Communication is the art of transferring your thoughts and ideas into the minds of others.
Your most efficient form of communication is language and your language can be in spoken or written form.
Sometimes, you may need to express your thoughts and ideas in writing.
For some people, that represents a problem, because they are not very good at expressing themselves in writing.
If you want to improve your performance of any complex skill, such as writing, then you can do that by learning and applying the proper principles which govern that particular skill.
If you need some help with your written communication skills, then please read the following. I want to show you four principles that will improve your written communication skills.
Summarize and repeat main points.
Let's look at each of these four.
It is important to give definitions of all your major terms. A definition is a statement of the meaning of a term. You need to define your major terms; and you need to do it early in the document. For example, this document is about communication and the first sentence in this document is a definition of the word, "communication".
It is important to remember that many words have more than one meaning, and that the meaning varies depending on how it is being used, and by whom the words are being read. If you don't define your terms, then your message may remain ill defined.
All these words should be given an exact meaning. If you don't define your terms, you will be misunderstood. Whatever can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood. So define your terms.
Illustrate your point with a good example.
For example, if I was writing about leadership I would follow the above sequence.
"It is important for all organisations to develop their leaders. A leader is a member of a team or organisation who is primarily responsible for creating and communicating a clear goal, and who is able to inspire others to work to achieve the goal. Good examples of leadership would be, Winston Churchill, or Walt Disney, or Nelson Mandela."
Enumeration is the act of numbering items, or categories. Enumeration is an important tool to use when writing because it imposes order onto your ideas. In addition it allows the reader to differentiate where one point finishes and the next point starts.
It is important not to give too many points in one block. The human mind is limited in its capacity to deal with information. The amount that most people can handle in one mental effort is between 5 and 9 bits of information, depending on the energy and motivation of the reader. So limit your message to no more than 9 major points.
If you have more than nine major points, then break them up into categories or subsets. And make each subset no more than nine units long.
Your message should be categorised and numbered. Then the reader can digest your whole message a bit at a time.
In order to help the reader to retain your message in their memory, it is important to summarize and repeat your main points. Repetition is important for the memory. If you don't repeat your main message, they won't remember it.
If you repeat your message over and over, they will be more likely to remember it.
So, Repeat after me: "Repetition is the mother of learning. Repetition is the mother of learning. Repetition is the mother of learning."
Good writing is based upon application of the correct principles. Here are four principles that will improve your written communication skills.
Give clear definitions. A definition is a statement of the meaning of a term.
Illustrate your definition with good examples. Give concrete examples that illustrate the definition.
Enumeration. Number your main points and restrict the number of points made.
Summarize and repeat your main points.


To mark the publication of Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History (Little, Brown) by Richard J. Evans, the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck and the Institute of Historical Research invite you to a roundtable discussion, followed by a reception.
Richard J. Evans is the author of The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914. He is Visiting Professor at the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology and a Fellow of Birkbeck, University of London, where Eric Hobsbawm taught for many years.
Martin Jacques was Editor of Marxism Today from 1977 to 1991 and persuaded Eric Hobsbawm to write a long series of articles for the magazine, including 'The Forward March of Labour Halted?', which had a major impact on modern British politics.
Donald Sassoon wrote his PhD at Birkbeck under Eric Hobsbawm's supervision. He is the author of One Hundred Years of Socialism: The European Left in the Twentieth Century, a book that Eric regarded as the standard work on its subject.
Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) was one of the most influential historians of the twentieth century. He taught at Birkbeck for most of his life and remained President of the College until his death. Eric's work continues to inspire students and academics around the world. Few scholars have embodied more persuasively what is at the heart of Birkbeck's mission: a continued commitment to critical enquiry and political change.
With the generous support of alumni and friends Birkbeck has established the Hobsbawm Scholarship Fund to honour his legacy and support the next generation of historians in their pursuit of original, high-quality research. If you wish to help support the Hobsbawm Scholarship fund, please contact Charlotte Belson on c.belson@bbk.ac.uk or 020 7380 3112.


It is no secret that a complete survival plan has many facets to it. There are areas that tend to require more emphasis. The deprivation of food, water and shelter, for example, for a significant period of time will cause death, whether it is natural or, most unfortunate, self-inflicted. Those areas of a survival plan are an absolute requirement. No one argues that point. Security is an area where things start to get foggy.
The idea of owning firearms or having them in one's house is something that not everyone is supportive of. There is always the risk that the gun might climb out of storage and shoot someone, right? I choose to take the perspective that nothing else matters if you do not have the ability to defend yourself and the goods that you have worked hard to procure against theft, raiders, looters, etc. This makes a firearm a necessity for the complete survival plan.


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There were some copyright concerns so I was told to hang loose, wait for the blahblahblah and the papermcwork and generally not be so jumpy.


Morwell Shire was created in 1892 from parts of Traralgon and Narracan shires. It was located in the Latrobe Valley and the main town was Morwell, 150 km east of Melbourne. The bulk of the shire extended southwards from Morwell to the Strzelecki Ranges. It covered 649 sq km.
Industrial developments around Morwell were the major feature of the shire. There was an open cut brown coal mine, power stations, briquette factory and many associated industries. Many of the coal and electricity industries were in Yallourn, a town administered by the State Electricity Commission at the north-west of the shire. To the north-east of Morwell was a large pulp and paper mill. The other main town in the shire was Churchill, the location of a campus of Monash University. There were smaller townships at Boolarra and Yinnar and a large rural population.
These towns were distributed along the Morwell River and other river flats. After World War I there had been soldier-settlement farms around Churchill and Hazelwood. These rural pursuits were displaced in the 1970s by power generation, Hazelwood being the most notable example. There was a branch railway from Morwell to the Strzelecki Ranges (Mirboo North) from 1885 until 1974.
Dairying and beef cattle grazing were the main agricultural pursuits. In 1994 there were 18,400 meat cattle, 10,150 dairy cattle and 7600 sheep and lambs.
In 1990 the shire was proclaimed a city, but in 1994 was absorbed into Latrobe city. Municipal amalgamations coincided with large-scale privatisation of the power industry and government utilities, causing unemployment and slumps in house prices.


