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Bishop Oprie Jeffries – General Overseer
In 1956 Oprie Jeffries, a young man tired of living a life of sin, began looking for a preacher who was willing to teach him and his wife the truth about God's plan for salvation. They joined a church where he thought they could get everything they needed to meet God in peace. During this time, Oprie Jeffries was made a minister. After being in this church awhile, the young minister found this preacher to be "one of the guys hanging out on the corner". So, he and his wife, Mozelle, left this church. With a determined mind to serve God, especially now with his first child on the way, he continued to search for a preacher that stood with the word of God. It was his mother-in -law who told him about a preacher on the radio named Elder W. F. Lucas. She said he was preaching repentance and the baptism in the name of Jesus Christ. Minister Jeffries began listening to Elder Lucas. He remembers Elder Lucas' challenge to any listener who could condemn what he was preaching. One minister called him on his challenge. The subject was paying tithes. That minister tried to prove his point, but was unable to compete with Elder Lucas and his knowledge of the bible. This caused Elder Lucas to shine as a true teacher of the true gospel of Christ.
After hearing Elder Lucas, Minister Jeffries said to himself, "this man has convinced me that he has the gospel of Jesus Christ, and I have found someone that I believe can help me and my family save our souls". The young minister decided to join St. James True Church of God in Christ Inc., under the leadership of Elder Clark. Here he would be able to line up with this movement, now that his second child was on the way. Two years pass and the church body began going through a reformation. It was at this time that God showed Elder W. F. Lucas that women could not preach the gospel. From the bible Elder Lucas was given scripture, chapter and verse to back up his teaching. In 1958, unaware of Elder Clark's intention to separate from the movement, Minister Jeffries was convinced to go to Conyers, GA with Elder Clark to build a new church. Thinking that this church would be one in the body, he willingly went. As time went on Minister Jeffries realized that the fellowshipping between the churches became less, and the recognition of Bishop Lucas as the overseer did too.It was not until 1960 that Minister Jeffries was reconnected to the True Church of God in Christ Inc. By now Bishop W. L Lucas and his son Elder W. F. Lucas were working together at Lucas Temple in Scottdale GA. While working beside Bishop Lucas and his son Elder Lucas, Minister Jeffries and his wife added three more children to their family.
By 1968 Bishop W. L. Lucas decided to send Minister Jeffries to St. James True Church of God in Christ as the pastor. He was also ordained an Elder at this time. In his first year as pastor, during the Sisters Convention, his youngest son took his first steps.In the years to come Elder W. F. Lucas became the Junior Bishop and released his position of General Superintendent to another Elder in the True Church. Sadly in 1972 Senior Bishop W. L. Lucas died, and the responsibilities of the church fell on Elder W. F. Lucas. He then became the Bishop and General Overseer. In 1991 the Elder, which held the position of General Superintendent, left the movement. For his faithfulness and his determination to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the True Church organization, Bishop W. F. Lucas appointed Elder Oprie Jeffries to the position of General Superintendent. All six of his children grew up in the church and five of them are still in the church today. Elder Jeffries has four generations of his family with him in the True Church. Currently there are three generations of preachers in his family.bishop and fam2
Elder Oprie Jeffries is first generation. His son Elder Dennis Jeffries is the second generation and his grandsons Elder Vista Jeffries and Minister Terry Jeffries are the third generation.
Elder Jeffries was named Bishop and General Overseer of the True Church of God, Inc. after the sudden passing ofthe late Bishop B. J. Lawson. Bishop Oprie Jeffries appointment was confirmed during the fifth Sunday meeting in December, 2006. At this time Bishop Jeffries announced that he would continue to teach and preach the true word of God as did the three Bishops before him. His teachings is strongly that we must live perfect.


Fiberton Acres Blog: Introducing our new podcast!
We are super excited to present our new podcast! Fiberton Acres' podcast is a Humorous History of Horticulture and Husbandry. A fun introduction to what we do, but more than that, it looks at the history of animal rearing and husbandry, agriculture, and some of the fun and funny things that we did, and some of the adventures that we have encountered in our forays into our relatively new farm life. We are also excited to take time with others in the field, other small farmers and ranchers, to see what they do and why they do it.
This episode is looking at a broad history of sheep and the uses of the domesticated sheep.
We also want to say thank you to Charlotte Cleary for helping us with our research, and to Lefty5Strings for our intro and outro music!
Make sure to subscribe on whichever podcast player you use, and we will post each episode here! Right now you can find us on Soundcloud, iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn!
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Marlins tweaking roster as series with Blue Jays concludes
The host Miami Marlins are expected to make at least one lineup change on Wednesday night in the finale of a two-game series against the Toronto Blue Jays.
Miami (16-15), which beat Toronto 3-2 on Tuesday, is expected to start Jesus Aguilar at first base. In addition, Jazz Chisholm, called up on Tuesday, could get his first major league start on Wednesday, playing shortstop.
Aguilar, who is batting .280 with four homers, a .776 OPS and 20 RBIs in 24 games, has had back stiffness and hasn't played since last Wednesday.
Chisholm, acquired last year from the Arizona Diamondbacks for pitcher Zac Gallen, may have to fill in for Miguel Rojas, who seemed to suffer a leg injury in the seventh inning of Tuesday's series opener. Chisholm filled in for Rojas defensively, making his major league debut but without an at-bat.
The 22-year-old Chisholm could eventually be the replacement for second baseman Jonathan Villar, who was traded to Toronto on Monday.
Chisholm's natural position, however, is shortstop.
"He has been playing quite a bit of second base (at the team's alternate training site in Jupiter, Fla.)," Marlins manager Don Mattingly said of Chisholm.
Miami's Jon Berti, who started at second base on Tuesday and went 2-for-2 with a double and a homer, is the immediate beneficiary of the Villar trade.
"Making the (Villar) trade and getting prospect (Griffin Conine) made sense when you have the answer internally," Marlins general manager Michael Hill said in reference to Berti. "I'm happy to see Berti getting the opportunity."
Isan Diaz, who opted out for the season due to COVID-19 concerns but has now returned to Miami's alternate training site, is another possibility to play second base, along with fellow rookies Chisholm and Eddy Alvarez.
Center fielder Starling Marte, acquired in a trade on Monday, made his Marlins debut on Tuesday night, snapping a 2-2 tie with an eighth-inning solo homer.
Marte, a two-time Gold Glove winner who is signed through the end of the 2021 season, could finally fortify a position that has been in great flux this year. Marte, who turns 32 next year, will be the sixth Marlins starting center fielder this season.
As for Wednesday's pitching matchup, Toronto left-hander Hyun-Jin Ryu (2-1, 2.92 ERA) will face Miami rookie right-hander Sixto Sanchez (1-0, 2.25).
Ryu was blazing hot in August, posting a 1.29 ERA in five starts for Toronto (18-16). He allowed one run or less in all five of those starts, walking just six batters in 37 innings.
And, in five career starts against the Marlins, Ryu has a 3-1 record and a 2.23 ERA. He beat the Marlins 5-4 on Aug. 11 in Buffalo, N.Y., allowing just two hits, two walks and one run in six innings, striking out seven.
Ryu, a 33-year-old native of South Korea, broke into the major leagues in 2013 and has a 56-34 career record and a 2.98 ERA.
He has done all of that with some unusual routines. For example, he doesn't throw bullpens in between starts.
"I don't see it as a problem if I don't throw a bullpen," Ryu told The Los Angeles Times. "I spend more time recovering."
Sanchez, a 22-year-old from the Dominican Republic, has pitched in two major league games (none against Toronto), and he has been impressive both times.
His four-seam fastball has reached 100 mph and averages 98.6. His sinker averages 97.6 mph.
"He has such a special arm," Hill said. "We thought when we acquired him that he was a 'front of the rotation' arm, and he has not disappointed."

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East Point est un cap et une communauté dans le comté de Kings de l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard.

C'est la ligne de démarcation pour délimiter la limite est du détroit de Northumberland.  Ces rives consistent de très hautes falaises de grès.  La Garde côtière canadienne maintient un phare pour aider les vaisseaux.

