text:
Holy Trinity Church, Ratoath
11 March 2018
01 8256207
" www.ratoathparish.ie
Opening hours for the Parish Office: 10.00am – 1.00pm Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
Eucharistic Adoration on Wednesdays from 10.00am to 10.00pm
Spend some time in front of the Blessed Sacrament during the season of Lent.
Please pray for John McGowan (Growtown) who died during the week. May he rest in peace.
We send our best wishes and prayers to Monsignor Dermot Farrell P.P. of Dunboyne, who will be ordained Bishop of Ossory in St. Mary's Cathedral, Kilkenny, this Sunday.
First Confessions for the two classes in Ratoath Junior National School that was cancelled last week is now rescheduled for this Tuesday evening 13th March at the earlier time of 7.00pm
A meeting of the Parish Liturgy Committee will be held in the Parish Pastoral Centre on Tuesday evening 13th March at 8.00pm
A Baptismal Meeting will be held on Wednesday next 14th March 8.00pm in the Parish Pastoral Centre for parents who have children for baptism in the near future.
This weekend at the 7.00pm Mass and the 11.00am Mass we welcome the boys and girls of Second Class will attend as part of their "Do This in Memory of Me" programme, in preparation for their First Holy Communion We welcome them along with their parents.
Envelope Collection for the week ending 25th February & 4th March €1,064.97
Many thanks for your continued support and generosity
St. Patrick's Day is on Saturday. There will be Masses on the day at 9.00am and 11.00am.
There will be no Vigil Mass on the Saturday evening of St. Patrick's Day.
Light the Fire! St. Patrick's Day 2018 – at 5:00pm on 17th March on the Hill of Slane; Mass celebrated by Bishop Michael Smith at 5:30pm followed by Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Please dress warm. Feel free to bring a chair. Contact the Franciscan Sisters of the Renewal, 041 9830441.
A Holy Hour for Lent will be hosted by the local Youth 2000 group for the parish community on this Friday evening 16th March at 8.00pm. All are welcome to take some time out to pray, accompanied by music and biblical readings. The evening will conclude with Benediction.
0 11 March
Si Fourth Sunday of Lent
18 March
Si Fifth Sunday of Lent
7 7.00pm
Gerry Hoare & Michael Farrington
Sue McDermott
Paddy Moore
7. 7.00pm
No Mass this evening
1 9.00am
1 9.00am
1 11.00am
Michael Brazil
1 11.00am
1 12.15pm
Seamus, Kit, Bridget & Noel Ennis
Marcus Crawley
1 12.15pm
Monday Special Intention
Wednesday Peter Cowley; Catherine & Patrick Cowley and their sons John, George and Noel
Thursday Christopher & Kathleen Hartford
Saturday Caoimhe Hughes; Eileen & David Conmey (11.00am)
'Our Common Humanity' - statement from the Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference
As pastors we are aware that the conversation about unborn life is sensitive, delicate and, indeed, painful for many. We offer our reflections with the greatest of respect for everyone while wishing to make some points clearly and unambiguously.
Fundamental right
Every one of us has a right to our life. It is not given to us by the Constitution of Ireland or by any law. We have it 'as of right', whether we are wealthy or poor, healthy or sick. All human beings have it. For us as a society to now declare that any category of human being should have that right taken from them would be a shocking step. It effectively says that unborn children do not exist or, if they do, they do not count. That is a manifest injustice.
Life begins at conception
At every point, from conception on, the baby has the potential to realise the fullness of life that God intended. All that is needed is time and nurturing. Today we see more clearly that human life begins at conception. There is no later stage in a baby's development where we can say; 'up until now the foetus was not a person and now it has become a baby'.
Are we allowing ourselves to be desensitised?
Making abortion freely available desensitises people to the value of every human life. The scientific evidence about the beginning of human life has never been clearer. It is, therefore, a great irony that we in Ireland are for the first time in our history losing our clarity about the right to life of the unborn. Knowledge about the mysterious workings of DNA and the stunningly vivid evidence of ultrasound images of little persons in the earliest weeks in the womb should be making us more committed than ever to the protection of unborn life.
Choose life
The child in the womb has life and potential. However, like all babies, before birth or in the early years, she or he has no choice. Powerless to defend themselves they rely on the rest of us to protect their lives and vindicate their rights. By using the word 'choice' we need to remember that, for the baby waiting to be born, the choice we make can be a matter of life or death.
Two lives, one love
An expectant mother needs and deserves the care and support of everyone around her, particularly if her pregnancy poses a serious crisis for her and her family. A mother may be informed that her baby faces serious challenges or is perhaps terminally ill. She might be pregnant as a result of rape. Especially in those tragic cases both the mother and her unborn child can - and must - be loved and cherished.
A compassionate society will do all in its power to support and love the mother and baby, and encourage responsible support from fathers. This vision of life makes sense to people of all faiths and none. While it is enriched by our Catholic faith, it is our common humanity that convinces us of the right to life of every human being.
A declaration of equality
Article 40.3.3 is a declaration of equality and respect for human life. It represents, at the very foundations and substructure of our laws, a conviction that all human life is worth cherishing equally. To repeal this Article would leave unborn children at the mercy of whatever permissive abortion laws might be introduced in Ireland in the future. We invite people of faith to pray earnestly that Ireland will "choose life" and that the lives of all women and their unborn children will always be loved, valued, welcomed and respected in this country.
Prayer on Mother's Day
Thank you Lord for all mothers. On this day let us think of them, whether they are with us or gone to their heavenly reward. We think of their kindness, their compassion, their care for us and above all their unconditional love. We pray that you will watch over and support them in the joys and struggles of their daily lives. This we ask through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Piano Lessons for children and adults: All ages and abilities. Playing for pleasure or exam preparation.


text:
- Home
- Plant Hire Geelong
We're specialists when it comes to plant hire – Geelong wide
Other areas that we also cater to are Werribee, the Surf Coast and the Bellarine peninsula
At Excon group, we have expertly trained professionals managing our plant hire – Geelong wide business. We offer an extensive lineup of equipment for hire, supplying to small and large contractors including residential and commercial renovators and handymen.
Choose from our fleet of trailers, vehicles and trucks, which come with a wide range of attachments that are useful for all types of earthmoving applications. Not sure how to handle heavy excavation machinery? Our maintenance service crew is available 24/7 to help you onsite.
Posi Track Bobcat Hire
We have a huge number of loaders (posi tracked) or bobcat with tracks available for hire. These vehicles allow higher work output compared to wheeled skid steers. They're excellent for use in slippery, sandy or boggy areas since they cause little compaction and greater traction.
Excavator Hire
We offer the plant hire Geelong market a good range of large and mini excavators both for residential and commercial contractors. Our equipment is state of the art and is supplied fully fueled. A good assortment of buckets, attachments and machine specifications are available so that you and your team will be able to pick the best equipment for your earthmoving projects.
Truck and Dog Hire
For all earthmoving projects needing bulk removal of general waste materials like concrete, soil, or bricks, we offer our truck and dog hire services. As with all our other vehicles, these machines are hired together with our carefully selected skilled operators. And like all the other equipment we offer the plant hire Geelong market, these are well maintained and thoroughly serviced before and after each contract to ensure optimum performance.
Do you need other types of earthmoving vehicles not listed here? Contact us and we will do our best to find them for you.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Performance Character Curriculum
Character is the foundation of school culture at Jubilee Highland Hills. The program promotes the Leader in Me and 7 Habits of Highly Effective Leadership.
Indicators of Success
Providing a high quality Character program is as important to Jubilee Highland Hills as providing a high quality mathematics or literacy program. In fact, research indicates that the development of leadership skills may be more closely linked to a student's long term success in college and career than GPA.
Building School Community
The Character curriculum helps students feel more connected to their peers, teachers, and to the school community. This leads to greater levels of engagement and motivation. Jubilee Highland Hills students are well equipped to overcome obstacles in a relentless pursuit of success and turn moments of failure into learning opportunities from which they grow.
Engaging Families
Along with an academic report card, students and families receive regular feedback on a student's growth in each habit. This information serves as a community wide opportunity to discuss a student's success and challenges, to hold each other accountable, and to build strong and positive relationships as students develop these habits.
Character Huddles and Reflections
Jubilee Highland Hills performance attributes are especially integral to turf activities where coaches and teachers relate them to student progress and goals. Character Huddles regularly bring a class together to discuss and be challenged by an idea related to a habit. To complement this exercise, reflections allow students to "teach the concept back."
By understanding what the 7 Habits are and why they matter, Jubilee Highland Hills students are able to define an abstract concept and relate it to their lives.


text:
There are significant risks to invest in Bitcoin, but, there is still a significant asymmetric payoff for owing bitcoin. Bitcoin is path-breaking both from economics and computer science prespective.
From computer science prespective it solves 'Byzantine general's problem'. And Bitcoin is a good Store of value from economic point of view. As it is has all properties of SOV like durability, portability, verifiable, divisible, scarce and censorship resistance.
System designed against you:
Like it or not, the system is rigged. If you look at the price change (see below) in the last ten years from Housing, Food, Education to Healthcare the price has increased dramatically. Only exception are the consumer products like software, electronics and clothing. Unfortunately, you can't eat iPads.
You give more to the system than what the system gives back to you. Bitcoin doesn't just give you an alternative investment to the existing system. Bitcoin is your EXIT from the existing system to build something new and experimental.
Asymmetric bet:
Bitcoin is one of the those investment like derivative option where the potential downside is limited and the upside is unlimited.
Excepted value:
It makes sense mathematically to own Bitcoin.
Some basic math first. What is Excepted value? The definition of expected value is: the sum of all possible values for a random variable, each value multiplied by its probability of occurrence.
Suppose you are planning to invest $500 in Bitcoin. Let's say, just for the sake of argument, the probability of bitcoin turning to $5 is 50% and there is 50% chance that the pay off is asymmetric, say 2x (x is the amount you invested).
50% * $450 = 225 (50% probability of losing $450)
50% * $1000 = 500 (50% probability of making 2x)
The net expected value is positive. +EV is good indicator to HODL bitcoins.
If you are a Nocoiner, I hope the above the article helped you to be more open to HODL Bitcoin.
If you're a HODLER, HODL on tight and enjoy the ride.