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I'm not sure that the causal relationship is there. It may just be that idiots are more likely to drop out of school, and also to die young as a consequence of idiotic behavior. As John Wayne said, life is tough, and it's tougher when you're stupid.
The article is particularly good at explaining how studies handle the identification problem. That is, researchers have worked hard to disentangle correlation and causation. The results indicate that education has a causal impact on health.
The main point of the article is that education is strongly correlated with better health outcomes, although the author too quickly assumes a causal connection. For instance education may signal rather than cause low time preference and thus responsible behavior.
Since I routinely rely on these sources to determine what I think, I am left confused.
Suppose that a law was passed in a given state saying that all children born after January 1, 1925 had to attend school through 10th grade, where previously they only had to attend through 6th grade. Then, if we observe a discontinuity in the longevity of people born after January 1, 1925 compared to people born just before, this is plausibly due to greater schooling. Greg Mankiw rightly points out the value of such methodology.


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package org.apache.commons.net.smtp;

import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;

import javax.net.ssl.KeyManager;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLException;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLSocket;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory;
import javax.net.ssl.TrustManager;

import org.apache.commons.net.io.CRLFLineReader;
import org.apache.commons.net.util.SSLContextUtils;

/**
 * SMTP over SSL processing. Copied from FTPSClient.java and modified to suit SMTP.
 * If implicit mode is selected (NOT the default), SSL/TLS negotiation starts right
 * after the connection has been established. In explicit mode (the default), SSL/TLS
 * negotiation starts when the user calls execTLS() and the server accepts the command.
 * Implicit usage:
 *               SMTPSClient c = new SMTPSClient(true);
 *               c.connect("127.0.0.1", 465);
 * Explicit usage:
 *               SMTPSClient c = new SMTPSClient();
 *               c.connect("127.0.0.1", 25);
 *               if (c.execTLS()) { /rest of the commands here/ }
 * @since 3.0
 */
public class SMTPSClient extends SMTPClient
{
    /** Default secure socket protocol name, like TLS */
    private static final String DEFAULT_PROTOCOL = "TLS";

    /** The security mode. True - Implicit Mode / False - Explicit Mode. */
    private final boolean isImplicit;
    /** The secure socket protocol to be used, like SSL/TLS. */
    private final String protocol;
    /** The context object. */
    private SSLContext context = null;
    /** The cipher suites. SSLSockets have a default set of these anyway,
        so no initialization required. */
    private String[] suites = null;
    /** The protocol versions. */
    private String[] protocols = null;

    /** The {@link TrustManager} implementation, default null (i.e. use system managers). */
    private TrustManager trustManager = null;

    /** The {@link KeyManager}, default null (i.e. use system managers). */
    private KeyManager keyManager = null; // seems not to be required

    /**
     * Constructor for SMTPSClient, using {@link #DEFAULT_PROTOCOL} i.e. TLS
     * Sets security mode to explicit (isImplicit = false).
     */
    public SMTPSClient()
    {
        this(DEFAULT_PROTOCOL, false);
    }

    /**
     * Constructor for SMTPSClient, using {@link #DEFAULT_PROTOCOL} i.e. TLS
     * @param implicit The security mode, {@code true} for implicit, {@code false} for explicit
     */
    public SMTPSClient(boolean implicit)
    {
        this(DEFAULT_PROTOCOL, implicit);
    }

    /**
     * Constructor for SMTPSClient, using explicit security mode.
     * @param proto the protocol.
     */
    public SMTPSClient(String proto)
    {
        this(proto, false);
    }

    /**
     * Constructor for SMTPSClient.
     * @param proto the protocol.
     * @param implicit The security mode, {@code true} for implicit, {@code false} for explicit
     */
    public SMTPSClient(String proto, boolean implicit)
    {
        protocol = proto;
        isImplicit = implicit;
    }

    /**
     * Constructor for SMTPSClient.
     * @param proto the protocol.
     * @param implicit The security mode, {@code true} for implicit, {@code false} for explicit
     * @param encoding the encoding
     * @since 3.3
     */
    public SMTPSClient(String proto, boolean implicit, String encoding)
    {
        super(encoding);
        protocol = proto;
        isImplicit = implicit;
    }

    /**
     * Constructor for SMTPSClient, using {@link #DEFAULT_PROTOCOL} i.e. TLS
     * @param implicit The security mode, {@code true} for implicit, {@code false} for explicit
     * @param ctx A pre-configured SSL Context.
     */
    public SMTPSClient(boolean implicit, SSLContext ctx)
    {
        isImplicit = implicit;
        context = ctx;
        protocol = DEFAULT_PROTOCOL;
    }

    /**
     * Constructor for SMTPSClient.
     * @param context A pre-configured SSL Context.
     * @see #SMTPSClient(boolean, SSLContext)
     */
    public SMTPSClient(SSLContext context)
    {
        this(false, context);
    }

    /**
     * Because there are so many connect() methods,
     * the _connectAction_() method is provided as a means of performing
     * some action immediately after establishing a connection,
     * rather than reimplementing all of the connect() methods.
     * @throws IOException If it is thrown by _connectAction_().
     * @see org.apache.commons.net.SocketClient#_connectAction_()
     */
    @Override
    protected void _connectAction_() throws IOException
    {
        // Implicit mode.
        if (isImplicit) {
            performSSLNegotiation();
        }
        super._connectAction_();
        // Explicit mode - don't do anything. The user calls execTLS()
    }

    /**
     * Performs a lazy init of the SSL context.
     * @throws IOException When could not initialize the SSL context.
     */
    private void initSSLContext() throws IOException
    {
        if (context == null)
        {
            context = SSLContextUtils.createSSLContext(protocol, getKeyManager(), getTrustManager());
        }
    }

    /**
     * SSL/TLS negotiation. Acquires an SSL socket of a
     * connection and carries out handshake processing.
     * @throws IOException If server negotiation fails.
     */
    private void performSSLNegotiation() throws IOException
    {
        initSSLContext();

        SSLSocketFactory ssf = context.getSocketFactory();
        String ip = getRemoteAddress().getHostAddress();
        int port = getRemotePort();
        SSLSocket socket =
            (SSLSocket) ssf.createSocket(_socket_, ip, port, true);
        socket.setEnableSessionCreation(true);
        socket.setUseClientMode(true);

        if (protocols != null) {
            socket.setEnabledProtocols(protocols);
        }
        if (suites != null) {
            socket.setEnabledCipherSuites(suites);
        }
        socket.startHandshake();

        _socket_ = socket;
        _input_ = socket.getInputStream();
        _output_ = socket.getOutputStream();
        _reader = new CRLFLineReader(
                        new InputStreamReader(_input_, encoding));
        _writer = new BufferedWriter(
                        new OutputStreamWriter(_output_, encoding));

    }

    /**
     * Get the {@link KeyManager} instance.
     * @return The current {@link KeyManager} instance.
     */
    public KeyManager getKeyManager()
    {
        return keyManager;
    }

