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A Guide to Writing Sociology Papers
Seventh Edition| ©2014 The Sociology Writing Group
A Guide to Writing Sociology Papers insightfully lead students through the writing process, encouraging them to think sociologically as they develop their ideas and begin to write.
Written in a clear and conversational style, the Guide both instructs students on the key st...
Written in a clear and conversational style, the Guide both instructs students on the key steps of specific writing assignments—such as developing a proposal or a research paper—and also helps students get started writing, develop their ideas, and conquer writers block. Throughout, actual student papers annotated with author comments provide real-life examples of good writing and how writing can be improved. With new and expanded coverage on evaluating and citing electronic sources, plagiarism, qualitative and quantitative methods, A Guide to Writing Sociology Papers, Seventh Edition remains an essential resource for anyone writing a sociology paper.
"This is a great book! I love the organization, beginning with the overview of what it means to think sociologically. The students really seem to understand the importance of asking/answering a question once they have read the text."
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"A Guide to Writing Sociology Papers excels at illustrating and explaining an approach that incorporates the sociological imagination....My students have told me that the sample papers and examples of writing problems are very useful starting place for understanding what sociology writing looks like and how to do it themselves."
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"It is clear concise, user friendly and based in sociology. I really appreciate the way the guide asks 'What is sociology?' and encourages students to use their sociological imagination."
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Seventh Edition| ©2014
The Sociology Writing Group
Seventh Edition| 2014
PART ONE: ESSENTIALS
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 2: Designing Your Paper
PART TWO: WORKING WITH SOURCES
Chapter 4: Collecting and Evaluating Sources
Chapter 5: Citing Sources and Preparing Bibliographies
PART THREE: WRITING FROM VARIOUS SOURCES
Chapter 6: The Textual Analysis Paper
Chapter 7: The General Research Paper
Chapter 8: The Quantitative Paper
Chapter 9: The Qualitative Paper
PART FOUR: FINISHING UP
The members of the Sociology Writing Group came together in 1984 to prepare a guide for instructors and students in sociology and writing courses at UCLA. A Guide to Writing Sociology Papers grew out of this collaborative effort.
William G. Roy is Professor of Sociology at UCLA, winner of the 1989 Luckman Award for Distinguished Teaching, and author of Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America (Princeton University Press, 1997) and Making Societies: The Historical Construction of Our World (Pine Forge Press, 2001). He specializes in the sociology of music and comparative-historical sociology, particularly long-term political and economic transformations.
Roseann Giarrusso is Assistant Professor of Sociology at California State University, Los Angeles, where she teaches courses in writing for sociology, social gerontology, and social psychology. She is also a consultant at the Andrus Gerontology Center at the University of Southern California, where she conducts longitudinal research on intergenerational family relationships. She has over 40 publications, most of which apply a social psychological perspective to the study of family relationships and aging.
Judith Richlin-Klonsky has taught sociology for more than 25 years at institutions such as UCLA, UCLA Extension, UCSD, and Santa Rosa Junior College. Among the classes she has taught are the sociology of everyday life, aging and society, introductory sociology, sociology of mental illness, group processes, and race and ethnicity. As director of the UCLA Student Affairs Information and Research Office, she conducted research about the experiences and needs of undergraduate students. Judith Richlin-Klonsky holds a master's degree in family therapy and received her Ph.D. in sociology from UCLA, where she was trained in qualitative research methods and an interpretive theoretical framework.
Ellen Strenski is Composition Director in the English Department at the University of California at Irvine. In addition to co-authoring The Research Paper Workbook (New York: Longman, 3rd ed., 1991) and Making Connections across the Curriculum: Readings for Analysis (Boston: Bedford, 1986), she has published articles in many pedagogical journals on the subject of writing in diverse disciplines. Most recently, she has exercised her sociological imagination in several articles and chapters that analyze issues in writing program administration.


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Credit Unions Receive National Media Play in Washington Post
WASHINGTON-Credit union versus banker issues were aired nationwide Dec. 8 in the Sunday edition of The Washington Post when Columnist Al Crenshaw featured NCUA's field of membership proposal in his column. "Credit unions, which have been growing briskly as bank consolidations have alienated more and more traditional banking customers, may...
By Staff Writer | December 17, 2002 at 07:00 PM | The original version of this story was published on Credit Union Times Magazine
WASHINGTON-Credit union versus banker issues were aired nationwide Dec. 8 in the Sunday edition of The Washington Post when Columnist Al Crenshaw featured NCUA's field of membership proposal in his column. "Credit unions, which have been growing briskly as bank consolidations have alienated more and more traditional banking customers, may soon be able to expand their reach even further," Crenshaw wrote. The amendments mean little to laypeople on the surface, but "the practical implication will be better access to credit unions . . . and to the services that credit unions provide," NAFCU President and CEO Fred Becker was quoted as saying. CUNA General Counsel Eric Richard explained in the column that the proposed regulatory relief is in line with the recent trend providing more diversification options, while at the same time creating a safety and soundness cushion. He noted that many single sponsor credit unions would have to shut their doors in the past when their sponsoring business closed down. The other shoe dropped when Crenshaw wrote, "Banks are far from thrilled by all this." "The reason for credit unions back when they were chartered was to fill a specific niche," American Bankers Association Public Relations Specialist Charlotte Birch said in the column, which also vented both sides of the taxation issue.

