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Shelley Smith, photographed at San Pedro High School (photo by John Mattera)
It's November, the heart of college football season, and for Shelley Smith, that means no rest, several flights in-and-out of LAX and every Saturday spent at a different football stadium across the country.
But it's not just college football that keeps Smith from curling up on the couch to the latest blockbuster hit, it's also Thursday night NFL games, pre-season NBA games, the Jerry Sandusky child sex scandal and the continued lockout talks of the NHL strike.
It's these precise reasons though, that get Smith out of bed each and every morning, well these and her daily trips to the local San Pedro gym, Hey Day Fitness, where she can talk sports without the pressure of a camera in her face.
Smith loves her job, and she loves it because "no single day is the same."
Smith joined ESPN in 1997 and quickly became one of the leading ladies in sports journalism. She has climbed the ranks and has had great success in doing so, including four Sports Emmys, one of which she received in 1997 for her segment on Magic Johnson as part of an ESPN production on AIDS and Athletes.
But she didn't start at the top. For Smith, having an interest and passion for journalism started at a young age. But back then, it was an interest in breaking news and features, she hadn't even considered a career in sports.
A Denver native, Smith attended the University of Nebraska, where she majored in journalism and political science. During her time at Nebraska, Smith wrote for the college newspaper and through this came an opportunity for lunch with an alumnus, who happened to be the sports editor at a major newspaper in Denver.
"In college I thought I wanted to go into news or features reporting," she says. "That all changed when the editor called me and offered me a gig in the sports department."
Smith shooting a story on the "most dangerous golf hole in the world" along the DMZ in South Korea for ESPN in 2009. Smith originally covered the golf course in 1988 for her very first Sports Illustrated story. (photo by Dylann Tharp)
The editor took notice in Smith, and she never looked back. Now a sideline reporter for ESPN, Smith is an award-winning journalist and author of three books, with a fourth — Al: The unauthorized biography of Raiders owner Al Davis – on its way. But she says it's been a constant challenge, and she has always set out to outwork and out prepare her peers.
"You make your own luck in this field by working hard," says Smith. "If you are well prepared and work harder than anyone else you can make up for what you lack in talent. It is really about taking the extra time and getting it right, but don't get me wrong, I have been lucky to be in the right place at the right time a couple times."
Case in point, the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Korea. Smith was in Seoul covering the Olympics for Sports Illustrated when word broke that Canadian Ben Johnson would be stripped of his gold medal after testing positive for steroids. Upon hearing the news, Smith, along with a photographer, raced to the airport, where Johnson would soon be boarding for a flight to New York – Smith got on that flight, sat with Johnson for 45 minutes and conducted the first one-on-one interview, an exclusive.
"When I got on that plane I knew it would be my big break," she recalls. And it was.
The Ben Johnson exclusive is arguably Smith's biggest story ever – and she says she will never forget the rush of it all.
"I knew it would be the biggest story I would ever cover," she says. "It was the middle of the night, a double-decker plane, and I knew I was sitting on something huge. It was the greatest feeling in the world to get off the plane with hoards of reporters waiting for Johnson's arrival and walk past them knowing I already had the story."
This was just the start for Smith, who was offered a position with Sports Illustrated in 1989, and six months later was asked to make a move to the West Coast from New York.
"When I was in college, we print journalists thought broadcast journalists should be in the drama department," she says. "We thought we were the only serious journalists – so when I accepted the position at Sports Illustrated in 1989, I had reached my destination, I was a writer and that's what I wanted."
Upon arriving in California, she made her home in San Pedro.
"I loved San Pedro," she says. "The air was clean, it was a affordable and it didn't seem like big, splashy Los Angeles." Smith's daughter, Dylann Tharp, was three at the time, and she wanted her to grow up in a good community.
"It was important, with all the traveling I do, to have a place to come home to," she says. "A place to exhale – I have stayed in San Pedro ever since."
Tharp, now 26, was a fixture on working road trips. Smith remembers various all-star games where Tharp would sit on the floor next to her and play with Barbies while Smith covered the game – so much so, that Tharp began to interact with the players and would later track them down for her Mom.
"I took Dylann with me a lot," says Smith. "She grew up with Charles Barkley essentially – they are still good buds. She was with me on the NBA or NCAA tournament trail and also went with me to all the bowl games."
"There is a photo above my fireplace where Barkley is holding her at the Minnesota All-Star Game, after chastising me for using my kid to do all my work, my producer said, 'Does she know Shaq?'"
Tharp, after graduating from San Pedro High School, captained the University of Oregon soccer team and in 2007 was named to the Pac-10 second team. She majored in art and communications at Oregon, and is now living and working in Los Angeles.
Since Smith joined ESPN in 1997, she has recorded hundreds of articles and reports on topics ranging from the Olympics to the O.J. Simpson trial. She has covered Super Bowls, the NBA Finals, the BCS national championship game, the NHL Stanley Cup, golf and tennis championships, ski racing, weightlifting, boxing and motor sports.
"I've always wanted to write stories," she says. "Making the transition to ESPN was difficult, it was a lot of training – hair training, make-up training, where to stand training, voice training — but I love it, I love being a sideline reporter. I love my job, and I love even more that everyday presents a different challenge — no day is the same."
In addition, she is the co-founder of the Magic Johnson Foundation newsletter, serves on various committees for The Boys & Girls Club of San Pedro and is a volunteer writer for many charity organizations, including the Serra Project, which provides homes for AIDS victims.
Smith plans on walking the sidelines for sometime. She loves that her weeks can range from USC football, to Lakers basketball, to baseball and the NFL.
"I am writing a book on Al Davis, which is the hardest thing I have ever done," she says. "But I have also found a new passion for jumping on stories. I love my job, I love it all. Everyday is different, the sports world is always changing, and something is always happening." spt
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Let's talk about some ways in which your descriptions can do more than just describe. You're not just trying to tell us what the room is like. You're also setting the mood, telling us about the POV character, and establishing some of our progress through the story.
Howard (who rarely works in prose) offers some unexpected insight by talking about the way panels are composed in his comic. Mary offers even better insight by pulling the same principles through the domain of puppetry. Dan tells us how some of this is done by filmmakers. But yes, we finally do come back around to prose and how to accomplish these things with words.
Writing Prompt: Go someplace, use all five of your senses, and for thirty minutes write about the place you're in. Not the people though. Just the place.
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OUR INTERNATIONAL AFFILIATION
BIG BEN International Academy for Music, English and Performing Arts is currently affiliated to LCM Exam through its International Sister School in the Philippines, the Saraza Music Center and its founder Mr. David Cadlum Saraza.
The London College of Music (LCM)
LCM is one of the largest specialist Music and Performing Arts institutes in the United Kingdom, dating back to 1887. In 1991, LCM became part of the educational institution which was eventually to become the University of West London.
External examinations have been awarded by the London College of Music since the institution's founding in 1887. These were at first in Music, but since then have expanded to include a large set of Drama and Communication examinations in subjects including speech and drama, acting, oral communication, verse speaking and professional communication. Examinations are held throughout the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and at many overseas centres and are unique in the graded examinations sector in being awarded by a university.
Check out their website at www.lcme.uwl.ac.uk
The University of West London (UWL)
UWL is a public university in the United Kingdom with campuses in Ealing and Brentford in London, as well as in Reading in Berkshire.
The university has roots back to 1860. when the Lady Byron School was founded. Since then, it has merged several times with other educational institutions, consistently expanding the range of programmes offered. In 1992, the institution achieved the status of University, and in 2011 the name University of West London was adopted.
The university is currently offering a wide variety of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, international programmes as well as professional and vocational courses.
Check out their website at www.uwl.ac.uk
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ADVANTAGES AT BIG BEN
LONDON COLLEGE OF MUSIC EXAMINATIONS
By Professor. John Howard, BA, PhD, FLCM.
London College of Music Examinations, founded in 1887, can look back to the 1890's for the beginning of its involvement with Asia, and the region continues to be a highly important one for the development of the examinations. They are offered in every major country in the region, with many exams taken in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, India, Hong Kong, Macau, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Japan, South Korea and increasingly in China.
The strengths of LCME include the breadth of subjects offered (music, drama and spoken English, plus the development of media qualifications), with many musical styles being featured equally (classical, pop, jazz and a number of traditional music qualifications), and the fact that all awards are made by a university, The University of West London, of which, uniquely amongst graded exam boards, LCME is a fully integrated department.