Naufrages
Entre autres, les vaisseaux suivants ont fait naufrage à East Point:
SS Quebec en 1879
HMS Phoenix en 1882
HMS Assiniboine alors qu'il était remorqué en 1945

Références

Comté de Kings (Île-du-Prince-Édouard)

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Nobody worth thinking about gives a damn if you stutter.
Super Hot Prof-on-Student Word Sex: Alissa Nutting
By Steve Almond
You will have to imagine my confusion when Ms. Nutting's debut story collection, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls, appeared on my doorstep. She had chosen to defy all reasonable laws of feminine desire by spurning me as a sexual object. And yet she had managed to publish a book.
Can I claim to have ever formally taught Alissa Nutting?
I might have been able to make this claim, had Ms. Nutting bothered to submit a manuscript for my consideration back in 2005, when I served as Visiting Scumbag at the University of Alabama's MFA program.
But Ms. Nutting decided not to subject herself to that kind of abuse. Instead, she showed up at the party after my reading – a sullen affair, even as these things go – and consumed by her own estimation 177 beers. She then approached me and the following exchange probably didn't take place.
Alissa Nutting: Hey! Can I tell people I partied with Steve Almond?
Me: You may.
Nutting: I love your work! It always gives me an idea to go write about!
Me: I am your muse.
Nutting: Yeah, sort of.
Me: You may now use me as a sexual object.
Nutting: That's sweet, but I'm married.
Me: Does your husband care nothing about your art?
Nutting: Wait, are you joking?
What's more, it was (to my disappointment) a fantastic book, full of strange and necessary tortures.
Whether or not Ms. Nutting was driven exclusively by her lust to engage in Super Hot Word Sex with me isn't the point. The point is her vibrant little book, which I have been reading before bed. It is now almost over and I am sad.
Let the Super Hot inquisition commence!
The Rumpus: I don't suppose we can avoid this, so let's just get it out the way. Ms. Nutting, can you discuss how your sexual rejection of me has shaped your fiction? Take your time.
Alissa Nutting: For many years I wrote nothing but "I will not sleep with Steve Almond" over and over again, page after page à la Jack Torrance in The Shining. Finally, hundreds of psychotherapy sessions and an intense shaman-guided DMT sweat lodge experience led to a breakthrough, and I was able to write about other people I would not sleep with, and also about people I would. The book before you today is like a weed that managed to survive a hearty spritzing of Roundup.
Rumpus: What I love about your stories – one of many things I love – is that you write about the absurdity of contemporary popular culture without sacrificing compassion for your characters. I'm thinking of the story "Porn Star," which is narrated by a porn star who's expected to have anal sex on the moon for a reality TV show. In the wrong hands, this story could be a didactic mess. But the final paragraphs are sad and haunting. Do you worry that folks (critic folk in particular) will miss the quiet tenderness beneath the wild plots?
Nutting: Luckily I'm on prescription drugs that prevent me from worrying about anything too much. But yes, I do…I think humor is like a shield that lets you get as close to the sad sad flame as possible—far closer, oftentimes, than drama. The stories are funny and many have absurdist premises, but that's the (hopefully enjoyable) coating that makes the bitter pill go down a bit easier. All of the stories' narrators experience pretty grave pain. I wanted the stickiness of emotional agency to be highlighted throughout.
Rumpus: Your openings are sublime. Here's how "Dinner" begins:
I am boiling inside a kettle with five other people. Our limbs are bound and our intestines and mouths are stuffed with herbs and garlic, but we can still speak. We smell great despite the pain.
It's a completely bizarre situation, but related with such authority and precision that the reader is immediately onboard. Do these first lines act as triggers, or do you patch them in later?
Nutting: They're triggers. When I was writing these stories, I tried to explain each premise to the reader (and to myself) as immediately as possible; if it felt natural I'd do it in the initial line or two. All of the stories are in first person because I really want readers to put themselves into the shoes of each character. So the opening lines are an orienting technique: this is where you are, this is who you are. Go.
Rumpus: What's the sickest fairy tale you've ever read? I ask this not just because you're the managing editor of Fairy Tale Review, but because your stories often seem energized by the same kinked out monster id.
Nutting: There are the usual horrors of cannibalism, etc., but I think the most terrifying ones are euphemistically disturbing. Consider this line in "All-Kinds-of-Fur" by the Brothers Grimm about a father forcing his daughter to marry him: "He seized her by the hand and held her fast. As she attempted to free herself and run away, her fur cloak opened a little…"
Rumpus: How has your family reacted to your work? Do they understand what you're trying to do?
Nutting: My poor family. I try to protect them from my work. My parents are very religious, and my brother and sister are very normal. We have an understanding, I think, that what I do isn't quite down their alley. They're really good about humoring me. Once in the pet store I saw a hamster cage where all the other hamsters were sleeping in a giant pile, but one with bedraggled fur was off playing with its own turds in a corner. It's like that.
Rumpus: How about your classmates? I can see some of them being freaked out – not just by the fabulism, but the audacity of the language.
Nutting: During my MFA, I was lucky to be surrounded by a really supportive group of peers. And now I get feedback pretty exclusively from freaks only. My writing circle isn't too full of people who fall into the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought Tuesdays With Morrie" category.
Rumpus: Has living in Las Vegas (aka The First Seating at the Apocalypse) bled into your stories at all? Or were they written before you became a gambling addict?
Nutting: Las Vegas is incredible. Either you love it or you're a classy person with morals. I fall into the former category. It's definitely bled into my writing. When you see people playing slots while holding a tiny dog and wearing an adult diaper so they don't have to abandon their machine to go to the bathroom…how are you not going to use that? I've seen men in $5,000 suits urinate in public fountains here. Las Vegas is the best place on earth.
Rumpus: You once wrote me a note in which you claimed to have gotten married in corpse paint. You even attached a photo. Will you be reading from the book in corpse paint?
Nutting: Yes. In corpse paint and a corpse suit and a merkin.
Rumpus: Finally, can you tell us what's next on your dance card?
Nutting: I'm finishing a novel about a girl who gets pregnant with the ghost of her father. Don't worry…it's more tender than it sounds.
Steve Almond's most recent book, Against Football, was a New York Times bestseller for at least three seconds. More from this author →
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Michael Iyali Runs to the Finish
Kimberly Hewitt
Jennifer Anima, Reporter
Michael Iyali has been the most successful when it comes to the 2019 Fall Sports.
This season, Iyali has won three races and has placed second in the following two. Although Iyali is one of the most successful athletes at the moment, his reason for running is not based on winning the race but the reasons he races.
Iyali arrived to Wichita almost four years ago from Uganda and landed at North where he expresses his love for the culture which surrounds him. "We (him and his siblings) came here for a better life and good education. As we are here, we just do things that we love and make our parents proud and happy for us," Iyali said.
Running allows Iyali to destress and relax, but he also is assured that he can run and he is good at it. "I run because a good man told me once that running would change my path one day," Iyali said. He describes his team as a loving, caring, and awesome set of friends. "I am
proud to call them my family," Iyali said. The Cross Country team is one of his main reasons for coming back everyday to practice hard .
"He is one of the most coachable athletes I've ever had," Coach Daryle Bookout said. Coach Bookout does not have the expectation for Michael to qualify for State but to be honest (I'm more concerned) with his path of life and pursuing what is meaningful to him after High school. "If state is one of those things I'm fine with that but I do not have that expectation for him," Bookout said.
Michael makes sure to have a healthy diet to keep him as healthy as possible for his races. His routine before a race is simple; he makes sure not to eat anything crazy or heavy the night before as well as getting a great amount of rest. 30 minutes before his race he stretches, warms up, and eats a light snack.
Once he begins his race, Iyali watches his pace and increases slowly to finish strong at the end. What Iyali wants to improve on is pushing himself, and getting faster at the end of a run.
Before joining Cross Country Iyali was just on the track team, which he will also be running for this spring. After high Sshool Michael is going to be running in college, which college is undecided at the moment. "I don't think my parents w ould be able to afford paying for all of me and my siblings college and be able to do everything they are doing for us. I'm really glad that me and my siblings joined the running team," Iyali said.
"I love North and I am so glad that I came to North. Very supportive people. Once a Redskin, always a Redskin!" Iyali said.
Jennifer, a senior, describes herself as an outgoing and hardworking student. She has been in Journalism/Digital Media for three years. She participates...


