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1542 – Explorer Cabrillo discovers Santa Catalina Island off of the California coast.
1763 – King George III of the United Kingdom issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing aboriginal lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlements.
1776 – Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat the British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain: American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British major Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
1826 – The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.
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1868 – Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
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Richard Eden of the Daily Telegraph has reported that Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, who is also the head of the Church of England, is "appalled" at what has happened to the Anglican Communion.
The usually well-informed newspaper adds that the Queen, who is the Supreme Governor of the C(hurch) of E(ngland), is "also said to have an affinity with the Holy Father, who is of her generation".
Quite good stuff to hear of the affinity that Queen Elizabeth has for Papa Bene.

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This year, I am doing something a little bit different with my early finisher set up, which you can read more about HERE!
|Here is the Wiki Page students used. I use PBWorks to host my wiki.
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|One more look at some of the responses. As you can see, the responses varied greatly in length
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Douglas Osheroff, Nobel Prize-winning physicist and professor at Stanford University, will visit Northwestern on Monday May 3 to deliver a public lecture about his role on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board. The board was formed to determine what went wrong during the space shuttle's tragic re-entry to Earth in 2003. Medill Reports caught up with him to discuss his early science projects, the Nobel Prize, and a preview of his upcoming lecture. Story continues. [pagebreak]
You'll be at Northwestern to talk about the Columbia accident. How did the board go about conducting such an investigation?
The first thing you need to ascertain is…the cause of the accident. I think in this case it was pretty clear. They realized that a large chunk of this very low-density foam—that insulates the external tank—had fallen off and had stuck somewhere near the leading edge, or under the left wing Story continues. [pagebreak]
of Columbia. Some of the engineers had connections with the Department of Defense, and they put in an informal request for the DOD to use their satellite capabilities to image the left wing of Columbia. The woman who was in charge of the mission management team, she was really responsible for the lives of the astronauts when they were up there. The lab tried to make this request—she canceled it.
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Dear Ben,
This is one of the scariest things I've ever done – and I've eaten sushi in Tijuana.
It's ultimately going to go one of two ways…
You'll either be so metaphorically moved by my flattery you'll metaphorically beam from ear to ear, or you'll be so literally terrified you literally issue a restraining order. That last one is the one I'm afraid of, but I'm prepared to take the chance.
You don't know me, and I guess if we're being picky I don't really know you either. But I feel like I you know you. You've actually been influencing me for a few years now – and you've never even known it. Weird, right?
So shall I tell you how we first met?
It's actually quite a boring story. (If you were telling it you'd make it sound funny, but I'm not as talented as you are.) It started with me developing quite an unashamed crush on one of my university teachers. (It's been 6 years since he made me hate Shakespeare, but if he found out about it I'd still, like, totally just die – so please don't mention it to him, okay?) That crush led me to read his blog, quite unforgivably. In reading his blog I found you – and I soon transferred my obsession for his written word to yours.
I believe you first hooked me in when you wrote about running around the house singing, 'I don't have cancer' to the tune of 'I am evil Homer'. Then you kept me captivated with the story of that crazy cookie monster painting you got because it made you smile, and then solidified a place on my favourites list with your many, many post cards to D.Cam. (Please don't be scared that I remembered all of that. I mean it only as a compliment.)
I'm sure you've been told thousands of times that you're an amazing writer, but I can't let that be the reason I don't say it for myself.
You are an amazing writer. Honestly, your talent is unprecedented. If I only ever get to be half as talented as you are, I'll count myself as one of the extremely lucky ones.
I love what you do, which is why I've been silently hanging on every word you've written all of these years. You've kept me well and truly captivated and I'm usually pretty tough to captivate. I'm ashamed to admit it, but I'm that person who gives up reading after the first three sentences if it's not completely incredible.
But you are incredible. And you inspired me. A lot.
So much that I actually feel scared for you to read my writing now. My words aren't worthy.
But everyday l try to make them better by following the advice you wrote down, a number of years ago now. You may not even remember writing it, but it was one of the most important things I've ever read. You said that when you write you make sure that every single word on the page is the correct one.
It stuck with me.
As did some of your other techniques. For example, I haven't really eaten sushi in Tijuana. I was trying to replicate the narrative trick you pulled when you didn't drink coffee in the most expensive cafe in Manchester. I did it so you could see how much your writing matters to me.
(By the way, that particular piece you wrote was probably, and seriously, one of the most outstanding things I have ever read. It honestly stunned me. I have it saved on my iPhone reading list, and I re-read it often.)
I'm excited to continue following you, although I hope to be slightly more vocal from now on. Looking back now I never should have hesitated to tell you how much I admire what you do. You deserve to be told how much of a wonderful impact your words have on me. It feels good to finally have that out in the open.
Please carry on doing what you're doing. It means a lot to me. A lot more than you ever even knew.
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Like most things that get used daily, it finally started showing some wear. Its wooden seat was fashioned I'm sure from the most stately of oak trees felled by two large, flannel-wearing Marlboro-smoking Americans who drove Ford pickups and wielded a hand saw. But after 30 years of serving its country as my throne, it finally gave up the ghost. Actually, the enamel paint just finally wore off and my wife complained enough that I finally did something about it.
Like many red-blooded Americans, one weekend I headed to the local home improvement mega-store to rectify the situation. I soon found a replacement seat in the correct color (beige) and size (American). On top of that, it was only $17! How do the myriad of toilet-seat making Asian companies stay in business?
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Except in practice it isn't. Because in practice, sitting on the toilet seat exerts forces in numerous directions on those little plastic latches, and within a couple of weeks they work themselves loose. Then off comes the toilet seat, sometimes with the king in the process of utilizing his throne. While this would be comical once, each time it happens those little plastic hinges get a little looser, until soon it's not every couple of weeks, it's every week, then every time. Suddenly something that I didn't have to think about for 30 years now requires daily maintenance.
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Flying the Rosetta Mission.
I used version 3D of BrianJs mission edited and improved by flug. I also used TransX-2, so you need this if you use the scenarios attached if you want to see the TransX plans.
I promised BrianJ and Flug I would post some hints and tips for others who want to do it once I had successfully completed it myself.
This has got to be the hardest mission I have ever tried in Orbiter, but well worth the effort when you eventually get it completed.
First note. Use the rosetta markers, the file can be edited to have any marker active. Obviously the first marker is used for orbit ejection. So make sure it is active in the config file Rosetta_Marker.cfg
The file has several markers, just comment out the ones you are not using at that moment. The file also gives you the target MJD dates that you use in IMFD. You need these because this mission is extremely fuel tight, and any unnecessary course adjustments will waste valuable fuel. As BrianJ has already stated, the Earth is pulled all over the place by the Moon so it is very difficult to keep on course without using the markers when doing Earth flybys.
