This is part three of a six part series on setting up an email server. It covers subdomains you may want to setup and the DNS records that tell others where to find your servers and services.
Your ISP handles the mail: example.com DNS entries point to the ISP's mail handlers. See your ISP's documentation.
You handle someone else's mail: their DNS entries and configuration files point to your servers. Do mail for yourself first, then worry about getting it right for third parties.
All in one: everything is handled on example.com. If you setup all your DNS records correctly and support autoconfiguration, then this should work fine.
A single separate mail subdomain, usually mail.example.com. Sometimes with a separate autoconfig subdomain, but usually not.
Separate servers for each protocol: pop.example.com, imap.example.com, smtp.example.com, plus usually separate autoconfig servers autoconfig.example.com, and/or autodiscover.example.com.
Some email clients will automatically check for the specific subdomains, either before or after checking DNS records for the subdomains. If your ability to make DNS records is limited in some ways and/or if your subdomains and their appropriate certificates are cheap, then you may want to go with option 2 or 3 above. Most small-operations will probably want to go with option 1, in which case you can skip straight to your DNS records.
If you are using Plesk, you should create your subdomains in their interface. it will take care of creating the DNS entry linking the subdomain to the IP-address and creating the necessary entries in Apache.
Press the "Add Subdomain" button, then fill in the subdomain and main domain. One can also change the sub-directory, and I usually do: the directory is usually created below the main domain anyway, so using the full domain name again: "softwareschmiede-herndon.de/mail.softwareschmiede-herndon.de" seems a bit of overkill to me. Then you click OK and it takes care of it.
You can then place the files you need below the directories you created for the respective subdomain(s).
The documentation for creating a subdomain in cPanel is here. It is analogous to Plesk - automatically creating the necessary DNS records, changing the Apache config file and creating the base directory of the new subdomain.
You then place the files you need below the directories you created for the respective subdomain(s).
If you're not using a panel to control your subdomains, you may still want to "roll your own". You will need to make the entries in the DNS linking the subdomain to your IP-address, which you may want to do first.
Then you will need to add <VirtualHost> sections to your Apache configuration file. On my current version of Ubuntu that is "/etc/apache2/apache2.conf". You can find examples on the Apache website here, documentation here.
In order to create a domain under Windows without a VPS panel, you will need Windows Server (2003, 2008, 2012) and Active Directory. When installing Active Directory you will also want to install the DNS Manager. Then you can start "dcpromo" from the command line or from the "run" command under Start. If no parameters are given, it will start a Wizard that will guide you through the process. It is also possible to do everything from the command line.
Once you have created the (sub-)domain, you still have to let IIS "know" about the domain: open the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager, found in the "Administrative Tools" section of the Control Panel.
Open the tree below the server that should receive the subdomain (on the left of the screen). Right-click on the subsection "Sites". From the menu choose "Add Website...". Fill out the fields as needed and confirm.
DNS is the Domain Name System. It is basically a distributed "telephone book", linking names to IP-Addresses and services. Your server is responsible for its own records, which get propagated to a higher level server (usually at your provider) and thence to the rest of the internet.
If you are creating subdomains or changing other DNS records, please remember that it may take up to several days for DNS records to propagate so that others can see the new subdomains or other changes.
Each DNS record has a short (1-3) letter Record Type that specifies what kind of info is in the record.
Below are the basic DNS records on pretty much all servers. If you are creating subdomain without a panel, you will need to create an A record for each subdomain, the other basic records should already be correct, but are included for completeness.
Note the trailing dot: that is not a mistake. That is actually part of a fully-qualified domain name. Most panels will automatically take care of the dot for you.
If you are creating subdomains without one of the panels that takes care of DNS for you, then you will need to make an A record for each of your subdomains. And don't forget the dot at the end.
5.35.246.86 / 24 PTR softwareschmiede-herndon.de.
The NS Record delegates your server's DNS-Zone to the specified name servers. This is DNS Bookkeeping: don't touch these unless you know what you're doing. These are my records, which probably won't mean much to you, but are essential for DNS lookups of my domains to work correctly.
Another common use is for an SPF Record, which is relevant for eMails - see the TXT/SPF section below.
The MX Record specifies the name of the server running the Mail Transfer Agent(s) (MTAs). You will want one of these records, even if you have no separate mail server: many eMail clients will get this wrong if there is no entry.
For large operations there can be multiple mail servers for each domain and hence multiple MX records, but you will only want one per domain. The number in parentheses is a priority number, which is ignored when there is only one.
Note that I do not have a separate mail server. If I did, the mail server name would be on the right under Value.
Support for the SPF Record was discontinued, but they often still exist. The TXT/SPF Record (below) is still used.
SPF is an eMail validation system used to catch spoofers by verifying which servers are authorized to send emails from your domain.
Note that the underscore is not a valid character for a server URL, so the names can only be used for locating services.
_submission._tcp.softwareschmiede-herndon.de. -/- -/- SRV 0 10 465 softwareschmiede-herndon.de.
_imap._tcp.softwareschmiede-herndon.de. -/- -/- SRV 0 10 143 softwareschmiede-herndon.de.
Under Plesk, go to "Websites & Domains" (home), scroll to the domain for which you wish to change the DNS records, then click on "DNS Settings" (circled in red in the image).
There you can add new records by clicking on "Add Record" or edit old records by clicking on the "Host" part of the record you want to change, like the IMAP SRV record circled in the image.
After you have made changes, an "Update" button will appear at the top. When you are done making changes, click on the "Update" button, and when that is done, click on the "Apply DNS Template" button.
Full documentation for DNS under Plesk is here.
Documentation for changing DNS records in cPanel is here.
Look at the contents of named.conf: if it says something like "THE FOLLOWING LINES WERE GENERATED BY PLESK", then do not edit it, but rather use the program which generated it to make changes: anything you do in such files will likely be overwritten.
If named.conf was not linked, then that is the zone-file directory. If named.conf was linked, as in the example, then BIND will be running in a "chroot jail", and you must make that path relative to the chroot. In the example, "/var/named/run-root/var" is the zone-file directory.
The two IP-Addresses are the Name Servers in the NS records. There is some info about the relationship between the servers, and the rest of the information is found in the file specified, in this example "softwareschmiede-herndon.de", which is found in the zone-file directory.
softwareschmiede-herndon.de.             IN MX  10 softwareschmiede-herndon.de.
softwareschmiede-herndon.de.             IN TXT  "v=spf1 +a +mx -all"
_imap._tcp.softwareschmiede-herndon.de.          IN SRV 0 10 143 softwareschmiede-herndon.de.
_submission._tcp.softwareschmiede-herndon.de.            IN SRV 0 10 465 softwareschmiede-herndon.de.
The format of the different records is evident in the example. When done making changes, increase the number marked "; Serial" above - if it is not increased, the changes will not be propagated. Some recommend using the date to generate the number, "YYYYMMDD##", but it doesn't really matter as long as it increases.
Managing DNS under Windows without a VPS panel is too complicated to cover here. Here is an overview of DNS for Windows Server 2008.
If you can't change your DNS records or have only limited ability to do so, don't sweat it: most client software does not access DNS. Even Thunderbird, when it is looking up an MX record, does not look it up directly, but rather uses HTTPS to ask a service to do the look up for it.
##### Creating a domain under Windows In order to create a domain under Windows without a VPS panel, you will need Windows Server (2003, 2008, 2012) and Active Directory. When installing Active Directory you will also want to install the DNS Manager. Then you can start "dcpromo" from the command line or from the "run" command under Start. If no parameters are given, it will start a Wizard that will guide you through the process. It is also possible to [do everything from the command line](https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732887.aspx). Once you have created the (sub-)domain, you still have to let IIS "know" about the domain: open the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager, found in the "Administrative Tools" section of the Control Panel. Open the tree below the server that should receive the subdomain (on the left of the screen). Right-click on the subsection "Sites". From the menu choose "Add Website...". Fill out the fields as needed and confirm.
### Your DNS Records. DNS is the [Domain Name System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System). It is basically a distributed "telephone book", linking names to IP-Addresses and services. Your server is responsible for its own records, which get propagated to a higher level server (usually at your provider) and thence to the rest of the internet. ***If you are creating subdomains or changing other DNS records, please remember that it may take up to several days for DNS records to propagate so that others can see the new subdomains or other changes.*** Each DNS record has a short (1-3) letter Record Type that specifies what kind of info is in the record. #### Basic DNS Records Below are the basic DNS records on pretty much all servers. If you are creating subdomain without a panel, you will need to create an A record for each subdomain, the other basic records should already be correct, but are included for completeness.
Note the trailing dot: that is not a mistake. That is actually part of a fully-qualified domain name. Most panels will automatically take care of the dot for you. If you are creating subdomains without one of the panels that takes care of DNS for you, then you will need to make an A record for each of your subdomains. And don't forget the dot at the end.
###### NS Record - Name Server Record The NS Record delegates your server's DNS-Zone to the specified name servers. This is DNS Bookkeeping: don't touch these unless you know what you're doing. These are my records, which probably won't mean much to you, but are essential for DNS lookups of my domains to work correctly.
###### MX Record - Mail Exchange Record The MX Record specifies the name of the server running the Mail Transfer Agent(s) (MTAs). You will want one of these records, even if you have no separate mail server: many eMail clients will get this wrong if there is no entry. For large operations there can be multiple mail servers for each domain and hence multiple MX records, but you will only want one per domain. The number in parentheses is a priority number, which is ignored when there is only one.
There you can add new records by clicking on "Add Record" or edit old records by clicking on the "Host" part of the record you want to change, like the IMAP SRV record circled in the image. After you have made changes, an "Update" button will appear at the top. When you are done making changes, click on the "Update" button, and when that is done, click on the "Apply DNS Template" button. Full documentation for DNS under Plesk is [here](https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/onyx/administrator-guide/dns.59440/).