If you add OFQUAL accreditation from the UK government to the university status, you have an examination board with powerful credentials and secure quality assurance.
A further unique feature is the ability of the exam board to interface with the rest of the London College of Music, in particular the music department, so that any candidates who wish to pursue degree level study in London can be given a fast-track to opportunity; one example is that anyone with a Grade 8 UWL/LCME performance qualification is exempted from any audition for BMus entry at UWL. Diploma level qualifications are given credit within the BMus and MMus degrees.
Every year, LCME/UWL holds a major graduation event in Asia, mainly for candidates successful in acquiring diplomas, their families, and all local representatives. The 2016 graduation in Kuala Lumpur featured more than 300 diplomates.
The examination board depends highly on its local representatives, who run exam centres in many different places across Asia. They are united in the strength and enthusiasm of their efforts, assisting many musicians and facilitating the smooth organisation of the exam sessions. Indeed, the whole operation is a team effort, rather than something imposed on Asia from London.
LCME prides itself on being an innovative and responsive organisation, as a result producing new kinds of assessments and qualifications. In general, the exam board places great value on traditional musical styles, offering assessments in Irish and Scottish traditional music.
We do not regard all different musical styles as being hierarchical; classical, jazz, popular, or traditional, all are of equal importance. Our ensemble assessments, six levels, are a good example: no fixed instrumentation or musical style, and no fixed repertoire, so that the assessment reflects the make-up and nature of the ensemble, rather than being imposed by the exam board. Even numbers of musicians are flexible, ranging from two up to any number. Many Asian ensembles, such as choirs, symphonic bands, Chinese orchestras and rock bands, are finding these qualifications very valuable. The music drives the assessment, not the reverse.
Our four levels of conducting diplomas are also making a significant contribution to music education in Asia, particularly with music directors of bands, choirs and Chinese orchestras. Again, any kind and size of ensemble is appropriate for a conducting diploma.
Another example of innovation are our Music Teaching Diplomas for early childhood music teachers, pioneered in partnership with Seimpi Academy in Singapore, and offered first in Singapore and Malaysia.
The kindergarten sector is very important to us, and we make the awards for the Stave House system of music learning for young children. There are four levels of award, and this is also innovative in using locally based teachers as trained assessors. There is also a special teaching diploma for Stave House. We offer our more general early learning qualifications, for 3-6 year olds, via many kindergarten organisations in Asia.
Another of the challenges for a British examination board in Asia is that of language: obviously, we deal with many people whose first language is not English, and in some cases, whose fluency in English is a challenge. One response has been to offer music theory examinations in Chinese, and we are also currently translating all our syllabuses and lists of repertoire into written Chinese.
Within our drama qualifications, we offer students an option to perform one of their pieces from literature in their own local language, and this has become increasingly popular in such countries as Sri Lanka and India. In addition, a current major initiative is to produce oral qualifications in Spoken English as a second language, and these are becoming increasing popular.
The colonial image and style of the past, which existed when the London College of Music was founded, is no longer part of our thinking. We are a British-based organisation with international scope. Within that context, Asia is a centrally important partner in our mission to offer significant opportunities to students of all ages. We continue to be responsive, friendly and approachable, and to engage in dialogue with all of those with whom we work.
Our purpose-designed website contains lots of detailed: www.LCME.uwl.ac.uk.
We are a British-based organisation with international scope. Within that context, Asia is a centrally important partner in our mission to offer significant opportunities to students of all ages. We continue to be responsive, friendly and approachable, and to engage in dialogue with all of those with whom we work.
is a composer, music educator and conductor. He is the former Director of London College of Music Examinations at the University of West London and a music professor emeritus of the University.
Professor John Howard, BA, PhD, FLCM

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Scotland Creates: Lights, camera, action for our digital film project
Posted by feastbowl under Community engagement, Digital Media, National Museum of Scotland, Scotland Creates, Volunteering | Tags: Film-making, Sound Delivery, Suzanne Cohen |
By Elaine Macintyre, Digital Media Content Manager
What did you think of that? Did it make you smile? Did it perhaps make you feel that museums aren't boring and old, but places where it's actually possible to have fun?
If so, then the digital component of the Scotland Creates project has already started to achieve its aims – and we're only half way through.
Funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Creative Scotland, Scotland Creates – A Sense of Place is a partnership project between National Museums Scotland and four other museums: the Dick Institute, Museum nan Eilean, the McLean Museum and Art Gallery and the McManus Art Gallery and Museum.
The project gives young people aged 16-24 years old the chance to work with the museums and other creative partners to curate their own exhibition, culminating in a joint collaborative exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland, which opens on 9 May 2014.
As part of the project, I was tasked with coming up with a way of increasing the use of digital media as a tool for engagement and dialogue with young people. With more young adults watching YouTube than TV (in the US, at any rate), using film seemed like a no-brainer. Creating viral videos that would not only celebrate and promote the five museums involved but also help young people see museums in a new, more exciting light seemed like the way to go.
We partnered up with digital agency Sound Delivery and documentary film maker Suzanne Cohen to make it happen. The aim was to equip young volunteers from each museum with the skills to storyboard a 30 second promotional film and to produce all the assets required, from animation and artwork to filmed footage and photographs. These would then be put together by Suzanne, to create the final films in collaboration with the volunteers.
And so began two intensive but exhilarating days of training led by Suzanne, as young people from Edinburgh, the Western Isles, Kilmarnock, Greenock and Dundee converged on the National Museum of Scotland for a comprehensive crash course in film-making.
Suzanne helps young volunteers from Edinburgh edit a short film.
The participants began by investigating how short films can change people's perceptions, viewing examples such as this film from the Time to Change campaign, which tackles stereotypes surrounding mental health issues. Next, they interviewed each other on camera to find out what might put young people off visiting museums. The words 'boring', 'old fashioned' and 'not for me' emerged frequently. Their brief for the rest of the two days? To work out how a short film could turn these opinions around.
Over the two days, the volunteers were introduced to a range of film-making techniques that could help them do just that, including vox pops, silent film, stop frame animation and (my personal favourite) bringing a museum object alive using the Morfo app.
The following short films were made in just a couple of hours. The brief was to prove that visiting a museum can be fun and they all succeeded admirably, if in very different ways:
Some of our young volunteers have been involved in film-making before, either as part of the Scotland Creates project, at college or as a personal interest, but others had no experience at all. Some were outgoing, others really quite shy, and none of the volunteers from the different museums had met before. Yet by the end of the first day all had emerged from their shells to share ideas and support each other collaboratively, inspired and enthused by the activities they'd taken part in.
The next step of the project sees our volunteers return to their museums and start building their storyboards and creating their assets. I can't wait to see what they come up with – but even without that final outcome, I can't help thinking that already the project has been a success, offering young people from across Scotland an opportunity to build confidence and skills, and to see museums and learning in a new light.
We may not replicate the viral success of Gangnam Style or Miley Cyrus, but we're hoping our volunteers will make films they'll feel proud to share across their social networks. We're encouraging them to tweet about their experiences so far – here's what @NoOneCallsMeSam had to say: "Working with @sounddelivery these past two days has been awesome! Looking forward to creating our museum promo in up and coming weeks."
Still don't believe museums are fun? I'll leave you with these stop frame animation films, made using replica objects. If you don't think they're fun, there's no pleasing you…
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£66m to be cut from Bristol's health budget next year despite struggling hospitals and GP services
Health bosses will announce where the cuts are being made in the coming months
A doctor taking a patient's blood pressure (Image: Anthony Devlin/PA Wire)
A staggering £66 million is set to be slashed from the Bristol's area health budget over the next year.
The announcement follows both North Somerset and South Gloucestershire reporting debts of £32 million and £13 million respectively.
Bristol was the only clinical commissioning group which reported a surplus of £0.1 million at the end of the last financial year.
However, the cash-strapped authorities will be working together to help them balance the books and a major shakeup of NHS services will soon be announced.
All that has been revealed so far about the proposals is a whopping £66 million is going to cut from our struggling hospitals, GP surgeries and other NHS services.
Girls more likely to be autistic if grandmother smoked while pregnant, say Bristol researchers
The authority admitted 'some difficult decisions' were being made and more detailed plans were going to be announced in the 'coming months'.
