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The Q at Parkside
News and Nonsense from the Brooklyn neighborhood of Lefferts and environs, or more specifically a neighborhood once known as Melrose Park. Sometimes called Lefferts Gardens. Or Prospect-Lefferts Gardens. Or PLG. Or North Flatbush. Or Caledonia (west of Ocean). Or West Pigtown. Across From Park Slope. Under Crown Heights. Near Drummer's Grove. The Side of the Park With the McDonalds. Jackie Robinson Town. Home of Lefferts Manor. West Wingate. Near Kings County Hospital. Or if you're coming from the airport in taxi, maybe just Flatbush is best.
Saturday, January 18, 2014
Helicopters Seeking Armed Bandit
According to the Twitterverse, the heavy helicopter action is about an armed robbery at the Green Lake Express, just down Flatbush at Caton. Same address (803) could be the deli next door though. This used to be the wonderfully named "Best Fast Food" store, which was just too down from Best Liquors and Best Meats. The cops pursued the guys and called for helicopter backup. Hope they found him/them. Hard to imagine a female in that armed gunperson role. Am I being sexist?
Posted by Clarkson FlatBed at 8:39 PM
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The address 803 Flatbush is the deli.
The noise is gone so maybe they were caught. Or not...
- January 18, 2014 at 8:51 PM
- Clarkson FlatBed said...
That's what I thought too, but 803 is listed as Green Lake as well. One would think it would be too bright and windowed to be a good target, but then they got Dr. Cuts not long ago, so who knows.
- January 18, 2014 at 9:29 PM
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Survival of the Fittest
"Survival of the Fittest" is just one example of the many slam-dunk vocabulary activities that Janet Allen offers to teachers of all content areas in Inside Words: Tools for Teaching Academic Vocabulary. Check out how this activity could play out in the science classroom in our lesson plan, "Vocabulary Bursting With Energy."
What Is the Survival of the Fittest Activity?
In Survival of the Fittest, students are asked to determine which word couldn't survive with the others in a given list. Survival of the Fittest can be used as a review of content vocabulary related to a topic or unit of study. The activity is based on three strands of research that connect effective vocabulary instruction to increased learning: Students need multiple exposures to the word (Stahl and Fairbanks 1986); exposures should be in varied contexts (McKeown, et al. 1985); and instruction should establish connections among instructed items (Nagy 1988).
How Does It Work?
Survival of the Fittest works with predetermined groups of words related to the topic or unit of study. Students are given clusters of four or five words and asked to determine which word would not survive or doesn't fit with the others. Students eliminate that word and create a label that would be appropriate for the remaining words. The label should describe what makes the remaining words fits together. An additional task could include asking students to generate a new word that would take the place of the eliminated word so that it would fit with the remaining words.
When and Why Would I Use This Strategy?
2020欧洲杯时间 Survival of the Fittest is an effective activity for students to review technical vocabulary related to a topic or unit of study. If used as a review, students will have had multiple exposures to the words and to other students' knowledge of the words prior to application in an assessment or evaluation. The activity can be used as an assessment tool for individuals or small groups or used as a review prior to an evaluation of content knowledge.
2020欧洲杯时间 Examples of Survival of the Fittest word clusters follow:
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E. coli
Research/Origins/Further Reading
Alvermann, D. E., and S. E. Phelps. 1994. Content Reading and Literacy: Succeeding in Today's Diverse Classrooms. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
McKeown, M., I. Beck, R. Omanson, and M. Pople. 1985. "Some Effects of the Nature and Frequency of Vocabulary Instruction on the Knowledge and Use of Words." Reading Research Quarterly 20: 522?35.
Nagy, W. E. 1988. Teaching Vocabulary to Improve Reading Comprehension. Urbana, IL: National Council Teachers of English; Newark, DE: International Reading Association.
Stahl, S., and M. Fairbanks. 1986. "The Effects of Vocabulary Instruction: A Model-Based Meta-Analysis." Review of Educational Research2020欧洲杯时间 56: 72?110.
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I'm fond of Lyneham. When I was a student, my first group house was near the Lyneham shops. None of us had a car, so I did all the shopping on foot. I still visit regularly - it's close to a friend's house, quite handy to stop off to pick up some bread or meat for the BBQ. And I've often been to Tilleys, and more recently, The Front.
We have, for your foodie pleasure, an IGA with a nice range of European deli and bakery items. Their fruit & veg is OK but not brilliant - handy for top ups if you miss the markets. There's a Brumby's bakery, a pizza & takeaway joint, the Lyneham Pide Hut and the Mee Sing Chinese. The Pide Hut is, meh, not so great but OK. They do good zucchini balls. But given the option, I'd always prefer Dickson TurkOz. I've never tried Mee Sing, but I hear it's not bad at all.
Much more notable is the Lyneham Meat Centre, the home of Country Pride sausages (also available in many IGAs). This excellent local butcher sells a good range of award-winning sausages, all low in fat and most gluten-free (I asked). They actually bought the Country Pride recipes from the original owner, who has long since retired. There used to be a rumour going around that it wasn't legal to call these products sausages, because they contained too much meat, not enough fat and filler. My favourite is the hot chilli beef - they have a serious kick to them. Today I bought some of those, and some lamb and rosemary, and spicy Italian pork - all for the freezer, since I'm heading off to the coast tomorrow. They're all good, except I think the lemon chicken one is a bit weird. Most of them are $11 per kg.
Also notable is the Front, a cafe-gallery with not much in the way of food, but quite decent coffee. It's host to all sorts of music, performance art, exhibitions, and other artistic happenings. This is absolutely the hippest cafe in Canberra.
And then there's Tilleys. Oh, Tilleys, how you have fallen! Perhaps my rose-tinted nostalgia glasses are on, but I remember when it was new. It was just a single shop-front, and controversial because of their "no unaccompanied men" policy and their lesbian Friday nights. It was the hippest cafe in Canberra, no question. I heard my first live blues music there - Madam and the Ragtag Jazz Band. I danced the night away to DJs playing Do-Re-Mi and the Eurythmics.
I used to sit there in the afternoon, nursing a coffee with a cheap second hand paperback, while my laundry ran in the laundromat two shops down. And they had a fabulous cheese and fruit plate which fed all three of us housemates lunch for $6. (Yes, yes, but then again, the rent was only $60 a week for the whole house and our weekly food kitty was $20.)
