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Brian Badzmierowski | June 28, 2016 | 8:58am
In 2011, five talented Denver high-school grads dropped out of college after their freshman year and formed a theater troupe. Crossroads Theater, a 105-seat venue on Welton Street then managed by the City of Denver, was the first place to give the group a chance. The city was offering cheap rates to put artists on the stage, and there was no pressure to attract a big audience. The group, which would later become the Black Actors Guild, staged an improv comedy show, and although it didn't sell many tickets, the young actors got something more valuable: the confidence to continue. "We went into it without having any idea what to expect. Crossroads really gave us a chance to make mistakes," recalls Kevin Marchman, one of the Guild's founders. "It really was the jumping-off point that gave us enough confidence to be like, 'Yeah, we're nineteen-year-old kids who don't really know what we're doing, but we belong here.'"
Soon the Guild didn't need Crossroads; it was selling out venues across the city. From 2013 until 2015, the group rented the Atlas Theater as its headquarters and main performance space, but when one of the group's founders, Corin Chavez, died unexpectedly, the remaining members decided to leave the Atlas while they recovered from the loss and decided what to do next. Last month they returned to Crossroads, selling out the space where they'd gotten their start with one of their trademark Show Ya Teef improv shows.
Kurt Lewis was in the audience that night, filled with pride as he watched the group he'd helped mentor perform on the stage he'd built in 2007. It was a sweet moment for the man who'd risked everything to give Five Points a space for artists young and old — a space that's subsequently swallowed up so many creative efforts. "It's the best satisfaction I've ever had," Lewis says, "and the worst financial decision I ever made."
The Kurt Lewis Years (2007-2010)
Kurt Lewis has been a fan of theater since he was a kid growing up on a farm in rural Nebraska, where his father would recite lines from Macbeth. As an undergrad at New Mexico State, he acted in plays when he wasn't playing baseball or taking pre-law classes. But after he graduated from the University of Denver law school in 1981, law was his life. He started a successful career as an intellectual-property lawyer, satisfying his creative urges by teaching entertainment law at DU as well as acting classes for lawyers; he also wrote plays and acted in local productions himself. Still, he admits, "I thought I'd be practicing law until I died."
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After Lewis was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2001, his priorities shifted. He scaled back his law work and focused almost exclusively on more creative pursuits. He became a regular at the Mercury Cafe and the Bindery|Space, a theater space across the street; he dabbled at producing plays and even helped manage the theater. But when the LIDA Project, an experimental theater troupe, made the Bindery its primary performance space in 2006, Lewis thought it was time to find his own theater.
He had partners in the venture — a dance instructor and local actors — but they were just the talent; Lewis would be responsible for the funding. He had just won a big case at his law firm, netting his client almost $6 million and himself substantial fees. With the progressive nature of Parkinson's on his mind, he decided to take a risk before it was too late.
During a stroll along Welton, he noticed a space for rent about fifteen yards from the entrance to the legendary Rossonian Hotel and a half-block from the 27th and Welton light-rail stop on the D Line. The rental was on the ground floor of the newly constructed Welton Homes at the Point, an affordable apartment complex built by the nonprofit Hope Communities. When Lewis stepped inside and saw that the space was completely empty save for six concrete pillars supporting the building, he let his imagination run wild and began planning what would become Crossroads Theater.
"There was a very big hesitancy for people to come into the Five Points area. Five Points was still a no-fly zone for many people in 2007."
Hope Communities put Lewis in touch with the Denver Office of Economic Development, which gave him a $340,000 loan to build out the space. Lewis oversaw all of the construction. He hired a local architecture firm, Studio Completiva, to build the stage, the lobby and the bar. He brought in seats from the former Auditorium Theatre, which had been renovated and turned into the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, to give the new venue an authentic vintage feel. After Lewis burned through his original loan and was unable to secure another one, he sold his loft in the Golden Triangle and put the proceeds into the theater.
Today Lewis jokingly blames his brave leap of faith on the side effects of a Parkinson's medication: "Mirapex makes you do impulsive things...like finance a theater."
When construction was finished in 2007, Lewis named the space Crossroads Theater and gave it the tag line "Theater on the Rail," in recognition of its proximity to the light rail. The theme was "a convergence of creative cultures," Lewis says, to reflect his intention that the space be a place where community members could gather and creative minds could perform.
On April 25, 2007, Cafe Nuba, the predecessor to Slam Nuba, christened Crossroads with a stunning slam-poetry performance. "There was a line of people all the way out onto Welton," Lewis remembers. (Although many of the original poets have moved on, Slam Nuba still performs regularly at Crossroads.)
But the optimism engendered by that first night was short-lived. Running a small theater is no easy feat; there are costs to cover and artists to appease, and money is scarce. A key component of a theater's success is gaining the community's attention and loyalty.
And Lewis missed an opportunity to click with the community when he chose a script set in Ireland, Bold Girls, for the first play at Crossroads. Five Points was once the heart of Denver's African-American community; by 2007, the population had become primarily Latino — and the Irish were in short supply. He made a more savvy choice for the second production: The Sisters, Sweetwater, written by Hugo Jon Sayles of Shadow Theatre Company, Denver's only black theater company at the time.
But the biggest boost came when Paragon Theatre — which was coming off its biggest season, both critically and financially — moved to Crossroads, where it staged a series of successful plays.
Crossroads hosted more than theater, though. Lewis followed through on his promise of creating a community space and rented out the theater for jazz concerts, films, comedy shows, dance lessons, school-sponsored events and art exhibits. Many of these events couldn't afford to pay the full rate, though, and fewer still could fill the place.
Adding to the standard difficulties of operating a theater was an economy in rough shape. "We picked probably the worst time in history to start a theater, which was right before the big crash," Lewis says. Developer James Ellis was a big supporter of Crossroads and had planned to reopen the Rossonian as a jazz club and restaurant in 2008. Lewis was counting on that development, but it never got off the ground — and light rail didn't drive the expected traffic to Crossroads, either.
"There was a very big hesitancy for people to come into the Five Points area," says Dennis Malone, who was hired as operations manager at Hope Communities in 2014. "Five Points was still a no-fly zone for many people in 2007. Because of the rumors, because of the history, unfortunately it all kind of went along with a season when there were a lot of gang shootings and things like that. I think that really interfered with bringing a crowd down there. People wouldn't even get on the light rail to go down to this area."
In 2008, Parkinson's was starting to take its toll on Lewis. In a last-ditch effort, he went looking for a little help.
He didn't have to go far. Jeff Campbell, founder of the Colorado Hip Hop Coalition and a fixture in the Denver arts scene, worked next door at Blackberries Ice Cream & Coffee (now Coffee at the Point) and lived in one of Hope's apartments above the theater. The two had become fast friends during the construction of Crossroads; Campbell even starred in a play there written by Lewis, The Blue Vagabond, about a homeless man who finds his true calling as a storyteller.
Campbell proved a natural fit as Lewis's assistant manager, hired to help bring in talent and run the theater. "The condition was already hindering his speech and movement; you could sense his urgency to fulfill his dreams and leave behind a legacy," Campbell says. "That is what made me want to help. By the time I came on board in '09, things were already a bit disorganized and the budget was depleted. We talked about roping off the sidewalk so people could drink out front, but the cost outweighed what was to gain from it. We talked about a lot of ideas, but before we knew it, it was just too late."
That year, Lewis penned a letter that was published in the Denver Post, asking for help for Crossroads and making it very clear that the theater would close if someone didn't save the day.
"He told me he was going to probably default on it and that someone else was going to step in," Campbell recalls. "I wanted to turn it into a nonprofit, because I had experience founding and directing a nonprofit."
Campbell began organizing a board of directors and raising funds, but before he could make a pitch, the theater's savior had already been chosen: the Denver Division of Theatres and Arenas, which would soon morph into Arts & Venues.
The City Years (2010-2013)
Denver signed a three-year lease for Crossroads with Hope Communities in December 2010. The city's roster of venues includes Red Rocks, the legendary 9,000-seat amphitheater, as well as 2,000-plus-seat theaters at the Denver Performing Arts Complex; Crossroads was its smallest space by far. To some, adding the theater seemed like an odd move for Denver — but the city had one very good reason to take on the project: If Lewis defaulted, the city would be stuck with a bad loan. Instead, Arts & Venues paid off $205,000 of Lewis's loan to the Denver Office of Economic Development with excess funds raised through rental and parking fees the previous year.
That eased Lewis's burden, gave the OED some cash to loan to other worthy enterprises, and provided Hope with a reliable tenant. But there was more to the city's rationale: Crossroads fit with the department's desire to expand theater programming for the City of Denver.
"I heard throughout my tenure at the city that we needed to diversify the types of programming and also the ethnic mix of programming and the ethnic mix of our audiences," recalls Jack Finlaw, then the city's director of Theatres and Arenas. "So when I discovered that Crossroads Theater was having financial difficulties, I thought, 'Well, that would be a way to sort of fulfill our mission. We could rescue that situation and add to our mission to serve a more diverse audience.'"
Erik Dyce, chief marketing officer for Arts & Venues in 2010, remembers a senior staff meeting called by Finlaw to gauge interest in acquiring Crossroads. Dyce says he was the only one who welcomed the project, and because of his position, his opinion carried weight. "I was allowed to prevail because it was in my jurisdiction to not only run the Crossroads Theater, but market the Crossroads Theater," he says. "We were averaging about 1,500 events a year, and adding the Crossroads Theater was an easy one, I felt, because we could use lots of our existing resources to not only operate the venue, publicize the venue, but buy talent for the venue."
The city had the money and manpower to run the theater, and its first step was to invite the Five Points community to two public meetings to discuss the space. Arts & Venues was willing to rent the theater at bargain rates to attract interest, and the Black Actors Guild was one of the early groups to take advantage of that deal.
"I'm so tired of people talking about Five Points when you got white ladies jogging with their baby strollers down Welton."
But there were challenges from the start. The same day the city announced it was taking over Crossroads, Paragon revealed that it was leaving for a new venue. And soon, city officials discovered that running a small theater was nothing like managing a giant venue such as Red Rocks or even the Buell.
Tad Bowman, Arts & Venues director of events at the time, says it simply required too much effort to fill the seats and attract talent to make Crossroads worth the city's while: It took more time to manage Crossroads at a loss than it did to book a venue like Red Rocks at a profit. "Economics are what they are, and they're tough to deal with," Bowman adds. "You can spend a lot of time and effort trying to get something like the Crossroads Theater going. The benefit or the return on that investment, it's just not very big."
Brian Kitts, today director of marketing and communications at Arts & Venues, agrees. "You have to be really committed to that type of space," he says. "You really have to work hard to program those, and I think that was the difference.... I don't know that the city was the right group to program a space that size. We do a good job at programming Red Rocks, but it's largely with the help of Live Nation and AEG. It's different when you have your own set of theaters and you are the one who's expected to provide the content for that space. That's not something that I think was a very good fit."
According to Dyce, some of the groups that originally committed to using the space backed out, adding to the challenges. "It certainly was becoming a financial burden for the city, because some of the groups weren't utilizing it as much as they originally thought or shared with us," he says. "We had built a pro forma based on community input on the amount of times the facility would be used, and I think it fell off."
The stigma surrounding Five Points was also a problem. "We did learn that some shows that were put into the Crossroads experienced much lower attendance because of the area," recalls Dyce. "There was gang activity that occurred within a block of Crossroads Theater a few times, one resulting in a death. I think that caused enough concern to limit its potential."
But Campbell, who continued to live above the theater, doesn't buy that theory. "That's bullshit," he says. "I'm so tired of people talking about Five Points when you got white ladies jogging with their baby strollers down Welton. If people are so afraid to come down there, then why is it full of nothing but yuppies and hipsters? It's just old lingering racism in people that make people say that."
Ryan Foo, one of the founders of the Black Actors Guild, shares that sentiment. "I know that perception is totally there in Five Points; I understand that," he says. "Why? Because there are conflicting communities, and they're pissed the rent is going up and they're getting moved out of their houses. It creates a sense of conflicted community. Does that mean there's more crime? No."
Ultimately, Finlaw says, personnel changes within the city made it difficult to keep the theater. "We really did have our hearts in it," he explains. "Frankly, the timing was bad. We had the best of intentions, but we all changed personnel because of John [Hickenlooper] going off to become the governor." Dyce also left before the city's lease was up, leaving another hole in the original Denver crew that had taken on Crossroads.
As the three-year lease wound down, the city started looking for a suitor to take over the theater.
"Any time you go into something like that, you think you can make a change and you can create something," says Kitts. "I would characterize it as a sense of disappointment that it didn't sing the way we wanted it to."
The Center for Spiritual Living Years (2013-2016)
When Reverend James R. Chandler, founder of the Center for Spiritual Living Denver, died in 2011, his congregation found itself in transition. CSLD's space in Capitol Hill was being sold, and the new minister, Mary Jo Honiotes, had to find the church a new home. She started holding services at Crossroads, and she fell in love with the space and Five Points. By the time the city was ready to let go of Crossroads at the end of 2012, CSLD was ready to sign on as the main tenant. The plan was to raise enough money through donations and theater rentals to cover the lease.
The Center for Spiritual Living was founded by Dr. Ernest Holmes in 1949; its doctrine is based on his book The Science of Mind and revolves around inclusiveness, self-healing and the unity of spirit and science. Honiotes describes CSLD as a place for people in "church recovery," and she says she thought Crossroads was the perfect place to grow the congregation while continuing to push Lewis's vision of creating a community hub for artists. "I loved being right there," she says. "I loved having the opportunity to run the theater at the same time. We'd have classes, events and be there for Sundays. It was the perfect place to invite the theater and arts to be there."
