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Stockbridge Market
The weekly Stockbridge Market is a foodie heaven featuring creative crafts, original artwork, superb street food. Eat, meet, greet or treat - there is something for everyone!
About Stockbridge Market
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Stockbridge Market Saunders Street, Stockbridge and Canonmills EH3 6TQ
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Our Market continues to bring lots of quality foodstuffs, so whether you're looking for something special for supper, a continental style lunch, or planning a dinner party – the Stockbridge Market will have some new produce for you to try. How about some olives as an aperitif, quality meat,fish or game with locally grown vegetables, followed by a selection of French cheeses and nutty brown bread, and finish things off with some traditional crepe suzettes or 'latest craze' macaroons or home baked cakes.....
Our passionate small traders not only explain how to cook and serve your choices – they also have a range of accompaniments to complement your choices or to just to have in the fridge. Jams, pickles, pates and spreads galore – that only hard bit is knowing what to choose!!
So join us beside the Water of Leith in Stockbridge.
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Leith Market
Selected dates between 8th January 2022 - 24th December 2022
Leith Market, Leith
The weekly Leith Market has it all - fresh meats, fish, bread, veggies, fruits, cheeses, home bakes, olives, jams, chutneys, oils, smokehouse products and lots more!
Edinburgh Farmers Market
Edinburgh Old Town
Experience Edinburgh's original and award winning Farmers' Market at Castle Terrace every Saturday from 9am - 2pm!
Grassmarket Market
Grassmarket Market, Edinburgh Old Town
Every Saturday the centre of the Grassmarket becomes a flurry of excitement with the arrival of the weekly market, home to art, crafts, jewellery, gifts, not to mention amazing locally made food!
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Whisky & Vegan Cheese
Selected dates between 21st January 2022 - 13th May 2022
Summerhall Drinks Lab, Edinburgh South
Whisky & cheese is one of life's greatest pairings, but why should dairy lovers have all the fun? So come along and join us at Summerhall Drinks Lab.
Gin Tasting Tour of Scotland
Selected dates between 22nd January 2022 - 26th March 2022
Book your tickets now for an interactive gin tasting tour of Scotland featuring 6 gins from around the country at Summerhall Drinks Lab!
Spirits of the World
Selected dates between 22nd January 2022 - 26th November 2022
Book now and travel the world using just your tastebuds in this interactive tasting experience at Summerhall Drinks Lab!
An Edinburgh Burns Night
The Real Mary King's Close and Amber Restaurant have partnered to create a unique Burns Night experience filled with poetry, history, Scottish whisky and delightful dishes!
Create Your Own Mixer
Selected dates between 27th January 2022 - 31st March 2022
Experiment with flavour combinations in this interactive tasting experience & take home your very own mixer creation!


UC San Francisco researchers have discovered how a mutation in a gene regulator called the TERT promoter -- the third most common mutation among all human cancers and the most common mutation in the deadly brain cancer glioblastoma -- confers "immortality" on tumor cells, enabling the unchecked cell division that powers their aggressive growth.
The research, published September 10, 2018 in Cancer Cell, found that patient-derived glioblastoma cells with TERT promoter mutations depend on a particular form of a protein called GABP for their survival. GABP is critical to the workings of most cells, but the researchers discovered that the specific component of this protein that activates mutated TERT promoters, a subunit called GABP-ß1L, appears to be dispensable in normal cells: Eliminating this subunit using CRISPR-based gene editing dramatically slowed the growth of the human cancer cells in lab dishes and when they were transplanted into mice, but removing GABP-ß1L from healthy cells had no discernable effect.
But recent research has suggested that more than 50 types of human cancers may be caused not by a defective TERT gene itself, but by mutations in the TERT promoter -- a region of DNA where protein complexes called transcription factors can influence when and how the TERT gene is activated. These mutations enable a transcription factor called GABP to bind to the TERT promoter and activate it, other studies had found, which was strange because in healthy cells GABP and TERT usually have nothing to do with one another.


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News68th Session
Montana lawmakers sworn in for 68th legislative session
By: Jonathon Ambarian
HELENA — On Monday, state lawmakers returned to the Montana State Capitol in Helena for the first day of the Montana Legislature's 68th session. It was a day of greetings, as lawmakers introduced and reintroduced themselves to their colleagues. It was also a day of ceremony, as they took the official steps needed to get legislative business underway.
The House and Senate both gaveled in at noon.
"Today begins a new journey for each of you, to honor and serve others with dignity, trust, patience, transparency and kindness," said Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen, who presided over the initial ceremonies for the House. "Every idea, conversation, committee and every vote will be in the best interest of Montana."
As the House began their work, Reps. Neil Duram, Ross Fitzgerald, Denley Loge, Bill Mercer and Kerri Seekins-Crowe sang the national anthem.
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Both chambers conducted full roll calls of their members. Then, representatives and senators took the oath of office, administered by District Court Judge Ashley Harada of Billings in the House and Montana Supreme Court Justice Laurie McKinnon in the Senate.
While Monday focused on pomp and circumstance, on Tuesday, it will be time for legislative action. Hundreds of bills have already been introduced and assigned to committees, and the first hearings will start Tuesday at 8 a.m.
After the swearing-in ceremonies, leaders from both parties highlighted their expectations for the coming session.
Republicans, who hold a two-thirds supermajority, have talked about reducing regulations, strengthening the state's economy and returning Montana's budget surplus to taxpayers. Rep. Sue Vinton, R-Billings, the House majority leader, called on the party to stay united.
"To the members of the Republican caucus: We must remain steadfast in working together to achieve the conservative mandate that our voters and Montanans have sent us here to accomplish," she said. "I have confidence in each of you here today, that together we can accomplish great things."
Democrats, in the minority, have called for more aggressive action on issues like the housing crisis, child care and health care funding. They said they're willing to work with Republicans where they can, but made clear there will be areas where they'll stand their ground.
"Senate Democrats are ready to create the majorities we need to meet the pressing needs of our state," said Sen. Pat Flowers, D-Bozeman, the Senate minority leader. "We're committed to work with respect for all of you and Montana citizens. You can also expect our conscientious commitment to the rights and freedoms guaranteed by our Montana Constitution."
This session is beginning with 149 active members of the Legislature, not the usual 150. One House seat, representing District 80 in Lewis and Clark and Powell Counties, is currently vacant, after former Rep. Becky Beard, R-Elliston, was appointed to the Senate. County commissioners are set to appoint Beard's replacement this week.

