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Supertramp Breakfast In America Numbered Limited Edition 180g LP
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Supertramp Breakfast in America on Numbered Limited Edition 180g LP from Mobile Fidelity!
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Supertramp's Blockbuster Features Catchy Hooks, Rhapsodic Melodies, Symphonic Bluster, Meticulous Production: Breakfast in America Includes "The Logical Song," "Take the Long Way Home"
Mastered from the Original Master Tapes for Supreme Sonics: Mobile Fidelity's 180g Vinyl LP Presents the Record's Famed Dynamics, Colors, Tones, and Instrumentation in Full-Range Glory
Supertramp's Breakfast in America has it all: Illustrious artwork. Sing-a-long hooks. Contagious melodies. Symphonic bluster. Rhapsodic thrust. Signature Wurlitzer electric piano sounds. Two Grammy Awards, including one for Best Engineered Album. More than 20 million copies sold. Four Billboard hit singles that continue to dominate radio airplay today. Every aspect of the chart-topping art-rock set screams blockbuster, not the least of which is the production, the result of painstaking studio setups and months of mixing. Now, you can experience the sonic brilliance in unprecedented clarity on Mobile Fidelity's definitive-sounding reissue.
Mastered from the original master tapes and pressed at RTI, this numbered-edition 180g LP wrings out the record's dynamics, colors, and tones in all their full-range glory. Absent artificial ceilings, Breakfast in America unfolds with an expansiveness and radiance that parallels the vibrancy of its iconic New York-themed cover. Crucial traits such as imaging, separation, balance, transients, and openness achieve near-epic levels of realism and presence. Songs unfold and breathe on mammoth soundstages that put the effort's legendary production – and stellar playing – into proper perspective. The 1979 set has been reissued multiple times in the past, but it's never sounded so engaging, lifelike, or entertaining.
Indeed, aside from the undeniably catchy nature of the ten tracks, fun remains the most central element of Breakfast in America. The band even titled the record to fall in line with the overall joyful feeling of the material. About the latter: Few late 1970s rock albums feature a more cohesive, harmony-drenched parade of stunningly executed, wondrously arranged works. The collective offspring of members Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson, each tune reflects the creative pulses of each musician, with the resultant contrasts lending to their appeal. Davies' penchant for grittier, bluesy strands blends with Hodgson's witty, pop-leaning techniques. The combination proves unstoppable.
Home to a quartet of commercial staples – "The Logical Song," "Goodbye Stranger," "Take the Long Way Home," and the title track – Breakfast in America teems with arena-sized drama, meticulous craftsmanship, and mesmerizing refrains. Shrewd lyrical turns abound, whether on the phonetic, adjective-stacked "The Logical Song," life-in-America portrait "Child of Vision," or move-to-L.A. saga "Gone Hollywood." U.S. references also dot the smash title track, which reflects the glib humor, romantic fantasies, and pop culture permeating the record.
Breakfast in America also retains its vitality because of its expert instrumentation and placement. Deemed a "a textbook-perfect album of post-Beatles, keyboard-centered English art rock that strikes the shrewdest possible balance between quasi-symphonic classicism and rock & roll" by Rolling Stone shortly after its release, the record serves as a blueprint of reference-setting production and mixing. Check the scorching guitar outro on "Goodbye Stranger," gospel accents on "Lord Is It Mine," saxophone lines on "Take the Long Way Home," or chemistry of the choruses on basically every piece here. It's enough to make one long for the '70s again.
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1. Gone Hollywood
2. The Logical Song
3. Goodbye Stranger
4. Breakfast In America
5. Oh Darling
1. Take The Long Way Home
2. Lord Is It Mine
3. Just Another Nervous Wreck
4. Casual Conversations
5. Child Of Vision
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Mr. Delanoë's proposal is part of a wider push by local authorities to comply with European regulations and establish a low-emission zone around metropolitan Paris, including many suburbs, by 2014. The plan would extend the mayor's efforts to make the city more pedestrian-friendly by reducing the number of cars. These efforts include introducing the Vélib' bicycle rental program, establishing the Autolib' electric-car rental system and cutting vehicle traffic along the banks of the Seine.
Mr. Delanoë has been mayor since 2001, but will not run again in 2014. "In Paris, where polluting industries have nearly disappeared, cars are the main source of pollution today," he said in a statement presenting the antipollution plan to city councilors.
But the ban would include many of the most recognizably French cars, including the Citroën 2CV, known as the Deux Chevaux; the Citroën DS, celebrated for its clean, distinctive design; the Renault 4L, a practical Everyman's car of the 1960s and '70s; and many classic Peugeots.
The mayor's critics say he is doing everything he can, in his last years in office, to discourage driving. Among the disgruntled are collectors, who fear they won't be able to take their vintage cars for a spin.
The plan to set up low-emission zones here and in other volunteer cities was initiated by the previous center-right government. But the current French ecology minister, Delphine Batho, said in September that the plan had been rushed through to avoid European sanctions and needed to be overhauled.
A ministerial council in January is to flesh out the legislative details of the low-emission zone and the old-car ban, which the mayor does not have the power to enforce. But Mr. Delanoë, a prominent Socialist, has strong allies in the national government.
Other measures in the antipollution plan include applying new speed limits on the beltway that surrounds the city and in the city itself.
"This measure goes in the right direction, because these vehicles pollute much more than recent vehicles, especially for nitrogen oxide and diesel exhaust particles," said Karine Léger, assistant director at Airparif, an independent organization that monitors air quality in the Paris region. She said that car traffic had been cut by 25 percent over the last decade and that air quality had improved.
But opponents of the proposal argue that it will disproportionately affect poorer suburban households unable to replace the old cars they use to commute to Paris. They say the mayor's proposal to couple the ban with social support measures — like a free six-month Autolib' subscription or a cash for clunkers program — isn't realistic.
Jean-François Legaret, a center-right city councilor and the mayor of the city's first arrondissement, said a cash for clunkers program wouldn't fall under the mayor's control. "And the "Autolib' doesn't offer the same flexibility of use as a private vehicle," he added.
Pierre Chasseray, director general of 40 Million Motorists, an auto club with 320,000 members, agreed. "There has to be an economic incentive," he said, arguing that any cash for clunkers rebate should apply to used cars as well as new models.
Other cities have age restrictions on cars, including Berlin, where for two years diesel vehicles have been outlawed if they do not meet emission regulations enacted in 2005. In Singapore since 1990, residents have to bid to buy a Certificate of Entitlement, which enables them to own a motor vehicle for 10 years, after which they are forced to scrap the car, export it or pay to extend the certificate.


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Q: How to 'alias' table and all columns at same time in mySQL? I'm trying to use natural join to join two tables in mySQL that have a field that is equivalent, but named differently between the tables (I have to use natural join -- I know it would be easier to use a different join). Natural join looks for fields with the same name, so I want to rename the column in one table to the same name as the one in the other table. In my textbook (not specific to mySQL) it says that the following should work:
SELECT Fname, Lname, Address
FROM (EMPLOYEE NATURAL JOIN
(DEPARTMENT AS DEPT (Dname, Dno, Mssn, Msdate)))
WHERE Dname='Research';

The part that I'm interested in is the "DEPARTMENT AS DEPT (Dname, Dno, Mssn, Msdate)"... But I can't replicate this in mySQL (it causes an error that says to check for the right syntax to use near '(Dname, Dno, Mssn, Msdate)'. Is there some way to (simply -- without a nested SELECT/FROM query) rename individual columns like this in mySQL so that the natural join sees the columns as equivalent?

A: this is how you create an ALIAS in MySQL:
for FIELD (or columns) and TABLE
SELECT FName `FirstName`, LName `LastName
FROM `TableName` `NewName`

result:
FirstName  ||   LastName
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A: We really need to know the names of the columns. I'll guess you are joining on EMPLOYEE.Dno = DEPARTMENT.Id and that Address in the resultset comes from the DEPARTMENT (otherwise why do the join at all?):
SELECT Fname, Lname, Address
  FROM EMPLOYEE
       NATURAL JOIN
       (
        SELECT Id AS Dno, Dname, Address
          FROM DEPARTMENT
       ) AS DEPT
 WHERE Dname = 'Research';

Alternatively:
SELECT Fname, Lname, Address
  FROM EMPLOYEE
       NATURAL JOIN
       (
        SELECT Id AS Dno, Address
          FROM DEPARTMENT
         WHERE Dname = 'Research'
       ) AS DEPT;

A: Try this query
SELECT Fname, Lname, Address
FROM (EMPLOYEE NATURAL JOIN
(DEPARTMENT AS DEPT (DEPT.Dname, DEPT.Dno, DEPT.Mssn, DEPT.Msdate)))
WHERE DEPT.Dname='Research';

