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The Second Husband
by shadowlurker13 0 reviews
in which Sarah has to juggle two men in her life
Category: Labyrinth - Rating: PG-13 - Genres: Fantasy - Published: 2017-08-09 - 4019 words - Complete
❮ Story Index1. Unlock This Door2. The Happy Phantom3. The First Kiss4. The Second Husband5. The (Fairy) Godfather6. The Gambler7. The Other Angel8. The End? ❯
Chapter 4 – The Second Husband
When college got back in session the second half of her freshman year, Sarah Williams was a very different person: hardworking, serious, and notably mature and sober. She quickly brushed off the bad crowds she had acquired and when she started hearing new rumors, she simply let them circulate; it wasn't like she could tell anyone the truth about what has happened back there. The most popular one seemed to be that she had nearly O.D.-ed on something and it had scared her straight – which was fine as far as she was concerned. It hardly mattered, she was only going to be there for another year-and-a-half; in all probability she'd never see any of these people ever again if she didn't want to. She could make a clean break and start over.
Which was mostly what happened, but it didn't fall out quite as she had planned, even though she'd saved her G.P.A. and her parents had subsequently agreed to foot her extraneous expenses going to a major acting university – if she was awarded a scholarship from one of them. There was just one little problem: Juilliard turned her down. As did New York University. And the Conservatory, and the Academy, and Hunter…
Soon after, she showed up in Jareth's garden one day in tears, and had to tell him what had happened.
"A college isn't everything," he had calmly observed, letting her lean on him as they sat on one of the stone benches. "I imagine there are quite a number of artists out there with fantastic degrees who still have to teach their craft on the side just to make enough to survive on."
"You don't understand," she sobbed, "I'm not good enough! I never had any backup plan – I don't know what I'm going to do!"
"But you still enjoy acting, don't you?" he put an arm around her shoulders.
"Well…yes," she sniffled.
"Then act."
"You make it sound like that's so easy to just get up and do!"
"Is giving up easier?"
She was silent for a moment. "I still have to finish my degree," she wiped her eyes dry, sitting forward, "my parents would never countenance me running away to be a starving bohemian. I'm not too keen on the 'starving' part myself," she laughed a little bitterly.
He shrugged, getting up, stretching. "It's your life; I can't tell you how to live it."
"Bullshit – you always have ideas for me; some of them have been pretty good, too."
He looked back down at her with an arch little lip-smile. "You're attempting to invoke the amiable counsel that's often a part of human friendships."
"If you feel the need to mentally jump through that many hoops to get there, then yes," she laughed.
He looked far less amused as he walked a few paces away and studied some birch leaves; the bench was shaded by a young tree. "Such counsel often comes at a heavy price in my world, Sarah, and often the heavier should the agreement or payment turn bad and the other party…" He abruptly trailed off, and attempted to cover it by sitting back down. "I am merely unaccustomed to your casualness surrounding this. You just wanted to… fake this? That is what you say, right?"
"It's just a conversation," she sighed. Nothing more. "And I'm not bound to take any of your advice if I don't want to; you could say totally ludicrous things to me and it wouldn't matter."
"Although you would prefer that we basically stay on subject," he added drolly.
"That would help," she replied with an equally dry quip.
He did smile then. "So, what we need to do is unearth another subject or activity you enjoy and could make a living at. That's simple enough – you still like to read stories."
"You can't make a…" She paused in her judgment – and seriously gave it some thought. "That's an English major, but I don't have the patience to be a teacher and I'm not a writer, so I wouldn't be a good editor, either. And I'm not interested in the sales side of it. Mostly I just enjoy the books I enjoy. I don't think reading for pleasure is a high-paying job," she jested.
The king thought for a moment. "How much are librarians paid anymore in your country? What kind of schooling do they need?"
Sarah could've been knocked over with a feather – she had never thought of that! The library? The director of her college's admittedly seemed to have nothing but time to read the majority of his shift; he was reading every time she came into his office! She didn't know the first thing about how to get a job like that, but it would be easy enough to find out. Jareth very well might've been onto something…
Library Science was the answer: her dad and her stepmother were overjoyed that Sarah was finally showing interest in a career path that could reliably monetarily support her – and once she had her degree she would still have the free-time to do a little acting on the side if she really wanted to. She transferred up to Syracuse University for the fall of her junior year and she commenced cramming in the necessary course credits that she didn't already have - mostly boring things like management classes and cataloging - but she found some of the electives rather interesting, like educational storytelling and literacy programs; she had just started and she was already gravitating toward the masters in Youth Services. The sheer volume of work was stressful since most of the preliminary stuff was usually gotten out of the way in the first two years mixed into the 'core', and just staving off burnout from the inevitable oversaturation the first year there was a small miracle in itself. She'd had to take summer classes to get caught up, but by the time her senior year for her Bachelors' degree rolled around, her schedule had mostly calmed back down. Sarah had made friends easily in her classes this time around – quiet, earnest, hard-working kids like her (or, rather, how she had become). She still wasn't dating again yet, but to be perfectly honest she simply didn't have the time; she had taken on one theatre elective the fall of her senior year, and she had gotten the part of Maria, Olivia's serving woman in the semester's production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night on top of everything else (she had certainly auditioned the part dry enough.) In spite of the hectic schedule and almost no downtime apart from the little she still squeezed in with Jareth almost nightly (and which she had also used to rehearse her lines – his majesty made an utterly ridiculous Sir Toby), she was actually happy for the most part. Things were finally going pretty smoothly all across the board.
Until she met Daniel. It was the final night of the play, and afterwards the actors had come down to mingle with the audience before dispersing to go to the cast party – which Sarah had had no intention of attending. He had been in the fifth row all evening, but she simply hadn't seen him with the stage-lights in her face, blacking out the crowd. Under more normal lighting circumstances he did sort of stand out with that bright red hair of his – a right 'carrot-top' – wire-rim glasses, and… a laced-up poet's shirt? That threw her initially until she saw that he was wearing regular dress slacks and shoes with it and was carrying a wool jacket besides, and she instantly smiled: he had deliberately dressed up a little to go see the Bard! She had to introduce herself. She was still working her way across the crowd when their eyed suddenly met (he must have felt her watching him)… and it felt exactly as if someone had just struck a spark in her burned-out heart with a flint – she hadn't felt anything even remotely close to that in just over three years! Sarah pushed her way through to him, heedless of who else was getting nearly trampled in the process; he looked like the same realization had simultaneously hit him as well. It was awkward at first in a way that she hadn't experienced since high school, with them both just standing there staring at each other for a breath – but nervous, self-conscious laughter broke the ice and he warmly introduced himself; once he'd learned that she wasn't leaving with the others due to the inevitable drinking, he had offered to take her out for a coffee instead.
Their initial meeting turned into a surprisingly relaxed first date: he was a history major with an emphasis on medieval and Renaissance studies, which immediately peaked her interest; it turned out he knew more about Shakespeare than she did! They wound up talking for hours about a slew of different subjects that they were both into on different levels, of his semester abroad in Europe last year, visiting ruined villas, functional monasteries and cathedrals, sections of towns and cities that had barely changed physical in nearly 500 years. He took her fantasy-tinged interest in the subject matter tolerantly in the stride with reasonable good humor, joking that he would have to 'convert' her into liking the real thing on its own terms. That wasn't to say that he didn't like fiction – he turned out to be an avid reader, although he tended to like historically-set mysteries when it was just for entertainment's sake (that immediately rang a bell – Jareth was currently devouring a fictional series on the Borgias!)
Jareth, she suddenly thought with a note of caution; if this actually went anywhere, he wasn't going to like it, not one bit. She instantly derided herself for worrying – it was, as he was fond of saying, 'her life', and she had to live it. When it was time for them to leave (they were literally forced out by the manager they had stayed so late!), Daniel had been almost timid about asking her out a second time – so she asked him out instead. He only kissed her hand goodnight.
After some very careful consideration, Sarah decided to not even mention the event to Jareth the next time she saw him in spite of the fact that she had missed their regular meeting that night. It felt oddly like cheating on him, but she knew he would overreact as always – it wasn't worth the drama if the relationship wasn't serious.