text:
Unwelcome change in Smart Forms icons
When I go into Smart Forms and create a text element, I am not seeing the icons that I saw in earlier versions of SAP. How can I access the options I used to have?
I recently experienced this issue in ECC 5.0 as well, after a client's support pack upgrade. In our case, we decided to switch it back as our form developers were getting various Visual Basic pop-up error messages while using the new MS Word editor (e.g. "Code execution has been interrupted").
Here are the instructions we followed from SAP on how to switch it back. Note that this is a global switch (it will impact everyone):
"Call transaction se38, enter program RSCPINST or program RSCPSETEDITOR and press Execute (F8). On the next screen, select Goto -> Set MS Word as Editor. When the checkbox is selected, deselect checkbox SAPscript/ Smart Forms and press 'Activate'. When it is not selected, simply press 'Activate'."
Once you have done the above, completely leave the Smart Forms transaction and then re-enter it. You should now see the earlier editor again, with all its icons intact.
For earlier releases the steps above might be slightly different. This is all documented in SAP Note 791199 ("Default editor changed to MS Word in SAPscript and Smart Forms").
Dig Deeper on SAPscript and Smart Forms
Related Q&A from Mark Smithson
Aligning bar codes on an SAP Smart Form
An SAP user is trying to align a barcode in the center of a defined window on an SAP Smart Form. Continue Reading
Migrating from an SAPscript to an SAP Smart Form
An SAP user is working with an SAPscript form to create the form development for an Invoice List, and wants to know if it's possible to migrate the ... Continue Reading
How to fix a slip print-out error in an SAP Smart Form
An SAP user is looking to fix an error with a packing slip print-out in an SAP Smart Form. Continue Reading


text:
Yosemite > History > Ahwahnee Village > Ahwahnee and Yosemite >
Next: History & Culture • Contents • Previous: History
Yosemite Valley was called awahni by the Southern Miwok. While this word has been the subject of many fanciful translations, Southern Miwok speakers contend that it means "place like a gaping mouth," likening the shape of Yosemite Valley to that of a huge mouth. The Miwok people living in Yosemite came to be known as awahnichi, "people who live in awahni."
Miwok residences west of Yosemite sometimes referred to the Native residents of Yosemite as yohemite or yohometuk. The word Yosemite is derived from these words, which translate "they are killers."
|[click to enlarge] Miwok village diorama
Next: History & Culture • Contents • Previous: History


text:
Antony Gormley
- New York Clearing
- February 4, 2020 - March 27, 2020
As part of the international art project, CONNECT, BTS, introduced by BTS, pioneering global superstars from Korea, New York's Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 3 will be the site of the creation of a vast 'drawing in space' by internationally acclaimed British artist Antony Gormley, which will be on show free to the public from 5 February – 27 March 2020.
New York Clearing (2020) is conceived as a single line made up of more than 11 miles of square aluminium tubing that loops and coils without beginning or end, turning itself into an environment for the viewer that counters the grid of modernism and the city with swooping lines of energy. It will be situated on a landmark site at Pier 3, in Brooklyn Bridge Park, overlooking the East River.
Speaking about New York Clearing, Antony Gormley said: "This is the first time that I have attempted to make Clearing without architectural support. I am enormously excited about the opportunity of making this energy field in conversation with Manhattan across the waters of the East River. It can be seen as an evocation of human connectivity, a materialisation of the energy of the people that view it and the people that made it."
"We're honoured to host Antony Gormley's New York Clearing here at Brooklyn Bridge Park," said Eric Landau, Brooklyn Bridge Park President. "We have a long history of incredible art installations in the Park, and can't think of a better place than Pier 3 for this amazing piece." CONNECT, BTS is an international art project taking place in five cities on four continents, introduced by BTS, open free to the public in Berlin, Buenos Aires, London, New York and Seoul, and developed by a group of curators under the artistic direction of independent Korean curator, Daehyung Lee.
CONNECT, BTS draws motifs from parts of BTS' philosophy that centers around diversity, love and care for the periphery as well as communicating and fostering connections that transcend barriers. Other artists featured in the project include: Jakob Kudsk Steensen (Serpentine Galleries, London), performances by 17 international artists including Jelili Atiku, boychild with Josh Johnson and Total Freedom, Cevdet Erek, Marcelo Evelin, Bill Fontana, Maria Hassabi, Mette Ingvartsen with Will Guthrie, Baba Murah and Candomblé Berlin, Antonija Livingstone and Nadia Lauro with Mich Cota, Kennis Hawkins and Stephen Thompson (Gropius Bau, Berlin); Tomás Saraceno (CCK, Buenos Aires); Ann Veronica Janssens and Yiyun Kang (Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul).Read more
- Feel
- October 18, 2019 - April 19, 2020
Busan Museum of Art
BUSAN, Korea
This exhibition represents the inaugural event in a new series called "Lee Ufan and His Friends" at Space Lee Ufan. The first solo exhibition in Korea of new works by Gormley will include sculptures FALL II, DOUSE, STREAM, and REACH III from his 'Rooter' series, together with 16 drawings.
While Antony Gormley and Lee Ufan belong to different generations, their works have much in common in terms of artistic context. When Lee spoke with Gormley for this exhibition, he said, "Although I do not represent my body in my work, I feel a deep sense of familiarity with you regarding the fact that my body mediates my work." In turn, Gormley remarked, "The body is our spaceship, the vehicle or vessel through which all our impressions of the world come and through which all expressions of vitality are communicated. I have no interest in telling stories, but I do want to engage with life - that is art's only purpose." The two artists share more than that. In their work, both actively invoke the contextual meaning of the space in which a work is installed, and they go beyond the conventional aesthetics of representation or reproduction to explore relationships with the world and with society. Having the two artists' works mounted within the same space makes this exhibition particularly significant, in that it will allow viewers to compare the two artists' approaches to their work and to the world. Such comparisons promise an intriguing experience, as both have moved beyond the minimalist or conceptual trends found in American art to subvert the conventions of art. In viewing works by two artists whose interpretation is never confined to the criteria of conventional "beauty," viewers may find this a pivotal moment for absorbing renewed artistic meaning.
More info here.Read more
- September 21, 2019 - December 3, 2019
Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House
London, UK
From the British coastline to the rooftops of Manhattan, Antony Gormley's sculptures are recognised across the world. With work from his 45-year career alongside major new installations created for this exhibition, the Royal Academy presents his most ambitious exhibition in more than ten years.
The exhibition will explore Gormley's wide-ranging use of organic, industrial and elemental materials over the years, including iron, steel, hand-beaten lead, seawater and clay. The RA will also bring to light rarely-seen early works from the 1970s and 1980s, some of which led to Gormley using his own body as a tool to create work, as well as a selection of his pocket sketchbooks and drawings.
More info here.Read more
- Sight
- May 2, 2019 - October 31, 2019
Island of Delos,
SIGHT, organised and commissioned by NEON, is a site-specific exhibition in collaboration with the Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades on the Greek archaeological island of Delos and its Museum. It marks the first time that an artist will take over the archaeological site of Delos, since the mythological island was inhabited over 5,000 years ago. SIGHT is specially conceived to resonate with the statuary, temples, squares, vistas and the topography of the island. In this installation, including four specially commissioned new works, Antony Gormley repopulates the island with 29 life-size iron 'bodyforms' made during the last 20 years. Restoring a human presence and creating a physical path connecting to the mythology and human activity of Delos's past, he invites us to use its remains as a site for imagining a human future. Gormley's approach evokes a radical reassessment of the traditional statue or totem of the pre-modern world that once adorned public squares, temples and private dwellings but which are now absent, sequestered instead inside museums. The exhibition is curated by Iwona Blazwick OBE, Director, Whitechapel Gallery and Elina Kountouri, Director NEON.
Image: Antony Gormley, SIGHT, at the archaeological site of Delos Island, 2019. Photograph © Oak Taylor Smith | Courtesy NEON; Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades and the artist.
- A National Treasure: Fred Meijer, His Collection and Legacy
- February 1, 2019 - August 25, 2019
Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park
1000 East Beltline Ave NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49525
This exhibition celebrates the centenary of Fred Meijer's birth and charts the milestones of the collector and his collection, one of the most compelling stories in American cultural history.
Fred Meijer began collecting in the mid-1980s. His views broadened in the following years and in 1999 he declared his dream to build a "world-class" sculpture collection, opening a door for collecting beyond his initial personal aesthetic with the betterment and enjoyment of the public in mind.
The exhibition features a selection of works from Fred Meijer's collection as well as loans of artists who influenced the collector throughout his life. SIGNAL III (2018) and VEER (2018), two life-sized sculptures by Antony Gormley are on display in the main gallery.Read more
- January 24, 2019 - June 16, 2019
Philadelphia Museum of Art
2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy
Philadelphia, USA
Perched high on the Museum's Rocky steps, ten cast-iron "blockwork" sculptures by British artist Antony Gormley bring art outside, releasing it into the city's shared space. In these metal bodies, each over ten feet tall, Gormley has replaced anatomy with the language of architecture, using cantilevers, propping, and pier-and-lintel construction, the interplay of masses creating the balance of form and feeling. These are sculptures, not statues—less heroic or idealized, more material and real. STAND offers an opportunity to reflect on our status as urban animals, our common ground with the artworks, and how context influences our thinking.
https://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/886.htmlRead more
- Still Moving
- September 9, 2017 - November 26, 2017
Lane 3398, Longteng Avenue
Xuhui District, Shanghai
Still Moving will be the first major presentation of Antony Gormley's work in China. The artist offers an exhibition which interacts with the unique architecture of the Long Museum to create a test site for both the work and the viewer, while introducing the major themes that have concerned him over the last 40 years: body as space and space as object.
At its core is Critical Mass II (1995) an installation of 60 life-size cast iron body forms. This seminal work has been widely exhibited in Europe, but this will be its first showing in Asia. Some of the body forms are installed in a linear progression, in positions from foetal to stargazing recalling the 'ascent of man'.Some are suspended in arrested fall, others lie scattered across the space or form a jumbled pile.This multiple work celebrates the sculptural body as object and ground for feeling and engages our deepest hopes and fears; our attraction to light as well as to darkness.
A new work, Passage II(2017),is a 15.5 metre-long tunnel, whose shape is modelled on a standing human form. It too is both object and experience, suggesting a correlative for the interior of the body and offering a journey into darkness and the unknown.
http://www.thelongmuseum.org/en/exhibition/overview/00bfozRead more
- Being
- From July 1, 2017
Hall Art Foundation
Schloss Derneburg Museum
Derneburg, Germany
The Hall Art Foundation is pleased to announce an exhibition by acclaimed British artist Antony Gormley to be held at its Schloss Derneburg location. Gormley is internationally lauded for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship of the human body to space. This is the largest Gormley exhibition held in Germany to date, bringing together works on paper, large-scale installations, and indoor and monumental outdoor sculpture that span the artist's sculptural journey, from the early 1980s to site-specific works created this year.
The core of Gormley's sculptural thinking – the relationship between mass and space, carried through skin, grid and volume – can be seen on the ground floor. The first work, from the series Learning to See III (1993), is a sculpture of embodied consciousness: an alert, aware, erect body. It has one closed, continuous surface. Its eyes, for the first time, are indicated, acknowledging a kind of internal vision. Set II (2017), in the adjacent room, uses the same body posture, but here the grid structure common to architecture is used to map the subjective space of the body. This pairing is qualified by a final work, Fit (2016), an unequivocal translation of anatomy into architecture that represents the high-energy zone of a body's presence.
Being continues to investigate ways of presenting the body less as an object and more a place – a site of transformation and an axis of physical and spatial experience. A number of early lead "Bodycase" works are made on molds taken directly from the artist's body. These works are a materialization of a real event on a real body in real time. Using verticality and laterality, they attempt to confront the viewer with their own embodiment in space and time. One work, Close I (1992), is a splayed and prostate body on the floor – an "X" that marks a fixed point on the surface of the earth. This work represents our dependency on the planet and acknowledges that each body is a point of reconciliation between centrifuge and gravity.
One of eight large-scale Corten Steel Expansion Field sculptures, Expansion Field 40/60 (2014), continues the idea of a case for a body, although these particular cases are made with the orthogonal geometry of a room. These "Tankers", as the artist describes them, invoke the expanding nature of consciousness, in spite of bodily determinism.
In Expansion Field I am applying the Hubble Constant – the idea that space is a state of continual expansion – to the subjective space of the body in different attitudes of emotional contraction or extension. These eight works attempt a bridge between the darkness of the body and deep space.
The linear display of the Expansion Field sculptures is complemented by a series of recent body prints and woodblocks. These works on paper prompt a conversation between the Paleolithic gesture of presence and Modernism's attraction to the void. Woodblock prints of planes equivalent to those found in the Expansion Field sculptures make x-ray-like images of the space of the body, where the grain of the wood forms a subtle, translucent crosshatching. These woodblock prints are paired with body prints, like Feel III (2016), made with a mixture of crude oil and petroleum jelly, which indicate instant indices of lived time.
Sleeping Field (2015-2016) is a large-scale installation in which architectural language is used to describe a city made up of 700 miniature body-forms. Each body-form is made from 29 discrete parts, re-configured to make up 70 original poses, each cast 10 times. The work refers to humankind's dependency on the city as an instrument for survival. While it can be seen as an urban landscape, it also refers to the present crisis of migration and the camps that have become familiar in Turkey, Greece and Germany. Distillate I (2003), one of Gormley's earliest built "Blockworks", proposes an alternative model of a landscape or citadel made of multiple cells. Here, blocks of six discrete sizes map the space of an unconscious body.
Sited on the Schloss grounds is Block II (2017), a 46-tonne red granite 'Blockwork' made of 22 stones that sit one on top of the other using their deadweight as a constructive principle. The artist conceives of this work as a meditation on the current and temporary state of humankind embedded in the city, brooding about its future. It purposefully conveys the attitude of a lazy Buddha.
One of Gormley's well-known works, European Field (1993), sited in a specially renovated barn, is a vast installation of 35,000 terracotta elements made from clay taken from Småland, Sweden. Simultaneously evoking our ancient ancestors and the unborn, European Field reverses the normal economy of contemplation, making the viewer the subject of its gaze. Deliberately made uncomfortable, the viewer is cast as an actor who has unconsciously walked onto a stage and is now facing an audience that asks: "Who are you? What are you? What kind of world are you making?" The presentation of European Field is complemented by 12 drawings, such as Two Beings Doubtful (1989), made of earth, oil and carbon.
Antony Gormley was born in London in 1950. His work has been the subject of numerous solo shows worldwide, including exhibitions at National Portrait Gallery, London (2016); Forte di Belvedere, Florence (2015); Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern (2014); Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia (2012); Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2012); The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg (2011); Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2010); Hayward Gallery, London (2007); Malmö Konsthall, Sweden (1993) and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (1989). He has also participated in major group shows such as the Venice Biennale (1982 and 1986) and Documenta 8, Kassel, Germany (1987). Permanent public works include the Angel of the North (Gateshead, England), Another Place (Crosby Beach, England), Inside Australia (Lake Ballard, Western Australia), and Chord (MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA). Gormley was awarded the Turner Prize in 1994, the South Bank Prize for Visual Art in 1999, the Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture in 2007, the Obayashi Prize in 2012 and the Praemium Imperiale in 2013. In 1997 he was made an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) and was made a knight in the New Year's Honours list in 2014. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, an Honorary Doctor of the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity and Jesus Colleges, Cambridge. Gormley has been a Royal Academician since 2003. He currently lives and works in London.
http://www.hallartfoundation.org/exhibition/antony-gormley/informationRead more
- April 22, 2017 - April 22, 2022
- Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, NR4 7TJ
3x ANOTHER TIME comprises three life-sized cast iron sculptures selected from Gormley's ongoing series Another Time (1999–2013) which has been presented in locations across the world. The sculptures will be placed around the university at different focal points and sightlines, including roof level.
The artist describes the works as "still moments of lived time placed in place". He selected the locations after being attracted to the important architecture of the university campus.
This installation builds on an existing sculpture trail which includes works by Henry Moore, Ian Tyson, Liliane Lijn and John Hoskin in the grounds of the Sainsbury Centre and around the UEA campus.
- From April 27, 2016
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Massachusetts, USA
CHORD is a new commission for the Department of Mathematics and Chemistry at MIT. The site-specific work, a spiral sculpture composed of irregular polyhedra connecting the floor to the skylight in the staircase of Building 2, plays on the movement of living bodies and the geometry of the stair itself, giving a counterpoint that animates the experience of ascending and descending the building. It is composed of over 900 square stainless steel rods welded together and joined at nodes by 541 polished stainless steel balls, each with a diameter of 60 mm.Read more