Read the read me for a better understanding of how to use the markers. You need about 800Kg (or more if your lucky) in the the tank by the time you do the 21 Lutetia flyby. Any less, and you are probably not going to make it.
First issue was the Launch azimuth, no idea why but for me it left a Ein of about 12 degrees for departure, not very good for fuel consumption. So I adjusted the Launch Azimuth to 90 degrees in the file guidance158.txt.
File is located here..\Config\Vessels\Ariane5Rosetta
Roll Line should read 12=roll(3,89,90,85.7,1)
This leaves you with less than 0.2 degree Ein for Earth departure if you target the first rosetta marker on MJD53249.
Ejection burn I found was best commenced 600 seconds before IMFD Tig, burn prograde until you are about 250km altitude, then line up the cross hairs and complete the burn. This should set you off on your journey quite nicely.
As with all trips, after orbit ejection, do not do any more course adjustment burns until the Dv has dropped to its minimum in IMFD.
Keep targeting the rosetta marker until you are about 50 days away from the first Earth fly by. Then switch to TransX and plot the course for the flyby. Be aware that the flyby has to be very accurate to save fuel. Any burn more than about 70dv for a course correction after a flyby will burn too much fuel and your probably not going to make it.
Especially important are the Earth Flybys. I found the usual method of adjusting the flyby to Pe ratio 1, angle 0 in TransX until I was within the SOI kept the sudden jump once inside the SOI reasonable. Then point the spacecraft either prograde/retrograde/90 degees left, right, up, or down to do small manual burns to keep the Pe ratio and Angle as close to 1 and 0 as possible until you are past periapsis. You may seem like your using fuel, but if you don't do this you will use far more making a large course correction after the flyby and your probably not going to make the rest of the trip.
You must use TransX as well as IMFD for this mission, either one on its own will just not do it for you. I used IMFD for the cruises, then switched to TransX when 100 or 150 days out to plot the flybys.
Stick to the actual mission flyby dates, do not try to let them wander to save fuel, the dates are very important and if you change one, the rest of the flight is thrown out meaning it may no longer be possible to get to the comet.
Above everything else, think fuel. Save as much as you possibly can.
Once past 21 Lutetia, you need a very large burn of about 800Dv to target the comet, wait for the required Dv to drop to its lowest value before making the burn.
Documentation is wrong for the comet target date, it says 66818, it should read 56818.
Comet approach...
I found the best method (providing you on a course to hit the comet using IMFD) was to point prograde (view is reversed, so prograde is actually retrograde for any burn) from about 10,000Km out. Then point the ship directly away from the comet and do some long burns to reduce the approach speed gradually. You can use the surface MFD to make sure you are pointing directly away from the comet. You need about 450Kg of fuel for the approach or your not going to make it. Using IMFD map keep an eye on the Pe distance. Keep moving the direction of the burn around slightly to keep the Pe very low, ideally to aim to hit the comet. This takes a long time and is quite hard to do, but take your time.
Once your down to about 50 m/s you should be within 100Km of the comet, when your about 10Km away come to a complete stop, then simply do a puff of a burn at a tangent to the comet to enter orbit.
Any other questions, feel free to ask.
As a help, I have attached my full mission scenarios. I made it into orbit with just 30Kg of fuel left. This was my third attempt, the other two I aborted due to no fuel left.
Hope it helps anyone else struggling with this fantastic mission.
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i'm trying to get this mission done but i can't seem to find the proper way with the rosetta_marker. on the Rosetta_marker_elements.txt the fisrt one says
;MJD 54131 (pre-Mars GA)
Epoch = 2007.0841889117
SemiMajorAxis = 204784643176.766
Eccentricity = .276401941430808
Inclination = 2.45975487541973E-02
LongAscNode = 6.00361433238406
LongPerihelion = 9.04040307032215
MeanLongitude = 10.2853040170719
as the 1st one.. but it makes no sense to target this at MJD 53249, both IMFD and trans-x give me a stupidly high delta V to eject from earth.
is this the marker for the way to mars after the first earth flyby??..
if so how do i find the info for the proper eject burn.
thanks if anyone can help
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it's been a long time since I had a go at Rosetta. Just the number of Earth gravity assists make it pretty difficult. You also need to handle the long Earth escape burn due to low powered Ariane5 upper stage.
IIRC, I included the "marker" as a help for Earth escape burn planning (and also later navigation). The marker orbital elements are taken from the JPL Horizons trajectory data for the Rosetta spacecraft. If you match the marker position and velocity at the given date, you "should" be on course.
Since I understand how to use TransX better these days, I would probably ignore the "marker" and just plan using TransX, if tried the mission again.
If you want to post your scenario, maybe I can take a look.
Last edited by BrianJ; 08-01-2019 at 12:51 PM.
it seems to me that the default scenario has the one loaded for the mars flyby, but i have a really hard time doing the eject burn without needing 130 Dv right after i leave earth SOI.
tx for the response.
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The eject burn must be done efficiently, otherwise you won't have sufficient dV in the Ariane5 upper stage. You need to start the burn well before the IMFD/TransX indicated burn time. I think I put some info about that in the flight notes.
The default orbit elements in Rosetta_marker.cfg are for MJD53249 (~6 months pre 1st Earth GA)
that's the part that got me mixed up. the default for me is the one for mars. i cannot find the orbital element for the first pass to earth (the one i should target at MJD 53249...
don't know why
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never mind found why when i reloaded the whole file, i already messed with the .cfg files and found the 53249 in the .zip, will reinstall and retry
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Joe Root Date of Birth: 30th of December 1990
Joe Root Birth Place Dore, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England
Joe Root Birth / Full Name: Joseph Edward Root
Joe Root Nicknames: Rooty, The Golden Child
Joe Root Marital Status: N/A
Joe Root Height: 6 ft 0 inch
Joe Root Zodiac Sign: N/A
Joe Root Languages Spoken: English and Local Language
Cricketer Joe Root Careers and Information
Joe Root Batting Style: Right-handed batsman
Joe Root Bowling Style: Right-arm off break
Joe Root Role as: Batsman
Joe Root Test Match Debut: 13 December 2012 vs. India
Joe Root ODI Match Debut: 11 January 2013 vs. India
Joe Root Shirt Number: 66th
Joe Root T20I Match Debut: India vs. England at Mumbai, Dec 22, 2012
Cricketer Joe Root Family Information and Members:
Joe Root Father Name: Matt Root
Joe Root Mother Name: Helen Root
Joe Root Spouse Name: N/A
Joe Root Official Website: www.joeroot66.com
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Joe Root Facebook Profile: www.facebook.com/JoeRootOfficial
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As the dust settles on President Donald Trump's proposed cuts to critical transportation funding, Bay Area leaders are calling the plan hypocritical in light of the administration's frequently touted but as yet unseen $1 trillion infrastructure spending plan.