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Nebraska Spiders: Pictures and Identification
Welcome to Nebraska spiders overview. Using the state's high butterfly diversity as a comparative standard, it's safe to guess that spider diversity in the state ranks a bit lower. Butterfly diversity gets a larger bump due to wind patterns that occasionally help species from neighboring states fly across borders.
Recent news about the Joro spider and it's long range air travel suggests Nebraska spider density has partially been supplemented by the primary spider families known for ballooning, including the orb weavers. However, unlike butterflies, not all spiders use long distance air travel as a dispersal tool. Given their ballooning behavior, it's reasonable to assume that as the Joro spider spreads around the Southeast, some will eventually be transported by air to the state. Fear not. Ballooning primarily helps with small spiderling dispersal. There's little chance of a large population of large spiders in large webs taking flight and parachuting into the back yard.
Tallgrass Spiders
Spider diversity also depends on ecosystem factors. Farmland, for example, generally hosts a specific set of species that may or may not share similar patterns with spider diversity in the residential areas of the state. All Tallgrass Prairies, including those found in eastern Nebraska, are assumed to have experienced historically diverse spider populations that helped maintain balance in prairie insect populations. Press or click the green Tallgrass Prairie button for additional information.
The Nebraska Extension Service presents a comprehensive overview of the most common species found in residential areas and park settings throughout the state. From that perspective, Nebraska spiders diversity looks robust. Species from seventeen different spider families are documented, further categorized by their hunting methods.
Common Nebraska house spiders receive good coverage, spanning multiple families. The top picture shows a domestic house spider, also called a barn funnel weaver, (Tegenaria domestica). The formal name suggests an indoor spider. The build their webs in basements and corners of the house that get less traffic. Nebraska being farm country, they also occupy many a barn in the state.
Two types of poisonous spiders, the black and brown widows plus the Brown Recluse spider also lead the list of common house spider questions in the state.
A handful of cobweb spiders, the same family as the widow spiders, such as the common house spider (Parasteadota tepidariorum) are common household spiders, generally speaking the widow spiders tend be be outdoor species.
They build messy webs in woodpiles around the house, corners of barns, garden sheds and other areas or stationary objects that don't get much human traffic. Keeping an eye out for the webs and black bodied females around the yard is the best preventative measure for keeping safe.
Brown recluse spiders can be found in the Southeast corner of the state. Fortunately they tend to avoid human contact unless forced to by humans who quickly put on shoes or clothes without checking for spiders.
Pressing the green Spider Pics button leads to a series of articles that starts with the most common house spiders.
Many of the common yard spiders have a wide range and they can be found in large urban and suburban centers such as Lincoln and Omaha as well as the more rural areas of the state.
Because of their typically orange bodies, Marbled Orbweavers sometimes go by the name pumpkin spiders. Less well known is the fact that some bodies have a yellow version.
They and other species with familiar names such as spotted orbweavers and black and yellow garden spiders, are common in yards around the state.
Both Western and striped Lynx spiders inhabit most yards and fields across Nebraska. Look for them on shrubs and low hanging leaves. The picture shows a Striped Lynx Spider.
Many people don't think diversity when they thing crab spiders. Actually, there are around one hundred and thirty species documented in the Thomisidae crab spider family, divided into at least ten genera. Species from four of the more colorful genera:
Misumena
Misumenoides
Misumessus
Mecaphesa
inhabit gardens, parks and other flower habitat throughout the state.
In terms of identification tips, eye pattern rather than body color often is the best way to differentiate between species. Goldenrod Crab Spiders or Flower Crab Spiders (pictured) (Misumena), can come in shades of white and yellow bodies.
Swift Crab Spider (Mecaphesa celer)
Green Crab Spider Misumessus oblongus)
Whitebanded Crab Spider (Misumenoides formosipes)
A closer look toward the ground and surrounding areas brings us another group of Thomisidae crab spiders, the ground crab spiders. Physically they tend to be smaller than the flower crab spiders with a brown body color.
Jumping Spiders of Nebraska
Jumping spiders rank as the most diverse family of spiders in back yards across Nebraska. Identifying jumping spiders to the family is easy. They are small spiders that jump among the bushes and ground. Four binocular eyes on the front of the face stare out at everyone and everything around them.
Species level identification leans to the somewhat easy category with a few caveats.
The United States hosts over three hundred jumping spider species. Some look like ants and without the aid of a magnifying glass or strong macro lens for the camera, they go unnoticed. Best starting advice for jumping spider identification is to note that with the exception of a handful of experts, there's really no good way to identify all the species and all the genera.
Fortunately, some back yard jumping spiders are easier to identify than others.
When it comes to the Phidippus species, think medium sized, colorful, spider with iridescent chelicerae (jaws or clawed pinchers) and that's a good first attempt at identification. The identification tasks gets a bit more difficult for, especially with the species that have red colors on the h carapaces and/or abdomens. Four Nebraska documented species, P. pius, P. Whitmani, P. apacheanus and P. cardinalis, for example, have red color on both body parts. Identification tensions in the spider community continue regarding the utility of using any dark or light patterns on the body for identification purposes.
Paraphidippus, as the name implies, are related to Phidippus. Like Phidippus, most species are sufficiently sized to be visible to the eyes. Unlike Phidippus, they tend to be less colorful and they lack the green jaws.
The pictures shows ten common Nebraska jumping spiders. Column 1 show the more colorful Phidippus and one Paraphidippus. Column 2 shows representative species from other genera.
Phidippus Jumping Spiders
Bold Jumping Spider
Phidippus clarus
Phidippus princeps
Phidippus whitmani
Golden Jumping Spider (Paraphidippus)
Tan Jumping Spider
Thin-spined Jumping Spider
White-cheeked Jumping Spider
Peppered Jumping Spider
White-jawed Jumping Spider


