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Ben Downing: Foster Care
By Ben Downing • May 9, 2019
Kay Lazer's recent series in the Boston Globe on the Massachusetts foster care system is equal parts heartbreaking and maddening. It should be a call to action and a reminder that the impact of public policy decisions can be felt for years after the fact.
Stepping back from the series, we can see four trends coming together to strain the state's child welfare system: the opioid crisis, 25 years of budget cuts, state government's inability to deploy technology efficiently, and fewer families signing up to serve as foster parents. The combination of these trends is creating a lost generation of children. We cannot accept that, especially when the solutions to avoid it are within our grasp.
While much of the discussion about the opioid epidemic focuses on the good news of declining overdose deaths, DCF continues to deal with addiction rendering too many parents unable to care for their kids resulting in too many homes that are unsafe for children. The number of children in foster care has increased by almost 20% since 2014, surpassing 9,200 children this year. Lazer's series describes children born addicted; and children dealing with emotional and physical trauma of being born into homes with an addicted parent or parents.
As the challenges kids bring to the foster system rise, state government has fallen short in managing them. Massachusetts prides itself on being a tech and innovation leader. Yet the state agency charged with protecting our most vulnerable population does not have the ability to deploy relatively simple technology to track the progress and needs of those it serves. That is an embarrassment. Absent technology that gives all foster parents, school districts and other caregivers, a complete picture of why and how a bewildered, scared child has arrived at their door, the trend of declining foster parents will continue. State government should follow through on its constant call "public-private partnerships" and engage the tech sector in solving these issues. Doing so can and should make it easier for well-intentioned people to become foster parents and ensure a safe transfer of data for children between caregivers.
Despite recent increases, DCF has been asked to do more with less for decades, all while dealing with children who bring more and more complex issues to the system. The current status of the foster care system shows how the impacts of year upon year of budget cuts compound finally to create a crisis. Kids aren't provided the support they need, foster parents are left to fend for themselves and social workers see their caseloads grow and support shrink. All to preserve tax cuts that disproportionately benefit the wealthy.
Every child in Massachusetts deserves a chance. Our current system is not providing that to all children. As a community we need to lend a hand to the hard working social workers and foster parents and demand better. Our hope and goal should be to not need the services of the DCF. But knowing that goal is far from being reached, the Department should operate in a manner that shows the children, foster parents and social workers in it that they have our unlimited supporting in ensuring every kid in Massachusetts has the opportunity to make the most of their gifts. We cannot say that today and it should be our top priority to change that.
Ben Downing represented the westernmost district in the Massachusetts Senate from 2006 to 2016. He is currently a vice president at Nexamp, a Massachusetts-based solar energy company, and an adjunct faculty member at Tufts University.
The views expressed by commentators are solely those of the authors. They do not necessarily reflect the views of this station or its management.
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Ben Downing: Let's Get Transportation Moving
By Ben Downing • Apr 4, 2019
The transportation debate in Massachusetts has been locked in a battle of false choices for far too long. Failure to recognize this has left us a transportation system built in the 1970s, to serve the Massachusetts of the 80s, burdened by debt from the 90s, unable to help us grow in this century. Here is one proposal for moving forward.
Ben Downing: Women's History Month
By Ben Downing • Mar 14, 2019
Throughout March we honor women's contribution to progress and remember all that must be done to ensure full equality today. In honor of that I want to recognize the incredible women in my life. I am the proud grandson of Gertrude Martin Downing, who raised nine kids after her husband passed away suddenly, and Shirley Trusselle Brackett, who beat back Polio, the proud son of Pamela June Brackett Downing, whose quiet strength is the only thing more impressive than her creativity, the proud brother of Maggie Downing whose can do spirit helped clean up after Katrina and is helping revitalize a canal in Washington, D.C., the proud husband of Micaelah Burke Morrill, who knows more about how to actually turn innovation into real things than anyone I know and also happens to be an incredible friend, mom and wife. I could talk for hours about all of them or any one of them, but none of them would like that and my guess is none of them would think that is in the spirit of this month.
Ben Downing: Moral Capitalism
By Ben Downing • Feb 13, 2019
Recently, Congressman Joe Kennedy called for a "moral capitalism," in which our economy is "judged not by how much it produces but by how widely it shares."
Ben Downing: Tackling Climate Change
By Ben Downing • Jan 10, 2019
The news of nine Northeastern states and the District of Columbia coming together to address transportation climate impacts is good news. All the leaders, Democrats and Republicans alike, including Governor Baker of Massachusetts deserve credit for taking the important first step of publically forming the alliance and committing to action.


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a supplement and more information for the public about certain historical events and attributes relating to our Petersburg "Ground Zero 1864&5."
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"Years afterward, a Confederate who survived the rigors of the campaign for the Cockade City cautioned future historians -- the story of Petersburg will never be written; volumes would be required to contain it, and even those who went through the ordeal can not recall a satisfactory outline of the weird and graphic occurrences of the stormy period."


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Before I go on, let me just say that I think putting on this "carnival" was a great thing to do for the Season Ticket Holders. Before they announced it, I had no idea that it was even being planned (perhaps it wasn't…). I think if you ask STH what they want, access to the players and a chance to hang out without constantly being asked for money would be on the list. I know that the partial-season ticket holders were not invited, but I suppose you have to draw the line somewhere. I know I was dismayed that the seat signs and suite party earlier this season were for the 5-year season ticket holders and not for the single-season or 3-year commits. But it is what it is, and was part of the reason I upgraded my plan from 3- to 5-years. Well, that and protection from impending price increases. So I'd encourage partial-season seat-holders to consider upgrading their commitment. You'll be able to choose exactly which games you want to go to, and selling on the secondary market for the games you can't get to has been easy–they tell me–and a decent value for the buyers because they avoid the arena fees.
My companion for the night, Kram3, only wanted to meet one player: Jay Rosehill. Without this schedule, and not seeing him anywhere, we left way before he appeared in the arcade.
The solution, of course, is to make this schedule more available to the fans, and now that we know what to expect, we can adjust for next season. I do hope they have the event again next season! I'll plan to stay longer and eat there and everything!
Kram3 was disappointed with the length of the lines and with "Rosey" nowhere to be seen. Autographs aren't my thing, but I offered to stand in any line he wanted. He wasn't up for it. So, we made our way down to the area floor to check that stuff out. The dunk-tank was being manned by our guy Jesper Pettersson at the time. And, the line was really short.
A few very young kiddos were doing their best to sink the Phantoms staffer in the Hershey Bears jersey. They weren't having much luck, but "Petey" was being very patient and helping them move up closer to get a better shot at the dunk target. Evidently, the water in the tank was warmer than the air in the ice hockey arena, so the "Hershey Fan" was starting to get cold, and heckle the throwers by cheering: "LET'S GO! HER-SHE!" Kram3 decided that it was time to act. But first, he asked Jesper to sign his jersey. "Let's Go! Her-She!" continued.
As you can see in the photo above, Pettersson has a rather unique and complicated signature. He took his time signing it.
Then, he prepared to offer Kram3 four balls to throw at the target.
Now, Kram3 is a lefty. And, he's got a really good arm. At one point his ability to throw hard with his left arm was going to be my retirement plan. Alas, he's now a soccer player. But I digress.
So instead of grabbing all four balls, Kram3 just reaches out with his left hand and grabs one.
The "Hershey Fan" was underwater before he could get the second syllable out. You can see the yellow ball in the above photo, obscuring the hand of the dude in the background taking a photo with his phone. Kram3 gave a fist-pump like he'd just scored a Stanley Cup goal, and walked away–letting someone else have a chance. His work was done, and Jesper is standing there smiling, still holding the other three balls.


