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Q: ASP.NET MVC Razor Model state not valid on RegisterModel I'm having two issues with editing my applications RegisterModel.
A) The fields UserName and Email are rendered as password fields?
B) The modelstate is always invalid (and my model is empty)
I think they are both caused because I have a "HomeModel" which contains "LoginModel" and "RegisterModel" property and it passes the entire HomeModel instead of the corresponding property. How can I make it pass the correct one?
I have the following form:
@using (Ajax.BeginForm("Register", "Account", new AjaxOptions { UpdateTargetId = "RegisterAjaxResponse" }))
                        {
                        @Html.AntiForgeryToken()
                        @Html.ValidationSummary(true)

                            @Html.LabelFor(m => m.RegisterModel.UserName)
                            @Html.PasswordFor(m => m.RegisterModel.UserName)
                            @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.RegisterModel.UserName)

                            @Html.LabelFor(m => m.RegisterModel.Password)
                            @Html.PasswordFor(m => m.RegisterModel.Password)
                            @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.RegisterModel.Password)

                            @Html.LabelFor(m => m.RegisterModel.ConfirmPassword)
                            @Html.PasswordFor(m => m.RegisterModel.ConfirmPassword)
                            @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.RegisterModel.ConfirmPassword)

                            @Html.LabelFor(m => m.RegisterModel.Email)
                            @Html.PasswordFor(m => m.RegisterModel.Email)
                            @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.RegisterModel.Email)

                            <input type="submit" value='Register' />

                        }

The model:
public class RegisterModel
{
    [Required]
    [Display(Name = "User name")]
    [DataType(DataType.Text)]
    public string UserName { get; set; }

    [Required]
    [StringLength(100, ErrorMessage = "The {0} must be at least {2} characters long.", MinimumLength = 6)]
    [DataType(DataType.Password)]
    [Display(Name = "Password")]
    public string Password { get; set; }

    [DataType(DataType.Password)]
    [Display(Name = "Confirm password")]
    [Compare("Password", ErrorMessage = "The password and confirmation password do not match.")]
    public string ConfirmPassword { get; set; }

    [Required]
    [DataType(DataType.EmailAddress)]
    [Display(Name = "EmailAddress")]
    public string Email { get; set; }
}

But the UserName and Email field are rendered as an password field.
http://i.imgur.com/GCamint.png
-Can't page images yet, sorry.
And my modelstate is always invalid.
[HttpPost]
[AllowAnonymous]
[ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
public ActionResult Register(RegisterModel model)
{
    string returnValue = "";
    if (ModelState.IsValid)
    {
    //Some code that is never executed
    }
    return Content(returnValue, "text/html");
}

A: Problem A: you're rendering the textfields for email and username using @Html.PasswordFor(), this will render password fields, try using @Html.TextboxFor()
And for problem B, it depends if you're targetting MVC3 or 4 and which version of .NET.
Later versions of .NET use the compare annotation as
[Compare(CompareField = Password, ErrorMessage = "Passwords do not
match")]

A: a) Because you have in razor view for them
  @Html.PasswordFor(m => m.RegisterModel.UserName)

need to be
@Html.TextboxFor(m => m.RegisterModel.Email)

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Der Bundesrat für Niederdeutsch (kurz: BfN, ) vertritt die sprachpolitischen Interessen der Niederdeutsch-Sprecher in Deutschland. Der Rat mit Delegierten aus acht Bundesländern wurde 2002 gegründet und betreibt Lobbyarbeit für die plattdeutsche bzw. niederdeutsche Sprache. Die Plautdietsch-Sprechergemeinschaft in Deutschland hatte im BfN zunächst nur einen Gaststatus; seit Oktober 2008 ist sie im BfN mit zwei Delegierten vertreten. Seit November 2017 fördert das Bundesministerium des Innern das Niederdeutschsekretariat. Die Leitung liegt bei Christiane Ehlers. Das Sekretariat unterstützt den BfN bei seiner Arbeit.

Aufgaben und Ziele
Die Vereinigung befasst sich mit den politischen und juristischen Rahmenbedingungen der Sprachförderung, während die Verankerung des Niederdeutschen als schützenswertes Kulturgut im Sinne der Europäischen Charta für Regional- oder Minderheitensprachen im Zentrum der Aktivitäten steht. Hauptaufgaben sind die kritische Überprüfung der Maßnahmen zur Umsetzung der Sprachencharta sowie die konstruktive Begleitung dieses Umsetzungsprozesses. Die acht norddeutschen Bundesländer haben sich zur Einhaltung einer größeren Anzahl von Punkten der Sprachencharta verpflichtet (Bildung, Justizbehörden, Verwaltungsbehörden und öffentliche Dienstleistungsbetriebe, Medien, kulturelle Tätigkeiten und Einrichtungen, wirtschaftliches und soziales Leben, grenzüberschreitender Austausch) – mit dem Ziel, die Gefährdungen für das Niederdeutsche einzudämmen und die Sprache substanziell zu fördern. In den vergangenen Jahren konzentrierte sich der Bundesrat für Niederdeutsch vor allem auf den Bildungssektor. Der Aufbau und die Pflege eines Netzwerkes (nach Europa, zum Bund, zum Bundestag und in die Länderverwaltungen hinein) gehören zu den wesentlichen Aufgaben und Zielen des Bundesrates.

Die Delegierten
Der Bundesrat für Niederdeutsch setzt sich aus je zwei Delegierten aus den acht norddeutschen Ländern zusammen, in denen Plattdeutsch gesprochen wird, sowie zwei Delegierte für die Plautdietsch-Sprecher in Deutschland. Der BfN setzt sich wie folgt zusammen (Stand 2022):
 Brandenburg: Adelheid Schäfer, Ute Eisenack
 Bremen: Gesine Reichstein, Heiko Block
 Hamburg: Hartmut Cyriacks, Peer-Marten Scheller
 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Johanna Bojarra, Nadine Koop
 Niedersachsen: Heinrich Siefer, Gesche Gloystein
 Nordrhein-Westfalen: Werner Zahn, Anne Fink
 Sachsen-Anhalt: Saskia Luther, Norbert Lazay
 Schleswig-Holstein: Marianne Ehlers, Jan Graf
 Plautdietsch-Sprecher: Heinrich Siemens, Peter Wiens

Bei den Bundesländern erfolgt die Legitimation und Delegation der Ländervertreter in der Regel über die Landesverbände des Bundes für Heimat und Umwelt (BHU), während die Delegierten der Plautdietsch-Sprecher vom Verein der Plautdietsch-Freunde, dem zentralen Sprachverband der Russlandmennoniten, ernannt werden.

Sprecher
Der Bundesrat wird durch eine Sprecherin und einen Sprecher vertreten. Aktuelle Sprecherin ist Johanna Bojarra, Sprecher ist Heinrich Siefer.

Publikationen

 Plattdüütsch ... lehrst jümmers wat dorto. Lebenslanges Lernen mit Plattdeutsch. Bundesraat för Nedderdüütsch (Hrsg.) 2016.

 Wat hest du seggt? Plattdüütsch in'n Kinnergoorn. Bundesraat för Nedderdüütsch (Hrsg.) 2015.

 Chartasprache Niederdeutsch: Rechtliche Verpflichtungen, Umsetzungen, Perspektiven. Bundesraat för Nedderdüütsch (Hrsg.) 2014.

 Mit den Regional- und Minderheitensprachen auf dem Weg nach Europa. Dokumentation der Konferenz "Mit den Regional- und Minderheitensprachen auf dem Weg nach Europa" am 10. November 2010 in Berlin. Verlag Schuster, Leer 2011, ISBN 978-3-7963-0390-6.

 Zwischen Kulturauftrag und Unterhaltungsprogramm. Dokumentation der Konferenz "Plattdeutsch in den Medien" am 20. Mai 2010 in Hamburg. Verlag Schuster, Leer 2010, ISBN 978-3-7963-0386-9.

 Plattdeutsch, die Region und die Welt: Wege in eine moderne Mehrsprachigkeit. Dokumentation der Konferenz "10 Jahre Sprachencharta in Deutschland: Praxis und Perspektiven" am 14. und 15. Mai 2009 in Schwerin. Verlag Schuster, Leer 2009, ISBN 978-3-7963-0385-2.

 10 Jahre Europäische Charta der Regional- oder Minderheitensprachen. Zwischenbericht zur Sprachpolitik für das Niederdeutsche. Verlag Schuster, Leer 2008, ISBN 978-3-7963-0381-4.

 Plattdeutsch und Friesisch in Krankenhäusern und Pflege-Einrichtungen. Dokumentation der Konferenz "Das soziale Leben und die Regional- oder Minderheitensprachen" am 27. Juni 2008 in Schleswig. Verlag Schuster, Leer 2008, ISBN 978-3-7963-0382-1.

