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FOLK HERO: Nick's kick lifts Patriots to 20-17 win over Cardinals
They have already let games slip away in the closing minutes three times this season.
The Patriots could have defeated the Seattle Seahawks, Denver Broncos and Buffalo Bills with better finishes, only to fall just short in crunch time.
That list looked like it might be expanding on Sunday afternoon at Gillette Stadium when a winnable game appeared to be falling out of the Patriots' reach.
They surrendered a fourth-quarter tying touchdown, then allowed the Arizona Cardinals to move into position to attempt a potential game-winning field goal with less than two minutes remaining.
But unlike the games with the Seahawks, Broncos and Bills, things broke the Patriots' way.
First, Zane Gonzalez missed a 45-yard field goal wide right with 1:47 remaining, giving the Patriots a chance to win the game.
And after getting into a third-and-13 hole, Cam Newton came through with a 14-yard run that ended a 15-yard unnecessary roughness penalty on Isaiah Simmons.
That eventually led to a 50-yard field goal by Nick Folk as time expired, giving the Patriots a thrilling 20-17 victory over the Cardinals.
Even on a day when Newton was just 9 for 18 for 84 yards with two interceptions and three sacks and the Patriots offense produced just 179 yards, they still did enough to win for the third time in four games.
"I said in the locker room, I'd rather have an ugly win rather than a pretty loss,'' said Newton. "I don't know if that even exists.
"We didn't play our best game offensively, but when we needed it, we got the job done. That's all that counts.''
At 5-6, the Patriots are now 10th in the AFC, a game and a half out of the seventh and final playoff spot that is currently held by the Baltimore Ravens.
More:Larry Fitzgerald missing likely final game in Foxboro due to COVID
They play the next three games on the road – two straight in Los Angeles – and won't be back home until after Christmas.
So the Patriots, with three teams to get past in the hunt for a playoff berth, have a long way still to go. But the victory over the Cardinals (6-5) was encouraging and came thanks to a strong defensive performance.
Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray was 23 for 34 for 170 yards and was sacked twice. The Patriots came up with a crucial goal-line stop to end the first half, preventing Arizona from widening a 10-7 lead at the break.
"Just got to give these guys a lot of credit, how hard they work every day, how well they prepare,'' said coach Bill Belichick after the Patriots bounced back from a rough loss in Houston last week.
"Showed a lot of mental toughness, physical toughness, just determination. Played some decent situational football at times. Really proud of the way these guys competed. Give them all the credit in the world for the final result. They played hard, made enough plays at critical times in the game to win.''
Newton was far from his best in the win, and his second interception with 4:27 remaining nearly set the Cardinals up for a victory.
The Patriots had moved near midfield in a 17-17 game when Newton's short pass for Damiere Byrd was picked off by Dre Kirkpatrick, who returned it to the Patriots 47.
"It was just a bad throw,'' said Newton. "For me, I can't jeopardize this team and put the ball up for grabs, so to speak. I just got to get Damiere a better ball so he can compete and contest it.''
The defense continued its strong play, though, and stopped the Cardinals on third-and-2, which brought Gonzalez on for the 45-yard try. When it sailed right, the Patriots took over at their own 35.
"Well, you couldn't really ask for a better situation and with a guy like (Newton), you just want to go out there and play as hard as you can to be in the position to kick a field goal or score a touchdown,'' said offensive lineman Jermaine Eluemunor. "Being all business is going to be what wins the game.''
Newton put what had happened previously in the game behind him and came up with the clutch 13-yard run on third down. Then, as he was at the end of the play out of bounds, Newton was hit high by Simmons, and 15 yards were tacked on.
Patriots and Cardinals had to be separated along the sideline after Newton took the hit.
"I was in my right mind,'' said Newton after being hit. "I don't want you guys to say he didn't know, whatever. I wasn't concussed. I was trying to alleviate myself from that situation.
"The time I was down, to see the guys come to your protection, it means a lot. For them to show that, I'm pretty sure they know I'd do the same thing for them.''
The Patriots ran two plays that gained seven yards before Newton spiked the ball, bringing on Folk for his second last-play winning field goal of the season.
"Nick came through again,'' said Belichick. "That was great for it to all work out there.''
The Patriots had trailed, 10-0, after the first quarter when a Newton pass was intercepted on the game's first drive, leading to a 1-yard Kenyan Drake touchdown, and Gonzalez added a 47-yard field goal with 1:49 left in the quarter.
James White cut the deficit to 10-7 with a 7-yard TD run just 45 seconds into the second quarter, and the Patriots defense stopped the Cardinals from the 1-yard line to end the half.
Folk tied the game at 10 with a 22-yard field goal with 7:46 to go in the third quarter and White scored on a 1-yard run with 3:30 remaining in the quarter for a 17-10 lead. The Patriots would not score again until Folk's last-second field goal.
"Guys are going to keep fighting whether we're up or down, if we have a couple of bad plays, couple of good plays,'' said White. "We're just going to keep fighting and try to find a way to win a football game.
"Obviously it wasn't pretty. So (we) just have to make the corrections, try to start faster. It's good to see that everybody just keeps competing no matter what the situation is.''
Jim Fenton may be reached at jfenton@enterprisenews.com. Follow him on Twitter at @JFenton_ent.


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The Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 53, is a work written by Alexander Scriabin in 1907. This was his first sonata to be written in one movement, a format he retained from then on. A typical performance lasts from 11 to 12 minutes. The work is considered to be one of Scriabin's most difficult compositions, both technically and musically.

Composition

After finishing his symphonic poem Le Poème de l'Extase, Op.54, Scriabin did not feel comfortable living in Paris. In early September 1907 he wrote: Life is fearfully expensive, and the climate is rotten. The air in the areas where we could find an apartment big enough for us at a reasonable price is frightful ... you cannot make any noise. You have to wear house slippers after 10 at night.

Scriabin decided to go to live in Lausanne with his pregnant wife Tatyana, since he found the place to be cheaper, quieter, and healthier, and only 7 hours away from Paris. Also, he had his music being printed there, as he had recently broken his long-term partnership with publisher M.P. Belaieff due to financial discrepancies.

In his new peaceful household in Edifice C Place de la Harpe, Scriabin could play the piano without fear of complaints from neighbours, and soon began to compose again, alongside the revisions he was making to the score of Le Poème. On 8 December, Tatyana wrote to a friend:
We go out a little, having caught up on our sleep. We begin to look normal again. Sasha even has begun to compose – 5th Sonata!!! I cannot believe my ears. It is incredible! That sonata pours from him like a fountain. Everything you have heard up to now is as nothing. You cannot even tell it is a sonata. Nothing compares to it. He has played it through several times, and all he has to do is to write it down ...

In late December, Scriabin wrote to Morozova about the imminent completion of his new work:
The Poem of Ecstasy took much of my strength and taxed my patience. ... Today I have almost finished my 5th Sonata. It is a big poem for piano and I deem it the best composition I have ever written. I do not know by what miracle I accomplished it ...

Although the actual writing took only six days, from 8 to 14 December 1907, some ideas had been conceived much earlier. The initial nine bars of the first theme of the exposition, Presto con allegrezza (mm. 47 ff.), can be found in a notebook from 1905 to 1906, when Scriabin was in Chicago. Another notebook from 1906 contains the Imperioso theme (mm. 96 ff.), while elements from the Meno vivo (mm. 120 ff.) can also be made out, as well as sketched-out passages for a few other sections.

