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In mathematics, the Peter–Weyl theorem is a basic result in the theory of harmonic analysis, applying to topological groups that are compact, but are not necessarily abelian. It was initially proved by Hermann Weyl, with his student Fritz Peter, in the setting of a compact topological group G . The theorem is a collection of results generalizing the significant facts about the decomposition of the regular representation of any finite group, as discovered by Ferdinand Georg Frobenius and Issai Schur.

Let G be a compact group. The theorem has three parts.  The first part states that the matrix coefficients of irreducible representations of G are dense in the space C(G) of continuous complex-valued functions on G, and thus also in the space L2(G) of square-integrable functions.  The second part asserts the complete reducibility of unitary representations of G.  The third part then asserts that the regular representation of G on L2(G) decomposes as the direct sum of all irreducible unitary representations.  Moreover, the matrix coefficients of the irreducible unitary representations form an orthonormal basis of L2(G). In the case that G is the group of unit complex numbers, this last result is simply a standard result from Fourier series.

Matrix coefficients
A matrix coefficient of the group G is a complex-valued function  on G given as the composition

where π : G → GL(V) is a finite-dimensional (continuous) group representation of G, and L is a linear functional on the vector space of endomorphisms of V (e.g. trace), which contains GL(V) as an open subset.  Matrix coefficients are continuous, since representations are by definition continuous, and linear functionals on finite-dimensional spaces are also continuous.

The first part of the Peter–Weyl theorem asserts (; ):

Peter–Weyl Theorem (Part I). The set of matrix coefficients of G is dense in the space of continuous complex functions C(G) on G, equipped with the uniform norm.

This first result resembles the Stone–Weierstrass theorem in that it indicates the density of a set of functions in the space of all continuous functions, subject only to an algebraic characterization.  In fact, the matrix coefficients form a unital algebra invariant under complex conjugation because the product of two matrix coefficients is a matrix coefficient of the tensor product representation, and the complex conjugate is a matrix coefficient of the dual representation. Hence the theorem follows directly from the Stone–Weierstrass theorem if the matrix coefficients separate points, which is obvious if G is a matrix group . Conversely, it is a consequence of the theorem that any compact Lie group is isomorphic to a matrix group .

A corollary of this result is that the matrix coefficients of G are dense in L2(G).

Decomposition of a unitary representation
The second part of the theorem gives the existence of a decomposition of a unitary representation of G into finite-dimensional representations. Now, intuitively groups were conceived as rotations on geometric objects, so it is only natural to study representations which essentially arise from continuous actions on Hilbert spaces. (For those who were first introduced to dual groups consisting of characters which are the continuous homomorphisms into the circle group, this approach is similar except that the circle group is (ultimately) generalised to the group of unitary operators on a given Hilbert space.)

Let G be a topological group and H a complex Hilbert space.

A continuous action ∗ : G × H → H, gives rise to a continuous map ρ∗ : G → HH (functions from H to H with the strong topology) defined by: ρ∗(g)(v) = ∗(g,v). This map is clearly a homomorphism from G into GL(H), the homeomorphic automorphisms of H. Conversely, given such a map, we can uniquely recover the action in the obvious way.

Thus we define the representations of G on a Hilbert space H to be those group homomorphisms, ρ, which arise from continuous actions of G on H. We say that a representation ρ is unitary if ρ(g) is a unitary operator for all g ∈ G; i.e.,  for all v, w ∈ H. (I.e. it is unitary if ρ : G → U(H). Notice how this generalises the special case of the one-dimensional Hilbert space, where U(C) is just the circle group.)

Given these definitions, we can state the second part of the Peter–Weyl theorem :

Peter–Weyl Theorem (Part II). Let ρ be a unitary representation of a compact group G on a complex Hilbert space H.  Then H splits into an orthogonal direct sum of irreducible finite-dimensional unitary representations of G.

Decomposition of square-integrable functions
To state the third and final part of the theorem, there is a natural Hilbert space over G consisting of square-integrable functions, ; this makes sense because the Haar measure exists on G. The group G has a unitary representation ρ on  given by acting on the left, via

The final statement of the Peter–Weyl theorem  gives an explicit orthonormal basis of .  Roughly it asserts that the matrix coefficients for G, suitably renormalized, are an orthonormal basis of L2(G).  In particular,  decomposes into an orthogonal direct sum of all the irreducible unitary representations, in which the multiplicity of each irreducible representation is equal to its degree (that is, the dimension of the underlying space of the representation).  Thus,

where Σ denotes the set of (isomorphism classes of) irreducible unitary representations of G, and the summation denotes the closure of the direct sum of the total spaces Eπ of the representations π.

We may also regard  as a representation of the direct product group , with the two factors acting by translation on the left and the right, respectively. Fix a representation  of . The space of matrix coefficients for the representation may be identified with , the space of linear maps of  to itself. The natural left and right action of  on the matrix coefficients corresponds to the action on  given by

Then we may decompose  as unitary representation of  in the form

Finally, we may form an orthonormal basis for  as follows. Suppose that a representative π is chosen for each isomorphism class of irreducible unitary representation, and denote the collection of all such π by Σ. Let  be the matrix coefficients of π in an orthonormal basis, in other words

for each g ∈ G.  Finally, let d(π) be the degree of the representation π. The theorem now asserts that the set of functions

is an orthonormal basis of

Restriction to class functions
A function  on G is called a class function if  for all  and  in G. The space of square-integrable class functions forms a closed subspace of , and therefore a Hilbert space in its own right. Within the space of matrix coefficients for a fixed representation  is the character  of , defined by

In the notation above, the character is the sum of the diagonal matrix coefficients:

An important consequence of the preceding result is the following:
Theorem: The characters of the irreducible representations of G form a Hilbert basis for the space of square-integrable class functions on G.
This result plays an important part in Weyl's classification of the representations of a connected compact Lie group.

An example: U(1)
A simple but helpful example is the case of the group of complex numbers of magnitude 1, . In this case, the irreducible representations are one-dimensional and given by

There is then a single matrix coefficient for each representation, the function

The last part of the Peter–Weyl theorem then asserts in this case that these functions form an orthonormal basis for . In this case, the theorem is simply a standard result from the theory of Fourier series.

For any compact group G, we can regard the decomposition of  in terms of matrix coefficients as a generalization of the theory of Fourier series. Indeed, this decomposition is often referred to as a Fourier series.

An example: SU(2)
We use the standard representation of the group SU(2) as

Thus, SU(2) is represented as the 3-sphere  sitting inside .
The irreducible representations of SU(2), meanwhile, are labeled by a non-negative integer  and can be realized as the natural action of SU(2) on the space of homogeneous polynomials of degree  in two complex variables. The matrix coefficients of the th representation are hyperspherical harmonics of degree , that is, the restrictions to  of homogeneous harmonic polynomials of degree  in  and . The key to verifying this claim is to compute that for any two complex numbers  and , the function

is harmonic as a function of .

