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The new Rompetrol group general executive manager is Saduokas Meraliev. He replaces businessman Dinu Patriciu, who sold KazMunayGaz his remaining Rompetrol shares, according to Romanian press agency NewsIn.
Meraliev has been working for Rompetrol since last year. He brings over 30 years of experience from international companies, like Chevron.
"Dinu Patriciu will remain part of the managerial council. Our aim is to run the company through the Administration Council", KazMunayGaz president Kairgeldy Kabyldin said on Tuesday in a press conference in Constanta (South-East Romania). He made it clear that the company did not intend to cut the production staff, but said that it will focus on the company's leadership and on the decrease of spending. The company's president wants to spend less on the activities that are not the company's main object.
The future Rompetrol stations will be called Litro
KazMunaiGaz will name the future Rompetrol stations Litro, according to Saduokas Meraliev. "This was a managerial decision, based on our consultant's survey. The old gas stations will keep their brand, but even the old ones that are now being modernised will be named Litro", Saduokas Meraliev said.
Rompetrol Downstream operates over 900 gas stations in 13 countries, out of which over half are in Romania. The Rompetrol Group (TRG) was part of Rompetrol Holding until August 2007, when Patriciu sold 75% of Rompetrol Group shares to Kazakhstan national company, KazMunayGaz. On June 26 2009, Dinu Patriciu announced he sold the company the rest of his 25% shares: Rompetrol is now fully owned by KazMunayGaz.


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Here are some things to consider on unclean meats, as it came up in our discussion today. One awesome thing about our fellowship is our desire to provide an environment that points to the grace of Christ, His holy word, and allow each of us to grow in convictions according to the work of the Holy Spirit without the pressure of any kind of denominational requirements and doctrinal arguments.
The Christian life is one of living by faith, and sometimes being obedient by faith is harder than being obedient by works (or law) because we feel accomplished by a behavior but uneasy by faith because it "is the substance of things unseen" (Hebrews 11:1).
In Romans 14:2-3 we are counseled to refrain from forcing or demanding adherence to this type of doctrine. Paul exhorts "One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him" (ESV).
It is in Leviticus 11 that we are introduced to the unclean meats and is important for us to remember why it was given. God wanted to teach the Israelites that there is a difference between holy and unholy and prior to the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, laws and ordinances was God's means of communicating that. They had laws, we have the Spirit of God as our guide as we live by faith, not by law. (Read more at Got Questions? http://www.gotquestions.org/eating-pork.html).


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Asking "what is there to do at Hesston College?" is a pretty silly question, but you'd have to have been here to know that. Our students are as active, engaged, and fun-loving as you'll find anywhere.
Campus Activities Board Minute to Win It
Most of the planned activities on campus are organized by the Campus Activities Board (CAB)—which is student run. Throughout the year the CAB coordinates movie and game nights, coffee houses, Feast of Carols (our winter formal) and more.
Each year students enjoy a variety of gallery exhibits and displays, sometimes featuring the work of Hesston alumni and faculty. Shows typically feature architectural displays, ceramics, drawings, graphic designs, illustrations, paintings, prints, sculptures and photographs. And the Annual Student Art Exhibit features the work of students, the culmination of a year's work.
Music is a very big deal at Hesston. Our main choirs—Bel Canto Singers, Women's Chorus and Men's Chorus—perform locally and at major campus events, as well as on extended tours during breaks throughout the year. International Chorale forms every other year for an extended tour after the end of spring term, spending more than three weeks in Europe.
A scene from the spring 2020 musical production of Tuck Everlasting
Students at Hesston take part in a variety of theatrical productions throughout the year…acting, directing, choreographing, building the sets, designing costumes and makeup. Recent productions include Tuck Everlasting, Charlotte's Web, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, The Misanthrope and Big Fish. On top of that, the Sunflower Performing Arts Series schedules five events during the year with world-renowned performers.
A big part of our mission at Hesston is to serve the world around us—whether it's in our own backyard or half a world away. Students have a number of volunteer service opportunities to choose from, related to mission, service and peace. Many of these are arranged through Campus Ministries, and include prison and hospital ministries, grandparent adoption, Big Brother/Big Sister programs, Mennonite Disaster Service and Mennonite Housing.
For a school our size, the number and quality of recreational facilities at Hesston is really pretty remarkable.
Yost Center houses two hardwood basketball and volleyball courts and a weight and fitness room.
The Campus Activities Center offers basketball courts, volleyball courts and an indoor soccer pitch.
Outdoor facilities include four lighted tennis courts, a soccer field, baseball and softball diamonds, a lighted sand volleyball court and a disc golf course.
Dyck Arboretum features a scenic, half-mile paved path that is great for walking, jogging and rollerblading.
Throughout the year, a number of cool, exciting annual events take place, including:
Mod Olympics
Alumni Homecoming Weekend
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Why Isn't RU58841 Available At the Pharmacy?
Why Isn't RU58841 Available At the Pharmacy?
When people first hear about RU58841, most are immediately skeptical. Their first thought is that if some pharmaceutical company had actually found a miracle cure for baldness, the company would be heavily marketing it. It would have been pushed through FDA approval and would be widely available from doctors and at pharmacies. The pharmaceutical company would be making vast amounts of money. After all, 70% of men and 40% of women are affected by androgenic alopecia. That's a lot of customers.
RU58841 was first studied in the 1990s by scientists in France, working for the Roussel-UCLAF Corporation. Initial studies on the compound reported amazing success in treating hair loss in animal models without any side effects. However, in 1995, a huge German company called Hoechst absorbed the entire Roussel-UCLAF company. Hoechst had originally purchased a significant proportion of Roussel-UCLAF back in 1968. By 1994, Hoechst had obtained over 50% of Roussel-UCLAF's shares, and proceeded to negotiate with the company to buy the rest of it. The Supervisory Board of Roussel-UCLAF agreed to the merger.
Following the absorption, Hoescht and Roussel-UCLAF became part of the Hoescht-Marion-Roussel (HMR) Group, composed of a merger between Hoescht, the German company, the company Marion Merrel Dow, a US company, and of course Roussel-UCLAF, the French pharmaceutical company. As of 1995, HMR became a huge international company focused on pharmaceuticals, agriculture chemicals, and industrial chemicals.
During the restructuring process after the merger, many employees of Hoescht and Roussel-UCLAF lost their jobs. A large number of research projects that Roussel-UCLAF had been working on were simply abandoned. The executives running the new HMR apparently believed that only three areas of pharmaceuticals are profitable, namely drugs that target disorders of the central nervous system, drugs that target cardiovascular disease, and drugs that fight bacterial and viral infections. This mis-guided view of the ailments of human biology led to the simple abandonment of many promising projects in the areas of endocrinology and immunology, including RU58841.
Employees and scientists of Roussel-UCLAF were reportedly quite shocked by the new policies. The bizarre decision to abandon entire areas of research meant that promising treatments for breast cancer, cerebral edema, cirrhosis of the liver, addiction, acne, and, of course, baldness, were simply dumped. At least 65 research projects and 169 pharmaceuticals with great potential to improve human health and quality of life were abandoned for no real reason other than that some executives thought they might not prove profitable enough.
One of the more famous drugs that was dumped during this merger is RU 486, also called mifepristone, the abortion pill. At the time of the creation of HMR, Roussel-UCLAF was manufacturing and selling large amounts of the drug worldwide. After the merger, HMR donated the rights to the drug in the US to the Population Council and to a company called Exelgyn for all non-US uses. Currently, mifepristone is widely used in safe, effective abortions and is also used in emergency contraception. The reason(s) why HMR would be willing to discard such a widely-used and profitable drug are unclear. They may be in part related to religious beliefs held by the then-head of Hoescht. However, the primary reason is the odd decision by the new executives of HMR to simply abandon all endocrinology research under the assumption that endocrinology isn't profitable enough to bother with.
After the merger, the rights to RU58841 were acquired by a company called ProStrakan. ProStrakan may have changed its name first to HMR-3841 and then to PSK-3841. The company apparently performed some limited research with the drug, including a human trial that was never published. Although the results of the trial were reported to be quite encouraging, the company appears to have abandoned all future research and development of the drug. The rationale for this may be a Morgan Stanley report prepared in 2005. The analyst who wrote the report concluded that the market for the drug was "modest" and therefore it would only be of interest for a small specialized dermatology company. ProStrakan is a fairly large pharmaceutical company that currently markets drugs for pain, nausea, osteoporosis, and cancer. Apparently it simply isn't interested in developing and marketing a drug that only has a "modest" potential market.
Currently, RU58841 can be legally manufactured and sold as a research chemical by anyone who wants to engage in the practice. Because no one can patent the drug, there is little reason to believe that any pharmaceutical company will want to expend the necessary funds in order to develop the drug and get it approved by the FDA and other regulatory agencies. The profit margin simply isn't there. The miracle cure for baldness, that belongs on the pharmacy's shelf, has been abandoned in the pursuit of profits. This not an unusual situation by any means- the World Health Organization estimates that only 37% of known human diseases are being targeted by pharmaceutical companies, entirely due to perceptions about possible profits.
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Why would any company avoid the potentials of finding the cure to baldness? The profit margin is there and several companies are very close, which is why I'm wondering, after reading about this, where is manufactured and how would one get it? Seemingly no side effects? Seemingly proven science? It would seem that this is should be made available in some way.


