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Thinking Highly of Oneself
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Cobb, Jr.
Paul tells us not to think of ourselves more highly than we should. That is good counsel. There are many people who exaggerate their own importance and virtue. On the other hand, partly because of Paul's influence, the problem in the church today may be more a fear of accurately judging our strengths and contributions and affirming ourselves. Paul was not against such affirmation. We are to think of ourselves with sober judgment, finding where we belong in the body of Christ, what our particular gifts are. Many of us may be in greater danger of judging ourselves against the standards we have not met than of appreciating what God has enabled us positively to do. Psychologists have pointed out that low self-esteem has many negative consequences both for those who have it, and for those with whom they relate. To understand oneself as performing one indispensable role in the body of Christ, whatever that role may be, should be a source of joy and pride.
Yesterday many of us attended the memorial service of Kay Bower. Kay Bower certainly did not think of herself any more highly than she should. But she knew that there were many people who loved her and felt deeply indebted to her. She knew that they would appreciate the chance to tell her so. So she shared the news of her fatal diagnosis and the length of time remaining to her, and she was open to expressions of thanks. She knew that she had gifts from God that she had used for the community. The kind of supposed humility that refuses to accept compliments helps no one. It does not express the sober judgment about ourselves as gifted believers for which Paul calls. Several people commented that Kay had shown them how to die.
When I first thought of speaking on this topic, I did not have Kay Bower in mind. Indeed, I was not thinking primarily of the personal problem of thinking too highly of ourselves, on the one hand, or putting ourselves down, on the other. I was responding to another kind of problem.
It may be one of the many problems that is caused by lack of adequate self-esteem. In any case, we find many people who do not inflate themselves as individuals, but who think far more highly than they should of groups or communities with which they identify themselves. In particular, I have been disturbed by the fact that so many Americans seem to make an idol out of our nation. They seem to think that an American life is of far greater value than other lives, that to oppose American policy defines another people as evil.
When we Americans collectively count the cost of the war in Afghanistan or Iraq, we do so in terms of how many casualties there have been to Americans. To this day, we have little information on the number of Afghans and Iraqi who were injured or killed. Or we speak much more often of how much money the reconstruction of conquered countries is going to cost American taxpayers than we do of the suffering populations of the countries we have helped to devastate.
When we ask how nations come to be placed on the list of rogue states or the axis of evil, we can point out many bad things about these countries. But the deeper reason is that they oppose our country's goals and policies. Similar evils are overlooked in countries that support us.
A striking case was the public attitude toward France during the United Nations Security Council discussion of invading Iraq. Whereas we were pushing for a preventive strike against Iraq, France opposed it. Now France has been our ally throughout our history, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Without the aid of France it is doubtful that we would have gained our independence. We fought on the side of France in World War I and World War II. But all this was forgotten, because France did not obediently fall into line behind our leadership. French wine was boycotted and French fries were renamed.
Once we invaded Iraq, the question of whether our cause was just or our goals could be realized seemed unimportant to many Americans. We were showing the world our overwhelming might and what would happen to any who stood in our way. Individuals who may have felt powerless in their personal lives identified themselves with this display of power.
Collectively, we Americans think far too highly of ourselves. Our leaders and our media systematically devalue the lives and well-being of people of other countries, and as a people we do not protest. We judge other nations according to their conformity to our policies and goals. We demonize those who oppose us.
Sadly, we may not be particularly worse than other peoples in these regards. The great virtue of love and service to one's own community tends to express itself also in anger and hostility toward other communities that threaten ours in any way. This is true of religious communities as well as national ones. For millennia, devoted Christians have called others infidels and have felt justified in fighting against them and inflicting harm on them. For centuries, strong commitment to Protestantism was inseparable from anti-Catholicism. The intense and truly admirable devotion to the Jewish people that has enabled them to survive through so much suffering and horror through millennia, easily becomes anti-Palestinian and even anti-Muslim, when the presence of these people blocks the realization of Jewish dreams for a homeland of their own.
Often it seems that we can overcome these hostilities only by reducing the deep loyalties and commitments than bind the several communities together. Only as Christians become less devoted to Christianity, it seems, will they tolerate those who do not share our faith. Only as Protestants become less convinced of the value and importance of being Protestant will they treat Catholics as equals. Only as Jews come to care less for the survival of the Jewish way of life will they give a fully equal place to Muslims in Israel/Palestine.
Is there an alternative? Yes there is. For Christians it involves a genuine conversion to Christian faith that goes far beyond a strong sense of belonging to a Christian community. This is a conversion that has taken place among many Christians through the centuries and especially in recent times. One of the joys of living in Pilgrim Place is that so many have experienced this conversion.
Most of us know that, whatever the advantages of Christian faith, God loves equally those who order their lives in other ways. This does not mean that we should care less about our Christian faith or be less eager to share it. But it radically and forever forbids us to cause suffering to others or deny them justice because they decline to accept our truth.
This same Christian understanding forbids thinking of ourselves more highly than we ought to think as Americans.
The conversion of which I speak is beautifully expressed in the song Bob Dewey has sung for us. "This is my song, O God of all the nations, a song of peace for lands afar and mine. This is my home, the country where my heart is; here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine; but other hearts in other lands are beating with hopes and dreams as true and high as mine.
My country's skies are bluer than the ocean, and sunlight beams on clover-leaf and pine; but other lands have sunlight, too, and clover, and skies are everywhere as blue as mine. O hear my song, O God of all the nations, a song of peace for their land and for mine."
The alternative to thinking of ourselves as Americans too highly is not to put ourselves down. There are times when, in reaction to our arrogance as a nation I find myself emphasizing our sins - and there are many to recite. We are, indeed, called to repentance. But equally, we could recite the sins of other peoples. I fear that history teaches us that nations characteristically use their power to impose their will on weaker peoples.
This song, however, does not focus on the historical crimes of which we are all guilty. It focuses on our deep love of our own nations, a love that is in itself healthy and needed. But it reminds us movingly that before God we are but one of many nations, each of which rightly calls forth the devotion of its own people.
Nations as nations, I fear, have little ability to restrain their tendencies to idolatry and the abuse of power. But they can be influenced by the moral leadership of communities of faith. What troubles me now is that so many of our communities of faith have acquiesced in the idolatrous nationalism that is so antithetical to the teachings of all the great traditions.
As Christians, and I believe also as Muslims and Jews and Buddhists and Hindus, we have the task of warning against thinking of our nation more highly than we should. We should encourage instead a sober assessment of the particular gifts of our nation, the particular contributions it could make as one nation among others to the building of a peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable world order. There are legitimate differences among faithful people as to just what the right policy will be. But we should all share in the conviction that God cares as much for Iraqi children as for American soldiers, for Afghan peasants as for American engineers, for North Korean workers as for American managers. The discussion about goals and policies that would take place in that context would be very different from what now occurs in the halls of power. Sadly, it is very different from what takes place even in many Christian congregations.
Our closing hymn makes much the same, simple point. It is not quite as clear as the song Bob sang. It could be understood to say that only as all accept Christ do they become part of that great fellowship in which the opposition of East and West is overcome. But I think it is susceptible of another understanding. Those of us who live in Christ know that God's love for all, and God's work among all throughout the world, gives us a unity that is not destroyed by our many differences. Viewing the world through the eyes of Christ we know that the differences between Jew and Greek, poor and rich, male and female, while important and valuable in their contribution to the whole, do not destroy our deep kinship and equality as children of God.
Before we sing this hymn, let us pray.
Holy and merciful God, we hold before you a suffering world and ask for your healing. We know that that healing must take place through people like us, and we offer ourselves to you. Help us to look soberly at our gifts and our situation to judge what small role we may play, through prayer or reflection or action.
Be with us now as we go each our own way. We thank you that you accompany each one of us in all our living and in all our dying. You know our needs, our fears, and our anguish. We thank you that you share these with us. You know also our hopes, our joys, and our excitement. We thank you that you share these with us as well.
As we ask your blessing upon us, we ask your blessing also on all your creatures. For we pray in the name of Jesus whom we call the Christ.
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SMARDAN, Romania – U.S. Soldiers and Airmen, Canadian and Romanian service members conducted Justice Sword, a multi-national training event designed to improve interoperability between U.S. and NATO forces, October 8-16, 2018.
SMARDAN, Romania – U.S. Soldiers and Airmen, Canadians and Romanian service members conducted Justice Sword, a multi-national training event designed to improve interoperability between U.S. and NATO forces, October 8-16, 2018.
Justice Sword provided service members from across the world an opportunity to unite and train as a single unit under a multitude of scenarios in support of Atlantic Resolve, an enduring training exercise between U.S. and NATO forces.
Charlie Company and Romanian tank companies kicked off the combined training event with several different Situational Training Exercise lanes. The 2-5 CAV's tank platoon acted as supporting firepower attached to a Romanian armored tank company.
U.S. and Romanian tank crews maneuvered across the range working on field maintenance, scanning techniques, identifying targets, Tactical Assembly Area Operations, movement to contact and defensive operations.
Following their STX lanes, dry fire, safety briefs and maintenance preparations, 2-5 CAV and the Romanian force put all their training to the test as they swiftly transitioned to the Company Combined Arms Live-Fire Exercise.
The mortar platoon was the first to fire live rounds during the company CALFEX. They began early in the day and continued into the night, firing a culmination of 100 full range training rounds; 50 high explosive and 20 illumination rounds at a variation of targets.
U.S. tank crews fired numerous rounds at targets ranging from approximately 300 to 4,000 meters away using M2A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicles, M1A2 Abrams tank and small arm weapon systems. U.S. and Romanian Soldiers were tested on multiple simulated scenarios through out the exercise such as assessing a casualty, recovering and transporting a casualty and recovering a damaged vehicle. 2-5 CAV engineers also breached an enemy obstacle with a Bangalor Torpedo to provide an even more realistic battlefield scenario.
"It is an excellent opportunity to re-engage on our maneuver and communication skills," Nygaard said.
Two Canadian F-18s soared through the sky providing close air support with guidance from U.S. Air Force Joint Tactical Attack Controllers from the 9th Air Support Operations Squadron assigned to 2-5 CAV.
"Working with different nations gives us insight on how other nations work and let's us work off each other and learn new things," said U.S. Airman 1st Class Bruce Lynan, the JTAC assigned to 2-5 CAV. Soldiers on and off the range worked day and night to ensure the success of the exercise.
U.S. Army Spc. Selena Jimenez assigned to 2-5 CAV was a prime example of a hard working Soldier who was tasked to ensure the communication bridge between the Romanian and U.S. Soldiers stayed powered on and in range through out the exercise.
At approximately 2 a.m. on October 16th the last round was fired and the simulated enemy was successfully defeated bringing an end to the tactical aspect of Justice Sword.


