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Worth the Candle, Ch 131: A Cypress Waits
New Virtue: Bookish Instinct!
Bookish Instinct: Through focused meditation, you can learn the qualities of the book you're looking for, so long as it exists within the library, and so long as the quality is part of the current schema. The more qualities of the book you know, the easier it is to learn more. If multiple books have the specified qualities, you will learn how many books there are with those qualities, and may meditate to distinguish them.
It took four days to get there, far longer than I had hoped, but still far faster than anyone could have reasonably expected of me. As usual, the distance between 20 and 30 was far, far greater than the distance between 10 and 20, but I was aided somewhat by the fact that I had the foremost experts in Library Magic actively teaching me, and by the fact that I was doing actual, useful library work.
Most of the first two or three days after the reset were fully devoted to the schema, working out the meaning behind the specific paths, untangling where the interleaving was occurring, and trying to find the places that the schema 'diverged'. Once there was a skeletal schema in place, the bulk of the librarians shifted their efforts to the collection and reading of useful books. This process started with the 'staples', books that were almost certain to be written and published in the future and were largely consistent across timelines (and could thus be compared with one another). New editions of old books were one of the most common staples, but to my surprise, the librarians also had people writing books specifically for the Library.
"Doesn't that hurt the Library?" I asked Raven one night. We'd begun having little chats in her home after dinner, the same as we had on my first full day, though not always focused on the Library.
"It would, if we had any active hand in it," said Raven. "There's a whole field of Library-responsiveness, which is actually one of my specialties, in part because I was there for Uther's initial experience with it. We use the word 'hurts', but what we really mean is that there are changes in the Library structure or schema that make it more difficult for us to use."
"Okay," I nodded. "And I've already picked up from Majom that one of the principles of intervention is that any response to the Library should be systemic rather than specific."
"Point intervention was the first thing we tried," said Raven. "I can't remember who came up with systemic intervention as a solution. Perhaps it was Vervain."
"Hrm," I said. The Dungeon Master explaining the rules, perhaps? Or just the wizened wizard knowing too many things?
"There are thought to be two reasons," said Raven. "First, systemic interventions, by which we mean reshaping the world, are less likely to require further intervention."
"Feed a man a fish, teach a man to fish, sure," I said.
"Excuse me?" asked Raven with a frown.
"Oh come on," I said. "How did that one never make it over?"
"I refuse to believe that everything Uther ever said was plagiarized from Earth," said Raven with a frown. "Explain the expression?"
"It was the shortened form," I said. "Feed a man a fish, you keep him fed for a day, teach a man to fish, you keep him fed for the rest of his life. It's partly about dependency and self-sufficiency, but it's also about permanent solutions rather than temporary ones."
"Then yes, it's apt," said Raven. She cleared her throat. "Uther had a similar saying, actually, but it was with regards to keeping a cow fed." She looked off to the distance a moment. "At any rate, yes, the Library tends to have less of a negative reaction to fundamental changes to the world, for whatever reason. Assassinating a king will cause substantial changes that are slow to fade, but fomenting revolt will usually cause only a ripple, so far as we can tell what causes what."
I pursed my lips. Obviously, at the highest level, the Dungeon Master was responsible for the difficulties inherent in using the Library. But on a lower level, there was probably some governing rule or intelligence to what caused changes to the Library.
"Have you heard of i-factor analysis?" asked Raven.
"Um," I said. "Freshen my memory? Sounds familiar."
"Impact factor analysis," said Raven. "It's part of entad studies at Speculation and Scrutiny." She held out her hand, and a book appeared in it, courtesy of one of the entads she wore — the same one that Bethel had copied all the books from. As with most of the books I'd seen her pull out, this one had a number of fabric bookmarks in it. It reminded me of Amaryllis going crazy with Post-It tabs. She cleared her throat and began to read. "'Once the metric has been applied to a sample population of entads, it becomes clear that i-factor follows a power law, with high i-factor entads being more and more rare as i-factor increases.'" She paused for a moment, skipping ahead. "'However, this difference is not accounted for by distribution of effects alone, and in fact appears to only be fully explained by a combination of usage restrictions, timing restrictions, and identity restrictions. These restrictions occur in various entads at exactly the rates necessary to ensure rough adherence to the power law, despite the distribution of raw effects following its own quixotic pattern.'" She looked up at me. "Translated, there's some apparent force at work which limits entads such that they can't be too strong, and it's not along the lines you would expect. Given our recent conversations, I believe I have a better understanding of what that force is. It's the same force that decides on exclusions, the same force that sabotages attempts at using the Library, and likely the same force that's responsible for the designs of the schema. It's all interconnected. You can explain a lot about schema responsiveness by just looking at i-factor. I actually think that I might start working on a new i-factor metric for timeline changes, which seems like it would explain a lot, but I'd have to include caveats about what's actually 'important'."
"Eh," I said. "I mean, yes, I do agree that you can see the Dungeon Master's fingerprints in a few places, but so far as I've seen, his style is to farm things out or create some organizing principle that acts as an immutable law. Amaryllis thought it was odd that Aerb's technological development was so far behind Earth's, and yes, there are factors that you could point to for that, but most of the answer is that the Infinite Library is staffed by librarians who are actively working to prevent technological advancement, and that kicks the can further down the road to the four-factor explanation for why technology is typically disastrous or misguided, and then that probably has some explanation as well, like meme-eating entities, infovores, or something else."
"So you don't think that he directly interferes?" asked Raven.
"No, he definitely does," I replied. "He's a meddler. But … okay, can you imagine sitting there and designing a billion entads?"
"Yes," said Raven with a nod.
I smiled. "Right, of course, but you probably wouldn't want to, not if you were more concerned with small-scale groups of people. You would instead figure out a way to automate it, or if you couldn't, you would get someone else to do it. Right?"
"I suppose," replied Raven. "But what does that mean in relation to the Library and the ways that we're forced to interact with the world to keep it useable?"
"I don't know," I replied. "Only that perhaps there are rules, just rules that we haven't discovered yet, or that might be theoretically undiscoverable from our position."
"'We' and 'our' so soon?" asked Raven. She gave me a faint smile and a raised eyebrow.
"Oh," I said. I shrugged. "I don't know, being here has been … good, I guess. Miraculous took some getting used to, but it at least makes the meals interesting. The people here have a sort of obsessiveness that I identify with."
"They're trying to save the world," said Raven, tilting her head to the side a bit in the same way that Maddie used to do, but just a touch less exaggerated.
"Yes and no," I replied. "I mean yes, they're perpetually trying to save the world, but most of the people you've recruited here have this, I don't know, this frisson toward what they're doing. There are people who very obviously love the schema for the schema's sake, who care about the books and the timelines, and all sorts of other stuff. They're excited. It's nice."
It was how I'd usually felt about DMing, especially in the planning stages. I would be sketching out a small village that the players were going to in the next session, and lose myself in adding detail and embellishments, putting in an inn and giving it some history, thinking about the people who lived there and what they were like. And then, of course, the party would breeze through it with barely a thought, not knowing or caring about all the stuff in the background, but that was okay, because it wasn't really that much about the game, it was about the act of creation. (Besides, if no one saw the things I had planned, they could get recycled later.)
"Are you going to miss it?" I asked Raven, who had gone quiet.
"No," she replied. "Maybe if I had been a junior librarian, but no, I took it upon myself to lead the efforts here, to keep things on track and the inner devils away, and that's taken too much time and effort. I'll be glad to be gone, frankly, now that I'm needed elsewhere." She sat in silence for a moment. "That's the first time I've said that out loud." Her eyes met mine. "Don't tell anyone."
"Of course," I said. "Are they going to be able to keep it together without you?"
"I dearly hope so," said Raven. She stood up from where she'd been sitting. "I'll leave you to your meditation then?"
"Sure," I said. "I'm narrowing it down. I might go get the first one tonight, actually, if I think I have enough to go on."
Raven nodded. "Let me know if you want company. Usually we do teams of two, but you're considerably more well-equipped and well-trained than the average librarian, at least when it comes to physical prowess."
In reality, I was better at Library Magic than almost anyone in the Library, with very few exceptions, both because of my advanced rate of learning, and because of my unique virtues that gave me substantial shortcuts. The meditation virtue wasn't quite a card catalog, but it meant that I could learn what was on offer, rather than doing the usual method of making guesses and then going into the stacks to look around in the right general area.
Meditating was painfully slow, and slowed down more whenever I thought about how slow it was (because it meant that I was derailed from the actual meditation), but I had a good deal of information on the book(s) that Amaryllis was writing, courtesy of some conversations that she'd had with Raven before we left, and the necessary pieces that I didn't have had slotted into place, coming as epiphanies in the midst of meditation.
A Cypress Waits, First Printing, by Amaryllis Penndraig, was eight and a half inches tall, five and three quarters inches wide, written primarily in a font called Carrington, set at 11 point. It was written in Third Empire Anglish. It consisted of three hundred and one pages, with 80,931 words. There were 2,988 full stops. The right margin on right-hand pages was 68 em. Two copies had been printed, both at the same time, with issue following soon after, all on the same day, 26th Akkers of 528 FE. The subject matter, per the Library's reckoning, was 'Personal'. The most common proper noun was 'Juniper'.
I knew all this, and much more, before I ever laid eyes on the book.
The vestibule had day and night, with light coming in through the hole in the dome, but the same couldn't really be said for the Library itself, as there were no windows, and not so much as a hint of anything shining through from beyond its walls. It wasn't too uncommon for teams to go through the Library at 'night', especially during crunch time, but the librarians had settled on working during the day as the default, and so there was less in the way of hustle and bustle as I went through the open door in late evening, grabbed myself a torch, and set off to find Amaryllis' book.
The Library had hazards. There were places where, in accordance with the schema, the books went vertically, stacked on top of each other, sometimes precariously. Similarly, there were places where the floor went at such a steep grade that you were climbing rather than walking, and the books around you weren't necessarily put in the walls with an eye toward keeping them in place. There were places where the hallways became more like tunnels, usually large enough for a human to squeeze through, but it was possible to get stuck or trapped. Beyond that, while the Library typically segregated out physically hazardous books, it was imprecise in how it did this, and I had been told, repeatedly, that I should run the other way if I ever smelled ammonia. (Fire, the other big hazard when you had a billion books in close proximity, wasn't a natural occurrence, but it did happen from time to time, and was one of the few things that called for an immediate reset.)
I walked a full mile until I got to where A Cypress Waits, First Printing awaited me. The shelves went sixty feet up to the ceiling, and it took a bit of climbing to get up there. I had to make footholds and handholds by pushing books off, sending them fluttering down to the floor below me. My everburning torch was slipped through my belt, giving me terrible light to see by, which made the climb all the more difficult. I finally found the book, right where the schema and my intensive meditation had said it would be, a relatively slender book whose color was the same glacial blue of Amaryllis' eyes. With a sigh of relief, I half-climbed and half-fell down to the library floor, landing among the books I'd knocked off.
Not wanting to waste time, I set the torch on a shelf to give me light, and began to read.
Juniper,
I hope that you're able to find this book, otherwise none of what I've been doing will mean anything to anyone.
I don't know if you've thought about what it's like being outside the library. I'm going to be here, in this future that won't matter, until the end of the world. It's been a few months now, long enough that I know you're not coming back, which means that what I'm experiencing right now must be the future that the Library is predicting, rather than actual reality.
It feels real to me.
If we assume that the entirety of Aerb and all its connected planes are a simulation running on some vast computing substrate, there would be a few different ways to implement the Library.
The first, most costly method, would be for the Library to do a complete simulation of Aerb for however many years it takes until there are no books. Such a simulation would have to take into account planar clairvoyance and travel, which would mean simulating all of the hells and every connected plane, save for the Library itself. However much computing power it takes to run the simulation, running the Library this way would increase it by several orders of magnitude, because hundreds of simulation-years would get added on each time anyone went into or out of the Library.
The second, less costly method, would be to somehow generate all of the books without actually having to simulate the world itself. My computer programming is lacking, given that I haven't invented computers yet, but I can imagine stopping the simulation and generating a horde of book-writing homunculi to extrapolate from what was available. They would need to be clever homunculi, able to keep all of their books internally consistent and consistent with each other, and they would need to be powerful, capable of peering into the inner thoughts of frozen people and understanding as much as everyone who ever wrote a book understood, but I have to imagine that would take considerably less computing power.
The third, extremely cheap method would be to not actually generate any books until they're read by a real person in the Library. After all, the Library is so vast that most of the books in it will never be read by anyone, so an efficient implementation would simply have the book-writing gremlins on standby, waiting until the moment the information is needed. Perhaps, if they have the ability to see the future, they would write all the books that people will read ahead of time. That would reduce the number of books needed from millions or billions down to hundreds.
But as I've said, it feels real to me. Perhaps I'm some book-writing gremlin, only pretending to be Amaryllis because Amaryllis would have written a book, but I would have no way to prove that to you one way or another. I can only tell you how it feels.
I've done my best not to let the fact that I'm living in a doomed timeline affect my outlook or my work. I took what you said to heart and have proceeded with the understanding that the Dungeon Master is challenging me, rather than shutting me down completely. Raven understood that I would probably write a book, and cautioned me against specific attempts at using 'future' information to bootstrap. She issued no particular warnings against writing books in general though, and gave me some advice on how best to go about writing something for you, and while I won't be writing with the intent to give instructions to my past, alternate, or unsimulated selves, I will be chronicling what I've been doing.
Summarizing a three hundred page book would be difficult enough if it were a coherent narrative, but what Amaryllis had prepared for me was a combination of journal, research notes, political observations, and management log. It was all impeccably organized, of course, but I got the sense that it wasn't a book written "for" someone, it was a book that was compiled from notes that had been made to serve some other primary purpose. That made sense, I supposed, because Amaryllis was busy with her work and dedicating a significant chunk of time to make the book more fully-edited wasn't a good use of her resources.
The first group of tuung had hatched, and were undergoing accelerated training. The enhancements to my companions had apparently remained in my absence, even though I had no access to their souls along the soul-lines, which meant that Bethel was able to leverage her enormous magical powers to generate huge amounts of spare time, which then went into massive, spatially compact sub-structures. She apparently didn't take much enjoyment from having what was effectively a small town inside her, but she went along with it. She had merged with Ropey shortly after I had failed to come back, which put her on a more even keel, at least according to Amaryllis.
Pallida joined the Council of Arches, filling the empty seventh seat. Amaryllis didn't seem terribly pleased about it, but given the fact that four of the seven members were needed for a quorum, it was necessary. Fenn had died, leaving that seat permanently empty, and I was 'in the Library', which took out another. That should have left five of the seven, but reality wasn't so kind.
Grak had insisted that if I was going to be permanently absent, he should be allowed to take his share of the gold and return to Darili Irid. Amaryllis had reluctantly agreed, and they had all made a trip together (Bethel excluded). Amaryllis described a mausoleum, with the stale stench of death hanging in the air. After Grak had laid the gold down and warded it, he had attempted ritual suicide by cutting through his neck with his axe. Amaryllis had stopped him before he could kill himself, but things had been a little bit fraught. Eventually, Valencia had intervened and arranged another dwarf as krin for him, but she had also insisted that Grak no longer live in the house, as it was "contributing to his depression". He refused to attend Council sessions.
Amaryllis had moved ahead with her Earth exploitation endeavors, perhaps emboldened by the fact that she was living in a "doomed" timeline. She engaged in some ethically questionable television testing using volunteer tuung and worked out several solutions to the Couch Potato problem, but none that she thought would survive reverse engineering. She had labs set up within Bethel for other projects as well, most notably for growing plants, with screening procedures and tests for anomalous properties. Beyond that, she was working on incremental improvements to existing Aerbian designs, and building factories on the Isle of Poran to put out better products than were available anywhere else.
Valencia worked closely with Uniquities, and eventually a plan was put together for a "lessening" of the hells. With me gone, her progress had mostly stopped, meaning that she didn't have enough killing power to fully depopulate the hells, but surgical strikes against key players in infernal politics managed to make improvements in the conditions of the mortals trapped there without inciting a full-on infernal unification. (She also married Jorge, our contact from Uniquities, five months after they'd first met, which, uh, might have been explainable without her using her powers, maybe. Amaryllis agreed that either way, it was inadvisable.)
Solace changed back into her five-year-old crantek body, with the addition of small horns, but aside from that, sequestered herself within the bottle, coming out for Council sessions and little else. Somewhat surprisingly, she was able to find some common ground with Heshnel, despite their places on opposite sides of the Second Empire. Heshnel eventually moved into the bottle with her. Amaryllis characterized it as being a relationship founded on a mutual belief that the "doomed timeline" was, if not pointless, then at least not worth putting maximal effort into.
Once I had gotten as much from it as I thought I could, I stuck it into my pack and headed back toward the vestibule. I had a long night of meditation ahead of me.
When I'd first gone looking for the book that Amaryllis had written, I had tried the meditation with her name and a general time range alone. It had come to me, like an epiphany, that there were dozens of books matching my request. Initially, I had thought that Amaryllis had done a larger print run, but no, the books were spread out over time, two copies each year, from 528 FE to 596 FE.
Raven set the copy of A Cypress Waits, First Printing down, then pinched the bridge of her nose.
"This is a problem," she said.
"You knew that she was going to write a book," I replied. "It's my understanding that you helped her with it?"
"I gave her some broad guidelines and information, yes," said Raven. "I knew that she was going to write a book, and I didn't want her to pollute the Library like the Second Empire did, nor did I want her to waste time and effort because of the Library, but this … this is a complete guide from her, to herself, about the future, and there are so many of them. It's going to be a massive distortion."
"Me leaving was already a massive distortion," I said.
"No," replied Raven. "Generally speaking, pulling people into the Library, while it might drastically change the future, doesn't count against us, at least not by itself."
"Oh," I replied. "Why?"
"As with so many things, we don't know," replied Raven. "We know that attempting to change the course of history through systemic measures is better than point measures, and we know that choke points are more favorable than stable periods, but there's so much that we don't know about what the Library does or does not respond to, which is one of the reasons we are, as you've pointed out in the past, conservative."
I frowned, trying to work out a theory. "Okay," I finally said. "Can I put forward a potential mechanism?"
"Sure," said Raven with a shrug. "I'll only be mildly upset if it's something that we missed."
"Well, okay," I said. "Imagine that you could simulate the entirety of Aerb and all of the planes, aside from the Infinite Library itself."
"That's simulation theory, yes," said Raven. "We had thought of that. It was one of the first things that Uther considered."
"Okay, so, imagine that you have the ability to run the world forward a thousand times, or a hundred thousand times, or … whatever. Enough that you could do statistical analysis on it. For that to be useful, the universe would have to be non-deterministic, or at the very least, your simulations would. From there you would be able to make some measure of a person's impact on the world, because you would be able to simulate the universe with them, and then simulate the universe without them, and look at the differences in what's statistically likely to happen." I grabbed a nearby piece of paper and made a little drawing on it, one of a simple bell curve. "Do you ever meddle in elections?"
"Not typically," said Raven, which wasn't a no.