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2020 Annual Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies Lecture
by Dr. Jatinder Mann
Thu, 7 May 2020
18:00 – 20:30 HKT
Mrs. Padma Harilela Lecture Theatre (WLB104)
Lam Woo International Conference Centre
Renfrew Road, Kowloon Tong
THE ANNUAL LECTURE HAS UNFORTUNATELY HAD TO BE POSTPONED INDEFINITELY DUE TO THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC. APOLOGIES FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE CAUSED.
The Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University is pleased to host the second Annual Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies Lecture:
'Motherhood and Political Leadership in Australia, Canada and Aoteraoa New Zealand' by Professor Linda Trimble (University of Alberta)
When she returned to office after a six-week maternity leave, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern confidently asserted that 'one day it will be normal' for women to give birth while in office. Yet female political leaders have long confronted a parenting dilemma. While those who have children are questioned about their capacity to do the job while caring for their families, child free leaders are considered suspect for refusing to fulfill their putative biological destiny. My lecture explores changes in news coverage of women prime ministers' parental roles over the past 27 years, from the rise of Kim Campbell to the Canadian top job in 1993 to Ardern's current premiership. As I detail in my book, Ms. Prime Minister: Gender Media and Leadership, Campbell was characterized as unstable and unreliable because she was twice-divorced and childless; Helen Clark, who served as New Zealand's prime minister from 2009 to 2009, was judged unable to relate to the needs of ordinary families because she had no children; and Australia's Julia Gillard, who held office from 2010 to 2013, was labelled 'deliberately barren.' Jenny Shipley, New Zealand's first woman prime minister (1997-1999), had two children, but her attempt at playing the 'mom card' during an election campaign was ruled inauthentic and unsuccessful. All four women had their political legitimacy questioned on the basis of their parental status. How have the news media reacted to Ardern's confident performance of motherhood and leadership? Can female government leaders really can 'have it all' given the gendered nature of media attention to politicians' personal lives?
Linda Trimble is a Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada). Her research explores women's representation in political office and gendered news coverage of party leadership candidates and government leaders. Recent publications include: Ms. Prime Minister: Gender, Media and Leadership, published by University of Toronto Press in 2017; "Gender Novelty and Personalized News Coverage in Australia and Canada" (International Political Science Review, forthcoming); and "Julia Gillard and the Gender Wars" (Politics & Gender, 2015). Linda is currently leading an international research team investigating the career paths, levels of success, duration in office, and impact on women's political representation of Canadian and Australian sub-national government leaders.
The lecture will be followed by a reception. All are welcome to attend, however spaces are limited, so RSVP as soon as possible.
2020 Annual Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies Lecture at Mrs. Padma Harilela Lecture Theatre (WLB104)
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An aortic dissection is a serious condition in which a tear develops in the inner layer of the aorta, the large blood vessel branching off the heart.
Blood surges through this tear into the middle layer of the aorta, causing the inner and middle layers to separate (dissect). If the blood-filled channel ruptures through the outside aortic wall, aortic dissection is usually fatal.
Aortic dissection, also called dissecting aneurysm, is relatively uncommon. Anyone can develop the condition, but it most frequently occurs in men between 40 and 70 years of age.The signs and symptoms of aortic dissection may mimic those of other diseases, often leading to delays in diagnosis.
However, when an aortic dissection is detected early and treated promptly, your chance of survival greatly improves.
The symptoms of an aortic dissection may be similar to those of other heart problems, such as a heart attack.
An aortic dissection occurs in a weakened area of the aortic wall.
Chronic high blood pressure may stress the aortic tissue, making it more susceptible to tearing. You can also inherit a condition associated with a weakened and enlarged aorta, such as Marfan syndrome. Rarely, aortic dissections may be caused by traumatic injury to the chest area, such as during motor vehicle accidents.
Type A. This is the more common and dangerous type of aortic dissection. It involves a tear in the ascending portion of the aorta just where it exits the heart or a tear extending from the ascending portion down to the descending portion of the aorta, which may extend into the abdomen.
Type B. This type involves a tear in the descending aorta only, which also may extend into the abdomen.
The strongest risk factor for aortic dissection is uncontrolled high blood pressure (hypertension), which is observed in at least two-thirds of all cases.
People with certain genetic diseases are more likely to have an aortic dissection than are people in the general population.
Turner syndrome. People with this syndrome have 45 chromosomes, including one missing or incomplete X chromosome, instead of 46. High blood pressure, heart problems and a number of other health conditions may result from this disorder.
Marfan syndrome. This is a condition in which connective tissue, which supports various structures in the body, is weak. People with this disorder often have aneurysms of the aorta and other blood vessels. These weak blood vessels are prone to tears (dissection) and rupture easily.
Cocaine use has also been implicated as a risk factor for aortic dissection, most likely because the drug temporarily raises blood pressure. Infrequently, aortic dissections occur in otherwise healthy women during pregnancy.
If you have symptoms such as severe chest pain, fainting or sudden onset of shortness of breath, contact your doctor or call for emergency medical assistance.
While experiencing such symptoms doesn't necessarily mean that you have a serious problem, it's best to get checked out quickly.
Early detection and treatment may help save your life.
An untreated aortic dissection can be fatal. The most common cause of death is rupture of an aortic dissection into one of the body cavities, which causes severe internal bleeding.
Sometimes an aortic dissection runs down the length of the aorta and affects the arteries that branch off the aorta.
If an aortic dissection interferes with blood flow from these vessels to the rest of the body, tissue damage such as stroke or paralysis may occur.
The most important way to help prevent an aortic dissection is to keep your blood pressure under control.
Wear a seat belt. This reduces the risk of injury to your chest area.
Keep your doctor well-informed. If you have a family history of aortic dissection, talk to your doctor.
Talk to your doctor about which method or combination of methods is best for you.
Based on the Mayo Clinic's Aortic Dissection Guide. Copyright 1998-2009 Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (MFMER). All rights reserved.
Detecting an aortic dissection can be tricky because the symptoms are similar to those of a variety of health problems.
Although these signs and symptoms suggest aortic dissection, more-sensitive imaging techniques are needed to establish the diagnosis.
CT scanning uses a machine that generates X-rays to produce cross-sectional images of the body. In order to diagnose an aortic dissection, a CT scan of the chest is taken. A dye that contains iodine called contrast is often injected into the blood during a CT scan. Contrast makes the heart, aorta and other blood vessels more visible on the CT pictures.
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan is a test that uses a magnetic field and pulses of radio wave energy to make pictures of the body. MRA refers to the use of this technique specifically to look at blood vessels. An MRA of the chest can be used to diagnose aortic dissection. As with the CT scan, contrast material may be injected into a vein to enhance the pictures.
An echocardiogram is a type of test that uses high-pitched sound waves to produce an image of the heart. A TEE is a special type of echocardiogram in which an ultrasound probe is inserted through the esophagus. Since the ultrasound probe is placed close to the heart and the aorta, it provides a clearer picture of your heart and its structures than would a regular echocardiogram.
Surgery is the preferred treatment for type A aortic dissections. During the surgical procedure, surgeons remove as much of the dissected aorta as possible, block the entry of blood into the aortic wall, and reconstruct the aorta with a metal or plastic tube called a graft.
Sometimes stents – small wire mesh tubes that act as a sort of scaffolding – may be placed in the aorta. Aortic dissections may be treated with medications, such as beta blockers and sodium nitroprusside, to relieve the force of blood on the aortic wall by reducing the heart rate and lowering blood pressure. With reduced blood force, the aortic dissection is less likely to worsen. These medications may be used to prepare a patient for surgery. Most people with type B dissections can be treated with medications alone.
After treatment many people with aortic dissections need to take blood pressure lowering medication for the rest of their lives. In addition, they'll often need a follow-up CT or MRI scan to monitor their condition.