But it quickly became so: they were meeting up for lunch almost every day and going out on weekends that neither of them had tests coming up (both of them were too mature to 'study' together, knowing perfectly well that no studying would actually occur.) After only a month, she had been invited over to his parents' house for dinner. Unlike her previous liaisons, Daniel appeared to have a fairly conservative set of morals – he didn't want to sleep with her unless they got married. He didn't even attempt to kiss her on the mouth for two weeks. He was genuinely sweet-natured, considerate, kind. Christian – that part was new. Of course, he was concerned about her own lack of religion, but he hadn't tried to force his belief-system on her; Sarah, for her part, was doing her best to keep an open mind, even if she wasn't quite ready to accept Daniel's worldview as universal truth. There was definitely more out there than met the eye – her experience with the Goblin King and his domain had pretty well knocked that one home. It was just as well that she couldn't speak of Jareth to him, though – she knew that subject wouldn't go over well in the other direction, either, so-to-speak. Daniel wasn't adamantly adverse to her love of fantasy so long as that was 'all it was' – strictly for fun. She even got him in on the Harry Potter series when they first started coming out; he had insisted on reading the books with her, having heard the bad press about their occult aspects - and wound up liking the stories himself! Sarah loved to take him for long nature walks away from town, pointing out beautiful phenomena to him and describing it all as if they were in a fairytale; she goaded him into helping her mutually make up the story as they went along. It was trite, but each of them really did feel like the pieces that the other had been missing. After only six months, he popped the question in a verdant grove out in the woods that she loved here, and Sarah joyfully accepted. They were going to wait at least a year before getting married, however, to appease his parents, who liked her as a person, but were still a little unsure; he had yet to meet Sarah's, who already liked him sight-unseen from her accounts. It would also give them both time to devote to their masters degrees, which were looming in the near future.
Sarah had been very carefully hiding all of this from Jareth for months – she still had plenty of other things to talk about with her classes and electives, not to even mention the months-long mandatory internship she would be taking at the local library in Syracuse starting in the fall, on top of her final social training to be a children's librarian. In fact the only reason the topic came up 'early' at all was because she was rushed one night, getting home late from another date (Daniel's strict principles seemed to have relaxed ever-so-slightly now that they were properly engaged), and she had forgotten to take off his ring.
"Sarah, is that what I think it is?"
She just had transported to the Goblin King, and he was in a part of his forest, ironically enough; he had zeroed in on the engagement ring immediately, and the tone of his gut reaction sounded rather like how Karen would've been back-in-the-day if Sarah had come home on a Saturday evening sporting a new prominent tattoo! It finally dawned on her that she was still wearing the thing.
"It is an engagement ring, if that was where you were going with that."
"And when were you planning on enlightening me to this joyous news?" he oozed icily.
"Now, you see that attitude right there is exactly why I haven't said a darn thing about this – that and we're nowhere near close to getting married just yet!"
"Oh–ho? And what, pray tell, could cause such delay? A bad social match? Cold feet on the part of the groom, perhaps? Feeling the noose tightening about his-"
"JARETH!"
He looked positively dangerous; Sarah took a couple of deep breaths to get her temper back under control, forcibly reminding herself of what he was. As little as an angry outburst could cause these creatures to break their contracts, and she couldn't afford for that to happen. Especially not now.
"Then will you have the decency to tell me what's going on?" he civilly ground out from between his teeth.
Sarah sat down on the trunk of a nearby felled tree. "I didn't fall in love to spite you, Jareth," she shot back irritatedly, "I didn't plan this; I just met him about six months ago on the final night of the play, and we…it was…" she slowly shook her head, the wonder and affection clear in her eyes.
"You made love, and it finally felt like it," he finished a bit more calmly.
"No – I mean I do love him, but he won't until the wedding; he's a -"
But by Jareth's sharp intake of air through his teeth, along with his closed eyes, Sarah got the feeling he knew exactly what she was talking about.
"And he'll have you believing I'm the Devil before you know it."
"No – Jareth, come here, please," she motioned him over; he sat down beside her, still looking rather peeved with his arms crossed, resolutely staring at the forest floor. "I'm still going to be your friend and come to see you regularly here; this doesn't mean I'm abandoning you. Nothing is going to change between us."
His expression had softened a hair as she spoke, but what it softened into was jaded regret. "If you truly believe that, you have obviously never been married," he answered wryly with a slight eye-roll. "Any husband will make demands of you that no one else ever has. Your time will no longer be your own to spend as you choose – how good are you at hiding things from him, Sarah? How often can you really keep slipping away from him unnoticed? And he will demand your other resources, too, in time – all of them, even your body. This one in particular will probably feel entitled to the last."
"But that's what marriage is – and that part's supposed to be mutual."
"It's never an equal exchange, though."
"No, it isn't. Nobody's perfect."
There was silence for some time; it always struck Sarah as downright eerie how there weren't even birds out here in these woods, just the sunlight dappling through the trees.
"And this man… loves you, in return?" he asked at length.
"And he treats you well when you're with him?"
Sarah just smiled broadly.
"And you're positive that this isn't just an act?"
She shot him a warning glance – but he backed down with a quiet laugh and a wry half-smile.
"Does this winning youth have a name?"
"Daniel Elijah Stuart."
"Of course he is," the king muttered under his breath, looking up a moment. "A man so righteous miracles are performed on his behalf."
"He's not 'holier-than-thou' like that, Jareth; if he was, I wouldn't be with him," she fired back with a small smirk of her own. "He's a good man; I've never been with anybody who's really cared about me like this before. That I cared about…"
"And he's all right with your decidedly 'heathen' interests with the wizards and dragons and unicorns and whatnot?"
"Oh, I'm working on him," Sarah smiled teasingly.
"As, no doubt he's 'working on' you," Jareth replied flatly.
"Guess that's mutual, too," she laughed a little.
There was silence again, but it felt a lot calmer, more companionable, than the first one. Sarah looked over at Jareth and noticed that he looked a bit sad again, though, sort of distant.
He immediately stifled the emotion. "Nothing – it's just stupid."
He turned and studied her face almost tenderly for the space of a few breaths before looking away again. "You were alone for so long… I just thought I had more time."
Why did his stung reaction feel so terribly familiar to Sarah? …then it dawned on her. Oh, Jareth: it reminded her of how jealous she had been of Karen initially when her father remarried! She had hated the woman with a passion for years for taking away a lot of the time Sarah had been spending with her daddy! She scooted closer. "You still have time," she reassured him, lightly rubbing his shoulders, "I told you we're putting off the wedding until we have time to do more than blow kisses at each other as we dash by, we're both going to be so busy until after graduation!" she laughed. "That's almost three years local-time for you to get used to the idea. We don't even know where we're going to wind up moving, where he's going to be working yet – he's going to be a college medieval history professor."
A look of recognition came into Jareth's unnaturally bright eyes. "And now it all makes sense…"
"Am I really that predictable?" Sarah laughed.
Jareth just looked at her. "You can't tell him a thing about me, about any of this."
"I hadn't planned on it."
"And I'm not going to allow you to stint on your time here, either; visiting me still has to be a priority going forward," he added a little more seriously.
"Jareth, Toby's eleven-years-old-going-on-twelve," she dryly quipped, "do you really want that moody little monster rampaging through your castle all the time? He's worse than I was at that age!"
There was still hesitation in his eyes.
"Look, I get it. I've actually been here…well, probably not like you are, but sort of, when my stepmom horned in so fast after the divorce. I know you don't believe me, but I think this is going to be okay – we'll make it okay if we have to." She sighed. "I guess I can't expect you to be happy about this, but I'd at least appreciate it if you didn't show up in a flash of lightening at the altar to forbid my vows."
The Goblin King gave a dry laugh, standing back up. "Your love will no doubt see to protecting you from that possibility – I can't so much as set foot inside a church; the old stories are right about that much at least."
Sarah looked up at him. She had gotten so used to dealing with him as a person that it was only rarely that she had to think about the reality of this situation: she still didn't know who or what he was. What was it he had said before about Death being his rival? She had been so horribly out of it at the time she could only barely remember bits and pieces of what he had said right before giving her that fruit; she'd had to wrack her brain hard and long just to even piece together that much! But there was no point in asking him directly – he would never tell. But that didn't mean that he wouldn't…
"Jareth?"
He gave a great sigh, as if anticipating the other question, but he didn't look at her. "Yes, Sarah?" he said tiredly.
"Why are you so interested in me?"
He did look at her then! There were many possible answers dancing through his eyes, but the one he gave her was a surprise.