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My Turn: Not defending George W., but…
Prentiss Davis
I read with interest that respected local attorney Jim Porter is a big fan of former President George H.W Bush, our 41st chief executive (or was he the 40th?)
I wonder if Jim was enough of a fan to vote for the former President Bush when he ran for reelection in 1992. If Jim and enough of his pals had voted for Bush they may have spared us the eight years of "good time" Bill Clinton's presidency. Jim was kind enough to give us a complete recap of the first President Bush's outstanding service in the U.S. Navy. Odd that the military career of the person who is perhaps the most famous living American would need to be recapped in a Sierra Sun opinion piece. Was this to contrast GHW Bush's outstanding war record with that of our current President Bush, who merely flew F-102s, a supersonic interceptor with the Texas Air National Guard? Jim failed to mention how he fulfilled his military obligation.
Far be it from me to attempt to defend our current president, but apparently Jim thinks the current president's big failing is not pursuing diplomacy with our enemies as his dad did in the first Gulf War. Yes, his dad did line up such stellar nations as Syria to fight on our side in that war. How much fighting did the Syrians do in that war and why aren't they still our ally? I suppose George W. dropped the ball on that one.
I know lots of deep thinkers like Jim accuse our current president of having a "cowboy mentality" sort of like Theodore Roosevelt I suppose. Jim says diplomacy and statesmanship are the answer. Sorry Jim but diplomacy and statesmanship are traditionally conducted between sovereign nations who have conflicting or converging interest. For example, in 1938 Germany wanted Czechoslovakia so Great Britain and France handed it over and avoided war; classic diplomacy and statesmanship. Unfortunately the crazies currently arrayed against us have laid claim to everything from the Philippine Islands to Spain. Should we begin our diplomacy by handing over Israel? Should we throw in Italy and Spain also? Oh I forgot, they also want to kill us. Do we negotiate that? Shall we immediately suspend our support for such "moderate" Muslim countries as Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt? Al-Queta would love that. Perhaps we can "keep" Italy? My wife and I love Italy but I doubt it will be the same after all those great cathedrals are converted to mosques.
Jim thinks it's time to leave Iraq. He doesn't appeared at all concerned about the inevitable bloodbath, the huge boost to the fortunes of al-Queda and Iran, the destabilization of the entire Persian Gulf region and the encouragement to terrorists everywhere to attack our allies and the American homeland.
Questions Jim; if Iran and Syria rush their armies into Iraq following our departure will you support the reintroduction of American troops? Are Californians ready for $6-a-gallon gasoline?
Jim also mentions that every "legitimate scientist" in the world is on the global warming bandwagon. Jim, I'll be happy to provide you with an impressive list of legitimate scientists; that is scientists with PhDs in climate-related fields, often on the staffs of prestigious universities who have expressed their doubts about global warming.
Actually, a bit of research will reveal that the most vocal global warming advocates have no more climate expertise than Al Gore, Ralph Nader Madonna or the typical Hastings grad.
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Some of the trees are 2,000 years old - so old they were planted under Roman occupation. However, whilst these ancient groves have withstood the relentless test of time, many of them cannot deal with more modern problems - war, neglect and disease have taken their toll so they are now in decline, or unproductive.
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Diane Wilson is an American environmental activist, an anti-war activist, and an author. In 1989, she was a shrimp boat captain in Calhoun County, Texas, and she saw an Associated Press article saying that the county had the most toxic waste disposal of all counties in America. Wilson began a campaign against Formosa Plastics, a Taiwanese chemical company then building a PVC (polyvinyl chloride) facility near her town, with tactics including several hunger strikes and sinking her own boat to draw attention to the matter. In 1994 she won "zero discharge" agreements (meaning no liquid effluent discharge into the environment) from Formosa and Alcoa.