    /**
     * Set a {@link KeyManager} to use.
     * @param newKeyManager The KeyManager implementation to set.
     * @see org.apache.commons.net.util.KeyManagerUtils
     */
    public void setKeyManager(KeyManager newKeyManager)
    {
        keyManager = newKeyManager;
    }

    /**
     * Controls which particular cipher suites are enabled for use on this
     * connection. Called before server negotiation.
     * @param cipherSuites The cipher suites.
     */
    public void setEnabledCipherSuites(String[] cipherSuites)
    {
        suites = new String[cipherSuites.length];
        System.arraycopy(cipherSuites, 0, suites, 0, cipherSuites.length);
    }

    /**
     * Returns the names of the cipher suites which could be enabled
     * for use on this connection.
     * When the underlying {@link java.net.Socket Socket} is not an {@link SSLSocket} instance, returns null.
     * @return An array of cipher suite names, or null.
     */
    public String[] getEnabledCipherSuites()
    {
        if (_socket_ instanceof SSLSocket)
        {
            return ((SSLSocket)_socket_).getEnabledCipherSuites();
        }
        return null;
    }

    /**
     * Controls which particular protocol versions are enabled for use on this
     * connection. I perform setting before a server negotiation.
     * @param protocolVersions The protocol versions.
     */
    public void setEnabledProtocols(String[] protocolVersions)
    {
        protocols = new String[protocolVersions.length];
        System.arraycopy(protocolVersions, 0, protocols, 0, protocolVersions.length);
    }

    /**
     * Returns the names of the protocol versions which are currently
     * enabled for use on this connection.
     * When the underlying {@link java.net.Socket Socket} is not an {@link SSLSocket} instance, returns null.
     * @return An array of protocols, or null.
     */
    public String[] getEnabledProtocols()
    {
        if (_socket_ instanceof SSLSocket)
        {
            return ((SSLSocket)_socket_).getEnabledProtocols();
        }
        return null;
    }

    /**
     * The TLS command execution.
     * @throws IOException If an I/O error occurs while sending
     * the command or performing the negotiation.
     * @return TRUE if the command and negotiation succeeded.
     */
    public boolean execTLS() throws SSLException, IOException
    {
        if (!SMTPReply.isPositiveCompletion(sendCommand("STARTTLS")))
        {
            return false;
            //throw new SSLException(getReplyString());
        }
        performSSLNegotiation();
        return true;
    }

    /**
     * Get the currently configured {@link TrustManager}.
     * @return A TrustManager instance.
     */
    public TrustManager getTrustManager()
    {
        return trustManager;
    }

