Unbeknownst to most people the Baltimore City Council has solved all of the city's problems. At least that's what one might be able to learn from the news coming out of the Council today.
A Baltimore City Council committee voted Tuesday morning to support a bill that would bar restaurants from including sodas and other sugary drinks in kids meals, a move< supporters say could improve children's health.
Under the proposed measure, city restaurants would be required to offer water, milk or real fruit juice on children's menus. They would still be allowed to serve soda to children if accompanying adults order it.
An advocacy group called Sugar Free Kids said the measure could help reduce the amount of sugar in childrens' diets.
You will immediately notice that the bill has absolutely no teeth considering that virtually every kid's meal is ordered by an adult and, therefore, the adult could order the soda on behalf of the child.
A Baltimore City Council committee voted Tuesday morning to advance a ban on polystyrene foam food and drink containers, setting up the environmental measure for likely final passage in coming weeks.
The idea of a ban has been considered before but failed to advance. The current version waited many months to get a hearing, but began moving forward last week.
Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke credited new council members elected in 2016 for the change in the measure's prospects.
"These new people, they sure get things done," Clarke said.
The committee also committed to taking up amendments in front of the full council. One proposes to exempt meat packing plants and prepackaged food sold in supermarkets from the ban. Another would eliminate the possibility of jail time for violators.
You read that correctly; a Baltimore City Council committee, by unanimous vote, passed a bill that would potentially put violators of an ordinance banning the use of styrofoam packaging in jail.
In a city that just made national news by not having a homicide for almost two weeks, in a city where education is mismanaged by inept bureaucrats, in a city where students were going to schools in freezing classrooms and nobody thought much of it, in a city where police corruption just was put on trial, in a city where people are seriously calling for a discussion about dissolving the police department in order to start over again, in a city where people are leaving for the suburbs in droves, and in a city with a host of other problems, the City Council is focusing on soda and styrofoam.
If this doesn't make you angry, it should.
Let's not forget that this has been a sad trend of Baltimore City over the years. Remember when plastic bags were their obsession? What about the focus on building a hotel?
Why does city government always fall into this trap? Do elected officials in Baltimore City feel powerless to fix real problems? Are they as delusional to believe that these laws are going to make a fundamental difference in the lives of city residents? Or are there merely trying to pass legislation, like so many do, in order to justify their massive salaries for what amounts to part-time work.
Since the City Council and City Democrats have been engineering a 50-year war on Baltimore that is still ongoing, maybe they should consider dissolving city government and starting that over, too.
In all seriousness, the focus on these trivial issues by the jokers on the Baltimore City Council shows how little regard Councilmemebers have for the people of the city. Instead of trying to make Baltimore a better place to live, a better place to work, and a better place to raise a family, they are instead focusing all of their energy on cosmetic issues that make their bourgeois, ultraliberal donor base and party activists happy. By doing so they are ignoring the city residents who are doing most of the working, the learning, the living, and the dying in a city that desperately needs its leadership to care about it. But as we know, the members of the City Council don't care one bit about Baltimore, its residents, or its future. Because if they did, they would be focusing their attention on issues like crime, taxes, education, and real business development as opposed to what beverages kids drink and what containers their food comes in. While this level of micromanagement and infringement of liberty may make a handful of people feel better and may be of some value in some tony hamlet somewhere, it's not going to fix what ails Baltimore. And from the looks of their actions and the makeup of the priorities, the jokers on the Baltimore City Councl are ill-equipped to do what it takes to make Baltimore better.


