Pack Galleria was founded in 2001 from the need to explore the artistic expression in its different forms, painting, photography, sculpture, installation. Pack worked with famous international artists, Zhang Huan, Andres Serrano, Oleg Kulik, Maria Magdalena Campos Pons, Andrei Molodkin, Robert Gligorov, but a focus has always been held on the production of Italian artists, Matteo Basile, Alberto Di Fabio, Marina Paris, Marco Neri, Masbedo. In the new location it started working with younger artists, Simone Bergantini, Pablo Candiloro, while continuing to work with those who have helped to create the name of Pack Galleria in recent years. It 's always been a Pack Galleria pride to show only original works, produced exclusively for it.


John Janzen Nature Centre provides opportunities for self-guided visits, for both individuals and for groups. Self-guided activities and drop-in programs are available for individual and group visitors of all ages!
For the price of regular admission, we have self-guided activities for kids, youth, adults & families. These activities are available any time during our regular hours of operation.
Explore the Exhibit Room, featuring Seasonal Change exhibits and activities.
View our Honeybee Hive (spring – fall), to see bees busy at work!
Adventure Backpacks. Backpacks contain a variety of fun and educational self- guided activities that are best suited to families or small groups. Available for sign-out at the front desk.
Compost 'S cool - Information about composting and demonstrations of different types and sizes of composters available for your home and yard.
Explore the Exhibit Room, featuring Seasonal Changes exhibit and activities.
Native Plant Demonstration Garden. View examples of wildflowers and native plant species in season (spring – fall). Garden is maintained by the Edmonton Naturalization Group.
Nature Walks - Individuals and groups can enjoy walking along The Birch Tree Trail and River Loop Trail.
Pond dipping. Visitors can look for aquatic creatures living in our pond. Dip nets, ID sheets, and buckets are available for borrowing from an Exhibit Room interpreter or from Guest Services. Be kind to our wildlife - please do not catch frogs/tadpoles from our pond, and return all living creatures to our pond when you are done.
Urban BioKits - Biokits are a colourful workbook full of engaging activities designed to help new Canadian families and others explore the wonders of Edmonton's nature. Created by the Office of Biodiversity, they are available in English and French. Available at Guest Services.
Wildflowers of Edmonton and Central Alberta ID guides. Borrow one of our pocket guides for your next self-guided walk on our trails. Available for sign-out at the front desk.
If you are interested in visiting the John Janzen Nature Centre with your group, please book a self-guided visit by calling 311 (outside Edmonton: 780-442-5311).
Please note that a self-guided visit means you are visiting with your group (for example, daycare, club, youth group or classroom) without a nature centre staff person facilitating a program for you.
If there are public drop-in programs occurring the day of your visit you are welcome to participate but please respect that other drop-in visitors will be taking part as well.


At Brewer, Kenzie Dore drove in two runs with a single, double and a triple as Brewer rolled past Oxford Hills of South Paris.
Libby Hewes doubled and singled for two RBIs for Brewer while Crystal Dore, Emily Lord and Anna Chute each added two singles.
Kenzie Kahkonen drove in a run with a single for Oxford Hills.


Can you remember the last time you or your student was excited about learning? One of the things I enjoy most about having grown sons is the fact that they are continuing to learn through reading and listening, and are excited about it. One of them will often track me down to tell me all about the book he's reading or listening to, and we often have conversations that range across the spectrum of knowledge.
Within the last couple of weeks, I've enjoyed a discussion of C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity with one of the boys, and had several interesting conversations about a lengthy series of essays by Ayn Rand with another son. They begin the discussions, and I'm usually delighted–though I don't necessarily agree with everything– at the interesting ideas they bring to the table. I've decided that it really does pay to raise your own conversational companions;-)!
As I think back to my own school days, I remember both mind-numbing tedium and mind-nourishing reading. I believe I learned more from the reading I did (mostly in books of my own choosing), than from many of the stale, dry lessons I was expected to memorize and regurgitate. When my boys recall our homeschooling days, they talk about things we read or made, or places we went, and they understand that those were learning experiences, even when they were the most fun thing we'd done all week.
As homeschoolers, we were fairly relaxed. We did a lot of reading, less writing than we should have, listened to audio resources, traveled when possible, played games, and had interesting conversations. Most of all, I gave them the gift of time. Time to find out what was interesting to them. Time to learn skills that weren't on any "state requirements" list. Time to be boys in the woods with sticks and forts.
The boys each went into college wondering how they would measure up against students from traditional school systems. It didn't take them long to find out that they measured up. They discovered that they knew how to learn and how to be good students. Most of all, they hadn't lost their taste for learning and growth. To be sure, there were subjects that were none too interesting and professors who droned, but overall, their minds hadn't been numbed by an unending stream of busywork, and they were able to approach learning with the expectation of mental nourishment and life enrichment. I'm glad we homeschooled, and I'd do it over again. How about you?
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Thank you for the insightful article about your true gift to your homeschooled children. I agree that it isn't fact-memorizing, list-checking or speed math quizzes. It's about developing young minds through time devoted to THEM. We are in the early stages of our homeschooling journey, but we already believe that time spent together learning as a family exploring our interests is what encourages life long learners.
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I just received this note from a student I had 3 years ago! How cool. It totally made my day and put a smile on my face. I remember Sara-Ruth as such a good student and so much fun to have in class.
One day of receiving notes like this makes up for a whole lotta stressful days at school, that's for sure.
It's great when people let you know that they appreciate what you do or did for them.


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Author:agent Stephen Smithyman
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'This is a first collection from Stephen Smithyman, whose poetry has won a number of awards and been published in magazines such as Australian Poetry Journal and Cordite. It covers the years 1976 to 2012 and a wide range of subjects, including growing up in New Zealand, relationships, family, travel, country living and the ageing process. Its themes include the search for love, happiness and some sort of sustaining belief, transience and the preciousness of life, faced with the omnipresence of death. There is a strong political and environmental interest throughout. The poems are characteristically witty and concise, phrased in clear, accessible language with a deft use of original and , at times, amusing imagery. Snapshot in the Dark is an entertaining, touching and thought-provoking introduction to Smithyman's poetry. ' (Publication summary)
Publisher: Ginninderra Press
Port Adelaide, Port Adelaide - Enfield area, Adelaide - Northwest, Adelaide, South Australia,: Ginninderra Press , 2018 .
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Ernst Becker (* 14. Februar 1929 in Darmstadt; † 14. November 1984 ebenda) war ein deutscher Physiker.

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Ernst Becker studierte von 1947 bis 1951 Physik an der Technischen Hochschule Darmstadt und der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Von 1951 bis 1954 war er am Max-Planck-Institut für Strömungsforschung in Göttingen und wurde 1954 mit seiner am Max-Planck-Institut erarbeiteten Dissertation Beitrag zur Berechnung von Sekundärströmungen an der Universität Göttingen promoviert.

Von 1954 bis 1959 forschte er an der Aerodynamischen Versuchsanstalt in Göttingen und anschließend bis 1962 im
Institut für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik der Deutschen Versuchsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Im Jahr 1960 habilitierte er sich mit seiner Habilitationsschrift Die laminare inkompressible Grenzschicht an einer durch laufende Wellen deformierten ebenen Wand für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik an der Universität Freiburg i. Br. Von 1962 bis 1963 war er Associate Professor an der Yale University und ab 1963 ordentlicher Professor der Mechanik an der Technischen Hochschule Darmstadt.

Ernst Becker war 1974 Präsident der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik und wurde 1976 als Mitglied in die Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina aufgenommen.

