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WILMINGTON, Del., Sept. 21, 2000à'–Conectiv has ordered 21 combustion turbine units from Siemens Westinghouse and General Electric as the next step in its aggressive strategy to establish a leading position in the mid-merit generation market within the PJM power pool.
Mid-merit power plants are environmentally friendly and can start and stop quickly in response for increases in demand for power, which greatly enhances the company's ability to use its sophisticated energy trading group to optimize and manage generation output to grow earnings.
Conectiv already owns approximately 1,900 MW of mid-merit and peaking generation in PJM. The 21 new combustion turbines will allow the company to achieve its goal of adding up to 4,000 MW by the end of 2004. The company said that it is in the final stages of getting the permits needed to begin construction of an additional 550 MW of combined cycle combustion turbine capacity at the company's Hay Road power plant near Wilmington.
In addition, Conectiv has taken the initial steps needed to begin developing a number of new power plant sites within the PJM region, including brownfield industrial sites in Bethlehem, PA and Florence Township, NJ. The sales of Conectiv's fossil and nuclear power plants and the securitization of costs related to industry restructuring are expected to net about $1 billion that will be used to help fund the mid-merit strategy.
Conectiv's energy trading and asset management team has developed proprietary systems that link its generation, trading, risk management and financial operations. These systems use the most sophisticated e-solutions and technology to extract optimum value and leverage the company's strategic assets. The combination of Conectiv's physical assets, in one of the country's most advanced power pools, and deployment of advanced financial products are helping drive superior financial returns. The company has also made major advances in acquiring fuel assets to support its generation operations, including the acquisition of wholesale oil operations, gas storage assets, transmission assets, and forward gas supply arrangements. The entire portfolio is being managed with sophisticated risk management techniques that are intended to protect earnings and preserve value enhancement opportunities. These same capabilities are being used to manage the electric portfolios of other generators who have recognized Conectiv's expertise in the PJM and surrounding regions.
"The orders of these new combustion turbines represents a major step in our effort to be a leading player in the mid-merit energy market within the PJM power pool," said Howard E. Cosgrove, Conectiv chairman and CEO. "The mid-Atlantic region needs additional electric capacity to support the dramatic growth the area is experiencing. We have undertaken a plan that, longer term, will allow us to add up to 4,000 MW of new mid-merit units. We're making good progress in developing several potential sites. We will use our established power-trading group to maximize the value of that growing portfolio of flexible and efficient mid-merit power plants as they come on line."
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Plague on the Globe?
E.A.J. Honigmann
Shakespeare The Later Years
by Russell Fraser
Columbia University Press, 380 pp., $29.95
Politics, Plague, and Shakespeare's Theater: The Stuart Years
by Leeds Barroll
Cornell University Press, 249 pp., $34.95
Every biographer of a writer has to start with a difficult decision: whether to bring the life and works together or keep them separate. If the writer lived four hundred years ago it may well be that not enough is known about his life, or the precise dates of the works, to make possible a properly integrated study of both. Mr. Fraser boldly attempts such a biography of Shakespeare, while Mr. Barroll points out the many risks involved in dating the plays, and the failures of those who have indulged in this popular pastime.
To be more accurate, Mr. Fraser now offers half a biography. Shakespeare The Later Years continues his earlier Young Shakespeare (which I reviewed four years ago),1 adopting the same strategy: a few pages on the life, a few on one of the plays, and plenty of "facts" to fill in empty spaces.
He got his money as he could, soaring or stooping. As actor he shared the revenue from the sale of beer, tobacco, fruit, and nuts. His company's "ordinary" poet, he enjoyed an "allowance" or was paid for his plays at the going rate of £6 or better. In James's reign, this payment tripled. By then Shakespeare had ceased acting….
Mr. Fraser's gift for bringing the distant past back to life is admirable, as long as the reader is aware that not all the "facts" are equally certain. Shakespeare was "never in Ireland with Essex" (who knows?). "For almost a year the theaters stayed dark" (a power cut at the Globe?). "No text of Shakespeare's published in his lifetime is divided into acts or scenes" (plays were not divided into numbered scenes, as today; yet scene-endings were clearly marked by an exeunt). Reviewers may niggle at Mr. Fraser's multitudinous assertions, many of which cannot be proved, yet the victory remains with him—a crowded canvas that is lifelike and convincing, in general terms if not in some of the detail.
While the bustle of Shakespeare's England is vividly presented, Mr. Fraser disappoints when he turns to the dramatist's tastes and personality. "Stratford was a good place to come from and go back to, but Shakespeare didn't care to live there." "Xenophobic Shakespeare doesn't like Italians." "Shakespeare grew more skeptical as he grew older, also less patient, another word for naturalistic" (more skeptical even after King Lear?). "Four years after his son died, Shakespeare in Hamlet had to face him"; and again,
old memory and desire quicken in the last plays, and Shakespeare's girl-heroines evoke his own son Hamnet, long dead like the son of Leontes. In the person of Alonso, Shakespeare asks the dead child forgiveness.
This is all idle speculation, and one can just as easily speculate otherwise—that Shakespeare loved Stratford, retiring there very early, in his mid-forties; that some of his most delightful and/or sensible heroines are Italian (Juliet, Portia, Beatrice, Desdemona), and so on. Mr. Fraser's own summing-up seems to admit defeat, a lack of definition in his portrait, and shows that he now pays too little attention to a crucial witness.
While he lived, friends of his or the friends of friends wrote down their impressions, fifty or sixty of them. Most salute the artist but some speak of the man, and the way he comes through is worth noting. Praise belongs to the man, couched in general terms, however. Nothing prickly about him, he bears little resemblance to Marlowe, Jonson, or Donne. "Sweet Master Shakespeare" lacks edges.
Honest, open, and free, they call him, nimble of brain and "pregnant" of wit (the insipid prose of the will notwithstanding), friendly, good company, "so dear loved a neighbor." He was all these things, even to excess, wanting only one thing, definition, his gift to others.
The witness who paints a more sharply defined portrait is Shakespeare himself, speaking in his own person in the dedications of Venus and Adonis and Lucrece and, with some poetic license, in the Sonnets. Mr. Fraser dealt with these texts in his previous volume: had he set the Sonnets alongside the will ("insipid prose"? See my "The Second-Best Bed," in The New York Review, November 7, 1991) he might have agreed that gentle Shakespeare could turn prickly, even angry, like gentle Hamlet. The poet of the Sonnets has much in common with Hamlet, and is as fascinatingly complex as any of the dramatic characters—who, though, has complained that Hamlet lacks definition?
An admirer of Shakespeare's rhetoric, Mr. Fraser has invented a style that seems to be modeled on the master's. He, too, is partial to "unsignaled switch-overs…jumping but not bridging the gap from here to there," and the effect is sometimes equally irritating. "Can't the playwright speak his mind without torturing our English language?" Nevertheless, to adapt an early critic of Shakespeare's stylistic excesses, there is as much in him to be praised as to be pardoned. Notably his pervasive humor. "Timon," he says, "hopes for tragedy but stumbles on farce." All's Well and Measure for Measure "celebrate the triumph of our erected flesh." And "sexual anxiety [is] the grease it runs on" (of Troilus). Also, his pleasure in paradox: the tragedies "record the weakness of strength," the comedies "record the strength of weakness." And other flashes: in Merry Wives "the reverberations that fill the silences in the greater comedies are missing."
