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Prepare for a wide range of professional opportunities in fields such as law, journalism, banking, publishing and editing, advertising, medicine, management, public relations, insurance, teaching, grant and proposal writing, nonprofit work, and academic administration with a Bachelor of Arts in English from Bellarmine.
Bellarmine English graduates have gone on to success as writers and editors; in foreign relations and non-profits; in business and government; in arts and humanities; in law and medicine; and teaching in high schools and universities. They have also pursued graduate study in such areas as library science, institutional technology, technical and scientific writing, and most all humanities disciplines.
Why earn your English degree at Bellarmine?
Our small classes (10-20 students) allow professors to become acquainted with our students beyond the words on their papers and exams. Whether it's meeting new majors at our "get-to-know-you" luncheon, celebrating imminent graduation with our seniors at our annual reception, or simply sharing coffee with students in the student center, our English professors thrive on one-on-one conversation and learning with students. The English faculty know you by name and are committed to seeing you develop your talents to the fullest, always honing your skills in reading, writing, and thinking as you become the best person possible. Expect to be challenged by us. We will call you to greatness—as thinkers, as writers, and as human beings.
English is a wide-ranging field of study. Historically, it gives attention to the great variety of texts that human culture has produced over centuries. Conceptually, it aims at developing deep abilities in reading and writing. Bellarmine's English Department reflects this in the variety of courses offered and in the sequential way in which we ask our majors to approach their study. That study begins with ENGL 201, The World of Texts, which introduces the student to the basic principles underlying the discipline. The 300- and 400-level courses presume the solid grounding in literary history and critical reading skills that our 200-level courses are designed to provide. In the student's senior year, the major provides a distinct "capstone" experience through ENGL 450, the Integrative Seminar. In working through the variety of courses, students in English may expect to find themselves engaged in the reading of novels, short stories, poems, creative nonfiction, films and graphic novels, among other texts.
The program emphasizes writing as a fundamental means of learning and expression; close and creative reading of a culturally diverse range of texts; and critical thinking grounded in writing and reading.
In addition to the English major, we offer an English minor and host the Film Studies minor.
Bellarmine's Film Studies minor is designed to deepen students' perception and discernment when it comes to visual storytelling and media literacy. Movies and television shows are some of the most important and powerful cultural forms of the last century. Film Studies courses will guide students away from the habits of mere consumption toward an attentive and analytic appreciation for the complex content and structure of filmmaking. The Film Studies minor situates films within an interdisciplinary context that will increase student's ability to think critically and communicate clearly about the relationship between images, ideas, narrative, and sound. Courses also count towards the English major.
The English Department works with a variety of other Bellarmine programs such as business, philosophy, history, communication, and pre-law to personalize the educational experience of each student.
English majors will demonstrate familiarity with major texts and traditions of language and literature written in English.
English majors will be able to relate texts to the social, cultural, theoretical, and historical contexts in which they were produced.
English majors will apply a variety of literary theories and methodologies to a range of texts—literary, cultural, visual, film, and/or digital.
English majors will produce effective texts for diverse purposes, genres, and audiences.
English majors will analyze questions of justice, value, and meaning inherent to literary and cultural texts.
What courses are required to complete the program?
ENGL 201, 207, 208, 209, 210, 299, 412, 450 and fifteen hours selected from 300- and 400-level English courses. Six of those 300- and 400-level hours may be taken from these upper level Film courses: FILM 370, FILM 371, FILM 470. English majors must also complete six credits of a foreign language or satisfy the Bellarmine College of Arts and Sciences Bachelor of Arts foreign language proficiency requirement.
Within the fifteen hours of 300- and 400- level English courses, students must fulfill the following:
at least one upper-level course from American literature offerings;
at least one upper-level course from British literature offerings;
at least one 400-level course (which might coincide with #1 or #2) in addition to 412 and 450. An internship will NOT suffice for the 400-level course.
What employment opportunities are available with an English degree?
Graduates will find themselves qualified to work in such fields as law, journalism, banking, publishing and editing, advertising, medicine, management, public relations, teaching, grant and proposal writing, and academic administration. They will also be prepared for graduate study in such areas as literature, creative writing, library science, institutional technology, technical and scientific writing, and many other humanities disciplines. Students are strongly encouraged to study abroad in order to help complement their major, especially if they plan to attend graduate school. Our graduates have earned MAs, MFAs and Ph.D.s at top universities here and abroad.
Do you provide job or internship placement?
Yes. Bellarmine guarantees every student the opportunity to have an internship, develop a career plan and build a professional network. Many English majors intern for local publishing companies and law firms. Others have interned at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Music Theatre of Louisville and Walden Theatre.
Yes. Please go to Bellarmine's financial aid website for detailed information on financial aid packages. Additionally, students can work with our Faculty Development Center to apply for grants and awards outside of the Bellarmine offerings.
How many hours can I expect to spend studying outside of class time?
Students have their own learning styles so this can vary greatly. As a rule of thumb, expect to spend an average of two hours studying for every hour you spend in class.
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"No matter what profession you go into, you will need to know how to communicate, and you'd be surprised by how many professional people aren't great at it. As an English major, you not only learn how to communicate verbally and in writing, you develop critical thinking and analytical skills that will benefit you for the rest of your life. Being an English major and reading tons of books also develops your soul and keeps you relatable and empathic."
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Brian Joseph Murphy
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Westfield, Massachusetts
September 11, 2001(2001-09-11) (aged 20–21)
World Trade Centre, New York City
financial securities analyst
Family photo of Brian J. Murphy, his daughters, a niece and a nephew, shortly before he was murdered during al Qaeda's attacks on 2001-09-11.[1]
Brian Joseph Murphy was a financial securities analyst, who died during al Qaeda's attack on the World Trade Centre, on September 11, 2001.[1][2] He is notable for the efforts his two daughters have made to call for respect for the human rights of the individuals held at the USA's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
Murphy's brother, Harold, a real estate developer, took a key role in setting aside a 30 acre nature preserve on undeveloped land both brothers enjoyed when they were growing up, that was named in honor of Murphy.[3]
↑ 1.0 1.1 Cynthia G. Simison (2012-09-08). "Remembering 9/11: Ann Murphy, sister of victim Brian J. Murphy, will read names at World Trade Center ceremony". Massachusetts Live. Archived from the original on 2022-01-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20220114013551/https://www.masslive.com/living/2012/09/remembering_911_ann_murphy_sister_of_victim_brian_j_murphy_will_read_names_at_world_trade_center_cer.html. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
↑ Ann M. Murphy (2021-09-05). "9/11 20 years later: Remembering Brian J. Murphy of Westfield (Viewpoint)". Massachusetts Live. Archived from the original on 2022-01-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20220114014843/https://www.masslive.com/living/2021/09/911-20-years-later-remembering-brian-j-murphy-of-westfield-viewpoint.html. Retrieved 2022-01-13. "Graduating from Williams College in 1980, Brian established a career in finance in New York City, earning his master's degree in business administration from Columbia University."
↑ Lindsay K. Campbell (2009). Restorative Commons: Creating Health and Well-being Through Urban Landscapes. USDA Forest Service. pp. 188-190. https://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=cXi5k773X8oC&oi=fnd&pg=PA179&dq=%22Jessica+Murphy%22+OR+%22Leila+Murphy%22+OR+%22Brian+Joseph+Murphy%22+wtc&ots=455o8fdCJ4&sig=PewIe_hEc0xlVwJate6thVKC9k8#v=onepage&q=murphy&f=false. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
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Interesting relationship between the three signs.
We came across these signs when walking to visit the French Cemetery at Akaroa, east of Christchurch. It is the burial site of early French settlers who established Akaroa in the mid 1800s.