Health bosses attempted to reassure patients by saying 'many of the proposals will have no impact on patients or the care and treatment they receive'.
However, where plans do hit patient services, 'engagement programmes' will be carried out.
Dr Martin Jones, Clinical Chair of Bristol CCG said: "Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire is a vibrant, dynamic area with a growing and diverse population of nearly one million people.
"It is also home to a wide range of communities with varying health needs and a significant difference in life expectancy and levels of health.
"Building on our recent work to move towards a single commissioning voice for Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, this formal commitment will enable us to work collectively to improve the health of the whole population, reduce health inequalities and ensure NHS services are fit for the long term.
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"This may involve some difficult decisions. But in order to protect the widest possible range of healthcare services for the broadest possible population, we will have to ask ourselves, and most importantly the people we serve, how we make the best use of resources to continue to meet local health needs.
"We look forward to working with partners, patients and the public to ensure they are involved to develop better, more sustainable healthcare services for the people of Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire."
The 2017-18 budget for NHS services in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire is £1.15 billion.


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The 3 Ways Ego Will Derail Your Career Before It Really Begins
"Among men who rise to fame and leadership two types are recognizable—those who are born with a belief in themselves and those in whom it is a slow growth dependent on actual achievement. To the men of the last type their own success is a constant surprise, and its fruits the more delicious, yet to be tested cautiously with a haunting sense of doubt whether it is not all a dream. In that doubt lies true modesty, not the sham of insincere self depreciation but the modesty of "moderation," in the Greek sense. It is poise, not pose." - B.H. Liddell Hart
When we're young and just setting out in our careers we tend to assume that the greatest impediments to our progress and success are external to us. We blame our bosses and "the system" but we rarely think that we might be our own worst enemies, sabotaging ourselves right when we are beginning on our path.
Too often the obstacle that impedes our progress the most is internal -- .
Yes, all of us, with all our talent and promise and potential, if we don't control our ego, risk blowing up before we start. Talent, as Irving Berlin put it, is only the starting point. What we also need is self-management, self-control and humility.
Here are three ways that ego is the enemy of those important traits.
1. Talk, talk, talk.
At the beginning of any path, we're excited and nervous. So we seek to comfort ourselves externally instead of inwardly. There's a weak side to each of us, that -- like a trade union -- isn't exactly malicious but at the end of the day still wants to get as much public credit and attention as it can for doing the least. That side we call ego.
The writer and former Gawker blogger Emily Gould -- essentially a real-life Hannah Horvath -- realized this during her two-year struggle to get a novel published. Though she had a six-figure book deal, she was stuck. Why? She "spending a lot of time on the Internet," that's why.
"In fact, I can't really remember anything else I did in 2010. I tumbld, I tweeted and I scrolled. This didn't earn me any money but it felt like work... It was also the only creative thing I was doing."
She did what a lot of us do when we're scared or overwhelmed by a project -- she did everything but focus on it. In fact, many valuable endeavors we undertake are painfully difficult, whether it's coding a new startup or mastering a craft. But talking, talking is always easy. So we do that instead.
It's a temptation that exists for everyone -- for talk and hype to replace action.
Doing great work is a struggle. It's draining, it's demoralizing, it's frightening -- not always, but it can feel that way when we're deep in the middle of it. We talk to fill the void and the uncertainty.
The question is, when faced with your particular challenge -- whether it is researching in a new field, starting a business, producing a film, securing a mentor, advancing an important cause -- do you seek the respite of talk or do you face the struggle head-on?
2. Early pride.
At 18, a rather triumphant Benjamin Franklin returned to visit Boston, the city he'd run away from. Full of pride, he had a new suit, a watch and a pocketful of coins that he showed to everyone he ran into. All posturing by a boy who was not much more than an employee in a print shop in Philadelphia.
In a meeting with Cotton Mather, one of the town's most respected figures, Franklin quickly illustrated just how ridiculously inflated his young ego had become. As they walked down a hallway, Mather suddenly admonished him, "Stoop! Stoop!" Too caught up in his performance, Franklin walked right into a low ceiling beam.
Mather's response was perfect: "Let this be a caution to you not always to hold your head so high," he said wryly. "Stoop, young man, stoop -- as you go through this world -- and you'll miss many hard thumps."
The problem with pride is that it blunts the instrument we need to succeed -- our mind. Our ability to learn, to adapt, to be flexible, to build relationships, all of this is dulled by pride. Most dangerously, this tends to happen either early in life or in the process -- when we're flushed with beginner's conceit. Only later do you realize that that bump on the head was the least of what was risked.
The question to ask, when you feel pride, then, is this: What am I missing right now that a more humble person might see? What am I avoiding, or running from, with my bluster, franticness, and embellishments?
It is far better to ask and answer these questions now, with the stakes still low, than it will be later.
3. Don't be passionate.
Early on in her ascendant political career, a visitor once spoke of Eleanor Roosevelt's "passionate interest" in a piece of social legislation. The person had meant it as a compliment. But Eleanor's response is illustrative. "Yes," she did support the cause, she said. "But I hardly think the word 'passionate' applies to me." As a genteel, accomplished, and patient woman born while the embers of the quiet Victorian virtues were still warm, Roosevelt was above passion. She had purpose and direction.
Today it's all about passion. Find your passion. Live passionately. Inspire the world with your passion.
People go to Burning Man to find passion, to be around passion, to rekindle their passion. Same goes for TED and the now enormous SXSW and a thousand other events, retreats and summits, all fueled by what they claim to be life's most important force.
Here's what those same people haven't told you: your passion may be the very thing holding you back from power or influence or accomplishment. Because just as often, we fail with -- no, because of -- passion. To be clear, this is not about caring. This is passion of a different sort -- unbridled enthusiasm, our willingness to pounce on what's in front of us with the full measure of our zeal, the "bundle of energy" that our teachers and gurus have assured us is our most important asset.
Instead, what we require in our ascent is purpose. Purpose, you could say, is like passion with boundaries. Passion is form over function. Purpose is function, function, function. The critical work that you want to do will require your deliberation and consideration. Not passion.
Passion is about. (I am so passionate about ______.) Purpose is to and for. (I must do ______. I was put here to accomplish ______. I am willing to endure ______ for the sake of this.) Actually, purpose deemphasizes the I.
Purpose is about pursuing something outside yourself as opposed to pleasuring yourself. "Great passions are maladies without hope," as Goethe said. Which is why a deliberate, purposeful person operates on a different level, beyond the sway or the sickness.
It'd be far better if you were intimidated by what lies ahead-- humbled by its magnitude and determined to see it through regardless. Leave passion for the amateurs. Make it about your purpose: what you feel you must do and say, not what you care about and wish to be. Then you will do great things. Then you will stop being your old, good-intentioned, but ineffective self.
Early on in our careers we are setting out to do something. We have a goal, a calling, a new beginning. Every great journey begins here -- yet far too many of us never reach our intended destination. Ego more often than not is the culprit.
We build ourselves up with fantastical stories and talk, we pretend we have it all figured out, we let our star burn bright and hot only to fizzle out, and we have no idea why. These are symptoms of ego, for which humility and reality are the cure.
Do not let ego derail your career -- before it even begins.
This piece is adapted from Ryan Holiday's book Ego is the Enemy, published by Penguin Portfolio
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Hebrides means the Isles of the goddess Bride ... i.e., Sun Goddess BRIGID, aka BRIGHDE, BRIDE, BRIDEY, BRIGANTIA, BRITANNIA, who later became was incorporated into the Christian religion as the Christian Saint Bride. Iona is part of the Scottish Inner Hebrides - Isles of the goddess Bride.
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In 807, the "Book of Kells" was also removed from Iona to Kells to save this luminous treasure of Celtic art from invading Vikings. Illuminated manuscripts from Iona's scriptorium were thought to have supernatural properties. These Celtic designs were transferred to metal and stone. The Stone of Destiny was captured in 1296 by King Edward I (Long Shanks) and kept in England for 700 years. It was kept under the English throne through the coronation of Elizabeth II. It was only returned to Edinburgh in 1996 after an attempted theft.
