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Heaven and Earth
Different sectors within Judaism read different versions of the Haftarah for this week's Torah portion. Ashkenazim read from the verse starting, "And Yaacov fled" [Hosea 12:13], until the end of the book (14:10). The Sephardim and the Yemenites read from "And My nation hesitate about returning to Me" [11:7], until "on the furrows of my field" [12:12]. And some Sephardi communities continue until "... in a parched land" [13:5].
We can search for the essential elements of the Haftarah in verses near sections which are shared by all the different communities, since it is a good assumption that these verses represent the combined strength of all sectors of the nation.
Near the verses shared by the various versions of the Haftarah are two verses that are very similar to each other:
"And I am your G-d from the Land of Egypt, I will yet bring you back in tents, as in past days" [12:10]. "And I am your G-d from the Land of Egypt, you will never know another god, and there is no savior except for Me" [13:4].
The two verses echo what was said in the first of the Ten Commandments, "I am your G-d" [Exodus 20:2], but they omit the phrase "who took you out (of the Land of Egypt)." This shows us that in addition to our obligation to accept the authority of G-d because He took us out of Egypt (see Rashi: "The fact that I took you out of Egypt is sufficient to make you obligated to Me" [20:2]), the Children of Israel also are inherently linked to G-d, even before they received any physical benefit from Him. This link is what is called "segulah" by our sages – an innate unique inner quality. And this rises up at the time of redemption: "He brings the redeemer to their children's offspring" [from the first blessing in the Amidah; see also the letters of Rav Kook volume 2, pages 186-187]. Our inherent outstanding characteristic does not negate our need for merits, rather it is an element of our most important merit: the fact that we have a unique identity of our own.
The knowledge that "I am your G-d" sets Israel free from bondage, because "only a slave of G-d is truly free" [Rabbi Yehuda Halevi]. As a consequence of our innate freedom, we are involved in two missions: Torah and politics. Economic independence, which came to the fore when Yisrael dwelt in tents around the Tabernacle while eating heavenly manna, facilitated the adoption of the Torah as a permanent possession within Yisrael, corresponding to the first of the two verses quoted above. Sovereign independence is possible for Israel because we do not recognize any other authority over us except for that of the Creator, as is noted in the second verse. It is impossible to be truly faithful to the G-d of Israel without fulfilling these two missions.
It may be that the combination of Torah and political action is hinted at in Jacob's vision of the ladder at the beginning of the Torah portion, which showed him that even at the time of going out to exile it is possible to link heaven and earth. Torah without political independence, without a political outlook, becomes something that is not relevant to "tikun" – improving the state of the world. The political dimension brings Israel together with its historic mission, which is to reveal that no external means are needed in order to have an encounter with the Creator. All that is necessary is to cling to His nation, which is free and independent.


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text: The paper reports on an experiment, in which a Knowledge-Based Reinforcement Learning (KB-RL) method was compared to a Neural Network (NN) approach in solving a classical Artificial Intelligence (AI) task. In contrast to NNs, which require a substantial amount of data to learn a good policy, the KB-RL method seeks to encode human knowledge into the solution, considerably reducing the amount of data needed for a good policy... By means of Reinforcement Learning (RL), KB-RL learns to optimize the model and improves the output of the system. Furthermore, KB-RL offers the advantage of a clear explanation of the taken decisions as well as transparent reasoning behind the solution. The goal of the reported experiment was to examine the performance of the KB-RL method in contrast to the Neural Network and to explore the capabilities of KB-RL to deliver a strong solution for the AI tasks. The results show that, within the designed settings, KB-RL outperformed the NN, and was able to learn a better policy from the available amount of data. These results support the opinion that Artificial Intelligence can benefit from the discovery and study of alternative approaches, potentially extending the frontiers of AI. (read more)PDF


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BALTIMORE — Luis Severino's fall from grace between his excellent rookie season of 2015 and his dispiriting sophomore year of 2016 was shocking. His fall from the mound in the fourth inning at Camden Yards Friday night was merely frightening, and only for a moment.
It was what happened an inning later that was unmistakably alarming.
Severino, who showed such promise as a rookie starter two years ago that many in the Yankees' organization projected him as a future ace, displayed a flash of that ability for the first four innings of his start against the Baltimore Orioles, after which he enjoyed a 5-1 lead. He had retired seven straight Orioles and had struck out Adam Jones and Manny Machado in succession in the third.
Then came the fifth, and a two-out walk followed by a fastball to Machado that became a laser beam into the left-field stands, a three-run homer that turned an easy game into a nail-biter.
"I tip my hat to Machado, he hit a good pitch right there," Severino said. "Maybe in a different game, it's a groundout or a swing and a miss. It's not going to happen every time."