"Because you didn't know, and you weren't afraid of me. And you still aren't."
~~~~~*~
It felt like an eternity, but Daniel and Sarah finally graduated, and, to Sarah's private consternation, the wedding was set for the 21st of June. Midsummer. Not that any of these people cared – for all the other schedules that had to be accommodated it was just a beautiful June wedding like any other. She knew he didn't have power like this – at least she felt pretty certain - but Sarah couldn't shake the feeling that Jareth had somehow orchestrated this. The ceremony was to take place in a cute little old church/wedding chapel that the families had jointly rented for the occasion.
On the afternoon of the event, Sarah had just gotten bundled out of the wedding limo and was headed up toward the chapel, desperately trying not to trip over her gigantic white satin skirts, when she felt the distinct sensation of someone's eyes boring into the back of her head, and she turned around…
Across the quiet street in an old oak tree, there was a barn owl out in broad daylight, staring at her.
She hurried through the doors…
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The Mutapa State was established in the 15th century following the decline of the Great Zimbabwe State. The Mutapa state was located on the Northern part of modern day Zimbabwe. The kingdom of Mutapa is said to have stretched between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. According to oral tradition the first "mwene" was a warrior prince Nyatsimbamutota from Great Zimbabwe who was sent to find new sources of salt in the north. Prince Mutota found his salt among the Tavara. They were conquered because of the need to control agricultural land and resources mainly gold and ivory.
www.freedictionary.com defines rise as to attain higher rank, status or reputation. This implies that it is to move from a lower position to a higher one. www.macmilliandictionary.com defines decline as a gradual and continuous loss of strength, number, or value. This means becoming less or decrease.
The rise of the Mutapa was greatly due to the decline and abandonment of Great Zimbabwe due to shortages of food, pastures and natural resources in general. Mudenge S.I.G (1988:38) states that it is possible that civil wars, overpopulation around Great Zimbabwe, famine, plague, decreasing gold production may have led to the decline of this state. The fall of the Great Zimbabwe in the 15th century brought the rising of the northern state of Mutapa. However spoken tradition explains that Mutapa state rose when Nyatsimbamutota was sent by his father Chibatamatosi in search of salt. The methods of getting salt from reeds and from goat dung could no longer meet the needs of the population. However, on his way in search for salt he was attracted to by elephants, pastures and salt in the north. There was also access to trade in salt and other goods along the Zambezi valley river. According to Chigwedere A.S Mutota seemed to have been a dynamic and ambitious man. It appears that Mutota wanted something of his own, his own territory which would be ruled in his own name. Foreign trade with the east coast certainly seems to have been a factor in persuading Mutota to migrate to the Zambezi Valley. The east coast was the only source of the foreign items of trade which were so highly valued in this country.
Some Shona traditions identify Mutota, as an Mbire ruler, as the leader who
led his people to found a new kingdom, the Mutapa, in the Dande area in the Zambezi Valley where smaller and less spectacular madzimbahwe were built. By the late 15th century, Great Zimbabwe had completely lost its wealth, trade, political and cultural importance. Nyatsimba Mutota is said to have conquered many lineage groups as he went along and eventually succeeded in building a large and strong state. Mudenge (2011:38) states the foundation of the Mutapa state was a much slower process of infiltration of the Shangwe – Dande – Chidima regions by the small Karanga groups of hunters/refugees/adventurers from the South.
Birmingham and Martin (1983:257) says by 1500 Mutapa dynasty had gained control of a large wedge of gold-rich plateau country, a viable agricultural base and a section of Zambezi valley which commanded the trade routes. There were also other ways in which the King maintained his control over his diverse kingdom, one such a way was through the use of traditional symbols, religious rituals and beliefs all which emphasized the kings' supreme power. One example was that every ruler of a secondary state or territorial unit was expected on an annual basis to relight the royal fire sent from the king's hearth as a sign of loyalty to and continued confidence in the king. Mutota's successor, Mutope, extended the kingdom into a great empire. The mwene Mutapa became very rich by exploiting copper and ivory. Mudenge, S (2011:166) states that conventional wisdom has led some modern scholars to assume that trade, mainly gold and ivory, provided the wealth that enabled the Mutapas to create and continue to dominate their state. They argued that trade was so important that the Mutapas were forced to monopolize it. Swahili and Portuguese traders paid annual tax or tribute in form of luxury goods such as cloth to be allowed free passage in the state.
In 1560 a Catholic missionary called Goncalo da Silveria came to Mutapa. He became a good friend of the king and his mother. However, this angered the people of the Mutapa State. They thought Silveria had become too powerful and they plotted to get rid of him. They told the king that Silveria had come to destroy their kingdom. One night a group of the king's men strangled Silveria and dumped him body into a pond. It's said the Portuguese king sent an army to revenge the death of Silveria. This army was defeated easily even
though it had guns. The Portuguese army did not know the area. The army also wore heavy armour which made it difficult for them to move around. After two years most of them had been killed or died from sickness.
The Portuguese also finally entered into direct relations with the Mwene Mutapa in the 1560's. The kingdom engaged in importing goods like silk, ceramics and glassware. Gold and silver were made into bracelets. Mutapa history was dominated by Portuguese attempts to interfere with court politics, civil wars, conquests and trade. However during the 15th century the Mutapa maintained unity and managed to restrict Portuguese attempts to gain control of the markets and trade routes. Mwene Mutapa had a strong control over gold production. Civil fighting within the Mutapa state led to opposing sides calling on the Portuguese for military assistance. The Mutapa State gradually became unstable especially in the wake of internal power struggles and political manipulation and interference from external forces notably the Portuguese merchants.
According to Mudenge S (2011:225) Gatsi Rusere's reign was long and eventful. His reign witnessed Maravi Invasions of Mukaranga, a major civil war and the growth of Portuguese influence in Zambezia. However, the biggest disaster was brought about by Gatsi Rusere's own impetuosity for when he was told of how Kapampo (his captain) had escaped he in a fit of temper ordered the Nengomasha (commanding officer – second most powerful man in Mutapa) to be put to death. By this act Rusere triggered civil wars which lead to his temporary deposition. Rusere found himself with fewer supporters and so was forced to rely on Portuguese support. This act by Rusere further weakened the Mutapa state.
The Portuguese merchants who were operating in the Mutapa state took advantage of these internal conflicts to further their own economic interest. They supported one rival against the other thus contributing towards the further weakening of the state. The Portuguese then assisted the Mutapa's enemies, particularly Mavhura to claim the Mutapa kingship. Mavhura was then forced to sign treaties with the Portuguese, thus tying the Mutapa State to the Portuguese. However the Portuguese took this opportunity to
advance their interests in Mutapa State. This resulted in many armed conflicts in the area.
Some of Mutapa's tributaries stopped paying tribute. During this time a treaty was signed allowing the Portuguese to settle within the kingdom. It also allowed the praezeros to establish settlements across the kingdom. The decline of the trade activity in the state was due to Portuguese political interference, attempting to conquer the state. There was also loss of agricultural production, depopulation of the gold producing areas and unregulated trade. According to Wilson, D. (1975) when the Mwene Mutapa moved his capital further north his control of the southern areas of the empire declined. The rival Rozwi line began to dominate the south and old Mutapa State was spilt in two.
The passing away of the political kingdom founded by Mutota and Matope did not mean the end of all its influence. The Mutapa state ends around 1695 with the rise of the rise to power of the Rozvi State. However, the Mutapas were not wholly ejected from Zimbabwe highlands. The Mutapa state is in spite of civil wars and succession rivalries it continued to exist into the 19th century and remained independent of the Portuguese.
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Postdoctoral position, Center for Language Science, The Pennsylvania State University
The Center for Language Science (CLS) at The Pennsylvania State University (http://cls.psu.edu/) invites applications for a postdoctoral position. The CLS is home to a cross-disciplinary research program that includes the NSF training program, Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE): Bilingualism, mind, and brain: An interdisciplinary program in cognitive psychology, linguistics, and cognitive neuroscience. The program provides training in research on bilingualism that includes an international perspective and that exploits opportunities for collaborative research conducted with one of our international partner sites in the UK (Bangor, Wales), Germany (Mannheim), Spain (Granada and Tarragona), The Netherlands (Nijmegen), Sweden (Lund), and China (Hong Kong and Beijing) and in conjunction with our two domestic partner sites at Haskins Labs and the VL2 Science of Learning Center at Gallaudet University. The successful postdoctoral candidate will have an opportunity to engage in collaborative research within the Center`s international network.