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Beitrag zur Berechnung von Sekundärströmungen. Mitteilungen aus dem Max-Planck-Institut für Strömungsforschung, 13, Göttingen 1956
 Die laminare inkompressible Grenzschicht an einer durch laufende Wellen deformierten ebenen Wand. Deutsche Versuchsanstalt für Luftfahrt e.V., 132, 1960
 Gasdynamik. Teubner Studienbücher (Leitfäden der angewandten Mathematik und Mechanik (LAMM)), Teubner, Stuttgart 1966
 Technische Thermodynamik. Eine Einführung in die Thermo- und Gasdynamik. Teubner, Stuttgart 1985
 mit Eckart Piltz: Technische Strömungslehre. Eine Einführung in die Grundlagen und technischen Anwendungen der Strömungsmechanik. 6. Auflage, Stuttgart 1986

Literatur
 Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Ernst Becker †. In: Ernst Becker und Eckart Piltz: Technische Strömungslehre. Eine Einführung in die Grundlagen und technischen Anwendungen der Strömungsmechanik. 6. Auflage, Stuttgart 1986, S. 2

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Chef Emeril Lagasse Promotes Farm-To-Table, Visits a Future Growing Farm in Florida
Chef Emeril Lagasse became popular with TV audiences soon after "Emeril Live" began airing on the Food Network in 1997. The show was certainly popular in our family, partly because of Emeril's humorous, down-to-earth personality, and partly because of his recipes, which the guys in my family have occasionally downloaded and attempted to re-create.
Besides his TV career, Emeril devotes his time and resources to the Emeril Lagasse Foundation, a purpose close to my own heart, which is dedicated to mentoring and enabling young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances
Emeril is also an ardent supporter of the farm-to-table movement, which is not surprising. To use his words: "It ain't rocket science." Most of us have sampled "fresh" organic produce in the supermarket, only to discover it's anything but fresh after being trucked thousands of miles and put in storage.
Katherine Grandey harvests locally grown basil at The GreenHouse in central Florida. (Click photo to enlarge)
That's why we at Future Growing® believe "locally sourced" is an essential ingredient of "beyond organic" foods, and we noted with interest a recent "teaser" clip for an episode of "Emeril's Florida". "Farm-to-table is our focus," Emeril proclaimed in the voiceover, so we made sure not to miss the episode when it aired on Feb 16.
In the second segment of the show, Emeril visited his restaurant, "Tchoup Chop", which he launched near Universal Orlando in 2002. It turns out that The GreenHouse—a Future Growing® Tower Garden® installation operated by Katherine Grandey in central Florida—is a supplier of fresh greens for Tchoup Chop, and provides "some of the best produce in the area," according to Emeril.
We at Future Growing® recognize the quality and volume of pesticide-free crops that The GreenHouse supplies to a number of Central Florida's finest restaurants. It was our pleasure to get Katherine started in aeroponic farming, but we believe her success is due to her forward-thinking business strategy, as well as her focus on customer service.
When Emeril visited The GreenHouse, he noted that seasonal availability is not an issue for the operation, and marveled at the output of the relatively small installation (135,000 plants per year). During the episode, he explained that this type of production is made possible by the unique vertical design of the aeroponic Tower Gardens®.
Chef Emeril Lagasse compliments Katherine Grandey on the quality of the food The GreenHouse is producing for area restaurants. (Click photo to enlarge)
"In many cases, she [Katherine] can turn crops around in two to three weeks. That's pretty amazing," Emeril commented. "She doesn't use any pesticides or herbicides". Importantly, Emeril pointed out how flavorful and delicious all the greens he tasted were. At the end of the segment, Emeril thanked Katherine for her time, and grinned as he told her: "I'm gonna have to take some of this with me."
Chef Emeril Lagasse and Katherine Grandey sample mustard greens at The GreenHouse.
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We're grateful to Chef Emeril and other chefs across the country who have helped "farm-to-table" become mainstream. In combination with Future Growing's® aeroponic technology, local sourcing has become a sustainable, "beyond organic" way to supply the nutritional needs of our planet. And to think all this can be done on 90% less land, using 90% less water, and using no harmful chemicals or herbicides—that is revolutionary!
For photos and additional information about The GreenHouse, click here.
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Local Tower Garden Farmer Produces Aeroponic Food for Disney, Emeril's, and other Fine Orlando Restaurants
Our mission at Future Growing® is to inspire healthy and sustainable living around the world, by empowering people with the technology and training to do so. We have been on this journey for almost a decade, with over 100 successful projects across North America.
Katherine Grandey, owner and operator of The GreenHouse. (Click photo to enlarge)
The local, grass roots urban food movement has given us the opportunity to meet some truly extraordinary people along the way, and the urban farmer we've featured this week is no exception. She is not only a first-class producer of premium produce, but has been instrumental in transforming the quality and standards for the locally grown food market in Central Florida.
I met Katherine Grandey, co-founder and owner of "The GreenHouse", in Orlando, Fla., three years ago. Even though she was a highly-educated professional with a career and a young family, she wanted to be more engaged with her family, live a healthier life, and run her own company.
With that vision in mind, Katherine developed three main goals for her business:
Produce healthy, safe food for her family.
Provide local, healthy, chemical-free, low-carbon footprint food to the Orlando-area community.
Work a moderate amount of hours and have time to raise her children.
To meet these goals, Katherine created a business plan with three main objectives:
Produce food that is "beyond organic", meaning that the food is more nutritious, has a smaller carbon footprint, and uses far less water.
Start off with a 100-tower Tower Garden® farm in an affordable 48′ x 48′ greenhouse and office.
Utilize Future Growing® patented vertical aeroponic technology to grow a multitude of produce in very little space to produce the highest quality local food available in Central Florida.
After developing her successful business more than two years ago, I recently had a chance to catch up with Katherine on the success of her Tower Garden® farm. Here is what she had to say:
Katherine, I am so proud of the work you are doing! You are obviously very busy. Who are your current clients?
Several high-end restaurants at the Walt Disney World resorts, along with Emeril's Orlando, Ritz Carlton, Marriott World Center, Hilton, and several others.
Tower Gardens® (Click photo to enlarge)
These are big accounts! How did you land them…and keep them buying from you year round?
It is a well known fact that food grown in Florida has heavy pesticide residues. This is a natural side effect of farming in a state that has tremendous insect and disease pressures. The emerging local food movement in "the Sunshine State", combined with the state's looming water crisis, has created a boom of opportunity for farmers like me.
The restaurants we sell to demand the highest quality local, healthy, pesticide-free food. They also need seasonal consistency, which is something that has not been possible for outdoor farms. The Future Growing® Tower Gardens® allow us to have total control over the growth of the plant. The towers are so predictable and grow plants so consistently, that we can plan our seeding, transplanting and harvest four to six weeks in advance and be able to count on those numbers.