But what has been happening, seemingly every time, for Severino, is this: Another start, another Yankees loss. Including 11 starts last season, in which the Yankees lost nine and Severino lost eight, he has not won a game he started since Sept. 27, 2015.
And when reliever Tyler Clippard served up a two-run homer to Seth Smith in the seventh — the first runs allowed by the Yankees bullpen after 14⅔ scoreless innings to start the season — the downward spiral that had begun in Severino's fifth inning was complete. The Orioles went on to win, 6-5, dealing the Yankees their third loss in their first four games.
"It's a tough loss because I thought Sevvy really threw the ball well tonight," Manager Joe Girardi said. "He made the one mistake, to a really good hitter, and he hit it out and it changed the complexion of the game."
Severino's first anxious moment came with two out in the fourth inning when, on his first pitch to Hyun Soo Kim, one of his spikes appeared to catch in the dirt and he tumbled awkwardly to the ground. Girardi and the pitching coach Larry Rothschild rushed to the mound, but Severino was O.K.; two pitches later, he got Kim to tap out back to the mound.
To that point, Severino had been cruising along thanks to a two-run homer by Matt Holliday in the third and another by Gary Sanchez in the fifth. Severino had limited the Orioles' lineup to four hits, two of them infield singles, and had struck out four on off-speed pitches after setting up hitters with his 97-mile-per-hour fastball. He appeared to be in command.
He even seemed to be on his way to an escape in the fifth after striking out J. J. Hardy and getting Smith to pop out following Jonathan Schoop's leadoff bloop single. But he walked Jones before grooving the fastball to Machado that turned his first outing of the season from promising to slightly disturbing.
"I think the first thing we need to see is fastball command," Girardi said before the game. "If he has that, I believe, he can get deep into games. And that is what we continue to stress during spring training to him, pitching down in the zone. You can elevate from time to time, but if you live up between the thighs and the waist, you're going to get hit hard."
The pitch Machado hit was knee-high, right down the middle.
The difference between the 2015 edition of Severino and its 2016 counterpart was significant; but the difference between Severino the starter and Severino the reliever last season could only be described as startling.
As a rookie called up from Class AAA at the 2015 trade deadline, Severino went 5-3 with a 2.89 E.R.A., impressing teammates and opponents alike with his 97-m.p.h. fastball and uncommon poise for a 21-year-old. The drop-off in his performance last season, when he went 3-8 with a 5.83 E.R.A. in 22 appearances, told only part of the story.
Working out of the bullpen late in the season, Severino went 3-0 with a 0.39 E.R.A. and held opposing hitters to a .105 batting average in 11 appearances. As a starter, Severino went 0-8 with an 8.50 E.R.A. Opponents hit .337 against him in his 11 starts.
Still, Girardi said the Yankees' front office never gave any serious consideration to converting Severino from starter to reliever in the off-season.
"Well, I think if you had went through this for a couple years, you would seriously consider that," Girardi said. "But we have to remember how young he is. I think it's a growing process and I think it's way too early in his career to decide that."
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Gary Sanchez, who had begun the season with just one hit in his first 14 at-bats, had two hits, including the home run, and a walk … The Yankees announced that James Kaprielian, their 2015 first-round draft pick who was placed on the 15-day minor league disabled list Thursday with right elbow pain, had undergone magnetic resonance imaging exams on Friday and would be sent to Los Angeles to be evaluated by a doctor on Tuesday.


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One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, The Known World is a daring and ambitious work by Pulitzer Prize winner Edward P. Jones.
The Known World tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. Making certain he never circumvents the law, Townsend runs his affairs with unusual discipline. But when death takes him unexpectedly, his widow, Caldonia, can't uphold the estate's order, and chaos ensues. Jones has woven a footnote of history into an epic that takes an unflinching look at slavery in all its moral complexities.
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Edward P. Jones, the New York Times bestselling author, has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, for fiction, the National Book Critics Circle award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Lannan Literary Award for The Known World; he also received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2004. His first collection of stories, Lost in the City, won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was short listed for the National Book Award. His second collection, All Aunt Hagar's Children, was a finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award. He has been an instructor of fiction writing at a range of universities, including Princeton. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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The Known World
By Edward P. Jones
Harper Collins PublishersCopyright © 2003 Edward P. Jones All right reserved. ISBN: 0060557540
Chapter One
Liaison. The Warmth of Family.
Stormy Weather.