We welcome applications from candidates with preparation in any of the disciplines that contribute to our program. The successful candidate will benefit from a highly interactive group of faculty whose interests include bilingual language processing, language acquisition in children and adults, and language contact, among other topics. Applicants with interests in these topics and with an interest in extending their expertise within experimental psycholinguistics and cognitive neuroscience are particularly welcome to apply. There is no expectation that applicants will have had prior experience in research on bilingualism but we expect candidates to make a commitment to gain expertise in research on bilingualism and also in using neuroscience methods, including both fMRI and ERPs. There is also a possibility of teaching one course during the academic year in the Program in Linguistics.
Questions about faculty research interests may be directed to relevant core training faculty: Psychology: Michele Diaz, Judith Kroll, Ping Li, Janet van Hell, and Dan Weiss; Spanish: Rena Torres Cacoullos, Matt Carlson, Giuli Dussias, John Lipski, Marianna Nadeu, and Karen Miller; Communication Sciences and Disorders: Carol Miller and Chaleece Sandberg; German: Carrie Jackson, Mike Putnam, and Richard Page; French: Marc Authier and Lisa Reed. Administrative questions can be directed to the Director of the Center for Language Science, Judith Kroll: jfk7@psu.edu. More information about the Center for Language Science (CLS), about the PIRE program, and faculty research programs can be found at http://cls.psu.edu or http:// pire.la.psu.edu.
The initial appointment will be for one year, with a possibility of renewal for a second year depending on the availability of funds. Salary follows NSF/NIH guidelines. The PIRE funding requires that we restrict the search to US citizens only. Applicants should upload a CV, several reprints or preprints, and a statement of research interests. This statement should indicate two or more core faculty members as likely primary and secondary mentors and should describe the candidate`s goals for research and training during a postdoctoral position, including previous experience and directions in which the candidate would like to develop his/her expertise in the language science of bilingualism. Candidates interested in gaining teaching experience should include information on teaching experience and preparation.
Additionally, applicants should arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent separately to Sharon Elder at sle9@psu.edu. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. The appointment can begin as early as August 1, 2015 but no later than October 1, 2015. Candidates must have completed their Ph.D by the time of appointment. Apply online at https://psu.jobs/job/57207
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Is there an evolutionary model for language? The case for "Within Species Comparative Computational Neuroscience"
Comparative Neuroscience is entrenched in our methodological psyche. We regularly use phylogenetically related animals (mice, cats, monkeys) as model systems for understanding our own brain. Hubel and Wiesel shared a Nobel Prize "for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system" not "the cat visual system" (their model animal) because we believe evolution conserves neurocomputational principles including coding strategies, architectures and so on. Studying mice, cats, and monkeys, we believe, teaches us about the human brain.
For decades, centuries maybe, language scientists have lamented the lack of an animal model for language. In fact, this was our excuse for why vision scientists seem to have made so much more progress in mapping the neural foundation of their system than ours. But is it really the case that we don't have an animal model? Some researchers will quickly point out that birdsong or ultrasonic vocalizations in mice can provide a useful model.
But I suggest we can do better or a least do more by looking for evolutionary homologies to our language system not in other species but in our own brain.
Here's the basic idea:
(1) Neural systems, like the species they inhabit, have a long evolutionary history.
(2) The evolution of neural subsystems (vision, hearing, olfaction, memory, emotion, social cognition, language ...) was not uniform but more klugey.
(3) The evolution of a given subsystem builds on its neurocomputational ancestor systems.
(4) Therefore, just like we find homologies in structural or functional design of related species that reflect their evolutionary lineage, we should find neural homologies in computations and architectures that reflect their neurocomputational lineage.
Language is an interesting case because it evolved so recently compared to other neural systems. Consider that the earliest estimates for the first stages of language evolution are in the range of 1.75 Mya and more typical estimates are roughly equivalent to the appearance of H. Sapiens about 100,000 years ago. But even if we assume the rudiments of a neural system for language was developing 2 Mya it is quite clear that this system evolved in the context of an already rich neurocomputational system with highly developed sensory and motor, memory, conceptual, and social systems in place. Specifically, our lineage split with our very bright primate cousin, the chimpanzee, ~5 Mya, which leaves at least an additional 3 million years of brain evolution between our common ancestor with chimps and the (earliest stages) of language evolution.
What this means is that language circuits likely built on top of, and therefore should show homologies to, other systems in our own brain. And this opens the door to a Comparative Computational Neuroscience program for language: looking to non-linguistic neural systems for clues to the brain organization for language.
This is precisely the approach that gave rise to the Dual Stream model for language, which argues for a homologous organization between language and non-linguistic sensory systems such as the dual stream models of vision and hearing (see here for similar arguments). Recent work suggesting shared computational principles behind motor control and linguistic processes in speech production is another example. The fact that we finding what look like homologies provides some evidence that this approach might hold promise.
This does not mean that language can be reduced to sensorimotor circuits any more than the human mind can be "reduced" to the macaque's. The approach is in fact quite agnostic to the degree of specialization of a system compared to its neurocomputational cousins, making it a potentially useful methodological framework for both the language-is-special and the language-is-not-special crowds. All it really says is that we can learn something about language systems from studying hearing or vision or motor control, just like we can learn something about human vision from studying cats.
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See also
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THE BIG PITCH: Should PR for the DaimlerChrysler 'merger' have been handled differently?
CHRIS WATTS
Andrea Obston Marketing Communications
Daimler should have come out and said it was a takeover from the get-go In the 1990s, the public came to know Chrysler as a leader in vehicle innovation and design (see cab forward design and the prowler and PT Cruiser) but lacking in quality control (talk to any mechanic and they'll tell you build quality is poor). Had Daimler framed the take over as a deal that preserved US jobs and combined the cutting edge Chrysler design and engineering with the quality standards of Mercedes-Benz, then the public would have cheered the take over. Instead, the 'merger of equals' line has left us with the current mess.
STEVE FRANKEL
Burson-Marsteller
Daimler made a big mistake in positioning the deal as a friendly, democratic marriage. From the outset, Daimler was calling all the shots and sought to shape the new company in its own image. If that was the intent, management should have moved swiftly from Day One to articulate its plan in a diplomatic and forthright manner, internally and externally. Cultural differences should have made honest communications an even higher priority. Employees, customers and shareholders want and deserve to know sooner rather than later what a takeover will mean to them. The results of this episode tangibly demonstrate the damage that can be done by following a different path.
CHUCK NEKVASIL
Lord, Sullivan & Yoder
Let's give DaimlerChrysler the benefit of the doubt: for employee relations, employee retention, community relations, dealer relations, and a host of other reasons, they probably did initially intend to make this a 'union of equals.' Like most mergers, though, DaimlerChrysler's isn't delivering the expected benefits, so the company needed to make a compelling case for a change in strategy. Any chance for this was short-circuited by an apparent failure to prep the chairman for the Financial Times interview!
Juergen Schrempp should have been ready to field the toughest questions and effectively outline the company's strategy, but he was caught off-guard.
RICHARD J. SCHINELLER
The deal was originally announced as a 'merger of equals' that would combine the best elements of each company. It was necessary to present the deal as a merger because, with over 90% of Daimler shareholders voting to approve the deal, Daimler would be able to give the merger 'pooling of interests' status, which allowed DaimlerChrysler to avoid having to account for a goodwill charge of dollars 35 billion spread over the next 40 years.
Chrysler made the deal based on a sound appraisal of the world automotive market at the time. A downturn in the economies of Chrysler's prime markets in the US could have severely incapacitated the company and made it difficult for Chrysler to strike a deal on any terms. Due to the fiscal realities of this case, I would not have recommended communicating the deal in any other way.