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Iraqi forces battle to retake Tikrit from caliph-led ISIS
ReutersPublished July 1, 2014
BAGHDAD: Iraqi troops battled to dislodge an Al Qaeda splinter group from the city of Tikrit on Monday after its leader was declared caliph of a new Islamic state in lands seized this month across a swathe of Iraq and Syria.
Alarming regional and world powers, the Islamic State in Iraq and Al Sham (ISIS) claimed universal authority, declaring its leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was now caliph of the Muslim world – a title last widely recognised in the Ottoman sultan deposed 90 years ago after World War One. "He is the imam and caliph for Muslims everywhere," group spokesman Abu Muhammad al Adnani said in an online statement.
The move follows a three-week drive for territory by ISIS militants and allies among Iraqi's Sunni populace. The caliphate aims to erase colonial-era borders and defy the US- and Iranian-backed government of Prime Minister Nuri al Maliki in Baghdad.
It also poses a direct challenge to the global leadership of Al Qaeda, which disowned ISIS, and to conservative Gulf Arab rulers, who already view the group as a security threat.
Iraqi army attempted last week to take back Tikrit but was unable to seize the city. Helicopters hit ISIS positions overnight. On the southern outskirts, a battle raged into Monday, residents said.
The fighting has started to draw in international support for Baghdad, two-and-a-half years after US troops pulled out.
Armed and trained by the United States, Iraq's armed forces crumbled in the face of the ISIS onslaught and have struggled to bring heavier weaponry to bear.
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Iraqi army spokesman Qassim Atta said declaring a caliphate could backfire by showing that Baghdadi's group posed a risk to other nations:
"This declaration is a message by Islamic State not only to Iraq or Syria but to the region and the world," he said.
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Jean Victor Charles Edmond Leune (28 December 1889 – 13 May 1944) was a French war correspondent, writer, press photographer, military aviator and member of the French Resistance.

Early life
Jean Leune was born on 28 December 1889 in Saint-Quentin (Aisne), France. He was the son of Alfred Leune (2 September 1857, Rouen, Normandy – 9 December 1930, Paris) and Céline Blanche "Léonie" Daix (1871–1942). The couple had three children. In 1902, Jean obtained a government scholarship to attend the prestigious  Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris.

On 7 February 1911, Jean Leune married Hélène Vitivilia in Paris, at the townhall of the 16e arrondissement in Paris. Leune studied in the faculty history at the Sorbonne in Paris and graduated in 1912. It was likely there that he met his future wife, Hélène, who graduated from the same faculty in 1909.

War correspondent (First Balkan War)
Leune travelled to the Balkans as a journalist (grand reporter) for the Parisian newspaper L'Illustration during the First Balkan War in 1912–1913. He and his wife arrived in Greece in mid-October 1912 to cover the imminent war. After temporarily residing in Athens, the couple left that city on 27 October for Larissa to follow the Greek Army. After the Greek Army took Thessaloniki, Leune and his wife travelled to Preveza to follow the Army of Epirus. The Leunes arrived in Preveza on 24 November 1912. The Leunes accompanied the Greek Army in the field in different campaigns, and their many articles and photographs provide a vivid testament to the valor, horrors and hardship of that war from the perspective of both combatants and civilians.

In 1913, Jean and Hélène both contributed chapters to the book Dans les Balkans, 1912–1913 : récits et visions de guerre, that describe their wartime expériences.  The following year, Jean wrote Une revanche, une étape : avec les Grecs à Salonique par Athènes et la Macédoine, campagne de 1912.

Military career (World War I)
Leune was an Infantry Captain with the French Army during World War I, serving in the technical service of aviation (capitaine d'infanterie au service au service technique de l'aéronautique). He was mobilized on 2 August 1914. After spending the first part of the campaign in France, he was sent to the Corps expéditionnaire d'Orient, where he flew reconnaissance missions and organized a battalion of Greek volunteers in Moudros.

Hélène accompanied Jean to Greece, and she served as a volunteer nurse with the Red Cross in the hospitals of Thessaloniki and Moudros. Hélène gave birth to their daughter Irène in Thessaloniki in 1917. In 1942, Irène Leune married baron Alfred Testot-Ferry (1914–1947), aviator and member of the French Resistance. Irène became one of the first women race car drivers using the pseudonym "Irène Terray," and she won many rally competitions during the 1950s (e.g. Coupe des Dames à Liège–Rome–Liège, Monte-Carlo Rally). Hélène Leune, who had been serving as a Red Cross nurse, died in Vitry-le-François (Marne), France during the bombardment that took place in that town on 18 May 1940.

Jean Leune was a remarkable observer and he performed a series of aerial reconnaissance missions with the Corps expéditionnaire d'Orient that yielded valuable information every time. He received one injury during the war and received two citations from the French Army. As part of a military aerial competition, in August–September 1919, Captain Leune flew from Paris-Marseille-Pisa-Rome-Vallona-Thessaloniki-Constantinople, covering 5,500 km in 50 hours of flight time.  He made the voyage with a mechanic, Perrin, and a radio operator, Dugré, aboard the Chimère, a Farman F.50 twin-engine bomber (275 h.p. Lorraine motors) equipped with 4 seats and a wireless radio. In December 1919, he was serving as a Capitain-aviator in Constantinople.

Novelist in France
Leune became an aviation Reserve Officer in France after the war. He was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur on 2 August 1920.

Leune was an experienced press photographer and he also experimented with aerial photography (e.g. during his Paris-Constantinople flight). In 1921, he promoted the use of aerial photography for geography.

On 3 November 1921 Leune married his second wife, Germaine Berthe Emilie Fougères, at the townhall of the 5eme arrondissement in Paris.

Jean wrote three novels during the 1920s: L'Éternel Ulysse, ou la Vie aventureuse d'un Grec d'aujourd'hui, a satirical depiction of contemporary Greek society (1923); Le Malfaisant, an allegorical story about good and evil set during World War I (1927); and Au temps des Vikings : Nora la blonde, vierge, au bouclier, a historical adventure set in Scandinavia around 1000 A.D. (1928).

On 12 May 1925, as a captain in the Reserve Officers, Leune was transferred to the 34e régiment d'aviation au 3e groupe d'ouvriers d'aéronautique.