Petite leafy green mix, one week after transplanting. (Click photo to enlarge)
Micro greens. (Click photo to enlarge)
We also have incredibly small losses, and the consistency of growing allows us to be able to deliver the same quantities weekly to our restaurants, making us a lot more reliable than "traditional" farms.
Because Orlando hosts large, international conventions, we can even accommodate special events and one-time orders, if we know far enough in advance.
What crops does The GreenHouse specialize in?
Petite leafy greens, lettuces, herbs and micro greens. A few of our micro greens include arugula, green sorrel, Swiss chard, and Tuscan kale.
Baby arugula. (Click photo to enlarge)
What are some of the ways you have tried to sell produce, and which way is the most profitable?
Chives. (Click photo to enlarge)
We sell our produce "live", with the roots attached. Living food grown in the aeroponic Tower Gardens produce the freshest, most flavorful aroma you can imagine, so the chefs really love it!
Petite sizes seem to be in demand with these clients, and I can turn these crops around in just 15 days with aeroponics! We sell and deliver directly to restaurants, which we find to be the most profitable. We also sell some plants through local produce distributors.
Florida has some extreme growing conditions that can bring in the bugs and diseases. How do you combat that?
North side of The GreenHouse. (Click photo to enlarge)
Our locally manufactured greenhouse from Imperial Builders and Supply is designed specifically for the harsh Florida climate. We have insect screens to keep the "bad" bugs out, evaporative cooling pads to keep us cool in the summer, and special light-diffusing plastic to keep the intense sun away from our crops.
Growing our food vertically keeps the plants up off the ground and allows for plentiful air circulation, which deters most pests and diseases. We use only organic sprays or beneficial insects for the few pest challenges we encounter at specific times of the year.
Releasing beneficial insects into the greenhouse.
Katherine, based on the information you just provided, I calculate that you can produce 135,000 plants in this small area on an annual basis. That is a tremendous turnover. I know you like to spend a lot of time at home with your family, so how many employees do you have?
Not too many, besides myself. We have one full-time manager, who oversees order fulfillment, seed planting, crop transplanting, and the cleaning and general greenhouse upkeep. We have a second full-time employee who works closely with the manager to fulfill the aforementioned jobs. We have an additional one to two part-time workers who help transplant, harvest, and maintain the greenhouse. We also work with a variety of community volunteers and college interns who help keep labor costs low, but gain education and experience in return.
The GreenHouse volunteers hard at work!
Katherine, besides meeting your business goals, what have you enjoyed most about your work?
I love watching the expression on the chefs' faces every time I walk in with a delivery! "Katherine is here!" they say, since they can smell the living food as soon as I walk in the door!
I am also someone who tries to live a green lifestyle. With our cool greenhouse and vertical aeroponic technology, we have been able to show people that there is a solution to the environmental challenges we face in Florida. I can grow an enormous amount of plants vertically in my small greenhouse with as little as five percent of the water as the outdoor farmers. I don't use contaminated agriculture water, herbicides, or chemicals. My food is nutrient-dense, clean, and free of harmful pathogens. People just love it! They have come to understand what we are about and stand for, and that has given us a loyal following.
To learn more about Katherine and The GreenHouse, please click here.
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Liveblogged notes from the News Impact Summit Cardiff in October 2018. Prone to error, inaccuracy and howling crimes against syntax and grammar.
The Port Talbot Magnet came from a bitter battle for union recognition at a local paper in the last 2000s. Surprise, surprise, a bunch of them got made redundant a few years later. They set up a members co-operative to do something positive for the local area. Trinity Mirror was closing down the local titles - they saw a news black hold they could fill. They spent a year looking for funding, and nobody was interested.
So, they set up a website. They were print journalists building a website, so they were all at sea at first. Their first challenges was in covering The Passion, a Michael Sheen starring production by the National Theatre Wales. They covered the whole thing, from the build-up to the final performance. There were 1000 people in the cast of that play - and they covered all of it.
Over the next year or so, they covered the ups and downs of the life in that town: the steel industry, pollution and all the issues in the area. in the 1970s there were five newspapers in Port Talbot. By the 2000s, there were none. Between 1970 to 2010 we lost over 60% of our local journalists in South Wales.
They expanded into print, with a bi-monthly print edition when they had the advertising to make it stack up. But it's hard, and finding good sales people is really difficult. The first person they took on scammed then out of a few hundred quid and never sold anything. But print made a real difference - people started talking about us, we started going through their front door.
In the end, the steel crisis did for them. 750 jobs were lost from the economy in one go. Advertising vanished, and nine months later - after seven years of life - it closed.
Micahel Sheen has come into the space and wants to help - he's a local boy with family in the area. He's commissioned Rachel to do some research on the effects on the community - and her PhD research already shows that they're tangible. The results of the research should be available in January. She's doing focus groups to find out what local people need, and exploring business models.
Richard has been a journalist since 2004, and while he was working for the Argus — while drunk on Brighton beach — he decided to launch his own website. He wasn't able to keep up with life in Caerphilly because the local paper, The Campaign, was barely being updated online.
Easy? Not so much. He got his old contacts book out from when he was working on The Campaign, and he struggled at first - especially as he was still in Brighton. Two years later - in 2011 - he and his wife decided to move back to Wales. His wife had a job - but what would he do? He decided to work on the site full time - but still couldn't make any money. He was relying on freelance. But a former colleague came on board to start selling advertising - and she taught him the value of thinking commercially. Editorially, you have to be above the money, but you do need to consider where it's coming from.
People were quite disappointed that they were digital-only. Some advertisers would only advertise if it was in print. By 2013, he committed to launching a fortnightly newspaper. He was given £2,500 by the council to pay for the first four editions. The difficulty was getting the advertisers in for the later editions. That said, they're up to 12,000 copies, distributed through various outlets. In the last three weeks The Campaign has stopped printing - the Caerphilly Observer is all that's left. And there's a real demand from retailers, readers and advertisers for more copies.
There's a real challenge in finding the money to create a weekly edition at a higher circulation.