Wilson has also protested at meetings concerning the BP oil spill, as well as protesting in support of victims of the 1984 Bhopal, India, Union Carbide gas leak.

She is a co-founder of the anti-war organization CODEPINK.

In 2005 a documentary was made about her, titled Texas Gold.  It won several awards, including "Best Documentary" at the New York City Short Film Festival.

She has received the "Hellraiser of the Month" award from Mother Jones magazine, and a number of other awards, including National Fisherman Magazine Award, Louis Gibbs' Environmental Lifetime Award, Louisiana Environmental Action (LEAN) Environmental Award, Giraffe Project, Jenifer Altman Award and the Bioneers Award.

In 2006, she was honored with the Blue Planet Award from Ethecon Foundation, one of the comparatively very few 'grass-root' foundations for "more than 20 years of commitment to environmental issues, even putting her life at risk."

In 2013, Wilson participated in the movement to close Guantanamo Bay, calling for Obama to release the prisoners that had been declared for release, give the men a fair trial, and end indefinite detention. Most notably, she stood in solidarity with the hunger strikers by fasting on salt and water for 58 days. Her fast ended on June 26, 2013 on International Day in Support of Victims of Torture after jumping the White House fence at a Close Guantanamo protest (with groups including Amnesty International, CODEPINK, Veterans for Peace, and Witness Against Torture) in an attempt to deliver a letter to President Barack Obama. Wilson was charged with unlawful entry and handed over to local authorities.

In 2019, she was a plaintiff to a suit, Waterkeeper v. Formosa, against Formosa Plastics for violations of the Clean Water Act resulting in discharges of pollution along the Texas coast. Along with other volunteers, she collected millions of nurdles that served as evidence in the case. The suit was settled for $50 million in October 2019.