Leune actively promoted the cause of World War I veterans. In 1930, he participated in a commemoration ceremony in Gallipoli along with 450 French veterans, descendants, wives and orphans. He was the vice president of the Association nationale des anciens combattants des Dardanelles during 1938–1939.

Journalist in Algeria
On the occasion of the centennial anniversary of the French colonisation of Algeria, Leune was sent to Algeria in 1930 as a correspondent for Le Temps. He stayed there for six months and travelled extensively, writing a series of articles favorable to the colony. Jean's new wife Germaine accompanied him to Algeria. On 29 January 1930, the couple flew on the maiden flight of the airborne postal service from Alger to El Goléa, established by the Compagnie aéropostale. Later that year, Leune published the book Le miracle algérien, based on the articles he had written for Le Temps.

In 1931, Leune published Les Ailes ardentes, a novel about aviation.

French Resistance and arrest (World War II)
In response to the German invasion of Poland, France declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939, and Leune was mobilised as a Reserve Officer that same month. On 10 May 1940, Germany began its invasion of the Low Countries and France in what became known as the Battle of France. After the armistice was signed on 22 June 1940, France was divided into a German occupation zone in the north and west and a Zone Libre (Free Zone) in the south. Leune was demobilised at the end of 1940 and he remained in the Free Zone until July 1942. Leune continued to serve his country as a sous-lieutenant in the French Resistance. The Vichy authorities arrested him on 15 January 1943 and on 6 October 1943 they sentenced him to a year in prison and a fine of 1,200 francs for "actes de nature à nuire à la Défense nationale." In March 1944 he was taken by the Germans and placed in detention at the Drancy internment camp, and then transferred to the Compiègne internment camp. On 10 May 1944 he left the Compiègne internment camp by train headed towards the Buchenwald concentration camp. Leune died from suffocation on 13 May 1944 on board the train convoy travelling from Compiègne to Buchenwald. His body was burned in the crematory at Buchewald on 15 May 1944.

Posthumous honors
On 7 November 1958, the Légion d'honneur issued a certificate recognizing that Leune died for France. Leune's name is also inscribed in the Panthéon of Paris as one of the writers who died for France.

Bibliography

Books
 Dans les Balkans, 1912–1913 : récits et visions de guerre / récits de Mme Hélène Leune et de MM. Gustave Cirilli, René Puaux; Gustave Babin, Georges Rémond, Capitaine de frégate Nel, Jean Leune, Alain de Penennrun (Paris: M. Imhaus et R. Chapelot, 1913)
 Une revanche, une étape : avec les Grecs à Salonique par Athènes et la Macédoine, campagne de 1912 (Paris : M. Imhaus et R. Chapelot, 1914)
 L'Éternel Ulysse, ou la Vie aventureuse d'un Grec d'aujourd'hui (Paris: Plon, Nourrit et Cie, 1923)
 Le Malfaisant (Paris: la Vraie France, 1927)
 Au temps des Vikings : Nora la blonde, vierge, au bouclier (Nancy: Berger-Levrault, 1928)
 Le miracle algérien (Nancy-Paris-Strasbourg: impr.-édit. Berger-Levrault, 1930)
 Les Ailes ardentes (Paris-Nancy-Strasbourg: impr.-édit. Berger-Levrault, 1931)

Selected articles
 "Comment Salonique s'est rendue à l'armée grecque." Le Correspondant (Paris), 10 Juillet 1913, pp. 42–62.
 "En campagne avec l'armée grecque." L'Illustration (Paris), No. 3674, 26 Juillet 1913.
 "De Paris à Rome et à Constantinople." Le Monde illustré (Paris), 25 October 1919, pp 804–805.
 "Impressions Aériennes." Le Correspondant (Paris), 10 Juillet 1920, volume 280, pp 340–355.

Speaking engagements
 20 May 1921, to the Société de géographie in Paris.

References

French military personnel of World War I
War correspondents of the Balkan Wars
20th-century French non-fiction writers
French people who died in Buchenwald concentration camp
People from Saint-Quentin, Aisne
1944 deaths
French Resistance members
20th-century French male writers
Resistance members who died in Nazi concentration camps
French civilians killed in World War II
Drancy internment camp prisoners
Deaths from asphyxiation
1889 births

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21 epilepsy deaths each week in the UK is 21 too many
In light of the recent Cannabis oil (CBD) scandal picked up by Government, the public and the press - our heart goes out to all families facing huge challenges with access to treatment and services, which could help manage seizures and keep their family members safer.
Our bereaved community, campaigning for over 21 years, know the ultimate cost of this not happening.
21 epilepsy deaths each week in the UK, is 21 too many.
Too many lives lost unnecessarily, so many deaths avoidable. Many because of systematic failure to recognise and tackle the issue; leaving it to SUDEP Action and clinical and research champions to do this.
There have been increasing numbers of recent epilepsy scandals which shine a light more publicly on epilepsy; CBD, Sodium Valproate, Learning Disability, maternal, and premature epilepsy deaths – all of which gain brief, wide-scale attention but address important issues. This attention, towards a long-neglected and stigmatised condition is a step forward. But, public and Government attention on these issues is cursory and too frequently in response to individual cases. The last government action plan on epilepsy was in 2003, in response to a deaths report in 2002. Recommendations that would tackle early deaths, remain unimplemented.
As SUDEP Action is a Charity specialised in supporting the bereaved and dedicated to tackling epilepsy related deaths, we know the importance of people with epilepsy being supported to reduce the number of seizures they have. And, our bereaved families understand first-hand the barriers to keeping people with epilepsy safe.
Lessons must be learned from deaths. Deaths are rising and a report in January buried. Government ministers have not met yet with SUDEP Action, representing the bereaved community and the epilepsy and neurology organisations concerned, to listen to the evidence. There is a real danger that by focusing on singular issues related to epilepsy without looking at the condition as a whole - including care, services and addressing the deaths that are occurring because of it - people with epilepsy will continue to be at grave risk without the support they truly need.
Research on epilepsy as a condition is underfunded and epilepsy is currently not a priority for the NHS, nor does it look like it will be anytime soon. But without a wide scale focus from policy-makers on how to address the gaps in epilepsy care, people living with the condition, their families and clinicians, will continue to pay the price.
This is why SUDEP Action, in collaboration with others from the epilepsy and neurology community, are calling for Government to support the work being done to address these gaps and tackle epilepsy deaths. We will continue to request a meeting with Government until we are truly heard.
New funding, recently announced by Government for the NHS, will be allocated to help acknowledge epilepsy as a condition requiring urgent attention. It is unacceptable that families at risk are left with little alternative but to seek help outside of the NHS, or have to resort to media and political campaigning to receive support.
This needs to change before more people pay the ultimate price.
So far, our call to policy-makers has fallen on deaf ears, but we will continue this fight on behalf of our bereaved families, those living with epilepsy and their clinicians to do what we can to help save lives.
We will be bringing our 1000 voices campaign to a UK Summit focusing on tackling epilepsy deaths in November, where we will gather strength from all these voices and the organisations and clinical teams standing with the families.