The evening his master died he worked again well after he ended the day for the other adults, his own wife among them, and sent them back with hunger and tiredness to their cabins. The young ones, his son among them, had been sent out of the fields an hour or so before the adults, to prepare the late supper and, if there was time enough, to play in the few minutes of sun that were left. When he, Moses, finally freed himself of the ancient and brittle harness that connected him to the oldest mule his master owned, all that was left of the sun was a five-inch-long memory of red orange laid out in still waves across the horizon between two mountains on the left and one on the right. He had been in the fields for all of fourteen hours. He paused before leaving the fields as the evening quiet wrapped itself about him. The mule quivered, wanting home and rest. Moses closed his eyes and bent down and took a pinch of the soil and ate it with no more thought than if it were a spot of cornbread. He worked the dirt around in his mouth and swallowed, leaning his head back and opening his eyes in time to see the strip of sun fade to dark blue and then to nothing. He was the only man in the realm, slave or free, whoate dirt, but while the bondage women, particularly the pregnant ones, ate it for some incomprehensible need, for that something that ash cakes and apples and fatback did not give their bodies, he ate it not only to discover the strengths and weaknesses of the field, but because the eating of it tied him to the only thing in his small world that meant almost as much as his own life.
This was July, and July dirt tasted even more like sweetened metal than the dirt of June or May. Something in the growing crops unleashed a metallic life that only began to dissipate in mid-August, and by harvest time that life would be gone altogether, replaced by a sour moldiness he associated with the coming of fall and winter, the end of a relationship he had begun with the first taste of dirt back in March, before the first hard spring rain. Now, with the sun gone and no moon and the darkness having taken a nice hold of him, he walked to the end of the row, holding the mule by the tail. In the clearing he dropped the tail and moved around the mule toward the barn.
The mule followed him, and after he had prepared the animal for the night and came out, Moses smelled the coming of rain. He breathed deeply, feeling it surge through him. Believing he was alone, he smiled. He knelt down to be closer to the earth and breathed deeply some more. Finally, when the effect began to dwindle, he stood and turned away, for the third time that week, from the path that led to the narrow lane of the quarters with its people and his own cabin, his woman and his boy. His wife knew enough now not to wait for him to come and eat with them. On a night with the moon he could see some of the smoke rising from the world that was the lane - home and food and rest and what passed in many cabins for the life of family. He turned his head slightly to the right and made out what he thought was the sound of playing children, but when he turned his head back, he could hear far more clearly the last bird of the day as it evening-chirped in the small forest far off to the left.
He went straight ahead, to the farthest edge of the cornfields to a patch of woods that had yielded nothing of value since the day his master bought it from a white man who had gone broke and returned to Ireland. "I did well over there," that man lied to his people back in Ireland, his dying wife standing hunched over beside him, "but I longed for all of you and for the wealth of my homeland." The patch of woods of no more than three acres did yield some soft, blue grass that no animal would touch and many trees that no one could identify. Just before Moses stepped into the woods, the rain began, and as he walked on the rain became heavier. Well into the forest the rain came in torrents through the trees and the mighty summer leaves and after a bit Moses stopped and held out his hands and collected water that he washed over his face. Then he undressed down to his nakedness and lay down. To keep the rain out of his nose, he rolled up his shirt and placed it under his head so that it tilted just enough for the rain to flow down about his face. When he was an old man and rheumatism chained up his body, he would look back and blame the chains on evenings such as these, and on nights when he lost himself completely and fell asleep and didn't come to until morning, covered with dew.
The ground was almost soaked. The leaves seemed to soften the hard rain as it fell and it hit his body and face with no more power than the gentle tapping of fingers. He opened his mouth; it was rare for him and the rain to meet up like this. His eyes had remained open, and after taking in all that he could without turning his head, he took up his thing and did it. When he was done, after a few strokes, he closed his eyes, turned on his side and dozed. After a half hour or so the rain stopped abruptly ...
Excerpted from The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Copyright © 2003 by Edward P. Jones
Excerpted by permission. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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This book is about slavery and it is about freedom. There is a character, Alice, who we are told was 'kicked in the head by a mule' when she was younger. She chanted nonsense. She danced in the woods alone at night. People of the county thought she was crazy but, in the end, it turns out that Alice was not as crazy as people thought. The book tells of how people are sometimes able to escape the small worlds that hold them captive, a lesson for all of us as we all, at one time or another, have attempted to escape a small world of some kind, either a physical or mental prison that has confined us.
I found this book to be not only thought provoking but compelling. This book was not an easy read but very well written. I felt empathy for the characters but you are left wondering how did certain events change their lives for ever. I will definitely be reading other books by this author.