text:
A dream season came to a most dramatic, exciting and fulfilling close Saturday afternoon, when the Bonney Lake Panthers walked off the diamond as state Class 3A softball champions.
The title trek involved four victories in two days, all at the Regional Athletic Complex in Lacey. In the end, the Panthers were hoisting the championship trophy and boasting a season record of 26-2 that included a perfect eight-game sweep in the district and state tournaments.
The finale was uncharted territory for coach Andrew Sage and his Panther squad, who had to go 13 innings to earn an 8-5 victory over Snohomish. The final five innings were played under international tie-breaker rules, which dictate that – beginning with the ninth – each inning begins with a runner on second.
The seven innings of regulation play had concluded with a 1-1 deadlock and each team added solo runs in the ninth, 10th and 12th innings. Bonney Lake finally blew things open in the 13th, thanks largely to a two-run double by Brynne Nelson that plated Raelyn Kimmel and moved Brooke Nelson to third. The older of the Nelson sisters then scored on a wild pitch and the final runs came on a sharp single by Desiree Solberg.
Brooke Nelson, a junior who has committed to the University of Washington, was, as usual, a dominating, two-way force. She went the distance in the finale as a pitcher and, during the tourney, crushed three home runs.
To reach the championship game, Bonney Lake had blanked Juanita 8-0, beat Edmonds-Woodway 4-2 and, in the semifinals, slipped past Mt. Spokane 3-2.
The top Hornet performance was turned in by the girls 4×400 relay crew of Chloe Mitchell, Chloe Anastasi, Taylor Schmidtke and Tori Schmidtke. They clocked a time of 3:57.71 to place second in the Class 2A field.
In the 4×100 relay, the Hornet quartet of Hannah McGinnes, Tori Schmidtke, Mitchell and Anastasi placed sixth.
Individually, Tori Schmidtke placed fifth in the 400 meters and J'Kira Wolbrecht tied for 12th in the long jump. Makayla Melcher competed in both the 100- and 300-meter hurdle races.
Three White River boys had earned state berth but finished out of the running. Joel Slominski made the trip in the 3,200 meters, Zach Kayner was in the pole vault and Thomas Cox went in the javelin.
The big story here was Dreakeanna Adair, who not only won her third consecutive discus title, but did so in convincing fashion. The Panther senior, bouncing back from a winter injury, won the 3A event with a toss of 141 feet, 10 inches; her nearest rival trailed by seven feet.
Also representing the Panther girls at state were Katie Fryberger, who tied f or 12th in the high jump, and Tanya Dean, who had qualified in both hurdles races.
Among the Bonney Lake boys, Donovan Henderson finished third in the triple jump and made the finals in the long jump but did not place. Jackson Gibbon finished ninth in the shot put and 10th in the discus. Amitri Allen competed in the 400 meters but did not make the finals.
Connery McLaughlin topped the 4A field with a throw of 199-11, handily winning the javelin competition.
Also in the javelin, teammate Caleb Matson was 12th. Other EHS boys at state were Carson Christensen, who placed eighth in the long jump, and Bryson Engebretsen, who placed 13th in the pole vault and also competed in the 110-meter hurdles.
For the Enumclaw High girls, Hunter Storm placed ninth in the 1,600 meters and also ran the 3,200. Emmie Neu competed in the high jump and EHS had a crew in the 4×400 relay.
David Davydenko led the Spartans by placing third in the triple jump, bounding 45-11. Donovan Clark placed fifth in the 110-meter hurdles and the SHS 4×100 relay team (Deontrae Stoudemire, Clark, Derek Lee and Tre Weed) also took fifth.
On the girls side, Emma Sjolund ran the 800 meters but did not advance to the finals.
The Sumner Spartans claimed third-place honors in the state Class 4A tournament, swamping Eastmont 6-1 Saturday.
The 4A finals were contested at Sparks Stadium in Puyallup.
The Spartans had advanced to the championship weekend as one of only four teams remaining in the 4A running. In the semifinals, Sumner fell 1-0 to Skyline.
Jade Lancaster advanced to the championship round for the third year in a row. This time, she took second in the field, falling 6-2, 6-4 to Issaquah High's Karina Chao.
Lancaster has built an impressive resumé, winning the 3A title two years ago and the 4A crown last season.
Also at state for Sumner were the doubles pair of Tayva and Cabri Jacobsen. The sisters dropped their first two tourney matches and were eliminated.
The Hornets had qualified again for the Class 2A state tourney at Selah's Carlon Park.
White River lost two games Saturday and was eliminated. The tourney opened with a 10-0 loss to a W.F. West squad that eventually placed third, then ended with an 8-5 loss to Lakewood.
Talk to us
Please share your story tips by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
To share your opinion for publication, submit a letter through our website https://www.courierherald.com/submit-letter/. Include your name, address and daytime phone number. (We'll only publish your name and hometown.) Please keep letters to 500 words or less.


