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Theology: Explained and Defended, in a Series of Sermons, Том 2
Авторы: Timothy Dwight
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is to be used ; lest the preacher's own timidity, and not the performance of his duty, be the governing motive. In all cases, where this duty does not forbid, (and these instances are of course few) he is bound to speak the truth boldly and plainly, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. Let every timid preacher, who shuns to declare the whole counsel of God, under the influence of his timidity, fix his eyes on the example of his Sav
and he will see himself most affectingly reproved, and most solemnly reminded, that the fear of man only bringeth a
The love of applause may be said to be instinctive in the mind of man; and has, of course, a seat in that of Preachers, as well as of other men. Against this seductive passion, always ready to operate, and operating almost of course with an unhappy influence, every Preacher will find the strongest guard in the example of the Redeemer. No instance can be produced, in which this passion appeared in him. To teach truth, and enforce duty on his hearers, was plainly the whole end proposed by him in all his instructions. Such ought to be the only end aimed at in the discourses of every Minister of the Gospel.
Finally; all persons who assemble to hear the Gospel, are here taught the manner in which they are bound to receive the truth. They are bound to receive it in its purity and simplicity, just as it was taught by Christ. They are bound to hear it with a reverential, ready, and obedient mind; as the law of life, and the only means of salvation. The Jews, who would not thus receive it, perished. Those, who at the present time will not receive it in this manner, will, unless they assume a new character, perish also.
SERMON XLVIII.
CHRIST A PROPHET.-PREACHING OF THE APOSTLES,
Mark xvi. 15, 16, 20:— And he saith unto them, Go ye into all the world and preach
the Gospel unto every creature. He that believeth and is baplized, shall be sared; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And they went forth, and preached every where; the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen,
IN a former discourse, I proposed to consider the prophetical character of Christ, as displayed,
1st. In his Personal Preaching; and, 2dly. In his Preaching by his Apostles.
The former of these subjects I have accordingly considered at large. The latter I shall now examine with some attention. In the text we are presented, among other things, with a Commission, given to his Apostles, and others, to go into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature; and with an account of the fact, that under this Commission they went forth, and preached every where, Their preaching, therefore, was a business of mere delegation, and a mere performance of a duty, enjoined by Christ. In other words, Christ preached the Gospel by their Instrumentality.
In the consideration of this subject, it will be proper to show,
1. The Fact that the Apostles actually preached the Gospel of Christ; or were inspired :
JI. The Necessity of their preaching the Gospel :
III. The Things which they preached: and,
IV. The Consequences of their preaching.
1. I shall endeavour to show, that the Apostles actually preached the Gospel of Christ; or were inspired.
Many Unitarians, who have admitted that Christ himself was inspired, have, nevertheless, both questioned, and denied, the inspiration of his Apostles. As this is a subject of vast importance in the Christian scheme; it cannot but be necessary, in a system of Theology, to settle, as far as may be, just opinions concerning this subject. I shall, therefore, consider it at some length. It will be remembered, here, that we are not at issue with Infidels. The persons, with whom we contend, however unfavourable to the Scriptures their opinions on this or any other subject may seem, are yet professed believers in Divine Revelation. We are, therefore, at full liberty to bring whatever arguments we please from the Scriptures themselves. Nay, the Scriptures are, in the present case, peculiarly proper sources of evidence: sources to which our antagonists can make no objection. When Dr. Priestly denies what he calls the particular inspiration of the several books of the
Bible, he alleges, as his warrant for this denial, that they do not pretend to any such inspiration. Whether this doctrine is true, I shall now proceed to examine. In the
1st place, The Commission, and the Fact, recorded in the text, prove that the Apostles were inspired.
In the text, the Apostles are commissioned to preach the Gospel, or good news of Salvation. In other words, they were commissioned to declare the terms, on which God will forgive sin, and restore sinners to his favour and blessing. These terms it was impossible for them to know, except by means of immediate revelation to themselves, or information from a person, to whom they were revealed. The Gospel, it is agreed by all who believe it, discloses the Will of God concerning this subject. But this will cannot be known, except by direct communication from God. The knowledge of it, therefore, must terminate, of course, in ultimate revelation. If, then, it was not revealed immediately to the Apostles, it was communicated to them, verbally, by Christ. But no power of human memory could enable them to retain such a mass of communications, for any length of time; much less for such a length of time, as intervened between their reception of them, and the publication of those writings, in which they were conveyed to the world. If we consider the numerous events in the life of Christ, which they have recorded, and still more the numerous discourses, which they have professed to recount; we must either admit, that these records are very imperfectly true, because necessarily not exact; or that the Apostles had such supernatural assistance, as to make them exact, and in this manner true. This assistance can be no other than Inspiration. The Gospel of St. Matthew was written, according to the earliest calculation, eight years after the death of Christ; that of Mark, and that of Luke, about the year 64; more than twenty years after the death of Christ; and that of John, to say the least, at a much later period. Nothing can be more evident, than that these writers could not, for such a length of time, retain by the mere natural force of memory the things, which they have recorded. Particularly is this impossibility manifest with respect to the numerous discourses, recorded by St. John; of which in so great a proportion his Gospel consists ; discourses, differing from all others, ever known in the present world; strongly characteristical, and therefore fairly presumed to be genuine ; discourses, raised up by events distinctly recorded, and perfectly suited to those events; composed of questions and answers, arguments and objections, so minutely specified, as to wear the appearance of having been taken down on the spot, and at the moment, with uncommon skill and felicity. He who believes, that St. John could have remembered these things in his old age, by the mere natural force of memory, certainly can find no difficulty in admitting any proposition, because it asserts something miraculous : for no miracle involves a more absolute counteraction of the known VOL. II.
laws of nature than that, which is involved in this supposition. Instead of being thus tenaciously retained, at the end of so many years, it is scarcely credible, that they could have been remembered, in the same manner, for one day.
But if the Evangelists, when professedly recording these discourses, did not record them exactly; they did not record them truly. If Christ did not say the very things, which they have asserted; their assertions are so far false ; and they cannot sustain even the character, which Dr. Priestly concedes to them, of deserving the confidence of mankind as witnesses : for their testimony plainly cannot be true.
Beyond this, we know beforehand, that it is untrue : for, accord. ing to this scheme, it is not possible, that it should be true. The utmost, that can be said of it according to this scheme, is, that it may be a well meant, but must be a loose, general, and unsatisfactory account, in many, and those often important, particulars. Necessarily untrue ; and every where, unless in some few prominent particulars, necessarily uncertain.
But can it be supposed, that Chrisi directed the Apostles to preach the Gospel in this manner? Can he be supposed to have directed them to preach it at all, if they were necessitated to preach it in this manner only? Can he, who came to publish the will of God to mankind concerning this immensely important subject, have left it to be chiefly published, under his authority, by the mere force of human memory; and mixed with human frailties and human opinions; and thus, necessarily, to have become a mass of truth and falsehood, so blended, that those who read their writings, or heard their discourses, could never be able to separate the falsehood from the truth? Does any human legislature suffer its own laws to be published in such a manner? Was Christ possessed of less wisdom, or less integrity, or less benevolence, than human Legislators ? Did God give him a commission thus to act? Or did he fail to discharge the duties of the commission, which he really received ?
Further; the Evangelists have left all their declarations, in the form of unqualified, peremptory assertions. If, then, the assertions are not true, the authors of them are false witnesses concerning Christ. They have boldly and roundly declared that to have been said, and done, which they did not know to have been said or done. This is no other than direct dishonesty; such as nothing can justify, or palliate. He, who directly asserts that for truth, which he does not know, or believe himself to know to be true, is a liar. The Apostles, therefore, instead of deserving credit as witnesses, must in this case be branded as liars, even with regard to the facts, in relating which, Dr. Priestly assures us, they are wholly to be trusted. To deserve credit in this, and to discharge the duties even of common honesty, they ought to have told us, originally, that the facts and conversations, which they were about to relate, were re
corded by them in as faithful and exact a manner, as was in their power; but that, as they wrote from mere memory, they could give only qualified assertions; of which, although as correct as they could make them, they could not, however, be certain. In this case, they would have discharged their duty, and deserved credit. Their writings would have then
claimed the title of a Revelation just as much, as any other piece of honest Biography; and no more. But the writers would have acted the part of honest men.
2dly. This doctrine is evident from a part of the same commission, recorded by St. John.
Then said Jesus unto them, Peace be unto you. As my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained. John xx. 21–23. In this passage of Scripture, Christ tells his disciples, that he gives them generally the same mission, which the Father had given him ; so that they were now to stand in his place, as ambassadors from God to this sinful world. That they might be qualified to discharge the duties of this mission, he gave, or as I conceive it ought to be understood, he promised, them the Holy Ghost; even as he had been anointed with the Holy Ghost, and with Power, to qualify him for the duties of the same mission.
That the reception of the Holy Ghost was indispensable to their entrance on their mission is evident from Luke xxiv. 49; where Christ, referring to this mission, says, Behold I send the promise of my Father upon you. But tarry ye in Jerusalem, until ye be endued with Power from on high. And, again, from Acts i. 4; where St. Luke informs us, that, being assembled together with them, he commanded them, that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. That the Holy Ghost was the promise of the Father, or the object here promised, will not, I suppose, be questioned. If it should be, the point is unanswerably proved by the fact, that the Apostles waited in Jerusalem, with scrupulous obedience to this command, and did not begin to preach the Gospel at all, till, on the day of Pentecost, they actually received the Holy Ghost in the wonderful manner, described at the beginning of the following chapter. On this occasion they became in the strict sense inspired; as I shall have opportunity to evince in the sequel.
In the last verse of this quotation, Christ declares to them, Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted to them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained : that is, Ye shall prescribe, and publish, the terms, on which the sins of the whole human race shall be remitted or retained. Now let me ask any sober man, whether he can possibly believe, that God placed this stupendous and amazing power in the hands of these men, and left them to exercise it, merely according to the dictates of their own discretion, and the
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Damien Hirst has painted George Michael to raise money for HIV/AIDS, and it's beautiful
Posted on March 23, 2017 by Tom | 1 comment
In the time since he passed on that bittersweet Christmas Day last year, it has sometimes seemed as if the lives of LGBT+ people, and the world in general, are just a little greyer with him gone.
Story via GT
Luckily, gorgeous George is back in glorious technicolour today, in a beautiful painting by artist Damien Hirst, which will be sold at a charity gala in Texas on Friday night, with the proceeds going to help treatment for people with HIV/AIDS.
You didn't think George would let a little thing like death stop him from doing some good in the world, did you?
The event will be held in Texas by MTV Re:Define, a contemporary art showcase, and co-chaired by the Goss-Michael Foundation – a British art exhibition which George co-created with his ex-partner Kenny Goss.
"This year is poignant as we celebrate George. We've been honoured by his and Kenny's support," event organiser Georgia Arnold told The Sun.
"We look forward to continuing to raise awareness and support for our mission, and especially thank all the artists for their involvement and generosity."
It has emerged that George is to be buried in Highgate Cemetery, north London, next to his late mother who he was devoted to – it was always his plan to be laid to rest next to her.
Security at the cemetery has been increased to 24 hours a day to stop any interference with the plot that has been prepared for George, next to Lesley's.
George's £105m fortune will now be split between his loved ones and various charities – he was famously generous with his wealth whilst he was alive, including an instance in which he tipped a barmaid five thousand pounds because she was a student nurse in debt.
He was also a trailblazer for gay rights in the music industry, famously refusing to apologise for being gay in his 1998 CNN coming out interview, saying: "I don't feel any shame whatsoever and neither do I think I should."
Well said George – rest easy our friend.
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Prince – Thank you for the music!
Posted on April 28, 2016 by Tom | 1 comment
The music producer, songwriter, musician, singer and artist Prince Rogers Nelson died last Thursday at his home, Paisley Park in Minnesota. How can one attempt to encapsulate his legacy in just a few words? – It may be impossible.
An artist so sexy while embracing the power of androgyny, strutting the stage in high heels and vamped in eye makeup. Prince eroded the stable categories of masculine and feminine, playing with both identities and showing how interchangeable they were. Whether it was his performance of machismo in Purple Rain or his deliberately feminine pantsuit on the cover of Esquire, Prince spent his career celebrating gender fluidity and defying categories of straight and gay.
Dancing with white men, writhing with black women, coupling with either, becoming one with all races and sexes yet neither in one, commanding frame. Along the way, sell more than 100 million records worldwide. Brutal as a rapper, tender as a balladeer, swooping smoothly from bass to falsetto. An almost supernatural being while playing the guitar, soaring off into a universe of riffs and improvisations and that's just one of all the instruments he plays across his more than 40 studio albums. He was the most funkiest person in the music industry and he never stopped creating his passion, music-art.
It's reported that Prince died from HIV/AIDS complications yet he never spoke about the disease in public nor 'come out' as HIV positive. Staying private about HIV status is a matter of personal choice. Maybe Prince lived in fear of stigma and discrimination, it's a powerful emotion. Like most of us, we are who we are and wish not to be defined by illness. If Prince was openly HIV positive, perhaps more people could have been open about it themselves. As a matter of personal choice, Prince decided to keep his diagnoses private. After all, we love Prince for who he was, not for what he had.
The same is true of you and me. We are not an illness, we are not statistics, we want not the stigma which unfortunately comes with a HIV diagnosis. We are individuals living life.
So when the media descends into tabloid chaos and disorder with reports of ill health, drug taking, and not adhering to medicine, try to remember that it was Prince's choice to be an artist, not a celebrity known for HIV.
Prince – Rest In Power, God of music!
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First HIV Radio Show Set To Launch In Britain To 'Challenge Stigma'
Posted on September 24, 2015 by Tom | Comments Off on First HIV Radio Show Set To Launch In Britain To 'Challenge Stigma'
It's estimated that more than 100,000 people are living with HIV in the UK, yet we still shy away from talking about it. That's about to change thanks to a new radio show about HIV, which is determined to end stigma.
The show, titled HIV Happy Hour, will run weekly on Radio Reverb, a Brighton-based local station, from 1 October. The magazine-style programme is the brainchild of author and HIV activist Paul Thorn, who was diagnosed with HIV in 1990.
"The main aim of the show is to challenge some of the negative thinking that many people living with HIV hold about themselves. There is no reason why anyone living with HIV should be ashamed or feel bad about having the virus. I want this show to be one of the tools to help change that."
