What Is a Personal Branding Statement?
A personal branding statement is a brief personal statement about yourself, your expertise of a particular subject or multiple subjects, whom you serve in the marketplace, and most importantly your unique approach that is different from other experts in your field. It perfectly describes your promise of value.
Writing a capability statement for the personal branding of yourself is just like creatively writing a branding statement of a product, service, or the company. Think of it as your tagline or catchphrase for yourself, similar to a product. The only difference is that you are creating it from your personal angle.
How Do I Create a Personal Branding Statement?
Creating a concept statement of personal branding for yourself in quite a bit of a hard task. Experts suggest that the only way you can create a personal branding statement is to be open minded about everything and most importantly, you must know yourself. Here are some tips to help you create one.
Make a list of characteristics that the people recognize you for.
Write the values from your value statements that you can provide to everyone and the common problems you would like to solve.
Write the things that make your statement of work as unique.
And lastly, write a need statement for your target market.
Why You Need A Personal Brand Statement?
Most people (especially experts) have a hard time describing what they do and how they do it. If you are one of them, creating a personal branding statement will help you through the process. Developing your own personal branding statement is also your opportunity to understand who you are what exactly do you do.
And as you are working with your statement example in word for personal branding, you are slowly finding out your weaknesses that you need to work with. Don't take it as a hindrance, but rather make it as your motivation to improve and be better.
Use these simple tips to create your own winning personal branding statement.
List all your attributes or careers and pick out the ones that make you unique. By here, you can create 1–2 sentences of personal branding statement.
Make sure that your personal branding statement answers these three important questions.
Keep it real. Your personal branding statement should describe you and tell the audience who exactly you are. Providing some false information on it does not help.
Make it simple and memorable. The words you use in your statement example in excel for personal branding is very important. Using technical words may not be understood by your audience. You want your personal statement to be repeated by everyone else.
Keep it short. You know what they say, "simple is better," and no doubt about it. Having to describe yourself in 1–2 sentences in your scope statement for personal branding shows that you professionally focus on what you do and it says a lot about your introspection of the subject.
Find more examples of personal branding statements in our statement examples in PDF and statement of purpose examples.


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Чорні метали ( ; ) — метали й сплави на основі заліза, марганцю, хрому. Найбільш масове виробництво: сталі, феросплави, чавуни.

За вмістом вуглецю сталі поділяють на дві групи:
 м'яка сталь, або технічне залізо (містить до 0,3 % вуглецю)
 тверда сталь (містить від 0,3 до 2,14 % вуглецю).

Чавуни, які виплавляють у доменних печах поділяють на:

• переробні, які використовуються для виробництва сталі у кисневих конверторах, електропечах, мартенівських печах;

• ливарні, які використовуються для одержання виливків у ливарних цехах машинобудівних чи ливарних заводів. Частка цих чавунів зменшується й не перевищує 10 %.

Фероспла́ви — напівпродукти металургійного виробництва — сплави заліза з кремнієм, марганцем, хромом і іншими елементами, використовувані при виплавці сталі (для розкислювання і легування рідкого металу, скріплення шкідливих домішок, додання металу необхідної структури і властивостей), а також при отриманні інших феросплавів (т.з. передільні феросплави).

Отримання концентратів чорних металів з руд здійснюється гравітаційним, магнітним і флотаційним методами.

Метали і сплави на основі чорних металів отримують в результаті наступної металургійної переробки концентратів.

Чорна металургія споживає майже увесь об'єм залізних руд, 90 — 95 % марганцевих і більшу частину хромових.

Залізовуглецеві сплави — основа конструкційних матеріалів, що застосовуються у всіх галузях промисловості.

Див. також
 Руди чорних металів
 Схеми збагачення руд чорних металів

Джерела

Метали

Посилання

 УКТЗЕД Група 72 Чорні метали

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Tayshaneta paraconcinna es una especie de araña araneomorfa del género Tayshaneta, familia Leptonetidae. Fue descrita científicamente por Cokendolpher & Reddell en 2001.

Distribución geográfica
Habita en los Estados Unidos.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Tayshaneta Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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BOGO Baby: Time to Prep for Spring Sales!
Twins: The Ultimate Buy-One-Get-One Deal.
Time to Prep for Spring Sales!
Thursday it's supposed to be 70 degrees here in Maryland. On the wind you can catch the scent of Febreeze and plastic clothing racks. Yes, the spring consignment sale market is almost here, and I wanted to post some resources for your prep work.
In January I posted about creating a Consignment Sale plan. Here are some addendums.
Don't know what size to plan for? Check out the excellent Neiman Marcus Chart that provides sizing guidelines by weight and height. My boys are at the top of the toddler clothes already, and this general guideline helps me prepare to buy the right sizes in the right numbers. The boys are already well into the 4T range which we have some of, and they sprout in the summertime! I plan to buy a few (25%) shorts in 4T, and the rest in 5T. Imagine my surprise to discover there is no 6T.
Surprisingly, 4 & 5 boys (XS) is the same as the toddler, except that the boys' clothes are made slimmer because they shouldn't have to accommodate a diaper.
The sales start in late February and run through mid-April, at which point Yardselling starts. Totswap in Columbia is this weekend! Go to the Wilde Lake Shopping Center in Columbia for some great deals! I love Totswap because they're so well organized. They even have a list online of all the non-profit consignment sales in the DC Metro Area!
CAMOM's sale is St. Patrick's Day! If your kids are growing fast, then you'll want to wait until this sale for some great deals and fine merchandise, plus two or three of everything! Cradlerock Elementary school, Saturday March 17, 2012, 8a-1p.
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It is a beautiful day here in Baltimore! Days like this make me thankful for all of the incredible experiences I have been a part of this year. I wanted to share one performance from 2014 you might not have seen yet…for now, I will enjoy the day, continue writing, and prepare for the new opportunities that 2015 will bring!


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Global pictures from Dec. 9 -15
A major ice storm blasted the nation's midsection this week, leading to power outages, school closings, canceled flights and at least 24 deaths. The news wasn't all glum, however: Cross-country skiers took advantage of the snow to trek along Lake Wingra in Madison, Wis., on Tuesday. (Henry A. Koshollek / The Capital Times)
Bob Helton of Tulsa, Okla., stands at his gas stove as he tries to heat his home Wednesday. Helton was among the hundreds of thousands of residents in the nation's midsection who lost power in this week's severe ice storm. Oklahoma was particularly hard hit, as downed power lines caused dozens of fires; President Bush declared an emergency there. (Mike Simons / Tulsa World)
As many as 20 bullet holes riddle the entryway of New Life Church in Colorado Springs on Monday, a day after a gunman killed two teenage sisters in the church's parking lot. Authorities later determined that Matthew Murray, 24, killed himself after being shot several times by a volunteer church security guard. Earlier on Sunday, police said, Murray killed two staffers at a missionary school in Arvada, Colo. (Kevin Moloney / Associated Press)
Chinese students gather during a memorial Thursday marking the 70th anniversary of the Nanjing massacre. Air sirens wailed in the eastern Chinese city, as thousands of somber, tearful residents crowded the grounds of the Massacre Memorial Hall. The city, then known as Nanking, suffered a rampage of killing, rape and looting by invading Japanese troops in 1937. (Liu Jin / AFP / Getty Images)
An oyster farmer was among those caught up in the muck this week after tons of crude oil spilled into the sea off Taean, South Korea. The oil started hitting beaches last Saturday, a day after a supertanker was hit by a barge that came unmoored from its tugboat in rough seas. About 100 vessels, including coast guard, navy and private fishing boats, were called to help contain and clean up South Korea's worst spill, a coast guard official said. Initial estimates were that 2.8 million gallons of crude were spilled. (Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images)
American Lindsey Vonn catches a tip of her ski and crashes Sunday in the second run of the slalom during the women's World Cup ski competition in Aspen, Colo. Nicole Hosp of Austria took first in the event. (George Fry / EPA)
Argentina's first elected female president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, and her husband, departing President Nestor Kirchner, celebrate during a music festival in Buenos Aires after she was sworn in Monday. "I know that it will be more difficult for me because I am a woman," the former first lady, a longtime senator, told lawmakers at the congressional palace. "But I believe I have the strength to be able to do it." Nestor Kirchner designated his wife as their party's candidate to succeed him after he renounced almost certain reelection this year. (Natacha Pisarenko / Associated Press)
The two elephants in captivity at the Singapore Zoo, named Tun and Jamilah, receive custom-made, waterproof Gore-Tex bootees Wednesday to alleviate continuing foot problems, including lesions on the soles of their feet. Dr. Sonja Luz, right, struggles to fit a bootee onto Tun, while Jamilah waits his turn. (Wong Maye-E / Associated Press)
Felix Baumgartner prepares to jump Tuesday from the Taipei 101 tower in Taiwan, the world's tallest completed building. The extreme sport professional, a 38-year-old Austrian, has had his eye on a leap from the building since it was completed three years ago. Baumgartner jumped from the building's 91st-floor observation platform -- at a height of 390 meters, or about 1,280 feet -- and after a five-second-long free fall opened his parachute and landed safely on the roof of a multistory parking structure. (Stefan Stau / AFP / Getty Images)
The sun sets as Iraqi farmers drive a herd of water buffaloes to the Euphrates River at their settlement near the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, on Tuesday. (Alaa al-Marjani / Associated Press)

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From midweek onwards, look out for the Moon and Saturn drawing ever closer in the low southern night sky. By the end of the week, they will be separated by 1.6°, or just over three lunar diameters. The Moon will be a few days past full and clearly in its waning gibbous phase. The chart shows the view for 03:00 BST on 1 June. This week is also good for seeing the four brightest objects in the sky. The Sun and Moon are the first two and are unmistakable – but remember never look at the Sun with your naked eyes or through any kind of optical instrument; it is so bright that it can cause permanent blindness. The third and fourth brightest should present little problem either so long as you have a clear horizon. Just after sunset look west to see the brilliant "evening star" of Venus, this is the third brightest object in the sky. Then turn to the south-west to look out for Jupiter, the fourth.