In this case, finding an orthonormal basis for  consisting of matrix coefficients amounts to finding an orthonormal basis consisting of hyperspherical harmonics, which is a standard construction in analysis on spheres.

Consequences

Representation theory of connected compact Lie groups
The Peter–Weyl theorem—specifically the assertion that the characters form an orthonormal basis for the space of square-integrable class functions—plays a key role in the classification of the irreducible representations of a connected compact Lie group. The argument also depends on the Weyl integral formula (for class functions) and the Weyl character formula.

An outline of the argument may be found here.

Linearity of compact Lie groups
One important consequence of the Peter–Weyl theorem is the following:
Theorem: Every compact Lie group has a faithful finite-dimensional representation and is therefore isomorphic to a closed subgroup of  for some .

Structure of compact topological groups
From the Peter–Weyl theorem, one can deduce a significant general structure theorem. Let G be a compact topological group, which we assume Hausdorff. For any finite-dimensional G-invariant subspace V in L2(G), where G acts on the left, we consider the image of G in GL(V). It is closed, since G is compact, and a subgroup of the Lie group GL(V). It follows by a theorem of Élie Cartan that the image of G is a Lie group also.

If we now take the limit (in the sense of category theory) over all such spaces V, we get a result about G: Because G acts faithfully on L2(G), G is an inverse limit of Lie groups. It may of course not itself be a Lie group: it may for example be a profinite group.

See also
 Pontryagin duality

References
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Unitary representation theory
Topological groups
Theorems in harmonic analysis
Theorems in representation theory
Theorems in group theory


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The Development of Agency in "The Bluest Eye"
An analysis of the development of black female agency in Toni Morrison's novel "The Bluest Eye".
A discussion on whether black males in prison is a sociological, economical or cultural issue.
A discussion on the opportunities offered by the American Dream for African Americans.
Paul Laurence Dunbar's Life in his Poem "Sympathy"
A discussion on how Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem "Sympathy" reflects Dunbar's own life experience.
Looks at the important role of Octavia E. Butler's "Kindred", published in 1979, as a neo-slave narrative.
A look at how racial segregation played out in the case Brown versus The Board of Education.


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Žernovník je malá vesnice, část obce Bezvěrov v okrese Plzeň-sever. Nachází se asi 3,5 kilometru jihozápadně od Bezvěrova. V roce 2011 zde trvale žilo devět obyvatel.

Žernovník leží v katastrálním území Žernovník u Dolního Jamného o rozloze 6,21 km². V katastrálním území Žernovník u Dolního Jamného leží i Nová Víska.

Historie
První písemná zmínka o vesnici pochází z roku 1253.

Do roku 1930 k vesnici patřila Nová Víska.

Do roku 1930 byla samostatnou obcí, v letech 1950–1975 součástí obce Dolní Jamné a od 1. ledna 1976 je součástí obce Bezvěrov.

Přírodní poměry
Vesnice se nachází uvnitř Manětínské oblasti tmavé oblohy a v dubnu 2009 zde byl zaznamenán absolutní český rekord v tmavosti oblohy (zenitová hodnota). Míra světelného znečištění byla ohodnocena na "lepší 3" v Bortleově stupnici.

Obyvatelstvo
Při sčítání lidu v roce 1921 zde žilo 222 obyvatel (z toho 107 mužů) německé národnosti a římskokatolického vyznání. Podle sčítání lidu z roku 1930 měla vesnice 199 obyvatel německé národnosti, z nichž byli dva evangelíci a ostatní se hlásili k římskokatolické církvi.

Pamětihodnosti
 ohradní sloupky

Galerie

Reference

Externí odkazy

Vesnice v okrese Plzeň-sever
Bezvěrov
Sídla v Tepelské vrchovině

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use Neptune\Command\SetupCommand;

/**
 * SetupApplication
 *
 * @author Glynn Forrest <me@glynnforrest.com>
 **/
class SetupApplication extends Application
{
    /**
     * Gets the name of the command based on input.
     *
     * @param InputInterface $input The input interface
     *
     * @return string The command name
     */
    protected function getCommandName(InputInterface $input)
    {
        return 'setup';
    }

    /**
     * Gets the default commands that should always be available.
     *
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     */
    protected function getDefaultCommands()
    {
        // Keep the core default commands to have the HelpCommand
        // which is used when using the --help option
        $defaultCommands = parent::getDefaultCommands();

        $defaultCommands[] = new SetupCommand();

        return $defaultCommands;
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When we decided to go to Tennessee, I knew pretty much straight away that we would have to make a road trip of it.
With that, rather than stick to one city the entire time – it was decided that the trip would be a 3 city break would be just the thing (which is fairly doable seeing as we were here for about 9 days in total).
With that, we headed off to Memphis – staying at the Madison Hotel, which is usually home to an amazing rooftop bar but alas, we arrived right in the middle of renovations to the hotels and so there were no rooftop sunsets to be had here.
The drive to Memphis from Nashville is about 3 hours and so arrived just in time for lunch. We had no real big plans for this evening – just to soak up the atmosphere in Memphis (more on that later) and so off we went in search of food.
Maciel's Taco Shop turned out to be just the spot we needed, as we settled into an unintentional Mexican feast.
Unintentional because I started off thinking "Oh, I'll just get a fajita…but I'm pretty hungry so I'll get a side of cheesy nachos to go with it.". Well it turns out you get some nachos already with your food (found this out after), then I got the actual nachos I ordered and a ginormous portion of fajitas with another ginormous burrito for Lloyd.
Absolutely delicious but way more food than we'd originally anticipated! 😀 (Though I'd happily do this all over again right about now.
By the time we were done with lunch, we pretty much needed a wheelbarrow to roll us out of Maciel's!
The one plan we had confirmed for the evening was to head to the iconic Peabody Hotel where there was a rooftop party with live music on.
The rooftop party happens every week and there's live music, food, dancing and lots of sunset views over Memphis to be had. (It's also pretty reasonable – I think it's $15 to get in and $20 for VIP access – VIP includes food and a separate cordoned off area).
We arrived just as the party was getting started (i.e. fairly early) and got ourselves some drinks to kick things off.
After spending several days running filled with lots of activities – it was quite a treat to just kick back in the sun (Memphis feels so much hotter than Nashville by the way so when the sun starts to set like it is now, it's just perfect!) with ice-cold cocktails.
Soon enough, the music kicked off, dancing ensued and it was just absolutely brilliant!


