I first discovered Lacey Micallef on tumblr. She is such a badass and I quickly became obsessed with her art and her Instagram account. She has the ability to turn something simple into high art, whether it be the Space Dog Go app, or in a picture of a shower drain with a fake nail beside it.
About 3 months ago, Lacey launched Big Bud Press, a pin company that has added woven patches and totes. Each piece is designed by Lacey, but she also collaborates with other artists such as Buried Diamond, Chris Uphues, and Alex Martinez.
We are crushing hard on Lacey and Big Bud Press so check it out!


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Sep 23, 2019 | Atlanta, GA
This summer, the Office of International Initiatives convened a working group of members of the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research and the Office of the Provost to develop a resource to guide educational and research activities that happen abroad. The major deliverables of the working group were designed to help Georgia Tech make decisions and ensure proper planning, compliance, and transparency around all international activities.
"Georgia Tech is proud to engage with researchers, scholars, and institutions all over the world as an expression of the Institute's motto of Progress and Service," said Chaouki T. Abdallah, Georgia Tech's executive vice president for Research. "We remain wholeheartedly committed to those important global collaborations, but we must safeguard the Institute, and ensure all activities are fully transparent and in compliance with Georgia Tech policies, as well as applicable government laws and regulations."
Site users can find direct links to Georgia Tech resources, policies, and relevant campus contacts for offices and units that manage a variety of issues, including export control; managing conflicts of interest; appointments at other institutions; intellectual property; materials, data, and confidential information; the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA); international agreements; disclosing foreign relationships; lab tours; hosting foreign visitors; and international travel.
"Georgia Tech promotes a culture of global engagement and believes that our community is enriched through opportunities to study, work, serve, or do research abroad," said Rafael L. Bras, provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs. "Thanks to the working group, the guide now provides access to Tech's standing policies and procedures governing international activities in one centralized location."
The guide will be maintained by the Office of International Initiatives and will be available on faculty and staff resource pages at several touchpoints, including global.gatech.edu, research.gatech.edu, and provost.gatech.edu, among others.
The working group also refined Georgia Tech's Guiding Principles for International Activities, a standard set of objective criteria used by the Office of International Initiatives for measuring each international activity's impact on academic activities, value to the Institute, compliance with applicable policies, sustainability and viability, and risk assessment and mitigation concerns.
Georgia Tech is also in the process of creating an International Advisory Committee comprised of representatives of the administration, faculty, and staff. The committee will be chaired by Yves Berthelot, vice provost for International Initiatives, and will provide guidance and advice regarding how Georgia Tech engages internationally (e.g. research, MOUs, master research agreements, etc.).
"Our success in international activities must be assessed in full consideration of geopolitical factors, as well as current and potential state and federal regulations and legislation," said Berthelot. "With those considerations in mind, the work of the committee will prove vital for Georgia Tech as we continue to grow our relationships across the world and explore new opportunities to engage globally."
Nominations for the committee are currently being accepted through Oct. 7. Faculty and staff are encouraged to submit self-nominations or nominations for a colleague. Details on the final committee roster will be made available via the online tool, once finalized. To self-nominate or nominate a colleague for the committee, or for more information on the working group's activities, contact Monique Tavares, director of Global Operations at mtavares@gatech.edu.
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Office of International Initiatives
Georgia Tech Guide for Responsible International Activities

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Aerial is a site specific installation at the Abbey Brauweiler in Germany. Created using feuilleté glass, wood, nails and white painting, it appears as if a giant glass wave has crashed into the building and froze.
The piece is delicate, and looks absolutely beautiful, especially the attention to detail of wave motion and the fluidity of the sculpture.


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Ларионова Татьяна Петровна () — российский государственный и общественный деятель. Депутат Государственной думы Федерального собрания Российской Федерации VIII созыва. Член комитета Государственной Думы по вопросам семьи, женщин и детей.

Заместитель Председателя Государственного Совета Республики Татарстан, член Президиума Государственного Совета Республики. Исполнительный директор Некоммерческой организации «Республиканский Фонд возрождения памятников истории и культуры Республики Татарстан».

Образование
Образование — высшее, окончила Казанский государственный университет им. В. И. Ульянова-Ленина по специальности «Русский язык и литература»; Казанский государственный медицинский институт по специальности — филолог и социальный работник. Кандидат социологических наук. Имеет учёное звание доцента по кафедре социологии.

Трудовая деятельность
Трудовую деятельность начала в 1972 году старшей пионервожатой средней школы № 82 г. Казани, затем была организатором внеклассной и внешкольной работы.

С 1983 по 1991 годы была на партийной работе — инструктором, заместителем заведующего, заведующей отделом пропаганды и агитации, вторым секретарем Приволжского райкома партии г. Казани.

С 1991 г. в администрации г. Казани — заведующей отделом изучения и реализации проблем молодежи и социальной защиты, начальником отдела социальной защиты малоимущих слоев населения, начальником управления социальной защиты населения.

С 2001 по 2006 гг. — начальник управления социальной защиты Министерства социальной защиты Республики Татарстан в г. Казани.

С ноября 2006 г. — Государственный советник при Президенте Республики Татарстан по социальным вопросам.

С марта 2010 г. — Помощник Президента Республики Татарстан по социальным вопросам.

10 марта 2010 г. назначена исполнительным директором некоммерческой организации «Республиканский Фонд возрождения памятников истории и культуры Республики Татарстан». С

С октября 2014 по сентябрь 2019 года — Депутат Государственного Совета Республики Татарстан пятого созыва, заместитель Председателя Государственного Совета Республики Татарстан, Член Президиума Государственного Совета Республики Татарстан. Курировала вопросы участия Государственного Совета Республики Татарстан и его органов в реализации государственной политики в сфере возрождения и развития памятников истории и культуры, расположенных на территории Республики Татарстан, популяризации объектов культурного наследия Республики Татарстан. Координировала взаимодействие Государственного Совета Республики Татарстан и его органов с благотворительными организациями и меценатами.

С сентября 2019 по сентябрь 2021 года— депутат Государственного совета РТ шестого созыва. Заместитель председателя Государственного Совета РТ.

19 сентября 2021 года избрана депутатом Государственной Думы VIII созыва.

Санкции
25 февраля 2023 года, на фоне вторжения России на Украину, внесена в санкционный список всех стран Евросоюза за действия которые подрывают территориальную целостность, суверенитет и независимость Украины.

Также находится под санкциями США и Новой Зеландии.

Общественная деятельность
Президент российской общественной организации «Единство женщин».

Руководитель Общественного объединения женщин-депутатов Государственного Совета Республики Татарстан «Мэрхэмэт-Милосердие».

Глава фонда «Возрождение».

Семья
Замужем, имеет дочь.

Награды
 «Заслуженный работник культуры Республики Татарстан» (1999)
 Почётная грамота Министерства просвещения СССР (1982)
 Нагрудный знак «Почётный работник Минтруда России» (2003)
 Медаль «В память 1000-летия Казани» (2005)
 Медаль ордена «За заслуги перед Отечеством» II степени (2006)
 Медаль ордена «За заслуги перед Отечеством» I степени (2012)
 Благодарность Президента Республики Татарстан (2013)
 Медаль «За доблестный труд» (2014)
 Орден «Дуслык» (2017)
 Государственная премия Республики Татарстан в области науки и техники (2020)
 Орден преподобной Евфросинии, великой княгини Московской III степени (2021) — во внимание к помощи в строительстве Казанского собора г. Казани

Примечания

Депутаты Государственного Совета Республики Татарстан
Депутаты Государственной думы Российской Федерации VIII созыва
Лица, подвергнутые санкциям в связи с конфликтом на Украине