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Vanishing Falls
by Poppy Gee
One of CrimeReads Most Anticipated Books of the Year!
"This literary thriller paints as vivid a landscape as any book coming out this summer...Gee creates a lush, tantalizing world that readers will want to travel into deeper and deeper."—CrimeReads
Celia Lily is rich, beautiful, and admired. She's also missing. And the search for the glamorous… (more)
Celia Lily is rich, beautiful, and admired. She's also missing. And the search for the glamorous socialite is about to expose all the dark, dirty secrets of Vanishing Falls…
Deep within the lush Tasmanian rainforest is the remote town of Vanishing Falls, a place with a storied past. The town's showpiece, built in the 1800s, is its Calendar House—currently occupied by Jack Lily, a prominent art collector and landowner; his wife, Celia; and their four daughters. The elaborate, eccentrically designed mansion houses one masterpiece and 52 rooms—and Celia Lily isn't in any of them. She has vanished without a trace.…
Joelle Smithton knows that a few folks in Vanishing Falls believe that she's simple-minded. It's true that Joelle's brain works a little differently—a legacy of shocking childhood trauma. But Joelle sees far more than most people realize, and remembers details that others cast away. For instance, she knows that Celia's husband, Jack, has connections to unsavory local characters whom he's desperate to keep hidden. He's not the only one in town with something to conceal. Even Joelle's own husband, Brian, a butcher, is acting suspiciously. While the police flounder, unable to find Celia, Joelle is gradually parsing the truth from the gossip she hears and from the simple gestures and statements that can unwittingly reveal so much.
Just as the water from the falls disappears into the ground, gushing away through subterranean creeks, the secrets in Vanishing Falls are pulsing through the town, about to converge. And when they do, Joelle must summon the courage to reveal what really happened to Celia, even if it means exposing her own past…
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (August 04, 2020)
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John Rowland
Published by joekarnsadmin on June 30, 2021
Sharon Amezcua is the chief growth officer for S2A Modular and is responsible for developing and implementing growth strategies across all areas of the company. With more than 35 year of experience as a serial entrepreneur and serial investor, Sharon has created, built, incubated, accelerated, invested in, syndicated and exited hundreds of companies across the globe while working closely with a team of sector specialists. Sharon's focus has been at the intersection of technology and finance with a concentration in Alternative Energy, Fintech, Alternative Healthcare, Software, AI, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. The beginning of Sharon's career was focused on commercial banking as well as building and growing energy-related companies in lighting, HVAC control systems and several alternative energy solutions including solar, wind, hydro and more. After the successful launch and exit of New Energy Ventures in Los Angeles, a company that went from no revenue to $1B in 18 months, Sharon co-founded MCC Global NV, an old-style merchant bank that was listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange in 2006. MCC offered a proprietary creation, incubation and acceleration "de-risking" process that Sharon developed and implemented with hundreds of emerging and established companies exhibiting an unmatched track record of success. As vice chairman of Moore Clayton Capital Advisors, Inc. and vice president of Equus II, MCC Global's fund management company and its NYSE-listed private equity fund, respectively, Sharon was instrumental in increasing the overall net asset value and ROI of this highly regulated BDC.
Sharon then Co-Founded ESE Partners, LLC and ESE Fund Ltd., a future financial services company and associated fund that built and invested in emerging and established companies in targeted sectors across the world. With the leadership of her London-based business partner, Edward Fitzpatrick, ESE created an unregulated stock exchange in Europe (European Stock Exchange), a regulated stock exchange, AlliedSX (A Start-Up Stock Exchange), that expanded globally in 50 countries and ILOEX (An Initial License Offering Exchange) that makes it easier for companies to raise the growth funding they need without diluting their equity. Sharon is also the co-founder of SSG, LLC, a technology transfer company managed by women at the top of their fields and SSG was initially created to build companies in the United States and the Middle East/North Africa region of the world. ESE and SSG both have a strong focus on traditional industries converging with new technologies particularly in new media, healthcare, wellness, alternative energy and fintech.
Sharon's passion, besides dancing and architectural engineering, is working with young people through business and philanthropy to enhance their entrepreneurial skills and help them execute their dreams. She is also an active advisory board/board member of many emerging and established companies across the globe.
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Notice to MVPDs.
(1) Stations participating in channel sharing agreements must provide notice to MVPDs that:
(i) No longer will be required to carry the station because of the relocation of the station;
(ii) Currently carry and will continue to be obligated to carry a station that will change channels; or
(iii) Will become obligated to carry the station due to a channel sharing relocation.
(2) The notice required by this section must contain the following information:
(i) Date and time of any channel changes;
(ii) The channel occupied by the station before and after implementation of the CSA;
(iii) Modification, if any, to antenna position, location, or power levels;
(iv) Stream identification information; and
(v) Engineering staff contact information.
(3) Should any of the information in paragraph (h)(2) of this section change, an amended notification must be sent.
(4) Sharee stations must provide notice as required by this section at least 90 days prior to terminating operations on the sharee's channel. Sharer stations and sharee stations must provide notice as required by this section at least 90 days prior to initiation of operations on the sharer channel. Should the anticipated date to either cease operations or commence channel sharing operations change, the stations must send a further notice to affected MVPDs informing them of the new anticipated date(s).
(5) Notifications provided to cable systems pursuant to this section must be either mailed to the system's official address of record provided in the cable system's most recent filing in the FCC's Cable Operations and Licensing System (COALS) Form 322, or emailed to the system if the system has provided an email address. For all other MVPDs, the letter must be addressed to the official corporate address registered with their State of incorporation.
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Portola Grabs $45M Upfront From Biogen Idec to Develop Autoimmune Drugs
Xconomy San Francisco —
South San Francisco-based Portola Pharmaceuticals has formed a lucrative alliance today with Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB) to co-develop drugs for autoimmune diseases, seeking to stop the immune system from attacking healthy tissues like a virus.
Under the deal, Portola is granting Weston, MA-based Biogen Idec an exclusive worldwide license to co-develop oral pills that block a biological target called Syk. In return, Biogen Idec has agreed to pay Portola $45 million upfront, with $36 million coming in cash, and the rest from an agreement to buy a $9 million equity stake in the smaller company. Portola is also eligible for $508 million in future payments if the drug program reaches certain development and regulatory milestones, the companies said. Biogen will lead development and the commercial push for the oral Syk inhibitor program in two big markets—rheumatoid arthritis and lupus—while Portola will retain the lead development role for the drug in smaller markets.
Biogen and Portola have agreed to a 75/25 split of the worldwide costs and profits of the drug program.
"This program is an excellent strategic fit with our focus on immunology," said Biogen Idec CEO George Scangos, in a statement. "Portola is a high-quality company with a great track record in small molecules, and we have crafted a collaboration that truly is a win for both companies. We will now focus on a thoughtful and aggressive program to fully explore the potential of Portola's compounds against this very interesting target, with the goal of creating an effective, safe and convenient oral treatment for patients with debilitating autoimmune and inflammatory diseases."
Biogen Idec is the world's largest maker of drugs for multiple sclerosis, a neurodegenerative disease in which the immune system goes haywire and attacks the fatty coating around nerve fibers. Last year, it scrapped a number of programs in its pipeline, including cancer drugs, to focus more on what it considers this strength.
Portola's lead drug candidate is still at the earliest phase of clinical development, with a code name of PRT062607. Portola has raised a ton of venture capital in its history, around $220 million as of July 2009. Its backers include Abingworth Management, Advanced Technology Ventures, AllianceBernstein, Alta Partners, Brookside Capital, CIDC Consulting, D.E. Shaw, Frazier Healthcare Ventures, Goldman Sachs, IBT Management Corp., MPM Capital, Prospect Venture Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures, Teachers' Private Capital, T. Rowe Price, Apothecary Capital, Janus Capital and PAC-Link BioVentures.
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In recognition of their achievements in the field of immigrant rights Carnegie Corporation's Geri Mannion and Taryn Higashi have been named the 2009 co-recipients of the Council on Foundations' prestigious Robert W. Scrivner Award for Creative Grantmaking.
Mannion, who is Director of the U.S. Democracy Program at Carnegie Corporation of New York, and Higashi, who is Executive Director of Unbound Philanthropy, are co-founders of the Four Freedoms Fund (FFF), Public Interest Project's national collaborative fund founded in July 2003 to energize democracy by supporting and engaging immigrants and refugees. Shaped by Higashi and Mannion's vision, FFF aims to build an infrastructure in the United States that links immigrant rights groups on a local, state and national level on issues of immigration reform, civic engagement, immigrant integration and protection of civil liberties and human rights.