The Known World follows the family of a black slave owner and their associates. This subject has always fascinated me since briefly touching on this in college. Apparently there was a black slave owner in southeast Texas. I have heard mixed reviews on the writing style. Personally I enjoyed both the subject and story. Jones does seem to write in past, present, and future concurrently, which can be confusing. However, I found that it gave instant insight into the characters and motives without revealing the storyline too early. I felt the culture of the South and various races were well represented. I definitely recommend this book
V. Shipley It is said that you should never judge a book by its cover, but when just glancing at the cover of The Known World, a person can't help but be interested. From the cover, it is obvious the book is about slavery, but one could never guess how twisted the subject of slavery can get. The Known World is a story about slavery, not just the regular American slavery. The internal struggle of the book is really about the concept of free blacks owning slaves. Jones really plays with this theme through out the entire novel. He makes it seem as if he is unbiased on the subject throughout the book but his tone is otherwise. An atrocity occurs in everyone's life that owns a slave. The main theme of the book is anyone who participates in slavery is polluted by it and their concepts of justice and humanity become tainted. The strange but yet awesome thing about the novel is that all of the characters are connected through a single character, Henry Townsend. Henry is a freed black, who was once a slave, which owns slaves. We are introduced to him in the beginning by learning about his death. He is not the only one. In the beginning Jones states, "In 1855 in Manchester Country, Virginia, there were 34 free black families. and eight of those free families owned slaves." Henry was a boot maker and was a slave for William Robbins. Robbins develops a fatherly bond with Henry and is reluctant to let him go. However, he remains close with him through out the entire novel. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading. History buffs would be especially interested because Jones gives you another side to a long complicated story. I had never even thought about blacks owning other slaves prior to the Civil war. This book will broaden any reader's horizons, as long as they are friendly.
but I had the hardest time following this one I just gave up. The names alone had my head spinning. I keep saying I am going to try again but I just cant. My sister in law finished it and liked it but she wrote all the names of the characters on a piece of paper to follow with. Too much work for me to read a book and do that.............
Okay I know this book is long. I also know there isn't much action in this book either. With that being said this book made me think about the atrocities of slavery and the evil side of the human being. What Mr.Jones has created would not be considered exciting but what this book lacks in action it makes up for and surpesses in depth of characters and setting. Unless you really allow yourself to believe in the story than the many characters in this book won't matter and you will than miss out on some beautiful story telling. Mr. Jones takes a little fragment of history and manages to create his own world and his own masterpeice.
If you want something with substance and beautifully written, this is the book. The author writes with great imagery and I found myself fully engulfed in it. Not for those who are looking for something 'light'. If you want to read something good, this is it.
I really liked Edward P. Jones' The Known World. I really didn't have a favorite character because the novel goes back and forth in time--the point being i got to know each charaster, bit by heartbreaking bit. I loved the way the novel brought so many stories together under the stronghold of slavery. There is an old slave named Stamford who chases around young girls. Moses the overseer satisfies himself by self-gratification in his spare time. (Yes, a story like this can be hilarious.)But yet there are paradoxes: Henry Townsend ,who the novel revolves around, is a black slave owner: John Skiffington is a sheriff that won't own slaves--well his cousin gave him a slave but he treats her as a daughter--but he enforces the slavery laws. There are people who act like they're white but they are not: Oden, the indian patroller and Fern, the English teacher. But there were chracters i wanted to get to know further--Augustus and Mildred Townsend, Henry's parents. Well to be honest I wanted to get to know everybody even further and didn't want to leave them alone at that last sentence.
Much has already been said about the basic plot of this book, so I'd like to address the non-linear writing style...imagine yourself as a leaf tumbling down a stream, sometimes hurtling forward, yet frequently caught in little swirling eddies along the edges. If you relax and 'go with the flow' rather than expecting this book to read as you would wish, you will find it to be an astounding and seductive experience on several levels. The viewpoint of this book is equally fluid; through some magic, Jones has you seeing life through the eyes of whatever character he's currently focused upon. There are terrible, ugly, beautiful, sad, heartwarming things that happen constantly throughout this book and somehow, you are always identifying through the protagonist of the moment, whether this be a slave or a slave patroller, frightening as that might be. There is no melodrama here. Somehow, everything is just taken for granted, assumed...it is, after all, their known world. And, for a brief time, ours as well. We eventually come to take it for granted. We can look back with the smugness of time and condemn slavery and its consequential perverse social structurings. Yet a book like this makes one question our own 'known world,' the social structures and cultural practices we take for granted and assume we are powerless to change. I wonder what our descendents will find equally perverse here...probably our oil addiction which forces us to attempt to control countries half-way around the world rather than simply learning to make do with less here at home.
Loved this book! The author goes into the lives of so many characters, you get to see so many perspectives. The author draws you into thier lives at different times and then brings it all together.
