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2017 has started with some positive interest in the Bedford property market. Taking a snap shot of the Bedford property market for the first quarter of 2017, the picture suggests some interesting trends when it comes to the number of properties available to buy, their asking prices and what prices properties are actually selling for.
Let us first consider the number of properties for sale, compared to 12 months ago:
|Type of Bedford Property
|Number of Properties on the Market 12 months ago
|Number of Properties on the Market now
|% change
So when we add in building plots and other types of properties that don't fit into the four main categories, that means there are 551 properties for sale today compared with 423 a year ago, a rise of 30%.
Next, Bedford asking prices, compared to the same as a year ago, are 16% higher.
With that in mind, I wanted to look at what property was actually selling for in Bedford. Taking my information from the Land Registry, the last available six months property transactions for MK41 show an interesting picture (note: the Land Registry data is always a few months behind due to the nature of the house buying process and so November 2016 is latest set of data). The price shown is the average price paid and the number in brackets is the number of properties actually sold.
|£361,320 (14)
|£326,650 (15)
|£394,711 (14)
|£389,250 (15)
|£353,983 (13)
|£398,357 (21)
|£219,462 (21)
|£255,437 (23)
|£260,089 (27)
|£279,738 (21)
|£283,611 (22)
|£260,740 (29)
|£201,780 (16)
|£199,344 (16)
|£203,977 (22)
|£216,273 (15)
|£215,650 (10)
|£215,500 (10)
|£93,750 (2)
|£149,999 (4)
|£165,833 (3)
|£153,999 (4)
|£97,500 (3)
|£109,667 (3)
|£246,852 (53)
|£251,108 (58)
|£265,656 (66)
|£283,151 (55)
|£276,879 (48)
|£292,237 (63)
So what does all this mean for the property owning folk of Bedford?
Well, with more property on the market than a year ago and asking prices 16% higher, those trying to sell their property need to be mindful that buyers, be they first timers, buy to let landlords or people moving up the Bedford property ladder, have much more price information about the Bedford property market at their fingertips than ever before.
Those Bedford people who are looking to sell their property in 2017, need to be aware of the risks of over pricing their property when initially placing it on the market. Over the last 12 months, I have noticed the approach of a few Bedford estate agents is to suggest an inflated asking price to encourage the homeowner and secure the property to sell on their books. The down side to this is that when offered to the market for the first time, buyers will realise it is overpriced and wont waste their time asking for a brochure. They won't even view the property, let alone make an offer. So when the price is reduced a few months later, the property has become market stale and continues to be ignored.
Whilst the Bedford property-market has an unassailable demand for property – there is one saying that always rings true – as long as the property is being marketed at the right price it will sell.
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Question: What has an obscure 80's pop song and Sesame Street got to do with ADHD and dyslexia?
Answer: Clapping
I'm currently digging around on Google Scholar for information on hand clapping. Why? because connections between dyslexia and poor rhythm have been found and the Interactive Metronome has generated some interesting research on rhythm and academic achievement. The role of coordination is also well documented. So as clapping is a simple activity that involves coordination and rhythm it should could provide an interesting insight into neurological development and learning disorders.
As a starting point I wanted to look at when and how children without learning problems develop their clapping skills? Work from 1996 (Dynamical Patterns in the Development of Clapping) found that it developed been the ages of 3 and 7. When combined with another task, i.e. walking, children had reached an adult level skill by the age of eight. However in the harder task of clapping and running, ten years did not reach an adult level of skill (see How do children coordinate simultaneous upper and lower extremity tasks? The development of dual motor task coordination). It seems that pure rhythmic ability developers earlier than this. Looking at the ability to simply tap along with a rhythm the study, Spontaneous motor tempo and rhythmical synchronisation in 2½- and 4-year-old children , found that "regular spontaneous manual tapping tempo could be observed in children as young as 2½ years".
These studies suggest that basic rhythmic ability starts at about 2 1/2 years old with clapping skills developing from three upwards. By the age of seven most children can clap in time and by ten they can combine it with other tasks. Having established a base line, the next step is to look for research on the clapping abilities of children with learning problems. I will be writing about this subject in the next few days.

