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The 1597 Sacrae Symphoniae is a monumental collection reflecting the earlier part of Giovanni Gabrieli's work as an organist of St?Mark's Cathedral in Venice. Kyrie Eleison is transcribed and transposed to D-flat in this publication. The first and second trombone quartets perform the vocal parts, while the third quartet plays the piffari parts. The score and parts are neatly notated with editorial dynamic markings and some articulations. The tenor trombone parts are numbered 1 through 9, while the three bass trombone parts are listed 1, 2 and 3. Tenor clef is used in the first two trombone parts of each quartet, while bass clef is given for the third and bass trombone parts. The performance level is medium in difficulty. This lush arrangement for three trombone quartets is a good choice and reasonably priced.


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Q: Share Point 2013 Product configuration fails at 9 step Below is the complete error message I got while product configuration.

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Impossible Bike Stunts 3D is the bike driving game in which you get to jump behind the handle bars of an insane super bike. The track has twists, turns and obstacles at every point along the way. Meaning that your skills will be pushed to the very limit.
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J Am Med Inform Assoc - Optimization of drug-drug interaction alert rules in a pediatric hospital's electronic health record system using a visual analytics dashboard.
JECTIVE: To develop and evaluate an electronic dashboard of hospital-wide electronic health record medication alerts for an alert fatigue reduction quality improvement project.METHODS: We used visual analytics software to develop the dashboard. We collaborated with the hospital-wide Clinical Decision Support committee to perform three interventions successively deactivating clinically irrelevant drug-drug interaction (DDI) alert rules. We analyzed the impact of the interventions on care providers' and pharmacists' alert and override rates using an interrupted time series framework with piecewise regression.RESULTS: We evaluated 2 391 880 medication alerts between January 31, 2011 and January 26, 2014. For pharmacists, the median alert rate prior to the first DDI deactivation was 58.74 alerts/100 orders (IQR 54.98-60.48) and 25.11 alerts/100 orders (IQR 23.45-26.57) following the three interventions (p<0.001). For providers, baseline median alert rate prior to the first round of DDI deactivation was 19.73 alerts/100 orders (IQR 18.66-20.24) and 15.11 alerts/100 orders (IQR 14.44-15.49) following the three interventions (p<0.001). In a subgroup analysis, we observed a decrease in pharmacists' override rates for DDI alerts that were not modified in the system from a median of 93.06 overrides/100 alerts (IQR 91.96-94.33) to 85.68 overrides/100 alerts (IQR 84.29-87.15, p<0.001). The medication serious safety event rate decreased during the study period, and there were no serious safety events reported in association with the deactivated alert rules.CONCLUSIONS: An alert dashboard facilitated safe rapid-cycle reductions in alert burden that were temporally associated with lower pharmacist override rates in a subgroup of DDIs not directly affected by the interventions; meanwhile, the pharmacists' frequency of selecting the 'cancel' option increased. We hypothesize that reducing the alert burden enabled pharmacists to devote more attention to clinically relevant alerts.


Rendez-vous à The Rocks pour en apprendre davantage sur le passé coloré de Sydney. Votre guide historien vous racontera l'histoire des premiers condamnés à arriver à Sydney, de leurs premières expériences en Australie et de la manière dont ils ont finalement transformé un camp de taudis en un établissement durable. Écoutez les récits de gangs de rue, découvrez le plus vieux cottage de la ville, visitez la douane, et regardez des cartes et des peintures murales de l'ancien et du nouveau Sydney.
Max' s passion for the history and characters of the period when convicts where transported to Australia was very evident.
Max is an excellent tour guide. A very interesting and informative walk. I loved the "back alleys' and the stories Max was able to tell us about Australian History. I liked the way he threw in a few questions too to keep us thinking. I have bad feet but I found there were enough stops to relax and listen, so I was able to manage this tour just fine. I hear Max has another tour up his sleeve. "Rum and Rascals". I can't wait to hear more from Max about Australia's past. Wish Max had been my history teacher!
An informative look into the city's history. Max was a great guide - informative and polite. Open to many questions and responded with clear answers.
The walking tour was educational, gave us a glimpse into the past of Sydney's discovery by the British, the life's of the convicts and historic buildings. Conducted at a good walking pace with many stops at places you would not find if exploring on your own.
I would definitely recommend the tour to anyone wanting to learn more about the early history of The Rocks.
This was an amazing tour. The tour guide was very passionate about the history of Sydney and was well versed in giving tours. If you are interested in the beginning history of Sydney this is the tour for you.
Max Burns took us on a walk back into the past on our small group tour of The Rocks... his knowledge of the history and his ability to communicate all of it to us in such and enjoyable manner made this tour a wonderful start to our vacation in Australia and NZ...Max made history come alive and we are so happy we were able to spend our first morning with him!!!
A truly insightful experience that engaged our small group from start to finish! Our guide was a natural storyteller with an extensive background in Australian history and architecture. We were struck by his ability to weave Aboriginal, convict, colonial and military history into a clear and entertaining narrative through the Rocks and Circular Quay over 2 hours. Would certainly recommend this tour to both visitors and locals! I learnt so much!
Having been born in Sydney, I was almost embarrassed about how little of its history I knew! Max our guide was absolutely fantastic. His knowledge and enthusiasm kept us enthralled throughout the two or more hours of the tour. My wife and I were the only Australians on the tour, but I would recommend this tour to anyone, whether your a citizen of Australia or not.


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August Thalheimer (ur. 18 marca 1884 w Obersulm, ówcześnie Affaltrach, zm. 19 września 1948 w Hawanie) – niemiecki polityk komunistyczny, teoretyk marksizmu.

Życiorys
Urodził się w żydowskiej rodzinie kupieckiej. Ukończył studia etnologiczne i lingwistyczne; w 1907 obronił na uniwersytecie w Strasburgu pracę doktorską dotyczącą języków mikronezyjskich. Następnie udał się do Berlina, gdzie studiował ekonomię i nauki polityczne. W czasie studiów wstąpił do Socjaldemokratycznej Partii Niemiec, z której ideami zetknął się w rodzinnym domu. Pracował kolejno w wydawanych przez nią czasopismach Leipziger Volkszeitung, Göppinger Freien Volkszeitung (1911-1912) i Braunschweiger Volksfreund (1914-1916). W dwóch ostatnich tytułach pełnił funkcję redaktora naczelnego. Od początku związany z lewym skrzydłem partii, dołączył do Związku Spartakusa w proteście przeciw poparciu przez SPD udzielenia przez Reichstag rządowi Cesarstwa Niemieckiego kredytów wojennych u progu I wojny światowej w sierpniu 1914 r. Pozostawał pod wpływem Róży Luksemburg i Karola Liebknechta, współtworzył Komunistyczną Partię Niemiec. W listopadzie 1918 razem z Fritzem Rückiem przewodził komórce Związku Spartakusa w Stuttgarcie, następnie przeniósł się do Berlina, by dołączyć do redakcji komunistycznego dziennika (niem.) Die Rote Fahne (pol.Czerwony sztandar). Wybrany do komitetu centralnego KPD, pozostawał w nim do 1924. W latach 1923-1924, razem z Heinrichem Brandlerem, był głównym przywódcą partii. Przeciwstawił się organizacji powstania zbrojnego jesienią 1923, przez co stracił poparcie lewicowego skrzydła partii z Arkadijem Masłowem i Ruth Fischer na czele. Oskarżony o stracenie szansy na dojście przez KPD do władzy, był zmuszony do wyjazdu z Niemiec.

Thalheimer udał się do Moskwy, gdzie podjął pracę naukową w Instytucie Marksa i Engelsa, wykładając filozofię i prowadząc w tym zakresie kursy na Uniwersytecie im. Sun Jat-sena. W 1928, wbrew poleceniu kierownictwa Kominternu, wrócił do Niemiec. Protestował przeciw zainspirowanej przez Międzynarodówkę Komunistyczną wymianie liderów KPD, uznając jednak ZSRR za właściwie się rozwijające państwo socjalistyczne i krytykując działającą w nim Lewicową Opozycję. Razem z Brandlerem tworzył Partię Komunistyczną - Opozycję (KPO). W obliczu rosnących wpływów nazistów bezskutecznie apelował o jedność wszystkich organizacji lewicowych. Po dojściu NSDAP do władzy w Niemczech (30 stycznia 1933) wyjechał do Francji, zaś po upadku Francji w czerwcu 1940 zdołał uciec na Kubę, gdzie przebywał do swojej śmierci.