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Frequency Earth 108: Robotic Arms
September 20, 2018 / Rob Schultz
Another one of our pipe dreams in creating this show was that in knowing we had all of electronic media history to play in, we could tune into the other shows our friends were making. We wanted to do a broadcast involving the characters of Doc Mock's Movie Mausoleum, we traded a dozen emails with the pre-televised Birthday Boys, we made a few gentlemanly passes at the Alexes of Smug Rock Nation. The only one that didn't turn into a smoldering hole in our production calendar was Diani & Devine, whose Wedding Witch graces episode 108.
Back to School is also an interesting segment because I had nothing to do with it, no input, I just heard it as a final piece in the show. I don't think we can say that about anything else so far. Oh, except for all the Z-Rob. We once deep-sixed a Z-Rob segment for taking aim at one of our fans, who wrote in to say she didn't appreciate all the Z-Rob.
Enough reminiscing about the past, let us reminisce of the future! Join us on 9/29 for our live taping at the Pack Theater! We'll be giving you a preview of our new series, and an opportunity to be a part of the show!
categories / Comedy Jokes, Life, podcast, stories
Making a Sellable Pilot, Part 1: Finding Your Subject
December 13, 2016 / Rob Schultz
As I learned from this Deadline article the other day, a pilot presentation I produced last year was recently picked up by TruTV as a series for 2017. Exciting times! I can't tell you everything about how to make selling a show happen for you; it probably requires agents and managers and famous people and secret backroom deals that I don't know anything about. But I can tell you how to produce a pilot presentation that's good enough to get a production company to spend money on a studio pilot that's good enough to get TruTV to spend money on a season of your show.
Today I'm going to talk about finding a subject for your show, which is mostly how I got involved with making this pilot. Tomorrow we'll talk about shooting, Thursday it'll be post-production, and Friday will be business. The nuts and bolts stuff I'd probably like reading about will be on those middle days.
Chapter 1: Someone tell me what to make a TV show about!
Tip 1: Know what you do.
In college, I produced three seasons of a talk show about hockey. I don't particularly care about hockey, but I don't need to. The presenters know plenty, and they're the ones having the discussion. So they talk and I arrange cameras and lights and sound and graphics, and we meet in the middle on the gun battles and cliffhanger endings and other silly stuff that goes into me making a talk show.
Even though I like writing things, I already have experience building up the scaffolding of a video production around a core of an existing act.
I had seen Talk Show the Game Show on stage at least a dozen times, in various theaters, with various lineups of guests and judges and scorekeepers. Guy Branum and Casey Schreiner have refined their show over lots of performances, and they don't need me to tell them how to do it. The stage show was already honed and there was no reason it couldn't move to TV, at least in my opinion. Most importantly, for some crazy reason, nobody had already done this!
The tip here is the same thing a lot of indie filmmakers say: figure out what you've already got access to for free production value. In my case, this seemed like a perfect pitch: I didn't need to develop or meddle with the content of the show, which the performers would be happy about. I just needed to make a recording that shows someone('s assistant) in an office somewhere how much people like this thing, and how much everyone will like them if they put it on TV.
What I do is turn the crank on the video-making machinery.
Tip 2: Strategize, but don't delay.
Unfortunately, the next step is a little bit like Steve Martin's "First, get a million dollars." The legwork you need to do to get a project rolling is going to be different every time. Maybe you need to get writing, maybe you need to seek funding, or start casting rich housewives.
In 2015, I performed at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival. So did Guy Branum. Even though I had already run into Guy a bunch of times in Los Angeles, and he'd performed on shows that I produced or hosted, it seemed like a great chance to chat with him as a peer. (I have this idea that you meet people as either a fan or a peer, and it's difficult for everyone if they get too muddled.)
The festival rented out a video arcade to entertain the comics one afternoon, and we walked there together from the hotel. I re-introduced myself (the less-famous comedian may as well get used to introducing and re-introducing themselves without taking it personally. We all look the same.) and we talked careers for a mile. How do you get writing packets to submit to shows, what other festivals are worth doing, and oh, by the way, how come nobody has ever made a TV show out of your great stage show? Did you know I happen to have the resources to do a good job of that?
The number one thing I needed was for Guy to be interested. If it turned out he had a deal already or was happy with his other TV jobs and didn't want to adapt TSGS then the project would have been dead in the water for me.
Tip 3: Talk to people.
It's okay to tell people what you're up to. Nobody is going to steal your idea. Most people don't have enough passion or drive to make their own ideas, and those that do are too busy. Besides all that, you don't know who can help you, and neither do they unless they know you need help. After Bridgetown in May, I went home to Los Angeles and Guy went to New York to write shows for Billy Eichner. My plan to shoot a Talk Show the Game Show performance was useless without anyone in town doing one.
By September, Guy Branum forgot all about our conversation. When he ran into my comedy show producing partner, Jason Van Glass, and invited him to a Talk Show the Game Show happening that week, Jason was able to connect those dots and remind Guy that there was someone who wanted to shoot his show.
Probably, what would have happened is I would have gone to see the show and tried to make plans to shoot the next one. And then our schedules wouldn't've lined up and we'd delay, and then one of us would be out of town and missed the next one, on and on. Instead, we cut right to the chase and I had 36 hours to put a shoot together. Find out how that went down tomorrow!
Rob Schultz is an editor, animator, comedian, sometimes even producer. I know, everyone is like, a six-part hyphenate these days, but in almost 20 years of video production I've racked up somewhere around 300 projects. If you'd like help making your thing better, let's talk.
Part 1: Finding your Show
Part 2: Shooting your Show
Part 3: Editing your Show
Part 4: Mistakes to Avoid
categories / how to, Life, Work, stories
A buddhist walks up to a hot dog vendor…
August 12, 2014 / Rob Schultz
"A buddhist walks up to a hot dog vendor and says, 'make me one with everything.'"
I like that joke. it's not mine, but I say it anytime someone says something to me that sounds like "You do stand-up? Tell me a joke."[1] I heard Robin Williams say it in Bicentennial Man.
Robin Williams has been the almost-exclusive topic of my social media for the past 24 hours. I assume that this is because I'm mainly internet friends with comedians, who are especially traumatized by the news. The one or two people I'm following on twitter who are posting advertisements for their books and kickstarters in the middle of it all seem unusually tone deaf, but it's probably not their fault.
I mentioned a little while ago about how living in Los Angeles, trying to insinuate myself into the worlds of comedy and film has lead to meeting and working with a surprising number of high school Rob's heroes. This means that when a family member sees me at Christmas and asks if I've ever met anyone famous, I do a quick flip through a mental rolodex of people I'm proud to have met and/or worked with, and then say "nah, not really no.'"[2]
But, I was at UCB in one of the periods when Robin Williams was dropping in at the theater. A bunch of improvisers have been sharing their memories of it on facebook.com. This is what I wrote on such a thread:
I was in that jam too. The scene was between two hairdressers, and he and I were the people getting their hair done, and we read our magazines and didn't say anything. The hairdressers had some kind of fight or meltdown or killed each other or something, and we were left sitting there. I think maybe I asked him about his kids, and then someone wiped it. There was a later scene where I was trying to point someone in and he didn't know what I was doing so he shook my hand and I was a little embarrassed that he thought I wanted a handshake in the middle of the set, or maybe at all.
But try explaining UCB's Long Hard Improv Jam to your aunt in Ohio. "I did a scene on stage with Robin Williams once. We didn't really meet, but we performed together."
blink.
"No, not really, no."
What I really want to do in these moments is murmur "it's not like thaaaat." but if the person I'm talking to was going to pick up on a Maria Bamford reference, they wouldn't've been asking in the first place. ↩
"You know that lady in those target commercials from a couple years back? We had dinner once. She's the best." ↩
categories / Life, stories
Nintendo Treehouse Live @ E3
July 07, 2014 / Rob Schultz
Last month, I was part of the crew that made Nintendo's Treehouse Live @ E3 happen. It was 25 hours of TV streaming live-to-web from the Nintendo booth on the show floor.
I was in the control room for the broadcast, also known as the edge of the stage. I programmed and piloted our little robot camera, I made graphics, I prepped media in our switcher (the Atem M series from Black Magic. Tip for working with those: If you bring an ethernet switch and make a little LAN, multiple computers can be in control of the switcher at the same time, allowing one op to do the actual switching while another one preps and loads graphics or adjusts sound), at the last minute I turned out to be running video playback from my laptop (tips on that in a minute), and most of all, I was responsible for engineering the signal flow through the booth that got all the stuff from the cameras and consoles piped out to the internet.
categories / Life, stories, how to, Work
Group Mind
November 05, 2012 / Rob Schultz
Now, as the man says, I told you that story to tell you this one...
Election night is a time to spend with your people. Last time we elected President Obama, I was at a comedy show. It was an improv show called Tuesday Night Thunder and it was so hot that night that we all stood outside the theater looking in at a projector feeding us the results. Tomorrow, when we do it again, I'm going to be at a stand-up show on the UCLA campus.
I think I can get away with saying I'm a stand-up comic. Or, that I do stand-up comedy. I could say that. I may only be at the volunteer, or perhaps hobbyist level, but I go out there and say unusual things to strangers through public address systems.
To talk about improv comedy, I have to put things in the past tense. I spent a year or two living in and around the UCB Theatre. I took classes, worked for the theater to pay for them, went to shows, and the satellite shows, and played with practice teams.
Eventually, through connections I made there, I got a job working second shift. Which is when all the comedy shows are. I thought I'd be taking a short break; the gig was scheduled to be 2-3 months. I joined facebook so I wouldn't completely disappear from the scene. Nine months later the job was coming to a close, and the community at the theater had pretty much turned over, as it so often does. I'd washed out more or less by default.
When I started working on stand-up, I found it really striking how different the communities are. As an improviser I don't know if I ever scratched the surface, which is, even now, kind of baffling. Improv is built on tenets of being honest and open with each other. The platonic ideal of an improv team is a group that knows each other so well they appear to possess a 'group mind.' They're always on the same page. And what's more, in every improv group, you literally need each other to put on a show. In the world of stand-up, each and every other performer is better off when any one of us quits. And somehow stand-up feels so much more inclusive.
As far as I know, my performance as an improviser was fine for a beginner, but it does take substantially longer to reach a point where you have something to show for yourself. A stand-up just has to say something good. Could be the first time you see him. Also, it's a lot easier for the would-be stand-up to go out and get practice. Especially in Los Angeles. You could get up at a few open mics a night out here from the get-go, but as an improviser you're looking at an investment of months before it even makes sense to practice outside of class.
Both groups lay claim to making an art of something scary. Both are speaking in front of a crowd (if you're lucky). Improvisers don't have a script, stand-ups don't have any backup.
In stand-up, there's the sense that sheer bloodyminded perseverance may one day lead to marginal success, and it's very portable - you can get up with a mic and talk to people just about anywhere. In improv, all you seem to get from hanging on for a long time is a job at one of the specialized theaters where improv is permitted and accepted. Not performing, mind you. Taking tickets, mopping floors, that sort of thing.
