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RFID Helps Map Below the Surface
The InfraMarker system involves a three-step process to locate underground assets. Photo courtesy of Berntsen International.
GPS, maps and landmarks are used to get close to the buried InfraMarker magnetic RFID tag which is found with a magnetic locator. Photo courtesy of Auburn University Geospatial Research and Application Center.
The RFID Infrastructure Marking (InfraMarker) System may be used to locate many types of underground assets, including gas pipelines and sewer pipes. Photo courtesy of Berntsen International.
Linda Duffy
KEYWORDS disaster management / RFID / Subsurface utility engineering / Underground imaging / utility infrastructure
A tremendous amount of effort is focused on collecting data about the Earth's surface using satellites, airplanes, terrestrial mobile mapping units, total stations and many other devices. Even land areas under water are measurable up to a certain depth. It is reasonable to say that we are at the point where nearly everything aboveground is mapped. The missing piece is what lies below the ground. When complete underground infrastructure mapping occurs, we will truly have a fully mapped 3D world.
Locating underground infrastructure is often technically challenging, time-consuming and prone to errors due to non-existent or inaccurate as-built records. Due to the sensitive nature of utilities, mistakes can be very costly in terms of service outages, as well as dangerous to workers and the public. As Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has improved over recent years, it has become a viable option for improving the accuracy and reducing the time it takes to locate many kinds of underground infrastructure, including gas pipelines, electric lines, sewer pipes, fiber optic phone lines and water lines.
RFID is most frequently associated with transmitting information about people, animals or objects via radio waves. Current applications vary widely from monitoring the activities of elephants at a zoo to collecting highway tolls with an E-ZPass. Since radio waves travel through most non-metallic materials, RFID tags can also be buried and used for identifying underground objects. Every passive RFID tag has a unique serial number and can be customized to include information such as type of utility, asset type, marker depth, utility depth, nearby utilities, intersections and hazards. Applications where RFID tags are combined with sensors that identify physical factors such as concrete deterioration, moisture and radiation are also in the development phase.
According to Berntsen International, based in Madison, Wis., RFID represents the next extension of tools for the survey profession to meet the demand for mapping new and existing underground infrastructure. Berntsen has been serving the surveying profession for the last 40 years, so it has firsthand knowledge of the importance of adopting new products to stay competitive. Known for the quality and accuracy of its infrastructure asset marking solutions, Berntsen has played a vital role in mapping the world, as its products have been used by corporations and government agencies in nearly 100 countries. Berntsen has acquired multiple patents and has other patents pending. It also won an award in 2013 from the Society for Information Management (SIM) for a study on "Improving Disaster Management by Digitizing Utility Facility Objects," written in collaboration with Auburn University.
"In an effort to keep abreast of developing technology and make new products available to our customers, Berntsen is delving into underground mapping, an activity that has typically been labor-intensive and plagued by inaccuracy," said Mike Klonsinski, the director of business development for Berntsen. "The increasing emphasis on location-based information to improve safety and reduce costs is well-suited to RFID technology. Surveying work is not just about static maps anymore. Information that describes every location point, above and below ground, is very important and RFID technology is able to provide that information."
"Berntsen offers a product called InfraMarker that provides the ability to mark and locate underground utility infrastructure and other land assets such as rights of way, hazardous waste sites, and mineral explorations sites using RFID," continued Klonsinski. "The InfraMarker device consists of a permanent magnet and an RFID tag that has been designed to withstand adverse environmental conditions. A magnetic locator device is used to find the InfraMarker, and then a handheld RFID reader receives the information stored on the RFID tag to identify the underground asset."
RFID technology has improved to the extent that tags can be reliably read at a depth below disturbance level, and further development continues in that area. Ideally markers are placed during new construction or during retrofit or maintenance work. For existing infrastructure, soil is extracted to expose the target area using high pressure air or water. Typically markers are placed at points of major elevation or direction changes or at pipeline intersections. The magnet and the tag should last practically forever. When assets are located in a congested area that requires frequent changes to underground infrastructure or in a disaster situation when the surface markers are destroyed, there is potentially large cost savings in time and labor using RFID.
"Imagine the aftermath of a hurricane where coastal utilities have been buried and damaged, and the crews are responsible for locating and repairing those assets, preferably quickly and safely," said Bill Rushing, the vice president of research and development at Berntsen. "The technology used in aboveground RFID tags on assets such as light poles and fire hydrants is just as feasible for marking underground assets."
"The ability to map above and below ground infrastructure supports the goal of full asset management for utilities, corporations and government agencies," continued Rushing. "RFID tags placed in the ground can communicate the location of underground assets and link that information to the same GIS and asset management systems that are prevalent for managing above ground assets—saving time, cost, and even lives. Some day underground 3D maps will be as commonly used as surface 3D maps."
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Linda Duffy is president of Apropos Research, Golden, Colo. (www.aproposresearch.com), an independent market research firm that provides market research and marketing communications services to the geospatial and remote sensing community. She can be reached at lduffy@aproposresearch.com.
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Do Politicians Discriminate Against Constituents with an Immigration Background?
In this year's German federal election campaign, voters with an immigrant background, who constitute ten percent of the electorate, played a remarkably small role in the appeals and mobilization efforts of the major parties. When representatives of the Turkish community asked the Bundestag candidates about their positions on topics important to immigrant voters, less than half even responded. This raises the question of how responsive politicians are to immigrant constituents, especially when compared to ethnic German voters.
Our forthcoming article in the Journal of Politics examines this issue, which has relevance beyond Germany, the European Union's most populous country. Throughout Western Europe, post-war immigration from the Middle East, Africa, and parts of Asia has diversified electorates. For example, twelve percent of the population in France is foreign-born and many within this group possess voting rights. Similarly, almost fifteen percent of the UK population is of ethnic-minority background. Thus, our research question is of importance for many European democracies that face the challenge of politically integrating a substantial number of immigrant-background citizens.
To investigate whether politicians discriminate against immigrant-background voters, we conducted a field experiment in the summer of 2018 involving more than 1,500 German state legislators. Each legislator received an email from a fictitious male constituent from their district. In the email, the constituent asked for a personal meeting during a visit to the state parliament. Crucially, we randomly varied the name of the constituent to signal a Turkish immigration background or an ethnic German background. We chose Turks because they constitute the largest immigrant group in Germany. In addition to the sender's immigration background, we also randomized whether he was a supporter of the politician's party or an undecided voter.
The type of research design we employed is called an audit study and it has been used in the social sciences to study racial and ethnic discrimination in labor and housing markets. Our design also closely follows previous work by political scientists who studied racial discrimination by state legislators in the US.
Overall, 69 percent of legislators responded to our request. However, they exhibited substantial bias in their response behavior: While ethnic German constituents received a response to 74 percent of their emails, the number for immigrant-background constituents is only 63 percent. Thus, an email request by an immigrant voter is eleven percentage points less likely to receive a response from a German politician compared to an otherwise identical email from an ethnic German voter (see Figure 1).
The bias against immigrant-background constituents extends to other outcomes we examined: Compared to an email sender with an ethnically German name, politicians are less likely to accept a meeting with the immigrant voter. Moreover, we find that replies to voters with Turkish-sounding names also tend to arrive later.
We also find that the magnitude of discrimination is almost identical among rightist (CDU/CSU, FDP, and AfD) and leftist (SPD, Greens, the Left) parties. This is a surprising result since leftist parties usually hold more immigrant-friendly policy positions. Our study suggests that this partisan difference does not translate to how politicians approach immigrant voters on the ground.
Finally, we also find suggestive evidence that signaling common partisanship with the legislator can mitigate the bias against immigrant-background constituents. Compared to requests by undecided voters, the penalty for having a Turkish-sounding name is six percentage points lower – a decrease of 44 percent – when the email mentions that the constituent is a convinced voter of the politician's party (see Figure 2). This implies that highlighting a mutual political identity could potentially help minority constituents to gain access to their representatives. Nevertheless, it should be noted that discrimination against immigrant voters is still substantial (eight percentage points) when we restrict the comparison to partisan constituents.
Taken together, our findings paint a rather bleak picture of politician responsiveness to immigrant voters. Not least since the refugee crisis of 2015, various European countries face the challenge of integrating large numbers of ethnically distinct immigrants, many of whom eventually gain the right to vote. Responsiveness of political elites to these new citizens can positively affect their trust in government and their feeling of belonging. Seen from this angle, our results are discomforting, as they suggest that on the dimension of legislator responsiveness, politicians from the right and the left might hamper rather than foster the political integration of immigrants.
This blog piece is based on the article "Do Politicians Discriminate Against Constituents with an Immigration Background? Field Experimental Evidence from Germany" by Jeyhun Alizade and Fabio Ellger, forthcoming in the Journal of Politics, July 2022.
Jeyhun Alizade – Princeton University
Jeyhun Alizade is a PhD candidate in the Politics department at Princeton University. His research focuses on political parties and representation, the politics of immigration, and right-wing extremism in Europe.
Fabio Ellger – WZB Berlin /Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Fabio Ellger is a researcher at the 'Transformations of Democracy' unit at WZB Berlin and a PhD candidate at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He investigates questions connected to representation, participation, and polarization in today's democracies. You can find further information regarding his research on his website and follow him on Twitter @FabioEllger