The proposed 13 percent cut to the U.S. Department of Transportation zeros out funding for a capital-investment program that has financed big-ticket infrastructure projects in the past, including the first phases of the BART to Silicon Valley extension and MUNI's Central Subway project, along with BART's San Francisco International Airport extension.
But local transportation leaders also cautioned that the fight to save future transportation investments is far from over. Jim Allison, a spokesman for BART, likened the budget process to a baseball game.
"We're in the top of the first inning," he said.
Much can change in the interim, and it often does, said Randy Rentschler, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the region's transportation-planning agency. Trump's proposed budget cuts funding for rural airports and long-distance Amtrak service, including the California Zephyr and Coastal Starlight, two routes that pass through the Bay Area. Both of those items have been on the chopping block before, and Congress has continued to fund them, he said.
"(These cuts) have been tried since time immemorial, and it doesn't work," Rentschler said. "This is just yet another administrative proposal that will be dismissed by Congress."
But several Bay Area transportation officials said it's unclear whether the administration will fund public transit projects of any kind. Stuart Cohen, the executive director of TransForm, a transportation advocacy nonprofit, said he was immediately struck by the apparent hypocrisy in the proposed budget.
"Trump has been talking about infrastructure as the one thing that could potentially unite the country and both parties," he said, "and then he puts out a budget proposal that takes a huge ax to critical infrastructure projects."
Those cuts would disproportionately impact the Bay Area because the region relies so much on public transportation to ease already-clogged freeways, he said. And motorists who don't use public transit will also feel the pain.
"As the roads get more congested, we are seeing real growth in rail travel, but that growth has a limit," Cohen said. "We've just started to bump against that limit with BART."
The proposed budget takes aim at a capital-investment grant program the administration can dole out at its discretion.
BART is in the middle of applying for $900 million to $1 billion for a list of upgrades to increase the number of trains that can travel through the Transbay Tube. And the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) was hoping to secure $1.5 billion to fund the second phase of the BART to Silicon Valley extension.
Congress could fund those projects, saving them from an administrative slash, but that would seem to violate its self-imposed rule prohibiting such earmarks, Rentschler said.
"In this case, the administration actually has quite a bit of say over this," he said. "Congress could appropriate the money, and the money could just sit there."
Trump's proposed budget doesn't change the status for Caltrain's electrification project. That $647 million project to electrify and modernize its system was already in limbo after Congressional Republicans urged the Federal Transit Administration to defund the project because it would enable high-speed rail to use the same tracks.
Seamus Murphy, a spokesman for Caltrain, said the agency was hopeful it could secure the federal funding for the electrification project before the end of the fiscal year in September. If Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao signs off before then, Caltrain will still be eligible for the funds.
"All of the signs coming out of the administration say Caltrain electrification is the kind of project they want to fund," Murphy said. "We are the only (project) eligible to receive funding. And, as soon as we receive funding, we can go into construction immediately. … It doesn't get any more shovel-ready than this."
Carl Guardino, the president and CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, recently traveled to Washington, D.C., with a number of Silicon Valley tech executives and elected officials to meet with members of Congress from both parties. Their commitment to transportation infrastructure is clear, he said.
"One of the many take-aways is that — House or Senate, Republican or Democrat — our leaders in Congress, like us, want to continue to invest in America's infrastructure," he said. "This budget is not investing in American infrastructure, but we will have many champions for that investment."
Guardino said the economy depends on keeping goods, services and people moving, but the infrastructure is crumbling. He was confident Bay Area residents could find creative solutions to continue to fund not only the Caltrain electrification project but other major capital investments — with or without the federal government's support.
"I've been doing public transit policy for 30 years, and we've had a lot of doors shut on us, but we always come back and have either found a window to climb through, or we built a new door," he said. "(These projects) are going to happen because we are going to make them happen."


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The Naperville (North) campus can accommodate 200 children enrolled in Infant, Toddler, Two's, Preschool, PreK, Junior Kindergarten, Summer Camp and Before/After School programs. Classrooms include the Art Studio, Inventor's Workshop, Science Lab, World Markets, Sound Stage and more.
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The Reggio Emilia approach to education has been at the forefront of early childhood education for over 40 years (Rinaldi, C. 2006. In dialogue with Reggio Emilia: Listening, researching and learning). This philosophy is rooted in a strong image of children as capable, rich in potential, and full of interests and ideas about the world around them. Teachers at The Compass School of Naperville (North) seek to inspire learning by encouraging creative exploration and collaboration between children in a welcoming, community-based school environment. For more information about what it means to be 'Reggio-Inspired', please click here.
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The Compass School offers enriching high-quality programs for school-age children throughout the school year and during the summer months as well. For the Before and After School program, The Compass School of Naperville (North) currently offers transportation to/from select Naperville Community Unit District 203 schools, including Naper Elementary, Highlands Elementary, Prairie Elementary, Elmwood Elementary, Meadow Glens Elementary, and River Woods Elementary Schools.
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Kathy has 22 years of work experience in the early childhood field, and began her career with The Compass School in 2003. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Concordia University, majoring in Early Childhood Education, with a specialization in Child Psychology.
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Reckoning Risk
Have you ever had to revisit a coding project? If you're like me, there's a sense of trepidation. Will I remember what I was doing? Will it still work?
They say that your closest collaborator is your past self, except she/he doesn't respond to emails…
Well, I got a bit sick of that feeling and have learnt some techniques which my future self will be thankful for (or darn well better be). And that's what I want to share with you. Note that many of these are adapted from Jeff Leek's book, How to be a Modern Scientist.
Also, I believe that these skills are an essential thing to learn, whether we plan on becoming academics, valley entrepreneurs, or other consultants - the internet is not going anyway, we will be collaborating in teams on code, and preparing ourselves for this is only to our advantage.
Workshop and slides
I'm presenting a workshop for the INFORMS student chapter at the University of Michigan (Institute of Operations Research and Management Science) and the slides are available HERE.
The blog below is really a complement to the slides, rather than stand alone, so check them out!
Version control is essential. It is essential for research projects and any collaborative project. Version control time stamps every change you or someone else makes on a project. This means that you can return to every previous instance of your code, which is incredibly relieving if you make a mistake or the code stops working. It is also great to see how, when, and (providing the commit messages are decent) why different things were added or changed in the code.