The objective of the study was to examine what factors associated with such "trauma" experiences may or may not discriminate between high, medium, and low achievers in sport, classified as super-champions, champions or almosts.
The real-world experiences of young athletes follow a non-linear and dynamic trajectory and there is growing recognition that facing and overcoming a degree of challenge is desirable for aspiring elites and as such, should be recognized and employed. However, there are some misunderstandings of this "talent needs trauma" perspective with some research focusing excessively or incorrectly on the incidence of life and sport challenge as a feature of effective talent development.


Like the picture above clearly says, the beauty of one's outfit is not dependent on the outfit or on the price tag of that outfit but on YOU (the person wearing it). So make sure, you are confident in yourself irrespective of how much you bought your clothe/outift or on how you think your outfit looks. You are the main determining factor to how beautiful or ugly your outfit is/looks on you. Therefore make any outfit your wear look beautiful or great on you by unleashing your gift of style (style is within. Style is a gift) and by carrying yourself with pride (pride in this case is confidence) .
P.S- There is a thin line between pride and confidence be sure not to cross it.
I hope you have been inspired. Please be kind enough to share this post with others. Please also feel free to share your thought by commenting below.


KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2018 sponsored this podcast.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conferences gather adopters and technologists to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing. The vendor-neutral events feature domain experts and key maintainers behind popular projects like Kubernetes, Prometheus, gRPC, Envoy, OpenTracing and more.
Kubernetes and Kubeflow should also play a big role in AI and machine learning software — all built for multicloud, Han said.
As mentioned above, the applications should run on Kubernetes "because cloud native is designed to accelerate the software development cycle and also leverages parallel computing to speed up development," Zhang said.
"This makes it much easier to go to production," Zhang said.
AI and machine learning will also require new hardware, such as GPUs; data storage systems and other new infrastructure, Zhang said. "When we talk about AI, people tend to only focus on the algorithmic part and what neural network to use," Zhang said.
4:55: Are you going to talk about this operating system in the context of Kubernetes? What is that bridge?
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Editor's note: This story has been updated to note the charge in the headline and to note that both the man and woman were not drinking or taking sleep aids, according to the affidavit.
A man cited President Donald Trump after he allegedly assaulted a woman during a Southwest flight from Houston to New Mexico on Sunday, according to court documents.
Both Alexander and the woman said they had not been drinking or taking any sleep aids, according to the affidavit.


Did you know that since as early as 2005, Cal OES has been actively pursuing key partnerships with the private industry via memorandum of understanding (MOU)? Private businesses play a vital role in protecting their employee's and community and by also working with government to facilitate and provide emergency response and recovery from all types of disasters. That is why Cal OES is proud to partner with Bank of the West through this MOU agreement.
These MOUs will allow for more targeted and efficient delivery of goods and services by formalizing 24-hour contacts with the private sector. Just like the state has 24-hour access to governmental partners, it now has well-established personal relationships with emergency management professionals in the private sector that can be called on. These partners also have a coordinated role in the State Operations Center's Business and Utility Operations Center (BUOC) during an emergency response and recovery efforts. Having the private sector side-by-side with state, local, and federal emergency management personnel will expedite response activities and maximize resources.
So how do these MOUs benefit Californians? By restoring power – the California Utilities Emergency Association (CUEA) coordinates the repair of power, water and other utilities via its affiliate businesses, which is critical during an emergency. Additionally, it provides quick access to supplies and mobilization of banking needs by supplying ATM/Banking Centers to a community affected by a disaster.
For more information about the partnerships with Cal OES please visit www.caloes.ca.gov and don't forget to follow us on twitter @Cal_OES and facebook.


MUNGER — Fastpitch softball fans of all ages packed the town of Munger this past weekend to take in a pair of tournaments.
In the Youth Development Tournament, it was the Munger Fastpitch team coached by Del Benson that took home the hardware. Munger defeated the team sponsored by Vassar Shop Rite and Cook GM Superstore of Vassar by a score of 5-2.
The Munger squad finished the weekend with a flawless 4-0 record.
"Our pitchers, Zach Schabel and Chris Randal of Munger, both had exceptional weekends," Benson said.
Benson also said that between the four participating teams (Munger Fastpitch, Richville, Gary Thompson Painting in Reese and Shop Rite/Cook GM Superstore in Vassar), Munger played host to 61 kids between the ages of 12 and 18, 15 of which saw time on the mound.
The main focus of the tournament, put on by the Friends of Youth Softball comittee, was to keep fastpitch softball alive for young boys. There has always been a love for fastpitch softball in the Thumb area and Benson said that it showed over the weekend.
Between the Youth Development Tournament and the Munger Volunteers Men's Invitational Tournament, the games drew in nice crowds.
Up-To-Date Painting won the Men's Fastpitch tournament put on by the Munger Volunteers. They defeated Tiffany's Food & Spirits in the championship game by a score of 9-2.
Also taking part in that tournament were Small Town Fastpitch of Benton Harbor and the Munger Volunteers.
In conjunction with the tournament, Friends of Youth Softball held a fund-raising BBQ dinner, grilled up by Mike Reinert and a host of tournament volunteers. Proceeds from the dinner went to support the four youth fastpitch teams with their equipment and uniforms.
Benson and the Friends of Youth Softball Tournament committee also wanted to thank their sponsors for the weekend: Frankenmuth Credit Union, Mike Young of Frankenmuth, Terry Weiss, Grasel Graphics, Reinert & Bender, Kidd Company of Millington, Weiss Equipment, Tiffany's Food & Spirits, Vassar Bar, Frankenmuth's Jellystone Park, Vassar Building Center, Rocket Bowling Bar & Grill, Fred Hecht, John's Bar, Vassar Golf & Country Club, Doug Elbers of Great Lakes Crop Insurance, Jason Equipment Co., Coors Light, Greg Dowis, Joint, Clutch & Gear Service Inc and Bruce Roberts.


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By studying the past with an eye to the present, our students develop the knowledge and skills to analyze the politics, history and culture of the Americas and engage with diverse audiences. Our students produce work that reaches beyond academic audiences and contributes to the pressing conversations of how to achieve justice in our time. In recent years, students have co-created an exhibit on the local history of police accountability campaigns and conducted oral history interviews for the Queer Newark Oral History Project. Our alumni are leaders in academia, politics, cultural institutions, and nonprofits across the country.
We believe that the humanities must speak to diverse experiences and communities, and that this work can only be done successfully with a diverse faculty and student body. Understanding that diversity and inclusion are two of the most pressing issues facing cultural and educational institutions, we are committed to recruiting and mentoring students from underrepresented communities. Our program is committed to training a generation of leaders in the humanities who are representative of the diverse identities and communities they serve.
Our courses embrace interdisciplinary methods and draw on fields ranging from English to sociology to history. Through examining race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class, students gain a critical perspective on history and culture within and beyond the United States.
Our award-winning faculty, from departments across the humanities and social sciences, are actively engaged in research, writing, and community-based public projects. All our students, whether they are preparing for careers in the academy or the public sector, are asked to consider the diverse publics that their scholarship can serve and the many forms in which the fruits of their research can be shared.