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Renner, 51, was airlifted to a local hospital from the site of the incident in Reno, Nevada, the Washoe County Sheriff's Office said.
"At approximately 9 a.m. on January 1, 2023, the Washoe County Sheriff's Office responded to a traumatic injury in the Mt. Rose Highway area of Reno, Nevada," the sheriff's office said in a statement.
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Renner had a starring role as Hawkeye in Marvel's "The Avengers" movies. He is the star of Marvel's "Hawkeye" series on Disney+.
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Telefonica and Bouygues Telecom create Telefonica Global Solutions France a joint venture to meet the needs of multinationals in France
Enterprise 03 junio 2015
This strategic agreement reinforces Telefonica's position in the European market and sets the basis for future growth in the French MNC market
It provides Bouygues Telecom the international coverage required to address global corporations and strengthen its presence in the French market.
Read the press release in French / Lire le communiqué de presse en français
Paris, Madrid. 3rd of June 2015.- Telefonica and Bouygues Telecom have announced today the creation of Telefonica Global Solutions France, a joint venture to provide telecommunications services to multinationals in France. The new organisation will include its own dedicated marketing and sales resources committed to selling both Telefonica and Bouygues Telecom communication services whilst simultaneously managing the end-to-end commercial relationship with Multinational Companies (MNCs). The combined and extended service portfolio across both organisations represents a formidable and competitive value proposition.
The two companies have been closely working since 2011, at which time a Strategic Partnership Agreement was signed as part of Telefonica's Partners Programme.
Since then, both organizations have strengthened their collaboration in the strategically important MNC market by implementing a joint commercial organization based in Paris. These collaborating teams have successfully generated new business sales both within France and internationally and have continued to drive positive commercial momentum. Due to this success, both parties have agreed to create a stronger collaboration platform through a new joint venture company.
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Disneyland might be the happiest place on earth, but it's managed to get on the wrong side of one Chinese father.
Liu Demin, a judge who hails from the southern province of Guangdong, is suing Shanghai International Theme Park Company Limited, a co-owner of Shanghai Disney Resort, after the park refused to issue a child pass to his 10-year-old child, China Youth Daily reported Friday.
In January of this year, Liu and his friend took their children to Shanghai Disney. Liu had purchased a parent-child package priced at 499 yuan ($77) online. Although the children were aged 10 and 9, both parents were told their kids didn't qualify for discounted child passes, and that they would need to purchase full-price tickets instead.
According to the theme park's rules, children must be between 100 and 140 centimeters to qualify for a discounted pass. Adult tickets are priced at 399 yuan, while child tickets are 299 yuan — though during public holidays, they increase to 575 yuan and 431 yuan, respectively.
Liu and his friend both bought adult tickets for their children but were upset by the park's arbitrary rules. Liu told Beijing Youth Daily that the benchmark should be replaced by fairer standards, like those used in other parks, and he questioned whether child tickets should be sold only to children or to anyone below 1.4 meters tall. Disney parks in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Paris, and the United States all use age rather than height as a standard for selling child tickets. At Hong Kong Disneyland, for example, child tickets can be purchased for those aged between 3 and 11.
"The standard for Shanghai Disney's child tickets is very unreasonable, and it's obviously not treating Chinese children equally compared with those in other places," Liu told the newspaper.
Sixth Tone contacted Shanghai Disney Resort for comment but had not received a reply by time of publication. Liu is still waiting for a hearing date at Shanghai Pudong People's Court, according to China Youth Daily. Continue to read the full article here.


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And while he kept mum about whether any of the songs are about one lady in particular, he did reveal who the song "She Sets the City on Fire," was made for.
"Isn't there always a special girl? Aren't all girls special? We all have that potential. I'm proud to have a song that makes people feel like they have that, only if it's for the duration of the song," the crooner gushed.
The singer is currently touring with chart topping artist Andy Grammer, and DeGraw has partnered with Curio -- A Collection by Hilton to make the shows an unforgettable experience for fans.
"Curio and I put together a list of places to go in cities where they have hotels and where I'm going to be touring," said DeGraw. "It's a list of off-the-beaten-path places that I recommend to my fans who are coming to the shows."
Though the well-traveled musician has been to a fair share of places in his career, there's one U.S. city that'll always have a special place in his heart.
"Boston -- probably because I lived there in college and I'm Irish. My best memory has to be going there and driving into Fenway Park while touring with Billy Joel and thinking, "this is the most epic moment maybe ever for you."
And just like any Bostonian, he's got mad love for baseball.
"Boston has such a strong baseball fan culture -- they don't just go to the game. They live for it. That's one of the things that makes Boston special."
Sorry ladies, it's safe to say Boston is Gavin's first love.


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Q: How can I get these jQuery results with vanilla JavaScript? Does anybody know how I can get the equivalent of jQuery's .offset() and .closest() without a JavaScript library?
For .closest(), if I know how far to climb up the DOM tree, I can just use that many .parentNodes, but if I don't know how far to go, I'm stuck.

A: jQuery is javascript at its core. You can use this jQuery source viewer to find out implementation of any method.
For example, here is how closest is implemented:
closest: function( selectors, context ) {
    var ret = [], i, l, cur = this[0];

    if ( jQuery.isArray( selectors ) ) {
        var match, selector,
            matches = {},
            level = 1;

        if ( cur && selectors.length ) {
            for ( i = 0, l = selectors.length; i < l; i++ ) {
                selector = selectors[i];

                if ( !matches[selector] ) {
                    matches[selector] = jQuery.expr.match.POS.test( selector ) ?
                        jQuery( selector, context || this.context ) :
                        selector;
                }
            }

            while ( cur && cur.ownerDocument && cur !== context ) {
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                    if ( match.jquery ? match.index(cur) > -1 : jQuery(cur).is(match) ) {
                        ret.push({ selector: selector, elem: cur, level: level });
                    }
                }

                cur = cur.parentNode;
                level++;
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        return ret;
    }

    var pos = POS.test( selectors ) ?
        jQuery( selectors, context || this.context ) : null;

    for ( i = 0, l = this.length; i < l; i++ ) {
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        while ( cur ) {
            if ( pos ? pos.index(cur) > -1 : jQuery.find.matchesSelector(cur, selectors) ) {
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                break;

            } else {
                cur = cur.parentNode;
                if ( !cur || !cur.ownerDocument || cur === context ) {
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
    }

    ret = ret.length > 1 ? jQuery.unique(ret) : ret;

    return this.pushStack( ret, "closest", selectors );
}

And here is the implementation of the offset:
jQuery.fn.offset = function( options ) {
    var elem = this[0], box;

    if ( options ) {
        return this.each(function( i ) {
            jQuery.offset.setOffset( this, options, i );
        });
    }

    if ( !elem || !elem.ownerDocument ) {
        return null;
    }

    if ( elem === elem.ownerDocument.body ) {
        return jQuery.offset.bodyOffset( elem );
    }

    try {
        box = elem.getBoundingClientRect();
    } catch(e) {}

    var doc = elem.ownerDocument,
        docElem = doc.documentElement;