I feel this is an important book, though it is not, in my opinion, particularly enticing. I found the flow of the story impeded by numerous side anecdotes and a tendency to jump from present to past and back. The well-developed characters in the book, however, could provide the basis for much good discussion beyond the obvious topic of slavery and the phenomena of freed slaves becoming slave owners themselves. Hence, I feel it would be a great book club selection.
I thought this book had great potential. I liked it but didn't love it. Oprah said it was the best book she has ever read?! Hummm... I thought it was an okay book. This book is about slavery and a man named Henry Townsend, a black farmer and a former slave. This story was a look at slavery from many different perspectives. I thought the book was a bit hard to follow. I didn't know that there was a family tree in the back of the book until after I read it. The family tree would have been helpful early on. I was more interested in some characters a lot more than others.
This book is an EXCELLENT pick for a book club! It raises several points for discussion... From the various perspectives regarding BLACK OWNED SLAVES to the personalities and life history of the characters, this book depicts another painful aspect of slavery worth talking about. Edward P. Jones is a FASCINATING STORYTELLER. I came to LOVE the way he shares the character's back-story. His writing style provides incredible INSIGHT into the motivations of his characters and invokes the emotion to love and hate and understand why! I must admit it was a tough read to start, but once I understood his style I was ENGROSSED to the end. I would RECOMMEND THIS BOOK to anyone looking for a thought provoking and GRIPPING novel.
I did not like this book. I was surprised. The writing style was difficult to follow. It had important historical information, but I had trouble finishing it. It was a sad book.
The Known World is the story of a black in the American pre-Civil War south. He gains his freedom, then acquires slaves of his own. The book is about his relationship to his slaves, and his relationship to the rest of the community. The book is difficult to read. It struck me as a collection of short stories glued together by a few common characters. The stories jump around in time, making it difficult to follow and the characters difficult to keep separate. There is no discernible plot in the book and each story is left to stand on its own. Edward's sentences tend to run on, making the book difficult to read on another level. I found the characters a bit flat. There were none that I felt any ties to. Generally, the stories are fairly nonviolent, but a few break that trend, some can be difficult to read. Some of the short stories are interesting and informative. The author works in historical information to tie the story to events we are familiar with. In spite of its having won a Pulitzer, it isn't one I can recommend. I didn't even finish this book, although I have strong urges to finish it just for completeness. Some people seem to get a lot out of the book, but I did not.
This is the story of a black farmer and former slave with slaves of his own. After his death, his widow, Caledonia, must continue managing the estate. This is a touching and unflinching look at slavery from a new angle--the black slave-owner.
It's with trepidation that I write this, because I'm an intellectual weenie who is really intimidated by people who are smarter than me, but I didn't like this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about free blacks who owned slaves in the antebellum south. I can understand in some distant abstract way that it has great artistic merit, but boy, for me it was a slog. We start with the nonlinear narrative. No big deal by itself because anyone reading modern literary fiction had damned well better be used to fractured time. But in a work with what seemed like a thousand characters, the nonlinear narrative was more confusing than usual. A friend of mine said she couldn't always tell what decade she was in, and that's about right.And those thousand characters. Most of them felt like sketches, and I wasn't emotionally invested in any of them. I'm a sucker for realism. The characters in the Ian McEwan novels I've read, or in Never Let Me Go, they are real, they breathe, and I love them and hate them. Like oil paintings where you see every muscle and every drop of perspiration and every thread in the clothing. Not like some modernist painting where it's all a mishmosh. Yes, I'm a philistine.This just wasn't a conventional novel at all, and I'm in a conventional mood, I suppose. Rather than a coherent work, it felt episodic, with most of the episodes kind of fuzzy and impressionistic, and then a moment of stunning clarity which would give you hope for coherence that never came.Oh yeah, and if you're going to write a historical novel, it might be cheating just a tiny, tiny bit, to decide not to do a whit of research. I don't care if you're making up a fictional county. You've picked a hell of a provocative subject, and a bit of factual knowledge might have proved helpful.
The stories told in this novel are compelling; the premise of African-Americans is unique. However, the author's use of flashbacks and flash forwards can be distracting and confusing. The characters are well drawn and become like neighbors down the lane.
Brilliant for making black nor white (pun intended) the victor, but for deeply exploring gray areas.
Incredible novel! A potent blend of Toni Morrison and Cormac McCarthy. A masterpiece and worthy of a Pulitzer!
I loved the how Mr. Jones developed the characters in this book...I really enjoyed it! It gave a sense of community to *slavery* that no other book I has.