An influx of proto-Celtic, Bell Beaker people into Britain is now dated from 2900 - 1800/1700 BC. They brought beer, new beliefs about life and death, divination, farming techniques, and mortuary practices along with the art of metallurgy to the Neolithic culture. Groups assimilated in complicated patterns of movement that involved explorations, contact, settlement, diffusion and acculturation. This culture spread from Ireland to the Carpathian Basin and south along the Atlantic coast to Portugal, Spain, France, North Africa, Sicily, Italy, the Balkans, and Germany. These trade routes remained open. Their shamans were Druids, whose power came from contact with the spirit world.
Iona hosted a Druidical college till the community was assimilated by Columba for his own community, but the Highlanders still recognize it as the Druid's Isle. The Culdees wore a white dress, as did the Druids. They remained scholars and occupied places which had a Druidical reputation. They used the Asiatic cross, now called that of St. Andrew. Notably, in an Irish version of the gospel of St. Matthew, the phrase "there came wise men from the east" is rendered "the Druids came from the east." They translated the Old Testament, Exodus vii. II, "magicians of Egypt," as "Druids of Egypt," (Bonwick, Irish Druids and Old Irish Religions).
The Druid "enlighteners" were fully aware of the 26,000-year cycle of Precession of the Equinoxes. They excelled in astronomy and astrology and ancient metrology. They knew the size and shape of the Earth. The seers were a hereditary caste of seers, philosophers, political advisors, priests, natural scientists, historians, doctors of medicine, judges, poets, royal advisors, astronomers, musicians, geometers, orators, navigators, and magicians. The Bards sang oracular songs. They preserved 'knowledge' or gnosis. The solar deity of Beltane was known as Bel, Beli, Belanus, celebrated with vast bonfires.
Nicholas de Vere describes ancestral proto-Scythian Druids in The Dragon Cede (2010): "Witch" in Gaelic is "druidhe" -- drui -- or "druid." In practical terms a Scythian druid was an overlord. . .hence, a witch was a Dragon." So, the Druids were Scythian-Draconian overlords who came to proto-Scotland in ancient "Celtic" migrations. The Druids sang the nature of the king and formed all society in so doing. A Pendragon tradition says the Land and the King are one. The king derived his sovereignty, not from the sword, but from Mother Earth. We cannot own land. The land owns us. In original Scythian practice there were Three Kings: Priest King, Peace King, War King. And the Archdruids ruled over all as High Kings. The sword comes from the stone. Sovereignty comes from the Earth beneath our feet. That is the symbolism.
Summarizing, de Vere continues, "Briefly, the Dragon lineage starts in the Caucasus with the Annunaki, descending through migrating proto-Scythians to the Sumerians while branching off also into the early Egyptians, Phoenicians and Mittani. A marriage bridge back to Scythia infused the Elvin line of "Tuatha de Danaan" and the Fir Bolg, which branched into the Arch-Druidic, Priest-Princely family to the Royal Picts of Scotland and the ring kings of the Horse Lords of Dal Riada, through the Elven dynasty of Pendragon and Avallon del Acqs, and down to a few pure bred families today."
The myths of lost Atlantis are Egyptian. One of the oldest known example of archeoastronomy with stone circles (Nabta Playa, Nubian Desert) is in pre-sand Egypt, dated to the fifth Millennium BC. – 2000 years before Stonehenge. This temple of the stars demonstrates the sky 'moves' in a predictable long-term cycle. An alignment with Sirius in 6088 BC and other alignments dated to 6270 suggest an estimated date 1500 years earlier. The site was used as a necropolis in the Saharan wet period of pre-history, roughly 11,000 – 5,000 years ago when the playa bloomed. The area became arid 4,800 years ago when the monsoon returned to the equator. Egyptian culture moved to the Nile Valley.
Egyptian beliefs were in Druid practice, but Egypt was originally a colony of Atlantis, the true source of the Druids. Although the Scythians of later ages were originally affiliated with the Megalithic Arya, some of their number became spiritually and morally corrupt. Today, a few mainstream historians and archeologists hesitatingly accept that Western "Celts" (sic) had settlements in the Middle and Far East. This is because these migrations were relatively late, historically speaking. They date from approximately 600 BC onward. The Hyksos/Atonists were originally Scythians from the West who migrated through Egypt.
A Celtic cross places a circle around the arms of a Latin cross. A cross within a circle or cross with multiple rays like spokes from a wheel is an emblem of the sun and is found on many stone carvings and objects prior to Christianity. The sun cross became the Celtic cross, uniting Christ with the luminous and cosmic power of the sun. Today, there are 60 to 70 remaining Irish High Crosses.The average height is over 10 feet. A few (Monasterboice) are as tall as 22 feet. Including all the British Isles, about 300 high cross monuments remain out of the several thousand. Many were destroyed during anti-Catholic periods. The large stone crosses developed from different influences, Egyptian and Armenian as well as Celtic. Biblical and local scenes were carved on the fairly soft (mostly sandstone) stone crosses. These crosses are generally found on or near monastic sites. Irish High crosses were used to mark boundaries, for gatherings and instruction, and for prayer. Some crosses request a prayer for the person who donated the cross. Originally, like illuminated manuscripts, the crosses were most likely brightly painted.
SINNER AND SAINT; As Jeremy Irons prepares to play him in a movie, the violent story of Columba - and of how he journeyed from taking lives to saving souls. SINNER AND SAINT; As Jeremy Irons prepares to play him in a movie, the violent story of Columba - and of how he journeyed from taking lives to saving souls.
EVEN as he ran, Columba knew he was too late. From the entrance to the abbey, he saw the glinting daggers plunge into the young prince's heart and throat. The boy died quickly, his blood seeping into the green pastures of Kells Abbey. Columba, the abbot who closed his eyes, knew this was only the beginning of a terrible war which would claim more than 3,000 souls.
Of all the hundreds of saints that Ireland has produced, none can hold a match to Saint Columba for sheer drama. His epic story has entranced people ever since his first biography was etched with an inky feather back in the 7th century. By then his name was already legendary throughout the Christian world. He would go on to become the key saint of floods, poets, bookbinders and, most notably, of Scotland.
By the 16th century, he was venerated by Lutheran, Anglican, Orthodox and Catholic churches alike.But though his name means 'dove of the Church', this gentle priest hid a dark past. And the decades he spent in Scotland creating a centre of worship and learning that lit a beacon to guide Europe through the Dark Ages were, in reality, a self-imposed atonement for the sins that saw him banished from Ireland.
Now, more than 1,400 years later the story of Ireland's 'Royal Saint' is headed for the big screen with a movie called The End Time. Jeremy Irons has signed up to star as the magnetic Donegal missionary, with filming to begin in Ireland and Scotland next spring. The End Time will be directed by Bafta award-winning Norman Stone - who recently directed the biopic of Florence Nightingale.
Certainly, in his early life Columba did not deserve one. Born on the grassy shores of Lough Gartan, Co. Donegal, Columba was a prince of the royal house of O'Neill. His father, Prince Felim, was a great-grandson of Niall of the Nine Hostages, the iconic 5th century High King of Ireland High King of Ireland (Irish: Ard Rí na hÉireann) refers to legendary, pagan kings of Tara. It also refers to later kings, who were, depending on the period, either the most powerful king of their day, or, in later times, exercised authority over most of Ireland. . The baby was named Crimthann but later changed his name to Colmcille and eventually Columba.
His date of birth is stated as December 7, 521, 28 years after the death of St Patrick. Owing to the older man's efforts, Christianity had taken a firm root in Ireland and Irish monasteries were considered to be world leaders in faith.
Young Columba was educated in the monastic school at Moville, on the shores of Strangford Lough in Co. Down, under the tutelage of St Finnian. He was described as a youth of 'tremendous energy and a vigorous personality', who showed great academic ability. After further training, he entered Clonard Abbey. Probably the finest Christian school in Ireland at this time, Clonard sprawled upon the banks of the River Boyne in Co. Meath and had as many as 3,000 students.
. Ordained in 540, he advanced to St Mobhi's monastery in Dublin's Glasnevin. Four years later, a bubonic plague ripped through Ireland, killing Mobhi. Columba left to travel the country building churches.
His first monastery was built in an oak forest on the banks of the River Foyle on some land gifted to him by King Aed of Connaught. The settlement, upon which the Long Tower Church stands today, was later called Doire Colmcille, and is better known as Derry. He is also credited with founding monasteries at Kells, Durrow, Clonmore, Lambay Island, Swords, Moone, Drumcliffe and Glencolumbcille, close to his place of birth.