"Well, imagine that this graph is election outcomes," I said. I drew a line roughly in the middle. "Let's say that 51% of the time it's candidate A, and 49% candidate B, with negligible votes for third parties or write-ins." I tapped the paper with the pencil. "So, let's say that I get ejected from the Library, and I went to change that election. The Library could then run a second set of simulations, which would give a statistical distribution of the election, and maybe a third set of simulations where I was ejected from the Library roughly the same as I went in with no future knowledge, and compare all those against each other."
"You would only need two sets," replied Raven. "One set where you were altered by the Library, one where you weren't."
"Sure," I said. "And you would also have to compensate for the fact that I went into the Library but came out without memories, which would drastically change what I would do even absent any actual change in knowledge, so … right, anyway, you could compare your data sets and then look at the election, and your measure of how much it had changed would be a measure of the impact that the Library had on actual reality, regardless of what actually happened in reality. Right?"
"Right," Raven said slowly. "I'll admit that it's novel, but I'm not sure that it's useful, given that we can't actually run such simulations, or know what it is we've changed."
"Oh, I'm not suggesting that the simulations are actually run, you could do practically the same thing with good enough predictors that took into account enough information," I said. Despite myself, I was getting a bit excited. It felt like I was close to cracking open something important. "You wouldn't need to simulate the entirety of reality unless you actually cared about all of reality. Obviously the hypothetical change detection process wouldn't just care about the outcome of a single election, but you could have the equivalent of a market basket or something like that. And the important takeaway is that it doesn't actually matter how much you change the future, it only matters how much you alter the probabilities of the events. And my guess is that domino effects are on your side, in terms of accounting."
"Domino?" asked Raven.
"Uh, causal chains?" I asked.
"Ah," she said. She folded her arms. "It's a theory, certainly."
"But you don't think it's right?" I asked. "I'll admit that there are a lot of questions about implementation, which I've kind of hand-waved away, and which is probably really important, but it roughly fits with the general rules that you've outlined. One of the reasons that iteratively grabbing information from the future is bad is that it massively swings probabilities, because it's creating information from nothing, at least from the Library's perspective, which would be a huge improbability without the Library's help. Just shooting some politician in the head to swing an election is, basically, moving the needle from 51% to 0%, but working behind the scenes to help secure the victory with a groundswell of support might look more naturalistic and map more cleanly to the winning percentages."
"Okay," said Raven. She shrugged. "Let's say you've convinced me. What do we do with that information?"
"Well, for one thing, we can definitely advise Amaryllis," I said. "We can become our own predictors of what is and is not probable to have happened without future information, and act in accordance with the highest probabilities for how we would have behaved. I mean, you still need to deal with the butterfly effect, but –"
"Butterfly magic is excluded," said Raven, cutting in.
I stared at her for a moment. I had a skill in my soul, Butterfly Magic, which was excluded, but I didn't actually know what it did. "Explain the butterfly effect to me?"
Raven gave me a curious look. "Butterfly mages were capable of altering probabilities," she said. "They usually traveled with cages of butterflies and released them at specific times and places to attain the effects that they wanted in ways that weren't obvious to anyone else."
"Okay, that's what I thought," I said. "I was using the phrase colloquially, it's an Earth expression that must have been used as the basis for the magic system." It sounded like something out of my 'make idioms into magic' phase, but I didn't remember it. "Regardless, you would have to worry about all the effects, and the effects of the effects, and so on. Assuming that the Library does care about probabilities, then it would be a matter of the specific way that it cares."
"I'm against giving Amaryllis that book," said Raven. "I'm against giving her any of them. Even if I'm not going to be head librarian for much longer, I have a duty to this place, and it could be a valuable asset for you, just like it was a valuable asset for Uther, once he got a handle on it. If we hadn't gone from two years left to one hundred twenty left, I would probably order you to stop reading them as well, but they might have information in them that's too valuable for us to ignore."
I didn't particularly like her saying that she would order me, but we both knew that I wasn't really her subordinate here, as much as I had been trying to pretend that I was for her sake.
"I'm going to go out and find the others," I said. "I think given how long it takes me to get the metrics and then translate that into a physical location using the schema, I can do one a day until it's time for the shift change, but there are still things that I need before we go. Have you had any luck in locating a book that can teach me Spirit?"
"I'm working on it," said Raven, grimacing slightly. "That far in the past, prior to the printing press, there are far, far fewer books, but there are also more languages, some of them no longer spoken. I might have to divert your meditation, if we can't find them the old fashioned way, but we would still need enough to go on."
A Cypress Waits, Seventh Printing, 535 FE:
Another year passed, another book for you. I don't know how many of these books will end up finding you, if any. They are, in some ways, messages in bottles, cast out into the ocean with a faint hope that they manage to reach someone willing to read.
Because of this, I've tried to organize these books with the assumption that you haven't read the others. I've also done my best to cut things down to the essentials, though I imagine that the early years will remain the most important, given how wildly things will diverge with you back in the picture. I find myself reducing chapters down to pages, and pages down to paragraphs, then paragraphs down to single sentences, until finally the sentence gets removed too, and it's like it never was.
These prefaces are, or have become, an indulgence. This is my yearly time to reflect on you. I stopped making the morning modifications to myself earlier this year. It surprised me how strong the trend toward the old baseline was. You were the love of my life, and you slipped through my fingers like sand. I know that you probably don't want to hear that, given how little time has passed for you, but I've spent seven years in this doomed timeline now, nine if you count time in the chamber, and I think that I deserve to speak my piece.
I think about going into the Library, from time to time. There are librarians still left in the world, going about their business, and now that we've reached an agreement with the Doris Finches, I think I might be able to find them. I don't know what I would find in the Library though. Perhaps it would be oblivion. In my nightmares, I step into the Library to find it littered with bodies from some calamity that came and went seven years ago, and your body is among them, not divinely protected after all. I wake up sweating and crying, and Pallida holds me until I fall back asleep.
We've accomplished so much that I've had to increase my ambitions. The Republic of Miunun has joined the Empire of Common Cause and become an economic powerhouse, the leading light of what people are calling the Golden Wave. We've managed to keep the greater threats at bay, though I don't know whether that's because the Dungeon Master is going easy on us, or because our clever solutions were just that clever. I very recently made a play for Anglecynn, and I'm still waiting to see how that pans out. My identity has been public for a long time, and I've been gathering allies for even longer. It's the first time I've felt nervous in a very long time, which should tell you something about how well things have been going. The rest of this book goes into detail, naturally.
I miss you. I wish that you could share in my triumphs. I'm hopeful that the other me, the real one, will get that some day. There are things that I wish I could say to her that I would only say in confidence, and this book can't possibly be considered secure. No book can, so long as the Library exists. We could have done one-time pads, if I had thought about it, and I could certainly figure out an encryption scheme that I would understand, but I don't think that's a particularly good use of my time, nor do I think I would take the advice in the spirit in which it was intended.
As for you, Juniper, know that I love you. There's a part of me that wants to be soppy and romantic, and say that I'm doing all of this for you, but of course the truth is that I'm doing my best to keep my world alive and I would smash your head in with a hammer if it would accomplish that. You always liked that about me, didn't you?
A Cypress Waits, Twentieth Printing, 548 FE
Twenty years is longer than I expected to last. I was nineteen when I signed up for this, and now I'm nearing fifty.
This was finally the year that Pallida left. As a natural consequence of that, the Council of Arches can no longer make a quorum, meaning that we had effectively no power over the Republic of Miunun anymore. As with Pallida leaving, it was a long time coming. The tuung citizenry tried to get us to stay, first with pleas and then with threats, but there wasn't much to hold us there any longer. I'll be taking a portion of the profits from their industry in perpetuity, which was cause for some tension, but I put years of my life into developing the Republic, and I consider that money well-earned.
We're in Anglecynn now. They've been calling me the Returned Queen for quite a while now, but it appears possible that we might be able to make that name a reality in the future. Anglecynn is five hundred years overdue for a rewriting of the constitution, and I'm the best candidate for the position of monarch. That would give me an unprecedented amount of power within the Empire of Common Cause. People might be more frightened if I appeared to be building a dynasty, but I'm childless, and beyond that, I've managed to appear scrupulously fair in both my political and business dealings.
That said, my personal life is in shambles. I have hard-working, competent staff, but few close friends. Solace barely speaks to me, or to anyone else, and she's made offhand mentions of Zorisad Yosivun, which would be likely to kill her. Valencia is still in the process of fostering whatever children the state will allow her and Jorge to take in, with her side career as a killer of infernals only occasionally relevant when they're caught violating the Compact. And Bethel, who helps me write these, has ascended to the level where she doesn't get much from our conversations (a list of entads, their sources, and effects is in appendix B).
I don't want you to think that I'm not happy. If I'm remembering you right, you might blame yourself for leaving me in this situation. The truth is, neither of us was fully aware of what it would be like for me to inhabit a doomed timeline, nor did we think it would last so long. I will say that my happiness is muted, more satisfaction at the way my plans have fallen into place than actual joy or contentment. It's sufficient.
The following is for my younger self. She'll know how to decode it. I'll leave it to her whether or not to share it with you.
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I hope that you're well.
A Cypress Waits, Thirty-second Printing, 560 FE
Barring a complete rewriting of the foundational agreements that created the Empire of Common Cause, I've ascended as high as I can possibly go. There's more power to accumulate, but it seems it will have to be through careful maneuvering and political frog-boiling rather than any moves to bigger and better things.
I hold three positions: Queen of Anglecynn, Secretary General of the Empire of Common Cause, and Commander of the Imperial Defense Force. The anolia can't see my skill as a soul mage, likely because it comes from your soul, not from mine, though I try not to use the skill very much, given how much of a liability it might be. I've also spent a good third of my life in the time chamber at this point, making me fifty by the records, seventy by my own accounting, and with the body of a thirty-year-old.
Time is going to catch up with me soon, as my soul succumbs to senescence. I have another few decades before it happens, but I already feel twice doomed, a doomed woman living in a doomed timeline. Unfortunately for us, Valencia is growing old too, and the Compact with the hells won't outlive her. I'm starting to understand how you feel about death, how you might prefer torture to oblivion. There are practical reasons to prefer oblivion; I know too much, and hold no illusions about resisting the devils and demons as they try to torture or coerce it out of me. I've had Valencia as a friend for long enough to know better.
I've lost faith that these books are of any practical use to you. The only sign of the Dungeon Master that remains in this world is in the abilities that we were gifted with, and in Bethel's link to Earth, but the gifts are entirely static, and the backpack's functionality is, to quote Bethel, 'stale'. The rejection notes from it still come back on yellow legal pad, still in your handwriting, but they only say 'no', with no customization. The timeline isn't just doomed, it's been abandoned by the closest thing to a true god we ever had. I suppose that's still useful, as it offers some way to measure whether and how the Dungeon Master interferes, but I'd be hard-pressed to believe he hasn't thought of that.
How can these books be of any use when the whole universe is just going through the motions? How can we depend on them when there's no narrative in this doomed world? Everything around me exists only for the purpose of producing written works for you, a small fraction of which you'll actually see. The Dungeon Master has no greater purpose for this world, and apparently sees no point in actually being here.
My prediction, should you actually read this book, is that things will diverge so quickly and so wildly that almost everything written here is functionally useless.
A Cypress Waits, Final Printing, 596 FE
The title is, I'll admit, on the pessimistic side. I might be able to eke out another few years. I can see into my soul though, and I've seen the clear signs of deterioration. There are memories that have simply vanished, skills that have gone soft faster than they should have, and a pallor that hangs over the entire thing. If I'm not dead this time next year, then I probably won't be in a state to write another book for you.
I don't know how much longer the world has left either. Our policy of Void Beast redirection has come to a head much sooner than thought. Sixteen of the elemental planes are completely gone, impacting all manner of magic, and two of those happened in the past year. Unrelatedly, it seems that the infernals are preparing for an assault on the surface, a likely result of our Compact bringing them into closer cooperation, though infernal unification never lasts long, and we've been starving them of good leaders for decades. They'll wait until Valencia is dead, but she's eighty-six years old now, and healing magic doesn't work on her. There are talks of bringing her to Fel Seed, if that helps give you a sign of how dire that particular situation is. He could do as he pleases with her flesh; we tested it years ago by sending him a non-anima aged up with the time chamber. Counting on Fel Seed to keep the hells in check is, naturally, not a good plan, but every intelligence report I've gotten from both our infernoscopes and our spies has indicated that it might be necessary.
I'd like to say that I've done everything that I possibly could have in this timeline, but that's not true. I haven't always been maximizing for what goes into the books, or what would be best for what happens in the true reality. I could have gotten further using sex and romance as tools in my toolbox. I could have worked harder at my relationship with Pallida, who was a valuable ally for a good many years. I wouldn't say that I've been weak, but I've indulged, from time to time, particularly in petty morality. A better Amaryllis might have ripped apart the world to get at its secrets, or authorized the sorts of experiments that would have made the Second Empire queasy. I crossed lines, a great many of them, but I wish that I had crossed more, because these books are all that will remain of me when I go.
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Yours, in this timeline and the other,
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CANTON – Drums were on, burgers sizzled, kids played on an inflatable slide, and vendors sold art, crafts, jewelry, clothing and accessories on Friday at the first festival African-American arts.
But attendees of the two-day free event say the festival, which runs from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Saturday on 10th Street and Cleveland Avenue NW in downtown Canton, is more than fun. , great meals and live music.
It's about celebrating black culture – and everyone is welcome to join us.
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"Now is the time to do it," she said of the inaugural event. "Because of everything that's going on around us – voting rights and police brutality. It's to let people know that people of color are people too and that we have feelings too."
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Other Saturday activities include a youth hour with hip hop at 2 pm; a tribute to black musical theater at 3 p.m. DJPAPO African Dance Co. at 4 p.m .; and a tambourine and gospel hour competition at 7 p.m.
The Early Childhood Resource Center, the YWCA, the Stark County NAACP, the Stark County Black Nurses Association and the Tyler Scott Lancaster Foundation, which raises awareness about diabetes, are also represented at the festival.
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Isabella of Aragon (1305–1330)
Title: Isabella of Aragon (1305–1330)
Subject: Margaret of Brabant, Blanche of Anjou, List of German queens, Burial sites of European monarchs and consorts, Beatrice of Silesia, List of Austrian consorts, Anne of Austria, Duchess of Bavaria, List of Burgundian consorts
For other people named Isabella of Aragon, see Isabella of Aragon (disambiguation).
Isabella of Aragon
Seal of Isabella of Aragon
Queen consort of Germany
1315 (Basel)
Frederick the Fair
Anna, Duchess of Bavaria
Frederick of Austria
Elisabeth of Austria
House of Habsburg (by marriage)
House of Aragon (by birth)
James II of Aragon
Blanche of Anjou
12 July 1330 (aged 24–25)
Isabella of Aragon (1305 – 12 July 1330) was the daughter of James II of Aragon and his second wife Blanche of Anjou. Queen consort of Frederick I of Austria. She was a member of the House of Aragon
Isabella was the sixth of ten children, her siblings included Alfonso IV of Aragon and Maria of Aragon.
Her paternal grandparents were Peter III of Aragon and Constance of Sicily.[1] Her maternal grandparents were Charles II of Naples and Maria Arpad of Hungary.
Isabella was originally betrothed to Oshin, King of Armenia, son of Leo II, King of Armenia and his wife Queen Keran. Her father planned her betrothal to Oshin of Armenia in exchange for religious relics of St Thecla, located at Sis in Armenia, which he was anxious to acquire for the cathedral of Tarragona. Negotiations for the marriage broke down in the face of Armenian opposition to increased close ties with the Catholic western powers.[2]
On 11 May 1315, Isabella married Frederick I of Austria, King of Germany in Ravensburg. From then onwards, Isabella was known as Elisabeth in Germany and Austria.[3] Her husband had been elected as one of two rival Kings of Germany in October, 1314. His rival was Louis IV of Bavaria. With her marriage, Isabel became one of two Queens of Germany with Beatrix von Silesia-Glogau, wife of Louis IV.
It is said [4] that Isabella was blind in the last six years of her life.
Isabel and Frederick had at least three children:
Frederick of Austria (1316–1322).
Elisabeth of Austria (1317 – 23 October 1336).
Anna of Austria (1318 – 14 December 1343). Married first Henry XV, Duke of Bavaria and secondly John Henry, Count of Gorizia.
On 5 September 1325, Frederick I and Louis IV resolved their conflict by agreeing to serve as co-rulers. However Frederick soon became the junior co-ruler and retired to Austria until his death on 13 January 1330. Isabella survived him by almost six months. She was buried in Vienna.[5]
Ancestors of Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Germany
16. Peter II of Aragon
8. James I of Aragon
17. Maria of Montpellier
4. Peter III of Aragon
18. Andrew II of Hungary
9. Violant of Hungary
19. Yolanda de Courtenay
2. James II of Aragon
20. Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
10. Manfred of Sicily
21. Bianca Lancia
5. Constance of Sicily
22. Amadeus IV, Count of Savoy
11. Beatrice of Savoy
23. Anne of Burgundy
1. Isabella of Aragon
24. Louis VIII of France
12. Charles I of Naples
25. Blanche of Castile
6. Charles II of Naples
26. Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence
13. Beatrice of Provence
27. Beatrice of Savoy (=19)
3. Blanche of Anjou
28. Béla IV of Hungary
14. Stephen V of Hungary
7. Maria of Hungary
30. Kuthen the Cuman
15. Elizabeth the Cuman
31. Galicie of Halicz
Margaret of Brabant German Queen
11 May 1315 – 13 January 1330
With Beatrix von Silesia-Glogau (1315–1322) and Margaret, Countess of Hainaut (1324–1330) Succeeded by
Margaret, Countess of Hainaut
Infantas of Aragon
1st Generation
Sancha, Countess of Urgell
Urraca
Teresa, Countess of Provence
Petronilla
Dulce, Queen of Portugal
Constance, Holy Roman Empress
Eleanor, Countess of Toulouse
Violant, Queen of Castile
Constance, Lady of Villena
Isabella, Queen of France
Elizabeth, Queen of Portugal
Yolanda, Duchess of Calabria
Sancha, Queen of Naples*
Isabella*
Blanca of Ayerbe
Teresa, Lady of Fraga
Maria, Lady of Cameros
Constance, Duchess of Peñafiel
Isabella, Duchess of Austria
Violante, Lady of Segorbe
Constance, Queen of Cyprus**
Elisabeth, Duchess of Bavaria**
Catherine**
Margaret, Countess Palatine of the Rhine**
Beatrice, Lady of Marchena
Maria, Countess of Ampurias
Teresa of Jérica
Constanza of Ayerbe
Maria, Laby of Ayerbe
10th Generation
Constance, Queen of Majorca
Eleanor, Queen of Cyprus
Juana, Lady of Villena
Blanca, Countess of Cardona
Eleanor, Queen of Aragon**
Beatrice, Countess Palatine of the Rhine**
Constance**
Euphemia**
Violante**
Blanca, Countess of Ampurias**
Eleonor, Countess of Caltabellotta**
Isabella, Marchioness of Montferrat*
Esclaramunda*
Alice, Countess of Ibelin*
Beatrice, Lady of Cocentaina
Ventura, Viscountess of Illa and Canet
Elsa, Lady of Almonacid
Juana, Countess of Carrión
Constance, Queen of Sicily
Joanna, Countess of Ampurias
Eleanor, Queen of Castile
Isabella, Countess of Urgell
Isabella, Countess of Cardona
Blanca of Ribagorza
Joanna, Countess of Cardona
Violante, Countess of Prades
Joanna of Prades
Constance of Prades
Eleanor of Prades
Timbor, Viscountess of Cabrera
Eleanor of Ampurias
Maria of Sicily**
Joanna, Countess of Foix
Yolande, Duchess of Anjou
Beatrice of Urgell
Eleanor of Urgell
Cecilia, Countess of Modica
Isabella of Urgell
Isabella of Prades
Joanna, Countess of Prades
Margarida, Queen of Aragon
Timbor of Prades
Isabella of Urgell, Duchess of Coimbra
Eleanor, Princess of Salerno
Catherine of Urgell
Maria, Queen of Castile
Eleanor, Queen of Portugal
Blanche II of Navarre
Eleanor of Navarre
Joanna, Queen of Naples
Isabella, Queen of Portugal
Joanna, Queen of Castile and Aragon
Maria, Queen of Portugal
Catherine, Queen of England
Eleanor, Queen of France
Isabella, Queen of Denmark-Norway
Mary, Queen of Hungary
Catherine, Queen of Portugal
*also a princess of Majorca
**also a princess of Sicily
Name Isabella Of Aragon
Short description Queen of Germany
Date of birth 1305
Margaret of Brabant
Italy, Genoa, John I, Duke of Brabant, Holy Roman Empire, German Queen
Barcelona, Capetian House of Anjou, Zaragoza, Tarragona, %s%s
List of German queens
House of Habsburg, House of Wittelsbach, Świdnica, House of Aviz, House of Gonzaga
Burial sites of European monarchs and consorts
Iona, El Escorial, Dunfermline Abbey, Kraków, St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, Roskilde Cathedral
Beatrice of Silesia
Stephen II, Duke of Bavaria, Bolko I the Strict, Beatrice of Brandenburg, Świdnica, Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Brandenburg


