Renault Sport is set to become the first Formula 1 team in 2017 to unveil its new car ahead of the forthcoming F1 season – a year in which the French manufacturer will celebrate the 40th anniversary of its first entry into the sport.
The Renault Sport Formula One Team is scheduled to take the wraps off its latest challenger on Tuesday 21 February with the Force India, Mercedes and Ferrari squads all following later that same week.
As has been well documented there's a change to the driver line-up for 2017. Briton Jolyon Palmer stays after a strong debut season in 2016 but he will have a new team-mate in the guise of Germany's Nico Hulkenberg.
More recently there has been a notable change off the track, too, with the team confirming it has parted ways with Frédéric Vasseur, formerly its Team Principal.
However the Renault Sport Racing brand and the F1 team will continue to be managed by President Jérôme Stoll and Managing Director Cyril Abiteboul.
It really is a case of 'watch this space' in the build up to 21 February and the new 20-race F1 season getting under way in Australia (Melbourne) on 26 March. In fact it's a hectic schedule with grands prix in China (Shanghai), Bahrain (Sakhir) and Russia (Sochi) all to follow in April before a first foray into Europe (Spain – Barcelona – 14 May).
Significantly for UK Renault Sport enthusiasts it will be the British Grand Prix at Silverstone (16 July) which marks four decades since Renault first entered F1. Likewise turbocharged engines which Renault also brought into the sport with its innovative if somewhat troublesome-at-first RS01 model, driven by Jean-Pierre Jabouille.
We'll come onto that nearer the time of the British GP. Meanwhile here's how to keep abreast of all things Renault Sport F1 in the coming weeks and months.


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CBS Says 'Hawaii Five-0's' Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park Turned Down 'Large and Significant' Raises
"We did not want to lose them and tried very hard to keep them," network says about departing cast members
Ryan Gajewski | July 5, 2017 @ 5:51 PM	Last Updated: July 5, 2017 @ 6:23 PM
CBS is weighing in on the contract negotiations that led "Hawaii Five-0" cast members Daniel Dae Kim (Chin Ho Kelly) and Grace Park (Kono Kalakaua) to exit ahead of Season 8.
"Daniel and Grace have been important and valued members of 'Hawaii Five-0' for seven seasons," CBS said Wednesday in a statement. "We did not want to lose them and tried very hard to keep them with offers for large and significant salary increases."
The network added, "While we could not reach an agreement, we part ways with tremendous respect for their talents on screen, as well as their roles as ambassadors for the show off screen, and with hopes to work with them again in the near future."
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CBS announced last week that "Hawaii Five-0" mainstays Kim and Park will not return, with their characters' absences to be explained in the Season 8 premiere that airs on Sept. 29.
Kim wrote on Facebook on Tuesday that he and the network "weren't able to agree to terms on a new contract, so I made the difficult choice not to continue. … As an Asian-American actor, I know firsthand how difficult it is to find opportunities at all, let alone play a well-developed, three-dimensional character like Chin Ho."
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The "Lost" alum said he encourages "us all to look beyond the disappointment of this moment to the bigger picture. The path to equality is rarely easy."
Park has yet to comment on the exit.
10 Major Cliffhangers This Season, From 'Stranger Things' to 'The Good Place' (Photos)
Is "Stranger Things" back in the Upside Down? Will "Timeless" get its time machine back? Is "The Good Place" really the Bad Place? Here are 10 TV cliffhangers we can't wait to see resolved.
"Riverdale"
Just as one shooting got solved, another was presented, as a mysterious assailant held up Pop's diner and shot Archie's dad -- with Jughead's ominous voice-over telling us this was no random robbery gone wrong.
Samurai World? Samurai World! Also, we're not sure who's really dead.
Mike touched his bathroom mirror and his world -- and ours -- transformed back into the Upside Down again. What does it mean?
"Outlander"
Jamie and Claire were separated, seemingly for good, but in the Season 2 finale, she got word that he actually survived the Battle of Culloden, which means she could travel back in time again for a reunion.
"The Flash"
Central City was left without its hero as the Speed Force needed a prisoner and Barry stepped up to sacrifice himself.
"Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"
Just as it seemed Rebecca would finally get her happy ending with Josh, he freaked out and left her at the altar. Season 3 should be even more awkward than usual.
"The Good Place"
It was the twist that blew fans' minds - were Eleanor and company in The Bad Place all along?
"The 100"
The post-apocalyptic drama set up its biggest time jump yet -- 6 years -- and left Clarke facing off against a new unknown threat in the form of a prisoner-transport ship from space.
"Timeless"
Good thing this got uncancelled, because the time-travel drama dropped two big twists as mysterious, villainous organization Rittenhouse took control of the time machine.
