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The word "jade" communicates a sense of mystery. In Chinese, "jade" (yu) refers to a fine, beautiful stone with a warm color and rich luster, that is skillfully and delicately carved. In Chinese culture, jade symbolizes nobility, perfection, constancy, and immortality. For millennia, jade has been an intimate part of the lives of Chinese of all ranks and classes. It is viewed as the most valuable of all precious stones.
Many countries have jadeware culture, but none of them has as long a history as China has. China's jadeware culture has undergone a long process of development from the New Stone Age 10,000 years ago to the present.
Would you like to know some ancient Chinese culture about Jade?
Jade is loosely understood in China as the collective name for most precious stones, and jade carving in this sense constitutes an important part of Chinese arts and crafts. The love of jade ware, according to Dr. Joseph Needham, the noted British naturalist, has been one of the cultural features of China. Crude jade tools have been found among the archaeological finds dating back to the New Stone Age. There is, however, no evidence to indicate that neolithic people attached a great value to jade ware; they chose jade only because it was hard and good for making tools and fighting weapons. As time went on, people came gradually to appreciate the beauty of the stone, which after carving and polishing might be turned into things not only useful but also nice to look at.
In the historical epoch during which the slave society was replaced by the feudal society, jade ware became established as objects of pure decoration. Among the funerary objects unearthed from tombs of that long period are many jade articles used as personal ornaments or ceremonial vessels. The jade exhibits one sees today in museums of the country normally comprise vases, incense-burners, tripods, cups and wine vessels of various descriptions.
Large-sized jade articles began to appear in the middle of Chinese feudalism. There is today in the Round City of the Beihai Park a large jade jar the size of a small bathtub. It was used as a wine container by the Yuan Emperor Kublai Khan when he feted his followers. The 3.5-ton jar may hold as much as 3,000 litres of wine. It has a circumference of 493cm and measures 70cm high and 55cm deep in the middle. The elliptic jar is wellshaped and engraved all round with clouds, waves, dragons and sea horses. It is the oldest jade object of a large size kept intact in the country.
Another large piece worth mentioning is a jade sculpture dating from the reign of Qianlong in the 18th century. Entitled "Jade Mountain Showing the Great Yu Taming the Flood", it was sculpted after a Song Dynasty painting of a similar title. The masterpiece, standing 2.4 metres high and about 1 metre wide, depicts in vivid detail how the Great Yu, a heroic representative of the ancient working people, fought the Great Flood. According to historical records, the uncut jade stone, weighing more than 5 tons, was discovered in Hotan area, Xinjiang, took three years to be transported over the distance of 4,000 kilometres to Beijing, and some more years to be carved and polished into the national treasure that it is.
"There is a price for gold but no price for jade", says a Chinese proverb. Jade ware is often described as "worth a string of towns". An ancient story tells how King Zhao of Qin once offered 15 towns in exchange for the famous Ho's round jade. How is it thai jade is so valuable?
First, its value lies in its scarcity. Precious stones are formed over long geological epochs and are hard to get, especially green jade, white jade and agate. Ancient people on a treasure hunt had to trek on the back of yaks in mountainous regions to get at the unhewn rocks containing the gems, exposed or half exposed, by the stamping of the animal's hoofs. Sometimes, precious stones were washed down by mountain torrents and were got hold of midway by men with the eye and luck. In any event, exposed stones grew scarce and people began to bore through the mountains to mine for precious stones, making them even more difficult to get.
Secondly, the value of jade lies in its hardness. Precious stones are divided by their hardness into two major groups: jadeites and nephrites. Jadeites are the ones with a solid texture and a hardness of degree 6 or above (on the basis of 10 for diamond). The more valuable varieties, such as green jade, may be as hard as degree 8 or 9. Jadeites are invulnerable to steel cutting tools made of carbonrundum or diamond power. Objects made of this hard jade are smooth, lustrous, glittering and translucent, and their grains are no longer visible to the naked eye.
Nephrites, on the other hand, being below degree 6 in hardness, can generally be incised and carved by burins. Their commercial values are much lower than jadeites. Thirdly, the value of precious stones lies in their natural colour and hue. Some are as white as snow, others are brightly red, and still others alluringly green. Diamond, emerald, saphire and other gemstones can be processed into personal ornaments like rings and earrings whose colour will remain brilliant all the time. Some stones carry an array of colours which a master artisan can use to good effect. Even flaws in the stone can be turned into "beauty spots", for instance, an insect on a flower or a small squirrel on a tree, adding life and attraction to the entire piece of work.
Firstly, the Attributes of Jade
Jade had been bless by nature with many fine attributes – jade is solid in texture, beautiful in color, comfortable to the touch and produces a pleasant sound when tapped. These qualities matched the ethical standards and codes of conduct of the ancient people and were hence personified. Confucius concluded that jade had eleven virtues, such as benevolence (being smooth and lustrous), fidelity (the feel never irritates the skin), polite etiquette (there was an order of wearing), and sincerity (a flaw in jade never hides itself), and etc. So the Confucian culture advocated that a gentleman should define his manners and conduct in accordance with the virtues of jade.
Secondly, the Myths about Jade
Jade has not only been idealized and personified, but also mythologized, particularly in ancient times when jade vessels were dedicated to rituals and divination purposes. The ancients believed that jade was formed where phoenixes had landed and where there were accumulations of the essence of yang. Proper dredging was conducted during moon-lit nights by naked women. Can Guess why by naked women? Because it was believed that only by using yin (women were philosophized as yin) to absorb yang could purify jade, the essence of the earth and heaven, be obtained. This belief influenced the Chinese for many centuries. Tian Gong Kai Fu (Exploitation of the Works of Nature), a description of production techniques published in 1637 during the late Ming Dynasty, recorded that naked local young women dredged up jade from rivers during moon-lit nights. The book explained that "by attracting the vital energy of Yang, pure jade would easily be obtained".
The ancient Chinese also believed that jade staved off corrosion and evil sprits. Many jade burial objects have been found in tombs that date as far back as the Zhou Dynasty. The Zhou people began using flat pieces of jade to cover corpses. In the Han Dynasty this custom developed even further. Flat and square jade pieces were sewn by gold thread into burial suits for rulers so that their physical being would never vanish. In 1971, the tombs of Prince Jing of the Western Han Dynasty and his wife were excavated, yielding two jade suits.
Myths about jade faded with the passage of time. However, many people today still believe that wearing jade is good for one's health. Face massagers made of jade have been used since the Qing Dynasty. There are also jade pillows and seat mats. Modern tests show that jade contains trace elements needed by the human body.
The ancient Chinese valued jade very much, as evidenced by the extensive use of the material. Even during the times of Yellow Emperor in about 4600 B.C., the use of jade was regulated. Articles of state power, such as rulers' seals and tokens, and vessels for important rituals and ceremonies had to be made of jade. Jade was a symbol of social status, and nobles liked to wear jade ornaments.
Thirdly, the Value of Jade
The earth's crust contains over 1,000 kinds of stones, but only about a dozen belong to the jade family. Limited by undeveloped quarrying skills, ancient jade output was very small; therefore, the price of ancient jade was high. Some believe that the most valuable ancient jade ware is a flat, round jade ornament called He Shi Bi from the Spring and Autumn Period. It is well known and worshipped not only for its high quality jade, but also for the story behind it. Legend has it that a man named He from the State of Chu had obtained a piece of raw jade stone and presented it to King Li. The ruler was insulted and had the man's left foot amputated. When King Wu succeeded the throne, the man presented the jade to the throne again. The same thing happened and this time he lost his right foot. When King Wen was enthroned, the man went back to the mountain with the jade, full of sorrow. He cried all day long holding his jade stone, because the kings mistook him and took his jade as the fake one. After he ran up his tears, he cried out blood from his eyes. When the blood fell down on the jade stone, the real pure jade exposed out. Later King Wen sent someone to tell the man that his jade was precious and was named after him He Shi Bi – He Family's Jade. Han Dynasty historian Sima Qian wrote in his book, the Records of a Historian, that the jade was later obtained by the State of Zhou. When the ruler of Qin heard about it, he offered to trade 15 of his walled towns for the jade. The ruler of Zhou then sent a minister to take the jade over to Qin, which was stronger than the State of Zhou. When the minister found that the ruler of Qin was not really serious about the trade, he managed to take the jade back to Zhou. The idea that someone may have been willing to give away 15 towns in exchange for a piece of jade reflects the great value the Chinese place on jade.
An old Chinese saying, "gold has a price, but jade does not," is not exactly true, not technically, anyway. In traditional Chinese literature, gold and jade are often mentioned together and are seen as symbols of wealth. Even today the price of high quality jade is no less than a piece of gold of the same weight.
For a long time, wearing jade ornaments was in vogue. Ornaments were either a piece of jade or comprised of as many as nine pieces strung together. People used the jade ornaments to show their social status. The ornaments were carved with auspicious animals and words that wished good luck and happy lives. Wearing jade ornaments was the most popular in the Qing dynasty. Those who did not wear them were considered improperly dressed, and houses without jade decoration were not considered homes. Even for poor and ordinary people, they would like to have several pieces of jade pendants or bracelets for their sons or daughters, which could be passed down to children and grandchildren, as a kind of precious family jade. For women, jade bracelets took most space of their jewelry boxes. Jade bracelets received as engagement and wedding gifts were considered as precious as today's diamond wedding rings. We Chinese described a good marriage as a "gold and jade marriage".
Jade and Jade carving
When we talk of jade, we can start from Chinese stone culture. Stones hold a special place in Chinese culture. As we can see, in many scenic spots of China, you can find there are various shapes of artificial rockeries, they decorate the scenic spots. Chinese stone culture started with people using stones, owning them, then appreciating and becoming connoisseurs. In the stone Ages, some 5000years ago, for a long time, people found many materials, of all these materials, stone was the hardest, then they used stone to make stone tools and weapons.
After using stone tools and weapons for many years, people gradually classified the stone into different types. According to their "beauty" , Hardness, mellow color, soft feel and pleasant sound . at last, they are surprised to find that , all these can be found in one type of stone, that is jade! In the ages to follow, people indeed judged the degree of beauty of all kinds of stone by jade.
There is a Chinese saying: "Jade is no more than a stone before it is chiseled, ground to an ornament" Jade carving is a well known special local product, it is not only the high-tech skills on carving , exquisite on appearance, but also inject many Chinese traditional cultures into it.
Maybe you have learned some about Chinese characters, in which, A character with two across and one upright is called Tu, meaning earth, which symbolizes our living area. A character with another across above Tu is called Wang, means king, representing the ruler of the earth. A character with a dot added to Wang, we call it Yu, which refers to jade, symbolizing the treasure of the king. A character with a square around Yu means country in Chinese, reflecting that a kingdom must have jade inside. Without it, the kingdom is just left a square, meaning nothing. That is why there is a large jade carving placed in front of the Hall of Mental Cultivation in the Forbidden City.
It has a long story for the usage of jade as a symbol of a king's power. About 5000 years ago in primitive society, there were a lot of nomadic tribes in China. Each leader of these tribes was required to have three jade wares respectively. They were jade Bi, jade Cong and jade Yue. Jade Bi round in shape means the heaven, representing the king's power from the heaven. Jade Cong square in shape means the earth, a symbol to govern the tribe. Jade Yue is like an ax in shape, meaning military power. Without this piece of jade ware, the leader had no right to control the army. When a new leader was chosen, he must have these 3 jade wares made as to gain supports from common people. Today, many ruins of primitive tribes have been discovered in China. The spots where the archeologists found these 3 jade wares were considered the leaders' residencies of the tribes at that time.
As the capital of Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, Beijing was a place where emperors, nobles, officials, rich men and intellectuals all lived. As a result, many handicraft industries congregated here in this city. On account of the jade's high status in Chinese culture, it was considered upper classed and well educated to have jade carvings placed in houses or to wear gird jade wares. The best example is that in the Forbidden City you can see many jade carvings placed in emperor's bedrooms and offices. Therefore Beijing's jade carving industry has been very flourish up to today. It is a symbol of wealth and high social statue for people to wear or have jade wares. Jade has been cherished by Chinese as a symbol of many virtues. It's hardness suggests firmness and loyalty, and it's luster projects purity and beauty. In ancient times, people compared human virtues to pure jade on the one hand and admired its beauty and fine textures on the other.
In ancient China, people up from the emperor down to common people all concerned about a science. That was Fengshui, the wind and water in English. The science mainly expounds the relationships between locations and human fortune. Even in nowadays, in China or foreign countries' China town, when Chinese people want to build some new constructions, normally they will invite a geomancer to research the place. If it is good, they'll start constructing; if not, they will do something to ward off so-called evil spirits, such as placing a small mirror above the door or a Buddha statue facing to the door or a jade carving on some special position.