    /**
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little girls who aren't neat."
hurry to get into bed nice and quiet and imagine things."
"You'll have to remember a little better if you stay here,"
admonished Marilla. "There, that looks something like.
Say your prayers now and get into bed."
their prayers. Don't you know who God is, Anne?"
and truth,'" responded Anne promptly and glibly.
not quite a heathen. Where did you learn that?"
afraid you are a very bad little girl."
you honestly think they can?"
begun at once. Plainly there was no time to be lost.
"Why, of course, if you want me to," assented Anne cheerfully.
interesting, now that I come to think of it."
"You must kneel down," said Marilla in embarrassment.
Anne knelt at Marilla's knee and looked up gravely.
I'd just FEEL a prayer. Well, I'm ready. What am I to say?"
her through the medium of human love.
humbly for the things you want."
her head for a moment.
and please let me be good-looking when I grow up.
"There, did I do all right?" she asked eagerly, getting up.
more time to think it over."
you suppose it will make any difference?"
now like a good child. Good night."
"I can only say good night tonight with a clear conscience,"
said Anne, cuddling luxuriously down among her pillows.
on the table, and glared at Matthew.
last and I suppose I'll just have to make the best of it."
but I really feel that I cannot bear not knowing any longer.
It's a dreadful feeling. Please tell me."
it before you ask any more questions, Anne."
to Marilla and fastened imploring eyes of the latter's face.
her explanation longer, "I suppose I might as well tell you.
try to be a good little girl and show yourself grateful.
you tell me why I'm crying?"
"I suppose it's because you're all excited and worked up,"
start before it opens again in September."
Miss Cuthbert? Can I call you Aunt Marilla?"
being called Miss Cuthbert and it would make me nervous."
"It sounds awfully disrespectful to just say Marilla,"
Miss Cuthbert--when he thinks of it."
to you. Can't I call you Aunt Marilla?"
people names that don't belong to them."
really are?" asked Anne wide-eyed.
down her knitting and marched after her with a grim expression.
if I could stay. She was afraid He mightn't notice her.
didn't mean to be irreverent."
learn that prayer off by heart."
intently for several silent minutes.
"I like this," she announced at length. "It's beautiful.
hallowed be Thy name.' That is just like a line of music.
diligently for some moments longer.
shall ever have a bosom friend in Avonlea?"
any little girl who isn't nice and good."
positively couldn't endure it in a bosom friend."
is better than being pretty."
every remark made to a child who was being brought up.
only on the delightful possibilities before it.
had any preserves to keep. One of the doors was broken.
Mrs. Hammond it just broke my heart to leave Katie Maurice.
green little valley, and the loveliest echo lived there.
asylum, even if there had been any scope for imagination there."
your Violettas or she'll think you tell stories."
girl I think I'd like to be a bee and live among the flowers."
"Yesterday you wanted to be a sea gull," sniffed Marilla.
you. So go up to your room and learn it."
down to help me get tea."
"Can I take the apple blossoms with me for company?"
them--I wouldn't want to be picked if I were an apple blossom.
you meet with an irresistible temptation?"
reflection in that splendid big mirror hanging on the wall.
isn't--I can't make THAT seem real."
nowhere in particular, isn't it?"
remember them and send them a kiss every day."
hands, drifted luxuriously out on a sea of daydreams.
Anne had been a fortnight at Green Gables before Mrs.
with fern, and branching byways of maple and mountain ash.
starflowers, like the spirits of last year's blossoms.
and the fir boughs and tassels seemed to utter friendly speech.
talked Matthew and Marilla halfdeaf over her discoveries.
quenched Anne by a curt command to hold her tongue.
Mrs. Rachel introduced the real reason of her call.
"I don't suppose you are any more surprised than I am myself,"
said Marilla. "I'm getting over my surprise now."
"It was too bad there was such a mistake," said Mrs.
Rachel sympathetically. "Couldn't you have sent her back?"
different place already. She's a real bright little thing."
for she read disapproval in Mrs. Rachel's expression.
"It's a great responsibility you've taken on yourself,"
want to discourage you I'm sure, Marilla."
I suppose you'd like to see Anne. I'll call her in."
redder than at that moment.
and certain," was Mrs. Rachel Lynde's emphatic comment.
fear or favor. "She's terrible skinny and homely, Marilla.
as carrots! Come here, child, I say."
foot on the floor. "I hate you--I hate you--I hate you--"
and redheaded? You are a rude, impolite, unfeeling woman!"
indignation exhaling from her like an atmosphere.
you? I don't care if I do hurt your feelings by saying so!
husband. And I'll NEVER forgive you for it, never, never!"
"Anne go to your room and stay there until I come up,"
said Marilla, recovering her powers of speech with difficulty.
of the east gable had been shut with equal vehemence.
Marilla," said Mrs. Rachel with unspeakable solemnity.
just seen?" demanded Mrs. Rachel indignantly.
taught what is right. And you WERE too hard on her, Rachel."
although she was again surprised at herself for doing it.
in my mind. You'll have your own troubles with that child.
matches her hair I guess. Well, good evening, Marilla.
liable to be flown at and insulted in such a fashion.
a very solemn face betook herself to the east gable.
discovery of such a serious defect in Anne's disposition.
the birch switch--to the efficiency of which all of Mrs.
minute and listen to what I have to say to you."
fixed stubbornly on the floor.
"She hadn't any right to call me ugly and redheaded,"
retorted Anne, evasive and defiant.
to Mrs. Lynde, and instead of that you have disgraced me.
and homely. You say it yourself often enough."
think I have an awful temper, but I couldn't help it.
me and choked me. I HAD to fly out at her."
for you to lose your temper like that, Anne."
face that you were skinny and ugly," pleaded Anne tearfully.
the sting had gone out of that memory.
very sorry for your bad temper and ask her to forgive you."
not complain. But I cannot ask Mrs. Lynde to forgive me."
you can tell me you're willing to do it."
sorry I've vexed you; but I'm GLAD I told her just what I did.
not, can I? I can't even IMAGINE I'm sorry."
order by the morning," said Marilla, rising to depart.
I must say it hasn't seemed very much like it this evening."
herself as with Anne, because, whenever she recalled Mrs.
amusement and she felt a most reprehensible desire to laugh.
Mrs. Lynde's and called Anne to account.
buttercups. What on earth put you up to such a caper?
ridiculous. You are the most aggravating child!"
little girls there had bouquets pinned on their dresses.
dubious paths of the abstract.
better sense than to let you go decked out like that."
to you. Maybe you'd better send me back to the asylum.
you see. But that would be better than being a trial to you."
come with me and get acquainted with Diana."
hemming slipped unheeded to the floor.
would be the most tragical disappointment of my life."
use such long words. It sounds so funny in a little girl.
"How do you do, Marilla?" she said cordially. "Come in.
misunderstanding on that important point.
startling in that, was there, Marilla?"
perhaps it will take her more out-of-doors."
a clump of gorgeous tiger lilies.
like me a little--enough to be my bosom friend?"
to play with, and I've no sisters big enough."
"Why it's dreadfully wicked to swear," she said rebukingly.
just means vowing and promising solemnly."
sun and moon shall endure. Now you say it and put my name in."
queer. But I believe I'm going to like you real well."
many promises to spend the next afternoon together.
as they went up through the garden of Green Gables.
you I'll say my prayers with a right good-will tonight.
picture, she says--a lovely lady in a pale blue silk dress.
feelings. We're going to the shore some day to gather shells.
Marilla. "But remember this in all your planning, Anne.
have your work to do and it'll have to be done first."
"Humph," sniffed Marilla. "It'll ruin her teeth and stomach.
sicken yourself eating all them at once now."
rub it in, Matthew Cuthbert."
work. And of course he's listening to her like a perfect ninny.
odder the things she says, the more he's delighted evidently.
unbraided hair streaming behind her in a torrent of brightness.
it, Marilla--ICE CREAM! And, oh, Marilla, can I go to it?"
tell you to come in?"
"Two o'clock--but isn't it splendid about the picnic, Marilla?
three. I'd like to know why you didn't obey me, Anne."
listener. Please can I go?"
stop to discourse with sympathetic listeners on your way, either.
the other little girls are going."
a basket. It's been preying on my mind ever since Diana told me."
so much obliged to you."
out your patchwork and have your square done before teatime."
across the brook that runs up between our farm and Mr. Barry's.
night when they had a ball, so we call it the fairy glass.
through great tribulations. She could faint as easy as anything.
romantic. But I'm really very healthy for all I'm so thin.
I believe I'm getting fatter, though. Don't you think I am?
guess ice cream is one of those things that are beyond imagination."
"Anne, you have talked even on for ten minutes by the clock,"
hold your tongue for the same length of time."
minister announced the picnic from the pulpit.
going to be a picnic. I couldn't help fearing I'd only imagined it.
store for you through life."
be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed."
mother's hair, surrounded by a border of very fine amethysts.
it on. I couldn't, I know. I think amethysts are just sweet.
amethysts can be the souls of good violets?"
her room with a troubled face.
I can't find it anywhere."
when I saw it on the cushion, so I went in to look at it."
breast just to see how it would look."
didn't belong to you in the second. Where did you put it?"
"Oh, I put it back on the bureau. I hadn't it on a minute.
about me. I never do the same naughty thing twice."
anywhere on the bureau. You've taken it out or something, Anne."
"I did put it back," said Anne quickly--pertly, Marilla thought.
it in the china tray. But I'm perfectly certain I put it back."
isn't I'll know you didn't, that's all!"
last person to handle it. Now, what have you done with it?
Tell me the truth at once. Did you take it out and lose it?"
not very certain what a block is. So there, Marilla."
but Marilla took it as a display of defiance.
and stay there until you are ready to confess."
to deny having taken it, when anybody could see she must have!
taken it to play with or help along that imagination of hers.
went up tonight. And the brooch is gone, there's nothing surer.
be punished. It's a dreadful thing to think she tells falsehoods.
responsibility to have a child in your house you can't trust.
Slyness and untruthfulness--that's what she has displayed.
she'd only have told the truth about it I wouldn't mind so much."
more firmly convinced that she did.
Anne but he had to admit that circumstances were against her.
looked in every crack and cranny" was Marilla's positive answer.
well look it in the face."
have to be severely punished, Matthew."
Marilla felt deserted by everyone. She could not even go to Mrs.
repressed. By night she was, as she expressed it, "beat out."
up your mind to that," she said firmly.
like AFTERWARDS cheerfully. But I MUST go to the picnic."
wandered through halls and rooms like spirits of benediction.
with tight-shut lips and gleaming eyes.
what you have to say then, Anne."