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Gilbert "Gil" Scott-Heron (April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011)[5] was an American soul and jazz poet,[2][3] musician, and author, known primarily for his work as a spoken word performer in the 1970s and 1980s. His collaborative efforts with musician Brian Jackson featured a musical fusion of jazz, blues, and soul, as well as lyrical content concerning social and political issues of the time, delivered in both rapping and melismatic vocal styles by Scott-Heron. His own term for himself was "bluesologist",[4] which he defined as "a scientist who is concerned with the origin of the blues".[note 1][6] His music, most notably on Pieces of a Man and Winter in America in the early 1970s, influenced and helped engender later African-American music genres such as hip hop and neo soul.
Scott-Heron remained active until his death, and in 2010 released his first new album in 16 years, entitled I'm New Here. A memoir he had been working on for years up to the time of his death, The Last Holiday, was published, posthumously in January 2012.[7][8]
His recording work received much critical acclaim, especially one of his best-known compositions "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised".[9]
Gil Scott-Heron was born in Chicago, Illinois.[4] His mother, Bobbie Scott-Heron, was an opera singer who performed with the New York Oratorio Society. Scott-Heron's father, Gil Heron, nicknamed "The Black Arrow", was a Jamaican football player in the 1950s who became the first black man to play for Celtic Football Club in Glasgow. Gil's parents separated in his early childhood[10] and he was sent to live with his maternal grandmother, Lillie Scott, in Jackson, Tennessee.[11][12] When Scott-Heron was 12 years old, his grandmother died and he returned to live with his mother in the Bronx, New York City. He enrolled at DeWitt Clinton High School,[10] but later transferred to The Fieldston School[4] after impressing the head of the English department with one of his writings and earning a full scholarship.[10] As one of five black students at the prestigious school, Scott-Heron was faced with alienation and a significant socioeconomic gap. During his admissions interview at Fieldston, an administrator asked him, "'How would you feel if you see one of your classmates go by in a limousine while you're walking up the hill from the subway?' And [he] said, 'Same way as you. Y'all can't afford no limousine. How do you feel?'"[13] This type of intractable boldness would become a hallmark of Scott-Heron's later recordings.
Scott-Heron attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, as it was the college chosen by his biggest influence Langston Hughes. It was here that Scott-Heron met Brian Jackson with whom he formed the band Black & Blues. After about two years at Lincoln, Scott-Heron took a year off to write the novels The Vulture and The Nigger Factory.[14] The Last Poets performed at Lincoln in 1969 and Abiodun Oyewole of that Harlem group said Scott-Heron asked him after the performance, "Listen, can I start a group like you guys?"[10] Scott-Heron returned to New York City, settling in Chelsea, Manhattan. The Vulture was published in 1970 and well received. Although Scott-Heron never received his undergraduate degree, he received a master's degree in Creative Writing in 1972 from Johns Hopkins University. His 1972 masters thesis was titled Circle of Stone.[15]
Scott-Heron began his recording career in 1970 with the LP Small Talk at 125th and Lenox. Bob Thiele of Flying Dutchman Records produced the album, and Scott-Heron was accompanied by Eddie Knowles and Charlie Saunders on conga and David Barnes on percussion and vocals. The album's 15 tracks dealt with themes such as the superficiality of television and mass consumerism, the hypocrisy of some would-be black revolutionaries, and white middle-class ignorance of the difficulties faced by inner-city residents. In the liner notes, Scott-Heron acknowledged as influences Richie Havens, John Coltrane, Otis Redding, Jose Feliciano, Billie Holiday, Langston Hughes, Malcolm X, Huey Newton, Nina Simone, and long-time collaborator Jackson.
Scott-Heron's 1971 album Pieces of a Man used more conventional song structures than the loose, spoken-word feel of Small Talk. He was joined by Jackson, Johnny Pate as conductor, Ron Carter on bass and bass guitar, drummer Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Burt Jones playing electric guitar, and Hubert Laws on flute and saxophone, with Thiele producing again. Scott-Heron's third album, Free Will, was released in 1972. Jackson, Purdie, Laws, Knowles, and Saunders all returned to play on Free Will and were joined by Jerry Jemmott playing bass, David Spinozza on guitar, and Horace Ott (arranger and conductor). Carter later said about Scott-Heron's voice, "He wasn't a great singer, but, with that voice, if he had whispered it would have been dynamic. It was a voice like you would have for Shakespeare".[10]
1974 saw another LP collaboration with Brian Jackson, the critically acclaimed opus Winter in America, with Bob Adams on drums and Danny Bowens on bass. The album contained Scott-Heron's most cohesive material and featured more of Jackson's creative input than his previous albums had. Winter in America has been regarded by many critics as the two musicians' most artistic effort.[16][17] The following year, Scott-Heron and Jackson released Midnight Band: The First Minute of a New Day. 1975 saw the release of the single "Johannesburg", a rallying cry to the issue of apartheid in South Africa. The song would be re-issued, in 12"-single form, together with "Waiting for the Axe to Fall" and "B-movie" in 1983.
A live album, It's Your World, followed in 1976 and a recording of spoken poetry, The Mind of Gil Scott-Heron, was released in 1979. Another success followed with the hit single "Angel Dust", which he recorded as a single with producer Malcolm Cecil. "Angel Dust" peaked at No.15 on the R&B charts in 1978.
In 1979, Scott-Heron played at the No Nukes concerts at Musicians United for Safe Energy to protest the use of nuclear energy following the Three Mile Island accident. Scott-Heron's song, "We Almost Lost Detroit" was included in the No Nukes album of concert highlights. It alluded to a previous nuclear power plant accident and was also the title of a book by John G. Fuller. Scott-Heron was a frequent critic of President Ronald Reagan and his conservative policies.[18]
Scott-Heron recorded and released four albums during the 1980s: 1980 and Real Eyes (1980), Reflections (1981) and Moving Target (1982). In February 1982, Ron Holloway joined the ensemble to play tenor saxophone. He toured extensively with Scott-Heron and contributed to his next album, Moving Target the same year. His tenor accompaniment is a prominent feature of the songs "Fast Lane" and "Black History/The World". Holloway continued with Scott-Heron until the summer of 1989, when he left to join Dizzy Gillespie. Several years later, Scott-Heron would make cameo appearances on two of Ron Holloway's CDs; Scorcher (1996) and Groove Update (1998), both on the Fantasy/Milestone label.[19]
Scott-Heron was dropped by Arista Records in 1985 and quit recording, though he continued to tour. The same year he helped compose and sang "Let Me See Your I.D." on the Artists United Against Apartheid album Sun City, containing the famous line, "The first time I heard there was trouble in the Middle East, I thought they were talking about Pittsburgh". The song compares racial tensions in the U.S. with those in apartheid-era South Africa, implying that the U.S. was not too far ahead in race relations. In 1993, he signed to TVT Records and released Spirits, an album that included the seminal track "'Message to the Messengers". The first track on the album criticized the rap artists of the day. Scott-Heron is known in many circles as "the Godfather of rap"[20][21] and is widely considered to be one of the genre's founding fathers. Given the political consciousness that lies at the foundation of his work, he can also be called a founder of political rap. Message to the Messengers was a plea for the new generation of rappers to speak for change rather than perpetuate the current social situation, and to be more articulate and artistic. Regarding hip hop music in the 1990s, he said in an interview:
They need to study music. I played in several bands before I began my career as a poet. There's a big difference between putting words over some music, and blending those same words into the music. There's not a lot of humor. They use a lot of slang and colloquialisms, and you don't really see inside the person. Instead, you just get a lot of posturing.[22]
— Gil Scott-Heron
In 2001, Scott-Heron was sentenced to one to three years imprisonment in a New York State prison for possession of cocaine. While out of jail in 2002, he appeared on the Blazing Arrow album by Blackalicious.[23] He was released on parole in 2003, the year BBC TV broadcast the documentary Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised—Scott-Heron was arrested for possession of a crack pipe during the editing of the film in October 2003 and received a six-month prison sentence.[24]
On July 5, 2006, Scott-Heron was sentenced to two to four years in a New York State prison for violating a plea deal on a drug-possession charge by leaving a drug rehabilitation center. He claimed that he left because the clinic refused to supply him with HIV medication. This story led to the presumption that the artist was HIV positive, subsequently confirmed in a 2008 interview.[25][26][27] Originally sentenced to serve until July 13, 2009, he was paroled on May 23, 2007.[28]
After his release, Scott-Heron began performing live again, starting with a show at SOB's restaurant and nightclub in New York on September 13, 2007. On stage, he stated that he and his musicians were working on a new album and that he had resumed writing a book titled The Last Holiday, previously on long-term hiatus, about Stevie Wonder and his successful attempt to have the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. declared a federally recognized holiday in the United States.
Malik Al Nasir dedicated a collection of poetry to Scott-Heron titled Ordinary Guy that contained a foreword by Jalal Mansur Nuriddin of The Last Poets. Scott-Heron recorded one of the poems in Watson's book entitled Black & Blue in 2006.
In April 2009 on BBC Radio Four, poet Lemn Sissay presented a half-hour documentary on Gil Scott-Heron entitled Pieces of a Man.[29] Having interviewed Gil Scott-Heron in New York a month earlier, Pieces of a Man was the first UK announcement from Gil of his forthcoming album and return to form. In November 2009, the BBC's Newsnight interviewed Gil Scott-Heron for a feature titled The Legendary Godfather of Rap Returns.[30] In 2009, a new Gil Scott-Heron website, gilscottheron.net, was launched with a new track "Where Did the Night Go" made available as a free download from the site.
In 2010 Scott-Heron was booked to perform in Tel Aviv, Israel, but this attracted criticism from pro-Palestinian activists, who stated: "Your performance in Israel would be the equivalent to having performed in Sun City during South Africa's apartheid era... We hope that you will not play apartheid Israel". Scott-Heron responded by canceling the performance.[31]
After Scott-Heron's death Malik Al Nasir told his story to Malik Al Nasir and Richard McGinnis for Yesternight Productions. The event featured Talib Kweli, Aswad, The Christians, Malik & the O.G's, Sophia Ben-Yousef and Cleveland Watkiss as well as DJ 2Kind and actor and DJ Craig Charles. The tribute was the opening event for 2015 Liverpool International Music Festival.[33]
Scott-Heron released his album I'm New Here on independent label XL Recordings on February 9, 2010. Produced by XL label owner Richard Russell, I'm New Here was Scott-Heron's first studio album in sixteen years. The pair started recording the album in 2007, with the majority of the record being recorded over the twelve months leading up to the release date with engineer Lawson White at Clinton Studios in New York. I'm New Here is 28 minutes long with 15 tracks; however, casual asides and observations collected during recording sessions are included as interludes.[10]
The album attracted critical acclaim, with The Guardian 's Jude Rogers declaring it one of the "best of the next decade",[34] while some have called the record "reverent" and "intimate", due to Scott-Heron's half-sung, half-spoken delivery of his poetry. In a music review for public radio network NPR, Will Hermes stated: "Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes ... But I was haunted by this record ... He's made a record not without hope but which doesn't come with any easy or comforting answers. In that way, the man is clearly still committed to speaking the truth".[35] Writing for music website Music OMH, Darren Lee provided a more mixed assessment of the album, describing it as rewarding and stunning, but he also statesd that the album's brevity prevents it "from being an unassailable masterpiece".[36]
Scott-Heron described himself as a mere participant in an interview with The New Yorker:
This is Richard's CD. My only knowledge when I got to the studio was how he seemed to have wanted this for a long time. You're in a position to have somebody do something that they really want to do, and it was not something that would hurt me or damage me—why not? All the dreams you show up in are not your own.[37]
The remix version of the album, We're New Here, was released in 2011, featuring production by English musician Jamie xx, who reworked material from the original album.[38] Like the original album, We're New Here received critical acclaim.[39]
In April 2014, XL Recordings announced a third album from the I'm New Here sessions, titled Nothing New.[40] The album consists of stripped-down piano and vocal recordings and was released in conjunction with Record Store Day on April 19, 2014.
