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Posted on Sunday, August 3, 2014 11:59 AM
As my gardens continue to grow and evolve, my own faith and belief in my creativity and knowledge, as well as path in life, is challenged. This year has been a strange one with a very long, hard winter followed by an unusual spring and summer. One moment it seems normal and the next it's totally out of character with extreme high or low temperatures and weather patterns.
In my area, the flowers seem to be about a month behind their normal cycles. I have lost many plants and shrubs this year and some plants seem stunted or never bloomed at all. It's all very odd and it reflects my own inner feelings at times. Sometimes things seem clear to me and other times they are muddled. One moment I want to forge ahead with my plans and the next I feel I have to be cautious or I change my plans completely. And sometimes I have gone ahead with plans although the timing did not seem good or it did not seem rational or logical. That is when I trusted my heart and my instincts despite what appeared around me.
I lost both of my honeybee hives over the winter due to the extreme cold and I really missed them. The bees have been tremendously challenged too with some beekeepers around the US losing up to 75% of their hives this past winter. The bees are so vital and important to our own wellbeing that it is very disheartening and alarming to know this. Everyone and every thing is being challenged it seems.
There was such a difference in the energy of the land and gardens without the honey bees around. Now I have them back with a newly developing hive of different honeybees and I sense the difference they make in the gardens. These new bees are from another beekeeper and location. They are much calmer and easier to work with than those I had previously, reflecting an energy of peace and balance that is descending upon this land. I sense that their very nature is different and to a degree reflects the care and respect of the beekeeper that they came from.
I had a feeling that the loss of my beehives was a sign of things to come but little did I know. I also lost my mother this past year to cancer and that was totally unexpected. It happened very suddenly and very quickly. There was no time to change the course of anything. That put a totally different perspective on my life and a need to anchor and heal within my gardens and look at those aspects of myself that I wanted to release or improve. My gardens have offered me solitude when everything seemed to be chaotic and swirling around me or leaving me. They have brought me beauty and color during moments of despair and anger. They have infused me with their healing gifts both visually and spiritually as their renewal and resiliency reflected my own need to move forward. It has been a long road and one in which I have constantly reflected on the meaning and purpose of my own life.
I see in my gardens how Nature's hand paints a new color or design when I allow it to be itself and take it's own course rather than constantly trying to control it's path or destiny. So many surprises occur when you allow things to just be and take their own course with only a guiding hand to maintain borders and boundaries, eliminating only that which does not seem in alignment with your vision or your sense of balance.
It's not always easy but sometimes you just have to have faith that you will come to see the results of your intentions which may just turn out far better than you had imagined. Faith seems to be the key as sometimes it is the only thing that keeps you going when all around you is chaos and uncertainty.
Blessings of Faith!
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In this literary tour de force, novelist Arthur Golden enters a remote and shimmeringly exotic world. For the protagonist of this peerlessly observant first novel is Sayuri, one of Japan's most celebrated geisha, a woman who is both performer and courtesan, slave and goddess.We follow Sayuri from her childhood in an impoverished fishing village, where in 1929, she is sold to a representative of a geisha house, who is drawn by the child's unusual blue-grey eyes. From there she is taken to Gion, the pleasure district of Kyoto. She is nine years old. In the years that follow, as she works to pay back the price of her purchase, Sayuri will be schooled in music and dance, learn to apply the geisha's elaborate makeup, wear elaborate kimono, and care for a coiffure so fragile that it requires a special pillow. She will also acquire a magnanimous tutor and a venomous rival. Surviving the intrigues of her trade and the upheavals of war, the resourceful Sayuri is a romantic heroine on the order of Jane Eyre and Scarlett O'Hara. And Memoirs of a Geisha is a triumphant work - suspenseful, and utterly persuasive.
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"…the dainty little lady with the bewitching ways, who is here with all her latest songs"
Having inherited no discernable theatrical talent of my own, I have been dining out on tales of my music hall family for some years. I have been basking in the reflected glory of having a great grand aunt who once trod the boards of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Her name was Daisy Dormer and in her day she was Portsmouth's equivalent of a 21st century Cheryl Cole, and by far the most successful member of my music hall family troupe.
She was a great beauty as can be seen in these photos, and at the time of her death in 1947 her funeral cortege brought Streatham High Road to a standstill. Her name lives on today by a housing development in Brixton – Daisy Dormer Court on the Trinity Gardens estate (not far from Morley's Department Store). Like many music hall stars she spent her final years in Clapham and Brixton, drawn to the area by the quick and easy access tram travel provided to the theatres of the West End.
"Dainty" Daisy was born Kezia Beatrice Stockwell on 16 January 1883 in Southsea, Portsmouth and died at her home in Clapham, London on 13 September 1947, aged 67. I often wondered how she got her stage name until I read that Daisy Dormer is old English slang for a bottle warmer! Her rise from working class poverty in Portsmouth, where her father was a riveter in the Dockyard, was common to many young girls who saw the music hall stage as a way to get out and on in the early years of the Twentieth Century. Sarah Water's character Nancy "Nan" Astley in Tipping the Velvet makes a similar escape from her life as an oyster girl in Whitstable. And what a life Daisy had. From a pantomime debut at the Theatre Royal, Portsmouth in 1894 she was soon appearing at all of the leading London music halls and those in Birmingham, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds. In 1912 she was the Principal Girl in the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane pantomime, under Augustus Harris, whose lavish productions were trailblazers for what we now think of as modern pantomime.
Daisy had many hit songs (I have traced over 40) but the song that is reported to have launched her career was "I Wouldn't Leave My Little Wooden Hut For You" by Charles Collins and Tom Mellor (1905). It is a tale of a 'pretty Southern Maid' seeing off a suitor, with a rousing chorus:
I wouldn't leave my little wooden hut for you-oo
I've got one lover and I don't want two-oo
What might happen there is no knowing
If he comes around so you'd better be going
Cause I wouldn't leave my little wooden hut for you
Unfortunately Daisy didn't make many recordings of her songs and the quality of those that survive is poor. She also made a couple of films, neither of which survive. In the absence of sound and vision I can only conjure up her stage persona from the many glowing reviews she garnered, here are a couple of examples:
"Miss Daisy Dormer, a comedienne who is full of real ability and artistic intelligence"
"a charming artist who not only has a most captivating way but is a really magnificent dancer"
My Dad and his brother often visited Daisy in Clapham and recalled her cart-wheeling around her sitting room when well into her mid-50s, voluminous undergarments flowing, much to the embarrassment of a couple of eight and nine year old boys.
