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RUOZHE XUE - A DISTORTED REALITY (solo)
Oct 4, 2019 - Nov 16, 2019
Beijing Art Now Gallery (Beijing) (Beijing, China)
Xue Ruozhe
About Ruozhe Xue - A Distorted Reality
Beijing Art Now Gallery is pleased to announce Ruozhe Xue's first solo exhibition in London"A Distorted Reality" will be opened on October 3rd at rosenfeld porcini.
In the little over two years since his work was last seen in London it's immediately evident how the acute psychological state of unease which his works conjure up in the viewer has been further developed.
In the current world where any idea of truth has been trampled on by fake news, hacking and the abuses of social media, our understanding of what constitutes reality has been grossly distorted. Moreover, the wave of 'populist politics'which has invaded so many countries in the world has added to the potent cocktail where we have a very strong sense of living in a strange unfamiliar world. The paintings of Ruozhe Xue feel like a perfect mirror to what we are experiencing. At the time of his previous exhibition in the gallery the possible political ramifications of his works might have felt more remote to us and our attentions were focused far more on the personal feeling of an eerie universe to which we felt a strange attraction or revulsion.
Throughout his career Xue has been fascinated by the tension created between the dual image of certain individuals, often situated in a timeless and alienating landscape which, on a superficial first viewing, merely appears a little odd yet, little by little, reveals its total strangeness to our knowledge of the world. Two people are apparently calm, as the landscape in the distance appears to burn ; two women illuminated as if by daylight are immersed in a nighttime forest of tropical vegetation; two men are standing on a zebra crossing in the middle of either a totally deserted road or more likely a grey river; a bright orange terrain is part of a dark nighttime landscape. In all these worlds Xue places his figures, who appear totally relaxed in this other-worldly atmosphere, although each has a behavioural pattern very different to the identical person standing alongside. The clear physical connection accentuates a sense of detachment in the viewer as this similarity is not reflected in the inner psychological movements of the subjects portrayed. Although Xue is an artist whose paintings are always concerned with the 'human', it is immediately noticeable that none of his characters are ever looking straight ahead at the viewer. Invariably we view the figures from behind or to the side or almost totally hidden from view. A man faces a wall, his hands outstretched in front of him as if in punishment; a woman faces another wall as if in shame; faces are partly obstructed by clothing as if the protagonist does not want to be revealed.
"I try to put some kind of psychological space into the portrait. The hidden face, squinting eyes and the body viewed sideways, all create an interior tension, thus constructing the transformation through painting which I am trying achieve."
Ruozhe Xue, having studied his MA In London after having completed his BA in his native China has a deep knowledge of both Western and Chinese art and 'The Message'which is the largest work in the exhibition references ancient Chinese painting by creating a very large horizontal canvas which can't be viewed in one look, but rather we read it from left to right and there is no perspective vanishing point. A further departure for the artist are the small works which will be spread around the exhibition which provide a further element to the surreal and very disconcerting atmosphere: Lower legs perfectly inserted into a pair of shoes, a pair of dresses made from exactly the same material but with very different folds, hang in mid-air; individual highly taut, white stockinged feet and a pair of hands tightly clasped all reinforce the claustrophobic surreal atmosphere yet mostly importantly a very palpable sense of tension.
The power in Xue's unique take on the figurative form is made possible due to the artist's extraordinary technical ability with paint which allows him to achieve this very rarified atmosphere with total credibility. The richness of his colour is never accompanied by a heavy use of material, there is no emphasis in the weight of paint or drama of gesture but instead a very sure sense of line and form. The large canvases which provide the various anchors to the exhibition are highly complex works, both from the point of view of the construction of the image and the richness of the form. The state of mounting tension and unease which the accumulation of viewing these paintings arouses in us, is in effect, a perfect mirror for our very troubled times.
Ruozhe Xue (Xuzhou, China *1987) lives and works between Beijing and London. After studying at the Painting Department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, he graduated from the Painting Programme at the Royal College of Arts in London. Award winner of the Neville Burston Prize and the Tom Bendhem Prize for Figure Drawing, Xue has presented his work in numerous exhibitions in UK, Europe and in China.
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I first published a forecast of the 2015 general election result in October 2013. After taking on board comments and testing more candidate models, in February I revised the method from the one in this working paper to the one in this working paper. Both use opinion polls and election results going back to the 1950s to tell us what is likely to happen in this electoral cycle, and importantly, how sure we can be that it will happen. The historical pattern suggested governments tend to recover from mid-term blues while oppositions suffer a set back. Also the polls have tended to overestimate Labour and underestimate the Conservatives. Both factors suggested a Conservative lead at the next election. But also the variation in previous cycles was plenty enough to suggest very different outcomes were also possible if less likely.
Using a polling average for 8th October 2013 of Conservatives 32%, Labour 39% and Liberal Democrats 10% the revised method suggested a 42% chance of a Conservative overall majority. Over the last year the probability of a Conservative majority dropped steadily to 24% now. Why? Instead of making a 3-point recovery in the polls, as historical votes and polls suggest they should have done over the last year, the Tories have roughly been level pegging around 32%. The Liberal Democrats not only failed to make any recovery over the last year but have dropped by another couple of points. Only Labour has performed as expected, by losing five points in the polls. So while the forecast election Tory share has dropped from 38% to 35% that for Labour has remained around 31%. With this narrowing of the forecast Conservative lead over Labour from 7 to 2 points and time for change running out, the chances of a hung parliament have increased from 40% a year ago to 55% now. The onward march of UKIP over the last year is both symptom and cause of the Conservative failure to recover. The former Conservative voters who defected to UKIP earlier in the electoral cycle are anxious about the economy and immigration. The economy has been improving overall but not much in the kinds of ways and places that help UKIP supporters who remain economically pessimistic. Similarly, the Tories have failed to deliver on promises to cut immigration.
But it should also be admitted that one of the reasons why the Tories have failed to win back defectors is effective wooing by UKIP. By comparison with five years ago, UKIP is a much more effective campaigning machine, its leader is more charismatic and its political strategy of emphasising immigration and linking it with the European Union has been much more powerful. UKIP have gone from 11% to 16% in the polls over the last year and along the way won the Euro elections, achieved stunning local election results and by-election performances and persuaded two MPs to defect to them. Perhaps what is remarkable is not that the Tories failed to recover lost ground, but that they did not cede more.
UKIP's gains over the past year have come mainly at Labour's expense. Indeed the best summary of the overall change in public opinion over the last year is a 5-point swing from Labour to UKIP. Whereas in YouGov polls a year ago the ratio of former Conservative to former Labour voters now intending to vote UKIP was greater than 3:1, now it is close to 2:1.
While UKIP is critical to understanding the changing levels of major party support in the polls, the risk for the forecasting method is not so much the overall strength of UKIP, which is factored in, but the prospect of differential performance across constituencies. The local and Euro elections in May showed us that UKIP's performance is much more uneven now than it was in 2010 – enough that the uniform change assumptions in the model may go seriously awry. Also, the model has yet to allow for substantial seat gains for the SNP (mostly at Labour's expense) that recent Scottish polls point to. What if any changes to the model should be made in response to these issues depends on further analysis that is still pending.
Despite these and a few other unresolved issues for the forecasting methodology, the past year has provided more reinforcing than undermining evidence for the main features of the method. The polls over-estimated Labour and underestimated the Tories at the Euro elections in much the same way that they have historically done at general elections and as the forecasting model expects.
Also, while party support in the polls has not changed perfectly in line with the historical average, it has been remarkably close. In fact, developments have been much closer than could reasonably have been expected given that none of the previous election cycles have conformed to the average trajectory. The current central forecast is still close to the centre of all the previous prediction intervals (forecast ranges). Developments over the last year suggest that, far from being irrelevant in this electoral cycle, history is still a valuable guide. If nothing else it provides a useful benchmark by which to judge party performance. More importantly, historical variation gives us a handle on how much things can change and how uncertain the outcome in May is.
Acknowledgments: Thanks to Will Jennings and Anthony Wells for polling data, to Jonathan Jones for his excellent work on ElectionsEtc.com (including editing this post) and to numerous people for comments on the methodology over the year. New comments still very welcome!
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COVID-19 has created a critical juncture in the evolution of cities, but there has been limited focus on its urban dimensions in the global South. Drawing on the experiences of grassroots organisations, international agencies and other key urban stakeholders, IIED has co-created a framework that provides a unifying urban vision to inform and resource a transformative urban recovery process.
A mask-wearing man sells 'choukouya', seasoned and braised mutton and beef in Treichville, a working-class district of Abidjan, the economic capital of Côte d'Ivoire. Informal workers have been among those most affected economally by COVID-19 (Photo: Jennifer A. Patterson/ILO via Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
In the burgeoning policy literature on how to 'build back better,' consideration of COVID-19's 'urban' features remains rare. At present, COVID-19's economic impacts are most profound in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and are increasingly acute in cities across the global South, where informal workers, residents of informal settlements and other marginalised groups have been disproportionately affected.
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In the absence of strategic and financial support for local governments and people-centred recovery plans, COVID-19 may further imperil low-income urban residents' health and livelihoods as well as the broader 2030 Agenda in the global South.
At the same time, residents of informal settlements have demonstrated significant capacities to mobilise and respond to COVID-19, which have had meaningful effects in reducing transmission.
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The framework, shown below and also available on IIED's Flickr channel, is designed to spark the multi-faceted interventions urgently required to address the complex exclusions and risks facing low-income urban residents in low- and middle-income countries such as climate change, COVID-19 and potential future risks. The numbers in the image relate to the listed text underneath.
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Implement transformative green recovery processes that recognise and manage trade-offs. Responses that promote equitable green recovery process (for example, nature-based solutions, support for circular economy) must also respond to local political realties and benefit low-income communities.
Create and expand mechanisms to decentralise sustained urban development finance. Sustained decentralised funding streams can significantly tackle existing inequalities and offer more than temporary, short-term relief measures in cities and other urban areas.