It's official. As of the end of today, I will no longer be able to shock people when they mention my home internet. 'Just download it,' says one unsuspecting person. As if telling me to go away and do it myself is being helpful. I almost enjoy the sense of what is coming. 'I can't,' I say. 'I only have dial up at home.' You can see the surprise on their faces. Every time, it's the same. Confusion. Dismay. Incomprehension. 'I thought that had gone by the wayside?' one said. 'No. I've still got it. Had it for five years.' That last bit was intended to shock them some more. It works. 'How do you cope?' they say, heartfelt in their angst for me, the digitally deprived. 'I use it at work if I need it. Or I wait.' Wait. That four letter word is the end of them. The conversation stalls, until I take pity and change the subject. So it is with great sadness that I shall no longer be able to use this phrase. I realised that I had slid into the digital dynamic when I noticed my latest monthly internet bill, and worked out that I hadn't actually taken out my landline, stuck it in my laptop, hit several keys and waited for that familiar screeching tone for at least three months. Why not, I wondered. Then it dawned on me that my smart phone, the cheapest, prepaid I could find, the one I got under sufferance so I could stay abreast of the e-tide while not paying a fortune, well it also had a cheap internet option which I had used now and then, whenever I needed it in a hurry. I just didn't need dialup anymore. Not that I'm going to change my habits. Right now, I'm typing this at the local library. But it also got me thinking. I'm having leave from work, with the aim of finishing a sequel to Road Wench. This past month has seen me take the book ahead in leaps and bounds, and I have kneaded it into the shape of a full story. DRAFT ONE IS DONE! I want to call out loud to share my joy at this progress, but I'd better not. As I said, I am in a library. However, the impending cutting of the modem line got me thinking. Maybe my technological home setup has helped me achieve my recent writing goals? I wonder whether I would have got so much done if I had ready access to blogs and research tools online at any minute of the day? I've had to discipline myself, and yes here's that word again: WAIT, so that any online research is kept until the afternoon when I permit myself a library visit. The morning has been designated for writing, the evening I'm allowed to edit if I feel like it, but I've delineated the dead zone of the afternoon when I'm most likely to nap as the only time to go online. And I really think it's helped. So even though my plan is to get better internet access on my mobile, I am going to put that off until later. Once I've rewritten the first draft, and written a synopsis, and so on. I suspect that the latent Luddite in me has been the key to finishing book two. I will miss shocking people with my dial up revelation, but perhaps this has been a more useful revelation about my writing process. That's all for now. The library is about to shut: another enforced deadline.


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Q: System.IO.FileInfo.Equals() is not returning expected result in Where LINQ extension method When attempting to return all other files from the same directory that a specified file resides in, the files being returned are including the specified file. Lets assume I have three files out in a server share on my network:

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*\\Server\Share\Path\To\file1.ext

*\\Server\Share\Path\To\file2.ext

*\\Server\Share\Path\To\file3.ext
When I attempt to filter out file2 using the .Equals() method on the FileInfo object, the file is still being included.
FileInfo theFile = new FileInfo(@"\\Server\Share\Path\To\file2.ext");
List<FileInfo> allOtherFilesList = theFile.Directory.EnumerateFiles("*").Where(f => !f.Equals(vidFile)).ToList();

//Returned files:
\\Server\Share\Path\To\file1.ext
\\Server\Share\Path\To\file2.ext
\\Server\Share\Path\To\file3.ext

If I use the .Equals() method on the FileInfo.FullName property, I am returned a list of files as I would expect
FileInfo theFile = new FileInfo(@"\\Server\Share\Path\To\file2.ext");
List<FileInfo> allOtherFilesList = theFile.Directory.EnumerateFiles("*").Where(f => !f.FullName.Equals(vidFile.FullName)).ToList();

//Returned files:
\\Server\Share\Path\To\file1.ext
\\Server\Share\Path\To\file3.ext

Surely, there is some aspect of the .Equals() method that I'm not understanding? I would have thought that two FileInfo objects representing the same file would be the same.

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Don Croft, a patriot, alternative scientist, researcher, inventor and freedom fighter has succeeded in striking the first blow against the ongoing chemtrails program that is assisting in the destruction of our country and the enslavement of its citizens! . By utilizing the research of Wilhelm Reich, assisted by his partner Carol and having help from God almighty, Don has created a cheap, portable and easy to build device that consistently destroys Chemtrails and heals the atmosphere. The Reich/Croft " chembuster" is the answer to these ongoing attacks by the forces of darkness. Unlike the original cloudbuster, the chembuster actually changes the deadly orgone energy to good orgone energy and so does NOT become saturated or dangerous to the operator.
Do not use amphetamine and dextroamphetamine if you have used an MAO inhibitor such as furazolidone (Furoxone), isocarboxazid (Marplan), phenelzine (Nardil), rasagiline (Azilect), selegiline (Eldepryl, Emsam, Zelapar), or tranylcypromine (Parnate) in the last 14 days. A dangerous drug here interaction could occur, leading to serious side effects.
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Carol and I got these specs by dowsing, and they work very, very well, though may not be the last word, if you get my drift. Let us know at [email protected] if you can successfully modify it.
BUCKET: Base: 9″ in dia., 9″ deep. I use two-gallon plastic buckets from the Home Depot paint department, but two-gallon food buckets, available from restaurants, or two-gallon spackle buckets from drywall contractors are fine. I leave the buckets on, as the handles make it easier to move the finished cloudbuster.
CRYSTALS: I glued a double-terminated quartz crystal, about 2″ long, into a .75 section of garden hose, and one of these devices is glued in turn inside each of the six copper end caps, pointing in the same direction as the pipe will be after the cap is glued on. I use 'Goop' glue. I taped around the cap where it joined the pipe to prevent resin from leaking into the cap during casting. David at [email protected] sells suitable crystals for cloudbusters.
arent quite as good as ones that will easily go through a window screen & slightly bigger ones are okay. There really is a wide margin of suitability! .
PLYWOOD: Template 1 – 3/4 exterior plywood is used to make the base for the copper endcaps/pipes. I arrange the six pipes evenly around a 2 1/2 radius circle, which makes the pipes 2 1/2 apart on centers. A flat, 1 1/4 auger bit drills a suitable hole for each end cap.
Template 2 – Make another piece to fit inside the rim of the bucket. Remember to cut a section away so you can fit your fingers under it to remove it from the bucket. This piece is not part of the finished CB, just used to get the spacing for the pipes right during construction. Cut the holes in this with a 1 1/8 flat bit so that it will fit well over the six pipes. This piece will hold the pipes in position while the second batch of resin hardens.
Cut six pipes, 12″ long, and put the cyrstals/endcaps on them for the base. Buy six joints which allow a pipe to come into them from both directions and stop at the middle. This allows you to make the rest of the pipe assembly from three pipes, 10′ long, cut in half. The finished product leaves you with only one piece of pipe, four feet long leftover.
at the dead orgone field above it for a week.
onfiguration apparently only affects the atmosphere.
Do be discriminating which ufos you aim at, though. If they are not predatory and you make them mad, they may pay you back by messing with your carburetor or something, as they did to us once. The really advanced ones are not susceptible to the cloudbuster, as they apparently dont need a deadly orgone field to operate. Our take is that all but these use nuclear fusion or some other noxious, old-paradigm energy source. Its open season on the B Sirian craft and other predatory ones, as far as were concerned. They cant hurt you, by the way, if you arent afraid of them. Universal law restricts them more than it does us. We can pay later for breaking it, but they are just unable to break it, apparently.
Cloudbusters destroy chemtrails consistently. It may take a few days for your cloudbuster to activate the environment enough to do this, but after that point the spew will disappear within seconds of leaving the UN jets and dissipated trails that drift within range of the couldbuster will also disperse, but more slowly. The ones that are made up of solids take longer to dissipate, but weve found that these only make up about 10% or so of the spewing episodes.
Dr. Reichs cloudbusters were extremely dangerous when in operation since he had no orgone generator attached to them. Bad orgone does carry a charge which can quickly drain ones life force away when its concentrated in one spot. It's slightly similar to a strong positively charges static electrical field. When cloudcover is unproductive or unbalanced (too much lightning, for instance, or too much rain) the cloudbuster busts it up. We plowed a furrow through a line of artificially created thunderstorm in June, 2001. Carol said the square-shaped thunderheads were chock full of predatory ET's, bent on mutilating animals at the time.
It also stops droughts. Overall, it just balances the weather, I think it sort of mediates between the ground and the atmosphere somehow.The one in Namibia finally brought heavy rain to the desert there. It happened 9/5/01, and continued for several days. Gert, the fellow who made the cloudbuster and reported the occurrence, told me that this had simply never happened in the Namibia desert before to the best of anyone's knowledge. It's arguably the driest region on the planet.
WARNING: If you touch the pipes when theyre drawing in strong unbalanced or dead orgone and dont put your hand on the base after that, you may experience headaches, even into the next day, as a friend of ours did recently.
If you want to clear out the unpleasant entities from your immediate environment, expel parasitic/predatory ETs from your auric field, neutralize the energetic effects of chemtrails, etc., just make one or more of these and put it on the ground or in your house, according to your intuitive promptings.
My partner, Carol, and I have found ! them very effective for minimizing the deadly orgone fields around nuke plants, even the ones built on natural vortices (sick puppies did that intentionally). They also heal and strengthen all natural vortices and man-made ones, like the Caribbean Blue Holes. Life doesn't have to be difficult and years of training and discipline are no longer necessary if you want to do big magic, to which I can bear witness. In the new (present) paradigm ones character and intention count more than training and institutional acclaim.
If you can dowse with a pendulum or rods, etc., that may be the best way to find the right spot to put a HHG. Its especially effective when placed on a ley line and especially on the junction of two or more of these, but this isnt necessary. Every room and building has its own dynamics, so you could dowse for the correct spot based on that.
If your house is built on one of these leyline junctions, though, lucky you! More often than not these days the vortices produced by these nodes are distorted and even backward-spinning. The HHG very quickly heals and redirects these on its own. You dont need to do anything else (dont hate me because Ive given you an easy, inclusive way to do this ;-). If youre a weird science guru or wannabe youre probably not reading this anyway). Most of us just want to have a nice feeling in the house and immediate vicinity. You can put a HHG anywhere for this.
A plastic funnel or cardboard party hat (tape the seam so the resin doesnt leak out) To form a point at the end of the funnel, saw off the spout and form a point with 2 wide masking tape, being sure to prevent leaks. The funnel will allow you to make several from this mold. Party hats are better if you just want to make one. When I make them with party hats, I leave the hats on the finished HHg.
A couple of cups of aluminum particles (OR a pint of BBs). I use aluminum from the crosscut saws in shops that use extruded aluminum a lot, such as large sign shops, fabrication plants, etc. Some plastic and/or wood in the sweepings is fine. I pick out the cigarette butts for aestheic considerations 😉 Larger towns and cities have recycling businesses that have the aluminum particles in large bins, which they sell cheaply.
happen, myself. One of mine did turn clear when I went to the Bahamas. Im pretty sure the Atlantean energy at the Mars Bay blue hole did that.
The plastic funnel needs to be big enough to make a 4 high cone. The bigger the cone, the more powerful the HHG. I encourage you to experiment with different configurations. Let me know what you find out, please, since youll likely surpass my own efforts thus far. We made one 7 high for the vortex at the secret underground base near San Diego from which a few investigators never returned. We deployed that one on 6/16/01. Boy, are they mad at us! Wed never been surveilled so much before that day.
Put some aluminum particles or BBs in the bottom, enough to make the vertical crystal stand on its own. I put the better defined end of the double terminated crystal toward the point of the cone.
Put enough aluminum particles or BBs to cover the rest of the vertical crystal and pour enough resin in to cover that.
Place the other four double terminated crystals horizontally, aligned 90 degrees apart so that the four compass directions will be covered when youre ready to deploy the HHG.
Cover the four crystals with aluminum particles or BBs and cover that with resin. At this point, make the funnel level, either visually or with a spirit level (the ruler with the bubble thing built into it). You dont need to get it perfect, but perfect is a little better than not. I never fill it to the edge of the funnel, since this makes it harder to finish off and is pretty messy.
If you want to make a really big one, make a paper cone (taping the seam) out of a big piece of thin poster board and tape that into a large funnel. Well be putting a big one in the reservoir in San Diego [done, June 01] and at the huge vortex southeast of Bimini soon. Those vortices are particularly big and distorted for some reason.
Remember that lining up with the compass points is not critical. I put small parachutes on the ones I use in deep water locations so that theyll be upright when they reach bottom.
Make a mark on the flat part of the hardened material now so youll know how the four bottom crystals are aligned, since you cant see them any more.
Take the now-usable but crude HHG out of the funnel now and file the material at the little end down to create a point on the cone. I use a rough belt on my belt sander for this, but feel free to do it the hard way. You can file the edges of the bottom a little if you dont want to cut yourself with it later.
You can make it a little better by getting fancy crystals if you want. You can probably improve it in other ways, in which case, please inform me at [email protected] I wont make these for money but feel free to do so yourself. Ive capitalized this way on the pioneering work of other people.
at www.spiritherbs.com, who is also a Wingmakers aficionada.
Do all of the above in a smaller funnel . The resulting cone should be under 2 or so, simply because this is easier to use. Youll need non-ferrous metal, preferably aluminum because its easier to tool.
Instead of quartz, get an amethyst gemstone for the top and a garnet gemstone for the bottom, center (we use 9mm amethysts and 6mm garnets). In between, put a strong neodymium magnet. North side down is customary, but when a single magnet is used, weve found that it doesnt matter which pole is toward the body. This is true only when an array is used which causes one pole to be dominant in the field. Be sure to get some aluminum material around the magnet before pouring more resin in so it doesnt jump toward the can holding the funnel. BBs arent appropriate for this, since theyll just ball up around the magnet and drive you berserk.
You need to allow enough space in the pointy end to round off the point to about a half inch diameter without assaulting the amethyst during the rounding process. I use a belt sander to round off the top but you can do it with a file or a rough rock if youre a Luddite.
Rounding the top makes it better than the big HHG for directing energy through the bottom into the human body, especially at chakras. This one is fun to wear over the crown chakra or sixth chakra. A new meaning for the term,party hat. It does seriously get rid of pain and will speed healing to any part of the body. It also prevents nightmares and promotes lucid dreaming and meditation. When Im meditating, some accuse me of sleeping. The occasional snoring is done just to jerk them around – self righteous twits!
this one, contact me for further instructions (thanks, Linda!).
My frustration with the orgone accumulator's fickle behavior was answered three years ago, when one of my customers directed my attention to www.orgone.net he was actually experiencing some frustration, since he paid $500 for $5 worth of epoxy and metal particles, and apparently nothing else.


