At the end of every summer, San Franciscans begin to look forward to the potential of the fall. You begin anticipate warm Indian summer days and weekends filled with festivals and just hanging out in Dolores Park. When that oppressive summer fog begins to recede, you're not sad to see it go.
Months of sun and a little rain and much more sun go by and the fog stays away. You forget about it. And then one day it unexpectedly returns. And you are unexpectedly glad to see it. You like the way it engulfs the city like a long lost blanket. You like the way it dampens those loved and hated non-native Eucalyptus trees and their scent reminds you of San Francisco in the summer.
It's a strange feeling to be happy to greet the fog. It's like you've left the Bay Area behind. And now you're just San Francisco. For now.
Some of the most beautiful ideas I've ever come across through my travels are those of a Buddhist monk and peace activist named Thich Nhat Hanh. On a motorcycle tour of Hue, Vietnam, we made a stop at a monastery where he had once studied. It was a gorgeous setting overflowing with greenery and flowers and peacefulness.
It was there that I first learned about him and his thoughts on interacting with the world. One of his most impactful ideas is that everyone and everything alive is a miracle. And that the ability to recognize the miracle in the creation of something as small and everyday as a fruit or vegetable is an important step to internal freedom and happiness.
In travel, this mindset can often come naturally. There are so many new experiences for the senses which bring about a heightened awareness of the small wonders of the world. It gets a little harder to sustain this kind of everyday appreciation in the monotony of the places you know well.
But in the event that you do forget, I think farmers markets, in all their earthy glory, are great places to begin remembering.
The California coast never leaves a prime location in my heart. It may sometimes be pushed further back by busyness or efforts to see the world, but my fervor for the sight and sound of water rushing toward the jagged edges of the state is always there.
For me, visiting the quiet stretches of California coast between cities is not about getting away, it's about getting back to myself. The city has a tendency to warp me, sometimes in ways that are simply other sides of me that I haven't met, but it can also twist me into people that I am not.
But the coast demands honesty as those breezes envelope me and draw out what doesn't belong and fill that new found space with beauty and contemplation and freshness.
Lately, the coast has been calling me. And soon, I will go.
202 antique street lamps comprise the Urban Light sculpture at the entrance of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). It's visible from Wilshire and I'd ridden past the columns of lamps numerous times, but this was my first time seeing it up close.
It's a piece of artwork that incorporates a number of ideas that I love — it's recycled, it's interactive, it's open for the public to enjoy, and there are an unlimited amount of ways to interpret it.
If it were not for the gigantic, multiple building museum I was about to explore, I could've spent an hour at that sculpture alone, discovering the different angles and viewpoints.
I found these words of wisdom between the trees to be the most compelling of all the Presidio Habitats installations. Even though I'd seen many photographs of Winged Wisdom before I visited the exhibition, it still startled me when I rounded a corner and saw giant letters below, shaded by the trees and illuminated by the late afternoon sun. I imagine that it has tickled many unsuspecting passersby in the past year that its been on display.
The structure of the letters of Winged Wisdom are made of steel and mesh. They are filled with straw, an ideal material for robins to build their nests with. The sayings in this installation are based on the "wise" ways of robins: "resolve conflict with song", "adapt to change" and "nest from the inside out".
This unique piece of art is wise and organic; whimsical and exuberant. And while it's inspired by and dedicated to robins, it's as much of an homage to words as it is to the birds.


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About U-SNAP-BAC
"Our mission is to empower residents to impact the future of Detroit's eastside."
U-SNAP-BAC (United Streets Networking and Planning; Building A Community) was incorporated in 1987 by a consortium of seven (7) neighborhood organizations and four (4) business associations to revitalize the east side of Detroit. The Board of Directors is derived from representatives from each of its member organizations. The mission is "to empower residents to impact the future of Detroit's eastside. Through coalition building, resource development, joint planning and programming, we will promote economic growth and neighborhood improvement".
U-SNAP-BAC provides a host of services. Our commitment to the community includes programming in the area of homebuyer classes, home repair, home ownership training, gut rehabilitation of vacant properties, new home development, affordable rentals, infrastructure improvements, and demolition of unsafe structures. Since 1987, U-SNAP-BAC has completed over 500 home repairs, 17 vacant structures rehabbed, , constructed 131 units of affordable rental and single family homes for low and moderate income families.
Our homeowner and homebuyer counseling and classes have assisted many families in buying and maintaining their homes. We provide training for potential homebuyers to prepare them for their first home; how to qualify for a mortgage, understanding predatory lending, how to read a credit report , what it mans to be financially fit and foreclosure prevention.
On staff are HUD and MSHDA certified counselors available for one-o-one sessions, as well as group sessions to equip homebuyers and homeowners with the tools necessary to acquiring and maintaining the home of their dreams.
Homeownership Education - Sessions are held monthly designed to prepare prospective buyers for the home buying process. Generally 2-4 hours in length, classes are held on Saturdays or evenings to accommodate your schedules. For more information contact our offices, or check out our calendar for upcoming dates and times.
Affordable Rentals - 2, 3, and 4 bedroom townhouses located on Alter Rd. and Wayburn. For more information, contact our management company at 313-821-0469 or visit the management office at 14200 Kercheval to pick up an application.
Homes For Sale - Currently U-SNAP-BAC has five (5) properties located in the Morningside neighborhood available for sale to low and moderate income buyers. These homes are part of the City of Detroit Neighborhood Stabilization Plan. These foreclosed properties will be fully rehabbed with energy efficient features and upgrades. For more information contact Cynthia Garrett at 313-640-1100 Ext.14.
U-SNAP-BAC has a rich history of serving the community. The organization was formed in 1985 by residents with a collective commitment to improve the quality of life in communities through collaboration, neighborhood improvements and community cohesiveness. Through this commitment, a consortium of 11 community-based organizations on the eastside of Detroit were drawn together to implement positive community change. The organizations were diverse in nature ranging from residents, block clubs, small businesses, neighborhood organizations, and business associations. While the members were diverse, the belief was firm; working together creates solutions to strengthen the community.
The demand for decent affordable housing was on the fore-front of the coalition's agenda. With the goal of preserving sound housing stock, U-SNAPBAC, Inc was formed. In order to enhance this goal, U-SNAP-BAC Nonprofit Housing Corporation was created in 1987 for the sole purpose of neighborhood preservation through home repair and new housing development. U-SNAP-BAC's origin is based on the belief that housing projects controlled by the community will put the interests of the neighborhood first. The objective was to provide decent, safe and affordable housing for families of low and moderate income, while broadening U-SNAP-BAC Inc.'s role as a community empowerment advocate.
Through the years, U-SNAP-BAC, Inc.'s activities included small business services, community organizing, neighborhood beautification and homeownership education, financial literacy, and homeownership preservation counseling, while the U-SNAP-BAC Nonprofit Housing Corporation focused on new construction, acquisition rehabilitation and minor home repairs for residents. The impact that U-SNAP-BAC has had on the City of Detroit is phenomenal. U-SNAP-BAC has counseled over 900 families; aided in the development of over 100 block clubs; mentored countless small businesses; facilitated dozens of workshops, townhall meetings, community forums, and neighborhood cleanup efforts, planted over 100 trees, rehabbed over 500 homes, and constructed over 130 new affordable homes; all while maintaining the mission of community cohesiveness, collaboration, and commitment.
Since 1995 Ms. Linda Smith has been the Executive Director of U-SNAP-BAC Inc. and U-SNAP-BAC Non-Profit Housing Corporation. Under Smith's administration the organization has grown from a staff of four to an operating staff of 10. She has successfully secured operating funding for U-SNAP-BAC's various programs to stabilize the community and create neighborhood based economic development opportunities.
Under Smith's leadership U-SNAP-BAC built provided 67 units of newly-constructed and sold single family homes, 64-2,3 & 4 bedroom rental town homes, 30 units of permanent supportive housing for women and children, 3 passive parks, 1 tot lot, over $18MM of investment in the Morningside Neighborhood and the development of the East Warren Business District as a commercial corridor.
Smith is a graduate of Graduate of Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Achieving Excellence in Community Development. Smith also serves on the boards of the Brownfield Redevelopment Authority, New Detroit, Liberty Temple Baptist Church Board Member of Community Development Advocates of Detroit, and a member of the Neighborhood Stabilization Plan Steering Committee in Detroit.
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Last month I introduced you to Lisa Dickey, a young wife and mother whose challenges include living with Muscular Dystrophy, a child with severe autism and Stage 4 Cancer. I titled that show, Living and Dying Like a Super Hero.
Lisa has bravely met each of her challenges head on, with courage and grace. In fact her whole family is incredibly positive, open and unpretentious. Matt her husband is my POSTER BOY for Sweetest Husband EVER!!! When Lisa's long dark hair, fell out and left her bald, she had a difficult time looking at herself in the mirror and seeing anything beautiful. Matt turned to her and told her to let his eyes be her mirror because in them she will find her beauty reflected back at her from his loving eyes.
During a fund raiser I helped organize last month, Lisa's 10 yr old daughter Julia came up to me and THANKED ME for helping her mother. I was incredibly moved by her maturity and sincerity.
Unfortunately, between the MD, the steroids and the Chemo, Lisa has about 10 percent strength left in her legs and uses a wheel chair most of the time, however yesterday, somehow when she stood up, she fell down and managed to break her leg. She was diagnosed with a spiral fracture of her tibia.
WOW!!! Lisa..My heart goes out to you and my prayers as well. I hope you all will join me in praying for Lisa's bones to knit and repair themselves quickly, her strength to return to all her limbs so that she can have wonderful summer with her family and children she has been planning in her head.
In Lisa's blog she mentioned a moment with her daughter Julia, who asked her mom bluntly " Are you going to die?" In counseling, Lisa was told to tell her children the truth, so when Julia asked, she admitted YES she was.
I already told you what an amazing young girl Julia is, but she totally blew me away with her response. Lisa wrote that Julia responded with "Well, we better enjoy our time together. Is there anything you really want to do with your life?" Lisa writes, "I had the privilege of teaching her about bucket lists as we dreamed and giggled over our own lists. She acted as my secretary as she prompted me to think about the things that would be bring me joy. I'm pleased with our bucket list.
Guess I still have a lot of living to do, eh? *Guess SO LISA..!!!