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For a young company, it's never easy and the hard work is never over. It's a long, difficult battle full of fits and starts and failure before success.
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Levi Woodbury, 1845-1851
LEVI WOODBURY was born on December 22, 1789, in Francestown, New Hampshire. He was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1809, read law, and attended Tapping Reeve Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1812 and practiced law in Francestown and nearby Portsmouth, New Hampshire. In 1816, Woodbury was appointed Clerk of the State Senate, and after one year he was placed on the New Hampshire Superior Court, where he served until 1823, when he was elected Governor of New Hampshire. In 1825, Woodbury was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives and became Speaker. Later the same year the State Legislature elected him to the United States Senate, where he served until 1831. President Andrew Jackson appointed Woodbury Secretary of the Navy in 1831. Three years later, the President appointed him Secretary of the Treasury, where he served until 1841 when he was again elected to the United States Senate. President James K. Polk names Woodbury to the Supreme Court of the United States as a recess appointment on September 20, 1845. Formally nominated by President Polk on December 23, 1845, Woodbury was confirmed by The Senate on January 3, 1846, making him the first Associate Justice to have attended a law school. Woodbury served on the Supreme Court for five years and died on September 4, 1851, at the age of sixty-one.


Star Wars: Episode IX is coming sooner than we expected: Disney just moved the release date for the film up to May 24th, 2019.
Disney Lucasfilm announced the release date for the blockbuster on Tuesday, and also revealed that Harrison Ford's fifth Indiana Jones adventure has been pushed back from July 19, 2019 until July 10, 2020.
"Episode IX" completes the trilogy that began after Disney bought George Lucas's Lucasfilm in a $4 billion deal in 2012. "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," which reunited the original cast of the first 1977 film, was released in December 2015, and "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" is due to open worldwide on Dec. 15, 2017. Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, and Oscar Isaac are all expected to return in Episode IX.
Speaking at the Star Wars Celebration event in Orlando, Florida earlier this month, Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy said the late Carrie Fisher would not be appearing via digital recreation in Episode IX, despite earlier reports suggesting the contrary. Fans had seen the digital recreation of Fisher as a young Leia in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
"We have not read a script yet for Episode IX," Kennedy told reporters.
"Obviously, when Carrie passed away in December, that was a huge blow for all of us and it caused us to sit with Colin and really rethink where we're headed with Episode IX."
"Carrie was a significant part of that story - that was something she very much wanted and we very much wanted," Kennedy continued.
"But given the circumstances, we would not carry on with that."
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While approaching, houses of the hamlet are conspicuous from a distance. once Haremtan Point or Karaada is breasted, its tremendous castle appears in front. This castle between two bays, was built in 15th century by the knights of St. John of Rhodes. Today this castle is Bodrum museum of Underwater Archeology, one the most important museums.
The bay on the eastern side is known as district of Roman as people were immigrated from the Create Island. The bay on the western side is called as the district of Turks. A large breakwater extends from the western tip of the castle and hides the sheltering mole. Dead slow speed and good look out must be kept on approaching and heading down into the bay, because boats coming in and out cannot see each other until they come head to head. Regulatory buoys are placed . There are white light towers at the head of breakwaters. FlG 5s 8m 8M and Fl R 5s 8m 8M. The bay on the east is called as Kumbahçe (Kale). Boats can anchor in the depths of 6-10meters. Care is needed for the swimming buoys of the beach. The bottom is weed. Make sure your anchor is dug well. You can take a line to the castle side. This bay affords adequate shelter from breeze, but it is open to southerlies. It is a noisy anchorage as open top disco produces very high volume together with light shows. Right spot for those loving exteme volumes. A disco-vessel leaves at night and cruises to Karaada side, returns at around 04.00 a.m. You better to be off route. There is another anchorage under disco settlements, provides berthing capacity for 50 boats. This quay is called Kumbahce Liman İşletmesi, managed by the municipality port administration (Phone. 252-313 67 69). Water and electricity are provided. Diving and excursion boats berth here. Fuel can be obtained from truck-tanker. The main port of Bodrum for ferries and liners is on the east of this quay. Custom office is located here.
Once, the bay has been entered, coast guard, custom and passport offices are identified behind the ferry jetty on starboard and the marina on the port side, Milta Bodrum Marina. Ferries to Aeagen islands depart from this jetty. Tepecik mosque stands by the opposite side of the entry. Quay surrounds the bay up to marina. The depths are 6m at the entrance and 3m on the quays. This quay is also managed by municipality port administration. The gullets and tripper boats occupy the quays extending on both sides in front of the Tepecik mosque.Water and electricty are on the quay. There is fuel station. No berthing for yachts. The quays on the port are not sufficient for gulets in summer. Sometimes, they anchor from one to another in three rows in the inlet. The parks behind are floricultured among palm tresss. Bodrum is one of the most important fishing and diving centers in Turkey. The native people have been involved in this activity for many years and earned their living. All provisions are available in Bodrum. Public market for clothing on Tuesdays for food stuff on Fridays are arranged.
All sort of transport facilities are avaliable to most destinations. Milas-Bodrum Airport is 30 km, Dalaman Airport is 210 km and Izmir Adnan Menderes Airport is 230 km. All banks branches and ATMs are available.
Diving in Bodrum is a real delight. Guided tours are arranged. You can discover underwater beauties and see so many different fishes and octopuses slots. Bodrum has reach habitats for flora and fauna. Different flowering plants are found in the sea-bed. Meteor sockets, tunnels, caves and amphoras can be seen. Two shallows are especially interesting for divers and underwater photographers. Fish species and nature indiscribable. The depts in diving spots are 5-50 meters, visibility is 20 meters and average temperature is 17-20 C between April to October. Diving instruments are available in the town. Diving courses are arranged.
The Castle is the greatest symbol of the town. The castle was renovated and converted into museum. The Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archeology is one of the most important museums in the world which must be definetely visited to see collection of relics, representing the fascinating life of mariners and shipwrecks. The classical Theatre is within the area of old walled of anchient Halicanassus. The museum is open between 08.00 am to 05.00 pm-in Winter, 09.00 am to 07.00 am in Summer except on Mondays. The Bodrum Amphitheatre is another structure from the reign of King Mausolus. ıt is made up three main parts: Skene (stage), the Orchestra (half-oval part) and the Cavea audience stage. Good example of a classical Greek theatre, with an estimated seating capacity 13,000. Some of the seats at the theatre are inscribed with names probably those who had helped to pay for the theatre. The Bodrum Amphitheatre is used for concerts and shows. Well preserved and definetely worth visiting.
Boat building in Bodrum has played an important role. The workmanship within the possibilities are still tremendous. Prestige boats are produced in boat yards in İçmeler. Traditional Bodrum wooden boats race has been organized in october since 1989 to promote sailing for regional boats and gullets. It is tremendous view to see hundreds of gullets sailing together down to Gökova.
There are number of boat yards around. All kinds of mechanical, carpentary, upholstery, electrical and winterizing works can be carried out.
Bodrum was once a calm small fishing village, themed the stories of famous Turkish author Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı.