It was also an overwhelming job. When CSLD was just renting the space from the city, all she had to worry about was the twice-a-week services. When the organization became the main tenant, however, all of the responsibilities of running a small theater fell on Honiotes's shoulders. She hired an operations manager and put her musical director in charge of booking.
Many of the same groups that had used Crossroads during the city's tenure continued to rent the space from CSLD, and those fees combined with donations enabled Honiotes to pay rent on time every month. For a while, it seemed a match made in heaven.
Honiotes made it a point to mingle with neighbors and welcome the community to classes, workshops and services. She understood the history of Five Points and wanted to honor it. "They say that church on Sunday is the most segregated time in America," she points out. "My vision or my hope to bring in more African-American people to our community — that didn't realize itself to the degree that I wanted it to. People don't do church very much anymore, period."
While Honiotes was busy tending to her congregation and its home, her stepdaughter, Kristin Honiotes, was busy establishing herself as an actor and businesswoman. In 2012, she'd helped form the Wit Theatre Company, a bare-bones group that dumpster-dived for props and rehearsed in the basement of the Blake Street Tavern; its first show was at the Bug Theatre. When Wit grew to the point that it needed a theater to call home, it began renting space at Crossroads. Jacob d'Armand, an Arizona native who'd helped found Wit, wound up getting hired by CSLD as a technical director for the space in 2014.
At a party, he and Kristin Honiotes encountered Jaryd Smart, a Floridian who'd attended Northern Arizona University, d'Armand's alma mater, and taken a class taught by a professor who kept in touch with d'Armand. When Smart moved to Denver, the professor had suggested that he connect with Wit — but in a stroke of serendipity, they met by chance. The trio teamed up and started working on plays; d'Armand soon brought on Smart to help with the technical aspects of running the space.
"He and I were in here, and we were just fantasizing all the time," Smart recalls. "We would just sit during events and talk about improvements we would do to the space and how amazing it would be to have free rein." They produced two original shows together: Quarrel, whose plot is supposed to remain a mystery, and Bucket, which invites local artists to get on stage and try something new, like crossing something off your bucket list.
A t the beginning of 2015, with one year left on CSLD's lease, Honiotes decided to step down as minister, initiating another transition for both the church and Crossroads. The musical director who had been booking shows also left; Kristin Honiotes stepped in and took over those duties at the theater. Meanwhile, CSLD hired a new leader, Patrick Soran, who decided the congregation needed a fresh start and found an available church at 31st Avenue and Humboldt Street. The decision was final: CSLD would not be renewing its lease to operate Crossroads.
Kristin Honiotes jumped at the chance to take over the theater. At the meeting during which CSLD told Hope Communities that it was leaving, she offered to take on the space. When Hope declined, Honiotes brainstormed with Smart and d'Armand. Adding Erik Rodne, a friend of d'Armand's who was helping out, the four young theater enthusiasts formed Crossroads Creative, intent on persuading Hope to let their group run Crossroads. They thought of buying the theater outright, but Hope wasn't selling — and raising the necessary funds would have been a long shot, anyway.
In late 2015, Hope sent a list of criteria to parties interested in leasing Crossroads, and the group started formulating a business plan. A key part of it was an ambitious Kickstarter campaign to raise $75,000 to cover expenses for a year.
But Crossroads Creative wasn't the only interested party. "It was the strangest thing, because we knew ahead of time," Smart says. "When everyone else found out, people were coming out of the woodwork."
One of those people was Campbell, who still lived above the theater. His idea was to form a nonprofit organization and pull from his network of local actors and artists to fill the theater. "Once CSL found themselves in that same boat, I started to organize again and pick up where I left off, essentially," Campbell remembers. "That's when I met Jaryd and those guys."
So Campbell started working with Crossroads Creative; they seemed to share a similar vision. The members of Crossroads Creative thought Campbell could run the nonprofit side of the space devoted to community events while they focused on generating revenue by renting the space out; they all had an interest in producing and acting in plays.
Hope's Dennis Malone had the final decision on who would take over the lease. He was also Campbell's landlord, which created a conflict of interest, Campbell says. "They weren't really interested in my idea of making it the Apollo Theater of the West in the Harlem of the West," he adds. "They were much more interested in a new, progressive, hipster style of theater that would reflect the new residents who were coming into the neighborhood. They really weren't interested in preserving the cultural integrity, and that was my idea and that was my interest — so therein lies the conflict."
Campbell says he walked into a meeting with Hope accompanied by Kristin Honiotes and d'Armand, and all three were ready to tackle the project together. But it was clear that Malone wanted Honiotes to be in charge of things, he says: "We were at a meeting together, and Hope said, 'We want you to be in charge,' and they pointed at Kristin. They said it right in front of me. Basically, I felt like they were telling me I wasn't qualified or wasn't professional enough or whatever. They were hella shady in that meeting."
Malone says simply that Campbell didn't have a solid plan and that the choice of going with Crossroads Creative was nothing personal. "We gave him a fair hearing, a fair chance," he says. "In fact, we asked him to give us a proposal. He never could get the money together to do anything. He had a financial problem."
At that point, Campbell says, he had $15,000 ready to go from donors — but he didn't mention that to Hope or Crossroads Creative. Instead, he decided he was done. Soon after, he accepted a position with Genesis Prevention Coalition and moved to Georgia to help turn former penitentiaries into housing for veterans. He plans on returning to Denver this fall, though, to stage a production of a play he wrote, Final Fight of the Freedom Fighter.
Crossroads Creative was blindsided by Campbell's exit, Smart says. When the Kickstarter campaign started last fall, the team had to forge ahead without the one member who had the best shot of rallying the community.
"I felt like I was the perfect fit for that particular problem," Campbell says. "I might not be the greatest administrator or organizer, but I certainly was a part of the community, and I certainly was a person who had the type of relationship within the community that could create a viable support base."
The Kickstarter failed, raising only $8,000 of the proposed $75,000 — but at their next meeting, Malone told the Crossroads Creative founders that he was impressed with their enthusiasm and vision. "Unfortunately, they came up short," Malone recalls. "We sat down with them and said, look, so you don't get pinned down on a lease you can't commit to, let's do three-month leases. We will review it every three months, and if you guys are still alive and kicking, then we'll renew it again."
The Crossroads Creative Years (2016-?)
Crossroads Creative officially took over Crossroads Theater on January 1, 2016. The group started in a financial hole: Malone was willing to waive the security deposit but wanted $3,500 up front for one month's rent. Kristin Honiotes ponied up the cash herself, and the new theater owners started looking for events to book.
That was easier said than done; theater groups typically book their productions months ahead, and there was an uncomfortable number of blank squares on the Crossroads calendar. Still, the partners knew what they were getting into. "I don't think any of us went into this thinking it was going to be a fun cakewalk," Honiotes says. "We all showed up like, here we go, we're about to dig in and do all the work — and for us, we're not getting paid, so it's really just our passion to build this and really make it something."
Honiotes was the businessperson; she did most of the booking. Smart took over as production manager, developing shows and finding talent. D'Armand reprised his role as technical director, and Rodne was anointed artistic director, responsible for the company's image. They worked hard, and business steadily increased. They weren't in the black, but they were building momentum with performances by Slam Nuba and the Black Actors Guild, as well as in-house productions and community-centered events. Denver Kids Inc. held a Core Values Award ceremony there for students in the Denver Public Schools; the Gift of Jazz, a nonprofit that teaches music to Denver students, hosts a monthly program at the theater. And the Agency, a relatively new sketch-comedy troupe, signed on to hold a free show there every month.
Malone was so impressed by the increased activity that he extended the lease through the end of September.
But the honeymoon didn't last. When d'Armand moved back to Arizona to be with his family, his role was diminished. Honiotes, who had kept her day job, started spending less time at Crossroads. And at the end of May, both of them suddenly severed all ties with Crossroads Creative.
Honiotes says only that she left for "personal reasons"; Smart says d'Armand felt he was "rendered ineffective." Although he acknowledges there had been some communication problems, Rodne says he didn't see the breakup coming. "When we started our Kickstarter, one of our founding ideas was that we don't want to let things get lost in committee, and communication breaking down to such a point that we weren't effectively communicating about things that could happen," he says. "I don't think it was a fault of anyone compromising ideas or ideals or anything like that."
Smart and Rodne doubled down. They filed paperwork giving them full ownership of Crossroads Creative and held a meeting early this month at which they enlisted seven volunteers to assist at the theater. One of those volunteers is Toluwanimi Obiwole, Denver's first youth poet laureate and a member of Slam Nuba. "We really wanted to save the Crossroads Theater as a community center, because it's been really important and still is very important to the community in Five Points," she says. "That's also why I wanted to volunteer, because in my future, I want to be a community organizer, and helping out at the Crossroads Theater is definitely going to help me out with those skills. I love the idea of learning about your community as a means of better equipping yourself to help them."
"We really wanted to save the Crossroads Theater as a community center because it's been really important and still is very important to the community in Five Points."
Michael Santini, a recent transplant with a background in theater, also volunteered. "I'm one of those people who just moved out here from Chicago, and I feel like I'm contributing to the gentrification that's happening in the Denver metro area," he says, "so meeting people who are dedicated to having this space and preserving it as a community center, an arts center — somewhere where talent can thrive and be recognized and have a comfortable space to be in — it's inspiring, to say the least."
While removing extra soap dispensers from the bathroom may seem a minor task, the volunteers' willingness to take on such housekeeping duties impressed Smart. "That's the kind of space we're trying to be in. A space of action, which is what we've been trying to get to, and now we're there. For us, this is the best possible thing," he says. "We spent the first six months as a four-person team, and now we have expanded ourselves. We've had two members leave. We've brought on a bunch of people now who see what we want to do."
Rodne, too, is optimistic. "Jaryd and I have been in the space and collectively have the ability to run everything — so it's going to stay open, which is good," he says. "It's a win. I'm confident that our skills overlap in such a way that we can take care of the space and we can be looking out in different directions, managing different things, and making sure that operations run smoothly."
Money has always been an issue for anyone running Crossroads, and Smart and Rodne say they have a few tricks up their sleeves. Smart is exploring sponsorships and a loan from Kiva, an online platform where loans are crowdfunded by people all over the world. Impressed by Smart and Rodne's energetic approach, Malone modified the lease to make it easier for them to afford the space. Combined with an expanded roster of shows and community events, it may be enough to keep the theater afloat.
They know they still need the support of the community. "I don't think it's about us, and I don't think it's been about us," he says. "We don't own the space; the space is there for the community. Thankfully, nothing's been interrupted in that process. It's still the same message, just slightly refined."
The message is the same, but the community of Five Points is definitely changing. "I think one of the problems is that the neighborhood has yet to find a distinct identity," says the Black Actors Guild's Kevin Marchman. "You can't really have a cultural nexus without people buying into the culture as a whole."
The Guild's Ryan Foo likens the Crossroads saga to the recent history of Five Points. "I think Crossroads is a perfect metaphor for where Five Points is right now, which is conflicted," he says. "It's growing, it's evolving, and that's not a painless process."
No pain, no gain: Malone is ready to offer the group another extension in September. "I'm just enthused about how they're going toward doing this," he says. "They're both working well together, and I just think that maybe this was the push that was needed to kind of get a different look. I think they're taking the right course, and if anything, there's new enthusiasm."
For his part, Campbell wants to see the theater stay open — even if he's not running it. "It's all good," he says. "I really love the Crossroads, and I'd really love to see it survive."
Kurt Lewis is cheering on the group, too. "The enthusiasm is key," he says. "You need passion and persistence in whatever you do, and they have it."
Kurt Lewis wrote this poem when Crossroads Theater was just getting started:
Crossroads the Dream and the Reality
Images in our minds
Sketched the seats and the stage
From a blank space populated
Only by six concrete pillars.
Eyes Of dreamers and doers and creators
Saw tomorrow yesterday.
Dancers, actors, musicians, painters and poets
Populated our imaginary stage,
Now suddenly real and ready.
So welcome everyone
To the magical place in the center of the city.
Where the roads and the rail meet
And creativity leaps like a dancer
Sings the blues on a Saturday nite
and tells the stories
Of this city and its people.
Want to check out the action at Crossroads Theater? Here are just some of the events planned for the next few weeks:
Southwest Shootout, Preliminary Round
6:30 p.m. Friday, July 1, $10
Regional poetry-slam competition featuring the best poets from across the Southwest.
Bucket: 9th Edition
8 p.m. Saturday, July 2, $10 suggested donation
An open-mic free-for-all produced by Crossroads Creative and featuring music, comedy, and art.
Broadsided: An estrogen-fueled comedy show
7 p.m. Wednesday, July 6, $15
Sketch, improv and standup comedy inspired by stigmas and stereotypes about women.
Show Ya Teef
8 p.m. Friday, July 15, $10
The Black Actors Guild's high-energy and interactive improv comedy show.
Presented by Fearless Theatre
July 28 through August 19
A musical based on the album of the same name, co-written by Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong.
Crossroads is located at 2590 Washington Street. For more information, call 720-526-2467 or go to xroads.info.
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Q: Retrieve data based on date from excel with pandas hello all I'm stuck in the following steps using Python and Pandas. I'm trying to retrieve the country with the most goals in "FIFA" matches since 2010.
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Below is a piece of code and not sure if it's alright since I'm still learning.
#Which country has scored the most goals in FIFA events (qualifiers,
#cups, etc.) since 2010?