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Q: How to namespace parent props using mapState I am told that props from the parent component are automatically passed to child, you cannot intercept them, even if you use:
function mapStateToProps(state: RootState,  ownProps: OwnProps) {
  return {
    s: {...state},
    o: {...ownProps},
  };
}

I want to make sure that props from state do not clash with props from the parent component. Is there
we are using Redux connect like:
export default connect<StateProps, DispatchProps, AllProps, RootState>(
  mapState,
  mapDispatch
)(OurComponent);

so for example if I have a component
'use strict';

import React from 'react';
import { AppDispatch } from '../../cp';
import { RootState } from '../../reducers/root';
import { connect } from 'react-redux';
import moment from "moment";

interface OwnProps {
  //The type for the props provided by the parent component
  s?: any;
  z1?: any,
  z2?: any,
  z3?: any,
  o?:any

}

function mapDispatch(dispatch: AppDispatch<any>) {
  return { dispatch };
}

function mapState(state: RootState, ownProps: OwnProps) {
  return {
    o: {
      ...ownProps
    },
    s: {
      ...state
    }
  };
}

type StateProps = ReturnType<typeof mapState>;
type DispatchProps = ReturnType<typeof mapDispatch>;
type AllProps = StateProps & DispatchProps & OwnProps;

class Home extends React.Component<AllProps, RootState>{
  constructor(p: AllProps) {
    super(p);
    console.log('home props:', p);
  }

  render(){
    return
Home Works
;
  }
}

export default connect<StateProps, DispatchProps, AllProps, RootState>(mapState, mapDispatch)(Home);

and then I render it with:
  <Home dispatch={null as any} s={null as any} o={null as any} z1={1} z2={2} z3={true}/>

I get this logged:

A: I think the only good solution is to use mergeProps like so:
interface OwnProps {
  //The type for the props provided by the parent component
}

function mergeProps(state: RootState, dispatch: Dispatch<any>, ownProps: OwnProps) {
  return {
    dispatch,
    o: ownProps,                   // ownProps are namespaced onto o.
    s: {                           // stateProps are namespaced onto s.
      apiInReach: state.dev.apiInReach,
    }
  };
}

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export default connect(
  null,
  null,
  mergeProps
)(Dev);

the documentation for mergeProps is here:
https://github.com/reduxjs/react-redux/blob/master/docs/api/connect.md#mergeprops-stateprops-dispatchprops-ownprops--object

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The fatal shooting by Detroit Police of a deaf man holding a rake was followed several days later by the murder of a factory worker who was trying to kill a dog that had been terrorizing the neighborhood for two years. These recent killings are the culmination of a series of brutal beatings and murders of residents during the administration of Mayor Dennis Archer, and Detroit residents are demanding the resignation of the Mayor and the Police Chief Benny Napoleon for continuing to support a Shoot-To-Kill policy. Detroit police killings have won the city the distinction of the highest rate of murders by a police department in the U.S.
The policy of "Shoot-To-Kill" is also the policy of the U.S. Marines, CIA and Mafia hit men, and is fast becoming the defacto policy of civilian police forces throughout the nation. The armaments, supplies, computerized and military vehicles, combat and intelligence training, and values of U.S. police forces are similar to that of military forces in many nations which serve exclusively to suppress their local populations. In Georgia, at the School of the Americas, the U.S. trains military leaders from Latin America in torture tactics and death squad operations to oppress and rob the little people of a continent. How many of those professors of death are training the Detroit Police? A friend from Spain recently remarked that the conduct of American police forces reminds her of the treatment of civilians by the police and military during the Nazi regime in Spain under General Franco. In addition, some big corporations are making tremendous profits from this massive domestic weaponry. The U.S. armaments industry, one of the leading sectors of the global economy and the major export of the U.S., makes billions of dollars annually from domestic and international sales of weapons and support systems.
The increasing globalization of the economy is rapidly intensifying the gap between big wealth and workers. With this process everywhere there are the usual suspects: downsizing, privatization, outsourcing, union-busting, a growing disrespect for people of color, youth, and workers, and everywhere there is the expansion of the police and military forces to maintain the old order of exploitation surrounded by a sea of riches.
In Michigan, this police Shoot-To-Kill policy goes hand in hand with the Shoot-To-Kill policy of Governor Engler's cuts in domestic services and fundamental democratic ideals. . The massive cuts in services for health care, the closing of mental health institutions, the elimination of home rule, the opposition to affirmative action, the take over of the Detroit judiciary-- all reflect a Shoot-To-Kill domestic policy. The opposition to urban and rural environmental policies to promote clean air and water, and legislation against Living Wages, reflect the Shoot-To-Kill mentality and a race to the bottom in providing fundamental needs in a society in which the people seek a true democracy rather than nice speeches about democracy.
The globalization of the economy by the giant corporations is a world wide Shoot-to-Kill policy that wreaks havoc in American urban neighborhoods by grabbing the land, health and safety in the inner cities from Detroit's Brush Park to Los Angeles' South Central. The Shoot-to-Kill policy steals the wealth of diamond mineworkers and their families in South Africa. In Nigeria, residents who live near the oil deposits suffer from chronic health problems and police brutality caused by environmental degradation imposed by foreign corporations headquartered in New York, London and Paris. . Smiling Bill Clinton's remedy is to send Marines to train the Nigerian soldiers, already experts in brutality against their own people. Farmers and workers in Columbia, South America, face death squads armed with U.S. weapons financed by American tax dollars which Clinton claims are being sent to stop CIA drug trafficking which continues to expand in New York and Little Rock.
The Shoot-to-Kill Policy is responsible for the fact that mothers, teenage girls and war refugees in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and female immigrants across the globe are being brutalized and sold by the tens of thousands into slavery as prostitutes throughout the world. And in the industrialized nations, and in states such as Michigan, women are increasingly the victims of impoverishment, and are filling the prisons as never before.
But this is not simply the time for complaints; this is a call for peoples' action and empowerment. This is not a call to hear the usual speeches of eloquent politicians, but a call to form a grassroots movement to make fundamental changes in the system right now at the local and national level. In the process of building such a movement, we must reach across borders and boundaries to joind hands with others who seek social and political and environmental justice.
As we demand the resignation of the mayor and police chief, we must also demand a democratic method of selecting officials to oversee the police by the working people and in the community and not by big corporations. We must demand that police at every rank will be personally liable for their corruption, abuse and murder. We must demand that the training, selection, and discipline of police be supervised by elected community representatives at the top level who are not allowed to take money or benefits from big corporations. We must demand that the profits be taken out of the prison industry and that the administration of prisons and other penal institutions be turned over to elected officials whose objective is to rehabilitate the inmates so that they be returned to the society prepared to make a positive contribution.
We have to call for a living wage for all those employed and a guaranteed wage for all residents. We have to demand the restoration of social and health services to all people and a new and positive environmental policy that is compatible with good public health.
In addition, we have to demand socially relevant public education at every grade level that incorporates these issues into the curriculum so those students will feel connected to their community. This approach to education will help the youth to feel empowered to participate in the positive life of the community. This approach will compel the youth to use their energy in creative ways to begin to make changes that will contribute to a better home and family, a better neighborhood and a true democratic nation.
DETROIT, 11 September, 2000 (PANW)--Members and supporters of the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality gathered in downtown at Noon to blast the city government for their blatant disregard involving the lives of the residents of America's tenth largest municipality.
Earning the top ranking in police killings of civilians, the city of Detroit has been the scene of two highly questionable murders of citizens by law-enforcement officers over the last two weeks on the northwest side.
"The Coalition is calling for the resignation of Chief Benny Napoleon and also Mayor Dennis Archer because they have abrogated their responsibility in terms of protecting the citizens of the city of Detroit from the wanton police shootings that have gone on," said Ron Scott, spokesperson for the group, which held a well attended press conference in front of the City-County Building where the Mayor and the City Council have their offices.
"There's a trail of blood that leads directly to Benny Napoleon, Mayor Archer, the City Council, and also the police commission, Scott continued. "We, over the last three years, have made proposals that would suggest that there are ways to retard the use of lethal force but none of these bodies have responded in a positive way, according to Scott.
"So recently we have seen the deaths of Mr. Dwight Turner and also Mr. Errol Shaw," Scott noted. "These are two heinous shootings: one a deaf individual and the other individual shooting at a dog," he said. "And so a dog and a rake have caused the deaths of two individuals in this situation under very precarious and questionable circumstances," Scott pointed out.
"In both cases the chief said that these were done according to police procedure," Scott said. "Well if this is police procedure," Scott continued, "I wonder is it the same procedure that Benny Napoleon talked about last year when he said that officers are not trained to shoot or to maim, but are trained to shoot to kill," Scott recalled.