It's been nearly 2 years, November 2013, since Sony launched its wildly popular PlayStation forAt a price of $400 but the company announced recently that it's dropping the price on the PlayStation 4. The $350 and the price cut is permanent. It's typical for manufacturers to lower prices on console units after they have been out a while, and analysts are somewhat surprised by this move.
Microsoft launched its slower-selling Xbox One at $500 in late 2013 and wound up dropping it all the way to $350 by this summer.
The PlayStation 4 has consistently outsold its competitors since it came out, but with the coming season and competition expected to be fierce from Microsoft and its respective exclusive lineups, Sony took the initiative with the price cut.
Halo 5: Guardians arrives on the Xbox One in just a few weeks; it's the most anticipated holiday exclusive of 2015 according to Nielsen. Microsoft also has a timed exclusive on the next Tomb Raider game, launching mid-November. Sony has The Uncharted Collection (the first three Uncharted games in high-defintion) and an expansion pack for its high difficulty hack-and-slash Bloodborne in late November. But merits aside, the Uncharted series has never had Halo's star power, and the same holds for Bloodborne, however much the game has blown the lid off expectations at north of 2 million copies sold.
"This is good news because it shows cutting assembling cost of the console is going smoothly," said Yu Okazaki, an analyst at Nomura Securities, though he noted any big impact on Sony share price is unlikely because investors had expected the move. He added Sony is likely to introduce new European prices at a game show in Paris later this month.


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More COVID-19 outbreaks at West Virginia prison
(KGNS)
By Todd Baucher
Published: May. 20, 2020 at 4:29 PM EDT
West Virginia Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Betsy Jividen said at Wednesday's coronavirus briefing two inmates and two members of the staff at the Huttonsville Correctional Center are now known to have tested positive for the coronavirus.
That, after an inmate and a staff member tested positive earlier this week. Widespread testing of both inmates and staff is now under way.
Governor Jim Justice announced at the briefing a discount program for all state residents at state park lodges and cabins, which are just reopening after being closed most of this spring.
The 30% discount, which also applies to West Virginians who previously had reservations for those sites, will be in effect until August 30.
Meanwhile, members of the governor's office staff sought Wednesday to clear up confusion over who is subject to the rule limiting mass gatherings to 25 people for the purpose of social distancing.
"We put out specific guidelines for restaurants, that was the 50% dining," General Counsel Brian Abraham explained. "So obviously, a restaurant that had a capacity of 100 would not be limited to 25, but to 50. We've had wedding chapels calling regularly, asking about the 25 limit. The same thing with churches; when we put out the guidelines for churches, although we never closed them, we had many ask about the 25. What we've suggested is, any of those essential businesses we've offered guidelines for, that's the guidelines that should be followed, and not worry about this 25."
It was announced Tuesday West Virginia's unemployment rate rose in April to 15%, the worst since the 1980's.
Workforce West Virginia director Scott Adkins predicted Wednesday the jobless rate will go as high as 21% before declining.
But Justice has some optimism about revenue collections, which fell sharply below estimates in March.
He said May collections so far have been better than expected, given the state is just starting to recover from closings and people out of work.
In Ohio, Governor Mike DeWine did not have a daily briefing Wednesday. His briefings are expected to resume Thursday.

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Wayland Baptist president released from hospital after testing positive for COVID-19
Jayme Lozano
jlozano@lubbockonline.com
Wayland Baptist University announced Thursday that the school's president, Bobby Hall, was discharged from a hospital after battling the coronavirus for several days.
According to a statement, Hall and his wife had been traveling for the Independence Day weekend when he began feeling COVID-19 symptoms and was hospitalized Saturday.
Hall's wife, who is a registered nurse, also tested positive but is not experiencing symptoms at this time. They are remaining in quarantine as they recover.
The Plainview/Hale County Health Department reported a total of 707 COVID-19 cases in the county, with 388 residents who have recovered and 311 cases still active as of Wednesday.


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anyone have tips on playing Catherine in "Pippin"?
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 12:41 pm Post subject: anyone have tips on playing Catherine in "Pippin"?
Hey, I've just been cast in the role of Catherine in "Pippin", and she seems like a pretty complicated character, so I was hoping that I could get some feedback, either from people who [i]have[/i] been Catherine, or from people who know the play really well. I'd love any advice you guys could give me. Thanks so much!
Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 7:42 am Post subject: Catherine in "Pippin"
Congratulations for landing the role of Catherine in "Pippin".... and my sympathies for a character such as Catherine. It's because the character is so unbelievably "dry" that it's a difficult role for any actress to perform. She doesn't DO anything except be an actress who falls for this non-actor Pippin during their brief scene together. The other characters (Fastrada, Lewis, Charlemagne, Bertha) all have more colorful characters so the actor's job is easier! Make it a challenge to find a CHARACTER of Catherine within the ROLE of Catherine--and best of luck. It CAN be done!


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Columbia envisions a space that bridges the urban and natural environment, explores the vast industrial history and culture of the region, and allows all to experience the great recreational opportunities of the Susquehanna Riverlands.
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threw away more money for outsiders.
Yup here we go more money for the pit , what about the town ?? you can put the pit on the map and wait till people see the town. Tax people out of there homes to make a pit that keeps taken money from our taxes, people can't fix up there homes and pay more taxes , and the taxes go to a park for outsiders mostly. You see people you can't ram something down peoples throates and expect every body to fix up there houses, the people don't have expendible incomes. THIS IS WAY IT IS BEING CALLED SCUMOLUMBIA by out siders, NO I FOR ONE AM NOT PROULD OF THAT BUT COUNCIL CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE . SPEND OUR money wisely not like the farts YOUALL have been handing the people lately.
The reason we're called Scumbia has to do with the people who represent the town at sports games too. Out of control students yelling at coaches and fans that people fear when leaving a game. The drugs and other related activities including burglary, robbery and assaults as well as homelessness are among other reasons for the moniker.
Just put a police substation in the pit.
SPEND the sewer money and get over with, then we can go back to a poverty town like it is. Thank you council for your thoughts of the money pit but the hell with the town . nice this is NOT why you where elected , The great 7 and mayor have to go, then clean up the hole borough mess,OR go bankrupt.
Oh they are spending alright. Spent us right into a 22% tax increase next year. Just so they can give millions to a private developer. Are we taxpayers okay with this? Seriously? WAKE UP!!!!
where have you been??? sewer oney been done spent eons ago. this council spends like it has no end. this IS a poverty town. SO in ref to River Park....KEEP IT SIMPLE. PORTA POT ON TRAIL, BENCHES TO REST, BENCHES FOR VIEWS, THE only THING I like is to make the old bridge pillars a walking bridge. but im sure it would cost way too much. again, keep it simple.