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Trails & Travel - December 22, 2014
Scene Visit | Wharncliffe Woods, Sheffield UK
A good biking friend of mine has moved from my local area of Shropshire, his work as a scaffolder took him to several locations north of here; Manchester, Hull and Sheffield, to name a few. There was plenty of work around those parts when he moved up there over five years ago and he had a choice to live around any of them. Being a restless kind of character he never seemed to settle anywhere for longer than a year, that was till he found the biking delights of a small woodland close to the city of Sheffield. This place is called Wharncliffe Woods (aka Wharny) and hides a history stooped in world class riders and some of the most tech stuff you could ever ride in a small woodland.
Josh Lewis, watch out for this ripper in 2015
Now, five years on, my friend Coynie is the most settled I have ever seen him, loving the trails, which are literally on his doorstep, vowing never to leave the area due to his total love of the local terrain, so why exactly does he keep rambling on about it so much? I figured I had to go and check it out for myself. We decided on a mid-week shoot, unfortunately Coynie couldn't make it (we arranged for another ride of course!) so I thought I would meet up with another couple of local Sheffield riders, they also live virtually on the edge of the wood, you may have heard of them; Steve Peat and Josh (Loose Dog) Lewis!
Peaty with Josh in pursuit
Peaty obviously is a major legend worldwide, so you can just imagine his god-like status in and amongst those parts, he is looked up to, as a kind of king of the MTB scene round there, especially when organizing his annual Steel City race. The race being held on the other side of the road to Wharncliffe, at the more man-made trails center-ish Grenoside Woods. Peaty is now 40 years young, but still ripping, he cut his teeth in these woods, known unsurprisingly as the fastest rider on every trail there. But he is starting to have competition up there, in the form of young Josh Lewis, Josh being best mates to Josh Bryceland (another Wharny regular) not only do they share the same first name, they are also stars of the 'Ladlife' viral videos knocking about nowadays, many clips having been recorded at Wharny. Josh 21 years old, also cut his teeth at Wharny Woods, looking up to the big local Peaty for motivation, he is now starting to rip and after managing to finishing 4th overall in the UK's UKGE after a sketchy season, he is to take on the EWS world in 2015.
Josh, Noz, Loose Dog, whatever you want to call him, he loves Wharny
Peaty, he may be longer in the tooth, but no shorter in the skills department
It's pissing down and hailing on arrival and Peaty's nowhere to be seen at the car park, so I bell him to get the reply, "Noz is here at mine avin' a brew kidda, we'll wait till hail storm's gone then ride down to ya mate" Noz being Josh's nickname. Soon enough they both arrive, almost a bit like father and son, with the giant 6 foot 5 (196cm) Peaty on his XL Tallboy and Noz 5 foot 9 (175cm) on his Nomad, they couldn't look more different! "Come on then mate, we're off to some good bits, then meetin' track builder lads in a bit" says Peaty after the informal greetings, and we're off.
Peaty couldn't be more at home at these woods
So let me explain a bit more about Wharncliffe's terrain, it has some trails which are nearly un-rideable in the dry, due to their high levels of tech, never mind in the pissing winter rain. For a small area it's covered in a mind-blowing amount of trails, nothing involving any brought-in stone or easy flowing simple stuff! The first trail we get to Peaty shouts back "Yer not allowed to put ya foot down" I knew we were in for some difficult riding! I felt sorry for Isac our photographer) he was following with a big heavy camera bag on and the trail resembled more of a trials section than an MTB track, massive rocks littered the trail, not a steep trail, just so difficult with the rocks, holes filled with water and even the odd ditch you had to precariously ride over. I think there might have been a couple of bits where my feet were actually 'on' the pedals, as the others rode off to wait at the end of that section! Isac hit the deck a couple of times, I knew Peaty and Noz would try and fuck us up from the start, and a good job they did of it too!
Riding in a place like this is so much fun
Lots of fun was had out on the more rideable stuff following these lads, who just made everything look easy. You can tell that every trail made in Wharny Woods is made with a degree of difficulty in mind, awkward roots and off-camber rocks always being part of the tracks, rather than diverted around, and there wasn't any noticeable 'straight Strava lines' appearing, so as to miss out the trickiest of lines, a sign of a place for proper riders. The trails were all made even more difficult, being mostly dark peat, which made them extremely slimy in the wet, but a good laugh never the less.
Rob and Max, these guys are obsessed with their trails
Eventually we make it to what can only be described as the centerpiece to the wood, known locally as Mini Whistler or Wharncouver. Now this place really is a sight to be seen and where we met the lads who did a lot of the building. Max Nerurkar and Rob Southern have put a ridiculous amount of work into this place, skillfully digging, carving and shaping the downhills into works of art. I had a bit of a go, then feeling a tad out of my depth put the bike down to admire the trail shredding skills of Peaty and Josh. Josh attacks trails on the verge of too fast, nailing the biggest of scary hip jumps, with Steve smoothly powering his big bike through each and every turn like a boss. It was a real joy to watch the opposing riding styles of these lads as the young Max and Rob spectate in awe, fist bumping and high fiving everyone like it's going out of fashion. Even with a wood fire going at their trail base we were soon a bit too chilly and decided to hit the local ale house to get some words off the lads
You're obviously quite an influential person around these parts, but was it round here where it all started for you?
PEATY: Riding in Wharncliffe began for me 25 years ago, I used to live in Chapeltown, which is about two miles (3.2k) away from Wharncliffe. When I first started mountain biking I rode cross country, so I'd ride from home, up to Wharncliffe, then do three laps of the woods which was a 9.9 mile (16k) lap, I used to get home from work and do that most nights of the week.
What was it like back then?
It was all fire roads then, there was a bit of single-track, but mostly rough fire-roads really
You can't best a cosy Northern country pub during the cold and grey UK winter
Did you get involved in the digging up there back then?
Ha ha, there's a track in there called 'Peaty's Track', one day we were in there and we decided where the track was going to go and I helped them build the first two corners, then I had to go away travelling and racing for the summer. They carried on and built the rest of the track and someone came along and named it 'Peaty's Track', the builders have given me shit about it ever since, because they built it and I had nothing to do with it really!
JOSH: Yeh, there's stories about when he used to do the runs then sprint back up by the side of it all day!
How often are you in there when you are back in the country nowadays?
PEATY: I ride cross country in there mainly, so probably three or four times a week.
Which is your favorite trail in there?
Favorite trails are the secret trails (laughter)
When did you notice the large amount of tracks being made around there?
Over the years there's been all sorts, I mean I first started riding cross country there, then downhill kicked off a bit bigger for me and me and Will Longden spent hours in there, we used to ride over in Grenoside more back then for downhill, we built tracks there years ago. There was a British National over at Grenoside in about 95 I think, it went flat all the way across Grena Wood on the fire road, did a left turn, up a fire-road, then back down a fire-road, a tiny technical bit at the bottom, but that was it.
The smoothness of these more recent bermed tracks are a new thing for Wharnecliffe, so different to the techy other stuff
Have there been any races on Wharncliffe side?
there used to be a lot of Sportage cross country races, NEMBA had downhill races in there, there is actually a track in there called Nemba, but there's not been races there for a while.
Rob, Josh and Peaty
So Noz when you got into it all were you quite influenced by Steve?
JOSH: Yeh big time, I remember the first bike I got, it was a shit bike but it did the job!
Did you always live close to the woods?
Yeh I moved up there about 14 years ago, but I didn't start doing mountain biking till I was about 13, Steve has always helped me
Do you get involved in digging the tracks?
No not really, these boys do a good job to be fair, I'd like to, but I'm always away at the weekends so it's hard really.
You do a lot of filming now as well with Bryceland, how often does he hit the Wharny trails with you?
We do rides now and again, I might go over there and do a ride, we just try and put a good weekend together whatever we do.
Steve sorts the fire as Noz films for Lad Life, never without his camcorder nowadays
So what's the local riders attitude towards Steve
Ha ha, the first time I introduced Steve down to these guys (Max & Rob) down at the spot everyone's knuckling flat out, but they all knew who he was except this one kid, who said "what's yer name then mate?" he just didn't have a clue about Steve and that's so rare around here. Steve told the lad he was called Dave and the kid was calling him Dave all day!
So when you're around how often do you get up there?
Most nights during the summer really
Josh rides Wharny most nights during the summer
Do you think the trails have been important to define you as a rider, to get you to where you are today?
Yeh sure, when it comes to technical stuff it definitely sets you apart from others.
PEATY: I think it definitely defined me too, in Wharncliffe there are trails that have little rocks that you learn to use to help you to carry speed. It's so technical, it's real rocky real rooty. Like now where these boys are building it's really flowy and jumpy, so there's a good mix of everything.
JOSH: What has happened before is some people had spend ages building a lip of a jump and forgot about the landing before these boys came a long, so the smooth jumps are quite a new thing up there really.
Ok so what about you Max and Rob, how long have you boys been building up here then?
MAX: I rode a lot as a kid around Wharncliffe with my dad and he used to take me to trail centers and stuff. I then got into skateboarding and that's how I met Rob
JOSH: They are sick skaters this pair!
ROB: Yeh I spent about five years doing that, I live about twenty minutes from the trail spot and Rob lives at mine pretty much, so we just cruise out there every day, do some digging, do some riding. In the winter we struggle a bit, maybe every few days, but in the summer it's every day.
Do you work at all?
ROB: I did work weekends for a bit.
So when did you start building the trails?
ROB: Well we started riding the trails about two years ago, and Max kind of said "we've got some sick trails out here" so we started riding them.
MAX: He got into riding in Thailand did Rob.
ROB: Yeh I'd just got into it over here, then over there I'd seen Steve and them in that Thailand Loose Riders video. So I thought I'd try one of the Thai trails. I rode them so many slams, they were so tech, the guide went over the bars on the first steep corner, it was mental!
So when you first started digging trails were they more techy stuff to start with?
MAX: There were about three trails that were ridden in then, we didn't really have any idea what trails were like at that time, we'd seen the stuff at the top and just thought 'that's just gnarly'. We looked at certain berms that didn't really work, we made another berm at the bottom of one of the tracks and just kind of built up from there.
So have you put your names to any of the trails there?
ROB: The one they were riding today never really had a name and people have asked us to name it, to us it's just our trails.
JOSH: Yeh the Wharncouver or Mini-Whistler is just a bit of local hype really.
MAX: There's about six or seven trails we've done, but with help from other people, like the one you were riding was built originally by someone else but fell into bad condition. So like on three or four of the tracks we just went up and built berms and sorted them out with some renovation really. Then there's another three or four, which we pretty much built from scratch. We've had up to about ten people before now shifting dirt on some days, so it's not just us. It's just slow in the winter once that grey weather comes in.
Do you have any issues up there with dirt bikes?
MAX: Yeh we've had a few run-ins with them, we just stopped them and asked if they can stay away from our trails and they've been OK really.
What about the Forestry Commission and land owners, how's relations with them?
MAX: It's been alright to be honest, I met one of the women from the forestry about five months ago and she was really chilled out about it. They just ask that we don't build anything with wood, because if you do they have got to take it down. She didn't say at any point 'stop building', but I bumped into her a bit more recently and she was a bit more like "Things are getting big now aren't they!" so we gotta be a bit more aware now. And she also said the main thing is that the trails don't send riders out onto fire-roads for safety of the walkers.
So what about plans for the future up there?
ROB: Well fairly soon after we started digging up there we learnt that it is a plantation area so it's all going to be felled at some point. We found out it's going to be done this coming year, but because we've been to meetings and got on with them well, they are going to take the trails into consideration. Whereas I think if we'd have been more hostile with them that wouldn't be a consideration.
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Ratified in 1865, it was the first of three "Reconstruction amendments" that were adopted immediately following the Civil War..
Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution – Wikipedia.
The 14th Amendment established citizenship rights for the first time and equal protection to former slaves, laying the foundation for how we understand these ideals today. It is the most relevant amendment to Americans' lives today.
The Bill of Rights is the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution. It spells out Americans' rights in relation to their government. It guarantees civil rights and liberties to the individual—like freedom of speech, press, and religion.
The Bill amends the Constitution to introduce the goods and services tax (GST).
Arguably, the First Amendment is also the most important to the maintenance of a democratic government. … The freedoms of speech, press, assembly and the right to petition the government and seek redress of grievances proclaim that citizens have the right to call the government to account.
Terms in this set (10)1st Amendment. Freedom of religion, speech, the press, assembly, and petition.5th Amendment. No capital crime except when charges by grand jury; no double jeopardy; no witness against self.6th Amendment. … 13th Amendment. … 15th Amendment. … 18th Amendment. … 19th Amendment. … 21st Amendment.More items…
The Tenth Amendment pits state and federal ambitions against each other by reserving to states "all powers not delegated" to the federal government. This dynamic ensures that neither government can become too powerful, because citizens who feel oppressed by one sovereign can expect protection from the other.
YouGov's latest research shows that 41% of Americans say that the First Amendment, summarized as the Amendment which guarantees 'religious freedom and the right to free speech, assembly' is the most important Amendment in the Bill of Rights. … 77% knew that the First Amendment guarantees free speech and religion.
The Twenty-sixth Amendment (Amendment XXVI) to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States who are at least eighteen years old.
In order to understand government and law, in the United States, one must understand the constitution, but if there are two provisions in the constitution which are of supreme importance, it is the Fifth and Tenth Amendments. These amendments codify maximum freedom and minimal government intervention.
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Q: getting undefined symbol: key in jni in netbeans I am using netbeans installed on linux (x64) machine. I have written a java code it uses the C code as library.
In C code I have declared the variable as extern in header file when I run C code I am getting correct o/p but when I run java code I am getting error as below:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /home/pacewisdom-h34/NetBeansProjects/NetbeansJava/desJavaLib/dist/DesJavaLib.so: /home/pacewisdom-h34/NetBeansProjects/NetbeansJava/desJavaLib/dist/DesJavaLib.so: undefined symbol: key
    at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1938)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1821)
    at java.lang.Runtime.load0(Runtime.java:809)
    at java.lang.System.load(System.java:1086)
    at desjava.DesJava.<clinit>(DesJava.java:10)
/home/pacewisdom-h34/.cache/netbeans/8.1/executor-snippets/run.xml:53: Java returned: 1
BUILD FAILED (total time: 0 seconds)