Directory structure
|- <your project name>/
|- .git
|- `_scratch`/
|- data/
|- raw/
|- processed/
|- fig/
|- exploratory/
|- final/
|- report/
|- code/ (or src)
(e.g. the sub folders are project specific)
|- processing/ or data_processing
|- analysis/
|- plotting/
|- logger_config.py (for example)
Atom is currently my favourite code editor when I'm writing in python or css/html etc. I'm also a fan of sublime, although I haven't got it to integrate with git like Atom does. By clicking ctrl+shift+9 in Atom you toggle the git tab and can then stage, commit, push, and pull from the GitHub repo. I find that this significantly lowers the barrier to making regular and contained commits, which makes the repo cleaner and easier to interpret.
Markdown and READMEs
Another thing that I love about Atom is how it renders a preview of Markdown (.md) documents. Markdown is a plain text language, with very easy inclusion of code and math. It renders on the README of GitHub repositories and READMEs are crucial for understandable repos. When you're reading or editing a .md document in Atom, clicking ctrl+shift+m opens the preview pane. A decent readme on a project's repo outlines the steps and assumptions taken. It makes the whole project much more accessible to future collaborators and yourself when you return to the project. It also looks more professional when potential collaborators or employers are looking at your GitHub repos. The README.md file could also include variable names and descriptions if your project includes a statistical analysis.
Rstudio can do many of the things Atom can, and is the go-to option if you're coding in R. (Although I still prefer to write my README.md in Atom, even when coding in R). The slides show how Rstudio can be used to regularly make git commits and write and preview markdown.
I refer you to my earlier blog on this, here.
Logging your code is an alternative to lots of print statements and it's more robust if you run your code on a server or other system that doesn't have a terminal.
It also timestamps statements so you know when and where the code broke.
Here is my logging function which you can use in python.
If you add this file into your
code directory and then in each of your .py scripts add the following code block where you import your libraries:
And a statement like this in each place you want to log:
Check out our earlier blog on this, here.


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Stamm International Boxing Tournament: Gaurav Solanki, Manish Kaushik Win Gold
Gaurav Solanki won his medal in the 52kg category whereas Manish Kaushik won his medal in the 69kg category.
Gaurav Solanki defeated England's William Cawley 5-0
The 22-year-old Solanki won his medal in the 52kg category
Manish Kaushik defeated Morocco's Mohamed Hamout 4-1
Gaurav Solanki and Manish Kaushik won a gold medal each in the XXXVI Feliks Stamm International Boxing Tournament in Warsaw, Poland on Saturday and with this win Indian boxers collected a rich haul of two gold, one silver, and three bronze after the conclusion of the tournament. Solanki won his medal in the 52kg category whereas Kaushik won his medal in the 69kg category. The 22-year-old Solanki was seen in impeccable form as he outclassed England's William Cawley 5-0 on his way to the coveted yellow metal.
On the other hand, Kaushik too exhibited the confidence that he had displayed last year to grab the India Open gold and the Commonwealth Games silver. He defeated Morocco's Mohamed Hamout 4-1.
The only disappointment for the Indian contingent on the final day of this European tournament was the result of Mohammed Hussamuddin.
Hussamuddin (56kg), who started the 2019 season with a silver from the Gee Bee Boxing tournament, had to remain content with yet another silver finish following a 1-4 defeat to Russia's Mukhammad Shekhov despite producing a strong show throughout the bout.
Besides them, three Indian pugilists had to settle for the bronze after losing their respective semi-final contests.
In 69kg, 2014 Commonwealth Games silver medallist and Arjuna awardee, Mandeep Jangra went down 0-5 to Russia's Vadim Musaev while in 91kg, Sanjeet too lost to David Nyika of New Zealand by an identical score.
In 64kg category, Ankit Khatana gave his all but was edged 2-3 by Damian Durkacz of Poland in a tight semi-final clash.
The six-day competition saw boxers from all over the world participating in 10 categories in the men's section and in five categories in the women's section as they gear up for the World Championships later in the year.


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Oh, I'm so sorry. You were hoping for something that emphasized more of the glamor than the gloom…
Table of Contents
- What's in the Title
- Overview
- Rating
- Spoiler Commentary
4.1 Character Analysis
4.2 Story Analysis
4.3 That Choice Rigamarole and Kyubey is Impossible
4.4 Soundtrack Analysis
4.5 Art Critique
- Fan Artwork
5.1 DeviantArt
5.2 Pixiv
In case you're wondering: I manually typed in the sub-category numbers. There's no button on WordPress for letting you do that.
And now to begin one of the longest WordPress posts I've made thus far… (over 3500 words)
What's in the Title
Title: Puella Magi Madoka Magica. If you try to look it up in Japanese it's 魔法少女まどか☆マギカ (the romaji is "Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica") meaning "magic girl Madoka magic". "Puella" is Latin for "girl" and "magi" is like a wise-man or magician. They used Latin for the English title for hype.
Ever heard of Faust? It's the name of a story by a German, Johann Goethe ("ger-teh"), about a doctor (named Faust) who makes a contract with the devil in exchange for whatever he wants – several years of luck, I believe. Once the time is up, the devil gets to take the guy's soul. A similar story is the American film "The Devil and Daniel Webster".
This story is similar to Faust – it focuses on a single girl, named Madoka Kaname, who has been offered the chance to get one wish granted – ANY wish – in exchange for her to go fight evil witches. There's a catch… actually several… in this peculiar world.
Anime similar to this:
- Shakugan no Shana
- Haruhi Suzumiya (pick one)
- Story – 9/10 – Excellent. Every story has holes (this one has big ones), but if you take it as a whole and for what it's trying to say, it's very well thought out.
- Characters – 6/10 – Mild moe. All but one is naive. They fit the story even if they seem horribly undeveloped.
- Sound track – 5/10 – Nothing special (I thought they were good choices, though sometimes they made a funky mix with the show).
- Directing – 5/10 – Average. Nothing that bugged me, but I imagine it could have been better.
- Art – 5/10 – Average professional, but random images make fight scenes look derpy.
Brief Review
This brief review does NOT address specific plot details or characters. It's better as a story if you discover those things yourself If you want to know about characters, see the wikipedia article.
Okay, so what can I tell you? Quite a bit actually.
The story looks through a particular lens on the state of humanity and not a good one at that. It's based off of the idea of karma, gently put: the good or bad of your past effects you in the future. Or, more bluntly, the good and evil in life must balance back out to zero, contrary to the optimist (and notably more Christian) idea that things can get better. For every person you bless, things should get better. Not so in this world. When it all comes down to it, either the rules have to be broken or humanity will be stuck in a permanent pit.