In ancient times, jade was also used in sorcery and ancestral sacrifice because of its fine qualities. Gradually ,people began to believe that jade had devine and supernatural forces. We have visited the Ming Tombs, we knew that "being buried with jade on a gold well ."from that, we can see the importance of jade and people also believed that jade would make people's souls immortal and preserve corpses.
Traditionally, the jade can be divided into two kinds, which are the jadeite and nephrite. The jadeite is above 7.5 degrees in rigidity while the nephrite below 7.5. In China, the jadeite is called the Chinese hard jade while the nephrite is the Chinese soft jade. The jadeite, with 3 rankings: A, B, C, is mainly found in Chinese Yunnan province and Burma. And each ranking of the price is basically stable. In China there are many nephrite mines, which are mainly located at Xinjiang, Liaoning and Henan provinces. The nephrite has its unique historical value in China. Since the primitive society about 4000 years ago, we have used it for more than 6000 years. And it has been greatly popular among Chinese emperors. The color of the nephrite is various such as green, blue, yellow, orange, red and white etc, among which the white jade is the most valuable and is called the diamond of the jade. And its value even surpasses that of the A ranking jadeite. Because the nephrite is soft, we have made the jade carving with the nephrite since the ancient time. With the development of the history, the jade carving industry came into being. Because the emperors and rich men were all fond of the art of jade carving, the industry of jade carving developed rapidly with the gradually elaborate skills and reached its peak in 16th century Ming and Qing dynasties when many jade carving artists appeared, like Lu Zigang, who was a jade sculptor in the Ming dynasty as famous as the artist Michelangelo in Europe during the Renaissance. The jade carvings with his names were usually tributes directly presented to emperors. Today, a jade carving bearing his name values more than 1 million US dollars. That's why the old jade carving is the most expensive in Beijing antique market.
From all these , we can see ,the Chinese people's love and use of jade date back to ancient times, flowers, birds, animals, vases, incense burners and human figures are the usual subjects of jade carving. The patterns of China's jadeware have rich connotations showing strong auspicious colours. Bats and gourds were often used as a basis for more than 100 patterns because the Chinese words (bat and gord) sound like "good fortune" in the Chinese language. When a bat was carved on an ancient coin with a hole, it meant fortune was at hand. When many bats were put with birthday peaches, they referred to fortune and longevity. If bats were mixed with sika, birthday peaches and magpies, they also had a good meaning. All these reflected the ancient Chinese people's yearning for a happy life and revealed the essence of China's traditional culture.
In addition to carvings, the jade is also used in our living. For example, we knit many small jade pieces together to make jade pillows. You'll feel very cool to sleep on it in summers. We also polish the jade to make jade sticks, which can be used to polish faces. And it is believed that the faces will get more and more smooth in this way. In China, that drinking wine with jade cups has 2000 years' history. In this way, the wine is believed to taste better and cooler. In nobles' families a jade screen is often placed. On one hand it can block the view of visitors, and the other hand it can make good effect of sun lighting.
Today there are jade workshops or factories in all major cities. Work which used to be done purely by hand has been partially mechanized. Although some operations have become faster with the use of simple machines, yet jade carving remains basically a handicraft art. And as raw materials are getting more and more scarce, the prices of jade ware will always be on the upward trend.
Victory medals of Beijing Olympic Games unveiled
Reverse side of the Medal and the Ribbon
On the occasion of the 500-day countdown to the opening of the Beijing Olympic Games, the Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) unveiled the Games' medals.
BOCOG Executive Vice-President and chairman of the evaluation panel Jiang Xiaoyu attended the unveiling ceremony and delivered a speech at the Capital Museum on Tuesday.
The medals are designed with inspiration from "bi", China's ancient jade piece inscribed with dragon pattern. The medals, made of gold and jade, symbolize nobility and virtue and are embodiment of traditional Chinese values of ethics and honor.
The medals are 70mm in diameter and 6mm in thickness. On their obverse side, the medals adopt the standard design prescribed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) -- a drawing that represents the winged goddess of victory Nike and Panathinaikos Arena, while on their reverse side, the medals are inlaid with jade with the Beijing Games emblem engraved in the metal centerpiece.
Noble and elegant, the medals are a blending of traditional Chinese culture and the Olympism. It gives the winners of the Games great honor and acclamation as recognition of their achievement.
The IOC has strict stipulation on the Olympic medals' material, identification, weight, size and drawing. The medals for the champion and the runner-up are made of pure silver, and the champion's medal must be plated with gold weighing not less than six grams each. For the first time jade is used for the Olympic medals. The design not only meets the IOC requirements, but also expresses praise and honor that the Chinese people cherish for the Olympic Spirit and the Olympic athletes.
In his speech, Jiang Xiaoyu said the Beijing 2008 Games medals will be a major part of the Olympic legacy for China. The design of the medals is a result of hard work and enthusiasm of many people. The medals, he said, embody strong Chinese style and elegant art, and are a harmonious combination of the Chinese culture with the Olympism, making them a vehicle to spread the Olympic Spirit and the concepts of the Beijing Games, as well as to showcase Chinese culture and arts, and the high levels of design and technology.
Obverse side of the Medal and the Ribbon
The medal box, ribbon and certificate, which were released simultaneously, also embody aesthetic taste of traditional Chinese culture and reflect the distinct Chinese characteristics and style.
The medal box is made of a wooden lacquer box with traditional Chinese techniques. The box is rectangular in shape, with four slightly curving sides of its lid and base, a symbol of heaven and earth, which conveys the message of happiness and best wishes for the world. The ribbon is exquisitely designed with cloud pattern woven on the red strap, sending out joyful and festive atmosphere. The certificate is made of thin silk and rice paper, an integrated whole of traditional techniques and modern printing.
On January 11, 2006, BOCOG launched a global campaign to solicit design proposals for the medals of the 2008 Games whilst inviting eleven professional organizations, including China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation, the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and Academy of Arts & Design of Tsinghua University, to the campaign. The campaign was sponsored by BHP Billiton, the diversified minerals and medals sponsor of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games.
Within three months, 265 entries were sent in from 25 provinces (municipalities, and autonomous regions) and Hong Kong Special Administration Region (SAR) of China, America, Australia, Russian and Germany.
BOCOG called in a panel of experts and academies in the fields of arts, sculpture and mintage, thereafter, for two round selections of the 179 valid entries, and had the medal proposal improved during the process.
BOCOG and IOC passed the final proposal on January 11, 2007 and February 8, 2007 respectively.
Jade remains an eternal symbol of China's magnificent
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Tenaha's Rushing Attack Way Too Much For Meridian
Tenaha athlete Trai Gardner scored four times to lead the Tigers in a 76-0 win against Meridian. (Rob Graham, ETSN.fm)
FAIRFIELD -- Tenaha wracked up 339 rushing yards and scored seven touchdowns on the ground Friday in a 76-0 rout of Meridian.
Trai Gardner ran in scores of 10, 34 and 77 yards to lead the Tigers' charge through the Class 2A Division II, Region III area round. He also caught a 23-yard touchdown pass from quarterback C.J. Horn.
A 10-yard run by Gardner less than three minutes into the contest held up as the game-winning touchdown.
Meridian, the second-place finisher out of District 10-2A Division II, finished its season with a 7-5 overall record.
Onterio Thompson finished with three touchdowns behind Gardner's team-best four scores.
Tenaha (12-0) will take on Iola in the regional semifinal round of the postseason.
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EU Affairs - Irish Politics
Fine Gael should bow its head in shame over EU-Canada trade deal
The Supreme Court decision in the CETA case was very important for several reasons. The majority laid down a clear marker for the supremacy of popular sovereignty and the Constitution in our international affairs.
One of the most alarming things about the efforts of Fine Gael to have the Oireachtas ratify CETA was the attempt to pass it off as a matter of no consequence – "nothing the see here" – as demonstrated by their effort to rush ratification through Dail Eireann in 55 minutes back in late 2020. I wrote about that and the constitutional questions here at that time.
Allowing time for a Minister to propose ratification and to reply to the debate, that use of the guillotine would have left individual TDs with speaking time measured in seconds – possibly 300 seconds each for just eight TDs.
Fine Gael should bow their collective head in shame for that repugnant attempt to abuse parliament to bulldoze through without scrutiny an unconstitutional abrogation of Irish sovereignty. That party still smarts about the Crotty decision which required previous EU treaty changes to be put to the people by referendum.
Their proposed guillotine led to a coalition mini-crisis when the Greens mutinied. The Greens had successfully resisted inclusion of CETA ratification in the coalition's programme for government.
So instead, CETA was sent to the Oireachtas joint committee on EU affairs which carefully considered the text of the proposed treaty, received evidence from expert witnesses who were questioned by committee members, and delivered a report in which the 14 TD and Senator members, including myself, split evenly on acceptance.
In the meantime, Patrick Costello TD had initiated court proceedings for a declaration that ratification of the treaty would be unconstitutional. That was his right as a TD and as a citizen; it was also his duty if he believed that the Government which is accountable to the Dáil intended violating the Constitution.
But for his trouble, Costello was roundly denounced by the supporters of ratification without scrutiny. He was told that as a government party deputy it was wrong for him to challenge the treaty in court.
The arrogance in all this still angers me. But, you know, there is nothing as close-minded and arrogant as Fine Gael euro-federalists with the bit between their teeth. Even to question their agenda is to incur instant dismissal as a euro-sceptic.
The good news is that CETA's free trade provisions are already operational on a provisional basis and will continue in operation while member states of the EU consider whether to ratify the full treaty. Nothing of practical value in the treaty is being held up.
The better news is that Ireland can now consider whether it is possible to ratify CETA in a manner acceptable to the other parties to the treaty. I suspect that the legislative compromise proposed by some members of the Supreme Court may prove impossible to negotiate multilaterally.
For Ireland, there is very little to gain by establishing a supernational court of arbitration in which large multinational corporations can have disputes with sovereign states adjudicated in a binding fashion by a court other than their own courts.
Put bluntly, Ireland and Canada share an advantage in having domestic common law courts of the highest standard, transparency, independence, and integrity. Irish or Canadian investors have no need of protection from each other's states institutions or legal systems. Why should Ireland now abandon such a unique selling point in international investment decision to make Canadian investors feel more confident about investing, say, in Bulgaria?
But since the CETA proposal for a supernational court was expressly canvassed as a likely precedent for other future trade agreements, we must tread carefully. Do we want to put ourselves as an independent sovereign state on a par with Elon Musk before international arbitral courts? Do we want to subject ourselves to binding interpretive jurisdiction of CETA joint committees? To whom are these answerable? Do we not trust our courts, like those of Canada, to vindicate the just entitlements of foreign investors?
There is danger in accepting freedom of international trade, free movement of capital, and freedom of commercial establishment as absolute values. Sovereign states such as Ireland are supposed to be guarantors of the common good of their own citizens and as regulators and protectors ahead of being guarantors of foreign entrepreneurs.
I have doubts about the desirability of the Supreme Court canvassing particular legislative "solutions" for CETA. It presupposes that CETA in its present form is worthy of ratification, when the Oireachtas has not opined. Even if such legislation can be negotiated nationally and internationally, has the court pre-empted its own role under article 26 or the jurisdiction of the High Court? Surely the old legal adage - "a case not argued is a case not decided" - applies here?
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City, and from another that they were preparing to fight us at the crossing of the Monocacy River. In the morning, we were early on the road, marching rapidly to the ford of the Monocacy, and crossing without trouble. As we approached Frederick, we could hear the firing of the advance of Burnside's Corps, as they were driving the rear guard of the retreating enemy from the passes of the Catoctin Mountains, about five miles west of the city. Over 800 prisoners were sent back that day, mostly stragglers and deserters, who had soldiered as long as they wished.
That night we camped near Frederick City, a large portion of our Regiment taking advantage of the opportunity to visit old friends and acquaintances in that place. We had been there so long during the past year that it seemed to us almost like home. The Confederates had been in possession for nearly a week, and many stories were told of the good people who had displayed their loyalty under adverse circumstances. The real heroine of the town was old Barbara Fritchie, who had kept a Union flag waving from her window during all the time of the Confederate occupation.
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Left to right, all Post 805 Comrades: Post Commander Ed Martinez, Bill Kuehn, John Pietrusinski, Peter Magnus, Gabe Marrel, Race Director Paul Zinck.
O'FALLON – The sixth annual 0.1K Fun Run took place on Saturday, March 30, in downtown O'Fallon.
VFW Post 805 hosted the 0.1K and gathered a large crowd in their facility following the rainy fun run on First Street. Over $18,000 was raised by the 0.1K race this year for the VFW National Home for Children and the Post 805 Troop Support Fund.
The VFW saw an increase of participants in the race this year, 678 total which is 189 more than last year. Racers of all ages walked or ran across the finish line during the Saturday morning event. The start line was near the caboose in downtown O'Fallon.
Post 805 Comrade Kenna Melvin-Wittkowski and her son.
The VFW post is located at 221 West First Street.