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US President Donald Trump has doubled down on a plan for US$5.8b 'see-through steel barrier' at the border, after dangling more money for humanitarian help to end the US government shutdown.
By: Felicia Sonmez
US President Donald Trump lashed out at House speaker Nancy Pelosi over stalled negotiations to end the partial government shutdown while rejecting conservative claims that his offer of temporary deportation protections for young immigrants amounts to amnesty.
In a morning tweet, Trump claimed that Pelosi and other Democrats "turned down my offer yesterday before I even got up to speak".
"They don't see crime & drugs, they only see 2020 - which they are not going to win. Best economy! They should do the right thing for the Country & allow people to go back to work," he said.
Trump also argued that Pelosi, whom he had not directly criticised earlier in the shutdown negotiations, has "behaved so irrationally & has gone so far to the left that she has now officially become a Radical Democrat".
"She is so petrified of the 'lefties' in her party that she has lost control ... And by the way, clean up the streets in San Francisco, they are disgusting!" Trump said.
Pelosi fired back at Trump on Twitter with a reminder that "800,000 Americans are going without pay".
"Re-open the government, let workers get their [pay] and then we can discuss how we can come together to protect the border," she said.
The squabbling came as the longest government shutdown in history entered its 30th day with prospects for a quick resolution still slim, troubling news for the 800,000 federal employees who have gone without pay and are resorting to food banks, charity and nongovernment jobs to get by.
Nancy, I am still thinking about the State of the Union speech, there are so many options - including doing it as per your written offer (made during the Shutdown, security is no problem), and my written acceptance. While a contract is a contract, I'll get back to you soon!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 20, 2019
Yesterday, Trump had offered Democrats three years of deportation protections for some immigrants in exchange for US$5.7 billion in border wall funding. The proposal was immediately rejected by Democrats and derided by conservatives as amnesty.
Nonetheless, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said he will move ahead this week on Trump's proposal. He faces an uphill climb in breaking the Senate's 60-vote threshold of a filibuster, with Democrats insisting that they will not negotiate on immigration until Trump reopens the government.
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Trump sought today to rebut conservative critiques of his latest proposal, maintaining in a tweet that "No, Amnesty is not a part of my offer."
"It is a 3 year extension of DACA," Trump said, referring to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme. "Amnesty will be used only on a much bigger deal, whether on immigration or something else. Likewise there will be no big push to remove the 11,000,000 plus people who are here illegally - but be careful Nancy!"
Trump's reference to amnesty in the tweet could create confusion and is unlikely to help the president get his plan through Congress.
McConnell, who has said repeatedly only bills with support of Trump and Dems can end shutdown, says he will hold vote on Trump proposal - even though Dems are rejecting it. "Everyone has made their point—now it's time to make a law. I intend to move to this legislation this week"
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) January 19, 2019
Asked about Trump's tweet, Senator James Lankford, R, said on ABC that he wasn't certain what the President meant. "What I don't know is what the President's talking about there, to say amnesty really involves a much larger group," Lankford said. "That's a longer debate and obviously not something we can solve quickly."
In an interview on Fox News," Vice-President Mike Pence reiterated that Trump's proposal "is not amnesty" because "there's no pathway to citizenship."
"There's no permanent status here at all, which is what amnesty contemplates," Pence said. But in a separate interview on CBS, Pence declined to elaborate on whether Trump's tweet meant that he was leaving the door open to amnesty in the future.
"I'll let the President's words stand," Pence said. He added that Trump is "absolutely determined" to build "234 miles of additional steel barrier" along the US-Mexico border, which the White House outlined in a letter to lawmakers earlier this month.
Other Democrats rallied behind Pelosi and dismissed Trump's latest proposal.
🚨Giuliani is doubling down on his claim that the Trump Tower Moscow negotiations lasted until Nov 2016.
If true, Trump was secretly trying to strike a multimillion $ deal with Moscow even after FBI warned him of the counterintel threat posed by Russia.https://t.co/H6m7T1zQSl
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) January 20, 2019
Asked by NBC's Chuck Todd whether Trump's offer signals "progress," Senator Mark Warner said the government must first reopen before any work on border security can commence.
"We cannot reward the kind of behaviour of hostage taking," Warner said. "If the President can arbitrarily shut down the government, he will do it time and time again."
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who is pursuing a 2020 presidential bid, said on CNN that her counter-offer to Trump would be "what we put on the table a year ago and voted for, which was to protect all dreamers".
Gillibrand held some similar positions to Trump on immigration in 2008, when she said she was a "firm opponent" of giving amnesty to undocumented immigrants and called for English to be the official language of the United States. CNN's Jake Tapper pressed her on whether those positions - which she now calls Trump "racist" for holding - meant she was racist at the time.
"They certainly weren't empathetic, and they weren't kind, and I didn't think about suffering in people's lives," Gillibrand said. "I realised that things I had said were wrong. I was not caring about others. I was not fighting for other people's kids the same way I was fighting for my own."
In a White House address, Trump had proposed a reprieve on his attempts to end the DACA programme and temporary protected status (TPS) for immigrants from some Latin American and African nations, in exchange for building hundreds of kilometres of barriers on the southern US border and hiring thousands of new law enforcement agents to be deployed there.
Mitch McConnell announced that he would bring the legislation to the Senate floor for a vote in the coming week. But Pelosi dismissed the proposal as a "non-starter" and vowed that Democrats would pass their own legislation to reopen the government, putting the onus on the Senate to follow suit.
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TG4XX BEO – 20th Anniversary Live Show
We worked with Gifted Empire productions to produce TG4XX BEO for TG4.
Dónal O'Connor was the Senior Producer/Music Supervisor and Cormac O'Kane was Broadcast sound supervisor whilst Richard Browne was broadcast sound assistant.
TG4 to celebrate their 20th birthday with a special Oíche Shamhna live extravaganza!
TG4XX Beo is a 360º visual feast celebrating Ireland's rich culture, language, music and dance.
TG4XX Beo is about old traditions and new directions fusing together – music, dance, songs, guests and conversation representing our culture at it's very best. Featuring: Hothouse Flowers, Máirtín O'Connor Big Band, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh & Séamus Barra Ó Súilleabháin, PRODIJIG, Duke Special & Ulaid – McSherry, O'Connor, Graham, Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh & Emma Ní Fhíoruisce le Eve Belle & Megan Nic Ruairí, IMLÉ le Maitiú Ó Casaide, Nell Ní Chróinín & Seamus Begley, Pólca 4, Kormac & Daithí Liam Ó Maonlaí and a specially curated performance with choirs from various Gaeltacht communities plus many more.
Oíche Shamhna provides the backdrop for this magical night with thirty specially created characters, created by Billy Mag Fhloinn, taking centre stage for an evening of extraordinary festivities. TG4XX Beo will take place in venues all over the country, from the main central purpose built pavilion at the NUIG Quad in the heart of Galway city, from the home of TG4 in Baile na hAbhann in the Connemara Gaeltacht as well as two satellite units, one at the western tip of the Dingle Peninsula in west Kerry Gaeltacht at the legendary Páidí Ó Sé pub and the second in Donegal at Ionad Cois Locha, Gweedore.
The very special guest at the Quad in NUIG will be Uachtarán na hÉireann, Michael D Higgins who will give a live address during the programme. His presence is of particular significance, given that one of his most praised achievements as Arts Minister in the 1990s was the establishment of Teilifís na Gaeilge, now TG4. He is held in particular affection for that. A very special welcome will surely be extended to him.
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What is a great vanilla or citrus fragrance?
More specifically, I'm looking for one that is not so literal. By this I mean smelling purely of vanilla or citrus without any other notes. I'd like to find something with a bit of complexity, so I don't smell like a bottle of vanilla extract or a slice of lemon. And not too sweet or sharp. Please name specific fragrances and brands. Thanks.
Try Tom Ford's men's cologne, it's called Tobacco Vanille, it's the best vanilla fragrance I could think of. I have it and I love it.
I would check out Bath and Body Works website. All their products list what notes are in it.
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Studio Appétit in collaboration with Oialla designed "Room Service", a series of chocolate pieces destined to luxury hotel's customers.
Those little chocolates, precisely sculpted, can be engraved with customer's initials and have the goal to take the lucky tasters into a "sensorial journey".
The Studio Appétit directed this eating experience creating a deluxe collection for hotels, restaurants and the hospitality industry. It combines different design disciplines, as branding and photography, with culinary creativity; this multidisciplinary approach, allows the studio to create unique eating experiences combing the highest standards from the culinary world with the hottest trends and approaches to design, interior and experience.
"We believe that when entering a restaurant, one doesn't come just to eat with his mouth but to an all round experience for all the senses that starts with the Logo followed by the service and down to every edible part and the way it is served. The menu design is as important as its contents and flavors." explain the creative team.


