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News in Brief: A National Roundup
Phila. Report Cards Show All Schools But One Flunk
The first-ever school-by-school report on the Philadelphia public schools has found that fewer than half of the systems 215,000 students have basic reading, mathematics, and science skills.
Only one school, Masterman Middle School, meets the standards set by the district as part of the school reform strategy that Superintendent David W. Hornbeck has spearheaded, the report says.
The report, released this month, used standardized-test scores, graduation rates, and attendance records to assign an individual score for each of the 257 schools in the district. District officials then determined a two-year target score for each school.
Schools that meet their target scores will receive recognition and extra funding, while those that fall short of their goals will be reviewed by district officials and face tougher district intervention.
Charter Schools Succeeding
The early word on Massachusetts' charter schools is that they are an educational success but that substantial challenges remain, according to a recent state report.
The "Massachusetts Charter School Initiative 1996 Report"--the first official study of the state's 22 charter schools--concludes that although the schools have "yet to reach their full potential," they have managed to accomplish their early goals, such as promoting innovation, providing more public school options, and spurring much-needed reforms. The oldest charter schools are in their second year.
Massachusetts charter schools currently enroll 5,400 students. Forty-four percent of the students belong to racial or ethnic minorities; 12 percent are in special education; and 15 percent speak English as a second language, according to the report, which was released this month.
N.J. Charter Start-Ups Aided
The 15 inaugural New Jersey charter schools that open their doors next fall will do so with the help of a $10 million loan fund established by the Prudential Foundation.
The Prudential Charter School Lending Program, announced this month, will offer qualifying charter schools as much as $1 million of first-year financing to support their start-up and early operating expenses. Such costs are often among the toughest obstacles that charter schools face as they gear up for operation. By providing interest rates as low as 2.75 percent, the lenders hope to provide the charter schools with the opportunity to achieve early financial viability.
"We've really broken ground," said John Kinghorn, the manager for Prudential's social-investments program. "We'll know a lot more a year from now about the success of this effort."
The foundation was created by the Newark-based Prudential Insurance Company of America.
Dade Reinforces Uniform Rule
The Dade County, Fla., school board gave tentative approval last week to a policy change that would make uniforms mandatory at any school where a simple majority of the parents want them.
The amended policy would dispose of the voluntary choice to wear uniforms, although students who objected to them could be exempted if their parents filled out an application and met with the school principal and a district administrator. The proposed revisions, which are subject to a second board vote, would also require schools to provide financial aid to students who could not afford uniforms.
The current policy, which 90 schools in the 340,000-student district have adopted, requires students to wear uniforms if 75 percent of a school's parents concur and allows a school to designate the attire as a voluntary measure.
More Ohio Seniors Pass Tests
A record percentage of Ohio high school seniors have passed all four sections of a proficiency test required for graduation, state education officials have announced.
About 93 percent of the seniors have passed the test, which the state mandated in 1990. The results mean that 8,767 seniors still must complete and pass one or more sections of the exam in order to graduate this year, said Roger Trent, the director of assessment for the state education department. "This is the lowest number of seniors needing to pass the test that the state has ever had," he said.
Last spring, about 2,700 seniors failed the assessment and were barred from graduating. Since then, 736 of them have passed and earned their diplomas.
Students currently are assessed in writing, reading, mathematics, and citizenship. Next year's freshmen will have to pass a science section as well.
NCAA Amends Rules
The National Collegiate Athletic Association has taken steps to resolve the controversy over requisite high school coursework for college-bound athletes with disabilities.
At its annual convention this month, member voted to clarify that the NCAA's academic-requirements committee, rather than a high school principal, has the final say about whether courses meet NCAA requirements. A principal may provide documentation to show that a specialized course covers the same material as an accepted core course.
Under a second resolution, students with learning disabilities will be allowed to count all core courses completed prior to college enrollment toward their initial-eligibility status, such as those they take in the summer before they start college.
The Overland Park, Kan.-based governing group for intercollegiate sports has enraged many high school administrators, teachers, and parents over its decisions about which high school courses should be counted toward eligibility for college athletics. ("Student Coursework Runs Afoul of NCAA's Rules on Eligibility" Oct. 16, 1996.)
In a separate development, a public-interest law group has filed a federal lawsuit against the NCAA , charging that its freshman-eligibility rules requiring minimum scores on college-entrance exams discriminate against black student-athletes.
The Washington-based Trial Lawyers for Public Justice claims in the suit filed this month in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia that the testing requirements violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Dan Boggan, the NCAA's chief operating officer, said that the suit represents an attempt to return to the days when student-athletes could emerge from college "without any real education at all."
Moms, Dads, Spouses Barred
Married students and unwed mothers in Houston, Miss., public schools have been barred from cheerleading, the homecoming court, and a "who's who" of top students on campus, according to a district policy adopted this month. Students who are married or have children will not be barred from participating in athletics, scholarship programs, or student government, however.
"There are a lot of kids who are getting married or pregnant," said Laverne Collins, the superintendent of the 2,000-student district, where 44 students dropped out last year, many to have children or get married. "It puts too many demands on kids at an early age, so hopefully this will stop them," he said.
But David Ingebretsen, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi, doubts that barring students from high-profile activities will do much to deter teenage pregnancy or early marriage. "Students don't make those choices based on whether they are going to be a cheerleader or not," he said. Mr. Ingebretsen said the ACLU is weighing whether there is a legal basis to mount a challenge to the policy.
Superintendent Suspended
The Richmond, Va., school board has suspended Superintendent Patricia C. Conn for up to 45 days.
The board charged her with insubordination and is planning to fire her, according to the Richmond-Times Dispatch. Board members cited incidents of "misrepresentation to the board" and a failure to "follow directives" in a letter to Ms. Conn, according to the newspaper's sources.
Ms. Conn said in an interview last week that she feels positive about the direction she has taken the 29,000-student district during her 1 1/2 year tenure and that she plans to appeal the suspension. "The reasons listed are not serious enough for a suspension," Ms. Conn contended. "Some of them are entirely without merit."
Melvin D. Law, the board chairman, refused to comment on the suspension.
Advice on Growth Hormones
The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued guidelines to pediatricians on the controversial subject of how and when to treat short children with human growth hormones.
Pediatricians have been criticized in recent years for over prescribing the treatment to children of short stature at their parents' request.
The guidelines, published in this month's issue of Pediatrics, say that the growth-hormone treatment is only appropriate for children with chronic renal deficiency, classic growth-hormone inadequacy, or for children whose "extreme short stature" keeps them from participating in basic daily activities.
The AAP says that such treatments--which are administered by injection and can cost as much as $5,000 over five years--may exaggerate young people's insecurity about their height and may not actually make them taller adults. It also warns that there may be unknown long-term risks associated with the therapy. "It would be better to eradicate the bias against short people than to attempt to eradicate the condition of being short," the academy says.
What Parents Don't Know
Many parents of top-achieving students will have their eyes opened by a new report by the publishers of Who's Who Among American High School Students.
Many of the top students' parents think they know their children well, but the report suggests that's not the case. It reveals that parents are unaware that many teenagers have contemplated suicide, engaged in sex without condoms, cheated in school, and have friends with drug problems.