"Gil Scott-Heron released poems as songs, recorded songs that were based on his earliest poems and writings, wrote novels and became a hero to many for his music, activism and his anger. There is always the anger – an often beautiful, passionate anger. An often awkward anger. A very soulful anger. And often it is a very sad anger. But it is the pervasive mood, theme and feeling within his work – and around his work, hovering, piercing, occasionally weighing down; often lifting the work up, helping to place it in your face. And for all the preaching and warning signs in his work, the last two decades of Gil Scott-Heron's life to date have seen him succumb to the pressures and demons he has so often warned others about."
Scott-Heron died on the afternoon of May 27, 2011, at St. Luke's Hospital, New York City, after becoming ill upon returning from a European trip.[1][42] Scott-Heron had confirmed previous press speculation about his health, when he disclosed in a 2008 New York Magazine interview that he had been HIV-positive for several years, and that he had been previously hospitalized for pneumonia.[27] As of May 2015, the cause of Scott-Heron's death was not announced.
He is survived by his firstborn daughter, Raquiyah "Nia" Kelly Heron, from his relationship with Pat Kelly; his son Rumal Rackley, from his relationship with Lurma Rackley;[43] daughter Gia Scott-Heron, from his marriage to Brenda Sykes;[42] and daughter [note 2] Chegianna Newton, who was 13 years old at the time of her father's death.[43][44] He is also survived by his sister Gayle; brother Denis Heron, who once managed Scott-Heron;[45] his uncle, Roy Heron;[46] and nephew Terrance Kelly, an actor and rapper who performs as Mr. Cheeks, and who was a member of Lost Boyz.[note 3]
Before his death, Scott-Heron had been in talks with Portuguese director Pedro Costa to participate in his film Horse Money as a screenwriter, composer and actor.[47]
In response to Scott-Heron's death, Public Enemy's Chuck D stated "RIP GSH...and we do what we do and how we do because of you" on his Twitter account.[48] His UK publisher, Jamie Byng, called him "one of the most inspiring people I've ever met".[49] On hearing of the death, R&B singer Usher stated: "I just learned of the loss of a very important poet...R.I.P., Gil Scott-Heron. The revolution will be live!!".[50] Richard Russell, who produced Scott-Heron's final studio album, called him a "father figure of sorts to me",[51] while Eminem stated: "He influenced all of hip-hop".[52] Lupe Fiasco wrote a poem about Scott-Heron that was published on his website.[53]
Scott-Heron's memorial service was held at Riverside Church in New York City on June 2, 2011, where Kanye West performed "Lost in the World"[54] and "Who Will Survive in America",[55] two songs from West's album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.[54] The studio album version of West's "Who Will Survive in America" features a spoken-word excerpt by Scott-Heron.[56] Scott-Heron is buried at Kensico Cemetery in Westchester County in New York.
Scott-Heron was honored posthumously in 2012 by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.[57] Charlotte Fox, member of the Washington, DC NARAS and president of Genesis Poets Music, nominated Scott-Heron for the award, while the letter of support came from Grammy award winner and Grammy Hall of Fame inductee Bill Withers.[58]
Scott-Heron's memoir, The Last Holiday, was released in January 2012.[59] In her review for the Los Angeles Times, professor of English and journalism Lynell George wrote:
The Last Holiday is as much about his life as it is about context, the theater of late 20th century America — from Jim Crow to the Reagan '80s and from Beale Street to 57th Street. The narrative is not, however, a rise-and-fall retelling of Scott-Heron's life and career. It doesn't connect all the dots. It moves off-the-beat, at its own speed ... This approach to revelation lends the book an episodic quality, like oral storytelling does. It winds around, it repeats itself.[60]
At the time of Scott-Heron's death, a will did not exist to determine the future of his estate. Additionally, Raquiyah Kelly-Heron filed papers in Manhattan, New York's Surrogate's Court in August 2013, claiming that Rumal Rackley is not Scott-Heron's son and should therefore be omitted from matters concerning the musician's estate. According to the Daily News website, Rackley, Kelly-Heron and two other sisters have been seeking a resolution to the issue of the management of Scott-Heron's estate, as Rackley claimed that Scott-Heron prepared him to be the eventual administrator of the estate. Scott-Heron's 1994 album Spirits was dedicated to "my son Rumal and my daughters Nia and Gia", and Rackley has added that Scott-Heron introduced me [Rackley] from the stage as his son".[61]
In 2011 Rackley filed a suit against sister Gia Heron and her mother, Scott-Heron's first wife, Brenda Sykes, as he believed they had unfairly attained US$250,000 of Scott-Heron's money. The case was later settled for an undisclosed sum in early 2013, but harmed the relationships between all of Scott-Heron's children, who all have different mothers. In her submission to the Surrogate's Court, Kelly-Heron states that a DNA test completed by Rackley in 2011 — using DNA from Scott-Heron's brother — revealed that they "do not share a common male lineage", while Rackley has refused to undertake another DNA test since that time. A hearing to address Kelly-Heron's filing was scheduled for late August 2013, but, as of March 2014, further information on the matter is not publicly available.[61]
Scott-Heron's work has influenced writers, academics and musicians, from indie rockers to rappers. His work during the 1970s influenced and helped engender subsequent African-American music genres, such as hip hop and neo soul. He has been described by music writers as "the godfather of rap" and "the black Bob Dylan".[62]
Chicago Tribune writer Greg Kot comments on Scott-Heron's collaborative work with Jackson:
Together they crafted jazz-influenced soul and funk that brought new depth and political consciousness to '70s music alongside Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. In classic albums such as 'Winter in America ' and 'From South Africa to South Carolina, ' Scott-Heron took the news of the day and transformed it into social commentary, wicked satire, and proto-rap anthems. He updated his dispatches from the front lines of the inner city on tour, improvising lyrics with an improvisational daring that matched the jazz-soul swirl of the music".[2]
Of Scott-Heron's influence on hip hop, Kot writes that he "presag[ed] hip-hop and infus[ed] soul and jazz with poetry, humor and pointed political commentary".[2] Ben Sisario of The New York Times writes that "He [Scott-Heron] preferred to call himself a "bluesologist", drawing on the traditions of blues, jazz and Harlem renaissance poetics".[4] Tris McCall of The Star-Ledger writes that "The arrangements on Gil Scott-Heron's early recordings were consistent with the conventions of jazz poetry – the movement that sought to bring the spontaneity of live performance to the reading of verse".[63] A music writer later noted that "Scott-Heron's unique proto-rap style influenced a generation of hip-hop artists",[9] while The Washington Post wrote that "Scott-Heron's work presaged not only conscious rap and poetry slams, but also acid jazz, particularly during his rewarding collaboration with composer-keyboardist-flutist Brian Jackson in the mid- and late '70s".[64] The Observer 's Sean O'Hagan discussed the significance of Scott-Heron's music with Brian Jackson, stating:
Together throughout the 1970s, Scott-Heron and Jackson made music that reflected the turbulence, uncertainty and increasing pessimism of the times, merging the soul and jazz traditions and drawing on an oral poetry tradition that reached back to the blues and forward to hip-hop. The music sounded by turns angry, defiant and regretful while Scott-Heron's lyrics possessed a satirical edge that set them apart from the militant soul of contemporaries such as Marvin Gaye and Curtis Mayfield.[62]
Will Layman of PopMatters wrote about the significance of Scott-Heron's early musical work:
In the early 1970s, Gil Scott-Heron popped onto the scene as a soul poet with jazz leanings; not just another Bill Withers, but a political voice with a poet's skill. His spoken-voice work had punch and topicality. "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" and "Johannesburg" were calls to action: Stokely Carmichael if he'd had the groove of Ray Charles. 'The Bottle' was a poignant story of the streets: Richard Wright as sung by a husky-voiced Marvin Gaye. To paraphrase Chuck D, Gil Scott-Heron's music was a kind of CNN for black neighborhoods, prefiguring hip-hop by several years. It grew from the Last Poets, but it also had the funky swing of Horace Silver or Herbie Hancock—or Otis Redding. Pieces of a Man and Winter in America (collaborations with Brian Jackson) were classics beyond category".[65]
Scott-Heron's influence over hip hop is primarily exemplified by his definitive single "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised", sentiments from which have been explored by various rappers, including Aesop Rock, Talib Kweli and Common. In addition to his vocal style, Scott-Heron's indirect contributions to rap music extend to his and co-producer Jackson's compositions, which have been sampled by various hip hop artists. "We Almost Lost Detroit" was sampled by Brand Nubian member Grand Puba ("Keep On"), Native Tongues duo Black Star ("Brown Skin Lady"), and MF Doom ("Camphor").[66] Additionally, Scott-Heron's 1980 song "A Legend in His Own Mind" was sampled on Mos Def's "Mr. Nigga",[67] the opening lyrics from his 1978 recording "Angel Dust" were appropriated by rapper RBX on the 1996 song "Blunt Time" by Dr. Dre,[68] and CeCe Peniston's 2000 song "My Boo" samples Scott-Heron's 1974 recording "The Bottle".[69]
In addition to the Scott-Heron excerpt used in "Who Will Survive in America", West sampled Scott-Heron and Jackson's "Home is Where the Hatred Is" and "We Almost Lost Detroit" for the songs "My Way Home" and "The People", respectively, both of which are collaborative efforts with Common.[70] Scott-Heron, in turn, acknowledged West's contributions, sampling the latter's 2007 single "Flashing Lights" on his final album, 2010's I'm New Here.[71]
Scott-Heron admitted ambivalence regarding his association with rap, remarking in 2010 in an interview for the Daily Swarm: "I don't know if I can take the blame for [rap music]".[72] As New York Times writer Sisario explained, he preferred the moniker of "bluesologist". Referring to reviews of his last album and references to him as the "godfather of rap", Scott-Heron said: "It's something that's aimed at the kids ... I have kids, so I listen to it. But I would not say it's aimed at me. I listen to the jazz station."[4]
Following Scott-Heron's funeral in 2011, a tribute from publisher, record company owner, poet, and music producer Abdul Malik Al Nasir was published on The Guardian's website. Titled "Gil Scott-Heron saved my life".[73]
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Studio albums
Small Talk at 125th and Lenox (1970)
Pieces of a Man (1971)
Free Will (1972)
The Mind of Gil Scott-Heron (1978)
Real Eyes (1980)
Reflections (1981)
Moving Target (1982)
Spirits (1994)
I'm New Here (2010)
Nothing New (2014)
with Brian Jackson
Winter in America (1974)
The First Minute of a New Day (1975)
From South Africa to South Carolina (1975)
Bridges (1977)
Secrets (1978)
1980 (1979)
with Jamie xx
We're New Here (2011)
Live albums
It's Your World (1976)
Minister of Information: Live (1994)
Tour de Force (Live) (2004)
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (1974)
The Best of Gil Scott-Heron (Arista) (1984)
Tales of Gil Scott-Heron (1990)
Glory: The Gil Scott-Heron Collection (1990)
Ghetto Style (1998)
The Gil Scott-Heron Collection: Sampler 1974-1975 (1998)
Evolution (And Flashback): The Very Best of Gil Scott-Heron (1999)
Save the Children (2004)
Anthology: Messages (2005)
The Revolution Begins: The Flying Dutchman Masters (2011)
"Home Is Where the Hatred Is"
"The Bottle"
"Hello Sunday! Hello Road!"
"Storm Music"
"Winter in America"
"Space Shuttle"
"Don't Give Up"
"The Klan"
"Me and the Devil"
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They are a familiar sight here in South Louisiana but to those unaccustomed to seeing large, exotic-looking, pure white birds hanging out so close to humans, it must be fascinating. The Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) is often seen still-hunting for fish, insects and crustaceans in roadside ditches and waterways, or flying elegantly above our neighborhoods. They also happen to be part of the Camp Salmen Nature Park logo because there always seems to be one or two of them stalking the banks on our part of Bayou Liberty.
They are a big bird in stature only, standing two feet tall with a three foot wingspan, yet they weigh only about three-quarters of a pound. I once found one that had just been struck by a car and, as it was the first time I ever had an opportunity to lay hands on one, I was astonished at how remarkably light it was; like a bird ought to be, I supposed.
Egrets have bright yellow feet that apparently help scare up their prey, long, spindly black legs for wading that stick straight out behind them as they fly. There is a long, pointy, black beak on the other end; all the better for plucking up the small animals they eat. If need be they can adroitly toss their victim in the air to catch it and reposition it for swallowing. Their slender neck is usually coiled in a graceful "S" shape while standing or in flight but stretches out straight when they gulp their catch.
They usually find an isolated spot nearby to roost together up off the ground for the night. They seek even more remote locations to build their rickety nests in trees for group breeding. It's an awesome sight to come across dozens of their stark white forms nesting together deep in a dark cypress forest.
The species got into real trouble at the turn of the last century because their breeding season plumage, a cascade of special, lacy white feathers, were considered quite fashionable on a lady's hat. Since the value of these feathers exceeded that of gold, they were slaughtered on an industrial scale to near extinction. This problem actually gave rise to the nation's first wildlife sanctuaries. Fortunately, this happened at the same time women's fashions lurched off in other directions.