# convert to datetime format
df['date'] = pd.to_datetime(df['date'], format='%Y-%m-%d')

# to get the most goals by sum
df['total_score'] = df['home_score'] + df['away_score']

#Not sure how to check all data as long as theres the word FIFA in it?
sub_df = df[ (df['tournament'] == "FIFA") & (df['neutral'] != "True") ]

#Not sure how to check all data as long as theres the word FIFA in it?
sub_df = df[(df['tournament'] == "FIFA") & (df['date'].dt.year >= 2010)]

# to get maximum total_score
sub_df2 = sub_df[sub_df['total_score'] == sub_df['total_score'].max()]

print(sub_df2)

**Empty DataFrame
Columns: [date, home_team, away_team, home_score, away_score,
tournament, city, country, neutral, total_score]
Index: []**

EDIT: Updated code but not sure how to return the Country with most goals
df['date'] = pd.to_datetime(df['date'], format='%Y/%M/%D')

# to get the most goals by sum
df['total_score'] = df['home_score'] + df['away_score']

#to get data only from year 2010 and up and events that have the word
#FIFA in it
sub_df = df[(df['date'].dt.year >= 2010) &
(df['tournament'].str.contains('FIFA'))]

#Which country has scored the most goals in FIFA events (qualifiers,
#cups,  etc.) since 2010?
sub_df2 = sub_df[sub_df['total_score'] == sub_df['total_score'].max()]