A steep, winding mountain road in Northern Vermont.
Route 108 is a fairly long road that goes through a large part of Northern Vermont, starting in the popular resort town of Stowe and winding its way up to the Canadian border. But it is the section of Route 108 between Stowe and Jeffersonville that is particularly striking, as this 20-mile stretch of road cuts its way through some of the most rugged country in the Northeastern United States.
From Stowe, Route 108 climbs gradually for a few miles before steepening as it approaches Mount Mansfield, the highest mountain in Vermont. Then it rises at near-impossible grades through Smuggler's Notch before dropping rapidly through the remote alpine lands south of Jeffersonville. From there, Route 108 flattens out, meandering through farmland to Canada.
Map of Route 108 in Vermont: Click here to find the location of a particularly beautiful section of Route 108.
Stowe Recreation Path, Stowe--A mostly level biking and walking path that begins in Stowe Village, this 6-mile stretch of pavement cuts through scenic farmland and quiet woods.
Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe--One of the premier resorts of the Northeast, the Trapp Family Lodge seems like it could be located in the Swiss Alps, with dramatic views of the valley below giving it an alpine feel.
Mount Mansfield, Stowe--The largest mountain in Vermont and one of the most challenging ski areas in New England, Mount Mansfield is popular with outdoors lovers of all kinds.
Smuggler's Notch State Park--Wild, rugged, and remote, the stretch of Route 108 that cuts through this dramatic pass is closed in the winter due to its steepness and sharp curves.
Village at Smuggler's Notch, Jeffersonville--The Village at Smuggler's Notch is one of New England's most popular family resorts. Adults and children alike can ski, hike, swim, bike, and play tennis at this fun spot.


The region is a real landscape of stars. Apart from its natural attractions, we have excellent conditions to get the best sky-viewing experience and a specialised sector. Monfragüe and Alqueva have been granted a Starlight Tourist Destination certificate.
The low level of light pollution in a great part of Extremadura, the good climate, with many cloudless days all year round, the existence of spectacular locations and the increasing involvement of public institutions, lodgings and businesses promoting astrotourism make the region a paradise for stargazers.
*Dolmen of Lácara. Picture selected by NASA on March 21, 2019 (https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190321.html).
Throughout the whole Autonomous Community it is easy to find a place offering optimum stargazing conditions. In this sense, the guide 'Extremadura, paisaje de estrellas' (Extremadura, landscape of stars), published by the Directorate General of Tourism, proposes these ten areas for observing the night sky: Sierra de Gata; Tajo International Biosphere Reserve and Sierra de San Pedro; Tierras de Granadilla; Castro Capote (Higuera la Real); Monfragüe Biosphere Reserve; castles and dehesas of Sierra Suroeste in Badajoz; Villuercas Ibores Jara Geopark; Alqueva Natural Theme Park; Valle del Jerte; and Valle del Ambroz.
This guide provides information on accesses, GPS coordinates, what can be seen in the sky and sightseeing recommendations around the area.
Extremadura has two territories that have been granted the Starlight Destination certificate, awarded by the foundation of the same name: the Monfragüe Biosphere Reserve and the Gran Lago de Alqueva area.
These sites may be visited and offer excellent stargazing conditions as they are well-protected from light pollution, being especially suitable for developing tourist activities based on this natural resource.
Monfragüe was, in early 2017, the first place in Extremadura to receive this recognition. Places like El Salto del Gitano (also known as Peña Falcón) or Monfragüe castle are magnificent viewpoints for observing, during the day, griffon vultures, black vultures and Egyptian vultures, and, at night, the Milky Way from the Sagittarius constellation, on the left (south-southwest), to the Perseus constellation, on the right (northeast).
*Monfragüe National Park. Picture selected by NASA on March 14, 2017 (https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170314.html).
The municipality of Torrejón el Rubio, also in the Monfragüe Biosphere Reserve, has an astronomical observatory that has recently been renovated featuring a 4-metre dome, with a capacity for 10 people, and a 25-cm Meade telescope. It is advisable to contact the Tourist Office in the town for opening and visiting times (+34 927 455 292, +34 637 30 11 89 or turismotorrejonelrubio@gmail.com and astromonfrague@gmail.com).
Another site in Monfragüe, very near the village of Villarreal de San Carlos (Serradilla), there is an astronomical viewpoint at a place called Arroyo Malvecino with information panels about the Milky Way, the moon phases and circumpolar constellations.
Without leaving the Biosphere Reserve, in Casas de Miravete, there is an astronomical observatory at Era de los Santos. It has several information panels about the solar system, the moon, celestial objects and the mythology of the constellations, in addition to a nocturnal or nocturlabe (an instrument used to determine the local time based on the position of a given star in the night sky) and a constellarium, which allows you to locate more than 50 constellations visible throughout the year in the northern hemisphere. Although this observatory is permanently open (it is located on a livestock farm, so please close the gates), it is possible to take a guided tour by booking at GeoCentro Monfragüe (+34 927 54 25 30 or through geocentromonfrague@gmail.com).
In southwest Extremadura, five cross-border towns in the Gran Lago del Alqueva area (Olivenza, Cheles, Alconchel, Táliga and Villanueva del Fresno) received the region's second Starlight Destination certificate in April 2018.
The jetties at Villanueva del Freno and Cheles, as well as Alconchel castle, are some of the many great spots for stargazing in this territory dominated by the largest artificial lake in western Europe located on the Portuguese-Spanish border.
So these five Extremaduran towns are now included in the certification already granted a few years ago to various Portuguese municipalities under the name 'Alqueva Starlight Tourist Destination'.
The southwest mountain range of Badajoz is also a magnificent destination to observe the sky since it received in March 2019 the Starlight certification that endorses its quality to practice astrotourism through the towns of Fregenal de la Sierra, Higuera de Vargas, Higuera la Real , Jerez de los Caballeros, Oliva de la Frontera, Valencia del Mombuey and Zahínos.
Continuing our journey through Extremadura, Trujillo has a planetarium usually installed in the historic 16th-century building called Conventual de San Francisco. It is the largest mobile planetarium in Spain, with a diameter of 12 metres and a capacity of up to 50 people per session. The activities offered by this joint project of the Town of Trujillo and the Centre of Advanced Technologies (CETA-CIEMAT) go beyond the mere projection of films, their ultimate goal being the dissemination of scientific culture (information on visiting and opening times at https://planetario.ceta-ciemat.es).
In the region there are increasingly more offers of accommodation, activities companies and tourism professionals that provide stargazing-related services, ranging from guided tours and courses to themed dinners, camps for children or telescope rental and lodgings, among other options.
'Extremadura, paisaje de estrellas' (Extremadura, landscape of stars) publishes the contacts of the following companies: Entre Encinas y Estrellas (Fregenal de la Sierra), Aossa Extremadura (Cáceres), Cielos de Extremadura (Cáceres), Apartamentos Rurales La Cañada (Torrejón el Rubio), Grupo Alcor Extremadura (Alange), NatRural Explorers del Geoparque - Astroturismo Villuercas (Guadalupe), Adalberti Extremadura (Trujillo) y Birding Hotel Las Canteras (Trujillo).
In addition, Hospederías de Extremadura have installed high sensitivity cameras at their establishments in Monfragüe Park (Torrejón el Rubio), Conventual Sierra de Gata (San Martín de Trevejo), Valle del Ambroz (Hervás) and Valle del Jerte(Jerte), that provide streaming of the night sky, sunrises and sunsets. At the same time, this accommodation network has taken steps to reduce light pollution.
Apps to learn and enjoy the astronomy: https://extremadurabuenasnoches.com/multimedia/apps/.
Cultural heritage, natural beauty spots and ornithology come together in these two regions of the province of Cáceres.