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Q: Stored Procedure with IsIDenity and cmd.Parameters.Add I am creating an ASP.NET  Wiki for myself to track the knowlege I gain in C# and other language.
I have created a Stored Procedure to insert a category into a DB, the DB has two fields C_ID(int) and Category(varchar 25). In my ASP page, there is no field for C_ID, it increments automatically by IsIdentiy = true;
When I try to excute it, it fails. What is the best approach to handle this?
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ALTER PROCEDURE dbo.InsertCategory
 @ID int,
 @CATEGORY varchar(25)
 AS

INSERT INTO Wiki
(C_ID, C_Category)
Values  (@ID, @CATEGORY)
    /* SET NOCOUNT ON */
    RETURN

Did I miss something to insert from the .aspx page?
            try
            {
            //create a command object identifying the Stored Procedure
            SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("InsertCategory", conn);

            //Set the command type
            cmd.CommandType  = CommandType.StoredProcedure;

            cmd.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("Category", txtAddCatagory));

            cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();

        }

A: Just omit the id from the insert.  If you configured identity correctly, the database will take care of increasing the number.  For example:
GO
ALTER PROCEDURE dbo.InsertCategory(@CATEGORY varchar(25))
AS
INSERT INTO Wiki (C_Category) Values (@CATEGORY)
GO

To verify the identity is set correctly, if you script the table, the C_id column should look like;
[C_id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,

Or even better:
[C_id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY,

A: So you're getting an exception that you cannot insert into an identity column, right? The trick is to not specify the identity column in your insert statement, because it automatically get populated... ;)
ALTER PROCEDURE dbo.InsertCategory @CATEGORY varchar(25) AS