Well-written and engrossing story of free blacks owning slaves. A quiet, plodding sort-of book examining each character's view with the undertones of violence and injustice always beneath the surface. Enlightening in its portrayal of a slave's life -- I particularly liked the character of Elias. But personally, I was glad to finish the book -- it was almost like eating too much fudge. I'm going to nitpik about the author's references to the U. S. Census. (page 7) I realize the town or county of Manchester, VA is made-up for the purposes of the novel however the reference to the census: "included a...man who...according to the U. S. Census of 1860 legally owned his own wife...5 children...3 grandchildren". In 1860 no specific relationships to the head-of-household are stated in the enumeration (that doesn't begin until 1880) nor should the wife and others have been counted twice (both with the free man's household and with the slaves). If the wife and children were listed as servants (though the author doesn't say this) with the free man this would not in anyway indicate they were "owned" by the head-of-the-household. Also, being listed as servants would mean they were not slaves. In both the 1850 and 1860 censuses, slaves were listed separately on the slave schedules under the owner's name. They were identified as males or females and their ages were noted, nothing more (other than, of course, the county, post office district or township, and state they were in). It is one of the frustrating aspects of African-American genealogical research where one usually has to assume by the owner's last name and the age/sex of the slave that perhaps one is looking at one's ancestor. A worthy read but taxing.
This Pulitzer-Prize winner is about black free people and slaves in the 19th century. It looks closely at the complicated relationships between free and enslaved people of that time period. Jones' writing is wonderful, but the stories jumps around a lot. It flits between dozens of characters' points of view and flies back and forth in time. I enjoyed it, but frequently had to stop to figure out where we it was at in the time line.
Given the subject matter, this is not an easy book to read. The large number of characters cover many complexities of slavery, from white owners having children with their slaves, to poor whites being looked down upon by all of society (including blacks) because they cannot afford to own slaves, to the really confusing situation of free blacks owning black slaves. The ability of some people to compartmentalize different aspects of their lives is fascinating and written about so eloquently in this author's first novel (impressive, to say the least). The only complaint I really have is that there is a fair bit of jumping around in time that can be confusing and jarring to the flow of the story.


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PhD position in applied ecology - LARGE research group
Deadline: 19.04.2020
Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences (INN University) is home to over 14,000 students and 1,000 employees, and has campuses in Lillehammer, Hamar, Elverum, Rena, Evenstad and Blæstad.
INN University aspires to build strong and enduring academic and research environments that will spearhead regionally, nationally and internationally.
We are developing a new and better institution with high academic and pedagogical quality, aiming at achieving university accreditation by 2020.
Our vision is "Stronger Together".
The Evenstad campus is located at the heart of Østerdalen in Stor-Elvdal municipality, approximately 20 km south of Koppang. The campus has a pleasant and inclusive study and academic environment, as well as its scenic surroundings.
The Evenstad campus is one of three campuses affiliated with the Faculty of Applied Ecology, Agricultural Sciences and Biotechnology.
At Evenstad, we offer degree programs in applied ecology, forestry and wildlife management.
ASSESSING EFFECTS OF DISTURBANCE ON WILDLIFE BEHAVIOUR AND ENERGY EXPENDITURE USING ACCELEROMETRY AND MOVEMENT DATA (3 years)
About the position
A 100% position as a PhD candidate in applied ecology is available at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Applied Ecology and Agricultural Sciences, Campus Evenstad, from 01.08.2020 until 31.07.2023.
The PhD student will join the LARGE research group at Campus Evenstad, and will be associated with several ongoing research projects that are using a variety of biologging tools to study wildlife movement ecology, species interactions, and responses to climate change and human disturbance. The main objective of the advertised PhD project is to investigate the effects of different types of disturbance on fine-scale behaviour of wolves and moose, and to estimate the energetic cost of the behavioural responses, using accelerometry data in combination with camera GPS collars, temperature and heart rate loggers.
The PhD student is expected to assist in advising MSc, BSc and practice students, and to be an active member of the research group.
The candidate will be supervised by associate professor Ane Eriksen at Campus Evenstad. Co-advisors will be professor Barbara Zimmermann, associate professor Alina Evans (Campus Evenstad) and associate professor Olivier Devineau (Campus Evenstad).
Questions about the position or work environment can be directed to associate professor Ane Eriksen, e-mail: [email protected] or head of the departement Nils Kvilvang, email: [email protected]
A master's degree in ecology or equivalent education, with the grade A or B is required to be qualified for admission to the PhD program. The candidate will work with large datasets requiring very good skills in data handling and statistical analyses. Candidates with previous experience in wildlife ecology, GIS and R statistical software may be prioritized.