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The DeLand Sport Aviation Village & Showcase debuts in early November
By Isabel Goyer Updated September 16, 2016 Save Article
For Florida weather, it's hard to beat the fall, and this year a new sport aviation show makes its premiere in DeLand, just a half-hour drive from Orlando—the DeLand Sport Aviation Village & Showcase. Such showcases can be hard-pressed to get off the ground, but that's apparently not the case with this one. Here's how it's shaping and why you might like to go.
For starters, since it's the first thing that people ask, why does Florida need another sport aviation show? It already has the mammoth (by comparison) Sun 'n Fun fly-in in Lakeland in April, and there's also the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring (a little farther down the peninsula) in late January. Why DeLand?
There are a couple of good reasons. For one, it looks to have legs, and that's not wishful thinking: There are actual signs that this is so. The city of DeLand, realizing that aviation is a great economic stimulator (please give your colleagues in Santa Monica a call), has invested in both the airport—putting up a new business development with hangars and office space on the northeastern side of the airport—and what it's calling the Sport Aviation Village, which is currently under development. The latter will be developed over the next three years, and it will be the permanent home for the Sport Aviation Showcase.
Another great reason is that, at least based on the initial response, the industry is ready to support the event; Florida is, after all, one of the best sport flying areas in the country.
How much interest are they showing? The Showcase's head, Jana Filip, who ran the Sebring show for the past five years, says that the inaugural DeLand event as of August was 85 percent sold out to exhibitors, which guarantees a lot of good things for attendees to do while they're there.
Plane & Pilot, as a sponsoring partner, will be there, too, spreading the word about how much fun and how affordable sport flying can be.
To get more details about the show, including info on housing and admissions, visit sportaviationvillage.com.
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As I am sure you are aware, social media has an impact on most of us each day. But did you know that colleges, graduate schools, and potential employers are checking up on your social media life to see if they want to grant you admission or employ you?
Whether they do it themselves, or pay professionals to do it, schools and companies are snooping around the internet to see what kind of person you are like. They read your blog, they view your facebook page, they read your twitter, look at your tumbler, and see who is in your google+ circles. When all is said and done, they may know more about you than you know about yourself. And this is how they want it.
So how do you look online? No one is squeaky clean, but if you are too far off base, you may just lose admission or not get your dream job. Now is the time to look through your social media presence and get rid of anything you don't want others to see. Even if you are being sarcastic in your blog about how it would be so easy to cheat on your government test, you don't want your number one choice school to see that. Academic integrity is a big thing in college, and if you are even suspected of cheating, you may be subject to disciplinary proceedings. Run a search of your name and see what comes up. If it is a bunch of pictures of you drinking underage, then you have a problem. You get my drift. Just be sure that everything that you put online is something you would not mind a really conservative friend or relative seeing.
Want to ensure you achieve college success or success in your job search? Be sure you don't shoot yourself in the foot by having an unappealing online presence.


LukeW | Who Owns User Experience?
Vertical Organizations are the most common because they are the easiest to manage (one set of domain knowledge vs. many). Products, however, are by their very nature horizontal. As a result, vertical organizational structures can often impede the product design process. In fact, vertical silos in many companies are clearly visible within the products they produce. This is especially apparent when companies maintain vertical reward structures that ultimately may pit individual group benefits against company-wide (or product-wide) benefits.
A great product has unified visceral, behavioral, and reflective design right down to the packaging. As a result everyone in an organization has an effect on User Experience. They will all come at it from different angles (marketing, engineering, design), but they all need to come with the same goal. That goal should be making "pleasurable" products. Pleasurable products are useful, usable, and enjoyable: a goal that many diverse disciplines can share and enhance.
The depth of our knowledge today is such that no one can be an expert at all the disciplines that converge as total user experience. But awareness of the principles and value-adds of different disciplines is vital for user experience practitioners. Co-location between disciplines is an effective means of uniting goals. To this end, Norman encouraged UE practitioners to attend events outside their domain of knowledge and to especially learn the language of business. Great products don't just balance function and form; they balance finance as well.
Everyone in an organization should own User Experience and no one in an organization should own User Experience. In other words, the company (as a whole) is ultimately responsible for UE.


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Medical Marijuana Update: Trulieve's Edible Deal and Lawmakers Debate Smokeable Cannabis
By Abe Aboraya • Feb 14, 2019
Gov. Ron DeSantis at a press conference in Winter Park in January announced a change in the state's approach to smokable medical marijuana.
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It's turning into an interesting week for medical marijuana in Florida: Growers are working on deals to get edibles in the state, while lawmakers are again taking up the issue of smoking medical cannabis.
Lawmakers in Tallahassee have advanced a bill that would allow smokeable medical marijuana. Governor Ron DeSantis announced his support for smokeable medical marijuana in Orlando last month – giving lawmakers until March 15th to get a bill to his desk that would legalize the therapy.
If they don't, DeSantis said he will drop the state's opposition to a lawsuit filed by Orlando Attorney John Morgan. A judge agreed with Morgan that a constitutional amendment approved by voters in 2016 does allow for smoking medical cannabis.
A bill that would allow smoking medical marijuana did clear its first committee last month – but not without major changes. The measure would require two doctors to agree smoking is the only way the patient should get medical marijuana. The changes approved Tuesday would allow smoking in hospice situations.
The latest version also allows smoking devices like bongs and pipes to be sold at medical marijuana treatment centers, but does not require patients to purchase them solely from retail centers. The Florida House would require smokeable marijuana to be sold in pre-rolled joints.
Meanwhile, medical marijuana company Trulieve announced it has signed a deal to sell edible products in Florida from Colorado company Love's Oven. This comes a month after they inked a similar deal with Binske, another Colorado company.
Florida lawmakers approved edibles in 2018, but the Florida Department of Health has not set out the rules for patients. Richard Blau is a partner with the GrayRobinson law firm, and he specializes in heavily regulated industries like medical marijuana.
Victoria Walker is the head of marketing for Trulieve. She said the deal will allow the company to sell products with Love's Oven branding.
"And a partnership in their expertise in making edibles. In Florida, we're a vertical medical marijuana system, which means everything we sell in our stores has to be produced in Florida."
Walker says the partnership with out-of-state edibles will allow the company to get products to patients quicker once rules are in place.
He said Trulieve's move could be a brinksmanship strategy to get medical marijuana patients to put pressure on lawmakers.
"And there's the pressure that we were talking about to move decision makers that would ultimately get the job done, whether it's a ruling or getting a policy in place or getting agreement between the governor and the Legislature," Blau said.
More than 70 percent of Florida voters approved medical marijuana in 2016. Multiple lawsuits currently challenge how the Legislature has implemented the amendment.
As of last week, there were more than 182,000 medical marijuana patients in Florida.