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JOAQUIN, TEXAS
Shelby County, East Texas
31�57'56"N 94�2'54"W (31.965511, -94.048316)
14 miles NE of Center the county seat
12 miles E of Tenaha
2 miles W of the Louisiana State Line
Population: 822 Est. (2016)
824 (2010) 925 (2000) 805 (1990)
Book Hotel Here › Center Hotels
Downtown Joaquin
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, April 2006
Joaquin was founded by Benjamin Franklin Morris in 1885. Morris donated the land to the Houston, East and West Texas Railway, provided the railroad would build a depot. The community (and depot) were named after Morris' grandson Joaquin Morris.
A post office was granted in 1886 and four years later there were 100 people living there. The 1914 population had swelled to 350 and the town had a newspaper, sawmill, bank and cotton gin. In 1940 as the population was nearing 500 and Joaquin incorporated. The population reached 584 by the early 1950s. It dipped below 500 in the late 1960s but with the construction of Toledo Bend Reservoir, Joaquin received a reprieve. In the late 1980s Joaquin's population reached 969, but it has since declined to the present 824.
First Methodist Church in Joaquin
VFD and Sheriffs' Office
Joaquin Chronicles
The Crystal Lakes of Texas by Clint Skinner
"... In Shelby County near the Sabine River, Crystal Lake lies 1.4 miles west of a town called Joaquin. The artificial body of water serves as a reservoir for the town and surrounding area. Its construction began in 1913, thanks to the effort of Abner O. Whiddon... " more
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There are two questions we have to answer for ourselves when confronted by this scripture. Because it is a confrontation between us and Jesus, just as it is between Jesus and the rich man.
One, what authority do we give Jesus in our lives? And, two, what does that authority require us to do with our money?
When we come into a building labeled United Church of Christ, as ours is in such large letters on the east, it is a safe assumption that Jesus is the highest authority in this place; that the in-house ritual worker—me—will describe Jesus's teachings, and teachings about Jesus, as paramount; and that Jesus will be named as a conclusive expression of the Godhead.
But that does not mean any one of you will accept all or even most of what the church promotes or I have to say. That is not required in our particular branch of the Christian family tree. We do not have a creed or tests of faith. Instead, we have lifelong learning and prayer and discernment about the person, place, and passion of Jesus Christ.
So where are you on that today?
Consider, for a moment, where you are in your conversation with God regarding Jesus.
Maybe you understand him to have been a real, historical man or perhaps a composite of many Jewish zealots and movements. Maybe you believe he physically healed the sick but did not raise the dead. You may accept his death on a cross but reject the idea that God wanted him to die that way.
The longest conversation we have with God is usually about Easter and whether Jesus literally came back from the dead or metaphorically did or did in a way we do not have language for.
Your position on each of those key elements of our story, your own Christology, to use the theological term, will determine in part how you respond to Jesus when he tells you to sell all that you have and give it to the poor.
One answer may be to dodge the question. Because who here is really rich, like the man in the passage?
One percent of our population now owns forty percent of the national wealth. Twenty percent owns ninety percent of the wealth. I don't know that any of us are in that category. I do know that twenty two percent of the Ames population is working and above the poverty line but not really able to afford living here.
The majority of us who come to this place, though, are affording to live here, have sufficient health care coverage, can do some saving, and can even afford the occasional vacation or new car. Though we may not be dripping with gold and Gucci, we do have more than our daily bread.
So Jesus is addressing us, too.
And if we give him any authority in our lives, we do have to decide how to faithfully use our financial resources.