key is declared as a extern in header file but its giving error.
I saw solution on Stack Overflow itself for 30% similar questions. They mentioned to redefine the variable as intern in the C code. But it keeps on running wont stop.

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key is defined as an extern

No, it is declared as an extern, and not defined anywhere. It needs to be.


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Q: Squid or DansGuardian: Which should pass content to an antivirus product for scanning? I have an Ubuntu Server12.04 installation acting as a proxy server using Squid 3.1.19.
Squid has been configured to pass content to SquidClamAV 6.10 to check for viruses (using icap):
icap_service service_req reqmod_precache bypass=1 icap://127.0.0.1:1344/squidclamav
adaptation_access service_req allow all
icap_service service_resp respmod_precache bypass=1 icap://127.0.0.1:1344/squidclamav
adaptation_access service_resp allow all

The current setup works perfectly well, but now I'd like to install DansGuardian to provide content filtering.
Like Squid, the DansGuardian config file (/etc/dansguardian/dansguardian.conf) can also be integrated with anti-virus products using the 'contentscanner' directive.
Should I ignore the 'contentscanner' directive in DansGuardian and leave Squid in charge of passing content to SquidClamAV. Or should I have DansGuardian pass content to an anti-virus product? Or should they both be passing content to anti-virus products?
What's considered best practice? Are there any advantages/disadvantages either way?


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After using CH.Yamir De Rancho Jarez "Sammie" for stud, he sired my F2 and G2 litters, as his ability as a stud dog to produce offspring with very good temperament and strong European breed type was proven. I talked with Sammie's owner, who also own BISS Black Gold Evening Ends With A Kiss "Evita", that when Evita turned 4 years old we might consider breeding the two dogs. By then Evita would have finished her AKC Championship and completed all the needed health clearances. However, Evita and Sammie decided to fast forward our plans and she has been bred to him. Evita is the daughter of Desi, the dam of the G2 litter with Sammie, this breeding is very close to a repeat of the G2 litter. Evita has a very stable and outgoing temperament, she loves the show ring and at the young age of 16 months old she has 9 points towards her AKC championship with a Best In Specialty Show (BISS) 5 point major from the classes, over specials.
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Sexually transmitted disease is a topic covered in the Diagnosaurus.
Zeiger, Roni F.. "Sexually Transmitted Disease." Diagnosaurus, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill Education, 2014. Emergency Central, emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114424/all/Sexually_transmitted_disease.
Zeiger RF. Sexually transmitted disease. Diagnosaurus. 4th ed. McGraw-Hill Education; 2014. https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114424/all/Sexually_transmitted_disease. Accessed April 20, 2019.
Zeiger RF. Sexually Transmitted Disease [Internet]. In: Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2014. [cited 2019 April 20]. Available from: https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114424/all/Sexually_transmitted_disease.


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package de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.test;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;

import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.serialize.QuerySerializer;

import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Test;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;

/**
 * @author hanl
 * @date 02/07/2015
 */
public class EmptyResultsTest {

    private static ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();

    @Test
    public void testEmptyQueryObject () {
        QuerySerializer s = new QuerySerializer();
        s.setQuery("prox/unit=word/distance<=5", "cql");
        JsonNode node = mapper.valueToTree(s.build());
        assertFalse(node.has("query"));
        assertFalse(node.has("collection"));
    }

    @Test
    public void testEmptyCollectionObject () {
        QuerySerializer s = new QuerySerializer();
        s.setQuery("[base=Wort]", "poliqarp");

        JsonNode node = mapper.valueToTree(s.build());
        assertTrue(node.has("query"));
        assertFalse(node.has("collection"));
    }

    @Test
    public void testEmptyMetaObject () {
        QuerySerializer s = new QuerySerializer();
        s.setQuery("[base=Wort]", "poliqarp");

        JsonNode node = mapper.valueToTree(s.build());
        assertFalse(node.has("meta"));
    }

    @Test
    public void testWarnings () {
        QuerySerializer s = new QuerySerializer();
        s.setQuery("[base=Wort]", "poliqarp");
        List<String> l = new ArrayList<String>(1);
        l.add("Hui");
        s.addWarning(14, "Beispiel", l);
        s.addWarning(16, "Beispiel 2", null);

        JsonNode node = mapper.valueToTree(s.build());
        assertTrue(node.has("warnings"));
        assertEquals(14, node.at("/warnings/0/0").asInt());
        assertEquals("Beispiel", node.at("/warnings/0/1").asText());
        assertEquals("Hui", node.at("/warnings/0/2").asText());
        assertEquals(16, node.at("/warnings/1/0").asInt());
        assertEquals("Beispiel 2", node.at("/warnings/1/1").asText());
        assertFalse(node.has("/warnings/1/2"));
    }

    @Test
    public void testVersion () {
        QuerySerializer s = new QuerySerializer();
        assertTrue(s.getVersion().matches("^\\d+(\\.\\d+)+$"));
        assertFalse(s.getVersion().equals("Unknown"));
        assertTrue(s.getName().length() > 3);
        assertFalse(s.getName().equals("Unknown"));
    }
}