Several EiffelStudio facilities log their progress to the various panes of the Outputs tool.
You can view the outputs from different facilities by selecting the name of a pane from the Output: drop-down list, as shown below.
The output panes you see listed depend somewhat upon how you've been using EiffelStudio. A few of the panes are always present, but other panes only show up in the list after you used the facilities or tools that log information to those panes. For example, if during a session you edit and compile a project but never run it, you would not see the Debugger output pane. Then after you had run the system, the Debugger output pane would join the list.
On the top bar, the Outputs tool provides some functionality that is always present, and available to all output panes.
The save button ( )will allow you to save the content of the currently displayed output pane to a file.
The search button ( ) will provide you with a search bar at the bottom of the current pane.
The clear button ( ) clears the content of the output pane that is currently being displayed.
As you work with EiffelStudio you will notice that some icons appear on the Outputs tool's top bar only occasionally. Generally, the Outputs tool will automatically change to the appropriate pane depending upon what's going on in EiffelStudio. For example, when you compile the Eiffel Compilation output pane appears, and when you run a system, the Debugger output pane appears.
You can adjust how panes change to some extent as you will see in the section on preferences.
But sometimes things happen that change more than one output pane during an action. When this occurs, one or more transient buttons will be added to the Outputs tool's top bar to the right of the search button. This lets you know that there have been modifications to a pane other than the one that is currently displayed. If you click on one of these buttons, you will be taken to that pane, and the button will be dismissed.
The figure below shows the Outputs tool during an external compilation. Notice the transient button that has become visible indicating that new changes have been made in the Eiffel Compilation pane.
There are two EiffelStudio preferences that can control some of the behavior of the Outputs tool. Both can be found in the preferences path Interface -> Development window.
The preference Outputs tool prompted controls whether the Outputs tool is made visible automatically whenever a compilation is launched. The value is True by default. So, in the default case, the Ouputs tool will be visible whenever you compile. If you have closed the tool, and recompile, the tool will reappear.
If you choose a value of False, then the Outputs tool will remain visible if it is already visible. But if you close it, a recompile will not cause it to reappear.
The preference External compilation output prompted (C output panel prompted, in earlier versions) controls whether the External compilation pane appears whenever an external compilation (usually a C compilation) occurs.
The Eiffel Compilation pane is active.
So, regardless of the preference value, when an external compilation is performed, and the Eiffel Compilation output pane is already active in the Outputs tool, the External Compilation pane will become the active pane. When the external compilation completes, under most circumstances the Eiffel Compilation pane will become active again. However, the Eiffel Compilation pane will not become active if there were external compilation errors, or if you activated some other output pane during the external compilation.


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Ketton stone is a Jurassic oolitic limestone, cream to pale yellow or pink in colour,  used as a building stone since the 16th century. It is named after the village of Ketton in Rutland, England. It was used as freestone, mostly in buildings outside Rutland, particularly in Cambridge, where it was used in many of the colleges.

Nowadays, the major quarry at Ketton produces limestone for the adjoining Ketton Cement Works but selected stone is still set aside for cut building blocks.

Notable buildings

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See also
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DECLINE IN EARNINGSCOLUMBUS, Ind. - Cummins Engine Co. earned $8.9 million, or 41 cents a share, on sales of $861.4 million in the first quarter. That compares with earnings of $19.5 million, or $1.61 a share, on revenue of $920.8 million in the comparable quarter of 1988.
The sharp decline in earnings was attributed to a drop in sales of heavy trucks. The company said that first quarter 1990 production of North American heavy-duty trucks was down 23 percent from the same quarter a year ago. Cummins has approximately 50 percent of that market.
WASHINGTON - Even as individual railroads reported first-quarter 1990 results, the industry's association reported that rate compression and inflation eroded Class 1 railroad profitability in 1989.
The Association of American Railroads reported that large carriers that handle 94 percent of inter-city freight traffic had net railway operating income of $1.9 billion last year, a 7.4 percent decline from $2 billion in 1988. Net railway operating income is operating revenue less operating expenses and income tax liabilities.
Freight revenue per ton-mile declined by 1.9 percent to 2.67 cents.
Ordinary income, which includes investment and interest income and interest expense, declined 9 percent to $2 billion, from $2.2 billion a year earlier. Class 1 railroads collectively had a 5.1 percent return on net investment, down from 5.6 percent in 1988.
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco-based PLM International Inc. has acquired a trailer rental facility in Miami.
PLM International acquired the trailer rental facility and fleet of over 500 storage and over-the-road dry freight trailers from Emerald Industrial Leasing Corp., based in Moorestown, N.J.


Head to Canada to delight in the wildlife frenzy that Arctic summertime brings to the Hudson Bay coast, where polar bears come to fast, rest and wait for the Bay to freeze before heading out on the ice to hunt in autumn. Accessible only by plane, your days will be spent immersed in the solitude of the Seal River area, walking with polar bears in their natural habitat and watching giant pods of friendly beluga whales. A photographer's dream; this trip encapsulates the raw landscapes and abundant nature of Manitoba, and you may even catch a glimmer of the phenomenal Aurora Borealis which are visible in the area during the latter summer months. A truly unforgettable wildlife adventure.
Perfect forWildlife-loving couples or families wanting to get up close and personal with Canada's most majestic creatures.
In the knowWhy not kick off your escapade with a visit to Toronto and the mighty Niagara Falls en route to Manitoba.
Your wildlife adventure will begin in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba's provincial capital and home to more than half of the population. You'll be met on arrival and introduced to your adventure specialist, before your overnight stay at The Grand Winnipeg Airport Hotel by Lakeview - rest well in preparation for your early departure to Churchill the following morning.
Leaving the city behind, you'll fly north and soar over Hudson Bay as you come into land in Churchill, on the rim of Arctic Canada, from where you will take another short flight up to the coast, where you will be based for the next five nights. This region is one of the globe's only locations for sighting polar bears in the wild, and you will be staying in their prime stomping ground at the family-run Seal River Heritage Lodge. Seal River is a favourite summer hang-out spot for these colossal animals while they wait for the sea ice to return in autumn.
Your accommodation is ideally located outside of town and offers a homely atmosphere plus unrivalled opportunities for wildlife viewing at close proximity; the panoramic windows frequently showcase curious polar bears approaching the lodge and frolicking by the water's edge. Together with your highly skilled guide, take walks out to discover the vastness of the area and photograph the flora and fauna and enjoy some birdwatching - over 150 species frequent the region. When polar bears are sighted, a safe viewing distance will be kept at all times. Marine tours by boat will introduce you to the area's other VIP residents - giant pods of playful beluga whales, thousands congregate here each summer.
Back on land, tour the coastline by Tundra Tracker in search of wildlife including caribou, red and Arctic fox, wolves and moose, and enjoy a picnic lunch en route. After dark, keep an eye on the sky as the Aurora Borealis can also be seen here, especially during the latter part of summer on a clear, starry evening.
After a short flight back to Churchill, you will have time to browse the shops and exhibits in town. Check out the Eskimo Museum and the Polar Bear Holding Compound (locally known as "jail") before flying south for your final night in Winnipeg, where you will be staying back at The Grand Winnipeg Airport Hotel by Lakeview.


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In early January of 1914, a young couple in Alda, Oklahoma, Amber and Viola Gay were excitedly waiting for the birth of their first child. On January 20 a little girl was born, all healthy and with the necessary number of fingers, toes, and other appendages. Amber and Viola named their little girl Evelyn, and a happy family life was begun. After a short time Amber was offered a new job, and the little family moved to Oklahoma City. There Evelyn grew up and developed into a very bright and lovely young lady. She went through her high school years and then enrolled in Oklahoma Wesleyan to pursue her undergraduate courses.
As Evelyn had grown up, she was surrounded by every possible constructive influence, including her spiritual life. In Oklahoma Wesleyan, a Methodist College, she became aware of a growing desire to serve God with her life. To pursue that goal she later enrolled in Scarrett College in Nashville, Tennessee where she achieved full certification in Christian Education.
Completing her work and with highest recommendation from Scarrett College, she was chosen to work with Dr. Clovis Chapel in the Galloway Memorial Methodist Church in Jackson, Mississippi. An outstanding preacher in his day, Dr. Chapel was much in demand and chose to publish his sermons rather than be away from his own pulpit so frequently. Once again, Evelyn Gay had made her mark and was invited to be Dr. Chapel's personal assistant. In this capacity, she was instrumental in the publication of many of his books of sermons. When he was later appointed to serve the First Methodist Church in Wichita Falls, Texas, he persuaded Evelyn to move with him. As they were settling in the new work, a young man from Nebraska graduated from The Theological School at SMU in Dallas. He, Merlin Merrill, was appointed to be the Associate Pastor in First Methodist Church in Wichita Falls, Texas. The Chairman of the Board was introducing the new staff member around and came to Evelyn and Merlin. After identifying each of them to the other, he said with a wry smile, "I suggest that you two young people learn to cooperate." They did, and a year later they were married and served God together for the next fifty-five years. Now, that is cooperation!
In January 1947, the Merrills transferred to the Louisiana Conference and were appointed to Cotton Valley. In the next four years, their "cooperation" continued and resulted in church and family growth, with the birth of their son, Lynn Walter Merrill. In 1951 they were appointed to serve the Canal Street Church in New Orleans and from there to First Church in Mansfield, First Church in Minden, University Church in Lake Charles, Lafayette District Superintendent and Trinity in Ruston. In each case, Evelyn carried her share of responsibility in the Church, District or parsonage. When Merlin was away on mission work in Alaska, Brazil or Peru, Evelyn cared for the congregation at home and saw that Church business was executed properly and promptly. On other occasions she accompanied Merlin to a World Methodist Conference in Honolulu and on a five-week pulpit swap with a British Methodist minister in Abingdon, England.
Two of the highlights of her life were Merlin's election to the Board of Trustees of Centenary College and his subsequent honor with a Doctor of Divinity degree from Centenary College, and the point when her son achieved his PhD degree in the School of Business of Louisiana Tech University. Her own thirst for knowledge and experience of growth continued into the last days of her life. After Merlin's death her failing health indicated a need to be in an assisted living environment, and she chose to follow that need. Even there she continued to lead groups of her neighbors in discussions, book reviews and Bible study. When one would go to visit her, there would almost always be a stack of three or four books on her bed which no doubt she intended to read every one. Her warm smile and infectious laugh blessed all who came into her presence.
On May 31, 2007, Evelyn rejoined Merlin before God, and we can be certain of the Father's deep joy is seeing two of His most faithful children together again at home with Him. God bless you, my dear friends.