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Interesting. When you say "very specific events", are you referring to the schema of the data included in the event, or to some filter conditions that must be met for the event to reach the consumer, or both? What is getting more specific?
I'm reminded of two things: percolators in elasticsearch, and separately, something we're doing now; event streams are flowing through stages of normalization and enrichment, but also through light weight functions as intermediary consumers that carve out events of interest to specialized consumers. We don't quite have it automated to the point of being declarative, but the intermediary consumers are extremely lightweight, only taking a few minutes to create and deploy.
Maybe there's an opportunity to refine PaaS offerings in this space…?
There is indeed an opportunity to refine PaaS offerings. There's a lot of discussion about events in the context of Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS), yet I think these kinds of events have a place in the broader ecosystem as well.
GUIs did not typically support or encourage event isolation, where every event carries all context required to process it – until we did this in OpenUI in 1990 – that made for a revolutionary UI dev experience. HP's SoftBench also used a patented pub/sub messaging architecture for CASE tool integration, with pattern-matching for subscriptions.
However the real devils in these systems are the methods for discovering, subscribing and routing messages reliably. If every message is "very specific" and you have to know where to subscribe, then at scale you can't manage faults and end up with a massive tangle of spaghetti that hinders rearchitecting.


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Q: How to call a function in AngularJS only once as initialisation I'm just new to AngularJS and try to create a little app with sqlite.
Now I'm able to insert records and the next step is to delete them by their index.
As I see now it seems that I created an infinite loop because when I start my app it initialize with getting all records from the database.
And this init() causes me trouble.
var listApp = angular.module('listApp', []);
listApp.controller('ListCtrl', ['$scope', '$q', function ($scope, $q) {
    var deferred = $q.defer();

    function init() {
        // first - create the table
        createTableIfNotExists();
        getLists();
        console.log("init loaded");
    }

   // some more functions

    init();

}]);

So what I wanted to achieve is that when my app starts it first has to look if there are any records in the database, fetch them and render it in the view.
So that works fine. But now as I added the console.log("init loaded") to my init() I see that the init() is running as a loop.
So every new click to a button isn't able to start because of this loop.
What other way is there to start or fetch only once the datas from the database to feed the view? So far I searched in the AngularJS documentation I couldn't find a function that can call a function of a controller e.g. from the HTML-Template.
EDIT:
Here is the plunker.
EDIT 2:
Here is the new plunker.

A: In your plunker example, init() calls a getLists() function, which calls defaultResultHandler(), which calls resetForm(), which calls init() again. Thus the infinite loop.
To answer your question, there is nothing wrong with the way in which you're initializing your data. I often do the same with an init() function. The problem is, you are explicitly breaking that pattern by calling it again in another function, which makes it no longer a one-time initialization.
Even without the infinite loop, this is bad design IMO. If you find yourself calling init() again after the initial load, it's probably time to step back and think about what you're doing and why.

A: the init is not getting called in loop from the controller, but from the reset form...
and this is how the loop is

init() => getLists() => promisedQuery() => defaultResultHandler() =>
  resetForm() => init()