Anyway, Tilleys grew and grew, and absorbed the neighbouring shops and restaurants in a slow but relentless crawl. Much like All Bar Nun, in O'Connor. The Thai restaurant, the sausage shop, the post office - all gone. The laundromat now houses a post office agency, and the sausages can be bought from the butcher, and the excellent little second hand bookshop is still there, so it's not a total loss.
When we came back to Canberra in 2002, Tilley's had grown huge and rather staid. The size of the place made it good for large group brunches, or random evening post-choir meals. There's lots of outdoor seating, and brunch until 3pm. Also, the music acts drew us in, so I've been there quite a few times.
They had some really good music acts, on a regular schedule. Eric Burdon was perhaps the best I went to. It's an excellent cabaret venue, all dark wood and red interiors, with a nice little stage. And all the edges are lined with booths of varying sizes, fitted with comfortable cushions. But a couple of years back, unfortunately for us, they cut back a lot on the music.
In recent experience, the food has been up and down. I've had good, bad and mediocre meals there in the last five years. Today was bad. I stopped in for lunch, and had a macchiato that was mostly just bitter. And a Cajun chicken salad ($17), which was disturbing. The fridge-cold slices of chicken breast seemed a little dry and overcooked, but the mild spice was quite pleasant and the lime-yoghurt dressing rather good. So far, OK. But the salad was highly dodgy. The cherry tomatoes were a little too squishy for me, and the mesclun included not just lettuce that was slightly brown around the edges; not just yellowing baby spinach leaves; but even some that were actually slimy. Oh dear. I ate the chicken and some cucumber and onion, because I was hungry, but I left most of the salad behind.
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Looking towards Creation
Called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), the million-second-long exposure reveals the first galaxies to emerge from the so-called "dark ages," the time shortly after the big bang when the first stars reheated the cold, dark universe. The new image should offer new insights into what types of objects reheated the universe long ago.
|Hubble Ultra-Deep Field. Click image for full view
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The Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) image was produced by the Hubble Space Telescope, which has been orbiting Earth since 1990 as a joint project of NASA and the European Space Agency. Several hundred orbits of telescope time were allocated this winter to produce this new image, the deepest-ever of the universe, equivalent to an 11.5-day-long photographic exposure. The area of sky depicted in the HUDF is located in the constellation Fornax. Previous Hubble images have led to important discoveries about black holes, dark energy, the expansion of the universe, quasars, and gamma-ray bursts. However, none of the previous images have reached back so early into the beginnings of the universe, detecting light in this case from just 500 million years after the Big Bang.
With the public release of these impressive data, astrophysicists worldwide will scramble in the coming days to be the first to discover what the image, more dense with data than any previous Hubble image, reveals. This historic new view is actually two separate images taken by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-object Spectrometer (NICMOS). Both images reveal galaxies that are too faint to be seen by ground-based telescopes, or even in Hubble's previous faraway looks, called the Hubble Deep Fields (HDFs), taken in 1995 and 1998.
"Hubble takes us to within a stone's throw of the big bang itself," says Massimo Stiavelli of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., and the HUDF project lead. The combination of ACS and NICMOS images will be used to search for galaxies that existed between 400 and 800 million years (corresponding to a redshift range of 7 to 12) after the big bang. A key question for HUDF astronomers is whether the universe appears to be the same at this very early time as it did when the cosmos was between 1 and 2 billion years old.
|The Hubble Telescope looking towards Redshift 12 galaxies.
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The HUDF field contains an estimated 10,000 galaxies. In ground-based images, the patch of sky in which the galaxies reside (just one-tenth the diameter of the full Moon) is largely empty. Located in the constellation Fornax, the region is below the constellation Orion.
The final ACS image, assembled by Anton Koekemoer of the Space Telescope Science Institute, is studded with a wide range of galaxies of various sizes, shapes, and colors. In vibrant contrast to the image's rich harvest of classic spiral and elliptical galaxies, there is a zoo of oddball galaxies littering the field. Some look like toothpicks; others like links on a bracelet. A few appear to be interacting. Their strange shapes are a far cry from the majestic spiral and elliptical galaxies we see today. These oddball galaxies chronicle a period when the universe was more chaotic. Order and structure were just beginning to emerge.
The NICMOS reveals the farthest galaxies ever seen, because the expanding universe has stretched their light into the near-infrared portion of the spectrum. "The NICMOS provides important additional scientific content to cosmological studies in the HUDF," says Rodger Thompson of the University of Arizona and the NICMOS Principal Investigator. The ACS uncovered galaxies that existed 800 million years after the big bang (at a redshift of 7). But the NICMOS may have spotted galaxies that lived just 400 million years after the birth of the cosmos (at a redshift of 12). Thompson must confirm the NICMOS discovery with follow-up research.
|This close-up of the large galaxy cluster Abell 2218 shows how this cluster acts as one of nature's most powerful 'gravitational telescopes' and amplifies and stretches all galaxies lying behind the cluster core (seen as red, orange and blue arcs). Such natural gravitational 'telescopes' allow astronomers to see extremely distant and faint objects that could otherwise not be seen. A new galaxy (split into two 'images' marked with an ellipse and a circle) was detected in this image taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on board the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The extremely faint galaxy is so far away that its visible light has been stretched into infrared wavelengths, making the observations particularly difficult.
Image Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble
"The images will also help us prepare for the next step from NICMOS on the Hubble telescope to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)," Thompson explains. "The NICMOS images reach back to the distance and time that JWST is destined to explore at much greater sensitivity." In addition to distant galaxies, the longer infrared wavelengths are sensitive to galaxies that are intrinsically red, such as elliptical galaxies and galaxies that have red colors due to a high degree of dust absorption.
|The Hubble Telescope.
Credit: NASA
This will hold the record as the deepest-ever view of the universe until ESA, together with NASA, launches the James Webb Space Telescope in 2011.Though ground-based telescopes have, to date, spied objects that existed just 500 million years after the big bang (at a redshift of 10), they need the help of a rare natural zoom lens in space, called a gravitational lens, to see them. Even much larger ground-based telescopes with adaptive optics cannot reproduce such a view. The picture required a series of exposures taken over the course of 400 Hubble orbits around Earth. This is such a big chunk of the telescope's annual observing time–observations began Sept. 24, 2003 and continued through Jan. 16, 2004.