Kenneth Williams talked of his beloved mother Lou's admiration for Daisy – he wrote to my Grandmother to say as much and he recounted a story in this 1985 article where he claimed Daisy asked his mother to be her dresser.
In 1908 Daisy married Albert Jee, better known by his stage name Albert Egbert of the Brothers Egbert ("The Happy Dustmen"). Now that is a story for another day.


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Digital objects have extensively existed in daily work and life. Some of them often need to be kept accessible and usable for a relatively long period of time. Therefore, digital preservation has emerged as a pressing demand for the communities of archives, libraries, and publishers, and even for ordinary computer users. However, compared to traditional papery and magnetic preservation, digital preservation poses novel challenges to these communities. In this paper, we briefly introduce how the challenges are addressed in the PROTAGE system developed by integrating the widely adopted software agent and Web service technologies.
The PROTAGE system
Development and status of PROTAGE
In a digital era, digital objects have gradually emerged as the primary means in which we create, disseminate, and exchange information (Farquhar and Hockx–Yu, 2007; Giaretta, 2006). Consequently, digitized information has been rapidly changing the ways we work, live, and play. Since the volume of digital information is growing at an explosive speed, is a pressing demand to transfer digital objects from various IT systems to digital repositories, libraries, and archives for long–term preservation. However, long–term archiving of digital objects is obviously a highly complicated task because of the rapid changes and ongoing development in hardware and software systems as well as the ICT infrastructure. Furthermore, the diversity in the size and complexity of digital objects implies that modern digital preservation systems must be highly scalable and adaptable to various types of digital objects. However, existing strategies of digital preservation are labour intensive and often require specialist skills. Therefore, contemporary digital preservation calls for new levels of efficiency and automation. For this reason, long–term digital preservation has been attracting significant efforts from both academia and industry (e.g., Chapman, 2004; Cohen, et al., 2006; Farquhar and Hockx–Yu, 2007; Giaretta, 2006; Joannidis, 2005; Snow, et al., 2008; Watry, 2007). A number of research and development projects have been initiated to investigate and implement long–term preservation of digital objects, such as, PANIC (Hunter and Choudhury, 2006), CAMiLEON (Mellor, et al., 2002), RODA (Ramalho, et al., 2008), and CRiB (Ferreira, et al., 2007). The European Union has also funded quite a few projects since its Fifth Framework Research Programme, such as, PLANETS (Brown, 2007), CASPAR (Cohen, et al., 2006), and SHAMAN (Watry, 2007).
Web services are a type of Web applications that can be published and used via the Internet. For example, through a Web service called "Getting weather forecast information" Internet users can get the forecasted information of the weather in the coming day(s). Web services, which are usually implemented by Web Service Description Language (WSDL) and Simple Objects Access Protocol (SOAP), and deployed in Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), allow data and applications to interact with each other but without human intervention through dynamic and ad hoc connections. It has been demonstrated that Web services technology can be applied into a broad variety of architectures. Particularly, it can coexist with other technologies and software design approaches. More importantly, Web services technology can be employed in an evolutionary manner without requiring major transformations to legacy applications and databases. So far, lots of traditional locally–used applications have been made available on the Internet as Web services.
Agent–oriented computing has been regarded as a promising computing paradigm for developing and implementing complex, distributed software systems, as this paradigm based on software agents and multi–agent systems enables software engineers to model applications in a natural way that resembles how humans perceive the problem domains (Braubach, et al., 2003; Chmiel, et al., 2005; Jennings, 2001). Software agent technology has been successfully applied in many industrial and commercial areas (Luck, et al., 2005). It has also gained great success in studying complex physical and social problems. For example, multi–agent systems have been successfully adopted to investigate the impact of climate change on biological populations and the influence of public policy options on social or economic behaviour.
PROTAGE (PReservation Organization using Tools in AGent Environments), funded by the European FP7 Research Programme, aims to employ Web services and software agent technology to computerize long–term digital preservation. It intends to advance the level of efficiency and automation in digital preservation such that both memory institution users and ordinary users can readily preserve their digital objects while reducing the preservation cost. PROTAGE develops flexible and extensible Web services and software agent tools for long–term digital preservation and access, which can cooperate with and be integrated in existing or new digital preservation systems. In this paper we briefly introduce the PROTAGE's methodology for long–term digital preservation. More specifically, we present the general framework of the PROTAGE system as well as its three types of key subsystems, namely, client systems, access points, and server systems. Next, we describe the three main stages of the typical digital preservation process in the PROTAGE system. Note that due to space limitation this paper will not elaborate any technical details.
The PROTAGE system
The PROTAGE system is essentially an Internet–based, decentralized system. Figure 1 presents its general framework, where three types of subsystems are involved, namely, client systems, access points, and server systems.
Users enjoy the service of the PROTAGE system via client systems. PROTAGE server systems provide publicly available Web services to client systems and act also as the archives, while access points are deployed to manage digital preservation related actions and action plans. Here, an action is actually a function used to carry out a specific digital preservation task, such as, extracting the metadata of a digital object; scanning and cleaning viruses; migrating a file from one format to another. An action may be developed locally or obtained by wrapping existing Web services. An action plan is essentially a sequence of actions for fulfilling a complete digital preservation process. The PROTAGE system is organized in hybrid architecture. Specifically, client systems and access points, as well as client systems and server systems are connected through client/server structures, respectively. On the other hand, all client systems are organized in a peer–to–peer structure.
In Figure 1, the solid, dash–dotted, and dashed lines with arrows represent the communications between clients and access points, clients and clients, and clients and servers, respectively. PROTAGE client systems communicate with access points to submit/retrieve certified actions or action plans. The communications between PROTAGE client and server systems aim to access Web services on server systems and upload (or, download) digital objects to (or, from) them. Finally, as the important feature of the PROTAGE system, the client systems are organized in a peer–to–peer structure. Through peer–to–peer communications, a client system can ask for actions or action plans from other existing client systems. It may also provide its own actions and action plans to other client systems.
Figure 1: The general framework of the PROTAGE system.
PROTAGE client systems
A PROTAGE client system usually contains six main components. In what follows, we briefly introduce the functionality of each component:
- Client GUI. Through this GUI, a user can create an account and further interact with the PROTAGE system. Specifically, the user can manage his/her profile, actions, and action plans, call external third–party digital preservation related tools, and communicate with other users, access points, and server systems.
- Local repository. This component is actually a data warehouse developed with MySQL. It contains the profiles of existing users who ever logged into the PROTAGE system via the present client. It also contains the actions and action plans. Besides, the local repository contains other related databases.
- External tools interface. The interface is used by the client system to call existing third–party tools for fulfilling certain digital preservation tasks. For example, through the interface, the client system can call the tool, Exiftool, to identify the format of a digital object and further get its metadata.