Sorry to inundate you with blog posts today, but there's just so much news to share, and....there's Saturday Snark!
Thank you, Marie Sexton, for hosting the Saturday Snark blog hop. Here's Marie's snark, taken from her book Cinder a m/m romance take on Cinderella.
Now, today's selection of my own snark comes from the my current WIP, Collusion, and once again spews from the rather uncouth mouth of Lucky, drug trafficker turned narcotics agent. Don't worry folks, it's a staged arrest.
Huffing and puffing from behind grew closer. Suddenly, a Mack truck slammed into him, knocking him to the ground. He rolled and came up swinging. The cop who'd hit Lucky staggered to his feet while his partner played decoy.
Lucky grinned. "Well, now, that's mighty generous of you, but I ain't ever in my life been accused of being easy." The cop lunged at him and Lucky ducked, for once grateful for his small size. He wove past the other cop and took off again, this time aiming directly for the trees. A third cop came out of nowhere, tackling Lucky to the ground.
He landed two good kicks and a solid punch before the three teamed up and pushed him face-first in the dirt. "Police brutally!" he bawled, as they wrestled his arms behind him and slapped on a pair of cuffs. They hauled him kicking, screaming, and spitting out grass to his feet.
"Out of four of them, it has to be the runt that gives us trouble," one cop sneered, wiping dirt from his face with a uniform sleeve.
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Love it!!! I want to have dinner & drinks with Lucky...adore that man, lol! Thanks, Eden!
Thanks, SusieQ_too! I have a lot of fun writing Lucky.
Thanks! He's snarky, but not nearly as bad as he thinks he is. I do hope you enjoy Diversion.
LOL, he totally cracks me up. He's proud of those six inches lol!
He's got the attitude to go with it too!
Love it! Thanks for joining in!
I feel his pain. Well, not the getting slammed into by a cop but the height thing. Lol. Go Lucky!
Hee, Lucky's got a chip on his shoulder about his height.


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Home Crime EFFC EFCC picks Director of Operations, Mohammed Umar to oversee commission
EFCC picks Director of Operations, Mohammed Umar to oversee commission
Mr Mohammed Umar, the Director of Operations, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has been picked to oversee the affairs of the agency in the absence of Ibrahim Magu.
A top official of the commission disclosed this to newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday. The source, who asked not to be named, said Umar was chosen by the "EFCC's hierarchy" following the reported suspension of Magu.
The official, however, said that the commission had not received any official communication on the reported suspension. Spokesman of the EFCC, Dele Oyewale, declined comments when contacted by NAN to confirm the latest development.
The embattled acting chairman is being interrogated by a presidential panel set up to probe allegations of gross misconduct against him.
Magu appeared before the Ayo Salami-led panel on Monday before he was reportedly taken into police custody.
READ ALSO: Security operatives search acting Boss Magu's house in Abuja
Meanwhile, the EFCC official has defended Magu against the allegations, saying they were not true. However, the source said his travails also emanated from complaints by the staff of the commission over poor welfare and delay in the promotion.
"I can tell you that all the allegations against Magu are untrue. I see the whole situation as a power play.
"Preparations for the 2023 elections are another reason they want Magu out because he knows too much.
"Another thing is the problem of staff welfare, imagine somebody like me for close to 10 years, I have not gained any promotion.
"We are not happy about the news of his suspension, but I know that members of staff are not happy with him," the official said.
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Becky Davies can't compare DivorceCare to other support groups for people going through divorce or separation. She hasn't been to other support groups. But she has facilitated DivorceCare at Northwoods Community Church for the last three years. A lot of the sessions deal with what the Bible has to say about divorce, she says. So what does the Bible say about divorce? "It does not like divorce." Davies doubts anyone does, which is one reason she's passionate about the program.
Becky Davies can't compare DivorceCare to other support groups for people going through divorce or separation. She hasn't been to other support groups. But she has facilitated DivorceCare at Northwoods Community Church for the last three years.
A lot of the sessions deal with what the Bible has to say about divorce, she says.
Davies doubts anyone does, which is one reason she's passionate about the program.
Thursday was the last session of DivorceCare at the church.
Over the past 13 weeks, a small group, a few more women than men, sorted through all the torn feelings that come with divorce, from anger and shock to loneliness and depression. While the adults met in one room, child participants of DC4K, or DivorceCare for Kids, met in another for dinner, crafts and other projects.
The goal was to help adults understand why forgiveness is important, how reconciliation can occur even if the marriage can't be salvaged and how a strengthened relationship with God can eventually grow out of a broken marriage.
If 13 weeks of DivorceCare is designed to help people begin the singular process of healing, DC4K aims to have a broader impact.
"We're trying to knock down the pattern with the kids so they don't think they need to grow up and get married and get divorced," says Carolyn Gunn, who oversees a variety of Northwoods' support groups, including DivorceCare and 12-step programs.
Neither DivorceCare or DC4K is specific to Northwoods. It is a program model, laid out in a series of DVD seminars moderated by nationally-known ministers and available at www.divorcecare.org — where those interested can also find DivorceCare ministry kits, DivorceCare posters, DivorceCare publicity brochures or DivorceCare CDs among items for sale.
"We believe there is no healing without Christ," Gunn says of DivorceCare's goals, which is a long way from the days when many churches routinely taught Christianity forbids divorce and remarriage.
Gunn says the Biblical grounds for divorce include infidelity and physical abuse. A "non-believer" who wants out of the marriage or enters into a different lifestyle, including long-term substance abuse, can also be grounds for divorce. Remarriage, she says, should not happen unless a person has exhausted all attempts to reconcile with the original spouse or if the ex-spouse remarries.
Increasingly, churches are accepting the fact that the divorce rate among church members can be as high as the divorce rate of the general population. Eight area churches are currently running or have recently completed DivorceCare workshops.
About 4,000 people attend Northwoods, Gunn says. She estimates the divorce rate of the congregation mirrors the national average of about 50 percent.
However, Northwoods' Divorce-Care program is not just for Northwoods' members. Non-members are welcome, though Davies suspects, of the recent group, more are members than not.
Northwoods' DivorceCare facilitators are volunteers but they must have experienced divorce in order to work with the program. Davies was divorced nine years ago. She and her current husband, Jeff, are the main leaders of DivorceCare at Northwoods.
"I wish I would've had something like this when I went through my divorce," she says.
With each new DivorceCare session, she has learned the faces and names may change but the stories are essentially the same.
The healing begins, she says, when participants realize they're not alone.


Master class from professor Yoon.
During his visititng Professor Yoon performe a master class operation and read an incredible lecture.
Rector of TashPMI meets with professor Yoon.
February 1-8, will be meeting with Professor of the Department Obstetrics and Gynecology Yoon Joohee, from the St. Vincent Hospital, Katholic University of Korea.
Staff of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology participated in a scientific seminar.


When asked recently about playing at Baltusrol, Jack Nicklaus remembered the classic, tree-lined layout as a "thinking-player's golf course" where ball placement and patience should be the key to this week's 87th PGA Championship.
The Golden Bear apparently didn't receive the memo.
Baltusrol's par-5 17th has been stretched to 650 yards, the longest hole in major championship history. Since Lee Janzen's 1993 U.S. Open victory at Baltusrol, 14 holes at Baltusrol have been extended a total of 240 yards.
An original Baltusrol routing measured 6,003 yards, for the 1903 U.S. Open. The sprawling, par-70 Lower Course used this week checks in at 7,392 yards. The brawny 17th is sure to be on everyone's mind.
It's a wonder the tee and green have the same ZIP code.
Even at Castle Pines, a 652-yard par-5 would be a difficult test. Baltusrol sits near sea level.
Golfers also will be greeted by two par-4s of more than 500 yards. Three of the four par-3s are at least 212 yards.
"If you don't drive it well, you're cooked," said Mark Calcavecchia, who tied for 25th in the 1993 U.S. Open.
Touring pros have flocked to Baltusrol to get in early practice rounds. Although Baltusrol has hosted seven U.S. Opens, this will be its first PGA Championship.
Phil Mickelson prepared for the year's final major championship with a round at Baltusrol last Monday before flying to Colorado to play in The International. Tiger Woods also practiced Monday at Baltusrol.
The 2005 PGA Championship initially was pegged for The Country Club in Brookline, Mass., but it was switched in 2002 to Baltusrol when officials at The Country Club suggested they lacked enough acreage for PGA Championship hospitality requirements and the anticipated crowds.
Depending on the wind, heat and humidity, it may feel that long.
The course: The land was owned by Louis Keller when he decided to build a golf course in 1895 that he called Baltusrol. A.W. Tillinghast plowed over the course and built the Lower and Upper courses in 1922. It has held seven U.S. Opens, tied for the most with Oakmont. This will be its first PGA Championship.
Tom Kensler can be reached at 303-820-5456 or tkensler@denverpost.com.