Pozostawił liczne teksty teoretyczne z zakresu marksizmu, jak również analizy przyczyn sukcesu politycznego niemieckich nazistów. Rozwijał marksistowską teorię bonapartyzmu, zawartą w pracy Karola Marksa 18 brumaire'a Ludwika Bonaparte. W ostatnich latach życia analizował również skutki II wojny światowej dla międzynarodowego ruchu robotniczego, ze szczególnym wskazaniem na sytuację w Europie Wschodniej.

Bibliografia

Działacze Międzynarodówki Komunistycznej
Politycy KPD
Urodzeni w 1884
Zmarli w 1948

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Home turf – the definitive ranking of host country entries at Eurovision
Posted on July 1, 2018 June 20, 2019
When a country hosts Eurovision, there's a lot of work to be done. And amid all the planning and preparation, the host also needs to select the act who will represent their country on home turf. Lingering rumours in the fan community insist that some countries deliberately send bad songs in order to avoid hosting again (as if that's impossible to get out of) but do host country entries always do poorly?
We have taken a look at the host country acts from the past decade and ranked them based on the percentage of available points and also considering their overall rank.
10. The Makemakes – "I Am Yours" (Austria 2015)
26th in the grand final with 0 points – 0% of available points
There's no question of who is last on this list. In 2015, The Makemakes scored nil points and only missed out on the final spot because Germany arbitrarily made it to the bottom after also scoring zero. There was nothing terrible about "I Am Yours", but 2015 was a very strong year and The Makemakes' pleasant piano rock ballad offered little to stick with audiences. It's not a good sign when the flaming fake piano got the biggest cheer. This was the first time a host country's entry had received nil points.
9. Cláudia Pascoal – "O jardim" (Portugal 2018)
26th in the grand final with 39 points – 3.87% of available points
Pink-haired Cláudia Pascoal and songwriter Isaura delivered a sweet, moving performance of the ballad "O jardim" and made the home crowd proud. However, Portugal was followed by the UK, where a stage invader shockingly disrupted SuRie's song and sent "O jardim" down the memory hole. It finished last with just 39 points.
8. O.Torvald – "Time" (Ukraine 2017)
O.Torvald are huge rock stars in their home country and their song "Time" was a driving rock track. The home crowd appreciated their local röck gödz, but Europe was less impressed. O.Torvald earned points from nine different countries, but it was only enough to put them in 24th place.
7. Didrik Solli-Tangen – "My Heart Is Yours" (Norway 2010)
Perhaps Norway was inspired by Alexander Rybak's "Fairytale" — their act for 2010 was serving Disney prince realness. Didrik Solli-Tangen sang the sentimental ballad "My Heart is Yours", co-written by Swedish maestro Fredrik Kempe. But audiences weren't wooed by this Prince Charming. Norway placed only 20th in the final.
6. Robin Stjernberg – "You" (Sweden 2013)
14th in the grand final with 62 points – 13.6% of available points
After Robin Stjernberg's unexpected win at Melodifestivalen 2013, it was hard to know how "You" would do in Malmö. Mirroring the Melfest results, "You" was a hit with juries, who ranked it third. Televoters were less impressed, and ranked Sweden 18th, resulting in an overall placing of 14th. Not a bad result, but it's not what Sweden was hoping for.
5. Basim – "Cliché Love Song" (Denmark 2014)
9th in the grand final with 74 points – 17.13% of available points
Basim was like a Danish Bruno Mars, and gave a slick performance of his R&B tune "Cliché Love Song". It was a hit with viewers and placed ninth in the final. "Cliché Love Song" took advantage of Denmark's impressive staging and earned 74 points.
4. Anastasiya Prikhodko – "Mamo" (Russia 2009)
Russia made the most of the assortment of huge LED screens that were part of the Moscow stage design in 2009. While Anastasiya Prikhodko performed her emotional rock ballad "Mamo", the screens behind her displayed several giant heads showing her singing along. And in Dorian Gray style, the LED Anastasiya grew older and older (and looked rather upset). The song placed 11th with 91 points.
3. Lena – "Taken by a Stranger" (Germany 2011)
10th in the grand final with 107 points – 21.23% of available points
After winning the year before with the quirky pop of "Satellite", Lena returned for another go. This time she had the sultry "Taken by a Stranger". Accompanied by a posse of dancers in silver bodysuits (?!), Lena shimmied her way to an impressive top-ten finish. It wasn't another victory for Germany, but still a result to be pleased with.
2. Frans – "If I Were Sorry" (Sweden 2016)
5th in the grand final with 261 points – 26.52% of available points
Swedish teen Frans was a surprise winner of Melodifestivalen 2016, but his song "If I Were Sorry" went on to be a huge hit. The laid-back pop track was well received by the home crowd and did particularly well with televoters. While its fifth-place finish deprived Sweden of their hoped-for seventh Eurovision win, it was still an impressive effort.
1. Sabina Babayeva – "When the Music Dies" (Azerbaijan 2012)
While showing off the newly constructed Baku Crystal Hall, Azerbaijan didn't skimp when it came to their act. Sabina Babayeva showed off her vocal prowess with "When the Music Dies". The moody, jazzy number was a fan favourite and took home an impressive fourth-place finish. "When the Music Dies" is also the highest placed host entry in the past 13 years.
What do you think? Which is your favourite host country act? Should a host country not make effort with their entry to ensure they don't win again? Tell us what you think below!
Check out more of our Eurovision lists
Anastasia Prikhodko
Basim
Cláudia Pascoal
Cliché Love Song
Didrik Solli-Tangen
I Am Yours
If I Were Sorry
My Heart Is Yours
O Jardim
O.Torvald
Robin Stjernberg
Sabina Babayeva
Taken By A Stranger
The Makemakes
When the Music Dies
Robyn Gallagher contributed this report from New Zealand. You can follow Robyn on Twitter @robynesc. Keep up with the latest Eurovision news and gossip by liking our Facebook page and by following the team on Twitter @wiwibloggs.
Review: We entered Eleni Foureira's KOKO London show hot…and we left on fire
Posted on June 30, 2018 November 3, 2018
byAlice Barnes-Brown
New music: Ilse De Lange, Vaidas Baumila, Ivi Adamou, Elena Ionescu and Mandinga
"If I Were Sorry" was real cute
HarpyDarper
I could imagine the Jackson 5 singing Cliche Love Song.
Who did the backing vocals on Azerbaijan 2012?
Lena and Frans are the best in this list – imo…
Basin wasn't bad either… I'm sorry for Portugal this year, it was kinda predictable that they would end up in the minor rankings, but personally, I would have placed it so much higher… beautiful song…
perrs
Austria 2015 was second to the last not last. Last that year was Germany with also 0 points. If we look Portugal 2018 was worst host country result in Eurovision history.
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KYLLITO
How can Portugal 2018 be worse when they scored 39 points and came in last when you JUST wrote that Austria 2015 had zero points. Your logic makes no sense at all.
Juan Cena
O.Torvald should have gone with its original staging with the band wearing the countdown timers. It made for a more poignant performance.
Regina Phalange
My favorite is Sweden 2013
REMOVE JURIES
Serbia 2008 did good. 6th place
Alma fan
What do you mean ELSEWHERE? The host doesn't have more points to give.
Polegend Godgarina
Sabible Babajesus on top as she should be. Only Azerbaijan's best entry!
Davve
I enjoyed both Austria 2015 and Sweden 2013. Good songs!
Of course you did you Swedish fascist! Have you ever not enjoyed a Swedish song? Maybe the one from Afro-dite for obvious reasons…
The 'definitive' example would definitely be when Ireland won in consecutive years in the early 90s. I'd love to see the article expanded past the last decade to find some more interesting songs / content.
The jury years were unreliable. No one wanted Ireland in 1994, the public wanted Poland or Hungary.
…I wanted it
What the public "wants" didn't come into it back then, the juries reward the best song. I wonder how you could possibly know what the public wanted anyway. I would imagine that Germany had the most public-friendly song that year anyhow.
AngieP