"Once Upon a Time"
The fairy tale drama offered closure to the majority of its current characters, and set up a planned reboot for Season 7, with a grown-up Henry getting a visit from a woman who claims to be his daughter. "Your family needs you," she said.
Here are some dangling plot points we need answers to asap please
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What is a Story Mode?
In this game mode, players can experience the whole 100-episode story of the original Wangan Midnight comic, racing alongside characters from the series.
By tuning your car as you progress through the story, you can upgrade your power and handling.
In addition, one of the features of this game is "Tuning" Being able to tune your car is a feature of Story Mode.
Acquire Tuning Points by winning against the original comic characters in the Story Mode. Perform Tuning when you've filled up your point bar.
There are two types of tuning: 1: Power, which increases the car's maximum speed and its ability to accelerate.
2: Handling, which increases the car's ability to turn corners. You can create your own unique car with its unique performance style.
*A BANAPASSPORT Card is needed to play using saved Tuning Data.
The Tuning Gauge obtained after Episode 21 lets players adjust settings before a race (available in all game modes).
Tuning in Story Mode goes up to 600 horsepower until Episode 20 is cleared, up to 800 horsepower until Episode 50 is cleared, and maxes out at 840 horsepower after Episode 80 is cleared.
By meeting special clear conditions in this mode, such as clearing the story twice or winning 100 consecutive victories, you can earn special rewards, like new BGM and race meters.
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SWATH-MS Generates Highly Reproducible Data
Karen Steward PhD
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Karen Steward holds a PhD in molecular microbiology and evolutionary genetics from the University of Cambridge. She moved into science writing in 2017 after over a decade as a research scientist.
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Reproducibility in research is key, however it is challenging for many techniques across multiple disciplines. A survey1 published in Nature in 2016 showed that more than 70 % of researchers were not able to reproduce another scientist's experiments, with more than half unable to reproduce their own experiments. A recent study2 looked to address the quantitative and qualitative reproducibility of SWATH-mass spectrometry (MS), a data independent acquisition technique which allows a complete and permanent recording of all fragment ions of the detectable peptide precursors present in a biological sample. "Based on the work that was already coming out at the time it was clear that SWATH Acquisition was going to be an important quantitative technique for proteomics, and labs were already demonstrating that large numbers of proteins could be quantified in proteomic samples very reproducibly on smaller studies," commented Dr Christie Hunter, one of the authors of the study that was published in Nature Communications. Christie went on to say that "there had also been a number of other important multi-site studies that had been done for other proteomic techniques, which had demonstrated the importance of testing a technique in that manner".
Targeted proteomics, incorporating MS, has been a powerful research tool offering reproducible results for some time. However, the technique is limited in the number of proteins that may be detected in a sample. SWATH-MS does not have this limitation, making it a candidate technique for large scale proteomic projects. Previous SWATH-MS studies have demonstrated high intra-lab reproducibility, but inter-lab variation had not been assessed.
"We had two questions that we thought were important to test at this point in time. Can multiple labs generate very similar data on the same sample? Does SWATH Acquisition enable the generation of large scale datasets across labs to enable large scale quantitative biology experiments?" commented Christie. In this study, 11 laboratories across the globe analyzed standard samples, consisting of 30 stable isotope-labelled synthetic peptides, that had been diluted in a complex protein background of digested HEK293 cells at concentrations that spanned six orders of dynamic range. The five samples were analyzed multiple times on the same day, on multiple days and across multiple sites. In total, 229 data files were generated by the participating labs which were then compared centrally for quantitative and qualitative concordance.
Results showed that >4000 proteins from HEK293 cells could be consistently detected and reproducibly quantified. Detection of the peptide standards demonstrated that the sensitivity, dynamic range and reproducibility established with SWATH-Acquisition are uniformly achieved.
This study demonstrated that detection of large numbers of proteins from highly heterogeneous samples is not only feasible but provides reliable and reproducible quantitative results. Comparative quantitative analysis of large numbers of proteomes is becoming more accessible and it is therefore expected that research where this capability is a prerequisite is increasing. Applications where this could have an impact include analyses of clinical material from large patient cohorts (e.g., biomarkers, personalized medicine research), association of protein abundances to genomic features using genetic reference collections or wild-type populations (e.g., quantitative trail locus or genome wide association studies), or large-scale perturbation screens using in vitro model systems (e.g., drug screens), are now feasible.
The data demonstrates a significant advance in the robustness of large-scale data acquisition in quantitative proteomics, and the paper2 concludes that the results are expected to increase confidence in SWATH-MS. "With the increasing focus on precision medicine research and a much better understanding of the need to analyze more samples, the ability to profile large numbers of samples quantitatively will be critical," said Christie.
1. Baker M. 1,500 scientists lift the lid on reproducibility. Nature. 2016 May 26;533(7604):452-4. doi: 10.1038/533452a. PubMed PMID: 27225100.