"This special report is a wake-up call to the parents who have been lulled into a false sense of security by their own teen's good grades or at-home behavior," said Paul C. Krouse, the publisher of the directory.
The Lake Forest, Ill.-based publishing company sent questionnaires to 7,500 parents; more than 2,600 responded. The responses of 3,370 students included in the special report, which was released this month, were randomly selected out of a pool of 7,500 students.
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The players who weren't on the ice at that point were more notable than the ones who were.
Not on the ice: Martin Havlat, Tuomo Ruutu, Peter Bondra, Jeff Hamilton or Bryan Smolinski.
On the ice: Martin Lapointe, Michael Holmqvist, Craig MacDonald, Brent Seabrook and Duncan Keith.
By this point, it goes without saying that the Hawks didn't convert on that or any other power play in the game, failing in six attempts.
The Red Wings were 3 of 7 and won 6-3, handing the Hawks their fifth loss in a row, seventh in their last eight games and eighth in their last 10.
"They deserved to be out there," coach Denis Savard said of his makeshift unit.
Unsaid is that the others didn't.
Not only did the Hawks fail on six power plays, they also didn't come through on a two-minute two-man advantage for the last 1:25 of the second period and first 35 seconds of the third.
"That was basically the game right there," Havlat said. "We didn't play very well. We didn't get many chances."
The Hawks ended up with only three shots on goal during the two minutes.
"Those 5-on-3s, you have to find a way to score," Savard said.
After Seabrook opened the scoring 5:18 into the game, the Red Wings scored three unanswered goals, the last two on the power play.
The teams then traded goals until Kris Draper scored an empty-netter with 17 seconds left.
"If we played the whole game like we did the third period, with a sense of urgency, we'd have more chances to win," goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin said. "For some reason, we don't stick with the structure. We definitely have to get more focused."
Defenseman Adrian Aucoin was out of the lineup again, this time with a sore groin. Aucoin missed 11 games with a groin problem and was hampered by it most of last season. He has played in only 64 of a possible 126 games because of injuries or, in one game last week, poor play. ... With Aucoin out of the lineup, Lapointe wore the "C" as captain. Players are supposed to receive letters based on work ethic and leadership. But Ruutu, whom Savard has lauded for his work ethic all season, didn't wear one Saturday while Smolinski, whom Savard said last week had to play "harder and better," wore an "A" as assistant captain along with Havlat. ... Adam Burish was also out of the lineup Saturday because of an infected, swollen elbow. ... Bondra had only two shifts in the third period and didn't play the last 17 minutes. Hamilton had just one shift in the third.

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17th Annual 100,000 Vertical Foot Challenge
Mon, Mar 9
Admission: $75
Contact Person: Corey Madden
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Scheduled for Monday, March 9, 2020. Field to be limited to 45 participants and spots will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis. Please read and see registration info below for more details.
Held annually on a Monday in March, the Wildcat Mountain 100,000 Vertical Foot Challenge is a non-race event offering the chance for a limited capacity field of participants the opportunity to ski or ride 100,000 vertical feet in a single day. Total funds raised from the previous 16 years of the event have reached OVER $1 million directly benefiting Make-A-Wish ® New Hampshire and their endeavors. The event is unique to Wildcat Mountain coupling the accessibility of the Wildcat Express high-speed, summit lift and the ski area's greater than 2,000 vertical feet.
This is a charity event that supports Make-A-Wish New Hampshire and challenges skiers/riders to log a total of 48 runs (maximum 50) on the Lynx Trail to achieve 100,000 vertical feet over the course of the day, non-stop. Participants are required to raise a minimum of $300 for Make-A-Wish New Hampshire. Donated prizes from event sponsors will be awarded for the top fundraisers and additional prizes will be won in a bib draw raffle. Refreshments and snacks will be provided to help keep challengers going throughout the day.
Since 1986, Make-A-Wish New Hampshire has enriched the lives of children with life-threatening medical conditions through granting the heartfelt wish of each qualifying child. The organization's mission reflects the life-changing impact that a Make-A-Wish experience has on children, families, referral sources, volunteers, donors, sponsors and entire communities. For more information, please visit Make-A-Wish New Hampshire .
Event Rules and Regulations
THIS IS NOT A RACE, it is a fundraising event. There is a 9-hour window, weather and conditions permitting, to complete the 100K, from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (unless all participants still entered complete the 100K prior to 4:30 p.m. This equates to approximately 11 minutes and 15 seconds per run. The lift can reach the summit in less than 7 minutes, which leaves almost 4.5 minutes to complete each run. This is plenty of time to ski down the mountain in a safe controlled manner, for the duration of the day, and reach the 100K mark. This is not an all-day downhill type race and anyone deemed to be endangering themselves or others will be removed from the challenge at the discretion of event staff or ski patrol. Participants will be allowed to complete a maximum of 50 runs and will be required to stop for the day when that total is reached.
All previous participants and any new interested participants will be notified via email when registration has opened and spots will be filled via online registration on a first-come, first-serve basis. Pre-registration fee is $75 for all participants and the field is limited to 45 participants. When registration does open, you will be able to register online. If you are registering more than one participant, you will need to complete contact and date-of-birth information for each participant. If you are interested in being notified via email when registration opens, please email Corey Madden firstname.lastname@example.com
Event Day Check-In
On the morning of the challenge, the check-in table will open at 6:15 a.m. All pre-registered challengers will provide their donation totals, sign a liability release, be provided an event bib, and checked for a helmet. All participants will gather at the base of the summit quad lift prior to beginning the event at 7:30 a.m. Helmets are required for this event. If you do not have one, you cannot participate.
Lift Privileges
Entering the 100K Challenge will provide you with priority lift access for the day. This will help participants maximize their time spent trying to complete the 100,000 Vertical Foot Challenge. AGAIN, this is not a race. Anyone deemed to be endangering themselves or others, including reckless behavior entering lift loading area, will be removed from the challenge at the discretion of event staff or ski patrol.
The course for this event is scheduled to be Wildcat's Lynx Lair to the Lynx Trail. This expert to intermediate trail combination takes a rather direct route down the mountain and covers approximately 2,100 vertical feet. It will be closed to the general public at all points of entry, so only challengers will be on the trail, but please "Know The Code" and remain in control at all times with the ability to stop. Snacks, food, water, will be provided to you through the day. Any personal food, clothing, or other items you might want available for the day can be kept at the event corral set up at the lift base.
Follow the Code
You are responsible for knowing and adhering to the Skier Responsibility Code. Challengers deemed to be skiing in a reckless manner will be removed from the challenge at the discretion of event staff or ski patrol.
We are all set for volunteers at this time and do not need additional help staffing this event.
The top prizes will be awarded to the challengers who raise the most money for Make-A-Wish New Hampshire. Make-A-Wish New Hampshire will provide you an easier online means to collect donations from family, friends, co-workers, etc. If you are among the registered participants, you can sign-up directly through Make-A-Wish New Hampshire
Cash or check donations: If participants have pledge sponsors that wish to donate with cash or check, please organize and collect fund amounts prior to event day. You may then bring those donations with you to check-in. Checks can be made payable to Make-A-Wish NH.
Please note, all donations will need to be submitted and presented on the morning of the event to be considered for top donation prize winners. Of course, additional donations received after the event day will be welcomed by Make-A-Wish New Hampshire.