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UK-based Darktrace sprints for €47.5 million-Dutch acquisition to make organisations more cyber secure
London-based AI-driven cyber security platform Darktrace is acquiring the Netherlands-based Cybersprint for €47.5 million ($53.7 million).
Megha Paul 23 February 2022
London-based AI-driven cyber security platform Darktrace is acquiring the Netherlands-based Cybersprint for €47.5 million ($53.7 million). The amount will be paid approximately 75% in cash and 25% in equity, valuing the transaction at approximately 12.5 times Cybersprint's annual recurring revenue (ARR). The deal is expected to be completed by 1 March 2022.
The Netherland-based attack surface management company provides continuous, real-time insights from an outside-in perspective to eliminate blind spots and detect risks. The new deal is aligned with Darktrace's vision of delivering a 'Continuous Cyber AI Loop' and complements its self-learning technology and inside-out view. Going forward, Darktrace will also gain its second European R&D centre in The Hague, Netherlands, which will join hands with the Cambridge hub.
Cybersprint's attack surface management data will boost Darktrace's Detect and Respond products with external vulnerability data and accelerate the company's market entry into new areas such as proactive AI cyber security.
Poppy Gustafsson, CEO, Darktrace said: "Bringing inside-out and outside-in visibility together is critical and having access to the robust, rich, real-time external dataset combined with Darktrace's Self-Learning AI means that customers get a holistic view of prioritised cyber risks to harden the parts of their organisation that are most vulnerable. With this acquisition, we are able to leverage Cybersprint's seven years of R&D to accelerate our Prevent product family, ultimately making it much harder for cyber-attackers to carry out successful missions."
"We are passionate about automating manual tasks in cybersecurity from an outside perspective. We believe attackers never sleep and operate without scope. We look forward to join Darktrace and work to accelerate state-of-the-art innovations to make organisations more cyber secure," said Pieter Jansen, CEO, Cybersprint.
Miami-based startup buys UK producer Wayne Marc Godfrey's platform to venture into media and entertainment financing
Entertainment revenues are soaring. However,…
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Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics
"The time is coming, however, when people will be astonished that mankind needed so long a time to regard thoughtless injury to life as incompatible with ethics."Albert Schweitzer, Dale Lecturer at Mansfield College, Oxford, 1923.
Declaration on Cetacean Rights
The world's first Declaration on the Rights of Cetaceans has been promulgated by the recent conference of the Collegium for Advanced Studies in the University of Helsinki, Finland held on 21-22nd May, 2010.
The Preamble to the Declaration notes that: "International law manifests a growing sense of duty to whales and dolphins; contemporary ethical reflection brings new theoretical tools to bear on cetacean moral status; and scientific research gives us novel insights into the complexities of cetacean minds and societies." And argues that "In the light of this, scholars from the relevant disciplines draw together to spell out all the implications of such developments, and to build a collective case for the attribution of basic moral and legal rights to cetaceans, great and small."
Speakers at the Conference included Centre Fellow, Professor Thomas I. White, Professor of Business Ethics at Marymount University, Los Angeles, and other leading philosophers, lawyers, and scientists.
The text of the Declaration reads as follows:
Based on the principle of the equal treatment of all persons;
Recognizing that scientific research gives us deeper insights into the complexities of cetacean minds, societies and cultures;
Noting that the progressive development of international law manifests a growing sense of entitlement by cetaceans;
We affirm that all cetaceans as persons have the right to life, liberty and wellbeing.
We believe that:
Every individual cetacean has the right to life.
No cetacean should be held in captivity or servitude; be subject to cruel treatment; or be removed from their natural environment.
All cetaceans have the right to freedom of movement and residence within their natural environment.
No cetacean is the property of any State, corporation, human group or individual.
Cetaceans have the right to the protection of their natural environment.
Cetaceans have the right not to be subject to the disruption of their cultures.
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The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Professor The Lord Williams of Oystermouth Rowan Williams was the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury. Having spent a number of years as an academic theologian in Oxford & Cambridge before his elevation to the See of Canterbury, it appears that he is currently largely retired from his public duties & offices. His reputation is generally very high in the broader Christian world — Mainline Protestant, Anglican (if that's a distinct thing, and it seems to me that it is), Roman Catholic academics, the more intellectual reaches of the Revivalist (Evangelical) world (they are actually a thing, although they are often just Anglican), and the academically sensitive parts of the Orthodox commonwealth.
Williams has written not an insubstantial amount about the ascension of Jesus, and what he takes to be its meaning. In a two-page entry in The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Theology ed. Alan Richardson & John Bowden (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1983), 44-45, Williams notes that
Although the exaltation of Jesus to the right hand of the Father is a fundamental element of the NT preaching, it is Luke alone who presents this clearly in narrative form […], with far more theological and typological detail. [44]
Which is, of course, true: only Luke really treats the ascension in any detail. The expanded ending to Mark (almost certainly not original) has note of it, and John mentions it, but that's it. Williams also notes that
Jesus' departure is not so much the conclusion of a sequence of resurrection appearances as the first movement in the creation of a worldwide mission and witness by the [C]hurch in the power of the promised Spirit. [44]
That second excerpt is important, because it jibes with his notion of the Church as a location of divine semiotics, as it were, as a location in which gestures of God through sacrament, preaching, and social activity takes place, and his notion of believers sharing in Jesus' intimacy with the Father through the ascension of his humanity.
Phil. 2:9-11 describes Christ's exaltation in terms of the universality of his authority, but it is Ephesians which develops this a little further, seeing the heavenly enthronement as involving the present exaltation of all who are in Christ (2:6): this is what it means for the [C]hurch to be filled with Christ's fullness […]. [44]
Williams' language rides a line: he should know that most scholars do not accept that Ephesians is genuinely written by Paul, but is deutero-Pauline; this doesn't really matter for outlining the traditions as they appear in the New Testament, but still — his language manages to avoid attributions of authorship. The enthronement of all Christians ties into his concern about the Church as a place where divine gestures occur, as something of a divine outpost in the world, even in its failure.
And for the writer of Hebrews, Christ's being received in heaven means the acceptance of his atonement offering of his blood, by which we are all given the priestly privilege of entering the sanctuary (10:19) […]. [44]
I will not touch on atonement theory here, but this is a big part of Hebrews' cosmology and "hierology", so to speak: Christ goes before God in his ascension so as properly to present the sacrificial offering of himself. This is very different from the kind of atonement theology —which is really divine law-talk— that Revivalist Protestants are very enamored with (legal theories of the atonement get to skip past questions of "where did Jesus go to present this offering, exactly?").
Williams rightly notes that ascent themes are present in a wider range of literature:
Variations on the descent-ascent scheme reflected in Philippians and Ephesians appear in Jewish-Christian and Gnostic literature: the Ascension of Isaiah employs this imagery extensively, with an important visionary account of Son and Spirit worshipped by the lesser angels and other creatures, but themselves worshipping the Father. Apocalyptic mysticism, drawing on its roots in Ezekiel and Daniel, shows an abiding interest in the theme of entry into the heavenly places and sharing in the heavenly liturgy — following Jesus' way to the Father.
This is true, but he then manages to marginalize the importance of this in what follows:
But on the whole, patristic and mediaeval treatment of the subject concentrates not on any visionary experience of sharing the life of heaven, but on the Ascension as sealing and perfecting the renewal of human nature by Christ. His glorification is the firstfruits of deified humanity (Chrysostom); we are glorified as members of the ascended head of the Body, and are presented by him to his Father (Augustine). Also, very importantly, the Ascension is the pledge of the glorification of the whole person, body and soul — a point underlined in the fine office hymn (from perhaps the fifth century) for Matins on Ascension Day (Aeterne Rex): Peccat caro, mundat caro, Regnat Deus Dei caro ('flesh hath purged what flesh had stained, And God, the Flesh of God, hath reigned').
First off, note that Williams first admits that ascent to heaven was a theme in apocalyptic mysticism, that there was a tradition about this, and then simply states that the patristic and medieval traditions don't focus on the visionary experience of an ascent to heaven. This notes a difference that it entirely fails to explain.
Also, and contrary to what Williams writes, there is a strong tradition of vision and ascent throughout the patristic and medieval periods, though it is not made an explicit goal of piety for all, nor are priests or other ecclesiastical officials expected to have had such an experience of ascent in order to justify their offices. That was something of how the prophetic office was justified, and probably goes a way as to explaining why it died. Wandering prophets were domesticated into the stable, local communities (as we see in the Didache). Others could receive visions. The monastic movement of the third century seems to have picked up this prophetic tradition of aspiring to the divine vision, only to have much of its naïve theology anathematized or ridiculed.
Doctrinally, then, the Ascension (whatever its historical and narrative uncertainties) marks the culmination of the resurrection gospel — the universalizing of Jesus' relevance to all aspects of human life, individual and global; the present possibility of a share in Jesus' loving union with his Father, i.e. a life of both trustfulness and authority; the crowning of the purpose of Jesus life and death in the restoration of fellowship between heaven and earth. It represents both the call to witness (and to recognize Christ in the world of which he is declared Lord ) and the promise of transformed —'deified'— life, as the ground and source of that witness. [45]
"[W]hatever its historical and narrative uncertainties" — again, Williams calls to attention some critical gaps that he fails to address. What are the implications of these uncertainties — how do they affect how we can, and ought, to regard these narratives, either in the serviceability of their concrete images (if the images are like artwork that is simply meant to communicate a general idea that is held on other grounds), or else in the implications of these narratives being thought to be actually true, and the only real grounds for making the more general theological assertions about Jesus?
Williams is very happy to move from concrete textual data to general-principle point quite quickly, without explaining how he justifies this transition.
The references Williams cites are Davies He Ascended into Heaven, which I have yet to treat, but which is also a source for Ratzinger, and Ratzinger's 1968 Sacramentum Mundi article.
Let us move chronologically through three other sermons. Williams delivered a homily about the ascension (for the Feast of the Ascension) on May the 21st, 2009. In that homily, Williams writes that the ascension story is basically about, in Christ's gathering of humanity to the Father (and the corresponding act of the sending of the Spirit on the world); it is
a celebration of the glory of humanity, the unlikely possibilities of people like you and me, the eternal potential locked up in our muddled struggling lives. And a celebration too of God's capacity, through his Holy Spirit, to reach into those parts of humanity that are so far from glorious, that are rebellious and troubled and broken, to breathe through them, to take them home, to drop them into that fire and melt them and recast them.
There, he does not say that Jesus' ascension took him "up", but uses the metaphor of the center: our humanity is "capable" of "being […] received and welcomed in the burning heart of reality itself"; Jesus, Williams preaches, took our humanity there in himself. He repeats the metaphor of the center:
Jesus takes our human nature —yours and mine— to the heart of God and he speaks to God his father in a human voice. In heaven the language they speak is human (not just angelic). Our words (human words) are heard at the very centre of the burning heart of reality.
Those words, Williams writes, express our human nature, in all of its warts, in all of the ugliest parts of our humanity, such as we see in the Psalms, which contain not only some of the loftiest and morally and spiritually elevating phrases one will read, but also some spectacular words of revenge and wrath and pettiness and self-loathing and more. There is no point in hiding these parts of ourselves, and "God has actually taken an initiative in making our language his own." Jesus gathers this, because Jesus
