Observant travelers along K-15 in northern Marion County will spot several pasture gates bearing the name, Rhodes Ranch.
Providing entrance into acres of tall, bluestem prairie, the gates are a reminder of the 93 years the Harry Walter Rhodes family ranch dominated the area.
A grandson, Kirby Rector of Hillsboro, welded the lettering on the gates in 1966, when he was a senior in high school. The state was widening K-15, requiring the ranch to relocate 6½ miles of fence.
Rector said he spent a lot of time at the ranch throughout his growing up years and lived there for two years before going off to college.
The Rhodes family had a lifetime lease on the six sections of land owned by Scully Estates. The ranch straddles the Marion/Dickinson county line but lies mostly in Marion County.
Scully sold the ranch to a Texas rancher in 1992. According to Marilyn Rhodes Fischer of Olathe, a granddaughter of Harry Rhodes, Texas tradition requires that original names remain with a property when it is sold. Therefore, the name continues.
Fischer recently compiled family memories of the ranch in a book titled, "The Cowboy and the Lady." She is the daughter of Harry's oldest son, Harold, and is the oldest grandchild.
The ranch was founded by 18-year-old Harry Walter Rhodes in 1899, when he acquired a Scully lease on several quarters of grassland near College Hill School four miles northwest of Tampa.
Harry's father, Jacob A. Rhodes, had established a homestead in the area in 1874 and married in 1878.
Harry Walter was Jacob's firstborn son and the third in a family of 12 children.
Harry Rhodes wasn't afraid of hard work. He went to work at age 13 in his Uncle John Rhodes' gypsum mill, but his real love was working with cattle and horses.
After Rhodes purchased the Scully lease, he kept to his ranch. He was a loner. He eschewed organizations, didn't socialize, and didn't attend church.
He purchased calves in the spring, grew them on grass during the summer, and sold them in the fall.
His busy, solitary life didn't prevent him from being attracted to the young teacher at College Hill School.
Lillie Hegle was different from him in many ways. She was born and raised near Lost Springs and was taught to be a "proper" lady. Friends and relatives described her as lovely and talented. She was a Christian and active in her community.
Lillie was the second in a family of nine siblings. Following graduation from eighth grade, she returned to country school and studied several high school courses.
In 1905, she enrolled in the Institute of Preparatory Teaching at Marion. She taught in Ottawa County before coming to College Hill.
Proving that opposites attract, Lillie fell for Harry, and the two were married in June 1908. The ceremony took place at her parents' Shady Lane Farm near Lost Springs.
The couple's first home was one mile west of College Hill School. They moved with two daughters to another farmhouse in 1912, where they had seven more children — six sons and one daughter.
Harry acquired more Scully leases, including 80 acres of farmland. He made improvements to the farm and bought a new Avery tractor and Avery truck.
Fire destroyed the house and most of the family's possessions in 1922, forcing them to look for a new home.
In 1923, they moved to a large, two-story house on the west side of the ranch. Located 1.5 miles west of present-day K-15, it became the permanent headquarters of the Rhodes Ranch.
The couple had four more children. Working together, they continued to build up the ranch. Harry was the cattleman, and Lillie was the business manager.
They eventually managed more than 6 sections of bluestem grass and 240 acres of cropland.
The cattle were shipped mostly through the railhead at Durham, and sometimes at Waldeck or Lehigh. They were driven overland to and from the ranch. Cattle drives varied in length from a few hours to several days.
Harry's sons helped drive the cattle, often getting involved when they were as young as 5. They took a chuck wagon along for meals and overnight stays. Sometimes they had to wait for the train's arrival.
One night in 1929, the cattle were gathered at the Durham shipyard when a big flood occurred. The crew prepared to move the cattle if necessary. The floodwaters never reached the pens, but the chuckwagon narrowly escaped floating away.
Another time, a prairie fire destroyed the cowboys' camp and supplies while they were out herding cattle.
The largest shipment of cattle ever received was delivered in 40 to 45 rail cars, with 21 head in each car —800 to 900 head.
One time, Harry Rhodes contracted with a Wichita banker to purchase a herd of re-possessed cattle in the Flint Hills. The cowboys drove them 70 miles.
Some of the wheat raised on the ranch was hauled to the Gypsum Flour Mill and traded for 50-pound sacks of flour. Almost a sack a week was needed to feed a family of 13 growing children.
Harry also raised hogs for a time and acquired a herd of Hereford cows.
The whole family was involved in providing the essentials of life.
A story passed down to family members recounts the time a truckload of 9 to 10 hogs tipped over in a muddy ditch. Harry decided to butcher all of them along with a beef cow, and mix the pork and beef for sausage.
The meat was cooked, then packed into crocks and sealed with hot lard.
Hams and bacon were cured and hung on hooks on the front porch to dry. They were stored in the cellar.
A wood-burning cook stove in the washhouse was used to can fruits and vegetables.
Water for washing clothes, drinking, bathing, and canning was carried in buckets or large milk cans from the barn well.
According to Lillie's youngest daughter, Geneva, she and her brother Lowell used to haul water and firewood to the house in a little red wagon — one pulling, the other pushing.
Lillie and her daughters sewed the family's clothing. Lillie made her own patterns, cutting them from old newspapers. Many garments were made from printed flour and feed sacks. Everything was ironed.
Daughter Esther was a tireless seamstress and a good cook. She sewed many items of clothing for the family and for nieces and nephews.
It seems that almost every male member of the family had a nickname. Dale was known as Boss; Robert Jacob was Bob; Willard Dean was Jake; James was known by his middle name, Carroll; Murray Lee was Jack; and Lowell was Shorty. Their longtime friend and cowhand was known as "Deacon" Bruce.
In August 1932, Harry Rhodes became ill. He was diagnosed with cancer by a Dr. Goodsheller of Marion. Harry died at the Marion hospital at age 51, on his wife's 46th birthday. They had been married 24 years.
Left with 13 children ranging in age from 22 to 2, Lillie was determined to carry on Harry's legacy.
A succession of sons, beginning with Harold at age 20, managed the ranch in future years, including Dale, Bob, and Jake. Carroll and a daughter, Esther, remained on the ranch until the end.
Under the guiding eyes of Lillie and sons, the ranch continued to grow. By 1940, the operation included a large dairy herd of registered Holstein cattle, a modern dairy barn, twin silos, and long cattle shed. The house was modernized.
In the mid-50s, adjoining farms were added. As many as 3,000 to 3,500 head were stocked and fed on the ranch. Cattle were shipped in and out by the semi-loads.
Lillie died in 1974 and was buried beside her husband at College Hill Cemetery. By the late 1980s, the sons and daughter still involved in the operation were growing older and were no longer able to manage the ranch. Jake died in 1987, Esther died in 1988, and Carroll died in 1990.
Harry and Lillie's legacy ended in 1992, when the Scully family sold the ranch leases to a Texas rancher.
The old farmhouse was torn down, but its memories linger on. Children and grandchildren recall many happy times at the ranch.
Several of the Rhodes men and their sister, Esther, never married. Their nieces and nephews became their children and always were welcome at the ranch.
Rector remembers his Grandmother Lillie Rhodes as being a strong person who was respected by her family.
"In all the years I was around, I never heard my uncles talk back to Grandma," he said. "When she said something, everyone listened." Rector said he and three or four cousins spent summers at the ranch putting up hay and doing chores.
"We were like brothers," he said.
As children, they made tunnels in big stacks of hay and even carved out rooms. This proved treacherous to the one whose job it was to feed the hay from on top; as the stack got lower, he fell through.
"We had to quit that," Rector said. Sometimes the cousins would take lunches along and go into far-flung areas of the pastures to build forts with limestone rocks and tree branches.
Other cousins joined them to spend weekends camping and fishing at various ponds on the ranch.
Harry Rhodes of Durham, owner and operator of G&R Implement, is a grandson of the original Harry Rhodes and the son of Harry Dale Rhodes. The family owned a farm close to the ranch.
Harry said he and his cousins liked riding horses and fooling around with the long row of saddles kept in the barn at the ranch.
Although most of the aunts and uncles are gone, the cousins and their families continue to hold a reunion every year, sharing memories of their times together at the ranch.