As for the plays, Mr. Fraser not only examines them one by one—somewhat sketchily, six to seven pages or so on average—he also writes well about their interconnections, as one expects from a biographer.
Readers who read his two plays back to back will be aware how one mirrors the other. "Crossed" lovers not allowed to choose for themselves, Lysander and Hermia reflect the tragic plight of Romeo and Juliet…. [Shakespeare] discovers genuine likenesses he hadn't seen before. Some are disconcerting. Lysander, a fickle hero willing to change a raven for a dove, is uncomfortably like Romeo….
Public men chilled his blood. So much is clear from Henry V where the hero, no sooner crowned, turns into Hotspur. Antedating Julius Caesar by only a few months, Shakespeare's English history shows him thinking "forward" from England to Rome.
In both of the above extracts, and often elsewhere, Mr. Fraser assumes that the order of the plays has been established, and perhaps even their year of composition. So let us attend to Mr. Barroll, who concentrates on this single issue—the dating of the later plays (1603–1613)—and on some equally important side issues: Shakespeare's rate of output; the attitude of James I to his players; Shakespeare's social status; dating "methodology," and the interpretation of crucial documents. Politics (I abbreviate the title) is a wide-ranging book, from which I have learned a good deal. Mr. Barroll's own methodology, however, leaves me uneasy.
At the start, and many times thereafter, Mr. Barroll explains that his purpose is to challenge "the currently privileged 'lives' of the dramatist." Others "continue to privilege a nineteenth-century daguerreotype of Shakespeare": he sets out to "deconstruct the traditionally privileged descriptions of the poet's life," "to deossify this old history," to "demystify the association of Shakespeare's company with King James." I don't care for the jargon, so often nowadays just a flag-waving exercise, but the prospect of Mr. Barroll (of Harvard, Princeton, etc., editor of Shakespeare Studies and other journals) lashing out at privileged books and colleagues was irresistible.
Politics, however, although impatient with those who practice the "traditional maneuvers," is not an intemperate book; on the contrary, it appears to be carefully planned and written. Mr. Barroll's starting point, the belief that others have not "closely considered" the interaction of plagues and playhouses, leads on to a detailed history of the plague and of counter-measures, one, in London, being the closing of playhouses.
By an order of the Privy Council of 1604, public theatrical performances had to stop when the weekly total of deaths from plague reached thirty. Mr. Barroll makes thirty plague deaths per week his standard for judging when playhouses were closed, lists plague deaths (where known) week by week from 1603 to 1610, drawing on bills of mortality and other sources; he shows, however, that theaters sometimes closed before deaths reached this cutoff point. Thus he provides a useful calendar for theater historians, building on the work of E. K. Chambers and his successors.2
As Mr. Barroll admits, the bills of mortality may not be wholly reliable; but contemporary letters now and then confirm their figures, and this is reassuring. The real surprise comes when Mr. Barroll applies his findings to biography: "I try to show that the availability of the Globe playhouse was an extremely significant factor in Shakespeare's writing—that when the Globe was closed, Shakespeare's production slowed markedly or stopped." He sees some of the difficulties: "if Shakespeare did not wish to write plays throughout the periods when the playhouses were shut…how could he have had the time to produce his last ten dramas at all? Between 1603 and 1611, the playhouses in London were closed off and on for a period of at least sixty-eight months." He answers that "when the circumstances were favorable—when the playhouses were open and stages available—Shakespeare seems to have produced very rapidly indeed."
True, he wrote rapidly: yet "producing" involves others apart from the dramatist. Texts have to be copied, parts learned, staging rehearsed—the actors had many good reasons for urging Shakespeare to write while the theaters were closed, even had he not wanted to (which I doubt). Indeed, Mr. Barroll cites a number of court payments which seem to me to contradict his thesis. One was made out to the King's Men, "being restrained from public playing within the City of London in the time of infection during the space of six weeks in which time they practised privately for his Majesty's service." Are we to suppose that they amused themselves for six weeks by practicing old plays?
Another weakness in Mr. Barroll's argument is that the players must have had views about their dramatist's rate of production, and would have preferred a steady output rather than one that was, in his words, discontinuous, inconsistent, erratic, and uneven. Shakespeare's plays were by far their biggest attraction: in a list of eleven performances at court in 1604-1605, eight were of his plays, a good indication of his importance to them. Richard Brome, a dramatist similarly committed to one acting company, made a contract in 1635 to provide three plays a year for three years. We do not know whether Shakespeare had a contract, yet he and his colleagues must have had an understanding, at the very least, since the theatrical season necessitated careful planning.
Mr. Barroll observes that "from 1592 to 1602 he produced perhaps twenty-seven plays, about two per year." Why "from 1592"? Shakespeare was denounced in 1592 as "in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country," i.e., was already an established dramatist. Others date his earliest extant plays between 1585 and 1590 (Mr. Fraser thinks he had written "as many as ten by 1592"), which would make two plays per year, Mr. Barroll's figure, even more on-target. So we should remember that John Ward, vicar of Stratford from 1662 to 1681, recorded in his diary that Shakespeare "supplied ye stage with 2 plays every year"3—presumably Stratford gossip, corroborating what has been inferred from other evidence. I mention this because John Ward, who is not cited in Politics, strengthens the hypothesis of two plays per year up to circa 1602, which in turn suggests that everyone concerned saw the advantages of a steady output.
Must we accept that in the next ten years, when Shakespeare produced about ten plays, his output became discontinuous and erratic? We cannot rule out this possibility; nevertheless, it is also possible that, like Richard Brome after three years, Shakespeare could have renegotiated his contract or his "understanding" circa 1602, offering only one play a year. The reasons for forward planning remained, despite the interruptions caused by plague. In addition, Shakespeare's father died in 1601, he himself must now have been very comfortable financially, and he soon withdrew from acting—a lighter writing commitment would have had its attractions.
Mr. Barroll rightly stresses that Venus and Adonis and Lucrece were published in 1593 and 1594, and were probably written when severe outbreaks of plague closed the theaters. Does it follow that "his creative drive for drama seems to have faltered" because he "divagated" to write poems? Can we be certain that he did not write plays in 1593 and 1594? Or in the Stuart years, when the plague struck in London? Did he never write plays in Stratford, or when his company toured in other parts of the country?
Critical of the traditional Shakespeare chronology, Mr. Barroll writes persuasively about the misuse of dating evidence. The "internal evidence" of style and meter is often presented in figures; he disputes that "these figures (assuming their accuracy) then become chronologically significant," as some plays usually refuse to fit into the chronological scheme. Topical allusions are also tricky as evidence: the reference to equivocation in Macbeth (Act II, scene 3) may date the play in March–April 1606, when the trial of Father Henry Garnet made the subject topical. But "Garnet himself had long been associated with equivocation," and "who is to say when the subject ever died?"