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Gjaja Named Interim Vice President
for Advancement
By Greta Petry (September 10,
President John R. Ryan has announced the appointment
of Vesna Gjaja to the position of interim vice
president for University Advancement, effective
September 13. Ryan said, "Vesna has the ideal
background to take our Bold.Vision. campaign
to the next level. Vesna is looking forward
to returning to UAlbany, where she held key
positions. I'm sure the alumni and friends of
UAlbany will welcome her return."
Gjaja, a UAlbany alumna, returns to the University
at Albany from Towson University, the second
largest institution in the University of Maryland
System, where she was associate vice president
for development and executive vice president
for Towson University Foundation, Inc.
From 1993 to September 2000, Gjaja was prominent
in the University at Albany administration,
first as director of community relations, then
as interim assistant vice president for Alumni
Affairs, and finally, as assistant vice president
for University Advancement and director of Marketing
and Special Events, until taking a position
at Towson University. From July 2001 to March
2002, she also served at Towson as interim vice
president for University Advancement and provided
strategic and entrepreneurial leadership for
all philanthropic, communications, and marketing
activities. She managed a $7.5 million budget.
Since 2000, she has been responsible for the
goals and direction of the Development Office,
including major gifts, planned giving, corporate
and foundation relations, annual fund, alumni
relations, and special events.
Gjaja led the fund-raising team at Towson to
the successful completion of its first capital
campaign, raising $21.5 million, exceeding the
goal by $4 million. In addition, she established
a university-based planned giving effort, increasing
the donor base and gift revenues. She also developed
a strategy to increase alumni volunteer participation
and giving, and cultivated and solicited major
donors and corporations. Gjaja initiated and
successfully completed conversion of the manual
phone-athon to an automated system, increasing
annual fund revenues by more than 30 percent.
She attended the University of Belgrade in
the former Yugoslavia before transferring to
UAlbany, where she graduated summa cum laude.
Prior to joining UAlbany, she was a marketing
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I pulled this one out of a storage box. I made it in Paris, 2003. Black and white film, printed on Agfa Multicontrast Classic 118 fiber paper, sepia toned and hand colored. I like the layers of stuff on the wall and the juxtaposition of the old painted lingerie sign and the newish poster with a woman's leg.
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Pureed in a marinade, mango gives the fish a lush, sweet flavor. The jerk sauce is available at specialty food stores. Amazing Seafood Recipes
How to Make It
Step 1
In a food processor, combine the mango, shallot, jerk sauce, lime juice and honey. Process until smooth and transfer to a medium bowl. Add the tuna and turn to coat. Cover and refrigerate for 3 hours.
Step 2
Preheat the grill or broiler. Remove the tuna from the marinade, season with salt and pepper and grill on a lightly oiled rack or broiler pan for 1 to 1 1/2 minutes per side, for very rare, or slightly longer for medium. Serve with the Mango Couscous.
One Serving Calories 339 kcal, Total Fat 9.8 gm, Saturated Fat 2.5 gm.
Suggested Pairing
With the meaty tuna, try a round, fat-textured, fruity California Chardonnay.