INSERT INTO Wiki (C_Category) Values (@CATEGORY) /* SET NOCOUNT ON */ RETURN

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What Do Car Sales Tell Us About Black Money?
All through last week I wrote on the data put out by the Income Tax department sometime back. This is perhaps the last column based around the data.
Take a look at the following table. I know it's a very large table, but it's important to reproduce it here. The table gives the details about individuals who pay income tax in India. This is for the assessment year 2012-2013. The income tax returns for the income earned during 2011-2012 were filed during 2012-2013.
Range No of returns Sum of tax payable (in Rs crore)
<0 24 0
= 0 162,47,598
>0 and <=1,50,000 111,28,419 23446
>150,000 and <= 2,00,000 3,02,339 5254
>2,00,000 and <=2,50,000 2,14,437 4790
>2,50,000 and <= 3,50,000 2,64,990 7818
>3,50,000 and <= 4,00,000 86,701 3243
>5,50,000 and <= 9,50,000 1,78,654 12580
>9,50,000 and <= 10,00,000 10,506 1024
>10,00,000 and <=15,00,000 63,876 7746
>15,00,000 and <= 20,00,000 30,016 5171
>25,00,000 and <= 50,00,000 29,881 10229
>50,00,000 and <= 1,00,00,000 11,077 7474
>1,00,00,000 and <=5,00,00,000 5,042 8907
>5,00,00,000 and <=10,00,00,000 266 1788
>10,00,00,000 and <=25,00,00,000 90 1393
>25,00,00,000 and <=50,00,00,000 21 707
>50,00,00,000 and <=100,00,00,000 8 590
>100,00,00,000 and <=500,00,00,000 3 437
Total number of individuals who filed income tax returns 287,66,258 114556
Total number who paid tax 125,18,660
In the assessment year 2012-2013, around 2.88 crore Indians filed income tax returns. Of this nearly 56.4% or 1.62 crore did not pay any income tax. The rest, that is, around 1.25 crore individuals paid income tax.
Of the 1.25 crore who paid income tax, nearly 1.11 crore individuals or 89% paid an income tax of less than Rs 1.5 lakh, for the assessment year 2012-2013. In total, these individuals paid an income tax of Rs 23,446 crore. This works out to an average of Rs 21,069. Of course, the median tax paid would be even lower than this.
Hence, 89% of those who paid tax in India in the assessment year 2012-2013, paid an average income tax of just over Rs 21,000 for the year. This means an average income tax of less than Rs 2,000 per month.
This means around 14 lakh Indians (13.90 lakhs to be precise) actually got around to paying some income tax. They paid around Rs 91,110 crore of income tax in total.
It is safe to say here that the average Indian does not pay income tax. Now let's compare this to some consumption numbers. Take the case of car sales. In 2011-2012, around 25.34 lakh cars were sold.
What does this tell us? In a country where around 13.90 lakh individuals actually pay some income tax, 25.34 lakh cars are sold during the course of the year. In fact, the number of cars sold has continued to be in the range of 23.4-25.6 lakh cars a year, since then. This basically tells us that many people who are buying cars are not paying any income tax.
This could be because of two reasons. One reason could be that those earning income from agriculture, which is tax free, are buying cars. The other and the more likely reason is that cars are being bought with money on which income tax has not been paid i.e. cars are being bought with black money.
Also, if we look at the income distribution of the salaried individuals paying income tax, around 20.2 lakh people had declared incomes between Rs 5.5 lakh and Rs 9.5 lakh, in the assessment year 2012-2013. But the total number of cars sold during the year stood at greater than 25 lakhs. It is safe to say here that those buying cars are earning at least Rs 5 lakh per annum. The question is, who is buying these cars then?
In short, it is safe to come to the conclusion that a significant portion of the cars are being bought by those who have black money.
The good news is that it shouldn't be very difficult for income tax authorities to figure out who these people are, given the information technology infrastructure that is available these days. Of course, it may not be feasible for them to go after each and every such individual.
The column originally appeared in the Vivek Kaul Diary on May 9, 2016
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Megan Fox Net Worth: How Rich Is The Hollywood Star?
We all know the notable figure in the acting field who is also one of the prominent figures in the modeling business is none other than Megan Fox. Having a great interest in the field of dance as well as in the theater, she, from a five-year offer, started taking courses in order to improve her skills in these two fields. But soon enough, she and her family moved to the city of Florida from where they used to stay earlier – Tennessee. Training from a young age, it's no surprise that she got her first modeling contract when she was just entering her teens, namely 13 years old. Being in the modeling business, not only did she establish herself as one of the most prominent and popular models, but she also managed to win not one but several awards.
Followed by the success she received for being in the modeling business from an early age, she quickly took the first step towards achieving another of her successful career which is acting. She got her start in the theater business from the time she was a 15 year old teenager. Her first role was in the blockbuster film titled Holidays in the sun. In the blockbuster film, she played the role of one of the main characters, whose name was Brianna. Although she started her career a long time ago, the turning point in her career came with the role of one of the main characters that she played with her acting in the blockbuster film named Transformers. In the film, she played the role of the character whose name was Mikaela Banes. She performed the role while being part of the cast with the popular star who played the role of another of the main characters named Shia LaBeouf.
With her acting skills, she not only won the hearts of the public, but also attracted the attention of critics. Not only that, but she also made her way to the prestigious MTV Movie Award nomination, which she also won. Apart from that, she also received the Teen Choice Awards not only, but three times. Being impressed with her role, she was offered the role of the same character in the film's second installation, which was titled Transformers: Revenge. Although she received enough fame from the first part of the film. After the success she received from the second installation, her career achieved much higher success. Not only that, but for her role in the film she won several of the prestigious awards.
Born on May 16 in the year 1986, in the beautiful town of Oak Ridge, located in the state of Tennessee in the United States of America, was the child who grew up to be one of the prominent personalities not only in the field of acting but also in the field of modeling. She was born into a Métis family where her father's name was Franklin Thomas Fox while her mother was Gloria Darlene Cisson. Although she was born in the city of Tennessee, she grew up in the beautiful city of Pentecost. Coming from a Catholic family, she was enrolled in one of the esteemed institutes of the Catholic school. But as fate can happen, back when she was just a kid, her parents legally separated. Soon after, his mother married another man named Tony Tonachio.
Megan Fox as a child and Megan Fox now
Passionate about both theater and dance, she was enrolled from an early age in dance classes not only but also theater. Besides her passion for dance and theater, she was also fortunate enough to be part of the popular choir group of the famous elementary school named Kingston Elementary School. Not only that, but she was also part of a popular swim team named Kingston Clippers.
But for one reason or another, she moved with her family from the city of Tennessee to the beautiful city of Florida. But as they say, nothing can stop you from following your passion. Moving there, she continued her dance and theater lessons. Soon, she landed her first modeling contract at the age of 13. Not only did she receive the name and fame of being a model at the age of 13, but she also managed to win not one but several awards. She won her very first award, which was the prestigious American Modeling and Talent Convention award. She received the award in 1999 at the Hilton Head, located in South Carolina.
Being such a talented child, she managed to win her very first role in the world of cinema. Her first role was when she was just a 15 year old teenager. In her first role, she played the character whose name was Brianna Wallace, who was by nature a spoiled child. She played a role in the 2001 hit film, titled Holidays in the sun. She played her role with another popular star of that time, namely with Ashley Olsen, who played the role of another major character whose name was Alex Stewart.
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Megan Fox as Mikaela Banes in Transformer Film Series
Followed by the success of her first film, she won the offer to be a guest in not one but two popular series on the small screen, namely in What I like about you. Soon she got the role of one of the main characters in another blockbuster film named Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. In the film, she played the role of the character whose name was Carla Santini, where the role of the main character was played by none other than Lindsay Lohan. The film premiered in 2004.
Followed up by the success of the previous film, she received the offer to play the role of one of the main characters in the 2007 hit film titled Transformers. In the movie, she played the role of the character named Mikaela Banes. She played her role alongside the cast, which includes popular stars namely Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson as well as John Turturro. Impressed by her graceful acting skills, she was offered to remake the role of Mikaela Banes in the film's second installation titled Transformers: Revenge.
His career continued to be on the positive side of the chart. In 2019, she got the role of one of the major characters in the blockbuster film under the genre of supernatural romance. The was titled Above the shadows, which was directed and written by popular director named Claudia Myers. Followed by the success of the film, she got another role that same year. She drew the role of the character named Soledad Paladin. She played the role of the character in the film, which was directed by famous director named James Franco. The name of the movie was Zeroville. Apart from that, in 2019 itself, she got the role of another main character in the film under the drama genre, which is titled Big gold brick. In the movie, she played the role of a character named Jacqueline.
Net worth and income
Megan Fox net worth
The popular star who entered the fashion world from the age of 13 as well as the world of movies and TV shows from the age of 15 is none other than Megan Fox. She rose to fame with her role in the first installation of the hit film named Transformers. Having such great acting skills, it has never been difficult for her to achieve the fame and position that she has won. With this, she also earns millions through her roles in films, which makes her one of the most successful stars. Speaking of some of her real estate, in 2016, in the month of May, she and her husband named Brian, invested in a property that covers an area of 2 acres. The property is located in the town of Malibu. Speaking of the property's value, it's estimated to be around $ 3.3 million. With this, the popular star Megan Fox holds a net value who is estimated somewhere around $ 8 million from 2021.
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"Women at Risk" ministry helps Ethiopian women flee sex-trade industry
May 13, 2019 • Ethiopia
Vocational training, such as jewelry making, is just one of the skills offered to women who want to leave prostitution.
Programs include protecting the children of sex trade workers.
A young man in Ethiopia credits a Christian ministry, supported by Samaritan's Purse Canada donors like you, for helping him overcome his beginnings as the child of a sex trade worker with little likelihood of success.
Abel, 27, says the Ethiopia Women at Risk (EWAR) organization helped his mother escape prostitution and ensured that he and his half-brother received a good education. EWAR paid the boys' school tuitions, and gave them school supplies and after-class tutoring.
The ministry, based in Ethiopia's capital city of Addis Ababa, also introduced Abel to Jesus as his Savior.
"EWAR helped me in many ways when I was young," he says, while holding a photo of himself taken at EWAR's facilities when he was about 12. "I am a Christian because of the impact EWAR had on my life. I learned to pray to God and to trust in Him."
Past not dictating future
Abel holds a picture of himself at age 12, when he first came to Ethiopia Women at Risk's facilities.