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WILLIAM LOCKLEY
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Service Number: 8899. Regiment: 1st Bn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers Killed In Action Monday 14th May 1917Age unknownCounty Memorial Chester
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William was born in Chester on the 18th September 1897. He lived with his father Thomas, a baker, and his mother Ellen at 29 Gladstone Street, Chester. He had 6 sisters, Eliza, Mary, Agnes, Selina, Margaret & Edith. He married Rosetta Cotgrieve at Chester Registry Office on the 20th December 1912. They set up home at 8 Piper's Ash, Chester. They had 3 sons, Eric Geoffrey, James Reginald & Thomas William. He worked for the Great Western Railway Company.
William enlisted in Chester in 1905, originally into the Special Reserve. He was transferred to the Reserve on the 6th June 1912. He was mobilised on the 5th August 1914. He entered France on the 2nd November 1914. He was killed in action on the 14th May 1917, during the Battle of Bullecourt. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, Pas DE Calais, France. Bay 6.
One of his officers said to his widow:
"You have cause to be proud of your husband, as he was one of the bravest of men. He saw me in difficulties with the Boche and came to my aid several times. The result was that he was killed. After he was shot he did not say a word. I did all I could for him, but he must have passed away at once."
The Battalion war diary for that day:
3am. B & D Companies attacked at 2.10am
3.20am. Message received from Officer Commanding B Company that the attack had failed.
B & D Companies were ordered to re-organise for a further attack. This attack also failed but posts were established at B27, & B30 facing Crucifix.
6.10am. Orders to attack by "A" & C Companies issued, under Stokes Mortar bombardment.
B & D Companies were ordered to barrage the Crucifix with rifle grenades.
10am. News received that attack had failed. Many casualties and remainder were dug in. Bombs urgently required. These were sent up.
3pm. News received to discontinue attack as the 20th Manchesters would carry out a further attack.
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How the Strucket Works | Strucket - strainer, meet bucket.
Soaking is a subjective matter. Depending on the item and the objective how you soak will change. Soaking to remove stains often involves longer time periods and a relative agent to help break down the grime. Some people do it for 2 hours; others soak soiled laundry items for 24 -48 hours.
Kitchen soaking (good-bye pesticides) will often take less time and need a completely different approach, and then you have all the other "miscellaneous" items like toys, sporting goods & camping gear.
The Strucket is just like a regular bucket during the soaking phase. Simply fill with water and the best agent for your outcome and then let it marinate!
Once your items have soaked sufficiently, is when the Strucket can strut its stuff! When you return to your bucket simply pull the strainer from the bucket, click into place, separating the soaked items and leaving the dirty water behind!
Best of all, when the whole job is done all you need to do is release the plug that is built into the base of the Strucket and watch your dirty water drain away... without your hands ever needing to touch it!
Pull up the handles of the strainer, pulling the strainer up and over the side of the bucket and set down connecting it to the internal shelving connection points and anchoring the outer lip.


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resemblance theories of universals
Some nominalists dispense with substantive universals (see Platonism) in treating the one over many principle by saying that what unites a group of objects of the same kind is that they resemble one of their number taken as a standard.
Objections to this are that resemblance itself seems to be an eliminable liversal, and so does the respect in which objects resemble the standard one (that is, resemblance seems to presuppose rather than explain universals).
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) in his Philosophical Investigations (1953) dispensed with standard instances by taking a family resemblance view, where objects in the group have nothing in common to all of them, but any one of them has much in common with a large number of the others (the vagueness is deliberate), even though members on opposite sides of the central area of the 'family' may have nothing relevant in common.
The cluster theory is somewhat similar.
M A Simon, 'When is a Resemblance a Family Resemblance?', Mind (1969);
D Gasking, 'Clusters', Australasian Journal of Philosophy (1969)
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Widow of Man Killed in South Dakota Attorney General Crash Plans to Sue
Associated Press Published: February 21, 2021
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Attorneys say the widow of the man who died after being struck by the South Dakota attorney general's car will file a wrongful death lawsuit.
Prosecutors announced Thursday that they charged the state's top law enforcement officer, Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg, with three misdemeanors but no felonies in the death of 55-year-old Joseph Boever.
Lawyers for the victim's widow, Jenny Boever, said in a statement Friday that they will soon file a lawsuit against Ravnsborg, partly in the hopes of getting answers to lingering questions about the September crash.
Ravnsborg said through a spokesman Thursday that he doesn't plan to resign and looks forward to his day in court.
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Heilenberg (Dornbirnerisch: Holaberg) bezeichnet in Dornbirn Oberdorf eine Siedlung () mit über 40 Wohnhäusern und ein großes am selben Ort befindliches Flurstück. Noch in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts waren hier lediglich sechs Bauernhöfe anzutreffen.

Topographie, Geografie, Lage und Verkehr
Heilenberg lag ursprünglich an einem wichtigen Verbindungsweg über die Schwende in den Bregenzerwald nach Schwarzenberg, bevor die Bödelestraße und die Achrainstraße bzw. Schwarzachtobelstraße (L 7) gebaut bzw. ausgebaut wurden.
Unterhalb von Heilenberg liegt Watzenegg, oberhalb Palmern. In "Schematismus für Tirol und Vorarlberg", 1839, wird Heilenberg als eigenständiger Weiler und Teil von Dornbirn angeführt. Ebenfalls im "Provinzial-Handbuch von Tirol und Vorarlberg für das Jahr 1847". Heilenberg wächst mit dem darunterliegenden Watzenegg bereits zu einem einheitlichen Siedlungsgebiet zusammen, so dass viele der ursprünglichen historischen Siedlungsgrenzen bald kaum mehr erkennbar sein werden.

Die vom Dornbirner Zentrum etwa 2,5 km entfernte Siedlung ist über Watzenegg mit normalen Kraftfahrzeugen erreichbar.

Gewässer
Östlich von Heilenberg fließt der Buchholzgraben, der weiter südlich in den Steinebach mündet.

Handwerk, Gewerbe
Heilenberg hat keine bedeutsame gewerbliche Infrastruktur auf Dornbirner Gemeindegebiet herausgebildet. Es dominiert hier die Landwirtschaft nach wie vor.

Religion

1696 stifteten die am Heilenberg ansässigen, vermutlich von Schauner stammenden, Eheleute Michael und Maria Mohr einen Bildstock zu Ehren des Pfarrpatrons St. Martin und des Viehpatrons St. Wendelin. Sie ließen sich auf dem Stifterbild, wie damals üblich, mit ihren fünf Kindern darstellen. Nach dem Steuer-Register von 1715 war Michael Mohr damals der reichste Mann aus dem ganzen Hatler Viertel (Stadtbuch 1/165).