If you find yourself to be unsound in your religion, needless to say, watching this show isn't going to help. It mixes karma, Christian cults, witchcraft, and deification in a kind of unholy blend that the Japanese don't seem to mind for the sake of entertainment.
Story wise, though, it's a thriller. If you overlook the religious aspect and put-it-in-its-own-world so-to-speak, as the writer expects, the story has a mostly consistent, entertaining, action-packed plot.
The anime is too dark for kids, though teens and up should be fine. It's not scary enough to not watch before going to bed.
If you like moe, don't expect glitter in your eyes, sorry. This show has no intention of drawing fandom of that type, not even with the tiniest flick of fan-service.
Hinted spoilers (to help you know what to expect):
The show is geared towards girls, but it's not a romance. There is nudity (in the opening and end) and what appears to be a near-homosexual relationship between two characters just based on the opening, but that's not even touched on much less developed in the show. It makes sense if you believe, as I do, the creators were trying to emphasize the closeness of the friendship of the two characters rather than any sexual intentions, and in the former case, it was developed.
The story has some elements common in sci-fi, particularly Star Trek. How's that? Alien from outer space (that, of course, despite superior intelligence, doesn't understand humans), time travel where the past and future get changed and new timelines are created (also called "multiverse theory"), characters you don't like who turn out to be good, or yes and the person clothed in red inevitably dies. Other than that, this story branches off entirely.
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Before you go watching, I recommend getting pumped for it with the AMV that got me to try out the show:
No Niconico Douga account? Pity. You can still listen to the music here:
Where to watch?
Currently, it's on Crunchyroll.com, free to watch (no premium account needed).
Spoiler Commentary
I assume you've already watched the show. Thus, this is what it appears to be: observation, commentary, and ranting… or we could call this "analysis" and make me feel qualified. Having watched the entire show twice over the course of only 5 days, I feel quite qualified to talk about it (and at some point in the future, I'll look back at this and, talking to myself, say, "Now, why the heck did you say all this the way you did?").
Character Analysis
The story is about high school girls (and it appears to be sometime in the future or some world with tech and architecture different from the modern world). Naturally, they are naive, even selfish individuals. There's guff about some of the characters, especially Madoka, being "underdeveloped". Problems with this, just from the obvious standpoint: 1) Madoka is a young high school girl, so of course she seems flat – she doesn't have much of a character; 2) there were only 12 episodes in which tell the story, and Madoka's not the main character.
That's right: Madoka Kaname is not the main character. She's the protagonist, but the main character is Homura Akemi. Why? – The story tells of the last attempt of Homura to change the future. It's her path, it's the destiny she's trying to change. Yes, she's changing it for Madoka, but it's her choices and efforts that are shaping the future. Madoka is, in this final path, a bystander watching everyone else's choices and trying to base her's off of theirs.
Madoka is said to be lacking confidence. Mm, that's not necessarily true. She believes she'll have confidence if she changes. What she wants is to change – to be something valuable to someone else. She fails to see she is valuable to her family and especially to Homura. And that's what the story concerns – Homura's love for Madoka – as revealed in the bench scene in episode 8 when Homura saves Madoka from wasting her only wish, states her feelings (indirectly), and then Kyubey discovers Homura's plan is to change the future.
Homura, being the main character, is the most developed of all of them. Brilliantly planned out – there's an explanation for everything she does. (Well, almost.) Despite caring about Madoka, she doesn't seem to care much about Madoka's friends. Typical teen: pick who you like and don't care about their friends. Sayaka Miki dies. "Oversight on my part." No kidding, and yet, she's deceptively mature: it appears she thinks through her actions (which to some extent is true) but really she's just trying to figure out how to get out of the mess. She's trying time and time again, and thus she has practically lived a full year beyond her classmates. Sound like thinking through actions? – No, just failing over and over.
Homura has great determination. She makes that naive statement that she'll repeat the cycle forever until she finds the right way out, but who doesn't say that? She's made it several times through the cycle – *tips hat to that*.
Sayaka Miki. Naive, strong willed, aspiring warrior for justice. There's a character like that in every book, but this one they get to trash even though she's the best friend. For being in the story quite awhile and talked about the most, her full personality is established immediately… and is rather straightforward and boring. She's a teen.
Mami served her purpose and was done. She was the perfect toss-out character. It was understandable why she was likeable to the main characters, she had her own character developed (and it came off strong), and it was understandable why she was disposed of. The death scene was rather… like, she just stood there? Seriously? Had it happened in fast motion, you wouldn't be able to tell what was going on, but the creature wasn't moving fast enough at that point to be convincing of such a move. Whatever. Not important.
Story Analysis
I noted above that the anime is similar to Shakugan no Shana and those of Haruhi Suzumiya. The later is obvious: god woman. But all three of them have something in common, along with Clannad and a host of other anime: a world connected to our own and yet separate from it. Shana's is probably the most similar world, since it's a direct tie to the current world and comes with the presence of villains. Another similarity with Shakugan no Shana is that the "good guys" (or, rather, girls) are fighting each other in the beginning and end up teaming up in the end. Why everyone can't start on the same side? – Survival of the fittest?
Applause to the writer, Gen Urobuchi, for writing a very self-consistent, story, despite the time loops, mess of physics, and reinvention of the rules of metaphysics.
The writing shines in episode 10. Episode 10 tells the whole story, explains everything that's going on, and is shown just in time to completely revert whatever negative view of Homura you had and make the finish meaningful. It shows that everything hinges on this time sequence – "alternate timeline" – telling us it's the final one (or at least indicative of the subsequent repetitions of the cycle).
Now, we can't end it at that. Homura has to make everything meaningful to Madoka, which she does halfway through episode 11. The presentation of this was excellent as well – it's easy to see Madoka, a kind-hearted individual, clearly understood what Homura said and took it to heart.
The depressing part is that the ending is bittersweet. Homura is stuck fighting a new enemy (Why can't Madoka get rid of that and Kyubey?), Madoka is forgotten by everyone except Homura (in a specific universe / alternate timeline), and the other girls are still dead (in the current universe). As history is rewritten, they seem to appear again (Note that this is because they would no longer become Magical Girls to fight witches because witches don't exist) and Sayaka dies off differently. In the scene revealing that, Homura is on good terms with Mami and Kyōko and carries with her Madoka's red ribbon.
If you're REALLY over analytical, you might check out the ideas on Homura's timeline on the Puella Magi wiki.
And now for more ranting…
That Choice Rigamarole
Kyubey is Impossible
And the ultimate wish is… To become like god. It's kind of obvious that its allowed once you learn the rules of wishing. It's the huge hole in the writing: how can Kyubey grant such a wish? But it's all for that purpose of answering the question: is there any wish worth having in exchange for your soul?