Abel works at a local printing and publishing firm. He loves the job and hopes to someday start a similar business. Meanwhile, his half-brother is preparing to open an internet-based business.
"It is thanks to my aunt (who primarily raised both of the boys) and to EWAR that I have grown up with confidence," Abel says. He's convinced that his past as the son of a former prostitute should not dictate his future.
Yetranet Andarge, who coordinates EWAR's prevention program that speaks in schools and churches, says her organization started a program for sex trade workers' children to ensure they don't follow the same destructive path their mothers took.
Ethiopia is among the world's poorest nations. Education and employment options for women are painfully scarce. So when their husbands die, or their boyfriends abandon them in pregnancy, or they move to the city for a job that never materializes, prostitution can seem to be the only option.
Christ-based counseling
EWAR offers them escape and hope. Its 12-month rehabilitation program provides Christ-based counseling and vocational training to women wanting to leave prostitution. They learn income-earning skills such as jewelry making, weaving, hair styling, food services, and hotel housekeeping.
Abel says he strongly believes in EWAR's mission, including its prevention program and public warnings.
"I know very much that life (of prostitution), so I try to warn people," he says. "My advice to girls and boys is to avoid sex before marriage. And I tell boys that if they make a girl pregnant, they must be responsible and help to raise the child."
Abel says he also wants men to stop buying sex because "it was not meant for commerce" but is instead a gift from God for married couples.
Please join us as we partner with EWAR and similar Christian anti-trafficking ministries in other countries. You can do so by supporting our Women's Projects through your donations and prayers.
Alleviating Violence, Exploitation, and Risk Across the world, every day, Samaritan's Purse sees families and individuals who are enduring, or who are vulnerable to violence, exploitation, addiction, gangs, and more. From teaching women about safe migration to protecting children from exploitation and helping men free themselves from the bonds of addiction, your generous gifts can help restore their hope and empower individuals and families in Jesus' Name.
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Mansfield Park Revisited: A Jane Austen Entertainment, by Joan Aiken – A Review
Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews	by Laurel Ann
When a book written twenty five years ago is reissued as confidently as Mansfield Park Revisited: A Jane Austen Entertainment by a publisher who specializes in Jane Austen sequels, you hope that it is laudable. Of all of the past sequels to select, (and there are more than a few), why choose one based on Jane Austen's least popular novel Mansfield Park? What has the new author created to make this sequel worthy of resurrection?
Published in 1814, Mansfield Park was Jane Austen's third novel and even though I adore it, it has more than its share of nay sayers. There are several reasons why it is a disappointment (to some), but primary objections fall to its heroine Fanny Price, who some feel is weak and insipid and not at all like Austen's other popular heroine's. Author Joan Aiken's solution in her continuation of Mansfield Park is to resume the story four years after the conclusion and to remove Fanny Price almost entirely from the novel by packing her and her husband Edmund Bertram off to Antigua in the first chapter. Fanny's younger sister Susan Price has been brought to the forefront, stepping into Fanny's previous role as poor relation elevated to companion to Lady Bertram now a widow after Sir Thomas Bertram's unexpected death while attending to his business in the West Indies. Susan has matured into an attractive and bright young woman similar to her older sister, but with a lot more spunk, which will please Fanny opponents. Susan holds her own against her cousins the new Sir Thomas Bertram who often thinks she over steps her position and his sister Julia, now the Honorable Mrs. Yates who resides in the neighborhood and upon Susan's back, objecting to her every move. We are also reintroduced to other characters from the original novel: cousin Maria Bertram the scandalous divorcee, Mary Crawford estranged from her feckless fop of a husband and now gravely ill, and her brother Henry Crawford still a bachelor having never found anyone as worthy as his last love, Fanny Price. Aiken also adds a delightful array of new secondary characters to the mix supplying interest and humor.
A quick read at 201 pages, Aiken moves the story briskly along with a series of challenging events and resolutions that keep the reader engaged, but sadly never resting to discover personalities or relationships in greater detail. At the conclusion I felt more than a bit deprived of a good love story as Susan comes to the conclusion whom she truly loves on the last few pages. This style not only mirrors Jane Austen's approach with her hero and heroine's romance in Mansfield Park, but amplifies one of the main objections to the original novel. Despite this flaw, Aiken is by far one of the most talented writers to attempt an Austen sequel and Mansfield Park Revisited truly worthy of resurrection. She has respectfully continued Austen's story by expanding her characters, adapting the language for the modern reader, accurately including the social mantle and believably turning our concerns for the two main antagonists Mary and Henry Crawford at the end of Mansfield Park into sympathies, which given their principles and past bad behavior is quite an accomplishment. Packing Austen's heroine Fanny Price off to another country might seem extreme, but it is sure to please the Fanny bashers and allowed Aiken to develop her own heroine Susan who has enough spirit and resolve for the both of them.
4 out of 5 Regency Stars
Mansfield Park Revisited: A Jane Austen Entertainment
By Joan Aiken
Trade paperback (201) pages
Sourcebooks Landmark, Naperville, IL (2008)
Cover image courtesy of Sourcebooks Landmark © 2008; text Laurel Ann Nattress © 2009, Austenprose.com
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Mansfield Park Chapters 33-40: Summation, Musings & Discussion: Day 12 Give-away!
Posted in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Mansfield Park Madness	by Laurel Ann
He was in love, very much in love; and it was a love which, operating on an active, sanguine spirit, of more warmth than delicacy, made her affection appear of greater consequence because it was withheld, and determined him to have the glory, as well as the felicity, of forcing her to love him. The Narrator on Henry Crawford, Chapter 33
Quick Synopsis
Henry persists in his quest for Fanny's hand. Sir Thomas solicits Edmunds help, who attempts to discern what Fanny's doubts are. He insists it was Henry's abrupt delivery. She tells him she can not love a man of such unprincipled character. Everyone at Mansfield and the parsonage know of Henry's proposal and in their own way try to chisel away at Fanny's resolve. William visits on leave. Sir Thomas sees an opportunity for Fanny to see the difference that a good income can bring, and sends her home to her impoverished family in Portsmouth. Anxious to be with people who love her, the household, her parents and her siblings are a shock, and the complete opposite of her tranquil, ordered, and quiet home at Mansfield Park. Sister Susan shows some interest in improving herself and gives Fanny some hope. Edmund is more in love with Mary than ever, visiting her in London. Fanny dreads the post, fearful of what news it will bring.
After Fanny's rejection of Henry's offer of marriage, I am amazed at what lengths everyone takes to change her indifference to him. No one honors her decision and proceed to create excuses why she declined. Sir Thomas encourages Henry to continue his pursuit, which he does relentlessly, even though she shows him no encouragement at all. Having always won a ladies heart, he is both invigorated by her rejection and certain he will succeed. (conceited lout) Sir Thomas increases the pressure by telling his wife Lady Bertram and her sister Mrs. Norris of Henry's proposal. They have opposite reactions; Lady Bertram thinks it an honor to her family to attract such a wealthy and handsome suitor, and Mrs. Norris takes it as an insult to her niece Julia who they all wanted Henry to marry from the beginning.
Angry she (Mrs. Norris) was: bitterly angry; but she was more angry with Fanny for having received such an offer than for refusing it. It was an injury and affront to Julia, who ought to have been Mr. Crawford's choice; and, independently of that, she disliked Fanny, because she had neglected her; and she would have grudged such an elevation to one whom she had been always trying to depress. The Narrator, Chapter 33
I has stunned and disappointed in Edmund's part in the interrogations, working away at his friend Fanny on behalf of his father. His actions hurt her the most since he was her mentor and only friend at Mansfield Park up until Mary Crawford corrupted him. All of his conversation now is tainted by her influence. When Edmund insists that he knows the truth of the rejection based on her surprise alone, I am angry at his arrogance and appalled that he suggests she should now let Henry succeed, and show everyone that she is the "perfect model of a woman which I have always believed you born for" Outrageous attitude from any friend, let alone a minister of the church. Where have his principles gone? I admire Fanny's tenacity. She knows her mind and her own temperament. She explains that she and Henry are too different in nature to be happy together and does not waver from her position. Edmund, more than anyone in her circle should honor her wish to marry for love alone since his heart is also strongly inclined to the same desire, even though he has struggled against the unsuitability of his attachment to Mary Crawford for almost the entire novel!
On his (Edmund) side the inclination was stronger, on hers less equivocal. His objections, the scruples of his integrity, seemed all done away, nobody could tell how; and the doubts and hesitations of her ambition were equally got over-and equally without apparent reason. It could only be imputed to increasing attachment. His good and her bad feelings yielded to love, and such love must unite them. The Narrator, Chapter 37
The final wedge in an attempt to break Fanny's spirit is Sir Thomas' banishment of her to Portsmouth. His private plan is to let her see the difference that a good income can mean to her comfort, and motivate her to accept Henry Crawford with all his gentility and wealth. At first she sees it as a refuge from the pressures at Mansfield, and a benefit to be with family who truly love her, but after being reunited she soon discovers the disparity of the two households. Her parents, her siblings and their impoverished lifestyle are a quite a shock to a young lady who has become accustomed to living in the home of a Baronet. The noise, squalor and the indifference of her parents to her cruelly remind her of the peace, tranquility and order at her home, Mansfield Park. William departs for sea, and with no friend left in the world to support her, she is truly alone. Fearful of the pending news from London of Edmund and Mary's engagement she waits for the other shoe to drop. Even under these adverse circumstances, our heroine is still optimistic.
Fanny soon became more disposed to admire the natural light of the mind which could so early distinguish justly, than to censure severely the faults of conduct to which it led. The Narrator, Chapter 40
With so much romantic turmoil in these last eight chapters, I am more than a bit uneasy with the uncertainty. Austen is building to a climax and I am all anticipation. We shall see if everyone ends up with who they love, or don't know they love, and who gets their comeuppance. I have never known her to cheat us out of a wedding or two at the end, or a bit of moralizing for those unruly characters who stirred up the plot. One can never be certain though until the curtain falls on this theatrical.
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Mansfield Park: Oxford World's Classics
Oxford University Press (2008). Revised edition. Novel text and introduction and notes by Jane Stabler. Trade paperback, 418 pages, ISBN 978-0199535538
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Mansfield Park Chapters 1-8: Summation, Musings & Discussion: Day 2 Give-away
"Do not let us be frightened from a good deed by a trifle. Give a girl an education, and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without farther expense to anybody." Mrs. Norris, Chapter 1