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Public Health And Health Education
Public Health and Health Education: What's the Difference?
October 6, 2020 | Ginger Cameron, PhD
Public health is a diverse field focused on improving the lives of the individual by focusing on the community. Anything that can affect a community's health becomes a public health issue. Public health professionals and public health educators work together to benefit communities.
Topics that public health professionals may work with are varied and can include bedbug infestations, heart health, the opioid crisis, disease outbreaks, human trafficking, clean water access, smoking cessation, war/conflict, safe driving, depression, gun violence, sanitation, air pollution, discrimination, vaccines, and access to healthy foods.
The definition of community can be diverse and may include a neighborhood, state, region, or nation, but a community does not have to be geographic. Populations with similar beliefs, behaviors, or traits can face similar health issues. Examples of nongeographic communities include the elderly, children, LGTBQ, faith/religious groups, online gamers, and professional communities such as teachers, dentists, mechanics, etc.
What Public Health Professionals Do
Public health professionals devote their careers to monitoring health trends, advocating for healthy policies, and ensuring that established protocols are known and followed. They serve as a centralized source of information, research, and health communication. They also develop health promotion programs, conduct research, evaluate outbreaks, and establish policy to help improve the communities they serve.
A public health professional can expect variance in their responsibilities, which can include things such as providing inspections at restaurants, tattoo parlors, or childcare facilities; establishing health promotion programs; developing local, state, or national policy, or managing disease and foodborne outbreaks.
What Health Educators Do
Health education is one possible area of focus within public health. Health educators serve as an important part of the public health team.
Health educators help translate complex health concepts into manageable, community-friendly health programs and information. They help teach others how to incorporate healthy choices into their lifestyle, and they explain health concepts at both the individual and community level. Because health educators specialize in educating the public about health issues, they work with a wide variety of topics and diverse populations. Their role is to help people both understand health information and understand how to apply it to their everyday lives.
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Headhunters (2011) - Morten Tyldum
Stealing art is a familiar cinematic narrative, perhaps most famously in The Thomas Crown Affair. Headhunters, a Norweigan film based on the novel by Norweigan author Jo Nesbø, sets up a typical story, but slowly the plot unfolds in an unexpected direction.
Pale protagonist Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie) is not the usual suave charmer. One of the top headhunters in the recruitment business, he runs a successful company, lives in an expensive flat and is married to a beautiful wife - yet his financial security comes from his undercover sideline as an art burglar, by using his reputation to extract valuable information from his clients and stealing from their homes. It's a slick, clever operation, but Roger is cold-hearted and not likeable. He may be hiding his self-consciousness about his short height under a façade of arrogance, offering a glimmer of vulnerability, but he operates in a clinical world where it's one rule for him and another for everyone else.
Finally, he meets his match in Clas Greve (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau - familiar to fans of Game of Thrones). When Roger steals an extremely valuable Rubens painting from Clas, he is forced to go on the run in a desperate attempt to cover his tracks. It's a thrilling plot, filled with twists and double-crossing - if a little convoluted towards the end. The proceedings soon take a turn for the absurd and violent as Roger is pushed to desperate measures, but the film offers a satisfying conclusion.
What's most surprising is how we warm to Roger. Through his fight for survival, he is diminished to a shivering, vulnerable man saved by his cunning and resourcefulness. Rather than feel Roger has received his just deserves, he is a protagonist we eventually root for. It's complemented by some fine performances, plus cinematography and design that oozes stylish Scandinavian minimalism.
Alongside The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and TV drama The Killing, Headhunters is another thrilling (if less gripping) example of the current fashion for Nordic drama.
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Putting a Human Face on War-Torn Afghanistan
Rianna Starheim '14 is not content to learn about the world secondhand. Since matriculating at Dartmouth, she's traveled to Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Taiwan, and Brazil.
So when a course on women in Afghanistan piqued her interest about that country, she knew she had to go there.
Rianna Starheim '14 has traveled to many places, including Jordan, where this photo was taken. (Photo courtesy of Rianna Starheim)
"My parents almost hung up on me when I told them," says Starheim, an Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES) major who grew up on a farm in the tiny town of Jefferson, N.Y.
Undaunted, Starheim spent this past summer teaching English to high school students at Kabul's School of Leadership Afghanistan (SOLA) and working as assistant to the country director of Hagar Afghanistan, an NGO that fights gender-based violence and human trafficking. "There's always risk associated with travel, especially to a war zone," she says. "For me, that risk was worth the amount I learned from the experience."
Dartmouth could not support her trip, she says. "Dartmouth very reasonably doesn't endorse undergraduate travel to any region on the State Department travel warning list, so I couldn't receive funding."
Researching organizations that might sponsor her, she learned about SOLA. The school, founded by Shabana Basij-Rasikh, an Afghan who returned to Kabul after studying at Middlebury College, paid Starheim's travel expenses.
Everything about Afghanistan surprised her, she says—especially the roses blooming everywhere in Kabul. "A school guard picked me up at the airport. Driving with the windows down, smelling the roses from the median, when so much of what I had read about this country was gender repression and war, was amazing. My first 10 minutes in the country totally changed my view of it."
Students at the School for Leadership Afghanistan (SOLA) in Kabul took guitar lessons from Rianna Starheim '14. (Photo by Rianna Starheim)
Her students were from varied socioeconomic backgrounds. "Some are from wealthy Kabul families, and some are orphans and have family affiliated with the Taliban," she says. While Starheim was there, some of the girls saw a bombing less than a mile from the school. "That got the girls talking about the violence that they had borne witness to. The hardest part was seeing these children suffering and being powerless to make it better for them."
But she stresses that her students "are like teenagers anywhere in the world. I was impressed with how much energy they had and how much energy I could take from them. I didn't have a single bad day in Afghanistan."
On her first evening in Kabul, Starheim happened to meet the country director for Hagar. "She told me about her job, and I was like, can I work for you?" Starheim, who as part of a gap year had worked for Polaris Project, a Washington, D.C.-based organization also focused on human trafficking issues, was able to put that experience to use for Hagar, interviewing victims of gender-based violence and documenting their stories.
Assisting Hagar's country director, Starheim was also able to continue her academic work. "Part of my job was to synthesize all these agency reports about sexual and gender-based violence interventions, which is exactly what my thesis research would be anyway," she says.
For Starheim, the most important part of her Afghan experience was "being able to put a human face" on the statistics she knew about Afghanistan from the news. "Those numbers don't mean anything until you go and live there," she says.
Back in Hanover, Starheim, a member of Paleopitus and an intern at the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, is continuing her research—though again because of travel restrictions, her thesis will focus on Syrian refugees in Jordan, instead of Afghanistan. This winter, she'll travel to the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan to conduct field research.
When she graduates—a year later than her classmates, because of her gap year—she's not sure what's next. "I'm applying for jobs all over the place geographically and in terms of sector: journalism, government, NGOs, and for-profits."
Meanwhile, she's enjoying being a full-time student. "It's so exciting that my full-time job is to learn. Now that I've been out of this rigorous academic environment for a year, I appreciate it more. It could not be better to be back."
Whatever her future brings, she's cautiously optimistic for the students at SOLA. "The future of Afghanistan is troubling, but these young girls are the best hope for the country. They are immensely patriotic, and their goal is to be educated. And that gives me hope."
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Reading / Reflection / Poetry
Ashbery made strange
Toby Fitch
My favourite living poet, a poet who seemed like he'd never stop writing, died in his sleep in his home in Hudson, New York, on Sunday 3rd of September, a strangely appropriate way to go, perhaps, for John Ashbery – unconscious, half in this world, half in another, kind of like his poems. I like to think he's still writing in his sleep:
I sleep when I cannot avoid it; my writing and sleeping are constantly
improving.
I have other things to say, but shall not detain you much.
Never go out in a boat with an author—they cannot tell when they are
over water.
Beware of anonymous letters—you may have written them, in a
wordless implosion of sleep.
(from 'Sleepers Awake', Can You Hear, Bird, 1995)
His poems do seem as if they've been written that easily, like he was having his way with the liminal. But of course the liminal has always been having its way with him and his poetry; Ashbery, more than most poets, understood the power, as Mallarmé once put it, of 'ceding the initiative to words'. The liminal dimension to his poetry is also more obvious now that he's gone because his poems are still here, 'in the flickering bulbs of the sky' ('Soonest Mended').
I was re-introduced to Ashbery's poetry on a windy winter night in Bondi in 2009 by poet Chris Edwards, a longtime lover of Ashbery's poetry. He gave me his copy of Ashbery's Selected Poems. I'd struggled in the early 2000s with Ashbery's poetry because I hadn't yet learned to shake the repressive need to find 'meaning' in poems, to solve them; that way of thinking about literature and interpretation we're all taught from a young age: what's it about? I remember opening the Selected Poems at some point that night and reading 'Crazy Weather' (from Houseboat Days, 1977):
People have been making a garment out of it,
Stitching the white lilacs together with lightning
At some anonymous crosswords. The sky calls
To the deaf earth. The proverbial disarray
Of morning corrects itself as you stand up.
You are wearing a text. The lines …
From that moment on – when I realised whatever meaning I make from the poem is contingent on the weather, my weather and how I wear it – I've anticipated each new volume of Ashbery's while simultaneously meandering through his back catalogue. My favourite books of his at the moment are Rivers and Mountains, The Double Dream of Spring, Three Poems, Houseboat Days, A Wave, and Girls on the Run.
In 2014, at the inaugural John Ashbery Home School in Hudson, I was lucky enough to hear him read from his then latest collection Breezeway, to engage him in question time, and then meet him afterwards. In question time I drew a bumbling parallel between his poems and the visual collages of Jess, the partner of Robert Duncan and an artist Ashbery admired, and then I asked Ashbery how much his poems are literally collaged together from different sources versus how much of them are a mental collage of whatever's going on in his immediate life, thoughts, memory. He said, in his slightly amused/bemused way, that it's like there's a conveyor belt always rolling through his mind and the way he writes is to select things to take off that conveyor belt and plonk in a poem. He said something similar in his Paris Review interview from 1983, about his mind being like an 'underground stream' where one 'can let down one's bucket and bring the poem back up'.
The subterranean stream has often been splashed about as a metaphor for Western history. But, while Ashbery had a prodigious recall of the poetic Western tradition, alluding parodically time and again in his poems to various classic and forgotten texts alike, the underground river inevitably brings to mind psychoanalytic concepts of condensation and displacement, as they relate to the resurfacing of repressed memories and to dream-work, which Freud describes similarly to Ashbery's stream:
the whole mass of these dream-thoughts is brought under the pressure of the dream-work, and the elements are turned about, broken into fragments and jammed together – almost like pack-ice [or 'drifting ice-floes' in another translation].
And yet Ashbery's poems aren't describing exactly what happens in dreams, rather the way in which dreams happen, or could happen, in the conscious imagination, which then allows a reader of the poem to be affected as if in a dream. In The Poetics of Indeterminacy, Marjorie Perloff describes Ashbery's poems as 'imitations of consciousness' that create a world in which '"A" can always be "B"'. She also writes of his 'calculated oddities' (an Auden description):
Not what one dreams but how – this is Ashbery's subject. His stories 'tell only themselves,' presenting the reader with the challenge of what he calls 'an open field of narrative possibilities'. For, like Rimbaud's, his are not dreams 'about' such and such characters or events; the dreamstructure is itself the event that haunts the poet's imagination.
Not surprisingly, Ashbery tends to describe his own poetry best when writing about others'. Shortly after publishing his first book, Some Trees, he wrote of Gertrude Stein's work:
Stanzas in Meditation gives one the feeling of time passing, of things happening, of a 'plot', though it would be difficult to say precisely what is going on. Sometimes the story has the logic of a dream … while at other times it becomes startlingly clear for a moment, as though a change in the wind had suddenly enabled us to hear a conversation that was taking place some distance away … But it is usually not events which interest Miss Stein, rather it is their 'way of happening', and the story of Stanzas in Meditation is a general, all-purpose model which each reader can adapt to fit his own set of particulars. The poem is a hymn to possibility …
Some Trees itself is a title that blossoms with potential; think of poems as neural networks, branching out, and with networks of roots below. On Ashbery's networked hymns to possibility John Shoptaw writes that, 'By making his poetry the stream of everybody's or anybody's consciousness, he creates an all-purpose [Ashbery's adjective] subjectivity which is neither egotistical nor solipsistic.' In other words, Ashbery was 'streaming' long before the internet.
And so, if we can say that his poems are about anything, it's anything and everything, from the sophisticated to the demotic: how we see it represented and how it all smashes together in our minds like pack-ice. His layers of semantic abstractions – that flow and discombobulate – get at the interconnectedness of things, the 'absolute modernity' of being in the present, or, as Ashbery defined this phrase of Rimbaud's, 'the simultaneity of all life, the condition that nourishes poetry at every second'.
It's a political gesture as much as an aesthetic one (the two are inseparable) – writing in ways that aren't reductive forms of representation, writing in ways that subvert the domineering public voice of market discourse and the pat truths of an authorial lyric voice. It has been argued that he was not a political poet, but his queer politics, while never essentialised, are a subtler kind of resistance across his poems. Ashbery first rose to prominence as a poet during McCarthy's Lavender Scare and then moved to France for a decade. There, he wrote his second and third books, The Tennis Court Oath and Rivers and Mountains, which look back on 'the land of the free …' from a distance, experimenting with and developing his own poetics, you could say, of liberty, fraternity and equality. And so Ashbery's poetry came to open you out to experience, thought, play, empathy, strangeness and otherness – through continuously flowing voices, shifting pronouns, whacky vernacular, fractal patterning, temporal emulsions, curveball humour, permeable borders and layers of unresolved yet contingent meaning. Like with love, you have to be open to receive it. Or, as the first line of his poem 'The Recent Past' (from Rivers and Mountains, 1966) slyly urges: 'Perhaps we ought to feel with more imagination.'
In the future, more will be discovered in Ashbery's poetry, and more will be written about the political implications of its attempts at imitating consciousness. For a world that is increasingly contorting language to shirk and malign and destroy and deny the rights of others, we could do worse than look to poetry such as Ashbery's, of gentle play, minor affects, and complicated interconnectivity.
When I came back from New York, my partner Frances and I had our first daughter, Evie, and when Evie turned six months, we moved her into a larger cot in her own room. To help put her to sleep, I read her a few poems each night from Breezeway. It worked, oddly enough, where repetitive rocking and cuddling wouldn't. When she was nearly two I tried poetry again, for a lark, and to avoid pawing over the same picture books. This time it was Ashbery's latest and last collection (at the time of writing this) Commotion of the Birds. This time, Evie began to recite fragments of the poems back to me as I read them, testing out the words on her teeth, tongue and lips, the strangeness of them and the way they'd been juxtaposed with one another. Even the titles – which in Ashbery's poems are often non-sequiturs, or obliquely related to what's to follow in the body of the poem – even these weird floating fragments of language turned something on in her brain. With each new poem, she would stand up in her cot, jump up and down and yell the titles back at me: ' "Featurette"! "Tales from Shakespeare"! "The underling"! "Rainbow Laundry"! "A Funny Dream"! "The National Debt"! "Beleaguered"! "But Nobody Says So"! "Text Trek"! "Understandably"!' She'd lie back down for each poem and listen to it in its entirety, then ask, 'Another one? Another poe-tree?'
So many of the words and phrases were obviously first encounters for Evie, but it's the same for most people of any age that come to Ashbery's poems. Ashbery creates that sensation – and it is sensorial – of reading and seeing things for the first time, in all their strangeness as they butt up against each other and speak to their very thingness. Language is a system. A tree is a system. I don't think it's hyperbole to say that Ashbery's poetry simultaneously comments on and becomes your experience of language as you read it:
The unsatisfactoriness, the frowns and squinting, the itching and scratching as you listen without taking in what is being said to you, or only in part, so that you cannot piece the argument together, should not be dismissed as signs of our chronic all-too-human weakness but welcomed and examined as signs of life in which part of the whole truth lies buried. And as the discourse continues and you think you are not getting anything out of it, as you yawn and rub your eyes and pick your nose or scratch your head, or nudge your neighbor on the hard wooden bench, this knowledge is getting through to you, and taking just the forms it needs to impress itself upon you, the forms of your inattention and incapacity or unwillingness to understand. For it is certain that you will rise from the bench a new person, and even before you have emerged into the full daylight of the street you will feel that a change has begun to operate in you, within your very fibers and sinews, and when the light of the street floods over you it will have become real at last, all traces of doubt will have been pulverized by the influx of light slowly mounting to bury those crass seamarks of egocentricity and warped self-esteem you were able to navigate by but which you no longer need now that the rudder has been swept out of your hands, and this whole surface of daylight has become one with that other remembered picture of light …
(from 'The System', Three Poems, 1972)
Vale John Ashbery.
Lead image: A Dream of Heroes, John Ashbery, 2015, mixed media collage, 15 3/4 x 20 ½.
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WWV's 25 MHz Signal Back on the Air
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WWV silenced its 25 MHz signal in 1977, but it's back on the air "for old times' sake" — officially on an "experimental basis." Resurrecting the long-dormant standard time outlet operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) was Matt Deutch, N0RGT, the Lead Electrical Engineer at WWV. It all came about after Dean Lewis, W9WGV, lamented the loss of the 25 MHz signal in an e-mail to Deutch, who surprised him by subsequently putting the signal back on the air on April 4 for about 3-1/2 hours.
A listener in Scotland posted his reception of the WWV 25 MHz signal on YouTube.
WWV began another 25 MHz test starting on April 7, and Deutch told ARRL that WWV-25 probably will remain on the air for the rest of the week. "So hopefully a few more people will hear it," he said.
Lewis said he'd told Deutch late last week that 10 meter propagation has been so good at this point in Cycle 24, and he uses the various WWV frequencies as propagation beacons on a daily basis.
"He responded that 'for old times' sake,' they'd put the [25 MHz] signal back on the air for a while. I assumed, of course, that he was kidding, and so I didn't check. Matt wasn't kidding!"
NIST said the 25 MHz broadcast consists of the normal WWV signal heard on all other WWV frequencies, at the same level of accuracy. The transmitter in Fort Collins, Colorado, can put out 2500 W into a "broadband monopole," although Deutch said the transmitter was running 1200 W. WWV has invited listeners' comments and signal reports.
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Disappointment and frustration over Canada's new livestock transportation regulations came out loud and clear at the Canadian Cattlemen's Association annual meeting. | File photo
OTTAWA — Disappointment and frustration over Canada's new livestock transportation regulations came out loud and clear at the Canadian Cattlemen's Association annual meeting.
"It has created a regulation that industry can't even begin to meet. I think it is destined to fail," said Reg Schellenberg, co-chair of the CCA animal health committee. The association met in Ottawa from March 20-22.
The new regulations are logistically doable but require some adaptation, said a spokesperson from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
"I realize this sector is not happy with these regulations and some of the other industry sectors are not happy. Neither are the animal advocacy groups," said CFIA veterinarian Penny Greenwood.
Released in February, the regulations have been roundly criticized from all sides.
The agency took into account new knowledge about animal welfare, improved modes of transportation, as well as higher expectations from the public in formulating the update that comes into effect Feb. 20, 2020.
"We have seen a tremendous amount of change in the consumers and also society at large with regard to animal welfare issues," she said.
"We did our very best and if that is not acceptable to the cattle sector, that is very unfortunate but we are going to have to adapt to this," she told the committee.
"It currently is the law and we have a year to go forward and get ready for the implementation," she said.
As well, industry groups had three years notice that changes were coming because the first round of regulations were released for comment in 2016.
Among the major objections are new requirements for more frequent stops so animals can rest and receive feed and water.
The old regulations stated cattle could travel for 48 hours without feed and water. The new requirement has dropped that time to 36 hours. The time starts when the animals are taken off feed and water at the farm until they are unloaded. If an inspector notes that animals are fatigued or dehydrated in a shorter time, the transporter can still be deemed as non-compliant.
Andrea Brocklebank, head of the Beef Cattle Research Council, said considerable investment has gone into animal transportation research and more will be released in 2021. She asked for assurances that amendments are possible based on the latest science.
"It was disappointing knowing that we invested heavily in current work that not only looked at animal transport and the duration across all intervals but also followed up with those animals and looked at the actual outcomes of animal health," said Brocklebank.
"The changes in rest stops and intervals sound nice for animal activists but actually if you talk with many feed yards those animals don't go on feed and water immediately and it could result in them being in transit longer," she said.
Numerous questions from the committee asked why changes were needed when research has shown the livestock sector has a good track record in moving animals safely around the country.
"The vast majority of inspections do find that the transports inspected are 90 some percent compliant. But when we look at the numbers, these small percentages of non-compliance still represent thousands and thousands of animals. Many of them are poultry but not all of them," Greenwood said.
Producers also said there are not enough facilities to unload livestock.
These are private facilities but new operations could be established in partnerships with Agriculture Canada.
Mingling together cattle from different loads at these rest stops is another concern. Pens are not cleaned out and this impacts biosecurity and health of animals, said Rick Wright of the Livestock Marketing Association, who has moved cattle across the country for 40 years.
"Timely delivery of cattle is extremely important and I think CFIA has failed to understand as a shipper of cattle I am financially responsible and I have a moral obligation to make sure those cattle arrive in the best condition, otherwise I am not going to have that customer and I am not going to get paid," he said.
Many also raised concerns about potential hazards to livestock when accidents or bad weather make roads impassable. In remote areas, there are no places to stop when unexpected events halt trucks.
The regulations state transporters need emergency plans and should check weather in advance.
"The trucker is responsible for knowing what is going to be happening for the entire journey," Greenwood said.
The beef producers also argued animal activists groups were given too much credence when formulating the regulations.
"We are professionals and we deal with these animals on a daily basis and we know what is best for them," said Nathan Phinney of New Brunswick.
Achieving a balance was difficult and most groups have expressed dissatisfaction with the final results, said Greenwood.
"I agree you are the experts," she said.
"Their interest in keeping their cattle healthy and well and undamaged is important to your bottom line just as it is to your psyche. I appreciate that. The animal advocacy groups, although they were in the mix, we have to listen to them to some degree based on social licence and that does have a political impact. All people who are vegans also have a vote in Canada, which the politicians are concerned about," she said.
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With the universal Christian Church, The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS) believes and teaches that there is only One True God: the Father, Creator of all that exists; Jesus Christ, the Son, Who became human to suffer and die for the sins of all human beings and to rise to life again in the ultimate victory over death and the devil; and the Holy Spirit, Who creates faith through God's Word and Sacraments. The three Persons of the Trinity are coequal and co-eternal, One God.
Therefore, as Christians belonging to the LCMS, we believe and teach that the Word of God as given to us in the Old and New Testaments and the Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper, as commanded and instituted by Christ Himself, are the means by which God comes to us. This Lutheran confession is often summarized in three phrases: Grace Alone, Faith Alone, Word Alone.