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The Family Therapist Professional Journey
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Revolutionary Violence, Reformation and Reaction in Europe, 1349-1452: Part Two Leave a comment
Part Two: Bohemian Fantasies…
Central-Eastern Europe in the Fifteenth Century
By the end of the fourteenth century, the Ottomans had continued to push well into the Balkans. In 1396 a Hungarian-French crusade sent to relieve the Byzantines had been destroyed at the Battle of Nicopolis: the Empire was only saved by the intervention of the Mongol leader Timur, who destroyed the Ottoman army near Ankara and imprisoned Sultan Bayezid. The Ottoman hold on Thrace was weakened and the Byzantines even recovered some territory, most notably Salonica, which they held until 1423, when, with Imperial troops unable to secure its defence, it was handed over to the Venetians.
The demand for reform in Bohemia initiated by Jan Milic and Matthew of Janov was carried on by other preachers and was further stimulated by the teaching and example of Wyclif, whose works had become known there from 1382 onwards, as a result of the marriage of Anne of Bohemia to Richard II of England. At the turn of the century, it was taken up by Jan Hus, himself an admirer of Wyclif, who voiced it so effectively that the significance of the movement ceased to be purely local and became as wide as Latin Christendom.
Jan Hus (1374-1415) achieved fame as a martyr for the cause of church reform and Czech nationalism. He was ordained a priest in 1401, and spent much of his career teaching at the Charles University in Prague, and preaching at the Bethlehem Chapel, close to the university. Like his reforming predecessors, Hus was a popular preacher whose favourite theme was the corruption and worldliness of the clergy. But an unusual combination of gifts made him at once the Rector of the University, the spiritual leader of the common people and an influential figure at the court. This gave his protests great weight. He also carried these protests further than any of his predecessors, for when (unofficial) Pope John XIII sent emissaries to Prague to preach a 'crusade' against his spiritual enemy, the King of Naples, and to grant indulgences to those who contributed money to the cause, Hus revolted against the papal commands. Like Wyclif before him, he proclaimed that when papal decrees ran counter to the law of Christ as expressed in the Scriptures, the faithful ought not to obey them, and he launched against the sale of indulgences a campaign which roused nation-wide excitement.
In his writing and public preaching, Hus emphasised personal piety and purity of life. He was heavily indebted to the works of Wyclif. He stressed the role of Scripture as an authority in the church and consequently lifted preaching to an important status in church services. In the process, he became a national hero. In his chief work, On the Church, he defined the church as the body of Christ, with Christ as its only head. Although he defended the traditional authority of the clergy, he taught that only God can forgive sin.
Hus believed that neither popes nor cardinals could establish doctrine which was contrary to Scripture, nor should any Christian obey an order from them which was plainly wrong. He condemned the corruptness of the clergy and criticised his people for worshipping images, belief in false miracles and undertaking 'superstitious pilgrimages'. He criticised the church for withholding the cup of wine from the people during communion and condemned the sale of indulgences. Never an extremist or a rebel, Hus offended simply by refusing blind obedience to his ecclesiastical superiors, but that was enough to cost him his life. Hus was at the centre of lengthy struggles in Prague, and was his case was referred to Rome. Excommunicated in 1412, he was summoned in 1414 to appear before the Ecumenical Council, sitting in Constance in 1415, in order to defend his beliefs. His intention was to persuade the Council by the argument that the Church was truly in need of fundamental reform.
The Council had attracted wide interest, and by 1415 scholars, church dignitaries and various officials had arrived. Even the Greek Orthodox sent representatives. Over the next three years, some forty-five main sessions were held, with scores of lesser committee meetings. Eventually, after a trial in 1415, John XXIII was forced to give up his claim to the papacy. In the same year, Gregory XII resigned, leaving just one pope, the Spanish Benedict XIII. He too was tried and deposed in 1417. No council had achieved so much in healing breaches within the church since the very early general councils. The way was clear to elect one pope who would once again represent all Western Christians. This was done in 1417, and the new pope was Martin V. Besides the Hus case and a few other issues, the Council initiated reforms, but it also prohibited the giving of both bread and wine to all Christians during the Eucharist, a major Hussite demand, and condemned John Wyclif, posthumously, for heresy. His body was disinterred from the holy ground in Lutterworth and burnt in 1427.
It was decreed that further councils should be held and that certain changes should be made in the College of Cardinals, in the bureaucracy of the papacy and in controlling abuses of tithes and indulgences. The real issue, however, was papal power, and here Martin V showed he was a pope of the 'old school', seeking to uphold the absolute authority of the pontiff over all councils and colleges. He was only really interested in administrative reform, not in the reform of religious doctrine and ritual.
Even before the deposition of Richard II, Sigismund was personally acquainted with the House of Lancaster. In 1392, he had met Bolingbroke, the future Henry IV, on the way back from his Lithuanian expedition, when Sigismund was only King of Hungary. In the Battle of Nicopolis of 1396, mentioned above, Henry supported Sigismund with ten thousand soldiers. Henry returned to Hungary as King of England in 1412, as a guest at Sigismund's celebration of his peace with Poland. Then in 1415, as Holy Roman Emperor, Sigismund visited Henry V in England to promote the peace between him and the King of France following the Battle of Agincourt. The German sources contain details of his memorable journey and his stay in Canterbury and London, of his splendid entourage and princely reception at court. He sojourned there for four months, spending part of his time studying the government and constitution (including a visit to the English Parliament), with which he was very impressed.
Meanwhile, the Lollards continued preaching even after Henry IV proclaimed his severe law, de heritico comburendo in 1401. Without the student link between Oxford and Prague, Wyclifism would never have reached Bohemia or, indeed, Hungary. At least one of the Oxford Lollards, Peter Payne, visited Prague, before seeking refuge from the wrath of Sigismund in Moldavia, where he taught Moldavian Hungarians who began the first translation of the Gospels into Hungarian in 1466. The translation of the books of the New Testament has an attached calendar, the first of its kind in Hungary. This calendar contains the names of English saints not to be found in any later Hungarian calendar. According to Sándor Fest (1938), these names point to Payne having been responsible for the translation. According to a report sent to Constantinople in 1451, the Oxford and Prague University Professor had played a major role in the development of Hussite-Wyclifism in central-Eastern Europe:
… in the conception of the true faith and religion he has brought many people to our fold, in Moldovlacia, of course, from among the foreigners there; also from among the Saxons and Hungarians, and very many in Bohemia and England.
Fest claims that the ideas propagated by Wyclif brought about an unparalleled intellectual revolution in Hungary as well as in England.
When set against this background, the complicity of Sigismund in the death of Hus is a matter of controversy, even more so since he had granted Hus a safe-conduct to Constance and protested against his subsequent imprisonment. Hus was tried and then condemned to be burned at the stake without any real opportunity to explain his views. The reformer was burnt as a heretic during the Emperor's absence from the Council. The core of Hus' 'heresy' was his claim that the Papacy was not a divine but a human institution, that Christ, not the pope, was the true head of the Church, and that an unworthy pope should be deposed. Ironically enough, the same Council which condemned Hus had indeed just deposed Pope John XXIII on the grounds of simony, murder, sodomy and fornication.
Contemporary records indicate that, at the Council, Sigismund received the English delegates with demonstrative kindness, but was far less gracious to the French. After the Council he continued to be interested in everything happening in England, an interest which had not only a sentimental but a political foundation, for at one time he was working with the House of Lancaster towards the common end of finding a permanent solution to the Lollard-Hussite 'problem'. Could it have been political expediency, arising out of the change from Yorkist to Lancastrian monarchs in England, which pushed Sigismund into taking a tougher line with Hus and his followers? The reign of Sigismund was also favourable for Anglo-Hungarian commercial relations. The Hungarian sources contain repeated references to English merchants arriving in Buda, or of merchants shipping silver and hides from Hungary to England.
Source: Wikipaedia
Hus' heroic death nevertheless aroused the national feelings of the Czech people and turned the unrest in Bohemia into a national reformation. For the first time, and a full century before Luther, a nation challenged the authority of the Church as represented by pope and council. During the years 1415-18, the Czechs established their own Hussite church throughout Bohemia, with the support of the barons and King Wenceslas. In effect, the existing Church hierarchy was largely replaced by a national church which was no longer controlled from Rome but was under the patronage of the secular powers of Bohemia. At the same time, at the urging of a former follower of Hus, Jakoubek of Stríbro, it was decided that henceforth laymen, as well as the clergy, should receive Holy Communion in both kinds, bread and wine.
These were far-reaching changes, but they did not, in themselves, amount to a formal break with the Church of Rome. On the contrary, they were conceived as reforms to which it was hoped to win over the Church as a whole. If the Roman Church, still meeting in Constance, had concurred in this reform, the Czech nobility, the Masters of the University and many of the common people would have been satisfied. But the Council of Constance rejected the Hussite proposal on the Eucharist. In 1419 King Wenceslas, under pressure from Emperor Sigismund (his brother) and Pope Martin V, reversed his policy and abandoned the Hussite cause. Hussite 'propaganda' was restricted, and even utraquism, the doctrine of communion in both kinds was regarded with disfavour by the secular authorities. In the part of Prague known as the New City, the common people, inspired by the former monk and ardent Hussite, Jan Zelivsky, became increasingly restive. When, in July 1419, Wenceslas removed all Hussite councillors from the government of the New City, the populace rose up, stormed the town hall and threw the new councillors from the windows. Seven of them were killed in what became known as the First Defenestration of Prague.
This unsuccessful attempt to suppress the Hussite movement greatly strengthened the radical tendencies within it. From the start, it had included people whose aims went far beyond those of the nobility or of the Masters of the University. The great majority of these belonged to the lower social strata, including cloth-workers, tailors, brewers and smiths, together with artisans of many trades. The part played by these people was so striking that Catholic polemicists could even pretend that the whole Hussite movement had, from the very beginning, been financed by the artisan guilds. It would have been truer to say that the general upheaval in Bohemia encouraged social unrest amongst the artisans. This was particularly the case in Prague. The success of the insurrection enormously increased the power of the guilds and the artisans, who expelled large numbers of Catholics, appropriating their houses and property and many of their offices and privileges. The monasteries were also dissolved and much of their wealth passed to the City of Prague, which also benefited the artisans. This made the New City a centre of radical influence.
Although it was the guilds that organised and directed the radical reformation in Prague, the rank-and-file were largely drawn not from the skilled artisans but from the lowest strata of the population – the heterogeneous mass of journeymen, unskilled workers, indentured servants, beggars, prostitutes and criminals. By 1419-20 the great majority of the population of Prague, which was between thirty and forty thousand, were on starvation wages. The radical wing of the Hussite movement was largely recruited from this harassed proletariat. This 'wing' began to split off from the more conservative one and to develop along lines of its own. Faced with the new, persecutory policy of King Wenceslas, a number of radical priests began to organise congregations outside the parish system, on various hilltops in southern Bohemia. There they gave communion in both kinds and preached against the abuses of the Church of Rome. These congregations soon turned into permanent settlements where life was lived in conscious imitation of the original Christian communities portrayed in the New Testament.
These communities formed an embryonic society which was wholly outside the feudal order and which attempted to regulate its affairs on the basis of brotherly love instead of force. The most important of these settlements was on a hill near to the River Luznica. The spot was renamed 'Mount Tábor' after the dome-shaped mountain in Palestine, 1,800 feet above sea level, where Christ was thought to have been transfigured, and where he met and 'camped' with Moses and Elijah (Mark 9: 2-13; Matt. 17; Luke 9: 29; 2 Pet. 1: 16). The name became attached to the radical Hussites themselves and they became known to their contemporaries as 'Táborites'. They were particularly anti-German, since most of the prosperous merchants in the Czech towns were German and staunch Catholics. Also, whereas most of the moderate Utraquists clung in most respects to traditional Catholic doctrine, the Táborites affirmed the right of every individual, layman or priest, to interpret the scriptures according to their own conscience. Many of them rejected the dogma of purgatory, dismissed prayers and masses for the dead as vain superstitions, saw nothing to venerate in the relics or images of saints and treated many of the rites and rituals of the Church with contempt. They also refused to take oaths, which brought them into conflict with the civil authorities. They insisted that nothing which could not be found in Holy Scripture should be treated as an article of faith.
The Táborites aimed at a national reformation which, unlike the original Hussite one, would involve a complete break with Rome. In October and November 1419, Táborites from all over Bohemia congregated in Prague, where their leaders tried to win over the Hussite magistrates and university masters to their more radical 'programme'. They were unsuccessful, and soon the Hussites as a whole were confronted with a more ruthless opposition. King Wenceslas had died in August, from shock at the killing of the councillors, and the great Hussite nobles joined their Catholic colleagues to secure the succession for Wenceslas' brother, the Emperor Sigismund, as well as to deal with the radicals in their own movement. The Prague magistrates threw their weight on the conservative side. They agreed to preserve the Utraquist communion, but also to suppress the Táborites. From November 1419, for several months thereafter, the radicals were isolated from their national movement and exposed to savage persecution aimed at their extermination. As a result, apocalyptic and millenarian fantasies took on a new dynamism among them.