#print the return value of the country with most goals
print(sub_df2)
print(sub_df2['country'], sub_df2['total_score'].max())
print("The country that has scored the most goals in FIFA events is: ")`

This is what is being returned:
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I want to return the country with the most goals scored in all FIFA events
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A: I provided a sample data by considering your original posting:
         date home_team away_team  home_score  away_score tournament     city   country neutral
0  2011-11-30  Scotland   England           0           0       FIFA  Glasgow  Scotland   FALSE
1  2012-03-08   England  Scotland           4           2       FIFA   London   England   FALSE
2  2010-03-07  Scotland   England           2           1       FIFA  Glasgow  Scotland   FALSE
3  2009-03-06   England  Scotland           2           2   Friendly   London   England   FALSE
4  2010-04-03  Scotland   England           3           0       FIFA  Glasgow  Scotland   FALSE
5  2009-03-25  Scotland     Wales           4           0   Friendly  Glasgow  Scotland   FALSE

Your code is basically OK. I just changed a datetime format and a print format at the very beginning and end.

df['date'] = pd.to_datetime(df['date'], format='%Y-%m-%d') # format shoud be matched with your data

# to get the most goals by sum
df['total_score'] = df['home_score'] + df['away_score']

#to get data only from year 2010 and up and events that have the word FIFA in it
sub_df = df[(df['date'].dt.year >= 2010) & (df['tournament'].str.contains('FIFA'))]

#Which country has scored the most goals in FIFA events (qualifiers, cups, etc.) since 2010
sub_df2 = sub_df[sub_df['total_score'] == sub_df['total_score'].max()]

#print the return value of the country with most goals.
print("The country that has scored the most goals in FIFA events is: ")
print(sub_df2['country'].iloc[0], sub_df2['total_score'].iloc[0])

This code will print:
The country that has scored the most goals in FIFA events is:
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News Place over product: Akron Property's Andrew Harvey discusses the concept of creating a community-centric mixed use precinct
Place over product: Akron Property's Andrew Harvey discusses the concept of creating a community-centric mixed use precinct
Olivia Round
| Aug 27,2019
Following the launch of Tarneit's latest mixed-use precinct development, Keystone, Urban.com.au caught up with Akron Property Development Director Andrew Harvey about the importance of creating highly walkable, connected communities – and essentially prioritising place over product.
Urban.com.au: Congratulations on the launch of Keystone, Tarneit! What drew you to this site in particular?
Andrew Harvey: Akron is pleased that Wyndham understood our vision for a highly walkable, connected community to be established that brings a variety of attractive inner-Urban features to this suburb. The Planning Permit for Keystone is the result of a year of planning, Urban design and detailed engineering investigations in consultation with Wyndham City Council. Akron was attracted to Tarneit because it is exceptionally well-positioned for future growth. Keystone is only 26 kilometres from the Melbourne CBD and is very close to Werribee, Hoppers Crossing and Williams Landing. Keystone is already surrounded by established schools, shopping and community infrastructure. Coupled with the State commitment to upgrade the adjacent railway with future station builds, the site will be an easy walk from two future railway stations at Riverdale and Tarneit West.
U: When acquiring a site in an outer suburb, do you believe interest will be generated from those looking to commute to/from the CBD or buyers that are keen to live, work and play in Tarneit?
AH: Tarneit won't be an outer suburb for much longer! People who know the Western suburbs will know that Tarneit and Werribee are poised to tap into the economic development that will follow from State and local economic investment. Investors and our Keystone residents will be attracted by the close proximity to the CBD, and the established infrastructure close by. Easy road or rail access exists to the City, Werribee, Geelong and growth areas such as Melton and Bacchus Marsh to the north. Tarneit has simple access via the Princes Freeway to the Bellarine Peninsula and Surf Coast, enabling a genuine work-life balance.
U: If Melbourne is to become a polycentric city, do you believe the City of Wyndham is equipped to handle the Urban sprawl, and accommodate the needs of new residents?
Wyndham City has tremendous potential. Wyndham City is one of Australia's fastest-growing municipalities, expected to almost double in size by 2041. It is well placed on the road and rail links between Melbourne and Geelong, making it an area of great economic significance that extends beyond its own region, impacting the rest of the state and Australia. Affordable housing, geographic appeal, high birth rates, increased migration and major infrastructure investments are driving forces behind Wyndham's position as the epicentre of western Melbourne's population growth. This growth will transform Wyndham from a City of 257,000 people in 2018 to nearly double in size to 489,000 by 2041. According to ABS data between 2016 and 2017, Wyndham was Victoria's largest growing municipality, increasing its population by 14,092 people, or 6.2%.
What local infrastructure is currently on the cards in the areas surrounding Keystone?
In December 2018 the Western Melbourne Group (WMG) obtained a licence from Football Federation Australia (FFA) to field a team in the national A-league, the Western United Football Club. As part of a public-private-partnership development with Wyndham City Council, WMG will deliver an international standard sporting precinct just to the west of Keystone which will include a 15,000 seat main stadium, a 5,000 seat second stadium, training pitches and high-performance centre. Adjacent to the sporting precinct on the southern side of the site, Council will also deliver the Riverdale town centre. With all of this proposed work, the construction of the Sayers Rd Railway Station in Tarneit needs to be brought forward to capitalise on this economic development opportunity. Delivering this station will allow for greater access to the privately funded 15,000 seat stadium being built and will enable business and communities in the area to thrive. The future Riverdale Railway Station at Sayers Road and the proposed Tarneit West station on Davis Road are either side of Keystone and are both within a two-kilometre stroll.
How has the Urban planning agency Roberts Day assisted with the master planning process of Keystone, and what were the key takeaways from their input?
We wanted visionary Urban design and planning and through our work with Roberts Day, we have tapped into best practice design philosophies through the thought leadership of Mike Day and Emma Petersen. placemaking has been a focus, not a cookie-cutter subdivision mentality. We wanted to bring some of the best of the city to Tarneit, and a phrase we use is "more Urban than suburban". A key focus of this development is the evolution of specially designed elevated townhome lots, fronting leafy, tree-lined boulevards where walking, cycling and conversation with your neighbour are given higher importance. Landscaped rear laneways, with studios above garages, will give these lots an element of lifestyle flexibility not seen in surrounding suburbs. The Keystone design will promote safer walking and cycling to school, shops and recreation as a fundamental part of everyday activity. We can't wait to do some longer-term studies to measure the positive impact that our design will have on the health and wellbeing of our future residents.
Do you believe that there is enough incentive for developers to create precincts which have a strong community focus like Keystone? Or is it primarily down to company ethos?
The recent correction in the housing market means that the "fear of missing out" has lessened, and astute buyers can take their time to understand what makes a quality development. Akron has set its ethos on seeing beyond the present day, and we want to leave a legacy of good design and great places for people to make home. Akron partners with like-minded visionary and enthusiastic design teams to incorporate leading design principles, and we try to bring the best of our favourite places in Melbourne and around the world to each Akron neighbourhood. If we don't design places that we'd like to live in, how can we expect others to understand our vision and make Keystone home? Akron recognises that systems like the Green Building Council of Australia's Green Star Rating, and the UDIA EnviroDevelopment certification can be badges which verify Akron's commitment to sustainability and independently certify the quality of our Keystone vision.
Akron Property team
How do you see Keystone evolving over the years?
Akron is committed to early provision of community infrastructure, and the Riverdale North Primary school, in the heart of Keystone will be at the heart of the community. We are working with the Council to refine designs for a community hub opposite the primary school. We see early provision of a childcare centre and kindergarten opposite the school as priorities, supported by some small shops. We will be working with innovative, quality builders to build and display innovative medium density house product and innovative home office townhouses. We are committed to exploring a diversity of home types, for different family structures, including singles and couples. We'd love to see a range of home types that cater to different stages of life.
What do you think residents will love most about living at Keystone?
The design approach seeks to encourage physical activity, and we hope for a real sense of health and wellness to evolve. Our green streets will be planted with double rows of trees and will be attractive streets that encourage walking and cycling. Most local streets point at the school, so we think there will be a high proportion of kids that will walk, ride, skate to school. We will relocate our sales office from Leakes Road into first completed stage, and we hope to partner with Council for some pop-up recreational facilities before council builds the dedicated Active Open Space sports ovals and facilities in years to come.
Given your experience working on the creation of an international award-winning Ellenbrook Community in Perth, what do you think are the key features of a holistic, modern community? What would you like to see more of in new mixed-use precincts across Australia?
Authentic communities thrive on diversity. This applies to the people who live there, the building typologies and the streets, parks and Urban places which will emerge. When the developer shows a better understanding of how people want to live, houses become homes, and people become neighbours. Compact living, useable verandahs and rooftop terraces are exciting trends that enable social interaction and community engagement. We'd love to see radical changes in the building typologies that are accessible to people in Tarneit, and we will be working with our building partners to truly innovate.
Olivia Round is the Features Editor of urban.com.au. Olivia specialises in news reporting, in-depth editorial content and video + podcast interviews with industry experts.
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When Covid struck, this orchestral musician worked as a virologist
Joshua Kosman has a fascinating profile in the San Francisco Chronicle of the British horn player Mark Almond, newly appointed associate principal French horn player in the San Francisco Symphony.
Mark, who is 40 and from Boton, Lancs, is a fully qualified physician with a PhD in virology.
Over the last few months, he put on his scientist's hat and trooped off to the Rosenberg Lab at UCSF, where he's been doing COVID-19 research as a paid member of the laboratory staff. 'I've been really lucky to have this background in pandemic flu,' Almond told The Chronicle.
How did that come about?
Almond was the principal horn player in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and then the European Union Youth Orchestra, all while preparing for university on a medical track. 'I studied pre-clinical medicine at Cambridge; then in my second year I got a phone call from the London Symphony Orchestra, asking me to come play with them. So I made my professional debut at 19, touring Europe with (conductor) Riccardo Chailly…. I had literally just delivered a baby as a medical student when the Philharmonia Orchestra called and offered me the job of third horn.'
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JussiB says:
with a brain like that, maybe he should try composing. the new music written today is all but unlistenable. even mozart did not finish college.
PHF says:
Wow, with a comment like that I wonder if YOU were able to finish college.
Mozart didn't go to college. Most people didn't in the 18th Century. They just got on with the job.
Gerry McDonald says:
Unless they read law first!
Mozart dropped out of University of Bologna after only a year.
Old Man in the Midwest says:
Perhaps with that level of talent he can renegotiate BREXIT, work on peace in the Middle East, and help humanity address climate change.
Playing in a symphony orchestra is a
waste of his talent.
henry williams says:
talented man. music & medicine.
Skippy says:
What is it about horn players? While Charles Kavalovski served as principal horn in the Boston Symphony Orchestra, he was also a tenured physics professor at Boston University.
Ken Strack, former fourth horn in the Pittsburgh Symphony, worked for NASA prior to joining the orchestra.
Shalom Rackovsky says:
Sarah Willis did a wonderful horn hangout with Mark, who basically explained the pulmonary system for wind players. It is a must-watch for anyone interested in the horn, in wind playing in general, and/or in Mark [and if you love music, you should fall in all 3 categories!].
https://sarah-willis.com/episodes/corona-30-the-lung-horn-hangout/
He is in good company: Jeffrey Tate, Giuseppe Sinopoli… but not Hector Berlioz.
Peter Phillips says:
Boston Lincs, not Lancs.
No, he is from BOLTON, Lancs, I'm 99% sure.
BruceB says:
Well it's nice to see a musician doing something useful with his life for a change…. /eyeroll
(I wonder if people at his research facility ever ask him if he actually gets paid by the San Francisco Symphony, or if they all just do it for the love of music.)
Why should any person in the arts ever got paid for doing something that they love ( wink)? Grrrrrr….
Sixtus Beckmesser says:
Wow. Very impressive.
Barry Guerrero says:
A horn playing friend of mine from San Jose – sometimes subs in the S.F. Symphony – was telling me about Mark Almond just two days ago. My horn player friend now owns nine horns!
I hope that one of those horns wasn't the lovely one that I sold to Mark a few years ago?
I have no idea. However, my friend made no mention of it.
He was also in Soft Cell
Many Russian master composers (and Charles Ives) had full time jobs and wrote music on the side. None of them wasted their time and talent doodling as orchestra musicians. We just don't have composer talents anymore in the 21st Century or in the past 40 years (Bernstein was probably the last master classical composer who could write tunes.)