Despite his obvious devotion to the Church, Columba's noble family still expected him to take up his rightful place in the royal lineage. The House of O'Neill invited him to stand as their candidate for the High Kingship of Ireland.
He shocked them by declining, and his pagan cousin, Diarmuid Mac Cerbhaill, was nominated instead. A warrior, Diarmuid was enraged that he was his family's second choice after a lowly priest. Though he was duly elected High King of Ireland, he held a deep-seated bitterness for his Christian cousin.
Columba's travels brought him to Dromin, Co. Louth, where his old mentor Finnian was now a bishop. While browsing through Finnian's library, Columba came upon a particularly rare book of Latin psalms written by St Martin of Tours Mar·tin of Tours , Saint a.d. 316?-397?.
A room in a monastery set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts and records. and created an exact replica.
A furious Finnian demanded the book back, claiming it was property of the Church. Columba refused, reasoning that making copies of such work was vital to the spread of Christianity.
Used in context of general equities. Involvement in a security, whether through a position, order, or inquiry. with his cousin. With cauldron-stirring druids whispering in his ear, in what is now regarded as the world's first dispute over copyright infringement, the monarch ruled 'To every cow her calf, therefore to every book its copy'.Columba had to hand it over.
The decision ignited a bitter row amongst the O'Neills. The clan was split between the feuding cousins - and everyone was looking for an excuse to settle it by the sword This article is about the fantasy novel by Mercedes Lackey. For other uses, see By the Sword (disambiguation).
By the Sword is the name of a 1991 fantasy novel by Mercedes Lackey. .
In 561, during a hurling match at the annual Tailteann Games in Co. Meath, a row broke out on the pitch. Prince Cunan - son of King Aed of Connaught and another cousin of Columba's - dealt a deadly blow to the son of Diarmuid's royal steward. Realising what he had done, Cunan fled by horse to Columba's abbey in Kells.
DIARMUID and his men tracked the fugitive prince down, stormed the abbey and executed him. Standing helplessly by as the daggers were driven into his young cousin's heart, Columba was incensed that they had breached the sanctity of the Church. With the boy's grieving father, King Aed, he made a pact to get rid of Diarmuid - and mobilised an army.
To make a whirring sound. , another of the Twelve Apostles, interjected on his behalf and negotiated a compromise.
Columba would go into exile in Scotland, where he vowed to spend the rest of his life gaining as many souls for Christ as had been slain in the battle of Cul Dreimhne.
[Middle English currok, from Middle Irish curach; see coracle.] with 12 friends. They landed on the island of Iona on the west coast of Scotland on the eve On the Eve (Накануне in Russian) is the third novel by famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. of Pentecost in the spring of 563. Thirteen years would pass before Columba returned to his native soil.
Point on the surface of the Earth that is directly above the source (or focus) of an earthquake. There the effects of the earthquake usually are most severe. See also seismology. for an early Christian renaissance as its monks began to churn out books, art, music and, above all, eager young missionaries.
From Iona, Columba ran an extraordinary network, dispatching monks to spread the word of the Church across Pictish Scotland.This evangelising came at a critical moment as Europe, still reeling from the collapse of the Roman Empire, was sinking into the Dark Ages.
One who has the political power to influence the selection of a candidate for high public office. king . He also had a useful arsenal of miracles up his sleeve. For instance, when he arrived at the royal palace of Brude, one of the most powerful of the Pictish Kings, near Inverness, the gates were bolted against him. Columba made the sign of the cross and the bolts flew open. Brude was duly intimidated into throwing in his lot with the Christians.
In 575, Columba returned to Ireland to attend the synod of Druim Ceat, near Derry, where he was welcomed with open arms by those who had cast him out over a decade before. He became a champion of Ireland's bards and poets, and his diplomatic skills were again called upon to settle disputes between feuding kingdoms. A renowned man of letters and hymn writer, he is credited with having transcribed over 300 books, including The Book Of Durrow The Book of Durrow (Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS A. 4. 5. (57)) is a 7th century illuminated manuscript in the Insular style made either at Durrow Abbey near Durrow in County Offaly Ireland, or in Northumbria in Northern England, with modern and traditional scholarship .
In 592, as the Annals put it, Columba 'went to the angels from his body, after seven years and 70'. He died on Iona and was buried by his monks in the abbey he created. Two centuries later, after a series of devastating Viking raids, the monks of Iona fled. Many settled in Kells, the abbey Columba founded in Co. Meath, where they completed the Book of Kells Book of Kells: see Ceanannus Mór. Book of Kells Illuminated manuscript version of the four Gospels, c. late 8th–early 9th century. , a masterpiece of Irish Celtic symbols, art and literature. Columba was disinterred and reputedly reburied in Downpatrick, Co. Down, along with St Patrick and St Brigid.
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Would you believe these are you (Isaiah says; to the "isles afar off")? Are they descendents of the British Isles, Ireland, the countries of northwest Europe, the United States and even Japan? In an irony to Jewish history, could the tribe of Dan have gone to Greece and later to Rome? Could descendents of Dan have actually been involved with all the holocausts of Jewish history (Greek, Roman, Inquisition and Nazi Germany)?
Was the royal bloodline planted in Ireland? Legend says Ireland was already populated by Hebrews before Jeremiah's arrival. Long prior to 700 B.C. another strong colony called "Tuatha de Danaan" (tribe of Dan) arrived in ships, drove out other tribes, and settled there. Later, in the days of David, a colony of the line of Zarah arrived in Ireland from the Near East. "Annals" of Irish History (Annals of Ulster, Annals of the Four Masters, etc.) are only reliably historical from 1,000 A.D. onwards. All material relating to time periods before the time of St. Patrick (430 A.D.) is legend.
However, there is some truth contained in the "Annals" prior to 1,000 A.D. The "Annals" go back to about 444 A.D., but written copies date only from the 1400's. For instance in these Irish "Annals" there are 18 records of eclipses and comets which all agree exactly to the day and hour with the calculations of modern astronomers. The oldest piece of consecutive Irish preserved in Ireland is found in the "Book of Armaugh", written about the year 812. See possible historic lineage here. Conclusion. Take note that, Jeremiah's commission included "to build and to plant". Legend frequently is steeped in fact, no matter how confusing. The Lost tribes went somewhere...Perhaps Ireland and western Europe....or even southern Russia.


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New Movies to Watch in Theatres in August 2020
With our theatres finally set to reopen, we have new movies to show in August! The long-awaited coda to the X-MEN movies, THE NEW MUTANTS, opens alongside the new movie from "Veep" creator Armando Iannucci. There's the TRAIN TO BUSAN spin-off, and the tenth-anniversary release of Christopher Nolan's INCEPTION, which arrives just in time to herald the September opening of Nolan's new movie, TENET.
Here are all the new movies to watch in theatres in August 2020.
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Director(s): Derrick Borte
Stars: Russell Crowe, Caren Pistorius, Gabriel Bateman, Jimmi Simpson, Austin P. McKenzie
Academy Award-winner Russell Crowe stars in Unhinged, a psychological thriller that takes something we've all experienced--road rage--to an unpredictable and terrifying conclusion. Rachel (Caren Pistorius) is running late getting to work when she crosses paths with a stranger (Crowe) at a traffic light. Soon, Rachel finds herself and everyone she loves the target of a man who feels invisible and is looking to make one last mark upon the world by teaching her a series of deadly lessons. What follows is a dangerous game of cat and mouse that proves you never know who you're driving next to.`
Inception Tenth Anniversary
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Director(s): Christopher Nolan
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Dileep Rao, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Michael Caine
Christopher Nolan took a break between his second and third Batman movies to make this dream-warping thriller, and ten years later we're still obsessed with its mysteries. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Cobb, who can dive right into the dreams of others, the better to steal their secrets. Now he has to put all his skills to work in order to reverse his typical approach: he's got to implant an idea in the mind of his target. But when this new job plunges Cobb into the murky waters of his own memories, he is forced to face his past — and his future.