- Kernel. This component provides a set of Java APIs for accessing the local repository and remote access point(s). It can also be used to interact with external tools. Through the kernel, a user can also communicate with other existing PROTAGE users. The communications can be carried out in either an explicit way (i.e., sending e–mail messages) or an implicit way (i.e., through the built–in multi–agent system). Besides, the kernel has a set of APIs for the client system to access the Web services provided by PROTAGE server systems.
- Multi–agent system. In the client system, software agents are mainly responsible for automatically recommending suitable actions or action plans for PROTAGE users. For this purpose, they search in their local repository or existing access points for relevant actions or action plans. More importantly, through agent–based communications, agents may also ask for actions or action plans from their peers existing in other client systems.
- Workflow engine. This component is responsible for performing action plans, recommended by the multi–agent system and determined by users. The performance can be carried out in two different manners, automatic and interactive. In the automatic manner, users may only need to select the collection of digital records and the workflow engine is fully responsible for preserving it. In the interactive manner, users may interactive with the PROTAGE client system. At each step, users may decide what and how to perform the preservation action of the next step based on the result and feedback obtained from the previous step.
Note that in PROTAGE the multi–agent system and the workflow engine are the major components for automating the digital preservation.
Access points
Access points are primarily responsible for two tasks: (1) to manage the detailed profiles of existing users and the certified actions and action plans; and, (2) to provide Web services for accessing user profiles, actions, and action plans. In the PROTAGE system, there may exist multiple access points. An access point contains two main components, namely, remote repository and Web services.
- Remote repository. This repository is actually a MySQL–based data warehouse. It is used to store users' profiles, as well as the actions and action plans, which are different from those stored in client systems as they are certified. Here, "certified" means that they have been verified by a public memory institution to make sure that they comply with the requirements of digital preservation. Through its kernel, a client system may submit certified actions or action plans into access points. It may also retrieve actions or action plans in which it is interested. By saving the profiles into an access point, users may not be confined to their present client machines. Instead, they can access the PROTAGE system via different machines.
- Web services. These Web services are specialized for client systems so as to access the remote repository, namely, adding, removing, updating, or querying user profiles, actions and action plans. In the PROTAGE system, Web services are implemented by AXIS2 [1] and deployed on the platform, Tomcat 6.0.
Server systems
In PROTAGE, server systems are designed with two main functions. Firstly, a server system can provide Web services which, corresponding to actions, carry out certain digital preservation tasks. For instance, the metadata extraction Web service may help user obtain the metadata of digital objects. Secondly, a server system acts as the archives for storing preserved digital objects.
- External tools. These are a set of external third–party tools used to fulfil certain digital preservation tasks. In a server system, the external tools may be updated frequently so as to make sure the latest tools are used.
- Web services. Unlike those specialized ones provided in access points for accessing the remote PROTAGE repository, these Web services are developed for PROTAGE users to use third–party digital preservation tools which may not be available on client systems. Therefore, these Web services may be publicly available for ordinary users that may not use the PROTAGE system.
- FTP server service. To some Web services, if users want to use them, they have to first upload their digital objects onto the server and then download the generated new files, if any, back to their client systems. For this reason, the PROTAGE server system has also to play the role of an FTP server. Note that the uploaded objects in this case will be removed after the service.
- Storage space. The storage space on PROTAGE server systems is used to (1) store, as the archives, digital objects that need to be permanently preserved; and, (2) temporarily store digital objects for using Web services only.
Development and status of PROTAGE
The PROTAGE project adopts an iterative and incremental process to implement the targeted system, which begins with identification and analysis of user needs and functional requirement analysis, followed by technical specifications, implementation and system testing. In particular, upon analysis of user needs, a number of typical digital preservation scenarios have been identified, covering the overall process of long–term digital preservation. So far, the third prototype of the PROTAGE system has been released in June 2010, which is available at the Web site of the PROTAGE project [2]. Figure 2 presents a screenshot of the third prototype, where an action plan is being executed.
Figure 2: A screenshot of the third PROTAGE prototype, where an action plan is being executed.
As digital objects emerge as the primary way in which we create, disseminate, and exchange information, we have entered an era of digital information explosion. Many organizations and individuals have been suffering difficulty in keeping pace with the preservation demands of digital information, because the present digital preservation solutions are usually labour intensive and often require expertise. Therefore, next generation preservation solutions for digital information should have a high level of automation and self–reliance. In this paper, we have introduced how PROTAGE, an EU–funded project, attempts to achieve the above objectives based on the newly emerged, but very promising, Web services and software agent technology. We have introduced the methodology of the PROTAGE project to long–term digital preservation. More specifically, we present the general framework of the PROTAGE system as well as its three types of key subsystems, namely, client systems, access points, and server systems. Finally, we introduce the implementation and status of the PROTAGE system.
About the authors
Xiaolong Jin obtained the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Hong Kong Baptist University in 2005. He obtained the M.Eng. degree, also in computer science, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001 and the B.Sc. degree in applied mathematics from the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1998, respectively. His current research interests include artificial intelligence, multi–agent systems, distributed problem solving, performance modelling and evaluation, communication networks, resource allocation and optimization, peer–to–peer computing, grid computing, and autonomy oriented computing.
E–mail: x [dot] jin [at] bradford [dot] ac [dot] uk
Jianmin Jiang received the B.Sc. degree from the Shandong Mining Institute, China, in 1982, the M.Sc. degree from the China University of Mining and Technology in 1984, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, U.K., in 1994. His research interests include visual information retrieval, image/video processing, visual content management, Internet video coding, stereo image coding, and neural network applications. He has published more than 150 refereed research papers. Dr. Jiang is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the RSA U.K.
E–mail: j [dot] jiang1 [at] bradford [dot] ac [dot] uk
Geyong Min is a Reader in the Department of Computing at the University of Bradford, U.K. He received the PhD. degree in computing science from the University of Glasgow, U.K., in 2003, and the B.Sc. degree in computer science from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 1995. His research interests include performance modelling and evaluation, computer networking, traffic engineering, mobile computing, and multimedia systems.
E–mail: g [dot] min [at] bradford [dot] ac [dot] uk
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Received 10 July 2010; accepted 28 September 2010.
Copyright © 2010, First Monday.
Copyright © 2010, Xiaolong Jin, Jianmin Jiang, and Geyong Min.
A software agent and Web service based system for digital preservation
by Xiaolong Jin, Jianmin Jiang, and Geyong Min.
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Abiding Bible Companion Volume I "Count It All Joy"
Commentary on the Epistle of James
Understanding the Epistle of James will help you everyday!