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Rhaegar Targaryen + Lyanna Stark = Jon Snow
Evidence suggests that Jon Snow is not the bastard son of Eddard Stark but the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark. Fan theories also suggest that Jon is a legitimate son because many believe that Rhaegar and Lyanna were married in secret.
I think this theory needs some context. Prince Rhaegar Targaryen is the son of Mad King Aerys II Targaryen and is married to Elia Martell of Dorne. Lyanna Stark is the sister of Eddard, Benjen and Brandon Stark and the only daughter of Rickard Stark. The theoretical hypothesis is that Rhaegar kidnapped Lyanna. The more likely theory is that Lyanna ran away with Rhaegar. Brandon finds out and rides to Kings Landing to demand to Aerys that Rhaegar give his sister back. Aerys has Brandon locked up and demands that Lord Rickard Stark come to Kings Landing to answer for the actions of his son. Aerys accuses Rickard of treason. Rickard demands a trial by combat. Aerys names fire as his champion and burns Rickard alive while Brandon watches. Brandon is killed at the same time as his father because he was chained at the neck with a sword just out of his reach. He was pushing his body out so far that he was choking. Aerys had purposely put the sword out Brandon's reach. As Brandon pushed his body chain grew tighter and tighter until he died of suffocation.
Eddard has heard of the death of his father and brother at the hands of Aerys. Rhaegar has kidnapped his sister, Lyanna. Eddard calls the Stark banners, sends word to Robert Baratheon and Jon Arryn, uniting the armies of The North, Storms End and The Vale. Brandon was betrothed to Lady Catelyn Tully of Riverrun. The reigning Lord Of Riverrun was Lord Hoster Tully. Eddard needed the Tully army so he agreed to marry Lady Catelyn Tully in his brother's place when the war was done. Robert was betrothed to Lyanna. These events spurred the renowned conflict known as Robert's Rebellion which lasted just short of a year.
Rhaegar was at the Tower Of Joy with Lyanna at the start of the war but then went to lead the Targaryen armies against the rebellion when called. In the end Rhaegar was killed by Robert at the Battle Of The Trident. When the war was done, Eddard plus six others went to the tower to find Lyanna and bring her home to Winterfell. At the tower, they were opposed by three of the Kings Guard. They fought it out and there were two survivors. The survivors were Eddard and his friend Howland Reed. You may recognize the name Reed from the show. Howland's heirs are Jojen & Meera who are travelling with Bran & Hodor beyond the Wall to find the Three Eyed Raven. Ned and Howland Reed went up the stairs in the tower to find Lyanna in 'a bed of blood.' This is a heavy implication of childbirth. There, in the tower Lyanna makes Ned keep her promise. "Promise Me, Ned." So, the promise being that in order to keep Jon safe, Ned was to claim him as his bastard son. The Lannisters entered the fold when they knew the Targaryens had no chance of victory. In order to show Robert that they were loyal Tywin had Rhaegar's offspring killed by Ser Gregor Clegane (The Mountain). Before doing so, The Mountain raped Elia and then split her in half with his sword.
Fans of the show will remember Prince Oberyn Martell of Dorne. He travelled to Kings Landing, not only for the royal wedding but also to get retribution for his sister and her children. We all know how that turned out.
It seems enormously out of character for Ned to have fathered a bastard. The Starks are an honor-bound family. They probably were the most honorable house in the realm. Ned in the first novel "I dishonored myself and I dishonored Catelyn in the sight of gods and men" Ned takes his vows very seriously and isn't the type to be tempted by brothels and whorehouses like Robert. In A Game Of Thrones another quote comes to the forefront.
"Robert would swear undying love and forget them before evenfall but Ned Stark kept his vows. He thought of the promises he made to Lyanna as she lay dying and the price he paid to keep them".
Robert was a sociopath when it came to women. He saw them as his trophies. He'd gloat about how many women he had sex with. In A Clash Of Kings, he gloats to his brother Renly about 'Making The Eight'. This is having sex with one woman from each of the Seven Kingdoms and Dorne. Ned also refers to Jon as "he's my blood and that is all you need to know". He says this to his wife, Catelyn. Furthermore, in the first season of the show, Ned rides with Jon as he is going to The Wall and he says to him "you may not have my name but you have my blood." He never explicitly refers to Jon as his son. He even lists his children. "Robb and Sansa and Arya and Bran and Rickon". This isn't a random listing. This is in order of birth from the eldest child to the youngest child.
Jon is said to look like Arya and Arya to look like Lyanna. Arya is said to be the wild one as was Lyanna. She wasn't how ladies should have been. She knew how to use a sword and would ride out regularly. Another quote is "(Eddard) had lived his lies for fourteen years". Jon is fourteen years old at the start of A Game Of Thrones. He is a constant reminder of Ned's lie. There is no escaping it.
In George R.R Martin's Westeros, there is no such thing as coincidence. Everything happens for a reason. His attention to minute detail is unparalleled by any author.
There is a reason why Ned never told Catelyn. "Some secrets are safer kept hidden. Some secrets are too dangerous to share, even with those you love and trust." Lying is not an honorable trait but he sacrifices this to keep his word to his sister. One could say that his wife being a Tully has had an influence on him in this context. The words of House Tully are 'Family, Duty, Honor." Family comes first, then doing what you have to do and then your honor. In order to protect his family he discarded his honor.
On countless occasions, Ned opposes the killing of Targaryen children. At a small council meeting the topic of Daenerys Targaryen comes up in conversation. The council votes to have her assassinated and Ned disagrees resulting in him leaving the pin of the King's Hand on the table. He walks off in annoyance. By doing this he endangers his own life by disobeying Robert. Another example is when is opposed to the killing of Elia Martell and her children at the sack of Kings Landing by the Lannisters. He sees the killing of children dishonorable. His disagreement of murdering children is a major reflection of his protection of Jon. He is keeping his promise to his sister.
Now back to the events of the Tower Of Joy. Why are there three members of the Kings Guard at the Tower Of Joy? I would have thought that they should be protecting the heirs to the throne, Daenerys & Viserys. They are the siblings of the now dead Rhaegar Targaryen. That is an epic questionable notion. They are guarding the unborn heir to the throne, Jon Snow or Jon Targaryen.
In the House Of The Undying, Dany has a vision of "a blue flower grew from a chink in a wall of ice, and filled the air with sweetness." This is in A Clash Of Kings. Blue winter roses are a frequent connotation of Lyanna Stark. Winter is the season related to The North. The words of House Stark are "Winter Is Coming." There are no coincidences in A Song Of Ice & Fire and at the well-known Tourney Of Harrenhal, Rhaegar named Lyanna as the Queen Of Love & Beauty by giving her a crown of blue, winter roses. What made this worse was that he was married to Elia Of Dorne. Most people would have named their wife as the named title. In A Game Of Thrones, a storm of winter roses is featured in Ned's dream about Lyanna. In the crypts of Winterfell, there is a wreat of blue winter roses by her place. This heavily suggests that something related to Lyanna is at The Wall meaning Jon.
Jon is special, being part Stark and part Targaryen hence the title of the whole series being 'A Song Of Ice & Fire. Ice resembles Stark and The North whilst Targaryen resembles fire, dragons and House Targaryen thus their words being 'Fire & Blood'. In A Dance With Dragons, Jon is beginning to show traits of a warg. Jon has personified the title.
Stark blood has connotations of warging. He begins to have wolf dreams. Are they dreams or is he inside the head of his direwolf, Ghost? Maybe he is inside the head of Ghost but not in control of his abilities. This is common among Starks. Rickon has instances of foresight whilst asleep at the same time as Bran. They both see their father's execution occuring and Arya has dreams of Nymeria in the Riverlands. Or is she inside the head of Nymeria? An empathy link made between Stark and wolf on a massive scale. The direwolf is the sigil of House Stark so why couldn't this be true?
Jon is probably the most important character in the whole series. Many think he could one of the three heads of the dragon, Azor Ahai or The Prince That Was Promised. Jon being the son of Prince Rhaeger gives him a better a claim to the Iron Throne than Daenerys Targaryen. This is assuming that Rhaegar & Lyanna were married in secret. This is polygamy but Targaryens have been known to do this. They wed brother and sister so being married to two different women at the same time is subtle in comparison.
Jon swore a vow:
"Night gathers and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realm of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Nights Watch for this night and nights to come."
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He is bound to the Nights Watch. At the end of A Dance With Dragons, he is stabbed until he is on the brink of death. At this time Melisandre is on the Wall but Stannis is marching south to Winterfell to fight the Boltons. Melisandre is a servant of R'hllor. Jon could die and then be resurrected by R'hllor through Melisandre. Connotations of R'hllor are Red God, fire and burning. Fire is a connotation of Targareyns and dragons. If Jon is resurrected he is no longer bound to The Nights Watch and can claim Winterfell as Jon Targaryen. He is of both ice and fire, Stark & Targaryen, so he can rally the Stark bannermen in his name. Robb named Jon as his heir before he died much to the dismay of his mother, Lady Catelyn Stark.
Even if he is a the legitimate son of Rhaegar & Lyanna, how could he prove his parentage? I believe there are only three ways. The first is that he finds Bran and he uses his abilities by placing his hand on a Weirwood tree by delving into the past. The second way is to find and ask Howland Reed at Greywater Watch. Finally, the third is Melisandre looking into the flames. Two of them are by use of magic or magical properties but realm despises magic so if it proved true will it have any credibility due to the methods that were used to find this evidence?
I don't think Jon will want the throne but when he finds out his true parentage I believe his opinions will change that. He will see it as his duty to bring peace to the realm. He follows the same rules of honor, code and justice as Eddard and Robb did. Finding out his true parentage will change him because he has lived a life of rejection and humiliation of being a bastard in a major household. He has felt that he was a persistent scourge on Winterfell. What's more, Catelyn hated him for being born.
In conclusion, I believe that Jon is of Lyanna & Rhaegar. It makes no sense that he really is Ned's bastard. All the evidence collated suggests that he is half Stark and half Targaryen. By definition, he is the Song Of Ice & Fire.
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stankuiperi	· October 31, 2014
I'm starting to wonder if George Martin isn't a warg himself…..
isaacsand	· October 31, 2014
bunnyreid	· October 31, 2014
Spellbinding analysis (no pun intended). Thanks for that fantastic insight!!! I've got a lot of reading and viewing to do…again!
etomi1	· October 31, 2014
anshuz	· October 31, 2014
wahoaw!! i hope all of this is true; you cant trust Martin though!
I loved your analysis though! Jon should become the king although Dany is a powerful and a rightful contender! neither of them should die; if incest is in their family, they might as well wed.
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Along with the organ, bells are one of the oldest instruments to be used by the Church. Bells date from pre-Christian times and were first used in ancient China. At that time bells were made of flat pieces of metal that were riveted together, producing music of rather dubious quality. These bells were used to call attention to official announcements and proclamations.
Bells and cymbals made their way into the culture of Israel and are mentioned in several places in the Old Testament. First Chronicles describes the transfer of the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem, accompanied by "horns, trumpets and cymbals, and the music of harps and lutes." The book of Exodus indicates that Aaron's vestments as high priest "shall be made entirely of violet material... all around the hem at the bottom shall be woven pomegranates with gold bells between them... Aaron shall wear it when ministering, that its tinkling may be heard as he enters and leaves the Lord's presence in the sanctuary." And of course the familiar Psalm 150 bids us to "praise the Lord with sounding cymbals, praise him with clanging cymbals."
Saint Paulinus of Nola (c. 400 AD) is credited with introducing bells into Christian worship, as a means of calling the faithful to church. Other saints, too, are associated with bells. Saint Agatha (3rd century) is the patroness of bell founders. Saint Dunstan himself worked as a founder in the 10th century. Legends have arisen around Saint Patrick and Saint Nicholas, that they always carried a tiny bell with them -- to ward off demons and evil spirits!
The steeple bell, introduced by Paulinus to call people to worship, began a long history of chimes and carillons that continues to this day. Churches took great pride in their bell(s) and a ritual developed whereby the bell itself was baptized, christened (anointed with oil) and named before being placed in the tower. The chime of bells at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York are named Saint Patrick, Our Lady, Saint Joseph, Holy Name, and Saints Francis Xavier, Alphonsus Liguori, Michael, Ann, Elizabeth, Augustine, Anthony, Agnes, John, Cecilia, Bridget, Helen, Peter, Thomas Aquinas and Godfrey of England. Each bell is inscribed with its name and a descriptive verse about the saint. What a vast amount of fundamental music tradition is lost by those churches, who rather than put finances into one or two real bells, choose to install a radio on the roof to broadcast imitations of bells to the neighborhood.


