups, I found this book fascinating. It is the fictionalized story of the Browns, two sisters and their brother, who sound was called Nashville Chrome. At the height of their fame, this singing trio was second only to Elvis, and even the Beatles shared a few jam sessions with their idols. Have you ever heard of the Browns? I hadn't.
The focus of Nashville Chrome is Maxine, the eldest sibling, and the novel goes back and forth in time sweeping over her childhood in Poplar Creek, the tough years on the road singing and recording, to a decrepit old age living on social security when a trip to Piggly Wiggly represents a major expedition. Maxine is the driving force behind the trio–the one who takes their singing career so much more seriously, but perhaps that's because for her, the stakes are so much higher.
Bass's style underscores the mythic qualities of the tale, for while the Browns' story is true, at times it almost seems too fantastic to be anything less than fiction. Fate repeatedly seems to intervene in lives marked by the highs and lows of incredibly bad luck and amazing strokes of good fortune.


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Phils rally past Nats with two-run eighth
PHILADELPHIA -- As Cole Hamels warmed up before Monday night's game at Citizens Bank Park against the Nationals, something wasn't right.
Nothing specific, but he was missing a certain crispness. Nothing physical according to Phillies interim manager Ryne Sandberg, just something seemed off.View Full Game Coverage
PHILADELPHIA -- As Cole Hamels warmed up before Monday night's game at Citizens Bank Park against the Nationals, something wasn't right.
Nothing specific, but he was missing a certain crispness. Nothing physical according to Phillies interim manager Ryne Sandberg, just something seemed off.View Full Game Coverage
In a game that featured a pair of very good starts from aces Hamels and Washington's Stephen Strasburg, it was the bullpens that figured prominently in a 3-2 win for the Phillies. Jimmy Rollins went 1-for-3 with a walk and scored two runs, including the game-winner, and Carlos Ruiz had a pair of RBIs as the Phillies took the first game of this three-game series in South Philadelphia.
"Can he feel that way all the time?" Rollins said of Hamels. "He was nasty tonight. That changeup was as nasty or the second best it's been all season long. He hit his spots and he hit every pitch where he wanted to."
Down 2-1, Nationals reliever Tyler Clippard entered the game to start the eighth. After he got two outs, he surrendered a walk to Cesar Hernandez, who broke for second as Rollins doubled off the wall in right-center to tie the game at 2. An intentional walk to Chase Utley brought Ruiz to the plate.
Ruiz hit a ground ball through the left side and Rollins took off without hesitation and narrowly beat the throw from Bryce Harper for a 3-2 lead.
"It actually started before that with Cesar having a good at-bat," Rollins said. "That gave us a chance. We had to start from ground zero in the [eighth] inning. We were hoping to put some at-bats together and it worked out."
Strasburg's night came to a premature end due to an inflated pitch count that reached 100 in six innings before he gave way to reliever Drew Storen. Hamels, meanwhile, reached 86 pitches -- 69 of which were strikes -- in seven innings before Justin DeFratus took over for him in the eighth.
"He warmed up, we had an eye on him, he didn't warm up real well in the bullpen," Sandberg said of Hamels. "So, we were just waiting to see what we were going to get from him tonight. What it was was pretty good. At that point, we felt that he did his job, velocity was down a little bit in that inning, but still quality.
"No other issue than that. We felt he did his job out there and we had fresh arms in the bullpen."
Still, it was hard to imagine Hamels didn't want to stay in a game he had so clearly dominated, but on this night it appeared that he, Sandberg and pitching coach Rich Dubee were all on the same page.
"Sometimes, later in the year, it's harder to get loose," Hamels said. "You want to make things count and not overdo it. I tried to go as deep as I possibly could. I wasn't trying to overextend myself. I felt good doing it.
"I guess we didn't get into a fist fight. I trust his judgment. It's late in the season. Innings and pitches add up. I want to get another five starts in. It'll be nice to have that extra day off and being at home for getting the nice type of care and facilities here will help."
DeFratus recorded the first out, but gave up a single to left-center by Anthony Rendon and then walked Chad Tracy. DeFratus was lifted for Cesar Jimenez, who walked Harper to load the bases and then gave up a sacrifice fly to Scott Hairston to give the Nationals a 2-1 lead.