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Xeikon to Showcase Samples Printed on 8000 Series Presses at PSDA15 P2P Solutions Summit
ITASCA, IL—March 17, 2015—Xeikon, an innovator in digital color printing technology, will have a strong presence at PSDA15 P2P Solutions Summit, the signature annual event of the Print Services and Distribution Association (PSDA).
At Xeikon's booth exhibit (#709), the company will demonstrate unique samples and applications printed on the Xeikon 8000 Series of presses, which is specifically designed for the document and commercial printing space. The summit takes place March 31-April 2, 2015, at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago, IL.
"PSDA's P2P Solutions Summit is the perfect platform to showcase some of the unique capabilities and applications Xeikon offers for document and commercial printers," said Todd Blumsack, vice president of sales and marketing at Xeikon America. "Print runs are becoming shorter with more variable data requirements. In addition, turnaround times are getting increasingly demanding. Xeikon's digital press portfolio can help document and commercial printers meet these challenges and be more profitable."
PSDA is broad network of supply chain partners representing hundreds of companies. It's comprised of distributors and resellers of print, marketing and related services, along with printers who sell actively to the trade as well as suppliers of marketing, technology, promotional, packaging, direct mail and related solutions. PSDA15 P2P Solutions Summit, one of the premier events for commercial and document printing, brings together distributors and manufacturers who want to partner to deliver solutions for end-user customers.
Xeikon offers industry's most versatile lineup of digital presses for today's document and commercial printers. The Xeikon 8000 Series can support virtually every application a business needs, from direct marketing/direct mail, brochures and POP/POS signage to posters, banners and even wallpaper. Furthermore, the company recently introduced its Xeikon 9800 digital press, which combines even higher productivity levels with its 1200 dpi imaging quality. The Xeikon 9800 press will be commercially available in September 2015.
In addition to its lineup of presses, Xeikon also offers several dedicated Solution Suites specifically designed for various commercial and document printing applications. These include book production, document production, large-format production, wall decoration and leaflet production.
About the Print Services & Distribution Association (PSDA)
Since 1946, PSDA has been the exclusive association for the print distribution industry. Its members include print distributors, trade printers, marketing service providers and suppliers working together to ensure that end users receive the products and services they need to succeed. PSDA members are a knowledgeable, successful and dedicated group of professionals leading the progress of the print distribution industry. PSDA's mission is to provide its members with the highest quality information and resources to advance their businesses. Programs include networking and educational events, online curriculum offerings, award-winning publications and sourcing referral services.
About Xeikon
Xeikon is an innovator in digital printing technology. The company designs, develops and delivers web-fed digital color presses for labels and packaging applications, document printing, as well as commercial printing. These presses utilize LED-array-based dry toner electrophotography, open workflow software and application-specific toners. As an OEM supplier, Xeikon designs and produces platemakers for newspaper offset printing applications. Xeikon also manufactures basysPrint computer-to-plate (CtP) solutions for the commercial printing market. These proven CtP systems combine the latest exposure techniques with cost-efficient UV plate technology, high imaging quality and flexibility. For the flexographic market, Xeikon offers digital platemaking systems under the ThermoFlexX brand name. ThermoFlexX systems provide high resolution plate exposure including screening, color management, as well as workflow management. All the Xeikon solutions are designed with the overarching principles of profitability, quality, flexibility and sustainability in mind. With these guiding principles and a deep, intimate knowledge of its customers, Xeikon continues to be one of the industry's leading innovators of products and solutions.
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RB435G is end of life (EOL). Mikrotik recommends RBM33G for functional replacement.
Five miniPCI slots and three Gigabit Ethernet ports give you enough connectivity options to use the RB435G as the central part of your network. Now with Gigabit ports, to properly utilize all the speed 802.11n with Nv2 wireless. Five miniPCI slots to be used for four sectors and a backbone, or any other configuration you need. The two USB 2.0 ports can be used for extending storage, adding a 3G wireless modem for backup connectivity,for a mobile installation or all together. The RB435G comes with a 680MHz Atheros CPU and is preinstalled with a Level5 RouterOS license.