James is a beautiful Epistle. It opens us to God's word as spoken to the Jews and early Christians. It reveals to us the Jewish roots of Jesus' own moral teaching. In our world, where there is much confusion about what is right and what is wrong, James offers clear, concise answers. He tells us what Jesus wants us to say and do.
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Abiding Bible Companion Volume I "Count It All Joy"
James is an excellent epistle. It brings God's eternal instruction to light with practical clarity and insight. Learn about these ideas. Not one of these thoughts is new. Each one can be traced back to Jesus and from Him back to the Hebrew Scriptures.
The first theme in the epistle of James is that there will be trials and testings. If we are to walk as Jesus did, we will encounter the same trials that He did. Jesus' family rejected Him, strangers misunderstood Him, His friends left Him, His religious leaders questioned and rejected Him and His political government crucified Him. We Christians, like Jesus, will suffer trials.
Second, Christians are to respond with joy when meeting trials. Joy is the Christ- like response. Paul says rejoice always (Phil 4:4) and he wrote his epistle to the Philippians while he was in jail!
The third theme is Christian morality sees reason for the poor to exalt and warns the rich to put their trust in God, not in possessions. The rich are to support the poor. Christians are to treat the rich and the poor the same at worship and all other gatherings.
The fourth theme is that Christians are to be doers of the word of God, not hearers only. Faith without works is dead. James refutes the idea that if we listen to God and so not act upon God's word, we are safe, or saved. When we hear the word of God, we are to go out and act upon it.
The fifth theme is that the tongue comes in for much censure by James. We need to bridle our tongues, for the tongue is seen as the source of much trouble for Christians. James calls it "an unrighteous world among our members, staining the whole body". Uncontrolled passion is condemned. Passions cause fighting and wars, and Christians are to control their passions.
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The Turkish energy minister and a senior economist are to deliver speeches at the opening of the Anadolu Agency co-sponsored, 20th International Energy and Environment Fair due to be held in Istanbul on April 24.
The convention, to be held over three days at the Istanbul Expo Center, will be the largest energy and environment fair to be held in Turkey, attracting approximately 16,000 local and foreign participants.
Energy Minister Taner Yildiz will open the fair, and International Energy Agency Chief Economist Fatih Birol will deliver a speech during the opening ceremony.
International energy experts will discuss a variety of issues including renewable energy technologies, developments in the renewable energy market, the operation and maintenance of power plants, nuclear power, natural gas and petroleum and the financing of energy projects and energy law.
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Box Scores: JWU | Emmanuel
BOSTON, MA-- After dropping the first two sets to Johnson & Wales (JWU), Pine Manor rallied for a third set victory before dropping a 3-1 decision on Saturday, October 22, 2011 during a Great northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) tri-match at the Jean Yawkey Center in Boston, MA. Pine Manor was then defeated 3-0 by host Emmanuel College in the final match of the day.
Pine Manor dropped a closely contested match to JWU, 3-1 (25-19, 25-21, 22-25, 25-14). JWU freshmen Alyssa Drapeau led all players with 19 kills while also totaling 16 set assists and adding two digs. Pine Manor Freshmen Destiny Mann (Orlando, FL) and Senior Jen Gross led the way for Pine Manor with eight kills each. Mann also had a team high eight digs while sophomore Megan Patch (Bethpage, TN) notched 24 set assists and had five digs
In the 3-0 setback to Emmanuel, Pine Manor was led by 7 kills and 7 digs from Mann, while Patch dished out 17 assists and recorded 7 digs.
Following Saturday's results, Pine Manor is now 14-6 overall and 4-6 in conference play. The Gators will next travel to Simmons College on Tuesday night, October 25 for a 7:00 p.m. match with the Shark
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Sister Barbara made her first religious profession as a Sinsinawa Dominican Feb. 4, 1953, and her final profession Aug. 5, 1958. She taught for 19 years, served in administration for two years, and ministered as support staff for 16 years and as a chaplain for 13 years. Sister Barbara served in South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Illinois, Montana, Alabama, and Iowa.
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text: This morning on Today, during an interview with Matt Lauer commemorating the 20th anniversary of her coming out, Ellen DeGeneres made it clear that she does not know President Trump, nor does she want to. And, she told Lauer, she wouldn't want to interview him on her show. (That answer prompted plenty of audience laughter and applause.) "I'm not going to change his mind," DeGeneres said. "He's against everything that I stand for." However, she went on to suggest that we should respect the views of those who don't agree with us, something she doesn't seem ready to do when it comes to our current commander-in-chief. Regardless, the two are far removed from the early days of Celebrity Apprentice, when the idea of a President Trump was still a joke and DeGeneres once interviewed him aboard his famous helicopter.


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Just watched movie "Frozen" and to be honest, I thought this was another classical fairytale of love between prince and princess and it surprised me of showing love between sisters instead. Songs and animation were fantastic, I must say I like it more than I had expected.
As the two princess sings, the musical "wicked" kept coming to my mind and when i went searching the song on youtube, I realized why. The Oscar nominated "let it go" was sang by Ms Wicked, Idina Menze
The snow glows white on the mountain tonight
Not a footprint to be seen
A kingdom of isolation, and it looks like I'm the Queen
The wind is howling like the swirling storm inside
Couldn't keep it in; Heaven knows I tried
Don't let them in, don't let them see
Be the good girl you always have to be
Conceal, don't feel, don't let them know
Well now they know
Let it go, let it go
Can't hold it back any more
Let it go, let it go
Turn away and slam the door
I don't care what they're going to say
Let the storm rage on
The cold never bothered me anyway
It's funny how some distance
Makes everything seem small
And the fears that once controlled me
Can't get to me at all
It's time to see what I can do
To test the limits and break through
No right, no wrong, no rules for me,
I'm free!
Let it go, let it go
I am one with the wind and sky
Let it go, let it go
You'll never see me cry
Here I stand
And here I'll stay
Let the storm rage on
My power flurries through the air into the ground
My soul is spiraling in frozen fractals all around
And one thought crystallizes like an icy blast
I'm never going back, the past is in the past
Let it go, let it go
And I'll rise like the break of dawn
Let it go, let it go
That perfect girl is gone
Here I stand
In the light of day
Let the storm rage on
The cold never bothered me anyway
Despite that, my favorite song is yet this was the song sang in hope, in doubt, and in the end sorrow.
Do you wanna build a snowman?
Come on lets go outside
and play
I never see you anymore
Come out the door
It's like you've gone away
We used to be best buddies
And now we're not
I wish you would tell me why
Do you wanna build a snowman?