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describe Sandie do
  describe '#evaluate' do
    let(:sandie_instance) { Sandie.new(language: 'ruby') }

    it 'should exist' do
      sandie_instance.methods.should include :evaluate
    end

    it 'should not raise error if :language is or is not passed' do
      expect { sandie_instance.evaluate(code: '') }.to_not raise_error
      expect { sandie_instance.evaluate(language: '', code: '') }.to_not raise_error
    end

    it 'should raise ArgumentError if :code is not passed' do
      expect { sandie_instance.evaluate }.to raise_error ArgumentError
    end

    context 'when "puts \'hello world\'" is passed as :code' do
      let(:response) { sandie_instance.evaluate(code: "puts 'hello world'") }

      it 'should respond with a Hash' do
        response.should be_a Hash
      end

      it 'should and should not include various keys' do
        %w{ stdout stderr wallTime exitCode }.each { |i| response.should include i }
        response.should_not include 'outputFiles'
        response.should_not include 'compilationResult'
      end

      it 'should evaluate to "hello world\n"' do
        expect(response['stdout']).to eq "hello world\n"
      end

      it 'should not have any errors' do
        expect(response['stderr']).to be_empty
      end
    end

    context 'when manually specifying language' do
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      it 'allows manually specifying language on evaluate' do
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          language: 'ruby',
          input_files: {
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          }
        )['stdout'].should eq "hello world\n"
      end
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    context 'when code and input files are passed' do
      let(:response) do
        sandie_instance.evaluate(
          code: 'require "./input_file"',
          input_files: {
            'input_file.rb' => Base64.encode64('puts "hello world"')
          }
        )
      end

      it 'should evaluate to "hello world\n" and not have any errors' do
        expect(response['stdout']).to eq "hello world\n"
        expect(response['stderr']).to be_empty
      end
    end
  end
end