Holding a 1-0 early lead, Strasburg dominated the Phillies through the first three innings as he allowed just one walk and struck out six. A leadoff walk in the fourth to Rollins haunted him moments later.
In the oddest moment of the night, catcher Wilson Ramos tried to pick Rollins off of first with left-handed hitting Utley at the plate. Ramos' throw hit Utley's bat and went to the backstop, which allowed Rollins to move to second on an error. After Utley struck out, Strasburg's lack of attention toward Rollins allowed the Phillies shortstop to take off for third and a broken-bat single by Ruiz into center opened the door for Rollins to score from second and tie the game at 1.
Jonathan Papelbon got into trouble in the ninth, putting runners at first and third with one out, but struck out Ramos and Rendon for his 24th save.
Michael Radano is a contributor to MLB.com.


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On the Occurrence of Abnormally Low Weight and Specific Gravity in Ancient Coins
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The following article originally appeared in Stack's Numismatic Review, 1946, #2 (April). We thank Stack's for contributing this article to the public domain in 1946.
Some time ago Mr. Harry J. Stein sent to me for examination an Alexandrian tetradrachm of abnormally low weight. This billon coin was of the common type issued in the second year of the reign of this emperor. There was no possibility that it was an electrotype and very little possibility that it was a forgery of any kind. The original observation of Mr. Stein was fully confirmed by me for the weight of this coin as determined on an accurate chemical balance was found to be only 7.16 grams. An ordinary specimen of the same type submitted by Mr. Stein for purpose of comparison was found to have a weight of 12.26 grams. The normal weight of Alexandrian tetradrachms of the second year of the reign of Vespasian, as indicated by the average of the weights of those listed in the work of Milne, [1] is 13.19 grams. Milne lists 15 such coins and their weights range from a low of 11.73 grams to a high of 14.22 grams. Hence the weight of the specimen in question is not only very much lower than the average weight of those in this list but is also much lower than even the lightest one.
It might be supposed that the abnormally low weight of this coin is merely the consequence of unusually small dimensions. However, this is not the explanation. The mean diameter of the coin was found to be about 24 millimeters and its mean thickness about 2.5 millimeters. The average diameter of those listed by Milne is 26.2 millimeters with a low of 24.0 millimeters. Milne does not give any data on the thickness of the coins in his list, but the thickness of this coin as compared to that of other Alexandrian tetradrachms in my own collection is only a little below normal. Since this unusual coin is about normal in size but abnormally low in weight its specific gravity must therefore be much below normal. A careful determination of its specific gravity by the method of Archimedes gave the result 5.80. Pure silver has a specific gravity of 10.50 and pure copper 8.90. Furthermore, from their usual silver content it can be readily calculated that the specific gravity of Alexandrian tetradrachms of the time of Vespasian should not fall much below 9.25. Actually, the apparent specific gravity of the metal of this unusual coin is below that of any normal coinage metal, ancient or modern, with the exception of aluminum and its alloys, and the specific gravities of these modern metals all fall much below 5.80. It might also be supposed that the low weight and specific gravity of the coin is a consequence of the presence of a heavy layer of corrosion products or patina of low density, but actually the coin had a fairly bright metallic appearance and there were indications that it had been cleaned rather recently.
On examining the metal of this coin I first observed that the edge of the flan was so soft in most places that moderate pressure with the finger nail caused easily visible indentations. On viewing scraped parts of the edge under sufficient magnifications I saw at once that the metal had a spongy structure. The faces of the coin appeared to be relatively free from this spongy structure, probably because of destruction of it by polishing, but the metal immediately below the surface of the faces was also generally spongy. In fact this sponginess extended deep into the body of the coin. The explanation for both the abnormally low eight and the abnormally low specific gravity observed in the coin is thus obvious for the metal of which it was composed was for the most part spongy and porous, in other words full of minute cavities.