You could do a similar list about the 2000s. Many good songs from the host countries. (Greece 2006, Finland 2007, Serbia 2008).
The last decade my favourite song by far is Lena's "taken by a stranger". I wasn't a fan of her winning song, but this one was great. I also enjoyed Sweden 2016 and Portugal this year.
M_K
"O jardim" was my overall no. 3. It's such a brilliant song and I really would have wanted it to do better (even though I never really expected it to). The staging was also much better than I expected.
Personally, I felt "O jardim" needed a little more of a pop musically. The minimalist music really didn't do the song justice. It could have used some strings or something.
Claudia and Isaura were royally screwed. It was my pre-contest favorite, so that was a bitter pill to swallow when a good, well-staged, well-sung, emotional song with nothing wrong with it except that it had the misfortune to come between Rybak and SuRie tanked the way it did. Then again, 39 points is a pretty strong finish for a last-placed song (considering Spain only got 5 points the year before). Some favorite host entries not featured here: Hanna Pakarinen's Leave Me Alone from 2007 (that and Lithuania were horribly underrated that year), Athena's For Real from 2004 (SKA PUNK!), Cliff… Read more »
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Portugal deserved to do better this year, true, but their bad result was kinda predictable. Too subtle for one listening.
Despite this being the "definitive" list, it does only cover the last decade…so that explains all the notable absences (Niamh Kavanagh!).
CookyMonzta
How Cláudia and Isaura finished last is STILL inexplicable to me. There is an old saying that goes, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Salvador Sobral's "Amar Pelos Dois" was as low-key and laid-back as any song could be. Portugal probably thought the same formula would work again, especially in their own house. I graded them 4th for their performance in the Grand Final. Now, Austria coming up empty in their own house in 2015 was a major disaster. Finishing 3rd this year was a huge surprise. I thought Cesár would barely miss out on the top 10. Will… Read more »
The 2000s had way better host entries – When Spirits Are Calling My Name, Never Let You Go, Runaway, For Real, Everything, Leave Me Alone, Oro…. Exquisite! Most of them would have made excellent winners imo.
Cesar's salad
Austria should have sent Johann Sebastian Bach in 2015. They were lit and would have secured a great result. However, Makemakes are great and their other songs so good. After 2015, I thought winning in 2014 was a total fluke and finals hard to reach. But the last 3 years proved me wrong. Austria is lit!
JackTheBoy
I still enjoy that wonderful performance of Sabina.
Most underrated 2000-2018 host entry is Leave Me Alone (Finland 2007). Hanna is amazing singer and her performance gives me still chills. The song is touching and powerful. Love, Hannah
The song was meh. It only came across decent because 2007 was awful.
Azerbaijan will be pleased with their #1 placing. Money well spent.
Not suspicious at all.
Well it goes without saying in the first place 😛
Roy Moreno
Anastasiya, Lena, Sabina, Robin and Cláudia ft. Isaura were all great!
I can only wish us luck for 2019 to send someone good and not do so poorly xD (from Israel).
I hope we send something in Hebrew.
As long as it's good, why not? 🙂
Some of these countries wanted to make sure they won't win for a 2nd year in a row. In my opinion both Portugal 2018 and Ukraine 2017 were awful. How can Portugal send another bland song? If it worked for them in 2017 and they won, it doesn't mean the same could have happened in 2018, as well. As for O. Torvald, their song was just average, nothing memorable about it…. As for the rest of them, I found Franz quite irritating… Loved Robin Stjenberg's vocal range and song… And adored Sabina's amazing, amazing song and performance!
Germany, Portual and Azerbaijan were the best, imo.
Norway, Sweden 2013 and Ukraine were the worst.
*Portugal
Lena's Taken by a Stranger still remains my favourite Eurovision song ever.
Nancy G
that staging was soo amazing
ESCFan2009
Awww thanks from Germany! If it is your favorite ESC song ever, then it have to be also your favorite German entry, right? 😀 My personal favorite of our German entries was Black Smoke in 2015… 😀
Really interesting article! The only bit I disagree with is when you said 2015 was a strong year…for me it was the weakest since 2009.
I think when most countries host they take the safe road and send something harmless. Leading to people forgetting about it.
I get you want a safe choice but you are the host. You are in the final. Surely that would be a good time to send something new, something bold. You got nothing to lose.
And it is a contest. No matter if you host, you still want a good result, yes?
Alkisti
What a stupid comment, as always
So unfair result for Austria. The new system meant 43 points, more than Ukraine and Portugal.
Personally, I thought Germany and Austria were both screwed that night.
I want to put my entire foot inside his body.
I want to give an honourable mention to Roger Pontare. In 2000, his epic song "When Spirits Are Calling My Name" placed seventh in Stockholm. There are other amazing host-nation entries from the early 2000s, but this is my favourite. 🙂
https://youtu.be/fELp2fPI8wI
Briekimchi
Great entry for sure but first and foremost, honourable mentions need to go to Greece 2006 and probably the best ever host nation entry (and one of the best Eurovision songs EVER), Serbia 2008.
Every host country is shooting for another Ireland-type success. I'm pretty sure Israel's going to impress with the home crowd next year, considering their track record of host entries (one that won on home ground, one that finished in fifth place).
You are sooooo right. I can't wait to see what Israel will bring next year with such a track record.
My opinion is that no way, no host wants to flop, some of them had good results actually, but only Germany had the same singer that won previous year. That was silly. I bet next year they will send a Schulte 2.0. They just like winning so much.
First of all, I guess every country likes winning a competition, so hands down. However, what is so wrong about sending someone who already won? Plenty over countries did that as well and as long as it's good and entertaining, there's nothing wrong about it. And btw. if we would like winning so much, mate, we would have a much better pre selection! Just like Sweden for example. I mean, did u even see them? There're literally a bunch of trash songs and there's maybe one that is okay. Just like 2014, 2015 and 2016! But 2017 was pure trash… Read more »
In the begining of your comment you've admited 'every country likes winning', and your Unser Lied is a big effort (Levina even had orchestra), I'd wish all countries will not play indiference card when they don't do well.
Uhm, I don't know if you are also from Germany, dear Tuk (your nickname sounds like the German cookie?), but I am German and we did not send the same thing when we won. Lena and Stefan Raab said on a press conference in 2010, overwhelmed of the victory, that they will work again on an entry to safe the title in 2011. That was very spontainous and half a joke. And then the idea grew out of that. But Taken by a Stranger was completely different then Satellite… I don't believe in a second Michael Schulte, no fear… 😀
@ESCFan 2009
I'm not German, I'm from Eastern Europe, both my name and email are random, really hope you will win next year because you always take ESC very seriously, this is why I don't believe when your country says it doesn't care. And you're probably sad for World Cup, but you'll see the luck will be on ESC. I expected more articles about football, like last year when it was a supertition about Portugal win, something like that.
Roelof Meesters
Norway 2010 was the worst host song ever, while Azerbaijan is definitely the best of the bunch with Germany in a close second. But it's always difficult to follow up last years winner, so aplausse for them.
When comparing the general standard of a country's entries weighed up against their entries as a host, the Ukraine has been consistently the worst host country in terms of the song that they have entered as a host.
Zenht
This is because they value too much the winners pick.
i.e. Jamala wanted O.Torvald and the country delivered.
the Ukraine in 2017 is much better than Ukraine in 2005.