2. Collins BC, Hunter CL, Liu Y, Schilling B, Rosenberger G, Bader SL, Chan DW, Gibson BW, Gingras AC, Held JM, Hirayama-Kurogi M, Hou G, Krisp C, Larsen B, Lin L, Liu S, Molloy MP, Moritz RL, Ohtsuki S, Schlapbach R, Selevsek N, Thomas SN, Tzeng SC, Zhang H, Aebersold R. Multi-laboratory assessment of reproducibility, qualitative and quantitative performance of SWATH-mass spectrometry. Nat Commun. 2017 Aug 21;8(1):291. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00249-5. PubMed PMID: 28827567; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5566333.
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Even before it was a federal prison, 'The Rock' was an inhospitable place. The natives of the area avoided the barren island and the first to survey the Bay, Captain Juan Manuel de Ayala in 1775, did not even bother to name it. Fifty years later, a second survey team mistakenly gave Ayala's name for the current Yerba Buena Island, Isla de Alcatraces, instead to this ugly rocky island. The Spanish and the Mexicans also ignored Alcatraz. Finally U.S. Army Engineers built a lighthouse on it in 1852, but could find no other use for the island.
It first was used as a prison by the U.S. Army during the Civil War. It housed Confederate privateers and Democratic orators who criticized the Republican's administration of the war. Later it held subdued Native Americans from Arizona, Phillipine war deserters, and City of San Francisco prisoners, following the 1906 earthquake. By 1914 it was known as 'Uncle Sam's Devil's Island' but its true fame as a federal prison was still twenty years away.


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Heathers reboot cancelled due to school shootings; guns still legal though
By Nathan Jolly
The issue of rampant gun violence in America has been completely solved, after it was announced that Paramount have scrapped the Heathers reboot before a single issue has aired.
The show was due to premiere on March 7, but was postponed after 17 people were gunned down in a high school shooting in Florida.
Now the show has been cancelled completely, no doubt due to the fact that it's very hard to find a month in which gun violence isn't prevalent in high schools across America.
"This is a high school show, we're blowing up the school, there are guns in the school, it's a satire and there are moments of teachers having guns", Paramount executive Keith Cox told The Hollywood Reporter.
"It's hitting on so many hot topics. This company can't be speaking out of both sides of its mouth, saying the youth movement is important for us and we've done all these wonderful things to support that and at the same time, we're putting on a show that we're not comfortable with. The combination of a high school show with these very dark moments didn't feel right."
Ten episode were produced. Maybe we will see them in Australia, though.
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And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.
Our reading today is the record of the institution of the Jewish feast of Purim. This is a Jewish "holyday" when Jews around the world stop to remember how God continued His protection of His "chosen people", the Jewish people, some twenty-five hundred years ago.
The book of Esther records the events that led up to what could have been the complete annihilation of the Jewish people. As you may already know, Esther had come into the "kingdom" for such a time as the time the Lord would use her to save her people, the Jews.
Haman was killed on the gallows that he prepared for Mordecai and this brought an end to the wicked ways of the number two in the kingdom. But remember, the word had gone out across the world to have all the Jews killed.
Then King Ahasuerus had a letter sent throughout the one hundred and twenty-seven provinces of his kingdom to save the Jews from death. This is recorded in Esther 8. The King's letter was followed by a letter from Mordecai, verse 20 of our extended reading, where the Jewish leader would call for all the Jews to celebrate the Jewish "feast of Purim".
In fact, this would be a two-day feast that the Jews were told to observe on an annual bases. It would be a time to remember how God had intervened to protect His people and it would be, as such, a prophecy of how He would do so in the future.
There are men in history that have followed the lead of Haman and tried to destroy the Jews. During World War II Hitler and his Nazi Army killed one third of the then living Jews, six million of them.
Today the wicked leader of Iran, President Ahmadinejad, has called a number of times for the nation of Israel to be "wiped off the face of the earth". This is an end times scenario that fits the prophetic passages that reveal a coalition of nations will move to destroy the Jews and Israel during the Tribulation Period, Ezekiel 38, and verse 5 where the Biblical name "Persia" is the nation of Iran today.
Each year as the Jews celebrate Purim they recall the days of Esther, but they also look to the future and realize that as their enemies come to destroy them the Lord will once again intervene to protect His people, the Jews.
This scenario for the future, found in Bible Prophecy, also tells us that the next event on God's calendar of events prophetically is the Rapture, which could happen at any moment. There is not one prophecy to be fulfilled before the Rapture. We must keep looking up for this "any moment" event.
PRAYER THOT: Thank you Lord for the record of your protection of the Jews and the reality that you will do so in the future. This is confirmation that you keep your promises, not only to the Jews but to me as a Christian as well.