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Bongbong Marcos wants to bring to whole country his successful health program in Ilocos Norte
Vice presidential candidate Senator Ferdinand "Bongbong" R. Marcos, Jr. today said he wants to replicate in the entire country the successful health care program he began in Ilocos Norte during his stint as governor of the province.
Speaking before the officials and employees of the Chinese General Hospital, led by its president and chairman of the board Dr. James Dy, Marcos said the health program he has started in Ilocos Norte should be duplicated for the rest of the country because it has enabled those in the far-flung areas to have access to doctors and other health programs.
"My solution was to bring health care to the people," said Marcos. First, Marcos said they conducted medical missions four times a month in isolated barangays. He added that they created a database of medical records of residents, making diagnosis and treatment easier in their subsequent visits.
Likewise, Marcos said he adopted a policy to provide health insurance to 75 percent of the residents of the province who did not have any health insurance coverage with the cost shouldered by the provincial government.
He said they not only achieved the 75 percent target coverage but the program even became self-sustaining later.
Eventually, Marcos said the medical missions were institutionalized into Rural Health Units with permanently assigned nurse and midwife and a doctor available for at least 2 days of the week to cater to basic health problems of residents.
"Now our residents especially those in far-flung barangays, who had found it difficult to go to hospitals not only because they lack money for transportation, but also because of other concerns such as having to leave their family and their work, have regular and easy access to health care professionals and workers and our health programs," he pointed out.
Because of his pioneering efforts, the Department of Health (DOH) has lauded the all-out efforts of the provincial government of Ilocos Norte to implement the Universal Health Care program to attain its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) targets by 2016. It noted that Ilocos Norte is doing well in achieving the universal health care particularly addressing the five programs in maternal care, infant care, under five, HIV/AIDS and the establishment of a Service Delivery Network.
Marcos earlier called for more RHUs in the country, saying majority of health problems people experience were common ailments that health personnel of the RHUs and barangay health centers can adequately address.
The senator stressed the importance of basic health care saying nobody can be productive unless he has good health.
"Poor health is the great equalizer—it does not recognize status. It does not discriminate if you're rich or poor. That is why the first thing I did when I became governor of Ilocos Norte was to strengthen our health care system," said Marcos.
"And that is the same thing I want to do for our country," he added.
Matagumpay na health program sa Ilocos Norte, gustong gawin ni Bongbong Marcos sa buong bansa
Let us end years of divisiveness