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'A role model for servant leadership': Covenant Health director puts patients, employees first
Lucy Gregory is a longtime Covenant Health leader known for putting the employees and patients she serves first. She started her career as a physical therapist and has shaped the profession as she's advocated for staff and patients.
'A role model for servant leadership': Covenant Health director puts patients, employees first Lucy Gregory is a longtime Covenant Health leader known for putting the employees and patients she serves first. She started her career as a physical therapist and has shaped the profession as she's advocated for staff and patients. Check out this story on knoxnews.com: https://www.knoxnews.com/story/money/business/2019/09/05/a-role-model-servant-leadership-covenant-health-director-puts-patients-employees-first/1629946001/
Erica Breunlin, Knoxville News Sentinel Published 9:00 a.m. ET Sept. 5, 2019 | Updated 4:36 p.m. ET Sept. 12, 2019
Lucy Gregory walked into Parkwest Therapy Center at Fort Sanders West about five years ago and met a patient with Parkinson's Disease whose progress struck her immediately and has stuck with her ever since.
The elderly man's symptoms had become severe as the disease continued to debilitate him.
For people who suffer from the nervous system disorder, their worlds become smaller, noted Gregory, director of outpatient rehabilitation services at Covenant Health.
They struggle with transitional movements, she said, like walking through a door, standing up or sitting down.
Lucy Gregory poses for a photo at Covenant Therapy Centers at Fort Sanders West in Knoxville, Tennessee on Thursday, August 15, 2019. Gregory has been named a 2019 Health Care Hero in the Road to Recovery Physical category. (Photo: Calvin Mattheis/News Sentinel)
After Gregory introduced herself to the patient – who a physical therapist had prodded her to meet – he stood up from a mat, stretched his arms outward and said, "ta-da."
Gregory, a captivated audience of one, realized how much effort he had exerted to complete each of those movements and just how much physical therapy had helped him.
Both the physical therapist assisting the patient and a second therapist had undergone specialized training to learn how to better serve people with Parkinson's Disease, Gregory said. She used the patient's success story to illustrate to Covenant Foundation's board the impact of their training and ultimately secure funds for more therapists to get certified.
It's one example Gregory points to of Covenant Health following the lead of its patients and putting their needs above all else.
That approach has long been one that Gregory, herself, has embraced and something others have recognized in her nearly 30-year career. She has been named a 2019 Health Care Hero in the Road to Recovery: Physical category.
2019 Knox.biz Health Care Heroes awards luncheon
The Knox.biz Health Care Heroes luncheon held at The Foundry in downtown Knoxville on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019. Brianna Paciorka/News Sentinel
Dr. Jerry Epps, Health Care Hero for Administrative Excellence, accepts his award at the Knox.biz Health Care Heroes luncheon held at The Foundry in downtown Knoxville on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019. Brianna Paciorka/News Sentinel
Bud Sherrod, Health Care Hero for Excellence in Volunteerism, accepts his award at the Knox.biz Health Care Heroes luncheon held at The Foundry in downtown Knoxville on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019. Brianna Paciorka/News Sentinel
Susan Seagraves, Health Care Hero for Excellence in Volunteerism, accepts her award at the Knox.biz Health Care Heroes luncheon held at The Foundry in downtown Knoxville on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019. Brianna Paciorka/News Sentinel
Frank Rosamond, president of the Knoxville News Sentinel, speaks at the Knox.biz Health Care Heroes luncheon held at The Foundry in downtown Knoxville on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019. Brianna Paciorka/News Sentinel
Dr. Randal Dabbs, left, the Health Care Heroes Lifetime Achievement Award winner, accepts his award at the Knox.biz Health Care Heroes luncheon held at The Foundry in downtown Knoxville on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019. Brianna Paciorka/News Sentinel
Dr. Michael Maggart, right, the Health Care Heroes Medical Excellence - Physician award winner, accepts his award at the Knox.biz Health Care Heroes luncheon held at The Foundry in downtown Knoxville on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019. Brianna Paciorka/News Sentinel
Joel Christopher, executive editor of the Knoxville News Sentinel, speaks at the Knox.biz Health Care Heroes luncheon held at The Foundry in downtown Knoxville on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019. Brianna Paciorka/News Sentinel
Lucy Gregory, the Health Care Heroes Road to Recovery - Physical award winner, accepts her award at the Knox.biz Health Care Heroes luncheon held at The Foundry in downtown Knoxville on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019. Brianna Paciorka/News Sentinel
Dr. Jerry Epps, Health Care Hero recipient recognized for Administrative Excellence, accepts his award at the Knox.biz Health Care Heroes luncheon held at The Foundry in downtown Knoxville on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019. Brianna Paciorka/News Sentinel
Dr. Randal Dabbs, the Health Care Heroes Lifetime Achievement Award winner, accepts his award at the Knox.biz Health Care Heroes luncheon held at The Foundry in downtown Knoxville on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019. Brianna Paciorka/News Sentinel
Dr. Michael Maggart, the Health Care Heroes Medical Excellence - Physician award winner, accepts his award at the Knox.biz Health Care Heroes luncheon held at The Foundry in downtown Knoxville on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019. Brianna Paciorka/News Sentinel
Lucy Gregory, the Health Care Heroes Road to Recovery Ð Physical award winner, accepts her award at the Knox.biz Health Care Heroes luncheon held at The Foundry in downtown Knoxville on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019. Brianna Paciorka/News Sentinel
For the love of patients
While patients are Gregory's first focus, they're also a big part of what first drew her into physical therapy, even though it was just about the last career she had in mind early on.
Gregory, who grew up in Hartsville in Middle Tennessee, remembers her high school counselor encouraging her to consider physical therapy.
Her response?
"I said, 'No, I don't want to do that.'"
Instead, Gregory aimed her career path in the direction of nutrition at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
"Which," she noted, "if you saw my cooking skills would be hysterical."
One of her college suitemates served as a technician at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center downtown, and when Gregory needed a part-time job, she turned to the same position.
"Once I started working in the field, I just fell in love with it," Gregory said. "I never looked back from it."
She was hooked by the ability to help patients reach their potential again and by how much time she spent with patients and their families, which she realizes isn't an experience shared in all health care settings.
"We really get to know them on a deeper level," she said.
Lucy Gregory has been named a Health Care Heroes award winner in our Road to Recovery: Physical category (Photo: Calvin Mattheis/News Sentinel)
Gregory launched her career in physical therapy where she discovered her passion for it — Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center.
In time, she learned that the root of her passion wasn't practicing physical therapy.
What she really loved was working with other physical therapists. Today, 29 years later, she oversees six outpatient facilities.
"I'm in awe of them every day, every day," Gregory said.
She said she also loved trying to remove barriers in physical therapists' way so that they could do what they do best.
"It's a bit humbling to win an award when I know it's on their backs," she said.
Advocating for patients and staff alike
Gregory's role in administration has given her a platform to make an impact on a different scale – the kind of impact that shapes her profession and the way patients have access to rehabilitative health care.
Among the highest points of her leadership career was her success in ensuring that patients across Tennessee can refer themselves to physical therapy services at hospital-based programs like Covenant Health without the mandate of a doctor's order.
Lucy Gregory works in her office at Covenant Therapy Centers at Fort Sanders West in Knoxville, Tennessee on Thursday, August 15, 2019. Gregory has been named a 2019 Health Care Hero in the Road to Recovery Physical category. (Photo: Calvin Mattheis/News Sentinel)
While a law gave patients the ability to pursue physical therapy without a physician's referral, hospital-based clinics were bound by hospital rules and regulations, which conflicted with the new law and required every patient to have a physician's order.
Gregory knew that the law did not intend to exclude hospital-based outpatient clinics.
She set to work to get a waiver from the state, which thrust her into a complicated process of building support among all the medical executive committees of Covenant Health hospitals as well as from the health system's executive leadership team before presenting to the state.
One by one, she helped secure waiver letters for each Covenant Health facility, then worked to change the verbiage of the law for the sake of all hospital-based programs in Tennessee.
Gregory remembers the moment her efforts fully paid off – after about three years – as she sat in her office watching a livestream of the change take effect.
"I felt like I had done something for my profession that had done so much for me," Gregory said, adding she'd made a difference for patients in Tennessee as they were granted "a greater level of access than they've ever had before" to physical therapy.
Beyond patients, Gregory – who also served a four-year term on the Tennessee Board of Physical Therapy – has been a fierce advocate for her staff members, opening the door to opportunities in continuing education for them.
Suzanne Moskal, a physical therapist and clinical specialist for Covenant Health who has known Gregory since their days as physical therapy technicians at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center and undergraduate students at UT, has been on the receiving end of that support.
"I think we are able to deliver such a high quality of care because she's always been a champion of continuing education and for her therapists to get certifications," said Moskal, who works at Parkwest Therapy Center.
In addition to counting her as a friend, Moskal describes Gregory as a "servant leader," pointing to her unparalleled work ethic and highlighting how much regard she holds for patients.
Neil Heatherly, president and chief administrative officer of Parkwest Medical Center, sees Gregory's servant leadership ripple outward.
"I just truly think that her servant leadership approach inspires those around her," even people she's likely not aware of, Heatherly said.
"She's a role model for servant leadership," he added, "and the impact that has across our organization is vast."
Yet, no matter how much credit others give Gregory, she gives it right back.
While she's humbled to be called a Health Care Hero, she said it also feels "a little selfish."
"No one makes accomplishments in health care by themselves," Gregory said. "So it really takes all of us and it is a reflection of a team effort, not an individual effort."
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This large, penguin-sized, flightless auk of the North Atlantic was easy prey for hunters, where it was sought for its down and its meat. By the mid 16th century, most of the European populations were largely destroyed. It was at this time, that various ineffective (and hard to enforce) environmental laws were put in place to try to protect it, leading to a total ban on hunting in the late 18th century. However, the population decline was irreversible and with its increasing rarity, then came the trade in its eggs and specimens. The last pair was killed in Iceland in 1844 for specimens.
There has been conjecture from an American research institute about de-extinction. Important genes could be edited in to the cells of a Razorbill and fertilised embryos then implanted in to a goose that could then see some sort of hybrid Great Auk reintroduced in to suitable seabird colonies in the North Atlantic. When current seabird colonies are already struggling through a combination of over-fishing and global-warming, is it wise to introduce another competing mouth in to the food chain? Does it do more to ease some of our guilt over this bird's extinction rather than actually helping in the conservation of our existing seabirds?