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Ted Morrissey
The Artist Spoke
First Kings and Other Stories
A Concise Summary and Analysis of The Mueller Report
Mrs Saville
Crowsong for the Stricken
An Untimely Frost
Weeping with an Ancient God
Figures in Blue
Trauma Theory As a Method for Understanding Literary Texts
The Beowulf Poet and His Real Monsters
Men of Winter
Short Stories, Essays, Etc.
Autobiographical Note
Tag Archives: novelist
Novelist & Short Story Writer
Posted on April 28, 2010 by Ted Morrissey
Ted Morrissey is the author of the novels The Artist Spoke (2020), Mrs Saville (2018), Crowsong for the Stricken (2017), An Untimely Frost (2014), Men of Winter (2010, re-released 2013), the novelettes The Curvatures of Hurt and Figures in Blue, and the novella Weeping with an Ancient God (Twelve Winters). A new work in progress has been published as First Kings and Other Stories (Wordrunner). Mrs Saville won the Manhattan Book Award. Crowsong for the Stricken won the International Book Award in Literary Fiction from Book Fest, the American Fiction Award in Literary Fiction from American Book Fest, and it was a Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Book of 2017. His short stories, novel excerpts, poems, essays and reviews have appeared in more than eighty journals. He is also the author of three scholarly books: A Concise Summary and Analysis of The Mueller Report (2019), Trauma Theory As a Method for Understanding Literary Texts (Mellen, 2016), and The Beowulf Poet and His Real Monsters (2013), which won Edwin Mellen's D. Simon Evans Prize for Distinguished Scholarship. He holds a PhD in English studies and lives just north of Springfield, Illinois. A William H. Gass scholar, several of his presentations on Gass's work are archived at his 12 Winters Blog.
Contact: jtedmorrissey (at) gmail (dot) com
(January 18, 2021) BlueInk Review has posted a review of The Artist Spoke: "Morrissey's supple sentences are a mini-tutorial on craft, pulling a world of emotion from the smallest image."
(January 10, 2021) My article "Abreat v. Abræd: Reconsidering the Grendel's Mother Episode in Beowulf" has been accepted for publication by the peer-reviewed Academia Letters.
(December 23, 2020) The sell sheets for five works of fiction are available here.
(December 16, 2020) Wordrunner has published First Kings and Other Stories.
(November 30, 2020) Wordrunner, who will be publishing First Kings and Other Stories as an e-chapbook, nominated "First Kings" for a Pushcart Prize.
(November 6, 2020) I published my "Laertes Sonnet Sequence" via YouTube as part of a program at the Hoogland Centre for the Arts.
(November 1, 2020) Watch the video book launch of The Artist Spoke.
(October 30, 2020) The 42 Minutes podcast is online in which I discuss William H. Gass, thetunnelat25.com project, and The Artist Spoke.
(October 25, 2020) My new novel, The Artist Spoke, has been published in hardcover, paperback and digital editions.
(22 September, 2020) I was honored to participate in Washington University's 25th Anniversary Celebration of The Tunnel, along with Joel Minor and Greg Gerke.
(September 7, 2020) The Tunnel at 25 Online Symposium launched, a site I'm hosting dedicated to William H. Gass's magnum opus. I contributed two pieces to the symposium: "Stripping the Master of Kohler's Rags" and "The Tunnel: A Chronology & Bibliography," as well as the Introduction.
(August 21, 2020) Grand Little Things published my sonnet "Mass," part of my Laertes Sonnet Sequence.
(August 10, 2020) Pollen Press has acquired three of my critical essays on William Gaddis to translate into Russian, in conjunction with their translating and publishing Gaddis's novel Carpenter's Gothic.
(August 1, 2020) My abbreviated story collection, which is also a novel in progress, First Kings and Other Stories, has been accepted for publication by Wordrunner as an e-chapbook.
(July 31, 2020) My story "First Kings" has been re-published at Sequestrum, as the runner-up in their Editor's Reprint Award, and they've also posted a brief interview.
(July 22, 2020) My sonnet "Shroud" is featured at Christal Cooper's Backstory of the Poem series.
(June 25, 2020) Mrs Saville won the Manhattan Book Award in Literary Fiction.
(June 4, 2020) Belle Ombre has accepted my story "Hosea" for publication.
(April 13, 2020) Libreak Magazine published "The Artist Spoke," an excerpt from my longtime work in progress "The Isolation of Conspiracy." Litbreak also published my autobiographical statement.
(February 27, 2020) My interview with Greg Gerke regarding his essay collection See What I See was published in spring 2020 (25.1) issue of Rain Taxi.
(February 22, 2020) I presented my paper "The Movement of Matter in Mind': William H. Gass's Transformative Translations of Rilke" at the Louisville Conference of Literature and Culture Since 1900.
(January 12, 2020) "The Artist Spoke," an excerpt from my work in progress The Isolation of Conspiracy, has been accepted for publication by Litbreak Magazine. It is the sixth chunk of the novel to find publication.
(December 11, 2019) "First Kings" has been named runner-up for the Editors Reprint Award by Sequestrum journal.
(November 17, 2019) North American Review has published "First Kings" in its fall issue.
(November 15, 2019) North American Review has posted my piece "On 'First Kings'" at their blog. My short story "First Kings" appears in the fall issue of NAR. It is an expansion of my 2017 novel Crowsong for the Stricken.
(November 7, 2019) My paper "Beauty Must Come First: The Short Story as Art Made of Language" has been accepted for presentation at the 16th International Conference on the Short Story in English to be held next summer at the University Calabria, Italy.
(September 19, 2019) My review of The William H. Gass Reader has been posted at the North American Review website.
(July 12, 2019) briars lit has accepted my story "Weird Soliloquies" for publication. "Weird Soliloquies" expands the narrative of my 2017 novel Crowsong for the Stricken.
(June 12, 2019) My new book, A Concise Summary and Analysis of The Mueller Report, has been released by Twelve Winters Press. It's an accurate buy highly readable distillation of the Special Counsel's report on Russian interference in the 2016 election and Trump's obstruction of justice.
(May 30, 2019) My poem "Ingots" has been published by Haunted Waters Press as part of their Splash! showcase. "Ingots" is from my Laertes Squence of sonnets.
(April 21, 2019) I presented my paper "Writing Too Good to Publish: A Disheartening Dispatch from the Heartland" at the North American Review Writing Conference in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
(March 30, 2019) Edify Fiction has accepted my poems "Awakening" and "Dignity" for publication. They're part of my Laertes Sequence of sonnets.
(March 27, 2019) I'm pleased to accept a position on the editorial board of the Journal of Science and Education, School of Education, Hue University, Hue, Vietnam.
(March 18, 2019) Central American Literary Review has published "Madison," Part IV of my work in progress The Isolation of Conspiracy. Other pieces have appeared in Floyd County Moonshine, Lakeview Journal, and Adelaide Literary Magazine (two issues).
(March 1, 2019) My sonnet "Obsolescence" has been picked up for publication in Prime Number Magazine by guest poetry editor Hedy Habra. It is the third poem in my Laertes Sequence to be published.
(February 23, 2019) I found a receptive audience when I presented my paper "From Tender Buttons to the 'Heart of the Country': Gertrude Stein's Structural Influence on William H. Gass" at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, University of Louisville. In another panel, I read an excerpt from my long story "Vox Humana."
(January 16, 2019) My sonnet "Pilgrim" has been published in the tiny journal. It is the first published poem of my "Laertes Sequence."
(December 18, 2018) My paper proposal "'Danc[ing] to Organized Noise': The Loss of the Literary Voice and Its Consequences" has been accepted for presentation at the MLA International Symposium in Lisbon, Portugal, July 2019.
(November 29, 2018) Spencer Stephens has posted a review of Mrs Saville at his blog (also on Amazon): "The author fits the pieces together with a seamless and terrifying logic. He shows a nuanced understanding of the darkness that lives within us all. He summons a literature-lover's fantasy and adds context and texture to a landmark novel that many thought had already been examined from every conceivable angle."
(November 15, 2018) Mrs Saville was named an Awards Finalist for the Best Book Award in Literary Fiction by American Book Fest.
(September 23, 2018) "Medieval Music from Midwestern Universities," an excerpt from Part III of my work in progress "The Isolation of Conspiracy," has been published in Adelaide Literary Magazine (#16). Earlier excerpts have appeared here and there, including Adelaide, June 2017.
(September 19, 2018) My sonnet "Shroud" has been accepted for publication by Bellevue Literary Review. "Shroud" is part of my "Laertes Sequence," which I wrote to my father, who passed away suddenly in 2013. "Shroud" is my first honest-to-goodness poetry publication. Previously my poetry has been written in the service of my prose.
(September 7, 2018) My novel Mrs Saville, a sequel to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, has been published in hardcover, paperback and Kindle editions. The paperback includes the short story "A Wintering Place" and an Afterword by yours truly.
(August 20, 2018) "Medieval Music from Midwestern Universities" has been accepted for publication by Adelaide. The piece is an excerpt from Part 3 of my work in progress, The Isolation of Conspiracy. Adelaide published an earlier piece of the work in their June 2017 issue.
(June 1, 2018) "Vox Humana" (a Crowsong Universe story) has been published by Blue Lake Review.
(May 30, 2018) My prismatic novel Crowsong for the Stricken has won the International Book Award in Literary Fiction 2018 from Book Fest.
(May 30, 2018) I had the honor of being a keynote speaker at the Fifth Annual Conference on Language, Society and Culture in Asian Contexts, May 25-26, in Hue, Vietnam. My speech was "Locating Our Common Humanity through Expressive Writing," and is available in its entirety here.
Delivering my keynote address "Locating Our Common Humanity through Expressive Writing" in Hue, Vietnam.
(May 1, 2018) The Curvatures of Hurt audiobook, featuring Jenny Bacon, is now available from Audible, Amazon and iTunes.
(April 24, 2018) My novella The Curvatures of Hurt is available in paperback and Kindle editions, and soon an audiobook featuring the voice of Jenny Bacon, who wrote an Afterword for the book. "The Curvatures of Hurt" is also part of the prismatic novel Crowsong for the Stricken.
(November 12, 2017) I've uploaded a video of my reading "Beside Running Waters," a piece from Crowsong for the Stricken which originally appeared in Constellations and was reprinted in the anthology Literature Today (volume 4) and at CommuterLit.com.
News: (November 6, 2017) Crowsong for the Stricken is now available in paperback (as well as hardcover and Kindle editions).
News: (October 25, 2017) Crowsong for the Stricken was reviewed at Spencer Stephens's blog. "This is a book you can savor in different ways. . . . You'll experience a slightly erotic shiver when you finish this remarkable work and decide that you should hurriedly read it again. Halloween's almost here, after all."
News: (October 18, 2017) Crowsong for the Stricken received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews. "References place the book in the mid-'50s, and the author describes the small, unnamed town in loving detail, but there's also a feeling of detachment, as if all of this is happening in a place apart from our own. It also hints at the supernatural, especially when different characters encounter people in crowlike outfits, but it never presents events that couldn't be ascribed to the natural world. A work that resists easy description; recommended for those looking for something strange and beautiful."
News: (September 20, 2017) I'll be reading from my new novel Crowsong for the Stricken at Lincoln Land College's literature festival Sept. 28. It's a group reading with John Paul Jaramillo, Allison Joseph and Jon Tribble, from 5 to 7 p.m. in Menard Hall. I'll be reading an excerpt from "Season of Reaping," one of the twelve pieces that comprise the novel.
News: (August 27, 2017) My novel Crowsong for the Stricken has been released by my press, Twelve Winters. It's available in hardcover and Kindle editions. Check out the trailer:
News: (August 2, 2017) My story "Planes" is included in the new (and final) issue of ink&coda. The editors write, "We wanted this issue to stand as the fullest realization of our aesthetic. We believe we've succeeded; however, we were surprised by how haunting the whole of it is. Something unknown has crept to the surface in 4.2—perhaps a deeper, unrealized aesthetic, or perhaps our feelings about this issue being our last. Either way an appropriate farewell."
News: (July 19, 2017) A video of my reading "Communion with the Dead," a short story of mine published in the Chariton Review in 2008.