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Tragically Hip singer Gord Downie dead at 53
Gord Downie, the lead singer of The Tragically Hip, died on October 17 at the age of 53 after a lengthy battle with terminal brain cancer.
"Last night Gord quietly passed away with his beloved children and family close by," said the Downie family in a statement on Wednesday. "Gord knew this day was coming - his response was to spend this precious time as he always had - making music, making memories and expressing deep gratitude to his family and friends for a life well lived, often sealing it with a kiss… on the lips."
Downie was diagnosed with a form of brain cancer called glioblastoma, which was discovered after the rocker suffered a seizure in his hometown of Kingston, ON in December of 2015.
A brain scan revealed a tumour on the left side of the singer's brain that would be impossible to remove completely. Doctors at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, ON were able to surgically "excise the bulk of the tumour", following which the singer underwent radiation and chemotherapy treatments.
In May of 2016, The Tragically Hip shared the news of Downie's health status and simultaneously announced a farewell Canadian tour that would conclude with an August 20, 2016 finale in the band's hometown that was broadcast live across Canada by the nation's public broadcaster CBC and streamed by hennemusic.
Calling it "an unprecedented event," the CBC broadcast and stream drew 11.7 million Canadians – or about one-third of the country's population – with the television broadcast averaging 4 million viewers.
One of Canada's most beloved bands, The Tragically Hip formed in 1984 in Kingston, their name taken from a sketch in former Monkees member Michael Nesmith's 1981 long-form music video "Elephant Parts."
A self-titled 1987 EP put the group on the road before 1989's full-length "Up To Here", delivered Canadian rock radio staples like "New Orleans Is Sinking", "Blow At High Dough" and "38 Years Old."
A string of six Canadian No. 1 albums followed while The Tragically Hip rode its commercial wave through their first decade to sales of almost 5 million copies in their homeland as Downie's lyrical references to Canadian places and themes built a distinct and unique connection between the group and their fans.
Downie would also issue five solo records in the new century, with his 2016 set, "Secret Path", drawing attention to the history and plight of Canada's Indigenous people and their issues, for which he became a strong advocate in his final years.
The Tragically Hip issued 13 studio albums to huge success in their homeland, earning an unprecedented 16 Juno Awards for a band, and inductions into both the Canadian Music Hall Of Fame and Canada's Walk Of Fame.
"For almost five decades, Gord Downie uncovered and told the stories of Canada," said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a statement. "He was the frontman of one of Canada's most iconic bands, a rock star, artist, and poet whose evocative lyrics came to define a country. The Tragically Hip's music invited us to explore places we had never been – from Mistaken Point to Churchill – and helped us understand each other, while capturing the complexity and vastness of the place we call home.
"Gord's command of language was profound. He painted landscapes with his words, elevating Canadian geography, historical figures, and myths. When he spoke, he gave us goosebumps and made us proud to be Canadian. Our identity and culture are richer because of his music, which was always raw and honest – like Gord himself."
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Conceded by Stefan Thesker. FC Heidenheim right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. FC Heidenheim wins a free kick in the attacking half.
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The Rolling Stones, live from your living room.
A new audio technology puts the Rolling Stones live in your living room.
The next hi-fi revolution begins a week from today, with a whimper. In the liner notes for each of the 22 compact discs to be released on Aug. 27, as part of Abkco Records' Rollings Stones Remastered series, you can read in fine print: "This disc actually has two layers. One is a normal CD. The other layer is a Super Audio CD (SACD) of the same repertoire." Not exactly the stuff of fanfares. Yet the Stones discs mark the mass-market debut of a new audio format—one far superior to the standard CD, possibly even better than (and I say this as a vinylphile) the analog LP.
The new discs—which draw on the original master tapes of every album the Stones recorded in the glory years of 1964-71—sound fine on a plain old CD player. But in a machine designed to play SACDs (more on that later), there's a clarity that was missing on earlier CD reissues or on the original LPs. You catch every strum and nuance of the guitars; the bass line is tight and distinct; the drums pound; and the tambourines sizzle. Especially on the later, better-recorded albums (or most of the songs after "Paint It Black" on the greatest hits twofer Hot Rocks),you hear—you practically feel—waves of sound billowing from the whole area around and between your speakers, with the natural overtones of each instrument preserved intact. It's a difficult sensation to describe, but consider: When you walk by an apartment and hear music coming from a window, you can easily tell whether someone's playing an instrument or a record. That's because live music produces precisely this coherent, unbroken wave of tones and overtones. SACD approximates this aspect of live music in a way that conventional CDs, even well-made ones, do not approach.
As a nutty audiophile, I listened to these discs through a fairly expensive stereo system, but I also plugged the SACD player into my sister-in-law's humdrum rig, and to a lesser degree, I heard the same effect—and so did she. Besides, the SACD player I used to listen to the Stones discs was Sony's flimsy, bottom-of-the-line machine, which retails for $250. The SACD layer of the Stones discssounds better on this cheap box than the CD layers sound on my top-of-the-line Arcam player, which sells for 10 times as much. The SACD layers also sound better than the original LP pressings sound on my VPI turntable, which, together with my Discoveryphono cartridge, costs about 20 times as much.
So what's going on here? Just what is an SACD (as 99.9 percent of the Stones discs' purchasers are likely to ask), and what makes its Audio so Super? SACDs look just like CDs, but they digitally encode music in a completely different way. Regular CDs are made with pulse code modulation (PCM) recorders, which take samples of music—like a sonic snapshot—44,100 times per second. Each sample is translated into a 16-bit signal, which means the data stream consists of 705,600 bits per second. SACDs are recorded in a new process called direct stream digital (DSD), which samples the music as single-bit pulses 2,822,400 times per second—four times faster than PCM, resulting in four times as much information. The faster the speed, the greater the clarity—in the same way that increasing the number of frames per second boosts the quality of a film image, or multiplying the number of dots in a connect-the-dots puzzle improves the accuracy of the final picture.
Of course, better sound hardly guarantees success in the marketplace. (Anyone still own a Betamax?) In fact, I argued in Slate last year that SACD was commercially doomed. My reasons: SACD discs, what few existed, retailed for $10 more than regular CDs; they could be played only on SACD players; these players were too expensive (the cheapest was more than $1,000); and normal people would balk at buying another electronic box, in any case.
All those reasons are now obsolete. Sony, which holds the rights to the DSD process and (along with Philips) the SACD format, is pushing this new medium very aggressively. Sony lowered the price of its own SACD discs to just $1 above regular CDs, it slashed the prices of players (which play all CDs as well as SACDs), and it's luring customers to buy SACD players without their being aware of it. For instance, Sony's latest models of thehighly popular "home-theater-in-a-box" systems—which include a DVD player, a five-channel surround-sound receiver, five mini-speakers and a subwoofer, all for $500—also include an SACD chip. This fall, Sony is putting out a stand-alone progressive-scan DVD player that's also a multichannel SACD player for just $250. It's like getting an SACD player tossed in for free.
Most important, in what seems to be a major lesson from its Betamax failure, Sony has licensed the technology to other manufacturers, a step that led to a major innovation. Sonopress, a German company owned by BMG, designed "dual-layer hybrid" machines, which can stamp out discs with two layers—one to be read by the lasers on CD players, the other to be picked up only by SACD players. As a result, you can play the same disc on your SACD player at home and your CD player in the car. And, as with the Rolling Stones Remastered series, you can buy an SACD disc—and buy into the hi-fi industry's agenda —without knowing it.
Right now, there are only two dual-layer hybrid machines in the entire world, and the Stones project—which produced 2 million discs—monopolized both for months. (The discs were originally scheduled to come out Aug. 20, but the machines weren't done pressing three titles, and the distributor insisted on sticking to the original plan of releasing all 22 at once.) Sonopress is starting up another production line in Germany, and Philips and Crest have entered a partnership to make dual-layer hybrid discs in Hollywood. This new digital phase is only at the beginning, but it could take off quickly. Sony has also recruited 60 record companies to join the SACD bandwagon. Among them are such classic labels as Blue Note, Verve, Decca, Chess, Virgin, Deutsche Grammophone, and—most intriguing of all—EMI. How long before we see The Beatles Remastered?