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Římskokatolická farnost Šatov je územní společenství římských katolíků s farním kostelem svatého Martina v děkanátu Znojmo.

Historie farnosti
Poprvé se objevuje Šatov v listinách pod jménem Schatowa roku 1190, tedy v roce založení louckého kláštera. Již v té době byl zde zřejmě kostel, neboť roku 1200 nad ním získává loucký klášter patronátní právo. První oficiální písemná zmínka o Šatovu pochází z roku 1201.
Nejstarší dochovanou stavbou v obci je gotické jádro kaple Božího hrobu za kostelem, v jejímž suterénu je dochováno válcové těleso stavby z kamenného zdiva (románský fragment). Farní kostel svatého Martina je v jádru pozdně gotický (15. století), byl přestavován roku 1656, později také počátkem a koncem 19. století.

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Farnost spravovali premonstráti. Administrátorem excurrendo byl od 1. srpna 2003 ICLic. Mgr. Marian Jiří Husek, OPraem. Od srpna 2019 se novým administrátorem stal diecézní kněz R. D. Ing. Ladislav Bublán.

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Aktivity ve farnosti
Dnem vzájemných modliteb farností za bohoslovce a bohoslovců za farnosti brněnské diecéze je 19. únor. Adorační den připadá na 15. srpen.

Ve farnosti se pravidelně koná tříkrálová sbírka. V roce 2015 se při ní vybralo 12 204 korun. V roce 2017 činil její výtěžek 12 346 korun. Při sbírce v roce 2019 bylo vybráno 10 424 korun.

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According to TEAMtalk, Tottenham Hotspur are prepared to offer Premier League strugglers Fulham £20 million to sign Ryan and Steven Sessegnon in the upcoming summer transfer window.
What's the story?
Ryan Sessegnon has been in and out of the Cottagers' starting XI this season. Last year, in the west London club's promotion campaign from the Championship, the 18-year-old was an integral part of the side, scoring fifteen goals and racking up six assists over the course of the league season.
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The left-sided starlet has failed to truly find his feet in the top flight so far though. However, his efforts to acclimatise to the Premier League have been hampered by Fulham's wider issues on and off the pitch – which has led them to the their current position in the relegation zone.
Sessegnon's twin brother, Steven, is also on the books at Craven Cottage. The right-back is highly-rated by the club's academy staff, but is yet to make his Premier League bow.
A double steal
Whilst Ryan Sessegnon has struggled to really shine this season, the England under-21 international remains a hugely exciting talent. He certainly belongs at the top level, and should Fulham get relegated this season then there ought to be plenty of Premier League clubs interested in his services.
Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino has already demonstrated his ability to aid the development of young English talent with Dele Alli and Harry Winks. Ryan Sessegnon could be the next man on the conveyor belt.
What's more, the Fulham ace could also prove to be the answer to Spurs' left-back woes. Ben Davies lacks attacking quality whilst Danny Rose is inconsistent and injury prone. If Sessegnon were able to mature defensively then he could become a key weapon in Pochettino's arsenal.
His brother is also a talent and worth a punt, especially if he helps Ryan settle in north London. All in all, £20 million for the pair would have to be considered an absolute steal.
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The house is organized into a basic disposition of public and private spaces connected by a central corridor and articulated by a small light well. The internal atmosphere of the house offers a contrasting effect between calmness and fluidity. While all rooms are discretely separated, they are also connected by means of strategic openings located right at the transitions, hence adding to the main areas of the house a sense of controlled endlessness.
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Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/MCT: Storm damage is seen here on Lindbergh Boulevard in Sunset Hills, Missouri, Friday, December 31, 2010.
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(Webster Groves, March 3, 2011) Unseasonable severe weather came through the St. Louis area Sunday night, causing disruption for students living on campus.
As per emergency procedure, when a tornado warning was issued around 11 p.m., students were alerted to the dangerous weather and encouraged to seek a safe location. Webster Village Apartment residents were asked to go to a lower level if possible and stay away from windows in a bathroom or hallway. Those in the residence halls were recommended to go the lowest level, away from windows.
"Most of West Hall was in the pool (table) area," said Julian Keaton, a freshman audio major. "Me and my roommate and a few friends felt, for our best interest, to go to the bathrooms. We talked about things, talked about dealing with tornados in the past — a couple of us were from tornado alley."
Justin Frederic, assistant director of Housing and Residential Life, was on call Sunday night. Frederick heard the storm, and after seeing a warning on TV, made the call for RAs to alert students.
"Sirens aren't designed to be heard inside so just making people aware is definitely something we want to do," Frederick said.
The National Weather Service put out the official tornado warning, and Public Safety informed Housing and Residential Life. Students were then encouraged to seek a safer location.
"Some of the students tried to stay in their room — if they make the choice not to go I can't force them," Megan Wetzel said.
By 11:50 p.m., the all-clear was given to RAs, and students were sent back to their rooms.
This was the third tornado warning issued during the school year, but the previous two occurred during the Thanksgiving and winter break, when fewer students were on campus. Frederick and Wetzel both said most students were cooperative, and no damage was done on campus.
"You're always going to have students that want to go outside and watch it, but when people heard the location and the path (of the tornado), they took it seriously," Frederick said
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Reducing malaria in Solomon Islands: lessons for effective aid
by Camilla Burkot, Katherine Gilbert
Australian aid sign at the National Referral Hospital, Honiara (Credit: Camilla Burkot)
Written by Camilla Burkot, Katherine Gilbert
The burden of malaria in Solomon Islands remains among the highest of all countries outside of sub-Saharan Africa. But significant improvements in malaria control have been made over the last 25 years. From a peak of nearly 450 new cases per 1,000 population in 1993, by 2016 annual national malaria incidence had dropped to 81 (Figure 1).
Figure 1: National annual parasite incidence (API), 1969-2016
Data sources: 1969-1991: Over et al, 2004; 1992-2016: Ministry of Health and Medical Services, 2017
Solomon Islands is also one of the world's most aid-dependent nations, and assistance from international donors has been particularly visible in the health sector. Foreign aid for malaria was especially prominent starting from 2003, when the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria first invested in Solomon Islands, and rose again after 2007 when AusAID's Pacific Malaria Initiative was launched, as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2: Estimates of Solomon Islands Government (SIG) and donor contributions to malaria, 2003–2016 (US$ current)
Sources: Refer to Discussion Paper (Figure 4).
What role did this substantial influx of foreign aid play in reducing malaria in Solomon Islands, and what impact did it have on the broader Solomon Islands health system? This is the topic of our new Discussion Paper. As part of this, the paper also considers the efforts of the Solomon Islands Ministry of Health and Medical Services to coordinate donors and improve aid effectiveness, as well as its broader health system reform efforts. The findings are based on a series of in-depth, semi-structured interviews that we conducted earlier this year, as well as a review of the published and grey literature.
The first half of the paper reviews the history of malaria control and donor involvement in Solomon Islands, from the post-World War II period through to the present. The second half of the Discussion Paper presents our analysis of the impact and effectiveness of that aid, focusing on six key observations. We focus on these observations in this blog.
First, while it is difficult to establish a direct relationship between the provision of foreign aid and a specific health outcome, overall the data suggest that aid did significantly contribute to a reduction in malaria in Solomon Islands. Support from the Global Fund, which commenced in 2003, was pivotal because it enabled a substantial scaling-up of key technical interventions such as insecticide-treated bed nets, drugs, and rapid diagnostic tests. Australian aid, particularly in the period 2007 to 2016, was critical in supporting the implementation of Global Fund-funded interventions, and in providing a consistent source of funding that could be flexibly applied. There also seems to have been reasonable coordination among the various international donors funding malaria activities. However, there were also challenges. There are concerns that implementation issues within the Ministry of Health (particularly at the provincial level) were inadequately addressed, in part due to limited assessments of such challenges in grant preparation by both Global Fund and Australia.
Second, while the Global Fund and Australia now make their investments through Solomon Islands country systems, the majority of support for malaria historically has been provided in a highly vertical manner, with implementation reliant upon parallel systems used by the National Vector Borne Disease Control Program (NVBDCP). There is thus little evidence of positive spill-over from this parallel approach to the broader health system. Having developed into a highly siloed, independent program, the NVBDCP is currently faced with the challenge of reintegrating into the Ministry of Health as part of a broader integration and decentralisation reform agenda that commenced in 2011. Reintegration has been made somewhat easier by Australia's contribution to the Health Sector Support Program (including budget support and technical assistance) since 2009, which has helped to strengthen the Ministry of Health's supply, information and financial management systems.
Third, as donor funding reduces, sustaining the gains that have been made through the national malaria program will be dependent on strengthening the capacity of provincial malaria teams to plan, budget, and deliver interventions appropriate to their provinces. This represents a significant contrast with earlier donor support designs, which assumed a centralised model in which provincial malaria teams represented little more than 'body shops' to deliver bed nets and insecticide spraying. Beginning in 2016, the NVBDCP began handing over greater responsibility for implementation to Provincial Health Offices. However, this handover will be an extended process, and one which will require greater attention from donors than it has received in the past.
Fourth, while the available evidence suggests that aid was, for the most part, spent on technically effective interventions which reduced the burden of malaria in Solomon Islands, the evidence for how efficiently and cost-effectively that aid was spent is limited. Research on malaria control and elimination was one area in particular where the efficiency of spending was questioned. Although it made significant contributions to the global evidence base on malaria elimination, the high cost of research must be weighed against the need for service delivery in the Solomon Islands context.
Fifth, although the Ministry of Health previously had little ownership over the initiation and management of donor funding for malaria, since about 2012 it has worked with development partners to increase its involvement in the governance of the national malaria program. One of the key ways it has done this is to become Principal Recipient of the Global Fund grant starting from 2015. (Previously, this role was held by Pacific Community (SPC), as part of a regional grant with 10 other countries). The transition of Australian aid funding to broad health sector support has also given the Ministry of Health greater control over the use of these donor resources. The Solomon Islands government has also increasingly financed the NVBDCP, beginning in 2009.
Finally, though the political appetite for pursuing malaria elimination is resilient, history shows that achieving malaria elimination is highly challenging. In Solomon Islands, operational and health systems constraints at the provincial level, a complex geography, and the relatively high proportion of the population with G6PD deficiency (a genetic condition that complicates treatment of one type of malaria) are key barriers. For these reasons, a nuanced and evidence-informed policy dialogue on elimination will need to take place between the Ministry of Health and development partners, to determine how best to pursue elimination in a way that is cost-effective and complementary to malaria control efforts.
The findings of this paper are important first and foremost for Solomon Islands as it seeks to sustain the gains that have been made to date and continue to drive further improvements. However, the findings also have wider relevance. History shows that successes in malaria control can be fragile, with resurgence of disease as a result of reduced funding, restructuring of health systems, and changes in vector behaviour and resistance, among other causes. As global development assistance dedicated to malaria declines, many countries will be pressed to ensure the most effective use of available funds to control malaria and work towards elimination. We hope this paper illuminates some important aid effectiveness lessons for recipient and donor countries alike.
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Camilla Burkot was a Research Officer at the Development Policy Centre, and Editor of the Devpolicy Blog, from 2015 to 2017. She has a background in social anthropology and holds a Master of Public Health from Columbia University, and has field experience in Eastern and Southern Africa, and PNG. She now works for the Burnet Institute.
Katherine Gilbert is a Senior Technical Advisor in the Governance and Financing Unit at the Nossal Institute for Global Health.
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You may already know this from following Simple Recipe Box on face book, but this month we are going Paleo. My father in law has had some pretty major health issues the last couple of years and has been advised by his doctor to follow the Paleo diet. My sister in law came up with the idea of us all jumping in with his diet and praying for him more during this month, so here we are.
Elana's pantry– here is her complete list of Paleo recipes. Don't forget to read her story about Celiac disease, it really is amazing!
Against All Grain– the cookbook is a New York Times best seller and the recipes look amazing! By far my new favorite blog. Also, read her health story healing Ulceritive Colitis with the Paleo Diet.
PaleOMG– really delicious recipes and she's a super witty writer as well, so you'll enjoy reading.
RIddlelove– not all recipes are Paleo, but a lot of them are and I have loved these recipes for years! This is one of my all time favorites.
NomNom Paleo– paleo with an Asian flare.
That should give you a good start. Remember, when having to remove something from your diet, don't tell yourself "I can't have that." That mindset will make you feel deprived and make you crave that food even more. Instead, tell yourself- " I CAN have that but I'm choosing not to right now because ____." Set yourself up to succeed with the right attitude!