News: (July 18, 2017) ink&coda will be including my story "Planes" in their forthcoming issue. Unfortunately this will be the journal's final issue. The material they have published will, however, be archived at their site. My story "The Drama of Consonants" appeared in the journal a few issues back. Both "Planes" and "The Drama of Consonants" are parts of my prismatic novel Crowsong for the Stricken, which will be released in a few weeks.
News: (July 1, 2017) The Southern Humanities Review (51.1) which includes my story "Sheol," part of the forthcoming Crowsong for the Stricken, is out.
News: (June 13, 2017) Southern Humanities Review 51.1 will be out soon. It includes my story "Sheol," part of the forthcoming Crowsong for the Stricken.
News: (May 11, 2017) My story "Beside Running Waters" is posted at CommuterLit.com. The story was originally published in Constellations and it was also anthologized in Literature Today, volume 4.
News: (May 7, 2017) "The Glance of Orpheus II" appears in the new issue Adelaide. It's an excerpt of Part II of my work in progress titled The Isolation of Conspiracy. Part I, "Meditations on the Word" appeared in Floyd County Moonshine, and the first part of Part II appeared in Lakeview Journal.
News: (May 6, 2017) The story "Erebus" appears in the new issue of Everest.
News: (April 19, 2017) The international literary magazine Adelaide has accepted "The Glance of Orpheus II" for publication. It is an excerpt of Part II from my work in progress The Isolation of Conspiracy.
News: (April 13, 2017) A writing career first. I had two pieces come out in different journals on the same day — both excerpts from my work in progress The Isolation of Conspiracy. Part I, "Meditations on the Word," is in the journal Floyd County Moonshine; and an excerpt of Part II, "The Glance of Orpheus," is in Lakeview Journal.
News: (March 11, 2017) Floyd County Moonshine has accepted for publication "Meditations on the Word," Part I of my work in progress titled The Isolation of Conspiracy. Part II, "The Glance of Orpheus," is forthcoming in Lakeview Journal.
News: (March 1, 2017) I've been invited to join a prearranged panel at the American Literature Association Conference May 24-28 in Boston. The panel is The American Recluse: Contesting Individualism in Narratives of Isolation and Withdrawal, and my paper is "In the Heart of the Heart of Despair: Seclusion in the Fiction of William H. Gass."
News: (March 1, 2017) I presented my paper, "Modernism's Last Gasp and the Architecture of William H. Gass's The Tunnel," at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900 Feb. 23. I also been read an excerpt from my long story "The Curvatures of Hurt," which is part of the forthcoming book Crowsong for the Stricken. The paper is available here.
News: (December 5, 2016) My course on Revisionist Fictions that I'll be teaching winter quarter in the MFA in Writing Program at Lindenwood University is posted.
News: (October 4, 2016) Mrs Saville, a novel in progress, will be published serially at Strands Lit Sphere.
News: (September 20, 2016) Trauma Theory As a Method for Understanding Literary Texts (Mellen) is available for pre-order and will be released November 2.
News: (August 3, 2016) My course on the Long Story & Novella that I'll be teaching this fall in the MFA in Writing program at Lindenwood University is posted.
News: (August 2, 2016) An excerpt of the second section of my novel in progress, The Isolation of Conspiracy, will be published in Lakeview Journal. It will appear under the title "The Glance of Orpheus."
News: (May 25, 2016) My story "Planes" (originally published by Lavender Wolves Literary Magazine) was a finalist for the Sequestrum Editors' Reprint Award.
News: (April 29, 2016) I have joined the MFA in Writing faculty at Lindenwood University as an online instructor, and will begin by teaching a literature course on the "The Long Story and Novella" this fall.
News: (March 28, 2016) "The Pedigree of Self-Publishing," a short article, is included in the newest issue of North American Review (301.2). Available for purchase here.
News: (February 2, 2016) "Crowsong for the Stricken" has been published by Flyleaf Journal. "Crowsong" received the Editors' Reprint Award 2015. From the email informing of the award: "Although you were in good company with many other accomplished contributors, we were absolutely enchanted by your story and its unique premise of a small town plagued both by disease and paranoia. The style of the language and the overall tone seemed to harken back to the stalwarts of the literary fantasy and horror genres like Ray Bradbury and Shirley Jackson." The story originally appeared in Noctua Review, and it will be the title story of a collection released later this year.
News: (January 7, 2016) My story "Beside Running Waters" has been reprinted in Literature Today, volume 4.
News: (December 28, 2015) The novella Weeping with an Ancient God was included on the Chicago Book Review's list of the Best Books of 2015.
News: (October 4, 2015) Fiction on the Web has published the my long short story "The Curvatures of Hurt." It is the final story in a collection of related stories that will come out next year, titled Crowsong for the Stricken.
News: (August 4, 2015) Southern Humanities Review has accepted the my short story "Sheol" for publication. It is part of a collection of related stories yet to be released.
News: (June 30, 2015) Everest magazine has accepted the my short story "Erebus" for publication. "Erebus" is part of a collection of related stories that may be out next year.
News: (June 13, 2015) I presented my paper "Fictionalizing the Life and Voice of Washington Irving" at the North American Review Bicentennial Conference. The paper was about his writing of the novel An Untimely Frost. Visit my 12 Winters Blog to read the paper.
News: (May 18, 2015) "A Hot and Cold 'Frost,'" a review of the novel An Untimely Frost, is in Chicago Book Review: "There are moments of true brilliance in An Untimely Frost. It reads like a post-modernist emulating Henry James, which proves to be an intriguing combination. The novel's ending is as strong as many, and the author's writing is in turns funny and harrowing."
News: (May 5, 2015) "A Sensory Feast," a review of the novella Weeping with an Ancient God, is in Chicago Book Review: "[A] full story with no detail to miss."
Update: (March 24, 2015) My post, "Professor Tolkien's Rebel Readings of Beowulf," expanding my review of Tolkien's translation is on the North American Review blog here.
News: (March 20, 2015) My review of J.R.R. Tolkien's translation of Beowulf, "A Dragon-Worthy Treasure," has been published in the North American Review (300.2).
News: (December 1, 2014) my story "The Ancient World" has been accepted for publication by The Snapping Twig. "The Ancient World" is one of a nearly complete collection of connected tales titled A Murder of Stories, which should be out in book form in 2015. The stories in the collection are all set in the same Midwestern village, usually in the 1950s, with reoccurring characters, themes and motifs — but each is a unique experiment in narrative style and/or structure.
News: (October 28, 2014) My short story "Bitterness on the Tongue" has been published by the Blue Bonnet Review. "Bitterness on the Tongue" is one of a growing collection of connected tales, titled A Murder of Stories. Others have appeared in the Tulane Review, Noctua Review, Constellations, and Black Denim Lit, while others are forthcoming in Stone Crowns Magazine and Lavender Wolves Literary Journal. The stories are set in the same unnamed village and have reoccurring characters, themes and images. Yet each is a unique experiment in narrative style or structure.
News: (October 27, 2014) The short story "Planes" is a featured "Scary Story" on WUIS public radio. Listen here.
News: (October 4, 2014) Anne Drolet reviewed An Untimely Frost in the fall 2014 North American Review: "In An Untimely Frost, Ted Morrissey takes us on a haunting journey through mid-19th-century London. . . .The novel becomes an engrossing mystery and more than a simple historical novel . . . a wonderful read that draws the reader in. . . ." News: (August 29, 2014) My story "The Drama of Consonants" is in the summer 2014 issue of ink&coda. "The Drama of Consonants" is part of a series of related stories. Others have appeared in the Tulane Review, Noctua Review, Constellations, and Black Denim Lit, while others are forthcoming in Stone Crowns Magazine and Lavender Wolves Literary Journal. The stories are set in the same unnamed village and have reoccurring characters, themes and images. Yet each is a unique experiment in narrative style or structure.
News: (August 24, 2014) Weeping with an Ancient God, a novella, has been released by Twelve Winters Press. The book includes illustrations by Adam G. Perschbacher and an interview by Beth Gilstrap. News: (August 8, 2014) My story "Season of Reaping" is in the August issue of Festival Writer. "Season of Reaping" is an especially experimental narrative, combining prose from multiple characters' points of view, and villanelles embedded in the text of the story. It is part of a series of related stories. Others have appeared or are forthcoming in the Tulane Review, Noctua Review, Constellations, Black Denim Lit, Stone Crowns Magazine, Lavender Wolves Literary Journal and ink&coda.
News: (July 26, 2014) The Beowulf Poet and His Real Monsters continues to be added to notable collections around the world, recently the British Library and the Library of Congress. Other noteworthy libraries include Notre Dame, Duke, Pepperdine, Purdue, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts, as well as research libraries in Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Iraq, and elsewhere. See the complete list on WorldCat. News: (June 28, 2014) My short story "Planes" will be included in an upcoming issue of Lavender Wolves Literary Journal. "Planes" is part of a series of related stories. Others have appeared in the Tulane Review, Noctua Review, Constellations, and Black Denim Lit, while another is forthcoming in Stone Crowns Magazine. The stories are set in the same unnamed village and have reoccurring characters, themes and images. Yet each is a unique experiment in narrative style or structure.
News: (May 29, 2014) Men of Winter is now available for Nook — and has been reformatted for Kindle as well. News: (May 25, 2014) The audiobook edition of Figures in Blue is available from Audible.com, Amazon and iTunes. News: (April 14, 2014) My brief article "The Loss of Intellect" has been posted on North American Review's blog. It's an extension of my review of William H. Gass's novel Middle C based on Gass's mid-1990s predictions about the effects of technology and the Web on young minds in particular.
News: (March 8, 2014) My short story "Scent of Darkness" is in the March issue of Black Denim Lit. "Scent of Darkness" is part of a series of related stories, others of which have appeared in the Tulane Review, Noctua Review and Constellations.
News: (January 7, 2014) The novel An Untimely Frost is available in paperback from Amazon as well as for Kindle, from Barnes & Noble, including for Nook, and from Espresso Book Machine. Visit the Twelve Winters Press site for a complete list of sellers. News: (December 2013) The poem "A Painful Commerce" has been collected in The Muse: An International Journal of Poetry, volume 1, issue 2, edited by Pradeep Chaswal, Deepak Chaswal and Mohammad Arif.
News: (December 2013) WUIS Public Radio has aired an interview with me, discussing the novelette Figures in Blue and the forthcoming novel An Untimely Frost, among other topics. See the Interviews page for others as well.
News: (November 18, 2013) North American Review posted "The Psychic Origins of Creativity" on its blog.
News: (October 25, 2013) The novelette Figures in Blue is now available in print through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Espresso Book Machine.
News: (August 2, 2013) Men of Winter, a Revised & Expanded Edition, has been released by Twelve Winters Press and is now available in paperback from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Espresso Book Machine. It will soon be available in a variety of formats from multiple sources. Download a printable flyer. News: (March 12, 2013) The monograph The Beowulf Poet and His Real Monsters was released by Edwin Mellen Press. It is the first time that the postmodern critical model of trauma theory has been used to gain insight into the classic Old English poem. The book is available in various formats, and scholarly journals may request free copies for review. Please see the monograph's page for further details. Update: Edwin Mellen Press awarded the monograph the D. Simon Evans Prize for distinguished scholarship–the Press's highest honor.
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Q: $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] no me devuelve la URL actual tengo una clase 'Router' que una de sus funciones es verificar si las urls existen en el sitio.
Este es mi index.php donde registro las rutas.
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require_once __DIR__."/../includes/app.php";
use MVC\Router;
use Controllers\PropiedadController;