SLAM: I believe you had talked about seeing Larry shoot in the gym.
Paul George: He picked a ball up that had rolled over. He rolled up his sleeves and made about 15 in a row and just walked out like nothing just happened. It was the craziest thing I've seen.
SLAM: How did you and the rest of the team react?
Paul George: We were speechless. We didn't know whether to keep shooting or just to end practice. It was sweet, man.
An apt line. And yes, you're allowed to end practice to watch Larry Bird keep shooting a basketball. Outside of the fish/swimming analogy, I can't really think of any other proper comparisons. It's not quite like watching B.B. King utilize vibrato, because there are a lot of great guitar players out there. It's not quite like watching Lauren Hutton strut down a runway, because there are a lot of beautiful women out there. Lots of people can paint some pretty, pretty pictures. Many great books have been written by thousands of brilliant authors. Sliced bread has already been invented.
Larry Bird … shooting a basketball? That's on another level. You should always call off practice if it results in a chance to watch the Legend work on his stroke.


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which his mind is now directed, and he would be impelled to quarrel with England by a variety of considerations, should this Republic be broken up into half a dozen feeble and quarrelsome confederacies. But with the United States in existence, and powerful enough to command respect, he would not dare to seek the overthrow of the British Empire. We could not permit him to head a crusaile for England's annihilation, no matter what might be our feeling toward the mother-land. A just regard for our own interests would impel us to side with her, should she be placed in serious danger. Such was. substantially, President JefferBon's opinion, sixty years ago, when the first Napoleon was so bent upon the conquest of England; and we think that his views are applicable to the existing circumstances of the world. Where should we have been now, if England had quarrelled with and been conquered by Napoleon IIL? We must distinguish between the English nation and Englishmen,— between the English Government, which Las, perhaps, borne itself as favorably toward us as it could, and that English aristocracy which has, as a rule, exhibited so strong a desire to have us extinguished, even while it has repeatedly refused to take steps preparatory to war; and the two countries should be persuaded to understand that neither can perish without the life of the other being placed in great danger. The best answer to be made to the wordy attacks of Englishmen is to be found in success. That answer would be complete; and if it cannot bo fnade, what will it signify to us what shall be said of us by foreigners? The bitterest attacks can never disturb the dead.
One cause of the change of England's course toward us is to be found in our own change of moral position. The President's Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on the first of January, 1863; and from that time the anti-slavery people of England have been on our side; and their influence is great, and bears upon the supporters of the Palmerston Ministry
with peculiar force. Had our Government persisted in the pro-slavery policy which it favored down to the autumn of 1862, it is not at all unlikely that the English intervention party would have been strong enough to compel their country to go with France in her mediation scheme, — and the step from mediation to intervention would have been but a short one; but the committal of the North to anti-slavery views, and the union of their cause with that of emancipation, threw the English Abolitionists, men who largely represent England's moral worth, on our side. The Proclamation, therefore, even if it could be proved that it had not led to the liberation of one slave, has been of immense service to us, and the President deserves the thanks of every loyal American for having issued it. He threw a shell into the foreign Secession camp, the explosion of which was fatal to that "cordial understanding " that was to have operated for our annihilation.
Such was the year of the Proclamation, and its history is marvellous in our eyes. It stands in striking contrast to the other years of the war, both of which closed badly for us, and left the impression that the enemy's ease was a good one, speaking militarily. Our improved condition should be attributed to the true cause. When, in the Parliament of 1601, Mr. Speaker Croke said that the k.ngdom of Englattd "had been defended by the mighty arm of the Queen," Elizabeth exclaimed from the throne, "No, Mr. Speaker, but rather by the mighty hand of God!" So with us. We have been saved "by the mighty hand of God." Neither "malice domestic" nor "foreign levy" has prevailed at our expense. Whether we had the right to expect Heaven's aid, we cannot undertake to say; but we know that we should not have deserved it, had we continued to link the nation's cause to that of oppression, and had we shed blood and expended gold in order to restore the system of slavery and the sway of slaveholders.
REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES.
life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker, Minister of the Twenly-Eighth Congregational Society, Boston. By John Weiss. In Two Volumes. 8vo. London.'
Such a life of Theodore Parker as Mr. Parton has written of Andrew Jackson would be accepted as an American classic. For such a life, however, it is manifestly unreasonable to look. Not until the present generation has passed away, not until the perilous questions which vex men's souls to-day shall rest forever, could any competent biographer regard the "iconoclast of the Music Hall" as a subject for complacent literary speculation or calm judicial discourse. For us, this life of Parker must be interpreted by one of the family. He shall best use these precious letters and journals who is spiritually related to their writer, if not bound to him by the feebler tie of blood. And assuming the necessity of a partisan, or, as it might more gently be expressed, wholly sympathetic biographer, there is little but commendation for Mr. Weiss. With admirable clearness and strength he rings out the.full tone of thought and belief among that earnest school of thinkers and doers of which Theodore Parker was the representative. Full as are these goodly octavos with the best legacies of him whose life is written, we have returned no less frequently to the deeply reflective arguments and acute criticisms of Mr. Weiss. Let the keen discrimination of a passage taken almost at random justify us, if it may.
