First Baptist member Alma Johnson, 82, was one of the first to ring the bell Sunday. Johnson has been a part of the church since she was 3.
It was quiet along Scotland Street Sunday morning.
Bobby Braxton, 78, stood outside First Baptist Church before the start of the Sunday service. He gazed lovingly at the brick building, the church he grew up attending.
"We call it a sanctuary in more ways than one," said Braxton, a trustee of the church.
Braxton said he sometimes sits in the sanctuary, alone.
"It's wonderful," Braxton said. "Just listening to the building, listening to the people that have gone before us."
Hundreds, likely thousands, will pass through First Baptist's sanctuary during February. The church launched the Let Freedom Ring Challenge on Feb. 1, inviting the nation to ring the church's restored bell as a call for racial healing. At a kick-off ceremony Monday, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Dionne Warwick and other prominent figures sounded the bell.
But the bell resounds loudest in the hearts of First Baptist members, a congregation of around 300. At an emotional Sunday service Jan. 31, the congregation was first to sound a bell silent since the days of segregation.
"I felt a deepness in my heart," said Jean Gerst Stewart, 78. "I felt overwhelmed."
"The feeling and the knowing that this is our bell, and this is our home," said Stewart, who grew up attending the church's location on Nassau Street, established in 1856, before it moved to Scotland Street in 1956.
Around 20 of the "Nassau Street Children" rang the bell Sunday, including Braxton and Alma Johnson, 82, who has been part of the church since age 3.
"I go back seven generations," said Braxton, who grew up in the Braxton Court neighborhood a stone's throw away. "I'm ringing for all of them."
The connection to history, and struggle, reaches back to 1776, when First Baptist Church formed among a group of slaves and free blacks worshipping secretly under a thatched arbor at Green Spring Plantation. The church remains one of the oldest African-American congregations in the country.
The bell fell silent due to structural issues in the 1950s, but was recently restored for the church's 240th anniversary in partnership with Colonial Williamsburg.
Today, as it was 240 years ago, the church is a group knit together in faith.
"We pray, and we come together, and our hearts are fulfilled all the time," Stewart said.
"We just have a great love for all humanity," she said. "That is the spirit that we have."
And as member after member stepped up to the rope to sound the bell, many rang with hope in their hearts for the future.
"Much over time has been accomplished, but our country still has a long way to go," said the Rev. Ricardo Brown of Fifth Baptist Church in Richmond, as he delivered Sunday's sermon.
"Let that clapper on the inside of our hearts also ring, that we might be of light," said the Rev. Reginald Davis, pastor of First Baptist, during the benediction that closed Sunday's service.
Charlie Bell Jr. rang the bell for his mother, Mary Tyner, the first African-American woman to seek office in Americus, Ga. Bell remembers attending segregated schools and segregated movie theaters.
"That's been a part of me, to see that kind of struggle," Bell said.
He let out a joyous whoop after sounding the bell, which he also rang for himself. "It's a call for me to do better," said Bell, a teacher. "I have to make an impact where I am."
Trustee Al Montgomery, a member since 1981, sees the church as a symbol of togetherness.
For a church to last 240 years, "something was done right," he said. "Shows that people can work together, people can live together, and people can worship together."
The bell's chime left many members at a loss for words, including Montgomery.
"I don't think the moment has really hit any of us yet," he said.
But years from now, the sanctuary's walls will whisper about this moment, and the congregation that made it happen.
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Do I need a Visa to come to Ethiopia?
No visa is required for citizens of Kenya, Djibouti, and Sudan.
Nationals of the following countries can apply and receive a tourist visa upon arrival at the airport; ARGENTINA . AUSTRALIA . AUSTRIA . BELGIUM . BRAZIL . CANADA . CHINA . DENMARK . FINLAND . FRANCE . GERMANY . GREECE . IRELAND . ISRAEL . ITALY . JAPAN . KOREA REPUBLIC . KUWAIT . LUXEMBOURG . MEXICO . NETHERLANDS . NEW ZEALAND . NORWAY . POLAND . PORTUGAL . RUSSIAN FEDERATION . SOUTH AFRICA . SPAIN . SWEDEN . SWITZERLAND . TAIWAN (PROVINCE OF CHINA) . UNITED KINGDOM . UNITED STATES. The cost is $50 for a one-time entry.