    // Make sure we're not dealing with a disconnected DOM node
    if ( !box || !jQuery.contains( docElem, elem ) ) {
        return box || { top: 0, left: 0 };
    }

    var body = doc.body,
        win = getWindow(doc),
        clientTop  = docElem.clientTop  || body.clientTop  || 0,
        clientLeft = docElem.clientLeft || body.clientLeft || 0,
        scrollTop  = (win.pageYOffset || jQuery.support.boxModel && docElem.scrollTop  || body.scrollTop ),
        scrollLeft = (win.pageXOffset || jQuery.support.boxModel && docElem.scrollLeft || body.scrollLeft),
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A: Why not use a library? I suppose there might be a reason for writing your own, but it probably won't be as good as jQuery's.
My crappy little five-minute implementation of offset looks like:
function getOffset(elem) {
    var offset = null;
    if ( elem ) {
        offset = {left: 0, top: 0};
        do {
            offset.top += elem.offsetTop;
            offset.left += elem.offsetLeft;
            elem = elem.offsetParent;
        } while ( elem );
    }
    return offset;
}

A: The easiest way to walk up a tree that's n deep, where you don't know n is recursion, and not looping. Then again walking up a tree without knowing it's root seems like a bizarre situation and not one you are likely to encounter when walking the DOM.
At some point you will hit the body tag and then you have nowhere left to go, unless you are inside an iframe in which case you want to be looking for the top window and finds it's document.body

A: Read source of jQuery:
For the .closest() you can make a loop over parentNode and stop where your next parent is equal to window.