Weblinks
 Bundesraat för Nedderdüütsch (Homepage des BfN)

Einzelnachweise

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Sprachpolitik (Deutschland)
Sprachverein
Minderheitenpolitik
Kulturpolitik (Deutschland)
Gegründet 2002

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Let's back up and set the stage.
Since 63 B. C. E., the Jews had been governed by the Romans. The reign of Caesar Augustus and his immediate successors had instituted an era known as the Pax Romana, because unlike the centuries which preceded it, which had been torn apart by major wars between empires and dynasties, the period of the Pax Romana saw no major wars engulf the Mediterranean. This was, therefore, a time of relative peace and great prosperity, but the prosperity was primarily for the few. The Pax Romana also had its dark side. It was a false peace imposed upon the Mediterranean and Europe by an autocratic, imperial government. Even the Roman historian Tacitus described it negatively: "they make a desolation and call it peace."
One group of people who clearly suffered was Jewish peasants. In this period, life suddenly became worse for the common people. The Jewish peasants were heavily taxed and were falling deeply into debt. The peasants would borrow money but in most cases would be unable to pay it back because of the high cost of living and the high tax burden. The peasant's property or land, which had been given as collateral, was then seized. The peasant then became a servant or sharecropper on the land he had once owned.
Now, Jews viewed land with a religious significance. Land had been promised to them by God during the Exodus. Land had been promised to them as part of Israel's return from exile in Babylon. The loss of land, therefore, was a theological as well as an economic issue.
Government, religious authorities, the courts, and the economic forces all conspired in a system that led to the further degradation of the lowest classes of Jewish society. What was the result of all this economic and militaristic oppression? Growing unrest. In this period there were five revolts whose leaders claimed to be Messiah. These rebellions, insurgencies, and messianic movements eventually led to the Jewish War of the sixties and the destruction of Jerusalem.
It was in this climate of unrest that Jesus of Nazareth appears proclaiming that the kingdom of God is at hand. God's reign is coming and will be ushered in by a radical new community committed to the way of God. Jesus then proceeds to give glimpses of the reign of God.
From Nazareth comes this young man, an outcast of his own people. God's reign, which he proclaims, is a complete reversal of the status quo. It is an assault upon the religious, political, and economic authorities. The peasantry are drawing together to listen to and follow this one who is announcing that God's reign has begun. This one who claims to be God's anointed one and is challenging the power of the Caesars and the legitimacy of the religious authorities.
Finally, Jesus comes to Jerusalem, and is welcomed by the people like the political radical that he is. He cleanses the temple, announcing that this is to be a house of prayer for all nations and not a den of thieves. And as a result of these challenging actions, the powers-that-be seek to kill him.
This is the simple truth of the crucifixion -- it was the result of a life lived according to the way of God. And as the way of God confronts a violent world -- that violent world will often crucify the messenger of God.
In this moment the sin of the world was revealed. Sin is a condition of the creation, it is structural and systemic. We all participate in sin even when we do not intend to, simply as participants in the social system. This is part of what the Bible means when it refers to powers and principalities. Sin isn't so much about individual choices and actions but is about the corrupted institutions and structures of human society; structural aspects of human society that break relationships, thereby defying God's will for creation.
Sin breaks relationships. It alienates us from ourselves, from God, from other people. It ruptures the creation, because God's desire is for creation to be a communion of self-giving love.
The crucifixion of Jesus exposes all this corruption and failure of humanity to live according to God's desires. That alone could have been the end of the story. Another noble young radical cut down in his prime. But that is not where it ended.
Suddenly there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord, descending from heaven, came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. . . . the angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid; I know that you are looking for Jesus who was crucified. He is not here; for he has been raised."
By this very act, the way of life of the powers and principalities has been defeated. We know that there is another way. That their way of doing things is not the way we have to live, should live, or will live.
In this very moment the authorities were put on notice that their attempts to divide, exclude, and violently oppress are judged by the creator of the universe. Yet, the powers-that-be continue to challenge the way of God in this world. They continue to sow darkness, doubt, and injury. They continue to preach that the way of God is division, exclusion, and violent oppression of those different from themselves. The Risen One stands to rebuke them. This is not the way of God. It is the way of Caesar. It is the way of sin. It is the path to hell.
We will not be thwarted by their failed philosophies and false doctrines, because we share in the power of the Risen One. We are ransomed from the power they had over us. We too have been raised with Christ.
The goodness and the beauty of this creation has been spoiled by violence and evil, but the Easter story is God's promise to recreate this fallen world. All creation will be transformed by divine power and glory.
This is the opportunity for spiritual awakening. Once we have encountered the Risen One, like Mary Magdalene, we are never the same again. We have a new vision, looking at the world with the eyes of hope. With this new vision we can go into the world, proclaiming the way of God.
In early November we began the journey of the church year – a journey that would take us through significant moments in the life of Jesus the Christ. During Advent our anticipation was high as we prepared to "Greet the New Morn." Christmas was a rousing celebration of the birth of the Christ. During Epiphany we "Let It Shine" as renewed our baptismal vows, explored the Sermon on the Mount, and gloried in the mysteries of the Transfiguration.
The Gospels tell us that at a point in his ministry that Jesus "set his face toward Jerusalem." In other words, Jesus prepared for that final journey that would take him to his death. On Ash Wednesday we set our own faces towards the cross and have journeyed to it over the previous six weeks. As we prayed for "Hearts That Open," we explored spiritual and communal practices of care and engaged in a robust series of church work days to prepare for spring and provide hospitality and welcome.
Last Sunday we laughed and sang and waved palm branches as the Christ entered Jerusalem. We covered our cross with palms and left it in the center of our labyrinth to remind us all week of where are journey was heading.
On Maundy Thursday we commemorated the Last Supper and the central role that the meal and communion plays in our on-going scriptural tradition. It is this sign and symbol of the fullness of the reign of God which reveals so much about the purpose of the days that follow.
On Good Friday we encountered crucifixion. Through scripture, music, and silent moments of prayer and meditation, the multiple meanings of this event intersected with our everyday lives and our current concerns.
The last few days as the cross was darkened and the altar was stripped, we have meditated upon Jesus lying in the tomb. Our Easter Vigil was a silent nature walk.
Today we take the next step in that spiritual journey that began with the anticipation and preparations of Advent. Today is Easter Sunday morn and we proclaim "Christ is risen!"
his crucifixion, my anxiety about his resurrection is undiminished – I am terrified that, this year, it won't happen; that, that year, it didn't. Anyone can be sentimental about the Nativity; any fool can feel like a Christian at Christmas. But Easter is the main event; if you don't believe in the resurrection, you're not a believer.
We can rejoice loudly and exuberantly on this Easter Sunday because we have been through the valley of the shadow of death. Those of you who have known grief have experienced Good Friday and the Easter Vigil. You may have even shared the sentiment of Jesus, himself, "Oh, God, where are you?" I remember my own grief upon the death of my father, and how I moved about numbly for days afterwards. I imagine the disciples of our Lord did the same.
But this morning is not about sadness. It is about joy! It is about life! Mary Magdalene comes to the tomb and there she does not find the body of her friend. Instead she finds that friend alive. And she grabs hold of him. Imagine the joy you have felt every time you have made it through some dark trial. Or when a loved one has come successfully through surgery. Or when your children were born.
Jesus, so full of understanding, tells Mary she must let go, because she has a task ahead of her. "Go," Jesus tells her. She has a message to spread. "I am alive and ascending to my Father."
In what sense does Owen Meany have it right? Our Christian faith rests upon an absurdity -- something ridiculous, something which our rational, scientific, historical minds consider impossible. Our core narrative is that someone rose again -- that death is neither final nor absolute.
And it is in that sheer absurdity, we are to find hope, faith, and joy. This is the same gospel that absurdly proclaims "love your enemy" or that there can be "peace on earth." The same gospel that says "the first shall be last" and "blessed are those that mourn." This comes from the God who brought us the platypus and the giraffe and the rolly-polly. Listen to the song of a bird. In the struggle to survive and propagate the next generation, birds in their short, limited lives find time to sing with incredible rapture. That's absurd. That's a joke.
The Resurrection tells us "life will find a way." That existence is not merely necessity. It is not merely birth, growth, decay, and death. The Resurrection reminds us that we don't merely struggle to survive, but that we can absurdly hope for peace and mercy and justice and love and beauty and life. Or, as Wendell Berry put it, "Be joyful though you have considered all the facts." It's like God dancing and chanting "I can overcome all things and you can overcome them with me!"
Jesus said, "I am the resurrection and the life," and because of that, we can proclaim, "O death, where is thy sting?" Good Fridays most surely come, but Easter comes a few days later. And together we shout "Alleluia! Christ is risen! Christ is risen indeed."
