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LEFT DOGMATISM AS LOGIC OF POWERLESS
150 years since the release of the first volume of Capital is an occasion not only to return to the study of this fundamental work, but also to look back at what has happened with the left theory and the resulting left practice over the past century and a half.
To begin with, let's think about this huge figure – 150 years – and how many historical events have happened since that moment. But, despite this, Capital remains one of the most relevant books of our era. This is confirmed by the growth of Capital sales in Latvia, Great Britain, Germany and other countries. It is in this that the greatness of Marx's research and at the same time tragedy lie. Remaining one of the most important works for the left movement, Karl Marx's Capital created the ground not only for the development of communist theory and the upsurge of the labor movement, but also for raising the Marxist theory to a dogma that, according to left dogmatists, is supposedly not subject to rethinking and critical assessment.
Dogmatism is characteristic not only of Marxist leftists, but also of other representatives of leftist thought, including those who call themselves "anti-authoritarian leftists" and, it would seem, should not be susceptible to dogmatism.
In order to analyze in detail and comprehensively the problem of left dogmatism, first you need to understand what we mean by the very concept of "dogmatism".
A sufficiently accurate definition, which was later perceived by dialectical materialism, gave Hegel dogmatism as one-sided rational thinking, which dogmatically accepts only one side of the dialectical contradiction and, as such, is opposed to dialectics. But all definitions of dogmatism agree on one thing – the presence of supposedly immutable truths, which, according to dogmatists, are unshakable and should not be criticized. A dogmatist is not necessarily always uncritical of his views and may even criticize dogmatism. For example, one of the classics of Marxism, Engels, fearing the transformation of Marxist teachings into dogma, in his letter to the German Social Democrat Friedrich Sorge for the first time voiced a phrase that became winged thanks to Lenin's reading of this phrase: "Marxism is not a dogma, but a guide to action."
But dogmas have put this phrase in their service. Recognizing the need for the creative development of the theory, the dogmatist will certainly refute one supposedly indisputable truth with another supposedly indisputable truth, he will "creatively develop" the words of one great theoretician of the past using the words of another great theorist. In other words, creative development in his understanding will look like a refutation of one dogma by another dogma.
In order to understand why left dogmatism is so rapidly mastering the minds, it is enough to look at the state of the left movement in which it is today.
First, memorization of some postulates of Marxism, at first glance, explains all aspects of reality and gives a comprehensive picture of what is happening, without leaving a person the need for any independent mental activity. In other words, dogmatism is simply easy to grasp and puts its bearer only one requirement – to learn Marxism by heart, which, of course, is difficult, but much easier than to understand.
The memorization of immutable postulates eliminates the need for constant political practice, and any failures of "traditional" activist practices are easily justified by the fact that the supposedly necessary objective premises are not ripe and therefore subjective can be left aside.
Secondly, memorization of immutable postulates eliminates the need for constant political practice, and any failures of "traditional" activist practices are easily justified by the fact that the supposedly necessary objective prerequisites are not ripe and therefore subjective can be left aside. And when there is an obvious discrepancy between theory and practice, any convenient quotation from the works of the classics reduces the cognitive dissonance in the minds of dogmatists.
Thirdly, left dogmatism inevitably creates an image of the enemy and divides the entire left movement into "right" and "wrong" left. Thus, instead of fulfilling their program goals and objectives, left-wing dogmas endlessly criticize each other. Erich Fromm described something similar when an attempt to overcome his own estrangement translates into a desire to merge with the group, categorically contrasting himself with the other group, abandoning his feelings and thoughts. This kind of conformism is static, not periodic and convenient for dogmatic consciousness in that it establishes a mandatory pattern. In this case, ideological and theoretical.
Fourth, dogmatism often arises in an attempt to find the ideal of a successful practical implementation of one's theory and to believe that it took place without taking it critically, ignoring the changing historical circumstances and the obvious roughness of the social application. This reason, like any myth construction, is directly related to the fear of the slightest possibility that the usual ideological cliches may not work. In part, this "social nostalgia", suggesting a return to the supposedly "ideal" past, which may never have been, resembles the biblical myth of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden. And in order to prove that such a standard has ever existed, the theory is bent at an angle convenient for perception and frozen in this state forever, reinforced by relevant arguments from the works of famous Marxists and other left theorists, often mutually exclusive, but necessarily mutually excluding theory and practice . That is, misconceptions about theory justify misconceptions about practice and vice versa.
Finishing to consider the reasons for the spread of dogmatism, it should be said that it has not only a subjective basis, but also an objective one. Almost all leftists, regardless of the tradition they represent, agree that capitalism does not work and requires replacement by a more perfect system. Almost all leftists agree on how this new, more perfect structure of society will look. The most striking example is the almost two-century conflict between Marxists and anarchists, where the difference lies only in the question of the withering away of the state, or its abolition here and now. The problem lies in looking at the way the left project is implemented. Between the recognition of the imperfection of the capitalist system and the transition to a new, more perfect one, lies a whole chasm, whose name is practice. The view on how to fill this gulf is very different for various left tendencies and, unfortunately, in a number of European countries (especially in the post-Soviet space) the radical left movement is, in many respects, in a rather deplorable state precisely due to the fact that the most the general laws of objective reality are considered without taking into account political practice and without doing it, since this practice is often considered "opportunistic" or vice versa "sectarian" and, therefore, supposedly does not deserve any attention .
Although Marx, whom some leftists still strive to elevate to the unchanging and lifeless Absolute, at one time, reproaching the Paris workers for the "stupidity of despair", nevertheless ardently supported them when the proletarian uprising of the Paris Commune became a fait accompli.
Also, at one time, Marx, the very Marx whom they are trying to elevate to dogma, openly expressed his sympathies for the Narodnaya Volya organization, which violated left dogma in every conceivable and inconceivable way, and was rather skeptical of the refined Marxist Plekhanov.
Ultimately, in the debate about the primacy of the revolutionary movement and revolutionary theory, we have neither one nor the other. But instead, we have a huge number of spontaneous reasonings, torn away not only from reality, common sense and only interested in their carriers, but also divorced from what is meant by Marxist theory, which should not only explain, but also transform the world.
It may seem that I'm trying to equate the concept of "dogmatist" with the concept of "left radical". But nothing of the kind is available. The scholastic struggle of terms flavored with reformist rhetoric is no better than the same kind of "ultra-revolutionary phrases". Due to the excessive dogmatization of the left movement, we have neither left radicals nor left reformists. But pseudo-radicals and pseudo-reformists, who, in fact, are no different from each other, but who are waging an implacable theoretical war of all against all, are in abundance. The postmodern philosopher Jean Baudrillard would call it a simulacrum of the third order, i.e. distortion of reality and hiding the immediate absence of this reality.
It goes without saying that stitching together all the fragments of the left movement is not possible if it seemed to someone that this was the essence of the report. The process of dividing the left currents began in 1872 and continues to this day. Trying to stop him is tantamount to trying to abolish weightlessness. There are tendencies for unification in the left movement, but today we are not talking about this, and this unification is possible, rather, on the basis of situational unity of action, and not on a single theoretical platform.
The fact is that the whole historical experience of the class struggle, the construction of a just society (which objectively are still the only laboratories for finding the right recipes) and the work of the classics must not only be studied, critically reevaluated, but also applied, abandoning everything that is not contributes to the realization of those goals that we call programmatic.
At one time, 19th-century Marxism was adapted to the beginning of the 20th century, and later was revised in the 1960s, not at all due to the fact that the previous formulations seemed irrelevant and were not quite convenient for disputes at international congresses. Great progress for all left-wing forces will be the rejection of disputes about the primacy or secondary nature of theory and practice and the recognition of their unconditional mutual influence.
"Practice is the criterion of truth" is one of the favorite sayings of those who call themselves Marxists and leftists in general. But after all, any practice originates in a theory that justifies its application, and theory, in turn, originates in objective reality and real circumstances. It is worth recognizing and accepting if we don't want to engage in book-keeping, which is the case for the diverse left-wing dogmas.
I will allow myself a small allegory. Imagine that we need to knock down a box using a hammer and nails. And if we think dialectically, in a Marxist way, then we just take and collect this box. We study the instructions and do everything. A dogmatic radical will sit, look at the hammer and tell how this beautiful revolutionary hammer we will ever collect this box. The dogmatic reformist will pay attention to the lack of a hammer and will think how to do it all without a hammer, instead of going under the hammer. And the neo-Marxist will sit and rewrite the instruction.
The philosophy of Marxism has always been shaped by criticism of previous philosophy, and criticism of our own worldview gives unity to our ideology. In no case do I urge to completely abandon Marxism. Since dogmatism often arises from ignorance of Marxism, when a person thinks exclusively with quotes. The most striking example is the Soviet nomenclature, which absolutely did not know either the works of Marx or the works of Lenin, but very skillfully used quotes and endlessly produced dogmatism.
All I want to say is that the left needs to argue less about the theory, and only those theoretical disputes that focus on the practical application of this theory are useful.
Now I will express one seditious thought. One English bourgeois politician who is not related to the left movement, of course, very well characterized Vladimir Ilyich Lenin as a politician: "Lenin's weapon is logic, and his logic is opportunism." And the left, probably, should do more opportunism. And both practice and theory should depend on external circumstances. For example, radical times require radical solutions, but if I come right now and start telling the workers about the revolution, they may simply not understand me. But even the most progressive leftist theory runs the risk of being dogmatized.
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Come for the nonsense; Stay for the hoopla
Tag: game a day
Solomon's Key 017/365
At some point in 1986 Nintendo let us play Solomon's Key at home but nowhere could I find any more information than the year. Is this all part of the key?
Jim Henson's Muppet Adventure 016/365
You really couldn't go wrong picking up this Muppet Adventure in 1989. I mean sure the game isn't perfect but it's The Muppets and I'd say more games are bad than aren't so...
Big Bird's Hide & Speak 015/365
If you are unsure how to get to Sesame Street please feel free to google it or play this classic from October 1st, 1990.
Tennis 014/365
Today Tennis was dropped into our laps in 1984 and it beep booped forever. There are many Tennis games on the old 8-bit systems and this ranks right at the top.
The Adventure of Link: Zelda 2 013/365
The Adventure of Link: Zelda 2 entered our realm on the 14th of January in 1987 and it is considered so good I'm dropping it off a day early.
Wizards and Warriors 012/365
On the 1st of December in 1987 the first Wizard & Warriors game was released but it's the second cover that really made its mark.
Dirty Harry 011/365
Remember when Clint Eastwood talked to an empty chair like a total weirdo? Before that a game of a movie he was in by the name of Dirty Harry shot into our consoles on December 14th, 1990.
Chris Evert & Ivan Lendl Top Player Tennis 010/365
Two greats came together this month in 1990 to make a very mediocre game about the phenomenal sport of Tennis.
Infiltrator 009/365
In January of 1990 we were infiltrated by Infiltrator. See what I did there. I took the name of the game and then...forget about it.
Tecmo Baseball 008/365
When this was released in January of 1989 I can only assume it's because the thought of baseball brings warmth and in the middle of this month we need anything we can get.
One Offs
S.T.L.E.
The Dailies
Every Day Movies
Every Day Nintendo
UHF Channel 13
While explaining to the kiddo Indiana is the name of Junior's dog she proclaimed she would like to change the new puppy's name.
An attempt at anarchy.
I would like to introduce you to my new best friend; Bernadette Peters.
I interrupted a cat nap.
I stopped watching Weeds after a couple seasons but Meowzer is hooked.
And us…The Farters
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Would you like to enjoy the beautiful summer in Norway, and at the same time have great fun? Then be our special guest at Norwegian Grand Prix in Arendal from the 16th - 18th of July.
We gather at the famous Strand Café during the event. We have a good time and enjoy life!