Scriabin included an epigraph to this piano sonata, extracted from his essay Le Poème de l'Extase:
Original Russian text
Я к жизни призываю вас, скрытые стремленья!
Вы, утонувшие в темных глубинах
Духа творящего, вы, боязливые
Жизни зародыши, вам дерзновенье приношу!
Original French translation
Je vous appelle à la vie, ô forces mysterieuses!
Noyées dans les obscures profondeurs
De l'esprit créateur, craintives
Ebauches de vie, à vous j'apporte l'audace!
English translation
I call you to life, O mysterious forces!Drowned in the obscure depths
Of the creative spirit, timid''
Shadows of life, to you I bring audacity!

Five months after its completion, Scriabin published the work himself in Lausanne, producing an edition with 300 copies. He later gave the autograph as a present to his pupil Alfred La Liberté. In 1971 the pianist's widow gave the manuscript, along with various other documents, to the Scriabin Museum.

The work was premiered on 18 November 1908 in Moscow by pianist Mark Meitschik.

Structure
The piece is written in sonata form with an introduction. The structure of the work is described in the table below:

Harmonic language

According to Samson, unlike his later sonatas, the sonata-form of this work still has some meaning to the work's tonal structure. That means the sonata is arguably in F-sharp major (owing to the initial key signature of six sharps), but the sonata could also be said to be atonal due to its lack of a definite tonal center.

The work does not contain any perfect cadence, nor any consonant chord.

The work features one of the strange occurrences of the complete mystic chord spelled in fourths (mm. 264 and 268). Jim Samson points out that it fits in well with Scriabin's predominantly dominant quality sonorities and harmony as it may take on a dominant quality on C or F. This tritone relationship between possible resolutions is important to Scriabin's harmonic language, and it is a property shared by the French sixth (also prominent in his work).

The piece also contains an incipient instance of the mystic chord which helps illuminate its origins in tonal language; first appearing at m. 122, the set [0 2 4 6 T] is presented as a dominant chord with the flat fifth degree in the bass, later revealed to be an extended appogiatura to the tonic (m. 134), over which the same notes form a major 13th chord in root position. Compare this presentation with the 'mature' mystic chord, [0 1 3 5 7 9].

Recordings
This is Scriabin's most recorded sonata. Pianist Sviatoslav Richter described it as the most difficult piece in the entire piano repertory.

Notable recordings include those by Alexei Sultanov, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Vladimir Horowitz, Sviatoslav Richter, Vladimir Sofronitsky, Michael Ponti, Samuil Feinberg, Glenn Gould, Garrick Ohlsson, Marc-André Hamelin, Bernd Glemser, Maria Lettberg, Igor Zhukov and Pietro Scarpini.