Thorn describes the show as "a programme by and for people with HIV".
The light-hearted name HIV Happy Hour aims to show that living with HIV doesn't have to be all doom and gloom – people can be happy living with HIV.
The 60-minute programme will be a lifestyle-based show covering a wide range of topics. It will be cover health, wealth, happiness, relationships, and lots of tips from experts for getting on with and making the most of the second chance at life afforded to people living with the virus by treatment".
"There will be some more serious subjects covered also, for example hepatitis co-infection, tuberculosis, and hopefully some surprise celebrity guests also. More important is that the show is a platform for people living with the virus, they will be playing a major role in output and direction of the show.
A pilot episode of HIV Happy Hour included an interview with the head of a care facility for people with HIV and tips for HIV-positive listeners to set up their own business. Thorn hopes this wide range of topics will help 'normalise' HIV, so people living with it feel more able to speak about their experiences and seek the help they need.
HIV Happy Hour will air on Radio Reverb (97.2FM) every Thursday at 7pm from 1 October.
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Tagged Brighton, happy hour, music, Paul Thorn, radio, Radio Reverb, stigma, talk
Neneh Cherry – I've Got You Under My Skin
Posted on March 11, 2013 by Tom | Comments Off on Neneh Cherry – I've Got You Under My Skin
NATURALLY, music affects the body and mind in many wonderful ways. Music affects human thoughts, feelings and behaviors Just its rhythm affects the body, making the pulse and respiration to flow in tune with the music's beat or rhythm. Music can relax or energise an individual, and affect some of us deeply, in a personal way.
What is more, research has also shown that music has a profound effect on the human body and psyche. As a matter fact, there's a growing field of health care known as music therapy, which uses music to heal.
As a resource which shares with you HIV and Sexual Health articles, it's about time we started sharing HIV from other angles.
Introducing "Music Monday's"!
Over the next few weeks on Monday nights, we'll bring a featured HIV or sexual health awareness track from over the years and we'll start it right now with Neneh Cherry!
In 1990 the Red Hot Organization, a non-profit organisation dedicated to fighting HIV/AIDS though pop culture released "Red Hot + Blue", featuring contemporary pop performers reinterpreting several songs written by Cole Porter. It sold over a million copies worldwide and was heralded as one of the first major HIV/AIDS benefits in the music business.
"I've Got You Under My Skin" was written by Cole Porter in 1936, it was nominated for the Academy award of Best Song. It became a signature song for Frank Sinatra and in 1966, became a top 10 hit for the Four Seasons. Since then, it has gone on to be recorded by many leading pop artists and jazz musicians.
Neneh Cherry's reworked version of I've Got You Under My Skin was released as the lead single for the album in the UK and Europe. Video follows, stay tuned because next week it's all about sex!
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Tagged celebrities, Cole Porter, Conditions and Diseases, Frank Sinatra, Health, music, Music therapy, MusicMonday, Neneh Cherry, Red Hot Organization, Reproductive health, rhythm music, sexual health awareness
Celebrate World AIDS Day With Us, on Saturday Night!!
Posted on November 28, 2012 by Tom | 1 comment
Leicestershire AIDS Support Services present you with an evening of fabulous live music entertainment in support of World AIDS Day. We have an eclectic mix of music lined up from 4 great bands featuring;
COUNTERACTIONBAND, a UK Dub and Roots Live Band
Fully dedicated to the sounds of conscious Dub and Roots, the CounterAction Band's mission is to represent the vibes of heavy dub sound system culture live on stage!
This multi-cultural band is; fronted by I-mitri (Greece) on lead/backing vocals, rhythm guitar and percussion, with Citizen Baxter (Ireland) on bass, Pandacub (Wales+Cornwall) on drums, and Eli P (Dominica) on Keys+MPCs.
When not drawing from the extensive CounterAction vaults for material the crew occasionally act as a backing band for artists like Jah Marnyah and Parvez (The Dub Factory) amongst others, and host the monthly live Dub night "Recession Sessions" in Leicester. They have shared the stage with great sounds like Aba Shanti I and bands like the Blood Shanti Ites, the Splitters, Flux and Vibronics!
MULTIMORPH – The current vehicle for Maureen Anderson's poetry and general creativity, Multimorph rose from the ashes of Shapeshifter when the latter's long-standing guitarist Dave Johnson passed away from cancer in March 2009.
Maureen is now joined by dual guitarists Kevin Hewick and Rizz James, dual bassists Dave Dhonau and Darren Baxter, cajon drummer Jim Tetlow and Darren's partner Helena McLeod as additional vocalist since guesting on their 'Meditation Chamber' album. Live performances are further augmented by the live painting and costumes of local artist Nick Nixon and the liquid light show of Lumiere Ogbanje to create a bizarre but infectiously memorable live experience.
SLEEPING THOUGH RAPTURE is an alternative band made up of four musicians from Leicester. After a year of playing together, the band has written lots of great material and has played gigs around Leicester.
You can check out their blog, for more info on this up and coming band: http://sleepingthroughrapture.tumblr.com/
And finally but by no means least is GEORGE SANDERSUN who evokes bright summer days or the dark depths of the woods with his intriguing psychedelic folk.
His song writing references 60s, new wave psychedelic and traditional folk, with multi layered solo harmony effects that meld together to form an earthy mellow approach creating a sound that's fresh and real.
Fans of Iron and Wine or Fleet Foxes should definitely check out George!
A special thanks to Neil Segrott who be on the PA driving the sound for the night.
The concert is hosted at the Y Theatre, 7 East Street City Centre, Leicester LE1 6EY (Click for a map).
Tickets cost £10 (£8 consessions) from the Y Theatre, available from this link: http://www.leicesterymca.co.uk/y-theatre-whats-on-details.php?listing=1189
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Tagged AIDS, aviation, Dominica, entertainment, Jim Tetlow, Kevin Hewick, Leicester, Leicestershire, Multimorph, music, Vibronics
Posted on February 13, 2012 by Tom | Comments Off on Whitney Houston
Described by Guinness World Records as music's "most awarded female artist of all time" with an amazing tally of over 400 awards, a tally that is certainly topped by her two Emmy Awards, six Grammy Awards, 16 Billboard Music Awards, 23 American Music Awards, MTV VMAs in the United States and Europe, NAACP Image Awards, BET Awards, Soul Train Music Awards and so on, Whitney Houston shot to fame in the 1980s when she became one of the first African-American female artists to receive regular rotation on MTV. A feat that successfully opened doors for other women to find success in music and movies. Best known for her work with Kevin Costner in "The Bodyguard", Houston has led a life of service to others when not on screen or behind a microphone.
She first showed her socially-conscious side when still a model, before her fame rocketed her to stardom. Back then she refused to work for agencies that did business with South Africa, due to the country's regime of apartheid. It was an issue that she later brought to the attention of the world when she performed at Nelson Mandela's 70th Birthday Concert in London, an event that brought pressure on the Government to ease its restrictions and eventually release the future president of South Africa.
Following the concert, Houston formed the Whitney Houston Foundation for Children, an organisation that cared for the homeless and children with cancer and HIV/AIDS. It eventually brought the singer one of her many awards for her humanitarian work, as did her involvement with the United Negro College Fund.
Whitney Houston is also the only artist to turn a national anthem into a chart hit when her rendition of The Star Spangled Banner reached the Top 100 in 1991. She donated her royalties to the Red Cross.
True to her church upbringing, the Whitney Houston Foundation for Children Inc. was established in 1989 as a non-profit organisation that cares for such problems as homelessness, children with cancer and HIV/AIDS and other issues of self-empowerment.
In June 1995, the foundation was awarded a VH1 Honour for its charitable work. Funds have been raised for numerous causes involving children around the world, from South Africa to Newark, and generated more than $300,000 for the Children's Defence Fund as a result of a 1997 HBO concert.
In 1997, the HBO Concert "Classic Whitney live from Washington DC" raised over $300000 for the Children's Defence Fund.
Whitney also supported the work of over 30 other charities, click for more details.
Whitney's tireless efforts have earned recognition from such organisations as St. Jude Children's Hospital, the United Negro College Fund and the Children's Diabetes Foundation, all of which have benefited from the heart and soul of a great artist and humanitarian. Singing to audiences on every continent, Whitney has won her worldwide following the old-fashioned way, digging deep down into her soul and finding common threads with her millions of fans.
Whitney Houston – 1963 – 2012
Information about the effort and influence surrounding HIV/AIDS prominent activists is available here.
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A tour in Western Jutland through Stutzpunkt Börsmose-Dorf and Stutzpunkt Blavland
Today we did a car tour to the far western tip of Denmark with a stop at Lake Filso and under the lake Stutzpunkt Börsmose-Dorf. The majority of the area has been abandoned and is being used as a military training ground. This gives the whole an extra dimension. Certainly considering the bunkers present (and there are many) that are still in good condition and often just free to enter. Stutzpunkt Börsmose-Dorf was established in the spring of 1943 to protect the intersection 3.5 kilometers inside the coast. It had a strategic position to block the passage to further inland and Germany.
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We went to look in the middle of the stutzpunkt and walked a bit into the forest. xactly opposite the S.t. 610 bunker, Danish soldiers were busy with a …
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At the Straits of Calais were several gun emplacements that could bombard England. One of the most famous is Batterie Todt. This complex consisted of four huge bunkers (Turm's) with 380mm Siegfried cannons. Originally intended as a naval artillery guns but were later used as railway artillery.
The barrel of a gun weighed 103 tonnes and had a length of 19 meters. It could shoot a projectile of 490 kg 55 km far. A projectile of 790 kg 53 km. The light projectile(490 kg) took about 33 seconds to reach Dover, the heavier took 9 seconds longer(the difference was over 600 meters in depth and 64 meters laterally).
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On Gold Beach in Normandy, the situation of Arromanches-les-Bains was particular : the beach was embedded between two twenty meters height cliffs, where the defences had been built by the Germans. At 7:30 a. m, on 6 June 1944, the British troops – the 1st Hampshire and the 1st Dorset – landed eastward from Arromanches, in Le Hamel, without artillery support.
In this area the fortifications of the beach were built up with two strong points : the WN 36 and the WN 37. In a short time the 1st Hampshire lost three commander-in-chief facing WN 37. The breakthrough was achieved in the afternoon with the landing of tanks and reinforcements. Vehicles and infantry quickly moved inland. A company of New-Hampshire liberated Saint-Côme-de-Fresné, after heavy shelling of open sea anchored battleships. The British entered in Arromanches-les-Bains in the evening around 9:00 p. m.
Arromanches beach front. Click to enlarge
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This is not a fair response to what is in its entirety, a very good effort by Microsoft to address concerns in the marketplace for its products, while at the same time attempting to maintain a vision upon which its future almost entirely depends: the integration of a common user experience across all Windows devices: phone, tablet, laptop, desktop. There has never been an effort undertaken by any company in history comparable to what Microsoft is working on today. And let me take the opportunity now to congratulate Microsoft for firing the acrobatic hipsters that have been advertising its surface tablet in favor of TV advertising that actually does a good job of articulating their vision, and selling some of the sizzle of it.
So now that I have been fair to Microsoft, I need to say why I feel so blasé about this release. For context, when I started my career in Information Technology, the personal computer was used by a fraction of the population. These were geeks and nerds who felt they could get an edge by using a personal computer instead of a calculator, a typewriter, and possibly a little timeshare access at the local university. The transition in user interface for Microsoft (and Apple) customers at that time, (1984 to 1992), was from a blank, black or green screen with a single line of three or more monochrome text characters followed by a blinking cursor, to a screen with rectangular windows, icons and a mouse pointer. In the former, we were invited to type something on the keyboard. In the latter we were invited to "click", which we rapidly learned to do.
Some very prominent journalists at the time opined that the mouse was a fad, and that the "GUI" (for Graphical User Interface) would die out in favor of our old and utilitarian command prompt. For some really delightful and informed perspective, I recommend Neal Stephenson's "In the Beginning was the Command Line", which can be downloaded here: http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html.
So after watching the windowed interface, both Macintosh and Windows, overwhelm the civilized world in the space of a half-decade, it is with some disbelief that I witness the rejection of Windows 8 on the basis of "too jarring a change in user interface design". I am not quoting anyone in particular, however I believe that I am quoting the opinion of just about every journalist and blogger who has attempted to explain this phenomenon.
There have been reports of machinations within Microsoft over the degree to which "helpers" and tutorials should have been asserted or withheld in the new operating system, some believing that too many tutorial links would scare people off, and too many options similar to the older Windows versions would stifle the adoption of the new "Modern UI" (or Modern User Interface) that Microsoft proposes for all Windows apps on every platform. Ironically, when they succeed, there will be no "windows" in Windows!
Truly, most of us that make this transition regularly, upgrading to every new version of Windows every time it is released for the various reasons that we have, adopt a mode of using the new operating system that most allows us to work in the way we are familiar with. In this way, Windows 8 was very, very new indeed. I had the choice to use my desktop Outlook program, or my Windows 8 store Windows mail program. I could install my desktop Skype app, or use the Windows 8 store version of Skype. Most jarring was the browser choice. The two most popular browsers available on Windows 8, Chrome and Internet Explorer, both run in a desktop mode, or a Modern UI mode, which in the case of Internet Explorer turns the user experience of the browser literally upside down.
So, within a week of loading up Windows 8 this winter, I made some choices. The desktop software was richer and more stable. The Windows 8 Modern UI app store was a little sparse, and many of the programs that I already was using on the desktop were not as mature and full featured in the Modern UI. This was easy: figure out how to get to the desktop, and then work in that environment as much as possible. Having made these choices, Windows 8 became splendid! It is faster, more stable, and has features that really advance the Windows platform.
The "Start screen" simply became an alternative to the "Start menu", and again, within about two days' time, I had figured out how to get to everything that I used to get to in the Start menu. Oh, and by the way, THE START SCREEN IS MUCH, MUCH BETTER THAN A START MENU!!!!
Coming back to Windows 8.1, if you take away all of the enhancements to the Microsoft Store, the extensions to Windows Search, and internal improvements to the operating system, the big change in Windows 8.1 is a little windows icon in the lower left-hand corner to give you a queue as to where the start screen is, a better organized start screen that more quickly allows you to browse every app and setting on the system, and the ability to boot to desktop.
So, I am underwhelmed. But my dissatisfaction with this release has more to do with a deeper ennui about what this is saying about Microsoft's position in the world now, 29 years hence the GUI. We have Windows 8.1 now largely because of a reported double digit sag in PC sales year over year in the first quarter of 2013. Windows 8 took the blame for that, and Microsoft was forced to respond. But if we are really so lazy as to not google a couple of pages for the ubiquitous YouTube videos that explain everything you need to know about running Windows 8, can it really be the absence of an icon and a few features that will make the difference? Isn't it true that PC sales are simply being swamped under an avalanche of iPads and Android tablets and phablets and schmablets?
I am delighted with Windows 8, and I am equally delighted with Windows 8.1. These have provided me with entertainment while I go about my work, and they have improved the overall experience as well as the product that I produce. That being said, I am stubbornly sticking to the desktop and I remain well on the sidelines with respect to the Windows 8 vision of a unified experience. I carry an iPhone, and I use a Nexus 7 tablet in the house. That may make me Microsoft's worst nightmare.