$router=new Router();

//Se define la URL, se le pasa el controlador y por ultimo se le pasa un metodo de ese controlador; que construye la vista
$router->get('/admin',[PropiedadController::class,'index']);
$router->get('/propiedades/crear',[PropiedadController::class,'crear']);
$router->post('/propiedades/crear',[PropiedadController::class,'crear']);
$router->get('/propiedades/actualizar',[PropiedadController::class,'actualizar']);
$router->comprobarRutas();

Esta es mi clase Router
class Router{

    public $rutasGET=[]; //Arreglos donde se guardan las url para metodos GET
    public $rutasPOST=[]; //para metodos POST

    //Funciones que toman las urls y las guardan en un arreglo
    public function get($url,$fn){
        $this->rutasGET[$url]=$fn;
    }

    public function post($url,$fn){
        $this->rutasPOST[$url]=$fn;
    }

    public function comprobarRutas(){

        $urlActual=$_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] ?? '/'; //varible que guarda la ruta actual
        $metodo= $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']; //variable para guardar el tipo de metodo

        //Este bloque filtra segun el metodo y guarda una funcion con el nombre de
        //alguna de las rutas guardadas en los arreglos
        if($metodo ==='GET'){
            $fn= $this->rutasGET[$urlActual] ?? null;
        }else{
            $fn= $this->rutasPOST[$urlActual]  ?? null;
        }

        if($fn){
            call_user_func($fn,$this);
            echo 'la pagina exite';
        }else{
            echo 'Pagina no encontrada';
        }
    }

Ya verifique que los arreglos rutasGet y rutasPOST si tengan guardadas las rutas esperadas, pasadas desde 'index.php'.
El problema esta en 'comprobarRutas'. Como pueden ver tengo la variable '$urlActual' que te deberia devolver la url en la que te encuentras, en caso contrario te devuelve '/'
Tambien verifique que el metodo si devuelva 'GET' o 'POST' segun sea el caso.
Entonces no entiendo que estoy haciendo mal que urlActual siempre me devuelve '/'.
$urlActual=$_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] ?? '/'; //varible que guarda la ruta actual
$metodo= $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']; //variable para guardar el tipo de metodo

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Thursday, September 13, 2018, 19:03 During the early afternoon on Thursday, September 13, a Jewish youth on a tour of the Temple Mount was suspected of collecting a rock from the dust and detained. Several hours later, after footage from the security cameras was examined, the youth was released when it could not be proven that the rock in his possession had been taken from the Temple Mount. The rock, which had been confiscated, was returned to the youth.
A Honenu Attorney assisted the youth with legal counsel.