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Home Championship After leaving Leeds United in summer, defender says Bielsa has marked him...
After leaving Leeds United in summer, defender says Bielsa has marked him more than any other
By Sean Lunt -
Like him or loathe him, there's no denying that Marcelo Bielsa is a man that has an effect on players.
Whether it's good, like his current situation at Leeds United, or bad, there's no denying the Argentine boss is a manager who leaves his mark.
Currently, at Leeds, it's fair to say that whatever he is doing is going down a storm with the players at Elland Road.
Leeds' squad have nothing but positive things to say about the current man on the touchline and their performances are certainly indicative of players who believe in the coach.
Indeed, such is the good feeling coming out of Elland Road of late, even those who aren't working with Bielsa anymore have positive things to say.
Hugo Díaz is one such player. He left Leeds for Getafe on a free transfer this summer but had nothing but still gushed about working under Bielsa at Elland Road.
"He is the coach who has marked me the most in life, and it is a pride and satisfaction to have trained with him almost every day," he told Tele Madrid.
Díaz will now be hoping to put what he learned from Bielsa to good use with Getafe this season.
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The warm embrace of dry clothes on her cold, water-soaked limbs was a most welcomed feeling. The cadets had battled the rain all day with only their cloaks serving as their shields. It was a battle that was not in the cadets' favor with their cloaks eventually soaking through causing damp clothes to cling to exhausted bodies, chilling them to their bone.
The night darkened by thunderous, rain-filled clouds claimed the sky, and stomachs, warmed by soup, were full and satisfied, allowing the cadets to finally drag their tired feet back to the barracks, their beds calling to them.
Rhythmic pitter-patter on the rooftop foretold of yet another battle come morning, and the long, low rumbles outside almost seemed to mock the cadets. Nanaba, hoisted herself on the top bunk, nestling into the blankets, her tired body was finally able to relax. Her first year as a cadet, Nanaba had tried to sleep on the bottom bunk, but having another bed above her, caused anxiety as memories of that tight, confined space were too fresh causing sleep to evade her many nights that first year of training. Luckily, for her, Nanaba had the nicest of bunkmates, and now without the feeling of confinement, and only the roof above her, Nanaba rarely had sleep issues.
Shifting slightly, the blonde haired cadet peered around the room. Flames of candles danced throughout the room providing the cadets some light as they finished getting ready for the night. Despite the tiredness her body suffered, her mind was not prepared for sleep to steal her away.
Anka used to hate the rain. The roof leaked. Her mother and father would place bowls under the leaks and then her mother would use the water collected for washing and for cooking. But it made the house feel cold and damp. And she had never had a coat that really kept her dry and warm so she always felt cold and damp when it rained. Anka used to hate the rain.
Now Anka was indifferent to it. It made training exercises difficult at time and it lulled her to sleep at night when it came - but it was just something that just was - not something that happened to her. She had a good coat now...and boots that did not leak and a solid roof over her head. Anka was indifferent to the rain.
Anka loved her bed in the female barracks. Narrow with a thin mattress - it was the fact that Anka did not have to share it with anyone that made it a pleasure to crawl into. Back home, Anka had shared with Claudia. The younger girl had twisted and turned her sleep and Anka could never make it through the night without being awoken by a knee or elbow in the ribs. This narrow bed with its thin mattress and scratchy (but warm) blankets was heaven for Anka.
Anka was incredibly fond of her bunkmate. Slightly younger than herself, Nanaba was reliable and kind with the loveliest blue eyes. They had been bunkmates since their first night, and Anka had been very grateful that Nanaba had wanted to trade her bottom bunk for Anka's top. While Anka could climb into it - she was not capable of doing so with elegance or finesse.
Oh, well it seemed she would be in good company tonight. Throughout her training, Nanaba had experienced many nights such as this. Usually, she'd toss and turn, her body complaining every time she did, for most of the night before giving up and settling for the company of her thoughts. Though tonight, she'd take Anka over her thoughts. The girl was much better company anyways. The rain would only carry her thoughts to places she did not want to go alone.
When she saw Anka's head peek out from her bottom bunk, Nanaba smiled. "Well I..." she paused. Finding the current position rather uncomfortable to talk, Nanaba pushed herself up, and climbed down from her bunk with less grace than usual, landing on the ground with a quiet thud and a stumble.
Flames from nearby candles brought wisps of light to her bunkmate's face. Always a pleasant look on her features, even after an exhausting day of training, Nanaba loved that about Anka. She was thankful for such a lovely bunkmate and friend. Nanaba only hoped that she was not getting in the way of Anka's sleep. "Sorry I just" she brought her hand to her cropped hair and brushed the short, blonde locks back as she continued to talk. "would like to talk to for a while? May I join you?" Untangling the hand from her hair, Nanaba pointed to the edge of Anka's bunk.
"Sorry I just would like to talk to for a while? May I join you?"
She shifted over and lifted the edge of her blanket so she could wrap it around the both of them. Better than her childhood home - the dorms could still get a little drafty.
Anka looked at the taller girl - noting how the candlelight made her hair look even more golden. She also noted the look on her friends face. Anka was reasonably good at reading people and she knew Nanaba well enough to know something was bothering her. She was just not sure what.
"Long day. My legs still feel like mush. Thanks for your help today." Anka had fallen during a run and Nanaba had pulled her to her feet before any instructor could notice.
Anka was just too kind. A lovely person inside and out, and it makes Nanaba the happiest girl in the world to be friends with such a beautiful person -inside and out. She knew that Anka was dead tired, but despite that, she was willing to share her tiny bed with Nanaba. And the invite to share that small bottom bunk was too inviting that Nanaba didn't waste another moment to climb into the bed, scooting close to Anka so that they could both fit under the blanket and protected from the cold drafts that found their way into the dormitory.
Snuggling in close to Anka, Nanaba breathed out her nose a breath of relief. Her body ached much like Anka's. "No problem" Nanaba shrugged it off, her shoulders raising slightly underneath the blanket. She'd never hesitate to help Anka, not only because she knew that the girl would do the same for her, but because Nanaba saw the other as a sister and sisters are always there for one another. At least she supposed they were. " To be honest, I am surprised I can still feel my legs. " A small chuckle followed her words, which was followed by silence as Nanaba looked down at blanket.
Anka was observant and always knew when Nanaba was having an off day. There was no point in hiding it now. It was just - Nanaba did not know how or where to start. The thoughts that crossed her mind were many, but the loudest one was a thought that would upset her friends. She didn't want that.
Taking a deep breath in, she paused thinking for a moment, her mind searching for the right words, before letting out the air out through her nose, her chest deflating in the motion. "Anka. Soon we will pick a branch of the military to join and most likely will part ways."
Wouldn't it be nice if they could be stationed together? To stay together was a wonderful thought, but unrealistic thought, especially with the thought that was weighing on Nanaba's mind.
"What is your opinion on the Survey Corps?"
It was a silly question as it wasn't the first time they had discussed the different branches. But it was better than would you hate me if I joined the Survey Corps?
"Anka. Soon we will pick a branch of the military to join and most likely will part ways."
Small hand playing with one of her braids, Anka nodded. It was not something she had given much thought to in the last few months. She was going into the Garrison. That was a given. And as far as she knew, everyone else close to her was as well. Anka hoped she would at least be stationed with a few of them. It would be lovely to be stationed with Mitabi or Arkin and especially Nanaba - who had been one of her closest friends and biggest helps since the first time Anka had stumbled and Nanaba had pulled her to her feet all those years ago.
"The Survey Corps? I think they are...brave but they make me very sad. All those deaths."
Anka has seen the Survey Corps limp in from expeditions a few times and while she never felt the anger many others seemed to feel towards the group - she felt the loss of life was in a way just a waste. What was it for? What was truly gained?
She looked at Nanaba - her friends fine features shadowed in the candlelight and her stomach dropped. Was Nanaba thinking of joining the Survey Corps? She licked her lips and looked at her hands for a moment, "Nan...are you..."