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30 on the 30th: The Joshua Tree and "Running to Stand Still"
A few days ago, while listening to a local radio station, a series of songs, all from the year 1987--my senior year and my first year of college, a year fully three decades distant from me now--sent me on a nostalgia trip. Of course, when it comes to pop music, I do that rather easily. But a quick bit of Googling started me thinking as well: whatever social and psychological reasons may account for the affection I felt for that music, and for so much else that was on pop radio that year, the fact simply remains: 1987 was a tremendous year for solid, rocking, blusey, folky, loud, funky, brilliant, powerful pop tunes. Running through the list of albums released that year, albums that I have played to death (as both cassette tapes and compact discs) over the past 30 years, convinced me: this is a series worth putting on the blog.
So, while I missed January and February, beginning today, on the 30th of every month, through the end of the year, I'm going to highlight one of those great 1987 albums, and one track in particular from it that I remember and love. I'm not a music critic, so this is just going to be a personal reminiscence: 10 albums that are 30 years old (and I'm going to try to note them as close as possible to their actual release dates), that I still can happily listen to all the way through (and so should you).
First up, probably the biggest of them all: U2's The Joshua Tree, released in early March, 1987. An album that became so anthemic, so iconic, that of course it now attracts all sorts of revisionist criticism and contempt...but no one, not even the people who voice such attitudes, actually believe them, because the songwriting, the instrumentation, the vocals, the guitars, the drums, the whole package of American blues, Irish folk, barely sublimated Christianity, and focused rock and roll power, remains overwhelmingly excellent. With the possible exception of "Trip Through Your Wires," which is a pretty straightforward makeshift blues tune, there isn't a dud on the whole album, and fully half of the tracks are out and out masterpieces. For all that, it's not my favorite U2 album (I'm one of those oddballs that love the mix of apologetic pretension and self-indulgence on Rattle and Hum). But it is, probably, their one utterly essential recording. I can remember driving through the backwoods of central Virginia, in the summer of 1993, getting completely lost while looking for a friend's house during a weekend off from my internship in Washington DC, and playing this tape over and over--and somehow, in those hot green woods, the moody, passionate anthems of U2 were exactly what I needed to hear.
What track to play? "Running to Stand Still," the most beautiful tune on the album, a wonderfully humble collection of lyrics about love and self-destruction that carries across the decades all the more effectively for that simplicity. This is the live performance from Rattle and Hum, of course.
On Dreher's Benedict Option, the Christians and Localists Who Can Live It, and the Ones Who Can't
[Cross-posted to Front Porch Republic]
Rod Dreher and I aren't close friends, but I've been blessed with the opportunity to associate with and learn from him a handful of times over the years, and like tens of thousands of his blog's regular readers, I've been further blessed by the ideas and arguments his writings have sparked in me--even the writings of his that I've thought to be overwrought, off-the-mark, or just plain wrong. The publication of The Benedict Option, a manifesto that he's been mulling over ever since he first staked out intellectual territory as a "crunchy conservative" more than ten years ago, feels like a capstone to that long intellectual association. I don't mean that to sound like a dramatic conclusion or completion; Rod and I, like many others, will no doubt continue to argue in a friendly way about all these issues for a long time to come. But this book helps me understand, better than I ever have before, a gap which exists between his perspective on what both community and Christianity mean and my own. Perhaps future events or arguments will lead to that gap being bridged, or perhaps they will widen it even further. For now, though, it exists, somewhat avoidable in its breadth, but by no means impossible to speak across. That, too, is a blessing.
I have three points to make about this book. The first is that it's really pretty great. Some chapters are better than others, but all are solid, as much as your mileage of appreciation may vary. (For example, I found chapter 2, "The Roots of the Crisis," in which Rod lays out the whole intellectual history of Western Christendom's rise to and fall from sociopolitical and cultural prominence in 26 pages, a little simplistic and pat, but those who aren't scholars may well disagree with me; on the other hand, I thought chapter 10, "Man and the Machine," was a sharp, haunting synthesis of the many powerful arguments which have been made regarding the "fatal error" of accepting unquestioningly "a world mediated by technology"...though I have no doubt that plenty of conservative Christian couples who only have children thanks to in vitro fertilization will be infuriated by his description of the damaging liberationist logic which he sees that practice as implicitly licensing--pp. 223, 234-235.) Overall Benedict Option is not, I think, Rod's best writing; ideas are most deeply and effectively explored when they are organically revealed in the context of a story, and he did that better when he told the tale of his sister's life, her death, and the hometown they shared in The Little Way of Ruthie Leming (a book I couldn't write enough about when it first came out, and which I still buy copies of to give to students of mine as they graduate, marry, or move away), and then again when he wrote a spiritual autobiography of sorts as a sequel, How Dante Can Save Your Life. Benedict Option isn't organic in that sense; while there are stories in it, they are arranged to serve as parts of his argument. Here the ideas, not the stories, come first.
The second thing to say about this book is what all those ideas are for--but in all likelihood, anyone who has read this far already knows the answer to that question. Rod's great desire is for what he accepts as the truth claims and the culturally and spiritually formative power of traditional Christianity to be conserved, in the midst of a world which he sees as denying and undermining the conservation of both of those things left and right. By so doing, Rod argues that the moral stability (and thus the social and cultural stability as well) of Western civilization is at great risk. "We Christians in the West are facing our own thousand-year flood....The light of Christianity is flickering out all over the West. There are people alive today who may live to see the effective death of Christianity within our civilization....This may not be the end of the world, but it is the end of a world....The floodwaters are upon us--and we are not ready" (p. 8).
So far, so very much like many other reactionary jeremiads, whether from James Burham in the 1960s or from Newt Gingrich in the 2010s. But Rod's great insight, one which he has expanded upon and deepened as he has worked out the implications of being a "counter-cultural" conservative, is that the usual political tools of conservation which many American Christians have trusted in ever since the rise of post-WWII fusion conservatism--namely, using political organizing to capture and then maintain a commitment to the Republican party as a way to defend economic freedom, provide for a strong defense, and codify into law socially traditional Christian moral principles--have utterly failed. Hence the need for a turn to an older strategy--one older, as the above referenced intellectual history implies, than the founding of the United States, and indeed older than the entire post-Protestant Reformation socio-economic project of liberal individualism and moral pluralism. Rod's strategy is one of strategic withdrawal from (which also means, as Alan Jacobs astutely observed, a greater strategic attentiveness to) the ordinary cultural practices of the modern world around us, with the aim of developing sustainable local and communal alternatives to them, as the Benedictine monks of old did in the face of the chaos of the post-Roman world. "American Christians are going to have to come to terms with the brute fact that we live in a culture...in which our beliefs make increasingly little sense. We speak a language that the world more and more either cannot hear or finds offensive to its ears. Could it be that the best way to fight [this] flood is to...stop fighting the flood?" (p. 12).
The idea of recasting a broad social and cultural transition and struggle as something other than a straight-up political battle between interest groups and party factions is hardly new, of course. But Rod expresses the ideal of this old vision--a humble, communitarian, civic, populist, local, familial, and "tending" vision, to use the language of political theorist Sheldon Wolin--beautifully:
Here's how to get started with the antipolitical politics of the Benedict Option. Secede culturally from the mainstream. Turn off the television. Put the smartphones away. Read books. Play games. Make music. Feast with your neighbors. It is not enough to avoid what is bad; you must also embrace what is good. Start a church, or a group within your church. Open a classical Christian school, or join and strengthen one that already exists. Plant a garden, and participate in a local farmer's market. Teach kids how to play music, and start a band. Join the volunteer fire department....We faithful Orthodox Christians didn't ask for internal exile from a country we thought was our own, but that's where we find ourselves. We are a minority now, so let's be a creative one, offering warm, living, light-filled alternatives to a world growing cold, dead, and dark....Ceasing to believe that the fate of the American Empire is in our hands frees us to put them to work for the Kingdom of God in our own little shires (pp. 98-99).
Rod's description of "antipolitical politics" is deeply influenced by the writings of dissidents from Eastern Europe during the era of communist tyranny there, Vaclav Havel most particularly. He sees the Benedict Option as a way to talk about Christians building, as Czech and Soviet and other dissidents had to, "'parallel structures' in which the truth can be lived in community," a "parallel polis" for the sake of "establishing (or re-establishing ) common practices and common institutions that can reverse the isolation and fragmentation of contemporary society" (pp. 91-92, 94). What he's talking about is coming to recognize that ordered actions and traditions, routines of integrity and sacrifice and commitment, performed in particular places among a shared community, are valuable in themselves, and not because it may have some practical consequence in the public world. In comparison to the utilitarian and individualistic assumptions of liberal modernity, this is a powerful vision.
It is also, in a perverse way, an appealing one; few are the people who haven't, at one point or another in their lives, enjoyed seeing themselves as the lone sane people in the room, as the brave and necessary and suffering resistance to a malevolent agenda, whether embodied in some ignorant bureaucracy or a hateful boss. But there is a complication which comes relying upon such language: it tends to reinforce a circle-the-wagons mindset, thus making the appeal to an alternative seem more exclusionary than perhaps it ought to be. The attention which Rod--a strong moral traditionalist when it comes to sexual morality, who writes that "the modern re-paganization called the Sexual Revolution can never be reconciled with orthodox Christianity" (p. 197)--has paid on his blog, and in this book, to same-sex marriage, transgender issues, and more, often takes this form. In a response to a review of The Benedict Option by Emma Green, in which she notes that the book provides very little advice on how conservative Christians should deal with "the LGBT Americans they blame for pushing them out of mainstream culture"--something Green correctly observes Benedict Option Christians couldn't avoid even if they wanted to, since there will always be "challenges at the boundaries of sub-cultures," Rod becomes a little defiant:
LGBT activism is the tip of the spear at our throats in the culture war. The struggle over gay rights is what is threatening our religious liberty, putting Christian merchants out of business, threatening the tax-exempt status and accreditation of Christian schools and colleges, inspiring the federal government to order public schools to allow transgenders into locker rooms....Our religious liberty and the doctrinal integrity of our churches, especially our understanding of human nature and the meaning of sex and the family, depends on it.
There are lots of "ours" in those sentences, just as the passages quoted above speak of "we Christians" a lot. Of course, American Christians are Rod's target audience, and he's one himself, so that makes sense. But the more you dig into this book, the clearer it becomes that, as much as what he has to say about liturgy ("corporeality is how God created us to function....liturgies do more than pass on information....they form our imaginations and our hearts"--pp. 109,111), work ("Germany's strict laws mandating shop closing times...make life less convenient for consumers...but...the protection of that regulation....cultivate[s] more balanced, integrated lives for the German people"--p. 178), community ("we have to start locally....in order to know what our neighbors need and want, we will have to be close to them"--p. 95), and technology ("to see the world technologically, then, is to see it as material over which to extend one's dominion....technology as a worldview trains us to privilege what is new and innovative over what is old and familiar and to valorize the future uncritically"--p. 221) may appeal to and positively provoke many, Rod really isn't speaking to all of us Christians. Which leads to the third thing to say about his book: that its persuasiveness is very much dependent upon looking inside yourself, and figuring out whether you are part of its true target audience or not.