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Burna Boy, Wizkid, Seven Others Of Nigerian Descent Who Have Won The Grammy Awards
March 15, 2021 Village Reporter Africa Music, Nigerian Music
Nigerian music stars, Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, better known as Burna Boy and Ayodeji Balogun, better known as Wizkid, on Sunday night, won their first ever Grammy Awards.
Burna Boy bagged the much-coveted Grammy award in the 'Best Global Album' category for his 'TWICE AS TALL' album.
He was nominated alongside Tuareg Desert rock group, Tinariwen; NYC afrobeat outfit, Antibalas; Brazilian-American, Bebel Gilberto; and British-Indian sitar player, Anoushka Shankar.
This is the second consecutive time Burna Boy has been nominated for the Grammys.
His previous album, 'African Giant' was nominated at the 62nd Grammy Awards for 'Best World Music Album', but the award went to Beninoise singer, Angélique Kidjo, who dedicated the award to Burna Boy and said he was leading the pack of young Africans who will shake up the global music space.
Burnaboy is the first winner of the recently renamed category, formerly known as Best World Music Album.
Wizkid, on the other hand, won a Grammy for the Best Music Video' for his role in 'Brown Skin Girl', Beyonce's 2019 hit song. The Best Music Video award is given to the artist, video director, and video producer.
Their video bested fellow nominees Future with Drake, Anderson.Paak, Harry Styles, and Woodkid.
Here are seven Nigerians who have won the awards in the past:
Helen Folasade Adu (Sade Adu)
Sade Adu, British-Nigerian singer, who turned 62 on 16 January, 2021 has won the award.
She made history as the first Nigerian singer to win a Grammy.
Born on January 16, 1959, in Ibadan, Nigeria, Sade was raised in London. She had been nominated for the Grammy awards nine times and won four times.
She won her first Grammy in 1986 in the Best New Artist category. She also won the Best R&B Performance by a duo or group with vocals in 1994 for the song, "No Ordinary Love."
Sade also won another Grammy in 2002 in the category of the Best Pop Vocal Album, with the song "Lovers Rock," while in 2011, she won the Best R&B Performance by a group with vocals for "Soldier of Love."
Sikiru Adepoju
69 year-old Sikiru Adepoju is a percussionist and recording artist from Nigeria, primarily in the genres of traditional African music and world music. He plays a variety of instruments and styles.
Born in Eruwa, Oyo State, Adepoju was a member of Ebenezer Obey's Inter Reformers Band until he left for the US in 1985. In the US, the 'drummer boy' joined O. J. Ekemode's Nigerian All-Stars, and three months later met Babatunde Olatunji.
He became an integral part of Olatunji's Drums of Passion, and through Olatunji met Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart.
He was part of Mickey Hart's group Planet Drum, whose title album won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album in 1991, the first year there was a Grammy in that category.
He was also part of Mickey Hart's latest group Global Drum Project, whose title album won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album at the 51st annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles 8 February 2009.
Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel (Seal)
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He began his career independently with local releases in 2002, including the collaborative album Get Ya Mind Correct with fellow Houston rapper and childhood friend Paul Wall. He signed to Universal Records in 2005 and released The Sound of Revenge under Universal. It included hit singles "Turn It Up" featuring Lil' Flip and the number-one, Grammy-winning hit "Ridin'" featuring Krayzie Bone of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. The song won the Grammy in 2007 for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group. It was also nominated for Best Rap song.
Chamillionaire is also known for his most anticipated Mixtape Messiah series, which ran from 2004 until 2009.
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He was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, to Nigerian-born Oluwole Olusola, a psychiatrist, and Grenadian-born Curline Paul, a nurse.
Olusola's parents discovered his musical talent when he was six months old and decided to put him in music lessons. He started the piano at age 4, the cello at age 6, and alto sax.
Olusola is best known as the beatboxer of the vocal band, Pentatonix. After the group won NBC's The Sing-Off in 2011, they released five albums, which all charted in the top 5 of the Billboard 200 charts, have sold over 2 million records, and have amassed more than two billion views on their YouTube channel.
His group won the Grammys in 2015 and 2016 for Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella. The group also won in 2017 for Best Country Duo/Group Performance for the song – Jolene, which featured Dolly Parton.
A British-Nigerian actress, singer and song writer, who played the lead role in the biopic Harriet and was nominated for several awards. Her full name is: Cynthia Onyedinmanasu Chinasaokwu Erivo. She was born in Stockwell England on 8 January, 1987.
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Faulkner still has bin Laden in his sights
Gary Faulkner, one of whose goals is to get Osama bin Laden, is pictured Tuesday below a painting titled "A RenaissanceDream of 9-11." The Colorado resident says he has already made eight trips to get the terrorist.
By Monte Whaley | mwhaley@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: August 17, 2010 at 3:50 p.m. | UPDATED: May 5, 2016 at 7:33 p.m.
GOLDEN — After Gary Faulkner attracted international media attention to his cause, you'd think it would be impossible for him to sneak up on the world's most wanted terrorist.
But Faulkner, 51, has a plan to kill, or at least nab, Osama bin Laden — and he's ready to carry it out as soon as he can. "It's much easier for a mouse to get into a castle than it is for a lion," said an upbeat Faulkner from a friend's home in Golden on Tuesday.
Faulkner, who gets three kidney dialysis treatments a week, says he's healthy enough to return to Pakistan and complete his mission to capture bin Laden. But he's looking for help in carrying out his unique plan.
Instead of using a visa to enter Pakistan the conventional way, he wants to use a balloon or glider to fly into the mountainous wilderness where bin Laden is reportedly hiding.
"They are looking for me to come in low, but I'm coming in from above," he said. "I'll talk to anyone that has some sort of experimental craft. The job is not done. And I'm not going in as an American. I'm going in as a thief."
Faulkner said he has made eight trips to get bin Laden. The last trek ended in June, when he was whisked out of the country just ahead of al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
Officials in Pakistan said he was captured in the northern region with a pistol, a sword and night-vision equipment.
But Faulkner said he was never arrested and he got help from local police who believed al-Qaeda was going to kill him.
"I have nothing but good things to say about the Pakistan people and authorities," Faulkner said. "They opened their homes and hearts to me."
Faulkner, who had worked construction in Greeley, sold his equipment to finance his last trip to Pakistan.
Despite his notoriety, Faulkner said he has not made money from his fame because that was never his motivation.
"For me, the only thing on my mind is finishing the job," he said.
Faulkner, who now stays with friends in Greeley, Golden and elsewhere, gets dialysis treatments in different clinics in order to avoid attention. Jobless, he lives on about $485 per month in welfare benefits.
But he said he's stronger than before, thanks to exercise and a diet high in protein. Faulkner said he is also buoyed by the outpouring of support for his cause.
He said he has a Facebook page that he hopes will bring in the donations and help he needs to "take my final test."
It's not surprising that Faulkner got such attention from the public and the media because his story has all the qualities of a modern morality tale, said University of Colorado journalism professor Janice Peck.
"It's a very simple story, David vs. Goliath, good vs. evil," she said. "All the anxiety and fear we are feeling is displaced on this guy who will solve our problems in the most simple way: Kill this bad guy."
Faulkner, however, insists he's no flash-in-the-pan celebrity like Richard Heene, who perpetrated the "Balloon Boy" hoax in Fort Collins last year.
"Whoopi Goldberg said to me when I was on 'The View,' 'Hey, you are serious, you're the real deal,' " Faulkner said. "I told her, 'Of course I am. I'm no Balloon Boy."
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Geek Hard: Episode 393 – The Art of the Jedi
by Mr. Green | Dec 18, 2017 | Geek Hard, Podcasts
Originally Aired: 12/15/17 – Review Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi. We also talk with Art of the Title editor Will Perkins
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We talk about the news of the week. Disney finalizes it's deal to buy the entertainment parts of 21st Century Fox for $56 Billion bringing Star Wars, Alien & most of Marvel under it's banner. The announcement that Ed brubaker's & Sean Phillips Image comic Kill or Be Killed will be made into a film with John Wick director Chad Stahelski.
Our review of Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi starring Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and Mark Hamill. Synopsis: Luke Skywalker's peaceful and solitary existence gets upended when he encounters Rey, a young woman who shows strong signs of the Force. Her desire to learn the ways of the Jedi forces Luke to make a decision that changes their lives forever. Meanwhile, Kylo Ren and General Hux lead the First Order in an all-out assault against Leia and the Resistance for supremacy of the galaxy.
We also speak with returning guest Will Perkins he has been on previously to talk movies with the guys. This time, he joins us to talk about the work he does with Art of the Title, a website that looks at the title sequences of various movies and television shows.Will Perkins is a freelance film and game journalist and public relations professional based in Toronto, Ontario. Will studied Political Science and Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto and has contributed to such outlets as Yahoo Movies, DorkShelf.com, Design Bureau, Kill Screen, Maxim, and Empire Movies. He has interviewed the likes of Quentin Tarantino, Peter Jackson, Guillermo del Toro, Scarlett Johansson, Alfonso Cuaron, Olivier Assayas, Miss Piggy, and others. Will is also editor-in-chief of genre culture site Dork Shelf and has been an editor at Art of the Title since 2011.
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Opening Music "Eterna Teen" by Mark Holman
"You Can't Hurry Love" by The Concretes
"Star Wars Main Title" by The Original Movies Orchestra
"The Last Jedi Main Title and Escape" by John Williams
"Exit Music (For A Film)" by Radiohead
"End Credits" by Chase & Status
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In today's competitive world of data storage hardware, corporate secrets are hard to keep. Combined with the labyrinthine patent laws, hardware vendors are employing very creative techniques to gain a strategic advantage, especially in nascent technologies such as the million dollar Oracle Exadata machine, with its special SSD architecture and flash cache methods for processing zillions of rows in sub-second response time.
Even though employees are required to sign non-disclosure agreements, some courts have ruled that an expert still has the right to utilize their expertise to the full extent of their knowledge. Hence, many companies employ "poaching" techniques of their competitors' key employees.
One recent example of this talent transfer is the case of Kevin Closson, a Performance Architect in Oracle's Systems Technology Group who announced that he was moving to EMC storage, an agile competitor who has been losing ground to Oracle in the high-end data storage machine market (servers with prices in excess of $1,000,000).
"If, over time, "everything"—or even nearly "everything"—is offloaded to the Exadata Storage Servers there may be two problems.
First, offloading more and more to the cells means the query-processing responsibility in the database grid is systematically reduced. What does that do to the architecture?
Second, if the goal is to pursue offloading more and more, the eventual outcome gets dangerously close to "total offload processing." But, is that really dangerous? "
"So let me ask: In this hypothetical state of "total offload processing" to Exadata Storage Servers (that do not share data by the way), isn't the result a shared-nothing MPP?
Some time back I asked myself that very question and the answer I came up with put in motion a series of events leading to a significant change in my professional career."
The big question is whether Closson will share the secrets that he has learned as part of the Oracle Exadata team. I am not a lawyer, but I'm told that under several States "Right to Work" laws, employees are not always legally bound by non-disclosure agreements, especially when the non-disclosure relates to their core job function. In plain English, breaking a non-disclosure agreement to poach intellectual property is unethical, but may not always be illegal.
Of course, it's possible that Oracle may acquire EMC at some point, making this issue moot, but this defection may pose a threat to Oracle's exclusive market for the Exadata-style architectures.