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While Stephen Dedalus and Buck Mulligan were sniping at each other over breakfast on June 16, Leopold and Molly Bloom were discussing the idea of metempsychosis (better known as reincarnation) over their morning tea. After toiling through "Proteus," we're all familiar with high-minded metaphysical ideas and obscure references sliding in and out of the text of Ulysses. "Calypso," like the preceding episodes, is full of references a 21st century reader might miss, but in this episode, we find high-minded topics like metempsychosis embedded in pop cultural ephemera that would have been recognizable to people in 1904 but might go over our heads today. Welcome to the mind of Leopold Bloom.


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Saturday, October 9, 2010
1999-2000 St. Louis Blues Pierre Turgeon Jersey
Pierre Turgeon was drafted 1st overall in the 1987 NHL Entry Draft by the Buffalo Sabres and begain his NHL career in 1987-88 with a serviceable 42 points in 76 games. He more than doubled that total in just his second season with his first 30 goal season when he scored 34 goals and 54 assists for 88 points. He cemented his place as a fan favorite and team leader the next season with his first 100 point season, when he hit the 40 goal plateau and tallied 106 points. Once again he reached 30 goals in 1990-91 with 32, although his overall scoring dipped to 79 points.
In the first of some notable trades, Turgeon was dealt to the New York Islands along with Benoit Houge, Uwe Krupp and Dave McLlwain for Pat LaFontaine, Randy Wood and Randy Hiller plus future considerations.
He was a fan favorite on Long Island and would lead the Islanders in scoring, by margins of 7, 45 and 19 points, during his three full seasons with the club and finish tied for second the year he was traded away, despite playing in only 34 games, such was the state of the lowly Islanders in 1994-95.
His best season with the Islanders was the 1992-93 season when he would net 58 goals and add 74 assists for a 132 points, placing 5th overall in the league in what would prove to be his highest scoring season as a pro. He was also awarded the Lady Byng Trophy after the conclusion of the season.
Turgeon accepts the Lady Byng Trophy
When Islanders General Manager Don Maloney traded Turgeon to the Montreal Canadiens in 1994-95, concerned that Turgeon would never be the same player after the Dale Hunter incident, it turned into a nightmare for the Islanders, as Canadiens captain Kirk Muller was the main player the Islanders received in return for Turgeon, and Muller was clearly at a point in his career where he wanted to compete for another Stanley Cup, and not lead the downtrodden Islanders back to respectability. In the end, Muller would play just 27 games for the Islanders while Turgeon was named captain of the Canadiens for the final season at the historic Montreal Forum in which he scored 38 goals and 96 points.
After only nine games of the 1996-97 season, Turgeon was once again on the move, this time to St. Louis to join the Blues in a five player deal that brought Shayne Corson to Montreal. There, Turgeon found a level of stability, playing five seasons with St. Louis, where he averaged more than a point per game (1.09) with a high of 82 in 2000-01. His time in St. Louis included scoring his 1,000th point on this date in 1999 with a power play goal in a 4-2 win over the Edmonton Oilers.
After five seasons in St. Louis, Turgeon signed on with the Dallas Stars as a free agent for the 2001-02 season. His offensive numbers reflected his changed role while with the Stars as he did not surpass 50 points again in his career, something that had only occurred once before in his career when he had 47 points in 49 games during the strike shortened season of 1994-95 while splitting time between the Islanders and Canadiens.
Following three years with Dallas, he signed as a free agent with the Colorado Avalanche coming out of the NHL lockout of 2004-05. While with Colorado that first season, Turgeon reached the 500 goal mark, just the 34th player in NHL history to reach that elusive milestone. He was limited to just 17 games by various injuries in his final season of 2006-07 and retired from the NHL in September of 2007.
Turgeon displays his 500th goal puck
His career point totals were 515 goals and 812 assists for 1,327 points in 1,294 games, a 1.03 point per game average for his entire 19 year NHL career.
Today's featured jersey is a 1999-2000 St. Louis Blues Pierre Turgeon jersey as worn during the season Turgeon scored his 1,000th NHL point as a member of the Blues.
The Blues changed to this style jersey full time after introducing a white version of this style as an alternate in 1997. They promoted that very well received jersey to the primary home jersey the following season and created today's blue road version to round out the set which replaced the controversial previous set which had repeating diagonal stripes and road jerseys with an unprecedented amount of red.
Turgeon is a fun player to collect, as his instantly recognizable #77 has been worn on the classic Sabres jersey with the Sabres 20th Anniversary patch and later the NHL 75th Anniversary patch, the classic New York Islanders jersey with both the NHL 75th Anniversary patch and the Islanders 20th Anniversary patch in 1991-92 and the Stanley Cup Centennial patch in 1992-93.
He then wore the iconic jerseys of the Montreal Canadiens while wearing both the assistant's "A" and captain's "C", the Blues jerseys with the repeating diagonal stripes and the subsequent set featured today with the NHL 2000 patch, both Blues styles with the assistant captain's "A", the wonderful Dallas Stars set with the integrated star shape in the body, the bizarre Stars "Mooterus" alternate, the championship era Colorado Avalanche jerseys (while wearing the unfamiliar #87), including their diagonally crested burgundy alternate, with the Avalanche 10th Anniversary patch and the one game only Teammates for Kids patch.
Additionally, Turgeon also played in four NHL All-Star Games in 1990, 1993, 1994 and 1996, giving the collector 16 different jerseys with multiple patching options to pursue.
Today's video section begins with the drafting of Turgeon #1 overall by the Buffalo Sabres.
Next up is his 1,000th NHL point, scored on this date in 1999, which was also his 399th goal.
Finally, Turgeon's first goal as a Montreal Canadien.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
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The alleged serial killer of women, whose body parts were found from different parts of city on identical dates, was remanded to the custody of Soldier Bazaar Police till April 30, here on Wednesday by Judicial Magistrate East Javed Iqbal Malik.
The accused who was arrested on Tuesday, threw body parts of a woman who was later identified as Nasreen and said to be mother of five children.
The killer confessing the killing and then severing body parts, putting them into plastic bags and later dumping them parts in different parts of city, maintained that he had exchange of hot words with the woman over money as she was a prostitute.
The accused, a rickshaw driver, used to lure women, bring them to his rented place and later butchered them. Police submitting the request for physical custody, said that co-accused Iqbal has absconded and hunt is on to arrest him.
The JM after going through the police papers and remand request gave a physical remand of the accused to Soldier Bazaar Police till April 30.
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Long Live Dead Reckless
Safari Spell
(Long Live Dead Reckless #1)
Publication date: July 19th 2016
Genres: New Adult, Paranormal, Romance
Talor Gardin may be a princess, but her life is no fairy tale.
A year ago, her mother died and her father burned down their house. Now with a father in and out of a mental ward, she's working a minimum wage job to finish her last semester of college. To make matters worse, she gets itchy every time a guy makes a move on her. The itch could be anything, really: a desire to escape her haunted hometown, a financial windfall, the name of some vampire…or all the above. Whatever the reason, she thinks the answers are written in the freckle constellations of her cute new coworker, Sage Talis.
Sage is the quiet, polite type with plenty of secrets – like fangs and a price on his head – and Talor can't figure out what makes him so irresistible until she hears him sing. But when cryptic letters appear on her wrist, Talor is thrust into a world where fantastic creatures lurk just below the skin, strangers keep calling her a princess, and everything she's been through is nothing compared to what's coming.
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He cried out in pain or anger, maybe both; it wasn't clear. With that, darkness started to spread and thicken across his skin, forcing him down on all fours. His body twisted and heaved in such desperate, unnatural contortions that I was afraid he was going to break his own back. My blood ran cold as it hit me – this is what the evo looks like. He was becoming something right now. He pawed against his skin in hysterics, trying to stop the process. I watched in suspended belief, unable to even scream. But when those cold, black eyes fixated my way, I knew it was time to go.
A rush of adrenaline flooded me all at once and filled my ears with a high-pitched hum. I took off at a full gallop, completely unaware of where I was heading. My arms pumped as my spinning legs had me running on air in a leap over the porch steps. I barreled across the empty yard in the dark, hair flying madly behind me. My only light was the full moon above and while it was bright enough to see by, it was no friend of mine tonight.
I bolted, giving no thought to the fact that I didn't drive. A heavy rhythmic, repetitive thud charged after me. I didn't look back. I knew who it was, but not what it was. I gulped in air, nearly choking on the breaths. With each step, I silently begged my body to go faster than was physically possible.
Faster, faster, please go faster!
Nothing motivated my muscles to risk ripping apart so I could escape, and I realized my mistake too late. There were no other houses on the isolated street to run for help. I had a split second to decide on taking the dirt road or heading into the forest. I made my way into the tree line at the edge of the property. It was the longest hundred-yard dash I'd ever run, but it was probably my fastest time. Still, I never felt so slow.
I couldn't say what prompted me to seek shelter running into a dense pine forest, but I wasn't me in those moments. I was the survival instinct incarnate. The panic clouded my concentration long enough for my shoulder to half slam into a tree, the rough bark of the pine leaving its revenge on me in a long red scrape down my arm.
It spun me around in wobbly circles as I stumbled and tried to catch my balance in motion. During a turn, I caught the billowing black fur and teeth and eyes shining as the creature pursued. The sight jolted me with a fresh batch of adrenaline.
I looked for a tree to climb or a light somewhere in the distance, but only dark pines and thorn bushes surrounded the path. Glancing up at the treetops, I could feel them watching, but they took no pity looking down on me. Weary, I weaved through the thickening trees of the forest until I looked back to see him closing in.
The sweat poured down as I made one last ditch effort to outrun the creature chasing me. My next step found me without footing as I came upon a huge drop off at the edge of the Flint River. Instinctively, I flailed for a tree branch when a massive, vicious claw came swinging at me. Falling back, I closed my eyes, expecting a blow – a blow from the claw, a blow from the water, something. But nothing came. Quiet. Just the sound of labored breathing. Mine. His. Its. Instead, a tight grip on my forearm whipped me into a sudden, jerky stop.
When I opened my eyes, I saw that I was suspended mid-air by a hand reaching out from the darkness of the woods. My feet bounced involuntarily against the ledge as my legs trembled from adrenaline and exhaustion. I looked to see what was holding me. The hand was human. The rest was not.
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Safari Spell is a native of Albany, Georgia. She has a BA in Journalism from Valdosta State University. She currently lives in North Georgia with her husband, hilarious daughter, and a backyard jungle harboring all the dinosaurs everyone thinks are extinct. Her dreams include chasing autumn around the globe, owning a wallaby, and riding a camel for at least nine seconds.
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Auschwitz and Catholic Jews | Dr. Ralph McInerny | Foreword to Edith Stein and Companions, On the Way to Auschwitz, by Father Paul Hamans
Once, in monasteries, religious houses, and seminaries, the Roman Martyrology was read in the refectory before meals. Each day some of those who had given their lives in witness to the faith were commemorated by name, and often the tortures they underwent were described. Each day's entry ended with a sentence beginning "et alibi aliorum plurimorum sanctorum…. " And elsewhere many other saints. … This tradition continues in some monasteries.
We may feel sad for all the anonymous martyrs gathered into that commodious final sentence, but that would be a mistake. They are all entered in the Book of Life, and the names of each are known to God. For all that, it is important for us, not for them, that the names and sufferings of some be explicitly known by us. The saints are put before us as models of the Christian life, and martyrs are the ultimate models. We need to know more about some of them.
In this remarkable book, Dr. Paul Hamans, Father Hamans, has undertaken the onerous task of compiling biographies, often accompanied by photographs, of many of the religious and laity who were rounded up from their various convents and monasteries and homes on the same day as Saint Edith Stein, August 2, 1942; most of them were taken to the Amersfoort concentration camp and from there put on trains to Auschwitz, where the majority, soon after their arrival at the camp, were gassed and buried in a common grave between August 9 and September 30, 1942. They were all Catholic Jews, and their arrest was in retaliation for the letter of the Catholic bishops of the Netherlands that was read from the pulpits of all churches on July 26, 1942.
Over the past few years, in striking contrast to contemporary acknowledgments and the magnificent book of Jewish theologian and historian Pinchas Lapide, many authors have accused the Church of silence during the Nazi persecution of the Jews. None of the counterevidence to this shameful thesis has had any effect on the critics. The experience of Jews in the Netherlands, particularly Catholic Jews, is eloquent witness of what could result from public condemnation of the Nazis. The victims whose stories are included in this book were told that they were rounded up in direct retaliation of the condemnation of the Nazi "final solution" by the Dutch bishops.
Elsewhere, as was once acknowledged and celebrated, the Church in many ways, and in many countries, provided the principal help to European Jews. Indeed, the Catholic Church, under the leadership of Pope Pius XII, is credited by Lapide with saving the lives of some 860,000 Jews. These efforts were effective largely because they were not accompanied by noisy public declarations. With the appearance of the mendacious play of Rolf Hochhuth,The Deputy, in 1963, the tide turned, and a series of progressively more intemperate accusations against the Church and Pius XII began to appear. Some Jews reacted to mention of the non-Jewish victims of the Nazi persecution as if it were in some way an effort to diminish the tragedy that had befallen the Jewish people under the reign of Hitler. There were even objections from some Catholics when Edith Stein was canonized and characterized as a martyr. Their argument was that she was put to death as a Jew, not as a Catholic. And some sad souls objected to acknowledgment of what had happened to Catholic Jews like Edith Stein and her companions. This book is an indirect reply to such criticisms and will speak to all who have ears with which to hear.
That the ultimate sacrifice of the Catholic Jews arrested in the wake of the Dutch bishops' protest should become a cause of controversy is a sad indictment of these last days. But it cannot touch the nobility and holy resignation with which they met their end. Pondering the people commemorated in this book should be an occasion, not for argument, but for edification. Father Hamans has put us in his debt for having taken on the enormous task of making them flesh-and-blood persons for his readers. During the ordeal, one nun wrote to her superior that they had all become numbers to their captors. Lists had been drawn up with diabolical bureaucratic efficiency by the Nazis, which is why the arrests were made so promptly.
Thanks to this book, they are no longer mere numbers. Like those mentioned in the Martyrology, their names have been restored. But, again, the importance of that is largely for us. They would have been content, like perhaps millions of others, with the collective mention of the army of martyrs in the Te Deum Laudamus:
Te martyrum candidatus laudat exercitus.
Ralph McInerny
University of Notre Dame
September 2010
Edith Stein and Companions On the Way to Auschwitz
by Father Paul Hamans
On the same summer day in 1942, Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) and hundreds of other Catholic Jews were arrested in Holland by the occupying Nazis. One hundred thirteen of those taken into custody, several of them priests and nuns, perished at Auschwitz and other concentration camps. They were murdered in retaliation for the anti-Nazi pastoral letter written by the Dutch Catholic bishops.
While Saint Teresa Benedicta is the most famous member of this group, having been canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1998, all of them deserve the title of martyr, for they were killed not only because they were Jews but also because of the faith of the Church, which had compelled the Dutch bishops to protest the Nazi regime. Through extensive research in both original and secondary sources, P.W.F.M. Hamans has compiled these martyrs' biographies, several of them detailed and accompanied by photographs. Included in this volume are some remarkable conversion stories, including that of Edith Stein, the German philosopher who had entered the Church in 1922 and later became a Carmelite nun, taking the name Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross.
Several of the witnesses chronicled here had already suffered for their faith in Christ before falling victim to Hitler's "Final Solution", enduring both rejection by their own people, including family members, and persecution by the so-called Christian society in which they lived. Among these were those who, also like Sister Teresa Benedicta, perceived the cross they were being asked to bear and accepted it willingly for the salvation of the world.