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It's all about summer-inspired salads, pizzas, pastas and desserts. And for those long, sunny afternoons, classic old-fashioned lemonade and fruity mocktails. On the light side there is a range of delicious salads and cheese-less pizzas, perfect for healthy eaters and vegans. Salads include the lusso made up of quinoa, roasted onion, cucumber, pickled ginger, bulgarian yoghurt and coriander and the chiaro, a combination of lettuce, rocket, smoked salmon, cherry tomatoes, crispy capers, avo, spring onion, pickled red onion and dill. The in camicia with mozzarella, shiitake mushroom, oven roasted mushrooms and poached egg, and the carpacci (no mozzarella) rocket, beef carpaccio, pickled red onion and mustard mayo, are a couple of the mouthwatering new pizzas on the menu.
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COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia judge has thrown out murder charges against two people who were arrested in 2014 for a 2004 killing.
Muscogee County Superior Court Judge Gil McBride ruled Wednesday that prosecutors can't bring future charges against Rebecca Haynie and Donald Keith Phillips.
They were accused in the death of William Kirby Smith Jr. in Columbus.
McBride says the state's delays in prosecuting the case are intolerable.
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Trump faces a higher authority: Pope Francis
When the president visits the Vatican next week, he'll meet with a pontiff who hasn't been shy about criticizing him.
By GABRIEL DEBENEDETTI and JACOPO BARIGAZZI
Pope Francis has been critical of President Donald Trump on issues ranging from climate change to immigration to refugee resettlement. | Getty
Historically, the relationship between American presidents and pontiffs is a complicated one. But seldom has a first meeting been as awkward as the upcoming one between Donald Trump and Pope Francis.
When Trump sits down with the spiritual leader of America's 50-plus million Catholics next Wednesday, he'll be face-to-face with perhaps the only person with a bigger global megaphone than his own. There will be little common ground between them — Trump sparred with Pope Francis on the campaign trail, and the pontiff has been critical of the president on issues ranging from climate change to immigration to refugee resettlement.
"There is a tradition and a real purpose: you have the leader of the big temporal superpower meeting with the leader of the spiritual superpower, if you will. It's really an imperative that the two people with that much responsibility for not just their respective domains, but for the world writ large, that they get acquainted and develop a relationship," said Jim Nicholson, the former secretary of Veterans Affairs and Republican National Committee chairman who served as ambassador to the Holy See under George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005.
"They will not probably agree on things like immigration, they won't agree on capital punishment," he said. "But it's very important that, going forward in this president's young presidency, he gets to know the pope, that he can know he can call on the pope for discussion and advice, as President Bush did."
Both sides are feeling pressure to put a happy face on their private meeting. Nicholson said the trip came about after he reminded White House senior staffers — who'd been debating whether to visit the Vatican — that a papal meeting has been the practice for every president who's visited Italy since World War II.
But in this case, the politics are especially tricky. Trump will be meeting with a Catholic leader who enjoys far higher approval ratings in the United States than his own. The pope must keep in mind that while Trump maintains support from a majority of white Catholics, he faces deep disapproval ratings among Hispanic Catholics, the fastest-growing group in the American church.
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The two have not engaged directly since Trump's inauguration, but tensions have not cooled much since their initial hostile exchange in February 2016, when Francis told reporters, "A person who only thinks about building walls — wherever they may be — and not building bridges, is not Christian," in an apparent reference to the president's proposed Mexican border wall.
At the time, Trump shot back: "No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man's religion or faith," he said at a rally in South Carolina. "If and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS, which as everyone knows is ISIS' ultimate trophy, I can promise you that the pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been president."
The exchange reverberated in Rome, said longtime Vatican analyst Iacopo Scaramuzzi, because it made clear that Francis was willing to step out of papal tradition to rally his own backers against an American political candidate — setting the stage for an uneasy relationship with the eventual president.
"When he criticized Trump [over the wall], even Vatican diplomats were surprised by an attack like that [against] a possible U.S. president," he said. "But that was an intentional attack. An explicit conflict can be useful: to take the other one as an example of what's wrong can be very useful to send a message to your supporters."
While the two leaders have not spoken since Trump moved into the White House, the discord has subtly intensified. The pope made waves in Europe just days after Trump took office, for example, by bringing up Adolf Hitler unprompted in an interview with a Spanish paper when asked about the rise of xenophobia and the new American president. The next month, he appeared to jab at Trump's repeated claim that he would build a border wall and force Mexico to pay for it by urging Catholics "to not raise walls but bridges" and adding "A Christian can never say: I'll make you pay for that."
People close to the Vatican also interpreted Francis' designation of Indianapolis' Joseph Tobin as a cardinal in October — and his subsequent move to the higher-profile Newark archdiocese the day before Election Day — as a message to Trump. Tobin had recently publicly clashed with Vice President Mike Pence, then Trump's running mate and the governor of Indiana, when he helped a Syrian refugee family settle in the city despite Pence's announcement that he wouldn't support such relocation efforts.
"The risk for Trump here is that the contrasts between him and Francis are so stark on so many of the political and moral questions of our time," said John Gehring, the Catholic program director at Faith in Public Life, a liberal advocacy group.
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But the message-sending has gone both ways: Francis' critics noted with interest April reports that Trump had given Argentine President Mauricio Macri a collection of recently declassified documents relating to his country's "dirty war" in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The pope has often faced questions in Argentina about his role in his home country's affair, when he was still known as Jorge Maria Bergoglio, and his relationship with Macri has long been tense.
Nonetheless, early signals suggest Pope Francis — who has said he accepts any foreign leader who asks for an audience — has already gone out of his way to pave a diplomatic path forward with Trump, say Vatican experts.
"Trump and Bergoglio will try to display a constructive attitude, although what they have in common is to be unpredictable," added Scaramuzzi. "The two diplomacies have worked in order to provide a smooth meeting. So that nobody will leave the room with his bones broken."
With no ambassador to the Holy See in place while his administration reportedly prepares to nominate Callista Gingrich — the wife of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich — much of the coordinating work has been done by that office's new Charge d'Affaires, Louis Bono, said a Vatican official.
Florida Rep. Francis Rooney, who succeeded Nicholson as ambassador and served until 2008, said he expected few of the controversial points of disagreement to come up in the brief conversation, instead pointing to human trafficking as a likely topic of discussion because of its importance to both American diplomats in the Holy See and Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter.
"They'll put the past behind them," he said. "It's an inflection point in the relationship between the United States and the Holy See."
Close observers in Italy note that Francis will have most of the power in his home-court meeting. Courtesies like agreeing to hold the meeting on Wednesday morning — shortly before his regularly scheduled general audience in Saint Peter's Square — suggest he may not be looking to pin Trump into a politically difficult corner, and that he will have an easy out if the meeting takes an uncomfortable turn.
Trump's aides were considering scheduling the meeting after the G7 conference, but determined that the president needed to return to Washington for Memorial Day, Nicholson said, hence the unorthodox timing.
By 9:00 or 9:15 most Wednesdays, Francis is out greeting the crowds in his Jeep, explained Robert Mickens of the European Catholic publication La Croix. So if he perceives that the meeting is not going well, he can simply leave.
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"This allows the pope to say, 'I'm sorry, I have to go. He has not cleared his calendar for the entire morning to meet Trump," said Mickens. "It does mean that he cannot spend more than a certain amount of time with Trump, just because of the sheer fact that he has another important weekly meeting."
The first in-person meeting of the unorthodox president and the unpredictable pontiff — populist outsiders whose unexpected ascents to power were accompanied by an eagerness to shake up the status quo — is a part of the first foreign trip for Trump that has an explicit focus on religious symbolism. The president's itinerary also includes Israel and Saudi Arabia.
"They'll have a good chance to look each other in the eyes and see how much they have in common," said Nicholson. "They recognize what transcendent figures they are on the world stage, and how important what they say and do and believe and message is to people. Because so many people are watching them."
After speculation during the 2016 campaign that voters of faith would abandon Trump, his ultimate support among American Catholics closely mirrored that of other Republican presidential candidates: 6 in 10 white Catholics backed him in November, according to a Pew analysis of exit polls, and his approval rating among that group had fallen only slightly by April, to 53 percent.
A number of Catholic and evangelical leaders have since rallied even closer to his side after the president bolstered the Mexico City Policy axing American funding to nongovernmental organizations that perform abortions, cut funding for Planned Parenthood, installed the conservative Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, and signed a new executive order focused on religious liberty.
Yet that support belies his serious weakness among another slice of the Catholic community: just around one-quarter of Hispanic Catholics voted for him, according to Pew's analysis, and his approval rating with that group had dropped to 15 percent by last month. And on the issue of Trump's proposed ban on travel to the United States from a collection of Muslim-majority countries, 6 in 10 Catholics — including roughly half of white Catholics — said they disapproved.
Veteran Vatican watchers believe any kind of public clash over those flash points remains unlikely, despite the popular pope's prior willingness to confront the president in a manner uncharacteristic of previous Vatican-Washington relations.
"I don't expect to hear it," said Rooney. "I think the president values the role the Holy See plays in the world of international diplomacy."
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"Crisis In The Sudan" -A Story Of Martyrdom And Persecution"
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Located along the Red Sea and bordered by Egypt in the north, Sudan is a country in Africa with a population of over 20 and a half million people. 73% of the population are Sunni Muslims, mostly in the north. Islamic culture is very strong in the northern two-thirds of the country.
In the south, 17% follow tribal religions; the remainder are Christian, mostly Roman Catholic. This means in the south, 83% of the people are Christians. The Sudanese government led by the Islamic regime has been at war with the southern region for 17 years. Close to 2 million people have died in the south. More people from Southern Sudan and the Nuba Mountains have been murdered than all the victims in Kosovo, Bosnia and Rwanda combined. To make matters worse, the south is rich in oil. China owns 40% of the oil interests in the region. BP/Amoco has given millions to China in exchange for a share in the oil rights in the area. This has resulted in China giving money and weapons which include tanks, planes and bombs directly to the Sudanese government. The huge Canadian oil company -Talisman Oil is also largely responsible for the ongoing persecutions. Favorite targets of the Islamic Govt are hospitals , churches, schools and clinics. Yes its all about the "golden calf" of oil and religious persecution. These people are the martyrs for Christ of our times. You may have heard that Christians are crucified there to this day. I read with sadness of a young boy who's family had been killed, was forced to gather firewood and when he refused to renounce Christianity, was thrown into the fire. He barely escaped alive.
In addition to committing what amounts to genocide , the Islamic government is determined to remove all the inhabitants of the south in order to pave the way for oil exploration. This has resulted in additional persecution of the people. They have been driven off their land, their cattle slaughtered and millions are living in refugee camps, both in neighboring countries and within. Many children are kidnapped and sold into slavery. Priests, religious and lay people have been tortured or killed. People have been shot at, from government helicopters during humanitarian aid distributions. Those who refuse to leave are killed. Temperatures between day and night can vary by as much as 50 degrees, and temperatures at night can reach 40 degrees in the winter months. The people in these camps sleep mostly on the ground. Blankets of Love is a program administered by The Voice of the Martyrs, an inter-denominational Christian organization based in Oklahoma. Voice of the Martyrs ships donated blankets to the Sudan as well as other countries where religious persecution is taking place.
The simple and practical gift of a blanket is one way, we as a community of believers of the Good News can let our brothers and sisters in Christ of the Sudan know that they are not forgotten
PRAY as individuals, as a family, as a community for an end to religious persecution and human rights violations in the Sudan
SPREAD THE WORD. Learn all you can about the conflicts in the Sudan, then educate others.
Voice Of The Martyrs is an excellent website giving details about Christian persecutions going on everywhere in the world. Gives details about the Sudan Conflict.
Zenit News Agency This is the news agency that gives news from the Vatican and the Catholic Church throughout the world. Type the word "Sudan" in the search engine on their website. Has several news articles on the situation in the Sudan. A few of them are:
"Boycott of BP-Amoco Oil for Supporting "Ethnic Cleansing" in Sudan" and also the article: "South African Bishops Witness Lack of Religious Freedom in Sudan"
Christians Made Slaves as "West Adores Golden Calf of Oil"
Military Spreads Terror in Sudan
CLICK HERE and learn about BLANKETS OF LOVE, which is a program sponsored by the interdenominational organization Voice of the Martyrs (VOM). I urge all of you to take up collections in your parishes of blankets and $2 for each blanket to cover shipping costs and send them to this humanitarian organization.
WRITE to your congressman about the situation in Sudan. For names and addresses of your representatives, call the Capital switchboard in Washington, DC at 202-224-3121.
CALL the U.S. State Department to protest what is happening to Christians in Sudan: 202-647-9742, Stephen Schwartz, Sudan Desk Officer. Use VOM newsletters to give the U.S. State Department information on the situation there


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Q: Retrieve Repository URL field Jenkins is there a way to call via code the GUI field "Repository URL" in order to use its value on my Jenkins pipeline?