Dinner and Awards
After the Challenge is over, all participants and volunteers are invited to the awards party dinner in the Wildcat Pub. There will be a pasta dinner, cash bar and prizes. Donated prizes from event sponsors will be awarded for the top fundraisers and additional prizes will be won in a bib draw raffle.


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AI is on the cusp of mainstream adoption, yet there is still a lot of confusion around what it is and how we can use it in our practice. So, Content Magazine sat down with one of North America's leading experts on the topic Susan Etlinger to find out more.
Etlinger, Altimeter Group's industry analyst who advises global clients on how to incorporate intelligent technologies into organizational culture and practice, shared her insights on why AI is coming to the fore now, ways marketers can utilize it, and how to get ready for voice search.
Content: What is AI? Why is it becoming so important now?
Susan Etlinger: The first thing to understand about defining AI is that nobody agrees on what it is.
Technologists don't agree. Business people don't agree. But I'll give you a couple of definitions I've heard that I think are really useful.
In some ways, people's view of AI is very aspirational, meaning that a lot of people will look at 'Black Mirror' and other films in popular culture, and think of it in terms of sentient machines. That just doesn't exist, and that may never exist in the way that we've formulated it.
AI is not magic. It's technology that enables machines to sense information, classify it, analyze it, maybe make inferences based upon it. Predict, act, and most importantly learn. The two kinds of characteristics that I think are most important are that it is somewhat autonomous, meaning that it makes decisions on its own. Secondly, that it is learning from data and past experience.
Why is AI coming to fruition now?
There are three reasons.
One is, we have just a tremendous amount of data at our disposal now, digital data that we didn't have before.
IBM has been saying for years that 90% of the data in the world was created in the last two years alone, and that two-year period may actually be dropping to a matter of months. We are just creating so much data.
Data is the lifeblood of machine learning algorithms, or what we think of as AI.
The second reason is that the cost of computing and processing that data has just dropped so precipitously that we can now process massive amounts of it without having to be a government agency, or a multi-billion-dollar company.
Third, when you add tons of data and the ability to process it, of course that leads to research advancements, and just the improvement of various algorithms that are used to doing different things. It's a virtuous cycle.
Which types of AI will marketers be able to use?
There are three main areas that I think are relevant for marketers:
1 — Predictive Analytics: Predictive analytics is having the ability to do analytics based on data, and predict future outcomes, and try to figure out, for example, what might be the most efficient way to target an ad? What might be the most efficient way to personalize a campaign? What might be the best type of campaign, or the most engaging content?
2 — Natural Language: 'Natural language' can encompass anything from the text in a news story to a customer service chat log, to social media content, what people are posting or blogging, even to voice data; it's the ability to recognize speech and turn that into meaningful content.
We are beginning to move away from the first and second iteration of the Internet, which consist of URL and app-based content.
And now we are starting to see the capability to use speech and text, chat, and potentially even gestures, to interact with products and services and companies too.
3 — Image Recognition: Computer vision is the ability to understand the contents of an image: a photograph, video, even a drawing or painting.
Image recognition helps us understand context, what's happening in an image. How many people are there? What's the weather like? Are they in the country or are they in the city? Are they at the beach or the mountains? Does it look like they are having fun?
That becomes very interesting in terms of content development and personalization.
Gartner predicts that 30% of all browsing will be done without a screen by 2020. What should marketers be doing now to meet the needs of voice search?
Marketers should learn from what's happening in the customer service world, because when it comes to things like chat and voice, particularly in chat, there is a lot of activity around developing chatbots that can assist people with customer service requests.
There are a couple of reasons for that.
If you are a large enterprise, you'll have a ton of data on the way that your customers interact with your products.
You have call center calls and chat logs. You have emails. You have lots of data that can be used to better understand the trends and problems that customers have, which you can use to train chatbots to recognize, predict and respond to in a structured way.
A number of organizations start with customer service and then move into marketing. They begin by solving somebody's problem, find out more about their needs, and essentially deepen that relationship, so they can earn permission to sell, cross-sell, and upsell to them.
How will the advancements in computer vision alter the way brands and businesses promote their products and services?
Computer vision is beginning to be integrated into digital marketing offerings like a marketing cloud, such as Salesforce or Adobe. Or it's integrated into social media analytics offerings.
In additional to being able to analyze the sort of text data that the customers supply, via Twitter, Facebook, apps or websites, computer vision is actually able to see the images that people are posting about their experience.
This technology could be used to monitor moments of consumption; so, for brands that are very consumer orientated, for example like Coca-Cola, they can see from a photograph that somebody is enjoying their soft drink on a picnic.
Here they can see their brand in the context of other brands. That might provide some input to marketing campaigns, and give them an understanding of what people's expressions are, and what their temperament might be around their brand.
Can you give an example of AI already in action?
We use AI every single day. If you have a phone, and you are connected to the Internet, you are interacting with AI in one way or another. You are using predictive text on your phone that is trying to anticipate what you are going to say.
If you are using Google or another search engine, or if you're on Facebook or Twitter, the algorithms determine what you see in your feed.
A lot of positive work is also being done to use computer vision and natural language together to improve accessibility. These things, the predictive cases, the chatbot cases, the voice cases, these are all real and happening now. It's just that we are in a very embryonic stage of their development.
As AI tech becomes more sophisticated, how too will the practice of marketing?
When I think about the future, what I really hope is that we don't use machines to replace people. We should get really smart about the things that machines are good at, and really smart about the things that people are good at, and create complimentary relationships.
We shouldn't automate things for the sake of automating them. We shouldn't make machines seem human for the sake of making them seem human. That can be off-putting, or even violate customers' trust.
The real purpose of AI in marketing is to allow for a much more organic series of interactions between people and the organizations that they interact with.


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Chapter Dinner Meeting
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
6:30 pm, doors open at 6:00
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Credit Unions: Ready, Organize, Activate, Respond
April Mobley, Political and Grassroots Director at Cornerstone Credit Union League
What is CU R.O.A.R.?
It's the Cornerstone Credit Union League's initiative for grassroots and PAC support that stands for Ready, Organized, Activate and Respond. Simply put, it is an advocacy program that connects credit union advocates with lawmakers.
While we often boast of "millions of credit union members ready to respond" the reality is that unless we can back it up with real grassroots action, our efforts ring hollow. It is for this reason that we urge you to join CU: R.O.A.R.
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The finest luxury honeymoon hotel in Chania
Experience one of the best luxury honeymoon hotels in Chania and Crete, which combines the charm of Chania city with the beach culture of Agia Marina beach.
Thalassa Beach Resort, the finest luxury honeymoon hotel in Chania and West Crete, provides an array of amenities for honeymoon couples unmatched by any other hotel.
As we are an exclusive couples' hotel, we have made sure that every amenity and service offered – most of which are totally free for our guests – caters for the everyday satisfaction worthy of the name of one of the best luxury honeymoon hotels in Crete and Chania.
Apart from the great character and atmosphere for romantic couples, the location of the honeymoon hotel is perfect. You don't have to choose between the magnificent, charming Chania city, and the stunning beach of Agia Marina: in Thalassa you can have both.