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Robert C. Dunlap served as the 1955-1956 SEG President
Biography for SEG Presidential Candidacy [1]
Robert C. Dunlap, Jr., was graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1933 with a B.S. and Honors in Geology, and took postgraduate work in geology and geophysics at Harvard University in 1933-1934.
In July, 1934 he was employed by Geophysical Service Inc., as a computer and was promoted to party chief in 1937. In 1943 he became a field supervisor and in 1949 was made vice-president in charge of the Pacific Coast Division of the company. He has worked in the Gulf Coast, mid-Continent, Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast areas. At present he is located in Dallas, Texas, as vice-president of domestic operations.
Mr. Dunlap is a member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists and The American Association of Petroleum Geologists. He has served the SEG as secretary treasurer of the Pacific Coast Section in 1947-1948; president of the Pacific Coast Section in 1948-1949; a member of the Standing Committee on Distinguished Lectures in 1949-1950; secretary treasurer of the Society in 1951-1952; chairman, Standing Committee on public Relations, 1953 to present; and general chairman, Midwestern Regional Meeting in Dallas, 1954. Currently, he is president of the Dallas Geophysical Society.
↑ Geophysics, Vol. XX, No. 2, April 1955.
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300 days ago, Michelle created this page in support of Tuberous Sclerosis Australia Incorporated.
So I've signed up for City to Surf, and actively doing some training, and I thought I'd seek to do some fundraising while I'm at it to support a research program focused on newborn babies with a rare genetic disorder called Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (or TSC for short).
The research focusses on epilepsy (uncontrollable seizures) in newborns and is being run out of TSC clinic in Brisbane, in collaboration with TSC experts around the world. Through this research a life changing early intervention program is being developed for these little people. This involves monitoring and treating seizures aggressively with both medication and surgery. The early results of the research to date suggest this intervention program will drastically reduce these babies' risk of lifelong seizures, autism and intellectual impairment.
The challenge: There is no commitment to funding the finalisation of this research, either through government or other means, which is not much in the grand scheme of things ($60K). Once funded, the results can be written up, published and put into clinical practice. The sooner we do this, the more Australian babies will benefit from this life-changing and hope-giving new treatment approach.
The ask: I want to make a dent in getting this funded sooner rather than later. 60K is aspirational, 6K (or 10%) is what I'll look to target, but any contribution that you could make would be really appreciated.
As a parent of a small person, my heart breaks when I hear these families stories. As someone that lived with childhood epilepsy it's a scary thing for a kid to go through, and these little people are dealing with the worst possible kind. This is my way of helping, if there was any chance you could help me along the way I'd really appreciate it.


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Tories take Norwich putting The Ego under Pressure
No surprise in the Norwich by-election with Tory Chloe Smith snatching the seat from new Labour candidate Chris Ostrowski, who was brought in to run after the enforced resignation of Labour expenses scapegoat Dr. Ian Gibson. (Amidst much comment from locals in support of Gibson's track record for the locals, Labour central office manage to, once again, snatch defeat from the jaws of a dwindling fuss on MP propriety).
New malcontents inevitably drift out of the woodwork that is the Labour backbenches. Kate Hoey cautiously criticising Brown on BBC Breakfast today, seeing a General Election rather than a leadership challenge being the next event to face the Prime Minister. Interesting to hear that dirty tricks from Labour were employed – a natural extension of their Leader's approach to political life, it reflects what I have come to understand of Brown's values.
Useful that Gibson's outing has brought the expenses row back into the light. MPs must have been awaiting the slow and silent death of the story yet it remains my fervent wish that the pressure remains on the Commons to clean house. Will it happen ? Given the ridiculous nature of modern British politics, this seems unlikely. Laws and rules which apply to mere mortals are only enforced for the political 'elite' when the media glare rains down on it. Shame.
Business as usual, then. Worth keeping an eye on the press as well as challenging your own MP to 'fess up. Continue to demand service from elected members. They must be made to realise that winning a seat is not like winning Big Brother. Far from guaranteed press attention, money and glamour, this is when their work actually starts. They would do well to remember it.
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Today Paul Maritz and Steven Herrod announced the release of VMware vSphere 5. This release is the next step in VMware's cloud operating system. It is the industry leading platform for building cloud infrastructures.
compatible public cloud offerings, paving the way to the only hybrid cloud model.
Scalability and Performance – Enables Virtual Machines (VM) to grow up to 32 virtual CPUs, can support 1TB vRAM, and a variety of next-generation hardware, such as 3D graphics processors and USB 3.0 devices.
High Availability – Deliver the right availability services with groundbreaking simplicity for any application.
Auto-Deploy – Deploy more vSphere hosts running the ESXi hypervisor architecture in minutes.
Flexible Hybrid Cloud Management – The vCenter Server Appliance is a Linux-based virtual appliance and the Web Client works from any browser anywhere in the world.
From my point of view this release is again a major (r)evolution in path towards a cloud operating system that can be used for both private as public clouds. vSphere is the base for all the VMware products and indeed like the online event suggested VMware raises the bar again for the competition to follow. This results in a cloud operating system which more and more becomes hardware independent. Which in the end will make IT infrastructure a lot more flexible and easier to maintain.
More information about VMware vSphere 5 is available over here.


The State Government has allocated 430 new buses for the Coimbatore division of the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation Limited for the current financial year.
Of these, 128 buses have reached the depots in the last three days in the first phase. Another 58 are waiting for coach fabrication in Karur, and are expected to arrive next week, a top official of the Corporation said here on Monday.
Out of the 128 buses that have arrived – 41 are for Coimbatore region, 31 for Tirupur and 18 each for Erode and Udhagamandalam.
Here is some clicks of Brand New AIS 052 code buses resting at TNSTC – Coimbatore's Head Office.All are built by Private Coaches of Karur.
The official said buses have improved interior and exterior fittings, emergency exit and are aesthetically painted. They have Bharat Stage IV compliant engines to ensure low emission.
Unlike the old buses, the new ones have 52 seats with extra cushion and back rest. The old ones have 55 to 57 seats. Fewer seats in the new vehicles provide for extra leg space to make long distance travel more convenient. The luggage space of the new buses has been shifted below the floor.
The new buses will be run on moffusil routes initially. The vehicles will hit the road soon after the announcement by the government, the official said.