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An MBA is universally recognised as the benchmark professional qualification in business management. A Master of Business Administration degree will introduce students to vital areas of business and commerce, such as accounting, finance, marketing, human resources and operations management.
It is a course that will enhance a student's ability to think strategically and understand the essentials of business and organisations in order to manage change more effectively in the global business environment.
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"I consider enrolling on this course to be a major commitment and investment to my future, one that will not only help to fill my knowledge gap but will also provide me with a platform for the next step in my career. It is a degree which I feel will prepare me for success at the highest levels by equipping me with the specialist knowledge of international business.
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During the summer, for a period of three months I had a job as a sales assistant at a department store. My duties there included; giving advice and guidance on product selection to costumers, answering queries, handling complaints and being responsible for processing cash and card payments. The role required me to be assertive, police, well presented and to have a comprehensive understanding of retail practices and procedures.
At college where I studied A level Business Studies I learnt a lot about the world of business from inspiring tutors who had real business insight and experience. The modules and teachers were the best part of the course. I loved being involved in in-depth discussions with lecturers who were highly experienced and broadened my outlook further.
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Practice Areas > Appeals and Motions
237(a)(1)(H) waiver granted for fraud and misrepresentation at time of entry as permanent resident
Green Card granted with fraud waiver for a Client who entered using a fraudulent passport.
Cancellation of Removal granted to a detained permanent resident with a serious drug conviction.
» USCIS declares a Client to be a United States citizen since 1950s based upon his parents' naturalization.
» Joint motion to reopen granted for a Client who overstayed voluntary departure decades ago.
Lawyer Ruchi Thaker | Lawyer Immigration
Immigration Appeals and Motions
I have represented hundreds of clients with their immigration appeals and motions with immigration courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA"), and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. I have successfully argued complex appeals and motion that have resulted in cases being reopened to allow my clients to pursue various forms of immigration benefits.
If you are considering an immigration lawyer to help you with your appeal or motion, then make sure the lawyer has experience with handling appeals and motions, especially with time constraints, because there are very strict deadlines for appeals and motions.
Appealing a Decision of an Immigration Judge
If you went through the immigration court process and the judge denied discretionary relief, (such as cancellation of removal, asylum, or adjustment of status, etc.), then you have the right to file an appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA"), which is located in Falls Church, VA. The BIA is the highest administrative tribunal in the immigration process. The BIA's decision is the final administrative decision on an immigration case. With few exceptions, the BIA's decision can be challenged in a federal appeals court. While most decisions of the BIA for individual appeals are unpublished decisions, from time the time, the BIA issues precedent decisions of important legal principles that are binding nationwide in immigration matter. The U.S. Attorney General is the head of the BIA, and often times, the Attorney General also issues decisions in immigration matters.
Just as you have the right to appeal if you lose, the Department of Homeland Security has the right to appeal if you win. No matter who files the appeal, there is a strict 30-day deadline to file an appeal.
Appeals to the BIA are done through written legal work, and appeals process usually does not involve courtroom-like oral arguments or testimony. This means the BIA will base its decision on the written and oral record that was developed in immigration court (such as testimony taken at a merits hearing and evidence that was submitted, as well as legal issues and challenges raised during the proceedings) and the written arguments raised on appeal, ultimately identifying the Immigration Judge's mistakes (usually the case where you file the appeal after being denied relief) or finding that the Immigration Judge correctly granted relief (usually the case if the Department of Homeland Security files the appeal if you win your immigration court case).
After both sides have submitted legal briefs, the BIA will then issue a written decision either affirming the appeal or dismissing it. While the BIA usually issues a written decision explaining its decision either affirming or denying an appeal, under the regulations, the BIA can "affirm without opinion" the decision of the Immigration Judge. If the BIA chooses to affirm without opinion, then it will not give
an explanation about its decision.
If you succeed on your appeal, you may be granted the relief you sought from the immigration court (such as cancellation of removal, asylum, or adjustment of status), or in certain cases, the BIA can "remand" your case to the immigration court (such as to allow you to pursue a new form of relief that was not previously available to you, or to ask the judge to develop a better record so that the BIA can decide an appeal, etc.)
If you lose your appeal, you may still have options available to you, such as filing a motion to reconsider, motion to reopen, and/or filing a petition for review in a federal court challenging the BIA's decision. Because these events are time-sensitive, it is a good idea to consult with an experienced immigration attorney as soon as possible after you receive the BIA's decision.
Appealing a Decision of the USCIS
If you or your relative filed a petition or an application for an immigration benefit, such as an I-130 visa petition, an I-601 waiver of inadmissibility, or an application for naturalization, and if the USCIS denied that benefit, then you may be able to file an appeal with the USCIS.
NOTE: While the USCIS usually has jurisdiction over an appeal for a benefits application it has denied, the BIA maintains authority over appeals of I-130 petition denials. Also, there is no appeal from a denial of an application for adjustment of status (Form I-485), although you may be able to file a motion to reconsider or reopen the denial.
Just like with the BIA, the USCIS has strict deadlines in which to file an appeal with the USCIS. Therefore, if you are considering an appeal with the USCIS, it is a good idea to consult with an experienced immigration attorney to discuss your appeal and options.
Motions Process
While you may have a right to an appeal, there is no right to a motion either with the immigration court or the BIA. Motions, such as motions to reconsider, motions to reopen, or motions to remand, are ancillary requests and subject to a discretionary decision by the adjudicator.
Motions to the Immigration Courts
The most common type of motion filed with an immigration court is one to ask the court to rescind an in absentia removal (or deportation) order that was entered against someone when he or she failed to appear in court for a scheduled hearing. When someone has proper notice of hearing date, time, and place, he or she can be ordered removed in his or her absence.
If you have an in absentia deportation or removal order against you, then you must have that case reopened first before you can seek any discretionary relief. You should file your motion as soon as possible after discovery of the order, so it shows your initiative to try to fix your immigration situation.
If the immigration judge denies a motion to reopen the in absentia order, you may have the options to file either a motion to reconsider (with the immigration court) or an appeal with the BIA. Because a motion to reconsider or an appeal is time-sensitive, you should consult with an experienced immigration lawyer to discuss your options.
Other types of motions filed in immigration courts include motions to change venue (transfer a pending removal proceeding from one court to another), bond motions (to seek the release of a detained alien in removal proceedings), motions to terminate proceedings, etc.
Motions to the USCIS
While certain discretionary relief denials can be appealed to the BIA, others must go through the motions process with the USCIS. The most common motion to the USCIS are motions to reconsider and/or reopen a denial of an application for adjustment of status (Form I-485) and a denial of an application for employment authorization (Form I-765).
If your application for permanent resident status or employment authorization has been denied, you have a limited time to file a motion to reconsider and/or reopen with the USCIS. There is a filing fee to file the motion. You should consult with an experienced immigration attorney soon after you receive a denial to discuss your options.
I have helped hundreds of people with their appeals and motions, both with the BIA and with the USCIS. If you have been denied relief by an immigration judge, or if the USCIS has denied your application for a benefit, contact me to discuss your options.