A: The url of your git repository is part of the scm object. You can get the url by calling scm.getUserRemoteConfigs()[0].getUrl().
The method getUserRemoteConfigs() will return a list with instances of type UserRemoteConfig. This class has a method called getUrl() which will return the configured url as a string.
Further information: https://javadoc.jenkins.io/plugin/git/hudson/plugins/git/GitSCM.html

A: You can use GIT_URL environment variable of jenkins.
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Theatrical production In the Pines uses virtual reality and live performance to depict ice addiction
ABC South East SA
By Lucy Robinson and Courtney Howe
Photo: The play follows the highs and lows of methamphetamine addiction and its consequences. (ABC South East SA: Lucy Robinson)
Related Story: In Australia's 'ice capital' a former addict ran for Parliament
Related Story: Rehab worker blames 'ice capital' Adelaide for rise in addiction
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It's taken three years and more than 60 interviews with people whose lives have been affected by the drug ice to bring the play In the Pines to the stage.
Now, after a successful premiere in Mount Gambier, South Australia, the play's producers are planning a national tour to start conversations about addiction in more regional communities.
The play follows the highs and lows of methamphetamine addiction and its consequences and mixes live performance with virtual reality technology to immerse the audience in the story.
Creative director Jamie Harding said it was intended to be confronting.
"Sometimes in theatre we have this ability to sit back in our seats and to look at what's happening on stage and distance ourselves from it," he said.
"When it gets a bit too hard, we go, 'That would never happen to me'.
"With this show, I wanted the audience to really step into the world and to discover the reality of the issue … but in an exciting way, to engage them in a way that they've never before been engaged."
The show by Gener8 Theatre started off with the name Cold As Ice and went through three drafts before the production team settled on the final version.
Photo: Producing In The Pines has been a three-year project. (ABC South East SA: Lucy Robinson)
Mr Harding said extensive interviews with addicts, prisoners, police officers and parents who had lost children to ice addiction were crucial to the process.
"Even though the show is a work of fiction, all those stories fed into our creative developments," he said.
"We wanted to make sure that the reality of the world was true and correct so that whatever we ended up making was something that really resonated not just with our community, but with communities all across Australia."
'It's full-on': virtual reality drives home message
For Mount Gambier actor Darcy Crouch, the issues explored were close to home.
"I've had mates that have definitely suffered either directly or indirectly though close friends or brothers or families," he said.
"So it resonates well. It makes it easier, I think, to find a driving force to do the show.
"It's nice that it is doing something that hopefully is building a conversation and making a difference."
He said the use of virtual reality headsets had taken the play to a new level and allowed audience members to experience characters' worlds more intensely.
"It's still such a new technology and I know for a lot of people, it's going to be their first time," he said.
"It's full-on, it's gritty, it's real. You almost feel like you're going to be touched or spoken to directly in the experience of it."
Photo: The play premiered at the same theatre where a public meeting was held recently to discuss the work being done to combat ice use in the regional city. (ABC South East SA: Lucy Robinson)
Gener8 Theatre associate director and actor John Crouch said he wanted highlight the devastating impact the drug had on communities, without glamourising it.
"Often these drug things end up being like Underbelly — tatts, shotguns, [a] glamorous kind of violence," he said.
"But really the insidious thing about these regional centres is the way the economy of the drug works.
"It works through really seemingly innocent people … who you would never imagine were involved in the drug trade."
Two audience members described the play to the ABC as "confronting" and "so real" with a "good shock factor".
Community approach needed
The play premiered at Mount Gambier's Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre — the same venue where a recent public meeting discussed the work being done to combat ice use in the regional city.
Local police have been involved in running education programs for school students and training frontline workers.
Sergeant Andy Stott said the problem wasn't going to be solved overnight.
"Crystal methamphetamine has been of significant concern to a lot of people in our community for a long time," he said.
"We're finding that it's ruining lives and causing problems with families and even businesses."
Photo: Local police, including Sergeant Andy Stott, have been involved in running education programs for school students and training frontline workers to deal with the impacts of ice use. (ABC South East SA: Lucy Robinson)
He said police research had shown a whole-community approach was most beneficial in tackling the problem.
"There was a definite need for education of kids in schools because that's where the issue starts," he said.
"But there was also a greater need for the education of the broader community.
"One of the biggest things has been that need for training and support in the family and friend environment, both from a service provider aspect, but also particularly from the families themselves.
"We've also been able to get into various areas like schools and councils, forming partnerships with rotary clubs and that sort of thing, to try to get that message out."
Sights set on national tour
Mr Harding said the play was attracting interest from communities around Australia and he hoped to be able to tour to spread the message further.
"The more that we're creating theatre down there [in Mount Gambier], the more that I discover that we need to turn the gaze to regional work," he said.
Photo: Creative director Jamie Harding hopes to take In the Pines on a national tour. (ABC South East SA: Lucy Robinson)
"It is time that our stories have that chance to get out there.
"Theatre's a great bonder of community — a great opportunity to bring everyone together — and it can also be a great opportunity to highlight issues in the community that are worth speaking about.
"I think there's going to be a long life for the show."
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Awww - what an adorable laugh and I love the dimples!
I went to Google and asked it if laughing is good for you health?
(1) "Try to find the funny side of the small things that happen every day around you, there is always something absurd or plain stupid going on right near you, which may provide five minutes of good laughter."
Grandpa Dennis says that Elijah qualifies for that. The video was 4:56 minutes.
(2) "We change physiologically when we laugh. We stretch muscles throughout our face and body, our pulse and blood pressure go up, and we breathe faster, sending more oxygen to our tissues."
(3) Laughter connects us with others."
(4) "Laughter enhances your intake of oxygen rich air which stimulates your heart, lungs and muscles, and increases the endorphins that are released by your brain."
Grandpa Dennis says "Good job Elijah, you are always teaching us."
I can't think of much that is more enjoyable than to watch a child laugh. He was so tickled and there were several very positive development signs I observed.
He could clearly see the spoon.
He recognized what made the sound and knew how to replicate it.
He displayed good gross motor skills.
Elijah has a sense of humor.
I think that video said volumes about the progress that Elijah has made. I truly enjoyed it. Thank you for sharing.
What a sweet boy you are Elijah!!
WHAT A DOLL! His mannerisms remind me so much of my daughter, Faith, when she was his age. He sure is a looker and what a sense of humor. Now for his birthday you'll have to invest in a nice set of spoons!
this made me laugh out loud! not just LOL, but really laugh out loud. he reminds me so much of our betsy! what a cutie pie!