"Some people say that they are not indebted to Mr. Parker for a single thought. The word 'thought' is so loosely used that a definition of terms must precede our estimate of Mr. Parker's finggestiveness and originality. Men who are kept by a commonplace-book go about raking everywhere for glittering scraps, which they curry home to be sorted in their (esthetic junk-shop. Any portable bit that strikes the fancy is a thought. There are literary rag-pickers of every degree of ability; and a great deal of Judgment can be shown in finding the scrap or nail you want in a heap of rubbish. Quotable matter is generally considered to be strongly veined with thought. Some people estimate a writer ac
cording to the number of apt sentences imbedded in his work. But who is judge of aptness itself? What is apt for an epigram is not apt for a revolution: the shock of a witty antithesis is related to the healthy stimulus of creative thinking, as a small electrical battery to the terrestrial currents. Wellbuilt rhetorical climaxes, sharp and sudden contrasts, Poor Richard's common-sense, a page boiled down to a sentence, a fresh simile from Nature, a subtle mood projected upon Nature, a swift controversial retort, all these things are called thoughts. The pleasure in them is so great, that one fancies they leave him in their debt. .That depends upon one's standard of indebtedness. Now a penny-aliner is indebted to a single phrase which furnishes his column; a clergyman near Saturday night seizes with rapture the clue of a fine simile which spins into a 'beautiful sermon '; for the material of his verses a rhymester is ' indebted' to an anecdote or incident. In a higher degree all kinds of literary work, are indebted to that commerce of ideas be- tween the minds of all nations, which fit up interiors more comfortably, and upholster them better than before. And everything that gets into circulation is called a thought, be it a discovery in science, a mechanical invention, the statement of a natural law, comparative statistics, rules of economy, diplomatic circulars, and fme magazine-writing. It > the manoeuvring of the different arma in the great service of humanity, solid or dashing, on a field already gained. But the thought which organizes the fresh advance goes with the pioneer-train that bridges streams, that mines the hill, that feeU the country. The controlling plan puts itself forth with that swarthy set «-. leather-aproned men shouldering picks and axes. How brilliantly the uniforms defile afterward, with flashing points and rhythmic swing, over the fresh causeway, to hold and maintain a position whose value was ideally conceived! So that the brightest facings do not cover the boldest thought."
By omissions here and there, — in all not amounting to ten pages of printed matter, — these literary remains of Theodore Parker might have been made less offensive to believers in the Christian Revelation, as well as to the not small class of gentlemanly skepties who go through whatever motions the best society esteems correct. In these days, many worthy people, who are not quite sound upon -Noah's ark, or even the destruction of the swine, will wince perceptibly at hearing the Lord's Supper called " a heathenish rite." And it would be unfair to the memories of most noted men to stereotype for ten thousand eyes the rough estimates of familiar letters, or the fragmentary ejaculations of a private journal. But Mr. Par-, ker never scrupled to exhibit before the world all that was worst in him. There are few chapters that will not recall defects publicly shown by the preacher and author. The reader can scarcely miss a corroboration of a shrewd observation of Hacaulay, that there is no proposition so monstrously untrue in polities or morals as to be incapable of proof by what shall sound like a logical demonstration from ad mitted principles. Theodore Parker was a strong and honest man. Yet few strong men have so lain at the mercy of some narrow bit of logic; few honest ones have so warped facts to match opinions. We speak of exceptional instances, not of ordinary habits. He seemed unable to persuade himself that a scheme of faith which was false to him could be true to others of equal intelligence and virtue. He fell too easily into the spasmodic vice of the day, and said striking things rather than true ones. He assumed a basis of faith every whit as dogmatic as special revelation, and sometimes grievously misrepresented the creeds which he assailed. Strangers might go to the Music Hall to breathe the free air of a catholic liberality, and find nothing but the old fierceness of sectarianism broken loose against the sects. Let us make every deduction which a candid criticism is compelled to claim, and Theodore Parker stands a noble representative of Republican America. His place is still among the immortals who are not the creatures of an age, but its regenerators. For it is not the life of a great skeptic, but the work of a great believer, which is brought before us in these volumes. This uncompromising enemy of the creeds was the ally of their highest uses. His soul never lacked that dear and personal oblect of worship which is offered by the Christian Revelation in its common acceptance. He could have lived in no more jubilant confidence of immortality, had he enjoyed the tactual satisfactions of Thomas himself. No Catholic nun feels more delicious aslurance of the protection of the Virgin,