Ever fancied living in a magical fantasy world? If so, why not take a leaf out of this woman's book and transform part of your house into a mini-Hogwarts?
Charlotte Kyriakou from Shrewesbury was so impressed by a visit to Harry Potter Warner Bros studios she decided to embark on an ambitious project to transform her dining room into a scaled-down version of the Hogwarts dining hall – complete with wooden panelling, replica Hedwig, and a few original props from the Harry Potter movie series.
But while most people daydream at work thinking about what they're dream house would look like, there are a few people who actually make it into a reality, despite how weird it may look to others.
Harry Potter and the wizarding world is a cultural phenomenon, and countless people have flocked to the imaginary school, Hogwarts as a sanctuary from the harsh realities of the real world.
Most Harry Potter fans claim they would love to live and study at Hogwarts, but the reality of actually doing that is slim.
But if you're crafty enough, you can conjure up the feeling that you're living in Hogwarts!
Charlotte Kyriakou is a busy mom, but she and her husband spent the past year and a half turning her dining room into the Great Hall from Hogwarts.
Charlotte spent an astounding £13,000 to turn her dining room into a replica of the Great Hall and it took 18 months to put it all together.
But from the outside looking in, you wouldn't guess that this ordinary looking house had a replica of the Great Hall inside, would you? No, me neither.
When Charlotte decided to recreate the Great Hall in her home, the family had to relocate their front room to another part of the house.
However, when you're building something like this and on such a grand scale all the little sacrifices are worth it.
Charlotte and her husband spent over a year sourcing the materials. Remarkably the family was even able to get some of the furniture from the sets of Harry Potter!
After a trip to the Harry Potter Warner Bros Studios, Charlotte became inspired and decided to recreate the Great Hall at home!


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Art, Flora, France, History, Painting, Porcelain
Orchids and elephants
I have always loved thes gorgeous Sèvres elephant vases at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Only 22 remain in collections today and due to their complexity, they were produced in a very limited quantity. Dating to about 1758, the two examples below are of soft-paste porcelain and were the work of the modeler Jean-Claude Duplessis (ca. 1695–1774). Much favored by the French court, owners included Madame de Pompadour who owned 3 sets!
Madame de Pompadour, mistress to Louis XV, had retreat away from the Court, the Petit Trianon, a small palace built for her by the king.
Though by the early1750s she was no longer the king's mistress, she over saw new construction at Versailles as well as recommending the establishment of the Sèvres porcelain factory.
Madame de Pompadour at her Tambour Frame, François-Hubert Drouais, 1763-4, The National Gallery, London
In her honor I also share some gorgeous images of orchids from The New York Botanical Garden show earlier this year. None of these are the Dendrobium Orchids actually named Madame Pompadour, but they are quite beautiful and I think she would approve.
Art, History, Literature, Longfellow, New York, Painting, Poetry
Midwestern Idyll
I went to The Metropolitan Museum of Art of a rainy day this week when it was relatively calm and quiet – most galleries I had to myself – perfect for the contemplation of art. And this is not usually possible when there is a mad crush of people in the rooms. By steering clear of special exhibits most of the permanent collection, with the exception of the Egyptian rooms, can be enjoyed crowd free during weekdays now that summer has ended.
John Steuart Curry's Wisconsin Landscape, 1938-39
I grew up in Wisconsin and Iowa – in a suburb of Milwaukee and then later in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. And finally a stint in Missouri while attending Washinton University in St. Louis. After a summer in Washington, DC interning at the now defunct Corcoran Gallery of Art, I was more determined than ever to move to the East Coast. So by the next summer I was living in Boston.
But I still had my family in Wisconsin and Iowa, so there have been many trips back – some in summer when the fields look as gorgeous as they do in Curry's landscape above. And other times in late December when the fields are frozen and covered in crisp white snow and the few remaining red barns stand out as cardinals do amidst the more modest plumage of their avian companions.
Thomas Hart Benton's July Hay, 1943
And Missouri landscapes such as Thomas Hart Benton's July Hat harken back to Pieter Bruegel the Elder's The Harvesters. Though Benton's figures and the land have that strange twisted aspect, almost Mannerist in feel, but contorted in a more compact way.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, Breda (?) ca. 1525–1569 Brussels), The Harvesters, 1565
And finally the last in the trio of Regionalists, Grant Wood, who lived and had his artist's studio for many years in Cedar Rapids at 5 Turner Alley.
Photo by Mark Tade
Interior view of 5 Turner Alley, looking east, c. 1925, courtesy of Figge Art Museum, Grant Wood archives, photo by John W. Barry.
Here again as with Benton, and unlike the realism of Curry, we have a contrived bird's eye view of a little Massachusetts hamlet. Cartoonish hills and rounded surveys set against the angular architecture and a huge spotlight on the town center – the light of an over bright moon to light Paul Revere's way? Wood subject derives from history by way of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. And so full circle from the Midwest to the East Coast. Enjoy the poem!
Grant Wood's The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, 1931
Paul Revere's Ride
Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
He said to his friend, "If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal light,–
One if by land, and two if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm."
Then he said "Good-night!" and with muffled oar
Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore,
Just as the moon rose over the bay,
Where swinging wide at her moorings lay
The Somerset, British man-of-war;
A phantom ship, with each mast and spar
Across the moon like a prison bar,
And a huge black hulk, that was magnified
By its own reflection in the tide.
Meanwhile, his friend through alley and street
Wanders and watches, with eager ears,
Till in the silence around him he hears
The muster of men at the barrack door,
The sound of arms, and the tramp of feet,
And the measured tread of the grenadiers,
Marching down to their boats on the shore.
Then he climbed the tower of the Old North Church,
By the wooden stairs, with stealthy tread,
To the belfry chamber overhead,
And startled the pigeons from their perch
On the sombre rafters, that round him made
Masses and moving shapes of shade,–
By the trembling ladder, steep and tall,
To the highest window in the wall,
Where he paused to listen and look down
A moment on the roofs of the town
And the moonlight flowing over all.
Beneath, in the churchyard, lay the dead,
In their night encampment on the hill,
Wrapped in silence so deep and still
That he could hear, like a sentinel's tread,
The watchful night-wind, as it went
Creeping along from tent to tent,
And seeming to whisper, "All is well!"
A moment only he feels the spell
Of the place and the hour, and the secret dread
Of the lonely belfry and the dead;
For suddenly all his thoughts are bent
On a shadowy something far away,
Where the river widens to meet the bay,–
A line of black that bends and floats
On the rising tide like a bridge of boats.
Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride,
Booted and spurred, with a heavy stride
On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere.
Now he patted his horse's side,
Now he gazed at the landscape far and near,
Then, impetuous, stamped the earth,
And turned and tightened his saddle girth;
But mostly he watched with eager search
The belfry tower of the Old North Church,
As it rose above the graves on the hill,
Lonely and spectral and sombre and still.
And lo! as he looks, on the belfry's height
A glimmer, and then a gleam of light!
He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns,
But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight
A second lamp in the belfry burns.
A hurry of hoofs in a village street,
A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark,
And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark
Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet;
That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light,
The fate of a nation was riding that night;
And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight,
Kindled the land into flame with its heat.
He has left the village and mounted the steep,
And beneath him, tranquil and broad and deep,
Is the Mystic, meeting the ocean tides;
And under the alders that skirt its edge,
Now soft on the sand, now loud on the ledge,
Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides.
It was twelve by the village clock
When he crossed the bridge into Medford town.
He heard the crowing of the cock,
And the barking of the farmer's dog,
And felt the damp of the river fog,
That rises after the sun goes down.
It was one by the village clock,
When he galloped into Lexington.
He saw the gilded weathercock
Swim in the moonlight as he passed,
And the meeting-house windows, black and bare,
Gaze at him with a spectral glare,
As if they already stood aghast
At the bloody work they would look upon.
It was two by the village clock,
When he came to the bridge in Concord town.
He heard the bleating of the flock,
And the twitter of birds among the trees,
And felt the breath of the morning breeze
Blowing over the meadow brown.
And one was safe and asleep in his bed
Who at the bridge would be first to fall,
Who that day would be lying dead,
Pierced by a British musket ball.
You know the rest. In the books you have read
How the British Regulars fired and fled,—
How the farmers gave them ball for ball,
>From behind each fence and farmyard wall,
Chasing the redcoats down the lane,
Then crossing the fields to emerge again
Under the trees at the turn of the road,
And only pausing to fire and load.
So through the night rode Paul Revere;
And so through the night went his cry of alarm
To every Middlesex village and farm,—
A cry of defiance, and not of fear,
A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,
And a word that shall echo for evermore!
For, borne on the night-wind of the Past,
Through all our history, to the last,
In the hour of darkness and peril and need,
The people will waken and listen to hear
The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed,
And the midnight message of Paul Revere.
History, Literature, Maya, Painting
A Happy Discovery
Several years ago my favorite postcard went missing. I use them as bookmarks and assumed I had accidentally left it in a book I returned to the library. I lost this particular bookmark before. Luckily I missed it almost immediately and raced back and found the book reshelved in the Yorkville branch of the New York Public Library with my bookmark still inside!
This morning while doing some research I opened a book and viola!
Postcard of Laus Veneris, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
I've had this postcard since my freshman year of college. I bought it at the campus bookstore at Washington University in St. Louis little knowing that I would go on to study the Pre-Raphaelites for my senior project and later my MA thesis. And I found the bookmark in an exhibition catalog for a show at the Peabody Essex Museum on the Maya – the subject of my second MA thesis. Not sure what the universe is trying to tell me – one obsession lost and lodged within another, both of them pushed aside too often as I work through my daily life in a largely unrelated field.
The culprit that swallowed my bookmark.
The subject of the painting is from Tannhäuser, a German Minnesinger (writer of lyric poems and songs), who died after 1265. Little is known about him, his poems date from 1245 to 1265, and his lineage is assumed to related to the Lords of Thannhausen in Bavaria. He was a courtier at the court of Frederick II of Austria (1230–1246),
Tannhäuser in the Codex Manesse (1340)
Here he wears the habit of the Teutonic Order and may have fought the Fifth Crusade (1213–21). Tannhäuser became a legend and was transformed over the centuries into a knight and poet who found the Venusberg (Venus' underground dwelling) and lived with her there, worshipping the goddess. For a year. He if silly leaves and travels to Rome to ask forgiveness from Pope Urban IV. The Pope declares this as impossible as it is for his papal staff to blossom and Tannhäuser leaves. Three days later, Urban's staff blooms with flowers. Messeengers are sent to recall the knight but he has returned messengers to Venusberg and is never to be seen again.
Though the Tannhäuser story is only a legend I feel that the current Pope would not have sent Tannhäuser away with that answer.
Pope Francis at the 9/11 Memorial on Friday, September 25, 2015. John Minchillo/AP Photo
Art, History, Literature
The of Triumph of Fame over Death
Loved this team of elephants pulling the cart
This South Netherlandish tapestry is on view in Gallery 305 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. What attracted me was the pair of white elephants. The theme is from Petrarch's I Trionfi (The Triumphs) and Louis XII commissioned a series of tapestries after the work was translated into French. This particular one has been cut down and was from a series most likely created for Bishop Symphorien de Bullioud of Soissons, a man familiar with Italian culture from trips to Milan and Rome.
The figures include Alexander the Great and Charlemagne – both sporting symbols of the French kings including Charlemagne's fleur-de-lys and Alexander's scepter. Plato and Aristotle stand with them. And the women being trampled by the elephants? Death. Hope that should I ever meet white elephants that would not be my fate.
Archaeology, Architecture, Art, History, Maya
The Rise of Maya Civilization
Last weekend the 8th Annual Tulane Maya Symposium and Workshop was held in New Orleans. Sponsored by the Middle American Research Institute, the yearly gathering is smaller than a major conference and a real chance for scholars to hear about the recent research of their colleagues and meet up and coming graduate students from institutions throughout the country, but many from the Louisiana, Florida and Texas area.
Normand Hammond, Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at Boston University, presented his research from the site of Cuello, Belize. The site was inhabited from 1200 BC through the end of the Late Preclassic. He showed evidence from the Middle Preclassic of residential structures and a sweatbath grouped around a courtyard and persistent renovation programs for more than 500 years until they were finally buried beneath a later ceremonial structure. Floral and faunal evidence shows a community with a maize based diet and some root crop agriculture as well as hunting and puppy farming for additional protein sources. All the dogs were raised to the same age, just less than a year, and then butchered for food. There was trade in exotic goods and suggestions of ranked society. That a community with such a small population (perhaps a little over 100 households and 600-700 people) should be this developed in the first half of the first millennium BC shows that much more work should be done to discover Middle Preclassic evidence at other sites which may have been destroyed or buried by later building programs. I'll have to add Prof. Hammond's "Cuello: An Early Maya Community"
Figurine from Cuello