Promote evidence-based responses that are nondiscriminatory and uphold human rights in urban areas. Key human rights must be respected, protected and fulfilled throughout all evidence-based recovery actions including rights to housing, food, education, water and the right to work in cities.
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Support informal workers' livelihoods and institutionalise mechanisms for co-producing basic services. The informal economy has a key role in providing housing, basic services and livelihoods, especially for low-income groups in informal settlements and other urban areas.
Support inclusive, gender transformative responses co-produced with marginalised groups. Including women and girls, people with disabilities, youth, LGBTQI residents, racial minorities and others at heightened risk of severe disease or discrimination in cities and urban areas.
Include migrants, refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) in pandemic assistance. The legal status of urban migrants, refugees and IDPs presents specific challenges in accessing basic services, with many being excluded from official support during COVID-19.
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Anna Walnycki, Senior researcher, Human Settlements research group
Transformative urban recovery from COVID-19, Anna Walnycki, Alice Sverdlik (2021), Backgrounder
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In March of 2009, I went to the Hazelden Center For Youth & Families in Plymouth, MN to receive dual diagnosis treatment for alcoholism/addiction and bipolar disorder. Thankfully, both my addiction and mental health have been in check over the past five and a half years, but the majority of people I who attended treatment with me haven't been as fortunate. What you are about to read is an account of one of those people, a young alcoholic named Brian who also suffered from mild Autism. About a year after I got sober, I did my best to record some of my memories from my time in treatment and the result are a number of vignettes like the one you see below. Hopefully people will find this story to be of service to them or, at the very least, to be morbidly entertaining. I have several other stories like this one that I can brush the dust off of, so just let me know in the comments section or on Twitter if you would like to read more.
Yep…that looks about right
Every two seconds or so I see Brian's body flash past the porch's sliding glass door, the sun making his skin a bright chalk white. I'm trying to read a treatment work pamphlet, but I keep getting distracted. Brian's been outside doing close-quarters calisthenics for the past half hour, in fifteen degree weather, wearing nothing but an Under Armour muscle shirt and a pair of Hawaiian print athletic shorts. He's been doing push-ups (standard, one-handed, triangle and wide grip), dips, sit-ups, and pull-ups. He's filled up his luggage with all of the heaviest knick-knacks in our room—alarm clocks, snow boots, textbooks—in an attempt to create some makeshift dumbbells. Whenever we go outside for our daily walk around the complex, Brian–since he isn't allowed to be out of eyesight of the staff–simply runs in place like a jogger waiting to cross the street. There is something off about Brian.
It's not so much that he wears shorts in sub-freezing temperature and compulsively exercises. It's the way in which he does it. I had a friend in grade school who wore shorts everyday for a year, come hell or high water, just to spite his mother. There was a definite rationale and purpose behind his actions, no matter how misguided they were. With Brian it was like he was incapable of processing the fact that cold weather necessitated pants and sweaters in the first place. He couldn't acknowledge that tromping about in his bare calves in four inches of snow was a departure from what everyone else around him and in the rational world does when it's cold outside. Brian was what Voltaire had in mind when he said common sense wasn't so common. He wasn't developmentally disabled enough to be placed into special schooling, but he wasn't quite quick enough to keep up with everyone else. After living with him for about a week he off-handedly mentioned that he was a tad autistic in the way you might tell someone about a movie review that you had just read.
Brian's appearance, like his thought processes, was difficult to categorize. He was half white and half Chinese, with his Caucasian side taking more than its fair share of his features. There wasn't any one aspect of his appearance that looked specifically "Asian," just a weird feeling that there was some Chinese influence peaking out from within him. His hair was buzzed into a tight fade in preparation for what he was convinced would be his occupation after rehab. In fact, Brian was dedicated to turning himself in a Navy Seal, which to some extent explains his compulsive exercising(1). I tried explaining to him that the Seals weren't too keen on developmentally disabled drug addicts fresh out of treatment, but I don't think the message got through. The only thing that Brian was worried about with joining the Seals was that he would have to kill people, which he was very uncomfortable with. Seeing as the primary qualification for becoming a Navy Seal is being a ruthless, surgically precise killing machine, I had trouble thinking of a niche that Brian could find in the special forces.
Brian's other desired career path was slightly more realistic in the semantic way that Mussolini was slightly less evil than Stalin. Sticking to his self-avowed bread and butter—beating the ever-loving hell out of people—Brian was training himself to be a professional mixed martial arts fighter. While he wasn't a very good striker or grappler, had the fighter's IQ of a sorority pledge and, counterproductively, liked getting hit, Brian did have one thing that all great fighters need: a solid chin. In boxing, a fighter's chin doesn't refer exclusively to his physical chin, but to his ability to take punishment. In this respect, Brian had a mammoth, Kirk Douglas-like butt of a chin. While the rest of us would groggily wander down to morning meditation, aching for our morning cup of sort-of caffeinated coffee to spring us to life, Brian would wake himself up by throwing haymakers at his temples or, when that simply wouldn't do, slamming his forehead into his desk repeatedly. Despite the suffocating spatial restrictions imposed upon patients, Brian some how managed to run so much that blood blisters the size of strawberries formed on his feet and, splattering his socks a milky red. Every morning I would watch Brian mummify his feet in duct tape to keep the raw wounds from rubbing deeper away from skin and towards tissue. Never once did I see him grimace.
On his last night before heading out to a halfway house in Long Beach, one of my roommates, Alex—a Cuban-American from my therapy group with some (hopefully) temporary brain damage from incessant MDMA use—requested a little late night entertainment. With no television, a shitty clock radio and a general distaste for literacy, Alex decided that fight night was the only recreation available to us and convinced Brian to have a slap boxing match with Jake, the fourth patient living in our room. Even with Brian's self-avowed wealth of Jujitsu knowledge, the tale of the tape clearly favored Jake, who was the oldest looking fifteen year-old I had ever seen in my life. He was about 6' 3" with the build of a dockworker and a five o' clock shadow that needed shaving before lunch. Had he and I walked into a bar together, there's no doubt that I would have been the one they carded 99% of the time. However, all of this physical maturity was betrayed whenever Jake opened his mouth to reveal the emotional maturity of a nine-year old child with a nine-year old's vocabulary and a nine-year old's insight.
That being said, immaturity doesn't have much to do with the fight game and Brian was giving up about forty pounds and four inches to Jake. The match, set for three, three-minute-long rounds and refereed by Alex and myself, would use the standard Marquess of Queensbury Slap Boxing Rules:
1. Only slaps using the flattened palm or back of the hand are admissible
2. No excessive screaming, yelping or expletive shouting so as not to alert the staff because it's supposed to be lights-out and we'll get in trouble.
3. Face slaps are worth double.
4. Loser has to introduce himself at the next group therapy session as, "Hi, I'm _____ and I'm a pussy."
Now, I thought that Brian's self-proclaimed MMA pedigree, no matter how exaggerated, would be enough to make this a competitive bout. I thought wrong. Jake, while mentally challenged in many respects, had the common sense to sit back and use his reach advantage to thwap his opponent upside the head from afar. Brian's patience wore thin pretty quickly and, flustered, he charged at Jake with his head down like a underfed bull, at which point Jake would olé and smack him so viciously that he crumpled to the ground. This pattern repeated itself for nine minutes, with Brian getting more and more furious with each shellacking. By the end of round three Brian's face was the color of uncooked steak. Of course, being impervious to pain, Brian was more jacked up than ever,wouldn't stop ranting and raving about going just one more round while Jake watched, perplexed and uninterested like a Great Dane getting jawed at by a Jack Russell. Against Brian's masochistic wishes, we all decided it was best to turn out the lights and try to get some sleep. Brian was definitely not down with this.
Not thirty seconds after shutting off the lights and turning in for the night, this mini-thunderclap shot out from Brian's bed. I raised my head up, looking for Brian but not seeing anything but different shades of black as my eyes transitioned in the darkness. Then again—thwock! It was the sound a fastball makes when it lodges itself in a catcher's mitt. The next sound was softer, muted, it's impact lost in something sickening. "Brian, what the fuck are you doing?" I asked. No response, just more thuds and thwaps and thwocks. As my eyes adjusted, I could see Brian, sitting upright at a ninety-degree angle against his backboard, spastically bludgeoning himself in the face. We all sat still in our beds, transfixed by how little sense all this meant. Any initial humor we derived from this self-flagellation disappeared as Brian hit himself with increasing vigor and started murmuring to us or to no one in particular, "I like it. I like hitting myself. I do it all the time," each statement punctuated with a fresh blow.
After a good minute of abuse I jumped out of bed and flipped the lights back on, jumping on Brian's bed with Jake to pin his arms to his sides and calm him down a bit. "You need to stop this, man. This isn't funny or cool or whatever," I told him. "It's just fucking stupid." Jake chimed in, telling him that, "punching yourself in the face is kind of retarded," an inadvertently apropos statement considering that Brian, being somewhat autistic, was retarded in social development and communication. Five minutes later, Brian had calmed down enough to the point where we felt somewhat safe turning the lights off again. We heard a few more errant smacks coming from his bed, but nothing prolonged or vicious enough to stir me out of bed.
When we woke up the next morning, Brian's face was pretty haggard, covered in greenish-black and blue splotches and showcasing a black eye that had puffed up enough to force him to squint a little with one eye. He was taken down to the medical services unit in lieu of breakfast and spent the majority of the day in one-on-ones with a litany of therapists, counselors and administrators, all of whom were lucky if they got more than a blank stare in return. There's a saying in recovery that you can't be too dumb for Alcoholics Anonymous, but you can be too smart. The moral lesson in the axiom being that intellectual gymnastics can be used to circumvent some of the most beneficial aspects of recovery for the sake of ego, pride and the like. While I agree with the latter half of that sentiment—that being overly cerebral can be a harmful avoidance tactic—I don't agree with the first half, although "dumb" may be a blatantly inappropriate modifier in this situation. Rather, you can be too developmentally disabled or mentally ill for AA.
(1) For having such an anti-authoritarian and lawless membership, I found an alarming number of addicts in the Hazelden Center for Youth & Families who expressed the desire to join the armed forces—and more specifically, special forces squads like the Navy Seals or Army Rangers. To a man, all were deluded enough to believe that the military's background check would surreptitiously gloss over their extensive narcotics history and that Uncle Sam was chomping at the bit to recruit chain-smoking, recovering drunks with GEDs and a laundry list of active prescription anti-psychotic and anti-depressive use. On the whole, the guys who expressed a desire to enlist did so for either (a) the comfort that a strictly regimented lifestyle would bring to their otherwise chaotic existence or (b) the intent of becoming John Rambo.
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Tags: addiction, alcohol and drug recovery, alcoholism, drug addiction, drug treatment, Hazelden, memoir, mental health, mental illness, rehab