A number of former priests, led by Martin Huska, also known as Loquis because of his extraordinary eloquence, began to preach openly the coming of a great consummation, announcing that the time had arrived when all evil must be abolished in preparation for the Millennium. They prophesied that, between 10 and 14 February 1420, every town and village would be destroyed by fire, like Sodom, and that throughout Christendom, the wrath of God would overtake everyone who did not flee to the mountains, the five towns in Bohemia that had become Táborite strongholds. Multitudes of the poor folk sold their belongings and, moving to these towns with their families, threw their money at the feet of the preachers. These people saw themselves as entering the final struggle against Antichrist and his hosts, as a letter and song distributed at the time reveals:
There are five of these cities, which will not enter into agreements with the Antichrist or surrender to him.
Faithful ones, rejoice in God! Give him honour and praise, that he has pleased to preserve us and graciously liberate us from the evil Antichrist and his cunning army…
No longer content to await the destruction of the godless by a miracle, the preachers called upon the faithful to carry out the necessary purification of the earth themselves. One of them, a graduate of Prague University called John Capek, wrote a tract which is said to have been fuller of blood than a pond is of water in which he demonstrated, by quoting the Old Testament, that it was the inescapable duty of the Elect to kill in the name of the Lord. This work was used as a polemical armoury by other preachers to urge their congregations on to massacre. They declared that no pity must be shown towards sinners, for all sinners were enemies of Christ:
Accursed be the man who withholds his sword from shedding the blood of the enemies of Christ. Every believer must wash his hands in that blood… Every priest may lawfully pursue, wound and kill sinners.
The sins which were to be punished by death included, as previously in such massacres, 'avarice' and 'luxury', but also any and every form of opposition to the men of the Divine Law. These Táborites, therefore, considered all their opponents to be sinners who must be exterminated. By no means all the evidence for this bloodthirstiness being enacted comes from hostile sources. One of the more pacific Táborites lamented the change that had come over so many of his colleagues. Satan, he observed, had seduced them into regarding themselves as angels who must purify Christ's world of all scandals and who were destined to sit in judgement over the world, on the strength of which they committed many killings and impoverished many people. A Latin tract written by one of the millenarians themselves confirms all this: The just… will now rejoice, seeing vengeance and washing their hands in the blood of sinners.
The most extreme members of the movement went still further in maintaining that anyone who did not help them in liberating the truth and destroying sinners was himself a member of the hosts of Satan and Antichrist and therefore fit only for annihilation. For the hour of vengeance had come, when the imitation of Christ meant no longer an imitation of his mercy but only of his rage, cruelty and vengefulness. As avenging angels of God and warriors of Christ, the Elect must kill all, without exception, who did not belong to their community.
The millenarian excitement was encouraged by developments in the political situation. In March 1420, the truce between the moderate Hussites and Emperor Sigismund was terminated and a Catholic army, international in composition but predominantly German and Magyar, invaded Bohemia. The Czechs had never accepted Sigismund as their king after the death of his brother, Wenceslas. The country embarked on a de facto Interregnum which was to last until 1436. It also embarked on a War of Independence in which, under a military commander of real genius, Jan Zizka, it fought off the invaders in a series of battles. Zizka was a Táborite, and it was they who bore the brunt of the struggle. At least in the early stages, they never doubted that they were living through the consummation of time, the extermination of all evils beyond which lay the Millennium.
They were convinced that while they were cleansing the earth of all sinners, Christ would descend in glory and great power. Then would come the 'messianic banquet', which would be held in the holy mountains, after which Christ would take the place of the unworthy Emperor Sigismund and reign among his saints in the transformed millennial realm. Both the Church and the State would disappear, there would be no law nor coercion, and the egalitarian State of Nature would be recreated.
Prague, now the stronghold of the supporters of the evil Emperor Sigismund, became an object os special detestation to the Táborites. They now called it 'Babylon', the birthplace of Antichrist and demonic counterpart of Jerusalem, and regarded it as the embodiment of the sins of 'Luxury' and 'Avarice', the downfall of which had been foretold in the Book of Revelation as the harbinger of the Second Coming. That might be indefinitely delayed, the traditional social order might remain unchanged, every real chance of an egalitarian revolution might disappear, but still the fantasies lingered on. As late as 1434 a speaker at a Táborite assembly declared that however unfavourable the circumstances might be at present, the moment would soon come when the Elect must arise and exterminate their enemies – the lords in the first place and then any of their own people who were of doubtful loyalty or usefulness. That done, with Bohemia fully in their control, they must proceed at whatever cost in bloodshed to conquer first the neighbouring and then all other territories: For that is what the Romans did, and in that way they came to dominate the whole world.
Early in 1420, communal chests had been set up at certain centres under the control of the Táborite priests, and thousands of peasants and artisans throughout Bohemia and Moravia sold all their belongings and paid the proceeds into these chests. Many of these people joined the Táborite armies to lead, as propertyless nomadic warriors of Christ, a life much like that of the pauperes of the People's Crusades of previous centuries. Many others settled in the five towns which became Taborite strongholds and formed what were intended to be completely egalitarian communities, held together by brotherly love alone and holding all things in common. The first of these was formed, at the beginning of 1420, at Písek in southern Bohemia, and the second came into being in February 1420, shortly after the Second Coming failed to materialise as predicted. A force of Táborites then captured the town of Ústi on the River Luznika, in the neighbourhood of the hill which, the year before, had been re-named Mount Tábor. The fortress they built on a promontory in the river was also named Tábor. Jan Zizka then abandoned his headquarters at Plzen and moved to Tábor with his army of followers. Tábor and Písek then became the main strongholds of the movement, with Tabor becoming the more millenarian of the two. It began inaugurating the 'Golden Age' by outlawing all private property.
Above: Jan Žižka with a Hussite priest looking over Prague after the Battle of Vítkov Hill
When the funds in the communal chests became exhausted, however, the radicals declared that they were entitled to take whatever belonged to the enemies of God, at first from the clergy, nobility and rich merchants, but soon from anyone who was not a Táborite. Thenceforth, many of Zizka's campaigns became pillages, and the more moderate Táborites complained at their synod that many communities never think of earning their own living by the work of their hands but are only willing to live on other people's property and to undertake unjust campaigns for the sole purpose of robbing. In the spring of 1420, the Táborites enthusiastically proclaimed the abolition of all feudal bonds, dues and services, but by October they were driven by their own economic plight to set about collecting their own dues from the peasants in the territories which they controlled. When they were forced to increase these, the peasants found they were worse off than they had been under their former lords. Again, a synod of the moderate Taborites made the following striking complaint:
Almost all the communities harass the common people of the neighbourhood in quite inhuman fashion, oppress them like tyrants and pagans and extort rent from pitilessly even from the truest believers, and that although some of these people are of the same faith as themselves, are exposed to the same dangers of war along with them and are cruelly ill-treated and robbed by the enemy.
As the fortunes of war swung one way or another, these 'common people' found themselves caught between the two marauding armies, at times having to pay dues to the Táborites, and at other times to their old feudal lords. They were also being constantly penalised by both sides for collaborating with the enemy, as the 'allies of tyrants' on the one hand, or 'the friends of heretics' on the other. When under the control of the Taborites they were treated as landless serfs, being compelled by every means and especially by fire to carry out their orders. Though the Táborites had challenged the feudal order more effectively than any group before them, by the end of the war the Bohemian peasantry was weaker than it had been before and the nobility was stronger and better able to reimpose serfdom.
Above: Escape of King Sigismund from Kutná Hora
Nevertheless, from March 1420 onwards the Táborites were involved in the national Hussite war against the invading German and Hungarian armies, helping the 'mainstream' Utraquist Hussites of Prague to defend the City for several months. Zizka himself was neither a millenarian nor an egalitarian and, coming from the ranks of the lower nobility, he saw to it that his commanding officers were all men who came from the same background. When the Táborite priests returned to Tábor in the autumn, they were more concerned to elect a 'bishop' to administer the community chest than with 'the Golden Age' and the Millennium. Small groups of social revolutionaries continued to carry out their bloody and often bizarre practices in the countryside throughout the following year, keeping Zizka's army distracted from their true cause, but by 1422 social revolution had become a secondary priority for the Taborite movement as a whole.
A counter-revolution put an end to the artisans' ascendancy in Prague and thereafter effective power lay increasingly with the patricians and the wider nobility. But beyond the frontiers of the Czech lands, the teaching and example of the Bohemian revolutionaries continued to work upon the imaginations of the discontented poor, and everywhere the rich and privileged, clerics and laymen alike, were obsessed by the fear that the spread of Taborite or Hussite influence would result in a revolution which would overthrow the whole social order.
It was in Germany that the Táborites had most chance to exert influence, for in 1430 their armies penetrated as far as Leipzig, Bamberg and Nuremberg. When at Mainz, Bremen, Constance, Weimar and Stettin the guilds rose up against the patricians, the disorders were blamed on the Táborites. in 1431 the patricians of Ulm called upon the towns allied with them to join together in a new crusade against Hussite Bohemia. They pointed out that there were revolutionary elements in Germany which had much in common with the Táborites. It would be all to easy for the rebellion of the poor to spread from Bohemia into Germany. If it did, it would be the patricians in the towns who would have the most to lose. The General Council of Basle, meeting the same year, also expressed its concern about the possibility of the common people of Germany entering into an alliance with the Táborites and seizing Church property. These fears may have been exaggerated and premature, but the chronicles of the next hundred years were to show that they were not without foundation.
Above. The Battle of Lipany
In 1434 the Taborite army was defeated and almost annihilated in the Battle of Lipany, not by an army of German and Hungarian Catholics, but one of Bohemian Utraquist Hussites. From then onwards the strength of the Táborite movement rapidly declined. The town of Tábor itself was eventually taken by George of Poděbrady in 1452, who became King of Bohemia. Utraquist religious worship was established there. In the 15th and 16th centuries, the town continued to include most of the strongest opponents of Rome in Bohemia. The Bohemian Brethren (Unitas Fratrum), whose intellectual originator was Petr Chelčický, but whose actual founders were Brother Gregory, a nephew of Archbishop Rokycany, and Michael, curate of Žamberk, to a certain extent continued the Táborite traditions into the next generations.
Above: John Amos Comenius
(Czech: Jan Amos Komenský; 28 March 1592 – 15 November 1670)
The Hussites agreed to submit to the authority of the King of Bohemia and the Catholic Church and were allowed to practice their somewhat variant Utraquist rite. J. A. Komenský (Comenius), a member of the Moravian Brethren, claimed for the members of his church that they were the genuine inheritors of the doctrines of Hus. After the beginning of the German Reformation, many Utraquists adapted to a large extent to the doctrines of Martin Luther, Zwingli and Calvin. The Hussite reformers were closely associated with the resistance of the Czechs to German Protestant domination in the sixteenth century, but from the end of that century, the inheritors of the Hussite tradition in Bohemia were included in the more general name of "Protestants" borne by the adherents of the Reformation. The Utraquist creed, frequently varying in its details, continued to be that of the established church of Bohemia until all non-Catholic religious services were prohibited shortly after the Battle of the White Mountain in 1620. The Moravian Brethren went on to have a major influence on the development of Wesleyan Methodism in England and Wales in the eighteenth century.
Sigismund was finally crowned Emperor in Rome on 31 May 1433, and after obtaining his demands from the Pope returned to Bohemia, where he was recognized as king in 1436, though his power was little more than nominal. Shortly after he was crowned, Pope Eugenius began attempts to create a new anti-Ottoman alliance, but Sigismund died the following year, hated by the Czech people as a whole, if not by the Germans and Hungarians he had also ruled after.
In the Reformation of Sigismund, written by an anonymous contemporary in 1439 (see above), the Emperor is made to make a posthumous pronouncement about how God bade him prepare the way for a priest-king who was to be none other than Frederick of Latnaw, the possible author of the book, who, as Emperor Frederick, would reveal himself as a monarch of unparalleled might and majesty. Any moment now Frederick's standard and that of the Empire would be set up, with the Cross between them; and then every prince and lord and every city would have to declare for Frederick, on pain of forfeiting property and freedom. 'Sigismund' goes on to describe how he sought for this Frederick of Latnaw until he found him at the Council of Basle (1431), in a priest whose poverty was equal to that of Christ. He had given him a robe and entrusted him with the government of all Christendom. For this Frederick, he claims, will reign over a dominion which will reach from sea to sea and none will be able to withstand him. He will tread all trouble and wrong-doing underfoot, will destroy the wicked and consume them by fire. By 'the wicked' are meant those corrupted by money, simoniac priests and avaricious merchants. Under his rule, the common people will rejoice to find justice established and all their desires of soul and body satisfied.
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John H. Y. Briggs, Robert D. Linder, David F. Wright (1977), The History of Christianity. Berkhamsted: Lion Publishing.
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import unittest