text:
NASHVILLE, Tenn-The Tennessee Titans have agreed to terms with 12 undrafted free agents before starting a rookie minicamp.
The Titans announced the free agent signings Thursday night. Their rookie minicamp starts Friday.
Seven of the 12 free agents are offensive players, including quarterback Tyler Ferguson of Western Kentucky. The other offensive free agents are wide receivers Bra'Lon Cherry of North Carolina State, KeVonn Mabon of Ball State and Giovanni Pascascio of Louisville; running back Akeem Judd of Mississippi; and tackles Steven Moore of California and Jonah Pirsig of Minnesota.
Th Titans added a pair of cornerbacks in Central Florida's Jeremy Boykins and Connecticut's John Green, linebacker Denzel Johnson of Texas Christian and nose tackles DeAngelo Brown of Louisville and Roderick Henderson of Alabama State.


text:
Deadwood Events
Historic Deadwood is widely recognized as one of the most fun towns in the west. With Old West shootouts, Main Street reenactments and gaming halls, it's no wonder Historic Deadwood is a favorite among visitors and locals alike.
Deadwood is also one of the best party towns in the region thanks to our big-named concerts and world class events like the Days of '76 Rodeo and historic parade, the annual Deadwood Professional Bull Riding (PBR), Kool Deadwood Nites and the Deadwood Jam.
Free concerts on Main Street this summer begin with the Roots & Boots tour featuring Aaron Tippin, Sammy Kershaw and Collin Raye on Friday night and Tracy Byrd on Saturday night of Wild Bill Days the weekend of June 14 and 15, 2019. During Kool Deadwood Nites, three big nights of concerts starting on Thursday, August 22 feature Herman's Hermits, the Kingsmen and the Fabulous Thunderbirds!
Join us for a rip roaring great time.
Deadwood Craft Beer Fest
May 8-9, 2020
Deadwood Main Street
Deadwood Freestyle
June 6, 2020
Days of '76 Rodeo Grounds
Deadwood PBR
June 12 - 13, 2020
Days of '76 Rodeo Grounds
Days of '76 Rodeo
July 21 - 25, 2020
Days of '76 Rodeo Grounds
Deadwood Snocross
January 2021
Historic Deadwood
DMG Events Center
Deadwood Mountain Grand Main Stage


text:
A Natural Hair and fashion lifestyle blog based in Sonoma County, in the heart of Wine Country. Amber serves up inspiration for winery tourism, vegetarian recipes, style, and skincare.
Obama 2012
6 comments
I'm Canadian and I'm very happy he's back in!ReplyDelete
I was overwhelmed by his victory 4 years ago, so much so that I stayed up all night to watch it. After Matt Damon criticised him and other lefty figures like Spike Lee stated that he hasn't delivered in the ways they had hoped, I wondered if the average American will give Obama the benefit of doubt.ReplyDelete
To be honest, global problems are so bad I think that the world doesn't deserve a leader like Obama. The jaded monster in me believes that a messed up era like this deserves a more fitting figurehead. (Gosh, that sounds so cynical...)
Movies: I completely understand where you are from. And, to an extent, I agree. Obama is a leader who to me is a landmark in history. He deserves to be remembered for leading and returning the US to it's world leading position, and for getting us out of a terrible recession. 4 or 8 years is not enough time. The US with it's hands in so many pots cannot simply rise out of the ashes over night. My biggest fear is that the president who is elected in 2016 will recieve the credit for what Obama did for this country.ReplyDelete
And damn can this guy deliver a speech!
I was SO EFFING RELIEVED with the election results last night. Omg. I had been freaking out about it. I was truly worried we were going to be moving backwards in this country.ReplyDelete
I'm going to be completely honest, I haven't been all too thrilled with Obama so far. I've actually been a little disappointed. BUT you're right, it takes more than four years, so I'm hoping he can turn things around in this next term. :)
Amber, as someone on the other side of the Atlantic, I only know America as a fan of its popular culture and as a tourist. It's only when one visits America that the cultural division between us is apparent. There is a desperate attempt at turning all prominent American public figures into celebrities. Obama may lend himself to such an interpretation, but he is primarily a humanitarian. The global expectations placed upon him were untenable and massively out of reach for one bloke to deliver within the time given. A part of me resents that Obama embraced celebrity in the manner in which he did, but let's be honest; it was the right thing to do in that situation. Being a black man in America isn't easy, and the concept of an African-American achieving high office within 50 years of the Civil Rights movement is incredible. After all, certain states in the US were still practicing apartheid up until the late '60s. So, therefore, Obama the celebrity was essential in order for him to be where he is. I will go as far as saying he doesn't just belong to America, he belongs to all of us. He is the first global incarnation of an American President: multi-racial, multi-religious and straddles different social strata within one being.ReplyDelete
I am disappointed at the Obama Administration's progress in terms of dealing with the Palestine issue and his inertia when it comes to admonishing the practices of corrupt banking systems, however, like you say, it's only been 4 years and it's very easy to ignore much of the good he has done. I come from a country that has panic attacks at the concept of having a black James Bond, let alone a black Prime Minister. In all honesty, as long as Britain has an unelected monarchy as its figurehead, this country will never be truly meritocratic.
Still, a big part of me feels that it is a much happier reality being British than most other nationalities, perhaps even being better than being an American. After all, I come from a country where our cops don't carry guns, we don't have a death penalty and health care is free at the point of delivery. Some may call that socialism but I refer to it as humanism. I think America should perhaps look to us for inspiration at times.
Thank you so much for leaving your thoughts! Like what you see? Feel free to bookmark me, or become a participating follower. Leave me your blog address so I can check out your blog as well!
This site uses cookies from Google to deliver its services - Click here for information.


text:
In an effort to formulate a uniform plan for the city's future, the Headland City Council recently contracted with the KPS Group of Birmingham to devise a comprehensive plan for growth. A number of public meetings have already been held and more are scheduled, but KPS last week forwarded chapters one and two of the plan to the city. The public is invited to study the document and comment to the council at a regularly scheduled meeting or at the next public meeting with KPS. That time will be posed on this site and in local newspapers.
Comprehensive Plan - Chapters 1-4


text:
The Lost Legend of the Triforce
Paperback, 82 Pages
Price: $11.14
Prints in 3-5 business days
12 year old Ormek is a slave to the Cyntirians and him and his grandfather have found a temple which holds the portal to the fourth Triforce the Triforce of Knowledge... fourteen years later he is the Commander-in-Chief for a strong army ready to wipe the people who enslaved them from the face of the Earth. But the only thing that stands in his way is Link.
Ratings & ReviewsLog in to review this item
There are no reviews for the current version of this product
There are no reviews for previous versions of this product
Product Details
- Copyright
- LuLu Creator (Standard Copyright License)
- Edition
- 1
- Publisher
- Nick Dietz
- Published
- February 1, 2006
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 82
- Binding
- Perfect-bound Paperback
- Interior Ink
- Black & white
- Weight
- 0.38 lbs.
- Dimensions (inches)
- 6 wide x 9 tall
- Product ID
- 275736
Your notification has been sent
Lulu Staff has been notified of a possible violation of the terms of our Membership Agreement. Our agents will determine if the content reported is inappropriate or not based on the guidelines provided and will then take action where needed.
Thank you for notifying us. We will email you with the results and/or actions taken as a result of the investigation if you chose to receive confirmation.
We were unable to complete your request.
We were unable to complete your request.
Listed In
More From
Age Verification
The page you are attempting to access contains content that is not intended for underage readers.
Please verify your birth date to continue.


text:
Welcome to the clothes free life naturist discussion boards. Please read a follow the forum rules
Clear all
wear less read more ten books clothes free reads for 2018
02/02/2018 6:47 pm
Do you like to read? Are you a clothes free reader? Have you tried reading clothes free? The options for naturist/nudist themed titles is growing. Our clothes free readers book club would like to recommend these books for your clothes free reading in 2018. They range from fiction to non fiction and history. So go ahead wear less and read more. Be sure to join us for upcoming book club chats in our chat room.