Notes

References

External links

Piano Sonata 05
1907 compositions

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Are We Raising a Generation of Psychopaths?
Calum Nicholson argues that the current system might lead to dangerous psychological health effects on the youth.
Calum T. M. Nicholson
Are we raising a generation of psychopaths? I think the question is being raised because many people think that we are. This is itself quite revealing, but perhaps for surprising reasons.
First of all, I think it's fair to say that one of the great achievements of the last decade, in western culture at least, has been the mainstreaming of mental health as a subject of discussion, and a general recognition of the importance of empathy. For a few years in the mid-2010s, this felt like something of a quiet revolution, a rounding out and maturing of a culture, adding a whole new dimension to how we understand and treat each other, and ourselves. People began reading Psychology Today. Op-Ed pieces on mental health abounded. Celebrities began to discuss their own mental 'struggles'. To their great credit, Prince William and Harry became prominent mental health campaigners.
New terms entered our collective lexicon: I began to hear previously obscure psychological terms like 'gaslighting' pop up in ordinary conversations; depression ceased to be a taboo subject; and suddenly far more people had a range of psychological diagnoses to hand, and the definitions memorized: ADHD, OCD, Aspergers and autism, and then inevitably the more pejorative terms, such as 'borderline personality', 'narcissist' and 'psychopath'.
All this seemed great. Suddenly, we had a far more emotionally and psychologically literate society. No longer would depression be something one would have to hide or gloss over and at any rate keep silent about. No longer would being in therapy imply one was 'crazy'. No longer would a kid in school be bullied by students – and even teachers – because they were socially awkward or couldn't focus. Knowledge would breed understanding, and lead to a more empathetic society.
All this was a significant achievement, and probably the most positively transformative thing that happened in western culture this century. But as with every major shift in culture, there has also been a downside, which has blown up into view in the last few years.
As with so much in the culture these days, this downside began to become apparent and quickly pronounced with the election of Donald Trump in 2016. His bizarre antics and statements inevitably led to a great deal of armchair diagnosing of his curious personality: he became a public study in narcissism and sociopathy, and so on. Upon his election, and as has been widely reported, social media – previously a fairly benign place – blew up into a febrile and fractious space, and society found itself increasingly polarised as a consequence.
One of the by-products of the rising toxicity of social media, and by extension the public sphere in the west, has been the sudden and weird political economization – and indeed weaponization – of the language and lexicon of mental health. This has happened in two ways.
First, to struggle with one's mental health is no longer understood only as a spectrum of human suffering. It is now also seen, and communicated by many, as an identity in and of itself, or even something positive – Greta Thunberg famously calls being autistic her 'superpower'. It is not simply that someone may struggle with ADHD, or depression, or autism. Many define themselves by their diagnosis. Mental health has become, like so many other aspects of our lives, something performative. And as a consequence, the labels and categories of mental health have gained utility and currency in the culture.
Thus, we see people speaking 'as someone with autism', or ADHD, or depression, and so on. When Thunberg declared her autism diagnosis, it also inoculated her – a public figure – against criticism, as any criticism was then easily framed as criticism of someone vulnerable. Similarly, many public figures and journalists have found that to frame themselves as a victim – especially with regard to their mental health – is an effective way to gain traction in the culture. People are praised for 'being brave' or 'strong' in talking publicly about their mental health.
But in all this, there is a noticeable silence about understanding the causes and conditions of poor mental health. Often, it seems that it is enough to simply declare something in public – almost as a form of rite or ritual. In other words, talk of mental health has gone beyond opening up a space in which people may be free from judgment to look to their well-being and to heal and has entered a space where it has become performative, something that has a certain economic value. There are innumerable writers and public figures today who appear to have become professionally ill – who talk of nothing but their vulnerability, or their victim status. As with so many other areas of capitalist culture, the incentives behind this are not about private healing. They are also about money.
Second, where once the discussion of mental health was exclusively concerned with understanding and empathizing with others, this was now joined by a concern for judging them, too. I cannot count the number of times I've heard someone refer to their ex as a 'narcissist' or 'psychopath' or 'borderline personality' who was 'gaslighting' them the whole time. Similarly, on an almost daily basis, I read or hear people say something to the effect that 'X politician is a narcissist who is gaslighting the nation'.
All of a sudden, every bad private experience is being described in quasi-medical terms, as we seek to clinically diagnose a broken heart or wounded pride. And all of a sudden, every public eccentric – or personality that isn't apparently generated by a focus-group – is being pathologized as a 'psychopath', a 'narcissist', or whatever it may be.
And so, this brings us back to the question. Are we raising a generation of psychopaths? I would argue that, no, we are not. But what we have done is generate a culture where our first reaction is to pathologize behavior we do not like, or perhaps do not understand, and to diagnose the people engaged in that behavior. Implied in calling someone a psychopath, or any other label, is typically the drawing of a line between 'us' and 'them', between the 'good' or 'sane' people, and the 'bad' or 'mad'. This is what labels do: they do not explain why someone is the way they are or does what they do, but instead simply states what they are, and usually to draw attention to – or assert – that who they are or what they do is abnormal, beyond the pale, and usually – ultimately – their fault, or their moral failing. For all the talk of empathy that was characteristic of the early discussions of mental health a decade ago, the discussion now has all the hallmarks not of seeking to understand and embrace people, but to judge and discount them.
And in saying this, I am not arguing that people are acting normally, or with empathy. I think the question 'are we raising a generation of psychopaths' is, in some ways, a fair question, as we're certainly seeing an emergence of increasingly anti-social behavior, especially on social media, which of course bleeds out into the real world. In recent years, online bullying has skyrocketed, and there has been a general perception that social media, in recent years, has become increasingly toxic. Where a few years ago it was more polite and playful, it is an increasingly bad-tempered and combative space, full of snark, and increasing use of bullying tactics in heated debates, including efforts to name, blame and shame people on social media for perceived thought crimes, or insalubrious associations.
And since the pandemic began, the UK has seen a 32% increase in investment scams, as people seek to protect their money or find alternative forms of income, and a 38% increase in online romance scams, as people seek out more online dating during the pandemic, indicating that the con-artists are out in force, taking cynical advantage of the credulous and the vulnerable more than they ever have before.
But it is worth asking: is there another explanation for all these problems, and the increase in anti-social behavior, that does not require us to pathologize people, let alone young people?
I think there is, and it is very simple: what if there is a pathology, but that it is to be found in the system, not the people manipulated by it?
Since the 1980s, we've lived in what has been termed a neoliberal economy. That is, an economy where the market is prized above all else, and that the solution to every problem is seen as the removal of state regulation and barriers to a pure market logic. In this system, people are not ends in themselves, or first and foremost citizens, but rather means to economic ends, and conceived primarily as consumers of goods. Additionally, this neoliberal period, which has since its beginning been highly data-driven, has had a close relationship with computing, which became commercially available at the same time as neoliberal economic policy was adopted by Reagan and Thatcher. One could go so far as to say that computing is the technology of neoliberalism, and neoliberalism is the economics of computing.
The result has been a society that has been hollowed out. Today, the only value deemed meaningful is tangible, quantifiable, especially economic quantification. Thus, anything qualitative, or intangible, has been deemed not just of no value, but even completely meaningless. Thus, we have seen the closure of 'loss-making' local and social services, where their true value was never something that could be expressed quantitatively, still less in direct and tangible economic terms. We've seen either the hollowing out of cultural institutions – such as the church – that were an end in themselves, and which treated people as ends in themselves – or their transformation into profit-oriented businesses, as is the case with the popular American mega-churches. At the same time, we've seen the transformation of brands and consumer items into quasi-religious symbols, or priceless relics. Since the 1980s, sports stars have become idols, via marketing by brands; brands have become identities, like Nike or Apple; product-launch events have become harvest festivals, in which high-priests of tech speak from raised stages, speaking in the tongues of technology jargon, before rapt congregations of consumers, cheering and clapping; sports cards of dead or retired sporting idols sell for millions of dollars, like relics of old religions.
And yet, these new forms of neoliberal, consumerist meaning is hollow, because it is cynical and manipulative, and deep down we all know it. If people are acting out this cynical logic, no longer able to see people as people, but just as customers and consumers, can we blame them? They have been raised by a culture that does not prize culture unless that culture is generated by the neoliberal economy. And if people are angry in their efforts to reject that culture, and in doing look to either reject the establishment – as Trump supporters did – or to reform the establishment – as the woke activists do – can we blame them? Both 'sides' – which have more in common in their underlying concerns than we generally care to admit – are exhausted by forty years of an economy that has treated them as means to ends, not ends in themselves, and has been cynically manipulating them.
So, are we raising a generation of psychopaths? I don't think so. But even if we are, what made them that way? Either way, the real issue is not that people are psychologically pathological. It is that we live in a neoliberal system that is pathological for the human psyche. The culture may have recently given us the language and lexicon to diagnose and pathologize each other, but we'd do better, I think, to turn those tools on the system itself, and diagnose the conditions within it that have left us, as a society, so psychologically fragile.
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Executives Believe Employees are the Greatest Threat to Critical Infrastructure Security According to Nozomi Networks
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Over 400 C-level executives from critical infrastructure organisations across North America, Europe and Asia/Pacific were surveyed in a report sponsored in part by Nozomi Networks titled "Weathering the Perfect Storm: Securing the Cyber-Physical Systems of Critical Infrastructure". The report found that most (88%) critical infrastructure organisations have, or are currently, integrating their IT, OT, IoT and physical systems, and one in five respondents (20%) added that their systems are fully integrated with externally accessible systems....
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Where is the World of Cybersecurity Heading in 2020?
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More than 267 million records pertaining to Facebook users have been exposed on an unsecured database that can be easily accessed by anyone with an internet connection. The report comes from tech company, Comparitech, who partnered with researcher Bob Diachenko What was leaked? In total 267,140,436 records were exposed, with the majority of affected users located in the US. Diachenko says all of them seem to be valid. Each containing; A unique Facebook ID A...
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2019 was the year of stakeholder capitalism. 2020 might be the year of its demise, or at least the year it will be put to the test. In a period of financial stress due to the recent coronavirus outbreak, will companies keep their climate commitments, will the support of longer-term ESG and impact investors be enough to overshadow the voices of short-termism?
As the Financial Times put it, we believe "what companies should do is clear. What they choose to do will determine which ones emerge strongest."1
Since its rise in popularity after the 2008 crisis, ESG analysis and the data underlying it have never really endured a recession. We thought it might be interesting to take a closer look at how the best-rated companies in France, one of the markets hit hard by the outbreak, fare compared to their peers.
Of course no conclusions can be drawn from such an analysis stemming from a small sample2 but it is interesting to see that the average share price of the top 3 impak ScoresTM in the CAC 40 lost 17.28% during the period Feb 19th to March 9th, 2020, whereas the CAC 40 lost 22.96% and the average bottom 3 fell by 26.71%.
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The top 3 companies are Schneider Electric, Legrand and Danone; the bottom 3 are TechnipFMC, Total and Pernod Ricard. The top 3 were selected because of the significant drop in impak ScoreTM between #3 and #4. It is important to note that there might be a sector bias in this analysis, however the main reason for the difference in impak ScoreTM – as described in our Rating Methodology – is not the sector, rather (i) business model links with SDGs and (ii) the company's negative impact mitigation performance (whether the company is an A – act to avoid harm or a Z – does or may cause harm as per the IMP framework).
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Aaron Brock scored a career-high 29 points Friday night to lead the Little Giants to an upset win over Wooster 87-63 in the semifinals of the 2008 North Coast Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament.
The Little Giants advance to the conference championship game for the second time in school history and the first since 2000. They play Ohio Wesleyan University at 7 p.m. in Wooster. Saturday night's game will mark the first time since 1988 the league's championship game will not feature either Wooster or Wittenberg.
Brock was one of four Little Giants scoring in double figures. Wes Smith and Andrew Zimmer each had 12, while Chase Haltom finished with 11. The Little Giants won the game at both ends of the floor, holding the normally hot-shooting Scots to 37 percent from the field (21-of-54) and only four three-point baskets in the game.
Brock, who led Wabash with 21 points in the Little Giants' win at Kenyon in the Tuesday's quarterfinal game, was nearly flawless in the game, hitting 8-of-11 shots, including three of his five three-point attempts. He added five rebounds, two blocked shots, and solid interior defense.
The Little Giants trailed 4-3 before Brock began his scoring blitz by hitting the first of four three-pointers for the sophomore forward. The shot started an 8-0 run for Wabash, putting the Little Giants out to a lead they would never relinquish.
Wooster got a layup from Evan Will to cut the lead to five, but free throws from Gary Simkus and a layup by Zimmer boosted the advantage to nine points. The Scots cut the lead to five with 12:52 left in the first period when Devin Fulk nailed a trey --- one of the few of the evening for the Scots.
Wabash responded with a 9-1 run to move in front by 13. The Little Giants lead increased to 16 late in the period, eventually falling to 10 points when Wooster freshman Ian Franks drilled a three from the top of the arc with 45 seconds left in the half. Wabash never panicked, working the clock down until Brock came through once again, hitting a huge three of his own in front of the Wooster bench with seconds left in the half for a 46-33 lead.
Wooster cut the lead to four points in the opening minutes of the second half with an 11-2 run. James Cooper, the Scots' leading scorer coming into the game, canned a shot five minutes into the final period to make it a 48-44 contest.
The Little Giants finally awakened when Smith hit a layup with 12:32 left in the game for the first basket of the half for the team. The shot sparked a 14-0 run for Wabash that quickly put the Little Giants up 20 points. Wooster got the lead down to 15, but Zimmer hit a jumper ahead of another Brock trey to begin a 12-2 run that put the game out of reach.
Smith, Haltom, and Earl Rooks combined to hold Cooper to 14 points on 4-of-13 shooting. Cooper came into the game hitting 51 percent of his three-point attempts, but was 0-6 from beyond the arc in his final college game against the Wabash defense. Cooper was joined by Bryan Wickliffe and Fulk for top-scoring honors with 14 points. Franks added 12 for the 11th-ranked Scots (23-4).
Wabash is the fifth seed, and not beaten Wooster since 2002. The Little Giants had never beaten the Scots in the NCAC Tournament, losing 92-80 at Wooster in last year's semifinal game. The Little Giants (18-9) split the season series with Ohio Wesleyan. Wabash won 67-62 at home before dropping an 86-57 decision at OWU. The Battling Bishops defeated Allegheny 79-63 in the earlier semifinal game. This will be the first time the two teams have played in the NCAC Tournament since a 62-52 quarterfinal win by Wabash in 2005.