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It's Stampin' Up! Alliteration In Overdrive!
I love the names that Stampin' Up! gives to our colours. I know that some don't like the aliteration, but I rather like it!
That's not to say that I dislike our international translation (Germany and France have some brilliant renames!), but I love the quirkiness of ours.
And the 'C' alliteration exercise is one that I've done before, and I thought I'd have a little fun and do it again, but stepped up….
My base is Crumb Cake with Gorgeous Grunge speckles stamped in Crumb Cake and Chocolate Chip. I didn't pop up the layers at all, but kept them all flat to each one.
Then my Petite Petals stamp and punch outs are all stamped off twice so that I got 3 different colours for each one that I've layered to sort of blend into the next.
Well aside from having the alliterative stamp sets of Petite Petals and Gorgeous Grunge, I used colours in (left to right!) Crushed Curry, Crisp Cantaloupe, Calypso Coral, Cajun Craze, Cherry Cobbler, Chocolate Chip and Crumb Cake.
Alliteration overload? Well, I don't mind! I think it's rather fun!


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Q: Xubuntu booting up with black Screen. OS: xubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
kernel version: 4.13.0-36-generic
When I boot up, I get my BIOS splash screen followed by shiny black screen comes,after that screen blacks out. I have to close laptop Lid to force hibernation and then reopen the lid and then I get the login screen. With this version of kernel I was not able to find any bugs related to hibernation. If I attach a external monitor then I get the login screen directly.  I had similar problem with Ubuntu 16.04.4, there was a dark purple light(related to ubuntu) and then the screen blacks out. Had to follow the similar lid process to get the login screen.

A: I was able to fix this by following the steps mentioned here by installing kernel version 4.15.10-041510-generic.