I first became acquainted with John O'Donohue through his book Beauty, The Invisible Embrace, which I read last year. He writes so lyrically that even his prose sings. Anam Cara is a book about friendship; friendship with yourself, with others, with the natural world, even friendship with death. It speaks of our yearning to know and be known...deeply, vulnerably, intimately. In Gaelic, Anam Cara is "soul friend". O'Donohue defines it thus: "The Anam Cara was a person to whom you could reveal the hidden intimacies of your life. This friendship was an act of recognition and belonging...You were joined in an ancient and eternal way with the friend of your soul." I have lived most of my life without knowing this kind of friendship, but I am done. I am making the choice to go deep in a few, choice friendships. It has not been easy, but the rewards are amazing. If you read my very first post here, you know that I chose to call my blog Anam Cara because it is my hope that you will find writings, thoughts, and images here that will speak to you in deep places...that you might be provoked, invited, enticed to travel to those places inside yourself, and to share them with someone you trust.
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Ireland, Frank McCourt's life was a jumble of tragedy, loss, hunger, beauty, longing, disappointment, wonder, imagination, and discovery. He writes about his early years in the compelling and evocative memoir, Angela's Ashes. I loved immersing myself in this very different culture; hearing the songs and stories, smelling and tasting the food, meeting the people... McCourt writes with compassion, insight, and humor. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for literature.
Ayn Rand was a brilliant woman with strong feelings about how the world should operate. Her philosophy was shaped, in part, by the fact that she lived in Russia at the time that communism moved in and reshaped the lives of the citizenry..for ill so far as she was concerned. She writes convincingly of the power and importance of the individual; of the fact that it is essential to incentive and reward creativity; and of the danger of a society where all are equal, because some will always be "more equal" than others (to borrow a phrase from Orwell's Animal Farm). Rand's characters are complex, layered, nuanced individuals. I particularly like the way she uncovers them a bit at a time so that you come to know them much as you would if you encountered them in real life. I also read Anthem and The Fountainhead this year. Both were exceptional books, but Atlas Shrugged remains my favorite.
"For moderns--for us--there is something illicit, it seems, about wasted time, the empty hours of contemplation when a thought unfurls, figures of speech budding and blossoming, articulation drifting like spent petals onto the dark table we all once gathered around to talk and talk, letting time get the better of us. Just taking our time, as we say. That is, letting time take us." Who wouldn't want to read a book filled with phrases like this? Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime is an inquiry into the aesthetic, spiritual, artistic life. The author is inspired by Matisse's Woman Before an Aquarium. Matisse becomes a centering point about which the book is built, though she also discusses orientalism, and the writings of Jerome Hill, Katherine Mansfield, and mystical poet Rumi, among others. Deliciously refreshing and artistic book.
You know how it feels when you learn something new and maybe a little surprising about someone you have know for a long time? How it makes that person infinitely more intriguing? Reading Desire of the Everlasting Hills was a bit like that for me. Thomas Cahill writes engaging books about significant people and events of the past. In this book, he set the stage for Messiah's birth with a brief history of the Hebrew, Greek and Roman civilizations which preceded him. He then explored the gospels, along with outside historical accounts to give a picture of the life of Christ. Finally, he assessed the impact of Christ and the Church on the world since. I don't know that I agree with all his assertions, but I did enjoy being challenged to see Jesus from a new perspective...to rethink and evaluate assumptions.
The Historian is one of those forget to eat or sleep till you finish it books. Enthralling! Elizabeth Kostova creates evocative settings that draw you in. Her story line is enticing and suspenseful (Did I mention there are vampires?). Her characters are so believable and sympathetic that I found myself caring deeply about them...wanting to protect them...sometimes to no avail...but then, you should read the book and find out for yourself. Interesting plot turns keep you on your toes, and the final page leaves you breathless and wanting more. My only complaint: Kostova hasn't written anything else, yet.
"No one ever asks about the language," Amy Tan's response to King's question, "What do you wish people would ask you about your books, but they never do?" provoked King to pen On Writing. The book is really two books. The first part is the engaging story of a young King growing up in a single parent home; his discovery that he loved to write; his earliest publishing endeavors (some successful, some not); his survival jobs janitoring and doing laundry while writing his first novels in the laundry room of their tiny home; his wife Tabitha's essential role as "first reader"; and the joy and surprise of his first overwhelming success. The second part details items in the author's "tool chest", some essential, some secondary, and how they impact your writing. Even when King is giving instruction, he is telling stories which makes the book very engaging. Extremely valuable book for anyone who loves to write.
I love poetry; always have. I love the sweetness, the precision, the economy of words, the way each line is invested with so much meaning. This year I found a new friend in Rainer Maria Rilke. His Book of Hours has been on my bedside table for months. I have read it over and over. His poems have spoken to where I have found myself this year with such clarity, such soulish connection, that I sometimes feel like they were written just for me. Perhaps that is what the best poetry does; it gives voice to that which we do not know how to speak; it helps us realize that we are not alone in our struggle, our search, our longing, our wonder, our joy.
There seems to be a lot of buzz in Christian circles at present about The Shack. Sometimes that is reason enough to stay far away, but recommendations from several people I trust convinced me to give it a go. I am very glad I did. I must admit, from a strictly technical point of view, there are a couple of places where I had to purposely choose to suspend disbelief...where the story could have been developed better. I tell you that only so that if those same points frustrate you, you won't stop reading because, there is treasure to be found here. The author has done an amazing job of personifying the trinity in ways that are true and winsome and rich. There is a great deal of wisdom and insight in this book, but it feels like an invitation, not a lecture. It IS an invitation...to relationship, to trust, to rest, to life. I heartily recommend it.
"We seem destined to be tormented by cravings we cannot satisfy or to live dissatisfied lives dead to our deepest longings." Ominous, huh? Soul Cravings was an impulse buy. I was intrigued by the title. Reading it turned out to be a pretty interactive experience. It is one of those books that has underlines, little notes out to the side, blurry splotches from tears that fell on the page. The premise is that we all operate our lives based on some basic "soul cravings" that are inherent to us as humans. We will do whatever it takes to satisfy them. Unfortunately, we usually don't understand how. So we make destructive choices that deepen the cravings instead of satisfying them. McManus offers suggestions as to how we might let God meet our needs for intimacy, destiny and meaning. This is not a platitudinous "three secrets to a happy life". This is gut level, naked, honest wrestling with life, with hunger, with desire, with God. It's brutal. It's savage. It's alive.
Great books can be read and re-read. Each time they are encountered, they will reveal something new; a deeper level; something appropriate to our new level of maturity or understanding. Til We Have Faces is such a book. In fact, I read it twice this year. The second time I read it with friends who helped me dig deep. It is first and foremost a great story, based on the ancient Cupid and Psyche myth. But, as with all C.S. Lewis books, it is also imbued with a great deal of Truth...Truth on many levels...rich and varied...truth that must sometimes be dug out...rescued. It is, at it's heart, a story about love...what it is...and what it is NOT. Frightening, Beautiful, Grave, AWEsome.
"You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you." C.S Lewis, one of the greatest apologists the world has ever known, had to face this very question when he lost his beloved wife, Joy. He shares this agonizing wrestling with us in A Grief Observed. If you have known loss and grief, you will find a companion here. Someone who understands. Someone who speaks the very cries of your heart. And, at the end of all the wrestling...you will find HOPE.
An image...a word...for the passing year.
See a GORGEOUS, ARTISTIC video of a Favorite song by one of my Favorite singers here. "Like a Star" is nominated for Song of the Year at the 2008 Grammy Awards.
The layers of azurite pigments, spread over paper as I let the granular pigments cascade. My eyes see much more than what my mind can organize. As the light becomes trapped within pigments, a "grace arena" is created, as the light is broken, and trapped in refraction. Yet, my gestures are limited, contained, and gravity pulls the pigments like a kind friend.
Every beauty suffers. A research scientist friend once told me that the autumn leaves are most beautiful on the trees by the roadside because they happen to be distressed by the salt and pollution. Every sunset is a reminder of the impending death of Nature herself. The minerals I use must be pulverized to bring out their beauty. The Japanese were right in associating beauty with death.
Art cannot be divorced from faith, for to do so is to literally close our eyes to that beauty of the dying sun setting all around us. Death spreads all over our lives and therefore faith must be given to see through the darkness, to see through the beauty of "the valley of the shadow of death".
Prayers are given, too, in the layers of broken, pulverized pigments. Beauty is in the brokenness, not in what we can conceive as the perfections, not in the "finished" images but in the incomplete gestures. Now, I await for my paintings to reveal themselves. Perhaps I will find myself rising through the ashes, through the beauty of such broken limitations.
More Essays by Fujimura on his Site.
"A fractal is generally a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be subdivided in parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole...Natural objects that approximate fractals to a degree include clouds, mountain ranges, lightning bolts, coastlines, and snow flakes."
OrGaNiZeD ChAoS...more or less. Fractals are found all around us in nature, kind of like the golden ratio or the Fibonacci sequence. They are also created by sophisticated computer programs and mathematical formulas. The results are FASCINATING! I looked at page after page of images. I have included a FEW for your viewing pleasure. If your curiosity has been aroused, you can learn more HERE or HERE.
Here is one more thing for you to think about. In the book, fractals are an image used to describe the soul of the protagonist. There is so much beauty in his soul...and so much chaos. It was an image I could definitely relate to. It was a moving experience to look at these amazing pictures with that in mind. No matter how confused, how chaotic my soul...my heart...my mind is, there is a great deal of beauty in there. I like that. I like that a lot.
Is inappreciable;–no beauty or power!
On any peasant's face here, coarse and lined.
A-piece with and conterminous to his soul.
Why else do these things move him, leaf or stone?
And nothing in the world comes single to him.
Sonnet 86 from "Aurora Leigh"
I have called you children, I have called you son.
What is there to answer if I'm the only one?
Morning comes in Paradise, morning comes in light.
Still I must obey, still I must invite.
If there's any other way, I'll do anything for you.
I was dressed in wine.
If you had a part of me, will you take you're time?
Is there some idea to replace my life?
I have called you preacher; I have called you son.
a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering."
O.K. I've been reflective, meditative, contemplative. But these...these are just for fun. The first is clever and ironic. The second is a politically incorrect attempt at political correctness. Enjoy.
"Music became a healer for me. I learned to listen with all my being."
Sunday I had one of those days when a theme seems to thread itself relentlessly throughout the day. One of those times when I have to stop and say "Why? Why do I need to hear this? Why do I need to hear this Now?"
Sunday afternoon I attended a reception for one of my very favorite former students. Jessi is a radiant young woman who is funny and smart. Knowing her in class was a joy. Knowing her in life was a joy. Something has happened to Jessi. Something unexpected. A year and a half ago Jessi left Franklin for Honduras. She lives on a ranch that provides schooling and a home for orphans. She teaches children of a variety of ages. She celebrates them...commemorates them...enjoys them. She had albums filled with pictures of these children she has come to adore. To share her journey with friends and family, she began writing a blog. She has so enjoyed the writing experience that, after returning to the states this summer, she plans to enter college and pursue writing. Jessi followed a path she knew God had marked out for her. While following, she discovered a whole new passion, a whole new gifting, a whole new direction. I looked at Jessi on Sunday. There is this confidence, this serenity, this knowledge of who she is and what she was created for that is stunningly beautiful.
At this same gathering I spent some time talking with a friend, Ken Morris. Ken was part of a mission team that visited Kosova almost a decade ago, just after the country had been ravaged by civil war. Ken's heart was broken for these people and he felt strongly that God was calling him to bring a message of HOPE to them. Soon, he and Melody and their five children were selling, and packing, and relocating to Peja to begin an odyssey that would have completely boggled their minds could they have but seen what God had in store. Education quickly became a focus of their ministry there and, God has taken what they planted and done something absolutely dazzling. Highlights: ESL camps every summer; meetings with the President of Kosovo and with the National Directors of Education, not only in Kosovo but in several surrounding Balkan nations; resourcing of the business school there; several young people who have responded to a call to full-time vocational ministry to Kosovo after being there on short-term projects; a romance which blossomed between two co-workers after their return to the states and will probably lead to marriage and a return to Kosovo; a fabulously talented individual who holds a very high-level position in a university here in the states who will resign that position this year after completing grad school to take his expertise and experience to Kosovo; resourcing and equipping of small business owners through micro financing loans and through seminars and networking with business professionals... Remarkable.