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AC/DC's Highway to Hell
My contribution to the 33 1/3 Series with Continuum Books will be shipping very soon: a book about AC/DC's 1979 album Highway to Hell, the last recorded with the great Bon Scott. Here's an excerpt from the book's opening:
A gray October late-morning. Wheaton, Maryland. On the playground at St. Andrew Apostle School, Billy's holding forth before a rapt audience of thirteen year olds. I'm one of them.
"Hey guys, my brother and I saw AC/DC," he tells us. "I met Bon Scott."
We know that the band will come to town again soon to rock Capital Centre, out in Largo. And we wonder: since Billy's already shaving once a week and has an older brother who brings him along to rock concerts, will a backstage pass to one of the great party bands come next in the inevitable, lucky scheme of things? In our freshly minted teenage naiveté we can virtually inhale the sweat and the reefer as Billy talks to us. It feels as if we're in the presence of divine fortune here, on the blacktop next to the dodge ball court and the basketball hoops and the swing sets, just feet away from the rectory where the priests live and write the sermons to which we'll mentally undress the girls. Will Billy get to hang out in a smoky backstage, feel up the groupies, drink beer with Bon Scott?
As the Seventies came to a close, AC/DC was not yet a sonic institution firing oversized cannons from vast stages into seas of millions. The band's seams were showing. They'd formed in Sydney, Australia, in late 1973, when twenty-year-old, Scottish-born guitarist Malcolm Young aborted an earlier band and roped in his kid brother Angus on lead guitar to round out a new lineup featuring Colin Burgess on drums, Larry Van Kriedt on bass, and singer Dave Evans. They debuted on New Year's Eve at the Chequers Club in Sydney. Maneuvering among band defections, they ducked into EMI Studios and recorded their debut single "Can I Sit Next To You, Girl?," and spent the remainder of the year raising their profile, gigging tirelessly, and enduring various rhythm section lineups with feet firmly planted on a bedrock of Chuck Berry, the Rolling Stones, and loud, electric blues. At older sister Margaret's cheeky suggestion, Angus donned a schoolboy uniform onstage in April of 1974, and in between tours and one-off shows taking them from divey gay bars and provincial dance halls to the Sydney Opera House (where they opened for Australian legend Stevie Wright), the band signed with Albert Productions, benefiting happily from record distribution through the mammoth institution of EMI. Their first single charted in Perth, in Western Australia. AC/DC were hungry.
In August, a wiry, affable hood tattooed with a risky past caught an AC/DC show in Adelaide in southern Australia, and he dug what he saw. Ronald "Bon" Belford Scott was like the Young brothers, a transplanted Scotsman, but a bit older and a little wilder, and already a veteran singer in several bands (the Valentines, Fraternity). In the midst of a brief stint as a driver, handyman, and general gofer for an old bandmate, Scott was asked to audition to replace Evans, with whom Malcolm and Angus had grown unhappy; he joined in September. In November, after relocating southwest to Melbourne, AC/DC swiftly cut their debut album, High Voltage; their second, T.N.T., was recorded eight months later. Melbourne local Phil Rudd stepped in as drummer, and over the next several years the band committed themselves to a Herculean diet of gigs, drinking, and writing and recording: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap was released in 1976; Let There Be Rock in 1977. By 1978, with English-born bassist Cliff Williams in the band and the classic lineup intact, they were reaping the benefits of their driven work ethic. Though essentially ignored in America, AC/DC was hugely popular in Australia, where their concerts had grown in size and intensity as their albums went gold. They'd made exploratory inroads throughout Europe and in England, and were boozily, noisily heading west.
To get the juices flowing here are two clips of the band in full-on, classic-lineup glory: "Sin City" from NBC's Midnight Special (1978), and "Highway to Hell" recorded in Arnhem, the Netherlands in 1979. Get your Bon on. (Best viewed in a new window; double-click the vid.)
Labels: 33 1/3 series, AC/DC, highway to hell (33 1/3)
The Killer: Lost and Found
A round-up of some recent notices:
Alex V. Cook in Country Roads:
"A welcome rarity among books about rock legends, Bonomo lets the music and the history do the actual talking."
L. Kent Wolgamott in the Lincoln Journal Star:
"I've read most of the books about him and will now put Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found on the indispensable list. It's one of the best books about the man and his music."
Christel Loar in PopMatters:
"This is not a biography or discography, but an exhaustive and exhilarating analysis of what has been called one of the greatest live albums of all time."
Also weighing in are Fffanzeen and Country Standard Time.
Labels: jerry lee lewis: lost and found, reviews
The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry
An excerpt from my essay "The Hyphen," in The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry:
I'd been mulling over a memory from school, an awful day when a bunch of my classmates threw stones at a girl named Mina because she was Iranian and Iran at that time held American hostages. In a brief prose piece I tried to write about the incident and whether or not I was implicated, worrying less about a beginning-middle-end then in circling the story though the indelible images I possessed of the day and era. I trusted that the common thread among them would be strong enough to bind together several pages, and it did. I began writing more essays, aligning myself with Montaigne's exercise of "essay" in attempting to make sense of the tones, sensations, and imagery my imagination clung to about occasions, trivial and large. I often had no idea where I'd land. More jagged than arced, these prose pieces began to coalesce into something more substantial, visually and thematically, than my poems. The magnetic right margin, with which I no longer danced self-consciously, tugged and lengthened my lines, layering them. And the discursive element and conversational voice relieved me (mostly) of the lyric, abstract tone with which my more recent poems had whispered, affectedly, to my ear.
My prose natively took shape as block text, but arranged musically, the sentences growing or shrinking as Denise Levertov observed the phenomenon in organic poetry. I approached the page with the same impulse I did when writing poetry: less with a subject then with a note struck inside of myself. And so my essays naturally hyphenate, sitting astride music and discourse, cadence and idea(s). I'll always lean toward the poetic with my feet firmly planted in the prosaic.
The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice, edited by Gary L. McDowell and F. Daniel Rzicznek
FEATURING ESSAYS FROM:
Nin Andrews • Joe Bonomo • John Bradley • Brigitte Byrd • Maxine Chernoff • David Daniel • Denise Duhamel • Nancy Eimers • Beckian Fritz Goldberg • Ray Gonzalez • Arielle Greenberg • Kevin Griffith • Carol Guess • Maurice Kilwein Guevara • James Harms • Bob Hicok • Tung-Hui Hu • Christopher Kennedy • David Keplinger • Gerry LaFemina • David Lazar • Alexander Long • Kathleen McGookey • Robert Miltner • Amy Newman • William Olsen • Andrew Michael Roberts • Michael Robins • Mary Ann Samyn • Maureen Seaton • David Shumate • Jeffrey Skinner • Mark Wallace • Gary Young
A wide-ranging gathering of 34 brief essays and 66 prose poems by distinguished practitioners, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry is as personal and provocative, accessible and idiosyncratic as the genre itself. The essayists discuss their craft, influences, and experiences, all while pondering larger questions: What is prose poetry? Why write prose poems? With its pioneering introduction, this collection provides a history of the development of the prose poem up to its current widespread appeal. Half critical study and half anthology, The Field Guide to Prose Poetry is a not-to-be-missed companion for readers and writers of poetry, as well as students and teachers of creative writing.
Labels: anthology, essays, prose poems, Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry
Season of The List
The editors of Northern Star at Northern Illinois University asked me to come up with 5 albums that every college student should listen to, and Writers Read asked me to talk about books that I've been into of late.
Of course I'm already thinking of how I'd change these lists....
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Labels: Bo Diddley, Franz Lidz, Joe Mackall, Larry Brown, Marilynne Robinson, Reverend Horton Heat, Roger Angell, The Dictators, The Records, The Sonics
On bearing across
"The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him," Jose Ortega y Gasset
Impossible Places
Bored and distracted in the classroom at St. Andrew the Apostle, I'd often fantasize about a figure I'd occasionally draw in my notebook with fetishistic attention. My drawing was an impossible thing, an unnatural object, couldn't be made. I was too young to know about M.C. Escher's work or to understand optical illusions, so my discovery felt new and strange, and somehow forbidden. I loved that I could draw something that couldn't actually exist in nature, that I'd create — the stirrings of language and the power of the imagination in a fourth-grade classroom.
My object was a triangle connected to a square: the two sides tapering from the square had to slope gradually until they reached the triangle front. I was young and didn't how factories worked or how finely-calibrated machinery might replicate this: I'd simply stare at what I'd wrought and the top of my head would come off. This can't happen!
This next impossible thing would steal toward me at night — actually, I'd chase it. A three-adult-tall, jet-black wall dotted with a hundred finger-sized holes. Who'd built it, where it came from, where it'd go, I didn't know and wouldn't pretend, only that the wall would materialize in the middle of the playground at St. Andrews in the middle of recess. If I stuck my index finger into the correct hole, the world would stop spinning, time would freeze. The desire of any body exhausted by the agitation of puberty: to halt things for a second, so I can rush headlong in. This had a lurid appeal for me: with the girls around me frozen in place, I could indulge the forbidden and lift skirts, unbutton blouses, enact in reality what had plagued me in hormone fantasies. And: the bullies, locked in place now, their menace around the swing sets or brewing on the low wall beneath the basketball hoops stilled in a tableau of impotence. And I, skulking between and among the powerless boys.
The impossible and the sacred, a church of the body. We all remember: here's the church here's the steeple open the door and see all the people. When no one was around I'd play open the door and where are the people? Always romanticizing absence and loss, I liked the idea of the empty church — although it was sad, too — and that I could build that church with my hands. Linking my fingers, I could create a space and peer in, see a quiet church, see post-church, see loss made.
Gaston Bachelard: "One must go beyond logic to experience what is large in what is small."
Over twenty years ago I came upon an abandoned stone church in London. The building, intensified by the dim weather, seemed an organic chunk of earth ascending in vain, and I felt compelled to move toward it to explore the grounds. I slipped through a hole in a fence meant to keep me out, and stepped onto thinning grass and then broken sidewalks toward a large door covered in vines. The natural world had begun the task of claiming the edifice back into the earth. The grounds were quiet, the near Hampstead traffic hushed. I moved toward a window that hadn't been boarded-up, or maybe had had its shabby particle planks removed, and I peered in.
Several rows of silty pews materialized in the darkness; the center aisle became apparent, as did a sacristy, and slowly a choir loft, and then a jittery movement among crumbling pews and in a nanosecond a pack of wild dogs—eight or more—bolted upright in unison, baring their teeth and growling guttural warnings toward me. Utter fierceness. The pack leader rising in intensity and determination, eyes yellowed, piercing, leaning toward me.
Drenched with hysteria, I darted from the grounds and ran breathlessly for blocks, disorientated, frightened, and exhilarated. No map could have augured: nature had risen and pronounced that I was trespassing.
Labels: churches, memory, place
Steven Church + Robert Vivian + Culture
I'm reading Robert Vivian's Cold Snap as Yearning and Steven Church's The Guinness Book of Me: A Memoir of Record. Both go about the business of autobiography quite differently.
Vivian's essays are poetic unpackings of his imagination, Church's memoir an evocative, talky jog through obsession and commitment. When I put my fist in Vivian's book, I come back with air and light; when I put my fist into Church's, I come back with fingernails, flesh, rifles, tactile things. If I were to run my hand over the tops of Church's chapters my hands would cut and bleed; if I were to run my hand over the tops of Vivian's essays my hands would glide, buoyed by contemplation and abstraction. Vivian's book was published in 2001; Church's four years later. The vivid contemporary world lives and breathes in both of these books, but so differently.
I'm interested in the place and role of popular culture in memoir. As an essayist I'm bound to place; am I bound to the specific things of place? Church's memoir recounts growing up in suburban Kansas in the seventies and eighties, lensed through his obsession with the Guinness Book of World Records, a book he coveted as a kid and, as an adult, uses as a kind of autobiographical template. Mixing and matching various coming-of-age episodes with their direct and indirect counterparts among the exotic and arcane industry of world records, Church charts family, responsibility, memory. Because he uses the Guinness Book as a scrim, his memoir is full of crazy people and places and events, the personal and cultural excesses that we associate with world records. Church draws a loving knot around the world's fattest twins, the longest hiccups, the fastest amputation, and the longest shower, and the considerably unspectacular but unforgettable friends and neighbors and episodes from his suburban past.
Vivian's essays roam mostly the "woebegone" (a favorite word of his) landscape of Nebraska: the endless, crow-dotted sky, the sweet fields, the scents through trees, a detour into stultifying office life (near the end of the book he essays London and Las Vegas). He's also obsessed with bizarre, marginal figures, but differently than is Church. The bag ladies, homeless wanderers, and mentally-challenged figures in his Omaha aren't breaking any world records, they're simply, sometimes painfully, existing—for Vivian, as puzzling signs toward larger understanding beyond his grasp. (Very much Montaigne-esque in urgency, Vivian's essays follow what he doesn't yet know.) The figures in Vivian's book differ from Church's in another way: they're rendered as archetypes, their physical and psychic details stubborn and earthly, but also abstracted and poeticized, so much so that Vivian's world feels less like a landscape full of people and animals than a landscape painted with imaginative renderings.
There's a moment in the middle of Vivian's book when he makes reference to Annie Lennox, and it jars. There are so few time-specific details in his book that Lennox appears as a kind of exotic alien from a far-away world that invented pop music. Church's book, on the other hand, is loaded with memories rooted in pop culture. Such differences have as much to do with style and aesthetic as with Omaha-versus-Lawrence subject matter. What place does popular culture have in memoir? Martin Scorsese never wanted to use music in a film that simply time-stamps a scene as occurring in, say, 1963; the music should (must) evoke mood and theme. We don't want to aspire to writing autobiography that enacts a time-capsule; we need to reach for larger meaning, the undying essaying of the personal and the ecumenical. But I'm fascinated by the ways in which the things and objects of our past might hold us down, might tether us too lovingly to sentimentality and nostalgia — or to the desire to reproduce a given era of our lives — so that we miss the opportunity for interrogating that past for meaning beyond mere personal experience.
Wallace Stevens said: turn an ordinary object slightly and it becomes a metaphor of that object. So, turn that Big Wheel, that Barbie Dream House, that Action Jackson Safari Hut, that Evel Knievel bike, that Monkees lunch box — and hope for transformation, for a carrying over. When I was 10, I stole a plastic gold ring from a five-and-dime store on the boardwalk at Bethany Beach, Delaware. My family had rented a house there for a week, and the night of my petty theft I bawled to my parents in their bedroom; the next day they came with me to the store as I returned the ring. The night that I confessed, my brothers were downstairs in front of the TV watching Mark Fidrych's national debut on ABC's Monday Night Baseball, marveling at the pitcher's idiosyncrasies, his weird muttering to the ball in his glove, talking to himself and to the mound like a nutty Big Bird shaman. The game made Fidrych a legend; upstairs, I was unwittingly creating my own legend. As Peggy Lee asked, is that all there is? Did the two episodes simply coincide as the world spins? Or might I yet explore something appealing between them, a confluence of cockiness and pettiness, of national glamour and private shame, of success and loss?
Should our autobiographical details radiate with Wal-Mart fluorescence or with a star's impersonal, million-mile distance? Or somewhere in between.
(Thanks to my students for the conversation. "Terminatoy" via Flickr Creative Commons)
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Labels: Autobiography, Memoir, Pop Culture, Robert Vivian, Steven Church
In Defense of Reading (Books)
...I remain convinced that there is a singular experience — of devoting time to read a writer's sustained and crafted words of more than, say, 50,000 words — that cannot be supplanted by anything else. Maybe this solitary absorption of another's words will become the activity of a precious few. But anyone seeking wisdom or learning over knowledge and entertainment will still look for it. And treasure it.
Labels: books, reading
Old as the Hills
"If a Civil War veteran came back, about the only thing he'd recognize is baseball. He'd know the rules and be able to identify somewhat with baseball. When we tinker around with it, we tend to make mistakes. We don't really know why baseball works," Fay Vincent
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On White Sox Fandom
My dad has had two baseball teams taken from him. When he was in his late-20s his beloved Brooklyn Dodgers packed up and moved to far away Los Angeles; then when he was in his early-40s his Washington Senators relocated to Texas to become the Rangers. That last tragedy has been redressed somewhat with the arrival a couple of years ago of the Nationals in Washington D.C..
I didn't have a local team to root for when I was growing up. After the Senators decamped to Texas, the nearest club for me was the Baltimore Orioles. My family, thus, were fans by proxy, a kind of necessity. I remember the old Memorial Stadium fondly, in that it was the first stadium where I watched professional baseball (I was brought to a Senators game or two; the droopy pennants in my parents' house attest to this, though they were likely my older brothers' and at any rate I don't remember much from the games). Memorial was a pretty bland, ramshackle, lo-fi park, but I love this game and I liked the Orioles teams then: Ken Singleton; Al Bumbry; Jim Palmer; Brooks Robinson (who I asked to autograph my Topps card at Wheaton Plaza); Mark Belanger. By the time Cal Ripken, Jr. arrived on the scene I was a slightly less-crazed fan of baseball — but the O's weren't my team, anyway. My dad himself grumbled for years about this gloomy fact, even as he and my mom bought Orioles season tickets and made countless hour-plus treks up and down Route 95, fighting traffic and parking and the far more burdensome, unforgivable requirement of pulling for another's team.
This existential crisis has trailed me. (I am not a homer, therefore I am not?) When I moved to Athens, Ohio I was, again, without a home team. Allegiances bore themselves out in the classrooms where my students would glare at each other beneath Reds and Indians hats, but who cared? Dibble, Schmibble—who did I have? I'd fallen away from the game a bit, the wide-eyed affection of a twelve-year old having been diluted (and for a few years, obliterated) by the fun and heartaches and arousing complications of college and grad school and various twenty-something melodramas. In the early 90s I started paying attention again, tuning in to baseball on WGN. I was happy to listen to Harry Carry and to vibe off of the Wrigley Field bleachers and the grimy Chicago sunshine. But the Sox grabbed me.
I admit that part of the attraction for me was buying happily into gritty South Side myth, the hard-scrabble, blue-collar, tough mentality that I grinningly accepted, and loved. Hey, and the Chess label was South Side, too — so many of my favorite records were cut at 2120 S. Michigan Ave. It was a groovy aligning of electric blues and baseball, Muddy and Luzinski, long shadows and black uniforms, irresistible (semi-true) history in a sprawling, railyard-grunting city toiling in the shadows of the well-to-do North Side. That's what I wanted to believe, anyway. I followed the Big Hurt and Robin Ventura and Jack McDowell, all filtered through Hawk Harrelson, and grew, very quickly, to love the White Sox.
After we moved to DeKalb in the mid-90s, I was sixty miles away from the team. I still have no hometown baseball, but I've loved the White Sox—in minute detail, box score after box score, inning after inning, disappointment to elation back to disappointment—for many years now, and they are my team. Finally.
I might head east to DC this summer and catch a Nationals/White Sox game with my dad and brother, enjoying baseball a few miles from the house in which I was raised. As happy as I'll be watching my dad beam and groan along with his home team (finally!), I'll be pulling for the South Siders.
Cheers to allegiances and regional pining, and to the game that's bigger than all of that. Opening Day is almost here.
Labels: baseball, chicago white sox, memory
"...the mysteries of everyday things..."
Patrick Madden asks, "Are Essays Viable in the Twenty-First Century?" His answer is spirited and smart. A must-read.
Labels: essays