no Protestant maiden knows a more blissful consciousness of the Saviour's marital affection towards her particular church, than felt this Theodore Parker in the fatherly and motherly tenderness of the Great Cause of All. Certainly, few doubters have ever doubted to so much purpose as he. Men who are skeptical through the intellect in the Christian creeds seldom live so sturdily the Christian life. Yet we cannot think that the fervent faith with which he wrought came from what was exceptional in his belief; it was rather a good gift of native and special sort. For it is a true insight which leads Tennyson to warn him whose faith does not trust itself to form, that his sister is "quicker unto good" from the hallowed symbol through which she receives a divine truth. Many who flatter themselves that they have outgrown the need of a human embodiment of the Father's love have only induced a , plasticity of mind which prevents the life from taking shape in any positive affirmation. "It is a strong help to me," writes a Congregational minister, " to find a man, standing on the extreme verge of liberal theology, holding so firmly, so tenaciously, to the one true religion, love to God and man." But may all men stand there, and cling to it as resolutely as he did'
The ancestors of Theodore Parker seem to have been creditable"offshoots from the Puritan stock. They were men and women of thrift and sagacity. Of his mother there are very sweet glimpses. He describes her as "imaginative, delicateminded, and poetic, yet a very practical woman." She appears to have been thoroughly religious, but without taste for the niceties of dogmatic theology. Piety did not have to be laboriously put into her, before it could generously come out . "I have known few," writes her son, "in whom the religious instincts were so active and profound, and who seemed to me to enjoy so completely the life of God in the soul of man." And again he says, "Religion was the inheritanoe my mother gave, — gave me in my birth, — gave me in her teachings. Many sons have- been better born than I, few have had so good a mother. I mention these things to show you how I came to have the views of religion that I have now. My head is not more natural to my body, has not more grown with it, than my religion out of my soul and with it. With me religion was not carpentry, something built up of dry wood, from without; but it was growth, — growth of a germ in my soul." Thus we see that Parker was not singular in his sources of goodness and nobility: here also have the strong and worthy men of s11 time received their inspiration. The mother's sphere is never confined to the household, but expands for joy or bitterness through the world at large. A youth of farm - work, snatches of study, and school-teaching, seem to be the appointed uni, iilum for our trustworthy men. In addition to this, Theodore achieves a slight connection with Harvard, — insufficient for a degree, yet enough for him, if not for the College. Then he teaches a private class in Boston, and presently opens school in Watertown. Here, for the first time, comes a modest success after the world's measurement. He has soon thirty-five, and afterwards fifty-four scholars. And now occurs an incident which is unaccountably degraded to the minion type of a note. It is, however, just what the reader wants to know, and deserves Italies and double - leading, if human actions are ever sufficiently noteworthy for these honors. The Watertown teacher receives a colored girl who has been sent to him, and then consents to dismiss her in deference to the prej udices of Caucasian patrons. Simon Peter denied the Saviour for whom he was aftervards crucified with his head hanging down. One day we shall find this schoolmaster leaving most cherished work, and braving all social obloquies, that he may stand closer than a brother to the despised and ignorant of the outcast race. The colored girl was amply avenged. But the teacher is here, as ever after, a learner, and his leisure is filled with languages, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, German, Spanish, and French. During his-subsequent stay at the Cambridge Divinity School, there are added studies in Italian, Portuguese, Icelandic, Chaldaic, Arabic, Persian, and Coptic. - Of his proficiency in this Babel of tongues the evidence is not very conclusive. Professor Willard is said to have applied to the young divinity-student for advice in some nice matters of Hebrew and Syriac. Theology there can be no doubt that he thoroughly mastered. After a brief season of itinerancy through Mas
sachusetts pulpits, he is settled at West Roxbury. And here begins that agony of doubt dismal and unprofitable to contemplate, when it is not redeemed by a manly ardor which searches on for attainable grounds of trust. But in this young minister the faith of a little child cannot
,be superseded by the advents of geology and carnal criticism. Some of the Biblical conceptions of the Deity may be found inadequate, but Nature and the human soul are full of His presence and glow with His inspirations. Within the limits of capacity and obedience, every man and woman may receive direct nourishment from God. At length the South-Boston sermon of 1841 separates the position of Theodore Parker from that of his Unitarian brethren. After this, his life belongs
'to the public. He is known of men as an assailant of respectable and sacred things, a bitter critic of political and social usages. That these manifestations were but small portions of the total of his life, the public may now discern.