After examining this coin and obtaining the facts above given, I recalled that I had in my own collection a late Ptolemaic tetradrachm [2] that had always appeared to be to be exceptionally light in weight though fully of normal size. The actual weight was now found to be only 7.98 grams. A careful determination of the specific gravity of this coin gave the result 5.66 which is close to that of the coin submitted by Mr. Stein, though actually even a little lower. This coin had also been cleaned. Examination of the metal showed that it had the same sort of extensive spongy structure.
The question that now remains to be answered is this: Was the spongy structure observed in these two coins produced at the time of minting or was it a subsequent development? Aside from the small likelihood that coins of such low weight would have been accepted in circulation there is the strong probability on technical grounds that the spongy structure was a subsequent development. Is is not generally realized how deep the processes of corrosion often extend into the metal of ancient coins of billon or bronze that have been buried in the earth for centuries. Though such coins may have only a very thin patina or layer of corrosion products visible on their surface, and thus appear to have been but little affected, the corrosion may in fact extend deep into the metal. This internal corrosion always tends to occur in the boundaries between the grains of crystals of the metal, and frequently the metal of an ancient coin or other metal object is so affected by what is known technically as intergranular corrosion that the actual metal that remains is all or nearly all in the form of numerous isolated grains or crystals wholly surrounded by corrosion products. [3] When a coin extensively corroded in this way is cleaned chemically with solvents, these solvents dissolve out the intergranular corrosion products to a greater or less degree, depending upon the nature of the solvent and the duration of treatment. If the solvent is active and the time extended nearly all the corrosion products may be dissolved out, thus leaving the whole coin in a spongy condition. The action is similar when electrolytic methods of cleaning are used except that some of the intergranular corrosion products will be reduced to new metal that will in part be plated back on the uncorroded metal in the coin. However, the final result is similar for the cleaned coin will seldom be composed of compact metal. It will be remembered that both the coin submitted by Mr. Stein and the one in my own collection had been cleaned. The methods of cleaning are unknown, but it is probably that one of the usual methods of cleaning silver or billon coins was used, such as the use of ammonia water as a chemical solvent or the simple electrolytic method involving the use of lemon juice and iron tacks.
My explanation for the low weight and low specific gravity observed both in the coin submitted by Mr. Stein and in the one in my own collection may now be summarized. I believe that both these coins were originally full weight and proper specific gravity, that they became extensively corroded internally in the course of long burial in the ground, and that on being cleaned thoroughly by some chemical or electrolytic method the intergranular corrosion products were largely dissolved out, thus leaving behind coins composed of spongy metal abnormally low in both weight and specific gravity.
Certain conclusions of general numismatic interested follow from the results of this special inquiry. One is that the weights of cleaned ancient silver coins of low fineness, which were originally much corroded, should be used with caution in any studies of the ranges of weight of such coins, or in obtaining their average weights, especially when these average weights are to be used for the determination of monetary standards or relationships. I suspect that in the past all too many such coins of abnormally low weight have been included in obtaining the average weight of a particular type of coin and that the generalizations based upon such an average weight are not too reliable. There seems to be a tendency in studies based upon the weights of coins to include the weights of all published specimens. This is justifiable when the coins are of gold, electrum, or even of fine silver, but will billon coins it is evident that a considerable degree of critical selection should be exercised. Another general conclusion is that the specific gravity method for estimating the fineness of ancient billon coins may be grossly misleading when applied to cleaned coins which were originally much corroded. It is also misleading when applied to uncleaned coins of this sort. For example, the coin of normal weight submitted by Mr. Stein along with one of abnormal weight was an uncleaned coin in good condition covered with a thin layer of light green patina. The specific gravity of this coin was found to be only 8.15, which is considerably below that of pure copper, to say nothing of being much below what it should be for an alloy of silver and copper. The low apparent specific gravity of the metal of corroded billon coins is caused by the relatively low specific gravities of the various corrosion products such as silver chloride, copper oxide, and copper carbonate. These general conclusions apply with much less force to ancient silver coins of a high degree of fineness, not only because such coins are less likely to undergo corrosion in the first place but also because they are less likely to be corroded internally. Nevertheless, for the purpose of obtaining highly reliable information based upon the weights or specific gravities of ancient silver coins of any sort it is always safer to include only those coins that show little indication of ever having been corroded.