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CLOSE This year's Atlantic hurricane season has been so active, forecasters are almost out of names so now they will be moving on to the Greek alphabet. USA TODAY With parts of the Alabama coast and Florida Panhandle still reeling from Hurricane Sally, a hurricane watch was in effect early Saturday for […]
This year's Atlantic hurricane season has been so active, forecasters are almost out of names so now they will be moving on to the Greek alphabet.
With parts of the Alabama coast and Florida Panhandle still reeling from Hurricane Sally, a hurricane watch was in effect early Saturday for a 300-mile stretch of Texas coast as Tropical Storm Beta gathered strength in the Gulf of Mexico.
At least two deaths were blamed on Sally, which roared ashore on Wednesday morning, and hundreds of thousands of people were still without power early Saturday.
Beta, which is expected to reach hurricane strength by Sunday, is among three active storms in an exceptionally busy Atlantic hurricane season.
At 7 a.m. CDT, Beta was about 290 miles east of the mouth of the Rio Grande, moving north at 8 mph with sustained winds of 60 mph.
As the tropical storm pushed toward the Texas coast, the National Hurricane center issued a Hurricane Watch along a 285-mile stretch of coast from Port Aransas to High Island. The center said hurricane conditions were possible in the watch area by late Monday or Monday night.
A storm surge watch was in effect from Port Mansfield, Texas to High Island; and a tropical storm watch from south of Port Aransas to the mouth of the Rio Grande, and east of High Island to Morgan City, Louisiana.
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Storms Alpha and Beta form: Hurricane season 2020 has been so busy, we have to use Greek letters
Wind, heavy rainfall and life-threatening surf and rip current conditions were also expected with the storm.
As storms rapidly formed in the Atlantic this season, forecasters quickly ran out of their list of names and had to begin using the Greek alphabet to designate storms for only the second time since the 1950s.
Alpha was a post-tropical cyclone Friday night after bringing rain to Portugal. Tropical Storm Wilfred remained at sea but was 830 miles west-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands with maximum sustained winds at 40 mph.
Meanwhile, Hurricane Teddy remained a powerful hurricane into Saturday, with maximum sustained winds at 130 mph. Teddy was centered 695 miles southeast of Bermuda less than a week after Hurricane Paulette made landfall in the wealthy British territory.
Large swells from Teddy were forecast to impact the Lesser Antilles, the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas, and later Saturday were to spread to Bermuda and the U.S. East Coast.
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Areas along the Florida panhandle were still coping with the effects of Hurricane Sally. In Escambia county, where Pensacola is located, county administrator Janice Gilley said Friday that power outages were causing accidents on the roadways as drivers ignored four-way stop rules. "Please, please, please, do not be on the roads if it's not an emergency, and you don't have to," she said.
Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan said people should only leave their homes to get fuel or food or if it is an emergency.
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Restaurants in East Anglia brace themselves for imminent price hikes
PUBLISHED: 09:26 31 August 2018 | UPDATED: 09:26 31 August 2018
Jessica Hill
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Restaurants across East Anglia are gearing up for price hikes and menu shake-ups, as the poor yields resulting from extreme weather conditions start to bite an already fragile industry.
The Pier at Harwich. Picture: Milsom Hotels
The price rises could prove to be the straw that broke the camel's back for some East Anglian restaurants, during what is a turbulent time for the UK's restaurant economy. The Gaucho group of steak restaurants, the hamburger chain Byron, Prezzos and Jamies Italian have all undertaken company voluntary arrangements, and other chains under financial pressure include Italian chain Strada, the Casual Dining Group, which owns La Tasca and Café Rouge and the Restaurant Group, which owns Frankie & Benny's.
This week, consultancy CEBR said the Beast from the East and heatwave had pushed up wholesale prices of stables such as wheat, lettuce and carrots.
Alastair Ward, the managing director Elm Valley Foods, a Bury Saint Edmunds-based family-owned wholesale food company delivering to around 200 pubs, hotels and restaurants across East Anglia, is predicting that price hikes are "imminent in the next ten days to two weeks time." He senses an "air of resignation" among the chefs and restaurant owners he speaks to on a daily basis. "The general feeling is that it isn't going to get any easier," he said.
"We are expecting to see the full range of price rises, because we have experienced both too much rain and then too much dry weather in the UK. Europe has been very hot this summer and that's impacted the harvests in other countries too."
Stas Anastasiades of Milsom
Mr Ward, whose company sells a lot of frozen vegetables, says the price of brussel sprouts could go up by as much as 75%, which could lead to restaurants looking to alternative vegetables for their festive menu.
"That might be scare mongering, but I am sure we will have to pay more for them," he said.
"Potato chips are going up by 10%, which is a sizeable increase on a 10 kilo box of chips. We are also expecting the price of peas to go up by 10%. These two items are consequential, because almost every restaurant orders them."
Farmers have been impacted by rising costs of oil and agricultural products on the global markets according to the BRC, and because of the dry weather, Suffolk farmers have seen smaller yields. "This creates low margins, so we will be putting up our prices accordingly," said Mr Ward. "I think most restaurants will have to pass these price rises on to their customers, because its now a much more competitive market for them."
Simon Protheroe from Procters Sausages
He also warns that pubs should also brace themselves for a rise in the cost of crisps thanks to the poor potato harvest, that one well-known British crisp brand will be paying 15% more for their potatoes.
Mr Wards claims that the problem for restaurateurs is compounded by having to pay more in wages due to the rise in the minimum wage in April from £7.50 to £7.83 an hour, as well as increasing business rates and price rises from manufacturers.
High street restaurant chains are tied into contracts with large wholesalers that get reviewed on an annual basis, which Mr Wards explains means they won't be immediately affected by the price hikes.
"They agree prices at the beginning of the year, so the prices will remain the same until then," Mr Wards explained. "Smaller companies like ours can be more flexible on price and raise it as and when needed."
Stas Anastasiades is operations director of Suffolk restaurant and hotel group Milsom, with restaurants Le Talbooth, Milsoms and The Pier as well as the hotels Maison Talbooth and Milsoms Kesgrave Hall.
He claims that the weak pound has been impacting food costs since the Brexit vote. "This has been a particular problem for speciality foods imported from France, Italy and Spain such as olive oil and charcuterie," he explained.
"We do try to use as much UK ingredients as possible, which means that the impact on food cost has been noticeable but manageable.
"Potato prices and quality have definitely been impacted by the weather this summer, salad crops have been more expensive and we have noticed that the soft fruit season has been shorter with the quality affected.
"But we expect seasonal blips from year to year and just hope that this levels out. We will try hard not to pass any price increases on to our customers, but of course we're unable to predict what the future holds."
Its not just vegetable prices that are set to rise but also pork, as the heatwave caused pigs to eat less and produce smaller litters. As a result piglet prices have risen by 8%. Simon Protheroe, who runs Procter's Sausages, a wholesaler with 150 catering customers across East Anglia, says he hasn't seen price rises so far - "but I'm taking it on a week by week basis," he commented.
Mr Protheroe says he will "of course" be passing on any price hikes to his clients "when it happens." "In the meantime, I'm keeping my head down."