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Director(s): Thor Freudenthal
Stars: Charlie Plummer, Andy Garcia, Taylor Russell, AnnaSophia Robb, Beth Grant, Devon Bostick, Lobo Sebastian, Molly Parker, Walton Goggins, Evan Whitten, Drew Scheid
WORDS ON BATHROOM WALLS tells the story of witty and introspective Adam (Charlie Plummer), who appears to be your typical young adult -- a little unkempt with raging hormones and excited about a future pursuing his dream of becoming a chef. Expelled halfway through his senior year following an incident in chemistry class, Adam is diagnosed with a mental illness. Sent to a Catholic academy to finish out his term, Adam has little hope of fitting in and just wants to keep his illness secret until he can enroll in culinary school. But when he meets outspoken and fiercely intelligent Maya (Taylor Russell), there is an instant soulful and comforting connection. As their romance deepens, she inspires him to open his heart and not be defined by his condition. Now, with the love and support of his girlfriend and family, Adam is hopeful for the very first time that he can see the light and triumph over the challenges that lie ahead.
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Director(s): RZA
Stars: Shameik Moore, Demetrius Shipp Jr., Denzel Whitaker, Keean Johnson, Eiza Gonzalez
From director RZA comes the explosive CUT THROAT CITY, the story of four boyhood friends in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward who return after Hurricane Katrina to find their homes decimated, with no jobs, and no help from FEMA. Out of options, they reluctantly turn to a local gangster, who offers them one shot at turning their situations around -- by pulling off a dangerous heist in the heart of the city. When the job goes bad, the friends find themselves on the run, hunted by two relentless detectives and a neighborhood warlord who thinks they stole the heist money.
Director(s): Yeon Sang-ho
Stars: Gang Dong-won, Lee Jung-hyun, Lee Re, Kwon Hae-hyo, Kim Min-jae, Koo Kyo-hwan, Kim Do-yoon
Four years after South Korea's total decimation in TRAIN TO BUSAN, the zombie thriller that captivated audiences worldwide, acclaimed director Yeon Sang-ho brings us PENINSULA, the next nail-biting chapter in his post-apocalyptic world. Jung-seok, a soldier who previously escaped the diseased wasteland, relives the horror when assigned to a covert operation with two simple objectives: retrieve and survive. When his team unexpectedly stumbles upon survivors, their lives will depend on whether the best-or worst-of human nature prevails in the direst of circumstances.
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Director(s): Josh Boone
Stars: Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Alice Braga, Blu Hunt, and Henry Zaga. In the film, a group of young mutants held in a secret
From the pages of Marvel's "X-Men" comic books — and the offshoot series from which this movie takes its title — comes an original horror thriller set in an isolated hospital where a group of young mutants is being held for psychiatric monitoring. When strange occurrences begin to take place, both their new mutant abilities and their friendships will be tested as they battle to try and make it out alive.
Director(s): Armando Iannucci
Stars: Dev Patel, Aneurin Barnard, Peter Capaldi, Morfydd Clark, Daisy May Cooper, Rosalind Eleazar, Hugh Laurie, Tilda Swinton, Ben Whishaw, Paul Whitehouse
From birth to infancy, from adolescence to adulthood, the good-hearted David Copperfield is surrounded by kindness, wickedness, poverty and wealth, as he meets an array of remarkable characters in Victorian England. As David sets out to be a writer, in his quest for family, friendship, romance and status, the story of his life is the most seductive tale of all.
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A small historical note might help to make this section clearer. So bear with with me for a couple of lines. Originally PyVISA was a Python wrapper to the VISA library. More specifically, it was ctypes wrapper around the NI-VISA. This approach worked fine but made it difficult to develop other ways to communicate with instruments in platforms where NI-VISA was not available. Users had to change their programs to use other packages with different API.
Since 1.6, PyVISA is a frontend to VISA. It provides a nice, Pythonic API and can connect to multiple backends. Each backend exposes a class derived from VisaLibraryBase that implements the low-level communication. The ctypes wrapper around NI-VISA is the default backend (called ni) and is bundled with PyVISA for simplicity.
Under the hood, the pyvisa.highlevel.ResourceManager looks for the requested backend and instantiate the VISA library that it provides.
PyVISA will try to import a package/module named pyvisa-somename which should be installed in your system. This is a loosly coupled configuration free method. PyVISA does not need to know about any backend out there until you actually try to use it.
Your backend name should not end by -script or it will be discarded. This is because any script generated by setuptools containing the name pyvisa will be named pyvisa-*-script and they are obviously not backends. Examples are the pyvisa-shell and pyvisa-info scripts.
An important aspect of developing a backend is knowing which VisaLibraryBase method to implement and what API to expose.
A complete implementation of a VISA Library requires a lot of functions (basically almost all level 2 functions as described in Architecture (there is also a complete list at the bottom of this page). But a working implementation does not require all of them.
open_default_resource_manager: returns a session to the Default Resource Manager resource.
open: Opens a session to the specified resource.
close: Closes the specified session, event, or find list.
list_resources: Returns a tuple of all connected devices matching query.
get_attribute: Retrieves the state of an attribute.
set_atribute: Sets the state of an attribute.
read: Reads data from device or interface synchronously.
write: Writes data to device or interface synchronously.
For other usages or devices, you might need to implement other functions. Is really up to you and your needs.
These functions should raise a pyvisa.errors.VisaIOError or emit a pyvisa.errors.VisaIOWarning if necessary.


Reggie, the popular sidekick on Letsgiveitaspin's stream, recently got to move into his very first own apartment here in Sweden. A grown man getting his own place, after living with his uncle for more than two years, and now being allowed to do whatever he pleases, is a big thing. At least Kim (LGIS) thought so and for sure didn't want this occasion to go unnoticed. So he figured, what better way is there than to invite everybody on his stream for a night of partying and drinking to mark the celebrations? Well, as it turns out, there probably isn't any.
The date for the party was soon set for Saturday the 27th of May to leave room for all the preparations, and naturally the place would be Halmstad - the city where Reggie lives.
The event took a full month of planning - probably 3½ weeks more than Kim had anticipated. Everything, from setting the venue, food, drinks and entertainment, to making sure every guest could make it in time wherever they came from, was discussed and taken care of. LeoVegas played a huge part in this, not only helping out with all the planning, but also paying for all the expenses in relation to it - a big shout out to them!
Finally, on the very last day before the party, everything was ready - or at least us involved considered it to be.
Some people wanted to be on the stream..
On Saturday, it was finally time for the main event.
The party kicked off at 17.00CET with everybody arriving getting free drink tickets and snacks (in the shape of most of the fruits seen in the slot 'Fruit Warp'). Guests were also treated to shrimps on a skewer, prepared by one of the best grill chefs in Sweden - the one and only Jörgen. After a couple of hours of meet and greet, food and (lots of) drinks, the party kind of officially kicked off. This was marked by a stand up comedy performance by the funny canadian Joe Eagan. The performance lasted for 40 minutes or so and once it finished everybody seemed to be in a really good mood.


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Greensleeves Rhythm Album #87: Airwaves is the eighty-seventh volume of the Greensleeves Records's Greensleeves Rhythm Album series albums. It was released in 2008 and contains tunes on the Airwaves Riddim. The tunes are produced by Fire Links for the Fire Links label.


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Home News Zac Dunn faces Denis Douglin Oct 24th at the Paramount
Zac Dunn faces Denis Douglin Oct 24th at the Paramount
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Star Boxing's just-signed Australian sensation Zac Dunn will put his unbeaten record on the line against Denis "The Momma's Boy" Douglin, on Saturday night, October 24, at The Paramount in Huntington, New York, it was announced by Star Boxing president Joe DeGuardia.
Douglin (19-4, 12 KO's) is a southpaw fighting out of Marlboro, NJ, and comes off two straight knockout victories, his most recent a sixth round KO of Marcos Primera on July 11. The Momma's Boy has won five of his last six bouts. Douglin captured the first 12 fights of his pro career, mostly in the New York-New Jersey area as a product of Rivera Boxing Gym and Gleason's Gym in Brooklyn.
The title tilt is the main event in the next installment of Star Boxing's Rockin' Fights series. Dunn, ranked #10 by the WBC, is the "Wonder from Down Under" who has reeled off 18 straight professional victories without defeat, including 15 by way of knockout. Fighting exclusively in Australia as a professional, Dunn will be making his American debut at The Paramount.