For each of the 10,000 galaxies that appear in what would look like empty space in the unaided view of the night sky, there are hundreds of billions of stars. By some estimates, the number of stars having planets may range between a quarter to half of those.
To put the number of stars in the visible universe in perspective, their total is estimated to be 70 sextillion, or 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 [seven followed by twenty-two zeros].
Such a vast population can be compared in a list of the very biggest numbers imaginable, with some terrestrial references borrowed from a combination of science and poetry:
- ten times more than the number of grains of sand on Earth
- eleven times the number of cups of water in all the Earth's oceans
- ten thousand times the number of wheat kernels that have ever been produced on Earth
- one hundred million times more than the number of ants in all the world
- one hundred million times the dollar value of all the market-priced assets in the world
- ten billion times the number of cells in a human being
- one hundred billion times the number of letters in the 14 million books in the Library of Congress
In the realm of astrobiology, it may be said that most meaningful terrestrial analogies to the number of stars in the known universe are indeed biological: only a fertile biosphere can yield such large numbers. One may ask how many living things the Earth itself can accomodate in its volume. If one cubic inch can hold ten billion animal or plant cells, and if one stacked these cells across both the land and oceans to a thickness of fifteen feet, the planet would be a vast teeming mass of biology–literally, life as far as the eye could see. The thickness of fifteen feet, while extreme overpopulation on the land, is likely an underestimate given the depth of the more three-dimensional ocean biosphere or the realms of winged species. In this way, the ceiling on the carrying capacity of Earth for cellular life is vast, since about ten million times the number of plant or animal cells could pack the planet than the number of stars in the visible universe. Compared to 70 sextillion, the cellular capacity terrestrially is estimated to be what can be called one undecillion, or ten raised to the power of 30.
The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), for NASA, under contract with the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA).


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Sunday, 3 June 2012
6 comments:
- Sen. C.R.O'Blene said...
Marvellous demeanour from The Lady all day Lils! She's fantastic!
What about all Charles' medals then, he has been busy hasn't he...;0)
- 4 June 2012 at 06:28
- Dick the Prick said...
She'll need a hip flask tonight - jeez. I guess she wanted the pageant in exchange for having someone pick the band line up. Never tried absynth but neat vodka just ain't strong enough.
- 4 June 2012 at 10:47
First pic:
Both: "Where did you get that hat?"
Second pic: We are most definitely not amused and would prefer to be elsewhere.
- 4 June 2012 at 11:15
- Dick the Prick said...
Philip's cried off with the classic bladder problem - can't buy experience, old skool. Not much the lad blobs but ffs, standards have to start somewhere and Elton John is not a fellow traveller.
- 4 June 2012 at 21:52
- Woman on a Raft said...
Victoria reigned 63 years and 7 months so there's a count-down now to match that and please God, surpass it. The 65th (2017) would be another big event.
The Queen mother died at age 102, and the Queen is in excellent physical shape, so if she lives to the current limit of about 116 she could still be on the throne in 2042. Time for another three 10-year jubiliees, plus the Queen Victoria Record.
You could get a good price on a 100 year reign which would need her to live just past the current theoretical maximum to 126 years.
Which I, of course, hope she does.
- 7 June 2012 at 10:43
Yes. Just look at Mugabe. Medical science has a lot to answer for!
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I'm writing this in a plane returning home after being away from my studio for four days. The trip wasn't long enough to miss family, friends or home, but it was far too long to be away from my studio.
Surely artists have differing relationships to their studios – from a welcome, creative refuge to a dreaded place when they feel stuck and facing down a block or self-doubt. My studio is a peaceful, private space where I can enter internal realms of research, reflection and making. The physical act of leaving the 'external' world and going into my studio allows me to mentally disconnect from mundane life (knowing that it will be waiting for me when I leave the studio) and let my creative self roam. When I close the door behind me I can drop my 'public' persona and be unobserved. My attention can be fully directed to the ideas, materials and works-in-progress that fill the space.
The studio also serves as a sign to others of my commitment to my practice and that I am 'at work' when I am there and therefore less likely to be interrupted by daily demands. It is where I try out new ideas, finish work and make long-term plans.
But the lease expires in a few weeks; our building, with more than twenty artists, has its third owner in a year and in this speculative town we are once again looking for an affordable, usable space to house our various practices. Otherwise it is back to the interruptible kitchen table and the unlit, dusty shed.


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"There is something romantic in that idea of having an island all to one's self. Ex-President Hayes felt it years ago when his children were young, for he bought a mile or so off the [Catawba] Peninsula, a small island " …. so wrote Henry Howe in his history of Ohio. Howe further described the island as "a very small affair, so small one might someday take a fancy to pick it up, slip it in his vest pocket as he would his watch and walk off with it."
In 1874, then Governor Hayes purchased Lake Erie's Mouse Island jointly with Fremont attorney Ralph Buckland and Dr. L. Q. Rawson. The private island, sometimes called Hat Island in early records, was acquired from Ira Dutcher of Catawba.
Hayes believed it would be a great spot for his family to camp, boat, swim, and especially fish (Lucy's favorite past time). When Hayes returned to Ohio during his presidency, the family spent time on the island. In 1879, Hayes purchased Dr. Rawson's portion of the island. And at the turn of the century, the Bucklands exchanged their portion of Mouse for land Hayes and the Bucklands owned jointly in Omaha, Nebraska.
Through the years, Hayes had numerous opportunities to sell the island, but his children and their friends continued to enjoy time spent each summer on the heavily wooded island. President Hayes' son Birchard and his children Webb, Scott, and Walter, built two cabins, a boat house, dock, ice house, tennis court, and a hand ferry to shore. They also supplied the island with water.
The brothers worked each summer to repair damage brought on by the previous winter's storms. But time and weather continued to take a toll on the island's structures. With Scott's move to Los Angeles and Admiral Webb Hayes away much of the time, there were fewer opportunities for the Hayes grandchildren to visit the island. Even though time spent at Mouse became rare, it was not until 1966 that they finally decided it was time to part with the "emerald isle" the family had enjoyed for more than 90 years!