Interesting essay from David Brooks after seeing the musical "Book of Mormon." In this essay he wonders whether a vague, humanistic religion can stand the test of time or whether you need ritual and rigorous theological content.
As we begin this Holy Week journey, let us join together in our Prayer of Confession, printed in your order of worship.
Loving God save us from thin hopes and small dreams. Our cry is from the heart, from our very soul.
Where and when we fail, God is there to make all things new.
As we come to our time of pastoral prayer this week, a variety of things have occupied my mind. First were the significant anniversaries commemorated last Tuesday, April 12. It was the 150th anniversary of the firing on Fort Sumter and the beginning of America's Civil War. It was also the 50th anniversary of the flight of Yuri Gagarin and humanity's first trip into outer space. Somehow, the two together were vivid reminders of the best and worst of the human condition. In my prayer today I will incorporate and adapt some words from President Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address and some words from the quite good, but now dated, hymn "God of Earth and Outer Space" by Thad Roberts, Jr.
Then, as you can see from your blue insert, there were many prayer needs this week. Most significantly, on Wednesday we received the very sad news that our dear friend and brother the Rev. Don Klohr had died. Don had been contending with Parkinson's and prostate cancer for many years, but it was a bout of pneumonia which concluded his life this week. Don served as the Minister of Visitation here at First Central from 1993 until 2004.
I feel honored that First Central has placed its confidence in my capacity to provide this most essential ministry and look forward to serving Christ's cause among you.
Which he proceeded to do with great dignity, integrity, and grace.
Please note the times and locations for visitation and the funeral, which are listed on the blue insert to your bulletin. The funeral will not be here, but will be at the First Congregational Church in Council Bluffs where Donald served as Senior Minister from 1973-1991.
As they soar beyond the sky.
Let [us] know your presence there.
Teach [us] how to walk in grace.
For our brother Donald, we give you thanks.
Through his ministry among us, we were blessed.
Give your comfort now to Sue, Ann, Robert, and Jim.
And may all of us sow seeds of joy and love and savour every minute of it.
Our thoughts and prayers reach out to include all our sisters and brothers in need.
For Val and Frances, we pray for a speedy recovery from surgery.
For Rick and his family, our condolences upon the death of his father.
For Patrick, strength in this time of illness.
For Dorothy and her family, courage and hope in the weeks ahead.
And praise and thanksgiving for how well Ryder's surgery went on Thursday.
Let us remember these and others in a time of silent reflection.
For the lasting wounds of slavery and civil war.
to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
In this Holy Week, we are reminded that God does not ask a token of support. We are called to give all of ourselves, of which our offering here today is but a symbol. May our gifts proclaim good news to the world.
The NYTimes opines about, and against, the new GOP Mainstream.
For those of us who left the party during the Bush years because we thought the party highjacked by an extreme wing, it is really frightening now. The current GOP makes George W. look moderate.
At the end of the Book of Genesis, Jacob, the grandson of Abraham, the one who stole from his brother Esau, argued with his father-in-law Laban, enjoyed the sexual competition of his two wives and their handmaids, wrestled with God in the night, and mourned his son Joseph when he thought he had been killed by wild beasts, this very Jacob lies dying in Egypt with his twelve sons around him. Jacob is not much of a hero; he is a clever, cunning scoundrel, really. Yet, he is still the recipient of God's grace. Here at the end of his life he does something that none of the other patriarchs had yet done. He blesses all of his sons.
Abraham, you might remember, sent Ishmael off into the wilderness to die, almost killed Isaac, and then sent away without inheritance the six sons he had with his second wife Keturah. Isaac turned around and offered only one real blessing for his two sons Esau and Jacob who became locked in competition for it, and Jacob won it by trickery and deceit.
Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father's sons shall bow down before you. Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He crouches down, he stretches out like a lion, like a lioness—who dares rouse him up? The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and the obedience of the peoples is his. Binding his foal to the vine and his donkey's colt to the choice vine, he washes his garments in wine and his robe in the blood of grapes; his eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.
Isn't that a nice little plug for oral hygiene at the end, which is really something we should all remember when passing along blessing to our children.
Oh, Jacob. Yes, he remembers to bless all twelve sons, but in Judah's blessing he says all the other brothers and their descendants will bow down before Judah and give tribute and obedience. This dysfunctional, yet God-graced, family still has some things to learn.
It is from this passage that the phrase "Lion of Judah" comes. And, according to the genealogy Matthew gives at the very beginning of his gospel, Judah is the ancestor of Jesus.
Relevant to us today is the reference to the donkey's colt. According to the textual notes in my Bible, in the ancient Near East, the traditional transport for kings, rulers, and the gods in stories was donkeys. In our imagination, the donkey is a rather humble animal, especially compared with the brave steed of a warrior. But in its origin as a biblical symbol, riding on a donkey's colt is a sign of blessing and sovereignty.
Now, this image of riding on a donkey appears again in the Hebrew Scriptures in the book of the prophet Zechariah. Zechariah is one of those biblical books that probably most of us have trouble finding, buried back there in the Minor Prophets. Remember that the Kingdom of Judah was conquered by the Babylonian Empire and their evil king Nebuchadnezzar. The people were taken into exile, living away from their homeland for seventy years. Finally, after the Persian Empire defeated the Babylonians, the Jews were eventually allowed to begin returning to their homeland, which they did in successive waves over many years.
When the people were allowed to return home, they were full of hope. When they got home and saw how much work they'd have to do to rebuild the cities, the walls, the temple, and their way of life, they weren't quite as hopeful. And the great visions of hope and change didn't come as quickly as they had expected. It was in this context that Zechariah preached.
his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
today I declare that I will restore to you double. . .
for like the jewels of a crown they shall shine on his land.
For what goodness and beauty are his!
Grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the young women.
Overlook for a moment that final line wherein the young men get drunk on grain alcohol and the young women enjoy the new wine. What we have is a vision of the abundant blessing that God, in God's grace, will bestow upon these troubled people.
The king who will lead the armies of God, the armies that will bring destruction upon the nations – if you read the rest of the passage there are some pretty graphic descriptions of the vengeance that will be enacted – this king of hosts comes riding in triumphant, victorious, and humble. And according to the oracle, "on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey."
Notice that now it is humble for a king to ride a donkey and not a horse, but pseudo-Zechariah wants to make the connection explicit with the blessing back in Genesis, so he makes sure to use the words donkey, foal, and colt, all three of which appeared in the passage in Genesis. So, he engages in some repetition in order to emphasize his point and draw our attention to the scriptural connection with the ancient blessing. The purpose of this scriptural connection, then, is for those who heard pseudo-Zechariah's message to hope that God would quickly send a new ruler from the line of Judah to take charge during the troubled times in which they lived. And this ruler would bring about the vision of grace and blessing.
Finally, then, we jump ahead to our gospel story today the next time that the donkey and the colt appear in the biblical tradition.
One feature of the Gospel of Matthew is that the author is constantly looking for any Old Testament references he can borrow. At times he strains the original texts to their breaking points to get them to fit into the life of Jesus he is telling. At times it is rather comical. And today is one of those instances.
Matthew wants us to understand Jesus' entry into Jerusalem as fulfillment of the oracle from Zechariah and the original blessing of the descendants of Judah to be the rulers of the people. And so to get us to understand that connection, he quotes from Zechariah and also draws on this image of the donkey and the colt.
Matthew is so intent on making sure the story fits the vision in Zechariah, that unlike Mark, Luke, and John who only have Jesus riding in on one animal – a colt in Mark and Luke and a young donkey in John – Matthew has Jesus riding in on two animals – a donkey and its young colt. Now, this is a rather funny image.
Do you think Jesus had one leg over the tall donkey and another over the small colt? Do you think he stood on both like an acrobat in the circus, one leg straight and the other bent? Or did he, like some artists have tried to render it, sit sidesaddle on the donkey with his feet on the colt?
Now, I don't think Matthew is a dumby. I think his comically literalist rendering is meant to make us pause and look for what is really going on here. And what is going on is that this lion of Judah riding in on the donkey and the colt isn't going to demand that all his sisters and brothers bow down before him and pay him tribute, nor does he come riding at the head of an army that will slaughter the enemies of Israel. Instead, this Jesus comes as the agent of the God who blessed the scoundrel Jacob and chose the exiled and hopeless Jews to be agents of world salvation.
Frederick Buechner writes, "Is it possible, I wonder, to say that it is only when you hear the Gospel as a wild and marvelous joke that you really hear it at all?"
It all happened not of necessity, not inevitably, but gratuitously, freely, hilariously. And what was astonishing, gratuitous, hilarious was, of course, the grace of God.
Could California become the first state to require the teaching of gay history?
The bill passed the State Senate.
A lot of on-line news this week about Sen. Jim Inhofe's support of ousted dictator Laurent Gbagbo. But this was news to me, a Lost Ogle post about how he darn near killed some construction workers when he landed his plane on a closed runway and then acted like a complete jerk about it.