Books
 An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas by Diane Wilson
 Diary of an Eco-Outlaw: An Unreasonable Woman Breaks the Law for Mother Earth by Diane Wilson
 Holy Roller: Growing Up in the Church of Knock Down, Drag Out; or, How I Quit Loving a Blue-Eyed Jesus by Diane Wilson
 Nobody Particular: One Woman's Fight to Save The Bays by Molly Bang

References

External links
Diane Wilson's blog
Portrait of Diane Wilson, "Texas Gold" (2008) at IMDb and on YouTube

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Calhoun County, Texas
American environmentalists
American women environmentalists
American anti-war activists
Activists from Texas

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		      PAGE_NOACCESS);
  if (!res)
    w32_error (__FUNCTION__, __FILE__, __LINE__, "VirtualAlloc");
  else
    /* We do not need the address space for now, so free it.  */
    VirtualFree (res, 0, MEM_RELEASE);

  return res;
}

/* ADDR is an address returned by gt_pch_get_address.  Attempt to allocate
   SIZE bytes at the same address and load it with the data from FD at
   OFFSET.  Return -1 if we couldn't allocate memory at ADDR, return 0
   if the memory is allocated but the data not loaded, return 1 if done.  */

static int
mingw32_gt_pch_use_address (void *addr, size_t size, int fd,
			    size_t offset)
{
  void * mmap_addr;
  HANDLE mmap_handle;

  /* Apparently, MS Vista puts unnamed file mapping objects into Global
     namespace when running an application in a Terminal Server
     session.  This causes failure since, by default, applications
     don't get SeCreateGlobalPrivilege. We don't need global
     memory sharing so explicitly put object into Local namespace.

     If multiple concurrent GCC processes are using PCH functionality,
     MapViewOfFileEx returns "Access Denied" error.  So we ensure the
     session-wide mapping name is unique by appending process ID.  */

#define OBJECT_NAME_FMT "Local\\MinGWGCCPCH-"

  char* object_name = NULL;
  /* However, the documentation for CreateFileMapping says that on NT4
     and earlier, backslashes are invalid in object name.  So, we need
     to check if we are on Windows2000 or higher.  */
  OSVERSIONINFO version_info;
  int r;

  version_info.dwOSVersionInfoSize = sizeof (version_info);

  if (size == 0)
    return 0;

  /* Offset must be also be a multiple of allocation granularity for
     this to work.  We can't change the offset. */
  if ((offset & (va_granularity - 1)) != 0 || size > pch_VA_max_size)
    return -1;

  /* Determine the version of Windows we are running on and use a
     uniquely-named local object if running > 4.  */
  GetVersionEx (&version_info);
  if (version_info.dwMajorVersion > 4)
    {
      char local_object_name [sizeof (OBJECT_NAME_FMT)
			      + sizeof (DWORD) * 2];
      snprintf (local_object_name, sizeof (local_object_name),
		OBJECT_NAME_FMT "%lx", GetCurrentProcessId());
      object_name = local_object_name;
    }
  mmap_handle = CreateFileMappingA ((HANDLE) _get_osfhandle (fd), NULL,
				    PAGE_WRITECOPY | SEC_COMMIT, 0, 0,
				    object_name);

  if (mmap_handle == NULL)
    {
      w32_error (__FUNCTION__,  __FILE__, __LINE__, "CreateFileMapping");
      return -1;
    }

  /* Retry five times, as here might occure a race with multiple gcc's
     instances at same time.  */
  for (r = 0; r < 5; r++)
   {
      mmap_addr = MapViewOfFileEx (mmap_handle, FILE_MAP_COPY, 0, offset,
				   size, addr);
      if (mmap_addr == addr)
	break;
      if (r != 4)
        Sleep (500);
   }

  if (mmap_addr != addr)
    {
      w32_error (__FUNCTION__, __FILE__, __LINE__, "MapViewOfFileEx");
      CloseHandle(mmap_handle);
      return  -1;
    }

  return 1;
}

const struct host_hooks host_hooks = HOST_HOOKS_INITIALIZER;

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Q: Using a Connected App to upload a large amount of data I am attempting to use a connected app to upload a lot of data to our Salesforce instance using our API but am running into an issue with not receiving an access token every time I request one.
In our external system, we have about 15,000 Students with a bunch of data we are trying to upload into Salesforce. Each student takes 3 API requests to upload: one to create/update the student, one to create/update their course enrollments, and one to create/update data from a game they play. To do this, for each student I retrieve the access token via services/oauth2/token and then use that access token to make the next three calls.
When I kick this upload process off, it it working just fine, however, when finished I check my logs and notice that 1 or 2 thousand times it doesn't work with the error:
RESPONSE CODE: 400
RESPONSE ERROR: Bad Request
RESPONSE DATA: {"error":"invalid_grant","error_description":"authentication failure"}

I checked the construction of the request and it all is exactly the same as when it works. After X amount of requests, does this endpoint just reject the request?

A: You are limited to one login per second (3600 calls per hour). You should cache the token and continue to use it until you're done. Also, each login call counts towards your API limit. Also, concurrent login calls may invalidate earlier sessions. You're limited to five sessions per app per user.