Yet Mr. Barroll's own use of dating evidence also prompts misgivings. For instance, he quotes from a document dated 1617 to the effect that the Venetian and French ambassadors went "to a play called Pericles." Knowing that the named ambassadors were in England between May 1606 and November 1608, and that playhouses were closed for much of this period, he deduces that Pericles could have been seen "at three different times: May and June 1606, one week in April 1607, or April through mid-July 1608." He does not, however, quote all we need to know from the document, which continues, "to a play called Pericles, which cost Giustinian [the Venetian ambassador] more than 20 crowns."4 Twenty crowns (or £5) would be an extraordinary sum to pay at the Globe, for James I normally paid £10 for a performance at court, and other members of the royal family paid ten marks (£6, 13s., 4d.) per play, as Mr. Barroll later explains. "More than 20 crowns" therefore looks like a payment for a private performance—the ambassadors went "to a play," not to a playhouse—and, if so, playhouse closures would be quite irrelevant.
Another well-known document shows even better how slippery such evidence can be. It is a letter written by Sir Walter Cope to Robert Cecil, Viscount Cranborne, in January 1605.
I have sent and been all this morning hunting for players, jugglers, and such kind of creatures, but find them hard to find. Wherefore, leaving notes for them to seek me, Burbage is come and says there is no new play that the queen has not seen; but they have revived an old one called Love's Labor Lost, which for wit and mirth he says will please her exceedingly. And this is appointed to be played tomorrow night at my Lord of Southampton's, unless you send a writ to remove the corpus cum causa, to your house in Strand. Burbage is my messenger ready attending your pleasure.
Mr. Barroll recapitulates that the actors appear to have told Cope "that, if his master Cecil wanted a new play for the queen right now, Cope had better know that they had only one reworked (Shakespearean) comedy," and that Cope wrote that "the King's Servants had no new plays"; he adds that "the persistence of Burbage as the court contact for the King's Servants…is significant." Yet other interpretations are possible: revived does not mean reworked; the letter surely implies that the actors did have new plays (inconveniently for Mr. Barroll's argument), all of which the queen has seen; and before we jump to conclusions about Burbage as the court contact, the reader should be told that Cuthbert Burbage (brother of Richard, the actor) had been for years in the service of Sir Walter Cope, the writer of the letter. That the leading actor should be sent as a messenger, at a time when the playhouses were not closed, seems improbable: the Burbage in Cope's last sentence is more likely to have been a servant.
Some of Mr. Barroll's basic assumptions are also open to question. He thinks that Othello and Measure for Measure, known to have been performed at court in the 1604 Christmas season, would not have been performed at court a year earlier. Why? "The King's Servants (and the master of the revels) could scarcely have wished a repetition of the former year's offerings." Again, "King Lear would almost certainly not be presented at court twice within a four-month period." These assumptions fly in the face of the known facts. For, while most of the records of court performances specify payments to acting companies without naming plays, now and then plays are identified. The Chamber Accounts for 1612–1613 list performances of a sequence of fourteen plays, the first being "ffilaster," the last "Love lyes a bleedinge" (alternative titles of the same play):5 Mr. Barroll admits that "Philaster seems to have been played twice." Elsewhere he prints a list which shows that The Merchant of Venice was staged at court on February 10 and 12, 1605—he does not tell us that the play was repeated "by the K's Comm[an]d."6 The assumption that plays were not repeated at court, underpinning Mr. Barroll's chronological speculations, is not easy to justify.
While the "traditional maneuvers" may be less than satisfactory for dating Shakespeare's plays, some of Mr. Barroll's methods beget skepticism as well. And what is the outcome? He argues for "clusters of Shakespeare plays emerging in brief periods of intense productivity": after 1602 "a two-year hiatus, then Othello and Measure for Measure in 1604, sixteen to twenty-two months of further hiatus, then Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, and King Lear by the end of 1606." This is to "correlate performance opportunities with probable dates of first production," and assumes that first productions followed hard upon composition. I shall be surprised if the new dates he proposes find a place in future biographies.
What I liked in Politics is the determination to question received ideas. One chapter, "Shakespeare without King James," contends that others "have overstated the power and significance of Shakespeare and also of plays in general at the royal Stuart court," and makes out an interesting case. (Mr. Fraser writes of the players' "trust in the King, and the ever-closer connection between the Crown and the stage.") The king watched plays at times of festivity, keeping up a court tradition; a contemporary observer said, however, that "it seems he takes no extraordinary pleasure in them. The Queen and Prince were more the players' friends, for on other nights they had them privately." From 1603 to 1616 acting companies were paid by the crown only twice outside their regular playing times, "for the visit of the King of Denmark in…1606, and for the delayed wedding festivities of Elizabeth of Bohemia." Mr. Barroll warns that the king did not attend all court performances, and argues that the royal patent issued to the King's Men so soon after Queen Elizabeth's death is unlikely to have been instigated by James himself, who had other preoccupations: "a powerful intercessor at court" best explains it, the strongest candidate being the Earl of Pembroke, the later dedicatee of Shakespeare's First Folio.
It is a pity that Mr. Barroll feels obliged to downgrade players more generally. He believes that they lacked respectability and "were never, jauntily, Lord So-and-So's Men as in current critical parlance; they were always the Servants of the Lord Chamberlain, the Servants of the Lord Admiral, the Servants of the Earl of Worcester." I have no brief or wish to defend current critical parlance, but observe in passing that Philip Henslowe, theater owner, referred in his diary to "the earle of susex his men," "the Quenes men," "my Lorde chamberlen men," etc.7 More to the point, being a servant—and of course many players were officially servants—did not imply loss of respectability, for even gentlemen could be described as servants to a social or feudal superior. Shakespeare (like other player-servants) called himself a gentleman in his will, and was a respected figure long before he retired to Stratford.
Mr. Barroll sees the players as "common players," whose "importance in the scheme of things [at court] has been greatly exaggerated." One would like to know what the three earls of Pembroke, Montgomery, and Southampton would have said in reply, or Queen Anne or Prince Henry. Be that as it may, one player did win proper recognition in his own sphere, if not at court. The man vilified as an "absolute Johannes factotum" in 1592 was named more respectfully in 1600: Much Ado and Henry IV, Part 2, were entered in the Stationers' Register as "by Master Shakespeare." These entries are thought to have been copied from the play-books, and, if so, they indicate how his immediate colleagues thought of him circa 1598, at the age of thirty-four. Master Shakespeare! James I, the wisest fool in Christendom, may have been indifferent (I regard this as not proven); in 1598, however, wise stationers began to print Shakespeare's name on play title-pages, and he was hailed in print as a priceless national asset. "As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latins: so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage."8
More by E.A.J. Honigmann
Playing the Unplayable
'The Second-Best Bed'
The New York Review, October 13, 1988. ↩
E. K. Chambers, "Plague Records," in The Elizabethan Stage, four volumes (Oxford University Press, 1924), Vol. 4, pp. 345 ff. ↩
E. K. Chambers, William Shakespeare, two volumes (Oxford University Press, 1930), Vol. 2, p. 249. ↩
Chambers, William Shakespeare, Vol. 2, p. 335. ↩
Chambers, The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 4, p. 180. ↩
Henslowe's Diary, edited by R. A. Foakes and R. T. Rickert (Cambridge University Press, 1961), pp. 20–21. ↩
Janet Malcolm
Thoughts on Autobiography from an Abandoned Autobiography
Not only have I failed to make my young self as interesting as the strangers I have written about, but I have withheld my affection.