1. J. G. Milne, Catalog of Alexandrian Coins, Oxford, 1933, pp. 11-12.
2. According to the classification of Svoronos this was a coin of Ptolemy XIII struck around 71 B.C.
3. For a detailed study of the process of intergranular corrosion as it occurs in ancient bronze the reader should consult an article by the author entitled, "The Corroded Bronze of Corinth," published in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 84, pp. 689-791. Accompanying this article are photomicrographs of the internal structure of ancient bronze which has been seriously affected by intergranular corrosion.
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Classic lasagna gets a modern twist in this delectable artichoke, chicken and spinach lasagna. You'll find some of the usual suspects like ricotta and mozzarella but a creamy Parmesan sauce takes the place of tomato sauce.
It all adds up to layer upon layer of decadence. Tasty, tender pieces of chicken with the bite of tangy artichokes and fresh baby spinach surrounded by oodles of cheese all held together by a rich sauce and layers of fresh pasta noodles.
I can't tell you how fast this disappeared. I ate leftovers for breakfast the next day and the vegetable hater in my house ate more than his fair share.
To save time use fresh pasta noodles you can find in the refrigerated pasta section of your market or use the no-bake kind so you can skip that step of boiling the noodles. My Mom swears by the Barila brand – she uses them without fail all the time.
Anyone who's made a lasagna before knows there's two things to worry about most. One is that it holds together and second that it isn't dry. There's a fine line between too much sauce and just the right amount.
I pulled it off.
This has the perfect amount of sauce so as not to be dry but not so much that the layers slide off each other. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Some of the most delicious lasagna I've ever eaten was one hot mess that just collapsed into a saucy pile when served.
This is not that but something other worldly delicious.
Classic lasagna gets a modern twist in this delectable artichoke, chicken and spinach lasagna.
- In a large skillet heat the olive oil over medium-low heat. Add the onion, garlic, chicken, Italian seasoning and season well with salt and pepper.
- Cook, stirring often until chicken is cooked through. Cut the artichokes in half and then in half again, dry off any moisture with paper towels. Stir them into the chicken and cook 2 - 3 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to cool.
- In a large mixing bowl combine the ricotta, 1 + 1/2 cups of the mozzarella, the egg and parsley.
- Make stacks out of the spinach leaves and cut them into thin strips (chiffonade). Mix them into the ricotta mixture - it will be thick.
- In a large, heavy duty saucepan melt the butter over medium-low heat. Whisk in flour and cook 3 - 4 minutes, whisking often. Slowly whisk in milk, turn heat up and bring to a simmer.
- Maintain a simmer for 4 minutes, stirring often. Turn heat down to low and stir in nutmeg, Parmesan cheese and a pinch or two each of salt and pepper, continue stirring until cheese is melted. Remove from heat.
- If using dried noodles cook according to package directions.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Butter a 9 x 13-inch casserole pan.
- Add a very thin layer of sauce over bottom of the pan, then a layer of noodles covering the bottom completely from edge to edge. Spread 1/2 the ricotta mixture evenly from edge to edge then top with 1/3 of the chicken mixture followed by 1/3 of the sauce.
- Cover the filling with another layer of noodles followed with the remaining 1/2 of ricotta, 1/3 of the chicken and 1/3 of the sauce.
- Cover with another layer of noodles followed by the remaining sauce, the remaining chicken mixture and the 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese.
- Bake 45 - 50 minutes until bubbly and hot in the middle. If the top starts to get too brown tent with aluminum foil. Allow to set 5 - 10 minutes before cutting into squares and serving.
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STICK NIGHT LIVE. Check out the trailer up un YouTube. A collection of 9 top Stick artists performing on Emmett's instrument. I'm very proud of the project. I produced and directed this 83 minute DVD using concert footage we shot for the documentary. It really gives you an idea what The Stick is. Shows how it can be played in any genre of music. It's the best live performances from series of three concerts my son Dean and I shot. We put together this trailer for it.