We can recall no published correspondence of the century which combines more excellent and diverse qualities than this with which Mr. Weiss has plentifully filled his pages. Occasions for which the completest of Complete Letter - Writers has failed to provide are met by Mr. Parker with consummate discretion. His letters are to Senators, Shakers, Professors, Doctors, Slaveholders, Abolitionists, morbid girls, and heroic women: they are all equally rich in spontaneity, simplicity, and point. Keen criticisms of noted men, speculations upon society, homely wisdom of the household, estimates of the arts, and consolations of religion, all packed in plain and precise English, seem to have been ever ready for delivery. If Mr. Parker had not chosen the unpopularity of a great man, he could have had the abundant popularity of a clever one. Let us see how he outlines the Seer of Stockholm for an inquiring correspondent: —
"Swedenborg has had the fate -to be worshipped as a half-god, on the one side; and on the other, to be despised and laughed at. It seems to me that he was a man of genius, of wide learning, of deep and genuine piety But he had an abnormal, queer sort of mind, dreamy, dozy, clairvoyant, Andrew-JacksonBavisy; and besides, he loved opium and strong coffee, and wroU under the influence of those drugs. A wise man may get many nice bits out of him, and be the healthier for cnch eating ; but if he swallows Swedenborg whole, as the fashion is with his followere, — why, it lays hard in the stomach, and the man has a nightmare on him all his natural life, and talks atxiut . the Word,' and 'the Spirit,' 'correspondences,' 'receivers.' Yet the Swedenborginns have a calm snd religious beauty in their lives which is much to be admired."
The deeply affectionate nature of Theodore Parker glows warmly through the Correspondence and Journal. His friends were necessities, and were loved with a devotion by no means characteristic of Americans. He could give his life"to ideas, but his heart must be given to persons, young and old. Turning from liis task of opposition and conflict, he would yearn for the society of little children, whose household loves might dull the noise and violence and passion through which he daily walked. "The great joy of my life," he writes, "cannot be Intellectual action, neither practical work. Though I joy in botH, it is the affections which open the spring of mortal delight. But the object of my affections, dearest of all, is not at hand. How strange that I should have no children, and only get a little sad sort of happiness, not of the affectional quality! I am only 'm old maid in life, after all my bettying about in literature and philanthropy." And in a letter to Dr. Francis there comes nn exclamation of which the arrangement is very pathetic in its significance, — "I have no child, and the worst reputation of any minister in all America!"
We are in no position to estimate with any exactness either the adaptation of Theodore Parker to our national wellbeing or his positive aid to the mental and moral progress of New-England society. Violent denunciations in the interest of the various sects and policies that he attacked will fnr the present be levelled against him. Neither will there be wanting extravagant eulogiums from personal friends, fellow-religionists, and zealous reformers. Only the distant view of a generation yet tii bu cnn see him in just relation to the men of this time. In judging the weight and work of a contemporary, we attach an over-importance to the number •nd social position of his nominal adherents; while, in estimating the utility of an historic leader, we instinctively feel
that these things are almost the last to be considered. For the greatest influence for good has come from men who have struggled in feeble minorities, — ever alienating would - be friends by an invincible honesty, or even by an invincible fanaticism. Not to the excellences or extravagances of a handful of persons who precisely agree with his views of Christianity may we look for the influence of Theodore Parker which to-day works among us. We might find it in greater power in Brownson's Catholic Review, in the humane magnetism of orthodox Mr. Beecher, in the Episcopal ministrations of Dr. Tyng. For any intelligent Christian must allow that those chuming to represent the Church of Christ have too often sided with the oppressor, fettered human thought in departments foreign to religion, and inculcated degrading beliefs, which scholars eminent in orthodoxy declare indeducible from any Biblical precept. It is not the incredibleness of a metaphysical belief, but a laxity or cowardice of the practice connected with it, which can point the reformer's gibe and wing his sarcasm. Theodore Parker virtually told the Christian minister that he must reprove profitable and popular. sins, or else stand at great disadvantage in the trial between Rationalism and Supematuralism which is vexing the age. In rich and prosperous communities Christianity has been too prone to degenerate into a mere credence of dogma; it must reassert itself as the type of ethies. It is also good that the clergy, intrusted with the defence of the faith delivered to saints, be compelled to place themselves on a level with the ripest scholarship of the day. For ends such as these the life of this critic and protester has abundantly wrought. If he has pulled down a meeting-house here and there, we are confident that he has been instrumental in building up many more to an effective Christianity..
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Walter Murphy
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Saint Chrysostome Municipalite Mrc Haut Saint Laurent
The municipalitiesSaint-Chrysostome
Located in the eastern portion of the Haut-Saint-Laurent, between Très-Saint-Sacrement to the north and Havelock to the south, the municipality of Saint-Chrysostome includes a large village centre, a small hamlet (Aubrey) and the Russeltown Flatts, where the the oldest church in the region, the Russeltown Church, built in 1826, is still well preserved. The bucolic landscape, architectural heritage and ancestral farms found within its territory simply add to its beauty.