April 29, 2010 issue
At Lady Ottoline's
July 17, 2003 issue
'Knee Deep in the Hoopla'
Effie Traylor-Parkes
Mozart in the Stacks
August 5, 1965 issue
Murray Kempton

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Third Radiation Ring Around Earth Explained, Belt Driven By 'Very Different Physical Processes' [PHOTO]
By Zoe Mintz @ZoeMintz
09/23/13 AT 12:59 PM
A third radiation ring around Earth discovered last September had different physical processes than the two known belts. Yuri Shprits, Adam Kellerman, Dmitri Subbotin/UCLA
When scientists discovered a third radiation ring that encircled the Earth last year they thought it would resemble the other two. But the ring that persisted for about a month was completely distinct.
New research by scientists at the University of California Los Angles shows that the belt had electrons so energetic they moved nearly at the speed of light.
"In the past, scientists thought that all the electrons in the radiation belts around the Earth obeyed the same physics," Yuri Shprits, a research geophysicist with the UCLA Department of Earth and Space Sciences, said in a statement. "We are finding now that radiation belts consist of different populations that are driven by very different physical processes."
Unlike the two previously discovered Van Allen radiation belts in 1958, the third ring was narrower and comprised of ultra-relativistic electrons – highly energized particles.
"This study shows that completely different populations of particles exist in space that change on different timescales, are driven by different physics and show very different spatial structures," Shprits said.
While the ultra-relativistic electrons exist in the two other radiation rings, these findings show that the Van Allen radiation rings "can no longer be considered as one consistent mass of electrons," Shprits said.
Shprits and his team found the third radiation belt on Sept. 1, 2012 after plasma waves "whipped out ultra-relativistic electrons in the outer belt almost down to the inner edge of the outer belt." After the storm, a third ring "less compact belt of electrons" formed creating a third "storage ring between the two Van Allen ones. It later decayed and was destroyed by an "powerful interplanetary shockwave," according to a statement.
"It was so odd looking, I thought there must be something wrong with the instrument," U-Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics director Dan Baker said in an earlier statement following the third ring's discovery. "But we saw things identically on each of the spacecraft. We had to come to the conclusion that this was real."
Scientists remained puzzled why the storm killed the third ring, while the other two reformed. "We have no idea how often this sort of thing happens," Baker said. "This may occur fairly frequently but we didn't have the tools to see it."
While more research needs to be done on the effects of radiation in space, the Van Allen radiation rings may pose a "severe danger to satellites and spacecraft," Shprits said. The Van Allen rings, found in 1958 by Explorer I, the first U.S. satellite that traveled to space occupy a space ranging from about 1,000 to 50,000 kilometers above the Earth's surface.
"I believe that, with this study, we have uncovered the tip of the iceberg," Shprits said. "We still need to fully understand how these electrons are accelerated, where they originate and how the dynamics of the belts is different for different storms."


All I ever want to eat for Labor Day is the best that the changing seasons have to offer. I opened my window this morning and I could feel the Fall coming in. September is like a cool breeze of hope for those of us who live in scorching climes. It's a hint of Autumn in the mornings and evenings, sandwiching warm, sunny days. All of the wonderful summer garden bounty is still ripe for the picking-corn, watermelon, juicy tomatoes. But the Fall harvest is beginning also-apples, late raspberries, wintersquash. And, mama, I want it all. Give me a piece of corn on the cob with an apple turnover on the side. So here's what we're having for dinner on Labor Day, to celebrate the very best of late summer. Now for dessert: I've been thinking about Raspberry pie all week long. I thought about it when I was balancing my checkbook, when I was teaching my college students about Galileo, when I was peeling potatoes. I had to stop the madness and make one. It's fantastic. Except now I want another one, so the madness really hasn't stopped at all. Betcha can't stop thinking about it, too now. It's fantastic and contagious, this berry pie obsession. Happy Labor Day, my dear, clever readers. Be safe and take it easy.
Cost: as cheap as $6.00 if you can get a good deal on berries-now's the time!
Notes: I used frozen berries that I bought cheap a few weeks ago. No problem whatsoever.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line standard piedish with one pie crust. In a large bowl, combine berries, sugar, and flour, and lemon squeeze if using. Pour into piecrust. Dot with butter. Top with remaining piecrust. Poke holes with a fork to vent steam. Brush with cream and sprinkle with sugar. Place prepared pie on cookie sheet. Bake for 45-55 minutes, or until crust is browned and raspberries are bubbling.
Hope you have a great weekend and a wonderful labor day.
I have never made a raspberry pie, but boysenberry is my favoritist, so this one can't be bad.
Ah, food obsessions. Are they a blessing or a curse? I often wonder:) Sometimes they are such a great motivator to me to make something wonderful for my family, other times they are my downfall.
Dear Prudelicious, I bet you don't get too many guys on your blog so I hope I can add to the numbers. I too daydream about food. Sometimes pies and sometimes Sloppy Joe's. Thats probably why I look the way I do. You have inspired me to go out into my garden to pick fresh raspberries and make a pie. I need to plant them first. How long do you think until I can eat my pie?
Forget about the pie. Come on over for those sloppy joes you talked about. Thanks for the best laugh I've had in a long time.
The pie looks dee-licious. I don't know what I'm eating tommorow, but I wish I was coming to your house.
Everything looks marvelous. Have a wonderful labor day!
Oh yum! I just might have to make that pie too;it looks delicious!
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PROFILE: Mary Anne Mohanraj is the founder and director of the Speculative Literature Foundation.
Mary Anne Mohanraj is the author of Bodies in Motion, a Sri Lankan-American novel-in-stories (HarperCollins) and nine other titles. Bodies in Motion was a finalist for the Asian American Book Awards and has been translated into six languages. It was recently selected for the One Book, One Truman program at Truman College.
Mohanraj was recipient of a 2009 Breaking Barriers Award from the Chicago Foundation for Women for Asian American arts organizing. She has also received an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Prose, a Neff Fellowship in English, a Steffenson-Canon Fellowship in the Humanities, and the Scowcroft Prize for Fiction.
Mohanraj serves as Associate Coordinator of Asian and Asian American Studies at UIC, and as Executive Director of both DesiLit, an arts organization supporting S. Asian and diaspora literature, and the SLF, an arts organization supporting speculative fiction.
Visit her website at maryannemohanraj.com.


MONTREAL—About 75 protesters shouted "shame" to evening diners on Tuesday at a sunny terrasse outside a downtown theatre that was hosting a show directed by a white man, featuring a white woman singing songs composed by Black slaves.
The sold-out for show by Quebec director Robert Lepage for Montreal's international jazz festival is a racist appropriation of Black culture, said Lucas Charlie Rose, a hip-hop artist who organized the protest.