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North Central Florida is host to a trove of natural springs, many of which are open to the public any day of the week. Knee-deep in crystal-clear water, with lush foliage and wildlife abound and the sun glittering off the waves, you're experiencing the best that Florida has to offer. Anyway, it's a good way to take your mind off of exams or taxes or our wildly conservative state senate.
We've gathered some basic info for you on a few good springs to check out, but each has a lengthy, informative write-up on www.floridastateparks.org. Check that out for more info.
And since spring's well on its way, it's about time to shake off the winter blues, peel off your coat and dive into some magically temperate waters.
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This week's discussion topics include Kingdom Hearts III, gen:LOCK, and congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's surprise appearance on a DK64 live-stream.
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In contrast to the grit of the inside of the mining hall, Henning Kraggerud and The Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra will perform beautiful music that was composed during the closing months of the Second World War.
Imagine leaving the centreof Longyearbyen, traveling to the top of the Mine 7 mountain. We will take inthe stunning view over Adventdalen before entering the hall of Longyearbyen's only working mine.
By 1944, Richard Strauss' was not in good health and he needed to visit the Swiss spa at Baden near Zurich. However, he was unable to get permission to travel abroad from the Nazi government. Some of his friends and music colleagues Karl Böhm, Paul Sacher and Willi Schu, decided to help him, by planning to get the travel permit: a commission from Sacher and invitation to the premier in Zurich. The commission was made in a letter from Bohm on 28 August 1944 for a "suite for strings". Strauss replied that he had been working for some time on an adagio for 11 strings.
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Social Security Under Attack By Media
I will repeat:
Social Security is NOT in financial trouble.
Social Security does NOT contribute in any way shape or form to the U.S. Federal government's deficit, now or in the future. It cannot. If anything, it has enabled a coverup of how big the real deficit has been for years.
News media does not critically examine any claims asserted by the big-money folks that want to abolish, cut, or destroy Social Security (see here).
Remapping Debate along with Mark Miller document how the news media mindlessly attacks and asserts that Social Security is a deficit problem even though that claim is false. In the course of explaining, they also do an excellent job of explaining how the trust fund has operated.
Kudos to Mark Miller, a contributor to Reuters's Prism Money blog, for his post Monday morning calling out NPR, the Associated Press, and NBC's David Gregory for perpetuating the misleading idea that Social Security is one of the key drivers of the federal deficit.
The experts who study these things believe that, thanks to the trust fund, Social Security has enough money saved up to meet its obligations for about the next 25 years.
Thanks to the energetic efforts of deficit hawks, the notion that Social Security is a leading cause of the deficit has become part of the Beltway consensus. But, as Miller — who's been pounding this drum for some time — points out, "the consensus is wrong, and so is much of the reporting" on this topic.
Here's the actual situation: in the early 1980s, when Social Security was facing a short-term financing crisis, a commission chaired by Alan Greenspan recommended a variety of adjustments to the program. Those tweaks, coupled with decent economic growth, resulted in a situation in which over the ensuing decades Social Security collected more money in payroll taxes than it paid out in benefits.
Rather than just put those surplus funds in a bank vault, the trustees who run the Social Security Administration took this money — it's known as the Social Security Trust Fund — and invested it in bonds issued by the U.S. Treasury. In effect, over the course of nearly 30 years they lent money to the rest of the government. This was good for Social Security, because it made a little extra money on a very safe investment; the U.S. government, after all, doesn't default on its debt. And it was good — or seemed good, anyway — for the rest of the government, which got in the habit, especially during the 2000s, of paying for new programs and overseas military adventures with borrowed money.
One consequence of this process is that the trust fund grew quite large: it's now about $2.5 trillion. Another consequence is that the federal tax burden shifted away from income taxes — which are progressive, so that people who earn more money pay a higher rate — toward payroll taxes, where every worker pays a flat rate up to about $106,000 in earnings (amounts above that cap are not subject to the payroll tax, so the more money you earn, the lower your payroll tax rate is).
Today, for a variety of reasons, Social Security's annual obligations have started to exceed payroll tax collections. (This was entirely expected, though it happened a bit earlier than anticipated thanks to the recession.) In a narrow sense, that's a "deficit." But what journalists and politicians usually mean by "deficit spending" is a government borrowing money to pay its bills. Social Security just needs to collect on the loans it has made. And the experts who study these things believe that, thanks to the trust fund, Social Security has enough money saved up to meet its obligations for about the next 25 years. So there is no real "Social Security deficit" over that period.
To the extent that Social Security has anything at all to do with the deficit, it is the fiscal imprudence of past White Houses and Congresses, not America's commitment to present and future retirees, that is to blame.
What about after that point? Once the trust fund is spent, if there are no other changes to the program Social Security will continue to owe more than it collects. (As Miller notes, the fixes necessary to avoid this situation are modest, and do not have to include benefit cuts.) But even then, the trustees could not borrow money to make up the difference: by law the program, on net, can never have spent more than it has taken in. "As a result," a recent paper from the Economic Policy Institute stated, "Social Security cannot and would not add to the federal deficit when its trust fund is exhausted."
So where does all the deficit talk come from? The problem, of course, is that the Treasury does not have the cash on hand to repay what it borrowed from Social Security, and making good on those obligations will require cuts to other areas of the budget, more revenue from income taxes, or further deficit spending. It is this fact that leads many commentators — including some politicians who are generally supportive of Social Security — to link the program to the deficit.
But that problem wasn't caused by Social Security, which has always operated in long-term balance and, unlike Medicare, faces very modest challenges in the fairly distant future. It was caused by a federal government that, with the exception of a portion of the Clinton years, was unprepared to fully fund federal programs through tax levels sufficient to pay the bills, and instead used borrowed funds to paper over the shortfall. To the extent that Social Security has anything at all to do with the deficit, it is the fiscal imprudence of past White Houses and Congresses, not America's commitment to present and future retirees, that is to blame.
As Miller notes, this isn't actually that complicated. But there's an irony to his latest post correcting the record on this subject coming out Monday morning. That's because President Obama's 2012 budget proposal came out at almost exactly the same time, and the flurry of coverage it prompted included many more assertions that Social Security is one of the key drivers of the deficit.
Like this, from MarketWatch:
And some 800-pound gorillas are also missing: reducing funding demands for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — the source of huge projected deficits in coming years.
Or this, from Politico:
But, [Hoyer] said, they'll insist they be coupled with reductions in the Pentagon budget and a serious attempt to rein in spending on Medicare and Social Security, two of the major reasons for the explosion in the deficit that will get worse as the baby boomers retire.
Or this, from The Washington Post:
A senior administration official said Obama's budget request maps "a sustainable path" that would stabilize government finances in preparation for a broader debate about how to tackle the biggest drivers of future deficits: Social Security and health care for the elderly, as well as a tax code that offers more in breaks and deductions than it collects in revenue.
It looks like Miller will have more fodder for another post soon.
There Was No "Stimulus" Spending in Aggregate
February 19, 2011 February 19, 2011 / Jim Luke	/ 2 Comments
One of the claims that Tea Partiers, Republicans, and conservative/neo-liberal economists have been making for some time is that "the stimulus has failed". They conclude that Keynesian economics and economic policies are failures. Since, like most claims of Republicans and other politicians, these assertions are usually repeated uncritically by the news media, it's close to becoming accepted "common wisdom" that the stimulus failed. It's not true, though. What happened is that Keynesian stimulus was never tried. Yes, U.S. federal government spending temporarily increased for 2 1/2 years. But the so-called "stimulus" bill of $780 billion passed in Feb 2009 wasn't all a stimulus spending bill. Much of the money, approx. $380 billion IIRC, was tax cuts. People didn't really spend much of those tax cuts because they were paying off debt with the money. That's not a Keynesian stimulus spending program. Keynes pointed out that tax cuts are a weaker way of stimulating spending.
But most important is that the additional spending was over 2 1/2 years, and it was only federal spending. It was completely offset by cuts in spending at the state and local government level. In aggregate, there was no stimulus spending program. It's now over anyway. What people are doing these days is confusing the increased deficit with increased spending, ignoring the fact that the deficit is so big because tax collections are down. Tax collections are down because too many people aren't working. And firms won't hire those people because nobody (including aggregate government) is spending enough.
Paul Krugman notes:
In effect, although without saying so explicitly, the Obama administration has accepted the Republican claim that stimulus failed, and should never be tried again.
What's extraordinary about all this is that stimulus can't have failed, because it never happened. Once you take state and local cutbacks into account, there was no surge of government spending. Here's total (all levels) government spending over the past 10 years:
Looking at this graph, if you didn't know there had been a "massive" stimulus, would you even have suspected that there had been any stimulus at all?
Income Inequality Widening for Both Men and Women
February 19, 2011 / Jim Luke
Income distribution changes, namely, the rich getting richer and the bottom half struggling to stay even is true for both men and women. It is only partly explained by educational level. Mark Thoma extracts from a CBO report about how workers' hourly compensation (wages) have changed from 1979 to 2009:
Changes in the Distribution of Workers' Hourly Wages Between 1979 and 2009
This is from a new CBO report, Changes in the Distribution of Workers' Hourly Wages Between 1979 and 2009:
Boeing Learns a Lesson In Theory of the Firm – Outsourcing Isn't Always Profitable
Boeing is learning a hard lesson in what micro-economists call the "theory of the firm". Theory of the firm is the branch of econ that explores the question of "why do corporations exist?" and "why do they vary in size?". First, from the LA Times (much more at the linked article itself):
The airliner is billions of dollars over budget and about three years late. Much of the blame belongs to the company's farming out work to suppliers around the nation and in foreign countries…
Case in point: Boeing Co. and its 787 Dreamliner.
The next-generation airliner is billions of dollars over budget and about three years late; the first paying passengers won't be boarding until this fall, if then. Some of the delay stems from the plane's advances in design, engineering and material, which made it harder to build. A two-month machinists strike in 2008 didn't help.
But much of the blame belongs to the company's quantum leap in farming out the design and manufacture of crucial components to suppliers around the nation and in foreign countries such as Italy, Sweden, China, and South Korea. Boeing's dream was to save money. The reality is that it would have been cheaper to keep a lot of this work in-house…
Paul Krugman summarizes the relationship to some modern theory of the firm writings:
Oliver Williamson shared the 2009 Nobel mainly because of his work on a question that may seem obvious, but is much less so once you think about it: why are there so many big companies? Why not just rely on markets to coordinate activity among individuals or small firms? Why, in effect, do we have a lot of fairly large command-and-control economies embedded in our market system?
Williamson answered this in terms of the difficulties of writing complete contracts; when the tasks that need to be done are complex, so that you can't fully specify what people should do in advance, there can be a lot of slippage and strategic behavior if you rely on market incentives; in such cases it can be better to do these things in-house, so that you can simply tell people to do something a particular way or to change their behavior.
In Boeing's case, they outsourced far too much, only to find that they were getting parts that didn't do what they were supposed to — and also to find that the subcontractors were seizing a lot of the rents. They discovered, in effect, that there are times when it's better to rely on central planning than to leave things up to the market.
Obviously this isn't always true. There's a tradeoff. But that's the point — and it's this tradeoff that determines how big firms should be. Boeing has now provided a clear motivating example. Their loss, the economics profession's gain.
Paul Walker at Anti-Dismal offers a more complete explanation of Williamson's ideas. And, of course, Williamson's books, unlike many by Nobel-winning economists, are actually rather readable by non-economists.
U.S. Healthcare Spending 2009- Sources and Uses
U.S. Healthcare Spending 2009 – Where It Came From:
U. S. Healthcare Spending 2009 – Where It Went and How It Was Used
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Bangkok, 16 May, 2018 – The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) together with Ko Samui Municipality and event management company IMC Live Group are pleased to announce the staging of the first ever 'Samui Asia Music Festival' on 18 and 19 August, 2018.
The 'Samui Asia Music Festival' sits perfectly with the Amazing Thailand 'Open to the New Shades' communication concept that encourages visitors to experience Thailand both from new and existing perspectives.
Along with the awesome music line-up, the 'Samui Asia Music Festival 2018' will offer festival goers plenty of choice in food and drinks at the Festival's market. It is all part of what promises to be a fun, exciting and vibrant festive spectacle.