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Tools: Biographies
1 Rowan Beentje
2 Nga Bellis-Phan
3 Amber Berkeley
4 Richard Blakemore
5 Joshua Callaway
6 Rachel Carter
7 Nicola Clarke
8 Dr John Davies
9 Jonathan Dent
10 Sara Fox
11 Steve Garnett
12 Colin Greenstreet
13 Finn Halligan
14 Dr Philip Hnatkovich
15 Ross Keel
16 Sara J Kerr
17 Grace Mallon
18 Susan Mee
19 Matthias Mueller-Prove
20 Shavana Musa
21 Jo Pugh
22 Benjamin Redding
23 Mia Ridge
24 Axel Hee Rømer
25 Celine Romano
26 Deborah Sherlock
27 Tilly Smith
28 Oliver Tanner
29 Samantha Thompson
30 Brodie Waddell
31 Rebecca Want
32 Samuel Watson
33 Dominic Webb
34 Jill Wilcox
Rowan Beentje
Rowan Beentje: Rowan Beentje is the designer of the MarineLives semantic media wiki, and a former volunteer transcriber. In his day job he works in mobile and web application development for a major media company.
Nga Bellis-Phan
Nga Bellis-Phan is a PhD candidate and Graduate teaching assistant in Legal History at University Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas (Paris, France). Her PhD thesis deals with French Securities Law, from the 16th century to the French Civil Code of 1804. Before digging in to Legal History, she studied Private Law at the same university.
Languages: Fluent English, French, Vietnamese. Intermediate Spanish and Persian. Notions of Latin.
Academic interests: early modern economic history in Western Europe, ancient history with a particular interest in Mesopotamia, digital humanities.
You can find more details on linkedin or read her tweets at @NgaPhB.
Amber Berkeley
Amber Berkeley is currently a gap year student hoping to study English Literature in September 2018. Amber is proudly South African-British and enjoys ballet, reading, and writing short stories.
Richard Blakemore
Dr Richard Blakemore
Dr Richard Blakemore: Dr Richard Blakemore has been an academic advisor to the MarineLives project since its inception. Richard is an early modern historian with research interests in early modern seafarers, particularly British sailors in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Currently he is a lecturer in the History of the Atlantic World, c. 1500-1800, at the University of Reading. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 2012, and from 2012-2014 was an Associate Research Fellow on the project Sailing into Modernity at the University of Exeter. From 2014-2016 he was a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College Oxford, where he examined the interconnected development of maritime trade, state structures, and imperial authority. Recent publications.
Tweets at @historywomble and also blogs.
Joshua Callaway
Joshua Callaway is currently a Second-Year student at the University of Warwick, studying History with Italian. He has a keen interest in Early Modern European History, particularly aspects of the Military Revolution debate. He is looking to potentially undertake a MA in Italy after his undergraduate degree to pursue these ideas further.
Rachel Carter
Rachel Carter is an undergraduate reading history at Bath Spa University. Prior to this she spent eight years working as a Special Needs Teaching Assistant. She has three children.
Academic interests: history from below, eighteenth and nineteenth century literature.
Nicola Clarke
Nikki Clarke
Nicola Clarke: I am doing an MA in Early Modern History at Birkbeck, I have a particular interest in the social and cultural history of the Commonwealth and the Protectorate. I am an enthusiastic if not necessarily very skilled embroiderer and a recorder player with a passion for Renaissance and Baroque music.
Dr John Davies
John Davies recently retired as county archivist for Carmarthenshire, south Wales. He gained a Ph.D from Swansea University, The Cawdor estate in south-west Wales. in 2009, a revised version of which is to be published in 2016. Last year John had published a volume of eighteenth century political correspondence - those of John Campbell MP for Pembrokeshire - as part of the Parliamentary texts and studies series.
Academic interests: Eighteenth century politics.
Jonathan Dent
Jonathan Dent has an MA in Modern History. He is interested in learning to decipher seventeenth century script and in contributing to an impressive project to make MarineLives more generally accessible to the wider public.
Sara Fox is a freelance historic researcher on houses, gardens and people. She studied English at Sunderland Polytechnic and has an MBA Tourism Management and an MA Landscape Management and Environmental Archaeology from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. She has a background in horticulture and ran a nursery specialising in old fashioned plants. She has managed European funded business support projects in South West Wales for the Welsh College of Horticulture and Lampeter University. More recently she led a volunteer local history project on the farms and field names of the valley where she lives.
Likes – her husband Tom and children Lily (escaped to Uni in London) and Patrick still serving time at home with parents until 18. Reading old local history and topographical books. Taking cuttings sowing seeds. Talking.
Dislikes – austerity, cuts, local councils and politicians.
Languages – poor French and German and lots of Welsh vocabulary.
Academic interests – The history of the Middleton Hall Estate in Carmarthenshire, now The National Botanic Garden of Wales. Writing about Thomas Hornor the topographical painter and panoramist in Wales.
Tweets @HouseHistorian1
Steve Garnett
Steve Garnett in Malaga, thinking about Algiers
Steve Garnett is an independent researcher whose primary interest is the growth of early modern English power in the Mediterranean. In 2018, he will complete his transcriptions of the documents relating to Ottoman Algiers, 1595-1714, in the State Papers 71 (Barbary States). Steve teaches History at an all boys' secondary modern in Kent and when time and tide allow, sails his Wayfarer dinghy 'The Tommy P' on the River Thames.
Academic interests: The British Isles and the Mediterranean World, 1603-1714
Tweets @statepapers71
Colin Greenstreet
Colin Greenstreet, co-director of MarineLives, and Bron (a Hungarian vizsla)
Colin Greenstreet is co-founder and co-director of the MarineLives project. He studied human sciences, and philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Oxford, and was the recipient of a Kennedy scholarship for study at Harvard Business School. His career has been spent in finance, consulting, pharmaceutical research and development, and as an entrepreneur.
Likes: Mountains, languages, travel, and dogs (plus wife, Yerevag; elder daughter and musician, Rebecca; and younger daughter and aspiring neuroscientist, Francesca)
Languages: English, German, indifferent French, staggers through Dutch with a dictionary and a glass of wine
Academic interests: Editing the private papers of Sir George Oxenden (1620-1669); writing an academic dual biography of Sir George Oxenden and his elder sister and commercial agent, Elizabeth Dallison. For papers, seminar and conference presentations see his academia.edu page
Tweets at at @marinelivesorg.
Finn Halligan
Finn Halligan is studying for a MA in Global History at Warwick, focusing on the cultural history of navigation and port cities in the early modern period. At undergraduate level, his dissertation studied the cultural prevalence of navigational instruments in discursive space between 1600 and 1800, for which he won the British Commission for Maritime History undergraduate dissertation prize.
Dr Philip Hnatkovich
Dr Philip Hnatkovich, co-director of MarineLives
Philip Hnatkovich is a co-director of the MarineLives project. He received his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 2014. He is a historian of the British and French Atlantics, with interests in early modern maritime networks, cultural geography, and transnational communities. His doctoral thesis ("The Atlantic Gate: The Anglo-Huguenot Channel Community, 1558-1685") examines Anglo-French mercantile networks in English Channel ports during the French Wars of Religion, when a militant alignment of Huguenot and Elizabethan elites oversaw a decades-long collaboration in privateering and experimental transatlantic plantation ventures. He argues that the maritime society of the Channel region produced merchant capital, maritime expertise, and formative models for northern trade and colonial settlement in the Americas.
He resides in Pittsburgh, where he spends his spare time dabbling in local politics, perfecting his barbecue technique, riding his bike, and building blanket forts with his daughter.
Languages: English, French, some bits of Latin.
Tweets occasionally @_beneze_
Ross Keel
Ross Keel at a wedding
Ross Keel is a second year undergraduate at Bath Spa University, studying history. He was born in Salisbury, in Wiltshire, where he lived for eighteen years before moving to Bath for university. Ross has held a keen interest in history since an early age and has visited local heritage sites such as Old Sarum castle, Stonehenge and Salisbury Cathedral. This interest has continued throughout his life, and has helped to shape his aspirations for the future, as he hopes to write, research and create historical documentaries and books.
Historical interests: Early modern England and also 20th century Europe.
Other Interests: Watching football, jogging (well, plodding...) and reading a wide variety of books.
Ross tweets very rarely from @Ross14Keel
Sara J Kerr
Sara J Kerr is a PhD student in Digital Humanities and English and a John and Pat Hume Scholar at Maynooth University in Ireland. She has a BA in Ancient History and English from Queen's University, Belfast and an MA in Education from Edge Hill University.
Prior to returning to full time study, Sara taught English, Media Studies and Film Studies at several schools in the UK.
Academic Interests: Early Nineteenth Century literature, in particular Jane Austen, Maria Edgeworth and Sydney, Lady Morgan; R programming.
Tweets at at @data_fiend.
Grace Mallon
Grace Mallon is an undergraduate reading History at University College, Oxford. Her studies are currently focused on 20th-century Germany, but a recent foray into colonial American history has awakened an interest in the workings of the early British empire. Alongside English, she reads German, French and some Latin. In her spare time she plays the piano and sings in her college choir.
Susan Mee
Susan Mee: Susan has an MA in the History of Textiles & Dress, & a history PhD. 'The Clothing of the Common Sort, 1570-1700', which Susan co-authored with the late Professor Margaret Spufford, is the latest volume to be published in the Pasold Studies in Textile History Series (OUP). Currently a freelance lecturer & researcher Susan has experience of working in museums, libraries & archives. She enjoys reading, walking (particularly along the bank of the River Deben near to where she lives), trying out 'textile related' crafts & spending time with her 14 month old grandson.
Matthias Mueller-Prove
Mathias Mueller-Prove: Moin,
I am an independent interaction designer and human computer interactivist from Hamburg, hamburgh, hambourgh, hamborough, hamborowe, hamborowe, hamborg…
Marine Lives Project @mprove
Check my pages at mprove.de
-Matthias
- 8-Dec-2016: Display Hamburg's residents on Hamburg Chronoscope's map 1694
- 24-Nov-2016: Republish transcripts by volume. - This enables a powerful browser-based full-text search for each volume.
Shavana Musa
Dr Shavana Musa
Shavana Musa is a doctoral researcher and lecturer at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. She will be completing her PhD in 2015, which investigates the right to reparation for the war victim from the middle of the seventeenth century until the present day. She teaches courses on international legal history and world legal systems.
Academic interests: History of international law; international humanitarian law; war and peace; maritime law and history; foreign policy; democracy; constitutional legal history.
Jo Pugh
Dr Jo Pugh
Jo Pugh is a PhD student at the University of York, studying information seeking in archival collections. His previous role was in Education & Outreach at the National Archives.
On Twitter @mentionthewar.
Benjamin Redding
Dr Benjamin Redding
Benjamin Redding recently completed his PhD in History. His main research interests focus on early modern European naval history and its relationship to broader political and cultural trends. His PhD was titled 'Divided by La Manche: Naval Enterprise and Maritime Revolution in England and France, 1545-1642'. His current research and publications look at the international influences that shaped the early modern English navy. Benjamin is co-ordinator of the Warwick programme.
Tweets @BenjaminRedding.
Mia Ridge
Mia Ridge recently completed a PhD in Digital History. She spent much of that time exploring different crowdsourcing projects and is glad to finally have enough time to take part in Marine Lives.
Axel Hee Rømer
I study Medieval and Renaissance Archaeology at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. I've got interested in sailors lives under my bachelor work, and wanted to learn more about maritime culture in the renaissance and early modern period.
I like the outdoors, archaeology, music, food and traveling.
Celine Romano
Celine Romano is a second year History student at the University of Warwick. Her interests in history range from early modern material history and its socio-political importance, to the philosophy of the Enlightenment.
Deborah Sherlock
Dr Deborah Sherlock, hill walking
Deborah Sherlock is an academic librarian at Queen's University Belfast. She holds a PhD in history, also from Queen's, and this was published in 2009 as Women, marriage and property in the wealthy landed class in Ireland, 1750-1850 (MUP).
Likes: Running, trees, beaches.
Favourite place on Earth: Donegal, on the beach, all seasons.
Tilly Smith
Tilly Smith currently a second year History student at the University of Warwick.
Oliver Tanner
Oliver Tanner and girlfriend, Abby
Oliver Tanner is a second year history student at Bath Spa University. When not at university he is a part time chef, amateur chess player and keen cyclist.
After leaving school Oliver took a year out to travel around the world - his experiences traveling include working as a confectioner in Israel, on a coffee plantation in Tanzania, and catching stray dogs in India and vaccinating them against rabies. Throughout this year Oliver developed a keen interest in social history, which he is following up at university.
Samantha Thompson
Dr Sam Thompson (Sam in the stacks).
Samantha Thompson is currently a government and local history archivist for one of Canada's largest municipalities. She has worked with special collections in several Canadian universities and museums. She holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto and an MLIS from Western University. She is also a musician and a salted snacks enthusiast. To find out more about what archivists do so you can cheer them on (they deserve it) check out her series "Archives FAQs and Facts".
Brodie Waddell
Dr Brodie Waddell
Brodie Waddell is a lecturer in early modern history at Birkbeck, University of London. I'm primarily interested in the economy and society in seventeenth-century England. You can find more about my research and publications on my staff profile and my academia.edu page (which includes pdfs of some of my articles). I'm co-founder of the many-headed monster, a history blog, and I tweet at @Brodie_Waddell. I live in Cambridge with my wife and three-year-old son, so spend most of my spare time building strange lego structures or playing at the park.
Rebecca Want
Rebecca Want is currently in her final year, reading History at the University of Warwick. Her interests include the history of Early Modern print, Ming and Qing China, and the Victorian period. Her dissertation is entitled 'Celebrating the Empire: How the Great Exhibition was experienced by Colonial Subjects'.
Samuel Watson
Sam Watson is a second year student at Bath Spa University. He lives in Kent when he is not in Bath at University. He studied Ancient History at A level and has developed an interest in a very wide range of different topics throughout history.
Likes: Travelling, Adventure, Bear Grylls, Football (Chelsea) and trying new things.
Dislikes: Cold weather.
Dominic Webb
Dominic Webb is a second year student at Warwick University, currently studying History with Italian.
Jill Wilcox
Jill Wilcox, co-director of MarineLives
Jill Wilcox is co-founder and co-director of the MarineLives project. Jill's passion for family history led her to complete a history degree at the University of Hertfordshire as a mature student. Subsequently, she has spent sixteen years as a comprehensive teacher and head of department. She completed a MEd in leading teaching and learning at the University of Cambridge in 2011. Throughout her career Jill has used technology to engage and assist her students in their learning.
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Sitting on approximately 23 acres of unmaintained landscaping, an existing office complex on the East Coast sat vacant for several years. Originally built in 1999, the complex consists of two, three story buildings each approximately 140,300 square feet with a one-story connector. This prime location – in the heart of the pharmaceutical district – was transformed into the clients' new regional headquarters, housing nearly 600 employees. The well-established company was looking to create an office space that promotes wellness and focuses on the patient-centric business approach. With one acquisition after the next, a holistic approach through design to refresh the company culture was needed to help establish an integrated brand experience. The office space has been designed to produce a collaborative work environment with over 70% of the space being open floor plan. Additionally, most high wall elements are built around the core to allow natural light to flow freely into the open office – enhancing wellbeing. Along with the office space, the complex includes a full-service cafeteria, fitness center complete with locker rooms and a data center, auditorium, and more. The space not only effectively connects employees through the latest technology and work place strategies, but also supports the client's mission and values.