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Birchard Hayes and Sons Scott and Walter
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Using Algorithmic Trading and High Frequency Trades could boost your trading options and perhaps your profitability too. In fact it is attracting increasing attention among market players ever since the regulator SEBI has permitted its use on exchanges .Lets analyse how technology could help you gain an edge on the markets.
Do you remember all of those slick Hollywood movies like Sneakers, Virtuosity or The Net where people use technology to gain an edge; usually monetary; over their rivals? The other day we got a peek into just such a world that at the very least left us breathless! But, at the end of the day remember that technology is a tool and it is only as good as you are!
Algorithmic Trade per se is nothing but a reflection of what happens in our brains. Algorithmic trading, also called automated trading, black-box trading, or Algo trading, is the use of electronic platforms for entering trading orders with an algorithm which executes pre-programmed trading instructions whose variables may include timing, price, or quantity of the order, or in many cases initiating the order without human intervention.
God has given us the ability , we only do this with computer procedures in a more organised or swifter manner than what God has given us . Within this broader genre exist the option of High Frequency Trades. This is basically trading that is done several times in one day, Intraday traders are High Frequency Traders. Some traders trade over a thousand times a day, and it is here that you need high speed programmes to generate your trades.
The simplified process in High Frequency Trades would start from Trade generation, through trade routing till the final step of trade execution.
You may not get the trade at the price that you expect, but you would get it at the best price in the market, this explains about the dynamics of the equity markets vis-à-vis High Frequency Trades.
Here is where the high-tech dazzle comes in. The speed of trades (in exchanges) is such is that if an exchange offers space in the exchange for your server, then you have a time advantage. Thus even the time that is taken to bounce a (trade) signal off a satellite can be avoided. While this may not be a huge issue if you were to trade say just 500 or so times a day, equations change if you trade say a million times a day.
So if there are two exchanges where there is a differential in speeds then an arbitrage opportunity exists to make money. "Arbitrage opportunities exist across time and space,"
High Frequency Trades is about volumes and not margins. Basically it is about thousands of trade and the arbitrage opportunities that lie thereof. At a personal level we feel that High Frequency Trades help in improving efficiencies in markets.
But again as said, we need to use the human mind and not technology to make money here. In High Frequency Trades you trade very fast to make money, while in Algorithmic Trading you use strategy to make money. All High Frequency Trades is Algo Trading, but not all Algo Trading is High Frequency Trades.
Algo Trading is thus, a mathematical model to trade, i.e. the timing, submission and the management of trade orders. In Dubai for example this model supports some 65% of the trading activity and in India this accounts for some 20% of trading activity in the equities arena.
And just in case one felt that the Algo model resulted in volatility in the equities segment, we must not forget that this mode of trading is just a tool and that computers and their systems just obey orders that are placed by humans. Algorithmic trading is not just a facility but and aid.
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Blogger Charles LeBlanc pleaded not guilty in a Fredericton courtroom yesterday, presided over by Judge Mary Jane Richards, on the charge of breaking the Fredericton city by-law of biking without a helmet.
A ticket was issued to LeBlanc for the infraction back in June, but was paid anonymously. Richards wondered aloud how an anonymous individual could know about the ticket. LeBlanc responded he posted a picture of the ticket on his website.
"You posted it on a website?" asked Richards incredulously.
Although the ticket was paid, LeBlanc was at the court in application to dispute the charge in order to face his accusers, something there is no legislation for. With no opposition from the Crown, it was left to the judge's discretion on whether to hear the matter. Richards granted LeBlanc's application.
The judge set the trial date on the matter the same day as LeBlanc's trial on another charge, that of driving his bicycle on a sidewalk.
Since he is representing himself, LeBlanc was concerned about how he would prepare for both on the same date. He asked Richards, "How will we manage that, your honor?"
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The trials are set for February 29, 2012, starting at 2 pm.
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Did you miss a chance to see Transformers: Dark of the Moon on IMAX in its initial run? No, you did not. It has made over $1.1 billion. Still, if Michael Bay did one thing right (and that may be the case), it was the production of a truly IMAX-worthy spectacle. Consequently, Paramount has decided to re-release Transformers 3 in 246 North American IMAX theaters from August 26-September 8. Even better:
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I couldn't tell you exactly what all that means, but I imagine the trademarked remastering process will take a pretty awesome experience and make it marginally better. Are you in?


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It may just be one of the most highly anticipated movies of the century--Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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Sherlock Re-Dedication
This past Sunday evening we were privileged to be able to re-dedicate Sherlock Lodge prior to the 28th Annual Choir Camp concert. The following blog entry is intended to share this exciting time and ceremony with all the people who couldn't be there in person. The opening of this re-dedication ceremony came from the memorial service of Pearl Sherlock in 1954 and was read by Reverend Peggy Luckman.
Psalms 122:1; 134: 1,2; 136:1; 147:1; 95:1,2,6,7 (RSV)
I was glad when they said unto me, "Let us go to the house of the Lord!"
Come, bless the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who stand by night in the house of the Lord! Lift up your hands to the holy place, and bless the Lord.
O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.
Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praise to our God; for he is gracious and a song of praise is seemly.
O come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!
O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!
For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Camp Director, Steve Rumage, followed that by sharing about Pearl Sherlock's life and contributions to Camp Magruder as well as sharing how this renovation has been paid for.
"Construction of this building was completed nearly fifty years ago and was dedicated to the memory of Pearl E. Sherlock. Pearl Sherlock was born in Madison, Nebraska on September 20, 1892, the daughter of Charles and Belle Sherlock. After graduating high school she attended Kearney State Teachers' College. She first taught two years in a rural school and then was elected principal of Alexandria, Nebraska High School. Later she was elected principal at another high school, but her deep interest in the church led her to decline and accept the position of pastor's assistant at the First Methodist Church at Norfolk, Nebraska. Desiring further training, Pearl went back to college where she received her A.B. from Nebraska Wesleyan and took graduate work at Columbia University. After serving as director of Christian Education in Boise, Idaho, she ventured further west into Oregon. Her first work in Portland was at Rose City Methodist Church, where she served as director of Christian Education. After one year she accepted a similar position at Westminster Presbyterian Church, where she served twelve years.