Rod writes that the Benedict Option is of crucial importance to "orthodox Christians" (sometimes using a small o, sometimes a capital O) or "believing Christians" or "faithful Christians" or "serious Christians," all of whom "recognize the toxins of modern secularism." But recognizing that isn't probably enough--after all, there are thousands of liberal Christians and others who would readily admit to the role modern secularism has played in robbing American culture of a way of talking about the necessity of justice and the plague of greed. (Think of anything written by Ron Sider or Karen Armstrong or Jim Wallis or dozens of others, or most anything published in Sojourners or Commonweal.) So more specifically, Rod means "faithful Orthodox Christians...theological conservatives within the three main branches of historical Christianity." But even more, it means believers who have "internalized" the "classical Christian view" that "[t]he point of life, for individual persons, for the church, and for the state, is to pursue harmony with [Christianity's] transcendent, eternal order" (pp. 18, 54). But even there we have a problem. At one point Rod refers to Hillary Clinton as someone "deeply hostile to core Christian values" (p. 89)--yet I strongly suspect that Clinton herself (a life-long church-attending Bible-quoting Methodist, one who has frequently spoken publicly about her prayer life) could quickly--and honestly--assent to believing that "the point of life is to pursue harmony with a transcendent eternal order." Rod has long been bothered--and rightly so--by "Moralistic Therapeutic Deism," a sociological label developed to capture the vague spiritual sensibilities held by so many Americans, but allows that even that collection of beliefs includes the conviction that God "created and orders the world" (p. 10). So it can't simply be a matter of affirming the existence of a "transcendent, eternal order"; the Benedict Option is, I think, to Rod's mind, essential to the cultural survival of a Christianity with a very particular doctrinal version of the universal moral order.
The importance of doctrine rears its head when Rod writes, briefly, about my own faith, Mormonism, and some of the ways our congregations work to encourage "unusually strong social bonds" and a "unified community of believers": "The Latter-day Saints (LDS, or Mormons) may not be Orthodox Christians, but they are exceptionally good at doing the kind of community building that...is a vital part of being a Christian" (pp. 131-132). I don't mean to make a big deal out of this generous passage, especially since Rod surely knew that his book would be read by any number of old-school evangelical Protestants for whom Mormonism is a dangerous cult and thus must be discussed carefully. But still: so we're not Orthodox Christians, in The Benedict Option's particular definition of "Orthodox Christians," even though he then goes on to say that we're doing exactly what, in his view, Orthodox Christians in today's secular world should be doing? Well, of course, I suspect he might reply; what you do is important, but so is where you stand, doctrinally and denominationally, when you do it. (Rod's complimentary words attracted some thoughtful attention in Mormon circles, but none focused on this particular point, perhaps mainly because most American Mormons couldn't care less about the doctrinal boundaries of traditional Christian denominations.)
So clearly, Rod's argument does not escape doctrinal presumptions. To his credit, he does not over-emphasize this. On the contrary, he speaks highly of intentional Christian groups which take an ecumenical approach to membership (so long as they "avoid watering down doctrinal distinctives for the sake of comity"--p. 137), and he never denies to those who don't hold to his correct doctrine of the eternal order the right to label themselves "Christians"; he never calls Hillary Clinton an apostate or an anti-Christ, for example. But still, he plainly believes that there are Christians--like himself--whose doctrinal take on "core Christian values" will make them targets when and if religious protections which long sheltered religious traditionalists from the full give and take of modern liberal pluralism are taken away...and then there are those that, for better or worse, are already pluralistic enough that living in a "post-Christian" nation will not be threatening. The Benedict Option is a strategy for the former group.
The clearest way to know if you are in that former group, I think, again comes back to sexual morality, about which Rod has written much and thoughtfully before. "Sexual practices are so central to the Christian life that when believers cease to affirm orthodoxy on the matter, they often cease to be meaningfully Christian," Rod writes, and the greatest example of that heterodoxy, in his view, is the belief that sexuality is subject to individual determination--that it is not essentially a corporeal, or communal, or cosmic, but rather a consumer good: "Sexual autonomy, seemingly the most prized possession of the modern person, is not only morally wrong but a metaphysical falsehood." Hence, the line is drawn. If you are essentially opposed or want to distance yourself from any kind of sexual identity or practice which exists aside from or outside of "the covenant through which a man and a woman seal their love exclusively through Christ," then Rod sees you as likely the kind of Christian that is probably in need to seeking a Benedict Option solution in your life (p. 197, 200-201). If you're not, though, then the Benedict Option probably won't be necessary.
Of course, ideas have a life of their own, and the fact that Rod's argument for the Benedict Option includes elements that are pretty much incompatible with how my wife and I understand the needs of our family at the present time (for example, Rod's emphatic insistence that "it is time for all Christians to pull their children out of the public school system"--p. 155--really doesn't resonate with us) in no way prevents me from taking inspiration--a localist, communal, tending inspiration--from the ideas Rod presents. But it is, nonetheless, a cause for reflection when one comes across such a stark gap. Alan Jacobs strongly dislikes Rod's tendency to talk about the Benedict Option by way of "tip of the spear at our throats"-type formulations, but he wonders if he doesn't have a motivated interest for thinking that way, and that perhaps Rod and his audience of doctrinally traditional believers are "just better Christians" than he is. Liberal Christian (and liberal Mormon!) that I am--as much as I dislike the baggage carried by those particular labels--I confess: I wonder that as well. But I also wonder if Rod's determination on this point may at least partly reflect a perspective that hasn't yet been fully disentangled himself from the tight political association which right-wing Catholics and evangelical Protestants built into the electoral infrastructure of the Republican party from the 1970s through to the 2000s, an infrastructure that became so second-nature to culture war arguments in the wake of the 1960s that the America-centric perspective it lends to debates over Christianity's doctrines and social role is probably pretty hard to shake.
Two examples from The Benedict Option. While writing about the importance of staying involved enough to fight on a national level of religious liberty guarantees, even while focusing primarily on building up local and familial religious practices and resources, Rod comments that "without a robust and successful defense of First Amendment protections, Christians will not be able to build the communal institutions that are vital to maintaining our identity and our values" (p. 84). There's a lot of sense to that...and yet, it's a comment which he makes immediately after having devoted an entire chapter to thoughtfully (and justly!) praising the Monastery of St. Benedict in Norcia, Italy, as an antidote to the disorder of the modern world...an antidote which exists in a country where, obviously, there is no First Amendment. And yet, they abide.
Another, more relevant, example: Rod writes that "Marriage has to be sexually complementary because only the male-female pair mirrors the generativity of the divine order" (p. 201). There are fascinating debates that could--and should!--be had here regarding natural law, Platonic philosophy and the Great Chain of Being, the Holy Spirit, the authority of tradition, and the Hebraic core of actual Biblical ethics (Rod insists that real Christians cannot "abandon clear, binding biblical teachings on homosexuality" (p. 213), but surely only the most blinkered devotee of Biblical inerrancy would insist that the traditional conservative condemnation of homosexuality as disordered can be fully elaborated from the seven short verses in the entire canon of the Bible which mention it)...but even setting all those discussions aside, it is worth noting that Rod speaks of "marriage" here--the civic, legal institution--as opposed to "sexual relations"--that is, the practice which impacts directly upon his understanding of the moral telos of our created embodiment. Which prompts the question: even if one accepts "the generativity of the divine order" as a doctrinal, cosmic, anthropological fact, what does that necessarily have to matter for how a society which does not have an established church--and Rod never calls for one!--chooses to legally respond to the reality of sexual pluralism (a reality which Rod does not deny, even going to far as to point out the many ways Christians need to repent of their "rejection and hatred" of gays and lesbians in the past--p. 213)? Yes, yes, there will be marginal cases, issues involving children, involving those who lack material resources and are culturally adrift, involving conflicts over clashing rights in arenas of medicine, education, business, caregiving, and more. I've never denied the importance of these marginal cases (much as I didn't care for much of the baggage attached to the case, I think Hobby Lobby v. Sebelius was correctly decided, and have said so repeatedly). But to take those marginal concerns, and see in them a wave which will flood public Christianity entirely away is, I suspect, to have at least some part of one's thinking frozen in an era when a particular kind of traditional Christian doctrine really did serve as an at least informal civic establishment in the United States, conveying the idea that if the dominant institutions and practices of public life weren't legally shaped around and weren't politically supportive of the cosmic order, the functions of the universe itself would be violated. Well, count me as modern--and, while you're at it, as Augustinian too: I just don't think, even if I believed all the foregoing was true (and I don't, not anymore; I changed my mind about same-sex marriage five years ago), I just don't see our collective individual choices necessarily having such permanent cultural warping effects on the world around us, nor do I see such cultural warpings as disturbing God's sovereign intentions for the universe even one tiny bit.
So I come to the end of this fine and challenging book and have to conclude: Rod's thoughtful and important call for strengthening our families and rebuilding our communities by way of the same rules of attentive withdrawal and humble practice which communist dissidents and Catholic monks alike long exemplified is one that I can be inspired by and learn from--but it's a lesson he's not actually directing it at me. This makes me sad, a little bit: because when I look at the end of the book, and I read passages like this...
The Benedict Option is a call to undertaking the long and patient work of reclaiming the real work from the artifice, alienation, and atomization of modern life. It is a way of seeing the world and of living in the world that undermines modernity's big lie: that humans are nothing more than ghosts in a machine, and we are free to adjust its settings in any way we like (p. 236).
...I think to myself: yes, that's what I want and need. If I am to make rational sense of the fact that I find my soul responding to much of Rod's antipolitical politics, his parallel polis, his localist alternatives, and his traditionalism, will I need, ultimately, a deeper conversion? Maybe. Or maybe not. But in the meantime, I hope Rod never forgets: for all our disagreements (and some of them are pretty huge), there are plenty of capitalist dissidents and liberal communitarians and heterdox Christians and modern pluralists and aspiring "intenders" like me who think you're on to something. Even if you're not talking to us, we're listening, and we like a lot of what we hear, and are thankful for it.
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I am working on designing some apps, but i do not have the technical abilities to build them. I would like to meet with someone that could assist me in creating them. I develop the business case and the non-functional requirements, now i need to make it a reality.