takes us seriously when we're moving towards God and each other in love; and, amazingly, he takes us seriously when we're moving in the opposite direction – when we are spinning downwards into destructive, hateful fantasies. He doesn't let go of us and he doesn't lose sight of us when we seek to lock ourselves up in the dark. […] [Jesus] hears them and he takes them and in the presence of the God the Father he says, 'This is the humanity I have brought home. It's not a pretty sight; it's not edifying and impressive and heroic, it's just real: real and needy and confused, and here it is (this complicated humanity) brought home to heaven, dropped into the burning heart of God – for healing and for transformation.
Again, the metaphor of the "burning heart" at the center —not the top— of reality. (This metaphor shift is an important feature of the modern age, and not peculiarly Christian.)
Jesus ascends to heaven. The human life in which God has made himself most visible, most tangible, disappears from the human world in its former shape and is somehow absorbed into the endless life of God. And our humanity, all of it, goes with Jesus […] into the heart of love where alone they can be healed and transfigured.
There is that 'ascent into the center', as I might phrase it. This mixes metaphors, but that is probably inevitable in the modern age, where so many older metaphors no longer have a cosmographic context that allow them to make sense the way they would have to people in earlier ages.
Like the author of Luke-Acts, the ascension of Jesus is linked to the descent of the Spirit; Williams sees this descent as the movement and gestures of God in the world, as a kind of empathetic and sensitive in-gathering both of dimensions of human experience, and of the range of people who suffer ("All of that [i.e., the many voices of human suffering, gathered in Jesus] on the throne of eternity in the burning heart of truth and reality"):
When the Holy Spirit sweeps over us in the wind and the flame of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit gives us the life of Jesus. It gives us something of Jesus' capacity to hear what is really being said by human beings […] It opens our eyes and our ears and our hearts to the full range of what being human means. So that, instead of being somebody who needs to be sheltered from the rough truth of the world, the Christian is someone who should be more open and more vulnerable to that great range of human experience. […] God's capacity, through his Holy Spirit, to reach into those parts of humanity that are so far from glorious, that are rebellious and troubled and broken, to breathe through them, to take them home, to drop them into that fire and melt them and recast them.
The fire, the center, ascension, transformation. I suppose it would be interesting to know how to map the semantic range of these words in ancient and modern contexts — the metaphor of the center and the metaphor of fire would be placed very differently, and the expansive receptiveness of human suffering that Williams champions may be overwhelmingly displaced by a sense of the earthliness of the Earth (and the suffering on the Earth) as flawed and dense and recalcitrant of the work of both the human spirit and the divine Spirit.
I suspect that ancient authors would have seen the descent of the Spirit as transformative for an upright life, and as a prelude for a fiery judgment, but I know there were universalist voices even in the late antique world who saw the fire as purgative and purifying and salvific and a form of divine love.
The second homily I could only find preserved in audio form. In 14th of May of 2015, Williams preached a sermon on the Feast of the Ascension. (The audio can be found here.)
"And still the holy Church is here, although her Lord is gone" — two of the silliest lines in our hymnody, Williams says.
This suggests a Jesus who says to his disciples, before his ascension: "Are you sure you're going to be alright on your own?", instead of "Stay in the city, until you are clothed with power from on high."
…of course, there is an obvious sense in which the Lord is not here in the way in which he was. Jesus Christ, the second Person of the Trinity, is no longer an object inside the universe, as when he walked in Galilee, as when he hung on the cross. His presence in the world is not that of a thing among other things; his presence is a pervasive life; his presence is an ever-present agency: a word, an embrace, a challenge, an invitation —and as soon as you try and lay hold of it, it evaporates between your hands, and yet is more real and solid than anything we can conceive. The Lord is not here, in that simple sense. —but the sense in which he is here, as power, as agency, as word and invitation — that is what the Church and its ministers struggle hour by hour, day by day, and millennium by millennium, to make sense of.
This does not strike me as consistent with the patristic or medieval testimonies — the idea that Jesus is nowhere to be found in the world. It is, however, the case. The upper floor is gone. That is not a "where" for Jesus to be. He seems to be advocating for a much more Lutheran notion of Jesus' body as ubiquitous (appearing where God appears, which is everywhere), but that God (and so the ubiquitous body of Jesus) is only to be sought in the places where God covenants himself to be given — such as in the Eucharist and in the apostolic preaching (and, Williams would likely add, in the social mission of the Church).
Williams goes on to suggest that there are "at least two considerations" that follow from what he says here.
Firstly, "[i]n one important but alarming sense, the Church, its people and ministers, are the good news." The people of the Church are the place where the word, the act, the embrace, the gestures of Christ are made present, and credible. "Our calling is to make God believable in what we say." People will turn to you, bishops, to hear what God has to say. You are the good news for the people of God there, for an interviewer for a radio station, &c. You cannot bear this in your own strength.
The "second dimension" —the second consideration— is that "you are not the good news." As you exercise your ministry, you will find that your humanity was not taken away from you today. There will be times when you damage and undermine others, or evade, or procrastinate. There is a prayer of gratitude that the new bishops should say, that their weaknesses should reveal something of God's strength.
Also, the Church is not the good news. The absence of Jesus, and thus (it seems?) the absence of God is again noted:
The Church is not stand-in for Jesus Christ; the Church is not here to apologize for God's unavoidable absence; the Church is here so that the invitation, the power, the energy, the heartbreaking love and challenge of God in Jesus Christ will go on being enacted hour by hour, day by day, and millennium by millennium — and that is the good news.
It is curious that Williams seems to want to connect the ascension of Jesus and Pentecost to historically unique moments, to general trends in history, and to ideals or models after which the Church should strive to conform herself.
It is also interesting that Williams wants to connect all of this to divine hiddenness or even absence. Williams also says that the bishops' uneven actions are "woven in" to God's action. It seems that the infinite God in heaven is, and any signs or wonders coming down from on high are, absorbed into divine gestures inflected through ecclesiastical humanity (a Cartesian absorption), rather than into the world (a Spinozistic absorption).
"You are witnesses of these things" — witnesses of that life hidden with Christ in God, witnesses of that new world which Christ is already, in his ascension, carrying in his wounded hands into the presence of the Father.
Williams does not say much here that he did not say earlier, but it makes some of his points clearer.
Finally, in another Ascension Day homily preached on the 10th of May in 2018, Williams opens by citing the words of the founder of the modern Iona Community, George MacLeod, who said
There is a human being in heaven; one of us has made it.
Immediately Williams states that Jesus may be one of us, but he is not like us. He mentions a curious ritual in which
every Ascension Day, members of the chaplaincies of both York's universities climb[…] the Minster tower […].
Apparently this is still done. The metaphor of height may be gone, as Williams seems to want to replace it with metaphors of depth and of centers (vs. peripheries?), but eventually he is, here, forced to confront the mismatch.
We use the language of ascending and descending —up to heaven, down to earth— as a way of trying to make sense of our feeling that there is a distance (maybe even a separation) between us and God: as if we belong here, and God there. Jesus forces us to rethink that idea. For he is both here and there; both with God and with us; both then and now.
If the language of height is supposed to express a sense of alienation, it won't be solved by a homily, and it is not clear that Jesus ever forced or forces us to rethink the idea — that imperative seems to come from elsewhere. Further, if one wants to say, with Williams, that Jesus "is both here and there; both with God and with us", then I need to drive home the question: where is the "there" that is "with God"?
Unfortunately, Williams wants to turn the conflict between ancient and modern cosmographic models —a conflict that is, I will grant, partially raised by Eucharistic piety and Christology— into a divine riddle, into a paradox, when it never was a riddle or a paradox where Jesus' body was thought to be. Williams wants to say that the 'up vs. down' divisions that were so clearly spatially related in the ancient world are "too small" for this singularity, and that "there is no division between heaven and earth".
All the ways we have of understanding how time and space work are simply too small to comprehend how God can be both human and divine. We're confronted with the same problem at the other end of the liturgical year: Ascension and Advent are opposite sides of the same coin. At Advent, we experience a similar knot in our linear understanding of time: we await the arrival of a baby who is simultaneously timeless, present in creation from the beginning of all time; and fixed in human history in first-century Palestine; and eternally present as we await the fulfilment of all time. At Ascension, we see that just as God transcends our understanding of time —past, present and future— so too God transcends our understanding of space — up and down, here and there. There is no division between heaven and earth. God is, was, and ever shall be here. God is, was, and ever shall be one of us: from the beginning of time to its end.
Now, with regard to Advent, there is something to this idea of timelessness and time overlapping, perhaps, in passages like those in Hebrews where the Lamb was "slain before the foundation of the world", even though Jesus was, of course, executed on the cross in the passage of history. With regard to ascension, however, passages like John 3:13 show a strong discomfort with the idea that anyone else has even ever ascended to heaven — whether Elijah or Isaiah or Enoch or whomever, and so seems to set up an exceptionalism that is rooted in historical particularity. This doesn't necessarily exclude typological overlap between some primordial event of ascension and Jesus' ascension, but it never says that, and we must be cautious about projecting into a vacuum.
—which, so far as we know, is all that is "up" there: vacuum, and other planets.
"Stay here in the city until you are clothed with power from on high".
It is here, and now, that we are to build the Kingdom and live out the truth of God, until we discover for ourselves what is beyond this life, beyond our current capacity to imagine or comprehend.
There is a laudable hope here (I, too, hope in the resurrection, in a final apocatastasis, some horizon where all of history is recalled, rescued, transformed, and vivified incorruptibly in something that is neither static nor the kind of time we know here). The apostles' task
is to begin the work now of transforming the world we live in into the kingdom of heaven. It is not that God belongs there and we belong here. Quite the opposite. There is a human being in heaven: and because there is one, wherever human beings are is also, already, touched with the divine.
This seems to slide around the element of divine acts as intervening judgment, and of ecclesiastical separation, that there is a community that sees itself as part of the divine body through Jesus that is not coterminous with humanity as a whole (though the push to make that part of humanity that is the body of Jesus largely identical with the Church is a strong element of late antique Christianity). The historical distance seems to interrupt the beautiful thought with historical difference. There are precedents in the Psalms and elsewhere for a universal ingathering of sorts, and this is seen as a kind of messianic hope; the sectarian holiness drive needs to be admitted honestly, however. It is tied into a notion of Heaven and Earth as separated, and the overcoming of the separation as only available through certain particular means — and not as a de facto universal possibility.
'Why do you stand looking up into heaven?' It is all around you. There is a human being in heaven. The whole world belongs to God, across every boundary of time or space: and it is here in the city that we are to find him.
What a beautiful homily, in so many ways! I only wish Williams would confront, head-on, the implications of the spatial differences between Heaven & Earth in the earlier texts, rather than trying to dissolve them through Christology.
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The Indian Navy tweeted, "Successful test-firing of the extended-range BrahMos Supersonic Cruise missile from INS Visakhapatnam, Indian Navy's newest indigenously-built guided missile destroyer, represents a twin achievement: Certifies the accuracy of the ship's combat system and armament complex. Validates a new capability the missile provides the Navy and the Nation."
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2019 gewann Nirundorn zusammen mit ihrer Partnerin Marija Bondarenko den Titel im Doppel des Osaka Mayor's Cup. In Wimbledon erreichte sie im Juniorinneneinzel mit Siegen über Holly Fischer und Park So-hyun das Achtelfinale, wo sie gegen Elsa Jacquemot mit 5:7 und 0:6 verlor. Im Juniorinnendoppel verlor sie zusammen mit Partnerin Pia Lovrič bereits in der ersten Runde gegen Chloe Beck und Emma Navarro mit 6:75 und 3:6. Bei den US Open erreichte sie im Juniorinneneinzel wiederum das Achtelfinale. Nach Siegen über Hurricane Tyra Black und Alexandra Eala unterlag sie der späteren Finalistin Alexandra Yepifanova knapp in drei Sätzen mit 6:3, 5:7 und 6:73.