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Donna Halper's Used Bin Radio Podcast Now Available
Rush discoverer Donna Halper appeared on Used Bin Radio last Tuesday, July 20th. The podcast of the show is now available here. Used Bin Radio airs each Tuesday at 11pm EST/8pm PST; tune in by clicking: www.purerockradio.net then click "LISTEN". - Thanks to Stephen Humphries and RushFanforever for the headsup!
Mediate To Sport Rush Hat During Canadian Open
"If all the world's pro athletes were forced to make an in-their-prime career change, it wouldn't take a pollster to project the majority vote. They'd mostly morph into rock stars, or rap stars. And you could count Rocco Mediate, the PGA Tour pro, among the first in line to make the switch. At least this is what Mediate was saying on Monday between practice putts at St. George's Golf and Country Club in Etobicoke, where the RBC Canadian Open will commence its 101st edition on Thursday. Mediate, who famously tangled with Tiger Woods in an 18-hole playoff at the 2008 U.S. Open, is a big music fan. He is also a close friend of Alex Lifeson, the Toronto-bred guitarist for the rock band Rush. And Mediate admires the acclaimed trio so much that this week he'll be a rare sight among PGA types. Not currently under contract to sport the obligatory logo of a sponsor on his cap, he'll pull on headwear bearing the logo of Lifeson's band. 'I absolutely would trade my job for Alex's. Tomorrow,' said Mediate, 47. 'He still loves what he does...and he's a psycho golfer. Psycho. He plays literally every day...He's probably about an eight handicap now, which isn't bad.'...Mediate, though he offered kind words for the St. George golf course, seemed much happier to tell of the vicarious pleasure he takes in Rush's continuing success. The golfer was in L.A. a few weeks back to watch the band rehearse for its ongoing summer tour. And there he was Monday, wearing the name of a rock institution on a place usually reserved for the highest bidder. 'I just called Alex this morning and said, 'I need more hats, damn it,' ' Mediate said. 'This one's looking a little worse for wear — I've been wearing it so much — but I love it.'" - Canadian Open challengers ready to rock, July 19, 2010
Lucky Uke's cover of "The Spirit Of Radio"
In June Quebec ukulele band Lucky Uke released a light hearted 12 track album of classic rock covers which includes "The Spirit Of Radio". The complete song can be heard at luckyuke.com (look for the player in the upper left cover of their home page), and the track and/or album can be purchased here. - Thanks to Patric Lafortun for the headsup!
Posted Friday, July 16, 2010
Rush Featured in July's Prog Magazine
Rush is once again is featured on the cover of Classic Rock Presents "Prog" Magazine. The July 2010 issue has a 6-page article including interviews with Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee, as well as documentary filmmakers Sam Dunn and Scot McFayden. To purchase online, click here. Thanks to RushIsABand for the headsup!
Neil Peart, Drum Magazine's 2010 Drummer Of The Year
The current issue of Drum Magazine includes their annual Drummie Awards. For the 4th straight year, Neil wins Drummer Of The Year, and also was runner up for best Live Performer as well as best Progressive Rock Drummer. For the complete list visit DrumMagazine.com. - Thanks to Frank Ray for the headsup!
"My Favorite Headache" and "Victor" Reissues
Last December, Wounded Bird Records reissued Alex Lifeson's long out of print solo project Victor, which had been out of print since its original release by Atlantic Records in 1996. Now, Wounded Birds is reissuing Geddy Lee's solo album, My Favorite Headache, listed on their website at $12.99.
Formed in 1998, Wounded Bird Records is a label that specializes in the reissue of albums from the 60's, 70's and early 80's on compact disc. All of their releases are properly licensed from the owner of the original masters, in most cases the original record label and sometimes the artists themselves. - Thanks to Blake Willis and RushIsABand for the headsup!
Rush "Breaking Through The Gender Barrier"
Selina Martin's Disaster Fantasies was released June 29th, including a "thoughtful cover" of "The Spirit Of Radio (click here for a sample).
"Toronto singer-songwriter Selina Martin, whose upcoming album Disaster Fantasies will include a thoughtful cover of the 1980 Rush hit Spirit of Radio talks about the gender disparity among the band's fans." - Globe & Mail, June 5, 2010
The PRS "Hollowbody 12" Endorsed by Alex Lifeson
"In May of 2010, the first "Hollowbody 12" prototype from the PRS factory was sent to Alex Lifeson for his feedback. He delivered the following comment: "The playability is instantly silky and facile, the tone bright, clear and shimmering, and the finishing details are a testament to the PRS craftsmanship. The broad fretboard is a joy to play, and I was blown away by the intonation–of course, split saddles!! Why doesn't everyone do that?" Alex Lifeson gave his opinion, and now you can too. PRS will be building these guitars, to order only, as of July 1, 2010. Please see an authorized PRS dealer for details." - PRS.com, June 16, 2010 - Thanks to RushTheBand for the headsup!
Rush Receives Star On Hollywood Walk Of Fame
"Rush, Canada's most successful rock band, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday, appropriately in front of the Musicians Institute on Hollywood Boulevard. On hand to induct the musicians were Smashing Pumpkins singer Billy Corgan and Donna Halper, a former music director at Cleveland's WMMS-FM who was among the first to champion the enduring band's 1974 self-titled debut album...Frontman-bassist Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson were in attendance to claim the 2,412th star on the Walk of Fame. Noticeably absent was drummer and lyricist Neil Peart, who was riding a motorcycle to the band's first tour date in Albuquerque on Tuesday." - Hollywood Reporter, June 25, 2010
Click here for Rush at the HollywoodChamber.net
Click here for the Hollywood Walk of Fame's YouTube channel
Click here for CNN's coverage of the event
Click here for photos of the ceremony courtesy of The Canadian Music Scene
"Porcupine Tree - Atlanta" download only live album to benefit Mick Karn
Porcupine Tree have released a download only live album to benefit bassist Mick Karn. If you are unfamiliar with live Porcupine Tree, this is a great way to check them out, and it's for a great cause!
"Porcupine Tree - Atlanta: This download comprises a complete 2 hour live performance from the Fear of a Blank Planet tour. The show was recorded and mixed to the usual PT standards in order to provide material for a planned live album, but when the decision was taken to film much of the same repertoire in Holland for a major DVD release instead, the Atlanta recording ended up back in the vault. Now PT have now decided to make it available in complete form as a download only release in order to raise funds for Mick Karn's treatment for cancer. Although the repertoire is similar to that on the Anesthetize DVD, the performance has its own atmosphere, and also includes the first ever officially released live recording of 'A Smart Kid'. Please note that all Porcupine Tree's profits from the sale of the Atlanta download will go directly to the Mick Karn Appeal. Burning Shed's profits will go to Macmillan Cancer Support."