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Q: Integer hypot without overflow How to calculate hypot of two integers, each less than 2^63, so that at no step any intermediate computation does not overflow 64-bits? (such as x^2+y^2 in the traditional approach).
The linked article mentions a floating-point algorithm, which is not possible to use because of that t = t/x; as it is 0 for integers.
The closest algorithm I could find is from here but unfortunately it is not precise enough:
int ihypot(xd1, yd1)
   double xd1, yd1;
{
   register     x1 = (int)xd1,
                y1 = (int)yd1,
                x2 = 0,
                y2 = 0;

   if ((x2 -= x1) < 0) x2 = -x2;
   if ((y2 -= y1) < 0) y2 = -y2;
   return (x2 + y2 - (((x2>y2) ? y2 : x2) >> 1) );
}

A: You can always start from the equivalent mathematical formula when implementing with integers:
r = 2-30 * (x * sqrt(230 + 230 * y / x))
A typical 32-bit processor should give you access to a 64 / 32 -> 32 division with the input provided in two registers. This division can be used to compute 230 * y / x. Your programming language may or may not give you access to it. Do not under-estimate the skill of optimizing compilers when generating 32-bit code for computations involving 64-bit intermediate results.
Similarly, the typical 32-bit processor should provide a 32 * 32 -> 64 multiplication for "x * …", with the result in two registers.
The final multiplication by 2-30 amounts to shifting and or-ing the two registers in which the 32 * 32 -> 64 multiplication left its result.
GCC almost manages to generate simple code using only 32-bit instructions, but it drops the ball at one point and calls an external multi-precision division function:
#include <stdint.h>

uint32_t integer_sqrt(uint32_t);

/*@ requires x >= y; */
uint32_t hypot(uint32_t x, uint32_t y){
  return integer_sqrt(0x40000000 + (uint32_t) ((uint64_t)y * 0x40000000 / x)) * (uint64_t) x / 0x40000000 ;
}

32-bit assembly result:
hypot:
        pushl   %edi
        pushl   %esi
        xorl    %edi, %edi
        pushl   %ebx
        movl    16(%esp), %ebx
        movl    %edi, %edx
        xorl    %edi, %edi
        subl    $16, %esp
        movl    36(%esp), %esi
        pushl   %edi
        pushl   %ebx
        shldl   $30, %esi, %edx
        movl    %esi, %eax
        sall    $30, %eax
        pushl   %edx
        pushl   %eax
        call    __udivdi3
        addl    $20, %esp
        addl    $1073741824, %eax
        pushl   %eax
        call    integer_sqrt
        mull    %ebx
        addl    $16, %esp
        popl    %ebx
        popl    %esi
        shrdl   $30, %edx, %eax
        popl    %edi
        ret

Edit:
If you only want to use 32*32->32 multiplication, you'll have to compute N=log2(x) and, if N>15, normalize x and y by shifting them right by N-15 (shifting the end result left by the same amount), in effect implementing the formula:
r = 2N-15 * sqrt((x / 2N-15)2 + (y / 2N-15)2)
If N≤1, just use the usual formula r = sqrt(x2 + y2)

A: I think you can rewrite the given expression so that each after each operation lesser than 2^64. For example:

By taking the square root before multiplication, you can make sure that the individual numbers never exceed 2^64.

A: If you're okay with using floating point, you can use the expression
a/cos(atan2(b,a))

where a and b are the inputs


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Q: Error in p-limit lib when importing @google-cloud/storage to deploy firebase function I am trying to deploy a firebase function with the command firebase deploy, but when I import @google-cloud/storage
const { Storage } = require('@google-cloud/storage');

I get this error
Detailed stack trace: /srv/node_modules/p-limit/index.js:30
            } catch {}
SyntaxError: Unexpected token {
at createScript (vm.js:80:10)
at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:139:10)
at Module._compile (module.js:617:28)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:664:10)
at Module.load (module.js:566:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:506:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:498:3)
at Module.require (module.js:597:17)
at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
at Object.<anonymous> (/srv/node_modules/@google-cloud/storage/build/src/bucket.js:25:16)

The problem is that I found this error in p-limit/index.js in the following code
    const run = async (fn, resolve, ...args) => {
    activeCount++;

    // TODO: Get rid of `pTry`. It's not needed anymore.
    const result = pTry(fn, ...args);

    resolve(result);

    try {
        await result;
    } catch {}

    next();
};

But if I edit this part of the code and deploy again, I get the same error, so it seems that it's not reading this file.. it's getting this error in some other place that I cant find..
Someone can help?

A: What version of node are you running? I had the same exact same message when I tried using it today and has been driving me crazy. I was using Node 8.12. Try upgrading to the latest version of node 12.18.1. It resolved that error for me.

A: I had this error with a node app (not firebase related though). Looks @google-cloud/storage starting from its version 5.0 dropped support for Node 8.
One option is to upgrade to Node versions >=10. My project though required to use Node 8. So another option is to use @google-cloud/storage prior to 5.0. For example, this worked for me in package.json with Node 8
...
"@google-cloud/storage": "5.0.0",
...


As I approached Pouring Light Studio in downtown Malone, my eyes were drawn to the steam-punk looking sculpture behind the front window, which greeted visitors with its rusty skin and strangely lifelike, apocalyptic features. Inside I found a diverse array of work -- edgy, socially aware paintings, gorgeous photographs, and more uniquely twisted-looking sculptures.
Pouring Light Studio's owner Michael Hart explained that this was a community art show, somthing atypical of the gallery's normal offerings. The show was more of an open call for artists, but he usually handpicks the work that graces the walls. There are certain qualities he looks for when deciding whose work to display, but the main thing he seeks is artists who take an introspective approach to their work. In that way, Michael said he is filling a niche in Malone.
"My initial motivation was to try to fill a gap," Michael said. "I didn't see much covering artists that are more introspective and expressing more of what's inside them instead of mirroring what's outside of them."
Visitors won't find an abundance of Adirondack kitsch at Pouring Light Studios, but they will find contemporary art that makes a statement and speaks with emotion. Michael's own work is in the same vein -- his paintings, photographs, and band Figure From Ground all take a refreshingly exploratory, experimental approach. That isn't to say there's never any nature-inspired work at the gallery -- the show I saw included some nice, outdoorsy pieces including a large, bright sunflower painting and some gorgeous nature photography.
The gallery space itself is simple and elegant. The gray walls make the artwork pop, and the square soundboard panels mounted just below the ceiling hint at the room's alter ego as a live performance space. Michael shows films here, many of them in line with the socially-aware themes he looks for in paintings and sculptures. Bands from around the region also perform here, and there's an open mic night the third Tuesday of every month that often packs the place.
A host of regular musicians frequent the open mics, and new collaborations are formed in real time during the event. Every week the event is closed out by local favorites Amber In Green, an original rock band that has only missed one Pouring Light open mic in three years.
"A lot of the stuff I offer is a very small genre, but a lot of these guys and girls are at the top of their game," Michael said. "They're world class, but they're unknown."
Michael said he wanted to build something from the ground up when he opened Pouring Light Studios in Malone almost 10 years ago, and that's exactly what he's done. He brings in artists and musicians from around the region, and keeps things lively by hosting a variety of classes, screenings, and performances.
"I always wanted to have this pure studio and performance center," Michael said. "I kind of characterize it as a glorious struggle."
Don't let your day in Malone end with a visit to Pouring Light Studios. Head out for dinner and check out our events!


In Leadership, Goodwin draws upon four of the presidents she has studied most closely - Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil rights) - to show how they first recognized leadership qualities within themselves, and were recognized by others as leaders.
The title of Doris Kearns Goodwin's book is Leadership. What she's really examining through the stories of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR and LBJ is: what makes a president great or how does a president become great?
Goodwin has devoted entire books to each man, which is a definite plus because she knows the material so well she's able to pick and choose events from their lives to illustrate the teaching moments in leadership. (She knew LBJ personally.) Goodwin is also able to craft short narratives of these someday presidents that bring out their struggles, pathos and unique brilliance. The reader meets flesh-and-blood men, not dusty historical figures.
What Goodwin finds is that her presidents are made rather than born. Two were born to hardscrabble families: Lincoln and LBJ. Two were born to privilege: Teddy and FDR. Each one was driven by tremendous ambition but the ambition was ultimately, at least, alloyed to greater purpose.
And each staggered through a time in the wilderness. Lincoln's brief tenure in congress threw him back to Illinois and the law profession. His political career had stalled, and for long years he moved along in relative obscurity, only drawn out by the contested expansion of slavery to frontier states. Teddy lost his wife and mother in a single day. He withdrew to the Dakotas where frenetic activity kept him ahead of all-consuming despair. FDR's fine physique and, he assumed, his presidential hopes were dashed by polio. LBJ lost an important bid for political office, which shadowed his belief in his destiny with agonized doubt.
These men were not alike. They did not possess the same gifts, nor the same faults. And those faults didn't necessarily disappear when they reached the presidency. But they did have a capacity to grow from mistakes and to find mentors and team members who were far from being yes men (or yes women in Eleanor Roosevelt's case).
Goodwin paints pictures of flawed men who nevertheless were able to rise above self-interest and politics as usual to work toward a better, equitable vision of America.
The narrators are beyond excellent. Beau Bridges narrates the LBJ chapters and he's stellar. I don't know if he's narrated an audiobook before, but he should do it again.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book and I also learned a few things about presidents, I have read many of their biographies. I am a big fan of Goodwin. She states she started working on this book in 2013 and it took her five years to research and write. I felt that the release of the book at this current time in our presidential affairs was quite pertinent.
Goodwin wrote biographies over the years of each of the presidents. She chose for this book: Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Lindon Baines Johnson. The book is divided into three thematic areas: ambition and recognition of leadership; adversity and growth; and how they led. In the final section Goodwin examines different types of leadership: transformational, crisis management, turnaround and visionary.
The book is well written and researched. I found it interesting that each president struggled with his own variety of emotional problems. Goodwin reveals how each president had different leadership abilities. I found the three case studies in part three most interesting. Goodwin has presented two republican presidents and two democrat presidents. The book is unbiased. The book is well organized and easy to read. Goodwin is a master storyteller; that skill brings history to life. I highly recommend this book.
I read this as an audiobook downloaded from Audible. The book is just over eighteen hours. The narration was excellent. Goodwin narrated the introduction and epilog. Beau Bridges, David Morse, Jay O. Sanders and Richard Thomas each narrated a president. It was great having different narrators as it allowed distinction between each president.
So well timed. These four stories of our greatest leaders are a revelation in the current atmosphere of division and anger in our country. I didn't think DJG could bring me to tears but she did. She is the most superb historian of our time. A great inheritor to Barbara Tuchman and Bruce Catton.
By using Hollywood actors as narrators, I found this audiobook to be somewhat disappointing and, sometimes, downright annoying. Beau Bridges and Richard Thomas get overly dramatic, often melodramatic, in their attempts at mimicking the relevant President's accent and speaking style. Especially for LBJ the quoted portions seem exaggerated and drawn out and the pacing is too slow. I would much prefer a more traditional and straightforward reading. My other criticism is that the author's writing is too hagiographic - she often seems to be awestruck, and makes too little of the weaknesses of the Presidents.
No comparihttps://www.audible.com/write-review?rdpath=%2Fpd%2FB07BRZXG42&asin=B07BRZXG42&source=lib&ref=a_library_c4_review&pf_rd_p=ae76b2bb-e63d-4a67-b357-dab3dee05ca1&pf_rd_r=VERR6M6H2WME8VSJMAEZ&son of our current gangster-in-chief to these four noble presidents. Doris Goodwin writes from a place of many years of devoted research and thought about these stunning examples of leadership. I read it slowly and found it an excellent antidote to the orange clown.
I found this book organized in such a way that I couldn't follow the points being made. The stories were interesting but it moved from President to President without a point that I could discern before I gave up. I was disappointed.
Each of the four presidents brought unique personal histories to the position, and each faced both personal and presidential challenges that brought forth string and inspiring leadership qualities. This is a how-to for aspiring leaders in any position.
The author really brought history to life. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Many of the beautifully-crafted scenes brought tears to my eyes.
What a beautiful story. Doris has done it again. She brings the men back to life in the truest form. Thank you for the privilege of reading your research on the men of such greatness, written so well.
Dr Goodwin's has written a truly stirring portrait of what real leadership is and how it manifests.
If you only have time for one chapter, don't miss Chapter 9. However, the rest of the book is not to be missed. "Leadership" is organized into a three main section, each containing a chapter on each of Goodwin's four presidential leaders, Lincoln, T. Roosevelt, FDR, and LBJ, for a total of 12 chapters. The first section recounts their early live, the second, their rise to public life, and the third, a demonstration of their leadership in troubled times. There is also a forward and epilogue.
The author has published extensively on all four of these presidents. So, there is little new in terms of biographical facts of which Dr. Goodwin's readers are not already aware. Similarly, the coverage of their presidential leadership is not meant to be comprehensive. For instance, little is made of President Johnson's profound lack of leadership in his handling of the Vietnam War.
Those of us who pick up this book and read it are left with a deep understanding of leadership on a world-stage scale looks like, and a fervent desire to sea such leadership addressing our current troubles.