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-P Cory has a plan to improve the Bucs. It mostly sounds really good, except I'm not sure Adam LaRoche and Kyle Davies for Mike Gonzalez, Paul Maholm and Jose Castillo is realistic. Castillo has very little value right now. Davies was terrible last year, but that seems to be almost entirely because of a groin problem that should be cleared up this year. I like his long-term potential as much as I like Maholm's. So we're really back to just LaRoche for Gonzalez again, and as we've seen, that's not going to get it done. Cory has Chris Duffy as a bench player going into 2008 anyway, though - perhaps LaRoche for Gonzalez and Duffy would make sense?
-P- The St. Louis Post-Dispatch rips the Bucs:
The Pittsburgh Pirates have squandered the energy created during a good second half last season by going into hibernation.
Pittsburgh general manager Dave Littlefield began the offseason with about $17 million in payroll space. His moves to date have been minor. The Pirates' most significant acquisition has been bringing back strikeout-prone infielder Jose Hernandez.
That does not threaten the balance of power in the National League Central.
-P- Here's an article on a member of the Pirates' ownership group with whom you may not be familiar. It doesn't sound like he's rocking the boat in Pittsburgh at all, unfortunately.


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A: The easiest way to check the access for a user is to use the Check access feature on the Access control (IAM) page. See
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I went to see Jose Gonzalez at the Fillmore on Thursday with my manfriend. It was such a great show. Jose didn't talk much, so we didn't get a strong sense of him, but the music was fantastic. He played mostly by himself, but it sounded like he was playing two guitars and a drum at the same time. His voice, too, seemed to have so much richness and depth that it sounded like he was singing two parts at once. It was beautiful and clear and mellow.
I was also really wowed by the lights. There was a lot of vibrant color, sometimes shining down on to the stage, sometimes emanating out above the audience. One song had lights projecting strong silhouettes of Jose on the curtains behind the stage, giving me the impression that he was in a cave around a campfire telling tales. Another song had this gorgeous green and blue light shining out from the stage, like the glow in an aquarium. People were taking pictures like crazy, but I couldn't find a single one on Flickr. But it was very impressive and really enhanced the simplicity and beauty of the music.
We stayed in a hotel near the office, rather than contending with a late night sojourn to the East Bay, which was pretty awesome. The two block walk into the work the next day was pretty cool, too.