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We begin our reevaluation of the table service options at Magic Kingdom with a look at Liberty Tree Tavern's lunch and dinner options.
Liberty Tree has recently seen some significant changes to its lunch lineup. The above menu is what you would have seen as recently as last month with three appetizers, five entrees, and four desserts rounding out the offerings.
Before that, there were exactly three a la carte offerings.
Here's the current menu, which more than doubles the number of options with seven appetizers, nine entrees, and five desserts. We also see a couple of price increases on some classic options, including the Tavern Keeper's Favorite Pot Roast, up four dollars to $24. The Bacon Cheddar Cheeseburger sees the same four dollar increase, which is sizable when you consider it's 25%. The Colony Salad is up two dollars, while the Fish and Chips maintain their $19 price and somewhat surprisingly, end up being the least expensive non-salad entree on the menu.
The "Freedom Pasta – Pasta, Artichokes, Mushrooms, and Tomatoes tossed in a Roasted Red Pepper Cream Sauce with Chicken or Shrimp" for $23 didn't make the cut and is no longer officially on the menu. It was actually pretty good and an overwhelming amount of food. During dinner, when the Patriot's Platter is the only option on the menu, the restaurant would serve a vegetarian version of this. These days, you may still see it served to vegetarians during dinner, though they may be able to do the Revolutionary Meatloaf, which is also vegan, depending on supply. That dish uses Impossible Burgers and you can read more about it at Vegan Disney World. While I am very much not vegan, I've been impressed with a lot of recent meatless options. When we review restaurants, we typically try to order a bloggable assortment of dishes and I usually end up picking last. It's not uncommon at all for whatever sounds the "weirdest" or most out there to be one of the better dishes we receive.
The $9 "New England Clam Chowder – Oyster Crackers and Green Onions" is a menu mainstay. Rich, creamy, and comforting, the soup is a great start to a meal.
There are two Brown Bread options on the appetizers front, here with the $10 "Tavern Cheese Dip – Blend of Four Cheeses with Griddled Boston Brown Bread." "For a dollar less, you can order Traditional Boston Brown Bread with House-made Apple-Butter Spread," which arrives as a much more substantial loaf.
The bread tastes richly of molasses with a distinct rye quality, sweet and crispy on the outside with a nice chew once you approach the center of each piece.
It's paired with a delicious, salty Cheese Dip that does a great job of cutting some of the sweetness from the bread, while at the same time adding a cheesy element. I think you'd be smart to share this among two or three people as it's incredibly rich and quite filling. I wanted to eat more, but had to hold off considering what's on deck.
You'll find a relatively robust wine list at Liberty Tree. My suggestions would be the Matanzas Creek Sauvignon Blanc or Knights Valley Cabernet with bottle pricing at the restaurant that's about twice as much as Total Wine. The other wines cost 3x or more the store price.
You'll also find three draft beers, four bottled beers, a cider, five "specialty cocktails," and a mimosa available.
Here's how those look from a past meal. I tried and failed to receive a strong pour on that $11 "Mimosa – Featuring Iron Horse 'Fairy Tale Celebration Cuvee' with Orange Juice," by asking the server to go easy on the orange juice. A full glass of the sparkling wine would run you $17. But it's pretty clear that you're looking at a mimosa that's at least half juice, which is far off of my own recipe, which is just a drop or two of juice for color. Boston Lager is a fantastic Vienna Lager that I don't order often enough. You can also pick up their IPA, which is fruitier and less bitter than most beers of that style.
For seatings from 3:15pm on, the $38 Bill of Fare is the only option. You can still order it during lunch. I was initially excited about seeing the Pilgrim's Feast Carved Turkey Breast back on the menu, but at $24 by itself, decided that the All-You-Care-to-Enjoy meal might be a better value, since just the Turkey and a Diet Coke would run almost $29. $9 more buys you the Declaration Salad to start, along with the Pot Roast and Oven Roast Pork, in addition to the Macaroni and Cheese. Most importantly, it includes what is now a trio of Desserts, including the Ooey Gooey Toffee Cake, which may be my favorite dessert at Walt Disney World.
All meals at Liberty Tree begin with these rolls with butter. I enjoyed the Tavern Cheese Dip so much that I would recommend ordering one anyway, but if you'd prefer to save the money and tummy space, then these should do the trick. We didn't find them particularly flavorful and the butter was on the bland and boring side.
I miss the sweet, yeasty rolls of yesteryear served with a delicious honey butter. Oh what could have been.
Erin went with the Bill of Fare/Patriot's Platter, which begins with the "Declaration Salad – Tossed Mixed Greens with House-made Dressing." It's surprisingly light on the lettuce and very heavy on the "stuff," which includes big slices of cucumber, red onion, tomatoes, carrots, and more tossed in a light, zesty vinaigrette with a honey shallot flavor. Be prepared to chew on this one, but it's a decent way to get going and its crisp freshness may be just what you need before the heavier meats arrive.
The "Patriot's Platter – Roasted Turkey Breast, Pot Roast, and Oven-roasted Pork with Mashed Potatoes, Seasonal Vegetables, Herb Stuffing, and House-made Macaroni and Cheese" has been on the menu for years, though the preparations and presentations have changed considerably during that time. Above is the current plating.
We may be a little too artsy with the turkey, where it looks like only a small portion of the middle is in focus. The meat is not this blurry in real life, though it is just about as dry as it looks.
Fortunately, it's served with a large boat of smooth, rich gravy with plenty of salt, pepper, and butter.
The Pot Roast is my personal favorite, meaty and tender and smothered in a delicious sauce with mushroom and cabernet wine notes. The tangy, tart Cranberry Sauce is also served by default. It's a nice, lighter alternative to the gravy.
The Oven Roast Pork remains the weak link. It looks the part on the plate with a nice spice rub, but I don't think it could be any dryer if you were actively trying to squeeze juice out of it. It's a bit perplexing considering how many of these Platters go out each and every day. There has to be a better marinade or some sort of brine situation that would improve things. Not even the Gravy or Cranberry can save it, which is probably fine since you can order as much Pot Roast or Turkey as you like.
The Stuffing is pretty good, soft and chewy with the appropriate herb-y flavor and the slick Green Beans enjoyed a nice buttery, peppery quality that made them nearly irresistible.
The small cup of Macaroni & Cheese "feels" a little superfluous, particularly considering that it "literally" tastes like the cheese is reconstituted from a powder. Erin would tell you that like pizza, even bad Mac & Cheese is pretty good and that might be the case here, but with so much other good stuff going on, I don't think anybody is going to be after more.
On the plus side, it was tastier than this cheesy mush that we were served last time around.
This bowl, from two or three visits ago, is probably my favorite with thick, al dente noodles coated in a creamy, cheesy sauce. I think you can really see the difference.
Here's our Patriot's Platter from last time. I was happy to see the corn replaced with the more traditional green beans and our stuffing was much fluffier and didn't appear like it was spooned out of some giant vat that I would actually be interested in visiting. Most importantly, the Pork Loin on the right was much juicier and more flavorful and "felt" like it had been freshly carved. The current version isn't that far off from a Hormel Pork Log.
Overall, the Patriot's Platter is a nice plate of food with enough variety that you should find plenty of tasty stuff to fill you up. The serving was so enormous that Erin didn't need seconds of anything, but they'll bring you as much Pot Roast, Stuffing, etc. as you could possibly want.
I ordered the $24 "Lobster Roll – Creamy Lobster Salad, Fried Clams, and Lemon-Caper Aïoli." I was "warned" that it was going to be on the creamy side when I ordered it, but I thought it was pretty light on the promised Aïoli, to the point where I didn't even really taste it. The Fried Clams are a little strange in this context, but they help add some crunch to each bite along with a little more of an ocean vibe.
I would like to see this served on a long roll rather than a hamburger bun, but the bread was nice and buttery and did an admirable job of keeping all of the Lobster and Clams together. It's also probably not nearly as burned as it appears in the picture.
I like the thick cut, crispy fries served here with a zesty, Old-Bay-esque spice.
I thought the sandwich was worth the $8 premium over what's served at Columbia Harbour House. There's a ton of lobster involved.
Liberty Tree Tavern is a very homey, comfortable restaurant that's sometimes a little on the loud side and often a little later than most to seat you.
We waited over 30 minutes past our 2:05pm reservation time, but ended up at a delightful window table near the back of the restaurant. The wait is something to keep in mind as we were at the restaurant from 2pm until just before 4pm. Obviously, you may be seated much closer to your reservation time, but I'd budget at least 90 minutes if you're planning on ordering the Patriot's Platter or multiple courses.
Back to the food, here's your $22 "Turkey Pot Pie – Tender Roast Turkey, Carrots, Potatoes, Peas, and Puffed Pastry." It's probably more food than it looks with three large pieces of puff pastry wading on top of a whole lot of Roast Turkey and Vegetables. It's more Liberty Tree comfort food that should leave you plenty satisfied. Of note is that this is more of a "deconstructed pot pie" without your typical crust surrounding the filling. Anyone that's ordered a similar dish at 50's Prime Time should recognize the idea.
I think I would actually order the Pot Pie over the regular Pilgrim's Feast – the turkey works better in the creamy filling and there's nearly as much of it.
Here's a reminder of what the $24 "Tavern Keeper's Favorite – Pot Roast, Mashed Potatoes, and Garden Vegetables" looks like. It's a ton of food with almost a pound of the Pot Roast on top of a huge pile of creamy Mashed Potatoes and Corn. It's the direction I would go if I wasn't interested in the Diet Coke and Dessert that come with the Bill of Fare/Patriot's Platter.
The $19 "Tavern Battered Fish and Chips – House-made Tartar Sauce and Tavern Fries" is one of the best dining values at Magic Kingdom. It's a huge portion of crispy fried fish served alongside delicious Tartar Sauce and a pile of Fries. The portion is so large that you could share it and still come away with more food per person than if you ordered two $13 Fried Fishes from Columbia Harbour House.
Dessert with the Bill of Fare is now a trio of desserts.
The "Ooey Gooey Toffee Cake – Vanilla Cake with a Gooey Toffee Filling, Caramel Sauce, and Vanilla Ice Cream" is the stuff of legends. The cake underneath has a really nice crispiness to the exterior with a smooth buttery texture inside with some hints of vanilla and sweet cream cheese. The gooey toffee filling is so sweet and so addictive with the vanilla ice cream on top doing a nice job of cooling everything down and the chocolate chips and Heath bar crumbles adding some crunch.
The Apple Fritter(s) Dusted with Powdered Sugar and Maple Caramel was a disappointment – bland and dense with very little apple flavor and none of the Maple Caramel from the description.
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed the "Warm Banana Cake – Butter Pecan Ice Cream, Salted Caramel, and Candied Pecans." The flavors work effortlessly together, sweet and nutty with a Banana Cake base that tastes pleasantly of bananas without any of the mushiness that usually accompanies them. While I love that Ooey Gooey Cake, this was a close second and as sacrilegious as it might sound, Erin preferred it. We'll still keep her around, though.
We really enjoyed the trio and our server was nice enough to bring a second spoon for me so I could enjoy the desserts, despite ordering the sandwich a la carte. Passing the Ooey Gooey Cake underneath the table would have probably gotten a little messy.
Overall, Liberty Tree Tavern is a solid lunch stop, offering an assortment of comfort food favorites for about 50% more money than a quick service meal. I think the quality justifies the higher prices for the most part and with a day at Magic Kingdom typically being filled with so much hurry up and wait, it's nice to relax in a cozy restaurant atmosphere.
We'll move on to some other options.
Timely review, as I just made a late (2:45 PM) lunch reservation for arrival day. I had my first Disney meal at LTT in 1973 and it quickly became a a favorite. It's the only table service in MK that has decent food and is affordable. I'm happy to see you give it a good review.
If going to MK on arrival day, I suggest having a late lunch at LTT. The airlines offer no food and anyone arriving between noon and 2:00 is going to be hungry. I believe LTT is the best place to have that first vacation meal. Also, eating a good solid late lunch eliminates the need for dinner, allowing room for a MK snack or two.
Enjoying your blog Josh. Appreciate the attention to detail, and especially all the pictures. I don't know how you keep up with it. Sounds like a full time job.
Thanks so much for this review! I am always on the lookout for vegetarian options throughout WDW and up until now, I thought Pecos Bill was the only place to get a substantial vegetarian meal in MK. I will be making a dining reservation for LTT for our next trip.
Typo on the menu- "barely" soup!
Disney is slipping. Brand new menu and there is a typo in it. I don't think I want beef and "barely" soup!
Maybe it's a very tiny bowl?
Went here for the first time in November 2017. It was just a few days after Thanksgiving, but we thought it would fit, as we were looking for an early ADR before a Christmas Party. We thought it was fantastic. Food was all very good (I even liked the pork that night), and the atmosphere was perfect to get us in the mood for the party. We often visit the parks in summer because of school schedules, and I'm not sure I'd be down with a big pot roast / turkey dinner when it's 105 outside, but I wouldn't hesitate to go back in the cooler months. Not to mention it's got some decent adult beverage options going on.
Why is no one noting the absence of the sweet corn fritters on the new menu?! I'm freaking out!!
Ate there last Friday. Ooey Gooey Toffee Cake didn't disappoint. Also realized the recipe I have for it is dead on as well. We did the Pilgrims Feasr, Fish and Chips, and the Bacon Cheeseburger, and it was all very good. Nice and relaxing break in the middle of a long Magic Kingdom day.