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Have you ever met someone so unassumingly tough that when they demonstrate their power and might your jaw hits the floor? That's how I feel about my mom. I've penned a few blog posts about my mother over the years, so this statement may not come as a shock to many of you. I, however, continue to be amazed by this gutsy octogenarian's exploits.
Shortly after her 86th birthday this past January, my mom was diagnosed with small cell carcinoma (lung cancer). I don't think this was truly a shock to anyone. A former tobacco smoker, my mom has emphysema and a history of severe bouts of pneumonia. The ultimate diagnosis, however, was perhaps more devastating to me than to my mom. When I questioned her as to how she felt following the initial diagnosis, my mom said, "It's going to be what it is. If Saint Peter opens the gates for me, then I'm ready." That peace—her peace—became my peace. There was no other way for me to accept the circumstances at hand.
So, here we are four months later, and my mom just completed her prescribed round of chemotherapy yesterday, May 11th. Additionally, she began radiation treatments—a prescribed course of thirty treatments to take place twice daily over the course of fifteen weekdays. The first two days of radiation piggybacked her final two days (6 hours and 2 hours, respectively) of chemotherapy. I don't know about you, but this schedule is daunting to even me. But you know what—my mother handled it like Muhammad Ali handled Sonny Liston. I am awestruck.
Something and someone else I need to make mention of in this Mother's Day tribute is my sister, Karen. She has been a steadfast anchor for my mom for not only the past few months, but for years. She is there, day in and day out, meeting what needs my proud mother sees fitting to share. As a matter of course, she has always been there to tend the flowers and lawn in summer and snow-covered driveway in winter as well as all needs that fall outside of my strong (feisty) mother's capabilities in seasons between. But since my mother's cancer diagnosis, my sister's responsibilities have grown exponentially. She is the keeper of myriad appointments, the sole source of transportation to and from the many appointments, and the general caretaker of all things beyond my mother's abilities. Don't misconstrue this, however. I am certainly not insinuating my mother is incapable, because she absolutely is not, which amazes me, but I digress…
So, as we approach this Mother's Day, I'm giving my biggest, loudest shout out to my mom for her continued desire, willingness and ability to kick ass. (Yes, I cursed; butt just didn't sound as effective. #eyeroll) Happy Mother's Day, mom. You are amazing! You've put forth enormous (literally and figuratively) shoes to fill. I hope to leave this life one day as a fraction of the woman and mother you are.


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Here at the Santa Fe Ranch we inspire people and create opportunity in our community by providing hands-on experiences in nature via high quality outdoor education and agriculture programs.
The Paula and Cabot Sedgwick Family Foundation, dba The Santa Fe Ranch, is a 501(c)(3) dedicated to environmental conservation, preservation, education, and agriculture to promote healthy, active, conscious living in Santa Cruz County, Arizona. The Santa Fe Ranch consists of 3,300 acres of valleys, mesas, mountains and river bottom alongside approximately one mile of the Santa Cruz River.
A core principal in education is to connect people with nature. The Santa Fe Ranch offers programs for both children and adults.. Read more>
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Water in the desert is a rare and wonderful thing. The Santa Fe Ranch with hundreds of partners and volunteers have restored this natural marsh located in the city of Nogales. Read more>
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I am waiting for my 5 speed gear box.The last three years we used the orignal 4 speed albion gearbox that came with the bike.I should get it in a day or two.The first thing to do is change the shifter from left to right which in my opinion is the correct side!
Then starts the process of fabricating the rear sets and gear shift for the new box.
The advantage of using the 5 speed over the 4 speed even though the final ratio on both boxes are 1:1 1st through 4th is closer and slightly lower than the 4 speed.
the difference in gear ratios between the two boxes are as follows:
the 4 speed ratios: 1st = 2.78:1, 2nd = 1.84:1, 3rd = 1.36:1, 4th = 1:1.
5 Speed ratios: 1st = 3.06:1, 2nd = 2.01:1, 3rd = 1.52:1, 4th = 1.21:1, 5th = 1:1.
this coupled with the fact that the 5speed is more positive and sure while shifting should improve launch times and dreaded! missed shifts should be a thing of the past.
I will post pictures once we start the fabrication.
Sunday, November 9, 2008
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The girls on the squad don't just represent the school and lead the charge for school spirit - they are also The Squad (note the capital letters) an elite squad of government operatives who go places where they will not be suspected. Wait, sounds familiar right? Teen operatives working under the adult radar to collect evidence, evade the bad guys, and save the day - but you have never seen teen operatives like these before. In a matter of days Toby is preened and prepped to become part of The Squad - both on the cheerleading pyramid and on the streets of Bayport tracking down some missing intelligence and trying to infiltrate the "lair" of the bad guys. It is an interesting couple of days, and Toby is slowly coming to realise that cheerleaders are not just blonde airheads who shake their pom poms - they are also some very slick operators who could show the adults a thing or two!
I always enjoy reading authors who are able to work across several genre, especially if they work across those different genre well - and Jennifer Lynn Barnes has made a very slick and polished move with the first book in The Squad series. Toby is a lovable anti-hero who seems to spend most of the first part of the book in shocked disbelief about what is lurking in the halls of Bayport High, and the fact that the cheerleaders are not the airheads she thought they were. It is a culture shock, especially when she discovers the secret skills hidden under each perfect hairdo and the perfect make up. There are the expected clichés but they are palatable and lead to some seriously laugh out loud moments for Toby and the situations around her - they are not overworked clichés and may be less cliché for younger readers who have not read quite as widely as I do.
The teen spy/agent genre is well and truly alive thanks to ground-breaking characters like Alex Rider and James Adams - so it is a challenge to create a new angle and Barnes has done a very good job of carving out her own little niche in this world. Her characters are well developed, although at times I had a little trouble keeping some of the characters that were more in the background straight - but I have to confess that was more me than the book I think (read here that I was a little distracted while reading parts of the book). I look forward to reading the second book in the series to see what happens next for Toby and the team - especially because it feels as though there is a little undercurrent happening with the story that may lead to something interesting....
If you like this book then try:
- Bad kitty by Michele Jaffe
- All-American girl by Meg Cabot
- Heist society by Ally Carter
- Model spy by Shannon Greenland
- A girl named Digit by Annabel Monahgan
- Nickel plated by Aric Davis
- Burning blue by Paul Griffin
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The Christian-Muslim Frontier
A Zone of Contact, Conflict or Co-operation
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Book Description
The Christian-Muslim Frontier describes the historical formation of this zone, and its contemporary dimensions: geopolitical, psychological, economic and security. Special attention is given to the concept of state-frontiers, to the effects of the uneven development of nation states and the contemporary interspersing of communities, which creates new functional frontiers. Further, the frontier is described as a mental construction, imagined by people in their search for social order, individual and collective security.
Apostolov demonstrates that it is the political and economic situation of the local people that determines whether these frontiers result in conflict or cooperation. Rather than imposing unilateral principles of good governance, and to ensure cooperation prevails in Christian-Muslim relations, he argues that world society needs to undertake multilateral efforts to build participatory political institutions that accommodate groups with different identities.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. The Concept of the Christian-Muslim Frontier as a Zone of Contact 2. History of the Christian-Muslim Frontier 3. Modern Nation States and the Frontier 4. Interspersing Communities and the Postmodern Functional Frontier 5. Geopolitics of the Frontier 6. The Christian-Muslim Frontier as a Psychological Creation 7. International Security Dimension of the Frontier 8. The Economic Dimension of the Frontier Conclusion
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Mario Apostolov currently works for the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. He is also a visiting scholar at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, where he took his PhD.