Ten year old poor relation Fanny Price arrives at Mansfield Park and meets her cousins the Bertrams. Spoiled sisters Maria and Julia think her ignorant and stupid. Sad and sacred, her only friend is cousin Edmund who helps her write a letter to brother William. Five years pass. Sir Thomas Bertram and eldest son Tom leave for Antigua. Maria and Julia husband hunt with Aunt Norris. Fanny left out. Maria engaged to Mr. Rushworth. Mary and Henry Crawford arrive and meet their neighbors. Maria and Julia keen on Henry. Mary keen on Tom. Fanny and Edmund think Mary indecorous. Mary's harp arrives, bewitching Edmund who falls in love with Mary. All the young people travel to Mr. Rushworth's estate of Sotherton.
Jane Austen sets the tone of the novel immediately with Mrs. Norris' passive-aggressive surly voice. It is effectively comical and annoying at the same time. She seems to run the Bertram family while her sister lounges on the sofa with her dog pug. I loved this description of Lady Bertram.
To the education of her daughters Lady Bertram paid not the smallest attention. She had not time for such cares. She was a woman who spent her days in sitting, nicely dressed, on a sofa, doing some long piece of needlework, of little use and no beauty, thinking more of her pug than her children, but very indulgent to the latter when it did not put herself to inconvenience, guided in everything important by Sir Thomas, and in smaller concerns by her sister. The Narrator, Chapter 4
I think that Austen is introducing a theme here of negligent parenting with possibilities for great material. Lady Bertram's two spoiled and snarky daughters Maria and Julia are certainly the evidence of it. Their brother Tom the eldest son seems to be also ungovernable by their father Sir Thomas, gambling and drinking with little regret. Only second son Edmund seems to have his head on straight, though I fear he has over compensated for his lax upbringing and taken the high road too firmly with his moralizing and starchy attitudes. With an outlook like this, one can only imagine his frustration in living in a household of such cretins and understand his desire to be a minister to save unruly souls.
When we are introduced to newcomers to the neighborhood siblings Mary and Henry Crawford, I was amazed at how well their cutting remarks and superior attitude fit in with the Bertram clan. It is no wonder that the introductions go so well. I was amused that their sister Mrs. Grant immediately suggests possible mates for her single brother and sister. Shades of an Emma Woodhouse; – who may only be a gleam in Austen's eye while writing this. Their discussion on marriage in chapters four and five is a great introduction to their personalities, and sets the stage for future romantic machinations. Here are two favorite quotes by Henry and Mary that really reveal what is coming.
"I am of a cautious temper, and unwilling to risk my happiness in a hurry. Nobody can think more highly of the matrimonial state than myself I consider the blessing of a wife as most justly described in those discreet lines of the poet-'Heaven's last best gift.'" Henry Crawford, Chapter 4
Of course, he is being totally sarcastic and poking fun at marriage and women after his sister Mary derides his past performance with ladies to their sister Mrs. Grant.
"In marriage…there is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry. Look where I will, I see that it is so; and I feel that it must be so, when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves." Mary Crawford, Chapter 5
Mary Crawford is much more frank about it. Like Elizabeth Bennet she decidedly expresses her opinions, but unlike Jane Austen's other strong female character from Pride and Prejudice she does so without much censure and is often moralistically off center. I like that dangerous laissez-faire, wildly over confident quality about her. She definitely gets the sharp witty dialogue that Austen is so famous for. It is like watching a train wreck and makes for a great story.
But what of our heroine Fanny Price? At this point she has had little to say or do. Cleverly, I think that is Austen's point. Being the poor relation and a charity case in a resplendent household is a tenuous position. We see her pitiful situation, how terribly she is treated by her cousins, and feel her pain. It is uncomfortable and we are angered by it. The over-eager reader may miss the subtly of her character and not understand why she is in the background so much. It is a bit perplexing but I am confident that Austen has her reasons that will unfold as the plot develops.
Why is Mrs. Norris not given a first name? Is this a telescopic insight by Jane Austen by way of a slight?
Fanny Price does not act like Jane Austen's other heroines. Nor does Mary Crawford. Is Austen being ambiguous?
Why do you think that Austen has set up such a caustic cast of characters? What are the benefits and downfalls to this approach?
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The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen: Volume III: Mansfield Park
Oxford University Press, USA (1988). Third edition. This hardcover volume has been the preferred edition by many since its publication in 1923. It includes an unabridged novel text and extensive supplemental material. Nice compact, but could use a make-over!
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Earnestness of sincerity
Posted in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Jane Austen's Works	by Laurel Ann
EARNESTNESS
She (Fanny Price) told him that she did not love him (Henry Crawford), could not love him, was sure she never should love him; that such a change was quite impossible; that the subject was most painful to her; that she must entreat him never to mention it again, to allow her to leave him at once, and let it be considered as concluded for ever… All this she had said, and with the earnestness of sincerity; yet this was not enough, for he immediately denied there being anything uncongenial in their characters, or anything unfriendly in their situations; and positively declared, that he would still love, and still hope! Fanny Price, Mansfield Park, Chapter 33
Please sir, how politely, and in how many ways can one young lady say no?
Open letter to Mr. Henry Crawford
Sir, this is a dear John letter. You may not know what that is since it will not become a cultural idiom for another 150 years. We shall endeavour to enlighten you.
Your attentions are unwelcome sir. The lady does not know why you are interested in her, let alone why you have proposed marriage. She has tried to explain it to you with all the earnestness and sincerity that she can muster, but you do not seem to know what the word NO means. The subject is painful to her and she does not wish to discuss it further.
We know why you will not acknowledge Miss Price's declination. You are an unprincipled cad sir, who trifles with the affections of young women for your own amusement. We entreat you to pack up your sorry arse, along with that spidery thing you call a sister and remove yourselves immediately to that nether-place that welcomes such wretched souls.
Yours & C
The Propriety Police
*Illustration by Joan Hassall, "She told him, that she did not love him," page 262, Mansfield Park, The Folio Society, London (1961)
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Sly approbation
Posted in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park	by Laurel Ann
Miss Crawford smiled her perfect approbation; and hastened to complete the gift by putting the necklace round her, and making her see how well it looked. Fanny had not a word to say against its becomingness, and, excepting what remained of her scruples, was exceedingly pleased with an acquisition so very apropos. She would rather, perhaps, have been obliged to some other person. But this was an unworthy feeling. The Narrator on Miss Crawford & Fanny Price, Mansfield Park, Chapter 26
Miss Crawford is a creepy crawly black spider, deceptively presenting gifts to poor clueless Fanny Price. Shortly, we will learn that the necklace comes with strings, namely that even though it is being given by Miss Crawford to Fanny, in actuality it is being re-gifted by her for her brother Henry, who because of social decourm can not give it to Fanny directly. Ick!
The gift of the necklace represents many inward challenges for Fanny Price and is a favourite topic among readers and scholars. Firstly, in Regency society it is not appropriate for a young unmarried lady to receive gifts from anyone outside of her family. Secondly, Fanny knows this, but folds into peer pressure and accepts it; – – blaming her doubts on her own 'unworthy' feelings. And thirdly, when Fanny learns that the necklace was duplicitously re-gifted and realizes that if she accepts it, she will be obliged and more intimately connected to Henry Crawford than she out to be; – – she still can not decline, fearing the loss of Miss Crawford's perfect approbation.
Do you understand the mystery that is Fanny Price? No? Me neither, but I found this psychological profile from the Austen-L mail list archives at the Jane Austen Information Page which confirmed my suspicions! You may be so impressed with the results, that you will be classifying all your family and friends!!!
*Illustration engraved after George Pickering, "Miss Crawford smiled her approbation", Frontispiece, Mansfield Park, published by Richard Bentley & Son, London (1882)
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Unfeigned regret
… and she (Fanny Price) found herself the next moment conducted by Mr. Crawford to the top of the room, and standing there to be joined by the rest of the dancers, couple after couple, as they were formed.
She could hardly believe it. To be placed above so many elegant young women! The distinction was too great. It was treating her like her cousins! And her thoughts flew to those absent cousins with most unfeigned and truly tender regret, that they were not at home to take their own place in the room, and have their share of a pleasure which would have been so very delightful to them. The Narrator on Fanny Price, Mansfield Park, Chapter 28
As Fanny experiences the honour of the first dance at the ball with Henry Crawford, her thoughts turn immediately to her absent cousins Edmund, Julia and Maria Bertram and away from her own pride and joy. I am not a trained therapist, but there appears to be something not quite right with this thinking. Does Austen want us to admire Fanny's unselfish thoughts and concerns for her cousins, or believe that her transference of unfeigned happiness is due to her doubts that she deserves them herself?
Mansfield Park is one of Jane Austen's most introspective works, and it makes me dwell on the more serious issues of human nature and happiness. I often have unfeigned regret for Fanny while reading it. But, – – it does end well, which eases my poor nerves!
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Igor Sikorsky set a world speed record of 111 km per hour on his C-6 plane in Kiev, Dec 29, 1911
Igor Sikorsky started construction of the first S-6 was in August 1911.
The biplane was powered by a 100 hp Argus 4-cylinder water-cooled engine.
The works took place at the two hangars Sikorsky and his classmates built at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute where Igor studied and at a nearby Kiev suburb called Kurenyovka which had a small airfield nearby at the time.
Initial flight tests in late November of 1911 revealed some problems with a climb performance and serious aerodynamic drag.
Sikorsky lengthened the wingspan to solve the first problem and used wood veneer on fuselage to solve the second.
As the result of the improvements, Sikorsky's design of the nacelle for the pilot with passengers, together with the fuel tanks and radiator turned out to be ahead of time.
The general form of all the main features of the future planes, their horizontal and vertical velocity were determined by this plane.
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I'm using 3.0 version alfresco for document management in my company, and I'm kind of stuck. The problem is that lately, my CPU is all consumed. By monitoring what alfresco's doing, I believe it's taking a lot of time to index all of the documents in the system.
We have some 300-500 hundred documents put into the system during work hours (so in few hours). In these times and a short time after that, the server load goes really high - around 10 on a Dual-Core AMD Opteron with 8GB RAM. The users also feel the slowdowns in their use, the scripts sometimes break for no reason… I think it's because of all the processing/indexing that alfresco is doing.
I have about 5-10 concurrent users on the system + 70ish casual (that log in maybe once or twice a day).
Can anybody speculate a bit with me, is this my probable cause? The indexing process and copying/moving documents around takes all the time?
I don't want to just upgrade my CPU, I would like to know why the load is so high. The wiki (http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Repository_Hardware) says my setup should be really fine.
Apart from the upgrade, what else could I do to decrease the load? What services take the most CPU time in alfresco?