Wag.com recently reached out to me about trying their new online pet store, from the makers of Soap.com, Diapers.com, and YoYo.com. I generally don't do a lot of online shopping because I'm impatient, and hate paying shipping for something I can go pick up myself, however, their prices and selection looked good, plus they offer free 1-2 day shipping on orders over $49 (and $4.99 shipping on orders under that amount), so I consulted with Charlie who thought we should give it a shot.
The site is clean and easy to navigate, and they have thousands of different products available for pets in categories such as food and treats, feeding accessories, grooming, beds and furniture, toys, and more. Wanting to give as thorough of a review as possible, I called up the customer service line to ask about the fountain we were thinking about ordering, and the representative was very friendly, and able to answer my questions right away.
On Sunday night, we sat down to place an order, which consisted of a Petlinks System Dream Curl, Petmate Replendish Waterer, Kong Cat ZoomGroom Brush, and some filters for the new fountain as well as our current waterer.
Charlie submitted the order at 5:02 PM, and a little over an hour later I received an email confirming that the order had already shipped, as was due to arrive by 8 PM on October 4th! Sure enough, the box arrived yesterday as promised, at around 2 in the afternoon.
I haven't tried the fountain yet, but the kitties are already loving the brush and the Dream Curl, especially. I thought that Charlie would be the only party interested in it, but Priscilla immediately began scratching on the top, before becoming obsessed with trying to catch the feather toy dangling underneath. There were even some fisticuffs last night when Charlie tried to get too close and ruin her good time.
I couldn't be more pleased with my Wag.com experience, and plan on taking advantage of their services in the future. I also love that you can use one shopping cart across all of their sites to hit your free shipping total, plus there's no product exclusions, so if you want to order some goodies for your cat from Wag.com plus some lipstick and laundry detergent for yourself from Soap.com, you can do so without worrying that your final purchase total will be under the limit.
Disclosure: Wag.com provided me with a gift certificate for their site in exchange for reviewing their services, however they did not tell me what to purchase, and all of the opinions expressed in this post are my own.
Thanks for telling me about wag.com. I hadn't heard of it before. I went over and pounced around a bit. Looks great.
My cats love the Petlinks System Dream Curl. I bought it for my first cat two years ago when she was a baby. And now after two years of wear and claw & two more cats later, it is still an old favorite!


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Despite a nuclear Iran looming on the horizon, the media seem to be putting most of their attention on two candidates for their respective parties' presidential nominations next year. Moreover, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump each make their own party nervous.
If next year's election comes down to Clinton versus Trump, a lot of people may simply stay home in disgust.
When we are this far away from the official start of the primary election season, we can usually just say, "It's still early days." Many a front runner this early in the process ended up out of the running by the time the party conventions were held, and totally forgotten by election day.
That is the way it usually is. But that is not likely to be the way it will be this time.
This is Hillary Clinton's last hurrah. It is now or never for her. And the Democrats have nobody comparable as a vote-getter to put in her place.
Even if an investigation finds Mrs. Clinton found guilty of violating the law in the way she handled e-mails when she was Secretary of State, the Obama administration is not likely to prosecute her. And President Obama can always pardon her, so that the next administration cannot prosecute her either. So Hillary doesn't even have to take a plea bargain.
Someone with a sense of shame might well withdraw from the contest for the Democratic Party's nomination, now that public opinion polls show that most people distrust her. But since when have the Clintons ever had a sense of shame?
On the Republican side, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has pointed out that if Donald Trump can continue to get 20 or 25 percent of the Republican voters on his side, he can build up a formidable lead of delegates in winner-take-all primaries.
It will not matter if 60 percent of the Republican voters turn against him, if that 60 percent is split up among all the other Republican candidates, with none of those candidates getting more votes than Trump.
Sometimes financial backers can withdraw their support and force a stubborn candidate to drop out of the race. But Trump has enough money of his own to stay in the race as long as he wants to, even if that ruins the Republicans' chances of winning the 2016 elections.
Ironically, the Republicans have a much stronger set of presidential candidates than usual to choose from this year. But the media obsession with Trump means that even the best of these candidates are not likely to get enough exposure for most voters to get to know much about them.
Governors with superb records — such as Bobby Jindal in Louisiana and Scott Walker in Wisconsin — may not have much name recognition on the national scene. And certainly the little sound bites in the so-called "debates" are not likely to tell the voters much.
This is not just the candidates' problem. With this country facing historic dangers, both internally and internationally, we urgently need to find someone with depth, insight and courage as the next President of the United States.
But, with the media obsessed with Donald Trump's show biz talents and persona — and covering everything he says, does or might do, 24/7 — how are the voters to sort through the large number of Republican candidates to find a couple that are worth getting to know more thoroughly?
It will be like trying to find a needle in a haystack. And never was finding that needle, the right leader, more important for the nation.
Internally, we are so polarized over immigration that our current "leaders" have left our borders wide open to terrorists from around the world, rather than take the political risks of offending voters on one side of this issue or offending voters on the opposite side. Instead, they risk American lives by their inaction.
Internationally, our "leaders" have written a blank check for our most dangerous and fanatical enemy — Iran — to get both nuclear bombs and the missiles to deliver them. And the Obama administration, with a track record of huge shameless lies, offers us its reassurances.
We had better find that needle in a haystack, someone who can salvage a desperate situation. Flamboyant rhetoric is not enough.
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Ashford in Middlesex (Surrey) lies just to the west of Hounslow and a couple of miles south of Heathrow Airport, and is close to the A30 and M25.
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The Middlesex town of Ashford is a medium-sized suburban town with a population of around 27,000 people and a rail station on the Waterloo - Reading line.
Often confused with its better-known namesake, Ashford in Kent, Ashford was historically in Middlesex and now lies in Surrey. This town is primarily a residential and commuter location, with recreational facilities including Ashford Manor Golf Club and the Queen Mary Reservoir, which is home to an eponymous sailing club and other activities, such as windsurfing.