Dean created the flying Stick motion graphic using a combination of Maya, Cinema 4D and After Effects. I have been encouraging him to work in motion graphics for a long time. He has a natural aptitude for it having been an obsessive gamer since a toddler. I'm proud that he's picking up where I left off as a designer. I knew I'd never be able to devote the time to learn this stuff.. He regularly stays up late nights with tutorials. He pulled 4 all-nighters on this trailer alone.
He was originally intending to fully render the instrument, but the texture mapping would have put the render times into the stratosphere. It will happen next time tough. It will look like an actual Stick.
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Hey everyone,
I've taught myself basic Greek online, but am not too confident in my ability. I'm trying to say "Loyalty above all else" in ancient Greek - but I'm not sure if I've translated it correctly.
Here's what I have thus far: πίστη πριν από όλο άλλο
Is that correct?
Also, can someone give me a pronunciation key? I tried to do it myself, but...it came out pretty ugly...


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The Berean Christian High football team was no match for host El Cerrito in a game between unbeaten teams in the Tri-County Athletic League Rock Division on Friday night.
The Gauchos (7-0, 3-0 TCAL Rock) scored twice in the first 68 seconds of the game, including an 88-yard opening kickoff return by Marcellus Pippins, on their way to a 59-6 victory.
The second touchdown occurred when Marshon Ardoin scored on a 1-yard plunge after the Gauchos recovered a fumble inside the 1-yard line.
El Cerrito led 39-0 after the first quarter. In addition to offensive touchdowns, the Gauchos scored on two fumble recoveries and a 47-yard punt return by Keith Benjamin with 2:32 left in the first half that gave El Cerrito a 59-0 lead. At that point, both coaches agreed to start a running clock.
Ardoin added a 73-yard touchdown run in the first quarter with 3:21 left. Jalen Harvey recovered a fumble and rumbled for a touchdown, and also had a 56-yard touchdown reception and an interception.
Austin Harper's 7-yard touchdown run gave El Cerrito a 39-0 lead after the first 12 minutes. Berean Christian fell to 3-4 overall and 2-1 in TCAL-Rock action.
Berean Christian scored in the last six minutes of the game on a 1-yard run by Nick Umali.
According to El Cerrito coach Kenny Kahn, the Berean Christian coaching staff was going to forfeit the second half of the game unless El Cerrito did not play its starters in that half. El Cerrito complied.
El Cerrito, which had allowed just 42 points in its first six games coming into Friday, has a bye next week before it hosts Pinole Valley on Oct. 19 in a game between former Alameda Contra Costa Athletic League foes.
Berean Christian (3-4, 2-1) plays Pinole Valley next Friday at Northgate High in Walnut Creek.


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CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian administrative court has ordered the suspension of parliamentary elections scheduled to begin next month, throwing the country's politics deeper into confusion.
The court says in its Wednesday ruling that the law organizing the elections must be reviewed by the Supreme Constitutional Court to determine its conformity to the constitution.
The ruling further snarls Egypt's political crisis over the divisions between Islamist President Mohammed Morsi and the mainly liberal and secular opposition. The opposition had called a boycott of the elections, saying they should not be held amid anti-Morsi protests and unrest that have shaken the country for weeks.
The multi-phase election is due to begin in late April and last for nearly two months.
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Vision Airlines brought Northwest Florida Regional Airport to new heights in 2011 by giving the airport its most successful year ever.
Vision Airlines brought Northwest Florida Regional Airport to new heights in 2011 by giving the airport its most successful year ever.
But Vision�s woes at the end of last year and throughout this year made it impossible for the airport to repeat that performance.
�We were down from that historical high,� Okaloosa County Airports Director Greg Donovan said.
Look at a PowerPoint presentation of the airport's fiscal year. >>
Northwest Florida Regional served 773,257 passengers in fiscal 2012, which ran from Oct. 1, 2011, to Sept. 30. That was down 14.1 percent from the 2010-11 record of 900,562 passengers.
However, if Vision Airlines� 150,800 passengers are removed from the equation, the remaining four airlines increased passenger totals by 3.1 percent in fiscal 2012.