"This will be an action fight from the opening bell," said DeGuardia. "Both fighters are crowd-pleasers with their propensity for the knockout. All but three of Zac's wins have been by KO, and Douglin has won almost 60 percent of his fights via knockout. It's a great fight for boxing enthusiasts."
Dunn is coming off a snazzy 12-round decision over the well-thought-of Max Bursak, the winner of 31 career fights, to take the vacant IBO World title on June 27 at the Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton, Australia. His previous five triumphs were all scintillating knockouts in seven rounds or less. Two ultra-impressive KOs were second round annihilations of Beibi Berrocal, on March 6, and Kyung-Suk Kwak on March 16, 2014, setting the stage for Zac's shot at the title. Dunn did not disappoint the Australian faithful.
Dunn turned pro on the heels of a storied amateur career, scoring 152 victories in 170 fights, while showcasing his talents all over the world. The battle-tested Australian has fought in in Baku, Azerbaijan (bronze at the World Cadets Championship 2007), Guadalajara, Mexico (quarterfinalist in the World Youth Championship as Australian captain), Noginsk, Russia (Silver medallist at Junior Memorial), and Anapa, Russia (Bronze medallist twice at Nikolay Pavlyukov Memorial 2008 and 2009), and Guantanamo, Cuba (silver medallist at the international tournament Giraldo Cordova Cardin 2010).
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Dance education tango
March 6, 2002 12:00 am by Kelly Icardi
What began as a quiet and simple meeting turned into a loud and complex display of emotions Tuesday as a mirrored dance room of about 30 students questioned the future of their program at USF.
Due to the tightening of the budget, the University of South Florida has had to cut several degree programs, most recently, the bachelor of science in dance education. Ronald Jones, dean for the College of Visual and Performing Arts, met with approximately 30 students to field questions about the program being lost because of budget cuts.
During the summer, the state issued a budget cut of 3.5 percent, and every department in the university shared in the cut. Since then, all areas of Visual and Performing Arts have been affected. In the last several days, meetings were held with the art, music and theater department students. The meetings were an opportunity for students to ask questions and receive answers about how the cuts directly affect them.
Emotions ran high Tuesday as dancers asked questions about the future of their program.
Out of three degrees in dance, only one was cut from the program. The dancers wanted to know who decided to get rid of their discipline.
"The decision to cut the dance education program was made by myself, President Judy Genshaft and S. David Stamps, the provost," Jones said.
Jones said that Tim Wilson, former chairman for the dance department, voluntarily reduced his chair position from 12 to nine months in order for that part of his salary to be used for the dance department. In late July, Wilson officially resigned, and the chair position was eliminated.
Senior Jody Kuehner said Wilson was the person who started the dance degree, and he has the credentials for the job. She said she does not understand why his position was the basis for cutting dance education when there are no other qualified teachers with credentials to fill the position.
"Dance is a small department. It doesn't need a full-time dean to run it," said Jones, as the room erupted into laughter.
Several students expressed that dancing was what they wanted to do with their lives. They said that after graduation, they will not be going into another career other than dancing. Many of the students spoke directly to Jones, expressing their dismay. The general consensus was that the students did not feel like the dean was supporting them.
One student began to cry when discussing how important the dance program is to her. "I have a family, and I'm just trying to get my degree."
Kuehner said that although she is not directly affected by the cut, she is very upset about what has happened.
"We understand the budget cuts, but it's unfair to the students because we have very little information on the issue. The faculty is scared about being fired, so they are not speaking about the cut," Kuehner said.
Junior Erin Taylor, who is supposed to graduate next spring, said that there was no formal notification of the cut, and until recently, it was just gossip. "I found out from one of the seniors," Taylor said. "It was real hush-hush. The faculty didn't talk until the students approached them. I heard we weren't going to graduate, and I wondered if I would have to transfer."
Jones emphasized that although his area of specialty is art, he was not opposed to dance.
Jones, who kept answering questions with questions, appeared flustered throughout the meeting. At one point, Jones suggested that the faculty was giving the students issues to inquire about.
"If the faculty is going to feed you questions,-" Jones said. Before he could finish,one student shouted back, "The faculty did not approach the students. We asked questions."
After much debate, the dean said there were two things that could convince him to go to Stamps and Genshaft and to change his mind. One was if there was a dramatic increase in the budget and an ability to take on new things. And two, if the university would soften its emphasis on research and graduate programs.
Today at 2 p.m. the chairs for the College of Visual and Performing Arts will decide if the dance department will merge with music or the theater department.
Contact Kelly Icardiat oracleeditor@yahoo.com


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Open-source developers can now get sponsored through GitHub
Published: May 23rd, 2019
- Jakub Lewkowicz
Code-hosting services and startups have been experimenting with different ways to get open-source users to pay open-source developers for creating valuable code. While funding services such as Patreon and Tidelift have been around with their own models, the largest open code hosting service GitHub is now on board with the beta announcement of GitHub Sponsors.
GitHub Sponsors lets open-source users directly sponsor developers. As part of the new platform, GitHub also announced its Sponsors Matching Fund that will match all contributions up to $5,000 during a developer's first year using the service. The platform will have zero transaction fees for a year after its launch.
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In an integrated fashion, users can hover over a contributor's name when they directly answer a question, triage issues or merge code and directly sponsor them from there, according to the company.
The scope of GitHub is massive with companies like Microsoft and Google primarily shifting to the service to host their own projects, followed by Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub in 2017 for $7.5 billion last year.
"The world runs on open source. None of it would be possible without the global team of maintainers, designers, programmers, researchers, teachers, writers, leaders—and more—who devote themselves to pushing technology forward," wrote Devon Zuegel, an open source product manager at GitHub, in a blog post. "These extraordinary developers can now receive funding from the community that depends on their work, seamlessly through their GitHub profiles."
The spread of these funding services will incentivize developers to keep coming back to open source code and contributing and maintaining more often.
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About Jakub Lewkowicz
Jakub Lewkowicz is a multimedia journalist who loves all things tech. Polish-born and Long Island-bred, he is an Online and Social Media Editor for SD Times. He is also a Carnegie Hall pianist and music producer.
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by Philip F. Jacobus, CEO
When we think about July 4th, we think about the creation of the United States in 1776.
Our independence from England and the vision that our Founding Fathers had for checks and balances within the government and between the federal government and the state governments.
For those of us who studied history, we know that throughout the last 243 years, there has been a lot of push and pull.
Last Sunday at church, I listened while my 101 year old mother in law was speaking with one of her friends. She was from Hungary and they were talking about the best way to make stuffed peppers (my grandmother's recipe was better than either of theirs).
In any event, the conversation circled back to when the young woman, then 16 years old, came to the United States. She had been one of three daughters and one night, the secret police came to her house during the dinner hour and shot her father dead, in front of the three daughters and their mother. Then they walked out and left the mother and daughters with the responsibility of burying the father.
The mother was committed to leaving the country. She went with the youngest daughter to France, the oldest daughter went to Germany and the 16 year old daughter, to the United States. The 16 year old daughter lived with a family in a small town in Pennsylvania. She spoke no English but raised a family and became a person who contributed to society.
All because she was welcomed into our country, as a refugee.
Having said that, over the weekend, I heard Fareed Zakaria say that he believes that there is an abuse of the asylum process. He said that there is a 240 percent increase from 2014 and a backlog of more than 300 asylum cases pending. He also said that the average immigration case has been pending for 700 days.
The implication was that the asylum process is being abused.
I also think back about the prejudices that we have had against African Americans, against Italians, against the Irish and the Japanese.
I cannot help thinking that there is no simple answer to this problem and it is a mistake to try to solve the problem with a one size fits all solution.
It also seems to me that a for-profit business running these migrant centers at the border just seems wrong.
Anyway, while I don't claim to have the answers, it seems to me that we are not handling things correctly. I hope that we can turn that around and I don't believe that vilifying these people who are less fortunate than we are or trying to escape unpleasant conditions in their country, is the right answer. I also hope that there is a way that we can prevent fraud and abuse of the asylum system.
It may not seem like this is not a medical issue on the surface, but it is only a matter of time before this is a drain on healthcare as well.


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I have abandoned the blog AGAIN this week and today you will find me over here getting crafty with the fabulous Mummy Alarm.
A really sweet bauble and a way of preserving your children's Christmas wishes to revisit as they get older.