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We had three choices for our November 10K race: (1) the Teltowerlauf, which we had already done back in 2012, (2) the Tropical Islands run which Hannah didn't want to do yet since she will be going there with a friend soon, and (3) the Tegeler Forst 10K Crosslauf up northwest of Tegel Airport near Konradshöhe, which is the one we choose. The race was easier to run than it was to find. We literally drove all around the forest on various roads looking for a sign of the start, two cell phones gives us conflicting directions on Google Maps since we typed in two different streets as target destinations. We ended up once in Tegel, and once somewhere in Konradshöhe, where when I asked a man at the gas station where the Schwarzer Weg was and received a typical Berliner answer, "Oh, Sie sind janz falsch!"
Time was running out and while driving in the direction the man told us to drive, we saw what seemed to be someone waiting at a kilometer marker, so I hopped out and asked him if he knew where the race was. He said he was at the 9K marker and so the start and finish were one kilometer away, and to drive to the start we would have to drive around the whole forest again.
So only having 20 minutes before the start, we decided to just park the car there and run the 1 kilometer to the start, a nice warm-up run. We picked up our numbers and by the time we put the last safety pin in attaching them to our shirts, the first runners were off, and we were right behind them, only 345 people in this race.
The whole race was through the forest, a few little hills, some of them quite steep, about ten logs lying across the pathway which we had to jump over, one we had to crawl over, and lots of roots in the path, some painted, some not, so you had to pay attention where you were running. It was lightly raining most of the run but conducive weather for running through a forest, you got the full nature intake, wonderful fresh air the scent of wood the whole way.
As always, Hannah started her end-sprint 200 meters before the finish line, this time around a corner and down a hill, and I tried to follow her. Afterward we saw that there were only 18 other runners after us out of 345 runners, so they were all quite fast, more than two-thirds under an hour, even on this definitely non-personal-best course. As a winter run this is one to recommend, just give yourself some extra time to find it.


The building where one of America's most revered presidents began his life was tiny as well as modest. Eight people shared the home with its small but comfortably furnished rooms and its single bathroom.
John F. Kennedy was born in the master bedroom and spent the first three years of his life here with his parents, three siblings and two live-in domestic helpers. Tours and interpretation at the site focus on the day-to-day life in the household, from the simple details like favorite books and meals, to the rituals that shaped the psyche of the future president and his brothers and sisters, including their mother's theory of "scientific motherhood" and the quizzes both parents would devise at the dinner table to encourage curiosity and learning. Visitors can take guided tours with rangers or visit in the middle of the day for a self-guided audio tour at their own pace; the site closes during the winter months.


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Radio 4's 'Annika' makes the leap to the small screen with Nicola Walker as DI Annika Strandhed
On: February 9, 2021, By: Bill Young
Nicola Walker as Annika Strandhed. Photo: UKTV / Alibi
From the time I was first introduced to the acting talents of Walker in her role as DI Susan Taylor in Touching Evil (co-starring with Grantchester's Robson Green), followed by her time as Ruth Evershed in Spooks (MI5), guest roles in Luther, Being Human and Inside Men, then her more recent efforts in Scott & Bailey and Last Tango in Halifax, once again I'm convinced she could simply read the phone book and I'd be there front and center.
With series 4 of Unforgotten still on the near horizon, there is news of another Nicola Walker bit of drama greatness headed our way in the not-too-distant future, Annika. Based on the Radio 4 drama Annika Stranded, the six-part series follows Marine Homicide Unit DI Annika Strandhed (Walker) as her specialist unit is tasked with investigating a number of mysterious deaths and unexplained murders off the coast of Scotland.
Walker, who also voiced Annika in the Radio 4 drama, will be joined by a star-studded cast, including Jamie Lives (Guilt), Katie Leung (The Nest), Ukweli Roach (Blindspot) and Kate Dickie (The Cry). Writer Nick Walker, who also wrote the radio drama, seemed beside himself back in December on Twitter as filming began.
Been a long wait, but someone shouted 'Action' today and it's super exciting. https://t.co/0Ss5RDjJ4u
— Nick Walker (@nwalk7) December 14, 2020
While Nicola Walker fans can look forward to her sharing the small screen with Sanjeev Bhaskar and his rucksack for series 4 of Unforgotten later this year on ITV and PBS, keep an eye out for Annika.
With DI Strandhed frequently breaking the fourth wall to include the audience in her investigations into the aforementioned mysterious deaths and unexplained murders off the coast of Scotland, jokingly, it reads like a cross between Miranda and Shetland but even if it was, with Nicola Walker in it, I'm there. Hopefully, you will be too when it arrives ashore.


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