Upon her passing on July 20, 1954, Ralph G. Kleen wrote: "Many of us will remember through all time the hearty laughter of Pearl Sherlock. Life was good and wonderful because God was in it. Those who through the years have been privileged to work closely with her in planning the total program of the Oregon Conference will well recall with what care she gave herself to each part, and to the total program. Her vision could not tolerate poor planning nor half-hearted participation. She gave her utmost for the highest, and this she expected of all. It was her vision and complete dedication that inspired such men of Oregon Methodism as the late J. Edgar Purdy, Jesse Bunch, and Frank Magruder to give so much of themselves in the development of our summer camp program. At the center of every forward step in this conference in education, evangelism and recruitment over the past decade has been this Christ-like woman – a Mary and a Martha in her own right."
In 2008, the conference launched a major gifts campaign entitled "A Time to Grow." The two-fold purpose of the campaign is to: provide opportunities for growing disciples here at home and in mission setting, through Camp & Retreat Ministries, and to: grow and sustain future ministries through the Oregon-Idaho Foundation. Significant gifts to the campaign benefiting Camp Magruder have been made by the estate of Marilyn Parrish, the Meyer Memorial Trust, and a couple who first met here as counselors and wish to remain anonymous. These contributions, added to those of others, enabled Camp Magruder to renovate this building. The campaign is actively seeking new contributions that will be matched by the gift from Meyer Memorial Trust. New gifts will support plans to complete work on Huffman House, and renovate Shorehouse, and Smith & Herron Lodges. It is our prayer that you may be moved to support efforts to contribute to making "new spaces for new people." Through camp and retreat ministries lives are changed, leadership skills are developed, and we learn to reach beyond ourselves and serve others."
Peggy than presented the building by leading people in a call and response re-dedication. This ceremony was closed by a blessing before the Choir Camp concert began.
We present this building, rebuilt and renewed, to be dedicated to God once again, in service to new generations of campers who will come to experience Christian community within these walls.
Friends, it is a joy to gather together to rededicate Sherlock Lodge for ministry, made new by the gifts of many hands. For the vision of the original donor and those whose gifts made this work possible,
We give thanks today.
For the careful planning of the designers, and the skilled labor of so many trades,
We give thanks today.
For the volunteers and staff who will care for the Lodge,
We give thanks today.
For the boys and girls, men and women who will gather here across the years,
We give thanks today.
For the living presence of Jesus Christ, here in this place,
We give thanks today and always!
Gracious God, We dedicate this building, Sherlock Lodge, as a gift and offering to you that it may ever be a place where people encounter you in love and joy. Bless this space as holy and sacred to you. Bless all who gather here as your people. Bless the ministries, camps, and retreats meeting here to your service. In word and song, we give thanks and praise you, in Christ's name. Amen.


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An aspiring film-maker believed to have been sleeping rough on the streets to document the plight of homeless people and the impact of the bedroom tax has been found dead in a derelict hostel just three days after embarking on his project.
Lee Halpin, 26, a radio presenter who edited an arts magazine and had completed a creative writing MA, was found in the boarded-up building in Newcastle-upon-Tyne after deciding to immerse himself for a week in the world of the those living on the streets in the city.
He was making the documentary after applying for a place on an investigative journalism scheme run by Channel 4, and hoped it would demonstrate the "fearless pursuit of a story" which the scheme required of applicants.
No cause of death has yet been established and a postmortem will be held early next week. Two men, aged 26 and 30, have been arrested on suspicion of supplying a controlled drug and bailed pending further inquiries.
Friends said they believed Halpin could have suffered hypothermia in the sub-zero temperatures.
Halpin, described in numerous tributes as a "great advocate" for the north-east arts scene and who had a weekly show, The Weekend Starts Here, on Radio Tyneside, posted his video application to Channel 4 online on Sunday, three days before his body was found.
Speaking to the camera, he said he had spoken to a homeless charity about the rise in the number of people on the streets and the possible repercussions of the bedroom tax.
"I'm about to go and spend a week being homeless in the West End of Newcastle. I will sleep rough for a week, scrounge for my food, access the services that other homeless individuals use," he said.
"I will interact with as many homeless people as possible and immerse myself in that lifestyle as deeply as I can."
"I hope that you perceive this to be a fearless approach to a story. It certainly feels brave from where I'm sat right now." He added: "That's the impression I want to leave you with about my willingness to get to the heart of a story."
Poignantly, he also mentioned his family and friends had voiced trepidation about his project.
Shortly before he embarked on the film, he tweeted to his 1,500 Twitter followers asking if anyone had a sleeping bag he could borrow. He also asked if anyone had an old phone he could borrow for a week.
Daniel Lake, a friend for 10 years, told the Evening Chronicle : "I was just talking to Lee on Saturday having some banter talking about football and how excited he was about going out filming.
"Lee was a great guy, a character and was well known. His big things were creative writing and poetry. He was making a documentary about homeless people living in Newcastle's West End. No one knows how he passed away, but we think it could have been hypothermia.
"He made the ultimate sacrifice trying to raise awareness about what was happening to other people".
Having completed his creative writing MA, Halpin, who lived with his family in Heaton, Newcastle, became a founder editor of Novel, a magazine covering all aspects of north-east culture from performance and exhibitions to launch parties and talent. He was also briefly media co-ordinator at Northumbria University students' union.
David Nicholson, station director at Radio Tyneside, said news of his death had come "as a great shock".
"Lee had worked for us for just over 12 months doing an arts programme on a Friday evening. He was a very committed guy. Whatever he got his teeth into, he fully went for it."
He added Halpin had asked for a week off though did not tell him what for. "When we heard what he was doing, it didn't surprise me at all. He was the type of guy if he was going to do something he would put himself into the same situation he was reporting on.
"It's very sad news."
On Twitter, tributes were been paid by many who knew and worked with him.
Staff at Intimation Creative said: "We're very sad to hear that Lee Halpin passed away … Our thoughts go out to Lee's family and many friends."
The band Tea Pad Orchestra said: "We are very sad to hear of the death of Lee Halpin … Helped us a lot. Thanks mate and goodbye."
Dan Howarth described Lee as a "talented, courageous and thoroughly excellent bloke", adding: "Shattered by the news of the death of Lee Halpin … a massive loss."