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Oldfield, Anne (DNB00)
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Oldfield, Anne
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Oldfield, AnneJohn Joseph Knight1895
OLDFIELD, ANNE (1683–1730), actress, the granddaughter of a vintner, and daughter of a soldier in the guards, said to have been a captain who had run through a fortune, was born in Pall Mall in 1683. Her father was, perhaps, the James Oldfield of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields who married Elizabeth Blanchard of the same parish on 4 Dec. 1682 (Chester, Marriage Licences). She was put with a sempstress in King Street, Westminster, where she spent her time in reading plays. Afterwards she resided with her mother at the Mitre Tavern, St. James's Market, then kept by her aunt, Mrs. Voss, afterwards Wood. Farquhar the dramatist overheard her reciting passages from the 'Scornful Lady' of Beaumont and Fletcher, and expressed a favourable opinion of her capacities. This was conveyed by her mother to Vanbrugh, a frequenter of the house, who was struck by her abilities. He introduced her, accordingly, to John Rich [q. v.], the manager of Drury Lane, by whom she was engaged in 1692 at a weekly salary of fifteen shillings, soon increased to twenty. Concerning her hesitation to come on the stage, she said to Chetwood: 'I long'd to be at it, and only wanted a little decent entreaties' (sic). To the same writer she said, concerning her early performances in tragedy: 'I hate to have a page dragging my tail about. Why do they not give [Mrs.] Porter these parts? She can put on a better tragedy face than I can.' Mrs. Cross had in 1699 temporarily deserted the stage, and Anne Oldfield made in that year, according to her biographer Egerton, her first appearance in that actress's part of Candiope in Dryden's 'Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen.' No record of Mrs. Cross in that character is preserved, although she played five years later Florimel in the same piece.
The first character in which Mrs. Oldfield is traced is Alinda, an original part in a prose adaptation by Vanbrugh of the ' Pilgrim ' of Beaumont and Fletcher, produced in 1700 at Drury Lane. In 1700 she was also the original Aurelia in the 'Perjured Husband, or the Adventures of Venice,' of Mrs. Carroll (i.e. Susannah Centlivre [q. v.]), and Sylvia in Oldmixon's opera ' The Grove, or Love's Paradise.' In 1700 she was the original Miranda in the 'Humours of the Age,' attributed to Baker ; Anne of Brittanie in Mrs. Trotter's 'Unhappy Penitent,' the prologue to which she spoKe; and Queen Helen in Settle's ' Virgin Prophetess, or the Fate of Troy; in 1702, Uimene in Higgons's 'Generous Conqueror, or Timely Discovery;' Camilla in Bumaby's 'Modish Husband;' Lady Sharlot in Steele's 'Funeral, or Grief à la mode;' and Jacinta in Vanbrugh's' False Friend,' the prologue to which she recited ; and in 1703 Luda in Furfey's 'Old Mode and the New, or Country Miss with her Furbeloe : 'Lucia in Estcourt's 'Fair Example, or the Modish Citizens;' and Belliza in Mrs. Carroll's 'Love's Contrivance, or Le Médecin malgré lui.' She also played Hellena in 'The Rover.'
During this time her personal graces won recognition rather than her abilities. Wholly inexpert at the outset, she was long in acquiring a method. Colley Cibber, who watched her opening career, had grave doubts as to her future ; and Critick, in Gildon's 'Comparison between the Two Stages,' 1702, speaks of her and Mrs. Rogers as 'rubbish that ought to be swept off the stage with the dust and the filth' (p. 200). Cibber first recognised her merits when, at Bath in 1703, she replaced Mrs. Verbruggen [q. v.] as Leimora in 'Sir Courtly Nice' (see Gent. Mag. 1761, p. 264). From this time she began to improve, and two years later she stood high in public favour. In Steele's 'Lying Lover, or the Ladies' Friendship,' she was, on 2 Dec. 1703, the original Victoria; and on 6 March 1704 the original Queen Mary in Banks's 'Albion Queens.' Owing to the illness of Mrs. Verbruggen and the secession of Mrs. Bracegirdle, the part of Lady Betty Modish in Cibber's 'Careless Husband,' on 7 Dec. 1704, was, with some reluctance, confided to her. In a spirit more magnanimous than he often exhibited, Cibber subsequently owned that a large share in the favourable reception of this piece was due to her, praising the excellence of her acting and her manner of conversing, and saying that many sentiments in the character might almost be regarded as originally her own. In Steele's 'Tender Husband, or the Accomplished Fools,' on 23 April 1705, she was the original Biddy Tipkin. After the union of Drury Lane and Dorset Garden theatres, she was, on 30 Oct. 1705, the first Arabella in Baker's ' Hampstead Heath.' During the season she played the following parts, all original : Lady Reveller in the 'Basset Table' of Mrs. Carroll, Izadora in Cibber's 'Perolla and Izadora,' Viletta in the 'Fashionable Lover, or Wit in Necessity,' and Sylvia in Farquhar's 'Recruiting Officer.' Joining the seceders from Drury Lane to the Haymarket, she made her first appearance at the latter house as Elvira in the 'Spanish Friar,' playing also Lady Lurewell ; Celia in 'Volpone, Monimia in the 'Orphan,' and many other characters ; and being the original Isabella in Mrs. Centlivre's ' Platonick Lady,' Florimel in Cibber s ' Marriage k la mode, or the Comical Lovers,' Mrs. Sullen in Farquhar's 'Beaux' Stratagem,' and Ismena in Smith's 'Phædra and Hippolytus.' At the same house in 1707-8 she created Lady Dainty in Cibber's 'Double Gallant, or Sick Lady's Cure;' Ethelinda in Rowe's 'Royal Convert ; ' and Mrs. Conquest in Cibber's 'Lady's Last Stake,' and she also played Narcissa in Cibber's * Love's Last Shift.' Returning in 1708 to Drury Lane, her principal parts — none of them original — were: Angelica in 'Love for Love,' Elvira in 'Love makes a Man,' Semandra in 'Mithridates,' Second Constantia in the 'Chances,' Euphronia in Æsop,' Lady Harriet in the 'Funeral,' and Teresia in Shadwell's 'Squire of Alsatia.' On 14 Dec. she was the original Lady Rodomont in Baker's 'Fine Lady's Airs, or an Equipage of Lovers;' and on 11 Jan. 1709 Lucinda in 'Rival Fools,' Cibber's alteration of Fletcher's 'Wit at several Weapons.' Once more at the Haymarket, in partnership with Swiney, Wilks, Dogget, and Cibber, Mrs. Oldfield played many light comedy parts—Mrs. Brittle, Berinthia in the 'Relapse,' and Lætitia in the 'Old Bachelor'—and was the original Belinda in Mrs. Centlivre's 'The Man's Bewitched, or the Devil to Pay.'
Returning to Drury Lane, which thenceforward she never quitted for any other house, she was, on 7 April 1711, the first Fidelia in 'Injured Love.' Between this period and her retirement and death she took many original parts, the principal of which are: Arabella, in the 'Wife's Relief, or the Husband's Cure,' on 12 Nov. 1711, Johnson's alteration of Shirley's 'Gamester;' Camilla in Mrs. Centlivre's 'Perplexed Lovers,' 19 Jan. 1712; Andromache in the 'Distressed Mother,' 17 March 1712, adapted by Ambrose Philips [q. v.] from Racine; Victoria in Charles Shadwell's 'Humours of the Army,' 29 Jan. 1713; Emilia in 'Cinna's Conspiracy,' 19 Feb. 1713; Marcia in Addison's 'Cato,' 14 April 1713; Eriphile in Charles Johnson's 'Victim,' 5 Jan. 1714; Jane Shore in Rowe's 'Jane Shore,' 2 Feb. 1714; Violante in Mrs. Centlivre's 'Wonder a Woman keeps a Secret,' 27 April 1714; the heroine of Rowe's 'Lady Jane Grey,' 20 April 1715; Leonora in Mrs. Centlivre's 'Cruel Gift,' 17 Dec. 1716; Mrs. Townley in 'Three Hours after Marriage' of Gay, and, presumably, Pope and Arbuthnot, 16 Jan. 1717; Maria in Cibber's 'Nonjuror,' 6 Dec. 1717; Mandane in Young's 'Busiris,' 7 March 1719; Celona in Southern's 'Spartan Dame,' 11 Dec. 1719; Sophronia in Cibber's 'Refusal, or the Lady's Philosophy,' 14 Jan. 1721; Mrs. Watchit in Mrs. Centlivre's 'Artifice,' 2 Oct. 1722; Queen Margaret in Philips's 'Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester,' 15 Feb. 1723; Princess Catharine in Hill's 'Henry V,' altered from Shakespeare, 5 Dec. 1723; the Captive in Gay's 'Captives,' 15 Jan. 1724; Cleopatra in Cibber's 'Cæsar in Egypt,' 9 Dec. 1724; Lady Townly in the 'Provoked Husband,' 10 Jan. 1727; Lady Matchless in Fielding's 'Love in Several Masques,' 16 Feb. 1727; Clarinda in the 'Humours of Oxford,' attributed to Miller, 9 Jan. 1730; and Sophonisba in Thomson's 'Sophonisba.' She kept her powers to the end, acting this last part superbly; in her delivery of the line addressed to Wilks as Massinissa—
Not one base word of Carthage—on thy soul!
she startled him, and carried away the audience. For her benefit, on 19 March 1730, she chose the 'Fair Penitent,' presumably playing Calista, 'a gentleman' appearing as Lothario. On 28 April 1730 she made, as Lady Brute in the 'Provoked Wife,' her last appearance on the stage. In her last years she suffered much pain, and tears are said to have often trickled from her eyes while she was acting. She died on 23 Oct. 1730, in her own house, at 59 (afterwards 60) Grosvenor Street. She had previously resided in New Southampton Street, Strand, and in the Haymarket. After lying in state in the Jerusalem Chamber, her body was buried beneath the monument of Congreve in Westminster Abbey, at the west end of the nave. According to the testimony of her maid, Margaret Saunders, she was interred 'in a very fine Brussels lace head, a holland shift and double ruffles of the same lace, a pair of new kid gloves, and her body wrapped in a winding-sheet.' This elicited from Pope the well-known lines:—
Odious! in woollen! 'twould a saint provoke,
Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke;
No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace
Wrap my cold limbs and shade my lifeless face:
One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead,
And—Betty—give this cheek a little red.
Moral Essays, i. 246.
Her natural son, Arthur Mainwaring, was the chief mourner at her funeral, the pallbearers being the Lord De la Warr, John lord Hervey of Ickworth [q. v.], George Bubb Dodington, Charles Hedges, Walter Carey, and Captain Elliot. An application by Brigadier-general Churchill for permission to erect a monument to her in Westminster Abbey was refused by the dean.
She left two illegitimate sons, one by Arthur Mainwaring [q. v.], and the other by General Charles Churchill [q. v.] Mainwaring left almost his entire estate to her and Arthur, his son by her. A report was current that she was married to General Churchill. Princess (afterwards Queen) Caroline told her that she had heard of the marriage, and was answered, 'So it is said, your royal highness; but we have not owned it yet.'
Her son by Churchill married Lady Mary Walpole, and Mrs. Oldfield was thus connected with some of the principal families in England, including that of the Duke of Wellington. By her will, proved on 2 Nov. 1730, she left her fortune, which for those days was considerable, between these two youths, after the payment of legacies to her mother, her aunt Jane Gourlaw, and her maid Margaret Saunders. Her house in Grosvenor Street she left to her son Charles Churchill, who died there on 13 April 1812.