Knucklebonz Rock Iconz™ Limited Edition Rush Statues
Knucklebonz, the makers of the Rush Starman figurine, are releasing statuettes of Neil Peart, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson circa '78/'79. The Neil Peart sculpture is shipping Fall 2010, with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson's statues available to reserve via pre-ordering, exact ship date to be determined. For more info visit Knucklebonz.com. - Thanks to Pat Komadoski for the headsup!
"Tom Sawyer" on "The Hard Times Of RJ Berger"
During last night's series premiere of the all new MTV original series "The Hard Times Of RJ Berger", after most of the players are ejected from the school's basketball game, RJ is forced to suit up and "Tom Sawyer" was heard. - Thanks to Andy Newby and Colin Riggs for the headsup!
Rush Referenced on "Wizards of Waverly Place"
During the opening scene of Saturday's episode of "Wizards of Waverly Place" (season 3 episode 20), Alex and Harper discover that Max has a girlfriend. To keep his girlfriend a secret from his parents, he has told her his name is 'Tom Sawyer'. Alex exclaims "'Tom Sawyer'? That is such an obvious lie, it's the name from the Rush song." Harper interjects "...and the classic book!" and Alex concludes "Wow that song was good, I didn't know they made a book out of it!" Click here for the video clip. - Thanks to Robert Mooty for the heads up!
Rush Pulls Spirit from Rand Paul's Campaign
"In Web ads and at campaign appearances, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul sometimes has called on the music of the band Rush to give his message a little pop. It turns out the campaign wasn't using the music with the band's permission, according to Rush's attorney, Robert Farmer. Farmer, general counsel for the Anthem Entertainment Group Inc. in Toronto, which is Rush's record label, has sent a letter to Paul campaign officials informing them that they have violated copyright laws - and urging them to stop. 'This is not a political issue - this is a copyright issue,' Farmer said in an interview. 'We would do this no matter who it is.' Besides, all three members of Rush - Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart - are Canadians, not Americans, he pointed out." - Louisville Courier-Journal, June 2, 2010 - Thanks to J Grismore for the headsup!
Geddy Lee endorses Orange Bass Amps
"Orange Amps are proud to announce rock legend Geddy Lee of Rush is now using their Orange Bass amps...For more information on orange amps visit Orange Amplifiers. - Thanks to RushFanForever for the headsup!
"Backstage Secrets: On The Road With The Rock Band RUSH" DVD5 ReRelease
Backstage Secrets: On the Road with the Rock Band RUSH, was originally released on DVD last September 11th. Filmed during the 2008 Snakes & Arrows tour, the 250 minute documentary gives a backstage look at what it takes to put on Rush's show. Longtail Distribution Network has announced they are rereleasing the 250 minute documentary on DVD5 media for improved quality. If you previously purchased the original release, click here for info on how to obtain a replacement copy. To purchase the rerelease, click here. - Thanks to David Kutz, President of Longtail Distribution for the headsup!
"Longtail Distribution Network has re-released the DVD "Backstage Secrets: On the Road with the Rock Band Rush". This new release has been replicated onto DVD5 media with better quality video. The previous version, duplicated to DVD-R media is no longer available for sale.
For those of you who were disappointed in the technical quality of the original release, for a limited period of time, we are making the newly released version available at our cost of $6.00 plus shipping. This is for all five episodes on two discs.
If you originally purchased the DVD from Amazon.com or Filmbaby, please send a copy of your purchase receipt or any other reasonable documentation validating your purchased to support@longtailnet.com. We will then provide you with a password for the special page on our website built to accommodate this replacement pricing.
If you originally purchased the DVD from the Longtail Distribution Network you do not need to provide a receipt. To validate your purchase we need to know the email address of the person who originally ordered the DVD or the address to where it was shipped. It would be helpful to also provide the approximate date of purchase. Simply write to us at support@longtailnet.com with that information and we will then provide you with a password for the special page on our website built to accommodate this replacement pricing.
If you cannot validate your purchase we are very sorry, but we will not fulfill your order. If you place an order on our password protected page without our pre-approval your purchase will be refunded and the product will not be shipped.
The newly released DVD is now available for sale at a price of $24.95 for home use on our website at http://www.longtailnet.com/1290."
Posted Thursday, May 20, 2010
New World Man: A Tribute To Rush
New World Man: A Tribute To Rush, is now available. The new release includes four new tracks, three of which are recorded by members of Coheed And Cambria, The Dillinger Escape Plan (Chris Pennie), KORN (Shane Gibson) and The Mars Volta (Juan Alderete) on the tracks "New World Man", "Fly By Night" and "Force Ten". The fourth new track is I, Omega's version of 'Tom Sawyer'. The remaining selections include previous releases from Magna Carta's Working Man (1996) and Subdivisions (2005) tribute albums featuring performances by Robert Berry, Dave Martone, Sebastian Bach, John Petrucci, Mike Portnoy and Billy Sheehan, as well as Alex Skolnick Trio's jazz interpretation of 'Tom Sawyer' from their album Last Day In Paradise.
Truth Behind Rush's Absence At The Winter Olympics
In early February, it was rumored that Rush would be one of the Canadian bands to represent their native country during the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics. This past Tuesday during a radio interview with Philadelphia's WYSP to promote Beyond The Lighted Stage, Geddy Lee finally shed some light on the band's absence. - Thanks to John at Cygnus-X1.net for the headsup!
"We had an opportunity to play but there were all kinds of crazy rules going on about lip-synching and all stuff like that and that's just not our bag, man." - Geddy Lee, April 27, 2010
"2112" Heard In "High School" Trailer
The film High School premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this past January. Starring Adrien Brody and Colin Hanks, the trailer uses the opening keyboards from 2112 as its background music! - Thanks to Kevin Leclerc for the headsup!
Posted Sunday, April 25, 2010
"Tom Sawyer" on "Fringe"
"Tom Sawyer" was featured in the opening moments of tonight's episode of Fox's Fringe. During the episode "The Man from the Other Side", the song played on a car radio as a young couple gets high (yes, yes, "A Passage To Bangkok" would have been more appropriate!). If you missed it, it will be available in the next few days on the Fringe website. - Thanks to Jeff Lucas for the headsup!