American Eagle Airlines� passenger count was up 3.16 percent for the year, from 154,724 passengers in fiscal 2011 to 159,608 in fiscal 2012. Continental/United Airlines went from 76,861 passengers in 2011 to 80,796 passengers in 2012, a 5.12 percent increase. US Airways, which added direct flights to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in March, had the largest increase of the four carriers, from 101,920 passengers in 2011 to 122,770 passengers in 2012, a 20.46 percent jump.
Only Delta saw its numbers drop. Its passenger count fell 2.84 percent, from 416,257 in 2011 to 404,442 in 2012.
Donovan said the airport faces some challenges going forward, but that it has handled them well thus far.
The overall trend in airline industry is consolidating in the smaller markets and reducing their fleet of smaller, 50-seat aircraft, Donovan said.
Vision Airlines� cancelling its service at Northwest Florida Regional reduced the number of seats flying into and out of the airport by 17.6 percent in fiscal 2012. However, the number seats offered by the four remaining airlines increased by 7.2 percent when Vision Airlines� numbers are removed from last year.
Delta increased its available capacity in fiscal 2012 by flying larger MD 88s and A320s.
Northwest Florida Regional�s passenger counts were down each month in 2012 compared to the same month in 2011 when Vision Airlines� passenger numbers are included. However, this year is off to a good start. Passenger counts for October, the first month of the fiscal year, were up 4.8 percent over October 2011.
�We should continue to see good growth (next year),� Donovan said. �We�re going against the trend nationally for small airports. A lot of small airports are turning around and losing a lot of capacity.�
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He is officially sponsored by New Balance now. No longer Nike. Yeah, he's got those daddy long legs.
Milos' legs are so disproportionate to his torso length. He's almost like a cartoon.
As for the shoes, I wonder if they have any other color combos - this pair has too much white on them for me.
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James Cahill, an art historian and curator who played an influential role in expanding the study and teaching of Chinese painting in the West before and after the opening up of U.S.-China relations in the early 1970s, died Feb. 14 at his home in Berkeley. He was 87.
The cause was complications of prostate cancer, said his daughter, Sarah Cahill.
A longtime professor at UC Berkeley, Cahill was a dominant scholar in his field for 50 years. In the late 1950s, he was one of a small number of Western scholars permitted access to the imperial paintings that had been evacuated to Taiwan before the Chinese mainland fell under Communist rule. He was allowed to photograph many of the works for "Chinese Painting," his classic 1960 text that for decades was required reading in Chinese art history classes.
He helped organize a seminal exhibit of Chinese imperial art from Taiwan's National Palace Museum that opened in 1961 at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. Called "Chinese Art Treasures," the show traveled to other U.S. cities, including San Francisco, drawing large crowds to view works unseen in the West since the 1930s.
He also directed a project to produce high-quality color photographs of thousands of paintings from the National Palace Museum. The photographs became an invaluable resource for other scholars and museums
"He was a pioneer specialist in the field and had tremendous impact," said Rick Vinograd, the Christensen Fund Professor in Asian Art at Stanford University who studied under Cahill at Berkeley. "Early in his career, he was really a central figure in bringing knowledge of important monuments of Chinese painting to the general public and the academic world."
In 1973, Cahill was among the first group of American art historians to visit China after President Nixon's historic meeting with Mao Tse-tung in Beijing the previous year. They were granted extraordinary access to view and photograph rare paintings at the Palace Museum in Beijing.
Cahill, a spellbinding lecturer with an avuncular manner, often took controversial stands.
After the National Gallery exhibit, he argued at a symposium of Chinese art experts that notable Chinese painters during the Ming dynasty were influenced by Western art. His theory was denounced by some Chinese scholars but the notion of foreign influences in Chinese art of that period is widely accepted today.
In 1999, he caused a stir when he charged that "The Riverbank," a reputed 10th century masterpiece from the Southern Tang dynasty donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, was a fake. He said the painting, attributed to the Chinese master Dong Yuan, was actually painted by a well-known forger, Chang Dai-chien, who died in 1983. The controversy was widely covered in art and mainstream publications.
The museum stood behind the painting, which remains in its collection, but Cahill never backed away from his judgment; in scholarly circles, the painting's authenticity is still a matter of debate.