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Role: Jacob Rossler
Patrick Bauchau (born December 6, 1938; age 81) played Jacob Rossler during Season 5 of 24.
Patrick Bauchau was born in Brussels, Belgium but was raised in Switzerland and the UK. His first work was with New Line cinema. He is best known for his role in the TV series The Pretender (with Jon Gries and Richard Marcus). He is married to Mijanou Bardot, and together they have a daughter, Camille.
Bauchau speaks French, English, Spanish, Italian, German and a little Russian and Flemish. He received a degree in modern languages from Oxford University.
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54 The Hill, Cromford
The numbers on Cromford Hill have changed, so which house today used to be No 54? George describes living in 54 in 1930. Maureen, after much research, has found that the house number was changed to 58 in 1965, and supplied a photo of how it looks today (2007).
The outstanding feature of Cromford village are its "Arkwright" houses, which line both sides of Cromford Hill and North Street and are all built to a standard plan. These were solidly built 1771-76 of the local Gritstone, possibly taken from Barrel Edge Quarry. The original houses built in the 18th century were mostly three storey with a weaving gallery in the top floor. The windows would have been large to admit as much light as possible but many of these have been reduced in size. Also, the window frames were originally of cast iron with many small panes of glass in leaded lights.
"Cromford-A History", by Peter J Naylor, page 69
Taken 1930-35, when it was called Number 54.
George O'Shaughnessy mailed this photo and says:
[More information can be found in An Autobiography]
Whilst I was born in June of 1926 I remember nothing of my early time at Normanton and my first memories are of Cromford. I must have been around two years old when the rest of the family moved to Cromford. Dad had arrived some time earlier and was in lodgings with an elderly couple, Mr and Mrs Marples of Rise End Middleton. My first recollections were of our house at Addison Square half way up the main part of Cromford Hill on the route to Wirksworth. It was, I believe, a council house of fairly recent construction and had a reasonable amount of garden for the area. We were destined not to occupy that house for long and within months we had moved to No 54 The Hill, Cromford, only a hundred yards or so higher up the hill. It was cheaper and although may not have been as large as the earlier house, it was three storied and possibly had the odd room extra which was more suited to a large family. There was no running water laid on, lighting was by gas and cooking had to be done over a coal fired range which had an oven and a tank for heating water on the opposite side to the oven. There was a drain but no toilet sanitation except for the outside closet at the bottom of the small yard. Cold water was only available from a tap across the road from the house. In the small 'kitchen' there was a large half circle copper under which a fire had to be lit every Monday morning as washing was not done on any other day in those times, water was carried across the road and then all the clothes were boiled. It was quite a ritual for a small boy, then the drying and ironing had to be done.
Please notice the whiteness of the front step!! My mother used to holystone that every Saturday morning without fail, rain or shine or snow, we kids, five of us (at that time) were kicked out to play while she cleaned all Saturday morning.
...you will find four holes in the wall. Three in a triangle shape in the area just above the front door and the fourth just to the right of the centre of the middle window. ...the drilled holes (all you will notice are through the mortar lines and not the stone) are exactly located to support a sign with a longer steadying bar. I understand ...the house [opposite] used to be a Public House. What did our house use to be?
Photo taken:1930-35


Thanks, Andrej, but I don't see how this proves Miss Hine believed Stanton and the others were back as fast as you say. Read Hine's testimony before the part you quoted. Those other office doors she knocked on and tried to enter, the last one being Southwestern Publishing, where she "called and called and shook the door," and heard a woman talking on the phone. And then…. "I went straight up to the desk because the telephones were beginning to wink; outside calls were beginning to come in." At that point, the electricity, at least in the recently renovated part of the building (offices on floors 2, 3, 4, and the front passenger elevator) had been turned back on. Only after that does she talk about the people who came back in from the street.