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HomePodcastThe Lost Books: Looking Back with Kaci Hill
The Lost Books: Looking Back with Kaci Hill
Lunatic & Elyon (2010, Thomas Nelson)
May 11, 2020 Josh Olds Podcast, Reviews 0
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In 2010, Ted Dekker closed out The Lost Books in a stunning fashion, returning for a two-book salvo that picks up where the initial four-book set (Chosen, Infidel, Renegade, and Chaos) left off. These final two books take place chronologically after Red and put our heroes (and renegades) into a vastly different Other Earth than the one they left. And along for the ride—sometimes taking the lead—was newcomer Kaci Hill.
Kaci had followed Ted since book one, been a moderator on his forums, and formed a key circle within the Circle. She was also a writer, which made her a natural fit when Ted wanted to someone to come alongside to finish the series. I doubt Kaci thought that over ten years later, people would still be wanting to know her story, but she was gracious enough to sit down with me for an interview. Dive deep!
The Interview: Lunatic and Chaos with Kaci Hill
This excerpt has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. You can listen to the full interview by clicking the play button above or subscribing at Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Josh Olds: As a reader, how did you first learn about Ted Dekker?
Kaci Hill: Honestly? My mom and I went to the bookstore and my mom found—Which one was it? Not When Heaven Weeps—The gold cover.
Josh Olds: Heaven's Wager.
Kaci Hill: Yeah, that was actually the first one. So I've basically read them all in order.
Josh Olds: Wow. So everyone out there thinks that I've been a Ted Dekker fan for a long time, but you've been there from the beginning.
Kaci Hill: Yes. Wow, that's really funny.
Josh Olds: So like, what was your initial like thought of his books?
Kaci Hill: When I first started reading, yeah, I just I loved it. So I've always really enjoyed the supernatural aspect of things. I cut my teeth on Bill Myers and Frank Peretti. So I have kind of always been drawn to that. Ted was sort of the next one that included a lot of that.
Josh Olds: Okay, most people, when they start to read a book from an author and become a fan, that doesn't parlay itself into writing a book with that author. At some point, you went from being just like, "Oh, I like this guy's books, I'm really involved in the community" to the point where I'm now writing a story with him. How did you go from point A to point B?
Kaci Hill: Magic? No, not really. My real answer is God has a sense of humor. So, I was in high school and in high school, I had a thing where if I really, really enjoyed a book, I would find the author's method of communication and would contact them and say "Hey, I really enjoyed this book, explain why and just thank them. I don't know, I figured that I liked feedback, I'd give them some. He and I had actually emailed a little bit through that and I met him at a book signing and went down as the girl who wouldn't talk to him. I got nervous.
So that's like when we met in person and again, just kind of kept general contact. When I saw the forums go up, I became a part of that. Then one day he actually asked me said, "Hey, can you send me some writing?" So I did. And then he asked me "If I give you a writing assignment, can you do it?" He told me write a wedding on the beach, which is not a scene I would ever write on my own. It was completely out of what I usually do. So, being me, I had to make it entertaining. And shenanigans ensued. So, yeah, so then later on they called me like "Hey, you want to write a book?"
The Books | Lunatic & Elyon
Five years have passed since the Chosen One and his crew were last in Other Earth. Chaos ended triumphantly, with them successfully thwarting Alucard's evil plot to destroy our earth, and the last page turned as they put their bloody hands on the Books to return home. But five years is a long time, and they find themselves immediately thrown into a world almost as foreign as Las Vegas.
The Horde has overtaken Middle Forest, and Thomas and the Forest Guard are nowhere to be found. When Darsal is imprisoned by the Horde, she discovered that something even more drastic than the Guard's defeat has occurred in their absence. Apparently, Elyon has changed the rules. Convinced by a fellow prisoner named Jordan, Darsal learns that Elyon's water had been tainted—been mixed with blood—and now followers of Elyon no longer needed to bathe daily, but actually drown in the water in order to escape the Horde's scabbing disease.
Lunatic takes a reader on an incredible journey through Other Earth, from the lairs of Shataiki to the bowels of Teeleh's temple to the depths of the red waters of Elyon. The mythos is expanded as new characters and even new races are introduced. Everything has changed in the time Johnis has been gone. His journey is not yet over, he believes he can still save the Circle and destroy the Horde, even if he has gone Lunatic.
Elyon draws out more of the Dekker mythos, giving just a bit more information on the Leedhan. Kaci Hill again characterizes Shaeda to perfection, shrouding the character in mystery and seductive evil. From Kaci Hill's perspective, Lunatic and Elyon are killer debut novels. It's not every day one gets to pen a debut novel with a NYT bestselling author. It's a fun series that's sure to bring smiles to fans of Dekker's fantasy works and a great way to introduce younger readers to the world of the Circle.
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has a curious history, with a milestone in 1826 when J. Steiner published his solution without proof. There are many proofs of Steiner's construction, see, for example, references at the bottom of the page. Below, I shall follow Hart's solution (1856) found in [Coolidge].
Draw three angle bisectors IA1, IA2, IA3.
Find the incircle ck of triangle IAiAj. Note that the angle bisector IAi serves as a common internal tangents for circles cj and ck.
For each pair of the circles consider the second internal tangents. The latter concur in a point (L) and cross the sides AiAj in points Dk, as shown in the applet.
The quadrilaterals AiDjLDk are inscriptible. Their incircles solve Malfatti's problem.
We see then that the points D2 and D3 on the incircles D2F1G3 and D3F2G1 have equal tangent segments with respect to the other circle. The tangents at these points therefore meet on the circle of similitude of the two circles D2F1G3 and D3F2G1. The tangents being A1D2 and A1D3, we conclude that A1 lies on the circle of similitude of the two circles D2F1G3 and D3F2G1. By a property of the circle of similitude, the line from A1 to the internal center of similarity of the two circles bisects the vertex angle A1. But, as we have seen, this line is tangent to the circles D2F1G3 and D3F2G1. We conclude that the bisector of the vertex angle at A1 is one of the common tangents the circles D2F1G3 and D3F2G1. It follows that the circle DjFiGk is inscribed into triangle AiLAk. Thus, if Malfatti's problem has a solution, the solution can be obtained by Steiner's construction.
Conversely, if a very small circle be drawn tangent to two sides of the triangle, the two circles each touching this little circle and two other sides will surely intersect. But if the little circle swells up, always touching the two sides until it becomes the incircle, the other two circles shrinking in the process, are eventually separated it. Hence, for some intermediate value of the little circle, the three will touch. Hart's solution is thus complete.
This argument, although simple, is well beyond elementary. The argument depends on the notion of continuity and the Intermediate Value Theorem to be made rigorous.