Chania city: The most romantic – and luxury – city in Crete at a very short distance from Thalassa honeymoon hotel
Chania city is for most honeymoon couples the prime destination in Crete. Thalassa honeymoon hotel is in a distance of about 5 kilometres from the centre of the city, and it is very easy to get from Agia Marina to Chania city: The frequent local buses, the everywhere-to-be-found taxis, the quality car rentals, you have a lot of options regarding your fast and easy transport.
When in the Venetian Harbour and the Old Town of Chania, you will discover for yourself the reason so many newly married couples from all over the world choose Chania city and the hotels in the area for their honeymoon holidays.
The Venetian Harbour is the best preserved harbour of the Venetian times after Venice itself. The fortress of Firkas, the Arabian Lighthouse, the Old Sea Wall, the Neoria ("dockyards") are only some of the famous, centuries-old buildings that you are going to admire. The Venetian Harbour, with its narrow, old buildings – some of which are now restaurants, cafes and hotels – is the perfect setting for your luxury honeymoon travel in Crete.
And the magic continues in the adjacent Chania Old Town, where in the small alleys around Chalidon and Zambeliou central streets you will find the beating heart of commerce in the city of Chania. The Old Town of Chania is the commercial centre of the area for many centuries now, and an especial experience during your honeymoon. Here, apart from splendid shops, you will also find some quality restaurants, cafes and hotels, too.
Agia Marina beach: The best beach in Crete near Chania city, right at your doorstep in Thalassa honeymoon hotel
Chania city is a magnificent city, but the beaches in the city are mediocre in general. This is the reason why most people from Chania city come to the now famous beach of Agia Marina.
But you are lucky enough to have this splendid beach, one of the best beaches in Crete, right in front of you. Thalassa luxury honeymoon hotel is built right on one of the best spots in Agia Marina beach.
So relax and leave everything behind. Enjoy life with your loved one on the beach. Make your honeymoon in Crete and Thalassa luxury hotel the best travelling experience ever. When you are in Chania, you have us, the honeymoon experts, to count on.
A honeymoon in Crete, and especially in Chania, is a great idea by itself. But a honeymoon in Thalassa luxury hotel is even better: for most of our exclusively couples guests, it is a forever-remembered experience.


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Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia
Ethnic Groups of the Soviet Union
Ethnolinguistic Groups in China
Ethnoreligious Distribution 1982
Road Map
Ethnoreligious Distribution 2004
Persia 1909
Isfahan 1942
Afghanistan and Pakistan
Northwest Frontier
Political map of Afghanistan
Ethnolinguistic Groups
Ethnolinguistic Groups
Topographical Features
Northern Pakistan
Central Asia
Major Ethnic Groups in Central Asia
Linguistic Map of the Altaic, Turkic and Uralic languages
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The whole world seem to be all "Türklar" althogh they seem the dont know it. Therefore it is ironic thagt even Turkey itself will have Kurdish majority population in 25 years. So, dream on, Ankara. The reality will hit you sooner than you think. Anatolia will be speaking an Indo-European language (Kurdish), restoring to it what it always had until the 15th century. Asiatic Turko-Mongolian will again end up in the distant Orkhun deserts of Mongolia where it came from. Hehehehe….
I realize your blog mostly focuses on issues on Central Asia and areas further south, but for the record, some notes on your map of the "Altaic, Turkic and Uralic languages" shown here. While it covers the Turkic languages sufficiently well that I cannot point out flaws, it rather fails to do anything compareable for the other language families shown. The lack of language-level division within Mongolian and Tungusic is obvious enough — given the Turkic focus, this may be acceptable, but I feel it should be at least noted these constitute language families, rather than single languages like Korean.
Worse yet is how with the Uralic family, subdivision has been attempted but botched quite badly. Several languages have been erased altogether (Mari and Udmurt perhaps the most obviously) while some are lumped together at seemingly random (the "Samoyedic" category seems to have acquired the Ob-Ugric and Mordvinic languages).
Much of this should be obvious even from a simple comparision with your first, ethnographic map presented here, but here's to explicitly note these facts for the record anyway.


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Financial Analyst, Toma Imihere, has countered the Bank of Ghana's (BoG) assertion that the clean-up of the banking sector has been completed.
On The Big Issue on Saturday, Mr. Imihere said there are still some major institutions unable to meet the minimum capital requirement and that claims the sector has been sanitised are "totally untrue".
"Five of the biggest financial intermediation companies in this country have been operating for the past eight months with capital well below the minimum capital for which some other banks have been closed down. And if those banks are still operating with far less than the minimum capital, how can we say we have completed the restructuring of the financial sector?"
"In other words, what the Bank of Ghana said was that [the undercapitalised banks] are no longer an issue. So what? Those banks are going to continue to operate with less than [the] minimum capital."
The analyst said he was worried that BoG was only issuing statements "as if that problem does not exist."
The five banks in question; ADB, NIB, merged Omni/Bank Sahel Sahara, Universal Merchant Bank, and Prudential Bank, are to be supported with GHc2 billion through the Ghana Amalgamated Trust (GAT).
These banks could not meet the GHc400 million capital requirement but were solvent.
But the passage of the trust was deferred by Parliament back in March 2019 and Mr. Imihere feels "it is clear that, that thing is not going to happen."
He thus suggested that the BoG take more responsibility for the state of the five banks.
"…As the regulator, you can't say it's somebody else's problem because you are the regulator. You can't pretend like the problem does not exist."
On its way to declaring the banking, specialised deposit-taking institutions (SDI), and non-bank financial institutions (NBFI) sectors have been sanitised, the BoG revoked the licences of nine universal banks, 347 micro-finance companies of which 155 had already ceased operations, 39 microcredit companies or money lenders, 15 savings and loans companies, eight finance house companies, and two non-bank financial institutions.
In addition, the central bank and the Government will launch the Ghana Deposit Protection Scheme in September 2019 to further strengthen protection of depositors' interests.
"The Bank of Ghana has…completed the clean-up of the banking, specialized deposit-taking (SDI), and non-bank financial institutions (NBFI) sectors which began in August 2017," the central bank said in a statement on Friday.


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News – Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 delayed again
July 27, 2012 by Simon Wigham
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Namco Bandai has decided to delay Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 until January next year. The FPS has already been delayed once and its second release date was set for release in October.
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Acidity and Heartburn
Acidity and heartburn are due to presence of too much
acid in the stomach that causes exasperation of the
gastrointestinal casing. This causes a blazing pain. When
this excessive acid leaks back into the throat this
inflames and the reaction of heartburn is produced.
Causes of Acidity and Heartburn
The following circumstances can create excessive acid in
stomach causing acidity and heartburn.
•Consumption of rich and spicy foods
•Eating speedily, very fast devoid of proper chewing
•Eating hurriedly while beneath stress
•Inappropriate sleep
•Alcohol utilization
•Pregnant women may undergo because when the baby grows, the uterus exerts force on the digestive area
•Overweight people may bear because of unnecessary
pressure on their digestive tract.
Natural treatment of Acidity & Heartburn~
> Bananas have defensive action against the acidity and
heart burn. Eating a banana every day will stop such
•Obtain a mixture of 2 tsp of normal apple cider vinegar
and 2 tsp raw honey in a glass of water earlier than
meals. One of the well liked home remedy for acidity.