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Researchers find startling trend among pregnant teen drinkers
by: Calily Bien
AUSTIN (KXAN) — It's a startling trend: Substance abuse is high among pregnant middle school students, according to a new study. The finding is the result of a recent study, possibly the largest of its kind according to Dr. Christopher Salas-Wright, an assistant professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin.
Using a large sample, nearly 100,000 adolescent girls nationwide between the ages of 12 and 17, the study examines the relationship between substance use and teen pregnancy. Salas-Wright says 810 girls reported they were pregnant at the time of the survey. A surprising number of the pregnant teens-nearly 3 in 5 (59 percent)-admitted to using drugs or alcohol in the previous 12 months, a rate researchers say is nearly two times as great as nonpregnant teens.
"Study findings point not only to a relationship between pregnancy and prior substance use, but also suggest that substance use continues for many teens during pregnancy."
Salas-Wright says the most surprising result showed extremely high rates of substance abuse among the youngest of the study participants, "roughly 1 in 3 pregnant teens between the ages of 12-14 reported using alcohol or illicit drugs during the past 30 days," he says.
The study suggests many teenagers may not be getting the message about the dangerous risks of substance abuse during pregnancy.
A Dangerous Combination
According to the Texas office for Prevention of Developmental Disabilities, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder or FASD "is an umbrella term used to describe the range of neurological, behavioral and effects caused by the use of alcohol during a pregnancy" and may occur in 1 in 100 live births nationally. Of approximately 380,000 Texas births, 3,800 may have FASD.
It's a statistic one Austin mom knows very well. KXAN agreed to hide her identity in order for the mother to openly discuss her drug and alcohol use during pregnancy. "Heather" as she asks us to call her, was a teenage alcoholic.
"I started drinking alcohol at age 10. My mother was an alcoholic and cocaine addict," remembers Heather.
She drank heavily through several teen pregnancies including one that landed her daughter in the neonatal intensive care unit. Heather's daughter was born nearly three months premature with a 30 percent chance of survival.
Pointing to pictures of her daughter weighing 1 pound, 3 ounces at birth, Heather says her baby, "could not breath for herself, the machine is attached to her mouth and it is breathing for her. You could see the tube up her nose which is feeding her, all because I chose to drink and use alcohol through my pregnancy." Heather says she knew she was pregnant at the time but continued her substance abuse despite the risks.
"We're seeing a lot more at risk behaviors in our teen populations," explains Dr. John Gianopoulos, CEO of Perinatal Programs and Service at Seton Healthcare Family. "The big problem with that [young girls] population is almost all of their pregnancies are unattended so they don't even know they're pregnant in the very early part of their pregnancy."
Dr. Gianopoulos says he has seen 100 FASD cases throughout his decades-long career.
"Alcohol can lead to physical abnormalities, small brains, small body size, facial abnormalites where there are defects in the structure of the eyes, defects in the way the lips are structured. More concerning they lead to cognitive and behavorial disabilities," says Gianopoulous of the effects of alcohol during pregnancy.
A Sobering Wake-Up Call
After more than three months in NICU, Heather says her daughter was finally able to go home. "With the help of the medical doctors, the nurses and God. Not by me," says Heather.
Heather's daughter is now 10-years-old. She has developmental delays and is legally disabled.
Heather eventually got help too and is now on the road to recovery. She says she is sober with the help of the Council on Recovery (formally known as Austin Recovery).
Getting help is key as the UT study on pregnant teens and substance abuse suggests.
"We looked at pregnant teens and we tried to see if we could predict who was using or was not using. One things that did predict it was consistent parental support and positive school engagement," says Dr. Salas-Wright. Researchers found the odds of substance abuse were roughly 50 percent lower among pregnant teens who reported positive parental support.
Ten years later, it's a message Heather hopes rings loud and clear for young girls who are in the same situation she was in. "If you are a teenager and you are drinking. Please stop and if you can't stop, please get help."
The Council on Recovery: 512-697-8600
The Phoenix House – residential program for adolescent girls, PDAP – Palmer Drug Abuse Program: 1-844-423-1772
Memorial Hermann PARC (Prevention & Recovery Center): 512-382-6610
Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, are quitting as working royals and will no longer use the titles "royal highness" or receive public funds for their work under a deal announced Saturday by Buckingham Palace.