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This is an impromptu post. Probably not the smartest way to write a post ;) But here it goes anyways… my thoughts and theories on growing your Instagram following to help grow your creative business….
This weekend I hit a milestone on Instagram.
Today I'm sharing how to start a creative business.
Currently, I'm running two creative businesses. My photography business is a local small business and is 8 years old. My Quilty Love business is an online business and about 4 years old.
I'm one of those weird creatives that loves the business side just as much as the creative side. I heard someone say once that the service they provide is really just a means to run a business since that is what they really love. I can so relate to that!
I would love to start sharing more of the business side and helping creative business owners get started!


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Have We Gone Too Far with Literary Anniversaries?
Anniversary of publication of 2 Austen books
Anniversary of publication of Austen's "Persuasion" and "Northanger Abbey" in December.
The Guardian has an excellent book page. Yes, there are brilliant reviews of new books, but that's not why you will read it.
Do you like sensational book news? Alison Flood will uproot it…somewhere! How about the wonderful lists? Top 10 this and Top 10 that, with clever synopses/reviews, unlike the stark lists at Book Riot, where there is often no description of the books. Dead authors? Diana Athill's recent essay on Molly Keane is superb. Do you wait for books to come out in paperback? Nicholas Lezard zeroes in on some of the best.
But the 2017 Literary Calendar made me pose the question: have we gone too far with literary anniversaries? Do we really want to know that Aug. 9 is "the 50th anniversary of the death of Joe Orton, who was killed by his partner Kenneth Halliwell in August 1967 in the London flat they shared"?
So I have listed the anniversaries as "legitimate "and "illegitimate." Let me know what you think.
LEGITIMATE LITERARY ANNIVERSARIES:
Feb. 19: Centenary of birth of Carson McCullers in Columbus, Georgia.
March 1: Centenary of the birth of Robert Lowell in Boston.
March 19: Albert Camus's L'Etranger was published 75 years ago in France, with The Myth of Sisyphus appearing in the same year.
May 30: It is 50 years since the publication in Buenos Aires of Gabriel García Márquez's Cien Años de Soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
Oct. 14: It's 125 years since The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was published, the first collection of Holmes stories.
November 30: The 350th anniversary of the birth of Jonathan Swift in Dublin, 1667.
Dec. Bicentenary of the posthumous publication of Persuasion and Northanger Abbey, when Jane Austen was identified as the author of her novels for the first time in a biographical note by her brother.
ILLEGITIMATE LITERARY ANNIVERSARIES
Jan.: It's 250 years since the completion of Tristram Shandy, with the publication in 1767 of Laurence Sterne's final volume. (The first two volumes appeared in 1759, and the seven others in the next seven years, so… Oh, well.)
Feb. 22: 75th anniversary of the Austrian author Stefan Zweig's death in 1942 in exile in Brazil. (Why do deaths??)
June: Centenary of publication of TS Eliot's debut pamphlet, Prufrock and Other Observations. (Okay: maybe that's going too far?)
June 26: Twenty years since the publication in 1997 of JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the first in the series. (That's an anniversary?)
July 18: Bicentenary of death in Winchester of Jane Austen. (Why deaths?)
Aug. 9: 50th anniversary of the death of Joe Orton, who was killed by his partner Kenneth Halliwell in August 1967 in the London flat they shared. (Very grisly!)
Aug. 31 150th anniversary of the death of Charles Baudelaire in Paris in 1867. (Okay, why the death?)
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8 thoughts on "Have We Gone Too Far with Literary Anniversaries?"
kaggsysbookishramblings | January 23, 2017 at 7:39 am
I tend to agree – births and significant publications or literary events, but constant deaths are just depressing!
Kat | January 23, 2017 at 1:39 pm
I've never noticed the "death" anniversaries before. Maybe that's a new thing.
Stephanie | January 23, 2017 at 11:00 am
Yes, I like the distinctions you've made. Birthdays and significant publication dates are worth noting. The others ("illegitimate") seem to just pad the list.
Yes, padding! Very weird. There should be MANY more anniversaries of births.
pigeonel15 | January 23, 2017 at 4:56 pm
Thank you for the review link. I'd never heard of Molly Keane and I see she's considered the successor to Jean Rhys, a writer I find intensely interesting, not to mention good. I'll be looking into Good Behaviour.
She's an excellent writer! I actually like her more than Jean Rhys…
middlebrowreader | January 24, 2017 at 11:39 am
I love this! I broadly agree with you – I can't understand the sudden vogue for death anniversaries either – but how is the centenary of Eliot's first pamphlet going to far?!?! And I rather think 20 years since Potter does count as an anniversary, even if it does make me feel very old! 😀
Kat | January 24, 2017 at 12:54 pm
Eliot should go in the other stack, you're right. The poem was published in a poetry mag in 1915, so I was thinking that was the pbublication, but the pamphlet really matters. I was confused.
Well, I don't consider Potter lit, so that's how old I am!


This makes your web page do a barrel roll. Just like when you go to Google and type "do a barrel roll".
Which obviously is lacking a closing tag and a closing bracket, but luckily browsers are smart enough to figure this out.
It also only has vendor prefixes for WebKit. That's because it turns out Firefox and Opera work just fine without the prefixes here.
According to http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-3d-transforms/#svg-angle you can use "360" instead of "1turn" and save 2 bytes.


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Austin Peay State University hosts Veterans Reconnect Conference for state's higher ed leaders
Clarksville, TN – Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC) executive director of the Mike Krause was speaking to a college administrator recently about how to serve veterans on college campuses and sensed tentativeness.
Retired Brig. Gen. Scott E. Brower, Austin Peay State University military advisor in residence, moderates a panel. (APSU)
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101st Airborne Division holds Assumption of Responsibility Ceremony for New Senior Enlisted Advisor
Fort Campbell, KY – On Friday, May 10th, 2019 Command Sgt. Maj. Bryan Barker became the 33rd command sergeant major of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) during an assumption of responsibility ceremony outside McAuliffe Hall, the division headquarters.
Soldiers of the division, along with families and members of the Fort Campbell community, gathered to welcome Barker, who comes to the division from 5th Armored Brigade, First Army Division West, at Fort Bliss, Texas.
"I was not sure I would be able to arrive, in-process, sign for my house, start Air Assault School, and receive my household goods all within 24 hours, but with the momentous effort of the incredible team here we pulled it off," said Barker.
Maj. Gen. Brian Winksi, commanding general, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), pins Air Assault wings on Command Sgt. Maj. Bryan Barker, senior enlisted advisor for 101st Airborne Division May 10 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. (Sgt. First Class Carlos Davis, 101st Airborne Division)
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101st Airborne Division to Say Goodbye to Top Senior Enlisted Leader Todd Sims
Fort Campbell, KY – The top senior enlisted leader of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Command Sgt. Maj. Todd Sims, will relinquish responsibility of the world's only air assault division in a ceremony at Fort Campbell, March 20th at 10:00am.
Sims held the position as the division's senior enlisted leader since April 2017. He will move on to become the senior enlisted leader for First Army, at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois.
During Sims tenure as "Eagle 7," the 101st Airborne Division deployed Soldiers to combat, contingency and peacekeeping missions around the world, to include Operation Inherent Resolve in Iraq, Operation Freedom's Sentinel in Afghanistan, dozens of training and partnership missions on the African and European continents, and hurricane and disaster relief missions in Puerto Rico and the United States.
Fort Campbell's Sgt. Brett T. Christian Tax Center Opens for Appointments
Fort Campbell, KY – Fort Campbell's Sgt. Brett T. Christian Tax Center, located at 43 Michigan Avenue, is now open for appointments. The tax center offers free tax return preparation to active-duty Soldiers and their Families and retirees.
During the opening ceremony Wednesday, Command Sgt. Maj. Jason Osborne, garrison senior enlisted adviser, encouraged the Soldiers who are on staff for the duration of the tax season.
"I want to thank the brigades for sending their Soldiers to help at the tax center. To get those folks who are really invested plays a huge role in the success of the tax center. It can't happen without you," Osborn said.
Spc. Devoreh Edem, 129th CSSB, 101st Airborne Division Sustainment Brigade assists Pfc. Charles McKenzie, A Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team with completing his 2018 tax return.