•Stay away from fried foods, pickles, hot spicy foods,
vinegar, and chocolate
•Stay away from raw salad of vegetables like onion, cabbage, radish, and peppers
•Keep away from unripe high pectin fruits, such as unripe
apple. But ripe apple such as delicius apple or fuji apple
may help out
•Grind up the food properly. Do not consume in hurry
•Do not bounce meals. Do not keep great gap between meals. This produces gas / current of air.
•Drink lots of water, at least 8 glasses each day
•Do not eat just previous to going to bed
•End smoking and cut down on alcohol
Home Remedy for Acidity
•A good Home Remedy for Acidity is to chew up a few basil (tulsi ) leaves to obtain relief from blazing, nausea
and gas
•Stay a small part of jaggery (gur) in your jaws and
slowly suck it. Repeat it each hour till acidity subsides.
One of the best home remedies for acidity.
•Eat watermelon, banana or cucumber each hour.
•Eat a few almonds when your experience heartburn
symptoms. This is good Home Remedy for Acidity
•Gulp coconut water 4-5 periods a day.
•Drink a glass of cold milk for quick relief of heartburn
and acidity
•Drink fresh mint juice gradually after meals. This remedy
is best Home Remedies for Acidity
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One of the most versatile tools in your lighting kit is or should be gels.
Gels correct for color temperature shifts or add color to an image. I love the Rogue Gel kits as I can now carry a bunch of gel colors in a nice carry case that I never carried before, like Rose, Purple, Yellow, Green, Blue, etc:
Alyssa came to me a with an idea for a colored look.
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And here's the BTS shots of the gels:
The setup is a bit complex and the back/hair light, which is actually the key light, took a bit to set up in the correct position. Once we had it, we nailed it!
The backdrop is black felt I got from Joanne Fabrics. I like felt as it absorbs all of the light and gives you true black on the background.
The Rogue Gel kits open up a new wave of creative outlets for you as you can color your light for any need.
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For 91-year-old Sunanda Rangappa Nayak, age is just a number. Her cheerful disposition, magnetic presence and love for life will have one and all mesmerised.
Picture above: Sunanda says "Hi."
Charismatic, cherubic and vivacious, this sprightly ever-smiling 91-year-old lady has a presence which is angel-like. But behind the veil of cheerfulness is a woman who has fought problems aplenty all her life.
Early days
Born on 7 September 1921 in Cochin (now Kochi) to Nidodi Babayya Nayak and Sharada, Sunanda was afflicted with filaria when she was just 5. She had to discontinue her studies at TD High School in Cochin when she was just 8 years old because acute filaria made it impossible for her to study. A fall from a swing only added to her woes.
At 23, she was married to Rangappa Ambalpady Nayak of Udupi who was seven years older than her. Post-marriage, the couple stayed in Mangalore for some time before moving to Bombay (now Mumbai) in search of greener pastures.
Tough days
Misfortune struck the family soon. Rangappa Nayak had to quit his job as salesman in Popular Pharmacy, Bombay owing to failing health. Though the couple was staying in a joint family at Bombay they found it difficult to make ends meet. Sunanda took up a job in the packing department at Minal Metralise. After one and a half years, she moved to Cymose where she worked as a store-keeper and then 5 years later she quit the job to work as a compounder with a lady doctor who practised near Victoria Terminus. Unfortunately, Sunanda couldn't work for more than 5 years with filaria again making her life miserable. "Every now and then I would get fever," she says.
Picture above: Sunanda smiles for the camera.
The US stint
In 1981, goaded by relatives Sunanda went to the US. She worked for 9 months at Maryland as a baby-sitter. In the US, she stayed with her dad's relatives and her niece. In spite of all the problems she had faced back home in India, Sunanda missed her country and thus 11 months later she flew back to Bombay.
Husband's death and later
Sunanda had no children. Her husband passed away in 1986.
After her husband's death, Sunanda moved to Bangalore and for the last 27 years, the garden city has been her home. Why did she move to Bangalore? "An aunt was seriously ill and I moved here to be with her." She loved her aunt who she says was almost like a mother to her. Sunanda and her brother had spent a great part of their childhood with this aunt who had no children of her own.
Back to work
Since her aunt's death in 1989, Sunanda has been staying alone. She started working again at 69! First it was with a Ladies Co-operative Society for 5 years as a store-keeper, then it was at the Mysore Poultry Farm in Hebbal again as a store-keeper for another 5 years and then as a saleswoman for another 2 years. She doesn't work now.
Picture above: Sunanda in her kitchen.
She cooks all by herself
How does she run her home which I noticed is sparkling clean? "From the money I saved and from a lot of generous contributions from near and dear ones," she says with a smile. Her endearing disposition has won many hearts. Her mobile rings now and then with callers inquiring about her health and well-being.
Picture above: Her mobile rings every now and then. She has a lot of fans.
In between all the conversation, Sunanda has found time to cook a fine tea-time snack for me in spite of my protests. And she wouldn't let me off without a cup of coffee.
I ask her if she loves cooking. "Oh not really. I took to cooking only after I moved to Bangalore." What is her favourite dish? "Biscuit roti [a Mangalorean speciality]," she says with a twinkle in her eye.
Picture above: Sunanda astride her neighbour's scooter.
Talent with languages
Besides Konkani, which is her mother tongue, Sunanda can speak, read and write in Malayalam, Marathi, English and Hindi. She also speaks Kannada and Tamil.
Picture above: Sunanda loves visiting temples. She visits a temple every day.
A day in her life
How is her day like? "I wake up at 6 am and have bath and then cook and have breakfast. I then visit a temple. Once I am back from the temple I prepare lunch and after having lunch I have a 2-hour nap from 2 to 4 pm. I do not miss out on my evening cup of coffee at 5pm. Dinner time is 10 pm and I go to sleep at sharp 11." She adds, "I do not eat hotel food and I don't have onion and garlic." She has a servant do the housekeeping.
Picture above: Sunanda performs puja every day.
The walls of her modest home in Rajajinagar are adorned with pictures of deities. She performs puja every day.
Picture above: Sunanda has an ever-smiling countenance.
An avid traveller
I ask her about her hobbies. "I love travelling especially to holy places. I have travelled to Tirupati 34 times, the most recent visit being last year. I must have climbed the hill in Tirupati at least 9 times." She has travelled alone on most of her trips. Her love for travelling has taken her through the length and breadth of the country. You name a place and she says she has been there – Badrinath, Kedarnath, Varanasi, and all other major tourist destinations in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. She makes it a point to have a darshan of her family deity Lakshmi Narasimha in Mulki, South Kanara, every year. She hardly misses a family function.
Picture above: Sunanda sometimes rides pillion.
Commutes by BMTC buses even today
Surprisingly, Sunanda travels around the city mostly by BMTC buses. At times, she even rides pillion on two-wheelers. When I ask her to pose for photos, she is quick to change into a beautiful silk saree and is as enthusiastic as a bubbly schoolgirl.
Sunanda had a heart attack 5 years back. How does she manage to maintain such a cheerful disposition and be so active in spite of all the difficulties in her life? She bursts into laughter and attributes it to God.
Picture above: Sunanda at her gate.