Light-matter interaction processes are extremely attractive for quantum information problems, where one of the main goals consists in a quantum state of light mapping into a collective atomic state. By analogy with the Purcell effect, which exhibits in the presence of a resonator, enhancement of light-matter interaction can be achieved by using a nanofiber [1-2]. In this work we present a theoretical description of light interaction with a cold atomic ensemble mediated the nanofiber, which lies in a base of the experimental realization of a quantum memory protocol .


The latest Super Sunday offering sees Southampton taking on Chelsea at St Marys' Stadium. The two sides had mixed fortunes in their midweek EFL Cup games. A brilliant strike from Sofiane Boufal against Sunderland was enough to ensure that the Saints booked their quarter-final spot but Chelsea came unstuck at the London Stadium and were eliminated from the competition, going down 2-1 to West Ham United.
Both managers rotated their squads in their respective league cup ties but more familiar names are expected to be restored to the starting line-ups for this one.
Antonio Conte is expected to stick with the 3-man defence against a dangerous Southampton attack that is boasting the best shots on target supremacy figures after the opening 9 gameweeks.
Dušan Tadić has just one goal to show for his efforts so far this season, so much more is expected. The versatile Serbian international has an eye for a key pass, which was highlighted by the 14 assists he achieved last season.
Jay Rodriguez, Matt Targett and Shane Long are all ruled out until November, while Jérémy Pied will not be back in action until next year, after undergoing knee surgery. Ryan Bertrand is closing in on a first team return.
Sofiane Boufal is pressing for a Premier League start but manager Claude Puel may stick with the same side that earned a creditable 1-1 at the Etihad Stadium.
Eden Hazard is Chelsea's highest rated player on WhoScored and the Belgian winger has already scored 4 Premier League goals.
He is starting to show glimpses of the type of form that enabled him to be crowned PFA Player of the Year in 2014/15.
Cesc Fàbregas is still out injured, while Branislav Ivanović is lacking match fitness.
Skipper John Terry may have to settle for a place on the bench, with David Luiz marshalling Antonio Conte's 3-man defence.
Can the Saints claim all 3 points to derail Chelsea's title bid ?


Between helping customers in the store, taking inventories, placing orders for restock, straightening up the shelves, checking and packing up online orders, updating the website, and replying to emails, I try to fit in an hour or two of work each day on customer's houses in the store. Since I only get to work for an hour or two, work is slow. But I felt I made huge steps yesterday in cutting out the arch on the Harborside! My I-drill (I love my I-drill!) worked great and I had the arch cut out within an hour - I was ahead of schedule! Maybe I would also mix up the ceiling paint and start painting ceilings! But first I should test fit the archway trim . . . .
Customer has a Lawbre arch for the doorway from the kitchen to the addition conservatory room. I love this arch (not that my opinion matters for much, but there it is)! I have it as well for my Victorian Fantasy dollhouse but have not yet installed it because my Victorian Fantasy dollhouse has a double wide opening so side walls must be cut out and the top opening of the doorway must be filled in before the arch will fit (i.e. lots of other work must be completed first so it hasn't gotten done yet).
Arch cut into main housebody.
Arch cut into addition wall.
Arch trim looks fantastic in the space! Oh, wait, I have to put the addition onto the side of the house too and then put on the archway trim! Oops.
The disappointment came after I had cut the arches and discovered that the Lawbre arch fits over a 3/8" thick wall. But in this dollhouse it has to fit over the exterior wall of the main house body (3/8" thick) PLUS the addition liner wall of the conservatory (1/8" thick).
When adding an addition to a Real Good Toys dollhouse they provide a liner for the side that butts up against the main house. If the dollhouse has milled siding, such as the Harborside Mansion, it covers the milling so that your interior addition walls are smooth for decor. But it creates a thicker wall. Now the arch does not fit.
Channel inside the arch trim will not fit over the two walls together.
Even when I press them together, the two walls are just 1/8" too thick for the arch trim.
Well, there's the first possibility: a labor intensive and risky solution of routing out the wall(s) or cutting out the liner in the exact shape of the trim so that the arch trim fits into a snug groove.
Lots of detailing to route out around precisely.
But there is so much detailed trim on the arch trim that cutting out for it will take time, a steady hand, more time, and lots of potential for mistakes that will have to be filled in with Spackle or wood fill. It will also look poorly when the trim is not snugly in place (as cutting out will be done by hand so some parts will be jagged and uneven). But it's possible.
With paper and a spare piece of crown molding I created the look I am trying to describe. You have to imagine the rest of the conservatory is there (ceiling, floor, front wall, and other side wall).
Without the addition on it, the house will always look like this.
So the decor for the one wall of the conservatory will always be attached to the main house body. Looks odd without the conservatory up against it, but how often will the conservatory not be up against the house? During transportation and/or moving? That would be okay.
Ceiling/Roof piece would receive extra support from the crown molding if it needed it.
So today's hour or two will be spent debating pro's/con's of these two solutions while still drinking lots of coffee in hopes that a third option materializes in my mind!
Any suggestions, Mini Friends? I would appreciate any thoughts!
So, it is less than three weeks until Thanksgiving . . . and my dining room table (as usual) is covered in miniature projects. In my defense, not all the miniature projects are for me! I have a customer's house sitting there, waiting for me to rewire it and wallpaper it. There are 2 in-progress miniature projects which will be Christmas gifts for my 2 best friends. And my daughter has some of her sewing project stuff on the table (but, yes, hers are easy to pick up and put away as opposed to the dollhouses which are harder to find space to put them).
The largest thing on the table is mine (Leaky Cauldron/Diagon Alley structure) and I have bits and pieces for another small project (a beach stall) I am working on when Leaky Cauldron frustrates me. I know my husband will begin to make comments about how we need our dining room table back for Thanksgiving dinner, so within the next week or two I have to remove the larger structures at least. The smaller things I can tuck away in various nooks and crannies in the living room and kitchen.
New stain is a bit darker, but in the long run I think it'll be fine.
Gluing down the first few strips.
The threshold of the door needed a piece of wood.
Not the best fit (lots of gaps) but who's gonna see?
The only way to see back here is to stick in a camera and click a picture so I don't think anyone will ever really see the gaps, but yes, they do bug me. I'm hoping that once I sand and rough up the floor (it's Leaky Cauldron pub - it's been around a while so the floors will not be all nice) that the gaps will look more appropriate -- if anyone ever really sees them!
Behind the narrow wall . . .
Needs a small sliver of strip wood . . .
This side finished off better than behind the door!
I still have a way to go, but the floor is slowly coming along (I warned you I work slow, sloth slow!).
Making progress but still have about half the floor to do.
I had wanted Leaky Cauldron to be finished by Halloween and (no surprise to me) that didn't happen. I work best with deadlines though, otherwise I'd never get anything done, so I am giving myself this week to finish gluing down the wood strips, rough them up, age them, and then seal them. Then it will return to it's resting place (the dimly lit, scary, spider hotel) until maybe next summer when I will try to get husband to help carry it back up the stairs so I can officially finish it by Halloween - of 2015.
A red lantern that I thought needed an elf's desk!
This elf office was so much fun to put together! The desk is the "Lilanna Youth Desk" by Bespaq. I added some gold accent to the trim and began decorating it with some things an elf would have/need. Being a youth's desk it is the perfect size for an elf! It is still a work in progress (as are all my things, hence the name of this blog!) so the elf desk is still a bit bare and the chair is still on my work table (aka dining room table) waiting for its gold accent trim, but I wanted to share it with you partially finished . . .
My elf has an Elf on the Shelf! And a gingerbread house kit he'll get to make someday (like me and my dollhouses!).
I love my little Santa snow globe! It's the little things that make me stupid happy.
I have always admired these wreaths that I have for sale in the store; Finally have an excuse to own one!
Take down the Halloween decorations, prepare for Thanksgiving (and family birthdays in my house), and brace yourselves for the holiday season: 2014 is wrapping up quickly!