2020 erreichte sie bei den Australian Open im Juniorinneneinzel, wo sie an Position 11 gesetzt war, mit einem Erstrunden-Sieg über Giulia Molet die zweite Runde, wo sie dann aber gegen Elina Awanessjan mit 2:6, 7:5 und 1:6 verlor. Im Juniorinnendoppel scheiterte sie mit Partnerin Marija Bondarenko bereits in der ersten Runde gegen die australische Paarung Jasmine Adams und Tina Nadine Smith mit 6:1, 0:6 und [2:10].

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The University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB) is the only business school in Africa to feature in the prestigious Financial Times rankings for its groundbreaking Executive MBA programme.
The UCT GSB has retained its position as the number one business school in Africa in the 2020 Executive MBA (EMBA) Financial Times (FT) rankings, which were announced on 26 October 2020. Ranked 56th in the world, the UCT GSB is the only business school on the continent to make the top 100 this year.
"We are excited to be the best in Africa."
"We are excited to be the best in Africa," said Dr Catherine Duggan, the director of the UCT GSB. "We are proud that the GSB continues to represent the African continent among this elite group of truly global business schools. It is vital for business leaders to be able to navigate an increasingly complex world – especially in Africa and emerging markets – and that is exactly our focus at the UCT GSB. Our students graduate with a powerful set of tools for leading through uncertainty and change – and this ranking reflects that."
The UCT GSB MBA attracts senior professionals and executives from a spectrum of sectors and industries. According to Associate Professor Kosheek Sewchurran, the director of the EMBA, the programme is tailored for leaders who want to take their careers to the next level and who already have some experience in the field of business and leadership.
"We have refined the programme to ensure that it draws executives who are serious about character development and who want to shift their intelligence as well as their orientation to find new ways of leading."
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The FT rankings are recognised as the most rigorous of the various global rankings of MBA programmes. Strict guidelines include: The programme must be accredited by either the United States' Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business or the European Foundation for Management Development; it must be cohort-based, with students enrolling and graduating together; and it must have at least 30 graduates each year. The programme must also teach in the medium of English.
Schools are assessed in 19 categories measuring career progress of graduates, the diversity of the school and its research and corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities. In 2020 the UCT GSB ranked 11th in the world for CSR and 11th for its percentage of international students.
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"This is a big achievement," said Dr Kutlwano Ramaboa, the deputy director of the UCT GSB. "Our school is very small by international standards, and smaller schools are often not able to compete because they do not have the resources to do so or they don't meet the basic criteria."
Associate Professor Sewchurran added that the school is managing to strike the right balance by meeting international quality standards on the one hand while also evolving a distinctive programme that is fit for purpose in an African context.
"We have a distinct philosophical approach and practice of teaching that focuses on practice and lived experience to drive learning, and a uniquely African orientation," he said.
"In every design consideration of the programme we consider how we are evolving the skill and competence of executives, enabling them to draw on their lived experience to strategise, innovate their business models and inhabit their leadership practice with more skill and wisdom.
"This has proven to be extraordinarily effective in the lives of the leaders who pass through our programme and it is very gratifying that we are achieving international recognition for this approach."
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Glastonbury and Rock & Roll Heaven
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Glastonbury is just finishing as I write this. I've watched some of it on TV – how different and yet how similar is this event to days long gone by. As I watched my memories sneaked back. 'You would have loved this' they said. I think I agree with them – but what did I do? What are my memories?
As a member of the younger generation my chances of seeing 'named' singers perform live was limited to parental choice – a choice that was not necessarily 'me'. During the winter we would go as part of a coach trip to London: Christmas shopping during the day, a 'show' in the evening – usually at the London Palladium. It was in this loop that, in the winter of 1956, I saw Mitchell Torok telling us about 'When Mexico gave up the Rhumba' and not much else apart from a horrible version of 'The Banana Boat song'. 'Where are you when I need you Harry Belafonte' still echos in my mind. I saw a much better, and very funny, version of that performed at Butlins' the following summer when the Redcoats did a fantastic copy of Stan Freberg right down to a jump through the window. (If you remember this you are may-be older than you let on – if you are too young or just want to hear it again you can listen to the Stan Freberg version on YouTube right now.) I also saw ex Butlins Redcoat Russ Hamilton promising that 'We will make love' in 1957 – not to me fella but I suspect Mum would not have minded. Miki and Griff performed 'for us' many times – the last time being in 1962 when their 'Little Bitty Tear' was in the charts.
On my personal journey into 'youth acceptable' music 'Six-five Special' was a step in the right direction; 'Oh Boy' was better, but I wanted to 'feel' the excitement. It was when Larry Parnes took an assembly of home grown performers with names like Duffy Power, Marty Wilde and Vince Eager on tour that I began to hear 'the real thing'. I also remember an Elvis impersonator called Cliff Richard! With an active village youth club, and a leader who understood us teenagers, we had trips out to see these whenever they were around. We travelled to Bedford and Cambridge to see them but it was at the Letchworth Broadway cinema theatre in late summer 1960 that one of the 'home grown' performers imprinted himself on my mind forever.
The house lights went down, the stage curtain was drawn across and the narrow front of stage was dimly lit. The place was silent as a spotlight picked out the right-hand side of the empty stage and into the light stepped a slight figure. He started to sing, 'I've found a place full of charms, a magic world in my baby's arms, a soft embrace like satin and lace ……… a Wondrous Place.' He held the audience silently mesmerised through the whole number – then the place erupted. I was hooked. This was what live performance was all about and this track still sends a chill down my spine when I play it at home or hear it in the car. Ronald Wycherley – a.k.a Billy Fury – thank you.
Later that year I finally got to see a couple of 'world' stars at London's Elephant & Castle theatre. Duane Eddy, sounding just as he did on my records, standing stock still and playing his 'Twangy Guitar' with a raucous saxophone in support. The star of the show was Bobby Darin who began his act with 'Splish Splash', moved on to 'Dream Lover' and then into his 'new' swing style numbers like 'Mack the Knife', 'Beyond the Sea' and 'Clementine'. The sections of the audience that wanted rock barracked him. Me? I began to see a companion to rock. Darin stopped the barracking by thanking the audience for their requests but, if they didn't mind, he intended to stay for a while longer! I just admired the class of the man – rock and pop singers just did not talk back to their audiences then.
Great memories but, at the time, these were all 'remote' experiences. There was space between them and me. It wasn't until some of our group got cars, or were allowed to borrow the family car, that we were no longer limited to organised coach outings. A favourite haunt not far from home was the Kayser-Bondor lingerie factory in Baldock – now a Tesco supermarket. There they had regular dance nights in the canteen with local and 'named' performers.
One of the 'names' was Vince Taylor. He never made it into the UK charts but was a great stage presence. Performing Elvis, Edddie Cochran and Chuck Berry numbers he was just what I needed to counteract the 'soft' music of 1963. I was a 'listener', not a dancer, and always tried to get close enough to the stage to 'feel' the performance. A number of times in that year I was inches from rock and roll heaven.
One particular night, though, is etched deeply in my memories. It matches my 'Billy Fury' experience, but in a very different way. As I sat on the edge of a low stage, a couple of hundred souls swirled and jived until they were ready to drop. I had no wish to join them because just a step away from me was an icon in black leather with one leg in an iron support and using the mike stand as added support. He epitomised everything that rock and roll had been. By now this performer was on a downward career slope but live, and in full flow in a crowded hall, Eugene Vincent Craddock just could not be bettered. He was still an exhilarating performer. On this night I had made sure I was there early, and got as close to the stage as possible. Once there I was difficult to shift and managed to end up sitting on the edge of the stage as he – Gene Vincent – opened the show with 'Dance to the Bop'.. Heaven.
A motor-bike accident in 1955 had left him with his left leg in callipers, and made worse in the 1960 car accident which caused the death of Eddie Cochrane. I cannot remember now if he was closing with 'Be Bop A Lula' or 'Race with the Devil' but whatever it was I was now sitting right on the stage – while he, with callipered leg and mike stand accentuating the beat – dominated it.
He and I were oblivious to everything except the sound – when my right hand got in his way. It was supporting me when Gene Vincent wished to step there. He won and it hurt – but I didn't feel it until I got home. Anyway – being stomped on by Gene Vincent in full flow was a small price to pay for being able to say to people of a certain age that 'I have been on stage with Gene Vincent'. If they probe further I have to admit that it is more accurate to say that 'Gene Vincent stepped on my fingers in a ladies' underwear factory'. Whichever way it is said – that was the moment that I really was in Rock 'n' Roll heaven.
BUT …. I would have been in a second 'second heaven' if I could have been sitting in a similar place on Dolly Parton's stage while she was conquering Glastonbury this Sunday at Glastonbury.