"A lot of people felt his argument was quite convincing," said Adriana Proser, curator for traditional Asian art at the Asia Society in New York. "He was really quite an imposing figure because he had this brilliant memory and incredible bank of knowledge. It was amazing to hear him talk about painting."
Cahill did not grow up in a culturally privileged environment. He was born Aug. 13, 1926, in Ft. Bragg, Calif., and lived with a succession of relatives and friends after his parents divorced when he was 2. At Berkeley High School, he was interested in literature and music. His father, a swimming teacher at the YMCA, "was disappointed his son wasn't athletic," Sarah Cahill said in an interview.
He entered UC Berkeley in 1943 to study English but with World War II on, he decided to study Japanese instead. He was drafted into the Army and became interested in art while serving in Japan and Korea.
He returned to UC Berkeley in 1948 and earned a bachelor's degree in Oriental languages two years later. He then studied art history at the University of Michigan with Chinese art scholar Max Loehr, receiving a master's degree in 1952 and a doctorate in 1958.
He was curator of Chinese art at the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., from 1958 to 1965, when he joined the UC Berkeley faculty. He taught there until his retirement in 1994.
He gave the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard University in 1978 and 1979; his talks were later published as a book, "The Compelling Image: Nature and Style in 17th Century Chinese Painting." In 2010, the Smithsonian Institution recognized his lifetime contributions to Asian art scholarship with the Charles Lang Freer Medal.
Twice divorced, Cahill is survived by two children from his first marriage, Sarah and Nicholas; two children from his second marriage, Benedict and Julian; and six grandchildren.
In his last years he kept up with technology, blogging on his website and recording a series of video lectures on Chinese landscape painting in collaboration with UC Berkeley's Institute of East Asian Studies.
In the weeks before his death, he made a farewell video for friends that reflected his well-known love of playful rhymes. The snowy-haired scholar recited a few lines by early 20th century humorist Clarence Day:
Tiddlely-widdley tootle-oo
All I want is to stay with you
But here I go. Goodbye.


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I encourage you to post related Quotes and I will list them all here. Please leave the name of the author, as a writer I don't like to post without giving credit. Readers are often searching for quotes on Domestic Violence and Support. I hope that these may inspire our day or make you think; abuse is never your fault and should not be tolerated by anyone.
"Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude." For that means that no matter how unhappy your marriage is, you can be happy as an individual – Dale Carnegie
The following was recently by Daniel:
If you wish to have what you want in life you must Focus on the Dream, if you focus on the pain and fear you will only want to scream! by Rebecca J. Burns www.the-laststraw.com
Long term domestic violence: Being abused in this manner is like being kidnapped and tortured for ransom but you will never have enough to pay off the kidnapper. by Rebecca J. Burns … www.the-laststraw.com
The following quote was revised to add men too after a reader commented it was biased towards men. I know that men are abused by women and write about it on this blog often and never meant to exclude them in this quote.
When I am asked why a man/woman doesn't leave abuser I say: They stay because the fear of leaving is greater than the fear of staying. They will leave when the fear of staying is greater than the fear of leaving. Rebecca J. Burns www.the-laststraw.com
Several blog readers posted this recently and I wanted to share it. If you know the author let me know to give due credit: While you SCREAM at your woman, there's a man wishing he could whisper softly in her ear… While you HUMILIATE,OFFEND and INSULT her, there's a man flirting with her and reminding her how wonderful she is. While you HURT your woman, there's a man wishing he could make love to her. While you make your women CRY there's a man stealing smiles from her…
I have heard this quote several times from Dr. Phil and others, not sure who it is originally from but: You show others how to treat you. (This is so important and true, for me when I stayed after my husband called me awful names I showed him it was okay. Then when he hit me and I stayed, again, I showed him it was all right. When I finally told the police he tried to kill me and I was able to have him physically removed, I showed him how to treat me and that it was no longer allowed.)
Posted from Anonymous reader: It's hard to look for the light when your lost in darkness."