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We are delighted to announce the return of Janne Müller-Wieland to GRYPHON. Janne, Germany's captain and an extremely experienced player boasts over 300 International Caps for her country. She has represented Germany for over 12 years and played in Beijing, London and the Rio Olympic Games. With Tokyo on the horizon and events around the world under speculation, Janne is currently preparing for her 4th Olympic Games. Her goals, right now: be able to compete at the Olympics at all!
"I always played with GRYPHON growing up and during my first Olympics. I loved the sticks, the quality and the shape. Their power and touch are special and as far as I know unique.
I had great memories of my time with GRYPHON and therefore GRYPHON was the only stick brand I could imagine changing to. I like the combination of world class products and a down-to-earth mentality. Unfortunately GRYPHON hasn't been very present in the German market recently, which I will hope will change again now, as German hockey players are really missing out on sticks of a top brand."
Aside from hockey, Janne believes in the importance of having a life outside of hockey. She graduated with an MBA in Corporate Management from the HSBA Hamburg school of Business & Administration, and a bachelor before that. In her spare time, Janne enjoys travel, squash and others sports, and taking time out to learn and read.
Tell us about a key part part of your preparation that helps to perform?
"My preparation includes more than just hockey, fitness or hockey related things. It's important to get the balance right – when to do something that hasn't got anything to do with hockey, when to challenge your brain with other tasks, when to eat, sleep, train right, when and how to train your mental strengths etc."
Photos taken by JanVanzyl Photography
What inspires you to live you Hockey life everyday?
I just love the game, I love competing at the highest level and I love being part of a team that constantly develops and strives for the best. You are never perfect and you are never there, theres always that 1% you can improve somewhere, which makes it so special.
What motivates you to push your limits when in the grind?
You have to know what you are doing it for. And without the "lows", the highs wouldn't be there and wouldn't be so special. Also, I think it helps to see other things in life which actually puts things into perspective. It could always be worse. What we are allowed to do and experience is an absolute privilege, even the "grind" bits.
What is the hardest challenge you've had to overcome in sport?
There is not that one "hardest challenge". I've had an injury which cost me the World Cup, I've lost big games we should've won, I've struggled after Olympics that could've been so successful, but ended up being disappointing, I've had issues with coaches, I've suffered with friends and team mates who had big injuries or weren't selected… All of them weren't nice experiences, but in the end they all make you stronger.
We are stoked to be supporting Janne again, and wish her all the best in the rest of her International career and beyond!


Michigan power poppers Cheap Girls have seemingly been constantly on the road in support of this year's Famous Graves, and they've just expanded their tour once again. The new dates include a fall US run leading up to The Fest which hits NYC on October 14 at Saint Vitus and Asbury Park on October 16 at Asbury Lanes. Tickets for the Vitus show will be on sale soon via Ticketfly and tickets for the Asbury Park show go on sale Friday (8/22) at noon.


We asked the TPR team to put the new winter Jerseys to the test during their mid season break in Girona.
In their inaugural season, the MAAP-sponsored TP Racing is announcing themselves as one of the key players in the hotly-contested CX scene. The team's three Brits, Tom Pidcock, Dan Tulett and Emily Wadsworth have all posted impressive results despite their youth. The second half of the season will only provide more opportunities for the squad to feature on the podium, especially in the lead-up to the season-ending World Championships in Bogense, Denmark. MAAP is proud to be part of the support crew for an outfit not only as successful as the TP Racing Team but also one that's fostering the sport's next crop of elite talent.
The team's leader Tom Pidcock is showing why he's the early-season favourite for the sport's biggest prizes. It's been a hugely successful season already for Pidcock, with the highlight being the European Championships, where he came away with the win in the U23 category, and the European Champion's Jersey. Held in s'-Hertogenbosch, in the Netherlands, Pidcock was dominant as he won his new team's first race at their biggest event yet.
Since that day, Pidcock's been in a true purple patch, winning consecutive U23 World Cup events at Tabor and Koksijde, leading the overall competition after four rounds, and also leading the U23 category for the Superprestige series. The winner of the U23 World Cup last year, the sparkling form he's shown this year has him as the favourite to retain the title this season. With the World Championships in the distance too, MAAP might be making up another custom jersey for him.
Dan Tulett's been joining Pidcock at the pointy end of races lately. After a slower start to the season where he was caught up in crashes, he's finding form too. After fighting back and finishing 13th at the European Championships, he finished as the second U23 at the most recent Superprestige event in Gavere (just behind Pidcock). Fifth in U23s at the recent Tabor World Cup is another indication that Tulett's on the up, and it gives hope that he can challenge his teammate for some wins in the coming races.
Emily Wadsworth has been flying the TP Racing flag in the Women's category, where she's going toe to toe with her more experienced competitors. A lack of U23 races for the ladies means the 19-year-old has had her work cut out for her, but she's stepping up to the challenge and impressing. Podium finishes in U23 Women at GP Neerpelt and Ardooie are amongst the highlights, while she saw her first top 10 in the Superprestige series at the most recent event in Gavere.
The TP Racing Team recently headed to Girona for two weeks, escaping from the cold in Belgium, where the team is usually based. Girona still presented the opportunity for the squad to help MAAP test out some of our new products, the Pass Pro LS Jersey, Vertical DWR LS Jersey and our new Outline Jacket and Vest. This collection was designed with winter training in mind, so it presented the perfect opportunity for us to check in the with the team. There, we could catch up and reflect on their early season successes, and they could put our new kit through its paces.
Kept warm and dry, the team was happy out on the roads towards Costa Brava, despite the unpredictable weather. With that, they're ready to get stuck into the second half of the season, and MAAP's ready to help them celebrate some more wins.
Stanley Street Social recently sat down with the team to talk about how the team was formed, racing CX and goals for the World Championships. Give it a listen here.


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Kleopatra av Makedonien, född 357 f.Kr, död 308 f.Kr., var en makedonsk prinsessa och en drottning och regent av Epirus, gift med kung Alexander I av Epirus. Hon var dotter till kung Filip II av Makedonien och Olympias av Epirus och Alexander den stores enda helsyskon. Hon var Epiros regent 331-324 som förmyndare för sin son.

Biografi
Kleopatra stannade kvar i Pella 338 f.Kr. då hennes mor och bror begav sig till hennes morbror, kung Alexander I av Epirus, och övergav fadern Filip II av Makedonien. År 336 f.Kr. gifte fadern bort henne med hennes morbror Alexander av Epirus i en vänskapsallians, och det var på deras bröllop Filip II mördades. Då Alexander I 334 f.Kr. lämnade Epirus för att bedriva krig i Italien var Kleopatra regent i Epirus. Vid makens död 331 f.Kr. blev Kleopatra i enlighet med epirotisk sed förmyndare för sin omyndige son, Neoptolemus II av Epirus. Hon intog också det religiösa ämbetet theorodokoi, något hon var ensam om inom sitt kön i det samtida Grekland. Kleopatra tycks ha haft en tät kontakt med sin bror Alexander även under hans fälttåg.