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Do уоu fееl lіkе you hаd соmfоrtаblе ѕlеер when you wаkе uр еvеn аftеr sleeping fоr 9 hоurѕ? Thе rеаѕоn соuld be bесаuѕе of your mаttrеѕѕ. Chесk whеthеr you have сhоѕеn the rіght mattress fоr your wау оf ѕlееріng. Mоѕt оf us do nоt concentrate on thе design, thе tеxturе оf thе bеd. Wе buy іt іf wе feel it is ѕоft еnоugh when wе lіе down. It іѕ not thе case thаt wоuld ѕuіt еvеrуоnе. Sоft bеdѕ аrе good for fеw individuals and hаrdеr оnеѕ аrе gооd for сеrtаіn реорlе. Onе needs to understand whаt kind of реrѕоn hе оr ѕhе іѕ whіlе in bеd.
A саtеgоrу оf реорlе сrаwl and roll whеn they ѕlеер, they nееd fіrm surface yet ѕоft as a сuѕhіоn. Fеw оthеrѕ ѕlеер in a ѕіnglе position for long hours; thеу may wаnt реrfесt head аnd bed frame with headboard іn thеіr mаttrеѕѕ. Sоmе mау ѕnоrе a lot, they nееd a fіrm аnd hаrd surface thаt could соmfоrt their ѕlееріng nееdѕ as well аѕ gіvе less trouble tо оthеrѕ whо ѕlеер nеxt tо thеm. Fеw would lіkе tо hаvе thе bеd ѕhееtѕ tucked іn wеll іn thе ѕіdеѕ аnd tорѕ to have a wоndеrful long nар. These аrе thе people who wоuld nееd to gо for the реrfесt adjustable bed frаmе with a facility tо tuсk іn thеіr bedspreads.
One nееdѕ tо fіnd thеіr саtеgоrу аnd sleeping needs ѕооnеr tо choose thе реrfесt mаtеrіаl tо sleep on. Thіѕ saves a lоt of time, еnеrgу іn уоur lіfе gіvіng уоu thе complete fееl оf rеѕt whіlе уоu аrе in уоur bеd.
Allеrgу Pоtеntіаl: Mattresses аrе made up оf dіffеrеnt materials, ѕоmе mаtеrіаlѕ hаvе thе роtеntіаl tо cause аllеrgу tо реорlе with sensitive ѕkіn. Almost everyone knows what materials аrе they аllеrgіс tо. Thеrеfоrе, it is very іmроrtаnt to knоw аbоut the material thаt іѕ used іn the mattress аnd nеvеr go fоr thе mattress that hаѕ allergy potential.
Benefits: Іt іѕ always good tо dо a little rеѕеаrсh bеfоrе іnvеѕtіng аnу amount оf mоnеу іn аnуthіng. Whеn choosing a mаttrеѕѕ аlwауѕ look for thе knоwn benefits that come wіth thе mattress. Fоr еxаmрlе, fасtѕ like back ѕuрроrt, adjustable bed frаmе, рrеѕѕurе rеlіеf, аnd maneuverability etc.
Drаwbасkѕ: Mаttrеѕѕеѕ аrе nоt cheap аnd іt іѕ rеаllу a hard jоb to сhаngе a mаttrеѕѕ еvеrу month, therefore a little rеѕеаrсh аbоut thе drаwbасkѕ оf thе mattress wіll соmе іn handy. Drаwbасkѕ thаt are tо be checked аrе fоr еxаmрlе hеаt rеѕроnѕіvеnеѕѕ, mеdісаl соntrаdісtіоnѕ, cleaning rеԛuіrеmеntѕ еtс. keeping thеѕе drаwbасkѕ іn mіnd іѕ very important bеfоrе buуіng a mаttrеѕѕ.
General consumer оріnіоn: It іѕ аlwауѕ vеrу smart tо lеаrn from оthеrѕ еxреrіеnсеѕ аnd same іѕ thе саѕе bеfоrе buуіng a mаttrеѕѕ. Alwауѕ сhесk for thе gеnеrаl соnѕumеr оріnіоnѕ about thе product аnd іt is vеrу easy tо dо ѕо. Wе саn go online and read rеvіеwѕ оr аѕk friends аnd neighbors. For instance sleeping position during pregnancy matters a lot.
Comfort: Оnе оf thе mоѕt basic thіngѕ to look in a mattress, a mattress ѕhоuld bе very comfortable іn order to guаrаntее a gооd nіght ѕlеер.
I didn't know there was so much that goes into choosing a mattress. I just normally go for comfort.


Angelina Jolie may be the mother of six children, but the Oscar-winning actress says motherhood was never on her radar when she was younger.
Jolie said that her perspective on motherhood changed when she was visiting Cambodia as a United Nations goodwill ambassador in the early 2000s.
The actress, now 40, said that she was talking and playing with children at a Cambodian school when she was struck with a realization that she wanted to adopt a child from the country that had been so welcoming to her.
"It was suddenly very clear to me that my son was in the country, somewhere," Jolie said.
In 2002, she adopted her first child, son Maddox, from a Cambodian orphanage in Battambang. The next year, she opened a foundation in her son's name that helps fund education and healthcare in rural areas of Cambodia.
Jolie first came to Cambodia to film the 2001 action flick Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, which is when she fell in love with the country.
"When I first came to Cambodia, it changed me. It changed my perspective. I realized there was so much about history that I had not been taught in school, and so much about life that I needed to understand, and I was very humbled by it," Jolie shared.
Now, 15 years later, the actress is back in the country and this time she's behind the camera directing First They Killed My Father, a biopic and historical drama about the horrors of life under the Khmer Rouge.
Jolie was recently joined in Cambodia by Maddox, now 14, who has been following in her humanitarian footsteps.
Jolie and her husband, Brad Pitt, are the proud parents of six children, including Maddox, 11-year-old daughter Zahara (adopted from an orphanage in Ethiopia in 2005), 9-year-old daughter Shiloh (the couple's first biological child), 12-year-old son Pax (adopted from an orphanage in Vietnam) and their 7-year-old twins, daughter Vivienne and son Knox.
"For me, this is the moment where finally my life is kind of in line, and I feel I'm finally where I should be," Jolie shared.
Having A Baby Over 35, Is it As Risky As We Thought?


Doing a long print run is inherently repetitive. Having something great to listen to is a must.
Audible: Audiobooks I recently listened to Bossypants by Tina Fey and it was amazing. Must be listened to on audiobook for sure.
Rdio: Music & Comedy I love Rdio's new stations feature! I also love Demetri Martin & the Newsies musical. And making playlists.
We have a Sonos wireless speaker, and really love it. It streams Rdio, Pandora, etc., etc. and it's really handy.
There you have it. What are you listening to right now?
Brad planned a "surprise date" for us on Saturday night. I had no idea where we were going, and the suspense was killing me! We've been super busy lately (pulling nights and weekends at the print shop), so this was a super special treat for us.
If you haven't heard Sondre, do yourself a big favor and check him out. We first heard his music right after we got married, almost 2 years ago. His album Heartbeat Radio was the soundtrack of our newlywed fall & winter. I have such strong memories of that period of time, and that album is unbelievably dear to us. It's joyful and sentimental and sad, just like those months. I started working a really tough job right after we got back from our honeymoon - it didn't pay the bills, and required unbelievably long hours. For 3 months, I walked to work in the dark and left work in the dark. It was a tough couple months career-wise, a wonderful couple months newlywed-wise, and Heartbeat Radio was just right for all the complexities of that season of our life.
We visited Sonic Boom Records a couple weeks ago, and were so excited to see that Sondre had released a new album! We bought the vinyl (we really like to collect music we love on vinyl - and even without hearing it, we knew we'd love it!), brought it home, and were so pleasantly surprised by what we heard. In the way that Heartbeat Radio was just right for us, the new Self Titled album feels just right for where we are now. Brad and I agree on music in general, but few musicians and bands bring us together so well.
Coming back around to Saturday night - I was so excited and pleased to be seeing Sondre live! Brad and I went to tons of shows together when we were in college (even before we started dating), but haven't seen a show since Sufjan Stevens (another of our absolute favorites) last October. I was excited to hear the songs that we've loved, and excited to be out with my honey. My expectations were high... and they were completely blown out of the water. I am so thankful that Brad planned the evening for us - and so thankful that Sondre is sharing his music with the world. The show was exciting, impressive, and overwhelmingly heartfelt. Sondre shares his life, his experiences, and heart on the stage. It was really wonderful. And let me tell you - the man is talented. His voice is as clear and strong live as it is recorded. His skills on guitar are beyond anything i've seen. It was an amazing evening. Go buy his album, and don't miss him next time he's in town. Seriously.
Brad and I were married one year ago, on September 6, 2009. We loved planning our wedding together- which may be why we love being a part of other people's weddings! It's such a special time of excitement and anticipation - we can't help but enjoy it!
Our wedding took place in Sarasota, Florida at the historic Powel Crosley Estate. Our photos were taken by the fabulous duo of Mandy & Me, our flowers were artfully arranged by Sarasota Enchanted Flowers, and our lovely and scrumptious cupcakes were by the Wired Whisk Bakehouse.
These are a few of our favorite wedding details.
(Photo above) My dress by Casablanca Bridal, and the wooden dowel cupcake toppers - hand painted by myself in a fit of crazed creativity a few nights before the wedding.
The Crosley mansion on a very warm September afternoon.
Cupcakes in vanilla, chocolate, and swirl!
Tequila provided by my hooligan uncles, our flower arrangements (all were in different vintage milk glass vases), and homemade white chocolate snack mix made by Brad's mom!
Table settings lovingly set by family members before the wedding - my parents own an equipment rental business, Punta Gorda Rent-All, and the whole family came together to get the mansion ready. It's one of my favorite memories from that day, seeing everyone together in one place, working for a common goal. I felt (and feel) very loved.