What style of yoga do you teach/did you train in?
I teach Hatha yoga, Restorative yoga, Yoga For Round Bodies, Yoga For Seniors, and adapted Hatha for people with limited mobility. My personal introduction to yoga was through the Iyengar method, and I still rely on the concepts of alignment and use of props that I learned there. The teachers I've trained with combine many influences including Iyengar, Vinyasa, and Anusara yoga as well as Pilates, Functional Integration, and Axis Syllabus.
My hope in teaching yoga is to help people gain the body awareness and yoga tools that will help them to help themselves. I focus on individual needs and challenges. I maintain small classes to allow for plenty of individual attention, and I offer private classes that provide tailor-made instruction.
My intention in teaching is to encourage you to develop more fluid, stable, and easy control of your own movements within a range that is comfortable and healthy for you at a given time. Knowing how your body likes to move and how to achieve this in an integrated and dynamic way brings a renewed sense of confidence and hope that can be especially helpful post-injury or during recovery from illness. Starting slowly and within realistic and healthy ranges, body tissues are relaxed, stretched, and strengthened to increase both capacity and comfort. Depending on individual circumstances, progress will be gradual but grounded, emphasizing healing at a deep level to develop a strong and stable base that will be sustainable and enable greater progress over time.
How does your background in bodywork influence your teaching of yoga?
I'm drawn to teaching yoga as a way to encourage clients to help themselves. My manual skill in offering hands-on assists and my eye for how clients hold their bodies reflect the skills I gained through many years of practice as a massage therapist, and now as a Thai Yoga Massage practitioner. My knowledge of western anatomy and body awareness facilitates communication of movement, sensation, and posture. These help clients to learn lasting skills for self-awareness and healing.
Will I get a good workout in the Hatha yoga class?
My approach to teaching yoga is to focus on alignment and create a good sound base for each asana (posture); to focus on bringing the breath into the body to build awareness and create space; to build strength, endurance, and flexibility; to offer information concerning anatomy; and to provide context for the postures and actions through examples of yoga philosophy, including chant and Sanskrit terminology. In my Hatha yoga class, this usually does provide a good workout, but more or less as a side effect!
Restorative yoga is very gentle, and very slow. Only a few asana (postures) are practiced in each class, and they are specifically modified for holding for a long time, supported by props (bolsters, blocks, blankets, and sometimes straps) so that minimal to zero effort is required. The restorative postures bring the body into positions that allow for deep stretching and circulation, and they have a profoundly relaxing and restorative effect.
Is yoga safe for people with illness or injury?
Yes, if it is done correctly – that is, with sensitivity to a particular student's present reality in terms of injury or illness and needs, and with understanding of how the asana (postures) work. It's important that you inform your teacher before class of any conditions you may have. This is because certain asana are contraindicated for certain conditions, while other asana may actually be helpful in your case.
Do you offer yoga therapy?
I am not a yoga therapist, therefore there will be limitations to my abilities and I may need to refer a student to another teacher or practitioner. However, within the scope of my teaching qualifications, there is a great deal of help that yoga can provide: relaxation, body awareness, basic anatomical knowledge, pain reduction, movement education, and a renewed sense of well-being through breathwork, meditation, and asana practice that includes yoga philosophy, visualization, and physical explorations.
What's the difference between therapeutic yoga and yoga therapy?
Therapeutic yoga includes a variety of techniques designed to have a therapeutic effect, and this can be incorporated in any yoga class or private session, or in a stand-alone therapeutic yoga class with or without a specific theme. Yoga therapy is a complex discipline unto itself, and requires specific professional training. A yoga therapist may be trained to offer ayurvedic counseling in diet and lifestyle as well as yoga asana, mudra, pranayama, and meditation.
What style of therapeutic yoga do you offer?
I offer two styles of therapeutic yoga. One is a unique combination of restorative asana and hands-on bodywork. The other adapts Hatha yoga postures to help clients maintain and increase their mobility, body awareness, and relaxation skills starting from where they are at.
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There are many things you can do in 2 hours and 20 minutes. You may or may not want to occupy that time by running in a pool. Today I hit a PB, 2:20 in the pool and I know it's gonna toughen me up mentally for the marathon.
The other bi-products from extended periods in the pool are that my fingers look like prunes, improved aerobic fitness and not being able to shake the scent of chlorine from my skin. X-training will be my focus for the next week as I let my foot heal. I had an MRI last week to make sure it wasn't anything more than soft-tissue injury. Results: no stress fracture, no ligament or tendon tears. What I have is bursitis and tenosynovitis with a little edema thrown in there for good measure. Conservative treatment is the way to go for this particular injury. I'll take some anti-inflammatory pills, get physio, massage, epsom salt and keep with the Ignite and Xccelerate for topical therapy.
If you're looking for the perfect Christmas gift for a runner you should get them Ignite and/or Xccelerate in the new size format (smaller container). This offer is not advertised but you can order it by emailing me at rcoolsaet@speedrivertfc.com with your name and phone number. Zanagen can process any type of credit card for payment. If you get the order in by Friday(Dec 17) it will be shipped ASAP and you should get it early next week. If you order next week then it might be tight.
On Monday morning I went to Gary Reed's retirement announcement in Toronto. I decided to take the 8:44 GO train but the traffic was super slow because of snow and I missed that one. In fact I barely made the 9:10 train (and anything later I would have missed the press conference entirely) but I was lucky it left the station late. I only had enough time to jet out of my car and jump on the train without buying a ticket. I went to the conductor to say I didn't have a ticket but she said she couldn't help me and that I was at the mercy of the transit officers. Luckily they never got me.
Anyways, Gary's retirement announcement was really good and I'm really happy I went. He talked quite a bit about his career, his decision and the future. Wynn also spoke quite a bit and there were a few videos from people who couldn't attend (former coaches, Perdita and Priscilla). CBC also made a cool video of his career but unfortunately they cued it to a certain Green Day song that is way overplayed during graduations. The other unfortunate part is that on the screen throughout the press conference they had his Bio with a PB of "1:44.33". You can see from my last post that 1:44.33 was his 2005 PB and he ran faster each year for the next 4 years with a 1:43.68 PB.
One thing that really had an impact on me throughout Gary's career is that he accomplished everything living and training in Canada (ya, he had training camps down south and particularly extended ones in the past two years). Speaking of training camps… when Gary and I were staying in the same hotel in Flagstaff he requested a hotel room on he first floor so he could set a BBQ outside his window for cooking. When I asked him if he was serious he made fun of me for cooking all my meat in a frying pan, too funny.
Yo, what type of anti-inflammatory pills are you using to treat the edema? Cheers.
I took IB profen for a few days and then I took Celebrex for 4 days about a week before Nationals XC. I think I'll take Pennsaid for a few days starting now. In general I don't like to take pills. Xccelerate is something that I've been able to apply throughout the injury to work as an anti-inflammatory.
I see you're now officially running London with Eric and Dylan. Very cool. Could be the day Drayton's record falls. I'll be there too, hopefully within 35 minutes of you guys!
Hey Reid, are you able to comment on why you decided on London as your next marathon? As well, I also see that Gillis and Wykes are running it. Since your PB's are so close, do you guys plan on working as a group so Gillis and Wykes get standard?
Spoke to Thomas Omwenga yesterday and he is aware of you being in Iten , but too far to travel for him to meet you from Ngong Hills .