The answer given is "to become like God". Actually, that's the intended answer. It's offered, and even forced at the end. "You want to become a god?" asks Kyubey. Madoka's response is along the lines of "If that's what it takes to get my wish / I don't care". Madoka's actual wish is very world-specific: to erase the beginning of all witches, including her own transformation (granted, "with [her] own hands"). For once, a smart wish. Except, as some might note, she didn't wish to become god (unless it was necessary), in which case, she could have not only rewritten history but prevented herself from becoming a witch without having to wish for an erasing of the beginning of all witches. She could have erased her soul gem and restored her own body. Being god has it's perks… or does it? I'll analyze that in a moment, but first, let's sweep away the magic monkey.
Kyubey, somehow an intelligent being that can grant any wish and yet can't do it himself. Oh yeah, and he can step outside of time and then forget everything (see episode 12). He know about the rules of wishes but can't make a wish himself. All this is based off of defying entropy and encapsulating neurons in a shell that can step outside of time and still animate the body in real time. Brilliant! Now, this Kyubey is an alien because it's rational to think that white cat-like creatures will have telepathic conversations and be far more advanced than humans while still never being able to figure out human emotions for OVER 9000 years. This creature has more holes than Homura shot in him throughout the show. It's the embodiment of impossible dreams. And it keeps coming back. Forget 9 lives like your traditional cat; it's got OVER 9000!
Kyubey is also dishonest (we all knew that). "You tricked me/us," they cried when the girls discovered the truth about what was going on. Kyubey's response? "You didn't ask." Tricking, by nature, can be excluding important facts that may otherwise alter the final decision if they are known. Hence, Kyubey did try to trick Madoka, despite his seemingly innocent lie that he didn't.
Do you care about about cows? he asks. My response?
Eat mor chikin.
I'm rational, he says. Reason is directed towards something. It's never unbiased. Pacifism is reasonable in some senses, and war and violence is reasonable in other senses.
I always find his line in episode 10 funny. When Madoka takes out Walpurgisnacht in one shot and dies, Kyubey speaks about his energy collection duty: "We've almost fulfilled our quota." … What? That's one big energy bill. Makes sense if they needed to spend thousands of years to get there, but still – "almost satisfactory".
Speaking of impossible dreams, let's go back and address that god-size issue.
The first time anyone wanted to be like God, they were thrown out of heaven. That was Satan. Then he took advantage of the desire of Adam and Eve (representative of humanity even if not real people) to want to be like God and tricked them into choosing that wish via eating the forbidden fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Since then, humanity has gone in a downward spiral. Choosing to be like God in that respect – being equal in knowledge with Him – turned out to be a trick. Satan, who wasn't tricked, but was blinded by his own pride, fell because he didn't take heed and stay in his place. He tried to elevate himself to the place of god, and he's tricked numerous humans (notably emperors) into attempting the same stunt.
God said He is God and pretty much crushed or will crush the resistance. Trying to be like God by putting yourself on His plane isn't such a good idea.
What about in Madoka's world? There are some differences. First, if there is a god, he isn't doing diddly squat to protect people from Kyubey and the evil running rampant from that creature. Kyōko prays to god once (when she's attacking the witch form of Sayaka the final time), but there's no response. Second, if there is a god, he doesn't seem to mind another god being present or do anything to prevent it.
And you think it's bad here and that evil dominates the world? The only evil here is what mankind brings on itself (including what's called "man's inhumanity to man"). Aside from that, God doesn't let the enemy do much more than talk to us (unless we want more). But now I'm on a small religious rant, so let me spare you and move on…
Soundtrack Analysis
I kind of liked "Connect" by ClariS before I heard of the show, so it'd be unfair to say the soundtrack was good just because of that. In actuality, it was rather peculiar. It made things start on a lighthearted note even though the main ending theme indicated that they obviously ended on a bad note.
The background music was a good selection. It was forgettable, as most background music is. There could have been more. It might have been nicer to have more, but no big deal.
Art Critique
Seems like someone sat on Google for a couple afternoons and downloaded the most random images they could find to use for the witch scenes. I have to applaud them for putting it together professionally – they fits seamlessly with the show – but it looks indescribably stupid.
The character designs are borderline chibi.It almost makes me think I could do something like this… Yeah right.
The overall production, however, is average professional, sometimes alittle above at times, sometimes below. Yes, I said above average (here's looking at Gundam Wing). By this, I'm commenting on the backgrounds and scenery, which for the most part were decent… or adequate, to use a big word.
Meh. I'll probably critique myself later and say it was cheap… or say it was excellent (after I reattempt to watch Escaflowne). Can you tell I'm undecided?
- Q: Can a guy become a magical girl in that world?
Yes… I mean no. Guys can't be girls. They could become magical, as Kyubey says, but Kyubey's race decided to work with only teenage females because they experience the greatest fluctuation in their emotions.
Links to original images:
"Yoroshii naraba" by hatsuko
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2" by YDane
- Q: Are witches good?
English is a funny language, and often translations to English are funny. In the show, the magical powers came from an alien. How he got them is a mystery (actually, it's story mechanics, and one of the HUGE holes left by the author). The alien gives them to the girls. He's not the devil, so technically speaking, the girls wouldn't be "witches" if we say that witchcraft comes from Satan (though Kyubey is representative of that role in Faust). Hence, real witches are bad. "Witches" in this show means something else.
- Q: Can we defy entropy?
Brownian motion is the closest thing to that. We can't utilize it (yet).
- If you were put in Madoka's position, what would you wish for?
… I'd wish to be put back in this universe where God is in control (and He could prevent me from turning into a monster or witch). Seriously, I'd rather be here with God and be who I am than be god.
Fan Artwork
While I'd like to get a piece of everything, most people are only interested in drawing people. Hence, if it looks like there's a bias towards people, it's from the plethora of images available.
Deviant Art
Turns out, there's a ton of cosplay on DeviantArt. Had there been less, it might have made the job of sorting through images less boring. I did find a few things you might find interesting.
Let's start with the impossible:
Oh, I'm sorry. Kawaii overdose. Need something more like the original? Or rather, something that doesn't look like a direct copy?
Thanks to metalsnakzero for his folder of favorites that made it easy to find the following:
DYUEI has another similar work worth viewing if you like their style.
Once again, those images were favorites of metalsnakezero on DeviantArt. He's got a ton more to check out.