Those not included in the list above can apply for a visa at Ethiopian Embassies and consulates in their home countries.
What can you tell me about Ethiopia?
The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia is a developing country located in the northeastern part of Africa commonly known as ' The Horn of Africa'. It lies in the equatorial region between 30 - 180 north and 330 - 480 east. Eritrea and Djibouti bound it on the northeast, on the east and southeast by Somalia, on the south by Kenya and on the west by Sudan and South Sudan. Ethiopia is as large as France and Spain combined, and has a landmass 1,104,300 sq.km. It is the tenth largest country in Africa by size and second by population. It is a democratic national comprising of 11 semi-autonomous administrative regions organized loosely along major ethnic lines. It has an agriculturally dominated economy, which about 65 per cent of the land is presently cultivated. Ethiopia is the oldest independent country in Africa and has its own calendar, alphabet and clock.
Is Ethiopia really the cradle of mankind? What can you tell me about Lucy'?
Lucy is a 3.5 million years old female skeleton, and is among several important archaeological discoveries in Ethiopia, leading to the country's title as 'the cradle of mankind'. It is a complete direct hominid fossil discovered in the northeast of Ethiopia at a place called Hadar. Visitors to the National Museum in Addis Ababa can view it on display.
What can you tell me about the people of Ethiopia?
Ethiopia is considered to be a mosaic of cultural diversity. 'The population of Ethiopia is estimated to be about 80 million. It is the home of more than 80 ethnic groups. Based on the language they speak, they can be divided into Semitic, Hamitic, Nilotic and Omotic origin. Despite their diversity, Ethiopians are characterized as peaceful and hospitable, and united in their struggle to develop the country. Ethiopians, often called 'Habesha,' have a common name for their visitors "Ferenji" which is not meant in disrespect, but in a friendly and sociable manner. Ethiopians are proud of their culture and civilization, which pre-date those of Europe.
I want to taste the national food and drink of your country.
A wide variety of different dishes are available in Ethiopia and most of them are unique to the country so you have to familiarize yourself first with the names of different dishes. You can choose from the spicy and hot Doro Wot, Kitfo, or Key Wot to less spicy dishes like Alicha Wot. You can get these foods virtually anywhere in the country and portions are generous and very inexpensive. There are also home made and fabricated local drinks for you to choose from Araki- a strong alcoholic beverage made from millet and maize, Tej - a mead like drink made from honey and Tela - locally brewed beer from maize, wheat and barely and Guder- the Ethiopian wine.
What is the base of the Ethiopia economy?
Ethiopia's economy is predominantly agricultural. The highlands are very fertile, which contain many large rivers with enormous untapped potential for irrigation projects. About 80 per cent of the population earns their living from the land, mainly as subsistence farmers. Agriculture is the backbone of the national economy and the principal exports from this sector are coffee, oil seeds, pulses, flowers, vegetables, sugar and foodstuffs for animals. There is also a thriving livestock sector, exporting camel on the hoof and hides and skins. 25% of the population grow coffee and it accounts for as much as 55% of Ethiopia's exports.
What can you tell me about the topography of Ethiopia?
A volcanically formed central plateau, isolated on three sides by low- lying desert dominates the Ethiopian landscape. The central plateau, often referred to as the Ethiopian highlands, has an average altitude of above 2,000m and includes 20 peaks of 4,000m or higher. The Ethiopia highlands are dramatically mountainous, no more so than where they are bisected by the Rift Valley, which starts at the Red sea, then continues through the Danakil Depression and through southern Ethiopia to Mozambique in southern Africa. The part of the Rift valley, south of Addis Ababa, is notable for its string of eight lakes. The most extensive mountain ranges on the highlands are the Semien, which lie directly north of Gondar, and Bale, which lies in the southern highlands to the east of the Rift Valley. Mount Ras Dashen in the Semiens is 4,620m, the fourth highest peak in Africa. The highlands also form the source of four major river systems. The best known of these is the Blue Nile or Abay, which starts at Lake Tana in the northwest and supplies nine- tenths of the Nile's water, which eventually reaches Egypt's Nile Valley.