Even as I leave, Sunanda has not stopped laughing. She sees me off at the gate and makes me promise that I visit her again. Here's wishing the gritty lady many more happy years!


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Palo Alto Baylands birds
Yeah so I need to get to other birding locales more often…. Not too much afoot at the baylands today, mostly the usual waders. There were a couple of female NORTHERN SHOVELERS in the slough, but I didn't see any males.
Yeah so I need to get to other birding locales more often…. Not too much afoot at the baylands today, mostly the usual waders. There were a couple of female NORTHERN SHOVELERS in the slough, but I didn't see any males.
Not very much afoot today. Charleston Slough was very quiet, probably in part due to trail rebuilding going on between the viewing platform and Shoreline Lake, but the resident Burrowing Owl family was out and about, making the day. Three young 'uns were out of the north-east burrow, with two others in the grass and an adult between the path and the road.
I've not been out birding in a good many weeks, having been busy with other stuff and getting caught up on photo editing, but I found a couple of hours today after work to swing by the Baylands to see what's there right now.
I dropped by the baylands on the way home for a couple of hours to see what was afoot, or awing as it were. Nothing too exciting, but lots of the usual variety, and myriad egret chicks.
Sebby & I did our annual walk in the Bradley Grove in Calaveras Big Trees State Park near my family's cabin, and had a great time, just like last year. This is quickly becoming one of my favorite wildflower walks anywhere!
Verrry good wildflowering & OK birding around the Limantour area of Point Reyes this weekend! Although we were late for the Irises, a few stragglers remained. We didn't see anything new-to-us, but it was neat to see twinberry in fruit, as we'd only seen it in flower previously (at the nearby Drake's Estero area of Point Reyes, in fact!).
We saw but a modest number of birds. The highlight was definitely a GREAT HORNED OWL and fledging OWLET, but there was a good variety of the usual suspects throughout our hike.
S & I dropped by the Palo Alto Baylands for an hour today amid some peninsula-based errands we were running. Due to the heat and somewhat early hour (4:30pm), there wasn't very much afoot.
Another nice late afternoon found me at the Palo Alto Baylands again, this time with plenty of light for a change! I didn't see anything exotic, but it was fun to watch the Herons & Egrets doing their nesting activities.
The endless succession of storms broke today, and there was actually a fair bit of sun, so I returned to yesterday's birding locations to see if I could get better-lit photographs
Our uncharacteristically wet weather took a break, and I took my new camera to Golden Gate Park, Sutro Heights, and Sutro Baths to see if any birds were also enjoying the respite.


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Paul Krugman: Scandal in France
Unfortunately for Europe, France in particular, "the long-debunked fallacy known as Say's Law" lives on:
Scandal in France, by Paul Krugman, Commentary, NY Times: ...François Hollande, the president of France,... has done something truly scandalous.
I am not, of course, talking about his alleged affair... No, what's shocking is his embrace of discredited right-wing economic doctrines. It's a reminder that Europe's ongoing economic woes can't be attributed solely to the bad ideas of the right. Yes, callous, wrongheaded conservatives have been driving policy, but they have been abetted and enabled by spineless, muddleheaded politicians on the moderate left.
Right now, Europe seems to be emerging from its double-dip recession and growing a bit. But this slight uptick follows years of disastrous performance. ...
In this depressed and depressing landscape, France isn't an especially bad performer. ... It's true that the latest data show France failing to share in Europe's general uptick. Most observers ... attribute this recent weakness largely to austerity policies. But now Mr. Hollande has spoken up about his plans to change France's course — and it's hard not to feel a sense of despair.
For Mr. Hollande, in announcing his intention to reduce taxes on businesses while cutting (unspecified) spending to offset the cost, declared, "It is upon supply that we need to act," and he further declared that "supply actually creates demand."
Oh, boy. That echoes, almost verbatim, the long-debunked fallacy known as Say's Law — the claim that overall shortfalls in demand can't happen, because people have to spend their income on something. This just isn't true... All the evidence says that France is awash in productive resources, both labor and capital, that are sitting idle because demand is inadequate. ...
So what's the significance of the fact that, at this of all times, Mr. Hollande has adopted this discredited doctrine?
As I said, it's a sign of the haplessness of the European center-left. For four years, Europe has been in the grip of austerity fever, with mostly disastrous results... Given the hardship these policies have inflicted, you might have expected left-of-center politicians to argue strenuously for a change in course. Yet everywhere in Europe, the center-left has at best (for example, in Britain) offered weak, halfhearted criticism, and often simply cringed in submission.
When Mr. Hollande became leader of the second-ranked euro economy, some of us hoped that he might take a stand. Instead, he fell into the usual cringe — a cringe that has now turned into intellectual collapse. And Europe's second depression goes on and on.
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Teams: San Francisco Giants,1960-1973; Boston Red Sox, 1974; Los Angeles Dodgers,1975
Though he notched 25 or more victories
on three occasions, Juan Marichal
never won a Cy Young Award.
Juan Marichal won more games than any pitcher during the 1960s, with 191. In addition, he was the greatest control pitcher of his time -- he walked just 709 men in over 3,500 innings-with a delivery that defied logic. The timing oddities and whirl of motion that resulted from his high-kick windup baffled hitters for 16 seasons.
Juan Antonio Marichal y Sanchez (born in Laguna Verge, Dominican Republic, in 1937) as a youngster learned to pitch using a homemade baseball. He gleaned enough to be signed by the Giants in 1958. He led the Midwest League in 1958 with 21 wins and a 1.87 ERA, and he led the Eastern League in '59 with 18 wins and a 2.39 ERA. In half a season at Tacoma of the Pacific Coast League, he was 11-5.
Called up to San Francisco in 1960, Marichal was immediately an effective pitcher. He was 6-2 with a 2.66 ERA that year, and had his worst ERA of the decade in 1961 when he was 13-10 with a 3.89 ERA. In 1963, Marichal led the league in wins, going 25-8. That year he lost to a Sandy Koufax no-hitter, but Marichal won his next start by no-hitting Houston. He also encountered Warren Spahn, each going all the way in a 16-inning Giants win. It was the first of six 20-win seasons in seven years for "Manito," who each season posted an ERA under 3.00.
On August 22, 1965, with the Dodgers and the Giants in a tight pennant race, Marichal was pitching against Koufax. That historic feud had erupted in a brawl two days earlier. Juan had thrown a couple of purpose pitches, and when Dodger catcher John Roseboro asked Koufax to dust Marichal, Sandy refused. Marichal, apparently convinced that Roseboro's return throw to Koufax came too close to hitting him in the ear, took the bat and cracked the Dodger receiver in the head a couple of times. The benches emptied, erupting into one of the most vicious brawls in baseball history.
Willie Mays played peacemaker, leading Roseboro from the fray, his uniform stained with Roseboro's blood. Marichal was suspended and fined, and since the Giants finished just two games back, his absence was costly.
The incident may have prevented Marichal from doing better in awards voting ("The Dominican Dandy" never won a Cy Young Award), as well as his Hall of Fame induction, for which Roseboro campaigned. Juan was inducted in 1983. He was one of the best right-handers of the 1960s, finishing in the top three in wins five times and ERA three times. He was particularly tough on the Dodgers, beating them in 37 of 55 lifetime decisions. He spent his last season, however, with the '75 Dodgers.