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Q: How to automat editing of several files in Vim? I have a multitude of files in each of which I want to, say, delete lines 1 through 55, add a comment leader (e.g., //) on lines 25 through 35, and then save the changes to a new file.
How can I do this automatically with Vim alone or together with the help of a Bash script?

A: You can accomplish this elegantly with ed, the unix line editor, the ancestor of vi.
fix_file () {
  ed -s "$1" <<-'EOF'
    1,55d
    25,35s_.*_// &_
    wq
EOF
}

Now, for each file F you need, just execute fix_file F.

A: Despite the fact that using ed or sed is a common practice1
in such cases, sometimes using Vim is much more convenient. Indeed,
instead of writing an ed-like script somewhat blindly, it is often
easier to first perform the desired manipulations with one of the
files interactively in Vim:
vim -w log.vim file1.txt

and then repeat it on the rest of the files:
for f in file*.txt; do vim -s log.vim "$f"; done

For your example use case, the log.vim file will likely have
contents similar to the following:
gg55dd:25,35s/^/\/\/ /
:w %_new
:q!

Note that to save the file with new name you should not type it
directly, but rather use the % substitution, as shown above—otherwise
all the modifications of all the following files will be saved to the
same file, overwriting its contents every time. Alternatively, you can
duplicate the files beforehand and then edit the copies in place
(saving each of them by simply issuing the :w command without
arguments).
The advantage of this approach is that you can make all of the changes
interactively, ensuring that you are getting the intended result at
least on one of the files, before the edits are performed for the rest
of them.

1 Of course, you can use Vim in an ed-like fashion, too:
for f in file*.txt; do vim -c '1,55d|25,35s/^/\/\/ /|w! '"${f}_new"'|q!' "$f"; done

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You'd have to be living in a cave in the woods somewhere, not to have heard about the movie "Avatar". Because the commercials for this flick are everywhere.
But what does "Avatar" mean? And does this movie reflect the true meaning of the word? One dictionary reflects, that the word, Avatar, is defined in ancient terms as "the incarnation of a Hindu deity in human or animal form." Another dictionary described this word as "a fully freed soul, incarnating directly from God on this physical planet or elsewhere, to fulfill a highly spiritual task in the name of God and return to God after accomplishing this task".
Not having seen this film, I cannot ascertain whether or not the plot of the movie reflects this definition. So, I invite anyone, who has seen it, to "comment" to me about their opinion in this regard.
Having seen numerous re-plays of AVATAR movie commercials, with the prehistoric creatures and the blue people, who inhabit that realm, my question remains as to whether or not this movie's plot is true to the definition of the movie's title.
Is the story line depicting a parallel universe, a vision of futuristic planet life or a reaching back into pre-history? I would really like to know.
Have not seen it so I can not help there.
If and when I learn more I'll let you know.