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ACT Policing have put out this media release on their little get together with the Cycle groups of the ACT in response to this unfortunate event.
Superintendent Michael Chew said that the aim of the meeting is to ensure that cycling groups are aware of their obligations in ensuring their members obey the road rules when they use roads open to traffic.
"The objective of this meeting is to make sure road safety is foremost in the minds of all road users when these events are held. We do not want to see further accidents at these events; the safety of all road users is of the upmost importance.†Superintendent Chew said today.


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Five Ways TROY Prepared Me for Success
August 17, 2018
By Chellie Phillips
ADPi welcomed new members during bid day activities on Saturday, Aug. 11.
I was asked, "How did Troy University prepare you for your career?" As I stopped and thought about it, I realized TROY prepared me for more than just a career, it helped me grow into the person I am today. So, here are five ways my University helped me prepare for success.
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Nobel Prize and Swag
Are you sitting comfortably? I really, really like swag. Indispensable to homosapians today, there are just not enough blues songs written about swag. Often it is seen as both a help and a hinderence to the easily lead, obviously. Though I would rather be in bed I will now examine the primary causes of swag.
Social Factors
Society is a simple word with a very complex definition. Back when Vealinger reamarked 'the power struggle will continue while the great tale of humanity remains untold' [1] he, contrary to my learned colleague Sir George Allen's recent publication 'Into the eye of , could not have been referring to eighteenth century beliefs regarding society. Both tyranny and democracy are tried and questioned. Yet swag bravely illustrates what we are most afraid of, what we all know deep down in our hearts.
Did I mention how lovely swag is? It breaks the mould, shattering man's misunderstanding of man.
Economic Factors
We no longer live in a world which barters 'I'll give you three cows for that hat, it's lovely.' Our existance is a generation which cries 'Hat - $20.' We will begin by looking at the Watkis-Teeth-Pulling model, which I hope will be familiar to most readers. Housing
The results displayed in the graph are too clear to be ignored. Obviously housing prices will continue to follow swag for the foreseeable future. Supply Side Economic Tax Cuts Tax deductions could turn out to be a risky tactic.
Political Factors
Machiavellian politics is rife. Are our leaders justified in pursuing and maintaining political power? Looking at the spectrum represented by a single political party can be reminiscent of comparing the two, equally popular approaches to swag. If the reader is unaware of these, they need only to turn on the television, or pick up a newspaper or popular magazine.
We cannot talk of swag and politics without remembering the words of nobel prize winner Kuuipo H. Amster 'political...
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Goji wrote:They'll never disappear as long as the as the internet exists
^ I mean, this goes for practically anything lol.
Goji wrote:Seriously though, **** you. Stop whining and stinking up this topic with your ignorant rhetoric.
Let's please not cuss out members. If someone is derailing a thread, or the conversation is starting to go off course or <reason to report here>, hit the report button instead of telling a user to go fly a kite.


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ORLANDO, Fla. — A single flush of a toilet at Orlando International Airport over the weekend ended up delaying thousands of passengers as a hazmat team cleaned up sewage that flowed into one of the airport's customs areas.
An investigation is ongoing into what caused the toilet issue, but it appears someone was trying to flush the contents of a suitcase, officials said.
The flooding caused passengers flying into Orlando from outside the country to be bused to a customs area on the opposite side of the airport Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
Traveler Mike Ortiz said getting through the ordeal took a lot of time.
"As soon as we landed, they immediately told us that there were problems with the terminal and we would have to sit there on the tarmac for a while," he said. "There were carpets ripped up and there were floor fans trying to air out what was, I guess, some flooding going on."
Officials at the airport said they were still looking into what was flushed and who flushed it, but their immediate efforts had been to get the customs area reopened.
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We are confident that your interest in dancing and the performing arts will be challenged and developed by taking part in one or more of our dance disciplines.
Our staff and students dedication and commitment have enabled us to receive the Best of Texoma Award for 11 years in a row.
Find out about our classes, our staff, our policies, and other information here on our website.
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The value of worldwide mergers and acquisitions announced so far this year has topped $1 trillion.
This is only the third time deal values have surpassed this mark since records began in 1980, weekly Thomson Reuters data showed today.
Deal volumes shot up following a flurry in the healthcare sector.
This included Zimmer Holdings' $13.35 billion acquisition of rival orthopaedic products maker Biomet and the agreement between Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline to trade more than $20 billion worth of assets.
US investment bank Goldman Sachs, an adviser to Biomet and Novartis, climbed to the top of the M&A league table after having worked on deals worth $72 billion this week.


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Into the Wild (Warriors)
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Into the Wild is the first book in the Warriors series. It was written by Kate Cary and Cherith Baldry under the pen name of Erin Hunter.
|Erin Hunter
|Cover artist
|Wayne McLoughlin
|United Kingdom
United States
|Children's literature
Fantasy novel
|Avon, HarperCollins
Publication date
|January 21, 2003
|Media type
|Print (hardback & paperback)
|272 (depending on edition)
|LC Class
|PZ7.H916625 In 2003
|Followed by
|Fire and Ice
Plot SummaryEdit
Rusty was an ordinary house cat who dreamed of living in the wild, catching his own prey and sleeping under the stars. One night, he decided to explore the nearby forest but was warned by his friend, Smudge, that the forest was filled with dangerous, wild cats. Rusty continued into the forest anyway and meets with the leader of ThunderClan, Bluestar leader of one of the four wild cat clans living in the nearby forest. He decides to accept her invitation to join her clan and becomes Firepaw, an apprentice of ThunderClan. The other Clan cats are initially reluctant to accept Firepaw because of his kittypet origins, but he earns a place in the Clan as he is a natural fighter, hunter,and a truly loyal member of ThunderClan.
Firepaw quickly becomes best friends with the apprentices Graypaw and Ravenpaw, and falls in love with the Clan's medicine cat (a Clan healer with spiritual abilities, forbidden to have a mate or kits) Spottedleaf. He continues his apprenticeship and learns to hunt, fight, survive in the wild and about Clan traditions. He finds another great friend, Yellowfang, an old, grumpy but very profound medicine cat who was exiled from ShadowClan and later accepted into ThunderClan and taken care of by Firepaw.
The cats have no natural enemies in the forest, but the Clans occasionally fight with each other to occupy hunting grounds, to settle dissensions, or even to drive each other out from their territories. In an earlier battle to re-occupy a region known as sunning rocks, the ThunderClan deputy (second in command) Redtail loses his life. This happens shortly before Firepaw arrives. Firepaw later learns from Ravenpaw that the deputy was not killed by the enemy Clan but by Tigerclaw, an ambitious ThunderClan warrior. Expecting to be named deputy, he is disturbed when Lionheart is made the new deputy just after Firepaw arrives. Firepaw and Graypaw help Ravenpaw escape the forest to live on a farm as Tigerclaw plans to kill him for knowing about his secret....
After driving out WindClan for more hunting territory, ShadowClan tries to drive out ThunderClan, leading to a battle. Lionheart is killed during the fight, and Tigerclaw is named deputy. After this, Clawface of ShadowClan kills Spottedleaf and steals some ThunderClan kits. Everyone leads to suspect that it was Yellowfang who took the kits, considering she disappeared the moment they revealed Clawface's murder. Firepaw, along with Graypaw, follow Yellowfang's scent to ShadowClan territory, to find out the truth about Spottedleaf and the missing kits. Together, with some help from within ShadowClan, they drive out Brokenstar, the villainous leader of ShadowClan. Yellowfang, having proved her loyalty, becomes ThunderClan's new medicine cat, while Firepaw and Graypaw are made warriors and receive their warrior names, Fireheart and Graystripe.


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Goats and Chops
Yes @smashertr likes to play with his goats and school me on my womanly responsibilities. Somehow I don't think he is talking about meat on the grill exactly. Now we are not going to eat the goats though they will probably be good eating about the time they get to the other side of the […]
Some People Will Do Anything To Avoid Grass Cutting
Look you all know I love him, but a grass cutting kinda guy @smashertr is not. Oh, to be honest really the whole yard work thing leaves him mystified . However, he can be solution oriented and so he has a plan. [lightbox href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arhDw50lUfY"]Open in Lightbox[/lightbox]
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@smashertr brings home the brakes and the Berry White. Let it never be said that white boys don't know how to get some. Okay now you have seen enough we are going to the bedroom and finish up. [lightbox href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS0BbSftSiU"]Open in Lightbox[/lightbox]
Surviving Your EX – Come To My Window – Melissa Etheridge
If you have ever been driven crazy by a ex-boyfriend/girlfriend you can relate to this. Can you describe your ex in one word… Best description after 10 who friend me or are my friend on Facebook will get a $5 Starbucks gift card. Those of you who know me know what I am talking about!!! YES, […]
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Where the Bottle Go
[lightbox href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhXsMiU-Dp8″]Open in Lightbox[/lightbox] Okay so it seems we were both a little snookered. But fun was had by all obviously. His poor parents had to put up with us that night.
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Keno's Poem
I kissed you last night And it was The kiss of a thousand devils Screaming back from my past All the feelings The love The Pain We used to share Tenderly together On the fine line Of secrecysd
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You are my tree Massive pillar of strengh Standing over me Protecting me Sheltering me Shading me Love it is late fall here still you are standing Over me massive pillar But you look named And weak today With no leaves To cloth you The sun reflects off snow And blinds me The icicles make […]