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Geographie (Dornbirn)
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Amelia River Cruises has just started running a passenger ferry over to St Mary's, Georgia. St Mary's is the jumping off spot for trips the Cumberland Island and guests used to have to drive there in order to catch the boat to Cumberland. Now they can enjoy a scenic boat trip instead. The ferry's schedule is timed to match departure and arrival times for the boat to Cumberland as well. If you're not going to Cumberland you can take the ferry and explore St Mary's for as little or as much time as you want. That's what we did yesterday.
We caught the ferry ($15 for round trip) at the marina and headed out into Amelia River. Shortly after we left a flock of hundreds of white ibis took off out of the marsh grasses on Tiger Island. We also saw some roseatte spoon bills, often mistaken for flamigos, flapping around. The boat trip took about 50 minutes and we arrived at the dock in St Mary's.
The first thing we did was check out a couple of the local B&Bs. The Spencer House in was built in 1872, 4 years before the main house at the Addison, and the inn also has 14 guest rooms. We had a nice chat with Mike, the Spencer's owner. Veronica took us on a tour of the property which included a look in their kitchen. The Spencer has a huge kitchen, maybe three times the size of ours. We were envious.
Then it was across the street to the Goodbread House, complete with a pirate on the front lawn. Mardja gave us a tour of their romantic-themed rooms including the Scarlett and Rhett room, the Bogie and Bacall room and the Lucy and Desi room (so named because of the twin beds).
We wandered up Osborne Street looking in the shops and checked out the menu at Marianne's Southern Cafe. Marianne converted a huge Victorian home on a really nice park-like piece of property into a restaurant with several dining rooms and more secluded dining rooms upstairs for private parties. We didn't eat there but it sure smelled good. We'll save that for next time.
St Mary's has a beautiful little park right on the waterfront. The park has a central fountain, gazebo, playground for the kids with picnic tables and some arbors with garden swings where you can sit and watch the boat traffic.
On the first Saturday in October St Mary's has their Rock Shrimp Festival. Shrimp is served from 11AM to 6PM and they have a parade, entertainment and arts/crafts vendors. We'll have to live vicariously through our guests and have them give us a trip report on the festival if they get back in time for our Happy Hour.
After all that it was time to get back on the ferry and head back to Fernandina Beach. A thunderstorm had passed around us and the clouds parted so most of the trip was in sunshine. All in all, a very pleasant way to spend an afternoon.


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Danzhou Masters: Storm after the calm
by Aditya Pai
8/3/2018 – Big changes occurred on the leaderboard at the conclusion of the penultimate round at the 9th Hainan Danzhou Masters. Tournament leader, Bu Xiangzhi lost his first game of the event to Jan-Krzysztof Duda. This allowed Yu Yangyi, Bu's closest rival to take over the lead after he won a fine attacking game against Vladimir Fedoseev. Le Quang Liem also scored his first win of the tournament in round six against Sam Shankland.
Yu Yangyi is the new leader
In stark contrast to the quiet round six, the penultimate round of the 9th Hainan Danzhou Masters completely unravelled the leaderboard standings with its gruelling battles. After the dust had settled, the tournament witnessed a new leader emerge in Yu Yangyi, who defeated Russian GM Vladimir Fedoseev in a very complicated Queen's Gambit.
Yu's compatriot, Bu Xangzhi, who had been leading the tournament so far, seemed badly out of shape. In his game against Jan-Krzysztof Duda, the Chinese grandmaster erred on multiple occasions, trying to get an attack going against his opponent's king. Duda did not find the best refutation but still managed to win the game and catch up with Bu in the second place.
Yu Yangyi vs Vladimir Fedoseev
So far, Vladimir Fedoseev had drawn every game in the tournament. But in round 6, this streak of draws came to a halt as Yu Yangyi scored a crushing win over him. Yu was motivated to win from the very start. He chose a sharp line in the Queen's Gambit with the white pieces and uncorked a novelty on his 9th turn.
Fedoseev continued actively but soon began to go astray. Perhaps, this was because he wasn't well acquainted with the position. On his 17th turn, an unfortunate blunder lost the Russian grandmaster a full piece.
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The pin on f6 is quite an annoyance for black and 17…Be7 was necessary. Fedoseev went for 17…Qe7 here, trying to seek counter chances with the discovery. But after a simple 18.Kf1, Qf3 became an unstoppable threat. After 18…Bg4, white has 19.Qa4, pinning the d7 knight and threatening Re1 at the same time.
Fedoseev looked to wriggle out by creating complications but Yu ensured everything was under control. After the tactical skirmishes had fizzled out, Yu had liquidated into an endgame where he had an extra exchange. It took him some time to force resignation but finally made it on the 69th move.
Yu Yangyi is the sole leader after his win against Vladimir Fedoseev | Photo: Official website
Bu Xiangzhi vs Jan-Krzysztof Duda
Like Yu Yangyi, Bu Xiangzhi also went all out against his opponent, hunting for a win. In a Classical Nimzo Indian, he generated a dangerous looking kingside attack with the white pieces after his opponent, Jan Krzysztof Duda, leaned with most of his pieces towards the queenside.
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White came up with the flashy 21.Bf6 here. If the bishop is taken with 21…gxf6, white gets a strong attack on the black king after 22.Qh6. Duda decided not to play with fire and declined the sacrifice with 21…Nbd7. But after 22.e5 Nxf6 23.exf6 Qxd5 24.fxg7 Rd8 25.Qh6, white still seemed to have a strong initiative. Duda managed to keep things under control, nevertheless, keeping his pieces centralized and soon Bu began to push too hard.
By this point, the position had already begun to tip in Duda's favour when Bu blundered with 29.Rc1?. Here, Duda could have delivered the knock-out punch with 29…Qxb2 after which white is forced to give up an exchange with 30.Rxe4 Bxe4 and has no compensation for the material deficit. Duda, instead, decided to enter an endgame with 29…Nxf2 30.Rxb1 Ng4+ 31.Kg1 Nxh6. Within a few more moves, Duda was two pawns up and had no problems converting the endgame.
Bu's first loss of the event cost him his pole position | Photo: Official website
Le Quang Liem vs Sam Shankland
Le Quang Liem might not have been at his most impressive so far, but in round 6, he feistily went after Sam Shankland to score his first win of the tournament. In a middle game that arose from a Queen's Indian Defence, the Vietnamese grandmaster gave up a couple of pawns to generate play against the black king and won an exchange on the 33rd move.
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Here, after 32.Re2, Shankland played 32…Qb4, allowing white a strong discovered attack with 33.Ng4. Having lost an exchange, Shankland began to seek counterplay in his queenside pawn majority when another disaster struck.
Black had just played 36…c3 and white had responded with 37.f5, threatening to take on g6 first and then on f7. Shankland tried to parry the threat with 37…Kg7 only to realize, that after 38.f6+ Kg8, 39.Qe7! was just crushing.
Le Quang Liem scored an impressive win over Sam Shankland in the sixth round | Photo: Official website
Wei Yi vs Vidit Gujrathi
In comparison to the other games of the day, Wei Yi's game against Vidit Gujrathi was a rather tepid one. Vidit went for the Open variation of the Ruy Lopez with the black pieces and managed to equalize very comfortably out of the opening. Starting at around move 17, a long series of exchanges liquidated the position into a rook and pawn endgame where Wei Yi had an extra pawn. However, Wei did not push very hard for a win in this endgame and a draw was agreed one move after the first time control.
Open Ruy Lopez
The Open Ruy Lopez gives Black free piece play and chances for the initiative. This sharp and interesting variation has been used by many of the all-time greats, including Anand, Kortschnoi, Botvinnik, Keres, Euwe, Fine and Reshevsky and this is by no means an exhaustive list. White will argue that Black loosens his position in the Open Variation, but if Black takes the time and trouble to learn the ideas and tactical themes that underpin this line, he has every chance to win the game. This will be especially interesting to the club player as it doubtless has been to the grandmasters mentioned above.
The game between Wei Yi and Vidit Gujrathi was the only draw of the round | Photo: Official website
Standings after round 6
Watch round 7 live
Round 1: Duda the dauntless
Round 2: Bu catches Duda
Round 3: Bu races past Duda
Round 4: The unfortunate b5
Round 5: All games finish peacefully
Aditya Pai Aditya Pai is an ardent chess fan, avid reader, and a film lover. He holds a Master's in English Literature and used to work as an advertising copywriter before joining the ChessBase India team.