Ample testimony is borne to Mrs. Oldfield's beauty, vivacity, and charm, and to the excellence of her acting. As an exponent of both tragedy and comedy she can have had few equals. Chetwood, not too intelligibly rhapsodising, says: 'She was of a superior height, but with a lovely proportion; and the dignity of her soul, equal to her force and stature, made up of benevolent charity, affable and good natur'd to all that deserv'd it' (General Hist. of the Stage, p. 202). Campbell imagines her to have been, apart from the majesty of Mrs. Siddons, 'the most beautiful woman that ever trod the British stage.' Cibber, whose prejudices against her yielded to her fascination and talent, praises her 'silvery voice,' and says that her improvement 'provided from her own understanding,' with no assistance from any 'more experienced actor.' More than one of his plays he wrote with a special view to her. The extent of her powers could only, he holds, be gauged by the variety of characters she played. Her figure improved up to her thirty-sixth year, and 'her excellence in acting was never at a stand.' To the last year of her life 'she never undertook any part she liked without being importunately desirous of having all the helps in it that another could possibly give her . . . . Yet it was a hard matter to give her any hint that she was not able to take or improve' (Apology, ed. Lowe, i. 310). Steele in the 'Tatler' and the 'Spectator' bears warm tribute to her distinction and her power. Her countenance, according to Davies, was pleasing and expressive, enlivened with large speaking eyes, which in some particular comic situations she kept half shut, especially when she intended to give effect to some brilliant or gay thought. In sprightliness of air and elegance of manner, says the same authority, she excelled all actresses. Swift {Journal to Stella, 1712-13) mentions her opprobriously as 'the drab that acts Cato's daughter.' Walpole, on the other hand, says, concerning her performance of Lady Betty Modish, that had her birth placed her in a higher rank of life she would have appeared what she acted — an agreeable gay woman of quality, a little too conscious of her natural attraction. She was much caressed by people of fashion, and generally went to the theatre in a chair, attended by two footmen, and in the dress she had worn at some aristocratic dinner. Thomson spoke with extreme warmth concerning her performance of Sophonisba as all that in the fondness of an author he could either wish or imagine ; and Fielding, in the preface to 'Love in Several Masques,' referred to her 'ravishing perfections.' A French author, unnamed, declared her, according to Chetwood, 'an incomparable sweet girl,' who reconciled him to the English stage. Richard Savage, whom she is said to have saved from a death penalty he had incurred, and to whom she allowed a pension of 60l. annually (a statement made by Dr. Johnson and disputed, without any authority advanced, by Gait), addressed to her a eulogistic epistle, and, according to Chetwood, an epitaph in Latin and English, which Johnson, for no adequate reason, refused to accept as his. Her best parts in tragedy were Cleopatra and Calista. In comedy her Lady Townly has not been equalled. For her performance of this the managers presented her with 50l. She was free from the arrogance and petulance frequently attending her profession, was always reasonable, and benefited thereby, as successive managements denied her nothing. The only difficulty in her career occurred when she supplanted in several parts Mrs. Rogers, who consequently left the theatre in pique. The public, espousing the cause of Mrs. Rogers, hissed Mrs. Oldfield in certain parts. A competition between the two actresses was arranged by the management, and Mrs. Oldfield chose the 'art of Lady Lurewell in the 'Trip to the jubilee.' Her rival, however, well advised, withdrew from the contest.
In spite of the frequent sneers of Pope, who, apart from other allusions, wrote in his unpublished 'Sober Advice from Horace,'
Engaging Oldfield who with grace and ease
Could join the arts to ruin and to please,
Anne Oldfield inspired warm friendships and affection, and was greatly respected. In regard to both character and talents, she was above most women in her profession.
A portrait of Mrs. Oldfield by Richardson, now in the National Portrait Gallery, London, was engraved by Meyer, E. Fisher, and G. Simon. A second, a folding plate, is prefixed to her life by Egerton, 1731; and another, engraved by G. King, is given in the title-page of her 'Memoirs,' 1741. An autograph receipt for 2,415l. is preserved in a copy of Egerton's 'Life,' in the possession of the writer of this notice.
[Four editions at least of the Authentick Memoirs of the Life of that Celebrated Actress Mrs. Oldfield were published in the year of her death, 1730. In 1731 appeared Faithful Memoirs of the Life, Amours, and Performances of . . . . Mrs. Anne Oldfield, by William Egerton. An abridgment of this was added in 1741 to Curll's History of the English Stage, attributed by him to Betterton, but said to be by Oldys. The Lovers' Miscellany, a Collection of Amorous Tales and Poems, with Memoirs of the Life and Amours of Mrs. Ann Oldfield, 1731, 8vo, cannot be traced; Theatrical Correspondence in draft; an Epistle from Mrs. Oldfield in the Shades to Mrs. Br—ceg—dle upon Earth appeared in 1743; a life appears in Chetwood's History of the Stage; lives are also given in Rose, the two Biographies Générales, the Georgian Era, Galt's Lives of the Players, and many other compilations. See also Genest's Account of the English Stage; Horace Walpole's Letters, ed. Cunningham, passim; Wheatley and Cunningham's London Past and Present; Clark Russell's Representative Actors; Stanley's Historic Memorials of Westminster Abbey; Cibber's Apology, ed. Lowe; Davies's Dramatic Miscellanies and Life of Garrick; Doran's Annals of the Stage, ed. Lowe, &c.; Notes and Queries, 2nd ser. ix. 420, xi. 123, 144, 3rd ser. vi. 148, 216, 318.]
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Bob Saget's loved ones and friends, including many "Full House" cast members, gathered for the funeral of the late comedian on Friday.
According to TMZ, at least 300 people arrived at Mt. Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in the Hollywood Hills to pay their respects to Saget, who died unexpectedly on Jan. 9 at the age of 65. Saget's on-screen "Full House" children Jodie Sweetin, Candace Cameron Bure and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen were all in attendance, and John Stamos and Dave Coulier served as pallbearers during the ceremony.
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Other pallbearers included John Mayer, Norman Lear, Jeff Ross and Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos, TMZ reports. Judd Apatow, Dave Chappelle, Kathy Griffin, Chris Rock and Seth Green were also at the funeral.
After the news broke of Saget's death, there was an outpouring of tributes from his "Full House" co-stars and other members of the Hollywood community on social media.
"I am broken. I am gutted. I am in complete and utter shock. I will never ever have another friend like him. I love you so much Bobby," Stamos wrote on Twitter.
Bure said, "I don't know what to say. I have no words. Bob was one of the best humans beings I've ever known in my life. I loved him so much."
Saget was found unresponsive in his room Sunday at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Orlando, Fla. and pronounced dead on the scene. His cause of death has yet to be determined, but police officials say there was no sign of drug use or foul play. He is survived by his wife, Kelly Rizzo, and children Aubrey, Jennifer Belle and Lara Melanie Saget.
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Power restored after mass outages across Sydney
4:44 pm on 31 January 2019
A major power outage in Sydney's east which affected 45,000 properties, trapping people in elevators and causing traffic chaos, is now over.
A major power outage has affected those in Sydney's eastern suburbs. Photo: 123rf
Power supply was cut about 11:30am [1.30pm NZT] to homes and businesses in Randwick, Bondi Junction, Bondi, Kensington, Waverley, Double Bay, Woollahra, Bronte, Bellevue Hill, Clovelly, Coogee and Rose Bay, before being restored a short time ago.
Authorities said 23 traffic lights were out in the affected area and police warned people driving in the area to be cautious.
Ausgrid spokeswoman Michelle Stone said the cause of the outage was not yet known.
"We are investigating the situation, we're going to update people as soon as possible," she said.
Sydney is in the middle of a heatwave, with temperatures hitting 35.2 degrees at Sydney Airport just before midday.
Patients at the Sydney Children's Hospital at Randwick said they were sitting in the dark.
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One of the more consistent themes amongst my coreligionists is an inveighing against "niceness."
Nice people are smarmy, treacle-mired milquetoasts, who do not understand the importance of The Battle. They are weak, dull, and enablers of everything that is wrong.
You don't want a "nice" church, or so I am lead to understand. You want a church that zealously defends the Truth, rooting out the blighted falseness of heretical imperfection. You don't want a "nice" church. You want a church that demands absolute justice, carefully checking the souls of every person for signs of noncompliance.
Nice people are too comfortable.
So afflict the comfortable, rises the cry, although I'm not quite sure who those comfortable people are. I've not met many people who are really and truly comfortable. Oh, folks might *seem* to be. But open up a soul even the tiniest little bit, and you find anxieties and loss and struggles to find meaning.
Jesus, my coreligionists will often say, was not "nice." He said things in anger. He challenged the Powers that Be. He was willing to present The Hard Truth, no matter how much that hurt. There's truth to that, to be sure. I encounter that every time He challenges me. But the desire to be edgy, to tear down? Is that the truth of the path? We must speak the Truth in love, I am told. Because boy, is the Jesus Truth angry, and boy, do we love to speak it.
This is a common refrain among those most eager to tell others their failings, most willing to berate and belittle and claim the mantle of Jesus as legitimizing their rage. But rage? Rage makes you weak. Easily guided. Easily duped.
It also blinds you to complexity, because anger just ain't down with subtlety. Anger just likes to hit things.
So I will rise, now, in defense of niceness, because niceness has power.
Take, for instance, the civil rights movement. On the one hand, you had demonstrators, sure. They weren't passive. Dr. King was not shy. Those who followed his gracious lead did not submit to injustice. They were not submissive. But they were nice. They were well dressed, in a way that signified to power that they were good and nonthreatening people. They were politely insistent. When they came to the counter to nicely order their food, they were kind and respectful and patient.
Around them gathered people who were not nice. They cursed and acted out and generally behaved in ways human beings recognize as cruel. They were obviously bullies, picking on nice people.
They dumped food on them. Cursed them. Sicced their dogs on them. Knocked them down with firehoses. Put them in prison.
Killed them. We all saw it, and it was a horror. Why are they doing that to those nice people?
When you are unyielding in your kindness, when you refuse to back away from being decent, it's not simple. Being nice isn't easy. Just as showing compassion isn't easy. And as easy as it is to see kindness as a form of weakness, I'm not sure it is.
It's one of the reasons, boring as it might seem in this ever louder and angrier world, that I think it's so important for a community to excel in kindness. To be nice, God help us.
I tend to think, honestly, that there just has to be space out there in the ecology of congregations for communities that mostly try to be kind to one another and to all those they encounter. Places where kindness and compassion are practiced as the primary thing you do, above and beyond doctrinal purity.
Because the world does not seem to lack for zealots. There seem to be plenty of those.