It's 35 degrees right now and I was heading home from a meeting and decided to stop and check on my north yard. I set up this yard about a year and a half ago and it has gone through two winters. Only last summer did I discover that it is actually within spitting distance of a commercial (ish) queen mill.
I like to do quick checks on hives when the weather is cold. I can look down in the hive and see how much honey is left and the size of the cluster. It's cold so the bees don't fly out and the propolis is brittle so it breaks loose pretty easily.
Turns out, four of the six hives at that location are dead. The other two have very small clusters and I expect them to be dead in the next month.
I'm not disappointed and I'll tell you why. First, due to what I expect is the queen mill down the street, these bees were mean. I visited the queen mill and his bees are mean. My bees are not mean and I breed against meanness. I replaced most of these queens last summer. Second, it was a bad location for the reasons above. The hives didn't make much honey due to over saturation of the area. Third, I'm in the process of moving and don't need a plethora of hives to take with me. Fourth, as I did not feed at all this past fall, the process of losing hives not adequately prepared for winter is actually a positive. It is selection for hives which store a lot of honey and which are frugal with it.
I've also lost two more hives at my home yard which I am slightly bummed about. One of them was an old queen I purchased from Zia several years back, and the other was my oldest hive, one continuously alive since I purchased it, 11 years ago. So it lasted about 10.5 years. It was however susceptible to robbing which is not very helpful, so there's a positive to that as well.
So that's six down out of 25, a 24% loss. I expect I'll lose a couple more including the remaining two at the north yard. If I get down to 18, I can fit them all on my truck and trailer and move them all at once.
As some of you already know, I am not able to raise queens and nucs this year. As I said, I am in the process of moving and all my queen rearing equipment is in storage. Any makeup splits I need to make will be with walkaway splits, with the goal of covering equipment and maintaining no more than 18 hives for the time being.