As we continue into our third of four episodes on managing expectations, we talk about live-in care. We have so far talked about low hour cases and high hour cases.
This type of services provides the best 'bang for your buck' if you will. It provides around the clock care (emergency care at night) and is the lowest cost per hour of care that you can receive.
Live-In cases do present challenges with their services. In this episode, we will talk about what those challenges are, how to overcome them and finally, what the pro's and cons are of live-in care so you understand exactly what you are getting into.
So let's get right into it, with managing expectations. If you have feedback or comments please reach out via the comment below or on Twitter.


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/* vim: set sw=4 sts=4 et foldmethod=syntax : */

#ifndef PARASOLS_GUARD_MAX_BICLIQUE_CPO_BASE_HH
#define PARASOLS_GUARD_MAX_BICLIQUE_CPO_BASE_HH 1

#include <graph/bit_graph.hh>
#include <cco/cco_mixin.hh>
#include <max_biclique/max_biclique_params.hh>
#include <max_biclique/max_biclique_result.hh>

#include <numeric>

namespace parasols
{
    template <CCOPermutations perm_, BicliqueSymmetryRemoval sym_, unsigned size_, typename VertexType_, typename ActualType_>
    struct CPOBase :
        CCOMixin<size_, VertexType_, CPOBase<perm_, sym_, size_, VertexType_, ActualType_>, true>
    {
        using CCOMixin<size_, VertexType_, CPOBase<perm_, sym_, size_, VertexType_, ActualType_>, true>::colour_class_order;

        const Graph & original_graph;
        FixedBitGraph<size_> graph;
        const MaxBicliqueParams & params;
        std::vector<int> order;

        CPOBase(const Graph & g, const MaxBicliqueParams & p) :
            original_graph(g),
            params(p),
            order(g.size())
        {
            // populate our order with every vertex initially
            std::iota(order.begin(), order.end(), 0);
            params.order_function(g, order);

            // re-encode graph as a bit graph
            graph.resize(g.size());

            for (int i = 0 ; i < g.size() ; ++i)
                for (int j = 0 ; j < g.size() ; ++j)
                    if (g.adjacent(order[i], order[j]))
                        graph.add_edge(i, j);
        }

        template <typename... MoreArgs_>
        auto expand(
                std::vector<unsigned> & ca,
                std::vector<unsigned> & cb,
                FixedBitSet<size_> & pa,
                FixedBitSet<size_> & pb,
                FixedBitSet<size_> & sym_skip,
                const std::array<VertexType_, size_ * bits_per_word> & pa_order,
                const std::array<VertexType_, size_ * bits_per_word> & pa_bound,
                std::vector<int> & position,
                MoreArgs_ && ... more_args_
                ) -> void
        {
            static_cast<ActualType_ *>(this)->increment_nodes(std::forward<MoreArgs_>(more_args_)...);

            int skip = 0, stop = std::numeric_limits<int>::max();
            bool keep_going = true;
            static_cast<ActualType_ *>(this)->get_skip_and_stop(ca.size() + cb.size(), std::forward<MoreArgs_>(more_args_)..., skip, stop, keep_going);

            // for each v in p... (v comes later)
            for (int n = pa.popcount() - 1 ; n >= 0 ; --n) {
                ++position.back();

                // bound, timeout or early exit?
                unsigned best_anywhere_value = static_cast<ActualType_ *>(this)->get_best_anywhere_value();
                if (best_anywhere_value >= params.stop_after_finding || params.abort->load())
                    return;

                if (pa_bound[n] + ca.size() <= best_anywhere_value)
                    return;
                if (pb.popcount() + cb.size() <= best_anywhere_value)
                    return;

                auto v = pa_order[n];

                if (skip > 0) {
                    --skip;
                    pa.unset(v);
                }
                else if (ca.empty() && sym_skip.test(v)) {
                    pa.unset(v);
                }
                else {
                    // consider taking v
                    ca.push_back(v);
                    pa.unset(v);

                    // filter pb to contain vertices adjacent to v, and pa to contain
                    // vertices not adjacent to v
                    FixedBitSet<size_> new_pa = pa, new_pb = pb;
                    graph.intersect_with_row_complement(v, new_pa);
                    graph.intersect_with_row(v, new_pb);

                    static_cast<ActualType_ *>(this)->potential_new_best(ca, cb, position, std::forward<MoreArgs_>(more_args_)...);

                    if (! new_pb.empty()) {
                        position.push_back(0);
                        std::array<VertexType_, size_ * bits_per_word> new_pb_order;
                        std::array<VertexType_, size_ * bits_per_word> new_pb_bound;
                        colour_class_order(SelectColourClassOrderOverload<perm_>(), new_pb, new_pb_order, new_pb_bound);
                        keep_going = static_cast<ActualType_ *>(this)->recurse(
                                cb, ca, new_pb, new_pa, sym_skip, new_pb_order, new_pb_bound, position, std::forward<MoreArgs_>(more_args_)...) && keep_going;
                        position.pop_back();
                    }