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A daughter with Down syndrome comes to terms with her mother's death.
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Thank you for sharing a part of your families journey with us. I am especially grateful for the forethought you had to add the part about Iris' humanity. It would have been easy to neglect that aspect, but it added so much to the story. It made it real. I can't wait to meet your mom in heaven!
It was late September, 2018, when I realized that my mother's health was rapidly failing and she might only have days left to live. My thoughts struggled in a maze of questions and considerations. I desperately wanted to make her home-going a good one, to smooth her path in any way I could, but I felt like a blind woman in a forest full of vines.
One thing, however, stood out sharply, the lens of my troubled mind focusing on it and forcing everything else into the background: What about Iris?
Iris is three and a half years younger than me and twenty-one months younger than my sister Ria. She has Down syndrome.
Iris with her mother Photographs courtesy of the author
Mom was never one to worry about the future. Perhaps her remarkable life had taught her how futile that was. When she'd been diagnosed with cancer two and a half years before, she accepted the news with surprisingly little emotion or drama. She had immediately decided that the best thing to do was to do nothing different at all. She'd always lived energetically, welcoming others, and that seemed to be the best way to continue for whatever time was left. We, her family, were sometimes tempted to question that course, but she was so sure of it that her confidence and peace rubbed off on us, sometimes almost lulling us into thinking that she didn't have cancer after all.
So we had never really discussed her wishes for Iris. She had written a letter for us to give Iris after she was gone. She and my dad and I had recorded the childhood favorites she'd sung Iris at bath time and bedtime – songs that had never grown old. But not knowing what her final days would hold, Mom hadn't wanted to waste time on what-ifs. The only thing we did discuss was that Iris should not be lied to, and yet should be spared the awfulness of cancer and death as much as possible. For the rest, Mom trusted us.
In a way that no one else could, Iris was paving the final, sacred yards of Mom's path, putting up shimmering signposts, and sending her strength for those last few steps.
Now the final days were suddenly upon us and, as the oldest daughter, I could feel the weight of my mother's confidence upon me. Making sure Iris was okay during this time felt like one of the most important and lasting ways to show my love to my dying mother. But only God knew how I was supposed to do that.
And of course, He definitely did know. For years, I'd been following Confessions of the Chromosomally Enhanced, a blog (now mostly Instagram posts) written by Elizabeth, whose older sister Leanne has Down syndrome. Elizabeth and her husband decided to adopt a child with Down syndrome before having kids of their own, so their household includes two chromosomally-blessed individuals. I had been too busy to read the blog much, but something prompted me to take a look one evening. Maybe I was craving some of the comic relief it often provides by holding a mirror to situations I know so well from my own sister.
As it happened, Elizabeth's family had just been given devastating news of their own: her and Leanne's beloved mother had suddenly fallen ill and was not expected to live more than a few days. Elizabeth was scrambling, just like me, to help her sister process it all. An obscure web listing led her to a woman named Melissa Levin who'd given a seminar on Down syndrome and grieving. Elizabeth posted a series of immensely helpful blog articles on this – right when I needed it.
Melissa Levin's key piece of advice? Create concrete, activity-based final memories between the person with Down syndrome and the dying loved one.
It seemed so obvious once I read it. Iris's memories are almost always connected to concrete objects such as the outfit she was wearing when a particular event took place. She is extremely direct and linear in the way she remembers things.
I immediately set about finding an activity that Mom and Iris could do together. The next morning, I had them page through the elaborate album of baby photos and stories that Mom had put together when Iris was small. I put considerable effort into setting up a surface over Mom's recliner and getting Iris a chair of the right height. I videoed much of their exchange. Iris loved looking at the photos of herself, and Mom loved telling all the old anecdotes. I figured the album itself – not to mention the video – would serve as concrete reminders later on.
Then I breathed a sigh of relief. At least I had done one thing well, had chopped down one fat vine in that dense forest and made the path just a little bit wider. All things considered, I had done my best for Iris.
Iris, however, was about to show us what she could do for us.
In her final week of life – in early October – Mom became too weak to get out of bed. Iris came to visit her every morning. Often, it was just the two of us together at her bedside (Ria was busy packing her four young children off to school and usually arrived later on). Because there wasn't really anything to say, Iris and I fell into the habit of singing. Iris always wanted to sing a song that went like this:
In heaven, in heaven is jubilant joy;
The angels are singing for they are with God.
And singing and dancing their praises to God
Creator of all things in heaven and earth.
This wonderful joy is a City of Peace
Where love and rejoicing will ever increase.
I was not able to get through even the first verse. Iris was baffled, and my tears distressed her. Her bewilderment seemed to say "Mother is going to heaven, right? So what is there to cry about? Isn't heaven the most glorious place?" The next day, I turned my head away and managed to make the words come out in a choked semblance of song. When she still noticed my tears, I told her I had a streaming cold and was feeling awful (at least the latter was true). That day, she reported to all her friends that she was praying for her sister who had a bad cold. No mention of prayers for Mother. (Iris always called her Mother, while the rest of us called her Mom.) Somewhere in her heart, Iris knew I was the one who needed them more.
Once, when Iris stopped by, she brought brilliant red leaves and placed them on Mom's blanket and pillow, as if to invite the splendor of autumn into the room. Another time, she bent down to kiss Mom, then held her cheek out, demanding reciprocation, as she often did: "Kiss me!" The kiss she received must have already been as light as an angel's feather because Iris – solidly planted on terra firma – did not feel it. "Mother! Kiss me!" she insisted again. "I did!" Mom triumphantly replied, repeating the kiss with a sparkle in her eyes.
Later, when Mom had fallen into a coma, Iris found it hard to be in the room for long. She tried to talk to her and was puzzled when Mom didn't reply. So Iris went outside and found the swing that stood not twenty feet from Mom's ground-floor window. Swinging has always been Iris's "me time," her way of processing the day, and (I believe) her form of prayer.
Again, God knew what we needed when we needed it. Those early October days were unseasonably warm, so the windows were wide open. As Iris swung, she sang, her voice floating above the noise of the metal hangers that creaked against the swing frame. With surprise, Ria and I noticed that all of her song choices had a common theme: they all spoke of the journey to heaven. "Hold out your light, you heaven-bound soldier." "We are climbing Jacob's Ladder." "Let the heaven-light shine on me." And, of course, "In heaven, in heaven is jubilant joy."
Mom died peacefully in the early hours of October 11, 2018. We had decided not to wake Iris or the grandchildren if it happened at night. Perhaps Mom showed her approbation with that plan by going when she did. Later that morning, Iris came over as she always did. Dad was too overcome to speak with her, and Ria and her husband had gone home to tell their kids. So it fell to me to tell Iris. I had no idea what to expect.
"Iris, I have something very special to tell you," I said. "This morning early our mother died and went home to heaven."
"Oh wow!" Iris responded with reverence and awe. "My mother went to heaven!" She paused between each word, her tone suggesting that this was the best news I could possibly bring. "Wow!" she repeated a few more times in wonder.
Then she turned and looked straight at me. I waited to receive the profound wisdom or comfort that was surely coming.
"What's for lunch?" she asked, wholly unaware that – no matter what I was expecting – it was not this.
I was too surprised to speak. You have just been told that your mother has died and you are wondering about … food? It was my turn to be baffled.
But as I pondered it, I realized that Iris was not burdened with "the correct way" of doing things. She did not worry about any seemly display of emotion or feel the need to pause for an accepted amount of time before moving forward. She simply lived and let that fact be known. Her question told me, "Mother is in a wonderful place. She has fought the fight and finished the race. But I am on earth, and down here we do still have to think about things like food and clothing. Even if the how has changed, there are a few constants, and I'm going to hold on to them."
Tears and laughter simultaneously erupted from me. And I think that's just what Mom would have wanted at that moment: Sorrow and joy are sisters, after all – with honesty anchoring both.
When our mother had been laid out for her wake, I took Iris to her side and gave her a bouquet of roses to place in Mom's hands. Three pink roses for three daughters (a friend had just brought them to us from her garden – the last roses of the year) and one white rose for the baby she'd lost and whom she was looking forward to meeting. Iris had sometimes been anxious at wakes and funerals, so I wondered how she would react.
Once again, she surprised me. Iris walked right up to Mom's bedside and triumphantly arranged the roses, then bent down to give her a kiss. Not a whisper of anxiety or fear, only love. It was as though the shadows of death could not come near the purity of her heart.
Iris remained joyful and positive throughout the funeral and many days beyond, marveling with us – in her way – at the wonderful blessing and providence of God. It was only after a number of weeks that she began to experience the finality of death in the absence of her mother. I'd begun to wonder if Iris had actually understood that Mom was not coming back. There were no tears, no outward signs of distress. As if sensing this, Iris started saying, "I miss Mother." It has become a mantra, repeated whenever Iris sees me, which is often daily. These simple words open up space between us for memories and thoughts, or even just a simple, "I know. I miss her too."
I have longed intensely to feel my mother's presence or to see her in my dreams, but have not. Perhaps Mom was reminding me to look through Iris's eyes.
Another way that Iris grieves is by asking where Mother is, and how or what she is doing. After a few awkward attempts to explain things that none of us can truly fathom, I figured out that the best way to answer was to put Iris's question back to her: "How do you think Mother is doing?" "Mother is happy. She is in heaven," is all that her sweet heart needs as reassurance. Once again, her directness opens realities that my more labyrinthine mind tends to stumble over.
This was driven home when, about a year after Mom's death, Iris had to undergo a medical procedure that involved general anesthesia. She was anxious although I stayed with her until she was asleep. The first words out of her mouth in the recovery room were, "Mother was watching over me." In the months since then she has referred to this by saying, "Remember when Mother watched over me when I was in the hospital?" I have longed intensely to feel my mother's presence or to see her in my dreams, but have not. Perhaps Mom was reminding me to look through Iris's eyes.
If it seems as though Iris is a candidate for sainthood, I can assure you she is not. Like every human being, she has feet of clay. Spending time with her can be draining: she verbalizes every thought and asks questions incessantly. She's capable of being as selfish and ornery as the rest of us. The experiences I'm relating here have been filtered through months of the mundane and exhausting.
Yet as I reflect on the three years since those unforgettable October days, it's clear to me that Christ worked through Iris to illustrate deep truths. "Do not grieve like those who have no hope" (1 Thessalonians 4:13). "Unless you change and become like little children you will never enter the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 18:3). And the comfort that Jesus gave his disciples before his own death – "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid" (John 14:27).
But it's Matthew 6 that I think Iris most embodies. This chapter tells us not to worry about food and clothing – and while the casual observer could be forgiven for thinking that's just what Iris does best, the deeper point I think Jesus makes is to be heartfelt and unpretentious, not calculating or future-driven. Hey, if you are going to think about food – and who doesn't? – don't put on airs about it! Just spit it out: What's for lunch?
Before the funeral, I quietly took three of Mom's best dresses from her closet and asked a local seamstress to alter them to fit my sisters and me. When our mother was laid to rest, we each wore a tangible piece of her, as if to solidify the legacy that we would have to carry on in tangible ways.
Because, I realized, what was good for Iris in her childlike closeness to all that was most genuine in life was probably good for Ria and me too.
Contributed By Erna Albertz
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Q: How to move element from an array into an variable in C I have an Array as (filled with zeros and ones) -> ArrayWithContent[5] = {1,0,0,1,1};
Now I want this to be converted into an variable so I can read out the total value of this.
0001 0011 = 19
for(i=0; i<5; i++)
{
    OneValue = ArrayWithContent[i];
    Variable = OneValue;
    Variable >>= 1;             // Send the zero or one to right.... continue to fill it up
}