import colander

from cornice_swagger.swagger import DefinitionHandler
from cornice_swagger.converters import convert_schema as convert

class MyListSchema(colander.SequenceSchema):
    entry = colander.SchemaNode(colander.String())

class BoredoomSchema(colander.MappingSchema):
    motivators = MyListSchema()
    status = colander.SchemaNode(colander.String(),
                                 validator=colander.OneOf(['increasing', 'decrasing']))

class AnxietySchema(colander.MappingSchema):
    level = colander.SchemaNode(colander.Integer(),
                                validator=colander.Range(42, 9000))

class FeelingsSchema(colander.MappingSchema):
    bleh = BoredoomSchema()
    aaaa = AnxietySchema()

class DefinitionTest(unittest.TestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        self.handler = DefinitionHandler()

    def test_from_schema(self):
        self.assertDictEqual(self.handler.from_schema(FeelingsSchema()),
                             convert(FeelingsSchema()))

class RefDefinitionTest(unittest.TestCase):

    def test_single_level(self):
        handler = DefinitionHandler(ref=1)
        ref = handler.from_schema(FeelingsSchema(title='Feelings'))

        self.assertEquals(ref, {'$ref': '#/definitions/Feelings'})
        self.assertDictEqual(handler.definition_registry['Feelings'],
                             convert(FeelingsSchema(title='Feelings')))

    def test_multi_level(self):
        handler = DefinitionHandler(ref=-1)

        ref1 = handler.from_schema(FeelingsSchema(title='Feelings'))
        self.assertEquals(ref1, {'$ref': '#/definitions/Feelings'})

        feelings_schema = {
            'properties': {
                'aaaa': {'$ref': '#/definitions/Aaaa'},
                'bleh': {'$ref': '#/definitions/Bleh'}
            }
        }
        self.assertDictContainsSubset(feelings_schema,
                                      handler.definition_registry['Feelings'])

        self.assertDictContainsSubset(convert(AnxietySchema()),
                                      handler.definition_registry['Aaaa'])