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China shuts down world's largest electronic market after COVID spike
Merchants in the Huaqiangbei district, home to the world's largest electronics market, received an official notice that the market will be closed till Thursday to contain the COVID spread. All tenants are required to work from home during the period and take a nucleic acid test every day, Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post quoted one of the district's biggest operators, Huaqiang Electronics World.
China's technology hub Shenzhen on Monday ordered the closure of the world's largest electronics wholesale market to contain a recent spike in coronavirus cases in the southern city, amidst a call by a leading Chinese think tank for a change in the country's 'zero-COVID' policy that it said was causing widespread disruption of business.
Merchants in the Huaqiangbei district, home to the world's largest electronics market, received an official notice that the market will be closed till Thursday to contain the COVID spread.
All tenants are required to work from home during the period and take a nucleic acid test every day, Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post quoted one of the district's biggest operators, Huaqiang Electronics World.
Key manufacturing enterprises, including telecommunications equipment giant Huawei Technologies Co, China's top chip maker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp and Apple supplier Foxconn Technology Group, were ordered to follow a "closed-loop" system for a week that restricted movement of employees, while keeping their production schedules on track.
The new virus cluster has emerged as Hong Kong, which is close to Shenzhen, has reported a big spike in cases. Hong Kong on Monday recorded 8,488 new cases, the second such big spread of the COVID-19 in recent months.
The cases could peak at 20,000 next month, a government pandemic adviser warned on Monday, the report said.
The former British colony has witnessed the worst outbreak a few months ago causing extensive deaths.
Hong Kong so far recorded 1,522,460 cases and 9,668 fatalities.
Recently thousands of tourists were stranded for days when China shut down the biggest summer resort Sanya in Hainan cancelling flights and transport services to contain the spread of the Omicron variant, which Beijing continues to find difficult to contain.
Shenzhen China's most modern industrial city itself faced several shutdowns in the recent past to deal with sudden spikes of the virus.
On Sunday China reported 301 locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country, of which 161 were in Sichuan Province, the National Health Commission reported on Monday.
Altogether 1,255 local asymptomatic carriers were newly identified on Sunday, including 570 in Tibet and 98 in Hainan, said the commission in its report.
So far 5,226 people so far have died of the virus in China.
The periodic COVID-19 lockdowns, including the shutting of China's biggest city Shanghai a few months ago, have seriously affected supply chains of the industrialised goods in the world's second largest economy.
In Beijing, all the residents currently undergo mandatory testing three days a week to ensure proper checks on the periodic spikes.
The zero COVID-19 policy was expected to continue until the once-in-five-year congress of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) is held.
The meeting during which Chinese President Xi Jinping was widely expected to get nominated for an unprecedented third term was expected to be held in the next few months.
Unlike his predecessors who retired after two-five-year-terms, Xi, 69, was expected to continue in power for another term and perhaps for life.
The closure of the electronic hub was declared as a Chinese think-tank has called for change of the country's zero COVID-19 policy saying it is causing widespread disruption of trade and business.
In a rare public criticism of the 'zero-COVID' policy pursued by Xi, a Chinese think tank on Sunday said the virus curbs resulting in periodic shutdowns of cities disrupting trade, travel and industry must change to prevent an economic slowdown.
The Anbound Research Centre said the government needs to focus on shoring up shrinking growth noting that the US, Europe and Japan are recovering economically after easing anti-disease curbs.
Preventing the risk of economic stall should be the priority task," the think tank said in a report titled, It's Time for China to Adjust Its Virus Control and Prevention Policies.
It is rare for a think tank to publicly disagree with the policy of the CPC and its top leader.
On Monday Shenzhen, the city of 17 million people, ordered closure of all shops except for essential businesses, such as supermarkets, restaurants and pharmacies.
Restaurants are only allowed to provide takeaways. All dine-in services have been suspended.
Shenzhen, which managed to contain the COVID-19 outbreak in March after a week-long lockdown, has been hailed as a model of effective governance as Beijing tries to balance its zero-COVID-19 policy with sustaining economic activities.
The latest measures, however, show the challenge that China faces in trying to walk a fine line between two largely conflicting goals, the report said.
Premier Li Keqiang visited Shenzhen earlier this month and urged the city to take a lead in "injecting new dynamism" into stabilising development and growth.
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HR Law
Hybrid Work: The Legal Framework & Policy Tips
J. Geoffrey Howard|
June 6, 2022|
*This article does not constitute legal advice
With the advent of forced remote working during COVID, workplace surveys now consistently show most employees who can work remotely are demanding flexibility from their employer. The same surveys show that more than 66% want what we now call "hybrid" work schedules: ones where employees can (or must) attend at their regular workplace (e.g. office) for only a portion of every week or most weeks but have flexibility to work remotely the rest of the time. Many also want flexibility to work from more distant locations, such as a second home in a different time zone, or to work non-traditional hours or schedules e.g. 4 days of 10 hours or working 9:30 to 3 then 6 to 8:30 due to childcare constraints. The fact that Elon Musk recently made headlines by stating that Tesla employees who want to work remotely should find another employer and threatening to reverse Twitter's very flexible hybrid work policy tells us how quickly expectations have changed.
Many employers and their HR professionals have been keen to accommodate and thus retain and attract these demanding workers and their CFOs equally keen to save on office space. Employers have rapidly pivoted from temporary remote work due to COVID to remote work as the "new normal", often without thinking through the legal consequences. This article will argue that when implementing hybrid work in your organization, as an HR professional, you need to protect management's right to adjust remote work practices in future to meet your organization's evolving needs, as well as avoid legal pitfalls.
The good news is that, at least initially, the employer gets to choose where the work is done. Pre-COVID, that was traditionally at the office. Although many employers allowed their employees to work fully or part time remotely due to COVID safety concerns, they retain the right to require employees to return to working full time in the office now that it is safe and legally permissible to do so. Even employees hired during COVID who have only worked remotely can be called back to the office absent a clear written agreement that remote or hybrid working is an ongoing term of employment.
With high demand for hybrid, willing employers need to grant hybrid working rights sparingly where it makes business sense and, most importantly, make any hybrid work rights subject to a clear policy.
The first step in developing a policy and granting hybrid work rights is to carefully review all the relevant needs of each position to determine what minimum working hours or availability is needed for that position and not "go overboard" in granting broad hybrid flexibility for everyone. When considering non-standard workweeks, remember to check on permitted non-standard schedules with no overtime cost and/or overtime pay exemptions applicable in the province where the employee works.
One common source of misunderstandings involves the employee who, having switched to remote working during COVID, has unilaterally moved to a distant suburb or even another province or country. Again, assuming the employee was originally hired to work in the office, unless the employer agreed to a permanent relocation, the employer can now require the employee to attend at the office locally. As a caveat to that, if the employee unilaterally moved some time ago, the employer was aware of it and did not challenge it, some advance notice of the requirement to return to the office should be given. In fact, where remote work has been in place for a lengthy period(s) of time beyond those when it was mandated or recommended by public health authorities, employers should always give all employees (not just those who relocated) reasonable advance notice of return to work in the office requirements to allow them to make adjustments to their commuting, childcare arrangements etc.
Letting an employee work remotely outside your home jurisdiction can unwittingly create unexpected legal liabilities. So far, the provincial employment standards enforcement agencies (and their counterparts in other countries) have taken the view that the primary place of regular physical performance of work dictates which employment laws apply to the employee. They take this approach even with on-line workers, regardless of whether that employee moved from the "home" jurisdiction of the employer. For example, an employee who was hired in B.C. but moved to work remotely in Quebec and works "virtually' at the B.C. employer will fall under Quebec's, not B.C.'s, Employment Standards legislation. This may be fine if your organization already has a workforce in the province or jurisdiction to which the employee has relocated so can be transferred to that workforce. Where this is not the case, prudence dictates not exposing your organizations to unknown rules and liabilities under an unfamiliar set of employment laws. HR professionals dealing with such employees have two basic options: deny the request to avoid compliance with a new set of employment laws for one employee or consider converting the employee to a contractor. In Canada and many other jurisdictions, contractors have few mandated rights and impose less payroll-related administrative burden and cost (CPP, EI, WorkSafe premiums). However, employers will need to get legal advice from legal counsel in the remote work location to ensure the new arrangement is defensible under local laws.
Another key consideration before granting hybrid work rights is workplace safety at the remote work location. WorkSafe BC has made it clear that employers will be responsible for ensuring safe workplaces in employee's homes—however impractical that is in practise. Employees injured during their workday at home will also be eligible to claim WorkSafe benefits. So hybrid/remote work policies need to allow the employer to set home work station and other working environment requirements and have adequate access to the home workplace to ensure compliance with WorkSafe requirements—something that can conflict with privacy expectations.
Policy Tips
When granting hybrid work privileges, we suggest the following:
Have a framework policy that clearly states all hybrid work is with written permission and the privilege can be withheld or withdrawn by the employer for any reason, with any cancellation or major change on e.g. 2 or 4 weeks advance notice. Remember, if an employer hires an employee to work hybrid or fully remote post COVID without reserving the right to change things, the courts are quick to treat this as a binding term of employment. This in turn means a unilateral return to work order effective immediately or very soon is a "constructive dismissal";
Keep hybrid rights out of employment agreements, where they will be more likely to be considered contractually binding. Instead, use email to confirm the terms of agreed hybrid work schedules and state any grant of such rights is subject to the broader policy;
Clearly state all core in-office attendance, working hours and availability requirements and the employer right to amend these. Mention that remote work entails a high level of trust and that abuse of the privilege will lead to discipline or termination;
If there is concern about employees working too far away or in other jurisdictions, require that remote work must be performed substantially in the city/region or province of hire, with any exceptions approved in writing;
As noted above, allow the employer to set minimum home workplace physical requirements and rights of inspection/monitoring to ensure employee's safety and health;
Finally, reiterate the employer retains the right to amend or cancel the hybrid work for any reason, but including needs of the business and the need to more closely supervise or train/mentor the employee.
Following these tips, employers and their HR professionals should be able to satisfy demand for hybrid work while retaining overall power to control workplace attendance, culture and performance. Experience teaches us that, like most workplace trends, the current trend towards hybrid/remote working may reverse itself in future years.
J. Geoffrey Howard, is the founder and principal of Howard Employment Law where he provides strategic and practical advice on employment and labour law matters and represents clients in employment-related litigation. He can be reached at ghoward@howardemploymentlaw.ca.
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Listen to Visão do Paraíso ("Vision of Paradise"), a small collection of instrumental music that I composed and recorded in Rio de Janeiro in 2007, with the participation of Antonio Mello (guitar) and Carlos Malta (soprano saxophone and Chinese flute). The three tracks blend Brazilian music with jazz and world music. Also included are soundscapes of the Atlantic Rainforest, recorded by Beto Bertolini on his albums Waterscapes and Atlantic Forest. The image you see in the video is the view from my house in the West Zone of Rio, looking towards the mountains of the Tijuca National Forest in the east. The Rio landscape was not just the inspiration of this music but also of my record label, Arabutã World Music (arabutã is the indigenous name for the Brazilwood tree, after which Brazil was named). Click the video above to listen on YouTube.