text:
Nonprofits with budgets for annual events too small to work on high-end professional video productions are not precluded from using video to enhance their causes. Indeed, many types of creative and affordable productions can be crafted that have strong impact, and there are few tools as powerful to achieve that result as video.
Recently a nonprofit client approached our corporate video production company a few weeks before its gala. The event was to be relatively small, and costs were an issue. One of the projects in which the organization had been involved over the past year was a joint choir with children from both its suburban membership and an inner city school. The interaction of the kids, conveyed through their beautiful voices singing in unison, was an extremely powerful expression of the values of the two organizations.
While a performance of the choir at the gala would have been ideal, it was not logistically possible for all the folks who would have been required to be present. Consequently, our client organized a performance one day after school and requested that we videotape a single song carrying a significant message.
Even with the set-up and breakdown of the lighting, microphones, and cameras, the shoot was only a half-day. V&V used two cameras, but kept one as a wide shot sitting on a tripod so that only one cinematographer was required with no other crew members. The presentation was repeated several times, ensuring that we would be able to use different sets of shots (close, wide, steady, moving, looking up, looking down) in the editing.
The final nonprofit video production was very moving. While the performance was only two minutes in length, the editor ensured the visuals change between the various shots, moving from broad sweeps of sweet, diverse faces to close-ups of eyes and lips, singling with passion. The strong harmonies fill the spaces into which they are projected, and the sound of music is the only audio throughout the film except hearing the kids greeting each other as the credits roll. Nothing more needed to be shown at the gala. The children's beautiful voices said everything without the need to add talking heads to interpret or insert extraneous information veering the audience away from the impactful moment. The client accomplished its goal without breaking its budget.
Tags: corporate video production, corporate video production company, field production, nonprofit video, post-production, Voices & Visions Productions, www.voicesandvisions.com


text:
Yeah yeah yeah, I know. Every stinking TV show, radio program, podcast and blogger does a "looking back post." So here I am doing the same. But ya know, honestly 2018 has been a year of change, AND the blogger mafia threatened to take away my website if I didn't do it, so, here we go, 2018…
Tag: Family
Wait?? There's a Dress code???
In the Last couple of years, our niece Abby has twice braved the weather and TSA to come up from Texas to visit.
Well it seemed only fair that Michelle and I return the favor. It had been in the plans once, but things fell through for some reason. This seemed like a perfect time, though, given a recent event in her life
Fun time without the bike!
What's that? Tony has a blog post that doesn't have a bike?? What is this world coming to?!? But yes it is true, it has been a week, but during this week there has only been 2 days on the bike.
Don't you worry though, I sure as hell got my exercise! Continue reading "Fun time without the bike!"
A look back to 2016
For years, every month I did a Racking Up the miles post. I would log the miles and give a short review of the month. Somewhere along the line this year, I stopped. I have a rule. If I stop doing something, and don't miss it, then I don't start it up again. (Like the ONE year I ran a half marathon!)
So I thought about skipping the almost mandatory "Looking back" post, but as the day went on, I kept looking up info I usually include, so it must be something I want to do! Continue reading "A look back to 2016"
2016, 12 months worth of photos
In my off cycling life, I am a corporate trainer. I am the Claims Cowboy, training the new claims department hires at the Mighty P, a Pacific Northwest Insurance company. I like to say I am molding The Mighty P's youth in MY image, but that scares people!)
When I was a young trainer, I had someone tell me some valuable advice: When it comes to teaching, steal unmercifully. Meaning, if you are in a class and see a technique or a game or activity that works well, steal it, use it and make it yours!
I have found this applies to blogging as well! If I see something someone does, and I like it, I pounce! This is one of them. Continue reading "2016, 12 months worth of photos"
Its been a long haul
So what happens when it is halfway through the month of December and our hero Mountainstroh has a total of 10 (nope not a typo, ten) bike miles so far? Well for one, he starts wondering just how many layers he will need to ride in 30 degree weather, and for two, the blog needs other inspiration to keep it from dying an early death. Tonight I stumbled on a bit of a spark. Continue reading "Its been a long haul"
The Manchild
On Facebook Saturday I posted this:
As a young dad, it is a win every day the next morning shines and the baby boy is smiling and you haven't broken him.Those small victories continue to build until suddenly the Manchild is no longer a child, he is a man walking across the stage for his high school graduation.Eric Valente did that walk today and did himself proud. Sadly he has to go home and study for his finals at Highline community college tonight, but that makes us even more proud of him! Good job dude, Michelle and I love you!
Yep Saturday night, our youngest graduated… Continue reading "The Manchild"


text:
1820AFC051818 – Double Birthday!
Read it online here, please. And please, when you visit there, use one of the social media links at the bottom of the page to share this post. Thank you! And remember, we now have a READER VIEW available, so share this link or this email often.
Acts 2:1-4 – 1 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.
Aloha nui loa, ʻŌmea! This is a BIG weekend for our house. Today, May 18th, is Crucita's birthday. In a little twist on a popular saying, "She's old enough to know better – and so she does better."She is the zenith of integrity, super-smart, and the love of my life. We are preparing to celebrate our 50th Anniversary next year. This weekend is also the Birthday of the Church. This coming Sunday is the Feast of Pentecost. I want to spend a little time with you today talking about what Pentecost means, how and why the Feast originated, and why it is very important to understand it in the same context as the Early Church knew it. So, I wish a very happy birthday to my Dearest, Darling Wife, Crucita, and happy birthday Church. Now, what is Pentecost and why is it important to The Church today?
As Christians we think of it mostly in terms of the Second Chapter of Acts – the first four verses, the strong, driving wind, "cloven tongues as of fire," speaking and prophesying in many languages (some of them possibly angelic languages), and Peter's amazing proclamation of the Gospel. But what does it mean "… when the day of Pentecost was fully come?" Let's look a little into what Pentecost is all about.
We begin by turning to Leviticus 23 where God is telling Moses about the feast days – Festivals – he wants celebrated. Leviticus is the third book of the Bible after Genesis and Exodus and the middle book of the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. The name Leviticus refers to the fact that most of the content of this book is the "Policy and Procedure Manual" for the Tribe of Levi, the Priestly Tribe. There are 27 chapters of rules, advice, and information on topics like sacrificial offerings, purity, holiness, the prescribed conduct and values for priesthood, rules for the sanctuary, and definitions and procedures for all of the feast days. In chapter 23, there are several feasts listed. They are given in the order in which they are to be observed and there is information on preparations for each and in some cases the reasons for the feasts and the rules that go with them.
Here are the feasts described in chapter 23, the section of Leviticus devoted to "Holiness Laws." The Sabbath is described and then come other annual memorials. First comes Passover. Next is the Feast of Unleavened Bread which begins the day after Passover and lasts one week. During that time, Israelites ate unleavened bread. Then comes the Feast of Firstfruits, the day after Passover's Sabbath, a Festival of Harvest and thanksgiving to God for the blessings of food. This was an offering made in hopes of further blessings from God. Usually this would be barley as it is one of the first grains to ripen.
Then there is the Festival of Trumpets, Rosh Hashanah which commemorates the creation of the world. No work was to be done on that day and all of Israel was to bring offerings to the temple when they heard the blast from the trumpets. This is the fifth of the Seven Feasts. The Feast of Trumpets begins on the first day of the seventh month. It is the opening Festival of the "High Holy Days." These three feasts (Feast of the Trumpets, the Feast of Atonement – Yom Kippur, and the Feast of Tabernacles – Succoth) bring to a close the Liturgical Year of Israel and together foreshadow the Plan of Redemption made manifest in Jesus. So, the Seven Festivals are:
- Passover (Pesach)
2. Unleavened Bread (Chag Hamotzi)
3. Firstfruits (Yom Habikkurim)
4. Pentecost (Shavu'ot) The Feast of Weeks or Festival of Harvest
5. Trumpets (Yom Teru'ah)
6. Atonement (Yom Kippur)
7. Tablenacles (Succoth)
Pentecost is described in Leviticus 23:15-22. There was a period of seven weeks – a week of Sabbaths – that were measured off. On the day after the end of the seven weeks – the fiftieth day, a celebration was prescribed by God. The name "Pentecost" comes from the Greek term for the celebration, Day of Pentecost Πεντηκοστή ἡμέρα (pentekoste hemera) {pent-tay-cohs-tay ee-air-ah} – Πεντηκοστῆς = "of Pentecost," which means fiftieth day. The offering for that day consisted of two loaves of finest yeast bread made from the finest flour, seven one-year-old lambs, one bull, and two rams offered as burnt offerings. Verse 19 says, 19 You shall also offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old as a sacrifice of well-being. It is also in this passage that the directive to allow for gleaning. It was the law of gleaning that brought Ruth and Boaz together and Ruth became part of Jesus' genealogy. That's for another lesson, though.
Jesus was crucified during the Feast of the Lord's Passover, and he ascended 40 days after his resurrection. The Holy Spirit came 50 days after the Resurrection, which was of course, 10 days after the Ascension. Because of the importance of this feast, which God said, "This is a statute forever in all your settlements throughout your generations." (See Verse 21) Jews of many nations would be gathered in Jerusalem in pilgrimage for this festival. When Peter, therefore – with the Holy Spirit rushing upon him and the other Apostles – stood up and addressed the crowd that had gathered around the place where the disciples were staying, persons of many languages and cultures were attracted to these curious events. The sound of the rush of a violent wind harks back to Genesis 1:1-2 where a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. The "tongues as of fire" are a fulfillment of John the Baptist's prophecy of Jesus in Luke 3:16: He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. The parallel here is that God validated the Law given on Mount Sinai to Moses with fire (See Exodus 19:16-18), and in the New Covenant, validated the arrival of the Paraclete with fire as well. Whereas in the First Covenant the fire was only in one place, in the New Covenant it was in many, many people – every believer!
The Feast of Firstfruits stands as a foreshadowing of the Resurrection of Christ as the first fruits of those who have died (1 Corinthians 15:20) in the expectation of further blessings from God – an even greater harvest. Pentecost foreshadows the coming of the Spirit, and the resultant harvest as the beginning of the "High Holy Days" of the Church.
Rosh Hashanah prefigures the Resurrection, the sounding of the trumpets and the dead being raised as Paul described in 1 Corinthians 15:51-58. This is one of my favorite Bible passages because it is one of my favorite solos in Handel's Messiah – #'s 47 & 48 (↔ Music Link). I'm getting the shivers just thinking about it right now! Give it a listen!
Yom Kippur was the singularly-unique Festival of the year in which the Most Sacred space in the Temple, the Holy of Holies (or "the Most Holy Place"), was entered. You may recall from a previous Aloha Friday Message that it was where the Ark of the Covenant was the location for the Sh'khinah Glory of God to reside. God's presence literally inhabited the area above the Ark, and no one was permitted into the Most Holy Place except on Yom Kippur and only in the precise manner which God had established. It was on this day that the sins of the whole nation were considered atoned – expiated, wiped out, redressed – for the preceding year. With Jesus' Atonement, the sins of all time are wiped out forever. How's that for a change?
So, now we know a bit more about why Pentecost is called Pentecost, why everyone was in Jerusalem at the time, why it is 50 days after Easter and 10 days after Ascension. We also know why and how it relates to the Seven Great Feasts God told Moses and the Levites to establish forever for the people of Israel. As we are the adopted children of Moses, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob through the Life, Passion, and Resurrection of Jesus the Christ, we really should know how these feasts came about and why they are important to us.
And now, Belovéd, in closing I ask you to reflect on what you have read as you consider what God has planned for the Second Covenant Feast of Tabernacles. "The Spirit is a-movin'!" Go stand in the Wind and catch FIRE!
Whatever, whenever, wherever, whoever, however, if ever, forever — at your service, Belovéd!
We have another long-term prayer request. This one is from AT and it's for CM: CM has just been diagnosed with liver bile duct cancer…a 1/200,000 chance of such a thing! She had her port placed Friday and will begin chemotherapy Monday 5/14/18. The tumor is already 3½ inches. She will see the liver transplant team on Tuesday. We are praying hard for a miracle, as we know they happen with God's help.
Please pray that CM's treatments will proceed well with a good outcome. In a similar way, we continue to remember NAS who is also on the waiting list for a liver transplant.
Remember, anyone can ask the MBN to pray for any need. We are a group dedicated to intercessory prayer. I sent you an updated list on Tuesday, May 15th. Thank you and God bless you!
Spread the fire!
Nicole Amorette Southern
February 22, 1975
May 17, 2018
Rest in Peace Little Sister
and in Jesus' arms