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Home » Troutswirl – The Haiku Foundation Blog » Sharon Pretti — Touchstone Award for Individual Poems Winner 2017
Sharon Pretti — Touchstone Award for Individual Poems Winner 2017
Sharon Pretti is a recipient of a Touchstone Award for Individual Poems for 2017 for her poem
as if they know
they won't last
It first appeared in Frogpond 40.2.
"This haiku intimately brings to mind the brilliant orange of the poppy, blooming in either the desert, along a freeway, in a green meadow, or our own backyards. With or without rain, it shines brightly and waves like a flag, reminding us of the earth's beauty and transience. Its short-lived nature, and the way it closes tightly in a bud each evening, is the perfect haiku moment to remind us of our own short time on this planet."
"A haiku that pinches. A sad reminder that we know and they don't."
Alan Summers says:
That's another powerful haiku, with the sound of the foghorns both resonant in themselves, and also connecting with so many movie scenes, where suspense is ramped up.
Derek Ball says:
I think the worst comment is the one from the judging panel.
To 'explain' a poem is to yank it roughly out of the ground, pull off and discard its petals, pull apart its stamen and pistil, and say "There you are, that's what it is."
The best appreciation would have been…..
silence and non-interference.
Alice Barrett says:
Angelee Deodhar says:
https://interestingliterature.com/2015/10/26/five-fascinating-facts-about-war-poetry/
The link between poppies and war remembrance dates from the Napoleonic wars, when a writer noted that they flourished over soldiers' graves. As The History Press website notes: 'there are several anonymous documents written during the Napoleonic wars which noted that following battle, poppies became abundant on battlefields where soldiers had fallen. These same sources drew the first documented comparison between the blood-red colour of the poppies and the blood spilt during conflict.' The association would be popularised during the First World War, especially by John McCrae's poem 'In Flanders Fields' in 1915.
Gabriel Rosenstock says:
Poppies have cultural and political connotations as well. In this part of the world – the geographical (but not political) British Isles – poppies are worn eleven days before Remembrance Day by those who wish to remember the war dead. For others, those who see war as an abomination, the very sight of a poppy (through symbiosis) is abominable! So, this simple haiku resonates in unexpected ways.
Chuck Brickley says:
Congratulations, Sharon. This poem, like most of your fine work, reveals a unique and soulful way with sabi. It gets to the heart.
A big fan,
Another one from Sharon is:
bits of garden
brushed from her knees
the far-away war
Sharon Pretti
http://www.modernhaiku.org/issue48-3/haiku.html
One of those, again, that with each re-reading a "further depth" can be seen.
John S Green says:
Thank you for this additional poem from Sharon Pretti. These two are wildly thought provoking.
In frogpond 41:1, on p. 111 she has another deep one in the re:readings section:
foghorns
the night spent
in separate rooms
Sharon PrettiThe Haiku FoundationThe Touchstone AwardsTouchstone Award for Individual Poems


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There are more than 6 million women in the United States who are currently dealing with fertility problems and finding that they are unable to conceive and start a family in the way that they want. Fertility issues can be devastating for any couple to deal with and it is important that you get to the root of your fertility issue in order to figure out the best course possible for treatments. Understanding the cause of fertility problems is important to you and your healthcare provider and can be the key to finding the right course of action to help you with your fertility issues. One of the easiest ways to get started in your attempts to find the source of your fertility issue is to get what is known as an E-tegrity test.
By getting this type of test, you are testing your uterine lining to help determine the root of your fertility issue. When you test your uterine lining the doctor will look for signs of the presence of the Beta-3 integrin. The Beta-3 integrin along your uterine lining is a special protein that is necessary for implantation to take place. While testing the uterine lining your medical professional will be able to determine if your body has what it takes to implant a fertilized egg or not, typically through testing the presence of this Beta-3 integrin along your lining. Typically if this uterine lining test is performed and you are missing the Beta-3 integrin, your fertilized egg is not very likely to attach to your uterine wall and you will find that your chances of getting pregnant are very low.
This test is one of the best ways to determine your ability to get pregnant as it tests for a very basic and very common issue that often renders women to be infertile. This test comes with very little risks and is far less invasive than most fertility related testing. This test on the uterine lining can even be done quickly and getting the results does not take long. By testing the body for the presence of the Beta-3 integrin instead of testing for many more serious medical conditions, you are often able to find out right away if your body and your uterine lining are producing the necessary proteins needed to get pregnant. If you do have this test done and find that you are not producing the proteins you need, you and your doctor will be better able to discuss your viable options and the best way to move forward so that you can get the family you have always wanted to have.


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Q: Accounts disappearing in Xcode 9
I upgraded to Xcode 9.0 recently and for some reason my accounts doesn't get stored in the Accounts panel anymore. Xcode stores them if I close the program, but NOT when I restart the computer.
I guess this is a bug and not a new feature, but are there any hacks or settings that I could change to prevent my accounts from disappearing (except from never turn off the computer that is)?

A: For the ones who may concern I've experienced a quite similar bug. In my case, some accounts disappeared and some others just "loose" the authentication with a "please relogin message". Even if I re-insert the credentials they disappear every time I quit and reopen Xcode.
Inspecting Console.app, I noticed that the problem seems related to a "not signed" binary regarding Xcode internal tools:
com.apple.dt.Xcode.KeychainService (DVTFoundation)
Subsystem: -- Category: --

DVTAssertions: Warning in /Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/IDEFrameworks/IDEFrameworks-14154/IDEFoundation/Provisioning/KeychainService/main.m:59
Details:  Connecting process is not Apple-signed (Error Domain=DVTSecErrorDomain Code=-67050 "code failed to satisfy specified code requirement(s)" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=code failed to satisfy specified code requirement(s)})
Object:   <IDEKeychainServiceDelegate: 0x7f9e93404000>
Method:   -_shouldAcceptConnectionFromPID:error:
Thread:   <NSThread: 0x7f9e93403290>{number = 2, name = (null)}
Please file a bug at http://bugreport.apple.com with this warning message and any useful information you can provide.

Reinstalling a complete clean macOS 10.13.4 and Xcode 9.3 was not helpfull. The problem was still there.
After struggling a lot with this bug, I found that after launching the previous version of Xcode 9.2 and  configured the AppleIDs on this version results in a working one even with Xcode 9.3. Now AppleIDs appear correctly configured and working without any issues.

A: I solved this issue by reinstalling Xcode. Apparently something went wrong in the first upgrading process.
Before reinstallation I deleted the app in Applications folder and deleted everything in ~/Library/Caches folder.


Like all good buses, after waiting years for a new Frank Ocean album, two are coming along at once.
Now, you're going to have to concentrate because this isn't straightforward.
The new record, the first new music since 2012's Channel Orange, and released exclusively on Apple Music for the time being, is called Endless, and is a visual album. From what we've seen on various YouTube uploads, which have been swiftly taken down, the footage has been shot in the same warehouse as seen earlier this month when he hosted a livestream of instrumental tracks while he slowly built boxes. This time, he's building a staircase. Honestly, it's crazy stuff.
However, it is seemingly not his 'proper' new album. That is still to come, and is apparently no longer called Boys Don't Cry, the title which has been knocking about for a long while. According to Pitchfork, an Apple Music representative says to, "keep an eye out this weekend for more from Frank", suggesting that it could be released very soon.
You can head to Apple Music to hear the album.