White people should not be profiting from the history, culture and pain of Black people, he said.
The show's premiere was scheduled to start at 8 p.m. Tuesday. As the start time approached, protesters surrounded the theatre's entrance and yelled at patrons trying to enter.
Police had to form a cordon blocking protesters in order to allow people to enter the show. Ticket-holders faced barrage of shouts and chants such as "cancel the show" as they made their way into the theatre.
SLAV is one of the most popular events at Montreal's annual jazz festival, and the theatre added an extra 11 shows after the first five were sold out.
Betty Bonifassi, a Montreal-based singer known for her Oscar-nominated work on the soundtrack of Les Triplettes de Belleville, is the main performer in the show.
When reached by telephone on Tuesday, a clearly irritated Bonifassi had no desire to talk about the controversy.
"I have nothing to say; I'm preparing for the show," she said.
Protesters shouted through a loudspeaker at diners, who a few moments before the action began, sat quietly at tables eating and drinking adjacent to a part of Saint-Catherine Street closed to pedestrian traffic, just outside the festival's main stages.
Lepage and Bonifassi released a joint statement Tuesday on Facebook in which they said, "Yes, the history of slavery, in all its various forms, belongs first and foremost to those who have been oppressed and to the descendants of those people.
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Deutsche Bahn is focusing solely on Strong Rail
Management Board presents new strategy to Supervisory Board • DB Group aims to double patronage and make a major contribution to meeting climate protection targets in Germany • DB CEO Richard Lutz: "We are committed to fulfilling our responsibility to society" • Massive efforts now needed by DB, the rail industry and policymakers
The Management Board of Deutsche Bahn AG has presented its new "Strong Rail" strategy to the Supervisory Board in a day-long extraordinary meeting. In the future, the company will focus on consistently upgrading its core business. "Germany will only meet its climate targets if we succeed in shifting traffic to rail on a massive scale over the next decade," said DB CEO Dr. Richard Lutz. "Germany needs Strong Rail: for the climate, for people, for the economy and not least for Europe. DB acknowledges the responsibility we bear in society and we are focusing all of our efforts on building a strong rail system." The extraordinary meeting of the Supervisory Board was held in the Kaiserbahnhof in Potsdam and concluded on Tuesday evening.
Late last year, the DB Management Board introduced its "Agenda for better rail service" program, which was designed to increase capacities, raise quality and punctuality and improve customer satisfaction. The new overarching strategy, Strong Rail, will now provide a larger framework that makes it clear what the DB Group stands for and what direction it will take in the future. The new strategy tackles key transport and climate policy targets of the German government.
According to the company, these ambitious goals can only be achieved if Deutsche Bahn, the entire rail industry and policymakers tackle it together. In the coming months, important decisions will have to be made to implement these ambitious projects, including concerning the new Performance and Financing Agreement (LuFV III) that will come into force in 2020. Here, progressively digitalizing Germany's rail network will play a key role, as will building new lines and upgrading existing ones.
Supported by digital technology, the Group will consistently aim for growth in both passenger and freight transport in the coming years. DB will invest tens of billions of euros in new trains and increase operating performance on the network by 30%. In addition, more than 100,000 new employees will be hired in the next few years alone. Deutsche Bahn has also advanced toward its goal of using 100% renewable energy and will reach it already in 2038, far ahead of its original goal of 2050. The 173-page "DB's overarching strategy: Strong Rail" will replace the DB 2020 strategy that had been in place since the beginning of the decade.
The aim is to make DB more robust, more powerful and more pioneering.
"Our Strong Rail strategy will provide direction for our actions," said Dr. Richard Lutz. "But of course it is clear that a strong rail network has to be linked with other modes of transport and has to take an international perspective, since our passenger and freight customers' expectations don't stop at our own borders and can't be fulfilled with rail services alone. We will assess our major shareholdings based on how they can contribute to building a strong rail system. DB Schenker strengthens our European rail freight transport business and is thus an integral part of our Group portfolio."
The ten core messages of the new strategy at a glance:
1. Germany's climate targets can only be met with Strong Rail.
No other mode of transport is as eco-friendly or as strong in electric mobility. If we want to meet Germany's climate targets, traffic needs to be shifted to rail on a massive scale. That's why Deutsche Bahn is making an additional significant contribution to reducing CO2: Although DB had originally planned to achieve 100% of traction power from green sources by 2050, it will reach this goal already in 2038.
2. Strong Rail focuses on DB's core business.
The Strong Rail strategy and its implementation serve to guide DB into the future. DB will consistently assess its shareholdings based on their contribution to Strong Rail. As such, DB Schenker is viewed as providing key support to DB Cargo on its path to profitable growth. DB Arriva has little strategic relevance to building a strong rail network and should thus be sold.
3. Long distance transport will double its patronage.
DB's long distance transport will double its number of passengers to over 260 million per year. This will take an enormous amount of effort, but the addition of more direct connections and more frequent trains will help to meet this goal. When it is implemented, over 30 major cities will enjoy twice-hourly connections between cities in Germany.
4. DB will add one billion new regional and local passengers.
DB plans to add over one billion regional and local rail passengers by strengthening its local rail services and integrating new forms of mobility. To reach this goal, it will also be introducing smart services for transport in cities and particularly in rural regions.
5. DB Cargo will raise its rail traffic volumes in Germany by 70%.
The goal for DB Cargo is clear: to increase traffic volumes in German rail freight transport by 70%, for example by purchasing more than 300 new locomotives. DB Cargo still has a long and arduous period ahead to achieve this turnaround. However, DB is determined that Cargo will make a contribution to climate protection, specifically by increasing its market share in rail freight transport from the current 18% to 25% in a growing market. DB is also working with policymakers to find an economically viable, sustainable solution for single freight car transport, for example by investing in modernization and making it easier for customers to access the rail network.
6. DB will work with the German government to expand rail network capacity by 30%.
To be able to handle the growth in passenger and freight transport, DB will add 350 million train-path kilometers (t-p km), a 30% increase in capacity, to the German rail network. This will be achieved by upgrading the system, utilizing technological innovation and digitalization, and through more efficient use of existing capacity. Capacity-friendly construction will play a key role here.
7. DB will enter a new era with Digital Rail for Germany.
The kick-off packet of DB's Digital Rail for Germany Group program will help the company enter the digital era in rail operations. This represents a technological quantum leap and will improve capacity, quality, reliability and efficiency.
8. DB's stations will become hubs for state-of-the-art mobility.
Stations will be hubs of multimodal mobility and the center of life in the city. The goal is to double station capacity to host up to 40 million guests a day and to create seamless transitions between rail travel and travel by bike or bus or using new mobility services (carsharing, e-scooters, etc.).
9. DB will hire 100,000 new employees in the coming years.
DB is hiring at a time when most major companies are reducing their headcounts, and doing so on a massive scale. Over the next few years, some 100,000 employees will need to be recruited, trained and integrated for DB to reach its ambitious goals.