                    // now consider not taking v
                    ca.pop_back();

                    keep_going = keep_going && (--stop > 0);

                    if (! keep_going)
                        break;
                }

                switch (sym_) {
                    case BicliqueSymmetryRemoval::None:
                        break;

                    case BicliqueSymmetryRemoval::Skip:
                        if (cb.empty())
                            sym_skip.set(v);
                        break;

                    case BicliqueSymmetryRemoval::Remove:
                        if (cb.empty())
                            pb.unset(v);
                        break;
                }
            }
        }
    };

    template <template <CCOPermutations, BicliqueSymmetryRemoval, unsigned, typename VertexType_> class WhichCCO_,
             CCOPermutations perm_, BicliqueSymmetryRemoval sym_>
    struct ApplyPermSym
    {
        template <unsigned size_, typename VertexType_> using Type = WhichCCO_<perm_, sym_, size_, VertexType_>;
    };
}

#endif

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Hey Mark!! this is Tristan( hui). thanks for the introduction of the CatPower, she really got the power ..!! haha.
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However, Rock never died!! but just turn to the slow pace and calm one..
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Srinagar: Crime Branch of Jammu and Kashmir Police has registered cases against three persons for allegedly running a fake job racket in the Kashmir valley here, an official said today.
The accused were identified as Mahmood Khan, Mukesh Kumar and Ram Lakhan, all from New Delhi.
"Crime Branch received a communication from Cyber Crime Cell, Kashmir, according to which complainants from various districts of Kashmir were swindled of huge sums of money with the promise of jobs in Airport Authority of India," an official spokesman said.
During the Cyber Crime Cell's preliminary verification, it was found that the complainants had deposited Rs 5.88 lakh in four accounts of State Bank of India in various branches in Delhi and Noida.
The spokesman said that the complainants were made to deposit the money in bank account Nos. 37118461955 SBI Badurpur New Delhi, 37489146417 SBI Paharganj New Delhi, 35565025138 SBI Baroli Noida, and 37452867248 SBI Pahargunj New Delhi which are operating in the names of Mehmood Khan R/O H.No- 95 Haddu Mohalla Madan Pur Khadar Saritavihar New Delhi, Mukesh Kumar S/O Harday Ram Shop NO.2670, Saddar Thana Road Barat, Ooti New Delhi, Shreshts Vars, and Ram Lakhan S/O Ram Milan R/O H. No. 2862/1-B Singhara Nabi Karim Pahargunj New Delhi respectively.
"After obtaining money from the complainants, neither jobs have been provided nor the money returned. The hard-earned money of the complainants was grabbed in a fraudulent and dishonest manner," the spokesman said.
Elaborating on the modus operandi, he said the fraudsters collected information of the candidates through an online consultancy job website or through advertisements.
"They would call or e-mail the candidates regarding their selection in various Indian and multi-national companies and then asked to deposit huge sums," he added.


Derek Zavislake is a coffee business owner who helps coffee-lovers improve the taste and lessen the carbon footprint of their daily cups. An honest entrepreneur, Derek speaks the truth and his uniquely transparent approach to coffee coupled with his unwillingness to compromise his values is what differentiates his company, Merchants of Green Coffee.
Derek co-founded Merchants of Green Coffee in 1994 at the age of 27, and to this day remains committed to fresh coffee, fair trade, and green business. These principles are included in all aspects of his alternative, education-based coffee supply chain aimed saving trees, directing more money to growers, and producing fresher, better-tasting cups of coffee.
Merchants of Green Coffee has evolved to include a flagship cafe, Merchants' Restoration Cafe; where coffee consumers can learn about coffee and explore different single origins served at their absolute best quality; and a flagship coffee, Cafe Solar®, which is restoring forests via a combination of advanced, solar-powered processing, plus a 1:1 farm-to-forest system for coffee cultivation, called Integrated Open Canopy (IOC).
In his spare time Derek gets outside as much as possible; fishing, skiing, and roasting coffee over the crackle of a campfire. At the end of the day, it's all about getting back into sync with Mother Nature.