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An opportunity to read Rachel DuPree's personal hi...
Book review: Anna Elliott's Twilight of Avalon
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And so, the big conference adventure begins
An opportunity to read Rachel DuPree's personal history for yourself
Not long after I posted my interview with Ann Weisgarber on April 27th, she generously offered to send copies of The Personal History of Rachel DuPree for blog readers as soon as she received them from her publisher. I happily accepted.
So now I have three new paperbacks sitting on my bookshelf, and each awaits a reader. All you need to do for a chance to win is leave a comment on this post saying why you'd be interested in reading it.
If you didn't catch my earlier interview with Ann, click the link above for details. Deadline is Thursday, July 2nd. The names of the three winners will be drawn on Friday. International entrants welcome.
And the best news of all: At the time of the interview, The Personal History of Rachel DuPree had yet to be picked up by an U.S. publisher, despite its South Dakota Badlands setting and classic American themes. I was very pleased to learn that this has changed. I got the chance to meet Ann at the HNS conference two weekends ago, and while speaking as part of the "debut novels" panel, she announced that it had been acquired by Viking US. Publication will be next summer. Congratulations, Ann, and thanks for providing copies for Reading the Past visitors!
Good luck to all the entrants!
(I finished Twilight of Avalon before leaving for the conference, which meant I got the opportunity to mention it in my "best new historical fiction" panel. For those who were there, here's an extended version of my thoughts.)
Despite my longtime interest in Arthurian myth and fiction, the classic romance of Tristan and Isolde had never truly captured my attention. While reading Anna Elliott's new historical novel Twilight of Avalon, I've been trying to analyze why. As tradition has it, Tristan and Isolde accidentally drink a love potion while en route to her wedding to his uncle, King Mark of Cornwall. This serves as the catalyst for an intense conflict between love, honor and duty that ends ultimately in tragedy for the young couple. However, I've always found it hard to believe in a romance enhanced by magical means, and in a strong, beautiful heroine made weak by love.
Other recent fictional takes on the legend include Dee Morrison Meaney's heartrending romantic tragedy (Iseult), Rosalind Miles's proto-feminist triumph (Isolde, Queen of the Western Isle and its sequels), and Diana Paxson's complex historical fantasy epic (The White Raven). All are moving, poetically written, and worth seeking out. Among them, only the latter found a place among my favorite retellings. It relegates selfish Esseilte to the background while her more intelligent and rational cousin, Branwen, steals the spotlight and gets her man. All too often, Isolde has been a woman whose circumstances earned my sympathy but who I found difficult to like or even admire; that is, until now.
Twilight of Avalon bears small resemblance to the earlier novels and indeed to the Arthurian saga most are familiar with. The genealogical chart in the opening pages let me know I was in for something different. The novel is set firmly in 6th-century Cornwall, a land beset by political turmoil, seven years after Camlann. Arthur's heir, Constantine, has been killed fighting the Saxons, or so it's believed, and his widow, Isolde, is left alone, distrusted by everyone. The bastard daughter of Modred and Gwynefar – King Arthur's traitorous son and his adulterous wife – Isolde was married to Con in an arrangement of political necessity.
Now that her husband the High King is dead, Isolde is helpless to do anything except try to heal soldiers' battle-wounds and ponder her unknown future with dread. She is thought by all of Britain's lesser kings to be a witch, though her powers of Sight – inherited from her grandmother Morgan – have been blocked, and her pre-Camlann past forgotten through force of will. King Marche of Cornwall, who is chosen the new High King by his fellow monarchs, forces her hand in marriage, though Isolde refuses to submit to his mistreatment. Her only sometime ally is Trystan, a part-Saxon, part-Briton prisoner whose suspicious outlook and desperate actions reflect the violence of the age. They form an unlikely, reluctant partnership to flee from Marche's clutches at Tintagel and uncover evidence of his treason.
Readers looking for scenes of chivalrous romance or sweeping Celtic enchantment won't find them here: this is not a Camelot-style fantasy world but a vividly evoked early medieval Britain of uneasy alliances and swift, surprising brutality. The characters express a healthy cynicism about how their reality will be transformed over time into glorious legend, as has happened with their forebears, but accept its inevitability and work it to their own benefit. This isn't to say there's nothing magical about the tale, though. Aside from Isolde's own limited supernatural powers, Twilight of Avalon celebrates the magic of storytelling in ways that pay tribute to both the legends and their historical origins. Most notably, Isolde, for all of her initial powerlessness, is never a weak character. She knows what she must do to escape her situation and the long odds of her success; she has a few tricks up her sleeve as well.
I thoroughly enjoyed this inventive retelling, in all its gritty authenticity. It would be horribly unromantic of me to say it works better without the passionate love story, so I won't go that far. Rather, it plants the seeds for a deeper connection between Isolde and Trystan that I'll be eager to see develop in the next two volumes.
Twilight of Avalon was published in May by Touchstone Books ($16.00/C$21.00, 428pp, 978-1-4165-8989-9). Anna Elliott's website is http://www.annaelliottbooks.com/.
(me, Joyce Saricks, and Georgine Olson speaking at our "what to read and why" panel at 8:30am on Saturday)
I've been back in Charleston for three days, but my mind's still up north in Schaumburg. It was wrenching to come back home after having such an outstanding time meeting up with authors and readers, old friends and new, at the HNS conference last weekend.
I'd planned on doing a longer, more descriptive post, but so many bloggers have already done it for me. Below are other authors' and readers' summaries of the event, in no particular order, with occasional commentary from me.
Barbara Vey, contributing editor of Publishers Weekly, blogged from the event over the entire weekend, complete with photos, covering Margaret George's keynote, the late-night sex scene readings -- which has become a tradition -- and a nice wrap-up, complete with conference committee photo. If you haven't done so already, you must watch C.W. Gortner's hilarious drive-by interview with Barbara. Afterwards, responding to HNS authors' discussions on research, Barbara asked Beyond Her Book readers whether they require accurate details in their fiction.
I chatted with Barbara and Romance B(u)y the Book and B&N genre fiction columnist Michelle Buonfiglio in the hotel lobby on Saturday afternoon about book recommendations and the mission/history of the HNS. The organizing committee put a lot of effort into ensuring that many different types of historical novels (including historical romance) were well represented at the conference, so it pleased me to see this come out in her report. There's a photo of us three at Michelle's RBTB blog.
Julianne Douglas wrote an excellent summary of the event which covered many panels I didn't get to see. As I told her afterward on the Historical Fiction forum, the hotel used to be done up in Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie Style, though following last summer's renovation, it looks more like 2020 than 1920! Other bloggers include:
Nancy Blanton, who got a photo of some costume pageant participants;
Conference volunteer DL Larson, who writes about her book-signing experience;
Joyce Moore, who moderated the "query letter" panel and who wore a gorgeous green linen gown at the costume pageant. Scroll down to Joyce's gallery for more photos.
Sheramy Bundrick, on how she and Margaret George make connections with their characters;
I shared a book-signing table with Doug Jacobson and thoroughly enjoyed the "historical boys" panel on Sunday;
It was fun to catch up with Michelle Moran and get my copy of The Heretic Queen signed! Her blog has a few more photos.
HNS reviewer and Facebook pal Laurel Corona has a great picture of all the Jane Rotrosen Agency clients who attended (quite a few!);
Dawna Rand did an extensive writeup that covered some cool photos (of three-time conference attendees Vic and Jenny Brown, who bought me drinks and kept me up late in Salt Lake City in 2005), the "debut novels" panel, more great pics, and marketing tips from Karen Essex, C.W. Gortner, and Michelle Moran (which I couldn't attend because my panel ran concurrently, alas).
Costume pageant winner Joan Baril, from Thunder Bay, Ontario, talks about Margaret George's unique writing method;
And Gemi Sasson, whose summary made me proud to be part of the conference, and who created a clever logo!
Did I miss anyone's blog post? Let me know!
Coming soon - a review of Anna Elliott's Twilight of Avalon and a giveaway of Ann Weisgarber's The Personal History of Rachel DuPree.
It's Wednesday morning, and the trunk of our SUV is completely full of tote bags, programs, and assorted flyers and promo items sent by authors/publishers for the HNS conference this week. Mark's still asleep, and we haven't really packed anything else yet, though I've got a folder of notes and other printouts set aside.
The last week has been hectic, even beyond expectations. After BEA, we were home for exactly two days before taking off in the car again for my cousin's wedding in London, Ontario, a 9-hour drive, though we overnighted in Ann Arbor on the way out. The trip went smoothly, the wedding was lovely (beautiful sunny day, not too hot, held at a historical estate on the outskirts of London) and we got to visit with many family members from across the US and Canada.
More troublesome was the return trip to the States on Sunday, which Mark summarized succinctly on his blog. Yeah, we're armed and dangerous, all right. (Armed with book purchases, maybe. I did some historical novel shopping at a Canadian bookstore on Saturday morning.)
On Monday morning, we learned that one of our author guests of honor, Edward Rutherfurd, had a family emergency and had to return to England asap, so was unable to appear at the conference after all. He was extremely sorry about it, and we're disappointed we won't be seeing him there, but family comes first. Fortunately for us, conference attendee Sharon Kay Penman accepted our very last-minute invite to give Saturday night's keynote address in his place. Sharon's one of my favorite historical novelists, and I'm really looking forward to meeting her and hearing her talk.
Today's plan: head up to Schaumburg, unload all our stuff at the hotel, and meet up with editor/agent liaison Ann Chamberlin for the drive out to hotel liaison Winifred Halsey's house an hour west; she's been storing 120+ boxes of books in her garage for the past month and more. Publishers were very, very generous with donations for attendees, so there's lots of good reading to look forward to. These books will mysteriously reappear in conference attendees' tote bags when registration opens on Friday. We're renting a U-Haul and plan to do the big book move this afternoon and evening.
Inspired by a post by Susan on the HFO forum, I've set up a Twitter account, which I'd been mulling over since BEA, and will be posting news flashes from the conference there as time permits. Holly from Wonders and Marvels (tweeting as history_geek) and I are wondering what other historical novel folks are there, so if you're connected up, let me know! I'm coming late to the party and am still figuring out how it works - no snazzy backgrounds yet - so please bear with me. No doubt I'll be blogging more about the event as well, though maybe not until after it's over.
Looking forward to seeing many of you in Schaumburg!