10. DB will have more trains and offer more connections than ever before.
DB is aiming to raise seating capacity in passenger transport by up to 100% by bringing the total number of trains in its long distance fleet up to 600, with a focus on investing in new high-speed trains. In addition, seven million more people, and therefore some 80% of the German population in total, will have access to the long distance network. This major jump in access will be achieved by linking more small and medium-sized cities with connections at least once every two hours. DB will also work with the client bodies to modernize nearly 1,000 trains in regional and local transport, enabling them to transport up to 12% more passengers.
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5 Reasons I'm Over the Moon That Tulsa is Getting a Cost Plus World Market!
When you live in a mid-sized market like Tulsa, Oklahoma, you inevitably end up with a short list of dream stores that you wish would come to town. For years, Cost Plus World Market has been on my list. Every trip to Dallas, you'd find me working in a visit to see what was new and to pick up a few specific items. One time we stopped to pick up spices and ended with a hammock!
This week, my dreams are coming true and we get our own store in Tulsa! In honor of this excitement, I wanted to share my list of favorite things about Cost Plus World Market. If you're local, make sure you keep reading to all the grand opening details and a coupon at the end of the post.
Yummy, Affordable Spices in Pretty Jars – Despite the fact that Cost Plus World Market was previously a 4 hour drive (one way!), about half our spice collection is their brand. The square bottles are perfect because they don't roll in my spice drawer. It's been making me crazy to have this mixed up mess of different size jars, so you can count on me replacing everything with the Cost Plus World Market spices now.
Unique Decor Options – I love that when I visit a Cost Plus World Market, the furniture is different from what I find in any other retail store. My favorite accent piece in our house is the tufted pink ottoman that I've used in both the closet and office.
Chic Kitchen Basics – When I need a new serving piece or want to update our glassware, I always think of Cost Plus World Market. Their kitchen section also has items that would make perfect hostess gifts. During one of our Dallas trips, we picked up these blue-rimmed margarita glasses. They were totally affordable, but the glass is really thick so they feel expensive.
Pretty Organizing – Throughout the store, I'm always finding containers perfect for organizing. On the office bookshelf, I used one of their leather handled vases to hold washi tape! Below that, the clear rectangle containers came from the Cost Plus World Market kitchen storage area.
The Variety of Furniture Styles – Whether you love mid-century modern, industrial, or a global look, Cost Plus World Market never disappoints me. This next picture isn't mine, but is a great example of some of the cool things they sell. I've had my eye on the pink chair since our bedroom makeover, but haven't come up with the perfect spot for it in our house yet. One day, she will be mine!
Those are just a few of my favorite sections, but you'll also find me hovering around the art, mirrors, jewelry, and food. I CAN NOT WAIT to have this store a short drive away!
What's your favorite thing to shop for at Cost Plus World Market?
Here's the scoop on all the cool stuff they are doing for the store opening so you can plan your first visit.
Spend $40 in one transaction and get 2 FREE** Movie Tickets. While Supplies Last. Limited to the first 250 customers each day.
**Offer valid 7/13/17–7/14/17. Offer valid for in-store purchases of $40 or more before taxes, less discounts. Not valid on purchases of alcoholic beverages and gift cards. First 250 customers each day who spend $40 or more in one transaction will receive 2 admissions via in-store handout, each redeemable for a Movie Certificate. Each Movie Certificate is good towards one admission (up to $13 total value) to see any movie at participating theaters in the U.S. Reward code void if not activated by 7/31/17, and Movie Certificate void if not used by 9/30/17. Not for resale; void if sold or exchanged. Limit 1 reward per person, per day. Subject to full terms and conditions, available at www.activaterewards.com/hmm/terms. See www.worldmarket.com/tulsa for full details.
Daily raffle drawings! Prizes include two (2) $250 World Market gift cards each day.
Plus, SAVE AN EXTRA 20% on your next purchase. Save 10% on Gourmet Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverages. Offer valid 7/9/17 – 7/16/17. Valid at the Tulsa, OK Cost Plus World Market store only.
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Be the first 200 customers to bring 5 non-perishable, non-glass items to donate to charity and get a signed autograph with Nicole.
***NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. The first 200 customers in line with the minimum donation of 5 non-perishable, non-glass food items will receive an autographed photo of Nicole Curtis. One autograph per person. Event subject to change or cancellation. Store opens at 9 am.
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Google just bought a small Internet service provider called Webpass. The search giant wants a little extra help in expanding the reach of Google Fiber, its own ultra-high-speed Internet service. But there's a little-noticed detail in this merger that could be more significant than the purchase of any single ISP. Google is now getting a firsthand look at a new wireless technology that aims to radically change the way the Internet is delivered.
That's because Webpass is helping to test something called pCell, a wireless antenna developed by serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Perlman and his latest company, Artemis Networks. Perlman's pCell works by serving up a kind of cell-signal bubble that follows you around, an approach Perlman believes could dramatically improve cellular network speeds.
Google and Perlman both declined to discuss the Webpass acquisition, though Perlman did say in an email that Artemis is excited to continue working with Webpass as it merges with Google Fiber. One way or another, it seems, these three companies are coming together. And together, the three serve as a powerful symbol for a rapidly approaching shift in how everyone gets online.
Today, most Internet services—both in-home and wireless—come straight from telecom giants like Verizon, AT&T, and Comcast. These companies have built their networks as they've seen fit, and they set the rules for using them. But Google and Facebook are changing this dynamic. Their massive online businesses can't grow and evolve unless the Internet grows and evolves, and they believe the telecoms aren't moving fast enough.
Both Google and Facebook are now building all kinds of tech for expanding the reach and improving the speed of the Internet, from new wireless antennas to drones and high-altitude balloons. And Google is operating as a straight-up Internet service provider. With Google Fiber, it provides ultra-high-speed broadband to businesses and homes. And with the newer Project Fi, it offers a service that lets you automatically move between different wireless networks, grabbing the best signal at any given moment.
A future where wireless customers gain independence from any single carrier is the path pCell is pushing down. And it could help Google push down the same path.
A typical celluar wireless antenna covers an area with a single signal, or cell, that all phones share. With pCell, multiple antennas transmit signals that combine to create a "personal cell" that follows you around. Since this cell is yours and yours only, you get all the bandwidth. In theory, this means a much better signal—a signal up to 1,000 times faster, according to Perlman.
Nokia Networks, which helps build so many of the world's wireless networks, very much believes in pCell and is now running tests. Separately, Artemis is testing these antennas in San Francisco, and Webpass is helping out. The Google-acquired company is installing pCells on apartment and office buildings where it already provides broadband service. These antennas plug into Webpass' broadband so that data can travel from a phone to the antenna to the Webpass gear to the wider Internet—and back again.
Google is getting a firsthand look at new wireless tech that could change how the Internet is delivered.
Originally, Perlman talked about selling antennas to the likes of Verizon and AT&T. But he's now exploring other options. He could bootstrap his own network, either through partners like Webpass—or even you and me. He envisions people with super-fast home Internet connections—like, say, Google Fiber—plugging into pCells, essentially turning their homes into cell towers (and taking a cut of the revenue).