Comment on the importance of Model Railway Exhibitions.
A layout with two themes: either a WagonsLits Depot or US Diesel depot, with photos and trackplan.
Notes and trackplans based on Austrian railways.
Ideas and trackplans (approx 4ft x 1ft for HO) for modelling US outline in small spaces.
US outline N scale layout, with photos and trackplan.
Article An Ideal Portable Layout?


After an unplanned hiatus of a couple of weeks, we're back and with an almost exclusively seafood menu for the week. The dishes will also allow us to use up some of the things we have in the freezer. We'll have beer with most of these dishes, since they lend themselves so well to being paired with it, but we'll probably sneak in bottle of rose somewhere along the way.
We're going to our first Yankee game of the season on Sunday afternoon and as is usually the case, we probably won't feel much hungry for dinner Sunday night. If we do decide to make dinner (or to just make a few lunches for the week), we'll make the Kitchn's Quinoa Bowl with Kung Pao Edamame. We had this a few weeks ago and it was both simple to make and super-flavorful. Plus, we still have some edamame in the freezer.
Kim will be at a New York Junior League meeting Monday night, so Tony will be on his own for dinner. He'll use up the remaining red snapper that we bought at the Southold Fish Market when we made out trip to Greenport, Long Island a few weeks ago. We usually make Elie Krieger's version, which features a chipotle cream. Tony will mix things up a bit and have the fish tacos with avocado, cilantro, and lime dressing leftover from when we made Tuna and Black Bean Burrito Bowl with Cilantro-Lime Dressing.
On Tuesday night, we'll use the rest of the monkfish we bought on our trip to Greenport to make The New York Times' Monkfish Rolls. We both love lobster rolls in the summer time and we've read about monkfish being "the poor-man's lobster" enough times to want to give this recipe a try.
On Wednesday night, we'll continue the seafood theme and make Elie Krieger's Baked Shrimp with Tomatoes and Feta (and Orzo). We haven't made this dish in a while and are looking froward to making it again.
On Thursday night, we'll keep with the theme of using up leftovers from the freezer and make two pizzas using dough we've been saving for a little while. The first is a standard Tomato, Mozzarella, and Basil and the second is one we dreamed up ourselves: Onion, Olive, and Goat Cheese, which will use the goat cheese we purchased at Catapano Dairy Farm.
One of the challenges of cooking in a small, New York apartment is that making anything that involves frying makes the whole apartment smell like oil. (Cooking fish sometime snakes the apartment smell very fishy, but that's a risk with which we're a lot more comfortable!) Plus, it makes a huge mess. From time to time, we try to make recipes that involve baking foods that are usually fried. We had great success with this approach when we made Spicy Oven-Fried Chicken over the summer. So, for our final dinner of the week on Friday, we're going to try our hand at making The New York Times' Baked Fish and Chips. We're very curious to see how this comes out!