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The 92nd Street Y presents The New York Philharmonic String Quartet & Beatrice Rana play Mozart, Shostakovich, and more
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The 92nd Street Y, one of New York's leading cultural venues, presents The New York Philharmonic String Quartet & Beatrice Rana play Mozart, Shostakovich, and more as part of its Spring Classical Concert Season on June 7, 2022 at 7:30 pm. Concerts are for fully vaccinated audiences, all concerts are also available for streaming. For more information, including purchasing tickets and COVID-19 protocols for in-person performances, please visit 92Y.org/Concerts.
THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC STRING QUARTET
BEATRICE RANA, piano
Tuesday, June 7, 2022, 7:30 PM
92Y's second co-presentation with the New York Philharmonic this season features the New York Philharmonic String Quartet joined by Beatrice Rana. Their program spans nearly 250 years and focuses on music written in response to dark times and ideas. The concert opens with award-winning contemporary composer Joel Thompson's In response to the madness, his quartet capturing the angst of our early 21st century universe. Mozart's "Dissonance" Quartet follows. The program's final work features Rana in her first appearance on the 92Y stage, following her pre-pandemic Carnegie Hall debut.
JOEL THOMPSON: In response to the madness
MOZART: String Quartet in C Major, K. 465 "Dissonance"
SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57
About 92nd Street Y: The 92nd Street Y (92Y) is a world-class center for the arts and innovation, a convener of ideas, and an incubator for creativity. 92Y offers extensive classes, courses and events online including live concerts, talks and master classes; fitness classes for all ages; 250+ art classes, and parenting workshops for new moms and dads. The 92nd Street Y is transforming the way people share ideas and translate them into action all over the world. All of 92Y's programming is built on a foundation of Jewish values, including the capacity of civil dialogue to change minds; the potential of education and the arts to change lives; and a commitment to welcoming and serving people of all ages, races, religions, and ethnicities. For more information, visit www.92Y.org.
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Karen Solie launched to prominence with her first collection of poems, Short Haul Engine (2001), finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize and winner of many other awards and citations. She continued her upward trajectory with Modern and Normal (2005), and is now considered one of Canada's best poets.
Pigeon is yet another leap forward for this singer of existential bewilderment. These poems are X-rays of our delusions and mistaken perceptions, explorations of violence, bad luck, fate, creeping catastrophe, love, and the eros of danger. Once again, Solie shows that her ear is impeccable, her poetic intelligence rare and razor-sharp.
Published By House of Anansi Press Inc — Apr 1, 2009
Specifications 112 pages | 5.63 in x 8.63 in
Written By Karen Solie is the author of three collections of poems, including Pigeon, which won the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, and the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. Her poems have been published in North America, the U.K., and Europe. She lives in Toronto.
Karen Solie is the author of three collections of poems, including Pigeon, which won the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, and the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. Her poems have been published in North America, the U.K., and Europe. She lives in Toronto.
Commended, Globe and Mail Top 100 Books of the Year, 2009
Winner, Griffin Poetry Prize, 2010
Winner, Pat Lowther Memorial Award, 2010
Short-listed, Pat Lowther Memorial Award, 2010
Winner, Trillium Book Award, 2010
"As much as Pigeon sings with metaphor and language-love, it is also infused with a subtle formality that feels like listening to the echoing footsteps of someone walking by deep in thought...In wilderness, perhaps self-discovery, but also distance and solitude exist. Solie provides all three." —Globe and Mail
"Karen Solie has established herself as one of Canada's best lyric poets...Pigeon deals out fearlessness, humour, and raw experience, one killing line after another...Among the arts, poetry has the most human of values, and among poets, few are as deeply human as Solie. Her poems respond to the many ways a day can come to us, while seeming to discover and name new constants of the heart." —NUVO
"Lyrical but gritty, intellectual but tough-talking, colloquial yet elegant...as she delves deeper into the social and geological bedrock of our civilization. This is [Solie's] strongest book yet. - Quill & Quire" —Quill & Quire
"Pigeon...shows why [Solie] has become one of the most admired Canadian poets of her generation." —Globe and Mail
"Solie has found a technique that others could only envy." —National Post


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I'm sure all of you remember when Windows as a Service was introduced with Windows 10. Most people thought this was really "Windows as a Subscription" and that Microsoft was somehow going to charge everyone for the right to continue using Windows. But in reality, that was introduced many years earlier, in the enterprise space at least (and I'm sure they'd love to have a consumer equivalent, but so far that hasn't materialized), through Software Assurance for Windows.
I don't recall exactly when Software Assurance was introduced, although it was certainly sometime during the Windows XP timeframe, prior to the release of Windows Vista. At that point, there was not yet an Enterprise SKU of Windows, so that's not what you were paying for. So what were the benefits? Free upgrades to later releases (upgrade to Vista, yea!) was one of the items of course, but there were other benefits. By accident, I found that Microsoft is still hosting a paper published by Gartner in 2006 that breaks down the benefits:
So, for $40 per PC per year, you got all of these items, plus other things like Windows PE (which wasn't publicly available at that point), training vouchers, home use rights, corporate error reporting (remember that one?), support, etc. A bargain, right?
Over the years, Software Assurance for Windows has continued to evolve. The most direct replacement is Windows Enterprise E3, the details of which you can find here.
So how much is Windows Enterprise E3? It depends on how you buy it (and large companies likely get discounts), but the simplest price is $7 per user per month (sold by partners through the CSA program), or $84 per year. (With the shift from "per device" to "per user" licensing, it's not exactly the same, but if your org has mostly 1:1 PC use, meaning each person has their own PC, it's going to work out the same.) That's a little more than normal inflation, as $40/year in 2006 would be $53/year now.
At the same time, many companies have also licensed Office 365 as a subscription, and perhaps EMS E3 as well, and then upgraded to Microsoft 365 E3 (containing all three of those subscriptions) for $32 per user per month, or $384 per user per year. And if you step up even more to Microsoft 365 E5, that would be $57 per user per month, or $684 per user per year.
Wow, that's a lot of money. As a Microsoft shareholder, I thank you for all of that recurring subscription revenue, as that's what keeps the stock price high. (I would highly recommend talking to the very qualified folks at Directions on Microsoft to see if they can help you reduce what you pay.)


The left one lets you customize the color of your pin, and the right one controls its shape. The one below the pin controls the mode of transportation you leave the location in.
Come on, try it now. Log in to your account, go to edit a project and click a pin to change its color and shape, or to add a mode of transportation to a location.
We'll let you in on a little-known feature – you can also customize the color of the path between locations.
Come on, try it now. Log in to your account, go to edit a project and click a path to customize its color.
Thanks for your feedback Sem, glad you like the platform. We develop new features based on user demand – more means of transportation are already on our to-do list. As soon as we have enough demand for bicycle and walking, we'll add those. In the meantime, you can use the motorcycle instead of a bike – wouldn't it work for you?
Hi Diana thanks you very much for your tips. This app is great and easy to use.
It would be good if we have the option to modify the colors of the transportation means, for example, I would like to change the current red color of the car by another one.
Thanks and greetings from Chile.
Thanks for taking the time to send us your feedback Alejandro, much appreciated! I think you're the first to ask for such a feature so I'm adding it to the list of requested features. If/when we have enough demand for it, we'll plan development.