By installing antennas on both homes and commercial buildings, Artemis could offer its own wireless service without going through AT&T or Verizon. Or it could just sell its available bandwidth to any wireless provider that needs it. If service is really poor for AT&T in a particular part of San Francisco, for example, pCell could provide a significant boost.
That's how pCell could dovetail with Google's Project Fi. The whole idea of Google's new wireless service is that it lets you move from network to network. It's not about which network you've signed up with; it's about whichever network is better where you are at that exact moment. Today, Google has deals with T-Mobile, Sprint, and US Cellular. But it aims to expand. As Perlman and company erect more and more their pCell antennas, Project Fi could tap straight into this growing network. In this way, Google could bootstrap a far better Project Fi—even if AT&T and Verizon aren't involved.
At the same time, pCell could also boost Google Fiber itself. Perlman's antenna isn't just a way of delivering signals to phones. It can also handle "backhaul," the grunt work of moving Internal signals between, say, different businesses or homes. Webpass already does wireless backhaul using antennas from a company called Siklu, which send signals to the roof, and then wire lines carry this signal to the building below. But these antennas require a clear line of sight, which pCell's don't. By using pCell's more efficient system for backhaul, the likes of Google Fiber could expand more quickly, since it wouldn't need as many wires.
And pCell isn't the only option. Siklu's Boris Maysel says the company has other ways of delivering signals that aren't so prone to interference. Facebook has built its own Internet antenna called Terragraph that it will soon deploy.
If they work as promised, all these antennas will provide better ways of delivering the Internet in cities and beyond. Even if Google doesn't wind up using pCell, companies large and small are clearly at work seeking to accelerate the progress of the Internet's underlying tech free from the control of any one provider. Whatever the specifics, that's good news for everyone.
Tech bubble? What tech bubble. The future looks bright, especially when you sit down to talk with these four people.


Inspirational Advice # 1 – You are so worth it!
You may be worn out, but you will have to push forward regardless. You are entering a long period of work and perseverance. This is definitely not the moment to be late or balk. If you are still in your pajamas at noon you should be ashamed! Do what you can to wake yourself from your recent daze. It's time to get up and get moving!


GABORONE, Botswana, 5 April 2019/ – Building off 2018's success and sold out conference, the second annual BotsReal Property & Infrastructure Forum will take place on 15 May 2019 at Masa Square Hotel in Gaborone.
This year's industry gathering will feature several new local and international speakers, from the private and public sectors, presenting case studies, presentations and participating in discussions on this year's theme: Innovating for Growth.
The forum has again attracted a number of regional and leading brands as sponsors and partners with RDC Properties returning as diamond sponsor.
Recognised as one of the country's most successful developers with a growing international reputation, RDC's executive chairman, Guido Giachetti, is respected and sought after for his views on the local and regional market.
With hundreds of delegates attending, networking is a major function of the one-day forum, but it's also a platform to discuss challenges facing the sector says Giachetti.
With an election cycle looming and investors and developers deploying a wait and see approach; Giachetti advocates that the Government should review its current position in light of the current macroeconomic environment.
"The government should review the tax bill, VRLS abolition and enacting REITs legislation," says Giachetti.
As the continent's acknowledged leaders in providing platforms for the investment and real estate sector to gather and formalise, API Events' Rusin acknowledges the role in which the BotsReal Forum platform will be used for the industry to gather and discuss pertinent issues.


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I love taking photographs. I have been doing Photography for 38 years. I hope you feel the love that I have for Photography in my pictures.
My specialties include both Portraiture and Event Photography. I enjoy taking both Studio Portraits or Environmental Portraits (both indoors and outdoors). Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, Weddings, Sweet 16s and Special Birthday Parties are some of my favorite Events to Photograph.
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For important WES attendance guidelines and educational absences information, check out this attendance policies link, which is also on the main page of our website. It is important for families to know when scheduling trips during the school year that 10 or more consecutive absences can result in being unenrolled from Washington and returning to your base school. Please carefully consider these guidelines before scheduling trips.
WCPSS Transportation is making improvements to the online communication system that families use to request service.
The most important change for parents requires they provide a valid student ID when using the Transportation web page to submit questions about their students' bus service. The valid student ID and matching student name must be provided to submit the request.
Schools provide families the student's ID, which can be found online in Home Base, on report cards, or from teachers or data managers.
Thursday, February 23rd: Math & Science Night!
Would you like to be more involved at school, but you're not sure how?
Are you not sure what's needed or who to contact?
Here is the info! Our Wizard PTA Nominating Committee is on the search for Washington parents who would like to join us for the 2017-2018 school year!
Below are just some of the roles we are looking to fill. If you have skills or interests in these roles, please complete this survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GY27LKN OR contact Kindergarten parent Kristen Beck at beckclanqueen@gmail.com for more information!
Shining Star Fundraising Committee: Our fundraiser was hugely successful this year and raised approximately $23,000 for our school. Every penny of this money goes to our school to benefit our students, teachers, and classrooms. Committee members work together to organize, publicize, collect donations, and celebrate donations with our Shining Star Wall of Fame!
Events Committee: Do you love planning events? Our Events committee works together to plan Fall Picnic, Arts & Letters Night, Math & Science Night, Cultural Night, Spring Celebration, and other events throughout the year. Our events at Washington are a time for us to come together for FUN and to celebrate our diverse school community.
Membership Committee: We are only as strong as our volunteers! Our membership committee works together to organize, publicize, and recruit new members to our PTA. If you love building relationships in our school community, this committee is for you!
Treasurer/Audit: Are you good with money and want to let everyone else do the planning? Then you would be a great person to help with being our Treasurer or serving on our Audit Committee. The PTA is a non-profit organization that tracks all monies donated and spent. Someone with these skills is a crucial part of our team!
Other areas of opportunity include staff appreciation, PTA website, school store, yearbook, newsletter, special education inclusion committee, hospitality, science fair, cultural night and many more!
We want you to share your gifts with our PTA in order to benefit ALL of our students!
From January 21 – March 4, Washington Elementary will serve as a collection site for the WAKE Up and Read book drive. We will be collecting new and gently-used books for children ages birth-12. We know that helping children develop a love for reading early in life can pave the way for later school success, and we want to ensure that every child in our community has the opportunity to grow and thrive. To learn more about the WAKE Up and Read collaborative campaign, please visit www.wakeupandread.org, or find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/pages/Wake -Up-and-Read. Thank you for your support – together we can make a difference here in Wake County!
We recently raised $600 from YOUR Box Top donations!


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Applicants for License shall be persons that:
Have an active ministry where, for example, they are involved in ministry such as Pastoring, Evangelism, Missions, Teaching, Church Administration, worship, the arts, Para-Church ministries or Itinerate ministry
Meet the Scriptural qualifications for ministry as described in l Timothy 3:l-7 and Titus l: 7-9.
Have received ministry training at a ministry training school or Bible college and/or received "on the job" ministry training.
Applicants shall be no younger than eighteen years of age.
Once licensed you are eligible to advance to the ordination level after 2 years of active ministry at the Licensing level. Applicants for ordination are required to submit a new application to The River.