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Kawagebo (卡瓦格博, transliteração de Kawakarpo (ou Moirigkawagarbo, Kawa Karpo, Ka-Kar-Po), como é conhecida localmente,  é uma montanha da República Popular da China, a mais alta da província de Iunã. Fica no condado autónomo de Weixi Lisu na prefeitura de Diqing, na fronteira com o Tibete, e próximo da fronteira com Mianmar. E a montanha mais alta da província de Iunã.

Montanhas de Iunã

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using Alamut.Data.Repository;
using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;

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import sys
import os
import shutil
from optparse import OptionParser
import subprocess
import datetime
import time

DEVICEADDR = 'AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF'  # bluetooth device address
CHECKINTERVAL = 1  # device pinged at this interval (seconds) when screen is unlocked
CHECKREPEAT = 1  # device must be unreachable this many times to lock or unlock
FREEZETIME = 60  # do not re-lock after unlock for this many seconds
#UNLOCKUSER = 'user'  # user to auto unlock at presence

if __name__ == '__main__':
    mode = 'unlocked'
    last_unlocked = 0;
    while True:
        tries = 0
        while tries < CHECKREPEAT:
            TIMESTAMP = '{:%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S} Device '.format(datetime.datetime.now())
            process = subprocess.Popen(['sudo', '/usr/bin/l2ping', DEVICEADDR, '-t', '1', '-c', '1'], shell=False, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
            process.wait()
            if process.returncode == 0:
                print(TIMESTAMP + DEVICEADDR + ' Pinged OK')
                break
            print(TIMESTAMP + DEVICEADDR + ' Ping Error: Response Code: %d' % (process.returncode))
            time.sleep(1)
            tries = tries + 1

        if process.returncode == 0 and mode == 'locked':
            mode = 'unlocked'
            print('Device ' + mode + '.')
            last_unlocked = time.time()
            # This _does_ unlock the session, but it remains on tty8 (lockscreen).
            # sudo loginctl unlock-sessions
            subprocess.Popen(['sudo', 'loginctl', 'unlock-sessions'], shell=False, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
            # Switch to tty7 (mainscreen)
            # sudo chvt 7
            subprocess.Popen(['sudo', 'chvt', '7'], shell=False, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
            #if UNLOCKUSER:
                # dm-tool switch-to-user UNLOCKUSER
                #subprocess.Popen(['dm-tool', 'switch-to-user', UNLOCKUSER], shell=False, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)

        if process.returncode == 1 and mode == 'unlocked' and last_unlocked < time.time() - FREEZETIME:
            mode = 'locked'
            print('Device ' + mode + '.')
            # sudo loginctl lock-sessions
            #subprocess.Popen(['sudo', 'loginctl', 'lock-sessions'], shell=False, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
            # loginctl has a delay on lock, but the proper tool (dm-tool) does not unlock
            # dm-tool lock
            subprocess.Popen(['dm-tool', 'lock'], shell=False, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)

        if mode == 'locked':
            time.sleep(CHECKINTERVAL)
        else:
            time.sleep(CHECKINTERVAL)