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The Upcoming Political Crisis in Washington
By David Gordian
In recent days we have seen even mainstream Democratic figures as Joe Stiglitz and Paul Krugman sound the alarm on what seems to be uncertainty in the Obama administration. Stiglitz, Krugman et al. are following in their essential critique a path well worn over the past few weeks by a range of commentators to be found as much among the Austrians as those on the liberal-to-left part of the spectrum. The fundamental point is, of course, that it is now clear to all but the militantly unreflective that Obama can – perhaps – save the Real economy or – perhaps – save Finance (i.e. Bank bond- and shareholders), but certainly not both. The increasing, but still relatively gentle, criticism of Stiglitz, Krugman and their ilk is owing to the fact that it is becoming all too clear that Obama is still unwilling to engage Finance in what might turn out to be the greatest intramural fight capitalism has ever seen.
As always with the all-things-to-all-people Obama, it is possible to sift through his recent speeches and find words of comfort (to those who opt for saving the economy rather than Finance) even as the Fed, FDIC and Treasury keep pouring out trillions to Finance. Further, in areas as critical as civil liberties and Empire, Obama has managed to speak out of both sides of the mouth in a manner seldom if ever seen in history and – so far – to avoid the messes that usually come with that. [Examples: the U.S. upping the ante with Africom's new adventures, with forces moving further afield into S. Lanka, B'Desh and yet simultaneously getting brownie points for half a dozen nice words about speaking to Syria; doing all that is needed – including an unsavory folding before Rove – to maintain all of Bush 43's assertions of unrestricted executive power, while heightening the rhetoric about a new dawn of American Values; opening to Iran, but appointing Dennis Ross as the new U.S. legate, etc.]
That the vast majority of citizens of the U.S and of its principal tributary nations are generally unconcerned about the expansion of liberal militarism, unless it is unsuccessful or impacts their standard of living negatively, and have no problems with dictatorial presidential power, unless it hurts them directly, is evidenced by the fact these and related issues were non-starters in the last electoral round. The Battle of the Bailout is different for one brutally simple reason: there is simply too much at stake for the two rival formations of capitalist power to come up with the usual compromise solutions that have seen unity in the face of past challenges.
The devil is in the details and while there is a surfeit of sets of details any one of which makes for fascinating reading, a look at the big picture as regards the politics of the Crisis is in order. If Finance is saved at the cost of further trillions of a publicly funded bailout, it will be in a position of almost unimaginable strength as far as the further consolidation of ownership of the US (and world) Real economy. Therefore, it is hard to see how non-Finance capital can possibly be enthusiastic about allowing these rentier interests to acquire at bargain-basement prices great swaths of their various industries. At the time of writing, market capitalization of several Fortune 500 firms is being pummeled by the very crisis that Finance – as proximate cause, pace Marxist friends – has triggered. On February 20, 2009, GM, admittedly on the verge of bankruptcy, had a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. It doesn't take much foresight to see what the vulture brigade of Finance would make of this unique conjuncture. Likewise, the sense of outrage that non-Finance capital feels at the prospect of the crisis being exploited so mercilessly by the very forces that caused it is an additional guarantor that acquiescence is just not in the cards. The Rubin Gang around Obama may intone as menacingly as it likes the promise that failure to bail out Finance will lead to the end of capitalism and the American Way of Life, but this time it's not going to fly.
(Let it be noted in passing that such warnings delivered by one side of the mouth are and will continue to be accompanied by sad songs from the other about, e.g., the transfer of wealth from poor to rich that has occurred in the past few decades [engineered thanks largely to the Rubin Gang itself, of course.])
The contours of the upcoming political battle are not yet clear: each side will use its surrogate experts, agitators and useful idiots, but the very gentleness of the Stiglitz/Krugman warnings are an indication that such as they still hope that mortal combat may be avoided. This is, of course, pure fantasy. These two groupings, acting in concert, are the force that has given us a) the national security state, b) multiple armed interventions, covert and front-door, from Guatemala and Greece, to Iraq, Pakistan and fill in the blank, all the while building an executive power that Augustus would have envied, so neither of them are going to be put off by the prospect of political conflict. More important, they both know the real score: the bailout of Finance will debase the integrity of U.S. economic and political power, and by consequence, that of the entire capitalist world that has come to depend on the U.S. as the last line of defense against chaos. So in that sense the long-mooted euthanasia of the rentiers is the "right" prescription and will be seen as so by both the leaders of the "Real" economy and by the public at large, save those who remain unable to distinguish between Bailout and Stimulus. But the genesis of the crisis itself reveals the stark truth about the actual existing balance of power: the controlled bubble-bust economy of the past two decades is not simply the core engine of growth for world capitalism; far, far more importantly it is both the result of and the ongoing reinforcement of the political and intellectual hegemony that Finance has built up before and during that time.
No hegemonic power has ever willingly given up its position of dominance and there is no reason to suppose that the forces that paid for and orchestrated the Washington Consensus through use of the U.S. state – i.e. the power that backed it up – will be the first, though Stiglitz and Krugman are to be commended for suggesting that they do just that.
David Gordian is a feature film producer and student of international affairs, with a special interest in South Asia. He currently lives in Toronto.
Copyright © David Gordian, Global Research, 2009
Articles by: David Gordian


One of the most important facets of long range community planning is funding reserves. Reserves are the monies collected for long term capital projects within the community. Reserves can be difficult to project because there is a fair amount of uncertainty in projecting how long something will last and how much it will cost. One way to add confidence to the projections is to get a professional reserve study done.
Essentially, a reserve study is a long term plan for all community members to pay their fair share. Funding reserves over a period of years is much more equitable than issuing large special assessments from time to time. Reserve studies show the annual funding needed to properly fund the replacement of common elements of the community and make up a portion of the community's budget. By planning the proper long-term upkeep, they also help to maintain a pleasing appearance for the community.
Reserve studies quantify all reserve items in the community. This is something that members of the community may have a hard time figuring out on their own. Rather than board members roughly estimating the quantities and costs of items, a reserve analyst can properly calculate and project costs for the amount of roofing and painting on buildings and paving in the community as well as many other reserve items. These items are estimated by a field inspection from the reserve analyst. The analyst also may use tools such as recorded plats and/or aerial photographs to estimate a reserve item's dimensions.
A good reserve study will also help the association evaluate their current status with respect to reserves. An association may be underfunding reserves and be on their way to a special assessment. A reserve study will help to uncover this. Reserves always project forward and a proper report will show future funding schedules to get the community back on track and being properly funded.
Reserve studies affect the buying and selling of properties as well. If a reserve study has been performed, it can be shown to a potential buyer. If the reserve accounts are being adequately funded, then the property will be easier to sell knowing that no special assessment is imminent. Conversely, the opposite is true. In communities that have not funded reserves properly, unit owners may have a harder time selling their unit because a savvy potential buyer may be able to figure out that a large special assessment is around the corner. When reserves are properly funded, they help maintain property values.
Overall, a reserve study has many benefits. Most importantly, it minimizes the guesswork from the board and provides realistic costs to help allow the community to properly plan for major future expenditures while trying to minimize or avoid special assessments.


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So my roommate and I are having a Cinco de Mayo/End of the Semester party tomorrow (cue excitement). I decided to make actual Mexican dishes (petit-sized) and other goodies. Anyways, I have started making some of the treats since I won't have that much time tomorrow--being the last day of classes and all.
Here is a preview of what will be completed and served tomorrow.
But before that I also wanted to explain that Cinco de Mayo in the US and in Mexico is a completely different holiday. The only "holiday" detail I can remember about Cinco en Mexico is not having classes that day. Other than that, its just another ordinary day.
For all of you who don't know why the holiday takes place, it is done to commemorate the victory of the Mexican army over the French in Puebla (I guess maybe if I go to puebla on the fifth of May I might encounter a more similar holiday celebration).
Also, I will be posting the finished product and recipes at the end of the week (probably), so stay tuned!


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