On the other hand, the good improvisers seem to have better job prospects. I think it's because while it is still uncommon, it's possible to, and people do, make a living in stand-up. There's an attainable level of success where you can make money performing. This is almost not true of improv. The highest level most UCB students can hope to attain is performing weekly on a official 'house' team of the theater, and once you do, you're paying to play. So improvisers need to look for alternatives. And when you get right down to it, they usually have to do so alone. You don't see an improv team getting hired for, well, anything.
Once, I joined an improv team by accident. It was a two week process. The first week was marked by the exciting debut of a group I was really happy to be a part of. We booked a show at Tuesday Night Thunder, with its months-long waiting list. As the time grew near, I had been visiting family, talking about how great improv was and how things are really shaping up, and I told my dad about our first show. I couldn't wait to get back in town and go do it. Practice is one thing, but, like in stand-up, performing in front of an audience is something else. There's a lot to learn from it. What I learned that night was that this awesome group I was so proud of was going to disband very soon, and the way I learned it was by being the only one of eight team members to attend our first show.
Now as a standup, I would know what to do when the scheduled act is a no-show and there's 20 minutes to fill. Let me at that mic! As an improviser, that was not a task I could complete on my own. So I rounded up some regulars from the audience to perform with me. And the next week, when one of them was on the lineup at TNT and a couple people from his team didn't show up, he asked me to sit in with them. And afterward, they told me when and where to be for their weekly rehearsal.
I think I kept playing with that group for 6 months, at least. And I think it made me a worse improviser. In the beginning, I was further in the curriculum than some of the group, and felt like it was beneath me to be there, which is both ridiculous and stupid of me. But it helped me to build up some awful habits. I got to know my teammates, and to think that some of them could not be trusted to play make-believe properly. I'd still say that if there's anyone on your team that you don't want to perform with, there's a problem on that team, but I was part of the problem too. And I stewed and felt unhappy, until one day I hatched the perfect plan: I would quit.
That week at practice, I showed up prepared to announce that I was done. And so did two other people on the team. And so did our coach. It was the most group-mind we ever experienced.
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Bible > Luke > Chapter 22 > Verse 66
◄ Luke 22:66 ►
At daybreak the council of the elders of the people, both the chief priests and the teachers of the law, met together, and Jesus was led before them.
At daybreak all the elders of the people assembled, including the leading priests and the teachers of religious law. Jesus was led before this high council,
When day came, the assembly of the elders of the people gathered together, both chief priests and scribes. And they led him away to their council, and they said,
At daybreak the council of the elders of the people, both the chief priests and scribes, met together. They led Jesus into their Sanhedrin and said,
And when it became day, the elderhood of the people were gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led Him into their council, saying,
And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him into their council, saying,
As soon as it was day, the elders of the people, both chief priests and scribes, came together and led Him into their council, saying,
When it was day, the Council of elders of the people assembled, both chief priests and scribes, and they led Him away to their council chamber, saying,
And when it was day, the Council of elders of the people assembled, both chief priests and scribes, and they led Him away to their council chamber, saying,
And as the day came, the Sanhedrin of elders of the people assembled, both chief priests and scribes, and they led Him away to their Sanhedrin, saying,
When day came, the Council of the elders of the people (Sanhedrin, Jewish High Court) assembled, both chief priests and scribes; and they led Jesus away to the council chamber, saying,
When daylight came, the elders of the people, both the chief priests and the scribes, convened and brought him before their Sanhedrin.
And as soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people was gathered together, both chief priests and scribes; and they led him away into their council, saying,
And when day had dawned, the Elders and the Chief Priests and the Scribes were gathered together and they brought him to the place of their assembly.
At daybreak the nation's leaders, the chief priests, and the teachers of the Law of Moses got together and brought Jesus before their council.
And as soon as it was day, the ancients of the people, and the chief priests and scribes, cane together; and they brought him into their council, saying: If thou be the Christ, tell us.
In the morning the council of the people's leaders, the chief priests and the scribes, gathered together. They brought Jesus in front of their highest court and asked him,
When day came, the elders, the chief priests, and the teachers of the Law met together, and Jesus was brought before the Council.
As soon as day came, the elders of the people, the high priests, and the scribes assembled and brought him before their Council.
And when it became day there was gathered together the eldership of the people, chief priests also, and scribes, and they led Him up to their own Sanhedrin,
When day came the council of elders of the people met, both chief priests and scribes, and they brought him before their Sanhedrin.
When day came, the council of the elders of the people gathered together, both the chief priests and the experts in the law. Then they led Jesus away to their council
When day came, the assembly of the elders of the people, both chief priests and scribes, gathered together, and they brought him to their council.
As soon as it was day, the council of the elders of the people gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,
And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people, and the chief priests, and the scribes came together, and led him into their council,
As soon as it was day, the whole body of the Elders, both High Priests and Scribes, assembled. Then He was brought into their Sanhedrin, and they asked Him,
As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people were gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,
And when it became day there was gathered together the eldership of the people, chief priests also, and scribes, and they led him up to their own sanhedrim,
Jesus Faces the Council
65And they said many other blasphemous things against Him. 66 At daybreak the council of the elders of the people, both the chief priests and scribes, met together. They led Jesus into their Sanhedrin and said, 67"If You are the Christ, tell us." Jesus answered, "If I tell you, you will not believe.…
But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, 'Raca,' will be subject to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, 'You fool!' will be subject to the fire of hell.
When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people conspired against Jesus to put Him to death.
Mark 15:1
Early in the morning, the chief priests, elders, scribes, and the whole Sanhedrin devised a plan. They bound Jesus, led Him away, and handed Him over to Pilate.
Then they led Jesus away from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. By now it was early morning, and the Jews did not enter the Praetorium, to avoid being defiled and unable to eat the Passover.
as the high priest and the whole Council can testify about me. I even obtained letters from them to their brothers in Damascus, and I was on my way to apprehend these people and bring them to Jerusalem to be punished.
as soon.
When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate.
elders.
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? …
Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things? …
As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.
Assembled Assembly Body Chamber Chief Council Daybreak Elders Eldership Gathered High Jesus Led Met Priests Rulers Sanhedrim Sanhedrin Scribes Soon Teachers Together Whole
1. The leaders conspire against Jesus.
3. Satan prepares Judas to betray him.
7. The apostles prepare the Passover.
19. Jesus institutes his holy supper;
21. covertly foretells of the traitor;
24. rebukes the rest of his apostles from ambition;
31. assures Peter his faith should not fail;
34. and yet he should deny him thrice.
39. He prays in the mount, and sweats blood;
47. is betrayed with a kiss;
50. he heals Malchus' ear;
54. he is thrice denied by Peter;
63. shamefully abused;
66. and confesses himself to be the Son of God.
(66-71) And as soon as it was day.--See Notes on Matthew 27:11-14; Mark 15:2-5. The special mention of the hour, though agreeing with what is implied in the other Gospels, is peculiar to St. Luke.
The elders of the people.--Literally, the presbytery of the people. St. Luke uses here, and in Acts 22:5, the collective singular noun, instead of the masculine plural. St. Paul uses it of the assembly of the elders of the Church, in 1Timothy 4:14.
Verses 66-71. - The third trial before the Sanhedrin. Verse 66. - And as soon as it was day. The Sanhedrin as a council could only meet by day; all the preliminaries had been settled and the course of procedure fully arranged when the legal time for the meeting of the state council arrived. The elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes earns together, and led him into their council. These were the three constitutional parts of the Sanhedrin. The name of the famous Sanhedrin, curiously enough, is a Greek, not a Hebrew or Aramaic word, being derived from συνέδριον, an assembly. We first come on the word, says Dr. Farrar, when this state council summoned before them Hyrcanus II., son of Alexander Jannaeus. In the time of our Lord, the Roman government had taken from them the power of carrying out capital sentences; hence their bringing Jesus before Pilate. There is a remarkable tradition that the council left their proper place of assembly, Gazith, and sat in another chamber (forty years before the destruction of the temple). Now, it was forbidden to condemn to death except in Gazith (see 'Avoda Zara,' pp. 61, etc.). Dr. Westcott quotes from Derenbourg ('Essai sur l'Histoire et la Geographie de Palestine'), who suggests the probability of the night sitting of Anrias and Caiaphas and the members of the Sanhedrin favorable to their policy (the second trial) being held at "the Booths of the Sons of Hanan" (Annas), These booths, or shops, were under two cedars on the Mount of Olives (Jerusalem Talmud, 'Taanith,' 4:8). There were four of these booths, which were for the sale of objects legally pure. In one of these pigeons were sold for the sacrifices of all Israel. Derenbourg conjectures that these booths on the Mount of Olives were part of the famous Booths of the Sons of Hanan (Annas), to which the Sanhedrin retired when it left the chamber Gazith.
At daybreak
ἡμέρα (hēmera)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2250: A day, the period from sunrise to sunset.
τὸ (to)
Article - Nominative Neuter Singular
council of the elders
πρεσβυτέριον (presbyterion)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 4244: Neuter of a presumed derivative of presbuteros; the order of elders, i.e., Israelite Sanhedrin or Christian 'presbytery'.
τοῦ (tou)
Article - Genitive Masculine Singular
λαοῦ (laou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2992: Apparently a primary word; a people.
τε (te)
Strong's 5037: And, both. A primary particle of connection or addition; both or also.
[the] chief priests
ἀρχιερεῖς (archiereis)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 749: High priest, chief priest. From arche and hiereus; the high-priest; by extension a chief priest.
scribes,
γραμματεῖς (grammateis)
Strong's 1122: From gramma. A writer, i.e. scribe or secretary.
met together.
συνήχθη (synēchthē)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 4863: From sun and ago; to lead together, i.e. Collect or convene; specially, to entertain.
They led
ἀπήγαγον (apēgagon)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 520: To lead, carry, take away; met: To be led astray, seduced. From apo and ago; to take off.
αὐτὸν (auton)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.
εἰς (eis)
Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.
αὐτῶν (autōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Plural
συνέδριον (synedrion)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 4892: A council, tribunal; the Sanhedrin, the meeting place of the Sanhedrin.
[and] said,
λέγοντες (legontes)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3004: (a) I say, speak; I mean, mention, tell, (b) I call, name, especially in the pass., (c) I tell, command.
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NT Gospels: Luke 22:66 As soon as it was day (Luke Lu Lk)