How the Paris Climate Deal will affect the United States.
The Paris Climate Deal is a landmark in the history of our planet. It is a time when all major powers of the earth assembled in Paris to hold discussions on how best to change the course of the earth to protect it's valuable resources. What came out of the talks is a deal that is like the equivalent of nuclear disarmament in terms of carbon and greenhouse gas production on the part of the state. The above video describes the upcoming conditions of drought in California particularly as a result of reckless greenhouse gas emissions. America had an opportunity like France to take on an enormous amount of nuclear power production for the sake of energy but appears to have let those ideas go in favor of 0 emission energy structures. A good example of those is detailed in the video like floating wind and solar farms for example. The transformation is going to be so dramatic that it's likely we can become fully energy independent by the end of this century. Graphene-based batteries like those being manufactured in Sparks, NV by Tesla are likely to become commonplace household necessities. Wind and solar energies are poised to take over the United States and also be used to deliver Wifi around the United States and blanket us with affordable internet. As these changes take place, how is your cell phone likely to evolve to meet the times? Will we see bio-fuels come in to play?
Floating wind turbines are currently going to be tested in Alaska. A detailed article on the matter can be found at Spectrum.ieee.org.They can supposedly withstand winds of up to 80 miles per hour and can adjust themselves to higher altitudes to avoid calamity. Wind's are also stronger and more consistent at higher altitudes which means that turbines like these should offer a much stronger return on the energy they can produce. This departure from traditional wind turbines also means that we'll be able to move such turbines around all over the world for the sake of channeling energy to new places.
disclaimer: this video was found on YouTube from The Daily Conversation. The link is above in the video player.
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Leeann adores everything about sassafras. Mostly it's the tiny details that catch her attention, especially the hand and machine stitching. Leeann has used a few papers from the mix and mend collection, she really loved the printed lace on the bright yellow canvas paper and started here by creating a chevron pattern and then built her layers creating a layer framed photo matt.
The mix and mend element stickers have all the details that Leeann so loves. Leeann also found this bunny from an older collection and just had to finish this page off with a bit of cuteness!
Danielle has created a cascade of foldies across this layout about her daughter. The Starters papers make a simple, effective background which has been enhanced with some 'stitchery' stamps from the Sassafras range. Entwined blooms complement the foldies beautifully, and glitter alphas add a sweet, sparkly touch to the extra long title!
Diana Fisher has used the Indie Girl range from Sassafras in this fun and clean-lined page!
Tessa Buys created this gorgeous page with Sassafras borders, Indie Girl journaling spots and alphabet stickers!
Another gorgeous page from Tessa, this time using the Sunshine Broadcast range from Sassafras.
Neija Zeugme uses Sunshine Broadcast in this beautiful page that she has created. We love how the vast negative space allows both the papers, the photograph and all the small details to shine on this page.
This amazing page was created by Natalie Elphinstone. You can see where Natalie has taken full advanced of the hand and machine stitching and has place her title and journaling there. Natalie finished this page off by matting it against some green cardstock which definitely added that punch to make this funky page POP!
Here we have another awesome page by Natalie. Once again the details of the stitching are already done, leaving you to just add a few little embellishments here and there. Natalie certainly knows how to take full advanced of this collection. Thank you so much Natalie for letting us share some of your funky pages.