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444.778. Bond — form — amount — duration — forfeiture — power of reclamation. — 1. Any bond herein provided to be filed with the commission by the operator shall be in such form as the director prescribes, payable to the state of Missouri, conditioned that the operator shall faithfully perform all requirements of sections 444.760 to 444.790 and comply with all rules of the commission made in accordance with the provisions of sections 444.760 to 444.790. The bond shall be signed by the operator as principal, and by a good and sufficient corporate surety, licensed to do business in this state, as surety. The operator shall file with the commission a bond payable to the state of Missouri with surety in the penal sum of eight thousand dollars for each permit up to eight acres and five hundred dollars for each acre thereafter that is to be mined. In addition, for each acre or portion thereof where topsoil has been removed from the site, an additional bond of four thousand five hundred dollars per acre shall be posted with the commission for each acre or portion thereof which will be revegetated, conditioned upon the faithful performance of the requirements set forth in sections 444.760 to 444.790 and of the rules and regulations of the commission. In lieu of a surety bond, the operator may furnish a bond secured by a personal certificate of deposit or irrevocable letter of credit in an amount equal to that of the required surety bond on conditions as prescribed by the commission. For any operator involved in any gravel mining operation where the annual tonnage of gravel mined by such operator is less than five thousand tons, such operator shall deposit a bond with the commission in the penal sum of five hundred dollars for each acre or portion thereof of land proposed thereafter by the operator to be subjected to surface mining for the mining permit year.
2. The bond shall remain in effect until the mined acreages have been reclaimed, approved and released by the commission. Forfeiture of such bond may be cause for denial of future permit applications.
3. A bond filed as above prescribed shall not be cancelled by the surety except after not less than ninety days' notice to the commission and, in any case, not as to the acreage affected prior to the expiration of the notice period.
4. If the license to do business in this state of any surety upon a bond filed with the commission pursuant to sections 444.760 to 444.790 shall be suspended, revoked, or cancelled, or if the surety should act to cancel the bond, the operator, within sixty days after receiving notice thereof from the commission, shall substitute for such surety a good and sufficient corporate surety licensed to do business in this state or a bond secured by a certificate of deposit. Upon failure of the operator to make substitution of surety as herein provided, the commission shall have the right to suspend the permit of the operator until such substitution has been made.
5. The commission shall give written notice to the operator of any violation of sections 444.760 to 444.790 or noncompliance with any of the rules and regulations promulgated by the commission hereunder and if corrective measures, approved by the commission, are not commenced within ninety days, the commission may proceed as provided in section 444.782 to request forfeiture of the bond.
6. The commission shall have the power to reclaim, in keeping with the provisions of sections 444.760 to 444.790, any affected land with respect to which a bond has been forfeited. The commission and any other agency and any contractor under a contract with the commission shall have reasonable right of access to the land affected to carry out such reclamation. The operator shall also have the right of access to the land affected to carry out such reclamation and shall notify the landowner on lease holdings that such right exists.
7. Whenever an operator shall have completed all requirements pursuant to the provisions of sections 444.760 to 444.790 as to any affected land, he or she shall notify the commission thereof. If the commission determines that the operator has completed the requirements, the commission shall release the operator from further obligations regarding the affected land and the penalty of the bond shall be reduced proportionately.
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My DACA story: 'I can't be a Superman'
Editor's note: This is one of a series of community profiles by Boyle Heights Beat youth reporters in response to President Trump's decision to rescind the DACA program announced Sept. 6.
By Diego Flores
While many are taking to the streets to protest the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Erick Huerta, a 33-year-old activist from Boyle Heights, offers a different perspective. He's decided to "tune out," not because of a lack of interest, but because of past experiences.
"There came a point where I realized that I can't do everything," he said. "I couldn't save everybody. I can't be a Superman."
His stance is a result of his involvement with activism when fighting for the Federal Dream Act in 2010.
"I was involved for so long that I put other aspects of my life on hold," he continued. "I was couch-surfing from one place to another and taking up odd jobs wherever I could, all because I was focused on activism. Now it's time to take care of ourselves."
Huerta, who works at a non-profit in Los Angeles, recently renewed his application. It will expire in 2019.
"When I think about who is putting on these rallies (today), I just can't see myself supporting them," he added. "It's a lot of elitism. It's a lot of folks perpetuating narratives that everyone who is on DACA [are] nothing but college kids who don't know any better and are scared and we should help them."
Huerta has come to the conclusion that he can't help everyone, only those most immediate to him.
"I help out where I can, but at this point, it's up to a whole different set of folks to take up this cause and make it their own," he said. "Whether I agree with them or not."
"It's time to go back to what I used to do, which is basically hustle," he added. "(And) work (with) what I need to work with."
Huerta was not surprised when he heard about DACA's removal. Much of what he has read and heard from friends points to the idea that Trump wants to get rid of most, if not all, Obama-era policies, regardless of whether they are "good" or "bad."
"I signed up for DACA knowing that this day was going to come eventually," Huerta said. I didn't know when…but I signed up knowing that this was temporary. I'm trading my information to the government in exchange for a temporary work permit and…making life easier. To me, that was the trade off. I wasn't…optimistic that one day it would turn into permanent citizenship or residency."
Still, he holds a hopeful outlook during these times of uncertainty, with opportunities for undocumented individuals – such as AB540 and the California Dream Act, which offer in-state tuition and financial aid to undocumented students.
"The city [Los Angeles] is always working on something. It's not perfect, but California has it better than other cities where the community that lives there is actively trying to get rid of you, as opposed to a city like L.A. where a lot of folks are Latino," Huerta said. "I live in Boyle Heights. It's stuff I don't have to think [twice] about."
Photo above courtesy of Erick Huerta.
Diego Flores is a Senior at Óscar de la Hoya Ánimo Charter High School.
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Diego Flores is a senior at Óscar de la Hoya Ánimo Charter High School. His hobbies include skateboarding, playing the drums and going to backyard punk shows. He hopes to attend a private four-year university away from home.
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This is the kind of night it was: William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols joined the cast and producers of Star Trek: Discovery for a group photo on the blue carpet at the Discovery world premiere, held Tuesday at the iconic Arclight Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. Standing on either side of Sonequa Martin-Green, Shatner and Nichols literally passed the torch to yet another generation. Special guests, spouses, friends, TV crews, cameramen, fans… everyone oohed and aah-ed and soaked in the moment, so memorable, cool, fun and historic it was.
Following the screening, StarTrek.com talked for a moment with Nichelle Nichols. She "loved" the experience of helping Discovery launch and was "proud" to see Martin-Green up there on the big screen. "I felt," Nichols said warmly, "like that was me up there." Earlier, on the blue carpet Nichols told Martin-Green, "It's yours now. Enjoy the ride."


You'll find jaw-dropping scenery, cities steeped in industrial heritage and hidden market towns in equal measures in South Yorkshire. Hop on an imaginary stagecoach to historical inns in regal Doncaster. Rock climbers and walkers enjoy Peak District National Park escarpments and vales. Pause at market towns and hamlets for windmills, old churches and country pubs. Novelties like steam railways, model villages and science centres keep little visitors to this Yorkshire and Humber county amused for hours. Don't miss cosmopolitan Sheffield's glasshouse gardens, art galleries and cathedral chapels.
Over a third of Sheffield lies within the boundaries of the Peak District National Park, where a whole world of outdoor adventure pursuits await.
The city of Sheffield offers plenty of green space for nature lovers, not to mention the Peak District National Park.
Visit Sheffield's three unique heritage sites and museums to uncover the story behind the growth of the steel city and its impact on the world.
The British missionary James Hudson Taylor was born in Barnsley – take a trail through the places he lived and preached at.
Aviation fans won't want to miss the Vulcan Experience, a chance to see the world's last flying Vulcan bomber, here at its original home.
Treat your taste buds in Barnsley, Northern England, an area characterised by food, thriving breweries and award-winning craft ales.
This romantic medieval castle inspired Sir Walter Scott's classic book Ivanhoe. Travel back nearly 1,000 years on a visit to the magnificent property.
Catch a glimpse of what life was like at home and work for the people of Sheffield at this unique 18th century industrial works.
Discover an indoor rainforest paradise with birds and butterflies, creepy crawlies and reptiles, cheeky Meerkats and minibeasts from around the world.
Visit Penistone, the highest market town in the county. As well as being pretty to look at, there's plenty to do and delicious food and ales to try.
Tramlines Festival rolls into Sheffield each July, and this year's event brings the party to Hillsborough Park with four stages of top musical acts.
A day out at Cannon Hall Farm in Yorkshire, near Cawthorne, is perfect for animal-loving families and there's no better time to go than in spring.
The Trans Pennine Trail follows scenic routes through spectacular countryside – it's the perfect day out for walkers, cyclists and horse riders.
Spend the day ambling around mountains and fells of the Peak District before enjoying a relaxing evening with whole family at The Old Bakehouse.
Take a new twist on 'Made in Sheffield' and you'll see why cutlery still has such an important place in Sheffield's heart.
See the remarkable skill, craftsmanship and innovation that have made Sheffield famous around the world.
Sneak into Cocoa's enchanted chocolate wonderland for a true midnight feast and experience a lock-in with a difference.
Witness Sheffield's recent thrilling revival along with elements of its rich heritage as you pace the city streets.
Climb to the tallest peak and take in panoramas across dales and moors in the Peak District National Park. You'll stumble upon canals, secret caves, natural springs and woodlands on the way.
Alive with the spirit of urban redevelopment and grandiose Victorian architecture, Leeds mixes the classic and contemporary like no other city, making it the perfect destination for a cultural fix.
Medieval castles, royal concert halls, bustling shopping areas and underground caves. Nottingham is cultural on so many levels. Start your Robin Hood trail at the castle with its towers and gatehouses.


Why do we like this video? What can presenters learn from it and implement to leave their audience impressed? This post aims to answer exactly that.
The documentary title is catchy: 'Kick out the ladder'. It creates curiosity. It gets the audience asking for more.
Lesson #1: Start with a catchy phrase. Every presentation has a central idea and you should give this 'idea' a name. Example, you are the brand manager and are presenting to the top management on why you want to try social media marketing to promote the brand in year 2009. You definitely have an interesting story. Suppose you call it 'P2P Marketing'?
The documentary starts with asking a few unknown faces what "Kick out the ladder" means to them. They are common people. They share their thoughts, which like anchors guide the audience's thinking in the desired direction.
Lesson #2: Take your phrase 'P2P Marketing' forward by throwing in some 'thought anchors'. Adding some humor here would be a good idea. Instead of putting up these anchors on a slide, ask your audience what they think 'P2P Marketing' stands for. This way you secure 100% attention and involvement (which is often the biggest challenge for presenters).
3. Infuse life into your "idea"
The documentary answers what "Kick out the ladder" means through real life examples from Honda. From the abstract it has now come to reality. It introduces its characters along with the real life stories. It is here that we are told what the "Kick out the ladder" means.
Lesson #3: Give examples which the audience can relate to and thus bring your idea to life. To take our brand manager example forward, you can show how the brand will be perceived post your 'P2P Marketing'.
Notice that when the characters speak in the video, the supporting images help us visualize the thought. When they talk about how small Greensberg is and its industries are failing; the visuals show absence of civilisation, empty rail tracks. You start visualizing and understanding what Greensberg is really like. The images compliment the idea and deliver it successfully.
Lesson #4: Choose visuals which compliment the idea and take it forward. Humans understand better when oral communication is clubbed with visual aids. For a child learning English, A for Apple (with an image) is not the same as A for Apple without it. Also remember to choose Apples and not Anancondas which they can't relate to.
Leave a lasting impression… End on a high… Reinforce the core idea at the end.
Very often you get to hear these tips. But how does one end on a solid note?
This video does that successfully.
"If I think back 15 years, I don't know I ever said, we can't do that. I just can't ever imagine saying that. I have always said, okay. I am not assuming I can do it, I am assuming WE can do it."
End your presentations on a strong note. The end must reinforce the central idea else the audience will lose the plot. Do not introduce new ideas at the end. After ending remain silent for a while. Let the audience think. Let the audience absorb the force.
Do you have any more observations from the video? Please leave a comment. If you use these lessons in your next presentation, share your experiences by writing to me.
Honda has really come up with some amazing videos to spread their philosophy.