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A shot of the Rockefeller Center taken with the Yi 360.
While Xiaomi may still be known almost exclusively as a smartphone company outside of China and India, the Beijing-headquartered Chinese tech company has actually been spent the past three years aggressively expanding its scope, focusing on products that fit into what company vice president Wang Xiang told me earlier this year he sees as "a connected eco-system of devices."
Xiaomi knew early on it might not have the know-how or resources to build so many different products -- the company has rice cookers and air purifiers, for example -- so instead it went about being an incubator instead. As Wang explained, the company actively seeks out talented engineers or promising start-ups, then offers them funding, access to supply chains, and help with marketing, in return Xiaomi gets to slap its logos on the product and sell them in its stores.
Of these companies that Xiaomi has backed, Yi Technology is one of the fastest growing. In fact, it may have outgrown being "one of Xiaomi's brands." The company expanded to Europe last year, and earlier this week released a new 360 camera that is widely available in the U.S. through Microsoft's online and offline brick-and-mortar stores.
There's a large circular shutter button that's easy to find by touch.
The biggest selling point of the Yi 360 VR Camera is that it's priced at the consumer price point ($399) but has specs better than consumer grade: while most 360 cameras in this price range, including Samsung's Gear 360, can only shoot in 4k resolution, the Yi 360 can shoot in 5.7k resolution (5,760 x 2,880 pixels, to be exact).
I had a chance to test the Yi 360 camera over the past month, taking it around San Francisco, Seoul, New York and Hong Kong, and the 360 photo quality is indeed the best I've seen on a non-professional level 360 camera.
But first, let's talk hardware. The Yi 360 is a rectangle shaped sleek black device with a pair of 12-megapixel Sony image sensors under 220-degrees f/2.0 lenses. The Ambarella H2V95 processor allows for in-camera stitching up to 4k (if you want to stitch at 5.7k you'll have to export to a computer).
The camera can be used as a standalone camera -- there's a 2-inch LCD screen that shows clearly what mode you're in, along with three very clicky buttons -- with footage recorded stored in a MicroSD card slot, or you can sync it to your smartphone via WiFi (2.4Ghz or 5Ghz). You'll need to download the Yi 360 app, but once you have it and are connected, you're treated to an intuitive camera interface on the phone where you can preview footage in real time and shoot away.
Pairing the camera to my phones (I tried it with the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 and Huawei Mate 10 Pro) was significantly easier than pairing other 360 cameras I've tested before, such as the Insta360 One.
Photos captured by the Yi 360 turned out very good (relatively speaking, compared to other VR cameras) in daylight. The distortion is minimal, color accuracy is solid if a little on the cool side, and there's quite a bit of details, especially when viewed on a smartphone or VR goggles. I'm particularly impressed by photos shot at night.
I can't embed 360 photos here, so I've uploaded them to Kuula. Meanwhile, below are some 2D samples taken from the 360 photos.
Taken with the Yi 360.
The exact same photo as above, just from a different perspective.
Notice the details even at night.
Video quality looks superb, considering the 5.7k/30fps spec, but the mic on the camera is lacking. I used the camera to record my band's jam session and was disappointed to find the sound completely distorted. Now granted, it was very loud in the room, but previously I had used the Insta360 One to shoot in the same room and the sound came out fine.
Still, if you're using the Yi 360 to shoot normal videos out in the streets, it'll be fine. Below are some samples I've uploaded to YouTube.
One of the coolest features is you can record 360 time lapse videos. The resolution drops to 4k when you do that, but it's still a very fun feature to have on a consumer grade camera.
There's a 1430 mAh battery inside the Yi 360, which was good enough to get me about an hour of continuous recording. For $399, the Yi 360 is one of the better VR cameras out there.