La Roche-Bernard is located on the southern border of Morbihan. The site is not affected by tides yet has a strong maritime identity. It is here that Richelieu had "La Couronne" built; the first three-deck vessel of the Royale (French Royal Navy).
Ne manquez pas le voilier spectacle : La Loupiote qui fera escale au port de La Roche Bernard le 24 et 25 Juin 2017.


Just found out that a while back Tapatalk signed up with a crypto-currency organisation, Kin, which in itself is not great but since installing a "Pi-Hole" to block adverts on my home network, I discovered this crypto system was being contacted 2-3 times every few minutes.
So I've removed the app from my devices and the two forums I maintain - and reported them to Google.
Up to you if you want to continue using Tapatalk, but seeing as I did not consent to it being part of Kin, I don't recommend them any longer.


Getting motivated and staying motivated to do your fitness routines is something that differs from person to person.
If you find you are constantly needing fitness motivation then try to look at the things you like about it – not just about doing it but the overall benefits too.
It does tend to be that the people who are already in good shape with their exercise need less external motivation than those who are still working their way through the transitional phase between starting and somewhere near where they want to be.
When you have been exercising for a while you have probably worked your way through all the hard phases and it is now a firm fixture in the your weekly and daily routine. You probably don't even question doing it – you just know it is going to be a good thing in the end so you just get on with it. Even on the days where you really don't feel like doing it you know that once you get going it will make you feel better.
A beginner can learn a lot from this – even though they can't yet relate to it – look at what is happening. The consistent exerciser knows that the benefits are really worth the efforts – yes it is easier for them in the respect that their bodies are familiar with it and more capable of doing it but that will have only happened later on in their journey.
While we touch on that note – your exercise should be appropriate to your fitness level and therefore it will effect the experience you have. If you try to work at a too intense level you will be probably not have as good experience as if you worked at the correct level for you.
It is fine to push yourself every now and then but it needs to be in an appropriate way – As a beginner you will benefit less from pushing hard. Your body can only respond at a certain rate and punishing yourself in every workout will not necessarily translate into a quicker transformation.
An appropriate workout should leave you feeling good – maybe a little fatigued but not battered.
For an experienced exerciser, it is more appropriate to push harder – your body and mind is set up to do it and can benefit more from that experience.
What I am getting at here is that the experience you have with exercise forms your motivation to repeat it – if things go well and you feel good for exercising you are much more likely to want to do it again.
Therefore try to set yourself up to have the best experience you can. You will then learn to enjoy exercise and the benefits will come more easily as you will be consistent and this is the biggest factor to success.
Being honest it is hard to get the balance right and as a beginner it can be easy to overdo it and be sore for the next 2-3 days. Even with the best intension this can be unavoidable as your muscles are just not familiar with the exercise. But that should only happen once or twice and then things will become much more controllable.
What ever your level of fitness and no matter where you are on your fitness journey – learn to enjoy the exercise and the feeling you get from the exercise – this is your biggest motivator.
Enjoy and reward the progress you make along the way.
keep heading forwards and make small positive changes at a time.
Be fair to yourself – don't expect to build a toned sculpted body in a few weeks – enjoy the journey of getting there, it is as much fun as when you reach your goal.
"The good stuff is always worth the work it takes."