Here are Juan Marichal's major league totals:
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Tennis player Nicolas Mahut plays from the stands
The french tennis player Nicolas Mahut returns a ball from the stands. Saturday, April 8, 2017 during the quarter-finals of the Davis Cup against Britain, Nicolas Mahut was able to return a ball from the bottom of the stands behind the billboards. Unfortunately, the rescue was not enough to make the point. But this has not prevented the France to win the game (7-6 5 - 7 7 - 5 7-5) and qualify for the semi-finals.


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Having worked as a solicitor for 8 years I have boxed up the books to follow my dream - that is to make Happyhire New Zealand's leading marquee and event management company. My passion for events is infectious and was triggered in the early stages of my life - whether it was planning events for friends, family and colleagues. Having started Happyhire with my loving wife Angela in 2011 with just one marquee, Happyhire has expanded rapidly to the point we are at now. My commitment to great prices and unrivaled customer service has fueled legions of happy repeat customers and that continues to grow. Put simply, I love what I do and would love to work with you, so get in touch today and let me help you throw an amazing event for a fraction of the cost!
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Celebrate the Luck of the Irish with these delicious St. Patrick's Day Cupcakes. These delicious cupcakes will be a hit with family or are perfect to take to your school or office party.
St. Patrick's Day Cupcakes
1 C. granulated sugar
1/2 C. butter, melted
2 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 1/2 C. flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 C. milk
disposable piping bag
Star round frosting tip
St. Patty's Day sticks (I purchased mine at the dollar store)
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line a 12 count muffin tin with green cupcake liners.
2. Combine the granulated sugar, melted butter, eggs, vanilla extract, flour, baking powder and milk.
3. Scoop the cupcake batter into the muffin tins filling each about 3/4 full.
4. Bake 20-25 minutes.
5. Remove from the oven and let cool.
Frosting Ingredients:
3 C. powdered sugar
1-2 tbsp. milk
1/3 C. butter, melted
1 tsp. vanilla extract
Green food coloring
Frosting Directions:
Using a hand held mixer, combine the powdered sugar, melted butter, vanilla extract and milk. Add green food coloring to the frosting.
Add Frosting To Cupcakes:
1. Attach the frosting tip to the disposable piping bag and fill with green frosting.
2. Gently squeeze the frosting out of the bag and onto each cupcake in a circular motion going around the top of the cupcake.
3. Repeat with each cupcake.
Add Decorations:
Take 2 St. Patty's day sticks and affix to the top of each toothpick, front and back.
Place the toothpicks into the cupcakes.


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Park Ave. Armory, Wade Thompson Drill Hall
643 Park Ave. at 67th St.
Monday - Saturday through April 21, $40-$135
Australian director Simon Stone puts domesticity and obsession under a microscope in the blistering, no-holds-barred Yerma, which opened last night at the Park Avenue Armory. His adaptation of Federico García Lorca's radical 1934 drama, part of the Spanish poet and playwright's seminal Rural Trilogy that also includes Blood Wedding and The House of Bernarda Alba, digs deep into the heart and soul of a woman who wants to have a baby but is having trouble conceiving. In a coproduction between the armory and the Young Vic, Stone moves the play to modern-day London, where a thirty-three-year-old blogger identified only as "her" (Olivier Award winner Billie Piper) and her forty-three-year-old partner, international businessman John (Brendan Cowell), have just bought a three-floor apartment. At first the couple is deliriously happy with their life, thrilled to be free of bourgeois expectations, when the woman suddenly and surprisingly decides she wants to have a baby, but John's enthusiasm is questionable. They have difficulty conceiving, and soon all kinds of connections to sex and reproduction appear, from her pregnant sister, Mary (Charlotte Randle), married to a philanderer, to a former boyfriend, Victor (John MacMillan), now father of a two-year-old, who gets a job at her office. Her twenty-one-year-old assistant, Des (Thalissa Teixeira), talks about her extremely active sex life while the woman's mother, Helen (Maureen Beattie), can't stop complaining about raising kids. In none of the situations is having children and being a parent ideal; instead, each person faces their own demons. Over several years, as the woman battles infertility, she descends into an ever-more-difficult struggle to maintain balance in her life as madness threatens.
Yerma unfolds on Lizzie Clachan's spectacular stage, reconfigured specifically for the massive fifty-five-thousand-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall, which has previously been transformed in dazzling ways for productions of Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape, Matt Charman and Josie Rourke's The Machine, and Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh's Macbeth, among other plays, art installations, and music events. The audience is seated on risers on two sides of the stage, a horizontal space encased by glass, making everyone a voyeur peering into someone else's personal life, as if turning the woman's blog into a physical reality. The woman is trapped within the glass structure, which evokes her mind; she is the only one who ever makes contact with the walls, except for when her mother washes it early on, not wanting to get involved too much in her daughter's problems. Each side of the audience can see the other through the glass; at first it looks like it could be a reflection, but it's not, equating everyone, as if the story we're all experiencing could be happening to any one of us.
At certain angles, the actors are reflected multiple times; thus, it is often possible to see four or five ghostly, unformed versions of Piper, visible far off to the right and left and across to the other side of the audience. It is a powerful dramatic effect that makes her deepening issues that much more universal. The lightning-fast set changes by lighting designer James Farncombe occur in sudden blackness as magisterial arias echo loudly throughout the space and a monitor announces the next chapter, which have such names as "Conception," "Disillusion," and "Deception," followed by phrases both descriptive and ominous. In addition, the characters are mic'd in such a way that their voices seem transcendent as they echo above them. (The gorgeous music and sound design is by Stefan Gregory.) It's a testament to Stone and the exceptional cast that they do not let the complex staging overwhelm the intimacy of the story. Nothing is done simply for show or to merely revel in the magic of theater; every aspect of the production has been ingeniously crafted to organically intersect into a wholly involving and shattering experience that will leave you physically and emotionally exhausted as well as thoroughly exhilarated.
In her North American stage debut, Piper (The Effect, Treats) is electrifying as her character devolves from a fun-loving, sexy, multifaceted woman into a mental wreck falling into the lower depths of the human condition; it is a brave, bold, unforgettable performance that leaves it all out on the stage and on the glass, literally and figuratively. Cowell (Life of Galileo, The Dark Room) marvelously complements her as John, maintaining the mystery behind the man's fears and desires as he reacts to his partner's gut-wrenching unpredictability. As a collective unit, the cast displays the wide range of emotions associated with pregnancy, from conception, the morning after pill, and abortion to motherhood, postpartum depression, and separation. It never lets up for a second throughout its one hundred minutes, with no detail extraneous; an early discussion of a certain sexual position only later lends insight into John's unspoken feelings about potentially becoming a father, and even the characters' names have been carefully chosen, with biblical and historical references or descriptions of who they are and what they want. And yet Toneelgroep Amsterdam veteran Stone (The Wild Duck, Miss Julie) has opted to not call the woman "Yerma" even though that is the title of the play — the name is shouted out only once in Lorca's original — emphasizing her lack of identity without a child while reminding us again that she is us. It's a terrifying prospect, brought to life in this stunning, brutal production.