Halpin was discovered at 9.50am on Wednesday at the boarded-up Summerhill hostel. A spokesman for Northumbria police said: "Police were informed the body of a man believed to be in his 20s had been found in a derelict building in Westgate Road. A report will be prepared for the coroner."
A Met Office spokesman confirmed the lowest recorded temperature for Newcastle early on 3 April was around -4.2C.
Channel 4's investigative journalism programme is run in conjunction with the current affairs programme Dispatches, giving aspiring television journalists the opportunity to work with a production company. Applicants submit a video and questionnaire explaining why their work is "fearless" and those who are successful receive a 12-month contract.


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As the VoIP industry has continued to grow and advance, more and more variant services have become available. Currently, users can choose from a variety of services including Business VoIP, Residential VoIP, Hosted, Managed, Virtual, and On Premises PBX, SIP Trunking, Cloud Communications, and more. With a number of different options available, it may be intimidating for users to discern these services from one another. Sure, each mode has its own intended uses—each complete with its own features and benefits—but many often overlap, appearing similar in overall function. For example, while Virtual PBX and Cloud Hosted PBX share many common traits, there are many variances between them. That being said, distinction, though sometimes tricky, can help users better select the best service for their use.
Communications services can ultimately be boiled down to On Premises and Hosted Solutions. While On Premises solutions have been more widely embraces, current trends show a rise in the adoption of Hosted Solutions. Cloud communications spin out of hosted solution. Cloud Communications go beyond other VoIP services to increase cost efficiency, feature, accessibility, and ease of use to better build, distribute, and scale users' communications systems. In doing so, the solution(s) allot for various advantages that are specific to the service. A more technical definition defines Cloud Communications as being "data-center-hosted services that are run and accessed over an Internet infrastructure." That being said, Cloud Communications can be very appealing to a variety of users; however, users should not flock to the mode based solely on popularity. Instead, users should analyze their intended uses and, subsequently, the essentials their system must account for. Though Cloud Communications allot for a number of advantages the solution isn't for everyone. Additionally, neither are on-premises solutions/services. While the answer of what's best will vary from user to user, as well as system to system, here are some basic things to keep in mind when considering Cloud Communications.
Support: Switching to cloud communications offers users extensive benefits including greater cost efficiency, better maintenance/management, easier upgrades, more current/up-to-date features, and much more. Yet, despite these benefits, cloud systems are not for everyone. First and foremost, users must be sure that their solution/service can meet all the necessary day-to-day needs. Cloud communications can seem very appealing for users with limited resources, as it can be financially exhausting to invest in an internal system; however, users must not sacrifice functionality for cost efficiency. For example, Voice is a necessity for business communications—i.e. for both employees and customers; therefore, cloud services needs to support calling functionality.
Security: Security is important with any system/service/solution, and Cloud Communications are no different. However, unlike other technologies, Cloud technology is still developing; therefore, security risks are not clearly defined as black and white. That being said, users considering cloud solutions should be aware of the cloud's need for tight security protocols—i.e. .e. structure/organization of security, sensitivity of information being stored and transferred, automated, safeguarded processes, etc. Also, users should understand how exactly cloud communications will work with their systems. For example, if some aspects of the system are managed in the cloud, hardware may still be on premises, and voice packets may still run over users' existing infrastructure. That being said, users need to make sure their network is able to support function as well as securely do so.
Storage: Despite all the advantages of cloud systems, some users still find value in managing and maintaining in-house phone solutions. One reason is storage space. With a cloud, some users are worried about filling up the allot space they have; however, there are ways to combat limited storage space. One way is to pick and choose what is placed in the cloud. Separate from this, many cloud services—for example Gmail—look to be increasing their capacity for users.
Provider: Not all clouds are the same. As with any solution/service selecting the right provider is essential. In finding the right provider, users should look to determine their intended use of the system. Once this is done, users can move to select a provider whose service is best fit to tackle their objectives. For example, cloud communications allow for greater mobile usage—i.e. service can be accessed by more users, from more places, and from more devices. With this, users can greatly augment their productivity and efficiency. Inversely, mobility does open the door for increased security risks; therefore, users must again be sure they have quality security practices and protocols in place.
Hybrid: Some users will undoubtedly be torn in selecting their communications services. With that, users may not have to choose between two. Currently, there are a variety of hybrid services, which blends both Cloud and physical solutions. "While the cloud market matures, IT organizations must adopt a hybrid IT strategy that not only builds internal clouds to house critical IT services and compete with public [cloud service providers], but also utilizes the external cloud to house non-critical IT services and data, augment, internal capacity and increase IT agility," states Chris Howard, Managing Vice President at Gartner. Here, Howard perfectly outlines what users should look for with a hybrid service.
There's no denying that Cloud Communications are on the rise. While they continue to allow for expansive benefits, ease of use, and greater cost efficiency, their implementation and adoption are likely to grow. Currently, InformationWeek reports approximately 57% of (enterprise) users are still using premise-based telecommunication services, roughly 13% are using hosted offerings, and another 30% are using a hybrid strategy, which blends both cloud-based and on-premise tools. Yet, even in the face of their popularity, users must ultimately make sure that their service/solution carriers out their core functions. While some users may fear switching to a cloud-based solution, a hybrid option may be best. Cloud Communications present a number of benefits to users; however, they still may not be for everyone. That being said, its ultimately up to the user to consider their needs.
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Although Las Vegas is best known for its glitz and gambling, the city also has positioned itself as one of America's most family-friendly destinations, with theme parks, zoos, aquariums and similar attractions. One popular activity is swimming with dolphins, which offers a magical opportunity for a close encounter with the highly-intelligent marine mammals. It might sound odd to think of swimming with open-ocean animals like dolphins in the middle of the desert, but the opportunity is there in Las Vegas.
Contact Siegfried and Roy's Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat and reserve a place on the Dolphin Trainer for a Day program. This is the sole swim-with-dolphins program in the Las Vegas area and participation is limited to four people per day. Reservations are strongly recommended.
Wear or bring a swimsuit to the Sigfried and Roy park. The Trainer for a Day program will issue you with a wetsuit, but you need something to wear underneath that.