As a letting agent that is dedicated to our craft and passionate about our local community, we strive to offer tips, help and advice to landlords and tenants wherever possible. And this fresh instalment of Property Patter is no exception.
When you're a busy landlord, working with a letting agent has nothing but advantages - but, only if they know what they are doing and are truly on your side.
What do we mean by this? Well, it all boils down to fees and figures, and we're going to show you the reason.
Basically, any contractor-based work with regards to maintenance, and this can prove to be a double whammy. Why? Well, say the work costs £100 - some letting agents will request an invoice for £130, charge the landlord £130 and pay the contractor £100.
On top of that, certain agents will add a further markup of anything from 10% upwards; there have even been instances where markups of six times the initial cost have been tacked onto the bill - scandalous!
Frequently, you will find that these kinds of agents will only work with contractors that agree to a commission fee to be added to their jobs which is, in turn, passed onto the landlord.
This double charging mentality will only increase and hidden costs will rise perhaps ten-fold when the tenant fee ban takes hold - which is something that's lurking just around the corner.
These dishonest backhanders essentially make a profit out of thin air, all at the hard working landlord's expense - and of course, this is something we wholeheartedly disagree with - it's a disgrace.
Here at Rockett HQ, we value every single person that walks through our doors, whether they're a landlord, tenant, contractor or partner.
We support contractors to allow them to be competitive as they can by charging a fair market rate; we're transparent about our prices and as a result, don't even have to consider charging hidden fees. Also, we always check with an independent contractor that the price they charge is the market rate and there is no additional cost added to the bill - not in a million years.
Landlords, now that you know how some of the crooks operate out there, we hope you'll be able to choose letting agent or property manager that is clear, honest and works with your best interests at heart. If you're a North Staffordshire landlord and you are in need of topflight property management without any hidden nasties, please get in touch - we'll be happy to help.


In the fifteen years since our initial publication, The Columbia Journal of European Law has gone from strength to strength. At present, it is the most cited European law journal in North America, and one of the most cited in the world. Due to the tremendous number of submissions we receive and the logistical demands of a print publication, the editors have decided that a secondary outlet for contemporary research is appropriate.
To this end, CJEL has launched an online supplement to complement the print Journal. Because of the space and scheduling limitations inherent in print publications, the online supplement is intended to allow broader and more rapid coverage of important European case law and legislative developments, in order to reflect the ever-increasing pace of the dissemination of legal information in the twenty-first century. CJEL's website, www.cjel.net, contains both the online supplement as well as abstracts of all materials from the print Journal.
Although, at the moment, the majority of the articles published online are produced by European LL.M.s at Columbia Law School, we actively seek submissions from outside of the school. I hope that you find the online supplement interesting, informative, and useful.


Clemmons's debut novel is compelling, poignant and reflective. It is filled with short, nonlinear vignettes of Thandi's life — particularly after the loss of her mother to cancer. Thandi's father is African American and her mother is mixed race South African. As a light skinned young black woman, Thandi struggles with identity, belonging and the past. Through Clemmons's descriptive writing, I was able to grasp Thandi's grief, despair, and vulnerability. Even though race comes up in the book, What We Lose is about a lot more than race. It is about loss, grief, traditions, and how death plays a role in life. Clemmons is a graceful, and poetic writer. I look forward to additional work by this talented writer.
A huge thanks to Edelweiss and Viking for providing me with an arc of the book in exchange for an honest review. It was a pleasure!


Flights from the UK to New Zealand take anywhere from 24 hours upwards depending on the length of stop over. Some people like to get it all over as quickly as possible and opt for a quick two hour break to stretch the legs, others prefer to have a couple of days break and use the opportunity to see another city on the way. Connections are usually in Asia; Singapore, Hong Kong and Seoul are the most common, or the West Coast of North America; Los Angeles or Vancouver. The route through the Middle East has also recently opened up with flights connecting in Dubai or Qatar.
We are a fully ATOL bonded tour operator and will be happy to arrange your international flights for you, but many of our customers choose to arrange their own directly, and that is completely fine with us. We do not include flight prices in our online itineraries and quotes because they fluctuate and vary so much.
The Bay of Islands is a coastal area of Northern New Zealand with a collection of over 140 sub-tropical islands ready to be explored. This area is well known for its quiet and beautiful white sand beaches, sparkling emerald seas and abundant marine life.
New Zealand's largest city is a vibrant melting pot of cultures and a thriving hub of arts, music and cuisine. Known as the City of Sails, the beautiful harbour provides the perfect backdrop to this relaxed and easy-going metropolis. The nearby island of Waiheke; well-loved for its wine and food scene is just a short ferry ride away.
The Coromandel Peninsula is a favourite getaway for Aucklanders and with good reason. This area is blessed with great weather, fabulous beaches and some fantastic hiking trails in the mountainous, rainforest clad interior. Don't miss Cathedral Cove; one of the most picturesque spots on this beautiful peninsula.
Rotorua is a hive of geothermal activity with bubbling mud pools, explosive geysers, plumes of steam and natural hot springs perfect for bathing in. It is also a great place for adventure with over 90km of world class mountain biking trails, magical redwood forests and plenty of opportunity for adrenaline with zorbing, zip-lining and luging some of the most popular activities.
This is New Zealand's oldest national park and home to three active volcanoes surrounded by alpine meadows, hot springs and emerald lakes. The park's most popular activity, and deservedly so, is the Tongariro Alpine Crossing, a one-day trek that traverses the slopes of all three mountains and takes in steaming craters, old lava flows and thermal lakes.
This is one of New Zealand's warmest and driest regions which has made it one of the country's leading areas for wine production as well as an abundance of delicious fruit. There are dozens of off-road bike trails which have made wine-touring by bike a favourite pastime with locals and tourists alike. It is also home to the quirky Art Deco town of Napier where 1930s architecture has been beautifully preserved.
Only an hour drive from Wellington is the sleepy rural village of Martinborough; the centre of the region's wine industry and the home of some of the best pinot noir in New Zealand. Most of the, mainly family-owned, vineyards are within walking or cycling distance from the village centre.
New Zealand's capital is a compact little city full of quirky shops, plenty of street art and a fantastic waterfront area. It's an ideal place for exploring on foot. The craft beer scene and coffee culture are in full swing here and there are plenty of great places to sample both.
Marlborough is New Zealand's largest wine region and there are plenty of vineyards to stop off at here. But it's not all about the wine, the beautiful winding waterways of the Marlborough Sounds make up one fifth of New Zealand's coastline and can be explored on a boat trip, from the air or hiking along the ridges and through lush coastal bush on the Queen Charlotte Track.
Abel Tasman is situated in the sunniest region of New Zealand and is a highlight on any trip. The marine reserve is home to seals, dolphins and native sea birds and best explored on a kayaking or sailing adventure. The picture-perfect, deserted, golden sand beaches are only accessible by boat or hiking through magical, untouched forests.
This area is famed for its impressive limestone rock formations. The pancake rocks and blowholes at Punakaiki are the most well visited of these and at high tide, with westerly swells, geysers of sea water shoot skywards creating an impressive display.
The glaciers on the West Coast are some of the most convenient to visit in the world and their low altitude means that you can be on the ice yet still comfortable in just a t-shirt. The glaciers are best explored on a heli-hike or a guided walk on the ice to experience the incredible colours and formations of the frozen landscape.
Queenstown has it all. A stunning natural setting on the shores of Lake Wakatipu surrounded by dramatic alpine scenery, a plethora of outdoor activities to keep even the most adventurous entertained for weeks plus fantastic restaurants, buzzing nightlife and great shopping.
Milford Sound is a remote, breath-taking and spell-binding place where the mountains rise vertically from the dark water and waterfalls plunge hundreds of metres downwards. Explore by boat, kayak or from the air, this place is magical in any weather.
This area is dotted with remarkable turquoise coloured lakes with a dramatic backdrop of the Southern Alps, making it extremely picturesque. At night, the beauty doesn't fade with the sunset as this area is part of an International Dark Sky Reserve which makes it one of the best star gazing spots on the planet.
Kaikoura is home to some of the most nutrient rich waters in New Zealand and is a permanent feeding spot for whales, seals and dolphins. There are plenty of boat trips out to visit the wildlife or if you want to get even closer, swimming with the seals or dolphins is a highlight. It is also a great spot to try some of the local delicacy; crayfish.
Known as the Garden City, Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island and is well known for its beautiful parks and award-winning botanical gardens. It is a creative hub with plenty of independent boutiques, pop-up restaurants and modern art.
Fleewinter is Guardian Award Winner!
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Девід Бентлі Гарт (;  ) — американський православний християнинський філософ і богослов, культуролог і полеміст. Займається серйозно з класичними, середньовічними і континентальними філософськими системи, а також з Дгармічними, біблійними і святоотцівськими текстами. Має праці про онтологію і порівняльну міфологію, духовну естетику та екзистенціалізм, патристику.

Академія
Гарт отримав ступінь бакалавра мистецтв в університеті штату Меріленд, а Магістр філософії, здобув у Кембриджському університеті. Звання магістра мистецтв і доктора філософії здобув в університеті Вірджинії. Він викладав в університеті Вірджинії, університеті Св. Томаса (Міннесота), школі богослов'я, і коледжі Лойоли в штаті Меріленд. Він служив в якості запрошеного професора в Провіденс-коледжі. У 2015 році Гарт був призначений у Темплтон співробітником університету Нотр-Дам Інституті перспективних досліджень.