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Sherry Christie, author of Roma Amor, on Growing Up Roman #Giveaway (ends tonight)
Living in early first-century Rome, you'd have been classified from the moment of your birth. If either of your parents was a slave (as an estimated 1/3 of the city's population were), you were a slave too. With luck, you'd grow up to be a rich man's well-educated scribe or physician if you were a boy, or maybe a lady's maid if you were a girl. Without luck, you might be destined to labor on a farm, on a construction gang, or in a brothel.
However, if your parents were free, so were you. Unless you earned or inherited a lot of money, you might live your life as an artisan or work in someone else's business. You were a commoner, one of the many low-class plebs.
If you had a net worth of at least 100,000 denarii—nearly half a million dollars—you'd qualify for the equestrian class. (The name equites came from Rome's citizen-army days, when men like these had to be wealthy enough to buy a horse.)
Equites were typically business owners, controlling companies that shipped luxuries and commodities throughout the Empire, manufactured everything from pottery lamps to soldiers' swords, and mined tin, copper, lead, and gold. Sons would be trained to grow the family's wealth, and both sons and daughters would eventually marry someone from another powerful equestrian family. Mergers and acquisitions, Roman style!
One last group was even higher in status: the Senatorial class. With a net worth of 250,000 denarii, about $1 million, you were eligible to be appointed to the Senate and to hold the highest posts in military and civil government. You would raise your sons to bring the family more honor and prestige, and you would build alliances by marrying your children into families of comparable (or greater) influence and distinction.
This is the class that Marcus Carinna, the lead character in my debut historical, Roma Amor: A Novel of Caligula's Rome, was born into. After his older brother's suicide for a reason that still embitters him, he escaped the treacherous politics of Rome to serve as an army officer on the rugged Danube frontier.
Now Caligula Caesar has come to power, and Marcus's father, an ambitious Senator, orders him to return. Accompanying him back to Rome is a hostage captured in a battle: a sullen Germanic priestess named Aurima. Relaxing in his family home, Marcus contrasts its amenities with the primitive life of barbarians:
Light from the three-tongued floor lamp glowed on the frescoes, the polished desktop, the statue in the corner. I thought briefly of my promise that Aurima would be well quartered. To a girl accustomed to a hut of sticks and thatch, a patrician house like this would be luxury beyond imagining.
Like all well-to-do families, the Carinnas own a number of slaves, most of whom were born in the household or raised from childhood. A slave with special skills might be bought as required. For example, when Marcus's older brother grew up, he was given slaves to meet all his needs:
. . . they were all gone: my brother's body slave, his secretary, scribe, accountant, dresser, bed girl, clothes-mender, and guards.
Since Marcus is now the only son, it's important that he marry well and have children who will carry on the family name and enhance its prestige. When he returns, that's one of the first things his sister teases him about:
"Now the question that has all of Rome abuzz," Nina announced. "What lucky female will marry Marcus Carinna?"
I made a face. The best sort of wife, to my mind, was someone else's.
Mother took a date from the server's dish. "Spare us the grimaces, Marcus. It has been shamefully long since your betrothal was annulled."
"No loss," I muttered. My sponsa's father had decided not to marry his daughter into the family of a man charged with treason.
"Scores of noble papas have been hinting to Father about their little girls," Nina added with relish.
Will this bad-boy aristocrat follow the rules and let himself be affianced to some Senator's dutiful daughter? Gods forbid he should be drawn to coppery-haired Aurima, whose mystical powers hide a ruthless desire for revenge on Rome. After all, she's a sacred hostage, a virgin, and a barbarian: three reasons why he should have nothing to do with her.
And he can forget trying to prove his courage by leading legions against Rome's enemies. Now that his brother is dead, Marcus's father expects him to carry on the family tradition of public service. Although obedience to one's paterfamilias is ingrained in Roman children, Marcus is violently opposed to taking his brother's place:
He would have me in service as an acolyte, pimp, and bribe-bearer for some power-hungry praetor or Senator, who would teach me to fawn on the mighty, betray my allies, and trample my enemies.
It was Publius whom he had bred to climb the rungs of public life, eventually to join our forebears who had been overseers of taxes, roads, and waterworks, Treasury officials, givers of games, builders of public edifices, magistrates, lawmakers, governors, and generals. I, the second son, had been permitted to eavesdrop on my brother's education until resentment and jealousy got the better of me. Oh, I understood rebellion.
It's especially galling that his father commands him to protect and serve the man who was his brother's closest friend. Because Marcus can't forget how his brother died—or that the friend who didn't try to save him was Caligula Caesar, now master of Rome.
When his struggles to befriend and steady the temperamental Caligula are disturbed by his brother's restless spirit, Marcus finds he cannot escape the past. Caught in a web of deceit, conspiracy, and betrayal, he will uncover a secret that threatens his family, the woman he desires, even his life... and may bring chaos to the young Roman Empire.
Michelle, thanks very much for this opportunity to review "growing up Roman" with your True Book Addict followers, and to share some examples of how this might play out in a Senatorial family.
Readers, Roma Amor: A Novel of Caligula's Rome, is now $2.99 as an ebook. Or you can enter below for a chance to win one of two paperback copies of Roma Amor that I'm giving away. I thank you for your time, and look forward to your comments!
Roma Amor: A Novel of Caligula's Rome by Sherry Christie
Bexley House Books
Paperback; 496 Pages
READ EXCERPT.
Marcus Carinna hears a voice whisper, "Your turn," as he rides past his family tomb. An unseen presence also startles the Germanic priestess Aurima, whom he is bringing to Rome. But hardheaded Romans scoff at ghosts, and Marcus can't believe it's a warning from his brother, who killed himself three years earlier.
37 AD: To great acclaim, 25-year-old Caligula Caesar has become Rome's new master. No one is more pleased than Senator Titus Carinna, who helped him succeed to the throne. It's a shame the Senator's older son–Caligula's closest friend–committed suicide after being charged with treason. But that still leaves Marcus, his second son.
Headstrong and hot-tempered, Marcus would rather prove his courage by leading legions against Rome's enemies than take his brother's place. Yet when his father orders him to befriend Caligula, he has no choice.
Caught in a web of deceit, conspiracy, and betrayal, he will uncover a secret that threatens his family, the woman he desires, even his life… and may bring chaos to the young Roman Empire.
"The first installment in a page-turning saga that revisits the heroes and villains of the grandest city of the ancient world…. Comes alive with the long gone characters who were its lifeblood" -Kirkus Reviews
''Combines current political concerns, the wide lens of the serious historical novel, and emotional maturity and realism with an utterly splendid grasp of what it must have been like to live in Rome under Caligula's reign." -Sarah Smith, Agatha Award winner and New York Times Notable author
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After earning a Phi Beta Kappa creative award in college for an early draft about a nobly born charioteer, Sherry Christie spent many years of research and revision developing ROMA AMOR into the story about fathers and sons that it wanted to be. It's a joy to immerse myself in the lives of first-century Romans–and a distinct change from my day job as a . In addition to writing, Sherry is a professional copywriter. She lives on the coast of Maine with a native-born Viking and two cats.
For more information, please visit Sherry Christie's website. You can also connect with her on Twitter, and Goodreads.
To win a paperback copy of Roma Amor: A Novel of Caligula's Rome by Sherry Christie, please enter via the Gleam form below. 2 copies are up for grabs!
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Mystica November 11, 2016 at 10:23 PM
The book sounds intriguing though I cant enter for the giveaway unfortunately!
Kimberly @ Turning the Pages November 12, 2016 at 6:12 PM
This one sounds like my type of read. I haven't been reading lately and I've got a mighty strong hankering for some good historical fiction. I can't enter the giveaway but I am going to put it on my list.
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We have School Garden Lesson Plans and books!
Last year, we worked with Sacred Heart University to create Bridgeport-based Lesson Plans for our school garden network. The School Garden Lesson Plans follow Bridgeport public schools learning objectives for Kindergarten through 6th grade, You can access the Lesson Plans through the link below or on the Bridgeport Public Schools teacher portal. They are listed in a matrix and organized into folders per grade.
We have purchased all of the books needed for teachers to use the School Garden Lesson Plans.
If you would like to borrow one of our books to fulfill a lesson plan, please send an email to Farron, our Garden Coordinator, at farron@gogvi.org or call us at 203-612-4107. Please let Farron know what school you represent, the Book Title and Author you are interested in, and your contact info.
Students and teachers grow food in over 23 school gardens throughout Bridgeport. We support their efforts to grow fresh, healthy produce by providing agricultural workshops, garden supplies, easy-to-use crop plans, and hands-on support.
We are working with Sacred Heart University to develop and distribute school garden lesson plans that meet Bridgeport curriculum standards. These will be available to every teacher in Bridgeport this semester!
Over 500 students grow food in school gardens, and about 400 students visit our educational farm each year for experiential learning field trips where they learn skills that they bring back to their school gardens.


Hilarious! For better or worse, I just discovered hulu — and fear my brain might be turning to mushy mush, as Alec Baldwin warned. I now have to enforce hulu limits on my time... and am feeling pangs of guilt for turning others onto hulu, who are becoming addicts — even my friend's little daughter who is now hooked on old Partridge Family shows. Oh Lord, what have I done?


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Potential Liability Claims From Posting In Social Media
By Cheryl Jones
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2012
Are your kids using social media such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube? While most parents would like to believe that their kids are using this media in a positive and non-threatening manner, the reality is that there have been numerous cases where injury of some type is being inflicted. One claim that I am aware of involved a 15 year old girl that was bullying a kid in school and actually posted a video of her inflicting injury to the other kid on YouTube. When the father found out, he was extremely appalled that his daughter would do this
If the injured party brought action against the girl and her parents, how would the Homeowners policy respond?
It is likely that most parents have not pondered this issue. Unfortunately, they may not think of it until such time as their son or daughter is accused of being the "attacker". Fair to say, it is probably too late at this point.
Internet-related defamation, libel, slander and invasion of privacy claims are all among the thorny legal issues now confronting insurers, policyholders and courts
Insurance Services Office (ISO) provided insurance companies with an optional home insurance endorsement that could provide customers with personal injury coverage within an aggregate limit.
The endorsement would "generally provide personal injury coverage to an insured with respect to personal injury arising from specified offenses including oral or written publication, in any manner, of material that slanders or libels a person, disparages a person's goods, products or services, or violates a person's right of privacy," says ISO spokeswoman Katie McFadzean.
ISO's approach was designed to provide insurers with "an additional means of underwriting personal injury coverage.""I think that parents now are waking up to the potential exposure of their kids being on Facebook and tweeting, but I don't think they understand the magnitude of the issue," Kalinich says.
In years past, incidents of offline taunting were witnessed, at most, by a school full of kids. But hurtful comments made about someone on Facebook or a mean-spirited YouTube video can now quickly go viral to thousands or even millions of people, raising the risk of individuals claiming to be injured by such information.
Personal injury is not covered under standard home insurance policies. Usually, you can buy this coverage by adding an endorsement to your home insurance or buying a personal umbrella policy. Both options, of course, add to your home insurance rates. Please contact your agent to see how your policy may or may not respond.
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