Hey everyone! Happy Thanksgiving! Visiting some family in New York today, even in this horrible weather haha! So after a few days of unposting (sorry guys), I've decided to showcase Deborah Lippmann: Limited Edition 15th Anniversary Trio swatches. The perfect for gift ideas for that special someone, especially for a polish lover.
Happy. Dazzling. Bright. Make every day a celebration with this limited-edition collection of blazingly brilliant lacquers beaming with festive flair. From glitter to shimmer, bright red to bold yellow, all three shades burst with excitement. Two quick coats and nails are primped to party.
New York State of Mind- a gorgeous shimmery red creme, with a silky finish. The formula on this polish is amazing and applied easily. You can get away with one coat for full coverage, however, for good message I applied two coats (for a much darker shade),sealed with top coat.
It's My Party- a fun glitter topper with pastel yellow, peach, dark/light blue and red glitter in various shapes and sizes. It's one of those toppers that is very unique in color combination, it's absolutely fun for the holidays. The application and formula was very good. There was enough glitters in one coat. I applied one coat over New York State of Mind, and a gradient over Big Spender.
Big Spender- one of my most favorite yellow shades in my polish collection. It's a beautiful shimmery yellow polish, close enough to being gold. The formula on this polish is amazing and applied easily. Very sheer and lighter in one coat, however, as you apply two more coats it is very opaque. This is three thin coats, sealed with top coat.
Overall all trio shades are absolutely beautiful and different from every other Deborah Lippmann polishes. Each colors are unique on their own, especially considering the difference in formula and application. The set are now available and retail $29.00 at www.deborahlippmann.com and at Barneys New York, Bloomingdale's, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, and Sephora stores.
Tumblr: Deborah Lippmann Hope all of you enjoyed my post today!
What do you guys think? Let me know in the comments below!


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package org.openqa.selenium.firefox;

import com.google.auto.service.AutoService;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
import org.openqa.selenium.Capabilities;
import org.openqa.selenium.OutputType;
import org.openqa.selenium.internal.Require;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.AdditionalHttpCommands;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.AugmenterProvider;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.CommandInfo;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.ExecuteMethod;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.HttpMethod;

import java.util.Map;
import java.util.function.Predicate;

import static org.openqa.selenium.remote.Browser.FIREFOX;

@AutoService({AdditionalHttpCommands.class, AugmenterProvider.class})
public class AddHasFullPageScreenshot<X> implements AugmenterProvider<HasFullPageScreenshot>, AdditionalHttpCommands {

  public static final String FULL_PAGE_SCREENSHOT = "fullPageScreenshot";

  private static final Map<String, CommandInfo> COMMANDS = ImmutableMap.of(
    FULL_PAGE_SCREENSHOT, new CommandInfo("/session/:sessionId/moz/screenshot/full", HttpMethod.GET));

  @Override
  public Map<String, CommandInfo> getAdditionalCommands() {
    return COMMANDS;
  }

  @Override
  public Predicate<Capabilities> isApplicable() {
    return FIREFOX::is;
  }

  @Override
  public Class<HasFullPageScreenshot> getDescribedInterface() {
    return HasFullPageScreenshot.class;
  }

  @Override
  public HasFullPageScreenshot getImplementation(Capabilities capabilities, ExecuteMethod executeMethod) {
    return new HasFullPageScreenshot() {
      @Override
      public <X> X getFullPageScreenshotAs(OutputType<X> outputType) {
        Require.nonNull("Output Type", outputType);

        Object result = executeMethod.execute(FULL_PAGE_SCREENSHOT, null);

        if (result instanceof String) {
          String base64EncodedPng = (String) result;
          return outputType.convertFromBase64Png(base64EncodedPng);
        } else if (result instanceof byte[]) {
          return outputType.convertFromPngBytes((byte[]) result);
        } else {
          throw new RuntimeException(String.format(
            "Unexpected result for %s command: %s",
            FULL_PAGE_SCREENSHOT,
            result == null ? "null" : result.getClass().getName() + " instance"));
        }
      }
    };
  }
}