On Sunday evening I had the delightful opportunity to spend time with a precious group of moms and children who are part of the Against the Grain ministry in Franklin. We enjoyed a meal, sang a few songs and celebrated the HOPE of the season. I had a most inspiring visit with Marianne Demeyer while we were doing dishes. Marianne and her friend Christine Martin own a lovely boutique on Main Street in Franklin, Philanthropy: Clothing and Accessories With a Mission. Although giving had been a part of business for both of these women in the past, they had a vision to open a shop where giving became a central component...a focus. Marianne's eyes sparkled as she relayed how the reality has been more audacious...more sensational...than either of them would have dared to dream. She described the synergy as people longed to be part of something transformational. Many of the items they sell are produced by companies who themselves have giving as a central part of what they do. I asked her how they learned about these and she said that, in addition to their own research, people would literally walk in the door and say, "Have you heard about...?" Marianne and Christine followed a dream. They poured their hearts into something they believed in, and have had the opportunity to see it flourish. The shop is a tremendous success, and people all over the world are being blessed as a result.
The theme...the unity...seemed to be to walk...one step at a time...in the way God has shown us...and to wait in eager expectation to see what He will choose to do. You know, it's a pretty good time of year to believe in the miraculous. Baby boy born to nobodies in a nowhere town....news delivered to the dregs of society...boy grows up...executed by the occupational government, with the assistance of his own people...his words preserved and distributed by ragtag bunch of ordinaries...against stringent opposition...and oppression...and...YET...two thousand years later...the whole world knows his NAME...and you...and I...can know him...can KNOW him......IMMANUEL....GOD......with us.
Lovely service yesterday on the third Sunday of Advent. You can watch it HERE. Just click on 12-16-07. Several beautiful musical moments. The first occurs 5:45 into the service. Josh Cassidy is a fabulously talented guitarist. This I knew. He is also a great painter and a funny, smart, sweet guy. I knew this too. What I didn't know is that the boy can wail the blues. He has this soulish, gritty voice somewhat reminiscent of a John Mayer or Eric Clapton. "Baby Boy" is a song he wrote that incorporates bits and pieces of a couple of songs you will recognize. You should really give him a listen.
"Glory in the Highest" is a fabulous worship song by Chris Tomlin, particularly poignant this time of year. You can catch it at around 15:50.
Finally, one of those moments that I desperately want to share with you, but I know it will not be quite the same as being there. Inserted into the early portion of the sermon is an age old song that captures the longing...the cry of the heart of God's people...for Messiah to come...and the cry of my heart...and perhaps your heart...for Messiah to be born anew into our lives today. Chad delivered it with all the tenderness, and anguish, and yearning, and power it deserves. It was a wonder moment. What I regret is that you can't completely comprehend what it was to sit in that room and have the song completely wrap itself around you...to hang...to echo...to pulse...to soar. But listen. Please, listen. And give yourself to the longing. Allow yourself to completely embrace what it means to be needy. To know that without the HOPE of Christmas, we are all LOST. You will find it at 26:30.
"In the beginning, God." This is how William began his sermon. He recapitulated the early history of God's chosen people right up to the Roman occupation and helped us to understand why their longing for Messiah was so fierce at the very time when Christ chose to enter our world. HOPE. It's what the coming of Christ meant to them, and what it means to us today.
"Was there a moment, known only to God, when all the stars held their breath, when the galaxies paused in their dance for a fraction of a second, and the Word, who had called it all into being, went with all his love into the womb of a young girl, and the universe started to breathe again, and the ancient harmonies resumed their song, and the angels clapped their hands for joy?
"Power. Greater power than we can imagine, abandoned, as the Word knew the powerlessness of the unborn child, still unformed, taking up almost no space in the great ocean of amniotic fluid, unseeing, unhearing, unknowing. Slowly growing, as any human embryo grows, arms and legs and a head, eyes, mouth, nose, slowly swimming into life until the ocean in the womb is no longer large enough, and it is time for birth.
"Christ, the Second Person of the Trinity, Christ, the Maker of the universe or perhaps many universes, willingly and lovingly leaving all that power and coming to this poor, sin-filled planet to live with us for a a few years to show us what we ought to be and could be. Christ came to us as Jesus of Nazareth, wholly human and wholly divine, to show us what it means to be made in God's image."
16and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
"Zwingli preached that Matthew's geneology contained the essential theology of the Reformation: that of salvation by grace.
"The story of the origin of Jesus Christ begins with Abraham begetting Isaac; no mention of that deserving elder son, poor unfairly banished Ishmael. Then Isaac begets Jacob; not a word about his elder brother Esau whose birthright Jacob stole. Jacob begets Judah and his brothers; why is Judah chosen and not the good and extraordinary Joseph?
"What's going on here? According to Matthew, who is being faithful to Old Testament theology, God does not necessarily select the noblest or most deserving person to carry out divine purposes.
"Now that's the interesting part. For reasons unknown to us, God may select the Judahs who sell their brothers into slavery, the Jacobs who cheat their way to first place, the Davids who steal wives and murder rivals--but also compose profound and beautiful psalms of praise.
"And what about the five women Matthew chooses to include? Not a mention of Sarah or Rebekah or Rachel, the upstanding patriarchal wives of Israel. Instead Tamar, a Canaanite, who disguised herself as a prostitute and seduced her father in law Judah to get a son out of him. And Rahab, another Canaanite and a real prostitute this time. And Ruth the Moabite, another outsider. And Bathsheba, mother of Solomon, is named only as the wife of Uriah, whom King David had killed so he could marry her himself. Every one of these women used as God's instrument had scandal or aspersion attached to her--as does the fifth and final woman named in the geneology: Mary, the mother of Jesus, with her unconventional pregnancy.
"But this will fit in with Jesus' coming ministry to tax xollectors and sinners and prostitutes and lepers, 'to those who need a physician', not those who are already righteous.
"Matthew's geneology is showing us how the story of Jesus Christ contained--and would continue to contain--the flawed and inflicted and insulted, the cunning and the weak-willed and the misunderstood. His is an equal opportunity ministry for crooks and saints.
"And what about that final fourteen generations of unknown, or unremarkable names? Who was Azor, or Achim? Who was Eliud, who was Eliezar? Or even this Mathan, who was according to Matthew, Jesus' great grandfather? What did they do? What kind of men were they? We don't know. You won't find their names in the concordance, or in any Biblical Who's Who.
"And this is of course where the message settles directly upon us. If so much powerful stuff can have been accomplished down through the millenia by weasels, betrayers and outcasts, and through people who were such complex mixtures of sinner and saint, and through so many obscure and undistinguished others, isn't that a pretty hopeful testament to the likelihood that God is using us, with our individual flaws and gifts, in all manner of peculiar and unexpected ways?
"Who of us can say we're not in the process of being used right now, this Advent, to fulfill some purpose whose grace and goodness would boggle our imagination if we could even begin to get our minds around it?"
The Tennessee Performing Arts Center has a program called Humanities Outreach Tennessee wherein performers who are doing evening shows give daytime performances to school children from all over the mid-state area at reduced rates. It is a wonderful program that gives children the opportunity to see fabulous plays, operas, ballets, instrumental performances, etc.... Sometimes these are touring groups, and sometimes they are local artists like the Nashville Ballet.
Today my children and I saw an abbreviated production of Nashville Ballet's Nutcracker Suite. Tchaikovsky was a master of musical storytelling. This ballet tells the story of Clara who receives a Nutcracker from her Godfather on Christmas Eve. Later that night, she will help the Nutcracker, who has become a prince, defeat the Mouse King. The prince then takes Clara to visit his kingdom, The Land of Sweets. There she is entertained by various sweets and beverages: Russian candy canes, Arabian coffee, Chinese tea, Spanish chocolate, Marzipan, and the Sugar Plum Fairy. Each dance is evocative of the culture from whence it is drawn.
It was a lovely show. Kudos to the costume designers for the Waltz of the Flowers costumes, some of the most striking I have ever seen. This dance was nicely choreographed with a series of well thought out tableau. The Arabian dance is always one of my favorites. I love the music. The dance was fluid, sensuous, and expressive. The tea dance is always fun with Tchaikovsky's pizzicato strings suggesting the bound feet that step so lightly...nicely executed with the addition of a red streamer part-way through. The Russian cossacks were energetic and fun...a crowd favorite.
The Nutcracker plays at Jackson Hall this weekend and next. Tomorrow afternoon champion skater Scott Hamilton will join the dancers for the matinee performance. Visit the Nashville Ballet for more info.
Christmas is the renewed invitation not to be afraid and let him--whose love is greater than our own hearts and minds can comprehend--be our companion."
I am moved by this simplicity.
I cannot adore enough. I cannot speak.
I too am silent in the widening light.
in a hundred places, but mostly in the middle of my heart.
where the great terror can dismember me.
It's an 8 foot Frazier Fir, bought from boy scout troop 137. Always a real tree. ALWAYS. It smells scrumptuous!! Colored lights, because colored lights make my heart flutter. As a little girl growing up in the country, I remember occasionally driving to Oak Ridge (the nearest city) at night. We would top a great hill just before getting into town. As we came over the rise, the whole city lay spread out beneath us. Colored lights glittered all over. It took my breath away... every time. I've never gotten over colored lights. Sometimes late at night, when everyone is in bed, I go sit in this room, quiet and alone, with only the Christmas lights on. It's like indulging in the most aromatic fragrance, the richest wine, the most ingeniously seasoned food. The ornaments tell our family's stories...places we've been, milestones, captured moments. The great Simba mask from our experience of Lion King on Broadway hangs beside our new Murano glass ornament, brought back from Venice this summer, and just above our glass Eiffel Tower. Each of our children has contributed art to the tree. My favorites include pics of the kids.
My other favorite place in the house just now is the fireplace mantle. Again, everything is real. I am addicted to real. The greenery is trimmings from our tree. The fresh fruits will have to be replaced a couple of times during the course of the season, but the aroma is delicious. And candles...I'm addicted to candles too.
"First wonder goes deepest. Wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first."
"I have no concious memory of [my] first go around in a temple, but some smell of incense, some play of light and shadow, some flame, some burst of color, something of the sultriness and mystery of the place must have stayed with me. A germ of religious exhultation no bigger than a mustard seed was sown in me and left to germinate. It has never stopped growing since that day. I am a Hindu because of sculptured cones of red kumkum powder and baskets of yellow turmeric nuggets, because of garlands of flowers and pieces of broken coconut, because of the clanging of bells to announce one's arrival to God, because of the whine of the reedy nadaswaram and the beating of drums, because of the patter of bare feet against stone floors down dark corridors pierced by shafts of sunlight, because of the fragrance of incense, because of flames of arati lamps circling in the darkness, because of bhajans being sweetly sung, because of elephants standing around to bless, because of colorful murals telling colorful stories, because of foreheads carrying variously signified the same word--faith."
...guitars, pianos, voices, violins, didgeridoos.... Music has been a part of Christmas from the very beginning. God chose to herald the birth of his son with angel songs, and we're still singing... Here are a few favorite Christmas albums getting a lot of play around my house.
Sarah McLachlan's rich voice and elegant arrangements combine to create an album that is intimate and serene. Wintersong, the title tune, has a beautifully wistful quality. McLachlan's clear voice soars in the opening of The First Noel before leading into a plaintive rendition of the spiritual Mary, Mary. The melody of O Little Town has been adapted and is accompanied by the surprising, but highly satisfying combination of banjo and violin. Christmas Time is Here is spareness and refinement at its best. The songstress and her piano. What more could you ask for?
James Taylor, a guitar, and a summer night were the ingredients of one of my favorite musical experiences ever. Then, I had the opportunity to see him with the Nashville Symphony a few years back and discovered a whole new side of the artist. That's the side you hear on this album. Smooth, lush arrangements of classic Christmas tunes--some of them relatively obscure. Some Children See Him is one of those songs I can hardly get through without tears, and his arrangement is lovely. Natalie Cole joins Taylor for one of the better versions of Baby It's Cold Outside (My Favorite will always be Louis Armstrong and Velma Middleton, but this is a close second.) Jingle Bells has a funk that reminds me of Steamroller. In the Bleak Midwinter is Classic JT--Clean and pure, with just piano. Perfection.
I would have bought this album for That Spirit of Christmas alone. It is a precious sweet song and nobody sings it like Ray. It provides the soundtrack for the most tender moment in Christmas Vacation. Winter Wonderland and Santa Claus is Comin to Town are just fun. My boys like his Baby its Cold Outside. I don't like the chick singer so much, but the arrangement is lively and fun. Charles shows his gospel roots on Lift Every Voice and Sing.
The Trans-Siberian Orchestra puts on the most dazzling live show I think I have ever seen. Their musicianship is phenomenal. Their versatility is immense. And, their showmanship is second to none. Christmas Eve and Other Stories is my favorite of their albums. We have done several of their arrangements at church. The power and the creativity make for a tremendous experience whether you are playing or listening. Top two selections on this album: Christmas Eve Sarajevo and O Come All Ye Faithful/O Holy Night. By the way, they play the Sommet Center in Nashville on December 30th.
It might just be nostalgia that draws me to this album. It might be that I love the movie so much. I think mostly it's that Vince Guaraldi was a sensitive, creative musical genius who, along with his trio, made fabulous music that brought a whole new dimension of magic to a great story. Who doesn't love Christmas Time is Here? O Tannenbaum and Greensleaves are poetically rendered. And, I can sense that sharp tingle the air gets just after snowfall as I listen to the Skating Song. There is definitely something to be said for familiarity and tradition, especially when it comes to Christmas. Indulge.