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Which emerging approaches can enable widespread soil C measurement and monitoring?
In Webinar 2, "Measuring Soil C", Cristine Morgan from the Soil Health Institute and Jonathan Sanderman from the Woodwell Climate Research Center will share their experiences developing approaches to quantify soil carbon that could enable widespread C measurement and monitoring.
Time: July 13th, 3:00 pm Eastern.
Dr. Jonathan Sanderman is an Associate Scientist with the Woodwell Climate Research Center, where he studies the role that soils can play in climate mitigation and sustainable food production. Prior to joining the Woodwell Center, Dr. Sanderman was a senior research scientist and team leader with Australia's national science agency, CSIRO. Dr. Sanderman studies processes that add, remove, and transform carbon in soils, in ecosystems ranging from coastal marshes to tropical forests and working farmlands. He has helped to develop national soil carbon inventories and strategies for soil climate mitigation, and has developed mid-infrared spectrometry methods for widespread soil carbon quantification.
Dr. Cristine Morgan is Chief Scientific Officer for the Soil Health Institute, where she works with diverse partners to shape agricultural solutions to global existential challenges. She holds adjunct faculty status at Texas A&M University, where she was a tenured professor and recognized for innovative research in soil hydrology, pedometrics, and global soil security. Dr. Morgan has conducted ground-breaking research on how management practices influence soil-plant-water relations. She has also developed methods that were adopted by USDA for easily measuring soil carbon. Dr. Morgan was recognized as a Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America in 2020, the Society's highest honor.
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Your product is still a money-spinner, generating steady revenue!!
If either or both of the above scenarios are true, then what's the business case for modernizing your legacy application?
Modernizing is the only way to safeguard your legacy investments, and unlock the intrinsic value of your product!
Reality: Customers not complaining doesn't necessarily mean that they are satisfied and happy!
Most legacy applications were developed with monolithic and tightly-coupled architecture using conventional 2/3-tier patterns. These applications are typically designed to serve as either Systems of Record (SoR, to automate core business processes) or Systems of Differentiation (SoD, to provide integration and orchestration capabilities). From that perspective, legacy applications are stable and rock solid. Right?
Monolithic code bases are difficult to maintain, and it's a nightmare to make incremental changes and nearly impossible to support frequent deployments.
Rehosting is a commonly used lift-and-shift strategy, that enables quick redeployment of legacy applications on modern infrastructure. Does rehosting modernize a legacy application?
Reality: Rehosting only achieves partial infrastructure modernization.
Without architectural and technology modernization, mere rehosting will not enable the application to leverage full capabilities of modern infrastructure and cloud deployment.
Tinkering with UI and enabling legacy applications for web or mobile access is a common modernization approach. Is a UI facelift equivalent to application modernization?
Reality: UI modernization could be the first step towards application modernization, and as such is a means, but not an end. A UI facelift is only a quick fix to web-enable a legacy application and/or to make it look modern.
A truly modern application needs a responsive UI framework, which will work well, only when the underlying technologies and architecture are also modernized.
Using a wrapper to create an interface and expose legacy applications as web services or APIs is another popular approach to modernization. Does this really open up a legacy application?
Reality: It only helps in extending lifecycle of the legacy application, but doesn't remove the underlying constraints.
Along with rehosting, automated code migration is a popular strategy for application modernization. There are many proprietary tools and service providers which enable migration of legacy code to a more modern programming language. Does this mean that the migrated code is a modern application?
Reality: This strategy will result in only partial modernization of the legacy code, and not the entire application.
Reality: Modernization is a continuous process, and is certainly not a once and done thing.
One can be future-ready, but never future-proof.
Challenges of legacy applications and the technology/business drivers for modernization are well known. Yet, there is no silver bullet for application modernization. It is important to understand the pros and cons of various modernization approaches, distinguish between myths and reality, and to formulate a holistic strategy for creating future-ready applications. Modernization mustn't be equated blindly with eliminating everything that is legacy, but must be seen as an approach to leverage accumulated business value, domain expertise, and make the application reliable, scalable, and open.
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Xenotilapia flavipinnis
Yellow Sand Cichlid
Endemic to Lake Tanganyika.
The fish are found swimming in groups over sandy substrates in open water. When spawning, they retreat to rockier areas.
3.6″ (9cm).
30″ x 12″ x 12″ (75x12x12cm) – 70 litres.
The tank should have plenty of open floor space, with a substrate of sand to allow the fish to exhibit their natural behaviour. Gravel can become trapped in the throat or damage the gills of this substrate-sifter so is not recommended. Provide some scattered piles of rockwork for cover. Excellent filtration is also a must.
Hardness: 8-25°H
In nature it is a micropredator, feeding chiefly on small invertebrates it finds by "sifting" mouthfuls of sand. In the aquarium it will accept most foods offered but small live and frozen varieties should be fed often.
A gentle and peace-loving species that will not compete well with more boisterous or vigorous fish. Do not keep it with mbuna. Good tankmates include some of the more peaceful Tanganyikan species such as Cyprichromis, Paracyprichromis, and some Lamprologus and Neolamprologus species.
It should be maintained in a small group of 6-10 fish, as it is gregarious when not spawning. Pairs will split from the main group to spawn, and are much more territorial at this time.
Not easy to sex. Male fish tend to be slightly more colourful than females. Examining the vents of the fish is the only reliable method of sexing, but this approach is for experts only. The simplest method is to watch for signs of pair formation.
Not too difficult. Bi-parental mouthbrooder. We suggest the purchase of a group of young fish and allowing these to pair off naturally. If kept as a single pair, they may squabble and fare much better when kept as a group like this. The aquarium itself should be at least 30″ in length and set up as suggested above, with a pH of 8.2-9.0 and a temperature of 77-80°F. Condition the fish on a good, varied diet.
When spawning, the fish develop a strong pair bond, initiated by displays from both sexes. They will then select a territory (generally just an area of substrate) of some 12″ in diameter and will defend this against conspecifics. No particular spawning site is selected by the pair, and they may move around the territory during the act itself. Just prior to the actual event, the pair will begin to defend an area around twice as big as normal.
Spawning consists of the female laying her eggs in small batches. She will clean an area of substrate, deposit a few eggs and then move away to allow the male to fertilise them. She then takes the eggs into her mouth. This process is repeated until the female can hold no more in her mouth. During spawning, the female will not lay any eggs if the male is away defending the territory, instead waiting for him to return or assisting him.
Following the spawn, the territory is reduced to its original size. The female continues to hold the eggs for 9-12 days, before passing the entire brood (now hatched) to the male, who continues the incubation for a further 10 days or so. He then releases the free swimming fry within the territory. Brood care by the parents continues for 3 weeks or so, with the fry seeking refuge in the mouth of the male if they feel threatened. If any fry happen to wander into the territory of another pair, they will be protected by the holders of that territory.
The fry will accept brine shrimp nauplii or microworm as first foods.
In nature, the pair bond formed by this species lasts only for the duration of the breeding season. However, in aquaria this bond can last much longer, with the pair remaining in their territory and defending it even when not spawning. It is thought that this is directly due to the fish being kept in the confines of the aquarium, where the territory is a permanent fixture.
X. flavipinnis is very sensitive to deteriorating water conditions and regular water changes are essential to its good health.
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Why do galaxies differ so much in size, shape, composition and activity?
Big Questions >
Scientists now estimate that there are over a trillion galaxies in the Universe. Many follow broad classification patterns, but no two are exactly alike. The variety of galaxies we see gives us a picture of a richly differentiated universe. A key question is: why?
The physical processes involved in galaxy formation and evolution form an incredibly complex puzzle, operating at a extraordinary scale. Scientists at the Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) are working on this puzzle by combining simulations with real world observations to piece together the history of the Universe and to predict the fate of galaxies like the Milky Way.
Our Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy are giant spiral galaxies hurtling towards each other at 120 kilometers per second. In about 4 billion years, the two will meet. But while galaxies contain stars, gas, dust, and dark matter, they're mostly empty space. These two ghostly giants will pass through each other, but their gravity will stretch and pull the other until they merge into one massive elliptical galaxy.
Astrophysicists believe that the Sun will be pushed to the outskirts of the new galaxy, known as Milkomeda, with a chance of being ejected into deep intergalactic space.
We see such mergers taking place today. The Antennae Galaxies are two spiral galaxies that have collided, resulting in increased star formation. It is believed that these galaxies will also eventually coalesce into a large elliptical galaxy. By studying the shape and history of galaxies, we are also studying our future.
What We Can See, and What We Can't
The galaxies we can see with current technology, including NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, are only a small fraction of all the galaxies in the Universe. This means that most of the galaxies in the Universe are too dim and distant to be seen with current telescopes, and that there were many more galaxies in the early Universe than there are now.
Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian are using the twin 6.5-meter Magellan telescopes in Chile and the 6.5-meter MMT Observatory in Arizona to look for these missing galactic progenitors. By combining these observations with advanced supercomputer simulations, we uncover how galaxies form, interact, and evolve over time.
Arp 273 is a pair of spiral galaxies, which may have collided in the past. Their gravitational interaction pulled the galaxies into the sweeping shapes we see; it also produced a burst of star formation, which is visible as blue splotches in the spiral arms of both galaxies.
What We Know About Galaxies
Edwin Hubble, namesake of the Hubble Space Telescope, developed a classification of galaxy shapes, or morphologies, in 1926 that is still widely used today. He categorized galaxies in three ways:
Spiral: Galaxies such as our own Milky Way that have a recognizable disklike shape, with arms that spread out from a rotating galactic center.
Elliptical: Galaxies that form a single, signature ovoidal cloud, with irregular rotations.
Irregular: Galaxies that hold to no particular recognizable shape or structure with no nucleus or discernible rotation pattern, essentially chaotic blobs of stars.
Galaxies change over hundreds of millions of years, and we can't see a timelapse play out in our observations of the Universe. However, scientists have made great strides in theoretical and computational modelling of galaxies as they change over these long timescales, enabling our understanding of galaxy evolution to constantly progress.
The Antennae Galaxies have been colliding and merging into a single galaxy for roughly 100 million years. This image combines X-ray, infrared, and visible light to show how the collision is making new stars and churning the gas in the galaxies into marvelous shapes.
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/J.DePasquale; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Optical: NASA/STScI
Quasars & Other Active Black Holes
Starburst Galaxies
Supernovas & Remnants
Extragalactic Distance Scale
Astrostatistics
Gravitational Lensing
Intergalactic Medium
Interstellar Medium and Molecular Clouds
Large Scale Structure
The Milky Way Galaxy
The Energetic Universe
CfA Scientists Help Reach New Milestone in Quest for Distant Galaxies
The Tilt in our Stars: The Shape of the Milky Way's Halo of Stars is Realized
JWST Draws Back Curtain on Universe's Early Galaxies
Dozens of Newly Discovered Gravitational Lenses Could Reveal Ancient Galaxies and the Nature of Dark Matter
A Massive Galaxy Supercluster in the Early Universe
News Feature, Prize Announcement
CfA Scientists Awarded Prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowships
Scientists Have Spotted the Farthest Galaxy Ever
Lisa Kewley Named Director of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
The Magnetic Field in Milky Way "Bones"
Our Galaxy's Most Recent Major Collision
2MASS Redshift Survey
Galaxies are distributed in long filaments, huge "walls", and large clusters, which astronomers call the large-scale structure of the cosmos. This structure is a tracer of dark matter, and is a way to understand how the universe has evolved. The 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS) is an ambitious map of the galaxies relatively close to the Milky Way. Led by astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, 2MRS used data collected from the Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS), which is an an atlas of the entire sky in infrared light. The completed 2MRS project resulted in a three-dimensional view of the distributions of nearby galaxies, providing a way to understand the structure of the modern universe and distribution of dark matter.
GMACS
Optical and Infrared Astronomy, Central Engineering
GMACS - Moderate Dispersion Optical Spectrograph for the Giant Magellan Telescope is a powerful optical spectrograph that will unlock the power of the Giant Magellan Telescope for research ranging from the formation of stars and planets to cosmology.
James Webb Space Telescope Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES)
JADES will use guaranteed time in James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) cycle 1 to produce infrared imaging and spectroscopy of unprecedented depth in the two premier extragalactic deep fields, GOODS-South (CDF-S) and GOODS-North (HDF). These data will reveal the early phases of galaxy formation, probing the rest-frame optical spectroscopy and morphology of galaxies from redshifts 2-3 out to z>10. JADES expects to collect data on about 100,000 galaxies, adding to the extensive legacy of these well-studied fields.
Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)
Optical and Infrared Astronomy, Chandra X-ray Center
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey continues its twenty-year legacy of wide-field optical/infrared imaging and spectroscopy, which has led astronomy into the era of large archives and data science. Harvard and Smithsonian are both full institutional members of the latest epoch of the survey, SDSS-V, which started observations in 2020.
The H3 Stellar Spectroscopic Survey
Optical and Infrared Astronomy, Harvard University Department of Astronomy
The H3 Survey is answering the question: how did the Milky Way Galaxy grow and assemble over cosmic time? To answer this question, a group of scientists at the CfA and the University of Arizona are mapping the outer limits of the Galaxy with >200,000 stars observed with the 6.5m MMT telescope in Arizona.
CASTLES Survey
Large galaxies and galaxy clusters sometimes act like lenses. Their gravity distorts the structure of spacetime, magnifying light from more distant objects. This effect, known as strong gravitational lensing, allows astronomers to study galaxies that would ordinarily be too far to see, map the distribution of mass in the galaxies doing the lensing, and measure the expansion rate of the universe. The CASTLeS (CfA-Arizona Space Telescope Lens Survey) is a program jointly managed by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian and the University of Arizona, which used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study multiple aspects of strong gravitational lensing as caused by galaxies. Today, CASTLeS team members maintain a catalog of these lenses, updated with new observational data.
1.2 Meter (48-inch) Telescope
The 1.2-Meter (48 Inch) Telescope is a general purpose visible-light telescope located at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (FLWO), a major observational facility of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian located in southern Arizona. Astronomers use this telescope to observe objects in the Solar System and the Milky Way, as well as other galaxies, including the supermassive black holes known as quasars. Astronomers also use the 1.2-Meter Telescope to observe star systems that might contain exoplanets, which is a major program for the observatory.
Visit the 1.2-Meter (48 Inch) Telescope Website
The most powerful astronomical events are often very bright in X-rays, including supermassive black holes, the hot atmospheres of stars, and the extremely hot plasmas in and around galaxy clusters. Arcus is a proposed NASA space telescope designed to study the X-ray spectrum of a wide range of astronomical phenomena to a level of sensitivity higher than any previous X-ray observatory. Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian scientists are the leaders of the collaboration proposing Arcus. The mission proposal will be due in late 2023 and, if ultimately accepted, Arcus would launch in 2031.
See Arcus Website
The Chandra X-ray Observatory is NASA's flagship X-ray observatory, providing essential data on everything from the environment surrounding newborn stars to the emissions from hot plasma inside galaxy clusters. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), as part of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, manages Chandra's day-to-day operations, providing spacecraft control, observation planning, and data processing for astronomers. Chandra is one of NASA's orbiting Great Observatories, along with the Hubble.
Visit the Chandra Website
Einstein Observatory
NASA's Einstein Observatory was the first X-ray space telescope designed to produce images of astronomical X-ray sources. The spacecraft operated from 1978 through 1981, providing important observations of pulsars, supernova remnants, supermassive black holes in other galaxies, and many more, paving the way for NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The X-ray telescope was designed by researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.
Lynx X-Ray Observatory
The Lynx X-ray Observatory is a proposed X-ray space telescope, designed to be the next generation following NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency's upcoming Athena Telescope. This observatory will be able to take images of a larger area of the sky in X-ray light with better resolution than any existing telescope, allowing astronomers to study the first supermassive black holes, the hot gas surrounding galaxies as they evolve, and radiation from the earliest stars. Researchers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian and other universities are presenting Lynx to NASA for consideration in the 2020 Decadal Survey, with a proposed launch date in the mid-2030s.
Visit the Lynx X-Ray Observatory Website
Pan-STARRS-1 Science Consortium
Many objects in the sky don't change or move visibly on human time scales. However, many others do, especially objects in the Solar System. The Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) program is designed to monitor the sky for transient astronomical phenomena: everything from near-Earth asteroids to supernovas in far-off galaxies. The first phase of the program, Pan-STARRS1, used a 1.8-meter telescope on the summit of Haleakalā on the island of Maui in Hawaii. The Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian is part of the international Pan-STARRS1 Science consortium, along with the University of Hawaii and other institutions around the world. Pan-STARRS1 data revealed many asteroids, comets, and other previously-unknown moving or variable astronomical objects.
Visit the Pan-STARRS1 Science Consortium Website
Infrared light is the key to studying a wide range of astronomical systems, including newborn stars and planets, dust in distant galaxies, and material swirling around black holes. The Spitzer Space Telescope was NASA's orbiting infrared observatory, and part of NASA's Great Observatories program, along with the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope. Scientists and engineers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian led the design, testing, and construction of the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC). The Spitzer Space Telescope was launched in 2003 and retired in 2020.
Visit the Spitzer Space Telescope IRAC Page
The 1.2 Meter Millimeter-Wave Telescope
Molecular clouds are dark, dense nebulas that are both home to and the raw materials for new stars. The 1.2 Meter Millimeter-Wave Telescope (MWT) at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian is dedicated to mapping the locations of these clouds in the Milky Way, which reveals details about the structure of our home galaxy and its star-forming capabilities. This instrument and its twin in Chile revealed the existence of two spiral arms in the Milky Way, structures that were previously unknown.
Visit the MWT Website
The Uhuru X-ray Explorer Satellite was the first spacecraft dedicated to X-ray astronomy. During its mission in the early 1970s, Uhuru mapped the X-ray sky. It provided the first observational evidence for black holes, revealed that galaxy clusters contain hot X-ray-emitting gas, and charted the behavior of neutron stars in binary systems. The observatory was named Uhuru, the Swahili word meaning "freedom", in honor of Kenyan independence and because the rocket carrying the spacecraft was launched into orbit from a site off the coast of Kenya near Mombasa. The success of the Uhuru satellite led the way for all subsequent space telescopes, from the Einstein Observatory to NASA's flagship Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS)
Gamma rays don't pierce Earth's atmosphere, but when they strike the air, they produce faint flashes of visible light. The Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) is a set of four telescopes designed to detect those flashes, providing valuable observations of gamma rays from supernova remnants, black holes, and other extremely high-energy astrophysical events. VERITAS is part of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (FLWO) in southern Arizona.
Visit the VERITAS Website