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New Unit in Ticket Hall, Liverpool Street
Liverpool Street Station, Liverpool Street
London, EC2M 7PY
The new retail unit will occupy a very prominent location within the high footfall ticket hall. It will be extremely visible as you enter the ticket hall from the main National Rail concourse and as you exit through the London Underground ticket barriers.
Liverpool Street is located in the heart of central London; the station services many national rail lines including the Great Eastern Mainline and the Stansted Express and is the third busiest station in the UK behind Waterloo and Victoria. The subject unit sits within the main underground ticket hall and will be the conversion of the former ticket office. Liverpool Street Underground Station services the Central, Metropolitan, Hammermith and City and Circle lines.
The units are available on a 5 year lease contracted outside the Landlord & Tenant Act and will be subject to a 6-month rolling Landlord break.
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Jimmy Butler is getting real familiar with the Miami Heat training facility this week. On Monday, he let fans know that he was training at the team's facility at the crack of drawn.
Today, it appears he was not only training before sunrise again, but was also doing some snooping around the facility.
First, Butler posted a short video to brag about the Heat's three championships.
Shortly after, he made it a point to shout out the man who not only played a pivotal role in bringing those three championships to Miami, but also played pivotal role in bringing Butler himself to South Florida. That man is of course Dwyane Wade.
Butler called Wade a legend on his Instagram story, a title that is most certainly earned.
It's a pretty fantastic way for Butler to celebrate his arrival in Miami. As happy as fans are to have a star back on the Heat, it seems Butler himself is even more overjoyed.
Hopefully that happiness will lead to fantastic seasons for Butler in the coming years. There's still quite a lot of time for Butler to become a Heat legend in his own right.
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Left: John Brooke-Little in his uniform as Norroy and Ulster King of Arms in conversation with the then Earl Marshal, the 17th Duke of Norfolk, on the occasion of the College's quincentenary in 1984. See In Memoriam, below.
Welcome to the eighth edition of the College of Arms Newsletter. This has been created to keep interested members of the public up-to-date with the activities of the College of Arms and its officers, including matters of genealogical and heraldic significance such as recent grants of arms and recently recorded pedigrees. It is produced every three months and sent automatically and free to those who subscribe by entering their name and e-mail address in our mailing list. Other benefits for those who submit their names in this way include advance notice of College of Arms events, relevant publications, and media appearances. If you wish to remove your name from this list, to send the newsletter on to a friend, or send a genealogical or heraldic enquiry to the College, please make use of the links listed at the top of this page.
South Georgia and Sandwich Islands: the flag of this overseas territory, illustrated left, has been approved by Her Majesty and accordingly placed on record at the College of Arms, along with the flag of the commissioner of the territory. College reference: Standards 5/96, 97.
Welcome to the ninth edition of the College of Arms Newsletter. This has been created to keep interested members of the public up-to-date with the activities of the College of Arms and its officers, including matters of genealogical and heraldic significance such as recent grants of arms and recently recorded pedigrees. It is produced every three months and sent automatically and free to those who subscribe by entering their name and e-mail address in our mailing list. Other benefits for those who submit their names in this way include advance notice of College of Arms events, relevant publications, and media appearances. If you wish to remove your name from this list, to send the newsletter on to a friend, or send a genealogical or heraldic enquiry to the College, please make use of the links listed at the top of this page.
September 2013 will mark the quincentenary of the Battle of Flodden, where English forces under the Earl of Surrey defeated a Scottish army commanded by King James IV, who was killed - the last British monarch to be slain in battle.
High Court of Chivalry: on 7 December the website of the records of the High Court of Chivalry in the years 1634-40 went live at www.court-of-chivalry.bham.ac.uk. This period was the busiest in the court's history, largely due to the popularity of actions for scandalous words likely to provoke a duel, essentially a civilian species of action for defamation brought by members of the gentry or nobility. Many of the cases relate to questions of status, including disputes over social rank and the right to arms. The case papers and the stories behind them constitute a rich source for the study of the language of status, of the long drawn-out attempt to prevent duelling, of the relationship between different branches of the law, and of early modern social, sexual and scatological insult. They also offer insights into gender relations, processes of litigation and dispute settlement, as well as a wealth of biographical detail on plaintiffs, defendants and witnesses. They have considerable genealogical potential.
Left: a statement by a notary public from the bundles of court records at the College of Arms, with the notary's mark in the form of a portrait.
The website, prepared by a Centre for Reformation and Early Modern Studies project on the Court, publishes detailed abstracts, in a fully searchable form, of all surviving material from the 738 cases of which we have information, of over 1000 cases which went before the court in the period in question; the material is held largely at the College of Arms, with some additional records at Arundel Castle. The online version of the project also represents the first stage in a College of Arms plan to create a website for the High Court of Chivalry, exploring the history of the court and introducing the legal and heraldic questions connected with it and the Law of Arms.
Work on this project has been carried out by Dr Richard Cust and Dr Andrew Hopper of the Centre for Reformation and Earl Modern Studies, University of Birmingham, with funding provided by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. A companion volume to this web site, containing an account of the court's history and summaries of the cases for this period will be published by the Harleian Society in spring 2007 as Cases in the High Court of Chivalry, 1634-1640 edited by R. P. Cust and A. J. Hopper.
Welcome to the eleventh edition of the College of Arms Newsletter, which is produced every three months and sent automatically and free to those who subscribe by entering their name and e-mail address in our mailing list. Other benefits for those who submit their names in this way include advance notice of College of Arms events, relevant publications, and media appearances. If you wish to remove your name from this list, to send the newsletter on to someone else, or send a genealogical or heraldic enquiry to the College, please make use of the links listed at the top of this page.
The hall of the College of Arms dates from 1671-1673, being one of the first parts of the building to be erected after the destruction of Derby House in the Fire of London. It was used as a library until at least 1699. It was fitted up after 1707 as a Court Room for the Court of Chivalry or Earl Marshal's Court, with panelling, rails and throne.
Recent inspections of the paintwork, plaster and panelling of the Earl Marshal's Court revealed that the panels on the walls were separating from their frames; that a number of cracks had opened in the plaster of both walls and ceiling; and that the paintwork in general was in need of renewal. Work on the Court was undertaken by the specialist restoration firm of T Greening (Doncaster) Ltd. between October and December 2006.
The restoration work was funded by a number of very generous donations and grants following an appeal, together with contributions from the College of Arms Trust and the College itself.
Welcome to the twelfth edition of the College of Arms Newsletter, which is produced every three months and sent automatically and free to those who subscribe by entering their name and e-mail address in our mailing list. Other benefits for those who submit their names in this way include advance notice of College of Arms events, relevant publications, and media appearances. If you wish to remove your name from this list, to send the newsletter on to someone else, or send a genealogical or heraldic enquiry to the College, please make use of the links listed at the top of this page.
Conyngham–Heard–Phillipps Pedigrees: the White Lion Society has most generously given to the College of Arms three substantial manuscript volumes dating from the early seventeenth century, which contain over 3,000 pedigrees, together with an alphabet of Arms. They include annotations and augmentations by Sir Isaac Heard, Garter King of Arms, who acquired them in 1781, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, who owned them by about 1824.
Above, Conyngham-Heard-Phillipps Ms vol 1, pp. 284-5: pedigree of Brandon, in three hands or more.
Welcome to the fifteenth edition of the College of Arms Newsletter.
The Worshipful Company of Security Professionals: On 2 May 2008 this company became the City of London's newest Livery Company. It received its certificate of Livery from the Lord Mayor in a ceremony at the Mansion House; on the same day at Guildhall William Hunt, Windsor Herald, presented the Letters Patent by which the Company was granted Supporters to its Arms. The Letters Patent, which were signed and sealed by Garter King of Arms, are dated 1 August 2007. College reference: Grants 173/14.
Arms: Party per fess indented acute Or and Azure three Portcullises chained counterchanged.
Crest: Upon a Helm with a Wreath Or and Azure A Unicorn forcene Argent armed maned tufted and unguled Or the dexter forehoof enfiling the hasp of a Padlock Azure the sinister supporting a Terrestrial Globe Or the oceans Azure. Mantled Azure doubled Or. Badge (not shown): A Portcullis chained Or within an Annulet the outer edge potenty Azure.
The new Supporters are blazoned On the dexter a Dragon Azure armed langued winged and gorged with a plain Collar attached thereto a Chain reflexed over the back and holding in the sinister foreclaws a Key wards uppermost Or on the sinister a Griffin Azure armed langued beaked winged and holding in the dexter claws a Lightning Flash Or.
St George's Chapel, Windsor: an exhibition of black and white photography by Eleanor Curtis opened at Windsor on 16 September 2008. The images provide a glimpse behind the scenes at this Royal chapel, and include Garter Day. They are taken from her book St George's Chapel, Windsor: a Portrait.
The exhibition will transfer to the College of Arms, where it opens on 17 October and runs until 31 October. Opening hours Monday to Friday, 10 am to 4 pm; admission free.
Welcome to the eighteenth edition of the College of Arms Newsletter.


The Lord's Supper gets to the heart of our Christian walk.
What do you associate with the Lord's Supper? Stained glass windows, little cups, hushed solemn sounds?
I see a beach on the Atlantic coast in France where we celebrated this important Christian rite sitting on the ground, with surf boards as tables, during a youth mission camp. I also see the little old man somewhere in the Andes in Peru, in a tiny church, who knelt before me, and whose calloused hands took my feet and carefully washed them. We did not speak the same language, but we understood each other.
The Lord's Supper also reminds me of the thousands who throughout the centuries were killed, because neither Catholics nor Protestants (or even Protestants among themselves) could agree on its meaning and precise theological ramifications.
Together with baptism, the celebration of the Lord's Supper is an extremely important ritual in the Christian church, explicitly instituted by our Lord Jesus Himself (Matt. 26:26-28; John 13:13-17). Like any ritual, it speaks to those participating in it, reinforcing some of the most fundamental concepts of our Christian walk, namely: (a) that salvation does not come from within, but, rather, is a gift made possible only through the sacrifice of our Savior Jesus Christ; (b) that service and humility are not just theological concepts, but are, rather, elements to be put into practice; and (c) united we stand, divided we fall.
The Lord's Supper actually has its roots in the Old Testament, and is another good example of the unbreakable unity between God's revelation in both Testaments in regard to the plan of salvation.
Let's go back to the first Lord's Supper. It's Passover time in Jerusalem, and Jesus and His disciples are getting ready to celebrate this important yearly ritual that reminded them of God's saving grace in the face of the overpowering might of the enemy (see Matt. 26:17-30 and parallel texts). A room is secured, and the traditional Pascal lamb, unleavened bread, bitter herbs, and different cups are prepared. Jesus kneels before His bickering disciples and washes their dirty feet (John 13:1-6), a job normally done by slaves. The roasted Passover lamb is passed around; then the unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
Suddenly Jesus speaks up: "Take, eat; this is My body" (Matt. 26:26). He also takes the cup1 and tells them to "drink, … for this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins" (Matt. 26:27, 28). Both the bread and the cup represent the common daily fare of the ordinary peasant living in Palestine. But Jesus uses these common elements and gives them new meaning.
Paul writes about this in his first epistle to the Corinthian church, a church with a mixed ethnic makeup, reminding us that eating and drinking together does not only create community but helps us remember the incredible sacrifice of the Son of God (1 Cor. 11:26). By looking back, by "remembering" Christ's death on the cross, we look away from ourselves and focus on the most incredible, audacious, and transforming news imaginable. The news of a God who does not sit isolated in His corporate headquarters, so to speak, far removed from the reality of sin and pain, but who is prepared to humble Himself and die for an ungrateful creation.
The Lord's Supper not only reminds us of Jesus' death but gives a loud and public proclamation of Jesus' victory over sin, and looks forward to that glorious day of His second coming (1 Cor. 11:26).
This looking forward is an important part of Christian theology and lifestyle. It reminds us that life is not just 50 or 60 or 80 years, with the grave awaiting us at the end, but that there is hope beyond the grave. We will be united with loved ones and with our risen Savior on that great day, when He will "wipe away every tear" (Rev. 7:17; 21:4; cf. Isa. 25:8).
This particular aspect of judgment and eating and drinking is also present in the Lord's Supper. Paul reminds the church at Corinth that an individual who participates in the Lord's Supper in an "unworthy manner" "eats and drinks judgment to himself" (1 Cor. 11:29) and is "guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord" (1 Cor. 11:27). In other words, when you and I participate in the Lord's Supper without having repented of hurtful thoughts, wrong deeds, and selfish motives, we turn down an incredible opportunity. We keep on carrying these sins with us, instead of "uploading" them to our heavenly Sin-bearer and having them wiped away from our record.
These sentiments from Paul may be the reason that some of us do not participate in the Lord's Supper. Perhaps we feel unworthy—feel that our messed-up lives cannot be put into balance again. Perhaps we cannot forgive what has been done to us. Actually, these are not the things that make us unworthy. The only time we partake of the Supper in an unworthy manner is when we no longer hear the voice of the Holy Spirit—the Spirit who lovingly speaks to us, who unmistakably convicts us, and who wants to transform us.
Those who participated in that first Supper were not flawless or perfect. Indeed, all the participants that night denounced their faith, betrayed their Master, or just simply ran away. But through the Lord's Supper God has provided us with a wonderful way of physically rejoining the fellowship of the believers. By washing one another's feet, by eating and drinking the emblems of the death of Jesus Christ, by joining in the joyful song of victory and salvation that follows each Communion service, we become part of the (invisible) body of Christ—the bride getting ready to meet her Bridegroom.
I still remember all these wonderful Communion services—sometimes held in strange places, often bringing me together with people I did not know before, but always drawing me closer to my Savior. Every time I participate in the Supper, forgiveness becomes a reality, new memories of victories are added, new songs are written, and lives are changed.
I love to come to the table. Don't you?
1 The three Gospels that recount the story of the Last Supper all include the term "cup" (Matt. 26:27; Mark 14:23; Luke 22:17; also 1 Cor. 11:25-27), which does not actually specify what kind of drink was in the cup. The indication of the cup's contents comes only in Jesus' (later) statement that He would not partake "of this fruit of the vine" until the final eschatological banquet (Matt. 26:29). For a more in-depth discussion, see Gerald A. Klingbeil, Bridging the Gap: Ritual and Ritual Texts in the Bible (Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplements 1; Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2007), pp. 178-181.
2 For more details, see Gerald A. Klingbeil, "'Eating' and 'Drinking' in the Book of Revelation: A Study of New Testament Thought and Theology," Journal of the Adventist Theological Society 16.1-2 (2005): pp. 75–92.
This article originally appeared in Adventist World in December, 2007.
Gerald A. Klingbeil is dean of the School of Theology at the Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies in the Philippines.