opinion that went further, ruling that many other speech regulations are now subject to "strict scrutiny." How far will this go?
Laws based on the content of speech, the Supreme Court has long held, must face such scrutiny. The key move in Justice Thomas's opinion was the vast expansion of what counts as content-based. The court used to say laws were content-based if they were adopted to suppress speech with which the government disagreed.
This is obviously not news to people who follow this stuff carefully, but it was news to me. Apparently the reach of Reed is pretty spectacular: three laws have been struck down by lower courts in just the past two months based on the reasoning in the case. Any law that treats, say, medical records or political robocalls or commercial speech differently from any other kind of speech is in danger—and there are a lot of statutes on the books that do exactly this.
They say that hard cases make bad law. But Reed was an easy case. It failed "the laugh test" said Elena Kagan. And yet, it seems likely to have provided an excuse for an astonishingly broad change in how speech is regulated. So far it's stayed mostly under the radar, but eventually something bigger than panhandling or ballot selfies will get struck down, and suddenly everyone will notice what happened. What then?
Professor [Robert] Post said the majority opinion, read literally, would so destabilize First Amendment law that courts might have to start looking for alternative approaches. Perhaps courts will rethink what counts as speech, he said, or perhaps they will water down the potency of strict scrutiny.


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Q: Crontab failing to restart systemctl process Hi im trying to setup a cron job to restart a game server daily but its failing to work
i have used crontab -e to install a job
* 3 * * * systemctl --user restart <servicename>
this failed to restart my process at 3 am as expected.
i also tried moving the command to a bash file and running the bash file through cron (as i have seen alot of people use .sh files to run commands)
additionally i have tried installing to job as root with zero success
this had similar results
my syslog did show a command execute as expected yesterday though the service didnt restart, since then cron isnt showing any new attempts.
i found some info on troubleshooting and following the guidance shows that my cron is working, i managed write the date/time to a file every minute and the service is clearly running and this showed in the logs.
is there a problem with cron running systemctl commands or is there further steps i can use to see why its failing?
Edit:
i tried running my command as root also and nothing happened
Jan 31 09:00:01 ns509515 CRON[108307]: (root) CMD (<user> systemctl --user restart EcoServer)
Jan 31 09:01:01 ns509515 CRON[108330]: (root) CMD (<user> systemctl --user restart EcoServer)
Jan 31 09:02:01 ns509515 CRON[108356]: (root) CMD (<user> systemctl --user restart EcoServer)


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