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I Love MoBay campaign kicks off tomorrow
T'shura Gibbs (right), president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) and executive director of the I Love Mobay Foundation speaks during a press conference at the office of the MBCCI, where the I Love Mobay campaign was announced on Thursday, February 8. Douglas Gordon, founder and director of the I Love Mobay Foundation looks on.
Residents of Montego Bay will soon be able to help restore the western city's civic pride and strengthen its economic viability through the upcoming 'I Love MoBay' campaign, which was recently announced at the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
"Our aim today, as we launch the I Love MoBay Foundation, is to build back civic pride, to partner with the right organisations, and to make sure we are sending love all across the city and sending a ripple effect throughout all of Jamaica, the Caribbean and the rest of the world," T'shura Gibbs said.
Gibbs, president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry, was speaking during a press conference to announce the February 16 start of the initiative.
According to Gibbs, who is also the executive director of the I Love MoBay campaign, the objective of the exercise is to sensitise and create awareness locally and abroad about Montego Bay's values and potential to boost its infrastructure, environment and socio-economic prospects.
Douglas Gordon, the founder and director of the I Love MoBay Foundation, said that the campaign will also highlight what the western city and its people are capable of achieving.
"I Love MoBay is an awareness and branding campaign and it's going to raise the sensibility of what Montego Bay is," Gordon said. "A big part of this is celebrating success stories, finding people from all walks of life who have succeeded, and telling their stories."