Нагороди та прийом
Перша велика праця Гарта, «Краса нескінченного», після чого отримав визнання. Вільям Плаччер сказати про книгу: «я не знаю більш блискучої праці американських Богословів за останні десять років ніж ця». Джеффрі Вейнрайт сказав: «Ця чудова і вимоглива праця повинна встановити Девіда Бентлі Гарта, у всьому світі не менше — ніж у Північній Америці, як одного з провідних богословів його покоління.»

На 27 травня 2011 року, книга Гарта Атеїстичні хиби була нагороджена Майклом Ремсі премією з теології, її похвалив відомий агностик, філософ Ентоні Кенні: «Гарт має дари гідного адвоката. Він пише з чіткістю та силою, і він знову і знову рухає свої ідеї. Він викриває помилкові факти чи логіку противників з безжалісною точністю.»

У 2014 книгу Гарта «Досвід Божий», газета The Guardian назвала «однією книгою богослов'я, яку всі атеїсти дійсно повинні читати»

Патристика
Як патристичний вчений, Гарт в першу чергу цікавиться традицією грецьких отців, з особливим акцентом на Григорія Нісського і Максима Сповідника.

Бібліографія

Книги

The Hidden and the Manifest: Essays in Theology and Metaphysics. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. 2017.
The Dream-Child's Progress and Other Essay. New York: Angelico Press. 2017.
A Splendid Wickedness and Other Essays. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans: 2016.
The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss. New Haven: Yale University Press: 2013.
The Devil and Pierre Gernet: Stories. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans: 2012.
Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.
In the Aftermath: Provocations and Laments. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans: 2008.
The Story of Christianity: An Illustrated History of 2000 Years of the Christian Faith. London: Quercus: 2007.
The Doors of the Sea. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans: 2005.
The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans: 2003.

Англійські переклади
 The New Testament: A Translation. Yale University Press: 2017.
 Erich Przywara, Analogia Entis: Metaphysics: Original Structure and Universal Rhythm. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans: 2014. In collaboration with John R. Betz.

Переклади українською

 Гарт, Девід Бентлі. Атеїстичні марення: християнська революція та її модні вороги (Вступ) / переклад Дмитра Кузьменка  // Δημήτρός γραφεύς. — 5 лютого 2020.

Статті
 "What Lies Beyond Capitalism? A Christian Exploration" , Plough Quarterly 21 (Summer 2019).
 "Can We Please Relax About 'Socialism'?" , The New York Times (April 27, 2019).
 "The New York Yankees Are a Moral Abomination" , The New York Times (July 14, 2018).
 "Everything you know about the Gospel of Paul is likely wrong" , Aeon (January 8, 2018.)
 "Are Christians Supposed to be Communists?" , The New York Times (November 4, 2017).
 "From a Vanished Library" , First Things (April 2017).
 'We need to talk about God', Church Times (an independent Church of England newspaper), February 2016.
 "The Myth of Schism" , Clarion Journal (June 2014).
 "Therapeutic Superstition",  First Things (November 2012).
 Response to critiques of The Beauty of the Infinite by Francesca Murphy and John A. McGuckin, Scottish Journal of Theology 60 (February 2007): 95-101.
 "Daniel Dennett Hunts the Snark" , First Things 169 (January 2007).
 Contribution to Theology as Knowledge: A Symposium , First Things 163 (May 2006): 21-27.
 "The Lively God of Robert Jenson" , First Things 156 (October 2005): 28-34.
 "The Anti-Theology of the Body" , The New Atlantis 9 (Summer 2005): 65-73.
 "The Soul of a Controversy", The Wall Street Journal (April 1, 2005).
 "Tsunami and Theodicy" , First Things 151 (March 2005): 6-9.
 "The Laughter of the Philosophers" , First Things 149 (January 2005): 31-38.  A review loosely structured around The Humor of Kierkegaard by Thomas C. Oden, containing a long excursus on Johann Georg Hamann.
 "God or Nothingness" in I Am the Lord Your God: Christian Reflections on the Ten Commandments Carl E. Braaten and Christopher Seitz, eds.  Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2005: 55-76.
 "The Offering of Names:  Metaphysics, Nihilism, and Analogy" in Reason and the Reasons of Faith. Reinhard Hütter and Paul J. Griffiths, eds.  London: T. & T. Clark, 2005: 55-76.
 "Tremors of Doubt" , The Wall Street Journal (December 31, 2004). This article was the seed for the book The Doors of the Sea.
 "Ecumenical Councils of War" , Touchstone (November 2004).
 "The Pornography Culture" , The New Atlantis 6 (Summer 2004): 82-89.
 "Freedom and Decency" , First Things 144 (June/July 2004): 35-41.
 "An Orthodox Easter" , The Wall Street Journal (April 9, 2004) (in "Houses of Worship").
 "Religion in America: Ancient & Modern", The New Criterion (March 2004).
 "A Most Partial Historian" , First Things 138 (December 2003): 34-41.  A review of Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England Volume III: Accommodations by Maurice Cowling.
 "Christ and Nothing" , First Things 136 (October 2003): 47-57.
 "The Bright Morning of the Soul: John of the Cross on Theosis", Pro Ecclesia (Summer 2003): 324-45.
 "Thine Own of Thine Own: the Orthodox Understanding of Eucharistic Sacrifice" in Rediscovering the Eucharist:  Ecumenical Considerations Roch A. Kereszty, ed. (Paulist Press, 2003): 142-169.
 "A Gift Exceeding Every Debt: An Eastern Orthodox Appreciation of Anselm's Cur Deus Homo", Pro Ecclesia 7.3: 333-348.
 "The Mirror of the Infinite: Gregory of Nyssa on the Vestigia Trinitatis",  Modern Theology 18.4 (October 2002): 542-56.
 "No Shadow of Turning: On Divine Impassibility", Pro Ecclesia (Spring 2002): 184-206.
 Contribution  to The Future of the Papacy: A Symposium , First Things 111 (March 2001): 28-36.
 "The 'Whole Humanity': Gregory of Nyssa's Critique of Slavery in Light of His Eschatology", Scottish Journal of Theology 54.1 (2001): 51-69.
 "Analogy" in Elsevier Concise Encyclopaedia of Religion and Language (Elsevier Press, 2001).
 "The Writing of the Kingdom: Thirty-Seven Aphorisms towards an Eschatology of the Text", Modern Theology (Spring 2000): 181-202.
 "Matter, Monism, and Narrative:  An Essay on the Metaphysics of Paradise Lost" Milton Quarterly (Winter 1996): 16-27.

Огляди книг
 "Shock of the Real" , First Things (November 2017). A long essay-review of Natasha Lehrer's translation of "Équipée" by Victor Segalen.
 "Empson in the East" , First Things (May 2017). A review of "The Face of the Buddha" by William Empson.
 "Dante Decluttered: A review of The Divine Comedy" , First Things (November 2013). A review of Clive James' translation of "The Divine Comedy".
 "Inside the mind of the Archbishop of Canterbury" , The Times Literary Supplement (March 2008). A review of Rowan Williams's "Wrestling with Angels," edited by Mike Higton.
 "Con Man" , The New Criterion (September 2006): 124. A review of "The Theocons: Secular America under Siege" by Damon Linker.
 "Beyond Disbelief" , The New Criterion (June 2005): 78-81. A review of "The Twilight of Atheism" by Alister McGrath.
 "Roland Redivivus" , First Things 150 (February 2005): 44-48.  A review of Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo, translated by Charles Stanley Ross.
 "The Laughter of the Philosophers" , First Things 149 (January 2005): 31-38.  A review loosely structured around The Humor of Kierkegaard by Thomas C. Oden, containing a long excursus on Johann Georg Hamann.
 "When the Going was Bad" , First Things 143 (May 2004): 50-53.  A review of Waugh Abroad: Collected Travel Writing by Evelyn Waugh.
 "Sheer Extravagant Violence" , First Things 139 (January 2004): 64-69.  A review of Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol, translated by Peter Constantine.
 "A Most Partial Historian" , First Things 138 (December 2003): 34-41.  A review of Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England Volume III: Accommodations by Maurice Cowling.
 Review of Gianni Vattimo's Belief, The Journal of Religion 82.1 (Jan. 2002): 132–133.
 "Israel and the Nations" , First Things 105 (August/September 2000): 51-54.  A review of Church and Israel After Christendom: The Politics of Election by Scott Bader–Saye.
 "Review Essay: On Catherine Pickstock's After Writing", Pro Ecclesia (Summer 2000): 367-372.
 "Beyond Reductionism" , First Things 87 (November 1998): 55-57.  A review of Religious Mystery and Rational Reflection by Louis Dupre.

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This Sportybella Cheer Hair Bow is a beautiful and fun way to express your love of Cheerleading. This makes a perfect gift for cheerleaders and cheer teams.
PERFECT SOFTBALL GIFT -For cheerleaders and cheer teams.


Mark Gorenberg is Managing Director of Zetta Venture Partners. He has 26 years of venture capital experience, funding and serving on the boards of numerous startups. Prior to his career in venture capital, he served as a software executive, entrepreneur, and a member of the first SparcStation team at Sun Microsystems.


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El Police FC Jinja és un club ugandès de futbol de la ciutat de Jinja.

Palmarès
 Lliga ugandesa de futbol:
 2005

 Copa CECAFA de clubs:
 2006

Referències

Clubs de futbol ugandesos