You are here: Home / General / Armani Color Corrector Concealers – How I love thee!
Corrective concealer in four color-balancing shades designed to target specific complexion concerns. Exclusive micro-fil technology allows for targeted correction, visibly concealing imperfections while light-reflecting pearls impart a halo of light imparting a seamless, flawless facial canvas.
Pink (Shade 1) counteracts sallow, dull skin and effectively corrects yellow and olive pigmentation.
Orange (Shade 2) targets olive or darker skin tones to conceal under-eye circles, freckles, dark spots and hyper-pigmentation.
Yellow (Shade 3) balances pink skin tones, conceals red-marks, pinkish blemishes and under-eye circles. Also use to brighten dull skin.
Green (Shade 4) tones down redness in skin, conceals small blemishes and blotchiness induces by rosacea or skin irritation.
I own two – the green and 01, the pink. I have a feeling 02 Orange will work nicely under the eyes as will 03 Yellow but I have been using pink cos it just happens to be the one I managed to get cheap on the eBay.
The Armani concealers come with very thin brushes – they are good for getting into crevices and also for deciding where to place the creative colour.
* It looks more natural than touche eclat, which is too light for medium skin like mine, and more than yellow concealers that look racoon like.
I think I may invest in the orange – I have a feeling this colour will also work nicely under the eyes.
Hey Row! I have just got this in the peach and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it (note I've copied an upbeat phrase of yours :)!!!) It seems to work on the same principal as Bobbi Brown's corrector/concealer method but in my opinion it's far more natural. I have the worst undereye circles ever but I can't tell you how impressed I am with the coverage the Armani corrector and concealer gave. I'm about to try the MUFE full cover concealer so I'm excited about that too. by the way, do you know where you can get ispropyl alcohol from? Boots don't sock it any more. Is that all you use to clean your brushes? It'll be far cheaper than the MAC or Shu brush cleansers.
I have the green and its so-so. But yeah the pink and orange is AMAZING under the eyes. You shud check the brand its super nice but a bit too expensive !
Indeed, join my on the cult of Armani. This stuff is AMAZING! and found by accident. I think Eve Pearl always goes on about salmon concealer too, but trust me I have tried some and it just looks – wrong. Bright pink under my eyes but this is a dream.
Isopropyl – get this from eBay. I used to get it from Screenface – shipping is far too much. Let me find my eBay stockist – its a huge containter so lasts forever. Also the Shu cleaner is like 90% isopropyl anyway. Its so much quicker than using baby shampoo.
With shipping its about £9 – Screenface will charge you £6 not inc shipping for just £150ml and its the same thing.
Its useful for santising make up too, tools – I use it for everything dahling. Oh keep it away from pets and kids tho!
Wow, I sound like a commercial!
I must get my hands on these. The results look flawless.
Overall, though, I've had little luck with color corrector products. I tried the YSL Tient Parfait in the lavender shade to correct my sallow, Snape-like skin, but it just made me look ashy and pale, like Lord Voldemort.
how am i supposed to buy this?