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Johnson, Samuel
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(1709-1784) UK poet, critic, playwright, lexicographer and author of one novel, The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale (1759; rev 1759; vt The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: An Asiatic Tale 1768; vt The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale 1787), written to pay for his mother's funeral (he got £100 – a large sum – for the first printing). The profusion of vts above comes from our normal practice of citing title pages, which may seem to confirm the belief that the book did not originally bear its protagonist's name, and indeed the pirated American edition of 1768 was the first to name Rasselas on its title page; but in fact the heading of the first page of text of every edition published in Johnson's lifetime reads: "The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia". For convenience and recognizability Johnson's tale is referred to elsewhere in this encyclopedia as simply Rasselas (1759).
Combining elements of the French conte, the Oriental fantasy and the Fantastic Voyage, the tale is of particular interest to the student of Proto SF for its sustained meditation on the nature of and chances of obtaining human happiness (see also Utopias; Dystopias). The initial setting of the tale is a secret "happy valley" (italics in the original), an imprisoning Polder [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below], a Prison in which the offspring of Abyssinian royalty are sequestered, but from which Rasselas hopes to escape in a primitive Airship (in the event it fails – Johnson's spirit was inimical to unsustained flights of fancy); also featured is an astronomer who believes himself responsible for Weather Control. The book is an archetypal example of the important sf theme of Conceptual Breakthrough. The most attractive twentieth-century critical edition was edited in 1927 by R W Chapman; a useful recent critical edition was edited in 1971 by Geoffrey Tillotson and Brian Jenkins. For details see Checklist.
Johnson himself appears in John Buchan's Midwinter: Certain Travellers in Old England (1923), where he refuses the chthonic Amos Midwinter's offer to guide him into an indiscoverable, supernally "daedal" Old England at "nurse with Gaea" (see Gaia). [JC/PN]
see also: Astronomy.
born Lichfield, Staffordshire: 18 September 1709 [7 September 1709 old calendar]
died London: 13 December 1784
The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale (London: R and J Dodsley; and W Johnston, 1759) [published in two volumes: binding unknown/]
The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale (London: R and J Dodsley; and W Johnston, 1759) [rev of the above: published in two volumes: binding unknown/]
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: An Asiatic Tale (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Printed for Every Purchaser, 1768) [vt of the above: binding unknown/]
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale (London: Joseph Wenman, 1787) [vt of the above: published in two volumes: binding unknown/]
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale (Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1927) [critical edition using title as given here but using the second 1759 printing for copy text, which is here corrected: edited by R W Chapman: hb/nonpictorial]
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (London: Oxford University Press, 1971) [vt: critical edition using the second 1759 printing for copy text, which is here further corrected: edited by Brian Jenkins and Geoffrey Tillotson: hb/]
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy: Polder