Hemangiomas are the most common birth defect involving malformations of blood vessels leading to benign tumors in infants and children. Approximately 4-10% of infants are born with at least one hemangioma. A recent increase in the incidence of hemangiomas in the United States is found to be linked with the increase in the frequency of low birth weight infants. More frequently seen in Caucasians than African Americans or Asians, the hemangiomas are five times more common in females than males.
More than 60% of the hemangiomas occur on the scalp and face and 25% occur on the chest and trunk areas. Occasionally, internal organs such as the liver, kidneys, lungs, colon and brain may also be involved. Hemangiomas are characterized by a rapid increase in the first year of life followed by a slow growing phase and regression of the tumor over the next 5-6 years of life. Usually a 90% regression is achieved by the age of 10-12 years leaving minor birthmarks.
Although, most hemangiomas do not cause any symptoms, larger hemangiomas and those located within the eyes or nose may have a tendency to bleed causing breathing or vision problems. Conventional medicine relies on surgical removal as the preferred treatment of a hemangioma. However, sometimes drugs such as corticosteroids, interferon-alpha and chemotherapy drugs are also used in hopes to reduce the growth of blood vessels. However, all the drugs have severe side effects.
Hemangiomas are thought to be caused by the abnormal proliferation of blood vessel cells and formation of blood vessels at atypical sites (angiogenesis). In a prior study, the researchers at the Dr. Rath Research Institute proved that the micronutrient mixture containing vitamin C, lysine, proline, and green tea extract has significant effect as seen by decreased angiogenesis and 50% reduced tumor growth in mice.
All tumor cells, weather benign or malignant, have the tendency to escape normal cell cycle which also involves cell death (apoptosis). Induction of apoptosis is one of the important mechanisms used in treatment of cancers. In a recent study* we investigated if the reduction in hemangiomas as observed in the prior study was caused due to apoptosis induced by the micronutrients. Our results confirmed that the specific micronutrient combination induced significant apoptosis compared to the control group. Ninety five percent of the hemangioma cells were found to be dead. We compared the effects with an apoptosis-inducing drug, Camptothecin, which is regularly used in treatment of solid tumors. The apoptotic effect of the micronutrients was more than Camptothecin as well. Additionally, the micronutrients also inhibited action of an enzyme called urokinase plasminogen activator (u-PA) which is associated with tumor growth, angiogenesis and metastasis.
Therefore, the micronutrient combination is seen to act on multiple targets in hemangiomas. By blocking specific enzymes the micronutrients are shown to reduce angiogenesis and tumor growth, and at the same time by inducing apoptosis they help in regression of hemangiomas.


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Los loros ñanday o cotorras de cabeza negra se incluyen en el género  Nandayus de la familia de los loros (Psittacidae). Está integrado por 2 especies, de las cuales una está extinta y la otra es viviente. La distribución de estas aves comprende el centro de América del Sur.

Distribución y hábitat

Especies de este género fueron registradas desde el  centro del Brasil, el este de Bolivia, y gran parte del Paraguay, hasta el centro-este de la Argentina. Los hábitat de estas aves son los bosques semixerófilos o húmedos, selvas en galería, sabanas y palmerales, generalmente inundados temporal o permanentemente.

Costumbres

Son aves gregarias, que viven en grandes bandadas, salvo en la época reproductiva, donde se separan en parejas. Se alimentan de frutos y semillas.

 Reproducción
La reproducción de la especie viviente del género, Nandayus nenday, ocurre en huecos que excava en troncos de árboles o palmeras, en áreas temporalmente inundables del dominio fitogeográfico chaqueño.

Taxonomía

Este género fue descrito originalmente en el año 1854 por el naturalista, y ornitólogo francés Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, hijo de Lucien Bonaparte y sobrino del emperador Napoleón Bonaparte.

Especies

Este género se subdivide en  2 especies:
 Nandayus nenday (Vieillot, 1823) - Especie viviente.
 Nandayus vorohuensis  Tonni & Noriega, 1996  - Especie extinta.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Géneros de aves
Taxones descritos por Charles Lucien Bonaparte


Much food for thought here – thanks very much for this article.
I can grasp the concept and can begin to grasp how I might go about doing as you suggest. That being said, if you were able to share some real examples of how you would do these things it would help those of us less experienced with this kind of self-challenge.
I do plan to do break-outs of this concept of Un-Seeing…breaking it down into component parts and maybe constructing exercises and explorations that can help move your head in new-to-you directions that might help with seeing the reality of some confusing situation more clearly. So, there will be more on this as I go on with this thing, I think.
Thank you for pointing out a new avenue to explore. It was one I had not thought on at all. Please do come again….
First of all, what a beautiful inspiring poetry you make! My compliments for the inspiring words!
I had a little tear of happiness with your beautiful written poem "Moon in Taurus" I am at a point in my life I am about to sow my seeds in wondering how it all grows. I am a Taurus so this poem really touched my soul.
I really think when we listen more to our souls and less to our minds, we can do so much more powerful things. Because we are more stronger persons if we think and do things with our hearts!
You are so inspiring, I sure will come back again!
I really like what you are saying here. It's a really good idea to break old thinking habits, and get out of our daily routines.
Challenge your way of thinking, and try new things, but your content goes a little deeper than that, and anyone that wanting to change things up, should definitely consider reading this.
Nice poem by the way!! Why do we always find ourselves struggling for the simple things we want in life?
Thank you for visiting my site and for sharing your thoughts. I do appreciate it.
You're right, I think. Us humans are really good at suffering over our suffering.
In the past, I was eager to do many things. I was eager to buy a lot of things. Then, my life was fully stuck by all these thing.
I found that my life is not my life. It had become the life of those things that I want but not really important. I tried to make it simple.
And now, I am happy with simple life! I am enjoying my simple life!
Thanks for your visit and for sharing your thoughts. It's a marvelous thing to be able to enjoy simple! Good on ya!
Wow. I really enjoyed reading this and the concept of unseeing the normal and commonday thoughts and beliefs so you can open a new way of thinking. That's the epitome really, of self development. I absolutely love the idea of writing a poem with my non dominant hand to see what comes up and what is hiding in my thoughts and emotions. It's getting late now, but I'm bookmarking this page for future reference and I look forward to trying this tomorrow. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the visit and for sharing your thoughts, Josie. I'm glad it is intriguing for you.
It's easy to laugh at the fish but I suspect there are many times in our own lives where we do the same sort of thing but don't notice.
And then in the first video, I thought the first point about the values of water v diamonds was obvious, but I don't think I had really thought about the law of diminishing returns in this sort of context.
The reframing of scarcity as abundance in the second video was quite challenging. I can see it working sometimes, but I still think it is difficult to think in this way. Perhaps I need more practice.
I have enjoyed this article.
Julia, I love your fish-story! Hee!
I do thank you for your visit and for sharing your thoughts on it. I'm glad the topic intrigues you.


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Richland Grove Township is located in Mercer County, Illinois. As of the 2010 census, its population was 2,300 and it contained 965 housing units.

Geography
According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which  (or 99.32%) is land and  (or 0.68%) is water.