What does The Incomprehensibility of God mean? Have you heard this term before? Randy discusses why it's foundational to Christian thinking.
Theologians talk about the Incomprehensibility of God.
It sounds complicated – and maybe you're thinking it's something belonging to a dry seminary lecture from a disheveled professor – you know the one: ill-fitting jacket with a tie knotted too tightly?
But, it really is practical and foundational to authentic Christian thinking and living.
except to the degree, and in the manner, He chooses to reveal Himself.
In other words, if He chose not to disclose anything of His existence, Person or character, we wouldn't know Him.
Without Him revealing Himself to us, He would be totally incomprehensible.
in the Bible (I remember, Lord, your ancient law and I find comfort in them…I have promised to obey your words. I have sought your face with all my heart…You are good, and what you do is good; teach me your decrees – Psalm 119:52,57,58,68).
and, ultimately in Christ (He is the image of the invisible God – Colossians 1:15).
That is the glory of the mysterious Incarnation.
That is eternal doctrinal truth: the Incomprehensibility of God.
Takeaway: in this new year, might our understanding of the Person and work of the Tri-une God be more closely and accurately aligned with the precise truth of Who He is, as disclosed in His self-revelation.


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UK TV review: The X-Files Season 11, Episode 5
Monster of the week
Balance of the two
Emotion trumps exposition in this movingly personal mythology episode.
"You see what I want you to see" is the tagline for Episode 5 of The X-Files Season 11, and it's one that turns out to have heart to go with its threatening spookiness.
Things start off in classic case-of-the-week style, with two teenagers – Sarah Turner (Madeleine Arthur) and Brianna Stapleton (Sarah Jeffery) – attempting to stab each other to death. Waking up on a boat, they circle each other and pursue each other in a strange, slumber-like state, both convinced that the other is a monster, known as "Ghouli". It's only when they wake up in hospital that they realise that they were mistaken. Scully (Gillian Anderson), meanwhile, has her own bout of weird dreams, as she finds herself stalked by some kind of shadowy presence, who lures her into a stranger house.
Before you can write the whole thing off as yet another Dana-gets-into-a-perilous-situation horror story, though, Ghouli reveals itself to be something else entirely. Rather than a standalone slasher, this is actually a mythology episode, picking up the threads of the opening chapter. That, you may recall, dared to kick off this 11th run with the revelation that William isn't actually Fox (David Duchovny) and Scully's son after all, but rather the result of sinister experiments done by the Cigarette Smoking Man.
It was an absurd, borderline ridiculous twist, and it takes real ambition to try and follow that up. It's a good job, then, that they've got James Wong, an The X-Files veteran, to juggle all the balls in the air. He does a surprisingly good job, given the script he has to work with, which, in true X-Files fashion, has more than its fair share of on-the-nose clunkers.
He helps Anderson to carry the burden of the storytelling leaps, and she shoulders it well, as Scully becomes convinced that this sleep paralysis link she seems to share with the Ghouli is similar to the one she has with William – so surely, therefore, they are one and the same? It could seem a little too half-baked, even in a show about outlandish conspiracy theories, but Anderson sells it expertly, as Scully sits in a morgue next to a body bag for their suspect and delivers a heartfelt monologue to the thing she thinks might be her son.
Into the mix wanders a mysterious onlooker, whose job is mostly to deliver such prophetic advice as "Don't give up on the bigger picture". Played with the right amount of mysticism by François Chau, he's a more important figure than we initially realise. Any subtlety, though, is lost on the other side of the story fence, as Duchovny is put on exposition duty, leading to a scene between Skinner and the CSM who point out that our agents are close to uncovering "Project Crossroads". Nonetheless, even as the episode dovetails into setting up more William-based shenanigans for future episodes, there's enough emotional weight to this hour to make it work – at a point when The X-Files could be zooming out to tee up a grand mythological arc for its presumably final season, the series makes the welcome decision to keep its bigger picture small and personal. Here's hoping that attitude stays in place for Season 11's second half.
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Citi restructures private banking in China
By Maggie Zhang | 02:32 UTC+8 January 14, 2009 | Print Edition
CITI is restructuring its private banking business in Chinese mainland and assured that it will continue to commit to the business, denying a news report which said the bank would close it.
As part of the restructuring, United States-based Citi is merging the private banking with its consumer banking business, a source familiar with the situation told Shanghai Daily yesterday. "It's not that we are closing the business but rather we are restructuring it into another business as an internal move," the unnamed source said.
The bank said yesterday it "remains entirely committed to the private banking sector in China and will continue to invest in it," as it appeared to deny a Reuters report which said yesterday the bank will close its private banking unit in China.
Citi looks to expand its wealth management offerings in China, according to the bank's spokesman on the mainland yesterday.