Arrive at least 15 minutes before your start time. The Siegfried and Roy park is at the Mirage Hotel complex, and while the complex is easy to find, the park is tucked away in the very back. Give yourself some margin for error.
Eat breakfast at the Siegfried and Roy park, since it is included in your Trainer for a Day package along with lunch. Notify the park in advance if you have any dietary issues, so those can be accommodated.
Clear the day of your dolphin experience in Las Vegas of all other daytime events. When the park says "trainer for a day," they mean a full work day. That day is busy with dolphin education and dolphin-care work as well, so expect to be tired when it is finished.
Participants must be 13 or older and reasonably fit. Although the program specifies that its participants need not be good swimmers, it does indicate that training a dolphin for a day involves some "strenuous physical activity." You should be able to at least climb over a 2-foot wall without the aid of steps or a ladder.
Follow the instructions of the professional dolphin trainers at all times during the program, especially when you are in the water. The type of bottlenose dolphins kept at the Siegfried and Roy park weigh well over 500 lbs. and are easily capable of hurting you if you do something threatening.
Leaf Group is a USA TODAY content partner providing general travel information. Its content is produced independently of USA TODAY.
Photo Credits
- dolphin image by Earl Robbins from Fotolia.com
- Attribution: Bill Debevc; License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license


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mafia family
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who was the next person, banging on my hotel door after police, waking & scaring ,the sheriff. he wanted to let me know my former husband was filing divorce part II . the girl from the hotel desk called : he left a card . lawyer couldn't just notify my attorney . this went on for two and a half years until 2014. after the police & sheriff scare me , the irs is banging on the door , at 9:30 am. they didn't get 2009 taxes .i can't even open the door, since maryland, so afraid ,heart pounding so hard ,you have to grab your chest : feels like it will jump out . the noise is horrible. if there was a fire, i couldn't open the door. told irs the movers took everything & i showed her all the faxes from my divorce attorney. she saw all the medicine , heard me coughing & said of course she believed me. medical bills were always a lot more than income & now there was no alimony. former had stopped paying , but i just remembered the other day why they probably didn't get 2009.
i would give the accountant everything in march & he probably sent this form the second week in april. i checked every day and remember getting this after the seventeenth, so i went upstairs signed it & put it right back in the mail . park potomac has a terrible time , with mail carriers for some reason…sometimes, i would get 3 different people's mail in my box on the same day…and there was always mail sitting on the counter, , so whoever it belonged to , could see. usually i gave the mail, to security at desk ,but if i knew the person, slide mail under their door. one day i found 2 packages of prescriptions that weren't mine. these were 600,000 – 2 million dollar condos.
back to the mafia family, while i'm thinking about prescriptions: would i tell a mover to make my medicine. i didn't tell them anything . i never met them..my cab driver went to my condo to get medicine, pillows, computer ,some clothes & they told him, town & country took everything.
the guy on the truck said , after 2 months, "we were told to take your medicine, but we don't take people's medicine"… still finding medicine in boxes of trash… why would you throw each bottle in a different box. who told you to take everything. that is who you are working for, not me. who told you to pack trash, pack papers that belong to owner's of condo… papers that had sawdust and paint, i had wrapped up 4 years earlier & left in drawers of the island,after i cleaned everything out. i think this is why ,the owner's didn't send my 2100.00 deposit back. you packed heavy condo books & warranties & everything i left belonging to owners.
i always say you took my medicine, but you stole my medicine , i now see & cost me a lot of money 6600.00 for 3 months & dr. leven's 16 bottles of vitamins & 160.00 of my regular vitamins,doctors prescribed since 1989….and last night ,i find all the immunoglobulin & bottles i had refrigerated from dr. liebenson , that i need for toxic mold.. they have to be refrigerated…if it wasn't packed , it was of course going with me , in the cab. everything expired & you knew this & you charged me for moving , storing & transporting & transferring all this expired food,medicine & trash. you already charged a criminal amount, more than any other mover.
i say stolen, because , when checking to see if i spelled town & country gaithersberg correctly, i find yelp.com has complaints about you…this woman said " you stole her medicine".
every time there was a complaint, it appears yelp says this couldn't be used for certain reasons. i think the reason may be, because it looks like whenever there was a complaint, some woman from town & country movers writes at the bottom : i'm sorry, we have no record of you. did you possibly move under another name?…. i'm waiting for someone to write that here.
i wasted three and a half years of my life , cleaning everything and storing in ziploc big bags, so town and country, could flood a truck in september three years ago . everything was clean and dry , but now i have been washing clothes , sheets , towels , since december , all over again, twice. they all smell like mold still after the first time. why were my things even on a truck,when i was paying 500.00 a month & i see now, you have climate controlled storage.
i was going to start with part I , instead of the beginning ,listing boxes, but end up writing what i'm thinking about now. can barely read what i wrote, i'm so upset . my blood pressure is too high and it's very upsetting to relive. also, was hard to stand sideways around all of these dirty boxes, lean & write . however, i had no idea , i could be more upset than i have been for 3 years 4 months. forever thinking, my mother's antique crystal, 60,000 .00, dead aunt's and uncle's wedding gifts . i'm so afraid will be broken, i had no idea a professional mover could break & destroy, what i had no idea was breakable or that i would have to feel like this for the rest of my life and not have what i need. molded, expired food everywhere. can't leave on the porch, raccoons will tear it up. they already did , once. i packed a box of spices that , about 500.00 from harris teeter. cannot even find . of course i have to throw it out.last night i had to throw away dried beans that had so much mold,my head is still hurting.the entire room smelled like mold, until i found where it was coming from…
i came across boston town and country movers at yelp . people are complaining they make you pay cash :no credit cards & how a family member comes with every job and they don't give a receipt one man kept calling & no one would answer & then finally they cursed him out. that's when i started thinking this sounds like a mafia family. and they wouldn't answer me, after they sent my executor a letter ,if i didn't send 3000.00 more, they would sell everything, after they had already stolen around 24,000.00 . still no answer. this is what they do in boston, too.
only, a mafia family would be kinder. they would just kill you ,3 years ago. not do all the things they did & continue to do, torture . i wish i didn't have to know what happened to everything, getting sicker opening all the mold , washing everything….