It doesn't have to be a snowman.
Go away, Anna.
Okay, bye.
Do you wanna build a snowman?
Or ride our bikes around the halls
I think some company is overdue
I've started talking to the pictures on the walls
(Hang in there, Joan)
It gets a little lonely
All these empty rooms
Just watching the hours tick by
(Tic-Tock, Tic-Tock, Tic-Tock, Tic-Tock)
Please, I know you're in there
People are asking where you've been
They say have courage, and I'm trying to
I'm right out here for you, just let me in
We only have each other
It's just you and me
What are we gonna do?
Do you wanna build a Snowman?
I love how they define "true love" in the end. It's not classic, it's wonderful.


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It's that time of year when local musicians emerge from their rehearsal spaces and take over the porches of Somerville.
Organized by the Somerville Arts Council, PorchFest allows musicians and bands to perform sets on an underused public venue: the porch.
Expect an eclectic array of music. Past PorchFests have offered everything from American space rock to gospel.
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There will be three time slots based on where porches are located.
Those performing on porches east of Central St. will take the stage from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Those performing between Central St. and Willow St. will play from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Those performing west of Willow Street play from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
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Tekken, one of Namco-Bandai's most esteemed fighting franchises, is seeing its first retail release on the next-gen consoles. Check out our full review to see if Tekken 6 is still deserving of the title, The King of Iron Fist…
Tekken 6 is, at its heart, an extremely deep martial arts fighting game. As deep as it is, it's also great for casuals and button mashers, as the gameplay is very straightforward and simplistic. Each one of the face buttons corresponds to a different limb, and holding back blocks. Even though the gameplay is easy enough for anyone to pick up and play, it offers extreme levels of depth for seasoned players. Each character has their share of special moves, counters, combos and more. Practiced players can pull off devastating 10 hit combos.
Players can hone their skills in a number of included modes; the standard fighting genre modes are there, such as Practice and Vs., but Tekken 6 shakes things up a bit with a number of other modes, such as Ghost Battle, Time Attack, Survival, and Team Battle. Team battle is great; players choose up to 8 characters to put up against a friend or the CPU, and winners regain a small amount of health in order to keep on fighting. There is also an online mode where players can put the smack down on PlayStation Network users across the globe. While testing out the online mode, I had a few connection errors to start, but once connected to an opponent, the experience was seamless.
The game features a story mode, but as with most fighting games, this feels tacked on. The story mode seems to be a prominent feature in Tekken 6, but it really serves as nothing more than a weak distraction from the actual fighting.
This game features the largest roster in a Tekken game ever–a whopping 40 characters. Each character is perfectly animated, detailed, and has his or her own unique move set. All of the fighters are perfectly balanced, although the long-time series vets such as Law, King, or Heihachi seem to be a tad more powerful. But that might also be attributed to the fact that they've received more playtime over the years, resulting in more expertise with those characters.
Although the roster is large, there are plenty of characters lacking, well… character, especially the newer combatants. I found myself sticking with tried and true series mainstays. mostly because the new additions were so uninspiring. Out of the new characters (Miguel, Bob, Leo, Zafina, Lars and Alisa), the only one that was fun to play as was Alisa, mainly for her over the top, humorous move-set.
The characters and environments are gorgeous. The graphics in Tekken 6 are magnificent for a fighting game, and more along the lines of Namco-Bandai's other flagship fighting franchise, Soul Calibur. Some environments feature destructible areas, but they are a tad on the cheesy side.
Sadly the game suffers from lengthy load times. Even after the optional 4+ GB install, the load times are still long enough to take players out of the action. However, the game is good enough that it's actually worth the wait.
Fighting is the star of Tekken 6, so those who are looking for a deep, interesting story mode should move on. However, fighting is what Tekken does best, and this latest iteration in the King of the Iron Fist Tournaments is the best the franchise has to offer. The massive roster, the extensive move list for each character, and tough (but not cheap) AI make Tekken a must buy for any fan of fighting games.
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Story mode wasn't enjoyable
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After a brief return of unseasonably warm temperatures to the area, December blew into town a cold front accompanied by a grey, blustery presence.
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The defending Atlantic Division champion Panthers arrived at Joe Louis Arena to play the Detroit Red Wings with both teams holding identical 11-10-2 records, and from the sounds of it, with identical problems.
"We've given up leads in the third period when we don't need to," Panthers defenceman Aaron Ekblad of Belle River said. "Little things like that would put us 4-5-6 games up on .500 if we didn't make those mistakes."
There was one dramatic difference between these teams, though. The Panthers decided that the direction they were headed required an immediate change in course, so Sunday they fired coach Gerard Gallant and inserted general manager Tom Rowe as coach, replacing one former Red Wings forward with another.
From the outside, this seemingly knee-jerk reaction left plenty in the hockey world scratching their heads in disbelief.
For those that it impacts the most — the players within the Panthers' dressing room — that approach to the situation can't be tolerated.
"We're all hockey players," Ekblad said. "We're all paid to do this. It's not that hard to do.
"We've all got to do the little things we need to do to make us win and if those are the things that are being asked of us, it's got to be done yesterday, not tomorrow. We realize that and I don't think we're taking the change too hard. We're working as a team to have a positive outlook and a positive attitude.
"We're all about moving forward here and we definitely have the tools in place to do that."
According to Rowe, Ekblad was among those who were carrying too much responsibility for Florida's struggles. He'd lost defence partner Brian Campbell and was injured during the World Cup of Hockey, and also began slowly.
"I told him to relax and go have some fun," Rowe said. "Don't put so much pressure on yourself, because I think that's what he was doing.
"He wants to be the best and he takes a lot of responsibility wearing the A and in the status he carries in the league and on our team."
The message seems to have gotten through. Ekblad, who scored five goals in November, spoke of trying not to shoulder so much of the expectations for this team himself.
"In the end I'm a younger guy," said Ekblad, 20. "I'm going to grow into that leadership role.
"There's no point in putting that kind of pressure on yourself. It'll only make you worry about things."
That Florida won the division last season and was 10-9-4 at this point of the season a year ago gives the Panthers confidence they can right the ship, but Ekblad cautions that the past has no bearing on the future.
"We have a whole new team this year," Ekblad said. "We've got to find different ways of doing it. It's not going to be the exact same as last year. We've got to find new ways with new guys.
"It's all about evolving with the challenges of the game."
The Panthers don't hide from the reality that they enjoyed playing for Gallant but that doesn't mean they won't play for Rowe.
"Owners and management manage; players play," Ekblad said. "That's kind of the outlook we have. We're going to play our hearts out for coach Rowe.