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Ray Bolger (1904-1987), an American entertainer of stage and screen, is best known for his iconic portrayal of the Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz. Bolger began his career in vaudeville and his limber body and ability to ad-lib movement won him many starring roles on Broadway in the 1930s. Bolger's film career began when he signed a contract with MGM in 1936. Two years later Bolger was cast as the Tin Woodman in the studios big fantasy production The Wizard of Oz. Feeling he could use his dancing and comedic skills to greater effect, Bolger was delighted when his role was switched to that of the Scarecrow instead. Bolger also played the role of "Hunk" - Uncle Henry and Aunt Em's farmhand - which was the Scarecrow's Kansas counterpart in the sepia-toned sequences at the beginning and end of the film.


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Q: Monitoring Multiple Amazon Account EC2 Instances Our company had multiple Amazon cloud accounts. Now my question is i want to monitor all account EC2 instances using Amazon AWS management console.

A: You can't... they all need to be on the same account for you to monitor them together with the AWS management console. I suggest using something like ElasticFox as it allows you to switch between accounts easily and has almost all the same functionality of the AWS Console. It lacks a few things like being able to assign permissions to AMI's and Volumes but for the most part it's pretty complete.

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A place where beauty junkies can learn tips and tricks on professional applications, as well as get reviews on various beauty products!
All liquid eyeliners are not created equal... But if you are wanting to use liquid eyeliner on a budget there are a few great ones to choose from. I have tested all sorts of drugstore liquid liners and some are great bang for your buck while others aren't worth the buy.
Today I am going to let you know about 3 amazingly cheap liquid liners that do an amazing job and are really easy on your wallet.
First up is the super cheap ELF liquid liner which I got for $1.50 CDN. This liner has a thin long brush, which is great for creating a sharp point on your liner. The formulation dries quickly and a very opaque black with minimal shine. The only downside for this one is that if your lid creases much this formula can rack if applied too thick. I had this happen a handful of times and usually when I was wearing the liner for 8 or more hours.
Second is the NYC liquid eyeliner which I paid $4 CDN. This one has been on many bloggers fave list for years but I only recently decided to try it out. Much like the ELF liner this one sports a long thin brush applicator. This formula is a little thinner then the ELF but can be easily layered to create an apaque matte black. This one I have never had crack on my lid even on a long day. My only issue is this one takes longer to dry and if you have a hooded lid this can sometimes mean transfer if you aren't pausing close attention.
Lastly if you like an eyeliner pen option is the Esssence eyeliner pen which retails for $2.49 CDN. This one is great if you need a quick liner looks or if you are a beginner. The felt tip on this liner is quite thin making it possible to create a sharp wing. Also using the side of the pen allows you to create sharp looks quickly and with ease. Again this is great for beginners who are just getting used to liquid liners and creating winged looks. The downside of this one is that it is never quite as thick or opaque as a true liquid liner. I have used any of the pen liners and all have been the same when compared to true liquid liners. The other downside can be that they tend to dry out more quickly then a liquid with a brush. However at $2.49 I will buy a couple at a time and the easie is worth the trade off when you are short on time.
Overeall all three of these are great liners depending on your needs and what your pet peeves are. I like all three for different reasons and trade back and forth often!
What are your fave drugstore liquid liners?? I am always looking for a new one to try!
As a makeup artist one of the biggest questions I am asked is about false lashes. If they are easy to use, techniques in application etc. For me applying lashes is almost second nature but I know for many it can be daunting. When I discovered the Ardelle adore Trio lashes I knew I had found the lashes I would recommend to clients from now on.
These Lashes come in easy to apply trios and have varying length of medium and short. Often what makes applying lashes difficult is the length of a strip lash and how hard it can me to mood it to the eye. These lashes don't need to be molded and break the application up into easy steps.
For my eye it took 4 sets of trios to fill in my lashes. The create a very natural look much like individuals but are much easier to use if you are a beginner. As well much like strip lashes they can reused which is a big plus for many people.
If you have always wanted to try false lashes but were afraid to take the plunge I highly suggest trying the Ardell Trios. I found mine at Sally's beauty supply for under $5CDN.
If you cannot find trios you can also cut strip lashes into manageable sections before application but the trios I feel is a no fuss option for beginners.
Would these trios make you try lashes for the first time??
A couple of days ago I posted my must have products for washing my hair. Today I am going to go through the products I must use to style my hair to get the restults I want for a sleek look. I will also let you know my fave texture product for big hair days.
First thing I do after I take the towel off my hair is use a spray on conditioner. The one I love is Matrix biolage hydra source leave in tonic because it is thicker then most spray on conditioners and adds lots of slip for when I comb out my hair. After I comb though my hair I then add Pantene's silky moisture whip, it dispenses like a mousse but only adds moisture and heat protection to the hair. I use this from mid shaft to ends to further soften and protect my hair. Next I add my Ion heat protection spray, this is a straightening iron protection spray and it is easy to overdo it with this spray but for me it adds a lot of sleekness so I use it at each step in the heat styling process. I then blow dry my hair, add a little more of my ion spray and straighten my locks as well. My final step is a little serum, and my fave of the moment is Tresseme keratin smooth smoothing serum.
If my hair starts to puff up due to humidity I add a dry oil spray and my fave of the moment is Garnier triple nutrition miraculous oil-in-spray. The only other product I alway have is my Garnier texture texture tease. This is a great product for adding volume at the root of your hair. It is also great for adding volume to curls and creating a slept in kinda look.
What are you must have hair styling products???? I would love for you to share in the comments below!!!
Trends have been taking us the route of matte these days for the lips. While liquid to matte long wear lipsticks are all the rage they are difficult to find in the drugstore. Also many people simply don't like the feel of liquid lipsticks but want a matte long wear option.
While shopping for the holidays I came across Hard Candy's all mate up lip stains. Now I have only been able to get 2 of the 4 shades available and I am very disappointed that I have been able to locate them because these are a total win for me.
The lippie retails for approx $5 cdn and comes in Earthy Marsala, Berry Matte, Mattely in Love and Venom. I have been able to get my hands on Venom and Earthly Marsala.
These products are a stain that leave a velvet finish but are said to hydrate as well as a balm. They use tropical butters to soften while powders blur lines in the lips making them look smooth not dry. The shape of the crayon allows you to skip a liner and fill. In your lips with ease.
I bought mine not expecting much but was really pleasantly surprised. They went on the lips with ease and had a beautiful finish. I went out for lunch and a movie where we had the usual cinema snacks and came home to to pleasantly find my lips still looked really defined and still full of colour.
If you see these and like the matte look you need to pick them up! You will be so happy you did!!! I am hoping to find the other shades in store soon!! I hope they expand this line to include some more shades in the coming months!!!
UI am asked all the time what my must have hair products are. I have coarse curly hair which I heat style and colour treat quite often. This means hair that is dry and prone to damage. If I don't care for my hair it tends to be a dry frizzy mess so over the years I have tried almost everything!!
In this post I am going to focus on products I use to pretreat and wash my hair. Later this week we will focus on products I use after my hair is washed to further treat and style my hair. Now I know that my treatments may be too heavy for some but if you have hair like mine you will know my battle!
At least once a week a treat my hair with coconut oil. I melt the oil and dip. My hair into it soaking it thuroughly. Often I will then massage oil into my roots as well. I cover my hair with a shower cap and then cover that with a beanie to seal in the heat my head gives off. depending on the time I have this will sit on my hair for between 2-24 hours.
My fave shampoo is Garnier citrus mint. It really cleanses my hair without over stripping. I only need to wash my hair twice a week so I don't worry about overstripping. I the. Rinse and towel try my hair. Next is conditioning which again I take my time with since I don't need to wash my hair everyday.
My fave conditioner is Loreal........ It really does an amazing job for me at softening without weighing down. Once every couple of weeks I also add a minimal amount of semi permanent purple colour to my conditioner to tone my blonde stands. This also fills the hair cuticle further softening my hair. Again I apply my conditioner and cover with a shower cap allowing it to sit for anywhere from 1-3 hours. I then rinse and I am ready for styling.
I also do protein treatments on my hair approx every six weeks. You can find a detailed post about that her on my blog.
Please check in later this week where I will detail the products I use when styling my hair to protect it from heat and keep it soft to the touch.
What are your fave products to use for washing and conditioning your hair?
Some products reviewed have been provided for the for the sole purpose of trial. All views expressed are mine and mine alone. No company or individual has influenced my feelings on any product or service that is mentioned.
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I have read the rules and understand them. However, the two attachments (pictures that I felt did not violate these rules) I have posted since I have been activated have been deleted by moderators. I am just curious as to why they were deleted. Am I not following the rules? I'm not trying to be rude. I am just politely inquiring.
That is a old thread when people could pretty much upload pics when they wanted. You can't upload pic after pic anymore of chicks for others to see.
2. You may post any picture from, http://photos.freeones.com on the board, as long as you post the gallery url in your post.
3. Thread starters may post pictures, thread repliers aren't allowed to, unless pictures are from point 2.
That pic wasn't from freeones and if it was the gallary url wasn't included.
yep FB is right. It was an old thread that already had loads of pics on it so thereofre no more pics could be added to it as it would have to many pics and therefore break the rules.
I understand. Thank you for clearing that up.