"Citizens do not feel safe themselves"
Scott continued his statement at the press conference by observing that "in that situation many citizens in the city of Detroit are talking about themselves standing up and taking up arms to defend themselves," he said. "While we in the police brutality coalition would like to see a more reasonable means of resolution, many of the citizens do not feel safe themselves," Scott continued. "They feel, that they in fact may be next," Scott said.
"So what we are calling for, and we're moving to, is the development of a broader-based coalition so that we can challenge this administration, that the people can once again make sure that they are safe from police and that Benny Napoleon and Mayor Archer stand at a pivotal point where they have been complicit in the murders of these people, Scott reiterated.
"We are calling for an international investigation"
One issue that the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality has raised is the need for an outside independent investigation of the local police department. Scott again drove home this point by declaring that: "We are calling, as we have said in the past, for an international investigation by Amnesty International and there have also been proposals in our coalition for Janet Reno to come in and investigate the police since they obviously cannot investigate themselves," Scott said.
"Mayor Archer has been complicit by virtue of the fact that he has had nothing to say about this," Scott said in his concluding remarks. "He has hidden behind his press secretary, behind his police chief, behind everybody else, and the person who should be standing up and challenging this is suddenly missing in action," Scott stated.
"We presented demands on November 30 of 1998 to the Detroit City Council wherein we said that they, the police chief, the city of Detroit, the mayor, should take a position and move to resolve the killings that had already happened," Scott recalled. "They have sat on it, they have said nothing, they have done nothing and now people are dying everyday," said Scott.
"Three people have died in the last two weeks and that's far to many and we can go on and cite 46 police shootings in this decade alone and only one police officer stands the possibility of actually being prosecuted for it," Scott stated.
Scott reminded the media representatives present that "Detroit has the highest number of police shootings in the country and we know that it is time for it to stop," Scott continued. "But we are not just engaging in rhetoric about this, we're engaging in a mass organizing activity and they can sit still and say nothing if they want to, but in the final analysis we're going to make sure that the people of this city can be safe again," Scott pointed out.
Scott talked about how the recent series of shootings were similair to the character of police-community relations prior to the election of Detroit's first African-American Mayor, Coleman A. Young. A so-called decoy crime fighting unit called Stop the Robberies Enjoy Safe Streets (STRESS) were involved in a murderous spree resulting in the deaths of 33 people between 1971-1973. After Young was elected in 1973, on the heels of massive protest efforts against the police, the controversial decoy unit was abolished.


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QLB-06 / QLZ-87B grenade launcher, left side.
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The QLB-06 / QLZ-87B grenade launcher is a further evolution of Chinese QLZ-87automatic grenade launcher. It was first unveiled to general public in 2006. The double designation (QLB-06 or QLZ-87B) stems from the fact that internal Chinese sources (press) call this weapon as QLB-06, while Poly Technologies Inc, an export corporation of PLA, calls it QLZ-87B in its advertising literature. Either way, this weapon is a further step in direction of a lightweight, one-man portable infantry support weapon which can be used on squad or platoon level.Because this weapon is even lighter than its predecessor, the QLZ-87,an automatic fire mode was abandoned, and the design was changed to better suit"rifle-type" shooting positions using integral bipod. Magazine capacity also was decreased. Nevertheless, it appears that basic action of the gun remained more or less the same. It is yet to be seen if this weapon will prove itself any good, but on paper it seems as a formidable squad- or platoon-support weapon against both enemy personnel or light armor.


The membership of the Bertie-Hertford Women's Fund is currently accepting grant applications for projects funded that serve the needs of women and children.
The board of advisors of the Bertie-Hertford Community Foundation is also accepting grant request from area nonprofits.
Funds are available for nonprofit organizations that serve charitable needs in Bertie and Hertford counties. Applications are available online beginning March 10. Visit this page for information about applying. The deadline for submitting applications is noon April 11.


The popular Skimmer 116 has given birth to a new design for the 2017 season - the Skimmer 116 Ultimate with frame seat. By pairing Hurricane's lightest sit-on-top with Native's industry-leading First Class frame seat, Hurricane has created a super stable, super comfy platform for cruising, fishing, bird watching, and simply having a blast on the water. The Skimmer 116's touring style hull and Trylon construction allow it to easily outpace other kayaks in its class, while the First Class seat keeps your thighs feeling fresh after a day on the water. This new 11 ½-footer is full-featured from bow to stern with comfortable grab handles, 10-inch bow hinge hatch, two 5 ½-inch day hatches, a paddle holder, water bottle holder, and stern well bungee. Best of all, it only weighs 42 lbs, and that's with the seat installed. Take the seat out and loading is that much nicer! Enlighten yourself and pick up a Hurricane!
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I've used this kayak for about 100 hours since mid May 2018, and I absolutely LOVE how it skims across the water, it has zero surface friction, plenty of deck space and storage.. It's beautiful, sleek and I too get tons of questions and compliments. I like how lightweight it is, I can portage, load and unload it myself.
This kayak is perfect....EXCEPT for the "first class seat". Yes, it's comfortable, yes, it's adjustable, yes it's breathable, yes it's sturdy and can be used as a beach chair. Unfortunately, it renders the kayak so tippy that anything other than flat water is treacherous. Each wave on an average day on Lake Champlain must be seriously negotiated. I've had to straddle the craft with my legs dragging in the water to avoid being capsized, one time for over 2 hours. This was not in the broad lake, but in bays. What has SAVED this kayak for me, is removing the seat and using a standard stadium seat along with The Purple cushion. It's not ideal, and I'm sorely disappointed in the seat, but at least the kayak itself is superb.
The other kind of odd thing is the location of the cup holder. Even when using the first class seat, the cup holder is down around my ankles, and the mid deck cargo storage is where I would locate the beverage holder.
If I had to choose again, I would definitely purchase the skimmer again, but would select the regular Skimmer 116 without this seat.
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Directed by Francis Thompson
and Alexander Hammid
Six screens, twenty minutes, 35mm,
colour, English and French
Canadian Pacific Railway–Cominco Pavilion
The Canadian Pacific Railway–Cominco Pavilion displayed We Are Young! by filmmakers Francis Thompson and Alexander Hammid. Hammid (Alexandr Hackenschmied) was a Czech avant-garde filmmaker who fled the Nazis in 1939 and later joined forces with Thompson, an American painter/filmmaker, to experiment with large-scale film formats. Together they made numerous world's fair films – including the hugely successful three-screen film event To Be Alive! for the 1964 New York World's Fair in Queens, for which they won an Academy Award.
For We Are Young! Thompson and Hammid used six screens to create an experimental short on the topic of youth culture. The three screens in the lower row were roughly thirty square feet, while the three upper screens were oblong and overhung the lower screens by about a foot. As with To Be Alive!, screens were used to present separate images as well as a dynamic montage of images presented synchronously. Youths and young adults were seen moving, driving, riding, dancing, and thriving across all six screens, but in the film's opening minutes, they also encountered a considerable amount of resistance from a group of disembodied and disgruntled adults: "Arrêtez ces folies!" "They're like wild animals!" "Stop! You're splitting my eardrums!" "You call that noise 'music'?" "On ne peut pas s'entendre!" And so on. The film captured the emerging youth movement and "generation gap" of the 1960s, but it also served as an allegory of a young nation's coming of age. In 1976, the partnership of Thompson and Hammid produced one of the first releases in the IMAX format, To Fly!, made for the opening of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum. According to Thompson, "Our films just got bigger and bigger and bigger until they were IMAX."
Alexander Hammid (d. 2004)
Alexander Hammid was a leading photographer and filmmaker in Czechoslovakia between the two world wars and immigrated to the U.S. in 1938. With filmmaker Maya Deren he made Meshes of the Afternoon (1943). Hammid worked in partnership with filmmaker Francis Thompson for over 25 years, including the three-screen documentary To Be Alive! for the New York's World's Fair of 1964, which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short in 1965. They went on to create We Are Young! for Expo 67, and To Fly! (1976) in IMAX which continues to play at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum.