"We obviously loved Turk and his outlook on the game but we've got to move forward. It's the business of the game."
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text: In the United States, changes to immigration rules under President Donald Trump are threatening to separate families. The future of almost 800,000 young people is uncertain as a programme to protect children brought to the country illegally is being reconsidered. There have also been cases of people being deported for old criminal convictions. Al Jazeera's Karishma Vyas reports from the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. US & Canada Politics


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12 June 2017
Arix Bioscience notes Artios Pharma's new collaboration to develop inhibitors of novel cancer targets
LONDON, 12 June, 2017: Arix Bioscience plc (LSE: ARIX) ("Arix Bioscience" or the "Company"), a global healthcare and life science company supporting medical innovation, is pleased to note the announcement by Artios Pharma Ltd, an Arix Bioscience Group Business, that it has signed a research collaboration and option agreement with Masaryk University ("MU") in the Czech Republic for the development of novel cancer treatments targeting DNA nucleases involved in the DNA damage response (DDR).
DNA nucleases are enzymes crucial for processing strands of DNA following damage. Artios believes that nuclease inhibitors could have broad potential as selective treatments for a range of cancers, particularly in tumours that have defects in their DNA repair processes and are reliant on their remaining, nuclease-dependent DDR pathways.
The research at MU is being led by Dr Lumir Krejci and Dr Kamil Paruch, both of whom have considerable scientific expertise in the field of DDR, particularly with regards to the role of nucleases in DNA double strand break repair and other DNA repair pathways, as well as valuable industry experience in medicinal chemistry and drug development of nuclease targets.
Under the terms of the agreement, Artios will fund and collaborate with the research group at MU to undertake a focussed research and development programme on a number of promising nuclease targets. The agreement, which runs initially for two years and can be extended for up to a further two years, provides Artios with the opportunity to in-license one or more nuclease programmes for further development and commercialisation.
For more information, please contact:
Arix Bioscience plc
Joe Anderson, CEO
+44 (0) 20 7290 1052
Consilium Strategic Communications
Mary-Jane Elliott, Jessica Hodgson, Ivar Milligan
+44 (0)20 3709 5700
About Arix Bioscience plc
Arix Bioscience plc is a global healthcare and life science company supporting medical innovation. Headquartered in London and with an office in New York, Arix Bioscience sources, finances and builds world class healthcare and life science businesses addressing medical innovation at all stages of development. Operations are supported by privileged access to breakthrough academic science and strategic relationships with leading research accelerators and global pharmaceutical companies.
Arix Bioscience plc is listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange.
For further information, please visit www.arixbioscience.com
About Artios Pharma Ltd.
Artios is a leading DNA Damage Response (DDR) company focused on developing first-in-class treatments for cancer. Established in May 2016, the Company is led by an experienced scientific and leadership team with proven expertise in DDR drug discovery. Artios is building a pipeline of next-generation DDR programmes, including through a unique partnership with Cancer Research Technology (CRT), the development and commercialisation arm of Cancer Research UK (CRUK), and with leading DNA repair researchers worldwide. The Company's investors include SV Health Investors, Merck Ventures, Touchstone Innovations, Arix Bioscience plc, CRT Pioneer Fund (managed by Sixth Element Capital), and AbbVie Ventures. Artios is based at the Babraham Research Campus in Cambridge, UK.


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This week, I spent a couple of days in Melbourne. Apart from the weather (which was pathetic one day, perfect the next), Melbourne is one of my favourite places to visit. It has a buzz and a vibe and is always energetic. While I was there, I had the pleasure of having a lunch with a group of people from within the recruitment industry and we all had a walk down memory lane. We spoke about where we all started our recruitment careers and this led me to reflecting on the three people who owned my former employer. I had good relationships with all three and two of them are still working within the industry and are widely admired and even revered. One of them, however, retired over ten years ago and has withdrawn almost entirely from his old existence in recruitment. Ironically, he was the man that I most respected.
John was the Managing Director and major shareholder of the group. He was an Accountant by trade and I would describe him as a natural introvert. In a sense, he was a strange fit for the recruitment industry.
However, John was perhaps the most insightful person I have worked with. In general terms, the recruitment sector can be full of long winded and grandiose statements with very little real delivery. John was the antithesis of this in every way. He was concise (sometimes cutting) but would never promise something he could not deliver. I never reported directly to him as I was a mere pup at the time but he took a special interest in my career and informally mentored me when I started Optimum. Even today, I regularly use some of his philosophies to guide my own decision making throughout the business. These include:
- Focus on key critical issues. John taught me the value of this early on. Most people get distracted with noise and lose the ability to focus on what really matters. In our industry, it is about service, depth and activities and remembering the equation that we all have two ears and one mouth and we should use them in proportion.
- Always behave above your pay grade. You should expect better behaviour from your senior staff as they are the people that set and determine a culture. Never compromise on this and never apologise for it.
- Energy and activity are key factors in making a good recruiter. John once asked me a question when I was mulling over hiring a key employee; "have you ever worked with a quality slow walking recruiter"? It sounds weird but his point was valid. Good recruiters have a bounce in their step and an infectious energy that their customers always feel.
- Money at the bank is key. John spoke repeatedly about balance sheet strength as opposed to profit and loss…..wise advice in these times.
- Play favourites. This one was a controversial one and there are thousands of text books out there saying the exact opposite. However, people only ever become a favoured team member by achieving and why shouldn't they be recognized for it. This should serve as an inspiration to others to elevate as opposed as a point of envy
There were many others – too many to list and some that I could not list without breaking some laws. John was wily man before his time. He was prickly and could be ruthless in his decision making. He was a character who had a soft spot for other characters. He was eccentric and for me he was brilliant. He is the forgotten leader in the triumvirate who owned my former employer but he was indeed the key person and the captain who steered the ship. I owe him a great deal of gratitude.
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Family Rafting
Our Mackay kid-wrangler will be lucky enough to go along with you and your family on the best family adventure vacation ever. Our Main Salmon River rafting trips offer everything you need for a great family vacation – big white sand beaches, great hiking, swimming holes and, of course white water that is suitable for children and parents, alike. "It's gonna be one rip-roaring family adventure!"LETS GO RAFTING
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We are off on our adventure. Grab a seat with new friends!
Day 2
The Mackay Kid Wrangler escorts our rafters to the Indian pictographs and back at camp, some time for arts and crafts.
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Waterslide! and swimming in the warm water of the Salmon.
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Share a kayak with mom or dad and have some whitewater excitement!
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Last night on the river means SMORES!
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A successful Pirate raid the night before makes for a picture to remember with new and old friends.