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New Expendables 4 Movie Is Happening,New Spoiler Details Already Revealed
According to new info from reports on Wikipedia, there's definitely plans in the works to make not only an Expendables 4 but a 5th installment as well. The reports claim that in March 2014, former James Bond star ,Pierce Brosnan, confirmed the 4th installment by revealing that he had agreed with producer ,Avi Lerner, to star in it.
Main man, Sylvester Stallone, also revealed in an interview that he wants Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson to play the villain in Expendables 4. Producer ,Avi Lerner, confirmed plans for The Expendables 4 and The Expendables 5. In related news, there's also plans to make a female edition of this, entitled, "The ExpendaBelles."
On October 28th, 2013, Lerner was in negotiations with actresses: Meryl Streep, Cameron Diaz and Milla Jovovich to star in the movie. On February 6th, 2014, Deadline reported that Robert Luketic is set to direct the ExpendaBelles. There's also already a short synopsis for it, which reads like this: "When America's Navy SEALs are wiped out trying to penetrate the island lair of a deadly despot who has captured one of the world's top nuclear scientists, it becomes clear that there is no such thing as the right man for the job and that this is a mission so impossible that only women can handle it.
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Did you know we've been to see Auntie Shelley and Uncle Jules? I think you do, because you spoke with us on the computer and saw them with us didn't you?
They live in London, and we went to see them on a train. Not an old choofy train like Thomas though.
The train we went on was a ROCKET train.
It went really, really, really fast!
It was even faster than you going down a hill on your scooter!
We went through a really, really long tunnel.
Can you see what we could see out of the window when we were inside?
When we came out, the sun was shining and we could see cows and fields and villages with big tall churches.
Can you see which field is full of ripe yellow corn?
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Redevelopment Plans Raise Concerns for USS Ling
May 25, 2016, 5PM EST
519695196951969Redevelopment Plans Raise Concerns for USS LingThe USS Ling has been moored in Hackensack since 1972 and has been a memorial and museum. But now the land is being sold to a developer who plans to build residential properties, retail spaces and a hotel.2016-05-25 05:24 pmdisabled2365764001true
By Maddie Orton
Arts Correspondent
As Memorial Day approaches, tensions rise around the future of a war memorial, a museum, and a World War II submarine.
The USS Ling has been moored here in Hackensack since 1972. The adjacent land is owned by MacroMedia, Inc. — the parent company for North Jersey Media Group and The Record.
In the 1970s, The family-owned company leased the land to the Submarine Memorial Association for a dollar a year. Since the last lease expired in the '90s, the organization, the museum and artifacts have stayed on the land through a month-to-month lease.
But in a change all parties say they knew was coming down the pike, the land is being sold to a developer who plans to build residential properties, retail spaces and a hotel.
"We are in a convolution of being evicted from the property without necessarily a defined place to go," said Submarine Memorial Association President Gil de Laat.
The Submarine Memorial Association was given 30 days to vacate the premises with an out date of May 31. That's standard for a month-to-month lease. But there's a snag.
De Laat and Les Altschuler say the USS Ling and many of the museum's artifacts are on loan from the Navy, meaning they can't be moved without permission.
The Navy is set to visit the site on June 6 to take inventory. The Submarine Memorial Association says it's highly unlikely they'll get permission to move items before that May 31 deadline.
"The very real possibility exists that if we cannot present this situation well to the Navy, they may come in and just say, 'We're going to eliminate this entire museum and memorial,'" de Laat said.
MacroMedia, Inc. owner Stephen Borg was unable to speak in person, but offered statements through his lawyer. In response to inquiry of what will happen if permissions from the Navy are not granted before May 31, he writes: "We are already in discussions with the Navy, the city and the association about their timely removal. We are hopeful that the items will be preserved properly for public benefit."
In another statement, Borg's lawyer writes the USS Ling has not been open to the public in nearly four years.
Altschuler says otherwise, explaining the submarine and museum were closed for months after Sandy, but "We've been open for tours up until last July. That's when part of the pier collapsed into the river because the pilings were weakened during Sandy."
The men say rebuilding the pier wasn't possible because of the numerous agencies involved and the impending redevelopment.
Having lasting access to the sub is an issue in and of itself.
Altschuler says the USS Ling needs about 17 feet of water to be movable. Without the river being dredged to clear silt, it only has about five to six feet.
"The boat has to be maintained. We have to have power, we don't know how we're going to get electric. There are alarms on the boat, there are pumps on the boat to make sure you don't get to much water in the bilges. [Those are] questions that we have, and that has not been answered," Altschuler said.
City Manager David Troast says Hackensack wants to support the Association in any way it can, but cannot make specific commitments at this time.
"The city does not own the property. The new developers are going through a development process. What the final result will be, will obviously be in the approvals. Whether there is access granted or not, I can't answer that because I'm not the approving authority in that regard," he said.
The city has offered to store artifacts for two years and Borg has offered to help fund the move, though it's unclear what that will mean. What is certain is that the memorial to submarines lost in war will be visited by vets this Sunday for the organization's annual Memorial Day service. Whether this year will be the last here on the Hackensack River, that's anyone's guess.
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Q: Building a Console app (just like TwitterSearch.UI.Console) sample I'm working on a project that has client and server side.
And I'm writing a "pre-check-in" tool that will validate a lot of our communication between client and server.
I already have unit tests on both sides, now i really want to test the integration between both.
Like a real client connection to the server and vice-versa.
I'm trying to see how "TwitterSearch.UI.Console" works, as I think that twill be a great starting point for me, but after spending some time fighting it, I thought that maybe it's better to ask the pros in here.
I'm using the latest version from here:
https://github.com/slodge/MvvmCross-Tutorials
paired with latest binaries.
Right now this is the output debug spill:

mvx: Diagnostic:   0.01 Setup: PlatformServices start
mvx: Diagnostic:   0.02 Setup: MvvmCross settings start
mvx: Diagnostic:   0.02 Setup: Singleton Cache start
mvx: Diagnostic:   0.02 Setup: Bootstrap actions
mvx: Diagnostic:   0.05 Setup: StringToTypeParser start
mvx: Diagnostic:   0.05 Setup: ViewModelFramework start
mvx: Diagnostic:   0.05 Setup: PluginManagerFramework start
mvx: Diagnostic:   0.06 Setup: App start
mvx: Diagnostic:   0.07 Loading plugin assembly: Cirrious.MvvmCross.Plugins.Visibility.Wpf
'TwitterSearch.UI.Console.vshost.exe' (Managed (v4.0.30319)): Loaded 'C:\fileZ\projZ\samples\MvvmCross-Tutorials\Sample - TwitterSearch\TwitterSearch.UI.Console\bin\Debug\TwitterSearch.Core.dll', Symbols loaded.
'TwitterSearch.UI.Console.vshost.exe' (Managed (v4.0.30319)): Loaded 'C:\fileZ\projZ\samples\MvvmCross-Tutorials\Sample - TwitterSearch\TwitterSearch.UI.Console\bin\Debug\Cirrious.MvvmCross.Plugins.Visibility.dll', Symbols loaded.
A first chance exception of type 'System.IO.FileNotFoundException' occurred in mscorlib.dll
A first chance exception of type 'Cirrious.CrossCore.Exceptions.MvxException' occurred in Cirrious.CrossCore.dll