A do it yourself flash diffuser.
If you have a transparent (translucent ) film can, marker and a cutter, than this will cost you nothing.
2- Take the dimensions of your on board flash (width and height), mention it with a marker on the film can and cut it sliding carefully.
Important notices: do not cut the edge of the can, begin from the inner side. And be careful not to harm yourself.
P.S.: You may want to shoot in RAW to fix a bit the temperature and tint.
I would love to hear of your successes.
Great idea Doc and a very nicely illustrated set of instructions. Just not sure what these film canisters are that you're using .
Usually Fuji films were in such "translucent" cans.
Excellent idea. Now maybe if the black cans turn out to be transparent to infra-red we also have a flash trigger!
Where did you find the film can?
I think it is safe to assume that you are joking - especially since you work at Adorama.
However . . . if you actually want one of the Fuji film canisters for a project like this, I have some empties that I can spare, plus some that contain unexposed film and cannot spare - yet. I've found these to be handy storage containers for small items, and have been using them for that purpose for years.
And that's the way I found my film can.
I start working in photolabs back in 1988, at that time we didn't know what to do with thousands of plastic film's cans... Now: try to find one! (AdoramaPix became 100% digital 5 years ago) I have my own collection of canisters, transparent and black, just in case one day I'll need them.
Back on subject, I always found that a diffuser on a flash is a "lazy" solution (but better than nothing) and I have a lot of respect for a guy like Gary Fong, specially his business model, but I'll never recommend one of his diffusers.
My 2 year old handed me one the other day. Of course, I'd been storing computer screws and small parts in all of them for years, so it was a bit to scratched and dirty to use. Maybe I can find one laying around unused. Mosly, it's the black ones that are unused, since I can't see contents from the outside, I didn't use them for storage.
I used to have so many Kodachrome metal film cans, grey plastic Kodak film cans, and translucent (correct usage of the term, I think ) plastic Fuji film cans, but a few years ago I finally threw most of them out. Can't keep carrying stuff around forever. I think I might still have a couple of the metal cans somewhere and a few of the plastic ones. Also, I still have some old unused Fuji and Kodak film in the freezer.


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Cobb's disappointing time with the Orioles nears its end
By Rich Dubroff
Three years ago, the Orioles were desperate to make another run. Executive vice-president of baseball operations Dan Duquette and manager Buck Showalter were in the last year of their long-term deals.
Several of their key players, reliever Zack Britton, centerfielder Adam Jones and shortstop Manny Machado, were in the final year before free agency.
The Orioles had already signed another starting pitcher, right-hander Andrew Cashner, early in spring training, adding him to right-handers Dylan Bundy, Kevin Gausman and Chris Tillman in the starting rotation.
Late in spring training, the Orioles signed Alex Cobb to a four-year, $57 million contract. On Monday, it was reported that Cobb will be traded to the Los Angeles Angels, his time here never coming close to the expectations.
However, at the time of his signing, it looked like a masterstroke. Cobb was arguably the best free-agent pitcher the Orioles could lure to Baltimore, and his market had dropped.
The size of the contract was large, the biggest one the team had handed out to a free- agent pitcher, eclipsing the four-year, $50 million deal for Ubaldo Jimenez that expired the previous fall.
Cobb was two years removed from Tommy John surgery and had a solid 2017 with the Tampa Bay Rays. His 12-10 record and 3.66 ERA for the Rays looked impressive. If he could duplicate that, the Orioles would have been happy.
Unfortunately, Cobb never came close to matching that.
When the trade of Cobb, which was first reported by The Athletic, becomes official, Cobb will head to the Angels for second baseman Jahmai Jones.
Cobb will try to make something positive happen in the final year of his contract, and the Orioles will pay heavily to get out of that deal.
The Orioles, who collapsed in 2018, ending with a franchise-worst record of 47-115, traded not only Britton and Machado in July, but also made deals that included Gausman, relievers Brad Brach and Darren O'Day and second baseman Jonathan Schoop. They wanted to deal Jones, too, but he invoked his no-trade clause and played out the season in Baltimore before leaving for the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Duquette and Showalter were let go at the end of the season, and Mike Elias was hired in November 2018.
Cobb's name was thrown around in trade talks shortly after Elias' arrival, but there was too much money left on that contract, and Cobb had underperformed in that first season.
Because Cobb didn't sign until March 21st, he got a late start on the season. In his first three starts, he allowed 17 earned runs on 30 hits in 11 2/3 innings for a 13.11 ERA.
Even though Cobb's stat line improved, the team didn't, and he hardly pitched in September, finishing with a 5-15 record and 4.90 ERA.
Cobb had a string of solid starts in July and August but persistent blisters ended his season early, and he was hardly a hot commodity on the trade market.
In 2019, he was limited to three starts because of hip and knee surgeries. Last season, he pitched well at the end of the season. In his last two starts, Cobb gave up three runs on 10 hits in 13 innings, restoring some trade value. He finished 2-5 with a 4.30 ERA,
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In his three seasons with the Orioles, he was 7-22 with a 5.10 ERA.
Cobb is a class act and was always willing to talk about pitching. It's a shame that his time in Baltimore won't be remembered fondly. As one of the few veterans remaining on the team, he took on a leadership role when the August 27th game at Tampa Bay was postponed as part of the Black Lives Matter protests.
His brother, R.J., was awarded the Purple Heart because of his heroic actions in the Iraq war, and is now a police officer. Alex has always supported police officers and made unpublicized humanitarian trips to impoverished areas. Cobb was eager to support the police and his Black Oriole teammates in the protest.
Without Cobb, the Orioles will need veterans to augment the young rotation he'll leave behind. Left-hander John Means will be the staff leader, and rookie left-hander Keegan Akin and another first-year guy, right-hander Dean Kremer, will need veteran help.
Elias has been hunting for a veteran starter or two, perhaps on minor league contracts, and maybe a major league deal now that Cobb is gone.
Jones will be the first player with major league experience Elias has acquired in a trade. In his deals for major league players, Bundy, Cashner, pitchers Richard Bleier, Miguel Castro, Mychal Givens, Tommy Milone and Hector Velázquez and infielders José Iglesias and Jonathan Villar, Elias' net was 18 players. All lacked major league experience.
Jones has just seven major league at-bats, but Elias said after the signing of shortstop Freddy Galvis that he was still looking for another utility player.
Jones has experience in the outfield in the minors and will compete for a spot on the club against several other utility players. He's never played shortstop or third base in the minor leagues.
Jones, who was the Angels' second-round pick in 2015, is the seventh highest-rated prospect in MLB Pipeline and will be the seventh player acquired by the Orioles from Los Angeles in the past 14 months.
In December 2019, the Orioles acquired right-handers Kyle Bradish, Kyle Brnovich, Isaac Mattson and Zach Peek in exchange for Bundy. In December 2020, right-handers Jean Pinto and Garrett Stallings were traded for Iglesias.
Note: First baseman/outfielder Chris Shaw cleared waivers and was outrighted to Triple-A Norfolk. He was designated for assignment when the Orioles signed shortstop Freddy Galvis as a free agent last Wednesday.
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Cyberpunk 2077 Has Sold More Pre-orders on PC Than Consoles – PC's Biggest Day One Launch
It isn't common to hear that a blockbuster/mainstream game has managed to outsell the console versions, but Cyberpunk 2077 definitely seems to be the case!
According to an official tweet from CD Projekt Red, 59% of the game's pre-orders were from the PC, whilst the remaining 41% came from the consoles. They also announced the fact that the game managed to pass over 8 million pre-orders.
This was further broken down by analyst Daniel Ahmad, stating that from a total of 8 million pre-orders, 4.27m was on PC whilst 3.28m on consoles, making it the biggest day one launch ever for a PC version of a game.
Originally tweeted by CD PROJEKT IR (@CDPROJEKTRED_IR) on December 10, 2020.
Now there are lots of reasons why this might be the case, but chief of it may be the fact that PC is the only place where you can play the next-gen version of the game, as the new consoles are still running the last-gen builds. It is currently the best-selling game on Steam.
Not to mention, it has come out right after Nvidia's successful launch of the affordable RTX 3XXX line, which has gotten more people to jump onto PC gaming. Then of course, there is the fact that millions of people have been upgrading upgrading their PCs for gaming due to the pandemic which has caused many to work from home.
Cyberpunk 2077 is now available on the PC, Playstation 4 and Xbox One. Whilst the game can be played on the Xbox Series X and Playstation 5, they do not have the next-gen features, which will only be available next year.
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Catherine Herridge is an illustrious American journalist currently working as a senior investigative correspondent for CBS News in Washington D.C. She debuted her role at CBS in November of 2019 after leaving Fox News Channel where she served as Chief Intelligence correspondent. Before that, she had hosted the Saturday edition of Weekend Live.
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Catherine was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on 18th May 1964. She is 58 years old.
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Catherine attended Jarvis Collegiate Institute for high school before moving to the United States for college. Later on, she joined Harvard College and graduated with a Bachelor's degree. Also, she holds a Master's degree in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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She is gladly married to her beloved husband named JD Hayes since 13th March 2004. Hayes works as an Airforce lieutenant colonel. The adorable couple shares two stunning children including a son called Peter Herridge. On 6th June 2006, Catherine donated a part of her liver to Peter who was diagnosed with biliary atresia.
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Q: SQL data not showing two columns on site I've got a DB connection to my SQL Server on Azure. Two columns are showing on the page but not showing the other 2. Columns are company name and further details
Company Name is standard business name
Further Details stores URLs to more information
I've tried the SQL statement in SQL Management and it displays data what should be shown.
I've checked the parameters of the column, they're both nvarchar(Max) it shows as -1 when clicking to modify the size of the column. Does this mean it has unlimited size?
The file type is Classic ASP with inline CSS and HTML inside.
Below is what is being called in the database.
<%
Session.LCID=2057