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Oh, what a busy week it has been. It was of course Independence Day on Tuesday, so here in Huntington Beach that means Parade, Fireworks and BBQ. I was up early and over to Sharon's house. Kurt and Becky joined us and then we all walked down to the parade route and walked down and then back up Main Street as the parade passed by. We returned to Sharon's and finished prepping lunch; Blair, Christie & Sally came over and so did Charlie – we all enjoyed cheeseburgers, corn-on-the-cob, salad, deviled eggs and other sundry food items. After a rest and a movie (The American President – a great selection for the day), Blair, Christie, Sally, Sharon, Charlie and I all walked down to pier for the aerial pyrotechnics presentation.
On Wednesday night, my adopted sister/fellow former cast member, Beth, invited me over to the Olde Ship in Fullerton for libations, we were joined by Beth's friend Stephanie and Aleah. It was fun to catch up and talk for a while – I don't think Beth and I had seen each other for at least a year, maybe longer.
As most of you know I have started a new job. Thursday was my first day with Allergan in Irvine. I will be working in the Sales Support department as a Customer Service Rep. in their call center. Mostly, I will be taking orders for Botox from Physicians' offices. I am very excited about this new job – training for the past two days has been going great and I am looking forward to working with, what looks like, a very dedicated and hard-working team. It's back on Monday for three more days of training on policies, procedures and the all important SAP. I'll be sure to keep everyone up on what's going on on this front.
Thursday I went and saw "A Prarie Home Companion" with Brian and his friend Norbert. I thought that it was a good film, but if you don't listen to the radio show on NPR it might not all make sense.? I would recommend renting it when it comes out on DVD.
On Friday it was Beth's birthday, so a group of us went to celebrate at the Pirates' Dinner Adventure in Buena Park. It's Dinner and Show as the sign out front says. It was a good time, it's like Medieval Times, but with Pirates. After that it was over to O'Hara's pub in Orange to close the night out.
So it has been a busy, busy week. Tonight I am off to my Mom's to see my cousin Cory who is here visiting from Massachusetts.
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