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Usman Khawaja has admitted his brother's arrest as part of an investigation into a notebook allegedly outlining plans to kill senior politicians has been weighing heavily on his mind during a form slump on the cricket field.
Arsalan Khawaja was charged with perverting the course of justice and forgery making a document, after an alleged terror hit list was found including Malcolm Turnbull's name, which led to the arrest of a UNSW employee.
Arsalan Khawaja was granted bail before being re-arrested and charged with attempting to influence a witness.
The initial charges were filed in early December, just as Usman Khawaja was preparing for the first Test of the summer against India.
In an inexperienced batting line-up, Khawaja was supposed to be the guiding light, with his 35 Test caps easily eclipsing anyone else in the top six.
He was also coming off a brilliant couple of innings against Pakistan in the UAE, which included a match-saving knock of 141 in the first game. At that time it was Australia's only Test ton since the Ashes.
But as the series against India wore on, Khawaja could not recapture his form, scoring just 198 runs across eight innings, with only one half-century.
He started the two-Test series against Sri Lanka in a similar vein, with 11 and 0 at the Gabba and the first innings at Manuka Oval, before breaking the shackles with 101 not out in the second dig.
After the day-three century, Khawaja admitted how much he had struggled focusing amid everything going on off the field.
"It's been tough. It's something you don't expect to happen," he said.
"My family's very close to me and I'm very close to my family, so at some level I think it made it tougher to just go out and try to concentrate and execute my skills.
Khawaja credited wife Rachel with helping him overcome his struggles.
"Just being around and trying to take my mind off things," he said.
The spotlight on Khawaja's search for runs has been intensified by a lean stretch for the rest of the team, with no centuries scored by an Australian batsman until four came in a rush in Canberra.
But a horrible situation off the field could not be considered the only reason for the 41-Test veteran's difficulties with the bat.
He was also recovering from a torn ACL that saw him miss a long stretch between October's Tests in the UAE and the home series against India and Sri Lanka.
He said he was feeling OK physically on his return, but it was a battle to regain the form he had created overseas.
"I still felt alright, but I felt like I lost a little bit of momentum in those six weeks I was out," he said.
On the subject of not looking too far ahead, Australia still needs 10 wickets on Monday and/or Tuesday to secure victory against Sri Lanka, after Khawaja's ton helped the team build a lead that sat at 498 runs after day three.


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Major News and Events of 18 July 2014
What Happened on 18 July 2014
18 July 2014 Current Events 1993 Surat twin blast cases: Supreme Court acquits 11 men
Eleven people have been acquitted by the Supreme Court of India, who were earlier convicted and sent to jail for a term of 10 to 20 years in 1993 Surat twin blast cases. One girl was killed and 31 others were injured in the twin blasts. The order was passed by the bench headed by Justice T. S. Thakur on the appeals filed by the accused and the government of Gujarat, which challenged the verdict of the TADA court.
United Bank to 'Name and Shame' its defaulters
In an effort to recover the dues, the United Bank of India will start a process to 'name and shame' its wilful defaulters. It will publish the photographs of the defaulters along with other related details in the newspapers. Deepak Narang, executive director of the bank said, "Since the Supreme Court has recently permitted banks to name and shame wilful defaulters. Now the bank would initiate process". The bank has recently declared Vijay Mallya and other three directors of Kingfisher Airlines as wilful defaulters.
DataWind and BSNL combo offer for tablet and free internet
DataWind has joined hands with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) and is offering free unlimited internet service to the buyers of its tablets, UbiSlate 7Cz and UbiSlate3G7. To increase its market share, the company has extended its partnership with BSNL to offer internet access on its tablets. DataWind and UniverCell have also joined hands, so that the tablets for the company should be easily made available in Southern India. More than 500 retail outlets of UniverCell will be selling the products for the company.
Saina Nehwal pulled out of Commonwealth games due to fitness issues
Women's single badminton champion of Commonwealth games, Saina Nehwal has been pulled out of the Commonwealth Games, scheduled to be held in Glasgow, due to lack of fitness and her inability to recover from the blisters on her feet. Saina suffered from a groin injury during her victory series in the Australian Open. Saina said over the issue, "I just have a few issues like not being fit and during Australia, I got the blisters and got injured. It took time for me to recover and so I am withdrawing from the CWG".
Rs. 35,000 crore spent by central government under SC/ST sub-plan 2013-14
25 ministries and departments of the government have spent Rs. 35,800.60 crore under the SC/ST sub-plan in the last fiscal year. This was informed by the Planning Minister Rao Inderjit Singh in a written reply to the Parliament. As per Singh, there are certain schemes which are not possible under similar programmes such as village electrification, bifurcation of allocation made on the basis of caste and gender and benefit to the poor households of SC/ST families. He also said that there are few ministries that have not been allocated any funds under the sub-plan as they come under the exempted class as made up by the Planning Commission.
BJP legislator from Delhi sends legal notice to Kejriwal
R.P. Singh, former Delhi CM and a BJP legislator, has sent a legal notice to Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal asking him to pay a compensation of Rs. 1 crore for hampering BJP's image as he has made "baseless" allegations of horse-trading against the party. Singh said, "I had no other option but to send Kejriwal a legal notice for defamation since he has levelled baseless charges against the BJP of indulging in horse-trading to form the government in Delhi". He has also asked Kejriwal to issue a public apology within seven days for the false allegations he has made.
RBI issues draft guidelines on payments and small banks
The Reserve Bank of India has issued draft guidelines for licencing of the small banks and payments banks. Views and comments are sought by the Central Bank regarding the draft guidelines from the general public and interested parties. Non-banking finance companies (NBFCs), mobile telephone companies, pre-paid instrument issuers (PPIs), real sector cooperatives are a few of the entities which are eligible for setting up a payment bank. Small bank can be set up by entities such as micro finance institutions, NBFCs and individuals with experience of ten years or more in banking finance.
1993 Surat twin blast cases: Supreme Court acquits 11 men


I have a problem with my WiFi which I suspect is either hardware related or some driver issue. I have a computer that is connected via wireless USB adapter. At random times, the network will slow down massively (as in simple HTTP requests will take over 30 seconds until the page is fully loaded). The connection is never lost completely, just slow to the point where Windows says "connected, but no internet access".
During this time, on my router, there is a huge increase in wifi traffic sent from the router (green waves). Being the only client connected, I can rule out other devices which could cause this.
Also, simply disconnecting and reconnecting to the network will reduce the packets sent immediately to the normal level (as seen in the middle of the graphic where I reconnected).
How do I go about finding the root cause of this problem? Anything I should look out for? Packets? It happens randomly with no specific trigger and I'm clueless as to what is going on and why a simple reconnect fixes it.
Take a packet capture with Wireshark or tshark.
Open the file in Wireshark. Go to Statistics > Conversations and look at the Ethernet, IPv4, and IPv6 sections. Sort by the Addresses/Packets column to see the src/dst MAC/IP that are producing the most traffic.
Depending on how much you care about this, you may want to take a monitor-mode packet capture (tshark -I) on a device that supports it to see if there's an 802.11 problem. Whether you have access to raw wireless traffic is dependent on your device (most Windows devices don't permit access, but Macos/Linux do).
And if that doesn't show you anything, the traffic might not be IP traffic, in which case try the misnamed "Ethernet" conversation, which really means "802.x/FDDI-style MAC", which includes 802.11 as well as Ethernet (and Token Ring and FDDI and...).