my father , who would be 100 , december ,had an antique fan that was in perfect condition. fan like the memorex commercial. we kept this fan, inside the house . strongest fan, i've ever seen. when your AC breaks, you don't even care , because it's so great. this was sitting, in the brand new condo with all of my paintings on the clean , new hardwood floor .when the movers left a few weeks ago, i find the fan in the guest bath and now the floor is rusted. it was on town & country's wet truck with everything else that has mold. i 'm afraid to turn it on & see if it works. i know the tv's couldn't possibly work, the way they were delivered. boxes are blocking all of the tv's that were here. a family came in & asked me , how can you watch tv. you would think they had some sense of where to put things, at least ,so you don't have to sleep upside down. they said it will take you 3 years to sort . exactly .
speaking of sleeping. i almost had to sleep in the street, when i left the hospital.because they stole my money and credit cards, all i had was a check in my handbag.for some reason they don't steal your checks. the hotel, even though i had lived there for a year in 2004 , waiting for toxic mold to be destroyed at my condo, they wouldn't accept a check. finally, i remembered , there was a wells fargo around the circle .the cab rushed there, because they were closing in 30 minutes. i don't remember how they cashed my check without i d. no clothes, no pillow, no water distiller, only generic medicine hospital had , my body was confused and sicker from taking. the doctor. tried to give me more pain medicine, my rheumatologist had given me for pain. flexeril doesn't help, but the nurse forgot & my mind is so slow i forgot. they were so confused at the desk trying to find things. they were like are you sure you came in with two arms. yes i am sure.then they would search in every cabinet for your other arm or leg . they also had given me an inhaler , and when i could see,noticed i was allergic to it (sulfa)…
where is my grandfather's cane, the only thing i have of my grandfather, who died when i was three. if i didn't always wear the necklace my other grandfather gave me , when i was born, who died when i was one, i wouldn't even have that. where is everything i packed in that box. where are the 4 MRI's , the neurologist had just ordered and the lab had given to me. i needed them with me! she said i didn't have parkinson's but something else was wrong . i don't remember her name. you caused unbelievable and unendless problems.
the police would not let me have my water or medicine . saying they have all that at the hospital. a LIE . i 've called an ambulance 5 times & after 3 hours , i 'm dehydrated & they want to give me unnecessary IV & i have no veins : they can't. so i always grab my water and hold it for dear life. the toxic mold dehydrates you & you have to drink 2 gallons a day for 15 years. then there's a big thing at the hospital always, the doctor wants to hydrate you with IV , when all you need is water : had no veins before the mold, but being dehydrated makes it harder for them to get blood.they go through 6 people , everyone gets 2 chances……….they play around with Iv for hours & then they want to give you pain medicine in IV & take x-rays, to protect themselves:for 7 hours , make sure , no obstruction instead of helping . i have no business in a hospital with barely any immune system, my internist would say. they always make you sicker.
which is what happened when the plaster came through my condo ,with the builder's construction , next door . the doctor said please let us give you something for the pain. i want to say when someone is shot, take the bullet out, don't let them suffer longer waiting for pain medicine.i did what he wanted : one side of my face went numb,tongue couldn't move. bad reaction. waiting for benadryl . apologies because all the doctors were with a newborn baby .


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Historical fiction is a strong pull for me, and when it whispers a promise of a series, I'm hooked. Mindy Starns Clark and Elizabeth Gould have done just this with their Cousins of the Dove series. They have me hooked.
I just finished their book, My Brother's Crown, and it was fascinating! I finished this book while sitting on the beach, and in truth, I was in a book stupor for a day after, anxious for more knowledge on the next chapter in the lives of this family and these characters.
My Brother's Crown weaves ribbons of historical with contemporary Christian fiction, and these authors do it beautifully. The story deals with a family journal and a printed document dating back to the period of the late 1600's and the Heugonot persecution in France. It was a dangerous time to be Protestant in faith and oppose the Catholic Church and the crown of King Louis. Modern day dealings with the ancient document and the breaking of the code within it draws both stories together. This is the first book in the Cousins of the Dove series, and it promises to be a series worth reading every page…every word.
The second book, My Sister's Prayer, is due to be released September 1st.


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Steve Clarke claims Albion's sports science staff have been key to maintaining Shane Long's fitness during his recent injury worries.
The striker has been struggling with an ongoing hamstring problem in recent weeks.
Albion were keen to keep the issue in-house, only for Republic of Ireland boss Giovanni Trapattoni to reveal details of Long's injury during a recent press conference.
Clarke has used Long sparingly in recent games, even though the 25-year-old has been in sparkling form.
He has not completed a full game this season, being replaced after 68 minutes by Peter Odemwingie during Albion's 2-1 win at Wigan on Saturday.
Ben Foster also played against Southampton despite struggling with a groin problem.
Clarke said: "Playing through an injury is just a measure of how much they want to play for the club, which is great.
"They put their body on the line and that's part and parcel of being a professional football player.
"Sometimes you have to play with little injuries, which they do, and we have great help from our medical staff who play their part really well.
"We just try to get them from game to game and get everybody in the best condition possible.
"The medical staff do all they can to make my job more difficult so I've got more options to choose from each week.
"They've done a great job. There is an injury to Shane that everyone knows about now through circumstances we couldn't control.
"We like to manage our squad and look after them, the medical people like to do their job quietly and we try to get the players in a good place, which makes the selection process more difficult."


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Dr.-Ing. Jens Böke was research staff member at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, where he also had a teaching assignment in the field of CAD – geometry and design. He was Project Director and Research Associate at the ConstructionLab of the Hochschule Ostwestfalen– Lippe, Detmold School of Architecture and Interior Design. He is teaching in the field of CAAD and digital design. In 2012 he began work on his doctoral thesis "ThinkingSkins" at the Technical University in Delft. Since then he is a member of the Delft based façade research group. He continued his education with the master's program of the MSA – Münster School of Architecture where early in 2012 he was awarded the degree Master of Arts in architecture.
Jens Böke was a trainee in the Dutch architectural design office UNStudio in Amsterdam. Until summer 2014, Jens Böke was coordinator of the postgraduate Master degree course – Computational Design and Construction at Detmold University, where he also holds a teaching post. He earned a BA degree in architecture at the Detmold University of Applied Sciences in summer 2009 and won in the same year the competition "BDA masters 2009".