År 324 f.Kr. lämnade Kleopatra över sina befogenheter till sin mor Olympias och återvände till Makedonien. Vid Alexanders död året därpå blev hon en attraktiv äktenskapspartner för de olika diadoker som stred om makten över Alexanders rike. Hon tackade nej till alla erbjudanden om äktenskap och sökte 322 f.kr. tillflykt i Sardis i Mindre Asien, där hon kvarhölls under respektfull bevakning av Antigonus. Antipater anklagade henne för att i samarbete med Perdikkas ha legat bakom mordet på sin halvsyster Kynane, men hon förnekade anklagelsen. År 308 f.Kr. accepterade hon ett erbjudande om äktenskap från Ptolemaios, men hindrades från att ge sig av till Egypten och fördes tillbaka och mördades, troligen på order av Antigonus, som sedan gav henne en praktfull begravning.

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Födda 357 f.Kr.
Avlidna 308 f.Kr.
Kvinnor
Kvinnor från antikens Grekland
Antikens drottningar
Antikens grekiska kungligheter
Kvinnliga regenter under 300-talet f.Kr.
Makedoniens kungligheter

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Abstracto puede referirse a:
 El álgebra abstracta (o álgebra moderna), parte de la matemática que estudia las estructuras algebraicas como las de grupo, anillo, cuerpo o espacio vectorial.
 El arte abstracto, arte reducido a sus aspectos cromáticos, formales y estructurales.
 La escultura abstracta, escultura realizada según las convenciones del arte abstracto.
 La pintura abstracta, pintura realizada según las convenciones del arte abstracto.
 Las formas abstractas; en gramática, aquellas formas con significado equivalente, pero que se emplean en posiciones sintácticas distintas, perteneciendo cada una, por tanto, a una diferente categoría gramatical.
 El juego abstracto, todo aquel juego en el que no existe un tema o ambientación asociado.
 El objeto abstracto, objeto que no posee materia, pero sobre el que se pueden definir acciones.
 El patrón abstracto, conjunto de reglas.
 El sustantivo abstracto; en gramática, sustantivo que designa un objeto sólo percibido o creado por el pensamiento, en oposición al sustantivo concreto, que designa un objeto perceptible por los sentidos.
 El tipo abstracto; en computación, sistema de tipo determinado o nominativo declarado por el programador.
 El tipo de dato abstracto, modelo matemático compuesto por una colección de operaciones definidas sobre un conjunto de datos.

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Born: 1895, St. Matthew's, Ipswich.
Died: 9th October 1917; age 22; KiA.
Enlistment Details: Location: Ipswich; Date: 14th November 1911; Age: 17 years & 3 months. Height: 5ft 5ins.
Served in the Dardanelles from the landing on the 25th April 1915, to the time of withdrawal. After serving nine months in Egypt he was sent to France.
Rank: Lance Corporal; Service Number: 473019.
Regiment: Royal Army Medical Corps, T.F., 88th Field Ambulance.
Medals Awarded: Victory & British War & 1915 Star.
Relatives Notified & Address: Son of Mr & Mrs Blomfield, of 278, Cavendish Street, Ipswich.
1901 5, Gordon Terrace, Cavendish Street, Ipswich.
John William Blomfield, 29, an Iron Foundry Labourer, born Ipswich.
Gertrude Mary Blomfield (nee Colins), 25, born Ipswich.
May Gertrude Blomfield, 3, born Ipswich.
Frank Wilfred Blomfield, 1, born Ipswich.
1911 278, Cavendish Street, Ipswich.
Henry was 15 years old and living with his parents & siblings.
John, 39, a Crane Driver – Foundry.
Archibald Lawson Blomfield, 8, born Ipswich.
Albert Edward Blomfield, 2, born Ipswich.
Elsie Florence Blomfield, 1, born Ipswich.
Soldiers' Effects to Gertrude M. Blomfield – mother.
Henry is also remembered on Holy Trinity church Memorial.
The Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) is part of the British Army providing medical services to all British Army personnel and their families in war and in peace. Together with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, the Royal Army Dental Corps and Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, the RAMC forms the British Army's essential Army Medical Services. In combat the men followed the troops over the top into no man's land suffering losses of 743 officers and 6130 soldiers killed, while delivering medical care to wounded exposed to enemy fire.


One of three recipients of this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is a neuroscientist whose research is shedding light on autism.
Thomas Südhof of Stanford University will share this year's prize with fellow-American scientists James Rothman and Randy Schekman. The trio are being honored "for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells," the Nobel Assembly at Sweden's Karolinska Institute said this week.
The scientists — who conducted their work separately — will split the roughly $1.2 million prize for their research on how cells transport hormones and other important substances.
"Through their discoveries, Rothman, Schekman and Südhof have revealed the exquisitely precise control system for the transport and delivery of cellular cargo. Disturbances in this system have deleterious effects and contribute to conditions such as neurological diseases, diabetes and immunological disorders," the Nobel Assembly said in a statement.
Südhof's work focuses on how neurons in the brain communicate with each other through junction points known as synapses.
In 2009, Südhof published research showing that mice with a gene associated with autism had altered synapses that changed their behavior, with the animals exhibiting excessive grooming and impaired nest building, for example.


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Solihull moors away at Aldershot.
Their centre-half can't have been up to much.
At the end of the day he played his part in getting us out of non league football.
Good luck to him i say.
100% agree...He did his part and does not deserve the bad name he is given here.
We have had a 1000% worse, even this season!
Always good luck to the kid.
Totally agree just think it's banter to be fair.
Mensah scored two in three games for Aldershot.
Blissett is truly Mr. Dump Me in the Fifth Tier in a Promotion Push or Relegation Battle and I'll Shine. Done it with us, did it with Macc, basically saved Torquay with his goals in 15-16 and now he seems to be doing it with Moors.
People don't rate him but coming in January when we were fighting tooth and nail for every point and netting 1 in 4 is what you want. Gaffney was a similar story.
Blissett is a good player for that level. Some players make a good career in the conference/L2 areas and just can't quite make the step up. Nothing wrong with that. I wish I was that talented to make to that level myself.
He was a bit bandy but I never for get the great dummy step over that drew the defender away to allow Lines to score against FGR at home. Whether he meant it or not is another matter but it looked good, got us a goal so meant he played his part.


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Universities in the World
The university is a high-level educational institution where students are educated for degrees and academic research. The origins of the modern university are based on the medieval schools called "studia generalia" (general studies). These Medieval schools were open to students from all over Europe.
Top 10 Universities in the World
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 11,145 United States
Stanford University 16,135 United States
Harvard University 22,727 United States
California Institute of Technology 2,239 United States
University of Cambridge 19,203 England
University of Oxford 20,631 England
UCL (University College London) 32,795 England
Imperial College London 16,797 England
University of Chicago 13,924 United States
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology 18,003 Switzerland
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The Steller's Eider (Polysticta stelleri) is a medium-large sea duck, which breeds along the Arctic coasts of eastern Siberia and Alaska. The lined nest is built on tundra close to the sea, and 6-10 eggs are laid.
It winters somewhat further south in the Bering Sea, northern Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea. It can form large flocks, up to 200,000 birds on suitable coastal waters. It is scarce south of its wintering range.
This species dives for crustaceans and molluscs, with mussels being a favoured food.
This species is the smallest eider. The male is unmistakable with its black upperparts and neck collar, white head and yellowish underparts. The drake's call is a deep crooning, although it is relatively quiet compared to the Somateria eiders.
The female is a dark brown bird, smaller with a more typically duck-shaped head and body than other eider species. She also has a repertoire of grunts and whistles.