text:
The wrap: poetry in the news (w/e 25 apr 2013)
In Los Angeles, a Harvard poet wondered "Is this too loud, is this too soft, am I going on too long?" while Sharon Olds put the ideal of her husband to rest and won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Anne Carson published a poem composed using a random integer generator in the London Review of Books, and James Franco released a poem on the occasion of his 35th birthday. Bollywood heartthrob Farhan Akhtar penned a poem after hearing a five-year-old girl in Delhi had been raped and tortured by her neighbour. Dresden Dolls singer Amanda Palmer penned "the worst poem of all time" in her musings on the younger Boston Marathon bomber. Historians noted 397 and 189 years have passed since Shakespeare and Byron, respectively, died of fevers. The only known poem by Winston Churchill, "Our Modern Watchwords", failed to sell at an auction at Bonhams. The priest who found Malta's earliest poem died at age 97, and Irish rare-book collector Rick Gekoski prayed that the poem James Joyce wrote as a little boy – "Et Tu, Healy" – will never be found.
1 Comment
Loving the Carson


text: Cape Town - Local beneficiation could be meaningful in the North West as the province is among the richest in the country, chairperson of Parliament's Select Committee on Trade and International Relations Edwin Makue said on Monday."The country should look to industrialise the province at a rapid pace that will benefit rural and urban areas, in line with government policy requirements as contained in the National Development Plan (NDP) and the New Growth Path (NGP)," said Makue."As we look to industrialise, this is where South Africa should start. There is potential. Development should not be synonymous with urban and developed areas. The country should be able to filter through benefits to the most rural and destitute places."The committee is on a week-long oversight visit to the North West to assess opportunities and shortcomings in implementing national programmes of government and addressing key priorities as articulated in NDP particularly in Moses Kotane District Municipality.Makue said the committee will also track progress on various initiatives of leveraging employment creation and export earnings from beneficiating locally mined minerals, tourism development and agro-processing."The North West should be a good story to tell and that task could not be relegated to national government alone," he said.


text:
Implementing Podcasting in the Classroom Web Conference
.: Interesting post from Gerry McKiernan on STS-L that will be of interest to all who are following the ongoing developments in podcasting. Implementing Podcasting in the Classroom Web Conference takes place on Wednesday, November 30th, from 1300-1430 hrs EST. Details from the site:
Overview:A single site connection registration fee is $350.00US.
"Podcasting" seems to be as popular a buzzword today as "mp3" was in 1999 when it became the number one search word on the internet. However, just as in 1999, many still do not know what this new technology is or how to take full advantage of it in an academic setting. The Implementing Podcasting in the Classroom web conference will examine how existing technology infrastructure can be used in conjunction with podcasting technology to reach students in new and meaningful ways. Join us to examine a fully-deployed classroom podcasting program and explore how this new technology could be deployed on your campus.
Who Should Attend:
This event is designed to demonstrate how to effectively implement a podcasting program to technology administrators desiring specific details on existing implementations in classroom settings. This includes vice presidents of instructional technology and chief information officers deciding on how to best implement a new podcasting program, distance learning support staff, library technology administrators, and audio-visual and multimedia support staff.


text:
The basic difference between saving and investing is of the returns. Although many people consider it as one the diversified investment portfolios but it is not exactly so. Saving is like a reliable backbone especially in the times of need. It is the most important part of income. Maybe not frequent and large amount but a consistent and fixed amount should always be saved for financial continuity of oneself. Saving is primarily done for unexpected future needs as well as for some known future expenses like wedding, education et cetera.
Saving doesn't brings you as much profit as investment does but saving gives you a great support. It has no risk unlike investing and trading. Also, it is of short period of time and except in some cases, saved amount can be withdrawn anytime which is not the case of investing and trading. It can be done by saving it in various types of bank accounts, like
1. Savings account
2. Fixed deposit
3. Money market account and many more.
Investing is all about creating a colossal income which can be availed after a fixed long term. Generally there is a misconception regarding investing and it is confused as a type of saving. But this is not the case. Investing, unlike saving and trading, is a long term process. It also include a high level of risk as compared to saving and trading. It seems quite obvious as investing has much increased level of returns than saving and trading. There are diversified investment portfolios which can assure you the diversification of your risk and profit while investing. Diversified investment portfolios includes-
1. Stocks- One way of investing is buying shares of a stock from a stockholder. It means you're now the shareholder of the particular stock. As per your budget and stockholder's rules, you can own a good percentage of share of a stock. Particular share will earn you a guaranteed proportion of that stock. It too has diversified investment portfolios like, common stocks and preferred stocks.
2. Bonds- By the purchase of a bond, either from government or private body, you become the bondholder. It is also for a fixed period of time and your money along with the money of many other bond purchasers are invested by the issuer of bond. In lieu you get its fixed interest rate.
Investing money via diversified investment portfolios also provide you a financial relaxation. Also, risk is not diverted in just one direction. Another interesting way is online investment. Now, how to invest money online? There are online brokers and certified agents who can help you with the question of how to invest money online.
You just need to make wise and correct decision while investing online or on any platform. They will also solve all your queries related to how to invest money online. Go only for certified sites and agents and it will fetch you guaranteed returns.
The basic definition of trading says- buying and selling of goods. This method of earning is quite different from investing and completely different from saving. While saving is the storage of money, trading is a way of using that money for extra profit.
Though, in both trading and investing, we primarily use money to make money but trading is a short term process, maybe of few days even, whereas investment is for a long period. Trading does include risk but less than investing. If trading is a skill then investing is an art. While trading can even be of one day, investment is a long drawn process and requires great patience for profit.
On one side, saving is completely different from investing and trading as it does not include the usage of money to make money. Instead a particular amount of money is just saved for future purpose. Whereas on the other side, trading and investing includes putting money into another zone for further wealth creation. Also, trading and investing are different process on the grounds of time period and amount of risk involved.
As investing is a long term process with greater amount of risk involved as compared to trading. Basically all the three aspects are different from each other at many points and it depends upon the individual what he chooses.


text:
Norwich road closed as fire crews battle blaze in block of flats
PUBLISHED: 15:00 04 October 2018
Emergency services attended a blaze in a block of flats in a busy residential area of Norwich.
Three fire crews from Carrow and Wroxham were called to the flats on Southwell Road in Lakenham just before 12pm on Thursday.
Police and ambulance also attended the scene and Southwell Road was temporarily closed while officers extinguished the flames.
Officers used hose reel jets, breathing apparatus and a thermal imaging camera to ensure residents' safety.
Crews stood down at 1.35pm this afternoon and the road was reopened.
Nobody is believed to be seriously hurt and the incident is not being treated as arson.
If you value what this gives you, please consider supporting our work. Click the link in the yellow box below for details.


text:
Getting pulled over is never fun, but getting pulled over because a police officer simply suspected that you driving while intoxicated (DWI) is not only not fun, it may be illegal. Law enforcement officers in the state of New Hampshire are trained to use DWI/DUI Detection procedures that are set forth by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The DWI Detection process involves evidence based phases in determination of whether or not an individual may be arrested for a suspected DWI violation. There are three phases to the DWI detection process:
- Phase One – Vehicle in Motion;
- Phase Two – Personal Contact; and
- Phase Three – Pre ‐arrest Screening
The question must be asked: Can an officer in New Hampshire pull me over just because he suspected I was driving while intoxicated?