Located at the foot of Covey Hill and surrounded by a large wooded area, the citizens of Saint-Chrysostome benefit from infrastructure and a number of local shops offering all the essential products and services.
624 Rang Notre-Dame, 2nd floor
Saint-Chrysostome (Québec) J0S 1R0
Email: dg@mun-sc.ca
Mayor: Gilles Dagenais
General Director and Secretary-Treasurer: Céline Ouimet
Councillors: Colette Jaquet, Marc Roy, Steve Laberge, Richard Beaudin, Mélissa St-Jean, Mario Henderson
Saint Chrysostome 3255
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Demonym and geographic code
Chrysostomian 69017
Area (km)
The municipality of Saint-Chrysostome was constituted on September 29, 1999, following the amalgamation of the municipality of the village of Saint-Chrysostome (1902) and the parish municipality of Saint-Jean-Chrysostome (-de-Russeltown). The Russeltown appellation, attributed to the southeastern portion of the Seigneury de Beauharnois, comes from the graphic tradition of that time, that the name of one of the sons of Lord Ellice be attributed to the territorial divisions of the seigneury by the surveyor (1800). The current name of the municipality celebrates the glory of Jean Chrysostome, whose name in Greek means "mouth of gold" and bears witness to the extraordinary eloquence of this preacher and Bishop of Constantinople (398), father of the Eastern Church. (Source: Quebec Toponymy Commission)
Saint-Chrysostome Parsonage
© Municipalité de Saint-Chrysostome
Cultural Center and Community Hall
Camping Russelltown
St Matthew's Anglican Church
Vocational Training Center (Agricultural) at the Pavillon Saint-Joseph
St Matthew's Church - demolished
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To consult
Directory of Quebec Municipalities - Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Land Occupancy
Quebec Toponymy Commission
CPE Kaleidoscope Early Childcare Centre - Saint Chrysostome Facility
École primaire Montpetit
Pavillon Saint-Joseph (Des Moissons Agricultural Professional Training Center)
Facebook Page - Saint-Chrysostome Leisure
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Saint-Chrysostome Demolition Derby website
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Darryl Lewis
Mr. Lewis is an established trial attorney in Florida and throughout the southeast region of the United States, and was a shareholder with the law firm of Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, P.A. since 2003. He previously served in the United States Army Reserve as a Judge Advocate General (JAG Lawyer) and attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel (LTC). Mr. Lewis has been named in the Best Lawyers in America publication in connection with his litigation practice since 2007 and in the South Florida Legal Guide as one of Florida's top trial lawyers.


To preserve productivity and creativity (and sanity), the author advises taking control of screen time.
As with most good things in life, smartphone moderation is essential.
It takes effort to prevent these little devices from taking over our lives. According to a Pew Research Center report on how Americans use text messaging, 18- to 24-year-olds send or receive an average of 109.5 texts per day.
The average American adult now spends two hours and 51 minutes per day staring at a mobile phone screen, which adds up to about 86 hours a month. What impact is this having on our productivity?
I'm a writer, and I don't carry a notebook around with me. Heck, I don't even carry a pen. Do people even use those anymore? Pens. So old school. Instead, I just use my cell phone. In my life as a writer, there's been no tool more useful or worth the investment than a smartphone. I'm convinced that it's a writer's greatest tool.
When is it ever a good idea to write on a phone? The idea of using my fat thumbs to do anything more than send a quick text message to one of my kids makes me feel tired and nauseated. I can't envision writing a blog post that way and certainly not any words for my next book. Ditto for editing. Why create that sort of headache for myself?
Why read on a phone? I always have a book with me, and when I'm wanting to be au courant (or if my purse is too full), I carry my Kindle.
Why do you need instant feedback? Now you're just sounding impatient. I understand the benefits of Facebook and Twitter. I just don't think anyone needs them 24/7—except perhaps the U.S. president.
Do you really have to be learning all the time? Continuing education is great, but we also need time to let our minds wander; it's often during the mind-wandering times when creativity lightning strikes. If we're constantly trying to stay connected and cram our brains full of information, we'll never have the time or the space to think. Having something worthwhile to say takes thought. If we're constantly creating or digesting, we don't have time for that.
This is not to say you should give up your smartphone. Instead, we should all think more wisely about when and how we use our gadgets. Set times of the day when phones are off limits. (Mealtimes and writing times are good places to begin. Ditto for time with friends.) Hide it in a drawer if you must.
Make sure you have regular interactions with real people—not just avatars or digital handles. Get outside more often and exercise. Take time to enjoy the sights, sounds and smells of the natural world. Sometimes, the best things you can do for your writing have nothing to do with writing whatsoever. Minimizing distraction is a great place to start.