For my grandson's 11th birthday I decided to make a guitar cake as he is taking lessons and enjoys it so much. When he wasn't home I took a picture of his guitar and amplifier, and traced the guitar on paper that I had taped together to make it long enough. I wanted to make the cake look like his guitar.
I cut out the drawing and placed it on the cake as a pattern for cutting the guitar shape. I made a big cake in a large pan with 2 boxes of white cake. I made a 9X13 marble cake for the amplifier, and cut about 2 inches off of the length. The neck and end of the guitar was spice/carrot cake. I used a large plastic baggie, so that I could see through it to trace the white top on the guitar for a pattern to cut the fondant. I put the cake pieces together and crumb frosted the cake.
I used black shoestring licorice for the strings. The shoestring licorice is the only licorice long enough for a life size guitar. I used a licorice stick for the handle on the amplifier. I used my computer to write the Happy 11th Birthday Colby across the front of the amplifier before I printed the picture. To put the picture on the cake, I laminated it first and then frosted the cake topping it with the larger decorative white sugar. You have to use enough so that the picture won't pick up the frosting on the cake, when you remove the picture.
I also covered life savers with foil to make the place for the licorice string to go through and into the cake. I attached the licorice strings to a roll of life savers, with hot glue at the ends. The knobs on the white face of the cake are water bottle tops with white frosting on the inside. The white face of the cake is fondant (I frosted the cake underneath), and I used the largest silver dragees I could find (at Pila's Pantry in Norco CA) for the little screws that attached that piece to the guitar. I use a pointed shaped cap from a Melt To Use Candy Writer for the little lever that moves on the front of the guitar. I poked little holes in the fondant and pushed in the dragess, just a little, where I needed them.
I used the red sugar sprinkles to make the shiny red face of the guitar. I found a little silver cowboy hat at Pila's Pantry and turned it upside down to make the place for the amp cord. (licorice string) I hot glued the licorice to the inside of the hat. I probably could have used frosting. On the other end of the licorice amp cord I used a silver twist tie. I take anything off the cake that is not edible before I cut the cake.
I used paper towel around the cake to keep the red sprinkles from getting on the cake board. You can tear pieces easily to fit around it. After removing the paper towel pieces carefully, I put the borders on the cake. I made sure I removed any sugar that would keep the top border from sticking to the top of the cake. You can use a small knife to scrap off the sugar on the top edge of the cake. I also used cinnamon and sugar to look like the wood part at the top end of the cake. This was really a fun cake to make.
Wow! That is undoubtedly the coolest cake I've ever seen. You are truly a grandma who rocks. Thanks for giving the detailed instructions. It's absolutely creative and groovy! I can't believe that you did that from making a picture of his REAL guitar and amp. It's the greatest. Loved the strings and details on it.
Your love for Colby obviously inspired the terrific creation for his 11th birthday! So much work!!!
You are an amazing Grandma!
I LOVE your cake! :) To be able to create something so special from just a picture is such a gift! You are so talented!!! :) Great job!!!!
Your grandkids must think they have the coolest grandma ever. What a great birthday cake. I bet they hated to cut into the cake. You are so talented and creative. I think you can make a career out of all your creative talents. You're amazing!
Great job! Everyone will be impressed with this cake!!! What a great concept!!! Great for all ages… And everyone who loves guitars!
Congratulations on the wonderful reviews!
Wow, this is amazing! You're giving me good ideas for the future, so I can be this cool w/my grandson!


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Evensky: Strategies for Securing Your Retirement
Morningstar - In a special one-on-one conversation with Morningstar's Christine Benz, noted financial planner Harold Evensky discusses how to maximize savings, build sustainable retirement income, and plan for longevity.
Now I'll introduce Harold. He is a professor of personal financial planning at Texas Tech University. He is chairman of the firm Evensky & Katz/Foldes Financial, and he has won many, many awards as one of the best financial planners in the U.S. Really, too many to mention here, but he's been on many of those lists. And we're very privileged to have him here today.
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Video walls are useful to display large size video content. Empowered video walls combine display functionality with computing power. Such video walls can display large scientific visualizations. If they can also display high-resolution video streamed over a network, they could enable distance collaboration over scientific data. We proposed several methods of network streaming of highresolution video content to a major type of empowered video walls, which is the SAGE2 system. For all methods, we evaluated their performance and discussed their scalability and properties. The results should be applicable to other web-based empowered video walls as well.


So I have decided to draw an fashion outfit for this week. Just something that I believe would be cute to wear to church or something during this summer heat. What do you all think would it be cute to wear something like this or no?


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So What The Hell Just Happened With That Texas Abortion Law?
Erin Gloria Ryan
Earlier this afternoon, Twitter was, uh, a-twitter with news that a judge had struck down that awful Texas law that Wendy Davis filibustered back in June. But it's not all sunshine and roses and dancing in a field wearing adorable matching orange tee shirts; only part of the law was struck down, and the state of Texas has already filed an emergency appeal with the most whackadoodle court in America-land — the Fifth Circuit.
First, the good news: technically, "we" won. Judge Lee Yeakel — a George W Bush appointee — wrote in his ruling that,
The admitting-privileges provision of House Bill 2 does not bear a rational relationship to the legitimate right of the state in preserving and promoting fetal life or a woman's health and, in any event, places a substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an abortion of a nonviable fetus and is thus an undue burden to her
This is great! Good! Yay! High fiving is appropriate here!
Next, the meh news: the lawsuit that we "won" didn't address the two other shitburgers aspect of HB2, and thus while Texas' abortion clinics will remain open, the 20 week ban will go into effect tomorrow. This is extra cruel because less than 2% of abortions occur after 20 weeks, and those that do occur after 20 weeks are usually done due to serious complications like birth defects. No woman waltzes willy-nilly into an abortion clinic at 20 weeks and asks the doctor to just real quick pop the fetus out; the procedure at that point is painful and complicated and can have a long recovery process. Texas's ban on medicinal abortions will also partially go into effect.
Rubber faced bozo Rick Perry, who has never had nor will ever have a viable uterus, had the following to say in response to Yeakel's ruling,
Today's decision will not stop our ongoing efforts to protect life and ensure the women of our state aren't exposed to any more of the abortion-mill horror stories that have made headlines recently. We will continue fighting to implement the laws passed by the duly-elected officials of our state, laws that reflect the will and values of Texans.
But now, the shit news. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, who will likely be State Senator Wendy Davis's opponent during next year's gubernatorial elections and who apparently has nothing better to do, has already filed a notice of appeal with the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
This is significant for a few reasons. First, the Fifth Circuit court is notoriously right wing nutty and hostile to abortion rights. In this handy ThinkProgress explainer from earlier this summer, Ian Millhiser details a few whacky things about the court that might make a pro-choice person pucker a little. In the past, the Court has sided with state governments that wish to force doctors to try to convince their patients not to get abortions, regardless of the doctor's opinion as a practitioner of medicine. The Fifth Circuit is also responsible for that ruling that ordered a high school cheerleader to support her rapist from the sidelines, and then fined her.
Dismissed Cheerleader Takes Her Case To The Supreme Court
The high-school cheerleader who was kicked off the squad after refusing to cheer for her alleged…
But it's not all doom and gloom, as the Fifth Circuit has proven they are capable of acting rationally in certain cases. After an injunction was placed on Mississippi's 20-week-ban, the state filed an emergency appeal to the Fifth Circuit in an attempt to get the Court to lift the injunction, but the state's request was denied.
Twenty week bans have been struck down in other states; Arizona's was struck down earlier this year by the Ninth Circuit. But this is a different ballgame, and there's a governorship on the line and no legal expense must be spared in appeasing Texas' foaming right wing with archaic anti-woman policies that will ultimately saddle the state with greater public health costs and women with greater financial burdens, whether they like it or not. And thus the great pro-life pro-freedom fiscal conservative mental gymnastics meet continues apace.
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Much to my dismay/devastation, this past July/August, I became a member of that 2% club (initial diagnosis came at 18 weeks, but took about 2 extra weeks for subsequent testing with multiple experts and actual surgery). My husband I were experiencing grief and despair on a level that I had previously thought was emotionally impossible. I cannot imagine if we had to put even more research into the procedure and then leave the state and be thrust into yet another unknown during such an incredibly fragile and despondent time in our lives. After my procedure, through tears, I thanked the physician for her role, and being there for individuals/couples in their time of need. There was absolutely no part of me that wanted it; the decision shattered my heart and my life into a million pieces; some of which will never, ever be put back together, at least not in the same way. I will never forget the moment I was told my future son (or not so future) was missing half of his brain (amongst other issues). I will also never forget the amazing physicians, nursing staff, genetic counselors and patient administrators at Columbia-NY Presbyterian who together made sure my we never had to handle insurance (they did it all), schedule an appointment (they did it all), and held our hands through the entire process and supported our decision 100%. Their compassion and empathy made me stronger than even I ever thought I could be if thrown into that situation.
I could not imagine having to do all of this in another state. Yet, I also cannot imagine doing it in an environment sans compassion and empathy. This makes me all sorts of ragey, and my heart goes out to every woman in Texas.