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Threat of mass resignation as a window of opportunity for questioning hospital service production structures in Finland
Authors Kokkinen L, Viitanen
Published 7 July 2011 Volume 2011:4 Pages 81—87
DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/RMHP.S21599
Lauri Kokkinen1,2, Elina Viitanen1
1School of Health Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere, 2Unit of Expertise for Work Organizations, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Turku, Finland
Background: Service production structures of public health care, once established, have proved extremely difficult to change. For this study, we reviewed discussions that took place in management teams at a Finnish central hospital over a period of nine months. The aim of the research was to analyze whether the management team meetings brought forth new and radical alternatives as to how service production could be reorganized. In addition to this, we were also interested in any possible problems that could be solved using these alternative models of service production, and also how preconditions to the application of different alternatives came about and how they eventually concluded.
Methods: Our data were derived from 24 management team meetings that took place between August 2007 and May 2008, and were fully videotaped. Data were collected from eight different management teams; the meetings of each were videotaped three times. The management teams reviewed represented three different hierarchical levels, ie, top management, division management, and operational unit management. Data were analyzed according to theory-based content analysis. As a theoretical framework, we utilized Kingdon's model to enable us to understand why some issues and problems are brought to the agenda of the change process and go on to become concrete policies while others fail to do so.
Results: During the study period, a threat of mass resignation of nursing staff caused a considerable change to the agenda of the management team meetings, introducing alternatives with the potential to renew the existing structures of operation in a radical manner.
Conclusion: According to our analysis, the threat of mass resignation acted as a window of opportunity, linking the lack of nursing staff (problem) to operational and structural changes (alternative solutions).
Keywords: hospital, nursing staff, mass resignation, change
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What follows is a framework for measurement that includes hard data as well as background information and examples. Also listed are some benefits described as intangible which could be factored into calculation if a more holistic view was taken. Hopefully this framework will be widely used by organizations as a basis for further development and refinement.
ii. Some survey providers have created a mental health index based on key workplace factors : respect, recognition, supportive workplace, safe workplace, empowerment, etc.


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Alex Gibney Lines Up First Narrative Feature With 'The Action' For Lionsgate
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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Alex Gibney, one of the most celebrated documentary filmmakers working today, is lining up his narrative feature directing debut with The Action, a 1970s-set political thriller for Lionsgate. The story follows eight anti-war activists who stole and made public classified FBI documents that exposed J. Edgar Hoover's campaign of spying on and blackmailing troublemakers. Scott Z. Burns (Contagion) is writing the script and will produce along with Anonymous Content's Michael Sugar and Meredith Milton and Participant Media. Anonymous' Ashley Zalta is an exec producer. Sugar is coming off the back of a Best Picture win at the Academy Awards for Spotlight, where he gave an impassioned speech in tribute to the victims of abuse by the Catholic church.
The story behind The Action would seem to be inspired by the Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI, a group of activists who, in 1971, on the night much of the country was following the Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier fight, broke into an FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole files about the bureau's surveillance of anti-war groups and civil rights organizations. Despite hundreds of agents being assigned to discover the culprits, they went uncaught for decades. Eventually, in 2014, the group was unmasked — voluntarily — by Washington Post reporter Betty Medsger in her book The Burglary: The Discovery Of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI. It was Medsger who, in 1971, had received an anonymous package from the burglars with evidence of the surveillance program.
Given the ongoing debate over the government's right and ability to access information with the FBI's request of Apple to help break into the San Bernadino killer's phone and the likes of Edward Snowden, this looks an extremely topical film. With Gibney at the helm, it is likely to be authentic and fast-paced, too. Having established himself as one of the most distinctive voices working, Gibney has fearlessly tackled hot-potato subjects including Scientology (Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief), cyber hacking (Zero Days), and the U.S. government's post-9/11 interrogation practices (Taxi To The Dark Side), for which he won the Oscar. More joyously, he also made one of the very best Frank Sinatra documentaries last year with All Or Nothing At All.
Both Gibney and Burns are repped by UTA. Lionsgate declined to comment.
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We have recently received a message from Anne Maclean, secretary of the Association of Highland Clans and Societies. She forwarded an invitation from the 1745 Association which will be giving a guided tour of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery at 1 Queen Street, Edinburgh between 17.45 and 18.30 on Thursday December 8th 2016. The Gallery contains the finest collection of Jacobite portraits in the world, including the recently acquired portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart painted by Allan Ramsay.


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Russia's Caspian Flotilla Gains an Air Arm
By Paul Goble
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Until the Russian Federation launched a barrage of cruise missiles against Syria from ships in the Caspian Sea in October 2015 (see EDM, October 26, 2015), few people in the West devoted much attention to Russia's Caspian Flotilla, viewing it, if at all, as a purely coastal defense force (Riafan.ru, May 26, 2019). But in the three years since then, that unit of the Russian navy—the Military Maritime Fleet (Voyenno-Morskoy Flot—VMF)—has dramatically expanded its capabilities and role in Moscow's thinking. And that trend is likely to only increase now that the new head of the VMF is Admiral Nikolay Yevmenov, a former commander of the Caspian Flotilla (Polit.ru, May 9). Indeed, the Flotilla's current commander, Admiral Sergey Pinchuk, recently announced that, for the first time, his naval force will include amphibious military planes and helicopters (Regnum, May 22).
"We are forming an aviation squadron," Admiral Pinchuk said. "It will be based in Kaspiysk and will consist of Be-200 planes and Mi-14PB helicopters," giving the Caspian Flotilla an enhanced ability to conduct search-and-rescue operations and to provide medical care. Pinchuk's statement is certainly true as far as it goes. But having this capability will also allow Russia's local naval grouping to more effectively project power, especially now that this force is located not in Astrakhan, where it had resided since Soviet times, but in Dagestan, far down the sea's western coast and closer to Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkmenistan. Indeed, a series of steps the Russian government has taken over the last year alone along with the prominence shown to the Caspian Flotilla over the last month during broader Russian military exercises strongly suggest that Moscow plans to use its new capability in exactly such a more offensively oriented manner.
In April 2018, Moscow shifted the home base of the Caspian Flotilla from the northern Caspian coastal city of Astrakhan to Kaspiysk (Dagestan), giving it greater freedom of maneuver and putting it closer to where its forces might be used (Pravda.ru, April 2, 2018; see EDM, June 4, 2018). The next month, Moscow showed that it viewed the Flotilla as something more than a launching pad for cruise missiles by deploying its ships to the Sea of Azov after passing them through the Don-Volga Canal (see EDM, May 31, 2018). Then, in June, Moscow added a marine unit to the Flotilla, giving it the ability to land forces anywhere along the Caspian coast and thus project Russian power there (see EDM, June 7, 2018). This rapid buildup in the Flotilla's capacity sparked concerns among the other littoral states as well as nearby Ukraine (See EDM, November 27, 2018). And Kyiv has become even more apprehensive now that Moscow has again begun talking about expanding its internal canal system between the Caspian and the Sea of Azov, which would allow it to shift forces from one theater to the other even more rapidly (see EDM, March 26, 2019).
Recent weeks have produced more evidence that the Caspian Flotilla, long an afterthought for Moscow and others, is becoming far more important. Even Chinese naval analysts have recognized this fact, which should say a great deal, especially given that the Chinese reportedly were especially impressed by the Flotilla's use of short-range rockets (Politros.com, May 9).
Among the most important developments this spring are the following: the Flotilla has now built new housing for its much larger naval and marine complement (Pravda.ru, April 2, 2018; Md-gazeta.ru, March 28, 2019). Its training and operations are being integrated not only with the Southern Military District, of which the Caspian is a part, but also with the Southern Federal District that oversees part of Russia adjoining the always restive North Caucasus (Redstar.ru, May 27). The Flotilla's training and operations have been dramatically increased compared to a year ago, and these activities have been covered by Moscow television, something that also sends a message (Tvzvezda.ru, May 20). And finally—and perhaps most notably—the Caspian Flotilla, which in the past was often left out of all-Russian military games and Victory Day celebrations, this past month has been given a prominent role in both (Tvzvezda.ru, May 19).
It is always good practice to avoid inferring intentions from capabilities, but it is certainly the case that Russia's Caspian Flotilla now has more firepower and sea-land capacities than do the navies of any of the other Caspian littoral countries. And at least some in Moscow increasingly view this Flotilla as a force capable of intimidating other regional actors and with the potential to project power more broadly in the Sea of Azov or via cruise missiles still more widely. It is not just a search-and-rescue or constabulary force that its commander wants people to believe it is; the Caspian Flotilla is increasingly a military force to be reckoned with, especially if the conflict in and around Ukraine continues or if the discord between Iran and the United States should shift from a war of words to something more.
Paul Goble is a longtime specialist on ethnic and religious questions in Eurasia. Most recently, he was director of research and publications at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy. Earlier, he served as vice dean for the social sciences and humanities at Audentes University in Tallinn and a senior research associate at the EuroCollege of the University of Tartu in Estonia. While there, he launched the "Window on Eurasia" series. Prior to joining the faculty there in 2004, he served in various capacities in the U.S. State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency and the International Broadcasting Bureau as well as at the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
This article appeared originally at The Jamestown Foundation's Eurasia Daily Monitor.
Related Topics: Turkmenistan, Iran, Azerbaijan, Russian Navy, Caspian Sea, Russia, Caspian Flotilla