Cook s'mores over the campfire Run along a sandy beach Swim in a river eddy Catch tadpoles See a golden eagle so full it can't fly Kayaking with mom or dad or on your own! Stand Up Paddle Boarding Find gold on the beaches Get soaked in a huge water fight Sing songs (Bring one to share!) Tell stories around the campfire Toss a frisbee with a friend
Collect rocks Sleep under the shooting stars Skip rocks across sparkling water Watch a river otter family at play Beat your buddy at a game of horseshoes Climb a waterfall Eat, eat, eat 'till your stuffed to the brim Swoosh down a waterslide into the river Play cards, dominos, games Build castles in the sand Get creative with arts and crafts Go on a scavenger hunt


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Force Support Group (FSG, Devon and Cornwall)
This video looks at the work of specialist officers in the Force Support Group (FSG in Devon and Cornwall and the Enhanced Policing Team (EPT in Dorset).
You can follow the Alliance Operations department on Twitter at @AllianceOpsDept where we welcome your comments and queries.
Q: Are Force Support Group (FSG) officers literally held in reserve?
A: No, they are not and never have been reserves. FSG officers possess a unique and extremely valuable skill set. They work every day on a variety of tasks that utilise that skill set.
Q: Are FSG officers a certain age or rank?
A: Age and rank are immaterial, the qualifying factor is an ability to fulfil the role, which can be quite demanding.
Q: Does the FSG include, for instance, firearms officers, dog handlers etc.?
A: FSG includes Specialist Firearms Officers (SFOs), the marine policing team, police divers and core FSG officers.
Q: The video shows officers policing local football matches. What other sorts of events do FSG officers get involved in?
A: The highest volume of work by FSG officers is against organised crime group criminality, such as executing search warrants, conducting high risk searches and generally engaging in higher risk activities that are aligned to their skill set. Policing crowded events, football matches and demonstrations can be part of that.
Q: Does the taxpayer carry the cost of policing football matches?
A: It depends on a number of factors but cost recovery against commercial deployments such as concerts and football matches is becoming more common place.
Q: Does "public order" refer to riots?
A: It is a situation with a crowd dynamic where a degree of risk or unknown outcome exists.
Q: How many FSG officers are there in the Alliance policing area?
A: FSG is a Devon and Cornwall resource and has 60 Constables, 10 Sergeants, one Inspector and one Police Staff member. Dorset has a unit called the Enhanced Policing Team (EPT) which provides a similar skill set. The future model is to merge both units.
Q: When the FSG is used, are the officers working overtime?
A: No, the officers work a variety of normal 8/9/10 hour shifts but often incur overtime due to the nature of their work.
Q: Does the FSG help other police forces or organisations elsewhere in the country?
A: Yes, the FSG skill set makes them a highly sought after resource and regional and national deployments are common place.


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Contract Purchase
Contract Purchase is similar to Contract Hire in that you pay a fixed monthly cost to hire the vehicle over a certain period of time. The difference is that you have the option to buy the vehicle at the end of the contract term or hand the vehicle back to the leasing company. Depreciation, funding, administration, road tax and (sometimes) maintenance costs are covered by the monthly fixed cost and, if you decide not to take up the option of purchasing the vehicle, there is no need to dispose of the vehicle at the end of the contract, it is simply returned to the leasing company.
This is a great option for customers who want the maximum flexibility in their finance arrangements.
You have the option to buy the vehicle at the end of the contract term or hand the vehicle back.
If you think this sounds like the right option for you, please contact us at GWA to arrange a meeting to discuss a financial package that will best meet your requirements.


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The sum of £144,000 will buy you a lot of metal at your local Audi dealership. You could have, for example, an A3, A4, A5, A6 and A7. Alternatively, you could buy just one R8 GT, the most expensive Audi production car there has ever been. Or rather you couldn't, because all 33 that are coming to the UK have already been sold.
So, that takes care of the issue of whether an Audi can ever be worth £144,000. The question now is, what exactly do you get for that six-figure sum?
"More power, less weight" sums it up. Based on the R8 V10, the GT has revised engine management software to produce 552bhp from 5.2 litres, an increase of 34bhp delivered at 8,000rpm. Torque is up by 9lb ft to 398lb ft at 6,500rpm, all sent via Audi's quattro all-wheel drive system.
Weight-saving measures include lightweight bucket seats (31.5 kilos lighter in total), fitting a carbon-fibre reinforced plastic engine cover, rear bumper and sideblades (6.6kg, 5.2kg and 1.5kg lighter respectively), a smaller battery (less 9.4kg), lightweight carpets (7.9kg), thinner windscreen plus polycarbonate rear windows and screen (9kg), as well as an aluminium bonnet (2.6kg). Replacing the electric rear spoiler with a fixed item saves another 1.2kg.
This little lot adds up to 77.7kg, which must mean that I've missed a few things, because Audi says that the GT is 100kg lighter than a standard V10 coupé. That equates to a kerb weight of 1,525kg, a power-to-weight ratio of 362bhp per ton, 0-62mph in 3.6secs, 0-124mph in 10.8secs and a top speed of 199mph. This, then, is an extremely fast car, a point made all the more vivid by that extra horsepower being delivered right at the top of the rev range.
Don't for a second let the Audi badge kid you: this is a fully fledged supercar with the towering performance and soundtrack to match.
There is, however, a problem. Those 33 cars destined for the UK are part of a worldwide run of 333, each and every one of which is only available with Audi's six-speed R-tronic robotised manual gearbox.
Gone is the wonderful click-clack of the R8's standard open-gate manual set-up, replaced by a paddle-shift system that slurs its way through changes in a most unsupercar-like manner.
Salvation, as is so often the case these days, comes in the form of a Sport button. Here it sharpens throttle response and speeds up gearshifts. The more revs you use, the better the gearbox gets, but it's still some way off the standards of a Ferrari 458 Italia, or an Audi A1 for that matter.
Unlike lesser R8s, the Sport button makes no difference to the car's suspension, which in the case of the GT takes the form of adjustable coilovers. Adjustable, yes, but you'll have to do it by hand. As a result of the fixed-rate damping, the ride comfort has suffered, which might sound an odd complaint to make of such an obviously track-biased car, but one of the R8's many joys has always been its broad spread of talents. As the ultimate usable supercar it is as comfortable in city traffic as it is stringing together switchbacks on the Stelvio.
If a bit of the ride comfort has been sacrificed, the compensation comes with stupendous handling. As well as fitting that track-oriented suspension, Audi has sharpened the steering of the GT and altered the thresholds of the ESP system. And while it might be four-wheel drive, don't for a second think that means all grip and no fun. With just 15 per cent of the engine's power delivered to the front wheels in normal operation the R8 feels, to all intents and purposes, like a rear-wheel-drive car.