Dim connpiudb, rspiudata, strSQL, fldThis, strSQL2, strSQL3, strcategory

strcategory = Request.querystring("category")

Set connpiudb = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Set rspiudata = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")

strSQL = "SELECT companyname, courtnumber, cronumber, furtherdetails FROM piudata WHERE category LIKE '" & strCategory & "%' Order by companyname"
 strValue = Request.QueryString(<%= rspiudata.Fields("companyname") %>)

response.write strSQL
response.write strValue

connpiudb.Open strConnect
rspiudata.open strSQL, connpiudb
%>

Below is how the database is stored in the HTML table.

  <%
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  %>

Company Name:	<%= rspiudata.Fields("companyname") %>

Further Details:	<%=rspiudata.Fields("furtherdetails") %>

Court Number:	<%= rspiudata.Fields("courtnumber") %>

Company Registered Number:	<%= rspiudata.Fields("cronumber") %>

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I am struggling to understand what the actual issue is. Only thing I've thought of is that the columns sizes default to -1 when setting it as MAX or that Classic ASP does not support NVARCHAR(max)
Any help will be great.

A: Before going further on this, following code needs to be corrected
<%
...
strValue = Request.QueryString(<%= rspiudata.Fields("companyname") %>)

I understood you have it for debug purposes however it has neither valid syntax (you inject <% %> within existing server code block nor valid operator (Request.QueryString is for query strings) nor right place (recordset is defined but not opened).
And read about sql injections.

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BigAdv Projects for F@H -- what's needed now?
Discussion in 'Distributed Computing' started by Louis Wu, Dec 17, 2013.
As for GPU ... There is only one project with 8900 around; I don't see any new core 17 in the pipeline. The recent new beta projects are core 15.
PG should get a better transparency in place; giving is some planning orientation.
That's said: Right now I also would go with a 780Ti, but how long there will be good QRB projects ?
yeah, you never know. the increase to 16 cores lasted two years didn't it?
A heated discussion over here.
Meanwhile Vijay Pande gave some comments too. As for request for a roadmap he indicate that later 2014 another adjustment might be made.
rwh202, that looks bad on your side. Did you switched off or is that the mix of WU you get ? Or both ?
A bit of both - mostly getting core15 and even the amd were getting occasional core16 (2k ppd - woot!), so shut down 6 gpu for Christmas - at least it means I can close the windows now!
I'll see how things are going in the new year, but not really worth having the 780s etc folding at the moment.
I was going to get a pair of 780ti, but can now see that money going into the macpro pot - oh well!
so you getting a new mac pro?
There is a request for help on SMP folding (non BA); as a spinoff from the BA discussion .
If you have any idle resources please run or keep running SMP WU; not for points, for science.
I restarted by two idle CPU slot on GPU rigs. Nothing powerful but still fold a bit.
While our team internal ranking is "repaired" the exodus at FAH continues. Some [H]igh-performer are on strike/leave. Due to decreased satisfaction with communication behavior from PG. Same for the overall number of computer taking in the project: less and less. I hope it will stop and reverse at least a bit.
Long-term folder: was that ever similar ?


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[DOUBLEPOST=1463824896][/DOUBLEPOST]Does the cup go to penalties tonight, or replay. I guess numbers may be down if so.
Sorry about that, Windows wanted to install new software for the wheel which I stupidly let it and it took the wheel as being a joystick instead so I need to reinstall it all.
why am I alwaysss just to late..