text:
DVC to set up Renewable Energy Facilities at Ramakrishna Mission CSR
Posted Date : 16-10-19
Categories : CSR
Categories : CSR
New Delhi: CMPDI (HQ) under CSR has distributed free masks and 850Liter of Sanitizer to Contractual workers of CMPDI and needy people of nearby areas of CMPDI(HQ) on 04.04.2020 to break the chain of COVID-19 Infection.
Shri K.K.Mishar, D(T/ES); Shri R.N.Jha, D(T/RD&T); Shri S.K.Gomasta, D(T/C
Posted Date : 04-04-20
Kolkata: In support of the Nation's fight against COVID-19, GRSE contributed an amount of Rs.1 crore to the PM CARES Fund . In addition, the Company has handed over 4000 masks and 1500 lifebuoy soaps to the Chairman, Borough XV for distribution among the underprivileged population of Metiabru
Posted Date : 04-04-20
Rajahmundry: To do its bit towards fighting the COVID19 situation, GAIL's Rajahmundry office has contributed 1000 bedsheets to the Sub-Collector for its distribution. Alongside, buttermilk, water and biscuits were also distributed to traffic police personnel, who are working on the forefront.
Posted Date : 03-04-20
New Delhi: CMPDI break the chain of COVID-19 infection, CMPDI on 01.04.2020 has distributed more than 1250 masks across CMPDI as a precautionary measure to fight the pandemic COVID-19.
Posted Date : 02-04-20
Kuzhikkad : Health check and COVID19 awareness programme for contract & guest labour under various Project contracts of the Refinery at the labour camps today (02 April 2020) in Kuzhikkad and Puliampally near Kochi Refinery.
Earlier this week, the Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner (Central) a
Posted Date : 02-04-20
Mumbai: Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd (MDL) has launched a number of CSR initiatives to support the country's fight against the Corona virus. MDL has distributed 200 bags of rations to the needy people of Mumbai, so that they need not go out for these essentials. MDL has reached the slums of
Posted Date : 01-04-20
New Delhi: The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in India and the across the world is a matter of great concern for the entire human race. While the entire nation is fighting against the spread of this fatal Corona virus by staying at home, maintaining social distancing, ONGC and its energy soldiers
Posted Date : 31-03-20
Kolkata: In the wake of the COVID19 outbreak, CIL has decided to distribute 3500 free food packets everyday starting today till the end of lock-down, to the underprivileged, homeless, migrant laborers & poor in Kolkata. The food is hygienically cooked and packed by ISKCON Kolkata and distributed
Posted Date : 30-03-20
New Delhi: NHPC's Teesta-V Power Station located at Balutar, East Sikkim provided Face Masks, Hand Sanitizers, Hand Wash Liquid and Soaps to local people of Raley, Ralap, Singbel, Selabong, Samadong, Sokpey and other areas from 25th to 27th March 2020 under CSR & SD FY 2019-20 to fight against
Posted Date : 30-03-20
Dhanbad: Under the able leadership of Sri P.M Prasad, CMD BCCL, active guidance of Sri Rakesh Kumar, Director (T)/OP BCCL and prompt initiative of Sri A.K Singh, G.M(S&R), Safety Dept BCCL continues to serve mankind in these difficult times.
On 30.03.2020, ration packets and essential items
Posted Date : 30-03-20
New Delhi: Face Masks distribution to break the chain of Corona Virus infections. CMPDI (RI-Asansol) under CSR initiative distributed Face masks to the people as a precautionary and preventive measure to break the chain of Corona Virus Infection and there by stopping the spread of COVID-19. Furth
Posted Date : 30-03-20
New Delhi: Due to Government lockdown in view of the outbreak of pandemic Corona Virus COVID-19, several workers belong to various states like Bihar, West Bengal, Orissa, Gujarat etc.
REC decided to help these workers & other poor people residing in the vicinity by providing food & sanitizer/
Posted Date : 30-03-20
New Delhi: All employees of BEML has come forward to contribute a day's salary to PM Relief Fund towards COVID-19. Moreover, the Directors of the company will contribute 21 days salary towards the same purpose.
Shri Deepak Kumar Hota, CMD, BEML, said,"We have also taken all preventive measu
Posted Date : 30-03-20
Sambalpur. Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) today enhanced the package for Rehabilitation & (R&R) beneficiaries opting for annuity in-lieu-of-job from Rs 12,000 to Rs 21,000 per month.
In year 2013, the company had introduced a scheme of Rs 12,000 per month as annuity in-lieu-of-job
Posted Date : 30-03-20
New Delhi: Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited is extending CSR support to fight the spread of Corona Virus (COVID-19). The shipyard has procured 3000 bottles of hand sanitisers at a cost of Rs. 3,50,000/- and distributed them to commuters at the Dockyard Road Railway station.
In addition, hand
Posted Date : 20-03-20
New Delhi: IGL has a comprehensive healthcare program for auto/taxi/bus drivers. Health camps at select CNG stations include free blood tests, BMI, free eye check-up, free spectacles & medicines, de-addiction support, sleep apnea & urinary tract stone treatment.
Posted Date : 19-03-20
Bengaluru: Shri Subba Rao, CMD, KIOCL along with Director (Finance) and Senior officials of KIOCL handed over a cheque of Rs 15.0 Lakhs towards Chief Minister Relief Fund under CSR today for Preventing/ Controlling the spread of COVID-19 in the State of Karnataka at Vidhansoudha, Bengaluru.
Posted Date : 17-03-20
Kohrol: CIL organised a free health camp in Kohrol, Madhya Pradesh. A medical team from Bina, Northern Coalfields Ltd. examined over 240 patients in the camp. Women, children and men underwent a check up for anaemia and were given Vitamin B Complex tablets, an iron tonic and protein powder.
Posted Date : 16-03-20
Singrauli: NCL to ensure best facilities for Athletes in Athletics Academy, Jayant CMD NCL interacted with athletes at academy. NCL CMD Shri P. K. Sinha and Director Personnel Shri Bimlendu Kumar on Sunday visited the residential Athletic Academy at Jayant set by NCL under CSR for inclusive deve
Posted Date : 16-03-20
New Delhi: Braithwaite Angus Works organised a Free Health Checkup Camp on 14th March 2020 at Angus Works with cooperation from M/s Suraksha Diagnostics Centre, Bhadreswar. Employees of Angus works took part in the above camp.
Posted Date : 16-03-20


text:
Open Repositories 2019 in Hamburg – themes and perspectives
Monica Duke, ORCID technical and community support, picks out emerging themes from last month's conference and Adam Field, Sherpa services analyst developer, gives his personal perspective. All recordings and presentations from OR2019 are now online. Themes from the conference, by Monica Duke The dust is settling over the jostle for space between CRIS and IRs The … Read more


text:
100 Pounds Lost
Before and After PCOS – Laura's 100 Pound Weight Loss Journey
Many of our members have managed to lose a lot of weight and significantly improve their health. Their stories are inspirational and show us that it's never too late to turn around your life and reclaim your old self-esteem, confidence, and happiness. One of those members is laurabow, who agreed to answer a few of our questions and share with us how she managed to lose over 100 pounds.
1. What made you decide to lose weight this time?
I have never been "small" before in my life, but over the years I was putting on a lot of weight and started yo-yo dieting. My health was beginning to suffer (I was diagnosed with PCOS, osteoarthritis, high blood pressure), and I felt I was wasting my early twenties. I had really low self-esteem and was becoming depressed. I switched jobs from working in a bar to an office job, and was shocked when I had to buy size 28 trousers! All these things made me lose weight.
2. What other diets have you tried in the past?
You name it, I've tried it! Weight Watchers (about 5 times!), Slimming World, Slim Fast, herbal diet pills, prescription diet pills, Cabbage Soup Diet, Watercress Soup Diet, Atkins Diet, Low GI Diet, "celebrity diets," diets in magazines, 1000-Calories-a-Day diet… the list is endless!
3. What changes did you make to your usual diet, activity, lifestyle and attitude?
While working in a bar I used to eat lots of junk food and late night take-aways like fried chicken and pizza. I also used to drink a lot of cider (sometimes 10+ pints in one sitting). Those were the first things I gave up. I then started eating regular meals throughout the day, rather than scoffing all my calories in 1 huge meal. I started drinking more water, ate lots of vegetables, lean meat and fish, and substituted brands and products for the lowest fat varieties. I cut down on starchy white carbs (bread, potatoes, rice and pasta) without giving them up. Once I'd lost about 30 pounds, I found it easier to exercise and started doing home workout DVDs, along with crunches and small weights. When I got down to around 245, I finally got the confidence to join the gym and go swimming.
4. How did Calorie Count help you lose weight?
I stumbled across CC while searching online for the calories in my meal. I joined and used it primarily to search and record the calories in my food. I then discovered the groups and forums, which are just amazing! You can meet so many like-minded people who share the same struggles. If it wasn't for the support, kindness and motivation from other people on CC, I'm not sure I could have come this far. There's nothing like having a good rant on your journal to get things off your chest!
5. What was most challenging about losing weight?
I have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome which makes you gain weight due to the hormonal imbalances. It is so hard at times trying to lose weight when your body thinks it should be gaining! I have also had some long long plateaus (up to 3 months), where it seems absolutely impossible to shift any weight. Also, the more weight you lose the harder and slower the losses become – which can get very frustrating.
6. How Long did it take you to see results?
I was very annoyed when I first started losing, as although the scales and numbers were moving – I couldn't see any difference in the mirror. I started to notice after 24 pounds. I had gone down a dress size and cup size, and had lost a few inches. Very close friends and family noticed the early losses more, whereas people who I didn't see regularly, acquaintances and work colleagues didn't comment until I'd lost a significant amount (55+ pounds).
7. When did you realize that you were a success?
I realized that I was successful when I reached my 100 pound loss. That was a major goal which I was never confident I would reach. I feel successful every time I go into a regular (non plus size) shop and try on clothes that fit! Or beat my records in running/in the gym.
8. How do you prevent relapse?
The main way I prevent relapse is to allow myself "cheat days" and regular treats. Without these I would totally fall off the wagon and end up stuffing my face as I had done so many times in the past. I also keep pictures of myself at my largest, and an old size 28 pair of jeans to remind myself of how far I've come. I still get days when I am frustrated and it seems I have a long way to go but I put on the jeans (which can now fit two of me in) and it makes me feel better.
9. How has your life changed now that you've lost weight?
- I have more self confidence, I still have issues and it will take a long time to get out of the "bubbly fat friend" mentality but it is definitely a LOT more improved.
- I can sit on chairs without fear of breaking them!
- I can fit in aircraft seating!
- My fitness is so much improved I can walk miles without getting tired, run up and down stairs etc.
- I no longer have sore knees. I used to suffer terribly with osteoarthritis caused by being obese.
- I can wear nice clothes that I want to wear rather than buying clothes from plus size stores because that is all I can fit into.
- My thighs no longer chafe!
- I don't have to spend a fortune on larger bras.
- My health is generally all round much improved. I have a normal blood pressure, I do not have the risk of diabetes anymore, my joint pain is gone.
- I have a much higher chance of being able to conceive now I weigh less, should I wish to have children in the future.
10. What five tips do you have for other dieters?
- Use CC! Make use of the support around you available in the forums, groups and journals.
- Allow yourself treats and "cheat days." It sounds like a contradiction, but you need these to stay on track.
- Avoid buying ready made or processed foods, which contain lots of hidden nasties (sodium, sugar, fats, colorings, additives) – make your own sauces, dips, dressings, etc. from low fat ingredients in bulk. A lot of these will keep in jars or can be frozen.
- Pile your plate with vegetables and salads! Just because you are dieting doesn't mean you should be hungry. Fill up on plenty of low cal, low fat sides.
- Take supplements! I cannot stress this enough. Although you may think you are getting a balanced diet, prolonged dieting and weight loss can lead to deficiencies in important vitamins and minerals.
Republished by Blog Post Promoter