As one may know that reads my blog. I bike, a lot. Even by Portland standards I ride regularly. By the regular lazy American's standards I probably seem obsessed. Well today I just stepped up the ante again. I purchased a Surly Cross Check from Clever Cycles on Hawthorne here in Portland. Great shop, great service. My Giant will become my "secondary" and "loaner" bike when riding with people in from out of town.
So the Surly Cross Check has some awesome Portland features. What do I mean by Portland Features? Read on and I'll explain.
1. First off, the bike is a great road bike. With 100% Surly proprietary 4130 CroMoly tubing. TIG welded. Double butted main triangle it's a brutally strong bike. It's got more in common with my Redline freestyle bike than my other bikes. But that's a good thing, ya see, I'm not a soft rider. I ride hard, brutally hard sometimes, and sometimes have a tendency to break really strong bikes. That's one of the first things I'm stoked about, strength is important.
2. The bike fits (and this is one of those Portland Features) on the bike racks on Trimet Buses really well, and easily comes on and off with a single hand. I don't have to balance it or hold the bike with both hands, making the movement to hook the front wheel much easier.
3. The bike is much lighter than my current main bike. Making it even easier to mount on a rack on the MAX or mount on the WES racks. Another Portland Feature! This of course also makes it easy to mount up on the racks on the LINK in Seattle and other cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, etc.
4. The bike rides with much less resistance than my current ride. It also has a multi-positional handelbar setup. The setup includes the Cane Creek 40, Salsa Bell Lap, Tektro Cantilever Brakes connected to Tektro Brak Levers. Topping all this off with Shimano SL-BS77s. This makes riding for hours or days possible, without me ending up a bent mess of a human being!


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Cameroon acquires new ambulances to strengthen the national health system
Paru le jeudi, 25 février 2021 18:36
On February 26, 2021, in Douala, the Minister of Public Health (Minsanté) Manaouda Malachie will receive 10 ambulances out of the 25 planned for the national plan of response against the coronavirus. This was announced in a press release published on February 24, 2021.
According to the release, the ambulances will facilitate the medical evacuation of people affected by the coronavirus pandemic, in a context where the number of cases has been rising again and the bed occupancy rate has increased from 0.5% to 5%.
The acquisition of these rolling medical equipment will also help strengthen the Cameroonian health system, which has been severely tested by the pandemic.
The equipment is acquired in the framework of an agreement signed between the Cameroonian government and the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) to provide an immediate response to Covid-19 through the provision of vital medical and non-medical equipment such as ambulances, laboratory equipment, breathing apparatus, personal protective equipment, portable radios, etc... These items are intended to improve screening and early diagnosis capabilities, in addition to assisting in disease management.
The surge of the pandemic
"This partnership represents an opportunity to transform our health system to better cope with the possible resurgence of epidemics and pandemics in Cameroon," says Manaouda Malachie.
This delivery comes in the aftermath of the resurgence of polio in the country, with the occurrence of a new epidemic in Yaoundé. Indeed, according to health authorities, two new cases of type 2 poliovirus have been identified in environmental samples in Cité Verte.
To mitigate the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, the IDB provided $27.44 million (about XAF16.46 billion) to support Cameroon's actions. Thanks to this financial support, the United Nations Development Program is acquiring emergency medical equipment and supplies on behalf of Cameroon in the framework of a $13.8 million agreement signed on 23 July 2020 with the Cameroonian authorities to strengthen the health system and support the country's post-coronavirus recovery.
"This financial support is part of the WHO's "No regret" approach which aims to strengthen Cameroon's health system sustainably and comprehensively. In addition to what we have already delivered, I would like to express my gratitude to the Cameroonian government and the IDB for trusting the UNDP for this operation," said Jean-Luc Stalon, country representative of this UN agency.
As of February 18, 2021, Cameroon officially had 33,749 confirmed positive cases, including 523 deaths.
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ND Evangelium Vitae Medal Mass and Banquet on April 28
Time: Sat Apr 28, 2018, 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location: Basilica of the Sacred Heart & South Dining Hall
The University of Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture will award the 2018 Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal to former U.S. ambassador and Harvard professor of law Mary Ann Glendon at a Mass and banquet on April 28, 2018.
The Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal, named for St. John Paul II's 1995 encyclical on life issues, is the nation's most important lifetime achievement award for heroes of the pro-life movement, honoring individuals whose efforts have served to proclaim the Gospel of human life by steadfastly affirming and defending its sanctity from its earliest stages.
"Glendon is one of the most extraordinary figures in academia and the global public square," said O. Carter Snead, the William P. and Hazel B. White Director of the Center for Ethics and Culture. "She personifies the goods at the heart of the Evangelium Vitae Medal. Through her work as a world-class scholar and teacher, a diplomat, a White House bioethics adviser and an official of the Holy See, she has provided a joyful, loving and unwavering witness to the dignity of all persons, born and unborn, as created in the image and likeness of God. She sets the standard for all of us who work to build a culture of life worldwide. There is no one like her."
"Mary Ann Glendon is certainly among the most accomplished women in the Church today and a worthy recipient of this year's award," said Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. "I'm grateful to the Center for Ethics and Culture for recognizing Glendon for her impressive service to the Church and to life."
The Mass, celebrated by Bishop Kevin Rhoades of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, will begin at 5:00 p.m. at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. The Banquet will follow in the South Dining Hall. Both events are free and open to the public, but RSVP is required to attend the dinner. RSVP for the Mass and Dinner via this link.
Originally published at ethicscenter.nd.edu.