When it was announced that a 25th anniversary art book for The Legend of Zelda was being released, I was dead set on getting it. From the start, this book was highly sought after and it was sold out on Amazon.co.jp very quickly. I had a certain price limit in mind and I managed to acquire a copy from an eBay seller for a great price and free shipping.
I was on the fence about whether or not to review this because the book is incredibly text heavy. However, it was just recently announced that Dark Horse Comics would be translating this rare gem into English. I consequently decided that reviewing the Japanese version right now would be a great idea. Now you can all see what you have to look forward to!
Hyrule Historia dust jacket and obi strip.
ハイラル・ヒストリア ゼルダの伝説 大全: 任天堂公式ガイドブック or um, Hyrule Historia for short, is a hardcover 240 page Legend of Zelda guidebook released in December of 2011.
The book sans dust jacket.
The dust jacket itself is quite lovely, but the book itself is even more gorgeous underneath!


This time of year, there's always a chill somewhere – from the city streets to the stadium during a Bruins game. As one way to bundle up and show your pride, this beanie gives you a two-for-one design: Cozy acrylic knit coupled with an all-over, oversized logo graphic. Wherever you happen to be, let your affinity for this Original Six team be clearly known. Made out of 100% acrylic. Pom-pom added on top. Cuffed design. All-over logo knit into body. Team logo patch and embroidered Adidas logo on cuff. Official NHL merchandise. Imported.


I am a fully qualified personal trainer registered with fitness Australia. I have qualifications such as Pilates mat Level 1 & 2, certified "Thump" boxing instructor for beginners and advanced, level 1 strength and conditioning qualification and I also run my own Boot Camp and outdoor group exercise classes. I've been in the industry for over thirteen years dealing with people of many fitness levels and ages ranging from 8-94 years of age.
My job as your personal trainer is to do everything possible to help you achieve and maintain your short and long term goals. In every training session, whether it be group or personal, we will work together to achieve the results you've always wanted in a fast and safe time frame. I will continuously encourage you, I will know your limit and be able to guide you in pushing past it. As your trainer, I look forward to getting to know you and to helping you with every step along the way.
As well as being a fitness professional I am also "human" and I have days where I need a little more motivation than others. I believe it is important to have a fun and social life and I also feel as though it is important to have everything in moderation. This is something that I encourage with all my clients.
I understand that going to the gym can be intimidating and that doing exercise on your own can be difficult. I also understand that keeping fit can feel like a chore rather than something enjoyable. However it is because I am a personal trainer, and especially if I am YOUR personal trainer that I will aim to help you look at fitness from another perspective and to encourage you to challenge yourself. As you can see, my experience allows me to conduct classes that incorporate a variety of exercises so training sessions will never be boring!


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The 2022 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team represented Oklahoma State University as a member of the  Big 12 Conference during the 2022 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Led by 18th-year head coach Mike Gundy, the Cowboys played home games at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Preseason

Big 12 media poll
The preseason poll was released on July 7, 2022.

Award watch lists
Listed in the order that they were released

Preseason Big 12 awards
2022 Preseason All-Big 12 teams

Source:

Schedule
Oklahoma State and the Big 12 announced the 2022 football schedule on December 1, 2021.

Personnel

Game summaries

vs. Central Michigan

vs. Arizona State

vs.Arkansas - Pine Bluff

at No. 16 Baylor

vs. Texas Tech

at No. 13 TCU

vs. No. 20 Texas

at No. 22 Kansas State

at Kansas

vs. Iowa State

at Oklahoma

vs. West Virginia

vs. Wisconsin  (2022 Guaranteed Rate Bowl)

Rankings

References

Oklahoma State
Oklahoma State Cowboys football seasons
Oklahoma State Cowboys football