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Simple tab component with React.

- **Mount with a delay**
The content panel is mounted, when the tab is clicked for the first time.

- **Reuse mounted component**
If you switch the tab,
the content panel those made previously is displayed in the state at that time.

- **No styles**
This doesn't have design theme.
You can freely mark up css.

- **Structure DOM freely**
The tab and the panel does not need to be the same hierarchy.
You will be able to structure the tab or panel freely.

## Demo
http://oreshinya.github.io/react-tab-factory/example/

## Installation

```
$ npm install --save react-tab-factory
```

## Usage

```coffee

ReactTabFactory = require "react-tab-factory"
TabFactory = ReactTabFactory.TabFactory

tabMixin =
  _getStyle: ->
    fontWeight = "normal"
    fontWeight = "bold" if @props.selected
    {fontWeight: fontWeight}

FirstTab = React.createClass
  mixins: [tabMixin]
  render: ->
    <span style={@_getStyle()}>Tab 1</span>

SecondTab = React.createClass
  mixins: [tabMixin]
  render: ->
    <span style={@_getStyle()}>Tab 2</span>

FirstPanel = React.createClass
  render: ->
    <div className="panel-content">Panel 1</div>

SecondPanel = React.createClass
  render: ->
    <div className="panel-content">Panel 2</div>

App = React.createClass
  getInitialState: ->
    factory = new TabFactory()
    factory.tabClassNames =
      normal: "tab"
      active: "tab active"

    factory.panelClassName = "panel"
    {factory: factory}

  render: ->
    <div id="app">
      <div className="tab-container">
        {@state.factory.createTab FirstTab}
        {@state.factory.createTab SecondTab}
      </div>
      <div className="panel-container">
        {@state.factory.createPanel FirstPanel}
        {@state.factory.createPanel SecondPanel}
      </div>
    </div>
```

## Performant option
If a panel has too many elements, switching tab will be very slow.
In case of it, you can set performant option to factory,
and create `PanelContainer` as panels parent.

```coffee
ReactTabFactory = require "react-tab-factory"
TabFactory = ReactTabFactory.TabFactory
PanelContainer = ReactTabFactory.PanelContainer

App = React.createClass
  getInitialState: ->
    factory = new TabFactory()
    factory.tabClassNames =
      normal: "tab"
      active: "tab active"

    factory.panelClassName = "panel"
    factory.performant = true
    {factory: factory}

  render: ->
    <div id="app">
      <div className="tab-container">
        {@state.factory.createTab FirstTab}
        {@state.factory.createTab SecondTab}
      </div>
      <PanelContainer className="panel-container">
        {@state.factory.createPanel FirstPanel}
        {@state.factory.createPanel SecondPanel}
      </PanelContainer>
    </div>
```

**But use performant option carefully.**
If performant option is false, the factory switches tab with css `display` property.
If performant option is true, to reduce rendering and painting,
the factory switches tab with css `position: absolute` and `z-index`.
These may lead to side effects.