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About Get in the Ring
Get in the Ring is a multipurpose tool that helps to solve the investment paradox. It is a non-profit concept, initiated by the Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship, that has gone viral. A new podium that brings international startups and investors together in an internationally oriented environment.
Get in the Ring consists of The Investment Battle, the international competition in which entrepreneurs battle to secure their future investment; Get in the Ring Concepts, independently organised events which use the battle concept of Get in the Ring; and Get in the Ring Crowdfunding Campaigns in which promising startups are supported by Get in the Ring to boost their search for funding.
Get in the Ring | The Investment Battle
Get in the Ring | The Investment Battle is a global competition reaching out to entrepreneurs throughout the world. Eight of the most promising startups meet each other at the international final. Here they receive the rock star treatment and square off trying to secure an investment of up to €1,000,000, in front of four Champion investors and a captivated audience.
The main goal of The Investment Battle is to bring the most promising entrepreneurs from around the world in contact with investors and to inspire visitors to start their entrepreneurial journey.
Get in the Ring | Concepts
Get in the Ring | Concepts is a fully serviced package to organize your own Get in the Ring event. This concept can also be used as an element in one of your own events. In short, this concept entails two participants simultaneously pitch in a 'ring', from where they will battle in five different rounds to convince a jury.
Get in the Ring | Crowdfunding Campaigns
Get in the Ring | Crowdfunding Campaigns are equity based crowdfunding campaigns that are supported by Get in the Ring. By increasing the exposure of these campaigns Get in the Ring boost these startups in their search for funding.