Applicants for Ordination shall be persons that:
Have a proven ministry. This is why we require three references, a written ministry statement and relational connection to leaders that we are in relationship with.
Applicants will also be involved in ministry such as Pastoring, Evangelism, Missions, Teaching, Church Administration, worship, the arts, Para-Church ministries or Itinerate ministry
Be an approved and faithful member in a local church or fellowship
The qualifications for bishops, as presented in 1 Timothy 3:1-7 and Titus1:5-9, are the norm for all ministers today.
In addition, the following groups of attributes are recommended for the ordained minister.
SPIRITUAL ATTRIBUTES
Love (for God, the ministry, people, 1 Thessalonians 1:3; 1 Timothy 6:11, 12; 1 John 3:16)
Faith (Romans 12:3-8; 2 Corinthians 3:5, 6; 5:18-20; Ephesians 3:7;4:11; Colossians 1:23-29; 1 Thessalonians 1:3)
Humility (Proverbs 15:33; Romans 12:3);
Convictions (Jude 3);
Dedication (total commitment to God's will)
MORAL ATTRIBUTES
Integrity (basic honesty and wholeness of character; aspects of integrity are spiritual honesty (Psalm 51:6), intellectual honesty, honesty in preaching, and in everyday dealings)
Moral Purity (Isaiah 52:11; Galatians 1:10; 2:11-14; 1 Timothy 6:11-14; 2 Timothy 1:7, 9)
EMOTIONAL ATTRIBUTES
It is quite likely that more inefficiency and failure in the ministry are caused by emotional and personality deficiencies than by ill health, moral defection, and lack of training, education, or talent. Because of this it is most important that the minister be very mature in self-understanding and healthy emotionally.
The following seven emotional attributes of character are important to the minister: A sanctified temperament (Galatians 5:22, 23); a sense of proportion (balance of humor and seriousness); enthusiasm; realism; a sense of the beautiful (Philippians 4:8; Titus 1:15); sympathy (Romans 12:15; Hebrews 5:1); and patience (Romans 5:1-5; 2 Peter 1:5-8).
SOCIAL ATTRIBUTES
Lack of Prejudice
Cooperative Attitude
Conciliatory Disposition
Able to be Taught
Loyalty (to family, church, associates, and friends)
It should be noted, that applicants that have previously been ordained with a Recognized, Spirit filled Fellowship, or have an extensive history of ministry and leadership, do not necessarily have to begin with a license—but can be recommended to Ordination. Contact the River office for more information.


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We would love you to read these to your child, for fun, but also to teach them about some of the things in their world that could cause them some bother, potentially.
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For eleven-year-old Remy, there is no greater place on earth than Seagate Island. She's spent all the summers of her life there. She's glad to be back this summer even though she's missing her dog, Danish, who recently passed away.
Every summer she and her friends Macayla and Bennet enjoy their traditions, eat at the same places and relish Seagate Island's yearly activities. Remy appreciates the sameness of the little island, but this year she may have to accept that things change no matter how much she tries to keep them the same. Even her best friends seem to be changing. A set of twins, Calvin and Claire, are visiting their grandfather and are new to the island. They make no secret that Seagate bores them.
Not all the changes are bad. Remy stumbles into a dog sitting business and Macayla and Bennet jump right in to help. Before the summer is over, Remy and Macayla have their first disagreement ever. Remy finds her feelings for Bennett are changing. Bennett on the other hand seems to relish the company of Calvin who is his own age and lives right next door.
Remy tells her story in first person with humor and emotion. Welcome to Dog Beach is a promising start to Greenwald's new series. I'm looking forward to the next book.


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CPRC in the American Journal of Epidemiology: "What do we know about the Association between Firearm Legislation and Firearm-related Injuries"
CPRC President John Lott, CPRC Academic Board Member Carl Moody and CPRC Research Direction John Whitley had a letter in the June 16th issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology to point out errors in a recent paper in the journal by J. Santaella-Tenorio, A. Cerdá M, Villaveces, and Sandro Galea.…
CPRC original research
CRPC at National Review: The Case for More Concealed Handguns
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at National Review that was the top piece on their page on Wednesday. The piece, which covers the lessons that we have learned after Orlando, starts this way:
In a new Gallup poll released, a nearly two-to-one margin of Americans (64 to 34 percent) think that increasing the number of people carrying concealed handguns will help prevent terrorism.
CPRC on the Glenn Beck TV Show: Discussing the push to ban AR-15s
Dr. John Lott joined Glenn Beck on his TV program to discuss the differences between machine guns and the semi-automatic AR-15. (June 23, 2016 at 5:20 to 5:25 PM)
Beck: John, I appreciate your time and thanks for all your hard work over the years. You are really the leading voice of the stats and the research on guns.
CPRC in the News: Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Sean Hannity, Cato Institute and many others
Cleveland Channel 5 ABC, June 27, 2016
Rodecker pointed to the latest Crime Prevention Research Center report that shows that the number of permits issued in the U.S. has grown more than 15% in the past year. . . .
Ammoland, June 27, 2016
Details are emerging about the Orlando Pulse Massacre.
Media Discussion on CPRC
Mass Public Shooting at Nightclub in South Carolina stopped by Concealed Handgun Permit holder
Picture from Sumter County Sheriff's Office
After the massacre in Orlando, Florida, there is the question of how to stop mass public shootings. Unlike Florida, South Carolina allows people to carry permitted concealed handguns in Nightclubs. If the attack wasn't stopped, it would have gotten national news coverage. As it is, the attack has only gotten local news coverage. …
Defensive Gun Use
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NEW CPRC research: Do economists and criminologists differ in their views of firearms' effects on crime and suicide?
Regulation (Summer 2016) has published some new research by John Lott and Gary Mauser on "Do economists and criminologists differ in their views of firearms' effects on crime and suicide?" A copy of the article is available here.
CPRC on Sean Hannity's radio show debating new gun control measures: Background Checks and Assault Weapon Bans
https://crimeresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Hannity-Radio-Friday-06242016-607-622.m4a
Dr. John Lott debated Amy Dardashtian on Sean Hannity's radio show about the push for new gun control laws. They covered background checks and assault weapon bans. (Friday, June 24, 2016 from 6:05 to 6:20 PM). From Sean Hannity's website:
5:05PM EST – Amy Dardashtian Former CBS reporter turned on-air legal analyst & John Lott, the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and the author of the forthcoming "War on Guns"
Another attempt at gun control faltered in the U.S.
Thirteen defensive guns uses with legally carried concealed handguns over the last month
These are just some news stories that I have come across only involving people who could legally carry guns. It is not meant to be comprehensive of all the news stories over that month and certainly not meant to be comprehensive list of cases as most cases are unlikely to get media coverage. …
CPRC on the Dennis Prager Show: What can we do to stop mass public shootings?
Dr. John Lott talked to guest host Mark Isler about what we can do to stop mass public shootings (Thursday, June 23, 2016 from 2:05 to 3:00 PM).
https://crimeresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/dP20160623-Hr-3-THU.mp3
Dennis Prager's show is heard by over 1.5 million people