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HOME / Dereg / States / State PBF/USF History, Legislation, Implementation
State PBF/USF History, Legislation, Implementation
Last Updated: December 2016
Go to Summary
Rate Assistance
Ohio operates the nation's largest and oldest Percentage of Income Payment Plan (PIPP) for low-income customers. Called "PIPP Plus," it makes customers' monthly payments more affordable on a year-round basis. Participating households that heat with gas pay six percent of their gross monthly income or $10 per month, whichever is greater, to both their electric and gas utilities. Those that heat only with electricity pay 10 percent of their gross monthly income or $10 as their monthly payment, whichever is greater.
Each month that participants make their payment in full and on time they receive a credit of 1/24th of their historic arrearages. Any difference between their payment amount and actual usage charges is also forgiven.
The program is funded by a rider on all customers of regulated utilities in the state. The electric portion of the PIPP is administered by the LIHEAP grantee, the Ohio Development Services Agency's (ODSA) Office of Community Assistance. The Office of Community Assistance files for revised electric rider rates annually to keep pace with the cost of the PIPP and changes in utility rates and enrollment. The gas portion of the PIPP is administered by the gas utilities with oversight from the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO).
The average number of electric PIPP Plus customers for January - December 2015 was 386,491; payments totaled about $304 million. Gas PIPP Plus customers received about $28 million in payments.
Customers who become income ineligible for PIPP Plus, but are current on their PIPP Plus payment, are placed on "Graduate PIPP Plus." Electric and gas customers have slightly different rules, but the "graduate" programs are designed to provide customers with a 12-month transition from PIPP Plus to full payments. Customers generally pay an average of their most recent PIPP Plus amount and a budget billing amount calculated by their utility. Customers who make payments on-time and in-full will continue to receive credits toward their monthly bill balance and a 1/12th credit to their old debt.
There is also a program for customers who have a balance on their account with a former utility. Called Post PIPP Plus, this 12-month program allows former utility customers to earn an arrearage credit equal to 1/12th of their arrearages with every payment of 1/60th towards their arrearages.
While the majority of the electric rider revenues fund the PIPP, about $15 million is set aside each year for the low-income energy efficiency program and consumer education. For FY 2015, about $14 million was spent for the Electric Partnership Program (EPP) services to an estimated 15,938 households.
The EPP began in March 2002 and is targeted to high consumption, high arrears PIPP or PIPP-eligible households that are customers of the state's investor-owned electric utilities. Its goal is to reduce electric consumption by these households in order to reduce the growth of PIPP household arrears and, as a result, reduce the amount of money ratepayers pay to support the PIPP.
The EPP is composed of two types of programs: a baseload efficiency program and a weatherization program for those who heat with electricity and who have moderate to high usage.
The EPP provides in-home audits, appropriate electric baseload and thermal energy efficiency measures, and consumer education. The major baseload measures are replacement of inefficient refrigerators and freezers and installation of compact fluorescent light bulbs. Weatherization measures include insulation and heating system inspections. The program also addresses health and safety issues. The education component varies in intensity depending on the PIPP customer's electric consumption and other factors. Participants may receive in-home visits, attend workshops, or receive materials by mail.
According to the third impact evaluation of the EPP, completed in June 2006, the EPP produces substantial electricity savings in thousands of PIPP households each year. As to whether EPP has reduced PIPP costs, the evaluation noted that the $12.7 million in lifetime bill savings shown in the evaluation would reduce the cost of PIPP by an estimated $11.3 million and provide about $1.4 million in out-of-pocket savings to the participants.
ODSA administers the EPP, along with federal weatherization funding. It monitors monthly consumption, bill payment, and arrearage data from electric utilities for PIPP accounts. Households whose total energy burdens exceed a certain threshold are targeted for EPP and conservation education services.
In addition to the EPP, most of Ohio's gas utilities have weatherization programs, and several of the electric utilities have separate efficiency programs. In 2015, funding from these utilities amounted to $34.6 million. Most of these programs are operated in coordination with the federal Weatherization Assistance Program, and, as a result, many of the homes received comprehensive weatherization and other energy efficiency upgrades as needed.
First implemented in 1983, based on a PUCO order, Ohio's original PIPP required customers with incomes up to 150 percent of federal poverty guidelines to pay a percent of their monthly household incomes to the utility or utilities providing their primary and secondary heating service. There were several different PIPP plans, but the maximum PIPP payment was 15 percent of the household's income. If customers remained current on their PIPP payments, they could not be shut off at any time regardless of the amount of their arrears. The amount of the bill not covered by a combination of the customer's PIPP payment, the LIHEAP payment, and any other energy assistance the customer received, was recovered through riders or surcharges on gas and electricity bills.
The state's 1999 restructuring legislation created a Universal Service Fund (USF) to fund the electric PIPP, along with an energy efficiency and consumer education program for PIPP households. The law converted the electric PIPP rider to a universal service rider, assessed on customers of electric utilities. The gas PIPP rider remained unchanged for gas utilities, as did the gas portion of the PIPP. The gas PIPP rider is embedded in gas distribution charges, and the utilities collect for program costs as needed.
The legislation assigned administration of the electric PIPP, and the energy efficiency and consumer education programs, to the ODSA, then called Ohio Department of Development, with a goal of lowering program administration costs and providing a one-stop shop for program clients. (Prior to the restructuring law, Ohio's utilities administered their PIPPs and energy efficiency programs; gas utilities continue to administer their programs.) The ODSA, which had been involved in PIPP operations since the program's inception, began to administer the PIPP portion of the USF funds in October 2000.
In 2006, a PIPP reform working group began studying ways to improve the PIPP, and it finalized proposals for program changes during 2008 and 2009, with final rules for both programs approved by the PUCO in the latter year. The working group was comprised of staff from the ODSA, the PUCO, the Office of Consumer Counsel, and low-income advocacy and consumer groups.
The new PIPP was designed to improve the program as follows:
Contain escalating costs while continuing to provide a valuable benefit. Costs of the electric PIPP had increased by 221 percent since 2001, from $47.7 million in 2001 to $153 million in 2010, and enrollment soared from 137,000 in 2001 to 288,630 in 2010.
Increase payment frequency while reducing PIPP payment requirements.
Align the gas and electric PIPPs. Under the original program, the gas PIPP payment was made year-round, while the electric PIPP payment was the PIPP amount or the actual bill, whichever was higher, for the non-winter months. Under the new program, the electric PIPP is year-round. Most participants, over the course of a year, pay less under PIPP Plus than they paid under the original program.
Create a uniform arrearage-crediting program for accruing and past arrearages. If customers make their monthly PIPP payment on time, they receive a bill credit that is the difference, if any, between their monthly PIPP payment and their bill. Furthermore, for each timely payment, they receive a credit amounting to 1/24th of their historic arrearages. If the customer makes 24 consecutive payments, in full and on time, the entire debt is forgiven. The program was designed to keep low-income customers from falling deeper into debt; it was also expected to help control PIPP program costs by encouraging responsible payment behavior.
On November 1, 2010, the state began operating the reformed PIPP, renamed "PIPP Plus." ODSA records indicate that prior to PIPP Plus, only 33 percent of participants' electric bills were paid. In PY 2013, 48 percent of electric customers made PIPP Plus payments. Average arrearages for electric PIPP Plus customers have decreased from $1,018 in 2011 to $682 in 2013.
Information on current and proposed PIPP rules
Ohio LIHEAP website
Consumer information page of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
1999 restructuring Ohio law
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echo "========================================================================="
echo "Start $0"
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echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------------"
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# Setting sqlparse options .....................................................
# "true": compacted / "false": detailed.
export GENERATE_COMPACTED="true"
export GENERATE_CT="true"
export GENERATE_EUNIT="false"
export GENERATE_PERFORMANCE="true"
export GENERATE_RELIABILITY="true"
export HEAP_SIZE="+hms 33554432"
export LOGGING="false"
export MAX_BASIC=250
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echo "Start Coverage Analysis"
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echo "Start Dialyzer"
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echo "Start geas (Guess Erlang Application Scattering)"
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SCRANTON, Penn. - A local emeritus deacon's quorum president is accused of having forgotten his assignment to speak in church today, allegedly resulting in a quickly written talk by one of his parents this morning, sources say.
Parents of 14-year-old Dustin Taylor deny the allegations, saying the accusations are groundless and "flippin' ridiculous".
"Yeah but did you hear how he ended the talk? He said, 'I weawy weawy wove the gospow'. That's obviously kid-level language and totally compensates for any advanced language you'd expect from a modern theologian," he said.
Bishop Matthew Sandler is reviewing the case. Dustin, if found guilty, could face up to one mild-mannered warning to try not to forget next time.
This satirical article will probably hit close to home for some parents, but isn't it just amazing that kids as young as 12 years old teach entire congregations throughout this worldwide Church every week? That's crazy awesome!
What memories! My oldest daughter forgot she was to speak – on Mother's Day. She wasn't even 12 yet. I took her to a quiet place, calmed her down, and gave her two guidelines: 1) do NOT appologize; 2) bear your tetimony. (that is something she did often in Fast and Testimony Meeting).
AFter the meeting, people were telling her she gave the best talk of the meeting.


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by Richard C. Walls
Heights is one of those bad movies that, if it weren't so maudlin, might qualify as a guilty pleasure. Covering 24 hours in the life of a group of New York artistes, the cast of characters are the sort of hollowed-out types that used to populate high-minded Italian films of nearly half a century ago: economically well-off and desperate for some genuine feeling. You can find them haunting sidewalk cafes, drinking lattes out of cups nearly as big as their heads.
The central character in this web of bad relationships is Diana (Glenn Close), a famous actress currently rehearsing the role of Lady Macbeth. She urges the students in her acting class to take risks, to be passionate and spontaneous. It's the usual yada-yada, and a cover for how miserable she is in her own risky life, especially her open marriage. She and her husband have a habit of screwing the young talent in their plays, but it's starting to take its toll. Diana is at that "certain age" where she's discovering that La Dolce Vita isn't all it's cracked up to be.
The other sufferers are Diana's daughter Isabel (Elizabeth Banks) and her fiance Jonathan (James Marsden). Jonathan has a dark secret: He once posed nude for a famously homosexual photographer and might have had an affair with him. This hardly seems shocking in the context of a story where at least half the characters are gay, but screenwriter Amy Fox (adapting her own play) gets a lot of dramaturgical mileage out of just how deceptive Jonathan may have been toward Isabel and whether he may still lead a double life. In any event, there's a manly Welshman waiting in the wings to take the fatally indecisive Jonathan's place.
There's a cheerless preciousness about all this that might have played better on the stage, where a certain type of exaggerated seriousness can be quite effective. But on film it all seems hermetic, airless and trite, and just not quite bad enough to be a keeper.
Showing at the Maple Art Theatre (4135 W. Maple Rd., Bloomfield Hills; 248-263-2111).
Richard C. Walls writes about film for Metro Times. E-mail letters@metrotimes.com.