Previous experience from relevant fieldwork and peer-reviewed publications are considered as important merits. We expect the candidate to be passionate about doing research, and to be willing to develop the skills to communicate this passion with other scientists and the general public. The candidate should welcome the opportunity to conduct research abroad and work within a multidisciplinary team. We are searching for a reliable candidate who can work independently, but who will also function well in our large team. We emphasize personal qualifications when appointing personnel to the faculty.
Personal Skills
- Ability to work independently and purposely
- Ability to work as part of a team and to assume different roles which require collaboration with supervisors, other PhD students, masters students, bachelors students and other collaborators.
- Interest in learning new skills, programs and in thinking about science in new ways.
The evaluation of candidates will consider education, experience, publishing, personal traits, motivation and the qualifications required and desired in the announcement.
How to apply
The application and all attachments are to be submitted electronically and should include the following:
- Application letter
- CV (education, positions and academic work)
- Copies of educational certificates and list of references
- A complete list of publications
Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences aims to achieve a balanced gender composition in the workforce and to recruit people with ethnic minority backgrounds.
According to the Norwegian Law "Offentlighetsloven §25.2 ledd", information about the applicant can be published even if the applicant has requested not to be included in the public list of applicants.
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- Challenging and exciting project with opportunities of personal and scientific development
- Independent and flexible work setting that the successful candidate may to a large extent influence her/himself
- Daily contact with inspiring skilled colleagues in a cross-disciplinary environment
- Great nature just outside campus
- A pay grade of 54 (NOK 479 400,- p.a).
Life insurance and occupational injuries insurance are included. Pension contributions to Statens pensjonskasse will be deducted.


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Dining Room Description: Separate Formal Dining, Breakfast Bar
Fireplace Description: Gas Starter, Gas Logs, Gas Only
Heating: Central/Electric
Cooling: Central Electric
Water Heater: Tankless-Gas
Appliances: Range/Oven-Gas, Free Standing Range, Dishwasher, Microwave, Island
Exterior Features
Style: Traditional
Stories: 1 Story
Construction: Brick and Stone
Exterior: Patio Covered, Sprinkler System, Security Lighting, Gutter(s)
Foundation: Slab
Roof: Composition
Septic or Sewer: Public Sewer
Water: Public
Garage Spaces: 2
Driveway: Concrete
Fencing: Wood Fence
Pool / Spa: None
Other Structures: None
Lot Description: Subdivision Lot, Rectangular
Lot Size in Acres: 0.17
Documents Available: Deed Restrictions
Street Utilities: Paved, Underground Utilities, Curbs, Public Sidewalk
Has Waterfront: No
Is One Story: yes
Elementary School: Whitehouse – Brown
Middle School: Whitehouse
High School: Whitehouse
Additional Information
Property Type: SFR
Property SubType: Single Family Detached
Year Built: 2018
Status: Active
Taxes: Unknown
Tax Year: 2018
Garage / Carport: Door w/Opener w/Controls, Front Entry
Square Feet Source: Plans
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Seller's Representative:
Charlotte Bergami
Home Team Realty Texas, LLC
Charlotte Bergami
Home Team Realty Texas, LLC
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December 31, 2019.
The last day of the year. The last day of a decade.
On days like this many people ask "Where did the time go?" and surely, I am one of those people. Ten years is a long time—3,652 days—and like everyone else, I couldn't tell you what I did on each of those days but I can say I survived all of them. This decade saw many ups and downs and I'm sitting here wondering what my highlight reel might actually look like.
I've never been one to reflect on such recent past. New years come along and I simply think of them as just another series of days that I will have to survive and endure. The fact that I made it to another year was never of any real significance to me. It's just the way life happens, no big deal and not much to celebrate.
Each year though, people talk of resolutions, starting anew, shedding the past, breaking free from whatever…you get the picture. I hear those things and feel nothing. The dawn of a new year, even a new decade never inspired me. For me there were no "second" chances at anything. There was never any "revival" of spirit or faith. There was nothing to shed or get rid of. No resolutions or promises to myself or anyone else. There was just another year or decade coming and folk were happy. So be it.
Today feels different.
I don't have any resolutions or promises. I'm not sure what lies ahead, but somehow I am optimistic about it. And that is scary. I am reminding myself that this scary is because it's something new. I don't have to run and hide away. I don't have to be afraid. A new year means a future. And if there's a future, I should be planning for it. But as I asked in yesterday's blog "How do I plan for a destination whose road has never been walked and whose end has never been seen in a future that's never been thought of?"
One way to do that is by looking back to see where we've been. I have come a long way from somewhere and I'm now fairly sure that where I've been will help figure out where I'm going.
So my highlight reel looks this.