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Q: Making a test-connection script multi threaded This script takes input from a test file, writes the results to screen, file, and generates an email under certain conditions.  The issue is that it is extremely slow with a large lists of hosts.  I have looking into multi threading but I am a PS newbie and have not been able to figure it out.  Any help would be appreciated.  Here is the script.
# start looping here
Do{
    $available = @()
    $notavailable = @()
    $ComputerName = @()

    #Path to text file of hostnames we want to monitor
    $ComputerName = Get-Content hosts.txt

    Write-Host (Get-Date)

    # Read the File with the Hosts every cycle, this way to can add/remove hosts
    # from the list without touching the script/scheduled task,
    # also hash/comment (#) out any hosts that are going for maintenance or are down.
    $ComputerName | Where-Object {!($_ -match "#")} |
    #"test1","test2" | Where-Object {!($_ -match "#")} |
    ForEach-Object {
        if(Test-Connection -ComputerName $_ -Count 1 -ea silentlycontinue)
        {
            # if the Host is available then write it to the screen
            $value = @()
            $value = $_
            Write-Host "Available host ---> "$_ -ForegroundColor Green
            [String[]]$available += $_

            if ($value -notmatch "[a-z]")
            {
                $hosttoip = @()
                $iptohost = @()
                $parsemac = @()
                $getmac = @()
                $getmac = @()
                $findstr = @()
                $iptoip = @()
                $getmac = nbtstat -A $_ | findstr "Mac Address = **-**-**-**-**" | Select-String -Pattern "Mac Address" -SimpleMatch
                $iptoip = $_
                $iptohost = [System.Net.Dns]::gethostbyaddress($_).Hostname

                $findstr = findstr "$_" output.csv
                Write-Host $_ "Responds with:" -ForegroundColor White
                Write-Host "Hostname" -ForegroundColor White
                Write-Host "$iptohost" -ForegroundColor Cyan
                Write-Host "IP Address:" -ForegroundColor White
                Write-Host "$_" -ForegroundColor Cyan
                Write-Host "Mac Address:" -ForegroundColor White
                Write-Host "$getmac`n" -ForegroundColor Cyan
            }
            if ($value -match "[a-z]")
            {
                $iptohost = @()
                $hosttoip = @()
                $hosttohost =@()
                $parsemac = @()
                $getmac = @()
                $getmac = @()
                $findstr = @()
                $hosttohost = $_
                $getmac = nbtstat -a $_ | findstr "Mac Address = **-**-**-**-**" | Select-String -Pattern "Mac Address" -SimpleMatch