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everybody's a critic
Naipaulcalypse
Since we're a little slow with updating the blog these days, no doubt most of our Gentle Readers are already aware of the current brouhaha created by novelist V.S. Naipaul with his comments about women writers in general and Jane Austen in particular. The media is all over it.
In an interview at the Royal Geographic Society on Tuesday about his career, Naipaul, who has been described as the "greatest living writer of English prose", was asked if he considered any woman writer his literary match. He replied: "I don't think so." Of Austen he said he "couldn't possibly share her sentimental ambitions, her sentimental sense of the world".
He felt that women writers were "quite different". He said: "I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not. I think [it is] unequal to me."
We do not think he deserves the compliment of rational opposition. Others disagree with us, however. Jennifer Egan, recent winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award (and who kicked up a bit of a dust last week for dissing chick lit), said:
He is such a kook. It makes me laugh because he sounds like such a cranky old man. It's the classic case of how prejudice works – you feel like you see it confirmed all over the world but the prejudice is tainting your perception everywhere you look.
I would put money on the fact that he has not read Jane Austen in 10 years. She's the most cool, mathematical writer to come along, male or female. It's a word no one who's familiar with her work would call her. . . . To condemn these comments gives them more weight, endows them with more authority. They just sound like one's man cranky, outmoded point of view.
NPR's blog The Two-Way has some other interesting comments from authors and critics (thanks to Alert Janeite Maria for the link).
At Salon.com, Mary Elizabeth Williams wrote of the kerfluffle:
The wisest observers of human nature are the ones who can illuminate without bias. They're the ones who can opine that "Your feelings may be the strongest but … ours are the most tender" without assuming that strength automatically has a greater value than tenderness. And to write them off would be to miss out on the genius of a Jane Austen, an author who knew that when it comes to men and women, "I will not allow books to prove anything."
We were amused by this quiz in the Guardian, which asks you to choose whether the quoted passages are written by a man or a woman. (We actually recognized one of them, and got that right.)
Tags eejits abound, everybody's a critic, V.S. Naipaul


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Snakes are more than a nuisance. Some are dangerous, making getting rid of them imperative. These animals are elusive which adds to the difficulty of controlling them. That's where a decoy can come in handy to get the job done humanely.
Our Top 2 Best Snake Deterrents 2019 review highlights the products that can help you get a handle on your pest problem once and for all. We've also included some tips for using them and ways to avoid future issues. Read on to learn more.
How Do Snake Deterrents Work?
Are They Effective?
Are Snakes Harmful?
How Can I Make Sure That I Won't Have Snakes in My Yard?
It looks like an owl.
It will deter rodents and birds too.
It has a resealable opening on the bottom to weight it down and keep it in place.
It will handle the elements well.
It offers a humane way to deal with pests.
It has a limited period of usefulness before the animals figure out that it isn't real.
The dimensions are 7 x 7 x 16 inches high.
It weighs 11.2 ounces.
It has no moving parts.
The Dalen OW6 Gardeneer Scarecrow Great Horned Owl relies on the fact that these birds prey on snakes and other small animals. It has the distinguishing features of this raptor including its large yellow eyes and telltale tufts. It has the mottled pattern on the chest too to make it look realistic. It does indeed resemble a living one enough to fool pests.
The deterrent isn't quite as tall as a mature owl. However, pests recognize the shape and form which is the key to keeping them away from your yard.
It has a 100-percent money back guarantee.
It holds up to the elements.
It deters birds too.
It is affordable.
It moves for greater effectiveness.
The quality of the product seems cheap.
It measures 20.2 x 5 x 3.8 inches.
It is made of lightweight plastic.
The briteNway Premium Bird Repellent Fake Flying Hawk Decoy offers the same type of solution as the previous product with a different riff on the common theme. Several species of these raptors prey on snakes including kestrels and broadwing hawks. The gray coloring makes it look like a harrier or marsh hawk, another predator.
This one moves with the breeze to make it appear more realistic and alive. While the pests may catch on after a while, you'll get more use out of it in the meantime. Birdwatchers may question the details, but it's the shape of the decoy which is essential as a deterrent.
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Snakes, like other species, strive to conserve energy. Perceiving something that may harm them is a potent deterrent.
Now that you know the best deterrents, it's time to learn the best ways to use them for optimal results. After all, there are two things on the line. You want your money's worth, and you have to get rid of the snakes. We'll discuss what you need to know to make both of these things happen.
These products are similar to similar ones with a like function against other pests. They put up a barrier that the targeted animal will recognize as a threat in the hopes that it will keep them from entering a designated space. They include unpleasant odors, sounds, or images. Snakes, like other species, strive to conserve energy. Perceiving something that may harm them is a potent deterrent.
The best way to manage them is through prevention. Seal any holes or leaks in your foundation and around areas where utilities enter the structure. Repair any damage to screens. Also, you may find it helpful to install weather stripping around your exterior doors. Spiders aren't unlike other pests like mice which will seek warm places—including your home—when it gets colder.
They feed primarily on other insects. By getting rid of them, you'll remove a reliable food source that may attract them to your home in the first place. They are opportunistic and will seek out the resources they need to survive. Keep your kitchen and other food prep areas clean to avoid luring their prey to your dwelling.
Sometimes you'll get spiders in your home inadvertently as hitchhikers on other items you bring into your home. You're most likely to find them in dark areas where they prefer to hide.
First, spiders are not insects but instead another distinct order of organisms. They have eight legs and two body segments, unlike the latter which has six and three, respectively. They are predators which will take insects and even other spiders as prey. As we detailed above, not all of them are harmful no matter what their size.
And you can rest assured knowing the rumor that the average person swallows several a year in their sleep is just an urban legend with no basis in fact. However, while they'll kill other insects, getting rid of them is the surest way to restore your peace of mind.
How Can I Make Sure That I Won't Have Snakes in My Yard?
The best way to ensure that you don't get these animals in your backyard is to avoid creating shelter for them. Many snakes will seek out hiding places under vegetation, in wood piles, and anyplace else where they won't be disturbed. Clear out areas where it may accumulate and keep these places clean and open. Make sure to mow your lawn regularly too.
The advantage of taking those actions is that you'll also prevent rodents from taking up residence too. They are a preferred food of many reptiles. Without a place to hide or something to eat, the snakes will likely move on to other sites where they can get what they need to survive.
If snakes are in your house, you'll need to seal any cracks or openings that provide access inside. You may find it helpful to install a solid fence around your yard in extreme cases to create a physical barrier.


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Q: Server disk space stats VS space on disk array I'm just a lowly developer so don't really have much exposure to our virtual server infrastructure, so thought I would ask a question here.
Our IT manager just told me to ignore the 'disk space free' figure of one of the drives on our Windows Server 2003 64bit based SQL Server and has stated "it is what is free across the disk arrays that server spans that is important".
From what I know the server is virtual on VMWare (ESX something i think) and we have a SAN. Why would it be setup that the disk sizes reported on a server would be different to what is actually available physically? Would this not lead to trouble?
Please enlighten me. I'm keen to understand how this would work/be setup...

A: He is probably talking about what is referred to as thin provisioning.

Thin provisioning is a mechanism
  that applies to large-scale
  centralized computer disk storage
  systems, SANs, and storage
  virtualization systems. Thin
  provisioning allows space to be easily
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  and just-in-time basis. (Wikipedia)

In essense you make it seem like there is more space available than there is, and then provide the space just as it is actually being utilized. This allows for a much lower storage capacity overhead.
If you exceed the physically available storage, it should result in a failed write/permission denied. For an MS-SQL server, that does mean a good bit of trouble :)

A: Roy's comment about thin provisioning may be the right one but if so then the scenario that you experience is that the Server believes it has X amount of storage presented in a volume but in reality only some fraction of X is actually physically allocated. As the server consumes free space the SAN\Storage subsystem allocates real storage blocks. This allows the systems admins to configure systems for the total amount of capacity they will need in their expected lifetime without having to immediately provision exactly that amount of physical disks. The OS believes it has all that free space, and it will if it needs to have it but this "allocate on demand" capability enables storage administrators to cost effectively plan staged storage purchases rather than purchasing masses of storage up front that will be idle for much of its life. It also means that server admins should not have to take any services off line to extend volumes or bother with extending volumes at all over time (provided the long term planning was good in the first place).
Given the way you've phrased the question  I think it's more likely that some storage on your server is mounted via NTFS Volume Mount Point(s). The concept is pretty basic for Unix folks but it is still relatively unusual in Windows environments. If there are mount points in use on a volume then the total amount of free space available will exceed the amount displayed at the root of the drive - the free space beneath each mount point depends on the storage volume that it points to and is not reflected in the meta data higher up in the drive. This is a totally transparent way of providing storage for almost all applications but if Mount Points are used then backup procedures need to avoid making simple assumptions about the amount of data in a volume based on the disk level summary data.