A Reading Slump: categorized by not possessing the attention and / or interest to pick up a book and maintain interest. Most people, however, do have the desire to read in order to inform themselves, entertain themselves, or both.
Here's a list of books that will get you (and/or someone you know), back into reading. Enjoy and forward to anyone who may find this list useful!
Perfect for: Lovers of a juicy, page-turning take on a Ruth Madoff-esque character.
Perfect for: Teens (and anyone) looking for a readable page-turner that deals with a difficult subject.
Perfect for: Psychological thriller lovers.
Perfect for: the reader who never recovered from the Harry Potter series ending.
Perfect for: Romantic historical fiction readers.
Perfect for: Romantic fantasy lovers.
Perfect for: Fans of inspirational sports-related content.
Perfect for: Lovers of gripping courtroom dramas.


ALEX McLEISH has revealed Scott McTominay had a stomach bug after the Scotland star appeared to snub the Tartan Army.
The Man United midfielder sprinted up the tunnel at full-time following the humiliating 3-0 defeat to Kazakhstan.
That looked to have caused a bust-up involving Celtic midfielder and national team stand-in skipper Callum McGregor and coach James McFadden.
But Eck insisted the Old Trafford ace, a second-half sub, had to race to the toilet.
After the game, McLeish claimed Scotland got off to a GOOD start despite losing two goals inside the opening ten minutes.
Yuriy Pertsukh and Yan Vorogovskiy fired the hosts two up very early on before Baktiyar Zainutdinov added a third in the opening stages of the second half.
Eck will now face questions over his future.
Scotland face San Marino on Sunday in the second game of the campaign and defeat would almost certainly end the ex-Rangers gaffer's reign.
He was trolled by Paddy Power after the defeat, with the betting giants also slashing their odds on him being sacked before June.


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Walking with Ruskin
Robert Cording
In his poem, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell," William Blake hypothesized that "If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." Of course, Blake's "doors of perception" are both hard to clean and even harder to keep clean. For John Ruskin, the famous 19th century art and social critic, seeing demanded a scientist's respect for fact, but also a love for what was being seen. These poems ask us to attend, with devotion and care, to a world which will always remain a mystery, but a mystery in which love calls us to the things of this world where we may become most fully human.
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ROBERT CORDING teaches English and Creative Writing at the College of the Holy Cross where he is the Barrett Professor of Creative Writing. He has published five collections of poems: Life-list, which won the Ohio State University Press Journal Award in 1987, What Binds Us to This World (Copper Beach Press 1991), Heavy Grace (Alice James, 1996), Against Consolation (CavanKerry Press, 2002), Common Life (CavanKerry Press, 2006). He has received two grants in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and two from the Connecticut Commission of the Arts. In 1992, he was poet-in-residence at the Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire. His poems have appeared in the Nation, Image, AGNI, The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Poetry, DoubleTake, Orion, Paris Review, The New Yorker and many other magazines. He lives in Woodstock, Connecticut with his wife and three children.
The tradition from which Robert Cording's poems emanate is the rich borderland between spirit and religion, between nature and God, between suffering and redemption, between Wordsworth and Eliot. The wonder of Cording's work is how off-hand it seems—art-as-modesty and modesty-as-art. The humility at work here is genuine yet the dark questions about our time on earth remain. The answers are the poems themselves—equivocal yet powerful, resonant yet casual, calm yet fraught. To look human failing in the eyes and not blink is an achievement, to join praise in the same breath is very special.
— Baron Wormser
One takes an immitigable journey reading Walking With Ruskin by Robert Cording: the distance not far—a room, a neighborhood, a pond a mile off, a wood—but the sphere, the scope, is staggering. This is Dickinson meets Hardy meets Frost meets Yeats: vast emotional range; a deeply loving, empathetic gaze; stubborn exactitude and rigorous thought; and scattered everywhere about, the great contraries: life and death, light and darkness, song and silence, presence and absence, terror and ecstasy. While these traits of some of Cording's precursors are visible, the liquid ease with which the tier of material flows concordant with the tier of manner is his own doing. Like slipknots being pulled taut, richly varied sentences always break concisely across the line: the reader never falls, and, when each poem concludes, he or she is left in a clearing with more, not less, to think about. To achieve, consistently, such resonant last chords, is true mastery—and generosity. Cording's years chasing fleet-footed Eloquence have paid off: again and again, he catches her.
— Gray Jacobik
Staying Awake
I've spent one third of my life asleep,
I read, and so I considered
how the drag and suck of Everyday
conspires against my waking—
jobs, meetings, grocery shopping,
house repairs and mortgages.
After I'd added on the dread of everything
I should have done but didn't, or did,
and had things turn out the very way
I'd feared, I just wanted to lie back
and dream, but I made myself sit up
in my chair, which brought to mind
my grandmother who liked to tell me
at family dinners, if I didn't sit up
straight, I'd become a hunch-back
as an old man, and now I was one,
at least in part, my shoulders slumping
forward, too heavy to hold up.
By then I was living in the past,
those dinners when all my grandparents
were alive, and my great-grandparents
on my mother's side and all my aunts
and uncles. I was saying their names—
Anna, Henry, Eleanor, Emma, George—
when, of course, I fell asleep and dreamed
that someone was whispering,
Wake up! Wake up! in a room
that the afternoon sun had warmed,
but now was running out of light.
And still I did not wake up.
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Is there other ways to switch to Channel 2 for Receiver Cal?
Great to have a work around, but bad form to do source and receiver cal at all, using the legacy methods. Lots of reasons why these are limited in their capability, but suffice it to say you should never use them, and always use the newer SmartCal with Power Calibration enabled (I call it guided power cal).
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Then, a new twist to my ethnicity investigation popped up when Ancestry announced that it had developed new algorithms "to analyze longer segments of genetic information," said an Ancestry spokesman, "and better distinguish between adjacent regions." It also added 13,000 more reference samples.
In his first results, my brother had just 16 percent from Britain and 28 percent from western Europe. But that adds up to 44 percent, almost exactly the same 45 percent I got when I added my English plus western European percentages. And his 28 percent southern Europe matches my 29 percent southern Europe. He, however, has a surprise 8 percent Scandinavian, similar to my 8 percent Jewish. After the update, he was told he was 35 percent English, Welsh, northwestern Europe (19 percent more than before), 29 percent Italian, 12 percent Greek and Balkans, 11 percent Germanic European, 7 percent French, and 6 percent Irish and Scottish. Judging from his map, however, it looks as though the circles have expanded a bit and "Scandinavia" has been renamed "Germanic Europe."
Multiple companies, including 23 and Me (shown), offer DNA test kits.
Next, my mother took the test. At first, she got 47 percent from western Europe and 24 percent from Britain, adding up to 71 percent from the region that gave me and my brother 44 to 45 percent. But she also got a big 21 percent from Scandinavia, which was initially a surprise. Then I unearthed an ancestor named Albert Andriessen Bradt (1607-1686), my 10-times-great-grandfather, born in Norway, who came to America in 1636. In her updated report, she was 57 percent from England and northwestern Europe, 18 percent from "Germanic" Europe, 16 percent from Sweden and 9 percent from Norway — so not radically different from the first round.