Aria Adopt Dog Bandanas are a cute way to promote the cause of pet adoption. Great for shelters kennels and adoption events! Each polycotton bandana measures 22 square. A fun way to promote a worthwhile cause! Soft polycotton bandanas with our new Adopt logo are sized to fit most dogs and can be cut to fit smaller breeds. Each includes a hangtag.Colors may be combined for quantity discounts.
I was looking for a stylish bows & accessories for my mother. So I came across this Pet Pals DT1035 95 Aria Adopt Bandana White, its very low-cost and looks angelic . Once I received it I pulled it out to look at it and it is so beautiful and sparkles.


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Q: tomcat9 not correctly installed on ubuntu 20.04 yesterday i installed tomcat9 on my ubuntu 20.04, but when i try to start it from cataline.sh which is on the bin folder under /usr/share/tomcat9 i got the followin error:
Using CATALINA_BASE:   /usr/share/tomcat7
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /usr/share/tomcat7
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/share/tomcat7/temp
Using JRE_HOME:        /usr
Using CLASSPATH:       /usr/share/tomcat7/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/share/tomcat7/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
touch: cannot touch `/usr/share/tomcat7/logs/catalina.out': No such file or directory
./catalina.sh: 389: ./catalina.sh: cannot create /usr/share/tomcat7/logs/catalina.out: Directory nonexistent