Once Nginx web server is up and running in a production environment, you will want to monitor its activity in real time. In fact, general network monitoring software such as Nagios, Zabbix, Munin provide support for real-time Nginx monitoring.
However, if you do not need comprehensive reporting capabilities or long-term statistics offered by such tools, but just want a quick and easy way to monitor the requests coming to an Nginx web server, I would recommend a command line tool called ngxtop.
You will immediately tell that ngxtop (both its name and interface) is inspired by the famous top command. What ngxtop does is to parse Nginx access log file (and others such as Apache2 log), and display analyzed results via top-like interface in real-time. You can tout your sophisticated monitoring tool all you want, but it cannot beat ngxtop's simplicity, and simplicity is not something that cannot be dismissed.
In this tutorial, I will describe how to monitor Nginx web server in real time with ngxtop.
First, install pip on your Linux system as a prerequisite for ngxtop.
Then install ngxtop as follows.
The basic usage of ngxtop is as follows.
Here are some of the common options.
Here are built-in variables (represented as <var> in the above). Their meanings are self-explanatory.
It will display 10 requests served by Nginx, sorted by the number of requests.
If you want, you can customize the variables to display. For that, simply list variables you are interested in. "print" command will display individual requests.
I'll recommend trying GoAccess, works much faster for us and scales well.
Basically, I want to be able to be able to group by (IP address+http code).
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A Practical Guide to Leveraging the Mass General Brigham Biobank for Genetic and Biomarker Research
Ended: Nov. 16, 2020
Monday, November 16 | 2:00-5:00pm | Zoom
Recent years have seen the rise of precision medicine as an organizing framework for biomedical research. Mass General Brigham has emerged as a leader in this new paradigm, facilitated in part by the availability of the Mass General Brigham (MGB) Biobank. With more than 120,000 participants enrolled and broad clinical data, biospecimens, and genomic data, the MGB Biobank offers a powerful resource for basic, clinical/translational, omics, and biomarker research.
The MGH Division of Clinical Research is sponsoring a mini-course focused on how investigators may leverage the MGB Biobank for genetic and biomarker research. Distinguished MGB faculty will provide an overview of the Biobank resource and examples of how investigators have used the biobank for discovery and biomarker research.
2:00-2:30 Welcome and Introduction to the Mass General Brigham Biobank
Jordan Smoller, MD, ScD, Director, Omics Unit, MGH Division of Clinical Research
2:30-3:00 Dynamic Genomics Research in the Mass General Brigham Biobank
Pradeep Natarajan, MD, MMSc, Director Preventive Cardiology, MGH
3:00-3:45 Development of Sex-Dependent Clinical Risk Algorithm for Alzheimer's disease in Early Midlife
Jill Goldstein, Ph.D. Executive Director, Innovation Center on Sex Differences in Medicine, MGH; Professor of Psychiatry & Medicine, HMS
4:00-4:45 Epidemiologic, Biomarker, and Multi-Omics Approaches to Investigating Rheumatoid Arthritis Susceptibility and Outcomes
Jeffrey Sparks, MD, MMSc, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director of Immuno-Oncology and Autoimmunity, BWH and HMS
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Un vilatge (derivat del llatí vicus o villa) és un nucli de població menor, habitualment sense jurisdicció pròpia. Contraposada al vilatge hi ha la vila.

Ús de Vilatge, Poble(t) i Aldea
A una gran part de Catalunya, les Illes Balears i el País Valencià, el terme genèric poblet és més habitual. En alguns punts del País Valencià, s'empra aldea de preferència a poblet, segurament per castellanisme. A la Catalunya Nord s'utilitza vilatge o endret (variant de 'indret'), siga gran o petit, com a sinònim de poble, en contraposició amb la vila. Si té jurisdicció pròpia però no és una vila, se'n pot dir comuna.

El mot vilatge també ha estat aplicat especialment per a designar els pobles abandonats o poblats.

Aldea és un castellanisme històric provinent de l'àrab aldaya que s'emprava fent referència a llocs aragonesos o fora dels Països Catalans, totalment arcaic, fora d'ús en català modern ha donat nom a dues poblacions catalanoparlants significants: L'Aldea (Montsià) i Aldaia (L'Horta).

Pobles abandonats
Al llarg de tota l'edat mitjana hi hagué l'abandonament de llocs de poblament, a causa d'actes violents, de canvis econòmics, d'unes necessitats defensives diverses, de la pressió senyorial o de transformacions demogràfiques. Al final de les èpoques visigòtiques i andalusina s'abandonaren nombrosos vilatges.

Han estat excavats, per exemple, els del Bovalar, Vilaclara, Solibernat i Els Safranals.

A l'edat mitjana central, tot i ésser un moment de creixement demogràfic, s'abandonaren també vilatges, arran d'un procés d'encastellament (com ara, a la contrada de Segrià o a la de Guissona).

Finalment, el gran moment de l'abandonament foren els darrers segles medievals, l'època de la crisi demogràfica. Se'n poden esmentar els exemples dels vilatges de Caulès, l'Esquerda de Roda de Ter, Castelló Sobirà de Sant Miquel de la Vall, Sant Llorenç d'Ares, Oroners, Santa Creu, etc.

En estreta relació amb l'aparició dels vilatges abandonats, cal parlar del naixement dels masos rònecs.

L'estudi dels vilatges abandonats, que a Catalunya començà als anys seixanta, ha tingut una gran importància de cara al coneixement de molts aspectes de la vida en un poble medieval, que hom no podia conèixer mitjançant els testimonis escrits.

Una altra època en què s'han abandonat uns quants pobles és l'actual, des del darrer terç del . Podem trobar exemples en zones desavinents per la climatologia o pel seu aïllament, com és el cas de diversos pobles pallaresos, per exemple (Montadó, Puig de l'Anell, Montesquiu, etc.).

Referències

Entitats de població per tipus


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When it comes to getting ready for the upcoming season, the time to stock up and stay organized for the holidays is now. After a massive kitchen and pantry reorganization project, I am here to tell you my pro tips on how to stay ahead of the holiday madness by being prepared.
We are about to enter my favorite time of the year, but it is also the most stressful time of the year. When it comes to the holidays, there is joy, frivolity, entertainment, time with family, and so much more.
Of course there's also the stress of entertaining, hosting, getting sick at the worst possible time, and so much more.
As you all know, I did a giant kitchen and pantry reorganization project recently. It was a lot of work to complete. Of course, I still have some things I'd like to add to the pantry to make it more organized. However, it's given me a great opportunity to really think ahead.
That's right, I'm talking about stocking up so when those certain hosting moments come up, you are always prepared.
During the holidays, there are so many unforeseen events. Whether it is illness, last-minute family drop-ins, or just the desperate need to treat yourself after surviving another Thanksgiving, you need to have you pantry and refrigerator stocked so all you have to do is grab and go.
When it comes to stocking up before the holidays hit, I like to rely on stores like my local Safeway.
Safeway is smart because they think ahead, and this Stock Up Sale they have coming up is one of the major examples of that.
What better time than right now when things are just a little calmer to be thinking about products you might need in the coming months? Honestly, it's pretty brilliant. Now is the time to take advantage of low prices and getting those products you know you love!
Comfort food is a must to add to my pantry right about now. The upcoming season is one that carries a lot of cold, as well as possible COLDS. Grab your favorite soup (for me it's Progresso's Traditional Beef & Vegetable Soup with lots of hearty bread) so that when you are starting to feel ill, you have it on hand to warm you up from the inside out. Same goes for oatmeal, like Quaker Oatmeal in the Maple & Brown Sugar flavor!
Family and friends dropping in out of the blue is something I've gotten used to from November to December. I love spending time with the ones I love, but I never seem to have enough on hand for people to nibble on. Stock up on those crackers and snacks like Cheddar Cheese Nips so you always have something to put in a pretty bowl and serve.
Got a sweet tooth like I do? Sometimes you just need to whip up a cake. I know it sounds a little crazy, but there are so many potlucks and birthdays coming up! Might as well be ready with a quick fix like Betty Crocker Super Moist White Cake Mix and Betty Crocker Milk Chocolate Whipped Frosting, you know?
Are you inspired to be prepared now???
Just so you know, the products that I've mentioned in this post are on sale at the Albertsons Companies family of stores from 10/10/18 to 10/16/18. Products on sale at United retailers may differ.
I purchased these products and more at my local Safeway, but you can also stock up and stay organized for the holidays by saving at any of the Albertsons Companies family of stores including Albertsons, ACME Markets, Jewel-Osco, Vons, Pavilions, Randalls, Tom Thumb, Shaw's, Star Market, and Carrs/Safeway. Visit the Safeway website to find a store near you and discover some fun meal prep tips and recipe ideas!
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This is really great advice. I like to read it. Thank you for sharing this interesting post.
Saving money and being prepared are two of my favorite things! This is so smart. It will help the holidays not be so hectic!
You are so right! I need to stock up some food like comfort food, snacks and some sweet treats, too!
Thanks for sharing these great organizational tips.
This is the perfect timing to read this. Pre-Christmas is the best time to reorganize and get rid of things before you get overwhelmed with new items.
Now I need to get motivated and use some of these great tips.


A former friend of a Tarek Mehanna of Sudbury, who is accused of conspiring to help al-Qaida, testified today that Mehanna said "we're finally doing it'' as they traveled overseas looking for a terrorist training camp.
Kareem Abu-zahra spent a second day today testifying in the trial of Mehanna, accused of traveling to Yemen to seek terrorist training so he could fight U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
Abu-zahra says he, Mehanna and another friend boarded a flight from Boston in February 2004 with the intention of finding a training camp.
Abu-zahra says he decided to return to the U.S. after receiving word that his father was ill. He says Mehanna and the other man traveled on, but Mehanna told him later that they were unable to find a camp in Yemen.


The iconic crab of San Francisco's Fishermen's Wharf has long been a staple species up and down the West Coast.
With a sweet crab flavor and firm meat, Dungeness crabmeat should definitely find its way into your kitchen. We offer a variety of Dungeness Crab options – whole cooked crabs, crab meat and more – check in with your Santa Monica Seafood Sales rep to find the best option.
Dungeness crabmeat is delicious, but somewhat delicate so keep those wine pairings appropriate, nothing overwhelming. Also, if you know what state the crabs are coming from, why not suggest a wine from that region?
Customers love to see these bright red, whole crabs in your retail case! Add some fresh lemons and jars of cocktail sauce and watch your display really pop.