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When Bryan was in grade school, the Clausons moved to Noblesville, Ind., to give him a greater opportunity to race sprint cars at a young age. California's restrictive insurance laws prevented track owners from allowing him to race. But in the Midwest, Hogg said, drivers as young as 13 can pilot an 800-horsepower sprint car on tracks where speeds of more than 100 mph are common.
Hogg said the physical distance between her and the Clausons helped them lose track of each other, but she did follow young Bryan's racing exploits. It wasn't until 2009 when she reconnected with the family and Bryan was already an accomplished driver.
Clauson made his USAC National Sprint Series debut two days after turning 16 and took third. In October later that 2005 season, Clauson won the Open Wheel Oktoberfest race at the Columbus Motor Speedway and became the youngest driver in USAC history to win a National Series 'A' main.
He went on to win three National Midget championships (2010, 2011, 2015), three USAC National Drivers championships (2010, 2011, 2012), two USAC National Sprint Car Series championships (2012, 2013) and he won the famous Chili Bowl Nationals in Tulsa, Okla., in 2014.
He drove in the Indianapolis 500 in 2012, 2015 and this past May, when he led three laps but finished 23rd behind Nevada City native Alexander Rossi. Clauson earned rides in NASCAR's Infinity and Nationwide series, and Indy Lights.
The 2016 racing schedule for several national series was on Clauson's calendar in his well-traveled motor home. He was trying to compete in 200 races this year, dubbed the "Circular Insanity Tour." That driving feat has never been done – not by A.J. Foyt, Gary Bettenhausen or Tony Stewart – three American drivers to whom Clauson was most often compared because he, like those three legends, would drive anything with four wheels – anywhere, anytime. Last Saturday's race, Clauson's finale, was his 117th start this year.
Chasing that mark was something Clauson had in mind for a while, Silver Dollar Speedway and Marysville Speedway track announcer Troy Hennig said. Hennig last saw Clauson at Placerville Speedway on March 23, when Clauson competed in the Placerville Short Track Outlaw Showdown. He finished ninth.
Hogg said the Clauson family will hold a private service this weekend in Indiana and a public celebration of life Aug. 24 at the Kokomo Speedway, the Indiana dirt track that was Clauson's favorite.
Clauson was an organ donor, something his parents didn't know about until it was brought to their attention in the Lincoln, Neb.-area hospital where he died. In death, Clauson helped five people by donating his organs. His parents and Hogg were not surprised that Clauson helped people, even in death.


Today is Goru Puja, Govardhan Puja, Mha Puja and Nepal Sambat.
Govardhan Puja is performed by making a hill called govardhan parbat using Cow dung. Cow dung has big importance in Hindu culture. In the olden days it was used for everything from light at night (Methane) to polish mud floors of traditional houses. Even now no Puja is complete without cow dung in Nepali Hindu culture.
It is believed that once there was a drought in a village in Vridavan. The villagers were very worried and they wanted to perform a big Puja in honour of Lord Indra, the God of rain. But Lord Krishna convinced them that, they should not pray to Lord Indra since it was the Mount Govardhan that brought the rain and not Lord Indra. This made Lord Indra very angry and in his wrath he sent forth a big thunderstorm to flood the village. Lord Krishan lifted the Mount Govardhan as an umbrella above the village to protect the villagers and their cattle from the rain and flood.
In this day, after sunset Newar community perform Mha Puja.
"Mha" means body in the Newari language so on this day the Newa people worship their body and their inner self in the evening. They believe that the soul never dies and our body is only a vehicle and so we need to understand and respect our body as it is the chosen vehicle for this incarnation. This Puja is believed to bring prosperity and physical well-being.
Members of the family, first males followed by females, sit cross-legged in a row. The elder group of females plays the role of facilitators for each member. A mandap, decorated with different colours and various grains, fruits and flowers, is drawn for each member of the family.
In between the grains and fruits lies a mini mandap of oil, which represents the human soul. The human soul is placed between various grains and fruits so that a person will prosper throughout the year since each object represents a particular God and it is believed that each deity will bless the person. An oil lamp with velvet cloth wick equal in length to one's own face is lit on top of the mandap facing all four cardinal directions so that a person will be renowned in all the places of this earth.
Apart from worshipping oneself, all the household entities like brooms, water pots, utensils and machines are also worshipped in the same way.
I performed Mha Puja with my brother and his family this year. This year my cousins are in Nepal so there were only 4 of us unlike 9 last year. For the Puja, first the floor was purified by sprinkling water on it then we made mandaps in front of a row of seats on the floor where we were sitting. Our mandap was designed by AS and I had printed them out on A4 paper but in Nepal they are made by hand on the floor using oil, rice flour, vermilion, puffed rice and sometimes beans.
The number of the mandaps needed is three plus the number of people doing the puja. We need three smaller mandaps at the top of the row for the Family Deity (Kuladevata), Yamaraj and Janmaraj, one mandap for each of the member performing Mha Puja. Then at the end of the row, we had a crow drawn symbolising Yama the God of death.
First I gave Nasala, a few drops of water, in the palm of the right hand of everyone to sprinkle some into the mouth and rest over the body for purification.
Normally in Nepal, they use Itaa (hand woven long strands made using white cloth soaked in mustard oil) but here we used tea light candle instead. I gave each person the candle and everyone took the candle from my hand, lighted them and put them on their mandap. This light is believed to brighten the inner self and keep evil at bay.
I used rice and flower to shower each individual and worshipped the god within.
Then I gave every a plate with roti, sweets, fruits and masala.
Then,I gave Sagun to everyone. For Sagun, you put a plate of egg, bara (lentil cake), meat (chicken), a piece of garlicand fish in the right hand and yougurt in your left hand.
Once everyone finished eating the sagun, we used kucho (broom) to sweep the mandaps from top of the row to the bottom touching each mandap to conclude Mha puja.
This day is also New Year's day for Newar community and is called Nepal Sambat. Nepal Sambat is the national lunar calendar of Nepal. The era started on 20 October 879 AD and was in widespread use for all daily purposes until the beginning of the 20th century. It appeared on coins, stone and copper plate inscriptions, royal decrees, chronicles, Hindu and Buddhist manuscripts, legal documents and correspondence.
The customs of celebrating Nepal Sambat started from October 880 AD. According to a popular legend, there used to be a learned person in Bhaktapur who ordered porters to get sand from Lakhu Tirtha, a river in Kathmandu because he knew that it would turn into a heap of gold the next day. A person named Shankhadhar Sakhwaa came to know about it, and he enticed the porters to leave the sand in his place.
The next day, the sand turned into gold and with that gold he paid off the debt of all the people in the Kathmandu Valley. So from that day, people started celebrating it as their New Year to commemorate their happiness.
Even today, people are very enthusiastic to welcome the New Year. Every year, the day starts with a rally and the greeting of "Nhu Daya Bhintuna!" which means "Happy New Year". Different programmes and functions are also organised in the Kathmandu Valley every year on this day.
It is Nepal Sambat 1133 this year. Nhu Daya Bhintuna everyone!!!
Also from this day, boys in groups go door to door singing special songs called Deusi similar to the Bhailo sung during Laxmi Puja. You can write just about any Deusi song as long as each line ends with the word `Deusi' or `Deosuray'. A group of males get together, carry what-ever musical instruments they have or can play, and sing Deusi door to door blessing the home and family in return for money and/or refreshments. Teenagers perform various Deusi songs to collect money for their picnic.
It is considered auspicious to have these groups come to your front door. The house owner will offer them some rotis, fruits and money and they sing Deusi songs blessing the household with good fortune.
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Fascinating, as always – but I'm especially curious about the family deity. How do you know who it is? Or how is it determined?
The name of family deity is passed on from generation to generation. When one gets married, she follows her husband's family deity.
Do most in the country participate and follow the traditions? Is participation remaining constant with new generations?
Aaa Deusri bhailo 🙂 I remember last Tihar ko utsav ma me and A sat listening to deusi bhailo on youtube and he explained the whole process, shared memories of Tihar spent in Sikkim and tales from those times. I actually like the Deusi bhailo. Mum tells me that in Sri Lanka too they sing something called "Ashtak geet" on Sinhalese New year and these kids who sing it infront of everyone's house and get money from the people of each house.