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Sustainability Office Gives Students The Green Light
December 5, 2013 , by Jenny Davis, Assistant Opinion Editor
When the 2009 end-of-semester environmental science symposium was postponed, Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences Dana Royer was forced to think of a new idea for his class' final project. What he devised was rooted in practicality: students were tasked with submitting a four-page proposal to boost Wesleyan's sustainability, and Royer would select the top several for consideration by the Sustainability Office. This project proved so successful that Royer recycled the assignment three times.
"'Introduction to Environmental Studies' is designed as a gateway to the Earth and Environmental Sciences major and the Environmental Studies Program," Royer said. "Sustainability isn't the explicit focus, but a lot of the material we cover is directly related to it. We don't just pay lip service to the fact that Environmental Studies is broad. One overarching theme is climate: energy, fossil fuels, food, and global warming."
Projects this year ranged from conserving water to reducing off-campus air travel. Royer allows students to work in teams of no more than two. One such pair, Lizzy Elliott '16 and Sonia Max '17, took advantage of Royer's efforts to encourage collaboration. Elliott and Max decided to focus their project on doing away with single-use cups, both plastic and paper.
"Our idea behind the project is that we're trying to reduce hot and cold disposable cups," Elliott said. "We still haven't determined if the hot cups, which are made from post-consumer products, are recyclable or compostable. The cold cups are plastic, but they are not being recycled because people don't realize and put them in the trash."
Elliott and Max will propose a mug-sharing system that could operate in one of two ways. Their first idea would make reusable mugs just as convenient to use as paper cups.
"We think that people who care will continue to bring their reusable mugs to Pi Café and get the discount," Elliott said. "But it's the convenience of single-use cups—not wanting to carry them around and not wanting to clean them—that makes people use them. With mug-sharing, we would get the benefit of using non-disposable mugs while also maintaining the convenience factor. People would use the mugs and then put them in bins in centralized locations. Then we would collect them and bring them to Usdan or Summerfields to wash."
Because they realize the possibility of people picking up mugs but not returning them to the centralized bins, Max and Elliott are also interested in partnering with the Eco To-Go program that Summerfields runs. Each member of Eco To-Go has a card they must hand in every time they get a container. Likewise, Max and Elliott have considered a system in which students would be required to exchange a card in order to receive a mug. The duo anticipates that the latter system would result in fewer lost items.
"It would probably make more sense to do the card system, because then you could combine Eco To-Go and your mug all on one card," Elliott said.
Elliott's enthusiasm for the mug-sharing program stems in part from frustration with what she sees as the University's half-hearted approach to sustainability.
"The issue of single-use cups is something I'm passionate about," she said. "I'm especially frustrated with Wesleyan because it's not as sustainable as it claims to be. Even the people who manage Pi have no idea if you can recycle or compost the cups. Why are we spending all this money on things if we don't know what the next step of their cycle is? People who control these resources have no idea what the implications of the resource use is."
Sustainability Coordinator Jen Kleindienst has worked with students to refine their ideas for the "Introduction to Environmental Studies" final project. Though she agrees that it can be challenging to balance the ideas of the faculty, staff, and students, she stressed that she and her colleagues value student involvement in sustainability issues.
"The more input we have from students, the better the results will be," she said. "We want students to have a hand in making Wesleyan a more sustainable place, and one of the big ways that I'm hoping to get students involved in this spring is working on rewriting the Sustainability Action Plan. We're trying to get together a smaller group of students, faculty, and staff to work on the research part and then on writing it. It's a plan that will set guidelines about how Wesleyan will move towards carbon neutrality."
Royer explained that the University is serious about its pledge to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.
"In 2007, we signed onto the American College and University Presidents' Commitment on climate change," he said. "The main reason the Green Fund started was to achieve what we set out to do. As humans, you pick the low-hanging fruit. I'm involved with the energy sub-committee, and we're coming to a close for the easy stuff. We have to start thinking beyond that. Getting all the way to zero will require some tough choices."
Kleindienst emphasized the need for communication among faculty, staff, and students about these choices.
"I've realized that there are a lot of things happening on campus that students don't know about or are misinformed about," she said. "That's something I've been working on: getting the most accurate and up-to-date information on the website. I've had four or five students asking about trying to reduce water usage for their projects, especially in dorms, by replacing the showerheads with low-flow showerheads. That's something we did years ago. I'm sure it made the news when it happened, but then nobody continued to publicize it. We need to let students know that we've done this, and it's saved a ton of water."
Going forward, Elliott and Max are excited about their project regardless of whether it is one of the five or 10 that Royer will choose to submit to the Sustainability Office.
"We've done way more research than we needed to and definitely want to look into implementing it either way," Elliott said. "By starting really small and making sure that every little bit of [the] system works, it'll take a long time. We've realized that the idea is complicated, with a lot of moving parts that take a long time to figure out. It's not so simple as, 'Here are a bunch of mugs; let's do it.'"
Royer agrees that moving toward a more sustainable future is far from simple, but he hopes that students won't be deterred from trying to effect change.
"I encourage them to be their own advocates," he said. "Just because we don't choose a project doesn't mean it's not worth pursuing. Even if you don't recognize it now, these three or four years you spend in college are the easiest to get things like this accomplished."


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The Baja 1000 is arguably one of the most challenging and exciting team events in the world. More often than not, the public sees the technically advanced race vehicles that participate in this legendary event prior to their battle with nearly 1000 miles of brutal Mexican desert terrain.
Ernesto Araiza of Mad Media, a veteran off road racing photographer, set out to capture a set of images that display the vehicles as they are after the race. Using minimal equipment and a technique similar to light painting, Araiza captured multiple images, each with a portion of the vehicle lit by a single Elinchrom strobe attached to a Godox medium stripbox. Once he had enough individual images of the vehicle lit from different angles, he stitched them all together in Photoshop to create a single stunning image that features all of the dust and glory collected along the arduous adventure down the Baja peninsula.
There's no better race vehicle to show what Baja is about than a Class 11 race car. Class 11 is a race category in the SCORE racing series in which vehicles are stock VW bugs. No modifications are allowed other than for safety.
"Bochito" captured by Ernesto Araiza of Mad Media.
Dennis Hollenbeck is the general manager of Casa Esperanza, an orphanage that operates at the outskirts of the city of Ensenada where the race starts and finishes. He "races to inspire" as he puts it, bringing hope and joy to the kids in the orphanage.
Araiza focuses on other stories from the race as well, such as the one belonging to Elias Hanna. Hanna and his Trophy-Truck Spec, (a vehicle category that is unlimited in terms of modifications, but with a sealed spec engine) drove the entire Baja 1000 without ever changing driver – something referred to as Ironman, and a task very few people dare to do. During the race Elias lost a piece from his race truck's front suspension, having to replace it and costing him 20 minutes in pits. Even with the unexpected downtime, he managed to finish second in class almost 19 hours after starting the race.
Image by Ernesto Araiza, Mad Media.
Photographers such as Araiza spend countless hours scouting locations, braving the elements, and photographing these remarkable teams. The skills developed over years of doing this can be equally as remarkable. I can't wait to see more from this refreshingly original set of images.
Images used with permission of Ernesto Araiza of Mad Media.
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Shortly after my daughter was born, two years ago, I was asked by the Star Tribune to write about the experience of being a first-time father. A weekly chronicle of transformation, discovery, and one-sided battles with the diaper genie. Pepin, almost as soon as she left the hospital, became part of my work.
It wasn't supposed to be this way. Writers, artists, circus performers—we don't set out to make muses of our children. But there they are, as unshakeable as skin. To write, draw, paint, or dance about them is to listen to your own breath.
Robert Besnard, growing up in the drawings of his father (and, in color, John Singer Sargent's painting).
Mia has a trove of prints by Albert Besnard, a Parisian painter, muralist, and printmaker in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and curator Rachel McGarry recently noticed how many of these prints feature his family, especially his oldest son. Robert was already something of a child celebrity in Mia's galleries—he's featured in John Singer Sargent's beloved painting of the "birthday boy" (Sargent was a friend of the family), marveling at the candles on his cake. And now McGarry has created an exhibition around him, using six of his father's drawings to suggest a childhood in progress, from toddler to 9-year-old.
Besnard, it seems safe to say, was not a helicopter dad. In Sargent's painting he is standing to the rear, almost featureless, like a shadow. His etchings of Robert are charming but unprejudiced, aching with vulnerability and stolen moments, as though we are looking at the boy through a window. They bear no relation to the maniacally smiling snapshots that fill our phones and social media.
Artist dads, like all dads, observe our children because we are responsible for them and because they are mysterious to us. But what artist dads make of our observations is how our children may eventually come to know themselves. And it is how they may come to know us: men who are most comfortable in the world when we have captured it, the better to understand and appreciate it, to say I know you.
Top image: Detail of John Singer Sargent's The Birthday Party, from 1883, on view at Mia in gallery G351.