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Press Release -- May 18th, 2011
Source: Comba Telecom
Comba Listed " Best Mid-Cap"on FinanceAsia's Top Companies Poll
(18 May 2011 – Hong Kong) – Comba Telecom Systems Holdings Limited ("Comba" or "the Group", HKEx: 02342), a leading wireless enhancement solutions provider, has been honored for their excellence in FinanceAsia's 11th annual Asia's Top Companies poll for two consecutive years, and for the first time rated as the No. 1 "Best Mid-Cap" company.
Entering its 11th year, the annual poll conducted by FinanceAsia, a leading regional financial publication, recognises top companies in Hong Kong and China for their excellence in management, corporate governance, investor relations, corporate social responsibility and other criteria. Over 300 investors and analysts from across Asia voted in each of the categories. Comba gained the most votes and rated No. 1 in "Best Mid-Cap" category. The Group also secured winning places in another four categories, namely, "Most Committed to a Strong Dividend Policy", "Best Corporate Social Responsibility", "Best Corporate Governance", and "Best Managed Company", among top companies in China.
Mr. Tony TL Fok, Comba's Chairman and President, said, "We are delighted to be voted No. 1 in the Best Mid-Cap category along with top ten rankings in four other categories in FinanceAsia's Asia's Top Companies poll, evidence of our strengths that has gained high recognition and confidence of the investor community. We would like to express our deepest gratitude to all investors and analysts for their continuous support to Comba. Looking ahead, Comba will endeavor to enhance our integrated competitiveness with the aim of creating the greatest value for our shareholders and investors."
~ End ~
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Comba Garners The Assets "Titanium Award for Investor Relations"
Comba 2010 Annual Report is now available
Comba Collaborates with ECTEL to Enable Wireless Communications Inside Remote Desert Environment at the ALMA Construction Site, Chile
BroadSoft Listed in Inc's 5000 Fastest Growing US Companies 2010
Comba Announces 2010 Annual Results — Include Webcast —