The following was posted under comments from reader: To be a survivor–first you must bleed. You bleed all that was inside of you: the pain, the memories, the fear, the wounds fusing together, the ties to what was in, all its forms. You bleed not once but several times.. And when you are empty, you either fade into a shadow or find the strength, and courage to live. When you stand up again, you are for a time, hollow–empty, like a bottle of beer lying on the street, cracked and reeking of its bitter contents. Then you fill yourself up with the new, your recreate yourself–you reform. You don't have the same heart or mind. The way you see the world is forever changed. Written by Lynn Mari (The Last Straw – comment)
"If you can't be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have—escaped," Menard's Catalog (beneath the contractor compressor)
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. by Mark Caine – author
Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself- your strengths and your limitations –in contrast to depending on affirmation from others. Judith Bardwick- the Plateauing Trap 8, 1988
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because, as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others. Winston Churchill
"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be." Charles Jones.
"Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating to be abused by someone that you love and think loves you in return. It is estimated that approximately 3 million incidents of domestic violence are reported each year in the United States."
— Dianne Feinstein
"Domestic violence does not only happen to adults. Forty percent of girls age 14 to 17 report knowing someone their age who has been hit or beaten by a boyfriend, and approximately one in five female high school students reports being physically and/or sexually abused by a dating partner."
— Dianne Feinstein
"If the numbers we see in domestic violence were applied to terrorism or gang violence, the entire country would be up in arms, and it would be the lead story on the news every night."
— Rep. Mark Green
Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.
— Salma Hayek
There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.
— Salma Hayek
"One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of the invisible and under-recognized pandemics of our time." Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this."
— Nicole Kidman
Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime."
— Herbert Ward
That's all nonviolence is – organized love.
— Joan Baez
I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart, your sense of humor, every faculty available to you…because no one has the right to take the life of another human being.
— Joan Baez
The world censures those who take up arms to defend their causes and calls on them to use nonviolent means in voicing their grievances. But when a people chooses the nonviolent path, it is all too often the case that hardly anyone pays attention. It is tragic that people have to suffer and die and the television cameras have to deliver the pictures to people's homes every day before the world at large admits there is a problem.
— Bishop Carlos Belo
Non-violence can truly flourish when the world is free of poverty, hunger, discrimination, exclusion, intolerance and hatred – when women and men can realize their highest potential and live a secure and fulfilling life. Until then, each and every one of us would have to contribute – collectively and individually – to build peace through non-violence.
— Anwarul Chowdhury
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
— Cherie Carter-Scott
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
— Elderidge Cleaver
We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.
— Dorothy Day
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom. Once hope has taken hold, courage must unite with wisdom. That is the only way of avoiding violence, the only way of maintaining the calm one needs to respond peacefully to offenses.
— Oscar Arias Sanchez
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
— Pearl S. Buck
We are asking people to understand that slavery still exists today; in fact, according to a recent New York Times article, if you count the number of women and children in bonded labor, domestic slavery or sexual slavery today, there are more slaves in the world than at any other time in history."
— Charlotte Bunch
Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life…"
— Jimmy Carter
"How many years can some people exist
before they're allowed to be free…"
— Bob Dylan
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Thanks for this resource I did a search for Domestic Violence Quotes to help me today express myself with words I could not articulate myself
Additional Quotes I've found solace in:
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. -G. K. Chesterton
"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal." -Albert Pine
"Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself." James Anthony Froud
"The question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others crazy?" – Albert Einstein
"The healthy man does not torture others. Generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers." – Carl Jung
"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The evil it does is permanent." -Mahatma Ghandi
"The house does not rest on the ground, but upon a woman." -Mexican proverb
The fear of being alone with ourselves is … a feeling of embarrassment, bordering sometimes on terror at seeing a person at once so well known and so strange; we are afraid and run away. We thus miss the chance of listening to ourselves, and we continue to ignore our conscience. – Erich Fromm (1900-1980) Man for Himself: An inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics 4.2.B, 1947


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Reviewed by Rebecca, grade 10
Jason. He's a kid with a big problem. He's on a bus filled with kids his age on a field trip. The problem? He doesn't know any of them. He doesn't even know who he is. The only thing he knows is something is very wrong. His girlfriend, Piper and his best friend Leo, who he also doesn't know, harbor some secrets too. Only time and maybe some adventures will reveal those. I highly recommend this book. It has adventures and surprises at every turn and keeps you on your toes.