And in the exception details, looks like the plugin manager is resolving the name of the assembly wrong?
He is trying to load Cirrious.MvvmCross.Plugins.Visibility.Wpf, and the one referenced by the .Console app is Cirrious.MvvmCross.Plugins.Visibility.Console.
Here are more details from the exception:

Cirrious.CrossCore.Exceptions.MvxException was unhandled
  HResult=-2146233088
  Message=Could not load file or assembly 'Cirrious.MvvmCross.Plugins.Visibility.Wpf' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
  Source=Cirrious.CrossCore
  StackTrace:
       at Cirrious.CrossCore.Plugins.MvxPluginManager.ExceptionWrappedLoadPlugin(Type toLoad) in c:\Projects\Misc\MVVMCROSS\CrossCore\Cirrious.CrossCore\Plugins\MvxPluginManager.cs:line 136
       at Cirrious.CrossCore.Plugins.MvxPluginManager.EnsurePlatformAdaptionLoaded[T]() in c:\Projects\Misc\MVVMCROSS\CrossCore\Cirrious.CrossCore\Plugins\MvxPluginManager.cs:line 87
       at Cirrious.MvvmCross.Plugins.Visibility.PluginLoader.EnsureLoaded() in c:\Projects\Misc\MVVMCROSS\Plugins\Cirrious\Visibility\Cirrious.MvvmCross.Plugins.Visibility\PluginLoader.cs:line 23
       at TwitterSearch.Core.TwitterSearchApp.InitialisePlugIns() in c:\fileZ\projZ\samples\MvvmCross-Tutorials\Sample - TwitterSearch\TwitterSearch.Core\TwitterSearchApp.cs:line 33
       at TwitterSearch.Core.TwitterSearchApp..ctor() in c:\fileZ\projZ\samples\MvvmCross-Tutorials\Sample - TwitterSearch\TwitterSearch.Core\TwitterSearchApp.cs:line 15
       at TwitterSearch.UI.Console.Setup.CreateApp() in c:\fileZ\projZ\samples\MvvmCross-Tutorials\Sample - TwitterSearch\TwitterSearch.UI.Console\Setup.cs:line 16
       at Cirrious.MvvmCross.Platform.MvxSetup.CreateAndInitializeApp(IMvxPluginManager pluginManager) in c:\Projects\Misc\MVVMCROSS\Cirrious\Cirrious.MvvmCross\Platform\MvxSetup.cs:line 272
       at Cirrious.MvvmCross.Platform.MvxSetup.InitializeApp(IMvxPluginManager pluginManager) in c:\Projects\Misc\MVVMCROSS\Cirrious\Cirrious.MvvmCross\Platform\MvxSetup.cs:line 265
       at Cirrious.MvvmCross.Platform.MvxSetup.InitializeSecondary() in c:\Projects\Misc\MVVMCROSS\Cirrious\Cirrious.MvvmCross\Platform\MvxSetup.cs:line 77
       at Cirrious.MvvmCross.Platform.MvxSetup.Initialize() in c:\Projects\Misc\MVVMCROSS\Cirrious\Cirrious.MvvmCross\Platform\MvxSetup.cs:line 36
       at TwitterSearch.UI.Console.Program.Run() in c:\fileZ\projZ\samples\MvvmCross-Tutorials\Sample - TwitterSearch\TwitterSearch.UI.Console\Program.cs:line 21
       at TwitterSearch.UI.Console.Program.Main(String[] args) in c:\fileZ\projZ\samples\MvvmCross-Tutorials\Sample - TwitterSearch\TwitterSearch.UI.Console\Program.cs:line 14
       at System.AppDomain._nExecuteAssembly(RuntimeAssembly assembly, String[] args)
       at System.AppDomain.ExecuteAssembly(String assemblyFile, Evidence assemblySecurity, String[] args)
       at Microsoft.VisualStudio.HostingProcess.HostProc.RunUsersAssembly()
       at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state)
       at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
       at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
       at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
       at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()
  InnerException: System.IO.FileNotFoundException
       HResult=-2147024894
       Message=Could not load file or assembly 'Cirrious.MvvmCross.Plugins.Visibility.Wpf' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
       Source=mscorlib
       FileName=Cirrious.MvvmCross.Plugins.Visibility.Wpf
       FusionLog==== Pre-bind state information ===
LOG: User = LAGOA\Sergio
LOG: DisplayName = Cirrious.MvvmCross.Plugins.Visibility.Wpf
 (Partial)
WRN: Partial binding information was supplied for an assembly:
WRN: Assembly Name: Cirrious.MvvmCross.Plugins.Visibility.Wpf | Domain ID: 1
WRN: A partial bind occurs when only part of the assembly display name is provided.
WRN: This might result in the binder loading an incorrect assembly.
WRN: It is recommended to provide a fully specified textual identity for the assembly,
WRN: that consists of the simple name, version, culture, and public key token.
WRN: See whitepaper http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=109270 for more information and common solutions to this issue.
LOG: Appbase = file:///C:/fileZ/projZ/samples/MvvmCross-Tutorials/Sample - TwitterSearch/TwitterSearch.UI.Console/bin/Debug/
LOG: Initial PrivatePath = NULL
Calling assembly : Cirrious.CrossCore, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=e16445fd9b451819.
===
LOG: This bind starts in default load context.
LOG: Using application configuration file: C:\fileZ\projZ\samples\MvvmCross-Tutorials\Sample - TwitterSearch\TwitterSearch.UI.Console\bin\Debug\TwitterSearch.UI.Console.vshost.exe.Config
LOG: Using host configuration file:
LOG: Using machine configuration file from C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\config\machine.config.
LOG: Policy not being applied to reference at this time (private, custom, partial, or location-based assembly bind).
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/fileZ/projZ/samples/MvvmCross-Tutorials/Sample - TwitterSearch/TwitterSearch.UI.Console/bin/Debug/Cirrious.MvvmCross.Plugins.Visibility.Wpf.DLL.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/fileZ/projZ/samples/MvvmCross-Tutorials/Sample - TwitterSearch/TwitterSearch.UI.Console/bin/Debug/Cirrious.MvvmCross.Plugins.Visibility.Wpf/Cirrious.MvvmCross.Plugins.Visibility.Wpf.DLL.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/fileZ/projZ/samples/MvvmCross-Tutorials/Sample - TwitterSearch/TwitterSearch.UI.Console/bin/Debug/Cirrious.MvvmCross.Plugins.Visibility.Wpf.EXE.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/fileZ/projZ/samples/MvvmCross-Tutorials/Sample - TwitterSearch/TwitterSearch.UI.Console/bin/Debug/Cirrious.MvvmCross.Plugins.Visibility.Wpf/Cirrious.MvvmCross.Plugins.Visibility.Wpf.EXE.