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Two of my colleagues got a baby this week. For both of the babies I made a little cuddly animal. Cat and Rabbit of course, because that are the only examples we have around my house.
My Unicorn was featured by The Cottage Market!!
Made a cute little pear for my pear loving daughter.
Just as a try out I made this little cupcake, after I saw a pattern for making the swirly cream on top. You can find that pattern here.
One of my favourite flowers, that doesn't grow in my garden because the weather just isn't warm enough in the country I live in, is hibiscus. A couple of years ago I went to Hawaii and there are a lot of things I love about Hawaii, but hibiscus growing all around is certainly something to love!
I made a crochet version. By far not as good as the real ones, but nice enough to embellish my bathroom.
This week my Ice Cream Cones (with tutorial!) are featured by Sew Can Do!
My youngest daughter loves My Little Pony and especially the unicorns. Some time ago I found a great pattern, so I could make here one.
Around Easter I made a bunny out of an old white blanket, but I had lots of blanket left. More than enough to make two Moon Pillows for the bedrooms of my daughters.
Last week I shared a crochet pineapple, as one of the fruits I love when summer is coming. Only the fresh ones, of course. But my all time favorite is watermelon.
The combination watermelon, feta cheese and mint leaves makes the best summer salad in the world! Best winter salad, too, but in my corner of the world watermelon isn't widely available in wintertime.
This week both my Kid's Tapestry Bag and my Jellyfish were featured by Fine Craft Guild. The bag was also featured by Creative Jewish Mom and the Jellyfish was also featured by Creating my Way to Succes.
Both my daughters love ice cream and fortunately there's an ice cream bar just around the corner, where fresh ice cream is made the whole day through in every flavour you can imagine.
My own favorite is raspberry, but my daughters love melon and mango, so that's the flavours I made. If you want to make your own, here's a tutorial.
Maybe you remember that Bunny with Hoodie I made a couple of weeks ago. I made a cat version, too.


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Where Roots And Wings Entwine: Weleda White Mallow baby skincare products - review.
Weleda White Mallow baby skincare products - review.
I've loved Weleda for a number of years now. When Bug was a baby their range of baby skincare Calendula products were my favourite baby skincare products and their Chamomilla 3X granules were a lifesaver when he was teething.
As I love Weleda and their natural and organic products it was no surprise that when I had Jelly Bean I once again visited the Weleda website to stock up on their products, especially the Baby Calendula Nappy Change Cream which has been loved by parents for 30 years.
With my love of Weleda once again revived I was delighted to be able to try out their newer range of baby skincare products – Weleda Baby White Mallow products.
This award winning face cream (RPP £9.95) is made using carefully selected natural and organic ingredients, 97% organic ingredients in fact! Not only does it include 97% organic ingredients but it has also been NATRUE certified as 100% natural, being fragrance free with no essential oils, synthetic perfume, artificial additives or mineral oils. The face cream is made of a gentle blend of precious extracts of organic White Mallow, pansy, organic coconut oil and organic sesame oil.
The fragrance free face cream is designed to care for delicate baby skin and is also suitable for sensitive adult skin. The dermatologically tested face cream is suitable for vegetarians.
The White Mallow face cream boasts being good for calming skin, providing intensive moisture and care, soothing irritated skin, reliving itching, as well as strengthening the skin's protective barrier and providing protection against harmful environmental stimuli.
The 50ml tube is great to use and easy to apply. The face velvety cream rubs in well and is absorbed by the skin brilliantly, it is not greasy, and leaves skin feeling silky smooth. The face cream has a delicate aroma of white musk and coconut oil which subtly lingers on the skin long after use.
The face cream nourishes Jelly Bean's sensitive facial skin, providing constant hydration for hours after use. I love that as the face cream is made from natural ingredients it is mild enough to be used several times a day if needed.
Since using the face cream Jelly Bean's skin is looking healthy and nourished and thanks to the calming protective layer from the prime plant ingredient, White Mallow his skin is no longer being irritated by teething dribble and harsh chilly winds from our outdoor adventures and school runs.
The White Mallow Body Lotion (RRP £11.95) is also award winning, fragrance free and organic. The certified organic body lotion is 95% organic and suitable for vegetarians. Like the face cream it features precious extracts of organic White Mallow and Pansy to soothe skin prone to irritation. It also has organic coconut oil and organic sesame oil for intensive care moisturising, cooling and soothing.
The 200ml bottle is easy to use and the lotion is dispersed nicely with the shaped bottle fitting great in the hand as you squeeze out the lotion for use.
The body lotion is thinner in consistency compared to the face cream, with the milky lotion massaging well into the skin and absorbing into the skin relatively quickly.
Fortunately Jelly Bean's skin does not suffer from any irritations so I have not been able to see if it would help soothe irritation. The body lotion has been great for providing moisturising care, with his skin feeling super soft and healthy.
We have loved the new range of Weleda skincare products for baby and will be using them for a long time to come. The White Mallow products have joined the Weleda Calendula products as firm baby skincare favourites in our household.