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— феодальное княжество (хан) в Японии позднего периода Эдо (1868—1871). Нагао хан располагался в провинции Ава (современная префектура Тиба) на острове Хонсю.

Административный центр хана: Нагао jin'ya в провинции Ава (современный город Минамибосо в префектуре Тиба).

История
В 1867 году во время Реставрации Мэйдзи последний сёгун Токугава Ёсинобу (1866—1867) отказался от верховной власти в стране в пользу нового японского императора Мэйдзи. Кроме того, Токугава Ёсинобу вынужден был также отказаться от руководства кланом Токугава в пользу своего приёмного сына Токугава Иэсато (1863—1940). В 1868 году Токугава Иэсато был понижен до статуса обычного даймё и получил во владение вновь созданный Сидзуока-хан, в который были включены княжества Сумпу, Танака и Одзима, а также дополнительные земли в провинциях Тотоми и Муцу (700 000 коку). Новый домен располагался в современных провинциях Сидзуока и Айти.

В процессе создания Сидзуока-хана все даймё, правившие в провинциях Суруга и Тотоми, были выселены из своих владений. Среди них оказался и Хонда Масамори (1827—1885), последний (7-й) даймё Танака-хана (1860—1868). Хонда Масамори доказал свою лояльность к новому правительству Мэйдзи и участвовал на его стороне в Войне Босин против сторонников сёгуната Токугава. Несмотря на статус фудай-даймё, ему было позволено сохранить своё доход в размере 40 000 коку, но он был переведен во вновь созданный домен Нагао в провинции Ава.

В 1869 году Хонда Масамори получил от императора статус губернатора своего княжества, а в декабре 1870 года отрекся от власти в княжестве в пользу своего приёмного сына, Хонды Масанори (1849—1937).

В марте 1871 года после административно-политической реформы Нагао-хан был ликвидирован. Первоначально на территории бывшего княжества была создана префектура Нагао, которая в ноябре того же года стала частью соседней префектуры Кисарадзу, а позднее была включена в состав современной префектуры Тиба.

Список даймё
  Род Хонда (фудай-даймё) 1868—1871

См. также
 Список японских ханов
 Ликвидация ханов и основание префектур

Примечания

Источники
 Papinot, E (1910). Historical and Geographic Dictionary of Japan. Tuttle (reprint) 1972.