                $hosttoip = [System.Net.Dns]::GetHostByName($_).AddressList[0].IpAddressToString
                $findstr = findstr "$_" output.csv
                Write-Host $_ "Responds with:" -ForegroundColor White
                Write-Host "Hostname" -ForegroundColor White
                Write-Host "$_" -ForegroundColor Cyan
                Write-Host "IP Address:" -ForegroundColor White
                Write-Host "$hosttoip" -ForegroundColor Cyan
                Write-Host "Mac Address:" -ForegroundColor White
                Write-Host "$getmac`n" -ForegroundColor Cyan
            }
            if ($findstr -eq $Null)
            {
                $WriteFile = @()
                $WriteFile = "$_,$iptohost $hosttohost,$hosttoip $iptoip,$getmac"
                $WriteFile | Out-file output.csv -Encoding ascii -Append
            }
            # if the Host was out and is now backonline, remove it from the OutageHosts list
            if ($OutageHosts -ne $Null)
            {
                if ($OutageHosts.ContainsKey($_))
                {
                    Write-host $_ "was on the outages list and came back online.  Sending email notification" -ForegroundColor Yellow
                    $OutageHosts.Remove($_)
                    $Now = Get-date
                    if ($notifyonServerBackOnline)
                    {
                        $Body = "$_ is online right now $getmac - If available, the MAC address and hostname/IP will be recorded in ScriptLocation\output.csv"
                        Send-MailMessage -Body "$body" -to $tonotification -from $fromnotification -Subject "Monitored host $_ is up" -SmtpServer $smtpserver
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        else
        {
            # If the host is unavailable, give a warning to screen
            Write-Host "Unavailable host ------------> "$_ -ForegroundColor Red
            if(!(Test-Connection -ComputerName $_ -Count 2 -ea silentlycontinue))
            {
                # If the host is still unavailable for 4 full pings, write error and send email
                Write-Host "Unavailable host ------------> "$_ -ForegroundColor Red
                [Array]$notavailable += $_

                if ($OutageHosts -ne $Null)
                {
                    if (!$OutageHosts.ContainsKey($_))
                    {
                        # First time down add to the list and send email
                        Write-Host "$_ Is not in the OutageHosts list, first time down"
                        $OutageHosts.Add($_,(get-date))
                        $Now = Get-date
                        if ($notifyonServerDown)
                        {
                            $Body = "$_ has not responded for 5 pings at $Now"
                            Send-MailMessage -Body "This message was generated by our ping monitoring script`n$body" -to $tonotification -from $fromnotification -Subject "Host $_ is down" -SmtpServer $smtpserver
                        }
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        # If the host is in the list do nothing for 1 hour and then remove from the list.
                        Write-Host "$_ Is in the OutageHosts list"
                        if (((Get-Date) - $OutageHosts.Item($_)).TotalMinutes -gt $EmailTimeOut)
                        {
                            $OutageHosts.Remove($_)
                        }
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    # First time down create the list and send email
                    Write-Host "Adding $_ to OutageHosts."
                    $OutageHosts = @{$_=(get-date)}
                    $Now = Get-date
                    if ($notifyonServerDown)
                    {
                        $Body = "$_ has not responded for 5 pings at $Now"
                        Send-MailMessage -Body "This message was generated by our ping monitoring script`n$body" -to $tonotification -from $fromnotification -Subject "Host $_ is down" -SmtpServer $smtpserver
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }

    Write-Host ""
    Write-Host "Sleeping $SleepTimeOut seconds"
    Start-Sleep -Seconds $SleepTimeOut
    if ($OutageHosts.Count -gt $MaxOutageCount)
    {
        # If there are more than a certain number of host down in an hour abort the script.
        $Exit = $True
        $body = $OutageHosts | Out-String

        if ($notifyonMaxOutageCount)
        {
            Send-MailMessage -Body "This message was generated by our ping monitoring script`n$body" -to $tonotification -from $fromnotification -Subject "More than $MaxOutageCount Hosts down, monitoring aborted" -SmtpServer $smtpServer
        }
    }
}
while ($Exit -ne $True)

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You cannot think of the 1990s without thinking of this mega hit from the girl group TLC. This song is not about the dangers of boating but in fact, the chorus is one of the greatest song metaphors of all time. Waterfalls represent something that is beautiful, distant and out of sight. And although it's great to chase dreams, sometimes in the pursuit of our happiness we can get hurt. The music video accurately represents gang violence as well as the HIV/Aids epidemic that was happening in the 90s to give an even deeper meaning to this song.


Flipside VR co-owner Gretchen Kless assists Lakeland Community College Program Assistant Caitlin Luskin with putting on a virtual reality headset for a demonstration on Aug. 27.
Lakeland Community College Program Assistant Caitlin Luskin experiences virtual reality on Aug. 27 via Flipside VR.
Erin Assink, Gretchen Kless and Krista Kanuch started a mobile virtual reality company designed to improve people's overall health and wellness.
The family business owners recently launched Flipside VR.
"We always wanted to do something where we felt like we were helping people and making a difference," Assink said.
While Flipside VR is based in Painesville Township, the goal is to bring virtual reality experiences to people who are less likely to get the actual opportunity.
The interactive wellness specialists visit many different facilities such as hospitals, nursing homes, dialysis centers and residences.
Anyone 13 years of age and older can use the immersive virtual reality equipment.
In the book "Intelligent Paradigms for Assistive and Preventive Healthcare," author Cecília Sik-Lányi said VR can be defined as an application that makes it possible for the user to navigate and to interact in real time with an environment in three dimensions generated by a computer.
Virtual reality is being applied to a wide range of medical areas. For patients it is used for rehabilitation and training, Sik-Lányi said.
The Flipside VR owners believe that providing fulfilling, immersive experiences can improve a person's overall health.
Thus, bringing happiness to patients will awaken their senses and promote a positive outlook.
The idea to start a virtual reality company was developed last year after Kless said she saw her 86-year-old aunt go on a roller coaster ride using virtual reality technology.
The trio researched the best equipment and experiences. They said Lakestart provided a lot of insight and assistance.
Assink said they use top-of the-line virtual reality equipment, that has impressive visuals and does not glitch.
In fact, they recently invested in new wireless headsets called Oculus Go.
Flipside VR also offers about 60 different virtual experiences.
The possibilities are endless, she added.
Lakeland Community College Program Assistant Caitlin Luskin got a chance to experience Flipside VR and was impressed.
Assink, Kless and Kanuch hope the business continues to grow.
In addition to focusing on mobile services for clients with limited movability, they would also like to open a facility where people can visit to experience virtual reality.
They are also open to doing corporate events.
For more information, contact a Flipside VR specialist at 440-655-7119 or flipsidevr@gmail.com.


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Piccarda Donati (Florencia, mediados del s. XIII-Florencia, fines del s.XIII) fue una noble y religiosa italiana, amiga personal de Dante, que le hace aparecer en la Divina Comedia como el primer personaje que el autor encuentra en el Paraíso (canto III).

Características

Presenta los elementos de fondo de todo el canto, como el orden, la caridad y la gracia de Dios. De hecho, al ser forzada a salir del convento de clarisas en el que había decidido encerrarse para tomar como marido a Cristo, fue obligada por su hermano Corso a casarse con Rossellino della Tosa. Una leyenda cuenta que habría muerto antes de contraer nupcias.

A través de personaje Dante recoge importantes noticias sobre las almas beatas. Pese a encontrarse dispuestas en círculos concéntricos según una mayor o menor cercanía a Dios, no tienen sentimientos de envidia ni desean nada más que lo que tienen. Esto se debe a que todo depende de la voluntad de Dios y en ella encuentran la paz. Piccarda también cuenta la historia de Constanza I de Sicilia, madre de Federico II Hohenstaufen, quien según la leyenda fue obligada a renunciar a los votos para casarse con Enrique VI. Dentro de la obra también se relaciona con Francesca da Rimini y Pia de' Tolomei.

Enlaces externos
Ladante.it. Personajes de La Divina Comedia.

Personajes citados en la Divina Comedia
Mujeres de la Edad Media en Italia
Nacidos en Florencia
Fallecidos en Florencia
Italianas del siglo XIII


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Treasury Secretary Geithner A Decent Triathlete
Do senior members of the Obama administration get time off for triathlon training?
Last month, former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, now the mayor of Chicago, placed in the top 20 percent of his age group at the Chicago Triathlon, a sprint-distance race in and around Lake Michigan. On Sunday, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner showed himself to be an even better triathlete, completing the Nation's Triathlon in Washington, D.C., an Olympic-distance race, in 2:33:07.
Geithner, 51, placed 9th out of 156 athletes in his age group, and 316th overall in the field of 3,139. His times for the triathlon's segments were 29:10 for the 1.5-kilometer swim, 1:13:52 for the 40-kilometer bike, and 45:51 for the 10-kilometer run. He spent what seems like a long time in the transition zones--2:57 between the swim and bike, and 1:18 between the bike and run.
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