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Any Human Heart by William Boyd
Any Human Heart was my latest foray into William Boyd's back catalogue. The story was completely different to the others I've read while being equally as good.
Any Human Heart is written as the journal of a fictional character, Logan Mountstuart. The book contained annotations and an index at the back with page references to real people, places and events which made it seem as if Logan were a real person. Logan was a writer and the people in his life were a who's who of the writing and arts world as well as fictional versions of society figures. They included the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Picasso and many others, all of whom lived their lives alongside the fictional characters.
The journal began when Logan was a teenager in school with his two best friends during the early 1920s. It continued through Logan's University years followed by his early successes as a writer, the effects of the stock market crash of the late 1920s on his family's finances, then his marriage and the birth of his daughter before he met a woman who became the love of his life. World War Two interrupted Logan's life enormously and significantly changed the life he had expected to live after the war ended.
As well as being a writer, Logan was also an art collector and at various times during his life owned works by many of the most famous artists of his times. He had very strong ideas of what was good art and what was not, and I was amused to learn that Logan had a very low opinion of Jackson Pollock's works (an opinion still shared by many older Australians who were outraged when the Labour Government of the time controversially purchased Blue Poles for a record price in 1973. These days the estimated price of the painting make the purchase a good buy, but the value of the painting as art is still a talking point).
The places where Logan lived were diverse and included Uruguay, England, France, the United States of America as well as a stint in Nigeria.
Logan isn't perfect and he doesn't pretend to be, at least to himself in his journals.
One small complaint is that I felt Logan's story had the potential to play with my emotions far more than it actually did. For example, some sections left me feeling happy but not overjoyed, or sad but not gutted. I felt as if the author was capable of pulling at my heartstrings had he wanted to but restrained himself.
Despite this, Any Human Heart is very good and I am loving working my way through William Boyd's books.
Author, Book Review, Boyd - William
Any Human Heart
Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd
William Boyd is an author who I've been working up to for some time. I started with Ordinary Thunderstorms for the simple reason that this was the book my library had on the shelf.
Ordinary Thunderstorms is a thriller which I found so exciting that I didn't want to put the book down. I read on the train to and from work, and this is one of those books that I could have stayed on the train with, travelling all over Melbourne until I finished the story instead of getting off at Flinders Street and heading into work, had I not been the diligent, hard-working person that I am.*
The story starts with the main character, Adam Kindred walking along the bank of the Thames River in London. Adam is a climatologist who has just had a job interview, (which went well, by the way), when he gets hungry and drops in to a neighbourhood restaurant in Chelsea. During his meal, Adam speaks with another man, a fellow scientist who is dining alone. After the other man left the restaurant, Adam realises the other man left a folder of paperwork under his table. Adam picks the folder up, finds the other man's name and phone number inside and phones him. The man is Dr Philip Wang, and he gratefully invites Adam for a drink in his apartment when he returns the folder. When Adam turns up, Philip is lying on his bed with a knife in his chest. Philip is still alive and convinces Adam to pull the knife out, but when Adam does, Philip dies.** At this point Adam hears somebody outside on Philip's balcony, so he takes the folder and bolts.
Instead of going straight to the police Adam returns to his accommodation where he has a lucky escape from the person who was on Philip's balcony, then realising that he might not be safe with the police, goes on the run and disappears in London.
Adam is being hunted by the police for Philip's murder and is also being hunted by the person who killed Philip, presumably because he has Philip's folder. Adam makes enquiries and learns that Philip was trialling an asthma treatment for children in London hospitals called Zembla-4, which is being funded by a large pharmaceutical company.
The story of how Adam managed to disappear was fascinating. By not using his phone, passport or bank cards Adam became invisible, but the social ties he made as time went on (both wanted and unwanted) were dangerous to his ongoing anonymity. Adam turns out to be a sucker for women though, which is why he was in London looking for a new job in the first place. One woman Adam meets along the way provides him with shelter and her affection, although for a price. Rita, a policewoman who works on the Thames River, seems likely to catch Adam in his campout on the riverbank at any moment.
For a thriller, this story meanders along, constantly delving into fascinating asides such as how homeless and people in terribly low socio-economic circumstances live, cult religions, the ethics (or lack of them) in big business, policing on the Thames River and work options for former SAS soldiers. There were a few sections of the story that made me squeamish and other sections that I delighted in.
From time to time I became irritated with Adam. For a scientist he didn't always think clearly, but I was always on his side, hoping against overwhelming odds that the bad guys would be exposed and punished and the good guys would win.***
I'm keen to read more books by William Boyd but don't want to spoil these for myself by reading others too soon. Waiting to read another is going to be a little like being on a diet, but knowing there is chocolate out there somewhere. Highly recommended.
*If this last sentence sounds a bit sucky, it is because my boss occasionally reads my reviews…
**My First Aid Certificate is well out of date, but I do remember learning that if somebody has been stabbed or impaled in any way, First Aiders are supposed to wrap the implement so it doesn't get bumped and call an ambulance, rather than trying to remove it, which can cause as much damage as sticking it in.
***You don't always get what you want. Not saying whether things work out okay for Adam or not, read Ordinary Thunderstorms and find out for yourself.
Author, Boyd - William


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Belgian Open 2017 – Wheelchair Tennis Tournament in Jambes, Belgium!
26th to 30th of July
In 1976 Brad Parks hit a tennis ball from a wheelchair for the first time and realised the potential of this new sport – Wheelchair tennis was born! Since it can be played on any regular tennis court and no modifications to the size of rackets or balls are needed, wheelchair tennis is one of the fastest growing wheelchair sports in the world. Furthermore, it follows the same rules as non-disabled tennis, with the only exception being that the wheelchair tennis player is allowed two bounces of the ball. The ITF established the Wheelchair Tennis Tour in 1992 with 11 international tournaments. Today, due to the rising popularity of the sport, over 150 events per year take place all around the globe.
One of the biggest ITF events in Europe is the Belgian Open in Jambes, Belgium, starting this Wednesday, July 26. It is a gathering of the world's biggest athletes of wheelchair tennis, as over 100 players will take part in Singles and Doubles events in four different categories (Men, Women, Quad and Juniors) until Sunday, July 30. But not only the size and quality of the tournament are exceptionell. According to the organizers, the tournament bases its success on around 80 volunteers, who "keep coming from year to year", which creates a very special and familiar atmosphere for players and visitors alike! In offering many different activities for visitors, e.g. to try wheelchair tennis, the tournament committee also tries to sensitize to the issue of disability, so that specatotors get a better understanding of the outstanding performances and dedication of all participants. This is what makes the Belgian Open to more than just an tennis tournament but to an "incredible human adventure"!
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International German Junior Championships start today!
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First tournaments of the French National Championships are underway!
During the next two months the French National Championships in severals age categories will be hosted by the Fédération Française de Tennis in different locations all over France. Kicking off the nationals season, the Super Seniors in the age categories 65, 70 and 75+ are currently playing their Championships in Le Touquet between June 15 and June 25. This event stands out due to the huge commitment and dedication by the participants for the sport and their competitive spirit to find the new champion in their respective age groups!
Meanwhile, in Rueil Malmaison, the Juniors in the age group under 14 are playing until June 24 to crown a new champion, which might just be the first steps towards a professional career!
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