Ссылки
 Список трехсот ханов периода Эдо

Ханы Японии


These songs were the songs of great sorrows and sufferings of the saints of God from all past generations to the present day. I also noticed that there were spots on the pages which were not yet filled up with a song. Here, the man who had opened the book, kind of waved his hand over the page to which the book was opened, and a song of sorrows was written and did appear on the page.
To understand the meanings of this dream, you will need to turn to the greatest book in my mind for help in the interpretation of dreams and that book is the Holy Scriptures known as your Holy Bible. (For most Christians, you should read it as much as you can if you want a good dream interpretation.) If you are not a Christian or do not have a Bible, you can find them pretty easily online or at your local library if you would just like to borrow one.
As we can see from this dream, there is a part that can be found in the Word of God. Tears of sorrow will be turned into joy like the dream implies. The book will be opened.
With that said, what more can I say that would be better than what Jesus Himself has already said so perfectly about the book of sorrow. Jesus' words should give us all faith and joy knowing what the things to come will look like in the heaven's. To know that God knows all of our pain and suffering of all sorts of this life and will turn them into a great book of joy unheard of, is even hard to comprehend.
Isaiah 51:11 Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head; they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
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After a time of not sleeping very well for about 4 days in a row, I dreamed. In this dream and spiritual place, it would be to my understanding to be a part of what is known in the Bible as the "kingdom of heaven". In this dream there was a large book that was being open in front of me.
The size of the book was about a foot and a half wide by two feet in height. It was sitting on a table. There was one or two men that sat beside the table. As the book was opened I could see that there was writings of different songs varying in length on the pages.
Each song was roughly about a paragraph long.
So I wondered what the words of this song were. As I began to read the words of the song, I began to sing along with a melody that came out from the most painful part of my life. I immediately realized this song of sorrow, as my song. It was a song the Lord had giving me in a previous spiritual dream about a month before, as I could now hear that song being sung from a deep and wonderful place inside of me where no man could know, but myself and the Lord. After this song was sung, the book was closed. As the book began to be closed those songs of great sorrow began to change into songs of great joy. Then the whole painful and sad book itself also changed into the book of great joy of the saints of God. These songs were all saved in this great book.


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In S. Korea, a waft of compromise amid tear gas. Hopes raised by plan for Chun-opposition parley
By Daniel Sneider Special to The Christian Science Monitor
A new mood of cautious optimism was tangible in the streets of the South Korean capital yesterday following the announcement of President Chun Doo Hwan's agreement to meet with opposition leaders. ``It is a sign of victory,'' said the Rev. In Myung Jin, a spokesman for the umbrella National Coalition for a Democratic Constitution, which has been leading the antigovernment protests for the last two weeks.
At the same time, the deep wells of suspicion and fear of the military-backed regime is tempering hopes.
``Even if I feel sort of relieved about the acceptance by the government of the summit [with opposition leaders], I am still suspicious of the government, if their intentions are really sincere,'' said Koh Han Kyu, an organizer of the Human Rights Committee of the Korean national Presbyterian Church. ``What is important is what the government will actually do.
This week promises to be a crucial time in the political crisis that has been sweeping across South Korea. On both sides - government and opposition - the ability to compromise is being tested.
The possibility of a Chun-opposition ``summit'' is linked in minds of many Korean with the arrival here today of United States Assistant Secretary of State Gaston Sigur. US pressure for a resumption of political dialogue may have encouraged this latest move.
The announcement of Mr. Chun's gesture was made by Roh Tae Woo, the chairman of the ruling Democratic Justice Party and Chun's anointed successor. Mr. Roh said Chun had accepted his proposal to meet with all political leaders, including Kim Young Sam, the president of the opposition Reunification Democratic Party.
Roh postponed a planned press conference at which he was expected to announce a plan for resuming discussion of constitutional reform. He reportedly hopes to unveil that plan in two to three days, possibly after the Kim-Chun meeting and Mr. Sigur's visit.
Roadblocks still exist that could foil the meeting. The opposition insists on two conditions:
The release of an estimated 500 to 600 political prisoners jailed since the demonstrations began on June 10.
The freeing of opposition leader Kim Dae Jung from house arrest.
On these issues, Roh said only that Chun had agreed to ``favorably consider'' the demands.
But opposition leaders are careful to stress that there is no clear evidence yet of the government's willingness to compromise on its determination to hold elections next February under the present Constitution.
The present system of indirect elections virtually guarantees the selection of Roh as president. The opposition is calling for the regime to repeal Chun's April 13 decision to suspend talks on a new constitution.
The events of the next couple of days, antigovernment organizers say, will determine whether the pace of demonstrations will continue to slow. There are plans for a major demonstration on Friday, but, says Mr. In, it could be postponed if the meeting goes ahead, and produces clear results.
While these tentative steps took place in the light of a relatively quiet day in the capital, the government showed a stronger hand after nightfall.
Wafts of the potent tear gas employed by Korean police drifted through the downtown areas as small groups of demonstrators were routed. (Earlier, some 20,000 student protesters clashed with police on 58 college campuses across the country, according to press reports.)
The most serious clash in Seoul took place in front of Saemoonan Presbyterian Church, where an estimated 5,000 antigovernment demonstrators had gathered.
The crowd was almost entirely made up of middle-class Koreans, older women, men in business suits, and pastors. Holding crosses and candles, the church members tried to hold a candlelight march.
Riot police moved to pen them in on the street in front of the church. In a spirit of nonviolence, the protesters sat down on the four-lane boulevard.
``In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus,'' they sang, ``we will achieve victory.'' Crowds of spectators applauded. Then, with a loud crack, volleys of tear gas grenades exploded amid the sit-in, scattering the peaceful protesters.
The riot police pressed them back into the church compound. Behind them rushed the most-feared special police squads, dressed in civilian clothes and trained in martial arts.
As protesters scattered, these men grabbed individuals, brutally kicking and beating them without provocation. As they assaulted one man on the street only a few feet from this reporter, a middle-aged woman screamed, ``Why do you hit him? Hit Chun Doo Hwan instead.''
First Look First signs of thaw: North Korea will send athletes to Olympics
South Korean leader says she'll resign after lawmakers act
First Look New liaison office designed to improve communication between Koreas


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I can Identify with Abraham regarding the sacrifice of his only begotten son. My children in the past got involved with the wrong people . I would learn to pray through the dynamics of situations we endured. I remember never missing a day of work, but being so weak and fatigued from the process I was going through that I had to take Ibuprophen to get functioning in the morning.
However, relating back to my children, I was a single parent at the time…I remember mornings when I had to stay in the showers for periods of time crying on my knees for God to save my sons. One day I was there on my knees and I saw the picture of Abraham walking up the mountain with Isaac, the Spirit of the Lord began to tell me, see just as there was a Ram in the bush for Isaac there is a ram in the bush for your children.
There is a sacrificial lamb and my children were called to lead. That leadership in them would cause them to go through sacrifices as well as learning to serve.
Then the Lord reminded me that He allowed me to carry these children in my womb laying in the utter most of His spirit within me. He said, do you not remember the Kingdom of God is within you? I said wow! Thank you, Lord. The spirit asked me, "why would I doubt His ability to save my them when He loves my children more than I could ever love them?" the situation gave me something to consider, which is what we need . We need to become provoked to think beyond our situations, so that we can look for the victories! (Location 465-466, P54). Trust God for your victory, we experienced many turns, but God remained true to His word!
2 Corinthian 5:7 For we live by faith, not by sight. Without faith it is hard to please God.
Cite  Robert Clinton. The Making of a Leader: Recognizing the Lessons and Stages of Leadership Development (Kindle Locations 465-466). Kindle Edition.