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Aurora supports Indigenous students to realise their full academic potential – whether it is completing Year 12 or a PhD from Harvard. We walk with students throughout their entire academic journey – from high school right through to university, to postgraduate studies and on to the workforce.
A future where there is no education gap and where the next generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians achieve equitable participation at the highest level – in academia, the professions, in boardrooms and across government.
Our Aspiration
Through our interconnected programs, we aim to engage with over 50,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across Australia over the next 5 years. Our role is to inspire every Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander student in their education journey, connect them with educational and career opportunities that enable them to realise their potential, and guide them in this journey.
Supported by Aurora, students and scholars are achieving unparalleled outcomes that transform lives. We will continue to shift the conversation to one of proud and talented Indigenous students with limitless potential. In order to achieve systemic change, we are committed to an authentic and trusted approach, evidence-based decision making, and a long term focus.
students reached each year
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Urban job guarantee programme critical to strengthen small and medium towns
April 3, 2019 News Desk
POLICY PROPOSAL FROM AZIM PREMJI UNIVERSITY
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India is in the midst of an acute unemployment crisis. Unemployment rate is at a 45-year high of 6.1 percent in 2017-18 as per the leaked Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) report of the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO). According to the NSSO data, unemployment rate in urban areas is 7.8 percent with open unemployment of about 20 percent among the educated youth.
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In addition, majority in urban India work in the informal sector and are thus exposed to a host of risks and precarities. This, along with continued ecological degradation and crumbling urban infrastructure needs urgent attention.
To address these concerns, and in continuation with the State of Working India Report (2018), members of the Centre for Sustainable Employment, Azim Premji University, Bangalore have drafted a policy paper titled 'Strengthening Towns through Sustainable Employment'. The proposal calls for the creation of a National Urban Employment Guarantee Programme that strengthens small and medium-sized towns in India by assuring urban residents a legal right to employment.
The proposed programme seeks to address the following key problems:
(a) Underemployment and low wages in informal workforce
(b) Migration to large cities from small towns
(c) Poor quality of urban infrastructure and public services
(d) Ecological degradation
(e) Shortage of human and financial capacities of Urban Local Bodies (ULBs)
(f) Unemployment and lack of skills among educated youth.
We emphasise that the programme would not be at the cost of MGNREGA but rather, the two would go hand-in-hand.
The proposed programme covers towns with population less than 1 million. There are about 4000 such towns with 126 million people of working age. Workers with varying levels of formal education upto class 12 would be eligible for 100 days of guaranteed employment a year at Rs 500 per day. Workers who have acquired formal education
beyond class 12 would be provided apprenticeship in monitoring, surveying, and other similar tasks in public offices, schools, hospitals etc at Rs 13,000 per month for a contiguous period of 5 months.
While the first category of work is used to address the question of low-wage informal work and underemployment, the second category is designed to provide skill-building and internship for the educated youth.
A new set of "green jobs" have also been proposed including creation, rejuvenation, and maintenance of urban commons such as lakes, parks, waste land, and disaster management. Further, a set of jobs that will cater to the "care deficit" in towns by providing child-care and care for the elderly and the disabled to the urban working class have been included.
The following features of MGNREGA have been retained:
(a) Demand-driven
(b) Payment of unemployment allowance if work is not provided within 15 days of demanding
(c) Payment of a delay compensation if wages are not paid within 15 days.
In the last few years though, MGNREGA has been severely stifled due to inadequate funds and excessive centralisation of wage payments. To address this, we propose that the labour costs be split between the Central government and the state governments and the non-labour costs be split between the Centre, states and the ULBs, based on the size of the towns.
In light of the 74th Amendment, this programme should be administered by the ULB in a participatory manner by involving the Ward Committees. It shall identify projects, prepare annual works plans and implement the programme in a participatory manner by involving the ward committees and ward sabhas. Section 4 of the Right to Information Act, 2005, concerning mandatory and proactive disclosure of information and bottom-up, worker-centric, information systems, shall be strictly adhered to here.
Further, strong accountability structures through mandatory periodic social audits and public hearing by independent units and legislations through a "Right to Timely Grievance Redressal" have been proposed for participatory implementation.
The total estimated programme budget would range from 1.7 to 2.7 percent of GDP depending on whether employment is guaranteed to one adult from every household or every adult resident. Between 30 and 50 million people will get opportunities for work under this programme. The Central government's budgeted funds would be transferred to the states and to the ULBs upfront in the beginning of each year. Wage payments, unlike MGNREGA, would be decentralised and happen through states and ULBs.
[This was shared via a Press Note from the Centre for Sustainable Employment, Azim Premji University and has been published here with minimal edits. For further details, you can send a mail to cse@apu.edu.in.]
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Since May is Mental Health Month, we have been featuring a mental health related article every week. To end this month, we interviewed Bob Carolla, Senior Writer, Communications & Public Affairs, at NAMI (The National Alliance on Mental Health) about what they are and what they do.
In honor of Mental Illness Awareness week we interviewed Mental Health Advocate and motivational speaker Emily Wu Truong. Emily shares with us about her struggles with depression and anxiety, and how they led her to the work that she does now. Also in this issue, is the latest mental health column from Christine F. Anderson about fear and bipolar disorder.
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What follows is a very subjective review of several different versions and editions of sacred scriptures. Before reviewing actual editions, there are a few things to know.
A note about terminology.
Lately, there has been a trend to refer to the Old Testament as the Hebrew Scriptures. The term "Old" implies outdated and superseded, which many christians do not want to imply about the Jewish faith. However, the christian Old Testament is not the same thing as the Bible used by Jews. First of all, the Jewish translation of the Bible relies on the Masoretic Hebrew text in use since the middle ages. Most translations of the christian Old Testament use texts of other ancient translations of the writings in question into Syriac, Aramaic, Greek and other language. Some of these ancient translations are less corrupt than surviving Hebrew manuscripts. Secondly, the christian Old Testament and Jewish Bible are arranged differently. The Jewish Bible ends with the Books of the Chronicles, which end with the sentence of Darius' proclamation, "whoever is among you of all the people, let him go up [to Jerusalem]." The Jewish Bible serves as an etiology of the Second Jerusalem Temple. The christian Old Testament ends with the book of Malachi, which ends with a prediction of the return of Elijah to initiate a judgment. The Christian Bible then jumps directly to Matthew, which begins (after the infancy narrative) with John the Baptist's appearance in the wilderness. The christian editors rearranged the Jewish scriptures to serve as a preface to the beginning of their own scriptures. I will use the term "christian Old Testament" to refer to the texts in question.
I will also use the term "scriptures" in the plural to remind us that what we have before us is not a monolithic literary achievement, but rather an organic literary development over the course of centuries. Psalms are not the same as prophetic writings; love poems are not the same as theological histories, and so the use of the term "scriptures."
The "version" of the Bible refers to the actual translation. The original texts of the sacred scriptures were written primarily in Hebrew and Greek. The christian Old Testament was written primarly in Hebrew with a few exceptions (Daniel exists in two versions, one Greek and one Aramaic, but no Hebrew version can be found that is not a translation of one of the other two). The christian scriptures were written exclusively in Greek, the lingua franca of the Roman Empire.
Of both christian Old Testament and christian scriptures, there exist ancient translations into many other languages. We know of Syriac versions of the christian Old Testament, Hebrew versions of the christian scriptures, and of course, Latin versions of both. There are hundreds of translations of both into English. Some are by individuals, some are by committee.
Once the bible has been translated (the version), a publisher will buy the translation from the owner of the copyright (individual or committee), and publish it an edition. Some editions are devotional and include artwork, or meditation helps, and the like. Others are study bibles and include commentary, either as an introduction to each book, or extensive footnotes and cross-references (called the apparatus). There are large print editions, red-letter editions and on and on. Editions currently in print probably run close to a thousand.
For our purposes, I find an intermediate level study edition most helpful (you can of course buy pretty dense scholarly editions, but I don't use them — you get too much of the editor's opinion).
Apocrypha/Deuterocanonicals
Catholics include in their bibles a set of books that Protestants do not include: books with names like The Wisdom of Jesus ben Sirach (also called Ecclesiasticus, not to be confused with Ecclesiastes), I and II Esdras, Tobit, Judith, additions to the book of Esther, the Wisdom of Solomon, Baruch, the Letter of Jeremiah, the Song of the Three Young Men, Bel and the Dragon, Sussanna, and I and II (and sometimes III and IV) Maccabees. Protestant call these books the apocrypha (things hidden) or the deuterocanonicals (the second canon). The Anglican Church (of which the Episcopal Church is a member), true to our cahtolic heritage, uses a bible that includes the Apocrypha. These are books that were written during the period of the Second Temple (Solomon's Temple was destroyed in 579 BCE, and the Second Temple was rebuilt about 100 years later — Herod rebuilt it even more gloriously around 50 BCE — the Apocrypha comes from the period around 150 – 50 BCE).
Reviews (in no particular order)
King James Version (any edition). Believe it or not, the KJV (or Authorized Version, as it is officially known, published in 1611) is still hands down the best English translation available. There are, of course, a number of drawbacks. First, the language is archaic. Secondly, the translators used the manuscripts of ancient texts that were available in the first decade of the seventeenth century. Since then, many transcripts of the ancient texts have been discovered, and show that some of the manuscripts used by the translators were corrupt (that is, changed accidentally by scribes in transcription). If one could just correct the translation for those corruptions, one would have a very valuable version. The KJV puts in italics words supplied by the translation and not present in the Hebrew of Greek. No subsequent translation has done this. Too bad.
Revised Standard Version (Many, many editions, New Testament copyrighted in 1946, christian Old Testament in 1952, second edition copyrighted in 1971, by the National Council of Churches in the USA): The RSV is a pretty good translation. It is an attempt to modernize the KJV. Mostly it succeeds. It does use the best textual evidence available in the 1940s which was not available in 1611. However, it is a Protestant translation. Greek and especially Hebrew are concrete languages, referring to abstract concepts by metonymy, letting one thing stand for another — for example using "tongue" to mean "language." A classic example is the word often translated as "had compassion" when Jesus encounters someone; the Greek implies, "troubled in the intestines." Protestants of the 1950s (and even today) tend to shy away from the sometimes graphic use of language in the bible. Protestant translations tend toward the abstract. Also, there is a real tendency in the RSV to translate particularly the letters of Paul from a Lutheran, or even Calvinist, point of view, in which human nature totally depraved, and only God's grace, predestined for some but not for others, is effective for salvation. Surprisingly, Paul (in Greek) is not as strong on predestination as Luther, Calvin and later Protestants make him out to be (this is an important caveat — every translation is a theological interpretation).
New Revised Standard Version (copyrighted in 1989 by the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA). By and large the NRSV is a great improvement on the RSV. It has two drawbacks, besides being a Protestant translation. First, it is expensive. The copyright owner sells the rights to the version to the publisher who publishes an edition. The National Council of Churches sold the RSV quite cheaply, and so it was possible to get hardback editions with study helps for $12 or so in the 1980s. In the 1990s, the NCCCUSA needed money, and so they sell the NRSV for a lot more money than the RSV. For instance, the Oxford Annotated Edition more than tripled in price. One can pay $50 or more for a good study edition of the NRSV. Secondly, in an effort at inclusive language, the NRSV often uses the plural "they" instead of the singular "he" to avoid gender issues (for example, "Blessed are they" rather than Blessed is he/the one."). Sometimes, this confuses the issue, and at other times, the NRSV translates words clearly inteded to be gender specific (man and male, not person) without reference to gender. This is not true to the authors' intentions, and I believe we should be allowed to make up our own minds about how to handle the difficulties.
New International Version (NIV: copyright 1974 by New York International Bible Society). This is becoming a standard version in many Protestant churches. It is a readable translation and by and large accurate. It is particularly squeamish about sexual matters, steering clear of descriptive words. It sometimes supplies words not supported by the Greek or Hebrew.
The New English Bible (copyright The delegates of the Oxford University Press and sydics of the Cambridge Universiity Press, 1961, 1970). A very good attempt to bring the KJV up to date – if you are British. Many British colloquialisms make this not so useful to Americans. They do a pretty good job with the poetic passages. Almost every Church in England participated in this translation, so it has broad appeal.
The New American Bible (NAB copyright 1970: Confraternity of Christian Doctrine). This is one of the translations approved for use in the Roman Catholic Church in North America. Of the Catholic translations so approved, it is all around the best. At some points, they sacrifice technical accuracy for poetic emphasis, but this serves the original languages well. As a Catholic translation, there is not the same emphasis in the letters of Paul (or the Gospels for that matter) on the total depravity of human nature and predestination. The translation retains the rhetorical feel of Paul's long speeches and his wildly convoluted logic. The poetry has impact and uses concrete images instead of abstractions. Of the whole Bible, this is probably my favorite translation.
Jerusalem Bible and The New Jerusalem Bible. Originally a translation into French, and the from French into English (the NJB is direct to English, with reference to the JB). The poetry in the JB is better than any other translation, but it suffers in other respects. I love to read Isaiah in the original JB just for the sound of it.
Today's English Version (TEV). A great all-round translation. The purpose was to translate the Bible into an eighth grade reading level English, and they succeeded brillianlty. It is accurate, reads well and is not too Protestant. Its only drawback is that sometimes juiciness is sacrificed for simplicity. Kids and adults find it very easy to read and understand. For general reading, I highly recommended it.
Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures (Jewish Publication Society). A wonderful translation of the Jewish Scriptures — suffers a little from trying to tone things down for an American audience. Uses only the Masoretic Text without reference to any of the other ancient translations, sometimes less corrupt than the Hebrew tradition. The prophets are a joy to read in this translation.
Richmond Lattimore, The Four Gospels and The Acts and Letters of the Apostles. Lattimore is a classicist, best known for his translations of Homer. He claims to approach the christian scriptures simply as a Greek scholar. However, I find his theological slip showing — his interpretation of Paul is Lutheran. A very gritty feel for the language (the christian scriptures were written in the colloquial language of the day).
The Scholars Version (copyright 1992, 1994 Polebridge Press). Angered by the expense of the NRSV, some of the sholars connected with the Jesus Seminar decided to make their own translation available. They went all out in putting the christian scriptures into an English version that reflects the rough edges of the Greek they were written in. Jesus is heard to say "Damn you," which he did say in Greek. Well worth owning, but it will become dated.
Here are my favorite Editions, along with the Versions in which they are available.
The New Oxford Annotated Bible, with Apocrypha (NRSV). This edition is the seminary student's Bible. It has a complete apparatus, with cross-references to other scriptural allusions, etc. The notes explain what the author is trying to express (or at least what the editors think the author is trying to express — don't be fooled). There is a good, short introduction to each book printed at the head of the book, giving authorship, time and circumstances of writing. Great maps in the back, a chronology of biblical history and lots of other helps. Drawbacks? You have to read and pay for the NRSV.
The Catholic Study Bible (NAB). First class edition. Each book has a reader's guide, printed in the front half of the book. The reader's guide (abbreviated RG) outclasses the New Oxford Annotated Bible's introductions, covering also theological themes, and uses made of the book in the history of the church. The apparatus is better than NOAB. The Catholic Study Bible is available in paper for a lot less than the Oxford (and here's the capper — it, too, is published by Oxford!). This is the Bible that sits on my desk — I am now on my second copy, having beat the first one to death.
Good News Bible (TEV). Just a straigh ahead Bible — very little apparatus. But worth owning for the translation.
The Five Gospels (Scholars Version). The (in)famous Jesus Seminar red, pink, gray and black letter edition. This is worth owning to see how some scholars are approaching the words of Jesus — it helps to show that the Gospel writers had as much a hand in what Jesus is claimed to have said as did authentic recollection. Includes the Gospel of Thomas.
The Complete Gospels (Scholars Version). Includes all the Gospels and gospel fragmenst (infancy gospels like the Gospel of Mary, and other fragmentary gospels, like the Gospel of Peter). All of this stuff is very early christian literature that did not make it into the canon. All of it is important in understanding how the gospels we use came to be written. It includes several versions of Thomas, Secret Mark, a reconstruction of Q (that is, the source Matthew and Luke have in common besides Mark) and lots of other goodies. The translation is fun, and the apparatus is very good.
There are many more translations and editions, but these are the ones I find most useful.
A good commentary and a good bible dictionary are indispensable for understanding what you read. The best single volume commentary is The Jerome Biblical Commentary. Unfortunately it is hard to follow, but far and away the best scholarship. Also expensive.
Harpers Bible Commentary is not quite as good, but much less expensive.
Harper's Bible Dictionary is also pretty good.
The absolute best and most useful resource is The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (IDB). It is five volumes long. Hands down the resource I use most often.
Also very good is The New Interpreter's Bible. It is 12 volumes long. Probably beyond anything the average reader would need, but it is exhaustive.