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Singing the Lord's Song
by Donald Schell
What is it we're really doing together in church?
Actually what do we think we're doing together in any human community or collaborating group?
How do we find our God-given humanity in community?
And what's the natural connection between church activity, especially in worship, and other human activity?
Through forty years of priesthood, I've found these questions keep getting bigger and more interesting. Some church colleagues seem to hear a judgment or skepticism I don't intend when I ask these questions.
In fact though, I'm grateful the questions don't ask themselves from an alienated skepticism. They show up with a mostly enjoyable, usually patient, not-knowing, a Godly Play sort of wondering. My wondering continues to renew my hope. My only impatience is to see on regularly on the watch for human creativity, courage, and compassion wherever they shows up, and when we glimpse this Trinity, wherever we catch its movement, to sniff the air for a trace of the Spirit of Jesus.
With a bit of intuition, a handful of hunches, and my small bundle of discoveries, following the questions' energy feels as exhilarating and anxious (and as charged with wild energy and human hope) as chasing after tracking dogs who've found a scent of a child lost in the woods.
But this story doesn't begin in the woods. Early one recent morning my wife and I drove up the Interstate to join our daughter walking from her house to the community center pushing her daughter, our eleven month grand-daughter Hannah in her stroller.
At exactly 10 we arrived at the center. Apparently the building had once been an elementary school, but the long deserted hall felt far too quiet for a school. There was no one in sight, and no voices except bulletin boards announcements of yoga classes, support groups, art classes, various kinds of lessons, and community interest notices.
Then our daughter opened an unpromising classroom door on a startling blur of adults and small children shaping themselves into a large human circle on the carpeted floor. The cinderblock walls resonated with parents' and children's voices. Their circle almost touched the walls of the square room, but as we slipped off our shoes, and unsnapped Hannah to lift her out of the stroller, moms scooted to make places for us in the circle just as Jenny, the Music Together teacher, began a rhythm.
Ellen and I smiled at each other seeing our granddaughter's bright, expectant eyes. This is what we'd come for. Everyone joined Jenny, the teacher, slapping our thighs and then the floor in front of us in time. As we slapped, we all also followed Jenny rocking side-to-side or forward and back.
No, wait. If I smooth over this part of the story, we'll lose something important. As soon I wrote "everyone" and "we all," what I was remembering was the children, mostly younger, who happily watched or wandered (walking or crawling) within the circle. Most of us were slapping the floor and our thighs, but somehow song and movements, watching and wandering made a single whole.
Building on a rhythm we were making together, Jenny shifted seamlessly to the greeting song that Maria and Mateo's mother and grandmother and all the regulars knew. Ellen and I learned the song quickly and joined easily. Jenny called out the children's names so our song greeted them one by one, and after we'd sung a greeting to each child, Jenny led us singing a generic welcome to the mothers, to the dad, to the two grandmas, and to the grandpa (me).
Jenny modeled another gesture and song, and we followed her. Our singing and movement unfolded with few spoken directions or none. Intermittently the smaller crawling and walking children participated singing and clapping or moving with us. Sometimes they stopped to look and listen.
I thought frequently about peripheral vision, how we use our peripheral vision to sense the presence of those around us, guiding ourselves to caution or trust. I watched myself watching the group, relishing my recent learning that the rods of our peripheral vision are over a thousand times more sensitive to movement than our central vision. I watched the group, even the wandering little ones, watching each other in peripheral vision, taking in the movement and feeling of the leader and the circle. We were collaborating, not only by following Jenny's lead, but with that eye and ear consensus you can spot watching and listening to an a cappella group or a string quartet.
Jenny laid a basket of egg-shaped shakers in the center of the circle. Grownups and children crawled and toddled out to share them around the circle, leaving any additional shakers clumped here and there inside our perimeter. Jenny started us singing, "Mary wore a red dress, all day long." The few of us who didn't know it learned the song quickly by ear. Jenny led us playing at different rhythm patterns and gestures with the shaker eggs. Then she asked parents to call out a favorite activity of their child. Pairing children's names in paired verses around the circle we sang favorite activities like "Maya eats bananas" and "Seth loves funny jokes" to our tune, "Mary wore a red dress."
And Hannah meanwhile had crawled to the middle of the circle where the basket had been.
Our daughter had told us that Jenny (like all Music Together teachers) asked that visitors participate because having all the adults model participation was intentional in the learning process. In 1995 just after St. Gregory's San Francisco moved into our new church, we had two Music Together morning classes like this in our worship space each week. I'd glimpsed them at work when I had reason to go into the church, but I'd kept my head down, not wanting to interrupt. The memory I carry from those glimpses is sight rather than sound – young mothers and small children seated in a circle in our big rotunda, altar space, and even seated, kneeling or cross-legged how they moved together to mark a rhythm. That was my memory – the peripheral glance and unfocused seeing of a circle just like this one. Oh, I also remember a small feeling of regret that Music Together wasn't something we'd known to do with our children. So this time, I'm grateful that our daughter's doing it with Hannah.
In the fifteen years or more since I'd known Music Together as our church's tenant I'd been looking for ways to develop congregational and community music making, especially singing together. As we were developing Music that Makes Community, we kept asking ourselves:
–	How can we free people to sing who didn't know that they could?
–	What gives people the courage to own their voices and a shared song?
–	What moves people to improvise and create and share a new song?
Over those years I had (and continue to have) the privilege of working with skilled musicians to recover and share the wisdom and practices of traditional oral transmission music making. Over that decade and a half occasionally someone would mention Music Together. Then recently I'd watched my friend Emily Scott leading workshops on making oral transmission, paperless music with children. Emily is the founding pastor of St. Lydia's Dinner Church in Brooklyn and before that had been my founding program director for our Music that Makes Community project. As she was beginning St. Lydia's, Emily supported herself as director for children's music at First Presbyterian Church New York City. For that work she'd combined practices we'd developed together with what she'd learned from subsequent training in Music Together. Recently Emily had suggested I take a good look at Music Together to learn from their practice, so our daughter's invitation to visit Hannah's class came at a great moment.
Woops, we just left Hannah in another moment. No regrets about my digression, except that I just now left Hannah in the middle of the circle with egg-shaped rattles in every direction. So –
– what happened as we continued singing and keeping time with our shakers was that Hannah crawled to one shaker, picked it up, spun herself from crawling to sitting, picked up second egg in her other hand, dropped both, crawled again to another shaker and then another, and then settled in front of her grandmother, took a shaker in each hand, fixed her eyes on Jenny, and began to shake her eggs to match the simple rhythm of the group. I felt, as grandparents can, like I was falling in love with this small person. I loved that she'd felt, and seen, and heard the invitation in the music. I loved that she'd taken a shaker in each hand. I was astonished at the ordinary human brilliance that allowed her to keep time with us. And I was touched to the heart by the peaceful, rapt look on her face watching Jenny lead us.
Was this a musical moment? A human moment? I'd say it was emphatically both a musical moment and a human moment. And there's more.
Peter Brook, the great theater director said, " A holy theater not only presents the invisible but also offers conditions to make its perception possible."
Obviously the Music Together class wasn't theater, but it was moment that offered conditions to make seeing the invisible possible, so I'd venture to call it a holy moment.
The movement, the gestures, and the music Jenny was guiding us through brought us and Hannah to that moment, so if not theater, were these classic building blocks of ritual making a liturgy? Again, the simple answer would be, "of course it wasn't liturgy." But the simple answer misses something of God's unsolicited presence in our simplest shared rituals.
The Russian priest and liturgical theologian Alexander Schmemann said, "Worship is not an escape from the world, rather it is the arrival at a vantage point from which we can see more deeply into the reality of the world."
What is the deep reality of the world? The "conditions that make perception possible" the "vantage point" we'd arrived at showed something unexpected at the very heart and center of our world. Not the inevitable threats and troubles that fill the news, not the self-doubt and self-protection that diminish and sometimes paralyze us, not the monstrous deformity of envy and malice that destroy others, but a little child leading us by finding her place in the circle of humanity.
Jesus took a little child and put it among them; and taking it in his arms, he said to them, "Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me." Mark 9:36-37.
The Rev. Donald Schell, founder of St. Gregory of Nyssa Church in San Francisco, is President of All Saints Company.
Donald Schell
St Thom Rector,
Thanks for this response. And present to the Spirit In the moment (as well as to one another) seems to me the best invitation we can show the Spirit to move among us. Of course the Spirit moves as she will and often comes looking for us when we're "off somewhere else," but I do think our job is to make ourselves and our assemblies to be as present and open as we can.
Stthom1rector
What a lovely post, and of course it was liturgy–perhaps more truly liturgy than what we do in our sanctuaries so often. In that circle, you were present to the moment, or more, present to the Spirit in the moment. Too often in our Sunday morning liturgies, we are off someplace else. Maybe if we had Jenny to lead us and Hannah to stand in our midst?