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Honorary Member: Grote Reber
Named in honor of Grote Reber (b. 1911, d. 2002), pioneer radioastronomer. He received the B.S. degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, in 1933. In 1962, he received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from The Ohio State University, Columbus.
A radio engineer by profession, he became intrigued by Jansky's 1932 detection of radio waves of extraterrestrial origin. From a series of homemade radio receivers and a 9.4-m parabolic dish antenna in his backyard in Wheaton, Illinois, Reber obtained the first detailed quantitative maps of the radio sky and published these in a series of papers during the 1940s. In 1940, he won his first professional publication, in the Astrophysical Journal, but Reber refused a research appointment from Yerkes. He turned his attention to making a radiofrequency sky map, which he completed in 1941 and extended in 1943. He published a considerable body of work during this period, and was the initiator of the "explosion" of radio astronomy in the immediate post-Second World War era. His stunning results gradually opened the consciousness of others to this very powerful method of observing the universe.
During this time he uncovered a mystery that was not explained until the 1950s. The standard theory of radio emissions from space was that they were due to black-body radiation, light (of which radio is a non-visible form) that is given off by all hot bodies. Using this theory one would expect that there would be considerably more high-energy light than low-energy, due to the presence of stars and other hot bodies. However Reber demonstrated that the reverse was true, and that there was a considerable amount of low-energy radio signal. It was not until the 1950s that synchrotron radiation was offered as an explanation for these measurements.
Reber sold his telescope to the National Bureau of Standards, and it was erected on a turntable at their field station in Sterling, Virginia. Eventually the telescope made its way to NRAO in Green Bank, West Virginia, and Reber supervised its reconstruction at that site. Reber also helped with a reconstruction of Jansky's original telescope.
Starting in 1951, he received generous support from the Research Corporation in New York, and moved to Hawaii. In the 1950s, he wanted to return to active studies but much of the field was already filled with very large and expensive instruments. Instead he turned to a field that was being largely ignored, that of medium frequency (hectometre) radio signals in the 0.5—3 MHz range, around the AM broadcast bands. However, signals with frequencies below 30 MHz are reflected by an ionized layer in the Earth's atmosphere called the ionosphere. In 1954, Reber moved to Tasmania, a triangular island off the southern coast of Australia, where he worked with Bill Ellis at the University of Tasmania. There, on very cold, long, winter nights the ionosphere would, after many hours shielded from the sun's radiation by the bulk of the Earth, 'quieten' and de-ionize, allowing the longer radio waves into his antenna array. Tasmania also offered low levels of man-made radio noise, which permitted reception of the faint signals from outer space.
In 1977 Mr. Reber presented a paper at the general assembly of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada in Toronto, titled 'The Endless, Boundless, Stable Universe' concerning his dissent from the Big Bang theory. In 1981 Mr. Reber made a (for years afterwards) anonymous donation of $30,000 to the RASC to help defray the costs of transportation for delegates to general assemblies.
Mr. Reber was elected an honorary member of the RASC on 1988-01-30.
His ashes are located at Bothwell Cemetery in Tasmania and at many major radio observatories around the world, including the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in British Columbia.
6886 Grote (1942 CG) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 11, 1942 by L. Oterma at Turku. Name suggested and citation prepared by G. C. L. Aikman.
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Valencia James Releases Debut Song "Flames"
Born in New York, Australia the dark-pop artist Valencia James has released a debut song "Flames".
The song was inspired the tragic story of when her family home was burnt down in the infamous Waldo Canyon fire in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
"I use songwriting to get out my aggression/frustrations in life and it's pretty obvious when you listen to this song," Valencia James said.
"This song took a lot of interesting turns as I was writing it," she explained. "It was inspired by my mom's house physically burning down, breakdowns in relationships, and even putting myself into the culprit's shoes."
"The song also represents how easily a relationship can be destroyed through words and actions," she said. "anyone that has ever had relationship difficulties or been hurt because of words or actions can probably relate to this song".
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A BIT OF A BOOBY
(RAMAKRISHNA)
[Ramakrishna] is a figure of recent history and his life and teachings have not yet been obscured by loving legends and doubtful myths (in Ramakrishna, 2003).
Ramakrishna ... gained recognition from his devotees and admirers that he was [an incarnation of] Christ.... When [Mahendra Nath Gupta, a prominent disciple] told his Master that he was the same person as Jesus and Chaitanya, Ramakrishna affirmed enthusiastically: "Same! Same! Certainly the same person" (Sil, 1998).
I am an avatar. I am God in human form (Ramakrishna, in [Nityatmananda, 1967]).
THE STORY OF YOGA and yogis in the West—and of their corresponding alleged abuses of power, most often reportedly for sexual purposes—really begins with Swami Vivekananda's lectures at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893.
Vivekananda's story, however, begins with his own guru, Sri Ramakrishna, the latter having been born in India in 1836. ("Sri" is an East Indian title of respect, akin to the English "Sir.") Thus, it is to the latter that we shall first turn our attention.
As a child, the boy Ramakrishna—who later claimed to be the incarnation of both Krishna and Rama—"loved to dress up and act like a girl" (Sil, 1997). He was, indeed, aided in that activity by relatives who bought him feminine outfits and gold ornaments, to suit his own relatively feminine body and psyche.
One can very well see from the extant photograph of Ramakrishna [e.g., online at Ramakrishna (2003)] he possessed quite well-formed and firm breasts—most possibly a case of gynecomastia....
Ramakrishna could also be described, in the jargon of modern medical psychology, as a "she male," that is, a male who, despite his male genitalia, possesses a female psyche and breasts resembling those of a woman....
[Saradananda] writes, apparently on the basis of the Master's testimony, that he used to bleed every month from the region of his pubic hair ... and the bleeding continued for three days just like the menstrual period of women (Sil, 1998).
Nor was that the extent of the great sage's appreciation for the microcosmic aspects of the feminine principle:
Once he sat after a midday siesta with his loin cloth disheveled. He then remarked that he was sitting like a woman about to suckle her baby. In fact, he used to suckle his young beloved [male] disciple Rakhal Ghosh....
He ... exhibited his frankly erotic behavior toward his male devotees and disciples.... He often posed as their girlfriend or mother and always touched or caressed them lovingly (Sil, 1998).
Anyone who is suckling an adult is explicitly viewing/treating that adult as a child. If there is any sexual attraction at all from the "parent" to the "child" in such a context, there is no escaping the obvious psychological pedophilic component, even if the suckled one is of legal age, as was the eighteen-year-old Ghosh. And if one grown man (a "she-male," in Ramakrishna's case) is having another grown man (his junior) pretend to be an infant, so that the first of them can pretend to be the mother to the second, and literally suckle the second, in any other context there would be no doubt at all as to the fetishistic nature of the behavior.