It has been a long time coming and I put a strong emphasis on long time when it comes to Rodea: The Sky Soldier, we first heard about this game quite a while ago but it wasn't until recently that it was confirmed that the game would be arriving for us to play. If I remember correctly I believe the game has already come to Japan, but what about North America and Europe when will the game arrive there? Well, NIS America has today confirmed that with a September release, officially the game will arrive in North America on September 22nd, while the European's will receive the game on September 25th.


Starz has dropped the promo for the March 31st installment of American Gods titled "The Greatest Story Ever Told."
In Season 2 Episode 4: "While Shadow and Mr. Wednesday take a secret meeting in St. Louis, Bilquis arrives at the funeral home in Cairo, where she engages in a debate with Mr. Nancy and Mr. Ibis. Laura rejoins Mad Sweeney."
Season 2 Episode 4 "The Greatest Story Ever Told"
While Shadow and Mr. Wednesday take a secret meeting in St. Louis, Bilquis arrives at the funeral home in Cairo, where she engages in a debate with Mr. Nancy and Mr. Ibis. Laura rejoins Mad Sweeney.


Unsane (out Apr 25) is the latest from director Steven Soderbergh and was shot entirely using three iPhone 7 Plus phones! It's a tense thriller about a young woman who is unwillingly incarcerated in a psychiatric ward and has to battle both capitalism (they're locking up sane people for profit) and a creepy stalker who has been following her for 2 years. Clare Foy is amazing in the lead role and the way she reacts is how I'd see myself if placed in the same position. Grade: A.