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Construction of the GERD is on progress – Ethiopian Envoy
byGILBERT KAZIBWE | PML Daily CORRESPONDENT
H.E. Meseret addressing the media virtually (PHOTO/Courtesy).
KAMPALA – The Ethiopian Embassy in Uganda has said that the construction and second filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is on progress and per schedule.
The revelation was made by H.E Ambassador Alemtsehay Meseret who was virtually briefing the media on current developments in Ethiopia from her residence in Kololo on July 9.
GERD is a hydropower project that was launched in 2011 on the Blue Nile, a significant Nile tributary with a project cost of $4.6 billion.
The GERD generates 6.4-GW (6450MW) after completion. Last year, in the first filling the Dam's reservoir retained 4.9 cubic metres of water without 'interrupting the continuous flow of water to the lower basin.'
In the Press briefing, H.E. Meseret focused on issues of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Ethiopian government's unilateral ceasefire in Tigray region, the recently concluded general election and the role of media.
H.E. Meseret shared that the construction of the GERD is on progress and has now reached more than 80% of its total completion and a 650-km transmission line has also been erected.
H.E. Meseret explained that the GERD issue is now irrationally being stretched into the agenda of third parties and the international community yet it is a flagship development project with extraordinary national significance for the future of its economic and energy security.
"65 million Ethiopians, which accounts nearly 60% of the population, have no access to electric power. The Dam's second year filling happens as scheduled in the months of July and August this year, as there is high hydrology," she said.
H.E Meseret explained that the Involvement of the African Union to solve persisting differences between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan is also an opportunity for the three countries to strengthen the Union and show the world that Africans can solve their problems by themselves.
Unilateral ceasefire
Commenting on the Unilateral Ceasefire in Tigray, H.E. Meseret said the government of Ethiopia, understanding the evil efforts of the Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF) to keep the pains of people in the region for its survival purpose, declared a Unilateral Ceasefire and the National Army was ordered to leave the whole of Tigray.
She shared that this was done mainly to benefit the whole people in Tigray to access humanitarian support and to allow the farmers to use the rainy season, which starts from July to September of the year, to plough their land safely by avoiding sporadic clashes with TPLF.
"TPLF abused the noble decision of the government and it keeps misinforming the international community that it has defeated the National Army and controlled the region. In contrast, the TPLF group's being a national threat is neutralised and the group is incapable of fighting the Ethiopian army."
Electoral process
According to Ms Meseret, The National Election Commission, led by Ms. Birtukan Mideksa, former Opposition Party, Human Right Activist, Prisoner of Conscience, and a respected Judge exceeded the expectation of the government, the Media, Civil Societies, the public and the International observers in managing the process of the 6th National Election.
She shared that the election was 'conducted in an orderly, peaceful and credible manner' as quoted by the African Union's election observer mission in Ethiopia.
"The Prosperity Party led by the Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed won the majority of the vote and was declared a winner of the six term election with a landslide victory."
Mr Abiy, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, described the vote as a "historically inclusive election" in a statement on Twitter.
Media role
H.E. Meseret shared that since the law enforcement operation in Tigray region was announced to defuse the existential threat posed by TPLF, some of the International Media have consistently been playing a negative role.
She explained that they have disclosed themselves as biased, one-sided and superficial to African issues.
"The International media looks at Africa in a much skewed perspective and wants to portray Africa as a continent filled with chaos, civil war, undemocratic leadership and full of evil. For this reason, we encourage our African brothers and sisters to engage frequently with Ethiopian authorities, embassies and get realities on the ground for a better analysis and reporting of issues that serve the aspiration of Ethiopia and Africa as a whole."
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Fallin downplays Trump VP talk
by Rick Green
Published: Mon, April 25, 2016 11:02 AM Updated: Mon, April 25, 2016 11:03 AM
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin on Monday downplayed talk that she might make a good running mate for Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump.
South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer said on CNN's "State of the Union" that she could be a good pick.
Trump later tweeted about Bauer's appearance on the Sunday talk show, "Great job and advice."
For her part, Fallin said her heart belongs to Oklahoma.
"It's a great honor to even be mentioned as a possible consideration for vice president," she said in a statement.
"However, my first and foremost goal is fulfilling my duties as governor to grow the economy while continuing to work on developing solutions for issues and challenges facing Oklahoma."
She has not endorsed a candidate for president and there's been no indication that Trump has made any official inquiries to Fallin.
Bauer said that presidential candidates often pick a running mate from a battleground state or select a rival candidate, but he said Trump may take a different approach.
"I think he's going to say, 'Who can help me get the job done?' and I think he needs some balance, and I like Mary Fallin for that reason," Bauer said.
It's not certain that Trump will become the Republican nominee for president, but he presently leads the GOP race.
The Republican National Convention is being held July 18-21 in Cleveland.
Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., said on the show that any vice presidential selection would probably come after the convention.
"I think there are a lot of viable candidates out there, and I think some of them could have been people that have run against us in this. I think my father's been clear that he wants someone that has navigated the D.C. waterways a little more than he has to be in there," he said.
Fallin is in her second term as Oklahoma governor. She previously represented the state in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Rick Green
Rick Green is the Capitol Bureau Chief of The Oklahoman. A graduate of Humboldt State University in Arcata, Calif., he worked as news editor for The Associated Press in Oklahoma City before joining The Oklahoman. Read more ›
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