The Anam is a sanctuary of contemporary luxury that harks back to earlier days. From the architecture and design, right down to the slightest details, our guests will feel they have traveled back to the late 19th or early 20th century.
The Anam boasts 77 villas and 136 rooms and suites. The Anam also features a fine dining restaurant "The Colonial", all-day dining restaurant "The Indochine", and authentic Vietnamese restaurant close to the beach "Lang Viet", "Saigon Bar", "Beach Club", in-room dining and romantic dinners at the beach, a 10 treatment-room spa, 3-D movie theatre, three capacious swimming pools, bathroom, conference room, recreation and fitness center, a tennis court, yoga room, golf putting green and more.
The Anam has a tranquil 10-room spa with treatments inspired by Balinese traditions and healing rituals. Guests wanting to get active can transition into the day with a complimentary early-morning beachfront yoga classor enjoy the many watersports on offer. There is also a tennis court, badminton net, frisbees, balls, a pool table and three swimming pools to keep guests occupied. Every day three films are shown in the 3D cinema, one for children and the other for adults.
The Indochine, which exudes a calm colonial-era charm, offers poolside seating on shaded terraces. This is the resort's main restaurant and where tables overflow with buffet breakfast offerings - Western, Asian, Vietnamese, continental; the selection is vast. The Colonialspecializes in European fine dining while the more relaxed Lang Viet Restaurant & Bar offers classic Vietnamese cuisine.The beachfront Beach Clubbookends The Anam's best view over the waterfront. It offers ice-cold beer and many other refreshing beverages, as well a variety of delicious western food items along with snack foods that will make your stay in this casual setting a real treat. In the evening the Beach Club offers life music 6 times a week and after lunch it transforms into a casual party place. Saigon Bar offers cocktails and sparkling wine, often to the backdrop of live music.
Every Friday at Mama's Cooking – Vietnamese Buffet, guests can watch the local mothers of the resort's existing staff cook traditional Vietnamese delicacies before their eyes. They will learn how each dish is made before indulging in a home-cooked-style feast. Donning iconic conical hats and tunics in the place of chefs' whites, the mothers will draw on centuries-old recipes which have been handed down through the generations. They will cook each dish in the traditional way without toning down spice of flavor, just as they would when cooking for their own families.
One of our highlight excursions at The Anam is the Vespa tour. Visitors can see the city in style just like the locals, on a fleet of modern Vespa bikes complete with a private guide and rider. There are plenty of stops at cultural sites along with time to visit local artists, sample delicious food and take in the scenic sights.With 4 unique tours to choose from, experience a real taste of Vietnam and interact with the local people as they go about their daily lives.
As a guest, you can enjoy the spa, chic bars, gourmet restaurants, stunning white sand beach, infinity swimming pools, Rhythm Experience, and much more. There are many all-inclusive hotels& resorts in Cam Ranh area, but none like The Anam resort. Come and experience it for yourself.


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International Co-operation Tackling COVID-19
Coronaspection: Addressing COVID-19 Through the Collaborative Wisdom of Religious Leaders
Banner image: Coronaspection (Cascade Books)
Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Founder & Director, Elijah Interfaith Institute
This article is part of a series in which OECD experts and thought leaders — from around the world and all parts of society — address the COVID-19 crisis, discussing and developing solutions now and for the future. Aiming to foster the fruitful exchange of expertise and perspectives across fields to help us rise to this critical challenge, opinions expressed do not necessarily represent the views of the OECD.
Join the Forum Network for free using your email or social media accounts to share your own stories, ideas and expertise in the comments.
When the pandemic began, and after ensuring personal safety, anyone who could sought to make some contribution to how we cope with it. As a moderator of a high-level group of world religious leaders, known as The Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders, my way of serving was to try and provide comfort, vision and spiritual direction, drawing on the wisdom of religious leaders from all major faiths. This matured into a series of 40 video interviews and messages with religious leaders regarding the spiritual challenges brought about by the Coronavirus. Leaders from 15 countries and seven religions are featured on a dedicated website where their wisdom relating to some of the major challenges is featured: How to deal with fear and anxiety; how to cope with loss; how to use the time in lockdown and how to use solitude; how to maintain a sense of solidarity with others; what kind of world do they envision for the future.
The result is a storehouse of teaching and inspiration, delivered by some of the most prominent voices in religion. To name just a few: Pope Francis and the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Christian world; Grand Mufti Cerić of Bosnia; Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar of Russia; Sri Sri Ravi Shankar of India; and Karma Lekshe Tsomo, speaking for Buddhism.
The publication of this website has pushed me to consider in greater detail the place that religion has occupied during COVID-19, and what message it and its leaders have to offer the world. These analyses have come together in the recently published Coronaspection: World Religious Leaders Reflect on Covid-19.
Underlying the Coronaspection project is an understanding that spiritual challenges must be faced together. There is purpose in bringing together the wisdom of different religions under one roof, rather than having each community speak only to its members. This understanding has driven me over a quarter of a century through numerous projects and publications. But it is not evident to all. In fact, one of the projects I have undertaken, in the framework of a think tank run by the Elijah Interfaith Institute, is precisely to justify and account for practices of sharing wisdom across religions. COVID-19 provides us with an excellent opportunity to consider the need and benefits of tackling the spiritual challenges it poses through such a collaborative approach.
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The COVID-19 pandemic is a unique moment in human history. There have been great challenges of all kinds. But there has never been a challenge that has faced all of humanity at one time, in such a global manner, affecting every nation and every place on the planet. The kind of connectivity that is possible in today's world can deliver the best and the worst of humanity. It can be the basis for the spread of negativity, hatred and habits of bad living that sow conflict and division in humanity; or it can be the foundation for the practice of compassion and goodness, harbouring a sense of unity that brings together all forms of diversity. COVID-19 spread through globalisation, and the response to it invites us to employ a different kind of interconnectivity: one for good and for wisdom. COVID-19 presents us with an opportunity to affirm a global wisdom of interconnectedness that matches the reach of a virus that affects humanity as a whole, without making any distinctions among those infected.
A wise response requires collaboration and unity rather than competition and divisiveness. Just as we need global co-operation in practical ways to deal with the virus — so we also need to pool our resources to administer to the spiritual challenges posed by the new reality.
This approach is unfortunately far from common. Responses to the pandemic have often been divisive. As part of blame, building on existing tensions or simply acting out of self-interest, the responses to COVID-19 on the political front have often been divisive. Yet, a wise response, even in practical terms, requires collaboration and unity rather than competition and divisiveness. Just as we need global co-operation in practical ways to deal with the virus — to find vaccines, to share medicines and supplies, and so on — so we also need to pool our resources to administer to the spiritual challenges posed by the new reality. One of the key messages of Coronaspection has been the affirmation of the unity of humanity, and the need to recognise it and to act in its light.
One of the reasons why COVID-19 justifies — and even requires — a collective spiritual response is that the global situation is more about advancing spiritual processes than providing answers. The spiritual life is one of constant growth. Challenges urge us to grow. If humanity is challenged as a whole its wisdom, taken as a whole, is a means for inspiring everyone, of every nationality and every religion, to grow further. Such growth is made possible precisely through the testimony of the different leaders who give voice to the wisdom of their tradition. Setting wisdom alongside wisdom and life testimony alongside life testimony opens up a space for further reflection. It inspires the reader to think through for themselves — in dialogue with their traditions or others, in the fullness of commitment and the openness of spiritual curiosity — how to cope with the challenges of the moment, and how the global pandemic can advance their spiritual growth as well as that of humanity's. If classical religious teaching, delivered in the context of a particular tradition, seeks to provide answers, Coronaspection recognises that this is a moment of opportunity and growth that calls for spiritual reflection. Such spiritual reflection is served by the juxtaposition of ideas, by enriching the conversation, by opening up to the global wisdom that emerges in response to the global crisis.
Taking this approach allows us to deliver religious wisdom in a way suitable for the times. For many, traditional religious structures have broken down. A quest for wisdom points to religious traditions, but without the exclusivity previously attached to them. Even for those who adhere fully to a particular tradition, like myself, there is a growing understanding that in an interreligious age we do well to be enriched by the voices of many traditions as well as our own. There will always be the need for the teaching delivered in the church, mosque and synagogue, but today's world also needs it via online or video: by new means of communication to reach new forms of community. Every religion's message needs to be acknowledged as a part of humanity's common patrimony, and a source of inspiration for all. In this sense, then, COVID-19 invites individuals and traditions to grow by facing up to a common challenge as they approach it — jointly, side by side, connected, as it were — through the deep roots of the wisdom of their traditions.
Learn more about Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein's new book "Coronaspection: World Religious Leaders Reflect on COVID-19"
Tackling COVID-19 International Co-operation
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Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein is the founder and director of the Elijah Interfaith Institute. He is acknowledged as one of the world's leading figures in interreligious dialogue, specializing in bridging the theological and academic dimension with a variety of practical initiatives, especially involving world religious leadership.
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When the pandemic began, and after ensuring personal safety, anyone who could sought to make some contribution to how we cope with it. As a moderator of a high-level group of world religious leaders, known as The Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders, my way of serving was to try and provide comfort, vision and spiritual direction, drawing on the wisdom of religious leaders from all major faiths.