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Gospels / Luke / Matthew
Posted on September 18, 2013 by kristy mapp	4 Comments
This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the son of David, the son of Abraham:
2 Abraham was the father of Isaac,
Isaac the father of Jacob,
Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,
3 Judah the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar,
Perez the father of Hezron,
Hezron the father of Ram,
4 Ram the father of Amminadab,
Amminadab the father of Nahshon,
Nahshon the father of Salmon,
5 Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab,
Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth,
Obed the father of Jesse,
6 and Jesse the father of King David.
David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah's wife,
7 Solomon the father of Rehoboam,
Rehoboam the father of Abijah,
Abijah the father of Asa,
8 Asa the father of Jehoshaphat,
Jehoshaphat the father of Jehoram,
Jehoram the father of Uzziah,
9 Uzziah the father of Jotham,
Jotham the father of Ahaz,
Ahaz the father of Hezekiah,
10 Hezekiah the father of Manasseh,
Manasseh the father of Amon,
Amon the father of Josiah,
11 and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.
12 After the exile to Babylon:
Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel,
Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,
13 Zerubbabel the father of Abihud,
Abihud the father of Eliakim,
Eliakim the father of Azor,
14 Azor the father of Zadok,
Zadok the father of Akim,
Akim the father of Elihud,
15 Elihud the father of Eleazar,
Eleazar the father of Matthan,
Matthan the father of Jacob,
16 and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of Jesus who is called the Messiah.
17 Thus there were fourteen generations in all from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Messiah.
23 Now Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry. He was the son, so it was thought, of Joseph,
the son of Heli,
24 the son of Matthat,
the son of Levi, the son of Melki,
the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph,
25 the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos,
the son of Nahum, the son of Esli,
the son of Naggai,
26 the son of Maath,
the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein,
the son of Josek, the son of Joda,
27 the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa,
the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel,
the son of Neri,
28 the son of Melki,
the son of Addi, the son of Cosam,
the son of Elmadam, the son of Er,
29 the son of Joshua, the son of Eliezer,
the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat,
the son of Levi,
30 the son of Simeon,
the son of Judah, the son of Joseph,
the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim,
31 the son of Melea, the son of Menna,
the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan,
the son of David,
32 the son of Jesse,
the son of Obed, the son of Boaz,
the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon,
33 the son of Amminadab, the son of Ram,
the son of Hezron, the son of Perez,
the son of Judah,
34 the son of Jacob,
the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham,
the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,
35 the son of Serug, the son of Reu,
the son of Peleg, the son of Eber,
the son of Shelah,
36 the son of Cainan,
the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem,
the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,
37 the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch,
the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel,
the son of Kenan,
38 the son of Enosh,
the son of Seth, the son of Adam,
the son of God.
Matthew, the tax collector who left all he had to follow Christ when He called, is the author of this first book of the New Testament. His purpose in writing this was to prove to the Jews that this person, Jesus, was in fact the long awaited Messiah. Matthew goes back to the old Testament scriptures over and over again to prove this point. As was Jewish custom, the first way to prove yourself as 'somebody' was to give an account of your lineage or genealogy. So the disciple opens his book with proof for Jesus' right to be heir to David's throne.
The first set of 14 names (verses 2-6a) show the lineage going back to Abraham, in whom the original promise was given that 'all peoples on earth will be blessed through you' (Gen. 12:1-3). This group also represents the first 1000 years of Jewish history, from the first call of God on Abraham to the first King of Israel. The second set of names (verses 6b-11) show the heirs of the throne, the reign of kings for 400 years, and their entrance into captivity in Babylon. The last set of names (verses 12-16) gives account of the kingly ancestors for 600 years from the return from exile and on until the birth of Christ.
The genealogy is not complete in every single person, as Matthew was grouping them to create an aid to memory. The words 'the father of' can literally mean that person's father, or it could mean grandfather. Up until the destruction of the temple in AD 70, those records were kept scrupulously for reasons of proving one's priesthood or heir rights to property. God records exactly the lineage we need to see that because Christ was born to Mary, who married Joseph (the heir to David's throne), Christ was the rightful heir in line to inherit it.
In Luke 3:23-38 we see another genealogy, this one commonly referred to as Mary's lineage. Whereas the genealogy in Matthew is attributed to Joseph to prove Christ's kingship, the genealogy in Luke is attributed to Mary to prove Christ's humanity as being a 'Son of Man'. That lineage takes us all the way back to Adam and Eve. Though the genealogy in Luke starts with Joseph, it was Jewish custom to place the husband's name as listed instead of the daughter's. So we could read it today as saying, "Joseph, the son-in-law of Heli".
An interesting note in this genealogy is that Matthew includes 4 women besides Mary. As we have already stated, women were not generally included in these lists, however, it is important for us to understand why God has placed them here. The first woman mentioned is Tamar (Genesis 38). She was a gentile who married one of Judah's sons. That son died before they had children so Judah gave her to his next eldest son who also died before they could have children. Judah thought she was cursed so he lied to her about giving her to the last son when he became old enough. She realized the lie and pretended to be a prostitute so she could become pregnant by Judah and thus produce an heir that would keep her in the family of Israel. Though she did it by sinnful means, she had faith that she would be part of God's people, and He rewarded her for that in being forever remembered as an ancestor to Christ.
Rahab (Joshua 2, 6:17) was a gentile prostitute who lived in Jericho at the time of Joshua's mission from God to take over the Canaanite land. She harbored the spies Joshua sent out because she had heard the stories of what God had done in Egypt and wanted to work with God, not against Him. She risked her life by faith and God rewarded her by saving her and her families lives. She then went on to become the great grandmother of David. The next woman noted is Ruth (Ruth 1, 4:13-17). She was a gentile who married the son of Naomi that later died and she became a widow. Ruth left everything she had known to be identified with Naomi and the Jewish people saying, "Where you go I will go, and where you stay i will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God." – Ruth 1:16. God rewarded her selfless faith by giving her a new husband and installing her as grandmother to King David.
In verse 6b we are introduced to another woman who is known here as Uriah's wife (2 Samuel 11, 12:15, 18, 24). Her name was Bathsheba and she had an affair with King David. She may be mentioned to actually honor Uriah, who refused to go home and lay with his wife because he wanted to honor David by staying with the other fighting men. David and Bathsheba's child from the affair died as payment for their sin, but later she gave birth to King Solomon who is known for his wisdom and wealth. Lastly, Matthew record's Jesus' mother, Mary. We will go more into detail on Mary in the remaining verses of chapter 1.
Profoundly, because the temple containing the records of Jewish lineage has been destroyed, all that is left is the record of the Bible. You can search it for more indepth genealogical study and really get a full image of why so many people were part of this grand story. All of history leading up to the birth of Christ was for this moment, when a child would be born who would save His people from their sins. There were no accidents, no mistakes, and no second plans as God laid out for all eternity the plans that brought forth a man who fulfilled over 1000 prophecies by the time of His death. Let us consider the truths that Matthew is going to lay out before us as he makes the case that Christ is Messiah.
The faith to which this book points is based on evidence. God always gives reasons for belief. Blind faith is not Biblical faith. – Bible Study Fellowship
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1 Dead, 12 Hurt in Construction Explosion at Texas Hospital
GATESVILLE, Texas (AP) — One construction worker was killed and a dozen others were injured after an explosion at an addition to a Texas hospital Tuesday, authorities said.
Bob Harrell, the Coryell County emergency manager, said all of those killed or injured were construction workers and not hospital staff or patients.
The incident was reported about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at a construction site at the 25-bed hospital in Gatesville, 36 miles (58 kilometers) west of Waco. Witnesses said an electric generator inside an uncompleted hospital expansion exploded, spreading shrapnel. However, Dave Byrom, the hospital's chief executive, said the blast possibly started with a gas line.
The explosion caused part of the construction project to collapse, Harrell said.
Those injured were taken to trauma centers in Temple 34 miles (55 kilometers) to the southeast, and those sustaining severe burns were airlifted 110 miles (177 kilometers) northeast to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Harrell said. Three or four were in critical condition, said Dr. Jeff Bates, the hospital's chief medical officer.
Byrom said damage from the blast prompted the hospital to relocate its 12 existing patients to facilities in nearby cities, along with about 120 residents of the care homes that are part of the hospital campus.
A spokesman for the Texas-New Mexico Power Company said the explosion knocked out power for a large portion of the city. Spokesman Eric Paul said most service had been restored within three hours of the blast.
Gatesville has a population of about 12,400.
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FRINGE Interview with Jeff Pinkner and J. H. Wyman, Season Three Premiere on FOX Tonight
September 23, 2010 by Lena Lamoray
Interview with JEFF PINKNER and J .H. WYMAN
JEFF PINKNER and J .H. WYMAN, Executive Producers and Writers
Watch FRINGE on Thursday nights at 9 PM EST on FOX
By Lena Lamoray
FRINGE FOX PRESS RELEASE: Heading into its mind-bending third season, the critically acclaimed FRINGE continues to explore otherworldly cases with endless impossibilities.Set in Boston, the FBI's Fringe Division was introduced when Special Agent OLIVIA DUNHAM (Anna Torv) enlisted institutionalized "fringe" scientist WALTER BISHOP (John Noble) and his globe-trotting, jack-of-all-trades son, PETER (Joshua Jackson), to help in the investigation of an airline disaster that defied human logic. After the defining case was solved and revealed to be one of a series of unusual incidents linked together, the unlikely trio supervised by Special Agent PHILLIP BROYLES (Lance Reddick) and assisted by Junior Agent ASTRID FARNSWORTH (Jasika Nicole) was formed. As unimaginable events continued to unfold over the first two seasons, the Fringe Division's investigations often led them to the multifaceted biomedical science, energy and technology corporation Massive Dynamic and its enigmatic chief executive NINA SHARP (Blair Brown). When Olivia discovered that she was a test subject as a child of Walter Bishop and Massive Dynamic's elusive founder and chairman WILLIAM BELL (guest star Leonard Nimoy), it triggered a search for details about her forgotten and perplexing past. Her findings uncovered the existence of a parallel universe and she recovered her childhood ability to detect objects from this parallel universe, which shockingly led her to learn that Peter is from the "other side." As a result, Walter revealed that he kidnapped Peter as a child from the parallel universe 25 years ago. At the conclusion of last season, a distraught Peter returned to his otherworldly origins to reconnect with his roots and his birth mother (guest star Orla Brady). When the Fringe Team mobilized to retrieve Peter, it was seen as an attack on the alternate universe and led to an intense situation with Walter and Olivia pitted against their doppelgangers in a race against time. William Bell made the ultimate sacrifice that paved the way for Peter to return "over here" with Walter and a disguised alternate Olivia at his side. This extraordinary turn of events shockingly left an imprisoned Olivia "over there." The quest to retrieve Peter from the parallel universe will raise questions about identity and choices this season. In the Season Three premiere, a disoriented Olivia fights to find her way home with the help of a taxi driver (guest star Andre Royo), and we are introduced to her mother (guest star Amy Madigan). Meanwhile, Peter and Walter try to move on with their lives unknowingly alongside alternate Olivia. Created by J.J. Abrams & Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci, FRINGE is produced by Bad Robot Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. Abrams, Bryan Burk, J.H. Wyman, Jeff Pinkner and Joe Chappelle serve as executive producers, while Kurtzman, Orci and Akiva Goldsman are consulting producers. Additionally, Pinkner and Wyman serve as the series' showrunners.
JEFF PINKNER and J .H. WYMAN are executive producers and writers of one of Fox's hottest shows, FRINGE. Jeff has worked on "Lost", "Alias", "The $treet", "Profiler" and "Ally McBeal". J.H. Wyman is known for his work on "13 Graves", "Keen Eddie", "The Mexican" and his acting skills in "Pacific Palisades", "Sirens", "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues" and "Prom Night IV: Deliver Us From Evil". I don't know about you but I am happy to give a warm welcome to season three of FRINGE.
I spoke with JEFF PINKNER and J .H. WYMAN about FRINGE. They were a pleasure to speak with and I'm excited for the return of FRINGE! Watch FRINGE on Thursday nights at 9 PM EST on FOX!
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Poppy Bush's Seed and Bitter Harvest: Half Truths / History (Part 2)
More information on the Bush crime family the "mainstream media" does not want you to see
JUSTICE INTEGRITY PROJECT
By Andrew Kreig
Because the corporate-owned media have published only partial truths regarding life of the late President George H.W. Bush the Justice Integrity Project is providing what's most important about the rest of the story.
The late president, who died on Nov. 30, is shown at right in an official photo used during his term from 1989 to 1993. The material in this series is excerpted from this reporter's book Presidential Puppetry: Obama, Romney and Their Masters (2015 updated edition).
Presidential Puppetry charted the secret ties of recent presidents to the nation's elite private sector power structure (including major media organizations), which sometimes work collaboratively with the CIA and FBI operational arms.
One of the book's central findings was to document via more than 1,100 endnotes that all recent presidents between President Jimmy Carter and Donald Trump established covert ties to the CIA or FBI before they entered politics.
These professional ties helped enable the chosen aspirants to establish support for their political careers in ways that most of their political competitors and the public would never know, thus undermining the voting process (and implicating the media in a failure to inform).
The book included three chapters about the Bush family. The one about the late president, the focus of this series, was "George H.W. Bush: Poppy's Seed and Bitter Harvest," which draws on the late president's nickname "Poppy."
Immediately before that in Presidential Puppetry is a chapter about Poppy's father, "Prescott Bush: Roots of the Bushes," describing Prescott Bush's path from the Yale's Skull and Bones Society to helping finance Hitler's chief financier, Fritz Thyssen.
Prescott (shown below during his college years at Yale) avoided wide exposure for his Hitler ties and won a U.S. Senate seat from Conncticut and becoming one of President Eisenhower's closest friends in Washington. The two are shown together in the White House Oval office, with Prescott at right.
The other Presidential Puppetry chapter picks up from the series below and describes the more recent Bush president, "George W. Bush: Shameless, Heartless and Selected — Not Elected."
Andrew Kreig, Esq.
Andrew Kreig is Justice Integrity Project Executive Director and co-founder with over two decades experience as an attorney and non-profit executive in Washington, DC. An author and longtime investigative reporter, his primary focus since 2008 has been exploring allegations of official corruption and other misconduct in federal agencies. He has been a consultant and volunteer leader in advising several non-profit groups fostering cutting-edge applications within the communications industries.
As president and CEO of the Wireless Communications Association International (WCAI) from 1996 until 2008, Kreig led its worldwide advocacy that helped create the broadband wireless industry. Previously, he was WCAI vice president and general counsel, an associate at Latham & Watkins, law clerk to a federal judge, author of the book Spiked about the newspaper business and a longtime reporter for the Hartford Courant.
Listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World from the mid-1990s and currently, he holds law degrees from the University of Chicago School of Law and from Yale Law School. Reared in New York City, his undergraduate degree in history is from Cornell University, where he was a student newspaper editor, rowing team member, and Golden Gloves boxer.
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A fiction book about books that I very much enjoyed was Alan Bennet's[*] "The Uncommon Reader".
The titular "Reader" is Queen Elizabeth II. She has a chance encounter with a mobile library and meets (and takes under the royal wing) a twenty-something young man who is an fanatic reader.
The core plot is. admittedly, a bit of cliche, particularly in films (The Lonely Queen, meets a Commoner who introduces her to a New World). But "The Uncommon Reader"[*] is a lot of fun (and a relatively quick read), and it soon becomes clear that the real hero of the book is Bennet's own love for books.
Yes, it was hilarious, wasn't it?
When I was in college I received (as a gift) a copy of "The Lifetime Reading Plan" by the editor and critic Clifton Fadiman (i.e. Anne Fadiman's father). It has always held a place of honor on my shelves.
It's also worth noting that probably the most important word in the title is "Lifetime". Any list that recommends reading, "The Mahabharata", Augustine's "Confessions", the Complete Koran, "The Tale of Genji", "The Divine Comedy", the complete works of Shakespeare, "Remembrance of Things Past", and "Being and Nothingness" –to mention a scant handful of the works listed here– is not something most folks are going to whip through in the proverbial summer at the beach.
Perhaps a books like this can most usefully thought of as a companion or a guide. I freely admit that it's, well, at the very least "unlikely" that I'm going to read –or even make a significant start– on a most of the books here (yet??). But, on the other hand, I can certainly say that there are several works here that have been important to me that I would not have known (or would not have known so early) had it not been for tLRP. And it has also served as an infallible guide when I've decided that I need to add "something new" to my reading life.
Finally, perhaps the best role for a book like "The Lifetime Reading Plan" is as a gift. Either for the proto-reader in ones life. Or for oneself.
I hadn't heard of that book. Thanks, Nichael!