Although we may put a lot of time and thought into picking out a new couch or painstakingly choosing a paint colour, we rarely take a step back and think about our home in the big picture. Especially if we've been there for a little while, it's easy to get complacent about what our space is doing for us. But your home is where you spend so many hours of your week, so it's crucial that it's a happy, calm, and healthy space.
If you want to create a calmer, more healthy environment in your home then it can be difficult to know where to start. But a few simple tweaks can start to create a healthy home that can be productive, calming, restorative, and whatever else you need it to be. Winter is a great time to reset and prepare for spring, so here are some tips to get you started.
You've heard it before, but only because it's so true — if you want to have a healthy mind and body, keeping things neat and tidy is essential. You can go the full Marie Kondo method and only keep things that spark joy or, more realistically, you can just try to keep the mess at bay. Having a designated space for everything in your home can make a huge difference. Try to maximise your storage space in a way that not only gives everything an assigned place, but makes it easy to see and accessible. If you can't see your extra toiletries or those jumpers stuffed in the back of your closet it can not only be stressful, but it can mean you end buying the same things over and over.
Going green is a great way to create a space that's healthier and more relaxing. Some designers recommend avoiding paints and finishes with VOCs (volatile organic compounds), as well as focusing on energy-efficient products. Using more natural fibers, like bamboo, reclaimed wood, and eco-friendly cloth, is better for the environment and creates a more soothing, healthier space for you. It's also worth investing in some greenery and plants which not only have a relaxing quality but can work as natural air filters for a healthier home.
Whether you work from home or not, having a productive space in your home is crucial. It not only provides a place for focus, it also prevents work from creeping into other areas of your house. When constant availability can feel like it's taking over your life — and those emails and texts don't stop coming — it can really help to have a separate space. Investing in ergonomic furniture that will help keep your back and neck healthy is important, especially if you spend a lot of hours on a laptop or computer. Introducing a plant helps to create a peaceful and productive space, as can using certain colours to promote creativity and productivity — red, green, and blue can do the trick. Even if you only use your home workspace for surfing, keep your phone and laptop there when you're not using them, it will keep you from defaulting to technology and help make the rest of your home a more peaceful, healthy space.
The way your home is set up can give you a lot of subconscious clues about how to spend your time. If every bit of your furniture is pointed at TV, you're probably going to default to watching TV. So try to set up your home in a way that encourages healthy behaviours. A little TV is fine, but do you have spaces where it's easy to read a book, spend some tech-free time, or even practice a little yoga or mindfulness? You don't need a lot of space or a home gym, even a tiny corner can do the trick if you create the right atmosphere. You can also make sure your trainers or walking boots are readily accessible — rather than buried in the back fo a closet — to encourage you to go outside for that walk or head to the gym.
If you're looking to make your home a healthier, less cluttered environment, it can be difficult to do it all at once. Some people love a huge purge, while others need time to come to terms with a makeover or change. So keep checking in with yourself — how is the clutter? Are you really wearing those extra clothes? What can you reconsider or improve? If a big change doesn't work for you, that's OK — little and often can do the trick, too.
Creating a home that's organized and mentally calming will naturally translate into a healthier environment overall. Stick with minimalistic and natural products but, above all else, try to keep your technology in a certain area — or at least create a tech-free zone. That can make all the difference.