Demographics

References

External links
City-data.com
Illinois State Archives

Townships in Mercer County, Illinois
Townships in Illinois


At 4:00 a.m., all hands answer the summoning whistle to witness Billy's execution. Some sit on booms; others observe from the tops of masts. The prisoner, accompanied by the chaplain, is escorted to the deck. Billy faces the stern. At the last minute his words ring out — "God bless Captain Vere!" These words have a phenomenal effect on the crew, who echo — "God bless Captain Vere!"
There is complete silence at the instant of execution and for a brief time afterward. The men are dismissed. Reassembled after the sailmaker's mates have readied the body for burial, the crew observes Billy's interment. A strange murmur emanates from the men. The noise quickly ceases at the piping down of the watch. The shrill cry of sea birds prevails during and after the time when Billy's body, wrapped in his hammock, slides into the sea.
The drumbeat to quarters draws the men's attention from the burial and dispatches them to their various regular duties. The band on the quarterdeck plays a sacred tune, and the chaplain proceeds with the customary morning service.
Days later, the purser remarks on Billy's willpower and suggests that he suffered euthanasia. The surgeon retorts that Billy died as do most victims of execution. He labels as romantic any notion that Billy's death was out of the ordinary.
In these three chapters, Melville establishes a mood of somber tension offset by an extended metaphor of religious imagery. Into the cathedral-like arrangement of crew, some of whom observe from the balcony of the foretop, Billy, like a sacrificial lamb, appears, accompanied by the humane and compassionate chaplain. As Melville describes the fatal instant, Billy, hanged from the cruciform mast, does not simply die — he ascends, against the prophetic glory of the dawn just as the ship is regaining its balance against the roll of the sea. Breaking the silence, Billy and the men, like a minister and congregation, sound the litany, an involuntary choral rebellion — ironically, in the form of a benediction honoring Captain Vere.
The procedure for execution, particularly of a favorite crewman, holds a grim potential for disturbance — emotional and possibly physical. Though held one hour earlier than usual, the normal morning routine and its ingrained habits are a skillful diversion following Billy's hanging and burial. Melville deftly concludes this central episode with the coming of the morning, which he compares to smooth white marble, the symbolic tombstone for Billy Budd.
the prophet in the chariot . . . dropping his mantle to Elisha Melville compares the departure of night to the ascension of the prophet Elijah and the passing of his mantle to Elisha, his successor (II Kings 2:11–13).
powder-boys and younger tars the younger sailors, who climb to better vantage points from which to view the execution.
foreyard . . . mainyard Billy is hanged from the yardarm holding the mainsail rather than from a lower one, as is the usual practice.
in short, Greek The terse words of the surgeon relegate the purser's musings to the more imaginative world of Greek literature, which he sets in stark contrast to the trenchant laws of science.
Orpheus with his lyre Captain Vere, a deep reader, knows the value of music, which he connects with the powerful performances of Orpheus, a character in Greek mythology who, with his music, sways the gods of the Underworld to let his dead wife, Eurydice, return to life.