Why Does Mark Halperin Have a Job?
I guess the place to start is with 1825, when Robert Bank Jenkinson, First Lord of the Treasury and Second Earl of Liverpool, runs to the Bank of England and begs the Governor to do something to boost financial asset prices and keep them from collapsing in panic. We believe in a market economy, his reasoning goes, but not when the prices a market economy produces lead to mass unemployment on the streets of London, Bristol, Liverpool, and Manchester because panicked investors want their money invested in safe cash rather than risky enterprises. And the Bank of England responds: it goes into the market and buys bonds for cash, pushing up the prices of financial assets and expanding the money supply.
Ever since then those times when governments have largely stepped back and let the financial markets work a panic out for themselves--1873 and 1929 come to mind--appear to have turned out badly. And those times when the government has stepped in or has backed and deputized a private investment bank to support the market--1893 and 1907 come to mind, but also the Resolution Trust Corporation at the start of the 1990s and the U.S. Treasury's and IMF's interventions in support of Mexico in 1995 and of the East Asian economies in 1997-98--things appear to have gone less badly. At least, things appear to have gone sufficiently less badly that very few modern governments are willing to wash their hands and say the financial market should heal itself. That would be a radical step indeed.
The Obama administration is thus, in a sense, being conservative. It is following a tradition of policy in financial emergencies dating back to 1825 as it takes a number of steps to support the financial market--to try to boost demand for and the prices of risky financial assets in a whole number of ways ranging from deficit spending programs to boost the amount of government bonds outstanding and thus make private bonds in lower relative supply to guaranteeing risky private debt and recapitalizing banks to buying up auto companies. I understand what they are trying to do, and I am somewhat reluctant to second guess them: I know that Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner, Larry Summers, Christie Romer, and company are all doing their absolute best, and I know that if I were in any of their shoes I would be making bigger mistakes than they are--different mistakes, probably, but bigger ones for sure.
But I do have questions and worries. They are triggered by how the U.S. government has gotten itself deeply, deeply involved in industrial and financial policy without constructing technocratic institutions like the 1930s RFC and the 1990s RTC that allowed earlier episodes of extraordinary government intervention into the guts of the industrial and financial structure of the economy to turn out relatively well. What we have is not at all how James Madison or even Alexander Hamilton envisioned that things would work, with the executive having rather less discretionary power than George III of the House of Hanover, limited as the American executive was supposed to be by the constitution's definition of its mission as merely one of "faithfully executing" the laws passed by the legislative branch according to the lights of the judicial branch.
Why didn't the congress follow the RFC/RTC model in authorizing Bush and Obama industrial and financial policy?
Why did the centrists in congress thus abandon so much of the power that they could exercise as The Most Dangerous Branch to shape the Treasury's and the Federal Reserve's response to this financial crisis?
And what, if any, assistance can be provided by what if any other governmental actors to try to improve our institutions on the fly as we fly, somewhat blindly, into the future?