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Organic Concentrated Bubble Bath Pure Rose Geranium 250ml
Making the bubble bath was a tricky one, we faced many (many) challenges creating it and not using the usual SLS and synthetic chemicals traditionally used to create the foam in Bubble Bath. The saga became know as "Bubble-gate" here at Little Towers! First of all there were no bubbles, then when we had bubbles that didn't last, or the bubbles were too small or too big. After much trial and error and many, many baths by all the Little Team (not all together we might add!) we are thrilled with the final product … our luxurious, moisturising, (and bubbly!) bubble bath! We can't wait to hear what you think, as this really does leave your skin feeling different to traditional recipes you may have used in the past.
Like all our other products, our bubblebath is made only with the finest natural ingredients and totally free from detergents, SLS, alcohol, parabens, sorbates, silicones, sulphates and preservatives.
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He Made the First Move | Hope as the Virtue for the Modern Age (and the End of a Pontificate)
Surely then you may lift up your face in innocence;
You may stand firm and unafraid.
For then you shall forget your misery,
Like water that has ebbed away you shall regard it.
Then your life shall be brighter than the noonday;
Its gloom shall become like the morning,
And you shall be secure, because there is hope;
You shall look round you and lie down in safety.
– Job 11.15-18
In times when do-good social justice efforts are the way we define charity, and the words 'I believe' are heard less and less frequently in the context of faith, it becomes necessary to reclaim and cling to the virtue-trilogy of faith, hope, and charity. One way to begin to do this is to reflect on hope as the virtue for the modern age.
There is an unquenchable searching in the human heart which divulges a desire for the infinite. This 'infinite,' is infinitely defined. What remains constant, however, is the transcendent searching. Spurred by a desire for the natural goods we enjoy in this life, this search, once purified, aspires towards the supernatural joys of eternity.
Hope fuels this search. Hope stands in contrast to modern disbelief and despair: both the despair of general human experience, known most profoundly in human suffering, and that far more dangerous, and sometimes related despair of the supernatural order which is a refusal to believe in the goodness and mercy of God. Hope is a vertical virtue, in that while often horizontally extended to things and beings of the natural realm, its nature is to transcend this realm into the supernatural one. Admittedly, this is a reductionist summary of some profoundly nuanced truths, but perhaps sufficient for the purposes of present reflections.
We are often told, and rightly, that we are to entrust ourselves to God, to entrust our lives, our hopes, our desires, our doubts and disbelief, our weakness and helplessness. But how would we know to do this if He had not first shown the way? God's coming into the world, His Incarnational existence, confirms in us that capacity for supernatural hope, and offers us an invitation and the chance for a relational response. Should we accept, what emerges is a desire that is no longer random and unfounded, but one that is directed, that has a purpose and a goal; in its telos it yearns for friendship and for union with Him. This happens at the point when we choose to begin to see our lives through an incarnational lens– that of the human and divine life of Christ.
If confidence is the way to the heart of God, and confidence is the virtue of the childlike, it only makes sense that God would show confidence in humanity first by giving us His Son, as a child. There is a profound opportunity here to understand hope both as virtue, and in its Christological incarnational expression as the Hope of God. Underlying the 'Come to me…' desire expressed by Christ, one can argue is a fundamental hope that we would see the hope God first has for us. It is a relational response that is asked of us: our love for His love.
All too often, in the course of human lives so burdened by doubt and disbelief, and modernly by an almost pathological sense of entitlement, or contrarily, of unworthiness, we make our faith dependent on desire and so mask its essential characteristic: that of choice. Choosing to believe is an altogether different and radical proposal for the modern age; it sets desire in its proper place: at the service of the dignity of man, who, confronted with his 'creatureliness' realizes he is free, but also dependent on God for his very being. We have conveniently lost this 'hierarchy of being' in modernity, and so desire has become paramount, and often stands in the way of the 'personal' choice to believe.
Our desires inform and direct our choices on a daily basis: on the temporal plane, we choose our food, our clothing our homes. On the spiritual plane, we have the capacity to choose for or against virtue. Necessarily, desiring the good, and believing it is good, and choosing it, is not always easy. In fact, it can be brutally difficult. Sometimes desire itself needs to be purified; like gold, burned to be recast in new form.
The purification of desire involves a difficult sacrifice: not the sacrifice of what we want and choose to give, in some sanctimonious attempt at growth in virtue, but of what we resist or refuse to give. This is 'perfect' sacrifice, for it involves a putting aside of self, in favor of a greater good, a purified love, a greater hope.
The culture we live in rejects sacrifice, and so sacrifices neither its desires nor much else. Fundamentally, we like to get what we want, when we want it and how we want it. What we fail to realize is that in this personalized mode of existence, designed and customized to our own liking, we crush our freedom, and with it our capacity to hope for redemption when even our perfectly customized existence fails to satisfy. The unquenchable desire for the infinite remains, masked under a veil of self-imposed limitation, or crushed entirely, only to manifest itself when this pilgrim journey crosses the threshold of suffering.
Then, desired or not, the sacrifice inherent in suffering must be the friend of that more permanent virtue–the friend of a vertical hope–the purified hope that sees even in brutal pain the infusion of divine love.
Amid the Jobian ruins of modernity hope emerges triumphant, because God made the first move—one independent from us: He entrusted humanity with Himself. Fundamentally, this descent is a reversal of expectations, and it seemingly ends badly. The Crucifixion stands perpetually as a reminder of Godly confidence in humanity meeting human desire gone terribly wrong.
But the story does not end there, for in the paradox of Calvary is the birth of redeemed suffering. The prison of the grave would be opened on a morning in the garden where the stone was found moved. And, as if this were not sufficient, forty days later He took his resurrected body, and ascended where we are meant to go, reuniting our humanity with His divinity once more.
His descent necessarily ends in an ascent.
Often this mystery fails to pass the test of a modernly defiant skepticism, but the test it does surpass is the test of hope. It is for us to choose to believe in spite of seemingly conflicting desires, and if we do, ours is a hope-filled, vertically-bound trajectory. This is why we can say that hope is the necessary virtue for the modern age: because modernity prefers the earthly prison of disbelief to that emancipating spiritual expanse of the free—the joyful 'prison' of hopeful expectation.
Return to a fortress,
O prisoners of hope;
This very day, I announce
I am restoring double to you.
-Zechariah 9.12
His love, for our love. As in a modern love story, He had to make the first move.
Returning to that fortress we find that its walls are the arms of Christ, and today the Holy Father took a further step into its hallowed halls.
'Surely then you may lift up your face in innocence;
You may stand firm and unafraid…
And you shall be secure, because there is hope;
You shall look round you and lie down in safety.'
Hope again triumphs. Thank you, Dear Benedict XVI; may God reward you, His servant. Deo Gratias.
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
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Thursday, January 6, 2011
Incense, peppermint, rosemary and thyme. Mattel fed the heads of the children of 1969 with this Peter-to-the-Max zodiac fortune telling set, Mystique Fortell Cards. Mixing day-glo colors with graphics appropriated from medieval woodcuts, and tapping into youth fascination with all things occult and Kreskin, it remains an exemplar of classic 60s pop design. Among its definitive prognostications: "far out behavior" and "pickup by a flying saucer."
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