Display Content of Variable I now want it to show the value 19.
I know I does this wrong, what is the correct way? Pointers and Addresses?

A: Variable = 0;
for (i = 0; i < 5; i++)
{
    Variable = (Variable << 1) | ArrayWithContent[i];
}

Here:

*

*(Variable << 1) shifts the current value of Variable one bit to the left.

*... | ArrayWithContent[i] replaces the least-significant bit of the shifted value with ArrayWithContent[i].

*Finally, Variable = ... assigns the result back to Variable.

A: Here is your loop, fixed:
for(i=0; i<5; i++)
{
    OneValue = ArrayWithContent[i];
    Variable <<= 1;     // You want to shift to the left to keep the previous value.
    Variable |= OneValue; // You need to OR the value, else you'd erase the previous value.
}

A: If you have your data in big-endian format,
... either shift each value by the correct amount and OR everything together
value = 0;
for (i = 0; i < nelems; i++) {
    value |= (ArrayWithContent[i] << (nelems - i - 1));
}

... or keep shifting the current value by 1 bit and OR the next bit in
value = 0;
for (i = 0; i < nelems; i++) {
    value <<= 1;
    value |= a[i];
}


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Caregiver charged with stealing from Daytona Beach Shores widow
LYDA LONGA, Staff writer
Dec 23, 2011 at 12:01 AM Aug 15, 2012 at 1:36 PM
The same day a 78-year-old woman buried her husband, caregiver Loretta Bohannon stole jewelry from the grieving widow, Daytona Beach Shores investigators said.
Bohannon admitted to police that she lifted several pieces of jewelry and cash from her employer, Jean Ehrlich, and sold the items to a Port Orange pawn shop, a police report shows.
But investigators say Ehrlich, who lives in a Daytona Beach Shores condominium, was not Bohannon's only victim. The suspect told investigators she had stolen nearly 100 pieces of jewelry from other clients in the past 18 months, Sgt. Mike Fowler said.
The items were all sold at the same pawn shop, LaBosco's Jewelry and Pawn Castle in Port Orange. Bohannon told investigators she chose LaBosco's because it's close to her house at the 5000 block of Orange Avenue.
It's not the first time the 50-year-old suspect is suspected of stealing.
Fowler said Bohannon served almost two years in prison in 2004 after she was convicted of trafficking in stolen property and grand theft. Bohannon had stolen jewelry from a house she had been hired to clean in Seminole County, and sold the items to a pawn shop, Fowler said.
Bohannon, who is sitting in the Volusia County Branch Jail on $10,000 bail, told police she took the jewelry and money from her elderly charges because she was strapped for cash; she also said she had to pay for her husband's medication, the report states.
Investigators said Ehrlich initially told them about the thefts in November. She realized then she was missing 10 pieces of jewelry, as well as 50 one-dollar Sacajawea coins and $300, the report states.
The $300 has already been repaid to Ehrlich by Jennifer Houston, owner of America's Best Caregivers Inc. The company referred Bohannon -- and other caregivers -- to Ehrlich, the report shows. Messages left with Houston, of Daytona Beach, and America's Best Caregivers were not returned Thursday.
However, Houston provided detectives with a list of the women she had sent to Ehrlich's residence and when investigators began checking pawn records, they discovered that Bohannon had conducted 51 transactions over the past 18 months.
One of the busiest days for Bohannon was Sept. 26 -- 12 days after Ehrlich's husband died -- when she sold five bracelets, one necklace, one ring and a set of earrings to Labosco's, the report shows. Some of the items belonged to Ehrlich, police said.
The total value of the items taken from Ehrlich is $4,850, investigators said.
Family friend Marian Ransom spoke on Ehrlich's behalf, saying the caretaker company needs to vet its employees to make sure this doesn't happen again.
"She is very disturbed by what happened," Ransom said. "This has taken a very heavy toll on her and she hopes this individual will pay for her crime."
Bohannon told investigators that she wants to repay Ehrlich and apologize to her for the items she stole from her apartment, the report shows.
Police are asking anyone who may have come in contact with Bohannon via an employment situation to the Daytona Beach Shores Department of Public Safety at 386-763-5347.
-- Staff Writer Chris Graham contributed to this report.