The NATO-led Kosovo Force and U.N. international police failed catastrophically to protect minorities during the widespread rioting in Kosovo in March, Human Rights Watch said today in the first detailed report on the attacks.
The 66-page report, "Failure to Protect: Anti-Minority Violence in Kosovo, March 2004," documents the widespread attacks against Serbs, Roma, Ashkali (Albanian-speaking Roma) and other minorities that took place in Kosovo on March 17-18. Human Rights Watch details the near-complete collapse during the crisis of Kosovo's security institutions—the NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR), international civilian police from the U.N. Interim Administration Mission to Kosovo (UNMIK), and the locally-recruited Kosovo Police Service (KPS). Based on numerous interviews with minority victims and security officials, the report provides a detailed—and previously unavailable—account of what happened in dozens of communities during the riots.
On March 17, at least 33 riots broke out in Kosovo over a 48-hour period, involving an estimated 51,000 protesters. Nineteen people died during the violence. At least 550 homes and 27 Orthodox churches and monasteries were burned, and approximately 4,100 persons from minority communities were displaced from their homes.
Human Rights Watch research found that ethnic Albanian crowds acted with ferocious efficiency to rid many areas in Kosovo of all remaining vestiges of a Serb presence, and also targeted other minority communities, including Roma and Ashkali. In many of the villages affected by the violence, in attacks both spontaneous and organized, every single Serb, Roma or Ashkali home was destroyed.
In the village of Svinjare, all 137 Serb homes were burned, but neighboring ethnic Albanian homes were left untouched. In nearby Vucitrn, all 69 Ashkali homes were destroyed, while in Kosovo Polje, more than 100 Serb and Roma homes were burned, as was the post office, the Serbian school and the Serbian hospital. Even the tiniest Serb presences became targets: in Djakovica ethnic Albanians besieged the Serbian Orthodox Church that housed the town's remaining Serbs, five elderly women. The women had to be evacuated.
Although NATO-led KFOR troops and UNMIK international civilian police are specifically mandated to provide security for minorities in Kosovo, they both failed to protect minorities during the rioting, often leaving besieged Serbs and others at the mercy of large ethnic Albanian crowds for hours before responding. In Svinjare, a large ethnic Albanian crowd walked right past the main French KFOR base on its way to the village, before burning every minority home. KFOR failed to come to the assistance of the Serbs, even though Svinjare is located just a few hundred meters from the base. French KFOR similarly failed to respond to the anti-Ashkali rioting in Vucitrn, even though the village is located near two French KFOR bases.
German-led KFOR troops in Prizren failed to deploy to protect the Serb population and its historic Serbian Orthodox churches and monasteries, despite repeated calls for assistance from German UNMIK police officers based in the town. The village of Belo Polje, adjacent to the main Italian KFOR base, was burned to the ground. In the capital Pristina, Serbs were forced to barricade themselves into their apartments, while ethnic Albanian rioters shot at them and looted and burned the apartments below. It took six hours before KFOR and UNMIK came to their assistance.
The violence was sparked by a series of events, notably sensational and ultimately inaccurate reports that Serbs were responsible for the drowning of three ethnic Albanian boys. Other catalysts included anger among ethnic Albanians over the blocking of the main Pristina-Skopje road by Serb villagers to protest the shooting of a Serb teenager by unknown assailants, and a March 16 demonstration organized by groups of veterans and others linked to the disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army who protested the arrest of former KLA leaders on war crimes charges.
Human Rights Watch called for a full, independent review of the response of KFOR, UNMIK police and KPS to the violence. The report also recommends riot-control training and equipment for KFOR and UNMIK police, and a more centralized command structure for KFOR.