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Home ᐳ News ᐳ Brief ᐳ Deaths of US Citizens in Mexico at 8-Year High
Deaths of US Citizens in Mexico at 8-Year High
MEXICO / 2 NOV 2011 BY GEOFFREY RAMSEY EN
According to data from the U.S. State Department, the first six months of 2011 represented the most deadly period of the past eight years for U.S. citizens in Mexico.
From January 4 to June 11 of this year, 65 Americans were killed in Mexico, a 300 percent increase since 2003. This figure comes from La Opinion, which gained access to a report compiled by the U.S. State Department. As the paper notes, the actual number of deaths may be higher in reality, as the figures only refer to voluntarily reported deaths.
Still, the numbers reveal some noteworthy patterns about the most dangerous places, statistically, for Americans in the country. The report found that Baja California, Tamaulipas, Chihuahua, Sonora and Sinaloa have been the site of most of the violence, with a third of the deaths occurring in the border cities of Ciudad Juarez and Tijuana.
In its most recent travel advisory, issued on April 22, the State Department also warned U.S. citizens to exercise extreme caution when traveling to the states of Michoacán, Durango, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí, Guerrero and Jalisco. Nevertheless, the State Department warning points out that "there is no evidence that U.S. tourists have been targeted by criminal elements due to their citizenship," a reminder that attacks on Americans are usually opportunistic, and not systemic in nature.
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Enterprise snubbed by chosen director
Shaun Pye reports Enterprise Chambers is going back to square one in its search for a chambers director after its chosen candidate turned down the job. The chancery set decided to appoint a chambers director last year, after consultation with BDO Stoy Hayward. It is seeking a director to oversee the clerking and general administration […]
Hollands opens in Mexico City
In its first push outside the US, Holland & Knight, Florida's largest law firm, has opened for business in Mexico City and is planning on setting up in other locations abroad by the end of the year. In Mexico, the firm has established a joint-venture office with 10-lawyer local firm GallAstegui y Lozano, to be […]
Bindmans flexes its muscles over sets' equal opps record
Civil liberties firm Bindman & Partners has asked all the chambers it instructs for an assurance they are complying with equal opportunities legislation as well as a list of its ethnic minority and women barristers. Letters making the request have been sent out to 50 chambers and will be viewed by some sets as a […]
Local authorities gear up for new tendering regime
Uncertainties surround the introduction of the "best value' replacement for compulsory competitive tendering. Some local government lawyers are, however, coming to grips with the issues, writes Guy Campos. Guy Campos is a freelance journalist. In December 1997, the London Borough of Camden learned that its pilot scheme to replace compulsory competitive tendering (CCT) with a […]
Litigation Personal Injury 24/3/98
By The Lawyer	 24 March 1998 00:00
Swan v Pragnell QBD 2 February 1998
Claimant: Jamie Swan, 18
Incident: Road traffic accident
Injuries: Claimant sustained serious brain injuries when only a few months old while travelling in a car driven by a family friend. The car collided with another car, the driver of which, (the defendant) was convicted of causing death by reckless driving. Judge said that Jamie's mother and step-father had played a vital part in his recovery. He is now studying photography at the Lord Mayor Treloar College, Hampshire
Award: £1,324,389 agreed damages of which claimant's mother is to receive £50,000
Judge: Anthony Tibber
Plaintiff's counsel: Matthias Kelly
Plaintiff's solicitor: Ronald Fletcher Baker & Co
Vasishta v Kingston and Richmond Health Authority QBD 2 February 1998
Claimant: Lynne Vasishta, 37
Incident: Medical negligence
Injuries: Claimant suffered brain damage resulting in personality change following alleged oxygen starvation during gynaecological investigation under general anaesthetic at Kingston Hospital 14 years ago. Despite this, she has managed to bring up a family of five. Health authority agreed to settle claim but disputed negligence on its part
Award: £225,000 agreed damages said to be subject to 25 per cent reduction to take into account difficulties that claimant could have faced in proving claim in fully contested action
Judge: Mr Justice Laws
Plaintiff's counsel: Margaret Bowron
Plaintiff's solicitor: Tuck & Mann
Johnson v Finch & Jones QBD 3 February 1998
Claimant: Linda Johnson, 44
Injuries: Claimant's husband (Ronald Johnson, aged 41) died from multiple injuries after a car crash. His car was hit when a vehicle crashed into another car it was racing in the opposite direction. Other drivers were sentenced for causing death by dangerous driving. Claimant's husband was trapped in the wreckage for over an hour and later died in hospital.
Award: £212,000 awarded to widow £16,000 to 19 year old daughter, £22,000 to 17 year old son
Judge: David Steel QC
Plaintiff's counsel: Deirdre Goodwin
Plaintiff's solicitor: Whitehead Monckton
Non-racial lawyers' body launched in South Africa
South Africa's first non-racial lawyers' body, the Law Society of South Africa (LSSA), was finally launched last week, ending two years of sometimes acrimonious debate over its establishment. The Pretoria-based LSSA, to be headed by two co-chairs, Esme Du Plessis and Willie Seripi, will act as an umbrella organisation, representing the country's four provincial Bars […]
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We are a community of local runners. Our aim is to provide support to members of all abilities so that they can achieve their goals, whatever they may be. We do this by creating an environment that is safe, inclusive, and relies on volunteers - and we have fun!
The club caters for all running aspirations. While some members run purely for social and recreational reasons others use the structured training sessions to help them improve their core fitness and achieve their PB & race targets. Some members also take part in cross-country races, duathlons and triathlons.
The club meets on Tuesday & Thursday evenings at the Sherfield Park Community Centre (see Training for further details.) There's a range of paces/distances to suit different abilities at these club sessions based on our ethos of 'nobody runs alone'. Saturday mornings also provide an opportunity to run as a club at the free 5k parkrun events held at the War Memorial Park in Basingstoke.
As a non-profitable organisation our fees are kept to the minimum and the club is maintained by the goodwill of its founders, committee members and the members.
SPR goes from strength to strength in its second year.
See what we got up to in our first year.
Sherfield Park Runners is UKA / England Athletics affiliated. Each member also has individual membership of UKA / EA giving them a unique reference number for use to obtain race discounts etc.
Sherfield Park Runners is ARC affiliated (Association of Running Clubs) - #354 and is bound by ARC rules & regulations which includes health, safety and insurance provisions.
For more information please download the Sherfield Park Runners Club Constitution v8.