Further, after having met his foremost disciple, Vivekananda, for the first time, in the throes of an "agonizing desire" to see the young man again, Ramakrishna confessed:
I ran to the northern quarter of the garden, a rather unfrequented place, and there cried at the top of my voice, "O my darling, come back to me! I can't live without seeing you!" After some time, I felt better. This state of things continued for six months. There were other boys who also came here; I felt greatly drawn towards some of them but nothing like the way I was attracted toward [Vivekananda] (Disciples, 1979; italics added).
Ramakrishna went on to describe his favorite disciple variously as a "huge red-eyed carp," "a very large pot," "a big bamboo with holes" and a "male pigeon."
In later days, the prematurely impotent, married guru once went into samadhi (i.e., mystical ecstasy, generally involving a loss of awareness of the body) after having mounted the young Vivekananda's back.
As to what excuse the great guru might have given for such mounting had it not sent him vaulting into ecstatic perception of God, one can only guess.
[W]e cannot ignore [Ramakrishna's] obsession with the anus and shit in his conversations. Even the experience of his highest realization that there exists within the individual self the Paramatman, the repository of all knowledge, was derived from his beholding a grasshopper with a thin sticklike object inserted in its anus!....
His ecstasy [i.e., as trance] was induced by touching his favorite young [male] devotees. He developed a few strategies for touching or petting the body (occasionally the penis, as was the case with Vijaykrishna Goswami, whose cock he calmed by his "touch") of devotees (Sil, 1998).
Of course, none of Ramakrishna's documented homoerotic behaviors in the above regards would equate to him having been a practicing homosexual. They equally, however, cannot be unrelated to his own view of the female body as being nothing more than "such things as blood, flesh, fat, entrails, worms, piss, shit, and the like" (in Nikhilananda, 1984). Indeed, the "incarnation of the Divine Mother" himself divulged:
I am terribly scared of women.... I see them as a tigress coming to devour me. Besides, I see large pores [cf. vagina symbols] in their limbs. I find all of them as ogres....
If my body is touched by a woman I feel sick.... The touched part aches as if stung by a horned catfish (in Nikhilananda, 1984).
Even the mere sight of a woman could reportedly so negatively excite Ramakrishna as to prompt him to
either run to the temple or invoke the strategy of escape by getting into samadhi. His attraction for young boys that may be considered as muted pedophilia is often associated with aging impotent males....
Ramakrishna's contempt for women was basically a misogynist attitude of an insecure male, who thought of himself as a woman in order to fight his innate fear of the female (Sil, 1998).
On other occasions, the mention of any object which Ramakrishna did not desire (e.g., hemp, wine) would send him fleeing into samadhi; as could strong emotion (e.g., anger) on the sage's part. At his cousin's suggestion that those odd behaviors might have been psychologically based, Ramakrishna "responded by almost jumping into the river in order to end it all" (in Sil, 1998).
With those various factors acting, it should not surprise that Ramakrishna's own spiritual discipline took several odd turns.
During his ascetic practices, Ramakrishna exhibited remarkable bodily changes. While worshiping Rama as his devotee Hanuman, the monkey chieftain of the Ramayana, his movements resembled those of a monkey.... [Ramakrishna was also an accomplished childhood actor.] In his biography of Ramakrishna, novelist Christopher Isherwood paraphrased the saint's own description of his strange behavior: "I didn't do this of my own accord; it happened of itself. And the most marvelous thing was—the lower end of my spine lengthened, nearly an inch! Later, when I stopped practicing this kind of devotion, it gradually went back to its normal size" (in Murphy, 1992).
During the days of my ["holy"] madness [as priest of the Kali temple in Dakshineswar] I used to worship my own penis as the Shiva linga.... Worship of a live linga. I even decorated it with a pearl (in Nikhilananda, 1984).
Nor was the sage's manner of worship confined to his own genitalia:
[Ramakrishna] considered swear words [to be] as meaningful as the Vedas and the Puranas and was particularly fond of performing japa (ritual counting of rosary) by muttering the word "cunt" (Sil, 1998).
Indeed, as the claimed avatar himself told his devotees:
The moment I utter the word "cunt" I behold the cosmic vagina ... and I sink into it (in Sil, 1998).
That is actually not quite as odd as it might initially seem, for "cunt" itself derives from Kunda or Cunti—names for Kali, the Hindu Divine Mother goddess, beloved of Ramakrishna.
It is still plenty odd, though.
In any case, in 1861 the recently wedded Ramakrishna began tantric (sexual) yoga practice with a female teacher, Yogeshwari. (His marriage was actually to a five-year-old child bride, chosen by the twenty-three-year-old yogi himself, and then left with her parents to mature.) Rituals performed by the eager student during that sadhana (i.e., spiritual practice/discipline) included eating the culinary leftovers from the meals of dogs and jackals. Also, consuming a "fish and human meat preparation in a human skull" (Sil, 1998). Attempts to have him participate in the ritual sex with a consort which is an essential component of tantra, however, were less successful. Indeed, they ended with the sage himself falling safely into trance, and later simply witnessing other practitioners having ritual intercourse.
Comparably, upon his wife's coming of age, Ramakrishna tried but failed to make love to her, instead involuntarily plunging into a "premature superconsciousness." (Their marriage was actually, it appears, never consummated.) That, however, did not discourage the young woman from staking her own spiritual claims:
[W]hile regarding her husband as God, Sarada came to be convinced that as his wedded wife she must also be divine. Following her husband's claim that she was actually Shiva's wife, Sarada later claimed: "I am Bhagavati, the Divine Mother of the Universe" (Sil, 1998).
Such was evidently the compensation for her being confined to the kitchen for days at a time by her husband, cooking, not even being allowed to relieve herself in the latrine.
[Ramakrishna was] one of the truly great saints of nineteenth-century India (Feuerstein, 1992).
In a demonstration of the high regard with which every loyal disciple holds his or her guru, Vivekananda himself declared that Ramakrishna was "the greatest of all avatars" (Sil, 1997). That evaluation, however, was not shared by everyone who knew the great sage:
Hriday, the Master's nephew and companion, actually regarded him [as] a moron (Sil, 1998).
The venerated guru later formed the same opinion of his own earthly mother.
In any case, as part of his alleged avatarhood, Ramakrishna was christened with the title "Paramahansa," meaning "Supreme Swan." The appellation itself signifies the highest spiritual attainment and discrimination, by analogy with the swan which, it is claimed, is able to extract only the milk from a mixture of milk and water (presumably by curdling it).
In mid-1885, Ramakrishna was diagnosed with throat cancer. He died in 1886, leaving several thousand disciples (Satchidananda, 1977). As expected, Vivekananda took over leadership of those devotees.
After all that, Sil (1998) gave his summary evaluation of "the incarnation [of God or the Divine Mother] for the modern age," concluding that, the swooning Ramakrishna's status as a monumental cultural icon notwithstanding, he was nevertheless "a bit of a baby and a bit of a booby."


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