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A Pastische of Patristic Perspectives on Paradise
The Orthodox Church takes a different approach to the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden. Rather than the bare bones approach modern theologians take with the story (Adam is created, then Eve, then they are tempted, and expelled), the Orthodox Church has a rich tradition of expansion to the narrative. I explore a few of the aspects here.
Protestant scholars seem to be split on whether or not Adam was created with immortality inherent in his body or whether it was a side-effect of him being created without sin, a temporary reality as long as he trusted in God. Calvinists, who say that God ordained all of history to bring himself glory, say that God orchestrated the Fall to bring about his plan of sacrificing his Son on the Cross. The Orthodox tradition, while not exactly monolithic, wants to absolve God of blame in Adam's fall. On the created state of Adam, St. Innocent of Alaska says:
Adam was created sinless and pure, enjoying all the blessings of life. He knew neither sickness nor suffering. He feared nothing, and all beasts submitted to their master. Adam suffered neither cold nor heat. Although he toiled by caring for the Garden of Eden, he did so with pleasure. His soul was filled with awareness of the Divine presence, and he loved his Creator with his whole heart. Adam was always calm and happy and knew no unpleasantness, sorrow, or concern. All his desires were pure, righteous, and orderly; his memory, intellect, and all other faculties were in harmony and were constantly being perfected. Being pure and innocent, he was always with God and conversed with Him as his Father, and in return God loved him as His own beloved Son. In brief, Adam was in Paradise, and Paradise was in Adam. (The Way into the Kingdom of Heaven)
St. Gregory of Nyssa (On the Making of Man) says similarly: "it is not allowable to ascribe the first beginnings of our constitutional liability to passion to that human nature which was fashioned in the Divine likeness ." The original state of Adam was good, and created by God in such a way that his propensity toward sin was not the fault of the Creator. Rather, Adam was made "holy, passionless and sinless in His own image and likeness" (St. Symeon, The Sin of Adam) and St. Gregory (The Great Catechism) says, "Adam was beautiful in his form, being created an image of the archetypal beauty; he was without passion in his nature, for he was an imitation of the un-impassioned God."
God's plan was to have Adam come to the fullness of maturity in his prelapsarian state rather than sinning. St. Irenaeus tells us that Adam was created as a child, given the opportunity to grow into the knowledge of God. It was in this immature state that he was able to be tempted. Rather, Adam was made "holy, passionless and sinless in His own image and likeness" (St. Symeon) and St. Gregory says, "Adam was beautiful in his form, being created an image of the archetypal beauty; he was without passion in his nature, for he was an imitation of the un-impassioned God." All of Adam's and blessings were granted to him because "God created man for incorruption, and made him in the image of his own eternity, but through the devil's envy death entered the world." (Wisdom 2:23)
While Adam, and mankind in Adam, was created passionless and for incorruptibility, this state was not permanent. It relied fully on the grace of God to remain the way it currently was. (Hatzidakis, p. 51) This absolves God's "guilt" in creating man that could fall into sin and turn against him. The devil acted quickly: St. Maximos (Ad Thalassium) teaches that Adam fell very close to his creation, and he activated his passions through his senses in "his very first movement"! Because of his fall, and the early tempting from Satan, Adam was subjected to spiritual death, which allowed bodily death to come to his body (cf. St. Alaska again, ) and that man's evil would not become immortal (St. Maximos, ).
Most Protestants say that Adam's sin gave humanity a sort of "total depravity" or "original sin" because in Adam all mankind sinned, as in some sort of headship theology. The Fathers look at it somewhat similarly, but with a major difference. Through Adam, death invaded the world "in the members of our flesh" because Adam turned them over to death in his passions (St. Cyril, ). Cyril also says:
Our nature, then, became diseased by sin through the disobedience of one, that is, of Adam. Thus, all were made sinners, not by being co-transgressors with Adam, something which they never were, but by being of his nature and falling under the law of sin…Human nature fell ill in Adam and subject to corruptibility through disobedience, and, therefore, the passions entered in. (Commentary on Romans)
Rather than having sinned in Adam (a sort of participation theology), mankind is liable to death because death is inherited in our now mortal bodies.
Christ, as the new Son of God, and Mary, the new Ark of the Covenant, the one whom the Spirit hovered over to cause birth, was free from the corruption of Adam because he was born into the state Adam began in (cf. John 10:18).
Not everybody needs to accept the teaching of the Fathers. But there is more to the stories than the text: every Christian will, and must, develop a theology of the texts. New or novel approaches to theology should bring warranted suspicion. At least knowing or grasping the ideas of the Fathers can be elucidating in shaping our theology.
(Inspired by Emmanuel Hatzidakis' Jesus: Fallen? of Orthodox Witness.)
Posted on August 15, 2016 August 15, 2016 by Christian WermeskerchPosted in theology, UncategorizedTagged Adam, biblical theology, church fathers, eastern orthodox, eve, Genesis, patristics.
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Sam Boyd Stadium Las Vegas, NV Monster Energy Cup Monster Energy Cup
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Jason Thomas, BTOSports.com/BBMX, DNQ
The track was ok. The rocks were pretty bad out in the motocross section, but overall it was fun. Not great to race and try to pass on, but fun to ride for sure. I mean, Kevin Windham was right in front of me and wasn't doing much out there and he's a much better racer than me. Anyways, I thought the format was cool, the track was fun but not really raceable, but it's cool that they tried something different.
I didn't qualify; I'm coming off knee surgery and still getting back into it. Ivan Tedesco had surgery for the same thing three days after me and he's just now getting back on a bike while I've been back riding for a few weeks now. So it's just not there for me right now. But I'm working on it and will be 100 percent by the time we get to A1.
"I'm a glass half-full kind of guy and I thought the track was cool." - Jimmy Albertson
Photo: Simon Cudby
Jimmy Albertson, Valli Yamaha, Eighth Overall (11-10-8)
I'm a glass half-full kind of guy and I thought the track was cool. It was fun to ride and had some big jumps. As far as my night, I got better each time I went out on the track and ended up eighth overall which I was happy about. I also got a bunch of money, which is always cool!
I cased the big double in the first main event and twisted my ankle, which bothered me the other main events. I also had some good races with Kyle Chisholm, and for me, I had my best lap time on the last lap of the third main event. Sitting on the line and watching the amateur guys was cool, they seemed to be having fun. I thought they were hauling butt out there. All in all the whole event was cool.
Jake Weimer, Monster Energy Kawasaki, Ninth Overall (12-6-11)
Monster Energy Cup. One good moto. One bad moto. Or two bad motos? How did that go?
Jake Weimer: Three bad motos.
Well, the one you were doing all right. You got fifth? No, you fell on the last lap! Never mind. Yep, three bad motos.
No, I didn't fall. Alessi cleaned me out. So that's what happened in that one. Then in the second one, I didn't get a real good start. I got sixth. And then in the last one, I fell in the first turn and then had another little issue in the last lap. I caught a hay bale with my foot and kinda' stalled my bike and whatever. So none of them were really good. But the track was hard to race on and my starts weren't great. I got a good start in my heat race. Holeshotted that one. So, it is what it is. I'm sure a lot of people are thinking this, but I think I could've done pretty well. I just didn't get the starts to really give myself a chance.
What'd you think of the track?
I thought it was fun. Well, I thought the jumps were fun. Outside there was a fun jump, but all the dirt outside was just bad. It made Unadilla look loamy. So, I'm assuming they just got the dirt from the field over there. I'm serious; I think they probably did. So that kind of was a bummer. But, l mean, it was fun to ride. But just to race on, I mean, was kind of tough.
"Three bad motos." - Jake Weimer
Format. Three ten-lappers. What'd you think? How was the little break in between?
Initially when I heard three ten-lappers, I was like oh cool! But they were actually not really that short with a minute and a half lap time. But they seemed to go by pretty quick. I thought it was cool. Something different. We didn't have much time in between. So between the second and third one, I didn't go back to the truck.
As a mechanic, though, sitting there between races would stress me out a little bit. I'd want to check over the bike and all that?
Yeah, they didn't really have any time to do that. They came back, put gas in it, and changed the rear tire, I think.
So you're going to Bercy in a couple weeks? Looking forward to that?
I'm excited. I think it'll be fun. I've been over and done one overseas supercross before and it was fun. So, yeah, practice track a couple more weeks, then Bercy. It should be good.
Ben Townley Monster Energy Pro Circuit Kawasaki 15th Overall (2-19-20)
It went awesome. In a nutshell, it was a great event, and the whole idea to come and do this worked out really well. It was unfortunate, the mechanical problem I had, but overall it was great. I had a good heat race, and a great first main event so it was good all around.
What caused your mechanical issue?
I hit a rock. It was really, really, rocky out in the back here, [Townley motions toward the motocross section outside of the stadium] and I landed on a rock. Like the frame would grind out on a rock, the chain guide did. We're not sure yet, they'll obviously have to look at it, but something happened to the chain guide that bent, or twisted it.
"It went awesome. In a nutshell, it was a great event, and the whole idea to come and do this worked out really well." - Ben Townley
Cole Seely Lucas Oil Troy Lee Honda 17th Overall (21-12-13)
It was kind of a rough night. I had a little bit of an issue in the first moto, and wasn't able to finish. It kind of set the mood, I guess, for the rest of the night. I felt good though, and my bike felt really good, really dialed. We've been working with Showa and Pro Circuit, tuning the suspension, and I was really happy with it. All I can do now is look forward to Anaheim 1, and take what I learned here and bring it there.
What happened in that first race?
I got together with another rider, and his front tire hit my chain guide and bent the mount into the chain, and snapped the chain. It happened in a sketchy place, but at least I didn't get hurt. I guess that's pretty much the only thing that happened that was good tonight.
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We fought against both of these bills this session – the first one because it would penalize students who protest on campus with suspensions and expulsions and the second because it authorizes the GBI to give sensitive biometric data of innocent Georgians to the FBI.
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I used to see this driving to Manhattan, KS from the east when I first moved here in 1998. What I finally realized is that they were flares used by the military on Fort Riley. If you're not used to seeing these, thay can be wierd looking.