KyoukoSakuraFC gallery was the most colorful and rich gallary I found. Samples:
Other notably works from that gallery:
- "Madoka Magica" by akome1206
- "Madoka Fanbook cover" by Kenneos
- "Kyoko Sakura" by LisVanPiece
- "Best Friends" by trudyfish
Another work you might check out:
"Sayaka Miki" by pcmaniac88, also called PeaChArt – a Japanese artist posting on DA. And on that note, I transition to Pixiv.
Phew! It took awhile to sort through hundreds of images, but I did manage to find a few things of interest. Oddly enough, I had an easier time finding eye-catching works on DeviantArt than on Pixiv (and spent less time there).
If there appears to be a bias in the images towards Homura, it may – just may – have something to do with the fact that my query for "暁美ほむら" (Akemi Homura) appeared to turn up better results than the one for "魔法少女まどか☆マギカ" (Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica), so I browsed it more thoroughly.
Tong PenQ also has another drawing I'm too lazy to post.
(╹ε╹ グレイ) has alot of good works for fans of this anime to check out. It appears they like the relationship between Kyōko Sakura (佐倉 杏子) and Sayaka Miki (美樹 さやか). Beware: as the given image indicates, it's borderline chibi (but not quite).
みんみ兵 did three worth viewing, including one I'm not going to post.
唯々萌 has a collection of fan art for this anime, although it's hard to tell if they are the source of any of it because it's mixed in with things they obviously didn't do. Example of the artwork:
More images…
- 世界を変える力が by hatsuko
- ほむほむ by 木野きの
- めがほむ by サクヤモチ
- アンタもアタシもポッキー by サクヤモチ
- まどほむ by サクヤモチ
- まどマギ by おつゆ/3日目東ヤ-59b
- まどか by ブル
Others you might find somewhat interesting but I'm definitely not spending time to upload and link here:
- 鹿目さんを守り隊 by めたる☆さかな << one of the few that actually resembles (in a simple way) the actual character without being a direct copy
- あんことさやか by うた
- ☆まどか☆ by みきせ
- えがお by シャペソン○太
And an addendum since it's apparently easier to stumble on these works when you aren't looking for them.
おると also has a few works to check out, as does PeaCh@3日目東二-20a, e.g. 鹿目 まどか.
ファルまろ also has some works with a unique style. e.g. this one.
Update Oct 15, 2013:
A bunch more can be found from 炉夢 at:


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Blanche | Restless Love and Redeemed Despair
Blanche de la Force is the leading heroine of the Van le Fort/Bernanos/Poulenc masterpiece, Dialogues des Carmelites. I had the privilege of seeing this at the MET Opera in New York, last week. A sold-out house in the heart of New York City was given to witness a dramatic rendering of a relatively unknown historical episode.
The opera lyrically retells the story of sixteen women, twelve of whom were cloistered nuns in a Carmelite monastery in Compiègne in France, who were rounded up, imprisoned and condemned to the guillotine, accused of being a threat to the state during the Reign of Terror. Their martyrdom in Paris on July 17th, 1794, inspired a novel, a play by Bernanos, and the operatic score by Poulenc. Enacted on that stage with intensity, pathos and deep reverence was the modern manifestation of grace in action. Three hours of a haunting score, lacerating storyline, and inevitable tears led to what is considered perhaps the most dramatic ending in the history of operatic masterpieces. It was an experience in understanding the power of grace propelling natural human fear to the heights of courage, sacrifice and holiness.
What is it that makes this relatively unknown historical event, and specifically Catholic story, so modernly compelling?
Fundamentally, the Dialogues reveal a deep yearning we have for something greater than ourselves. It is the propensity to love beyond ourselves that drove sixteen cloistered women to accept even the guillotine, together. The family of their convent remained intact. In life and in death, they were united. And in that strength of unity, they loved greatly. They loved God personally in their austere life of prayer, and through that love, they were enabled to love one another in the face of the impossible, the radically unjust, the terribly unfair, the ultimate finality.
Martyrdom is never chosen; it is received. The martyrs offer up their life, a life they wish desperately to retain, abandoning themselves, with full understanding of the gravity of this loss, to the playing out of a plan they do not choose for themselves, that they do not objectively desire. In this act, they become witnesses, mirroring Christ's sacrificial death, and with Saint Paul they can say:
'We are afflicted in every way, but not constrained; perplexed, but not driven to despair;
persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed;
always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our body.'
II Corinthians 4. 8-10
In this act of sacrificial love, repeated similarly throughout the history of persecuted Christianity, there are relevant lessons on despair and death.
One of these is that death is an opportunity for union. We often think of death as a separation, and rightly, for there is a physical severance of persons that takes place at the end of a life. But beyond that separation is the possibility for a greater love–a love that bears the imprint of the earthly togetherness and elevates it. The nature of death is such that it enflames restless hearts; it enflames them with love by privation. It propels them to love more intensely what is no longer tangible, visible, physically near. In the intensity they discover the infinite potential of this love, and by that infinity they come to know the eternal orientation it bears and desire union with it.
Where the other has gone, we are rarely given to follow. Blanche, on the other hand, followed. She was hiding in a crowd, having run away for fear, beholding her sisters ascend the scaffold in song, and was instinctively propelled to rejoin in that unity of love that was hers by chosen surrender on entering that cloistered life, and became hers by gift, in the unity of death with them.
By contrast, our modern age despairs often in the face of death, or worse, chooses death in despair. Often it is not poverty, or the absence of material goods, that drives this despair. It is the excess, the lavish abundance that remains merely earthly and fails to make the leap necessary to become a reflection of that which is virtuous and good; of what is eternal. This is a blindness that seems incurable; an abundance that fails to satisfy, an excessive desire that ends in deflated despair.
On entering the cloister, Blanche becomes Soeur Blanche de L'Agonie de Christ. She is asked a poignant question by her superior when they realize they have all been condemned to die: 'Do you have the courage always to remain in the Agony of Christ?'
This same question is also asked of us, in moments of trial, of severance and separation, of privation, of pain and death and grief. These are moments and times when we are given the possibility to enter into the mystery of a radically faithful love; to participate in an eternal Love that manifests itself in suffering, a love wherein the agony and the ecstasy coexist.
What emerges from this purifying participation is the progressive transformation of a modern restless heart, the redemption of its despair, the new yearning that finds its ultimate contentment and peace, in union with the God whose restless love will never fail us.