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Information on Nakshi Kantha (Folk Art of Bengal)
Nakshi Kantha
Nakshi Kantha, also known as Nakshi Katha, is the popular hand embroidery art form of West Bengal and Bangladesh.
The word 'nakshi' derives its origin in the Bengali word 'naksha'. "Naksha" means design or pattern.
The name "Kantha" is the needle embroidery practices in the districts of West Bengal and Bangladesh.
Nakshi Kantha – Unique Creation by Bengalis
The Nakshi Kanta is a unique creation in the folk art of the Bengalis. The beautiful needle-work are done by rural women on a piece of cloth. The Nakshi Kantha clothes are also meant to keep the cold away during winter in rural areas. During recent years, it has gained acceptance among young generation as a fashionable item. During festive season, there is surge in demand for Kantha sarees. Kumarkandi village at Faridpur in Bangladesh is known to be the home of the Nakshi Kantha.
Dorokha Kantha – The Two sided Nakshi Kantha
In the contest of Nakshi Kantha of Bengal, it is important to mention the "Dorokha Kantha". The Dorokha Kantha means "two sided" designed Nakshi Kantha. Such Nakshi Kanthas have the same design on both sides making it difficult to distinguish the right side up. A closer look, however, makes clear that on the side of the design was originally done and the side that is repeated. The Dorokha kantha is mostly seen in the districts of Rajshahi, Jessore, Khulna of Bangladesh and Bankura, Birbhum and of West Bengal.
The world of Nakshi Kantha was mainly feminine. Men rarely participate in it. To choose cloth, decide on the types of thread to use, set designs charcoal and pencil, and then stitching, everything was carried out by the women themselves.
Nakshi Kantha Fabric
To make Nakshi Kantha, the women in Bengal used a whole and one half old sari or dhoti. The whole fabric is folded four times and the other two times. The ends are then tied together with pins. Then the fabric is smoothed so that there are no wrinkles. Then the ends of the cloth are stitched together and the pins removed.
Nakshi Kantha Threads
The theads used for the preparation of the designs were secured from old saris. After the ends are secured, charcoal or pencils are used to draw the design outline. Then the Nakshi-Kantha hand embroidery is started. A lotus or some alpana design is embroidered at the center of the Nakshi-Kantha fabric. Once the center design is ready, remaining vacant areas are hand-embroidered. Although the designs have apparently no connection with others, they ensured that the symmetry is not altered.
Motifs of Nakshi Kantha
The Nakshi Kantha is the reflection life, aspirations and culture of the village women of Bengal. The motifsused in Nakshi-Kantha Work are symbols that have a special place in the folk art tradition of India. The rural women of India have expressed their feelings through folk art. The motif patterns include the sun, the moon, the lotus, the rose, the animals and water. Water plays a central role in all religious beliefs, whether Christian, Muslim or Hindu.
Wide Open Petal lotus is an ancient symbol of India. The Swastika denoting welfare is a symbol of auspiciousness. The four trees are the symbols of the four directions.
Motifs ranging from human figures and animals to plant life and home products were used in hand-embroidery works. The folk art in this country was a product of religious, socio and economic life and different illustrations and symbols are used.
The Nakshi Kantha was deeply associated with Bengali lives, and it can be understood through a perusal of Sanskrit and Bengali literature. The Kantha has also given expression to Sanskrit slokas.
Kanta is an example of a strange contradiction, because this is an object which is created in an effort for saving by transforming old clothes into art of rare beauty.
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Mark Hopkins will receive a baptism of fire as head coach of the national men's hockey team at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia in April.
The newly appointed mentor of the Proteas has been thrown into the deep end in a season which includes two major international tournaments.
The team will look to gain some valuable momentum at the Commonwealth Games ahead of the FIH Hockey World Cup in India later in the year.
"It's been a challenge in terms of the time we've had in order to prepare for the Commonwealth Games," Hopkins said.
"It would be very dishonest of me to say we've had very good prep as it has been far too short.
Hopkins recently took over the reins from Sheldon Rostron, who coached both the SA men's and women's teams to title victories at last year's African Hockey Cup of Nations.
"The prep in terms of access to players has not been ideal but we got around that with a significant amount of communication with players," Hopkins told The Games.
Due to a lack of resources, the England-born Hopkins said he had to find creative ways to prepare his charges for their first assignment.
"One of the most important things we talked about is supporting each other to be awesome," Hopkins said.
The squad was set to leave for Australia over the weekend and, given the limited time he had to work with the players, they were targeting 'rapid growth' in the team culture.
While they were looking to perform at their best at the Games, Hopkins said they also had one eye on the World Cup later this year.
"We need to put the foundations in place now which will ensure we are as competitive as we can be by the time we get to the World Cup," he said.