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Instagram channelpar Shopify
Sell on Instagram by tagging products in your posts & stories.
Tag your posts & stories
Let people discover your products while they browse their Instagram feed.
Sell on Instagram
Let customers check out from your posts & stories without leaving Instagram.
Highlight your shoppable posts
Add a shop tab to your profile and let shoppers browse your tagged products.
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Sell on Instagram
Give shoppers a way to buy from your store on Instagram by tagging products in your photos. Use the Instagram channel to connect your Facebook products to your Instagram account. Tag up to 5 products per photo and let customers check out without leaving Instagram. Once you've tagged products in 9 posts, a shop tab will show up on your profile that lets shoppers browse your shoppable posts—all in one place. You can also choose to further the reach of your tagged posts using Instagram's sponsored post ads.
With Shopify and the Instagram channel, you can:
- add Instagram product tagging to your Instagram business profile
- connect your store's Facebook product catalog to your Instagram business profile
- add shopping tags to your posts & stories and let customers purchase from your online store without leaving Instagram.
- fulfill orders placed on Instagram
Eligibility requirements
To use the Instagram channel, you need to:
- have the Facebook channel
- be an admin for a Facebook Page approved to sell on Facebook
- have the online store channel
- have an Instagram business profile
- be located in one of the eligible countries
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I agree with all others giving poor ratings. The Instagram product tagging worked for about a month and then stopped working. We've tried multiple resolutions/suggestions with no positive results. It's beyond frustrating to jump thru hoops and multiple verifications yet still accomplish nothing.
Réponse du développeur
Hi, there. Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback here - I'm sorry to hear that you've had so much trouble with the channel. I'd like to find out more about the specific issues you're encountering, to see if there's anything more we can do to help you out here. I'll reach out to you shortly and we can do some troubleshooting together. Thank you. - Brie, Shopify Support
Spiritual Gangster Tribe
I've been trying to connect my store to instagram for a month. I just get errors! This has been a horrible experience
Réponse du développeur
Hi, there! Thanks for taking the time to reach out here. I'd be happy to give you a hand with getting your Instagram connected - I'll reach out to you via email shortly for more information, and we can do some troubleshooting together. Cheers! - Brie, Shopify Support
I agree with all the 1 star reviews here. I have called Shopify about this and they cannot offer a solution which is a very poor response considering this app is developed by Shopify. Everything is set up properly and all instructions followed. My shop shows up on FB but it won't show up on IG. Waste of time installing and installing and calling in to tech support but no solution is available. Crap app.
August 2, 2020, I want to update my review now that I have been using it for a month. I don't understand the limitations of this app where in order for your Shopify products to show up in IG you have to tag each product one by one. The products are unorganized so it makes your shop on IG look like a mess.
Suggestion to Shopify: Why don't you develop this app so the entire Shopify Store products can be imported all at once like FB and Pinterest?
Réponse du développeur
Thank you for your review. I'm glad to hear that you have now successfully set up the Instagram sales channel and I appreciate your feedback on its functionality.
Instagram product tagging is a feature developed by Instagram that allows businesses to tag their products in their photos, videos, and stories, making their posts "shoppable". As long as your products have been published to Facebook, you should see them available to tag in Instagram.
I'd love to pass along some information about how you can make the most out of the Instagram sales channel and ensure that your products have been successfully imported, so I'll reach out to you by email so that we can discuss this further. Thanks! - Julie, Shopify Support


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A critical look at bias among scientists
Scientists are not immune to bias as this insightful article lays out beautifully: http://nautil.us/issue/24/error/the-trouble-with-scientists [The timing is great too as "yours truly" is tentatively slated to begin doing bench research alongside a molecular biologist (PhD) and a stem cell biologist (PhD) starting during the fall of 2015]
Posted on May 21, 2015, in DISPUTES & CONTROVERSIES, ENJOY YOURSELF, MINISTRY OF ENLIGHTENMENT, Skepticism and tagged bias, Bias in science, Nautilis, scientists, The Trouble With Scientists. Bookmark the permalink. Comments Off on A critical look at bias among scientists.


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Friday, August 6, 2010
Quezon City's Friuli Trattoria for Cheap and Tasty Italian
Trekking to Quezon City can be an ordeal, but not when meeting up with friends. We first hooked up at a mall, but finding no restos to our liking, our friend the mountaineer-singer suggested we try out the joints in UP Village. Fine by me, I said, as long as there's beer.
Friuli Trattoria is unpretentious and easy on the budget, like many eateries catering to students from the nearby universities. We tried the food pictured here -- pesto pasta, Viva Venezia pizza and fried ravioli. One taste of the ravioli and I forgot about hankering for beer.
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Rails itself doesn't do anything to help programmers organize code in large applications.
If you don't do anything as well, you're screwed up - everything gets intertangled and fragile. The development process, previously agile, becomes clunky.
Most of us are aware of the problem and take actions to resist:
The worst is that everyone has a different approach. Therefore, where you expect to see a more or less unified approach, everyone comes up with its own solution.
This contradicts the central idea of engineering - to develop a single optimal solution for every problem, and to stick to it.
What if there is a simple consistent approach which solves maim problems of Rails applications growth, and it brings almost no overhead?
I am writing a book called "Painless Rails", where I describe such an approach. It has some quite interesting characteristics:
This book is here to help you achieve these things:
Chapter 1: Controversial smoothness of Rails way approach
Chapter 2: Painless Rails foundation
Chapter 3: Painless Rails frame
Chapter 4: Painless Rails approach in practice
* The book structure and titles might differ in the final version
If all of the above applies to you, then you will not regret buying this book.
This book is going to help you to:
The author of the approach described in the book is Kirill Mokevnin - CTO of Hexlet.io - a major online-learning platform for programmers (not only) in Russia.
Their platform is a six years old Rails application with:
Kirill has managed to develop an efficient approach to web development using Rails, so that through the whole life of the project there were only 1-2 active developers.
I learned about that approach three months ago. The most enchanting discovery for me was that you don't have to fight against the framework. Even if you're introducing additional abstractions.
I was so impressed that I decided to share it with those who love Rails but are not satisfied with what it suggests out of the box today.


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Grammar Gone Wild? Not on My Watch, says this anonymous writer.
"There I was, relaxing on the sofa after a hard day's work… mesmerized by the television announcer's soothing voice. He was describing the bountiful menu at a local delicatessen – and it seemed he was doing his job well, as I was starting to crave an Italian sub with the works. That is, until a big, yellow font put a sudden stop to my hunger pangs. The words on the screen informed me that this particular deli was 'renown for it's service'."
With riots rocking the UK, the Oxford Words blog takes a look at riotous words.
The word riot, they say, has been in use in English since the beginning of the 13th century.
Its initial meaning was contrariness, and it went on to mean the pursuit of an extravagant lifestyle.
"It wasn't until the end of the fourteenth century that it took on the meaning of 'disturbance or civil unrest caused by a crowd'. This sense has stayed with us ever since (possibly because riots themselves have never really gone away), and also given rise to a number of related, riotous words."
Read the rest of this fascinating piece here.
"I will literally punch you in the throat next time you misuse the word 'literally' … It's bad enough that some communicators overuse buzzwords in news releases and memos. Even worse is the sad truth that often those words aren't even used correctly," advises 10 words often misused in press releases.
Seven 'Lost' Dr. Seuss Stories Will be Released in September, announced ABC News.
"These were not stories that were found in a drawer after his death," Dr. Seuss afficionado Charles Cohen told Publisher's Weekly. "Ted Geisel felt very strongly about them …"
Theodor Seuss Geisel died in 1991, leaving behind a legacy of 44 children's books, which he wrote and illustrated. His Dr Seuss' books have been translated into 15 languages and have sold more than 200 million copies.
Feel free to send links of any word-related news you come across to firstname.lastname@example.com. I'd really appreciate it.
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A call is being put to the people of Clare to attend a heart screening service in Kilmaley next weekend which may save your life.
In recent times, there has been a huge increase in the amount of deaths to fit and healthy young athletes due to undiagnosed heart conditions. On Thursday last Belgian footballer Gregory Mertens died three days after suffering a heart attack on the pitch, aged twenty four. A simple cardiac screen may identify such potentially life threatening conditions for people in Clare and beyond.
On Saturday May 9th from 10:00, Kilmaley and Lissycasey GAA Clubs are hosting a Cardiac Screening day. This event is organized by 'Health Hearts Healthy Lives', a mobile heart screening service, set up by former Armagh Senior footballers John and Tony McEntee, to provide cardiac screening to help prevent sudden deaths in young people who may have "Sudden Adult Death Syndrome". It will take place in the medical centre in the Kilmaley Day Care Centre.
Males and females aged between 14-35 years old are eligible to be screened. The screening takes approximately five minutes to complete and is a non-invasive, pain free procedure. Under 16's require parental/guardian consent and each individual is required to complete a questionnaire.
The test will include a Screening Questionairre, an ECG and an Echocardiogram if required. All tests will be reported on by a cardiology consultant. Group screening cost is €45 to the individual (normal costs are €110 for one on one bookings). An echocardiogram if required is covered by the initial fee.
If interested please give your name to Dr. Keir McNamara by emailing him at email@example.com or calling 087-2935762 as soon as possible.
Log onto www.healthyheartshealthylives.comfor further details.