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Tokyo Olympics India Medal 2021 Gold Silver Bronze Winners List
tokyo olympics india medal 2021, Check out medals won by India in Tokyo Olympics, India Medal List 2021 Gold Silver Bronze Winners with Details and Photos.
All readers should know that the Tokyo Olympics was held for 2020, but the global pandemic affected the Games. In such a situation, the organizers had to shift it this year. So, finally, the organizers decided to host the Games from 23 July to 8 August 2021. Now that the Olympic Games are coming to an end, it is important to check the medal table. Thus, we have talked about Tokyo Olympics India Medal 2021. Check out the list of Tokyo Olympics 2020 winners for all sports. Tokyo Olympics India Winner.
Tokyo Olympics India Medal 2021
Since the Tokyo Olympics were to be held in 2020, we will let you know the dates. For 2020, the organizers had put the Olympics from 24 July to 9 August 2020. And, this is the first time in the history of the Olympics that the Games have been postponed for another year. Whatever the case, now that the games are going well, they are nearing the end. With the end of the Games, we have decided to present the medal table for this season.
With the Indian teams at their best so far and with four days left, there are more medal chances for the country to win. On the second day of the Games itself, weightlifter Mirabai Chanu won the silver medal for India in the women's 49 kg category. After that, our players are trying their best to win medals for the country.
Tokyo Olympics India Medal Tally 2021
The first thing that comes to mind when talking about Olympics is gaming activities. From athletics to swimming, sportsmen and sportspersons actively participate in sports. To give you an idea about the Games and Games that will take place in the Olympics, we will tell you the names of the activities.
3*3 Basketball, Archery, Artistic Gymnastics, Artistic Swimming, Athletics, Badminton, Baseball/Softball, Basketball, Beach Volleyball, Boxing, Canoe Slalom, Canoe Sprint, Cycling BMF Freestyle, Cycling BMX Racing, Cycling Mountain Bike, Cycling Road, Cycling Track, Diving, Horse Riding, Fencing, Football, Golf, Handball, Hockey, Judo, Karate, Marathon Swimming, Modern Pentathlon, Rhythmic Gymnastics, Rowing, Rugby, Sailing, Shooting, Skateboarding, Sport Climbing, Surfing, Swimming, Table Tennis, Taekwondo , tennis, trampoline gymnastics, triathlon, volleyball, water polo, weightlifting and wrestling.
Tokyo Olympics India Winner List 2021
Now, we will tell you how many medals India has won so far and top 10 countries and total medal table of India. Talking about the first medal, weightlifter Mirabai Chanu won the silver medal in the 49 kg category. The event took place on 24 July 2021, the second day of Olympics 2021. After Mirabai Chanu, welterweight (64-69kg) debutante Lovlina Borgohain won the bronze medal. Another bronze medal came home with PV Sindhu becoming the first Indian woman to win two individual Olympic medals.
Also, after the men's hockey match on 5 August 2021, the Indian team has also won a bronze medal. It has happened after a long wait of 41 years that the Indian men's hockey team is bringing home a medal at the Olympics. Apart from these wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya has also won silver medal.
Gold Silver Bronze India Medal Tokyo Olympics 2021
rank countries Sleep Silver Brass complete
1 China 33 24 16 73
2 United States of america 27 34 24 85
3 Japan 21 7 13 41
4 Australia 17 4 18 39
5 soul 15 21 19 55
6 Great Britain 15 18 16 49
7 Germany 9 9 16 34
8 New Zealand 7 4 6 17
9 Italy 6 10 16 32
10 France 6 10 9 25
66 India 0 2 3 5
This figure is up to date. Comments will change over the next four days.
Links related to Tokyo Olympics India's medals 2021
olympics.com/tokyo-2020 India medals 2021 FAQ
Has India's men's hockey team won a bronze medal in the Tokyo Olympics 2021?
Yes, Indian men's hockey team defeated Germany (5-4 win) to win bronze medal in Tokyo Olympics 2021. The team has won a medal 41 years after the Moscow Olympics.
Which medal has been won by wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya in Tokyo Olympics?
Wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya has won silver medal in Tokyo Olympics.
How many gold medals does China have in the Tokyo Olympics so far?
So far, China has 33 gold medals, 24 silver and 16 bronze medals in the Tokyo Olympics 2021.
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Hundreds gathered on campus and many more took to social media on Friday to celebrate retiring President Rob Oliver and First Lady Angie Oliver on a day proclaimed as #OliverDay.
Graduating senior Jordan Bormann, a biology major from Parkston, South Dakota, will miss Commencement on Saturday because she'll be competing in the NCAA DII National Golf Championship in Findley, Ohio. So, AU officials and faculty and staff from the biology department organized a mini commencement for her on Monday. See photos.
Junior Alex Meyer's set design for the Augustana Theatre's production of "When the World Was Wild and Waste" earned a second-place award at the national Kennedy Center American College Theare Festival.
Senior Emily Kaufman received the "Outstanding Student" award from the Brookhaven National Laboratory for her work during a six-week Summer School in Nuclear and Radiochemistry Program. The award was presented last month at the annual meeting for the National American Chemical Society, held in San Francisco, California. We caught up with Kaufman to learn more about her experiences and her plans for the future.
Augustana senior Katie Romano, a biology major from Cañon City, Colorado, will serve as the senior speaker for the 2017 commencement exercises, set for Saturday, May 20, at the Sioux Falls Arena.
Augustana senior Chase Marso will attend Harvard Medical School in the fall.
President Rob Oliver, First Lady Angie Oliver and Management Information Systems Director Deb Frederick received Augie Pride Awards at the Augustana Service Awards Presentation and Celebration on Wednesday, April 26.
Dr. Jennifer Gubbels, associate professor of biology, is the recipient of the 2016-17 Augustana Student Association Faculty Recognition Award. The award recognizes outstanding teaching and contributions to the Augustana community by a faculty member.
Augustana senior Taylor Yocum, a communication-business and interdepartmental major, reflects on his internship with Mud Mile Communications, a Sioux Falls-based marketing and communications firm specializing in video content.


Do you have land you would like to sell in the Nashville area? If so, it is wise to have a strategy in place to help you sell. The strategy is quite different than selling a home in that you really need to convey the potential the land holds. Of course, this happens with houses too, but with land, people really need to be able to use their imaginations. Investors will want to see the potential as well as the value of the property over time.
Working with a professional buyer will save you a ton of time and money. You won't need to market the property or pay for online listings. You won't need to hire an agent or pay commissions. You won't need to wait around until a buyer is found. If you want to sell to reinvest in something else or to get cash for your land quickly, working with a professional buyer is the way to go. Justin Buys Houses is a team of professional land buyers who know the ins and outs of land sales in Nashville. We will work with you to pay you a fair price for your land, making sure you receive a smooth and simple transaction.


With the latest release of Cirro, we've made it a breeze to add offline satellite data layers to your device. To do so, click on the maps and charts module and select the option Manage Offline Data -> then select Satellite Imagery. You have the choice to select from a list of map tiles or from the map itself. And that's it. Offline satellite data.
One big part of the recent update is the new quoting module that makes it a cinch to create, edit, approve and manage quotes. Custom quote fields, reusable templates, and e-signatures add flexibility and customization out of the box. Save time, eliminate mistakes, and get paid faster with the new quoting module. It's currently released in beta, meaning there's likely still a few kinks to work out. But if you're interesting in getting your hands on the new module, let us know!
The clients and jobs module now has a new feature that allows you to attach an account balance to any client. Users can toggle on the option to track account balances by either creating a new client or by editing an existing client.
Particularly useful for flight schools, this option allows you to create student balances that can then be tied to invoices that pull in flight report and flight duty time information.
Admin users can now pull reports on submitted expenses. Through the Admin Module -> Reports -> Expenses you can apply several different filters and then generate an overview of expense data that can be exported into a CSV file.
In addition to the admin reporting updates, users can now submit expenses for a new category. From the expense module, the per diem option in now available from the list of previous options.
Not every update or new feature can be a grand slam. Sometimes the small ball approach is the way to go. Alright, enough sport analogy. The sortable billing columns update is a small change that just makes things easier. In the different billing and invoicing modules you can sort on various columns by clicking on the column title.
Cirro's timesheet report makes it quick and easy to view and export employee info that relates to flight reports and flight duty times. For easier reference, the table now includes job numbers and job names.
Useful tips and valuable resources, sent out every other month.