This video explains the f-stop scale used in photography and video. It explains what f-stop actually is and why the f-stop numbers are what they are. I also give an easy trick for remember the entire f-stop scale.
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The Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842
How the Treaty Smoothed US-Canadian Relations
Along the US-Canadian Border. Joe Raedle / Getty Images
A major achievement in diplomacy and foreign policy for post-revolutionary America, the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842 peacefully eased tensions between the United States and Canada by resolving several long-standing border disputes and other issues.
Key Takeaways: Webster-Ashburton Treaty
The Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842 peacefully settled several long-standing issues and border disputes between the United States and Canada.
The Webster-Ashburton Treaty was negotiated in Washington, D.C., between U.S. Secretary of State Daniel Webster and British diplomat Lord Ashburton starting on April 4, 1842.
Key issues addressed by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty included the location of the U.S.-Canadian border, the status of American citizens involved in the Canadian rebellion of 1837, and the abolition of the international trade of enslaved people.
The Webster–Ashburton Treaty established the U.S.-Canadian border as drawn in the 1783 Treaty of Paris and the Treaty of 1818.
The Treaty provided that the United States and Canada would share the Great Lakes for commercial uses.
Both the United States and Canada further agreed that the international trade of enslaved people on the high seas should be banned.
Background: The 1783 Treaty of Paris
In 1775, on the brink of the American Revolution, the 13 American colonies were still part of the 20 territories of the British Empire in North America, which included the territories that would become the Province of Canada in 1841, and eventually, the Dominion of Canada in 1867.
On September 3, 1783, in Paris, France, representatives of the United States of America and King George III of Great Britain signed the Treaty of Paris ending the American Revolution.
Along with acknowledging America's independence from Britain, the Treaty of Paris created an official border between the American colonies and the remaining British territories in North America. The 1783 border ran through the center of the Great Lakes, then from Lake of the Woods "due west" to what was then believed to be the source or "headwaters" of the Mississippi River. The border as drawn gave the United States lands that had previously been reserved for Indigenous peoples of the Americas by earlier treaties and alliances with Great Britain. The treaty also granted Americans fishing rights off the coast of Newfoundland and access to the eastern banks of the Mississippi in return for restitution and compensation to British loyalists who had refused to take part in the American Revolution.
Differing interpretations of the 1783 Treaty of Paris resulted in several disputes between the United States and the Canadian colonies, most notably the Oregon Question and the Aroostook War.
The Oregon Question
The Oregon Question involved a dispute over territorial control and commercial use of the Pacific Northwest regions of North America between the United States, the Russian Empire, Great Britain, and Spain.
By 1825, Russia and Spain had withdrawn their claims to the region as a result of international treaties. The same treaties granted Britain and the United States residual territorial claims in the disputed region. Called the "Columbia District" by Britain and the "Oregon Country" by America, the contested area was defined as being: west of the Continental Divide, north of Alta California at the 42nd parallel, and south of Russian America at the 54th parallel.
Hostilities in the disputed area dated back to the War of 1812, fought between the United States and Great Britain over trade disputes, the forced service, or "impressment" of American sailors into the British Navy, and Britain's support of Native American attacks on Americans in the Northwest frontier.
After the War of 1812, the Oregon Question played an increasingly important role in international diplomacy between the British Empire and the new American Republic.
The Aroostook War
More of an international incident than an actual war, the 1838-1839 Aroostook War – sometimes called the Pork and Beans War – involved a dispute between the United States and Britain over the location of the border between the British colony of New Brunswick and the U.S. state of Maine.
While no one was killed in the Aroostook War, Canadian officials in New Brunswick arrested some Americans in the disputed areas and the U.S. State of Maine called out its militia, which proceeded to seize parts of the territory.
Along with the lingering Oregon Question, the Aroostook War highlighted the need for a peaceful compromise on the border between the United States and Canada. That peaceful compromise would come from the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842.
The Webster-Ashburton Treaty
From 1841 to 1843, during his first term as Secretary of State under President John Tyler, Daniel Webster faced several thorny foreign policy issues involving Great Britain. These included the Canadian border dispute, the involvement of American citizens in the Canadian rebellion of 1837, and the abolition of international trade of enslaved people.
On April 4, 1842, Secretary of State Webster sat down with British diplomat Lord Ashburton in Washington, D.C., both men intent on working things out peacefully. Webster and Ashburton started by reaching an agreement on the boundary between the United States and Canada.
The Webster–Ashburton Treaty re-established the border between Lake Superior and the Lake of the Woods, as originally defined in the Treaty of Paris in 1783. And confirmed the location of the border in the western frontier as running along the 49th parallel up to the Rocky Mountains, as defined in the Treaty of 1818. Webster and Ashburton also agreed that the U.S. and Canada would share the commercial use of the Great Lakes.
The Oregon Question, however, remained unresolved until June 15, 1846, when the U.S. and Canada averted a potential war by agreeing to the Oregon Treaty.
The Alexander McLeod Affair
Shortly after the end of the Canadian Rebellion of 1837, several Canadian participants fled to the United States. Along with some American adventurers, the group occupied a Canadian-owned island in the Niagara River and employed a U.S. ship, the Caroline; to bring them supplies. Canadian troops boarded the Caroline in a New York harbor, seized her cargo, killed one crewman in the process, and then allowed the empty ship to drift over Niagara Falls.
A few weeks later, a Canadian citizen named Alexander McLeod crossed the border into New York where he bragged that he had helped seize the Caroline and had, in fact, killed the crewman. American police arrested McLeod. The British government claimed that McLeod had acted under the command of British forces and should be released to their custody. The British warned that if the U.S. executed McLeod, they would declare war.
While the U.S. government agreed that McLeod should not face trial for actions he had committed while under orders of the British Government, it lacked the legal authority to force the State of New York to release him to British authorities. New York refused to release McLeod and tried him. Even though McLeod was acquitted, hard feelings remained.
As a result of the McLeod incident, the Webster-Ashburton Treaty agreed on principles of international law allowing for the exchange, or "extradition" of criminals.
International Trade of Enslaved People
While Secretary Webster and Lord Ashburton both agreed that the international trade of enslaved people on the high seas should be banned, Webster refused to Ashburton's demands that the British be allowed to inspect U.S. ships suspected of carrying enslaved people. Instead, he agreed that the U.S. would station warships off the coast of Africa to search suspected ships flying the American flag. While this agreement became part of the Webster–Ashburton Treaty, the U.S. failed to vigorously enforce its ship inspections until the Civil War began in 1861.
The Case of the Ship Creole
Though it was not specifically mentioned in the treaty, Webster-Ashburton also brought a settlement to the enslavement-related case of the Creole.
In November 1841, the U.S. ship Creole was sailing from Richmond, Virginia, to New Orleans with 135 enslaved people on board. Along the way, 128 of those enslaved escaped their chains and took over the ship killing one of the White traders. As commanded by those enslaved, the Creole sailed to Nassau in the Bahamas where the enslaved people were set free.
The British government paid the United States $110,330 because under international law at the time officials in the Bahamas did not have the authority to free those enslaved. Also outside the Webster-Ashburton treaty, the British government agreed to end the impressment of American sailors.
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COSTA MESA, California – Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert is playing the biggest game of his young NFL career. Beat the Las Vegas Raiders Sunday night at Allegiant Stadium (20:20 ET, NBC), and the Chargers get to the playoffs for the first time since 2018. Loss, and it's back to, well, there's always next season.
Herbert will never say that – he is too humble and modest – but he knows the effort and there is no doubt that he is excited, which is different from being nervous. He's been through the nerves before – in sixth grade he tried to get on the travel team, made a come-from-behind win over Wisconsin in the 2020 Rose Bowl at college in Oregon and was thrown into the starting lineup minutes before his second game. NFL career last year after Tyrod Taylor was injured.
But Herbert has had good coaches, good builders of the brick wall who have given him a structure to stand on, win or lose. Those who know him well say he's still more than excited every day (and somewhat in disbelief) that he's going to go out and throw to receivers Keenan Allen and Mike Williams, handing over to running back Austin Ekeler, face defensive Joey Bosa and try to figure out what security Derwin James Jr. is underway.
"Fridays at 3pm, when the rest of our facility is empty, he and I are the last ones here," Chargers coach Brandon Staley said. "It never ceases to amaze me. The peace and quiet, the serenity of a professional building where you are a little at the end of the week, your quarterback is still here. It never ceases to amaze me, but it do it in the same way. It's a reminder of why he earns all he earns. "
And why Herbert is in the situation he's in.
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There are two teams playing Sunday night with a chance to advance to the playoffs, and Herbert's Chargers squad (9-7) is one of them. That's pretty cool for a 23-year-old in his second season in the NFL. Staley realizes that, too.
"I've been in a lot of games like this in my lifetime, not in the NFL as a head coach, but I think every time you're in a game like this where a lot is at stake, it's down to your preparation and you trust your game and treat that week as if it has its own life, "Staley said. "You have to roll into this week, you have to roll into your team and make sure you have the focus, the level of detail that the week requires.
"That's what we're trying to do; establish that consistency and performance over the course of the week. I like the way we're kind of got started as a team, with me in my first year. I think We are always getting better. We have to do that this week. "
James and other teammates are still surprised that Herbert set the franchise record for single seasons for passing touchdowns last week, throwing his 35th of the season in a 34-13 win over the Denver Broncos to break a record set by Philip Rivers in 2008, and celebrated by tackling by Williams, who caught the 45-yard touchdown pass.
"I do not like the guys tackling each other out there," James said. "But it was great to see their celebration and the team's camaraderie together, where everyone connected to the special moment."
During the celebration, Herbert tried to hide from the camera, which pursued every movement. He did not want the attention.
"Justin Herbert is a superstar," James said of his quarterback, who is missing 369 yards to pass 5,000 yards this season. "If you were to be around him, he's so humble. He does not like the limelight. You have nothing but respect for such a guy."
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Herbert will have a chance to earn even more national respect on Sunday against the Raiders (9-7), who have won three straight to establish the showdown. The Chargers beat the Raiders in their first meeting, a 28-14 win in Week 4 at SoFi Stadium.
What are Herbert and Staley talking about the Friday afternoons when the sun starts to set and the preparation week is about to run out?
"I usually go into the quarterback's room before I go," Staley said. "Know that he's there, just to connect before the weekend, the silence before the storm. When you're towards the end of the week, you're trying to get into that room, how it's all with the preparation, and now you're coming into the space of how it's time to perform. It's one of those spaces during the week that I've enjoyed. At the same time, it's one of those reminders of what makes him really special. "
Just do not ask Herbert about it.
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Dec 21 2020 - 05:00 PM
Today In History: Winter Solstice
Here on the floor of my room is the turning point of the sun,
Beyond the edge of the rug, not far from the bookshelves.
The movements of earth and sun in the vastness of space
Are focused here, where the window looking south,
Observing the universe, marks upon my floor,
In this shaft of yellow light, the march of the seasons.
The narrow oaken plank with the lozenge of oblong grain
Is the place of the solstice. There the sun stands still
For several days at noon-- and there it turns
To flow, so slowly, back again to the window,
On its way to the waiting corners of the garden.
-- Roland English Hartley
Occurring in mid-December, Winter Solstice recognizes the birth of the new solar year and the beginning of Winter, which astronomically lasts until the Spring Equinox, when the Sun shines directly on the equator and the length of day and night is almost equal — this year until March 20th. Today, December 21st, 2020, the Earth's axis tilts furthest away from the Sun, causing, for a brief instant, a shortening of the day and lengthening of the night. We have but nine hours and fifteen minutes of daylight, with the sun rising at 7:16am and setting at 4:32pm.
Culturally the event has been interpreted by many different countries as a time of renewal and rebirth, intricately connected to celebrations around this time, including Yule, Christmas, Saturnalia, and many others.
As the snow melts after recent closure of the campus due to inclement weather, join the Gottesman Libraries in appreciating the environmental and historical significance of the Winter Solstice and be inspired for the beginning of a new season, with many happy and healthy returns.
The following articles are drawn from Proquest Historical Newspapers, which informs and inspires classroom teaching and learning.
The Winter Solstice. (1887, Dec 06). New York Times (1857-1922)
The Heavens In December: The Sun At the Southerly Point Of Its Journey. (1893, Nov 26). New York Times (1857-1922)
Serviss, G.P. S. (1913, Feb 16). When Winter Is Coldest: It Does Not Occur At Winter -- Solstice Because a Balance Must Be Struck Between Amount Of Heat Radiated Away At Night and That Received By Day. The Washington Post (1877-1922)
Serviss, G. P. (1916, Mar 05). The Secret Of the Changing Days. The Sun (1837-1995)
Roland, E. H. (1951, Dec 24). Winter Solstice. The Christian Science Monitor (1908-Current File)
Uncle Ray's Corner: Slanting Rays Provide Less Warmth In Winter. (1954, Dec 23). Newsday (1940-1992)
Winter Solstice. (1963, Dec 22). New York Times (1923-Current File)
Tufty, B. (1981, Dec 21). Winter Solstice. The Sun (1837-1995)
Groom, R. (1993, Dec 08). It's In the Cards: From Christmas To the Winter Solstice, A Season Of Greetings. The Washington Post (1974-Current File)
Watkins, R. (1995, Dec 13). The Winter Solstice: Soon the Sun Stops Retreating, and Dark Days Begin to Brighten. The Washington Post (1974-Current File)
Phenomena: Playing The Sun's Angles. (1995, Dec 13). The Washington Post (1974-Current File)
Ahlstrom, D. (2010, Dec 23). The Natural Cycles Behind Christmas: The Gathering That Celebrated the Winter Solstice At Newgrange This Week Was An Illustration Of the Pre-Christian Foundations Behind the Festival Of Christmas. The Irish Times (1921-Current File)
Steele, Timothy. Toward the Winter Solstice: New Poems. Athens: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, c2006. e-book
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Winter Star, by Rosalies Siebert, from the Ziegfeld Collection of International Children's Art, Courtesy of the Gottesman Libraries, Teachers College, Columbia University
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