## API
### Property
```coffee
ReactTabFactory = require "react-tab-factory"
TabFactory = ReactTabFactory.TabFactory
PanelContainer = ReactTabFactory.PanelContainer
```

### Instantiate
```coffee
factory = new TabFactory()
```

### Configuration
- **factory.tabClassNames:**
Configure tab class name.
```coffee
factory.tabClassNames =
  normal: "tab"
  active: "tab active"
```

- **factory.panelClassName:**
Configure panel class name.
```coffee
factory.panelClassName = "panel"
```

- **factory.performant**
Configure to switch tab faster.
```coffee
factory.performant = true # default is false
```

### Create Element
- **factory.createTab(handler, props, options):**
Create tab. `handler` is ReactClass.
The handler's props is passed `selected` and `opts` that has passed props.
If `options.selected` is true, it will be default tab.
The default selected tab is first tab.
```coffee
factory.createTab FirstTab
```

- **factory.createPanel(handler, props, options):**
Create content panel. `handler` is ReactClass.
The handler's props is passed `selected` and `opts` that has passed props.
If `options.preMount` is true, it will be rendered before selecting tab.
```coffee
factory.createPanel FirstPanel
```

## Example
Go to https://github.com/oreshinya/react-tab-factory/tree/master/example !

## LICENSE
MIT

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Return to MEET OUR HEROES
Jacqui Richmond
Research Fellow - Hepatitis Program, Faculty of Health Sciences, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS)
"I am a Hep Hero because I believe that everybody has the right to receive the very best quality healthcare - and that it is fundamentally wrong to discriminate against a person who requires healthcare."
As a registered nurse, I began a career in viral hepatitis in 1998 as the Victorian Viral Hepatitis Educator at St. Vincent's Hospital. For 10 years this job took me all over Victoria and ignited a real passion in me about hepatitis B and C. This was followed by a strong interest in research.
Each year I was invited to provide annual hepatitis updates at hospitals around Victoria, but on numerous occasions I was confronted with residual stigma and discrimination towards people with hepatitis C regardless of improvements in the audiences' knowledge. Concerned by what I was witnessing in practice I undertook a PhD to explore the impact of health professionals' hepatitis C knowledge and attitudes on the care they provide to people with hepatitis C.
I was fortunate to complete postdoctoral research at Duke University in North Carolina, USA in 2007. Since then I have worked on several national consultancy projects including writing the 3rd National Hepatitis C Strategy 2010-2013, researching and developing the Australasian Hepatology Association (AHA) Consensus-based Nursing Guidelines for the Care of Patients with Liver Disease (2012); the AHA Competency Standards for the Hepatology Nurse (2008); and the National Hepatitis C Needs Assessment (2008).
My interest and passion for hepatitis C has not abated, but clinically I now work at the Royal Melbourne Hospital as a Hepatitis B Clinical Nurse Consultant. I try to balance my career between the clinical and research worlds. As a researcher I explore topics that are relevant to improving clinical practice and the experiences of the affected community. "I believe each and every one of us has the ability to change perceptions about viral hepatitis. We just need to keep having the conversation – including accurate information, and telling a positive story, about real people."
Jacqui's message to others:
"I believe each and every one of us has the ability to change perceptions about viral hepatitis. We just need to keep having the conversation – including accurate information, and telling a positive story, about real people."


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Home > Director's message for 9th NSFFI 2019: Introducing New Opportunities
Director's message for 9th NSFFI 2019: Introducing New Opportunities
Greetings and welcome to the 9th edition of Bharat ka Rashtriya Vigyan Filmotsav (National Science Film Festival of India).
Part of our (Vigyan Prasar's) outreach program through one of the most powerful media — motion pictures, this festival has gotten here and needless to say, we wish that this goes on and on. Isn't it worth reckoning, worth an appreciation for one and all who've been behind this successful journey, so far. Hats off!
In this travel so far, we've realized and experienced a lot of change — content aggregation, visualization, editing, production, process workflow, technology and more. Amongst these, technology has witnessed maximum delta, maximum iterations! IoT or the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence have been at the head of the list of technological transformations. Whether it's extracting metadata from unstructured content sources or developing ontologies, exhaustive content research is required to get a faultless story for an effective motion picture, even if it is Science & Technology.
Well begun is half done! From the selection of content, and then its research — all of it requires an effective and relevant content aggregation. Weaving an apt and appropriate story around the aggregated content requires a well-defined thought sequence. So how would one do it when content is to be retrieved from the humongous yet disparate sources — thanks to the Internet. Application of modern technology steps in at every step of content collation, classification, summarization, and visualization. Media conversion is indeed an important aspect here too. From image to text and text to JSON and then JSON to XML, and then to the board room for an analysis of the aggregated content to weave a workflow that'll eventually produce a very well-filmed movie. It becomes much more pertinent when the content is Science & Technology and especially the audience is not-an-expert one. Highly continuous display of thoughts to keep the attention of the audience active is a challenge. Thus, the script is important and hence the relevance of research that's been put to gather the content is far more important.
When we talk about media conversion, it's just not about movie formats being converted but how content images are converted into the text format. Improved character recognition engines like optical character recognition (OCR) have now been replaced by customized Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) techniques. Machines are trained to identify complex character structures, whether they are as complex as Fractur fonts or hand-written manuscripts. Role of modern technology plays a very critical role in the entire gamut of things required to create a visual masterpiece.
We, at Vigyan Prasar in our thirtieth year of existence, have crossed a number of milestones so far, and aspire to achieve many more in the years to come. Our dedicated scientists have been involved in active hands-on S&T popularization & communication-related research. We've come up with a number of new thoughts, practically-realizable workflows, products and by-products. Besides various products in print and electronic media, we've recently forayed into a dedicated Science Channel on television and the Internet. We signed a MoU with Doordarshan so that we could take our films to people who don't have access to paid channels. We've begun an hour's slot during 5pm — 6pm Mon-Fri called DD Science where we bring short science films. On the other hand, we realize the importance of the Internet and thus, launched a 24-hour dedicated Internet-based TV called India Science. Hope you would have realized by now the relevance of discussing these initiatives here. DD Science and India Science are two sources that require films to be screened on a regular basis. This means Vigyan Prasar would need more and more new films, new ideas and new content. A lot of opportunity for science film-makers!
Thus, let's use this ninth edition of the science film festival as an opportunity and convert it into an advantage for the larger audience. Wishing you all a very happy ninth science film festival.


connection with your Dad. Maybe your Dad has passed on to another realm.
played an important role in defining who you are today.
On June 9th of this year, my step dad passed away rather suddenly at the age of 72.
chemotherapy. Unfortunately, his body wasn't strong enough to sustain the treatment.
I would like to dedicate this newsletter to my step dad, Rich. He meant the world to me.
eleven years old. Rich had always been there for me.
He provided my family with a beautiful home in the country, surrounded by trees.
brother on vacation to places like Tennessee, Arkansas, the Ozarks, Florida.
of a four-wheeler and drive the girls through paths in the woods.
He'd pretend the four-wheeler had stopped working and turn out all the lights.
us bonfires, and we'd sit around the fire and make smores, while telling spooky stories.
resentment toward him, I encourage you to let it go. Forgive him for being imperfect.
subconsciously, compare our view of Dad to what God must be like.
If this definition of God doesn't serve you, then change your definition of God.
essence of your true nature (Love, Wholeness, Perfection) comes from within.
know how long your Dad will be around, just as in the case of Rich. Seize the day.
Live in the moment and tell your Dad you love him. What does your Dad mean to you?
If the story you've been telling yourself hurts you, then change the story.
Change it to a story which allows you to find peace within yourself.
Happy Father's Day to all you father figures!


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LBS raises over £12,000 for cancer charity.
LBS Builders' Merchants has raised £12,206 for cancer charity Macmillan Cymru by walking to the top of Pen Y Fan in the Brecon Beacons.
Charity Macmillan Cymru is very close to the heart of LBS and its employees, after the company lost three of its colleagues to cancer during 2015.
Early in 2016, several branches suggested money should be raised to support Macmillan's in memory of their lost colleagues and the whole company got behind the idea. As a result, on 22 May over 200 LBS employees, damily and friends walked to the top of Pen Y Fan, an impressive 886m high, wearing matching purple 'Every Step Counts' t-shirts.
The money raised was then presented to Sue Reece, fundraising manager for Macmillan Cymru. She said: "We are so grateful to everyone at LBS Builders Merchants, their families and friends, for organising the event and taking part in making it such a fantastic success. The money raised will make a real difference to people living with cancer in the local community and will help Macmillan Cancer Support to continue providing the right support at the right time."
Mark Davies, LBS managing director, said: "LBS are proud of its record of charitable giving both as a company and as individuals, Every Step Counts was however a special events as its inspiration was so personal, to so many within our business."
Every step counts
Macmillan Cymru is very close to the heart of LBS and its employees. Last year was a difficult time for LBS, with three of its colleagues sadly lost due to cancer. Early in 2016 several branches suggested money should be raised to support Macmillan's in memory of their lost colleagues and the whole company got behind the idea.
Macmillan Cancer Support unites behind trade professionals in support of men with cancer
Macmillan Cancer Support is uniting Selco Builders Warehouse Travis Perkins and Wolseley and six other companies to be part of its with 'Just Say the Word' male cancer campaign.
Cricketers boost charity coffers
A charity dinner with former England cricket player Jonathan Trott has raised £11,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support.
Daredevil Selco manager skydives in honour of late colleague
A Selco Branch Manager jumped 15,000ft from a plane to raise money in memory of his colleague.
The Macmillan Big Coffee Morning
Last week many companies, including Garador, brought in cakes and coffee for the Macmillan Cancer Support's Big Coffee Morning.