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Doors: 4pm | Pre-Show Concert: 4:30pm | Movie: 5pm | After-Movie Concert: 6:30pm
MOVIEPASS | Adults: $20 | Children, Students & Seniors : $15
Category: United Palace
The classic movie "A Hard Day's Night" captured all the magic of Beatlemania in 1964. Beatles tribute band Strawberry Fields ensures we still feel that magic 54 years later.
This movie is the Beatles' feature film debut and one of the greatest rock-and-roll comedy adventures ever. It pioneers the just-left-of-reality style of mock-documentary that became a staple of music biopics as fame takes John, Paul, George, and Ringo by storm.
The band Strawberry Fields features true look-alike performers, handpicked from hundreds of auditionees, who speak in Liverpudlian accents and play on the vintage musical instruments Beatles fans have come to recognize (the bassist is even left-handed, just like Paul!). It is as close to a real Beatles concert as you can get. The band is known for its 18-year weekly Beatles Brunch at B.B. Kings before it closed earlier this year and for recreating the Beatles fabled 1965 Shea Stadium concert for its 40th anniversary in 2005. Strawberry Fields will play songs spanning the Beatles entire catalogue before and after the movie.
Strawberry Fields Performs A Hard Day's Night
Here Is A Preview Of A Hard Day's Night:
Synopsis: The Beatles - the world's most famous rock and roll band - travel from their hometown of Liverpool to London to perform in a television broadcast. Along the way they must rescue Paul's unconventional grandfather from various misadventures and drummer Ringo goes missing just before the crucial concert.
DOR – July 7, 1964
Starring – The Fab Four!
Director – Richard Lester
Screenwriter – Alun Owen
Length – 87 minutes
Movies at the Palace" take place at the stunning United Palace, formerly the Loew's 175th Street Theatre that first opened as a deluxe movie theatre and vaudeville house in 1930. We honor that past while reinventing the movie-going experience by pairing classic titles with pre-show entertainment and expert Q&A's. The year-long series of "Movies that Reawaken Wonder" celebrates both the Palace's past as a Wonder Theatre and recent cinematic rebirth, including Lin-Manuel Miranda's 2016 donation of a DCP projector.
Start date: September 23, 2018
Start time: 04:00 p.m.
Venue: United Palace, 4140 Broadway at 175th St, 10033
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10419.	Linda HIMEBAUGH (Dorothy Lucille BITLER , Winfield Allen , John Adam , Daniel F , James , John , Johannes ).
Linda married Alvin PHILO, son of Roscoe PHILO and Wreatha FAIRLEE. Alvin was born on 21 Feb 1940 in Mount Pleasant, Isabella Co, MI. He died on 25 Aug 1993 in Muskegon, Muskegon Co, MI.
Alvin resides in Aug 1993 in Twin Lakes, MI.
15831 M i Allan D PHILO.
15832 M ii Rodney W PHILO.
Rodney married Paris Alain YORTON.
15833 F iii Darlene PHILO.
+ 15834 F iv Annatte PHILO.
10420.	Judith D "Judy" HIMEBAUGH (Dorothy Lucille BITLER , Winfield Allen , John Adam , Daniel F , James , John , Johannes ).
15835 F i Tammy ROOD.
15836 F ii Cindy ROOD.
Judy also married William SCHMIERER "William". William died before Mar 2013.
10424.	Kathleen Marie MUNRO (Marie Clara BITLER , Winfield Allen , John Adam , Daniel F , James , John , Johannes ).
15837 M i Desmond Cyrus GLEE.
Kathleen also married Willie FINLAYSON.
10425.	Robin Lynn MUNRO (Marie Clara BITLER , Winfield Allen , John Adam , Daniel F , James , John , Johannes ).
Robin married John Howard HAYES.
15838 M i [Male] HAYES.
10426.	Patricia Ann MUNRO (Marie Clara BITLER , Winfield Allen , John Adam , Daniel F , James , John , Johannes ).
Patricia married Thomas Cleo FULLER.
+ 15839 M i Ross Ian FULLER.
15840 M ii Bryan Andrew FULLER.
+ 15841 F iii Meredith Rae FULLER.
10427.	Sherry Dale MUNRO (Marie Clara BITLER , Winfield Allen , John Adam , Daniel F , James , John , Johannes ).
Sherry married Arthur Raymond FLANDERS "Doc" [scrapbook], son of FLANDERS and Madeline Theresa POSMAN. Doc was born on 9 Aug 1938 in Sodus, Wayne Co, NY. He died on 3 Jul 2013 in Lansing, Ingham Co, MI.
Doc resides in Oct 1993 in Lansing, MI. He served in the military with U.S. Navy - Corpsman (21 yrs) - USS Harold J Ellison (DD864), USS Plymouth Rock (LSP29), USS Richard L Page (FFG5) and USS VIREO (MSC 205) in Vietnam War. He worked as corrections officer with Michigan Department of Corrections (15 yrs).
15842 M i James FLANDERS.
15843 M ii Benjamin FLANDERS.
Benjamin married Jennifer M KAMINSKI.
15844 F iii Jennifer FLANDERS.
10428.	James Allen "Allen" BITLER (Clyde James , Winfield Allen , John Adam , Daniel F , James , John , Johannes ) was born on 4 Jan 1959. He died on 23 Jan 1982.
The cause of his death was cancer.
Allen married Nettie Amelia MARTINEZ.
+ 15845 M i Jason A BITLER.
10429.	Tammy Annette BITLER (Clyde James , Winfield Allen , John Adam , Daniel F , James , John , Johannes ).
15846 M i Eric Lee COTTER Jr.
15847 F ii Jasmine April MEAD.
15848 M iii Ronald Allen MEAD.
15849 F iv Dakota Sage MEAD.
Tammy was also in a non-marital relationship with Ron PRATT.
10442.	Bernetta June THOMPSON (Goldie Mae BLAKE , John Daniel Alexander BLAKE , Mary Matilda BITLER , Daniel F , James , John , Johannes ).
Bernetta married Maurice Clayton COLE.
+ 15850 F i [Female] COLE.
10445.	Doyle E MCCOY 1 (Marie BLAKE , Ira James BLAKE , Mary Matilda BITLER , Daniel F , James , John , Johannes ) was born on 13 Dec 1930 in Van Wert Co, OH. He died on 24 Jan 2006 in Hawthorne Court, Paulding, OH. He was buried on 27 Jan 2006 in Blue Creek Cemetery, Haviland, Paulding Co, OH.
Doyle was issued a social security number before 1951 in OH. He worked with B.F. Goodrich/Uniroyal from 1965 to 1994 in Woodburn, IN. He served in the military with U.S. Army in Korean War. He was a member of Paulding County Rabbit Breeders Association. He was a member of Paulding County Horsemens Association. He was a member of 4-H (advisor).
Doyle married Shirley M SMITH 1 in 1955. Shirley was born on 29 Nov 1934. She died on 19 Nov 1997.
Shirley was issued a social security number before 1951 in OH.
15851 M i Roger MCCOY.
15852 F ii Carla MCCOY.
15853 F iii Darla MCCOY.
10449.	Beatrice Elizabeth AMSPAUGH (Edna Mary Pauline MARTIN , Elizabeth Angela BLAKE , Mary Matilda BITLER , Daniel F , James , John , Johannes ).
Beatrice married Eugene C PLAS. Eugene was born on 16 Oct 1926. He died on 6 Apr 1988 in Elyria, Lorain Co, OH. He was buried in LaPorte Cemetery, Carlisle Twp, Lorain Co, OH.
[Male] PLAS was born on 12 Aug 1950 in Elyria, Lorain Co, OH. He died on 12 Aug 1950. He was buried in St Marys Cemetery.
The cause of his death was Stillborn.
+ 15855 M ii Timothy John PLAS.
+ 15856 F iii Sandra Jean PLAS.
+ 15857 M iv Lawrence Alan PLAS.
10450.	Janice Irene AMSPAUGH (Edna Mary Pauline MARTIN , Elizabeth Angela BLAKE , Mary Matilda BITLER , Daniel F , James , John , Johannes ).
Janice married John Edward WHITE.
+ 15858 M i Greg WHITE.
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office@hartleyprimary.org.uk
Our Vision & Aims
Leigh Academies Trust
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Family Liaison Officer
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Design and Technology (D&T)
SMSC Curriculum
Prospectus, Home School Agreement and Parent A to Z Guide
End of Key Stage Results
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At Hartley Primary Academy, we follow the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and the National Curriculum for English and Mathematics in Key Stage 1 and 2. In addition, we adopt the principles of the Primary Years Programme (PYP) of the International Baccalaureate. (To find out more about the principle of the Primary Years Programme click here.)
All of our pupils are encouraged to develop as life-long learners through the attributes set out in the IB Learner Profile, which describes a broad range of human capacities and responsibilities that go beyond academic success. At HPA we aim to affect change through empowering children, giving them voice, choice and ownership of their learning. We will develop learners who are:
Inquirers
Knowledgeable
Open-minded
Risk-takers
We aim to provide exciting learning opportunities, called 'Learning Journeys' through the delivery of six transdisciplinary themes over the course of an academic year. By following a concept and inquiry-driven curriculum, our children are given the opportunity to lead their own learning: they are presented with a 'central idea' each term and are given the opportunity to ask questions about it, which are then turned into lines of inquiry for the children to investigate.
Through its inquiry-led, transdisciplinary framework, the PYP challenges children to think for themselves and take responsibility for their learning as they explore local and global issues and opportunities in real-life contexts. By encouraging our learners to become more internationally-minded, we are preparing them not only for their transition into the next stages of their education, but to become global citizens of the 21st century.
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The behaviour of pupils is outstanding…Pupils are proud to belong to the community of Hartley Primary Academy…Pupils' conduct in lessons is exemplary.
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The standards at Hartley Primary Academy are exceptional. They have been consistently above average over time.
The school provides a caring and supportive environment to children and there is a clear emphasis on enabling children to be the best they can be — both academically and as "people".
A quotation from a member of staff, Ofsted Report, March 2016
I feel really safe at Hartley Primary Academy…all the teachers and my friends are all around me.
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This article describes how E-Mail Alerts and RSS feeds can be helpful tools for busy distance education administrators by helping them to efficiently sort through the research and news information that is now available. These tools and their respective filters and aggregators make it possible for busy distance education administrators to stay current with the increasing amount of literature and news in their field. Taking time to become familiar with the alerts and RSS feeds identified in this article may be a distance learning administrator's best hope of reducing hours of inefficient searching and digesting the ever-increasing information in the field. It may also be that the answer to an administrator's next distance education question or dilemma will be delivered to their e-mail box or reader by their next e-mail alert or RSS feed.