so i started it normally using the sudo service tomcat9 start command and it worked but then for some reason i removed tomcat9 with sudo apt remove tomcat9 and sudo apt remove tomcat9-admin and tried to install it again following the same steps : tutorial
but since then the service doesn't start and i get this error
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Jun 5, 2013 12:23:21 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
SEVERE: Cannot start server. Server instance is not configured.

even in /usr/share/tomcat9 i'm no more able to find the bin folder, any
suggestion ?

A: Fixing the same issue in Tomcat9 on Ubuntu 20.04
I used apt-get to install and then re-install tomcat9 after doing a complete removal. Similarly, it didn't install the /bin and /lib directories in /usr/share/tomcat9
When I switched to using apt versus apt-get, it installed the directories.
If you originally used apt-get
*Include the --reinstall flag if you already have it installed
sudo apt install --reinstall tomcat9

If you originally used apt
*Include the --reinstall flag if you already have it installed
sudo apt-get install --reinstall tomcat9

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This ebook addresses all technology readers drawn to the origins, improvement, and destiny of clever species within the observable a part of our universe. particularly, the writer scrutinizes what sort of information regarding extraterrestrial clever lifestyles could be inferred from our personal organic, cultural and clinical evolution.
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This booklet is a continuation of the publication Green's features and move capabilities  written a few ten years in the past. in spite of the fact that, there is not any overlap whatever within the contents of the 2 books, and this e-book can be utilized really independently of the former one. This sequence of books represents a brand new type of instruction manual, within which are amassed info at the features of structures with allotted and lumped parameters.
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Only gravitational energy is transferred into the weight, and the amount of gravitational energy is mgd, which equals F d. By conservation of energy, this must also be the amount of energy lost from the 8 "Black box" is a traditional engineering term for a device whose inner workings we don't care about. 9 Now what if we use the black box to pull a plow? The energy increase in the outside world is of a different type than before: mainly heat created by friction between the dirt and the ploughshare.
Circular motion Figure o shows how to apply the memory-of-motion idea to circular motion. It should convince you that only an inward force is needed to produce circular motion. One of the reasons Newton was the first to make any progress in analyzing the motion of the planets around the sun was that his contemporaries were confused on this point. Most of them thought that in addition to an attraction from the sun, a second, forward force must exist on the planets, to keep them from slowing down.
In this frame, both balls have the same initial speed. Since they start out with the same speed, and they have the same mass, there's no reason for them to behave differently from each other after the collision. By symmetry, if the light ball feels a certain effect from the dark ball, the dark ball must feel the same effect from the light ball. 44 Chapter 2 Conservation of Momentum This is exactly like the rules of accounting. Let's say two big corporations are doing business with each other. If Glutcorp pays a million dollars to Slushco, two things happen: Glutcorp's bank account goes down by a million dollars, and Slushco's rises by the same amount.


Bournemouth School for Girls has won the highest praise from OFSTED inspectors following their last visit. Inspectors working under a new much tougher inspection framework rated the school 'outstanding' in all four categories in which judgments are made, leading to an overall verdict of 'outstanding'.
For a school to be judged 'outstanding ' teaching must now be of this standard. Inspectors commented that they had never seen so many 'outstanding' lessons on a school inspection visit.
'Students are proud of their school and its work. They cherish the many and varied opportunities they have to take responsibility.


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Today, NPTA serves approximately 50 distributor firms and 35 merchant firms. Its Board of Directors recently adopted a strategic plan for 2015-2019 and revised mission statement and objectives that reflect a focus on paper merchants and mill partners as the sole membership base.
NPTA and its leadership remains committed to the continued success of its member firms and providing resources that allow members to adapt to a changing paper industry.
Partnering with the printer community to address value chain issues and opportunities between paper mills, merchants and printers. These include reducing costs, waste and redundancies in the paper distribution channel, as well as addressing end-user perceptions about paper.
Partnering with the European paper merchant community to facilitate the exchange of ideas, solutions and trend analysis between its members and the European paper merchant community.
Focusing on paper and print buyers to help NPTA members increase understanding of and build relationships with a younger demographic of paper and print buyers.
Read more about NPTA's strategic vision.


Yes Iput them on my wide 5 wheels. Frist I put them on the car and lined the wheels up on themand marked were they touched . Then I annealed the spots I marked. Then I made a leather bag with lead shot in it. I put the bag on my anvil, put the hub on the bag & peened the marked spots untill they fit. they will blue were you anneal them,but if you dont you will end up with holes. I used some chome paintjust on the blueed spots. Hope this helps.