The Whitney Museum of American Art's upcoming Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016 will chronicle the ever-evolving world of cinema. Dreamlands, running October 28, 2016 to February 5, 2017, will traces film's evolution across its lifetime, exploring how filmmakers and artists have disassembled and reassembled cinema to create a range of "experiences of the moving image," as a press release said. The featured artworks will include installations, drawings, 3-D environments, sculpture, performance, painting, and more.
The works will be primarily from American filmmakers and artists but some influential 1920s German pieces will also be display. The numerous filmmakers and artists featured will include: Walt Disney, Frances Bodomo, Bruce Conner, Alex Da Corte, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Liam Gillick, Syd Mead, Mathias Poledna, Oskar Schlemmer, Hito Steyerl, and Stan VanDerBeek.
The next part of the exhibition displays work from the 1940s to 1980s. Included in this large breadth is CROSSROADS, Bruce Conner's 1976 short film capturing the July 25, 1946 Operation Crossroads Baker underwater nuclear test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific; Destruct Film, a 1967 projective installation by Jud Yalkut which uses the projected light as a sculptural material; and production design paintings for Syd Mead's 1982 science fiction film Blade Runner.
Lastly, the period from the 1990s to present-day exhibit a highly diverse collection of works that demonstrate the introduction and incorporation of more advanced technologies such as touch screen and "virtual space." Also on display will be Factory of the Sun, an installation by Hito Steyerl, originally created for the German Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale.


Providing free sports classes to specific target groups. We do this by connecting volunteer instructors with interest-groups.
Contributing to the field of research concerning Chinese Yang sheng and TCM by conducting and promoting scientific research.
By organizing workshops, lectures, study trips providing a platform for experts and scholars.
The Foundation for Chinese Yang sheng and TCM is a a non-profit organization which is committed to increase the level of health of people. Through promotion of Yang sheng health practices and TCM we wish to ameliorate general well-being.
Chinese Yang sheng can be translated as the nourishment of life. It can be found in everyday activities. Brushing your teeth, exercise, massage or even driving safely. Every action can contribute to a better or worse state of health. Our Foundation focuses on education through workshops, lectures, research, social events and instruction of health based sports.
Our main goal is to make people more independent when it comes to building and maintaining health. To take more responsibility for their health and to give them the tools and knowledge to do this.
Unfortunately health can be a complicated issue and therefore additional help is a necessary thing from time to time. Therefore we have the ambition to promote and support the development of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
To contribute to the quality and credibility of what we propagate, instruct and promote – we support our actions through conducting and stimulating scientific research about Chinese Yang sheng and TCM.
Copyright © 2019 CNYS-TCM All Rights Reserved.


New EP Space Between Days is released 1st September 2018!
It's been a long time coming! All of us have had a lot going on in our lives but somehow we have managed to come out of a tough year with a brand new 4-track EP. Space Between Days was recorded in Gloucestershire by Mike Cooling with final production & mastering by Pete Maher in France. Available on tasty 10" vinyl and CD through this website (and at our gigs and selected independent record stores) and you can dowload from Spotify, iTunes, Amazon etc. Check out the new video for the lead track Space Between Days on our YouTube channel or through the video tab on this website! Enjoy!. We will be playing in London and South-West UK later this year and into 2019 to promote the new tunes. Gig dates pending. Happy listening and watch this space!
New Year, New Tunes & Farewell to Pete!
After a break for writing and recording over the last 6 months Slow Falling Sun are back in the game with a brand new 4-track EP out in September. Details to follow. Mike Cooling who produced our last album In the Same World is back at the desk with additional programming by Ian Scanlan. We recorded the new tracks in Gloucestershire with final mixing & mastering completed in France (which sits nicely with Bill being half-French!). The new tracks include Harry Steele guesting on keys. We are working on videos again with Cotswold Film Company who did a wicked job for us on the Permanence video. Other news - sad to say that Pete Moore our trusty drummer has left the band and we are in the process of securing a replacement. Watch this space and our Instagram and Facebook pages for tasters of new tunes, release dates and upcoming gigs to be announced. And happy new year!
As we head into spring we are releasing the third single from our album In the Same World. Surface features the brilliant Emily Barker on harmonies. It was a real treat to work with Emily who brings true class to this track along with lush guitars by Joe Gooch (of Hundred Seventy Split) and Harry Steele (of Young Kato) on keys. We shot the video in London where this track was written. You will catch the Surface video on our YouTube channel. A radio edit of Surface along with the Joe Gooch instrumental mix is available to download from all the usual platforms from 6th March. Check out the original artwork by Joe Richardson. Enjoy!
Massive thanks to everyone who has supported us through an amazing year! We released our new album, put out two singles and videos and started to get airplay in the UK (and Portugal according to our PRS payments!). Having survived the demise of the Ragged Moon record label we are heading into 2017 officially unsigned with another single off the album - Colourblind - with video currently in progress for February release. We are already writing and performing some new material and will be heading back in the studio in the spring of 2017 to record a couple of new tracks for single releases later in the year. We kick off 2017 gigs at Nambucca in London on 4th March.
Permanence will be released as a download single on 20th June with artwork by Joe Richardson and a cracking video by the Cotswold Film Company. This is the second single release from our album In the Same World. Keep watching for forthcoming summer and autumn live dates.
New Album In the Same World Out Now!
The long-awaited new Slow Falling Sun album In the Same World is out now! Recorded in Gloucestershire and mastered at Abbey Road Studios by Frank Arkwright (New Order; Johnny Marr), alongside the band the album features guest appearances by Harry Steele (Young Kato) on keyboards, Emily Barker (Wallander theme) on additional vocals and Joe Gooch (Ten Years After & Hundred-Seventy Split) on guitar.
In the Same World is available on CD or heavyweight vinyl (including download) direct from our website store and at upcoming gigs and select music stores. You can download the album from iTunes, Amazon and other platforms.
Click here to download our new single from iTunes!
New album and London gigs for 2016!
Check out the front cover artwork for the new Slow Falling Sun album 'In the Same World'. The album will be released on heavyweight vinyl, CD and download on 25th March. You can listen to taster tracks on the music page above. We have also confirmed two London gigs for the new year. We are at The Alleycat in Denmark Street on Saturday 2nd January, and then make a debut appearance at the Fiddler's Elbow in Camden on Friday 15th January. Really looking forward to both of these gigs at classic London venues. See you there!
Slow Falling Sun album mastered by Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road!
Slow Falling Sun have been at Abbey Road studios this week completing our new album with mastering supremo Frank Arkwright (whose work includes the fantastic recent New Order album and remastering of The Smiths, Blur and Joy Division). Our target release date March 25th 2016. Taster tracks and a single will available soon!
Emily Barker on the new Slow Falling Sun album!
Emily Barker has taken time out from her international schedule to lay down beautiful harmonies on three tracks from the new Slow Falling Sun album. Massive thanks to @emilybarkerhalo for a real treat. Sounding fantastic on Permanence, Surface and Motorway.


What a woman Bey is.
Beyoncé made the world stop. this weekend when she hit the Coachella stage and slayed all humanity. It was a performance that would 1). Go down in history and 2). set the bar for what a headlining act should be across the board. As social media put it, Bey took us to Wakanda, immortalized HBeyCUs, gave us battle of the bands and more.
Read Mama Tina's full quote up top and thank the heavens she raised a woman like Bey.
Remember When Beyoncé & Hov Were 'On The Run' In Toronto?
1. Bey & Hov had a great show in Toronto last night.
2. Watch them two step!
3. On The Run: Toronto.
4. Check out the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Canada.
5. Bey captures the atmosphere of "On The Run."
10. Hey Bey, hey Hov!
11. Jay Z takes the stage.
13. Bey shows off her booty in a thong on stage.
14. Hov gets gangster on 'em.
15. Throw your diamonds in the air.
17. Got that Ace on deck.
18. Throw your diamonds in the air!
22. Jay Z takes the stage.
24. Bey captures the "On The Run" atmosphere in Toronto.
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