Francis Thompson (d. 2003)
Francis Thompson was a painter and art teacher before making his first film, Evolution of the Skyscraper in 1939. During his 50-year career, Thompson produced, directed and edited dozens of films ranging from abstract experimental shorts to several IMAX films. Thompson created special optical lenses for N.Y., N.Y.: A Day in the Life of New York (1957), to generate abstract, kinetic, colour collages with an original soundtrack, in this short 15-minute film. Thompson worked in partnership with filmmaker Alexander Hammid for over 25 years, including the three-screen documentary To Be Alive! for the New York's World's Fair of 1964, which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short in 1965. They went on to create We Are Young! for Expo 67, and To Fly! (1976) in IMAX which continues to play at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum.


Giant have released a new lower priced Roost trail helmet and a new MIPS version of the popular Rail helmet for the coming season.
Giant Roost pictured above, $139. Coveta women's version also available.
Giant Rail pictured above, $199.
Both helmets are trail-specific designed featuring extended rear coverage, an AirFlow ventilation system, Giants Cinch Pro™ fit system, and a removable, moto-style extended protection side-snap visor. Pictured above, Coveta and Roost.
The new version of last year's popular Rail helmets now adds MIPS (Multi-directional Impact Protection System), for added protection against rotational forces in crashes. Otherwise, the Rail stays the same as an impressively light and well-ventilated trail helmet.
What is MIPS? MIPS is a patented brain protection system developed to reduce the rotational violence from angled impacts that can cause strain to the brain. MIPS mimics the brain's own protection system inside the skull by adding a low-friction layer between the head and helmet. A helmet with MIPS can absorb more energy from an angled impact.
Both these helmets are in stock at our bike shop at 501 Papanui Road, Christchurch.


What Is Responsive Web Design - And How To Use It?
Home Blog What Is Responsive Web Design?
Mobile devices and tablets have become increasingly popular when accessing the web. Small businesses are unable to remain competitive without a fully responsive website. The consumer wants the websites they visit to directly address their specific needs. An unresponsive website will have the same appearance on a desktop and a smartphone because the design and style are unresponsive.
Although the website may decrease in size to fit the screen of the phone, the user will have to scroll, and zoom through the site to locate the most basic features such as links, buttons, search and navigation. Responsive design takes mobile devices into consideration, and the site can react to the size and type of device with one content source and one URL. The layout of the website incorporates flexibility and fluidity and will adjust depending on the size of the screen. A mobile responsive site is critical to the success of the business.
The small business competes with much larger corporations. These corporations have more funding, resources, and products to offer the consumer. This means the small business must maintain a solid base of clients while drawing in new traffic. They must provide an excellent website experience for both desktop and mobile users. Responsive web development enables the business to show the essential information to mobile device users.
The recent algorithm update by Google must also be considered. Since responsive web design is user-friendly, it has more visibility with the search engines. This site will appear higher in the search results than a non-responsive site. This will help drive more consumers to the website.
There are more mobile devices in the world than people. This makes responsive web development critical due to the high influx of mobile traffic. When a website is neglected, and not updated, the performance will suffer. Many individuals use their mobile phones to surf the web and check their emails. The small business owner must ensure their website functions and looks just as good on a mobile phone as it does on a standard desktop.
The competition is tough, and new visitors will be lost if the website does not properly fit a small screen, or is incredibly slow when loading. A mobile responsive website has become a necessity for the small business.
Fully responsive websites with responsive images will look good despite the size of the screen and this can be easily achieved by responsive image plugins for WordPress sites. The layout of the website is capable of adjusting to phones, tablets, and desktops. This ensures the website is always easy to read and navigate. If a website is easy to use and has an attractive appearance, the user will most likely remain on the site longer. If the website takes too long to load, many users will simply go to a different website. The website must enhance the experience of the user.
Online shopping has become incredibly popular, and the consumers have come to trust the technology and security. Mobile users represent a large portion of the online sales, and their numbers are consistently increasing. Every small business must have a website friendly to online shopping to compete. The visitors will leave if the products are difficult to see, or if they have issues navigating the site. This essentially sends potential buyers to the competitors. A responsive website results in more sales because it guarantees the experience of the shopper will be better, and they will remain on the site longer.
The fact is when it comes to search results, Google has a preference for mobile-friendly sites. Their latest updates for their algorithms provide mobile-friendly sites with a distinct advantage. This means even if a website has ranked well in the past but is no longer responsive, it will be downgraded by Google, and the ranking will drop. Organic traffic is critical to the success of the small business.
One penalty for a website not being responsive can cause the loss of a lot of crucial organic traffic. The only way the organic search results of a small business can remain competitive is for the website to be responsive. This will greatly increase the chances of the site being in the top search results. There are testing tools available from Google to determine if a website is considered mobile friendly.
Numerous small business owners have refrained from updating their websites because they mistakenly believe a redesign will take a lot of time and money. Although some of the big web design agencies can be expensive when building a responsive website, there are other options. Many of the smaller and local web agencies charge a much more reasonable price and are fully qualified to design a responsive site.
There are also website builders online for business owners with a little more computer savvy. This is an additional option for developing a responsive website. The owners of the small businesses cannot afford to keep using a website with a poor performance that is outdated and slow. The small businesses must change with the times with user-friendly and responsive websites. Once the website has been upgraded and is functioning well and responsive. The business will be competitive well into the future.
It is not possible for any business with an online presence to succeed without a responsive website and it is going to get difficult. The exponentially increasing number of cell phones, tablet users need it. Google recommends it, and it, therefore, a wise decision to take up responsive web design.
Great Read! Its quite interesting to some people still using table based design. Which are not at all mobile friendly.


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Q: Kernel Panic After apr upgrade We are having issue install the ubuntu server 18.04.4 version in some workstation, or basically after the installation process. We are using the Server version to set a raid1(Software) Partition for the home folder.
We installed the system on UEFI  with one SSD for / and the RAID1 partition for the home. Just to mention all the disk are attached to a RAID Controller.
The installation fine, Then we had run the apt update and upgrade, and also the kernel has ben updated  but  after a reboot the system does not boot anymore saying  "It cannot open boot devices unknown-block(0,0)  error -6 .....kernel panic"
I boot from the older kernel try to force the update the kernel to the latest version with the following command:

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*apt install --install-recommends linux-generic-hwe-18.04

but even if the kernel seems to be installed it does not appear on the grub menu.
I really don have any idea to look for
There in any change to understand what happened during the updates? Is the media ubuntu-server-18.04.4 that gave us so many problems? Is the UEFI Partition the problem? i really don't understand
We tried also an installation with a standard desktop with a normal sata disk, with no raid, but the problems seems to be the same.
Any help is appreciated THANKS!
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The trooper was treated and released from a local hospital for a shoulder injury, Town of Lloyd police said.
Michael A. Pappas slashed the tires on another person's vehicle during a domestic dispute, police said.
A town police officer was attempting to arrest Pappas when a state police officer stepped in to help. Pappas assaulted the trooper, police said.
The trooper was treated and released from a local hospital for a shoulder injury, police said.
Pappas faces charges of second-degree assault, a felony, fourth-degree criminal mischief, fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, resisting arrest and second-degree obstructing governmental administration, misdemeanors.
He was arraigned in town court and send to Ulster County Jail without bail. He is due back in court later this month.


not sure if this is good or bad, but I was looking in a public TV catalogue for videos (Acorn) recently; they have lots of consumer items (hats, watches, etc.) and this time for the first time, they had a Brigid cross advertised for sale … seems to be infiltrating the mass consciousness or something?
Hi Thymia17 — thanks for writing. As for good and bad, a little of each, I suspect. Better, I tell myself, if I wanted a Brighid cross, to make one myself, because the craft of making teaches all by itself, and a maker of a devotional object can discover more from its making than from its purchase. But good, because people will ask, "Who's Brighid?" and good questions open up spaces in hearts and minds.
Or to quote Tolkien yet again (and to don for a moment an Elvish cloak), "Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes".


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My poem 'Jackdaws' is part of a larger sequence I am writing based around the Dartry Mountains in Ireland. The poem was shortlised for the Fish Poetry Prize 2016, run by Fish Publishing who operate from Bantry in Cork. Well done to the winners.
The Dartry Mountains includes Benbulben in Sligo (Yeats's mountain) and travel north to Arroo, overlooking Lough Melvin, a lough that is part in the Republic and part in the UK. It is an area full of natural beauty, geological wonder, political and social history and, for me, family history, with my mother being born in Glenade.