It all started with a friend of mine putting in hardwood floors at her house. When she told me that not only would she have some left over but also that she would give me a smokin' deal on it, I went for it. (There seems to be significant changes in my life around my birthday every year. This year did not disappoint.) Once I was committed to a new floor, I thought, "This is an opportunity to take down that hall wall and create some space." This reasoning plunged me headlong into a project-within-project labyrinth where I was the lead general contractor. Yikes! Quarterbacking this "three month character builder" proved to be a test of my stamina, commitment and vision. The big plus dawned on me about half way through the venture. I realized that a profound parallel and eloquent awareness deepening opportunity was unfolding.
When big events are happening in my outer life, they often mirror shifts in my inner world as well. In the meantime, I am aware that the home is a symbolic representation and metaphor for the Self. When I put this 2 + 2 together, I was pleased at what I realized. My renovation project – with its painstaking planning, extensive de-cluttering, exhaustive researching, debate with dear ones, careful decisions on which experts to use, and meticulous cost projections – reflected a process that was happening within a personal dimension as well as an extraneous one. While I breathed in drywall dust and I (along with most of my possessions) was squeezed into two bedrooms at the apex of the affair, the watershed of my self awareness spilled over.
While I saw the considerable time, effort, and focus that the renos were taking, I also felt that my present consciousness had been shifting into a deeper and more peaceful version of myself for some time. Guises of kindness, gentleness, balance and surrender had pulled me into many new horizons of late. I was enchanted by these qualities in my external world. As I resonated with these quieter dimensions more and more, I felt myself subsuming them into my character as well.
My inner and outer labour of love has heralded a lovely new space with room to breathe and live less encumbered. The floor reflects light in a warm, organic sheen. The surface feels smoother and cleaner. It runs through most of the house, providing continuity and a feeling of expansiveness. As my new platform, the living wood supports me in its shiny, step by step sort of way.
Taking down the wall has brought light into places where light couldn't reach. The open space makes more sense of the storage closet and broadens the view. More space also provides the opportunity to do more things with my furniture. Nothing is cramped or fighting for space. Each piece of furniture can now be appreciated for its purpose, beauty and craftsmanship.
Only meaningful things dot the landscape. Clutter from the past has been removed. The content of my home has been weighed and judged. It is there "on purpose". It is either functional or it connects me to a significant person or event that is a part of my present life. Everything that I perceive gives me pleasure in spying it.
As far as the planning & research go, they seem to embody my journey of discernment as I tried on this and that in life, keeping some elements while leaving others behind. De-cluttering has been a life-long process and challenge for me. I had to learn detachment and to become acquainted with what "surrender" means.
My dear ones are a unique and vital part of my becoming all that I can be. I depend on the reflections that they provide in order to pilot my course at times. My friends and family are people who I treasure for their consistent support, gentle guidance, timely confrontations and loving acceptance. Even the ones who said, "You're nuts; don't do it; it's too hard," helped me to assess my resources and then to forge my vision and resolve in going ahead. (God knows that at one point I was floundering and despairing. I questioned my sanity and everything else. I could have bailed in that instant yet I'm glad that I forged ahead.) It was fitting that my loved ones were part of the team in bringing the whole shebang to fruition. The manner in which each person played a little, yet crucial part at various steps along the way was nothing less than miraculous. The right person seemed to parachute in at the right moment to play their very specific yet important role. In this way, each person provided a link in the chain that always delivered me to the next step.
The experts were analogous to anyone to whom I yield my power to. I have learned to trust and surrender at times when I am in over my head and/or things are beyond my control. Sometimes, I need to discern what my business is and what is not. Individuals who I trust are people who I have checked out. I get a "read" on them intuitively, plus their experience speaks for itself. Once I give them my take on things, I let go of the reins and expect the best. I'm still learning.
As far as cost goes, I usually have my eye on maintaining my balance. Traditionally, I have dived into whatever adventure has beckoned without checking the depth and subsequently being bruised on some level. I suppose that it is age that has contributed to my increased measure of prudence and planning, if not wisdom.
So I'm enjoying my sublime space and appreciating all that I have experienced in getting me "here." I have much to be thankful for.
Helena Green is a Counsellor, Health Management Instructor, Caregiver and Writer.
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Who is the weakest character in One Piece?
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In a recent magazine blurb, Eiichiro Oda addressed the series' unique – and often jarring – character design. As he explained, the goal was to make something that stood out from the traditional conventions of the anime/manga world.
Who is the coolest One Piece character?
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1 Edward "Whitebeard" Newgate: A Weapon Of Mass Destruction That Simply Wanted A Family.
2 Gol D.
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The character of Nico Robin was created by manga artist Eiichiro Oda, the author of the manga series One Piece, and she made her first appearance in its 114th chapter, titled "The Course", which was first published in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine on November 22, 1999.
Who was Basil Hawkins based on?
13 Basil Hawkins: Based On Basil Rinrose / John Hawkins Surprisingly, he is based on two important real-life figures. Hawkins' surname is derived from a real-life pirate named Basil Ringrose. His given name, Hawkins, comes from John Hawkins, who was a real life privateer.
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Genre Adventure, fantasy
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Why is one piece so long?
One Piece is so long because Oda has a lot of ideas and adventures in store for his characters, and because the series is so enormously popular, both in Japan and around the world.
Charlos is probably the weakest antagonist of all the antagonists in One Piece. He does and acts as he feels like it because not too many commoners would attack a Tenryubito. He shoots randomly at people with no care in this world. He shot Hatchi, which then angered Luffy.
Who is the hottest anime male character in One Piece?
Portgas D.
Portgas D. Ace is the hottest guy in One Piece, not literally. Even without his fire, he'd smoke all the boys out. He is also short-tempered which makes his head hot. His power is fire which makes his whole body hot.
CP9, more properly known as Cipher Pol Number 9 (サイファーポールNo. 9, Saifā Pōru Nanbā Nain?), is a secret Cipher Pol organization, formed of people able to use the Rokushiki techniques. They are the main antagonist group of the Water 7 Saga, specifically the Water 7 and Enies Lobby Arcs.
Was Edward Newgate a real pirate?
Edward Newgate = Newgate Prison This is one of the more interesting connections in Oda's work – not to a real-life pirate (although there were many with the first name "Edward," Blackbeard and the vicious Edward Lowe among them), but to a place where pirates were hanged.
His first name Dracule is based on the name Dracula and as we know Dracula is the strongest vampire. Name Dracula is translated into The son of Devil or Dragon. Mihawk and Dracula have two things in common beside the name , they are both very pale and they live in a big misty castle.
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Home Paleontology Fruit fly mutation foretells 40 million years of evolution
Fruit fly mutation foretells 40 million years of evolution
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Small, seemingly insignificant mutations in fruit flies may actually hold clues as to how a species will evolve tens of millions of years in the future.
That's the focus of a new study by a Florida State University researcher who raised 200 generations of fruit flies to examine how they changed both in the short and long term. What he found was quite surprising.
Small mutations in the wing of fruit flies — the drosophilids — predict up to 40 million years of evolution for this common household pest. The research was published in the journal Nature.
"The main point is mutation that's happening now affects long-term evolution," said Professor of Biological Science David Houle. "How this happens is not clear. Some scientists believe that the supply of mutation is what guides evolution. Others have suggested that the same processes that shape long-term evolution also shape mutation."
Houle set out to investigate if there were parts of the fruit fly that couldn't mutate or evolve and how quickly other parts did so.
"We wanted to see how the effects that mutation produces are related to evolution," Houle said. "We were surprised that there was a very tight relationship."
Fruit flies are considered an ideal species for scientists to investigate unsolved problems in evolution and genetics because it is easy to breed more than 20 generations each year. Their wings are also easy to measure, so scientists can easily identify even small changes.
"It's a convenient system to investigate complex parts of an organism," Houle said. "I've always been interested in evolutionary process, what's going on and what's limiting it. It's the nuts and bolts."
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By examining fossil evidence and conducting DNA sequencing, Houle and his colleagues knew that fruit flies had been around for roughly 40 million years old. They also suspected that the pattern of mutation could have remained constant over that time period.
"It is often true that some things evolve very slowly, and it's reasonable to conclude that mutational pattern may be one of those things," he said. "The important thing is that the pattern of past evolution did not necessarily have to be similar to mutation. We are surprised at how similar they are."
To measure the rate of mutation and evolution, Houle and co-author Kim van der Linde of the Tallahassee-based Animal Genetics Inc. gathered almost 120 different species of flies either by collecting them from nature or obtaining them from other scientists. Van der Linde studied how these flies were related to each other.
Houle then raised 200 generations of fruit flies — it takes four years to breed that many generations — and then individually raised some of the flies to see what, if any, changes occurred in the wings of the flies. In total, the researchers measured more than 50,000 fly wings in the course of this study and found changes in the overall shape of the wing, such as the ratio of width to length and vein locations.
Some types of changes evolved at a higher rate than others, such as the ratio of wing width and length. These evolutionary changes were also the most common mutational changes.
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Through these observations and sophisticated statistical modeling, Houle and his team were able to determine that the small mutational changes occurred in the same pattern as evolution throughout the entire group of fly species.
The findings are likely applicable to how other plants and animal species evolved, Houle said. But they also are predictive of the next 40 million years of evolution as well, he added.
"What we are doing is more accurately known as a retrodiction — using something from the present to predict past events," Houle said. "Of course, we can now make a prediction that Drosophila will evolve in this pattern in the future, as well."
David Houle, Geir H. Bolstad, Kim van der Linde, Thomas F. Hansen. Mutation predicts 40 million years of fly wing evolution. Nature, 2017; DOI: 10.1038/nature23473
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Stephen Sondheim, Legend of Musical Theater on Broadway, Dead at 91: Report
Stephen Sondheim, the songwriting giant of Broadway whose contributions include Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd and A Little Night Music, died suddenly at his home in Connecticut on Friday
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Published on November 26, 2021 06:13 PM
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Stephen Sondheim, legendary theatrical songwriter, lyricist and composer, has died. He was 91.
The news of Sondheim's death was announced on Friday, the same day as his passing at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, by his attorney and friend F. Richard Pappas, according to the New York Times. The day before, Pappas said that Sondheim had celebrated Thanksgiving with a dinner with friends in Roxbury.
Early on in his unparalleled career, Sondheim wrote the lyrics to the classic musicals West Side Story, which premiered in 1957, and Gypsy two years later.
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Sondheim would go on to compose the music and lyrics for such lasting works as 1962's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, along with Company, Follies, A Little Night Music and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in the 1970s.
The next decade saw Sondheim remain more than relevant on the Great White Way, with entries including Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods.
In the '90s, Sondheim continued to tower in his field, creating two of the most audacious and innovative musicals in his career: Assassins in 1990 and Passion in 1994.
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He is the recipient of eight Tony Awards, including a special lifetime achievement Tony Award, and in 2010 the Henry Miller's Theatre was renamed the Stephen Sondheim Theatre on West 43rd Street in New York City in his honor.
In 1985, he won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for Sunday in the Park with George, an accolade he shared with that musical's book writer, director and frequent collaborator James Lapine.
Sondheim was born in 1930 in New York, and became a dutiful piano student from the age of 7 or 8. "It was the sort of thing a nice Jewish boy did, and my parents used to bring me out and show me off," the theater legend told PEOPLE in a feature from 1976.
After his mother Etta Janet Fox divorced Herbert Sondheim, a prominent New York dress manufacturer, and settled down on a farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Sondheim began to really fall in love with music — mainly because their neighbors were the Hammersteins. "[Academy Award-winning lyricist] Oscar [Hammerstein II] was one of the most remarkable men I've ever met — generous, witty and sharp-tongued, and it was he who encouraged my interest in music and the theater," he said.
Of his own work, Sondheim said at the time, "My main goal is to tell a story and, if I tell that story well, tell it with resonance, the inferences to be drawn will take care of themselves."
Sondheim's rich and prolific body of work has served as the basis for several lauded films and stage revivals, including Tim Burton's Oscar-winning movie adaptation of Sweeney Todd with Johnny Depp, 2014's Into the Woods starring Meryl Streep, and 2017's Broadway revival of Sunday in the Park with George with Jake Gyllenhaal.
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Sondheim is survived by his partner Jeff Romley.
Currently, a revival of his musical Company plays on Broadway, and a new film adaptation of West Side Story, directed by Steven Spielberg, is set to be released on Dec. 10.
Earlier this month, Sondheim was present at the first preview of Company back after the theater hiatus due to COVID-19. He received a dedication from star Patti LuPone along with a standing ovation from the audience.
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