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Whether From Your Couch or the Classroom, Earning a Mount Degree Has Never Been Easier
This story originally appeared in the 2022 Annual Report.
Education will always be at the center of the Mount's mission. It has been since our founding in 1847.
The Sisters of Charity, our foundresses, have never shied away from bringing quality education to those on the margins. 175 years later, the College is proud to carry on the Congregation's tradition of providing equal access to academics—extending the audacious work of the Sisters to bring transformative education to learners from all corners of the Bronx and beyond.
Mount students are remarkable. They come to the College to study, grow, and develop both within and beyond the classroom. Nearly 50% of our traditional undergraduate population is eligible for Federal Pell Grants—meaning their median household income falls within the percentage of greatest need among degree-seeking students in the country. The College has also been identified by the U.S. Department of Education as a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI), meaning at least 25% of the total enrollment of undergraduate full-time equivalent students identify as Hispanic or Latinx. Serving the underserved has always been something the College has done remarkably well, but a new demographic cliff looms overhead.
Colleges and universities around the nation are facing an impending demographic cliff that will reshape the practice of higher education. The cliff—a direct result of the significant decline in U.S. birthrate following the 2007 recession—will rewrite the definition of the "traditional" college student as declining enrollment trends will impact every area of campus life. Although the cliff is not projected to begin until 2025, many schools have already felt the effects of decreased enrollments as a result of the pandemic.
The Mount, however, has been challenging those trends long before this demographic cliff was even defined.
In 1972, the College began the Continuing Education Program in an effort to bring the same quality Mount Saint Vincent education to non-traditional students. The program targeted adult learners who started college, but—for a variety of reasons—did not earn a degree, as well as those adults who did not enroll in college immediately following graduation from high school. The program was groundbreaking for its time, as there were few other schools in the area—and in the nation, at large—offering undergraduate coursework to adult learners.
The Continuing Education Program ran successfully for almost two decades before becoming the Office of Adult Education in 1989. The program remained largely the same, but offerings to adult learners broadened after the College's charter was amended in 1988 to allow for the conferring of master's degrees. In 2005, the Office expanded yet again to form the School of Professional and Graduate Studies—which continues to successfully operate today.
But, with passing decades comes new challenges—including finding ways to make completing an undergraduate degree or starting a graduate degree not only attractive, but attainable for non-traditional groups of learners. It all connects back to the Mount's history of serving the traditionally underserved and, as President Susan R. Burns so firmly believes: "meeting learners when and where they need us."
The College has made an intentional transition to online education—our first delve into non-pandemic related emergency use of an alternative learning modality—for a select few undergraduate and graduate programs. It's yet another example of how the Mount is advancing its commitment to expanding access to higher education for learners with a variety of needs.
"When researching new online offerings for graduate and degree-completion programs, we have to look at what's sustainable, what's appealing. Our undergraduate programs are still at the foundation of the College's mission. But by diversifying the modalities in which we offer coursework for adult learners—including developing more hybrid and online course options—we're making earning a degree both accessible and attainable for thousands more students."
— Cristóbal Stewart, Dean of the School of Professional and Graduate Studies
Two of the College's existing graduate programs—the M.S. in education and accelerated B.S. in nursing—will now offer partially- and fully-online courses for graduate students to enroll and complete degrees in under three years, saving them time and money. Additionally, the Mount will soon offer online degree-completion courses for a B.A. in psychology and a Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies. This is all made possible through new collaborations with two leaders in online program management: Academic Partnerships (AP) and Orbis Education.
The M.S. in education coursework, as well as classes for the degree-completion undergraduate programs, will be offered through fully-online asynchronous courses. The accelerated nursing program has launched 16 credits of didactic coursework online—with the goal of having all 61 credits in an online format in the near future.
Classes are developed by Mount faculty members—through consultation by AP and Orbis curriculum designers—with an emphasis on how to best offer course material to students through the online modality.
Adult learners differ from traditional-aged undergraduate students in that they need certain conveniences and flexibilities in order to reach success in their programs. Adult learners—typically—face greater demands of their time compared to students in their late teens and early twenties. Many work full- or part-time jobs, attend to families, or hold other commitments that prevent them from participating in standard in-seat programs.
All of the College's online programs will offer multiple start dates per year—up to six—and shorter semesters, providing scheduling fluidity. Studies have found that this population of students is more likely to select a program based on convenience of start dates, course frequency, and flexibility of content delivery. As a result, certain foundational and prerequisite courses will be offered each term.
And while these online programs are expanding access to transformative education for learners both near and far, traditional in-seat classes will still be offered at the College's Riverdale campus—extending paths to graduation for dedicated students eager to earn their degrees.
"Our focus continues to lie in the needs of the students. The modality of content delivery is just a tool. As a leader in higher education, the Mount must remain committed to flexibility and provide greater time management opportunities for typically underserved groups of learners."
— Dr. Lynne Bongiovanni, Provost and Dean of the College
This is only the beginning. By moving some of the College's existing programs online, the Mount is doing its part to help address some of the most pressing needs of our country's job market: shortages in teaching and nursing. But, by taking a small first step, the Mount is opening doors for the transition of more existing programs—and the development of new ones—to the online format in the near future.
With the wisdom and traditions of the Sisters of Charity to guide us, Mount Saint Vincent is challenging the market to bring transformational learning opportunities to students from all backgrounds—traditional and non-traditional alike. Remaining abreast of current trends in higher education, the College will continue to be well prepared to meet enrollment obstacles—researching best practices, developing new ways to deliver programs, and listening to the needs of each and every student.
After all, celebrating 175 years of authentically inclusive education is no small accomplishment. And the College is ready and eager to adapt and expand to be a part of the next 175 and beyond.


Water conservation and energy conservation are closely intertwined in North America. When most people turn on the tap, the water that flows out probably made a stop at the local water treatment center. Ensuring that water is clean and safe uses a lot of energy. So, when you use less water around the house, you're also shrinking your carbon footprint.
Fix leaks and drips around your home. Check out these tips from the EPA's WaterSense program on how to find and fix common household leaks.
Choose water efficient faucets, bathroom fixtures and appliances.
Use a rain barrel in your yard or garden, to collect runoff from the house for watering plants later.
Turn off the tap while you scrub—that goes for washing your hands, brushing your teeth and washing dishes! There's no need to let the water run while you're soaping up, only when it's time to rinse.
Re-think your lawn. Grass can take a lot of water to maintain, which can be a particularly big problem in drought-prone areas like California. Check out this list of 5 water-saving ways to replace your lawn.
Get more water-saving tips here.


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My youngest two kids have a severe Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle addiction. We have listened to all four books about 879 times. Give or take. So I felt they needed to hear another book by the same author.
Two sisters (one shy and quiet-ish, one daring and unruly), boarding school, rich and clueless uncle, domineering/mean/unfair/horrid headmistriss named Mrs. Monday, a kindly gardener, an inspiring teacher AND librarian, a daring escape, and a kind farm couple to take them in.
Nothing, unless you are greedy. In which case, you may want illustrations by Harry Potter illustrator Mary Grandpre.
The illustrations are sparing, but delightful.
I read this to my kids on a snowday a few weeks ago and my sister stopped in for tea and knitting. So she cozied right in with us, listening and enjoying it with us. Isn't that a perfect kind of day?
It starts on Christmas Eve, but follows Nancy and her sister Pamela (nicknamed Plum) throughout an entire year, ending on the following Christmas Eve. So it is a book to be enjoyed any old time of the year.
Perfect for 8-12 year olds! And grown adults who happen to love this kind of story.