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"Where the Wild Things Are": Exclusive Look Behind the Film's Stunning Music and Visuals
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After its lengthy journey that Rolling Stone documented last year, Where the Wild Things Are — the big-screen adaptation of Maurice Sendak's beloved children's book about a kid who escapes his gloomy home in search of an undiscovered island full of wild beasts — finally arrives on the big screen tomorrow.
Get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the movie in a gallery that compares the book's original illustrations from 1963 with the filmmaker's sketches and the final product: the Wild Things.
Peter Travers' four-star review of Where the Wild Things Are praises director Spike Jonze as a "visionary" who "filmed a fantasy as if it were absolutely real, allowing us to see the world as Max sees it, full of beauty and terror." Travers notes that the film's power is enhanced by its songs and soundtrack. Rolling Stone has an exclusive look behind the making of the dreamy score with Jonze and co-composer Carter Burwell (click above to watch the video).
"Nothing that he does is generic. It's all totally handcrafted to the project," Jonze says of Burwell, who previously composed for every Coen Brothers film plus Twilight and Jonze's Being John Malkovich. Burwell kept the music "unsophisticated." Jonze says he asked for the musicians to play the guitar like a 5th grader would play it, devoid of vibrato and other expert techniques.
Watch Burwell's team twirl flexible swimming-pool vacuum-cleaner tubes through the air to generate eerie, warm whooshing sounds that are "intriguing, not scary, but not familiar" in the clip. "This music shouldn't feel like it comes from any recognizable locale or any particular time or place," Burwell says. "And that was quite a challenge. All...
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When Jesus referred to the scribes and Pharisees seating themselves "in the chair of Moses," He referred to a physical seat that represented a place of authority (Matt. 23:1-12). A "seat of Moses" was unearthed in the synagogue in Chorazin and today rests in Jerusalem's Israel Museum.
Jesus revealed that authority exists to serve, and God defines greatness by those who humble themselves.
To all of us who have in a place of influence (and we all do)—in church, or in the corporate world, or in the home—Jesus urges us to see our positions not as a place of personal exaltation, but to see our roles as servants.
The Lord's rebuke to them offers a biting reminder to us that the image of spirituality we present to others in church and on social media should reflect a heart that truly loves Jesus Christ without a double standard.
Honesty in a context of grace overcomes hypocrisy.
One day in the Temple the Lord taught what a privilege it is to believe in God. Through vineyard parables, Jesus likened bearing fruit to believing in Him (Matt. 21:19, 25-32). Christ told the leaders that belief results in the privilege of participation in God's kingdom, an opportunity they shouldn't assume as an entitlement. Turns out, that generation of Israel missed the opportunity for the kingdom to come, and another would enjoy it (v. 43).
The good news? ANY of us—no matter what we've done—can enter God's kingdom if we believe (v. 31).
After we believe, we must continue to see our place in life as a privilege—just as salvation is—given by the grace of God. And the purpose of that privilege? To serve Him and others.
Jesus shows us how He wants us to see ourselves.
See yourself as God's servant.
See your heart as a mirror of honesty without hypocrisy.
See your participation in life and ministry as a privilege.
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DURHAM -- Maureen Dooley is quickly becoming a familiar face atop the girls' cross country circuit.
A week after winning the Blue Dragon Invitational, Dooley defeated a similarly stellar field on her school's home course, covering four kilometers in 15:26 to capture the Run to the Sun Invitational Thursday afternoon at Durham.
Dooley, who set the pace throughout the early stages, pulled away from Sheehan's Kelly Howard after a 6:05 first mile, opening up a 10-meter lead and never looking back en route to victory.
"I've raced against these girls a lot. I found that strategy has worked well," the Coginchaug junior said. "I felt really strong this week because this was our only race and I was able to a lot of distance training."
She had a special message to send when she returned home.
"It's nice because I wanted to win for my coach, Isha (Murphy), because he got married and is on his honeymoon," Dooley said. "I'm excited to tell him."
Behind Dooley, East Hampton was busy sending a message to its Charter Oak Conference competition. The Bellringers placed three runners in the top 25 and their top seven all came through in under 18 minutes to defeat conference foe Lyman Memorial 100-117 and take home top team honors.
"I was ecstatic," East Hampton coach Bill Wilkie said about learning of the win. "We've had a couple of good races and this one was against the best schools in Class S. To be in the top three here is a good day, to win is great."
Defending champion Alison Cloutier led the East Hampton charge with a fourth place finish in 15:46, followed closely by Claire Pearce, who was seventh in 15:58. Laura Peaslee (24, 17:07), Jana Barmasse (34, 17:31) and freshman Kelly Brittany (38, 17:35) rounded out the team's scoring.
"We have some new runners starting to move up," Wilkie said. "We had a freshman today running as our number five runner and it's the first time she's been in the top seven. She's coming along nicely. Our one through four runners are pretty tight, but our five has been a bit back. Brittany moving up shrank that gap a lot."
Coginchaug placed fifth with 153 points followed closely by Portland in sixth with 155.
The Highlanders were led by Sara Leslie, who moved up nicely through the race to place fifth in 15:53.
"I think I had a good race and this was my best time on this course," Leslie said.
"I wanted to just go how I felt, but I think I went out pretty fast."
Haddam-Killingworth's top three runners continue to impress, but the separation to its Nos. 4 and 5 runners keeps it off the podium.
Led by Lauren Padula in ninth (16:03), Danielle Funaro in eleventh (16:10) and Maygan Salazano in 16 (16:40), the Cougars finished eighth with 245 points.
Cromwell's Nidia Gonzalez placed 15 in 16:37 while Middletown freshman Alison Fredericks just missed the top 25, finishing 27 in 17:21.


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