Includes Additional Remixes Of "Lemon" & "Numb"!
U2's eighth studio album was released in July 1993 and hit Number 1 in the UK, USA, Ireland, Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Sweden, Austria, France, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland.
Produced by Flood, Brian Eno and The Edge, the 10 tracks on Zooropa - inspired by the band's experiences on the Zoo TV Tour - include singles "Numb", "Lemon" and "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" and were recorded in just 6 weeks in early 1993. The 1994 Grammy Awards saw the band take home the prize for Best Alternative Music Album.
And to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the album's release, this vinyl reissue will see Zooropa released in a 2LP format for the first time ever, to include two mixes of "Lemon" and "Numb".
• Remixes of "Lemon" and "Numb"


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Remember the Widow's Offering
"I tell you the truth," he said, "this poor widow has put in more than all the others." Luke 21:3 —
Several years ago when I visited my hometown, my former grade-school principal stopped by to talk. He told me that he recalled seeing my mother walk through town at times to bring something to a needy family. When I expressed my surprise because my family could hardly make ends meet, he said, "I know. She gave out of her poverty."
In almost every church you can meet people like the widow in Luke 21, who, according to the Lord Jesus, give out of their poverty. Some of them have hardly enough for themselves, but it never occurs to them not to give. No public buildings will ever be named in their honor, but Jesus says they may well be giving more than people who donate thousands or millions of dollars out of their wealth.
Some believers will never lead worship, chair a committee, or pray in public. But many faithfully pray each day for the needs of other people, send cards, make visits, and do other helpful things. Few are ever acknowledged or recognized--except by the Lord. He sees people like the widow who, while giving out of her poverty, gave more than others. And someday the Lord will commend them before those of us who often get recognized because we are in the limelight now. All of us are called to give according to what we've been given.
Lord, thank you for the many believers who give out of their poverty. Bless them, O Lord, and help us all to give generously for your sake, knowing your great love for us. Amen.
Devotion topics: Life, Christian Life, Seeking God
Arthur Schoonveld


The official lyric video for the song "Dead Man's Scream" from GODS OF DEATH, the new band featuring former MANTAS, DEATH and MASSACRE members Kam Lee (vocals) and Rick Rozz DeLillo (guitar), can be seen below. The track is one of two songs (along with "Return To The Caves Of Abomination") GODS OF DEATH recently recorded at CGM Studios in Altamonte Springs, Florida with producer Tim Vazquez.
GODS OF DEATH's current lineup includes drummer Mike Mazzonetto. Bassist/vocalist Michael Grim, who was involved in an early version of the project, is no longer playing with the group. Handling bass duties for GODS OF DEATH going forward will be Vazquez.
In 1983, Lee and Rozz formed the band MANTAS which would later add Chuck Schuldiner and become DEATH. In 1985, Kam and Rick spearheaded yet another legendary death metal band called MASSACRE.
Within a couple of days of Lee and Rozz's announcement, former MASSACRE drummer Bill Andrews — who moved to Japan in the early 1990s — released a statement saying that he did not approve of this latest attempt to reform MASSACRE and threatened legal action if Rozz and Lee moved forward with their plans.
The new name, GODS OF DEATH, was chosen to represent the band as well as the Rozz and Lee as two of the "founding fathers of the death metal genre," according to a press release.
MASSACRE's last incarnation included guitarist Rozz and Mazzonetto alongside bassist Terry Butler and vocalist Ed Webb. That lineup lasted for four years and released a critically acclaimed album, 2014's "Back From Beyond", via Century Media Records.
GODS OF DEATH's plan is to play songs from MASSACRE's "From Beyond" album, along with a few new tracks and old classics from DEATH and MANTAS.
For more information, visit the GODS OF DEATH Facebook page.


Authors: Brissette, John C.; Barnett, James P.
Shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata Mill.) seeds collected from six half-sib families were grown as both bareroot and container stock and outplanted on two sites in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas. Survival and growth were measured at years 1, 3, 5, and 10 afier planting. Stock-type and family interacted to affect height at year 1 on one site. There were no other interactions through 10 years. Container stock performed consistently better than bareroot at each interval measured. There were differences among half-sib families for diameter and height on both sites for some measurement periods. Family ranks for total height early in the experiment correlated with 10 year performance on both sites.


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PRESS RELEASE, 2017-05-09
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Atheist Freethinkers denounces government inaction concerning the Ethics and Religious Culture Program
Montreal, 9th May 2017 — Atheist Freethinkers (LPA-AFT), an association which promotes secularism and supports the rights of atheists, denounces the inaction of the Quebec government with regard to the Ethics and Religious Culture Program (ERC) program. This program, in particular its religion component, requires pupils at all public school levels, up to the end of secondary school, to study religions in a sanitized form, without objectivity, with a total lack of critical perspective. It has been the target of many very serious and thoughtful criticisms. And yet, the Minister of Education, Sébastien Proulx, recently rejected outright any possibility of abolishing the program. Furthermore, although ERC is currently under revision, the proposed elimination of the religion component has also been dismissed.
Many spokespersons, mostly from organizations such as LPA-AFT who advocate secularism, have already explained in detail the numerous serious flaws in ERC's religion component. The most outrageous religious beliefs, including various forms of creationism, are presented with complete complacency, with little or no effort to distinguish between beliefs and facts, even when the target audience is children far too young to make such crucial distinctions on their own. Non-beliefs such as atheism are almost completely lacking from the program. Even in its title, the Ethics and Religious Culture Program falsely associates ethics with religions, as if morality were impossible without religion. This compulsory course grants religious "culture" a level of importance which it does not deserve. It promotes communitarianism to the detriment of civic responsibility. It patently ignores the fact that, more often than not, religions are themselves generators of conflict, violence and hatred. ERC treats religious practice as the norm, rendering invisible both atheists and non-practising believers.
The organization Atheist Freethinkers called for the elimination of ERC's religion component in a declaration published in October of 2016 (www.atheologie.ca/special/contre-ecr/). A collective work (Leméac 2016) under the direction of Daniel Baril and Normand Baillargeon laid out in minute detail the serious problems presented by this course. In April of 2016, representatives from MLQ, AHQ and PDF-Q met with Minister Proulx to express their criticisms of the ERC program. It its brief presented on 4th November 2016 before the parliamentary commission studying Draft Bill 62, LPA-AFT recommended terminating the "Religious Culture" portion of ERC. Other associations made similar recommendations, in particular the Rassemblement pour la laïcité.
Such a programme in a secular school system is simply unacceptable. It is unconscionable that a compulsory course, imposed on all pupils from the very young to the end of adolescence, should be composed of mythologies, beliefs and superstitions. The ERC program is in reality a deceptive strategy to keep religious instruction in an ostensibly secular school system, but whose secular nature is seriously compromised and discredited by the presence of that very program. Furthermore, the ERC course is unconstitutional, contravening the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, because it fails to respect the right to be a non-believer.
We demand that Minister Proulx withdraw the religion component of the Ethics and Religious Culture Program.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Reach us by email [1]
David Rand, bulletin at atheology.ca
Pierre Thibault, secretariat at atheology.ca
www.atheology.ca
This press release is also available as a PDF document [2].
URL to article: https://www.atheology.ca/press-releases/2017-05-09/
[1] Reach us by email: https://www.atheology.ca/contact/
[2] available as a PDF document: https://www.atheology.ca/pdf/press_releases/press_release_2017_05_09_web.pdf


Chesapeake Bay sailing clubs welcome new members, especially in springtime. Here are several events designed to showcase opportunities to connect. If your club is hosting an event in April or May to welcome new members and it's not on this list, send us an email, and we'll add it to the list! We welcome club news every month by the 10th of the month. Email club notes to Beth Crabtree.
Open Boat Event: Parklawn Sailing Association (PSA) Sailing Club located in West River is hosting an Open House, Sunday April 22 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the West River Yacht Harbour in Galesville, MD. Meet the membership, tour three 30- to 34-foot sailboats, and go for a sail. You may crew or skipper during our club day, full moon, and weekend sails for as little as $35 per person per day. Club members race Wednesday evenings during the season; all members are welcome to participate. Learn more here.
Club Crabtowne: The next meeting will be held April 24 and will feature guest speaker captain Paul Foer, who will present various options for group sailing on his boat out of West River Yacht Harbor in Galesville, MD. Club activities range from skiing, hiking, cycling, and boating to cultural activities throughout the year. We are planning some sailing trips and a cruise to Canada in the spring. Click here for detailed information.
Singles On Sailboats: Lunch 'n Learn Sailing Orientation Day will be Saturday, April 21 from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Kiwanis Club, Edgewater, MD. The Seminar, which is open to all, will focus on basic sailing skills and navigation, provisioning and clothing, and etiquette for sailing and rafting up. The cost is $15 for SOS members and $20 for non-members. Signup here. A happy hour gathering will follow at Pier 7 Restaurant & Bar in Edgewater, MD. Please contact Janet Gonski at (443) 223-6139 for questions or inquiries.
Calling All Sunfish Sailors in Annapolis: Sunfish will be sailing in Annapolis on Tuesday nights this summer, along with two Saturday regattas, June 9 and September 8. To join the fun, or for more information email [email protected].
Come check out CBTSC: Come join us April 28 on our first cruise of the 2018 sailing season. If you're not a member of the Chesapeake Bay Tartan Sailing Club (CBTSC) come meet our friendly Tartan crew. Ask questions of the captains and stay for dinner. We will rendezvous by boat and car in Annapolis on Saturday, picking up transient slips on Back Creek for cocktails on one of the Tartan boats, followed by a short walk to Sam's on the Waterfront for dinner. Come by boat or car. On Sunday we will have breakfast in town. To find out more and register for the event, go to our website or our Facebook page (chesapeakebaytartansailingclub), or call Paul Macpherson at (240) 271-7411.
Prospective New Member Meet Up: The Chesapeake Bristol Club (CBC) will hold a Prospective New Member meet-up Saturday, April 7 at the Providence Club House, 260 Providence Rd, Annapolis, MD 21409, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Membership is open to all who enjoy sailing. The club is a social sailing club with no clubhouse. The club posts a year-round schedule of monthly activities both on and off the water (cruises, raft-ups, shore parties, and theater events). Dues are $45 per year, and you don't have to own a Bristol (or any type of boat) to be a member. Enjoy refreshments and then our annual event planning meeting. We would love the opportunity to introduce you to CBC members and answer questions you may have. RSVP to Rebecca Burka.