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The Newsletter 76 Spring 2017
Ocean of Law II: Islamic Legal Crossings in the Indian Ocean World
Mahmood Kooria

The spread and growth of Islamic law across the Indian Ocean world have been largely neglected by scholars of Islamic law, Middle East specialists, and scholars of the Indian Ocean, despite South and Southeast Asia together being home to the largest Muslim population in the world. The international conference 'Ocean of Law II: Islamic Legal Crossings in the Indian Ocean World' held at Leiden University between 12 and 14 December 2016 explored this understudied area, particularly the ways in which Muslim communities from the so-called 'peripheries' of the Islamic world shaped their lives and thoughts within and beyond the juridical frameworks of Islam.

The conference was held in continuation to the conference 'Ocean of Law: Intermixed Legal Systems across the Indian Ocean World' organised in December 2015. It was made possible in part by a major grant from the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS) and the Institute for History. Scholars from various countries, disciplines and expertise came together and presented their research on histories of Islamic law in different regions of the Indian Ocean littoral. They explored how and why Islamic legal ideas and texts travelled across borders; how ideas and texts shaped legal traditions and systems they encountered during their journey; how and why legal cultures negotiated, influenced and contested each other at the moments and sites of their interactions; and how the unique predominance of Shāfiʿī school of Islamic law in this Indian Ocean rim has been a vital phenomenon in shaping many social, cultural, religious and political perspectives of its Muslim communities across centuries. The conference unravelled such nuances in a long-term historical perspective and/or with multi-cited ethnographic approaches.
On the first day, the conference was opened by a keynote speech by Iza Hussin (Cambridge University) who analysed the mobility of two formulations of Islam in law in the nineteenth century: Islam as the religion of the state, and Islam as providing the content of state legislation and policy. Taking the journeys and experiments of Sultan Abu Bakar of Johor across multiple legal realms from Japan to Hawaii to Istanbul and England, she drew attention to the processes of translation, comparison and repetition as useful tools for studying the mobility of law in the Indian Ocean world.
On the second day, Ronit Ricci (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Australia National University) and Léon Buskens (Leiden University and NIMAR) also delivered keynote speeches on the circulation of Islam, its law, texts and/or people. In her speech, Ricci explored nuances of Islamization, vernacular writing, and frontiers in the histories of Malay Muslims in colonial Sri Lanka. Focusing on a historical narrative written in the Malay syair genre titled Syair Faid al-Abad by Baba Ounus Saldin, she unravelled how this maritime region stood as a frontier of Southeast Asian Islam and of the Malay language in South Asia. Buskens investigated the life and career of Snouck Hurgronje, the Dutch Arabist and advisor to the Dutch colonial government, with regard to the reinvention of Islamic law and discovery of adat law. Based on a number of materials in Arabic, Indonesian and European languages, he demonstrated how Hurgronje's understandings of Islamic law were equally shaped by his extensive fieldworks and interactions with the elite circles of the West and the East. In turn, his conclusions and arguments influenced the Dutch colonial policies as well as Western scholarship on Islamic law.
Apart from the keynote speeches, there were seven panels in total which were chaired by Jatin Dua (University of Michigan), Robert Gleave (University of Exeter), Debjani Bhattacharyya (Drexel University), Carolien Stolte, Alicia Schrikker, Anita van Dissel, and Jos Gommans (all from the Leiden University Institute for History). The panels were not organized thematically as all papers were more or less connected to Islamic legal cultures of the Indian Ocean world.
In the first panel, Elizabeth Lhost (University of Chicago) talked about the fatwa literature from South Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth century. She argued that those fatwas explicate a persistence of regional affinities and local connections, despite of the boom in modern technologies like printing, telegraphs and steam transportation—which themselves were discussed extensively in the fatwas. Travelling to the seventeenth century, Louie Buana (Leiden University) also demonstrated how the regional exchanges among the Southeast Asian ulamā had resulted in the production and Islamization of adat in West Sulawesi. He took the Mandarese Records called 'Lontar Mandar' as an example to show how the adats of the region were influenced by the wider networks of scholars and Islamic law in the Indian Ocean world; from Java and Mecca in particular.
In the following panel, Tom Hoogervorst (KITLV Leiden) took a lexical approach to demonstrate various levels and layers of influences on Island Southeast Asia's legal terminologies and related practices. With several examples of phrases and words in local, Indic and Arabic languages used in the archipelago, he illustrated historico-linguistically that the Hindu-Buddhist and Islamic legal practices and texts were localized in premodern Southeast Asia rather than that the Island was assimilated to external influences. Mahmood Kooria (IIAS-ASC Leiden) discussed cases of several African jurists who worked in South and Southeast Asia before 1500. He drew attention to seeing the history of Islamic law as a product of an Afro-Asia-Arab triangle instead of limiting it to an Arab export (see also this issue, pp.8-9).
In the third panel, Sanne Ravensbergen (Leiden University) articulated the functions of Javanese Penghulu as advisors on Islamic law to the Dutch colonial pluralistic courts. She argued that several stereotypes attributed to them in the popular writings or later studies were only exaggerations, and often the pluralistic court maintained their position for the status quo, the recognition they had in the community and for the effectiveness of the courts. In a similar vein, Omer Aloni (Tel-Aviv University) also presented a case from the Israeli Supreme Court that ruled in favor of bigamy in order to "restore the peace in the village". His paper focused on the dilemma of bigamy and polygamy in early Israeli Law with regard to the existing practices among the Eastern Arab communities.
On the second day, Naveen Kanalu (University of California Los Angeles) talked about the discourses of legalism and sovereignty in the Mughal Empire with reference to the production of the Fatāwā al-'ālamkīrīyyah compiled during Aurangzeb 'Ālamgīr's reign (r. 1658–1707). He said that the Fatāwā reveals the Mughal attempt to assert its legitimacy through this codification and the structural transformations in its imperial domination. Following him, Arfiansyah (Leiden University) also underscored another imperial codification from a different place and time: from Gayo in the Aceh Province of Indonesia. The Gayonese legal code called 45 Articles of Linge Lord was assumedly codified by the Linge Kingdom in the twelfth century CE. He explained how this code has been used by the contemporary local government to police public morality, in spite of questions on the authenticity and legitimacy of the code.
Hassan Khalilieh (University of Haifa) presented in the next panel on how piracy was perceived in Islamic law over several generations. Quoting the foundational scriptures and early classical writers, he expounded various restrictive measures Islamic law took to curtail piracy with clear distinctions from maritime jihad. Nicholas W.S. Smith (Northwestern University) presented a concrete case from Somalia in the late nineteenth century with his emphasis on the political and diplomatic career of the self-proclaimed sultan, ʿUthmān Maḥmūd Yūsuf. However, Smith showed that Yūsuf's sovereign-state in north-eastern Somali coast did not follow any European, indigenous or Islamic legal practices, but rather it took highly malleable and heterogeneous laws as the situations demanded.
On the last day, Philipp Bruckmayr (University of Vienna) opened the penultimate panel by focusing on major Islamic legal debates in Cambodia in the early twentieth century. On the basis of fatwas of Malay muftis in Mecca and Kelantan and the French colonial documents from the Cambodian National Archives, he highlighted the active engagement of the Cambodian Muslims in the Islamic legal crossings across the Gulf of Siam and the Indian Ocean at large. Similarly, Abbas Panakkal (Griffith University) emphasised the juridical contributions of Malabar to the broader Shāfiʿīte legal discussions in its maritime context. He analysed a sixteenth-century legal text, Fatḥ al-Muʿīn of Shaykh Zayn al-Dīn Makhdūm II, to illuminate how its author took a moderate stand in his legal formulations to befit the particular contexts of his audience.
Nurfadzilah Yahaya (National University of Singapore) elucidated how East India Company (EIC) courts in the Straits of Malacca asserted authority at the expense of Malay sovereignty from the late eighteenth till the mid-nineteenth century. With the help of the British legal identities granted to as many local inhabitants, the EIC courts often used law to declare the local kings as unlawful and to bring them under the imperial sovereignty. Rishad Choudhury (Harvard University) spoke about the journeys of South Asian ulamā to the Hijaz and their ramifications on local webs of knowledge in late Mughal India. Concentrating on a Sunni revivalist Muhammad Hāshim (d. 1761) and his Indo-Persian Hajj manual titled ḥayāt al-Qulūb fī Ziyārat al-Maḥbūb, Choudhury argued that the South Asian ulamā's participation in the contemporary intellectual and pilgrim networks reflected the rapid transitions in political and ideological realms of the subcontinent and the Hijaz.
R. Michael Feener (Oxford University) moderated the roundtable at the end of the conference. He emphasised the broad themes that had come up in the presentations, particularly with regard to the very form and structure of law as understood varyingly from the early Islamic heartlands to the later Indian Ocean littoral. He motivated the presenters to think about the potential terminologies and conceptions for comparative and connected analyses of Islamic legal circulations across the Indian Ocean world that would help future researches. In the following discussion, several participants highlighted a few recurrent themes such as the cultures of Muslim encounters, the infrastructure of the Indian Ocean that enabled legal circulations, and constant dialogues within and without the maritime communities. The conference proceedings will be published as a peer-reviewed edited volume in the Leiden Studies in Islam and Society series of LUCIS.
Mahmood Kooria, postdoctoral fellow at the School of Middle Eastern Studies, Leiden University Institute for Area Studies; formerly, joint research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) and African Studies Centre (ASC), Leiden (m.kooriadathodi@hum.leidenuniv.nl).
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