In 2010 we had a Cadillac and an apartment with a great back yard and decent jobs. 2011 we were both laid off from those jobs. 2012 I started college and a new job and finished my book. 2013 we were homeless for 3 months. 2015, my youngest son was finally released from juvenile detention. 2018 I turned 50 and graduated from college and published my book. 2019 I started therapy.
For a highlight reel, there doesn't seem to be much to tell for this past decade, but there really is so much more.
Take 2012, for instance. I started college because I got laid off from a decent job that wouldn't hire me in another position because I had no degree. I used that as a catalyst to act. Enrolling in college was the easiest part of the process. The first classes I took were Statistics and Algebra. I swear I almost quit! Statistics wasn't so bad, difficult but not too bad. Algebra had me in tears and the professor wasn't very good. But it was Algebra that taught me that just because I didn't understand something, it didn't mean that I couldn't understand it. I can learn.
2012 was also the year we totaled the Caddy which brought me to my "Aha" moment. It was the "Aha" moment that led me to therapy in 2019. The tragedy of the Caddy brought to my attention something that had been going on my whole life that I had refused to see or acknowledge. That was when the abuser came to my door "to share in [my] misery." The words stung then and they still sting now. They were not words of comfort. They were not words offering help. They were not words that had any positive intent whatsoever. They were sharp, like daggers with spokes. And they struck home. They struck true. And they opened my eyes to the hideous and insidiousness that they encompassed. They were words that revealed the manipulation. I turned 44 years old that year. And the "Aha" moment was almost too much. I felt like I was being destroyed from the inside out. Everything I thought I knew became questionable. Something was desperately wrong and I didn't know how to deal with that. So I wrote it out in a letter. And then I sent that letter. And so began this journey. The emotional and psychological manipulation began to end when I sent that letter but it would still take 7 more years to finally begin to deal with it through therapy. It was 2012 when the abuser stopped speaking to me because I wouldn't do something he asked. It was 2012 when I realized that I wasn't the only one he was manipulating. 2012 was a very significant year and it will stand out as the shift of a decade. The events of that year changed me. I didn't see it clearly then, but I knew something was changing. And the change was scary so I tried like hell to bury and suppress it. I tried like hell to tell myself that I am ok. That these things, once recognized will simply work themselves out and I don't need to worry about it.
Which brings me to 2018. The #MeToo movement had gone viral. I joined in. It was significant for me and suddenly I wasn't alone. But then came the #WhyIDidntTell. That was profound. I watched Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford testify before a Congressional committee about a man who attempted to rape her when she was 16. I knew she was telling the truth. After seeing her and seeing the outcome, I knew I could no longer be silent. So I wrote it out, posted it on my blog and shared it on Facebook, tagging my family members. "Why I didn't Tell" was seen and read by more than 500 people. Putting this out there the way I did allowed my Aunt to asked to read my book. I had mentioned it in passing when I was telling her about another book I was writing. She read that manuscript and told me I should publish it. And new technology and the internet allowed me to do just that. In September of 2018 I released the Kindle version of my story and in October I released the paperback version.
With the publishing of this book, I was suddenly thrust into the world of me. The life that I had suppressed my entire life. I was suddenly acutely aware of this other me that I only fleetingly knew existed. There was anxiety and panic that wasn't there before. There were memories that were really mine and not just some story anymore. This was my story, my life. This was me. And 50 years of suppression came erupting to the surface. It had been rumbling since 2012. And now the lava-mud was front and center, present in all its raging glory. And I needed help. I started therapy in March of this year and I have learned so much. The world isn't so scary anymore. Life is still difficult. New things are just new things. And change is happening. But I am processing the enormity of me. The me I've been and the me I've buried. There's a coming together of the me. I was abused and manipulated for a lifetime and I survived. That didn't used to be a big deal, but I am becoming more and more aware of the amount of strength it has taken just to be me. I remember the fear that has been a security blanket for me throughout the years. I remember how fear has been my protection. I remember the drunken rages and how they were my freedom to express what I had suppressed. I remember the anger. I remember the guilt. I remember that all this was given to me as a way to keep me in a place. A place that I am finally climbing out of because of the protections I formed as a child. I was rebellious. And that rebellion saved me. My rebellion knew wrong was being dealt and rose up to defend. I defended myself my whole life with all of the coping mechanisms I developed.
I survived. And that makes me a warrior.
In 2020 and going forward, I will embrace the strength I have that has allowed me to survived the unthinkable. I will no longer fight myself. I will use my strength to tell my story. I will use my strength to help others find their own strength. I will not brow beat. I will not demand. I will BE. And that is enough.
The decade has taught me well.