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COVID-19 survivor helps Lehigh Valley Hospital network recap challenges of 2020
COVID-19 survivor Lata Annayya, 59, of Ringoes in Hunterdon County, spent 40 days on a ventilator and 21 days on a specialized blood-oxygenation treatment at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest in Salisbury Township.Courtesy photo | For lehighvalleylive.com
Lehigh Valley Health Network, for the first time ever on Wednesday, held its annual meeting virtually, offering updates on care and construction and a story of hope in the fight against the coronavirus.
The meeting carried exclusively online also featured a call for everyone to pitch in alongside the health care heroes that come to work each day even as COVID-19 hospitalizations reach unprecedented numbers.
"We are partners for one another. And so, I ask for your continued partnership," said Dr. Brian Nester, LVHN's president and CEO. "Take seriously your responsibility to yourself and one another. Do what's right.
"Wear a mask. Practice social distancing. Wash your hands. And stay home when you're sick. If we all continue to do these things, each day we will move one step closer to winning the fight against COVID-19."
The story of hope came courtesy of 59-year-old Lata Annayya, of Ringoes, New Jersey, in Hunterdon County.
Annayya wasn't feeling well in April and checked her temperature, finding she had a fever that just would not break. She was admitted to a local hospital when her blood oxygen level became dangerously low, before being transferred to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest in Salisbury Township when she needed a breathing tube.
"I could barely breathe," Annayya said in a video presented by Nester. "My breathing was just getting worse and worse and worse. I never knew that suffering of this kind existed. When I couldn't breathe at the local hospital, I just felt that I wouldn't see my family again."
Annayya would spend 40 days on a ventilator and 20 days hooked up to extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, a treatment in which blood is pumped outside of the body to a machine that removes carbon dioxide and returns oxygen-filled blood.
Thanks to her Intensive Care Unit stay and the LVHN staff who cared for her, Annayya recovered. Today, her message is that COVID-19 can happen to anyone, and she wants everyone to know how devastating its effects can be. She suggested treating health care workers like those on military duty and veterans, and offering a tip of the cap when we see them.
"I wish there was a better word than heroes. I would call them warriors on the front line of this battle," Annayya said. "I would say I'm in your debt forever. It's a debt that I could never, never, never think of repaying. I'm filled with gratitude."
COVID-19 survivor Lata Annayya, 59, of Ringoes in Hunterdon County, shown with her husband, says she wears a face mask with a simple image of a smile because her attitude has always been to be happy.Courtesy photo | For lehighvalleylive.com
Because of the coronavirus, LVHN has had to cut millions of dollars in expenses to maintain needed staffing levels as costs rose and a springtime suspension of elective surgeries cut into revenue.
Initially projecting a shortfall of $300 million, LVHN says it finished its Fiscal Year 2020 with an operating margin of 2.7%, or $84 million. Nester said being able to reopen elective surgeries May 1 along with other key services, and $118 million in assistance from the federal CARES Act, helped the network to end the year financially strong.
Nester touched on LVHN's expansion of technology in 2020 that included remote monitoring of outpatients' symptoms to inform decisions on care and the use of all-virtual check-in so patients can avoid waiting rooms.
He also noted how LVHN immediately established Assess and Test Centers in March to keep those seeking COVID-19 care separate from other patients.
He said LVHN is prepared for the current resurgence of the virus and emphasized the need for everyone to do their part: "Make no mistake. We will win this fight. And when we do, we will all be heroes."
On the construction front, Lehigh Valley Hospital-Hecktown Oaks is on pace to open in summer 2021 in Lower Nazareth Township offering surgical, cancer and cardiac care and more; the network purchased land outside Lehighton, Carbon County, for a new hospital slated to move forward in 2021 on Route 443; Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono West advanced along Route 715 in Tannersville, Monroe County; and the network announced the resumption of construction on a new hospital in Dickson City, Lackawanna County.
One of the largest emergency departments in the United States is slated to open Monday at the Cedar Crest campus, with 97 adult beds and acute care for patients in need of treatment that doesn't require an inpatient stay. Once that opens, the existing emergency department will be renovated into a 24-bed children's emergency department expected to open in summer 2021.
Lehigh Valley Health Network includes eight hospital campuses in Pennsylvania, three in Allentown, one in Bethlehem, one in East Stroudsburg, one in Hazleton and two in Pottsville; Coordinated Health, which includes two hospital campuses, nearly two dozen locations including ambulatory surgery centers and orthopedic injury centers in northeastern Pennsylvania and western New Jersey; 26 health centers; numerous primary and specialty care physician practices; 20 ExpressCARE locations; pharmacy, imaging, home health, rehabilitation and lab services; and preferred provider services through Valley Preferred.


NYC-September 27, 2018-The countdown begins!
The New York City Greek Film Festival (NYCGRFF), celebrates its 12th edition this year, under the guidance of its newly appointed general and artistic director, Maria Tzobanaki. Faithful to film lovers who have supported the cultural event all these years, the NYCGRFF renews its rendezvous with the audience on Thursday, October 18, 2018 for a five-day cinematic event which will celebrate Greek filmmakers both established and up-and-coming. Within the context of the NYCGRFF's goal to promote Greek culture internationally, as well as its plan to expand its activities as of 2019 and provide Greek filmmakers with opportunities for global collaborations through a meeting platform, Mrs. Tzobanaki has put together a selection of 25 films, features, documentaries and shorts, that will be screened on a rolling schedule from October 18 to October 22 at the Florence Gould Hall Theater and Le Skyroom, in the heart of NYC. The opening event will take place on Thursday, October 18, 2018 at Florence Gould Hall, with the screening of Tassos Boulmetis' acclaimed "1968", a unique blend of fiction and documentary based on the emblematic basketball match between AEK and Slavia, Prague for the European championship in Athens that year. The NYCGRFF will close on Tuesday, October 23, and will be dedicated to the celebrated Greek actor Giorgos Kimoulis. Following the awards ceremony, where Audience Awards will be presented both to feature and short film winners, the festival will honor Mr. Kimoulis for his contribution to the Greek arts over the years.
During the Festival the audience will have the opportunity to enjoy many gems from the recent Greek film production and to indulge in the biting satire of Nikos Perakis' "Success Story", a modern tale of love and betrayal; to witness the first Greek martial arts film with Aliki Danezi-Knutsen's "Chinatown: The Three Shelters"; to "travel" to the mountains of Arcadia (Stelios Haralambopoulos' "My Homeland's Flag Is Blue…"), the temples of Santorini (Zaharias Mavroeidis' "Across Her Body"), the fields of refugee-ridden Lesbos (Lucas Paleokrassas' "Citizen Xenos"); to discover chapters from Greece's tumultuous history with Matthaios Frantzeskakis & Vicky Arvelaki's "Flowers Fade Early: Kakopetros, August 28, 1944" and Grigoris Vardarinos' "The Great Fire of Salonica: Birth of a City"; to get to know the late, great musician Nikos Papazoglou through Mihalis Aristidou & Ioannis Grigoropoulos' "Me and My Shadow"; to meet the distinguished Greek-American intellectual Dan Georgakas in a special tribute that comes with the screening of Mihalis Cacoyannis' memorable "A Girl In Black" (1956); and to take delight in exciting, moving, multi-awarded short stories –from the hilarious mockumentary "Cowboy", the sharp thriller "Heimlich" and the suspenseful social portrait "The Ticket" to the heartwarming female-driven dramas "Ourania", "Hearts For Dinner" or "Meltemi".
The NYCGRFF invites you to discover the best films from recent Greek film production and grow familiar with the celebrated Greek culture.
The NYCGRFF is brought to you by the Hellenic American Chamber of Commerce in cooperation with the Hellenic American Cultural Foundation and the generous support of our sponsors.
Visit the festival pages for further information on films, screening schedule and tickets.