Trail the brakes into a corner or be aggressive with the throttle and you can provoke the GT into all manner of silly cornering angles. Unless you really overcook it, the quattro system will choose the opportune moment at which to direct up to 30 per cent of power to the front wheels to help drag you back onto the straight and narrow.
So, will those 33 UK customers be disappointed? Probably not, but consider this: with a manual gearbox the entry level, V8-powered R8 is a solid five-star car and costs "just" £86,885. It's not the price of the GT that robs it of a fifth star; that dubious honour goes to the gearbox. What is an extremely good car could have been sensational.
5,204cc V10 petrol engine, six-speed robotised manual gearbox, quattro all-wheel drive
Price/on sale
£144,000/sold out
552bhp @ 8,000rpm/ 398lb ft @ 6,500rpm
Top speed
0-62mph in 3.6sec
Fuel economy
20.3mpg (EU Combined)
C02 emissions
VED band
M (£1,000 first year, £460 a year thereafter)
An extremely good supercar with a disappointing gearbox. The V8 does it all just as well
Telegraph rating
Four out of five


text: A freshly edited collection of primary documents connected with the secret press that produced the Martin Marprelate tracts (1588-89), the notorious anti-episcopal satires that sparked the most famous pamphlet war of the English Renaissance. The depositions, examinations, investigative summaries, trial records, and other documents generated by the hunt for the Marprelate press provide extraordinary evidence, unmatched for the period, for the day-to-day workings of an underground print campaign. Several of these documents are published here for the first time.


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Welcome to our home on the web!
We are Helen Stephenson and Stephen Andrews and if you click on our pictures, you will be taken to our sites.
We are both keen photographers, so there are lots of pictures on our sites, although Stephen's has a way to go to catch up with Helen's. Our other interests are also there to read about, and Helen's CV is online as well! (She's happily employed at the moment, except that she doesn't get paid enough! Does anybody?)
Here are some links to parts of our site where we've both contributed:
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It's an Apple gold rush!
Two months after Apple launched its latest iPhone, long lines are still forming outside the retailer's stores as consumers, mainly Chinese, search for the coveted gold 5S model.
And Apple is even accommodating the gold diggers by letting them shop before business hours.
By the time the Upper West Side store opened at 9 a.m. Friday, all the gold iPhones were gone, leaving some fuming.
"It's really unfair," said Andy Nguyen, a 25-year-old IT worker from Queens who waited to buy a gold phone for his mother. "This is a retailer, not a wholesaler."
Nguyen said he started the day at Apple's Grand Central shop, where he saw a crowd of mostly Chinese customers waiting to get in. He said there was a similar scene at the Fifth Avenue store. By the time he arrived at the Broadway location, he was directed to the back of a long line almost entirely of Chinese shoppers.
Some of the 50 or so people waiting outside the Upper West Side store said they were buying the phones to ship to family members in China, but Nguyen said they were likely destined for resale in China where they could command twice the price.
"Give me a break. There's a huge market," he said. "For some reason, the Chinese love the gold color."
At 8:10 a.m. Friday, an Apple sales associate and a security guard ushered the first group of about 20 people waiting on 67th Street to the front of the store on Broadway. Customers were let in the doors at 8:25 a.m.
Apple limited the shoppers to two phones each, and many people paid with cash and dashed out of the store to join the back of the line.
One shopper was eager to unload the 16GB phone she had bought minutes earlier for $649. Just outside the store, she offered the phone for $900 or two for $1,600.
Apple did not return a call seeking comment.


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Born in Serbia, Michael Pupin '83CC became a citizen of the United States the day before graduation. Subsequently he earned a graduate degree in mathematical physics and returned to Columbia for a professorship. During that time Pupinproduced prolific electrical inventions that changed the face of telegraphy and telephony – most commonly long distance phone calls.
Through the course of his life Pupin obtained 34 patents, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1904, received a Pulitzer Prize for his autobiography, and trained many future great electrical engineers and physicists. Today the Columbia's physics hall and the Engineering School's prestigious Medal for Service to the Nation are named in his honor.
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Explore Puerto Rico's Northeast Ecological Corridor
Stretching from Luquillo to Fajardo along the northeast coast of Puerto Rico, the Northeast Ecological Corridor features vastly diverse habitats – wetlands, mangroves, beaches, forests and a bioluminescent lagoon – supporting a fascinating variety of flora and fauna. The preservation of the region has been a controversial topic over the years, with former Puerto Rican Governor Aníbal Acevedo-Vilá passing a decree in April 2008 declaring it a protected area, and Governor Luis G Fortuño-Burset reversing the decision in October 2009. Following a protracted battle by environmentalists against developing the area, in June 2012, up to two-thirds of the original land was re-designated as a nature reserve.
Listed as 'critically endangered' by the IUCN, the Leatherback Turtle, which became the symbol of the environmental struggle, lays its eggs on the NEC beaches and is therefore considered to be protected. As the largest of all living sea turtles, the diet of Leatherback Turtles consists almost entirely of jellyfish and they, therefore, play a huge role in controlling jellyfish populations. Researchers have found that carelessly discarded plastic bags floating in the water are often mistaken for jellyfish by turtles, with tragic consequences. Also, the decline in turtle populations is likely linked to the increase in the numbers of jellyfish that has been noted in recent years. Other reptilian species in the NEC include geckos, lizards, iguanas and snakes, including the Puerto Rican boa, which is endemic to the island.
Four of the sixteen species of Puerto Rico's Coquí are found within the Northeast Ecological Corridor (NEC). Easily identified by the distinctive call the male makes, this cute little frog has become the island's mascot. Other amphibians found in the NEC include the White-lipped Froglet, the Bullfrog and the Cane Toad.
The West Indian Manatee is found in the mangroves of the NEC. This ungainly looking marine mammal is considered by the IUCN to be 'vulnerable'. The biggest threats to manatees, apart from habitat degradation, is collision with watercraft and entanglement in fishing gear, so protected areas such as the NEC are vital to its survival.
Birding enthusiasts will find the NEC to be a real treat. With 123 species of birds on record, of which nine are endemic, the area is also a refuge for dozens of migratory birds. Birders can be on the lookout for Piping Plover, Caribbean Coot, Roseate Tern, Great Blue Heron, Blue-winged Teal, Ruddy Duck, Puerto Rican Plain Pigeon, Great Egret, West Indian Whistling Duck and Brown Pelican, to mention a few of the feathered treasures found in Puerto Rico's Northeast Ecological Corridor.