This is the first of three posts dedicated to The Second Remembering Barbara Stanwyck Blogathon being held over at In The Good Old Days of Hollywood and Maddy Loves Her Classic Films..
Brief Synopsis – A woman witnesses what she suspects to be a murder from her window but no one believes her besides a curious detective.
My Take on it – This is a film tat I knew nothing about before seeing it but the premise made it sound quite interesting.
They do a wonderful job here making this story thrilling as they take the concept to a higher level once they add in the whole psychological aspect of things.
Barbara Stanwyck is great in the lead and makes us believe that she can even doubt her own suspicions as things move along.
They find a way to keep things plausible almost the entire time which also helps add to the thrilling aspects of it all.
One might even say that this film is slightly before its time since it is able to keep things very intriguing and thrilling the entire time even to the point where they make the viewer question what is truly going one and what the character actually witnessed.
Bottom Line – Great thriller that takes the concept to a nice level since they get into the psychological aspects of things so well. Stanwyck is great in the lead and they do such a wonderful job making her doubt her own suspicions and it's all done in a very believable way. In some ways this film is slightly before its time and manages to keep the story intriguing and thrilling throughout as they even find ways to make the viewer also question what really happened. Recommended!
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This is a nice little time waster. George Sanders steals the show.
Thanks for taking part in the blogathon Rob, and I'm really sorry for the late response. I love this movie. I've heard so many criticize this film because its very similar to "Rear Window" which was released the same year, but a few months later. Of course, "Witness To Murder" does closely parallel with the latter, but its also entirely different in a way too. It's such a compelling and entertaining movie.
I'm also hosting two other blogathons, and I would love to invite you to join in. Here are the links below.


Silvestro Ganassi is mostly known as a composer of recorder music, but he wrote some pieces for Viola Da Gamba too. Here is one that I have been studying.
A bit more about the music. This is solo music, so no harmonies. What's more, this is written without barlines, so the performer has to figure out which notes carry the emphasis, and where the phrases are.
All this makes it a challenge to do something with this track. (So why not just play it? Good question.) I decided to do nothing more than double the melody line with various software instruments, to add some colour. Let me know what you think of this idea.
I like the ancient, rather exotic sound of the viol da gamba. It has a wide range of tone colors in its sound, which is interesting in of itself.
These software synth instruments did not really add much to the mix, in my opinion. They certainly weren't bad, but they didn't enhance.
It seems that instruments of a similar period would blend better together. Your recordings with the synth harpischord fit your live recorder sound very successfully. (So does your use of synth percussion.) I would love to hear you do a track of viol da gamba, recorders with synth harpsichord added.
OR...multi-tracked viol da gamba! Either "au naturel" or perhaps you could employ various special effects on that sound, as you have done well with recorders in the past.
In any case, the viol da gamba sound is very interesting on its own.
of the technical aspects (which I sadly (or happily) ignore) I liked the piece.The synth should sound alien and out of place with the viola but it works very well.it added much more colour to the somber and sort of monochrome viola sound.
as someone who's constantly mixing instruments and sounds that probably aren't supposed to go together (so consider the source of this comment), I really really like the interesting sounds this piece produces. I've gotta agree with yrp that the synth adds all kinds of cool coloring to this, and to my ears is very much a plus. Cameron actually knows what he's talking about, and I totally don't, so if I were you, I'd listen to HIM. However, I think this is VERY cool, and I'm glad you uploaded it just like this!
speechless ...I never heard of Ganassi but sure I ll search for more info ..
interesting idea, the mix of exotic new with exotic old. I like the idea, and you chose the spaces for doubling really well. As I listen, though, I'm trying to 'listen through' the other sounds. Synths, organ(?), piano seemed a bit harsh, while the recorder, other synths, and harpsicord sounds felt much better. I see lots of differing comments here already, so you HAVE provided us with very interesting musical ideas to discuss. I've already listened three times, just to get a feel for it.
and the phrasing and accents sound dead on to my ears.
I like the effect of the synth sweep with the ancient grating viola, that's something that works well to my ears. It adds a refreshing dimension to the renaissance style.
lovely sound on the Viola. The synths were nicely placed and varied.
I'm not convinced about the need for the synths and thought that a few harmonies from the viola might have worked. I like the interpretation and the playing.
You always manage to come up with something different.
Well to me I love the experimentation of old and new, It really is a matter of opinion on wether it works or not. To me the Sonics add color and life to apiece that is already very dynamic and moving. I enjoyed it and I feel I could have enjoyed it with out the synth, That being said I must thanks you for the experience!
I've been wanting a Gamba for years - it's my dream instrument as a guitarist/cellist. I like the tone you get here - especially in the duet portions of the piece.
It's a sweet instrument, but tricky to play. 7 strings (I have a low A) and they're somewhat close together so it's hard to hit only the right one.
The duet part is all double stops, right?
I'm glad you like the tone. I find it hard to record it and have it come out as full and warm as it sounds in real life.
absolutely love the playing and sound and richness of the viola here, and your choices for notes and emphasis seem perfect. I generally like the Wendy Carlos-style synthy additions to things, but it feels like you only went half-way, were tentative in your approach. If it were me, I might have left the viola solo alone, then, because it is so short, repeated it, but the second time through, really wacked it out, extracting overdriven harmonics from the violo track, coupled with other alien instruments to create an immersive second half.
So cool. Really like what you've done here and the sound of that viola is breathtaking. Really well done, Vic.
I could see this being in the soundtrack for a sequel of clockwork orange.
I don't know much about the notation and structure stuff but I feel this works for it's mix of ancient and modern.
how you go from a real rock feel other songs and you start here with a real classical feel. Enjoy the pop synth as well.
Nice change of pace from you!
Lots of interesting work in here (not least the technical end of recording it). I am squarely, though, in the camp that would like to hear it pushed MUCH farther down Electro Road. I hear a lot of tension between wanting to present a well-played/well-recorded acoustic track, and not wanting it to be only that. It's a slightly uncomfortable balance that, in my opinion, satisfies neither desire.
It's very beautiful, but have at it!
I don't know what to say, which is generally the case in regards to music without vocal for me. I can hear a story, I can see it, feel it, but its not possible for me to describe it. I can like or, or not, in this case I love the sound, the melody and arrangement, but I don't know exactly why. Cello is one of my absolute favorite instruments, so, I am easily sold whenever used. Anyway, I am in a period right now, when I am exploring this type of music, as well as other periods, and it's is truly wonderful to have that whole library to discover. Great job with this one, great use of synths (i.e not overused, just complementing).
Havent come across any viola da gamba players on this or any other site. Sounds good,nice intonation. To be honest I wasnt exactly crazy about the synth sounds you used but this is a cool experiment. Keep up the good work with the gamba.


Our Rhododendron Girls State Director is Michelle Sirbaugh. A native of Berkeley Springs, Michelle has been a member of the American Legion Auxiliary for more than 30 years. She has grown up with the program. Her mother, Irene Weber, served as a counselor for many years before assuming the role of Girls State Director, a position she served for the past 17 years (1997-2013).
Michelle attended Rhododendron Girls State as a Citizen in 1979. Her daughter, Brittany, also attended, as well as two of her nieces. For the past several years, Michelle has taught Leadership at Girls State. She is passionate about the program and strongly believes that each young lady who comes with an open mind and willingness to take an active part in the week's activities will always treasure not only the knowledge learned, but the new and lasting friendships they develop.
Our Assistant Director, Dr. Rosemary Thomas, is a native of Fairmont. She has been involved with RGS since attending as a citizen in 1985. Through the years, Rosemary has served as a junior counselor, instructor and recreation director before being elected assistant director more than 15 years ago.
Dr. Thomas is a second-generation Girls State girl, and a third-generation member of the American Legion Auxiliary. She and her mother, Mary Jo Thomas (RGS '62), remain very engaged and supportive of the program throughout the state and beyond. Thomas is responsible for the coordination of staffing and instruction and also oversees the elections process throughout the week. She believes RGS is among the finest programs available for young women to learn about our government, grow as leaders and engaged citizens and enhance their understanding of the appreciation we must have for our Veterans.
Our Registrar is Ann C. Buchanan and she is the citizens' first and direct connection to the program. Ann has served as a volunteer at Girls State since 1996 and started as our Registrar in 2001. For Ann it is a pleasure to work with the girls, their parents/guardians, their school counselors, principals and unit volunteers. The program is one of the priority programs for the Auxiliary.
Ann joined the Auxiliary more than 30 years ago and is eligible through her husband, Fred, who is a Navy Veteran. In addition to her work at Rhododendron Girls State, Ann has served her local Auxiliary Unit in every leadership position, as well as moved through the ranks of the State Department serving as President in 2006-2007. Ann also serves the ALA on the national level as a member of the Nation Executive Committee and Central Division Girls State and she's even attended Girls Nation as a volunteer.
All three of the ladies work year-round to ensure a successful and awesome experience for our Girls State citizens.
During the week, there are nearly 30 other volunteers involved as counselors, party leaders, instructors, office crew and country store workers.


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Not only does our Scottish Smoked Salmon taste great, but it is also packed full of healthy omega-3 fatty acids which are beneficial to heart health.
Indeed, health experts recommend that we should eat two portions of fish a week, one of which should be an oily fish such as salmon. Scottish Smoked Salmon is also a good source of vitamin D, as well as B vitamins, potassium, phosphorous, selenium and iodine.
Scottish Smoked Salmon is also so versatile in the kitchen, forming the perfect ingredient for a wide range of hot and cold dishes. Dill, capers, wholegrain mustard, crème fraiche and horseradish sauce all work well when served cold.
And for hot dishes, Scottish Smoked Salmon is the perfect accompaniment with scrambled eggs, or in kedgeree or pasta.