       StackTrace:
            at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly._nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Evidence assemblySecurity, RuntimeAssembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, IntPtr pPrivHostBinder, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forIntrospection, Boolean suppressSecurityChecks)
            at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Evidence assemblySecurity, RuntimeAssembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, IntPtr pPrivHostBinder, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forIntrospection, Boolean suppressSecurityChecks)
            at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.InternalLoadAssemblyName(AssemblyName assemblyRef, Evidence assemblySecurity, RuntimeAssembly reqAssembly, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, IntPtr pPrivHostBinder, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forIntrospection, Boolean suppressSecurityChecks)
            at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.InternalLoad(String assemblyString, Evidence assemblySecurity, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, IntPtr pPrivHostBinder, Boolean forIntrospection)
            at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.InternalLoad(String assemblyString, Evidence assemblySecurity, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean forIntrospection)
            at System.Reflection.Assembly.Load(String assemblyString)
            at Cirrious.CrossCore.Plugins.MvxFilePluginManager.LoadAssembly(Type toLoad) in c:\Projects\Misc\MVVMCROSS\CrossCore\Cirrious.CrossCore\Plugins\MvxFilePluginManager.cs:line 53
            at Cirrious.CrossCore.Plugins.MvxFilePluginManager.FindPlugin(Type toLoad) in c:\Projects\Misc\MVVMCROSS\CrossCore\Cirrious.CrossCore\Plugins\MvxFilePluginManager.cs:line 31
            at Cirrious.CrossCore.Plugins.MvxPluginManager.ExceptionWrappedLoadPlugin(Type toLoad) in c:\Projects\Misc\MVVMCROSS\CrossCore\Cirrious.CrossCore\Plugins\MvxPluginManager.cs:line 120
       InnerException:
Can someone help me figure out if I did something wrong or if the plug in is really trying to load the wrong file?
Thank you,
Sergio

A: There's a recent change which means Console and Wpf will both share Wpf plugins (as they are both .Net45 plugins).
This was made after https://github.com/slodge/MvvmCross/pull/395 - it seemed pointless to do this duplication.
This change is released in the current binaries which are tagged 3.0.11-beta1 - we're trying to release 3.0.11 stable with release notes asap (but are fighting Xamarin setup and PCL issues). When we hit stable, then we will (try to) update all the sample projects too. (However, TwitterSearch is sadly now permanently broken as Twitter have deprecated the RSS API that it used).
If you need the previous stable binaries they can be download as 3.0.10 on https://github.com/slodge/MvvmCross-Binaries/releases
As for the value of Console, I generally find this limited - I find writing unit tests is a better way forwards rather than writing a Console app. I generally find the Console is too a limited UI experience to use for 'real' apps.

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Homer Home High Homecoming 2018
On October 3, 2018 October 11, 2018 By Webmaster Homer High PelsLeave a comment
Homecoming Parade and Community Peprally
Monday October 1st, 2018
Dress like your favorite teacher.
Amber Mack won dressing up as Coach Carruth
Tuesday October 2nd, 2018
Cranium(Dress Like a Nerd)
Mr. Mitchell's 3rd hour Sophomore Class represents!!
Powder Puff Game
Coach Carruth vs Coach Casey
Homecoming Coronation Pics
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Great win on last Friday night against Arcadia. Final score was 44-40!!!! Pictures have been added under the football section of the website.
HHS KTBS 3 Spirit School of the Week 9/7/18
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Homer High School has been selected for KTBS Channel 3 Spirit School of the Week with Rick Rowe. The football stadium will be opened at 5:45 a.m. Buses will pick up at 5:20 a.m. at Mt. Olive School and at Arizona Store also at 5:20 a.m. Students who participate in the live pep rally at 6:00 a.m. may wear spirit shirts and jeans. The jeans can have NO holes, rips, or tears. If no spirit shirt is available, students may wear school uniform shirts. ONLY students participating in the televised pep rally will be allowed to stay in jeans at school. We appreciate the opportunity to showcase Homer High School in a positive light and look forward to seeing all who can attend.
HHS Office Closed until 7/2/18
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Another great year in the library!
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Mrs. Owens and the Library Club would like to thank all of the students, teachers, administrators, donors, and community supporters who helped to make this school year so successful. From the Scholastic Book Fair in the fall to the Social Studies and Science Fairs in the spring, we have had a busy and productive year. We have added more than one hundred new books to the library collection and continued our literacy initiatives with Career Projects and the Volunteer Reader Program. We also want to say a special "thank you" to donors such as The Lisa Libraries of New York, The Historic New Orleans Collection, Claiborne Parish Farm Bureau, Adoptaclassroom.org, and the White-Reinhardt Foundation for sponsoring many of our programs this year.
Participants in the State Science Fair traveled to the Vieux Carre thanks to funds donated by The Historic New Orleans Collection. Images courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection, photographs by Melissa Carrier.
Mariah West, Chandler Glanc, Maria Lumbreras, and Mr. Simms check out primary source documents in the Reading Room at The Historic New Orleans Collection.
Mr. Simms, Maria Lumbreras, Mariah West, Chandler Glanc, and Mrs. Owens pose with Mardi Gras Krewe regalia, part of the collection of historic artifacts archived at The Historic New Orleans Collection.
Students at Homer Elementary received Reading Prizes at the annual Awards Day. Thanks to a grant funded by The Lisa Libraries of New York, top readers were presented with books to take home.
Graduation Pictures
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On behalf of our administration, faculty, and support staff, we sincerely thank you for supporting us with your votes today. We believe that our students are our future. When you support our schools and the students within, you help support our future. Preparing our next generation is what we strive to do everyday, and your support encourages us. Thank you from the Homer High School faculty and staff.
Senior pictures for graduation:
Seniors are also asked to submit 5-7 photos of throughout your school years to be used to create a video that will be shown before graduation. Your pictures are due to Mr. Mitchell before April 20. If you miss the deadline, your pictures will not be added to the slide show.
Homer Schools Closed Wednesday, April 4th
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Due to Tuesday afternoon storms, areas in Claiborne Parish are still without power. Entergy states power will not be restored until at least midday tomorrow. Therefore Homer schools are cancelled for Wednesday, April 4, 2018.
Student Wins at State Social Studies Fair
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Congratulations to Phylise Anderson! Phylise won 5th place at the Louisiana State Social Studies Fair held at Burton Coliseum in Lake Charles on February 23, 2018. Phylise, a junior at Homer High School, poses with the award for her project titled "Musical Influences."


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Barbara "Bascha" Mika (née le  à Komprachcice) est une journaliste et une publiciste allemande . Elle a été rédactrice en chef du TAZ de 1998 à 2009  et de la Frankfurter Rundschau de 2014 à 2020.

Biographie
Bascha Mika est née en 1954 à Komprachcice, un village près d'Opole en République populaire de Pologne. En 1959, sa famille déménage à Aix- la-Chapelle.

Après un apprentissage dans une banque, elle passe son baccalauréat. Elle a étudié la philosophie, l'allemand et l'ethnologie à Bonn et Marburg. Pendant ses études, elle travaille comme pigiste pour la radio et divers journaux avant de devenir journaliste professionnelle.

En 1988, elle occupe un poste permanent au service de l'information du Taz, dont elle devient membre de la rédaction en 1998 et puis unique rédactrice en chef en 1999. Mika quitte le journal à la mi-juillet 2009.

À partir du  avril 2014 elle devient la rédactrice en chef du Frankfurter Rundschau et en assure la co-direction avec son collègue Arnd Festerling. Le  mars 2019 Arnd Festerling est remplacé par Thomas Kaspar . Le 31 mars 2020, elle quitte le tabloïd.

Responsabilités
La journaliste siège ou a siégé au conseil d'administration de diverses organisations professionnelles : de 2003 à 2009, elle est membre de l'Autorité des médias de Berlin-Brandebourg, elle siège également au conseil d'administration du Réseau des journalistes . En janvier 2018, elle est nommée au conseil d'administration du prix de la paix de la librairie allemande . Enfin, elle siège également au conseil d'administration de la Fondation Taz Panter .

Récompenses

 1994 : Prix de la journaliste Emma
 2012 : Prix Luise Büchner de journalisme
 2019 : Prix de la journaliste de Hesse pour l'ensemble de son travail à ce jour
 2020: Medium Magazine - Prix pour l'ensemble de ses réalisations

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Féministe allemande
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Rédacteur en chef
Professeur à l'université des arts de Berlin
Journalisme d'opinion
Naissance en janvier 1954
Naissance dans la voïvodie d'Opole

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CINCINNATI, Ohio (November 30, 2018) – More than 200 high school students from 14 area schools are expected to attend the Mount's Education Summit on Tuesday, December 4, 2018, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:05 p.m. With an overall theme of "Agents of Change: Lead, Inspire, Teach," the Summit is a day dedicated to learning about the many career options in education, as well as other 'helping' professions, including higher education, psychology, social work, and physical therapy.
Following a keynote address by Teddy Kremer, author of "Stealing First," students will attend breakout sessions and panel discussions on diversity, administration roles in education, dyslexia, and teaching with a mission.
The Education Summit is hosted by the Mount's School of Education, which recently announced it will offer Ohio's first dual education licensure in special education (mild/moderate and moderate/intense) K-12 and early childhood education P-5, beginning in August of 2019.
As a Catholic university rooted in the values of the Sisters of Charity, Mount St. Joseph University excels at serving the common good. Undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students at the Mount are inspired to think beyond the classroom and redraw the bounds of what's possible for their future. This is accomplished through individualized educational experiences, a safe, secure campus environment, and an all-in commitment to seeing students reach their highest potential. The Mount fosters life-long learners who serve, care, and contribute to the world beyond their front doors.