I'm off to Ireland again this month to spend more time among the hills and to write, write, write. I'll do what Liz Lochhead suggests: tie myself to a chair and tie the chair to the desk. There might be time for a night or two out in Bundoran for a pint or two of the black stuff in Brennan's Bar or a bite to eat at Madden's Bridge Bar. That and a hallo to my family there.
So, with all that, my Irish poems will be more and more formed. Perhaps I'll have others for the Fish Poetry Prize next year.
Nice one Charlie. Good luck.


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Home News Community Rescue Dog adoption story in the running for national recognition
Rescue Dog adoption story in the running for national recognition
Shawnna Pollak's pet adoption story was chosen as a finalist in a competition that could result in a $25,000 award to the local animal shelter.
Deena C. Bouknight, Contributing Writer
Petco Foundation, which invests in life-saving animal welfare projects, annually selects winning adoption stories to feature nationally. This year a Macon County Animal Services' adopter's story – about how a pet has changed their life – was selected by the Petco Foundation as one of 50 national winners in the Holiday Wishes campaign. If selected through a People's Choice voter competition at petcofoundation.org/vote, which lasts until noon CST on Dec. 16, Macon County Animal Services could earn up to $25,000 for ongoing needs and improvements.
Shawnna Pollak "met" Franklin, a pit bull-mix, when he ran out in front of her car. Pollak contacted Macon County Animal Services, which took in the stray dog to attempt to locate its owner. When no owner was found, and Franklin became available for adoption, Pollak decided to pursue adoption. However, not only had Pollak never owned a dog – she was "terrified" of them.
"I never let them near me," she said in a YouTube video featuring Franklin. "But after I found Franklin, I realized he needed someone to care for him … he obviously had had a hard life. When COVID hit, I was isolated … he cuddled me every day, watched movies with me, knew when I was upset. The bond between a person and their dog is special. I'm realizing this as an adult. Shelter dogs need our love. I couldn't be happier that I adopted Franklin."
Pollak, who has suffered from depression, admitted that the shelter-in-place mandate may have caused her symptoms of depression to worsen had it not been for Franklin to provide companionship.
"We encourage our community of animal lovers to vote for our story," said Jimmy Villiard, administrator at Macon County Animal Services. "If 2020 has shown us anything, it's that pets change our lives for the better. Your vote can help us earn lifesaving funds so we can bring more pets in need together with loving families."
The Petco Foundation's Top 5 People's Choice vote will name: One first place winner of $25,000; two second place winners of $10,000 each; and, two third place winners of $5,000 each. Winners will be announced late December.
Since 2013, more than 20,000 adopters from across the country have shared how their pets have changed their lives; so far more than $5.8 million in Holiday Wishes have been realized for animal welfare organizations that make adoption matches possible. For more information about the Petco Foundation Holiday Wishes campaign, visit petcofoundation.org/holidaywishes. Petco Foundation affirmed it has helped more than 6.5 million pets find homes.
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Sliding glass or patio doors are a fine addition to any home. They're easy to open and close, and they lend an elegant, beautiful look while letting in plenty of warmth and sunlight. With patio doors, it's easy to look into the backyard and enjoy the view. However, like all other things in the home, they'll wear out eventually. Below are a few ways to tell when it's time to replace a sliding glass door, as well as a few basic tips on DIY maintenance and repairs.
While sliding doors are meant to let natural light in, they're not supposed to let breezes in when closed. Look out for gaps in the home's current doors, as they may be a sign of escaping heated or cooled air. Even a small gap can let air out, bringing higher utility costs each month. Although it's possible to mend some damage with weatherstripping, if that's not enough, dramatic changes may be necessary. When the home's sliding doors are drafty, call a sliding door repair specialist for advice and help.
Sliding patio doors are commonplace partly because they're easy to operate. Homeowners should continually ensure that these doors slide open with little resistance. If sliding doors do not open properly, they may put the family in danger in the event of an emergency. Sliding doors move easily because they're mounted on tracks, and it's easy to tell when the door has come off its track. Even if it has not, the wheels may become damaged by poor weather or substandard installation. If this applies, a DIY repair may be insufficient, and the homeowner will need professional help.
Bent tracks can also cause damage to sliding doors. A bend can be outward or inward, preventing the door from going through its full range of motion. Slight inward or outward bends can be repaired with simple household tools, but if the bend is severe, it's best to leave the fix to a sliding door expert.
Another potential cause of issues with a patio or sliding glass door is excessive condensation. While condensation's effects on windows are well-known, it can just as quickly cause problems with sliding glass doors. These glass panes are typically insulated against the damage condensation causes, and there are usually two glass sheets for every sliding door. If there's condensation in between the panes, the seal has been broken, and the homeowner will need to call a professional for advice.
A basic visual inspection may reveal problems with a home's patio doors. Take a close look at the doors' overall condition; if there are signs of decay such as severe rot or broken glass, it's time to call an installer for new doors. Storms and heat waves are seasonal hazards that may compromise the integrity of a home's sliding glass doors, and constant vigilance will help homeowners keep those doors in the best shape possible.
Gaps between sliding doors and frames mean a great deal of wasted money and energy, but they pose serious safety risks as well. If the patio doors are older and the homeowner uses a wood stick in the track for additional security, this simply isn't enough. With newly installed sliding doors, homeowners can toss that broomstick back in the closet and enjoy the protection the new door provides.
Because of poor weather, broken seals, burglary attempts, and pest infestations, sliding doors are often broken. Replacing a single pane in a patio door may be difficult because it requires the breaking of the seal, removal of the old glass, and installation of the new pane. This effort is quite time-consuming, and it may lead to injury and additional door issues if it's not done properly. When the glass in a sliding door is shattered, it's best to replace the entire door with the help of a local professional.
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The number of people enrolled in Medicaid, broken out by gender, expressed as a percentage of the total population of that gender.
This measure shows whether there are gender disparities in the proportion of people dependent upon government for health insurance because they cannot access affordable insurance through jobs or other means.
In 2012-16, 21% of female and 18% of male Delaware residents were enrolled in Medicaid, similar to the national rates. Across the counties, Kent County had the highest rates of enrollment for both genders (25% for women and 22% for men), while New Castle had the lowest (19% for women and 16% for men). Across Delaware's counties and communities, women tended to have higher Medicaid enrollment levels than men.
Rates are based on annual averages of monthly enrollment data. Data is sourced from the US Census Bureau's Annual Community Survey.
Studies have found that national survey estimates (including the ACS) of enrollment in public benefit programs tend to underestimate the true rate due to underreporting by participants, when compared with state-level administrative data. Underreporting can occur for a variety of reasons, including the social stigma of program participation and participants' confusion about the source of the services they receive. For these reasons, the estimates reported above should be considered a lower bound of the true estimate.


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Where open source and open standards meet.
A Business partnership of great import to higher ed analyzed.
Sungard makes a move that will truly impact the LMS marketplace.
Michael Feldstein, you say it so much better than I could.
There is no need to reproduce your analysis here, I'm simply going to link to it. Readers, this post from Michael Feldstein's e-Literate blog has already been posted in Notable Posts, Openness, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and tagged in edunomics, IMS LIS, Oracle, rSmart, Sakai Project, Sungard, Unicon.
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Beloved American painter and illustrator of small town American life. Most famous for his Saturday Evening Post covers. Where Norman Rockwell once lived and painted for 12 years.
200 year old Colonial Inn overlooks a little white church and a red wooden covered bridge, just like a Norman Rockwell painting. The quaint and charming home underwent a major renovation in 1987. Rockwell prints adorn the walls, which inspired the names of rooms. For the real Rockwell experience, you'll want to stay in his bedroom in the main house, or the cottage studio where he actually painted for 12 years. But wherever you are, the entire five acre property is imbued with the Rockwell spirit.
Tennis court tucked in back near the artist's studio. One of America's finest trout streams for fishing, canoeing and swimming just across the green. Grounds offer Children's play equipment, gazebo, picnic/BBQ area, and river road with panoramic views of farms and meadows. Library with piano, fireplaces in dining and living rooms. Tariff includes bountiful breakfast served on bone china, with silver and Waterford crystal. Restaurants, local concerts and summer theater productions nearby. Inquire about weekly/monthly rates.
2 cottages, 4 guest rooms, 1 suite (1 sharing bath). The rooms are spacious, delightfully picturesque, and filled with wonderful antiques creating an authentic, life-sized 3 dimensional American picture of Rockwell's time.