"The suffering on the Cross is the expression of the love within God. The expression chosen by God to show us the mystery of his love; in order to be able to reveal itself, love suffers. There we also find a mystery of time and of beyond time. We are used to loving in time, with the resources of our nature, bound everywhere to time and to our objectives. When it is a question of God, we somehow adapt our temporal love to him. In faith we of course know that God is and has a love that is infinitely greater than us; yet, we try to reduce it at all costs to our own categories, to love him as it is given us: in half-heartedness and in time. When we meet with suffering, there is nothing more urgent for us to do than to console ourselves by saying that it will pass. We are surprised if that does not happen quickly; we are even more so if our suffering outlives love. Then we go and take measurements. We measure one time against another and the force of events: suffering or love. Now, when God comes into the world in order to suffer for us, he takes with him the measurements of eternity; he prepares for the Cross with the strength of eternal love and experiences as a man an immeasurable suffering that corresponds to his divinity and to his divine love. It is not the motive of the Cross, sin, that determines the measure of suffering but the divine will to redeem us in order to make us enter into his infinite love."
Adrienne von Speyr
To The Heart of the Mystery of Redemption
Such is the restless Love, worth dying for… Thank you, Blanche.
A history of the Carmelites of of Compiègne is titled To Quell the Terror, by William Bush.
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I happened to be exceptionally hungry that night and wanted to try a couple of different things off the menu. So I started with the warm rolls and butter. Very nice. I was told that the soup of the day was clam chowder. One of my favorite treats. As I said, I was hungry, and wanted to try a salad as well as the clam chowder. My solution, order both. Off the appetizer menu I ordered a wedge salad. It was delicious. A wedge of lettuce with bacon, cheese diced tomatoes and dressing. Thinking I would just have a couple bites, I ended up eating the whole thing. My wife Nicole had wanted to try the fried zucchini, it too was a cut above, and I was not so hungry anymore. The food kept coming however. Next came the clam chowder. Full of luscious clams and potatoes with a broth not too thick and very flavorful. By this time, I was ready to call it quits. But out came my wife's flat iron steak and my fish and chips. First the fish and chips were very moist. The batter was done to a tee just a little crispy outside and still nice on the inside. I found out they were hand battered right there at the restaurant. Next came my wife's steak. Pleased, is putting it mildly. She had ordered it medium rare and Chef Alex prepared it to perfection. It was topped with sautéed onions and blue cheese sprinkles it was to die for. Tender and juicy, served with a very nice sized baked potato that had just the right amount of toppings. Very good.
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My sister invited me to go to New Covenant Christian Church. I was scared to go at first because I felt like I was the biggest sinner and that people there might judge me. I came from a rough past of broken relationships and sin. Feeling very alone a lot of the time and I was searching for something to help. At church, I heard the sermon of "when you're stuck in a rut" and what steps to do to get out. I came to the conclusion that I wanted to repent and start living for God but I wasn't sure how to change. After church that day I broke down crying in the parking lot with my sister and I prayed to surrender my life to Jesus. At that very moment, I felt different. I felt like I had this amazing strength. My hands and my jaw felt numb. It was as if I had been carrying heavy chains my whole life and they had finally been broken. God had given me the strength I needed to stop sinning and start living my life the way He wanted me to. I walked away from all of my sin and I even explained to some of my old friends how I repented, wanted to go to heaven and that God is the only person who could offer me salvation. God had truly helped me to change. I have been seeking the word of God ever since and I recently got baptized! Every day I know more and more that God is very powerful and full of so much love. I know now He will always be with me and He will never forsake me. He is the love that I have been looking for all this time.
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John's Testimony
I was raised in a small town northern New Mexico. I grew up going to church but around the time I was twelve years old my parents got a divorce. At that time we stopped going to church as a family and my relationship with the Lord was put on hold. During the next several years my living situation changed from living in a home with my mother and one of my older brothers to living alone with my mother when my brother left for college, to ending up sleeping on cousin's couch my senior year of high school. I spent my time in school living with a very individualistic mindset. I prided myself on how self-reliant I thought I was. Around the time I was getting ready to graduate high school I was really struggling with pride issues. I would refuse to ask for help even if I was desperately confused about what I should do. When I graduated high school I carried my "I can do it myself" attitude and my inflated ego with me to the University of New Mexico.
When I left for college I was extremely afraid of failure but too prideful to seek counsel. Thankfully before I left home I made a promise to my grandparents to find a church in Albuquerque, and while I only made this promise half-heartedly it would result in the conviction that eventually led me to the Lord. Near the end of my first semester at UNM I was met by a minister from New Covenant Christian Church. At the end of our conversation he invited me to church and offered to set up a bible study with me but I rejected his offers. I didn't know it at the time but that man would later minister to me and become a good friend. After turning that minister away I immediately felt guilty because I remembered the promise I had made to my grandparents. At that moment, I decided that if I was stopped again I would go to church. The following semester I was stopped again, this time by a student. The following Sunday I attended New Covenant Christian Church for the first time. From that day on I became more and more involved in the church until I eventually surrendered my life to Christ.
My renewed relationship with God changed my life for the better and gradually I gained more and more freedom from my prideful attitude and selfish mindset. After becoming a true Christian I began to see the power of God first-hand. I began to see my prayers being answered and feel God healing negative emotions that I had fostered since I was young. Becoming a member of New Covenant Christian Church and growing to have a personal relationship with God gave me a sense of home and community that I hadn't had since my childhood. Every day I continue to grow and I am constantly surprised at how God works in my life.
Michael's Testimony
Growing up in Texas, my family always went to church. My Father was the worship leader and the strong one in the family. I grew up rebellious, in trouble, fighting, and having no regard for others or their feelings. I spent my whole life doing what I wanted to do at the expense of others. I thought, "This is how life will be, all about me and what I will do." Our family was struggling in many ways and I eventually got kicked out of high school the same year my parents divorced, yet I didn't even care. I always said, "It's not that bad, it's not even my fault." I was so caught up in me, myself, and everything I needed to make myself happy, I didn't see that I was just making everyone unhappy around me. After I graduated from high school, I knew I needed to get out of town but I wasn't sure where to go. My aunt and uncle lived in Albuquerque and they said I could live with them if I went to UNM. Shortly after having a run-in with the law, I made a decision to actually move to Albuquerque. In March 2015 I called my uncle and told him I was moving out. The day I left, my older sister prayed to God that I would find Him, that I would develop a relationship with Him, and live for Him. My sister spoke those words into existence that day. The second week here a church group from NAU surveyed me on campus and I ended up getting into contact with Adrian from New Covenant Christian Church. Shortly after our first bible study, I gave my life to the Lord. Around this same time, God began to move mightily in healing and repairing my family. To this day we are closer and stronger than ever before. I found that without Jesus, nothing satisfies me and nothing will make me truly joyous from the inside. His church showed me, through the way they live their lives, practical and effective Christian living, in close communion with our creator. I have been given a new life, and am a new creation now.


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