text:
The Maraya Project Send-Off
The Maraya Project Send-Off
By Naomi Horii
As a closing public program to the recently-past exhibit at Centre A, artists Glen Lowry, M. Simon Levin, and Henry Tsang with many members of the Centre A community gathered before the holidays for an artist talk to reflect in depth the ideas behind the Maraya project. It was a kind of send off to what the artists plan to be the project's new beginnings. I don't attempt to cover the evenings' lively discussions, as there were many points of interest leading you in tangential directions. Just go to the Maraya website, and you will see what I mean. Each of the artists presented a thick and juicy bite of project.
One I want to bring to focus here though is M. Simon Levin's investigation on the concept of mirroring. Using Caravaggio's painting of Narcissus and Echo, Levin looks at subjectivity / objectivity with idea of yearning as it relates to the idea of space. Members of the audience had insightful comments and questions to Levin's Lacanian discussion about 'city-thinking' as we imagine what a city 'should be like' in the surface-reflection of Dubai-Vancouver developments. One member of the audience asked the artists how they deal with the dangerous echo-and-loop of narcissism in the Maraya Project itself— and how to move beyond the 'surface sheen' of the project. Another member commented on the spatial-temporal performances of history in various waterfront locations of the city: Stanley Park versus Maraya's focus in Yaletown. With this in mind, artists and members of the audience looked at how settler or military versus indigenous history and culture is performed on the two Vancouver waterfront public leisure walkways. Time ran out quickly and after the talks there were still many discussions. Later, I asked Rita Wong, and Ashok Mathur, two of many present at the talk, to respond to the question, "What struck you as an interesting moment or point during the artist talk, or what strikes you in general about the Maraya Project?" or to respond in any way they liked.
Here was Rita's response:
"I was struck by Simon's retelling of the Narcissus and Echo story as a way of thinking about art, and specifically, the Maraya project. In particular, I return to an ambiguity that arises: does art play the role of Narcissus, reflecting the human ego back to itself, or does it play the role of Echo, a wild nymph trying to connect with a beloved, but unfortunately ignored? I could see, and have seen, both scenarios play out, generally. In terms of the Maraya project, one of the things it reflects is a view from above, a question as to whether this is the joint future of Vancouver and Dubai, designed for those who can afford to live there (to keep seeing a world made in their own image reflected back to them), but inhospitable for those who can't afford it and perhaps for those who previously lived in these spaces.
A much longer part of False Creek's history has been as a home for Coast Salish peoples who lived with and on the salmon, salal, sea asparagus, wild cabbage, oysters and clam beds in or near the waters of Senakw, the village that was here (see Lee Maracle's short story, "Goodbye, Snauq" on this). The Maraya project makes me think as much as about what's missing as well as what's there now. The loud absence of biodiversity reminds me of David Abram's suggestion that "we are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human." Perhaps we as a society have a long way to go yet, before we mature into humans who are good neighbours for one another and for other forms of life. A cool eye reflects this back to me and asks how people might respond to reinvigorate such spaces. When the view is framed from above by the privileged, what happens to the diverse forms of life and cultures that remain, often struggling or excluded, on the ground? What processes of collective dialogue, redistribution of wealth, and collaborative action will strengthen social and natural capital? In a time of global warming and ocean rising, meaning and wealth cannot be measured in money only, but need to take into account forms of resilience and community building that actively care for the ecological commons we share."
I shared Rita's response to Ashok Mathur, and he responded and wrote a post on the Centre for Innovation in Culture and the Arts in Canada (CiCAC) blog, which I invite you read it in full here in a post called, Contemplating Maraya http://ashokmathur.blogspot.com/2012/01/contemplating-maraya.html
I'm thinking about a few things, all fittingly reflective, as I ponder the Maraya project. First, I want to keep front and centre Rita's reminder to consider the absences all too often made invisible by a material present – when we look at a landscape, urban or architectural, how do we keep in sight what is no longer or differently 'there'? Second, I want to remain mindful of Glen's warning about the dangers of simply recirculating images that conform to what he calls a 'knee-jerk' criticality that sanctifies the position of the artist-as-social-critic. Both these positions are integral to an understanding of what the Maraya project is, and also to the portals it can open for us. The position of the artist/creator as a social conscience is one that haunts us, even as we recognize the value of a gaze that is (apparently) without economical or political investment. Of course, this is rarely the case, as within any socio-political ideology, we stake claims, stick by them, or move through choppy waters as these positions change (or change us). But the artist-as-voyeur, objective observer, presents a journalistic fallacy, and worse, suggests the possibility of a disinterested notetaker who records and then spells back the simple truths of this act. It seems inescapable that we are, to considerable extent, our own stories, if not the centrepieces then significant waystations along the narrative.
What I am trying to point to here is that Maraya – let's call it the activity of the project rather than the creative process as the former does not ascribe any intentionality, which is important in this case – can work on multiple levels. Just, as Rita points to, it can record an absence almost palimpsestically by recording the 'newness' afforded by a space-once-something-else. In such a case, this activity does not necessarily exceed the documentary, attempting to encapsulate a moment in history through image-making. It is left to the critical viewer to understand – to add to – the project by seeing downward-focussed photographs as a sign of progress, inhabitation, degradation, capitalism gone wild, etcetera. But the relative lack of agency imposed by the documentary style can also do something else – like the journalist who insists on recording the present moment without implicating the journalistic gaze, replete with binary perspectives and value-laden ideologies, the 'straight up' photograph can also lend itself to and blend itself into an existing status quo.
In circuitous fashion, this brings us to an old thorn, the notion of the social responsibility of the cultural producer. That is where Maraya becomes so interesting. Does the project present a tableau and gaze upon it with marvel? Clearly not. But nor does it emulate One Ride with Yankee Papa 13, an undeniable surface of inquisition and evident criticality.
Certainly we have shifted from the almost pornographic photojournalist revelation of the Vietnam war to a space and time that is ultimately more complicated, infused with exponentially greater amounts of information, and nuanced by such radically different and competing forces that even trying to understand the idea about a place is a challenging political act. Perhaps there is where we must begin to engage with what Maraya suggests to us. Far from Tolstoy, what we are presented with are the disturbing and yet enticing possibilities that the familial is not easily blocked off into categories of satisfaction and difference, but rather is a stack of undulating options that progress and recede from our line of sight in patterns, insisting that we explore the absences and presences that we already envision, and those we do not yet see.
Thank you to Rita Wong & Ashok Mathur for your thought-provoking responses, and thank you Henry Tsang, Glen Lowry, and M. Simon Levin for facilitating the insightful discussions. It will be interesting to see how "the activity" of the Maraya Project unfolds in the years to come.


text:
The Application Process
Things always go better when you're prepared. Here's a preview of what we look for and what you can expect during the recruitment process.
Step 1 - Cover Letter
Tell us why you want to work at FCC and what you're looking for in a career.
Your cover letter should include:
- position you're applying for and the competition number
- why you're uniquely qualified for the position
- a summary of your education, experience and skills and how they'll contribute to the job
Step 2 - Resumé
Your resumé is a reflection of you and what you've accomplished.
When writing your resumé:
- ensure that your daytime contact information is current
- list your education, employment experience and volunteer work
- choose references who can comment on your skills and abilities, and are available in the following weeks
Step 3 - Application
To apply for a position, you'll need to create a Candidate Home Account using your e-mail address and a password. Once you've done that, search for the job you're interested in and select Apply. Respond to the application questions, attach a copy of your cover letter and/or resume, and submit your application. After the posting closes you'll be able to see your status in that job competition.
Step 4 - Assessments
We use a variety of tools to determine who's most suited to a role. The type of screening and testing used depends on the type and level of the position. Language evaluations will be necessary in some cases. If you've recently completed one from the Public Service Commission of Canada, you'll be asked to provide a copy of your results.
Step 5 - Interviews
Our competency-based behavioural interviews focus on what you've done in past situations. There will usually be a selection committee made up of two or three people for your interview.
For the interview:
- bring a copy of your resumé
- learn about FCC and what's important to us
- prepare yourself with specific examples of things you've done in the past: any challenges that arose and what you did about them, how you communicated with others, and exactly what you did to accomplish the goal
- include copies of your professional credentials (education certificates, professional associations, etc.)
- think of questions about FCC and the role you've applied for
- be yourself
You'll only be considered for a position with FCC if you're legally entitled to work in Canada. Eligible applicants include: Canadian citizens, permanent residents and refugees in Canada with legal status. Temporary visitors, student visa holders and those waiting for permanent status will not be considered.


text:
This will come as soon as your payment is accepted. Usually this is instant. The download link is in an email sent to the email address you have provided.
Send us an email and we will send you one. We can't send them automatically but we understand some Accounts offices can't pay with the email invoice.
Most importantly, Word versions are copyrighted for school use. The pdf files sold on this site are copyrighted for single-student use, not class groups.Schools can use them repeatedly and with classes when they buy Word versions. Also, if you are a teacher and you would like to cut and paste files easily, please Word copies of exam papers are far easier to work with.
If you buy from this site there are a number of different payment options. Using a credit card will give you an immediate download. Choosing the direct deposit option allows you to pay later. With this option, if you order including your school name we will deliver within 24 hours. You then take the confirmation invoice received to your office to organise payment by cheque or direct deposit.
However, we understand many teachers cannot buy online without office approval. If this applies to you, please visit our SCHOOLS ORDER FORM page and download the relevant order form. You can fax or email it back to us. We will deliver to your email and send your office an invoice.