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iOS and Android Upgrade While Windows Phone Lags
By Carl Weinschenk, Posted June 9, 2015
iOS and Android are being significantly upgraded, which means that Microsoft must really upgrade its OS in order to protect its anemic market share.
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There's never a dull moment in the world of mobile operating systems (OSes). Within the past few weeks, Android and iOS have discussed their upgrades and Microsoft's Windows Phone was the recipient of some bad news.
It's a given at this point that the two top mobile OSes will remain Android and iOS. The third spot is very enviable and has been the subject of much competition. When comScore released its quarterly numbers, it was apparent that the Windows Phone had majorly slipped from 3.6 percent to 3 percent during that short period. That's a big drop in a very short time from an already weak number.
And, according to comScore, Android dropped from 53.2 percent to 52 percent and iOS rose from 41.3 percent to 43.1 percent during the same quarter.
Both of the top OSes, iOS and Android, will offer nice enhancements this fall. Network World's Oscar Raymundo gives insight on the upcoming release of iOS 9. A beta program is currently available to members of the Apple Developer Program. When the new iOS comes out, it will run on the iPhone 4S and later versions. As for the features that will be included in the free software upgrade, Raymundo provides a high-level overview in one paragraph:
Apple has massively improved and expanded several essential built-in apps and services. Most notably Siri is now running on steroids, and Maps has included mass transit info. Furthermore, the Passbook built-in app has been replaced with the Apple Pay-powered Wallet, and the stagnant Newsstand has been replaced by News, a personalized reading app. iOS 9 will also give the iPad several new functionalities, like Split View and Picture-in-Picture, for helping power-users get stuff done.
As for its OS upgrade, Google won't be left behind. TechRadar's John McCann offers a similar story on the upcoming Android M. He writes that a developer preview is available today, with general release expected in September. The new Android Pay mobile payment platform will be included and the OS will offer fingerprint support, faster charging and single-tap transactions with Android apps.
Staying power figures to be a big selling point with Android M (which now internally is called Macadamia Nut Cookie, according to McCann). Tom Maxwell at 9to5Google cited a comparison of the battery life of Android M and version 5.1.1 Lollipop done by the German blog ComputerBase. The results were impressive:
After 8 hours of standby, the Nexus 5 running 5.1.1 had drained 4% of its battery while the unit running Android M Developer Preview 1 had lost only 1.5% of its battery life. At 24 hours in standby, the 5.1.1 unit had lost 12% while the Android M unit had drained only 4.5%. Most exciting is that whereas after 48 hours of idling the 5.1.1 unit was down 24%, the Android M Nexus 5 had only lost 9% of its charge.
Clearly, iOS and Android are being significantly upgraded. That means that Microsoft and the other third place wannabes must really upgrade their OSes as well in order to protect their anemic market shares.
Carl Weinschenk covers telecom for IT Business Edge. He writes about wireless technology, disaster recovery/business continuity, cellular services, the Internet of Things, machine-to-machine communications and other emerging technologies and platforms. He also covers net neutrality and related regulatory issues. Weinschenk has written about the phone companies, cable operators and related companies for decades and is senior editor of Broadband Technology Report. He can be reached at cweinsch@optonline.net and via twitter at @DailyMusicBrk.
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The Truth About Murder (1946)
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Christine, a lawyer closely working with District Attorney Lester Ashton, quits her job and joins his friend Bill's one-man buffet. Bill is drinking heavily because of his flirtatious wife.... See full summary »
Christine Allen
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A male district attorney and female lawyer attempt to solve a series of murders. Standard whodunit programmer -- not particularly stylish or inventive. Zany attempts at comedy fail to break up the monotony.
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ANTIQUE 19THC GEORGIAN SOLID SILVER FIGURAL CENTERPIECE, BENJAMIN SMITH C.1820
19th Century Georgian silver centerpiece, raised on three cast lion paw feet, the base is applied with a very crisp scrolling foliate decoration in relief, supporting three large and finely modelled classical female figures (the three graces), holding an openwork basket applied with a cast floral border, fitted with cut glass bowl. Hallmarked English silver (925), London, year 1820 (e), Maker's mark BS for Benjamin Smith III.
Antique 19th Century Georgian Monumental solid silver figural centerpiece, raised on three cast lion paw feet, the base is applied with a very crisp scrolling foliate decoration in relief, supporting three large and finely modelled classical female figures (the three graces), holding an openwork basket applied with a cast floral border, fitted with cut glass bowl. This is a most impressive and exceptional solid silver figural centerpieces, nearly 50 cm tall. All parts hallmarked English silver (925 standard), London, year 1820 (e), Maker's mark BS (Benjamin Smith III).
Benjamin Smith (1764 – 1823) who started his career as an apprentice to Matthew Boulton in 1790. In 1802 he began working for Rundell & Bridge the most important luxury retailer of the first half of the 19th century. Benjamin Smith was at the heart of the company, directing and training the workshops, soon working along side Paul Storr who joined the firm in 1807.
His work is highly valued and renowned, a perfect example is the Jamaica Service of 1803, which is now in The Royal Collection. Having collaborated with Digby Scott a renowned English sculptor, the silver-gilt trays, baskets, and wine coasters with open-work vine borders are among their most distinctive and accomplished achievements. The majority of the designs, so closely related to those of Storr, most almost certainly stemmed from central control by Rundell and Bridge.
In Great Condition - No Damage
Silver Weight: 3450g
Total Weight: 8730g