What is the climate in Ethiopia?
Ethiopia shows a wide climatic variation, ranging from the peaks of the Semien and Bale, which receive periodic snowfall, to regular daytime temperatures of over 50 0C in the Danakil Depression. As a rule, the highland has a temperate climate and average day time temperature of 160C. Due to their proximity to the Equator, the eastern lowlands and far south is dry and hot. The western lowlands are moist and hot, making them one part of the country that feels truly tropical. The southern rift valley, much of which is at the relatively high altitude of 1.500m, is temperate to hot and seasonally moist. The general precipitation pattern is that the bulk of the rain in the highlands and Rift valley falls between mid-June and early October. The rainy season in the Rift Valley generally starts and ends a few weeks earlier than in the highlands. The northeastern highlands have a less reliable rainy season than other highland parts of Ethiopia. In normal rainy season the highlands receive an average rainfall of 800 to 2,200mm. From a tourist's point of view, rain tends to fall in dramatic storms, which end as suddenly as they start,a situation that is infinitely easier for travel in than days of protracted drizzle.
What does thirteen months of sunshine mean?
Ethiopia follows the Julian calendar, which consists of twelve months of thirty days each and a thirteenth month of five days (six days on leap year). You can see the sun every day of the year That is why we having the saying "13 months of sunshine". You will be seven years younger when you arrive in Ethiopia because the calendar is seven years and eight months behind the western calendar.
What is the time difference in Ethiopia?
Ethiopia has a different time calculating system and three hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). The Ethiopian day is calculated in a manner similar to that in many equatorial countries, where day and night is always the same length. Time remains constant through the year. For example 7am is 1 o'clock and counting each hour accordingly, 6pm is 12 o'clock. At 7pm, the Ethiopian clock return to 1 o'clock.
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Strawdog Theatre Company of Chicago announces their 22nd anniversary season of presenting "the whole wide world in a little black box," with the three mainstage plays focusing on the theme of "why we fight": the Midwest premiere of Matt Pepper's St. Crispin's Day, Curt Columbus' translation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and David Harrower's translation of Bertolt Brecht's The Good Soul of Szechuan. The productions run Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 4 and 8 p.m., and Sunday at 7 p.m.
Previews September 24 and 25 at 8 p.m., gala benefit on September 26 at 7 p.m., Opening Night September 27 at 7 p.m.
Strawdog will open their 22nd anniversary season with the Midwest premiere of Matt Pepper's black comedy St. Crispin's Day. Set on the eve of the Battle of Agincourt, St. Crispin's Day takes place in the world of Shakespeare's Henry V and follows his famous characters, Bardolph, Pistol and Nym, as they attempt to overthrow England's King Henry V and avoid the battle altogether. Kevin Christopher Fox makes his Strawdog directing debut with this production. Fox has also directed Widower's Houses for TimeLine Theatre, Beggar's in the House of Plenty for Mary-Arrchie Theatre, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot for The Gift Theatre, and Arms and the Man for the Oak Park Festival Theatre.
Opening night February 21 at 7 p.m.
Chekhov's classic about a country gentleman's forbidden love for his brother's beautiful wife gets a smoldering translation from former Steppenwolf Associate Artistic Director and current Artistic Director of Trinity Rep Curt Columbus. Strawdog company member Kimberly Senior returns after directing the critically acclaimed sold-out run of Cherry Orchard in 2009 and Three Sisters in 2005 (remounted at Theatre on the Lake in 2006). Other Strawdog productions include the Jeff Award-nominated Knives in Hens (2003) and Fuddy Meers (2004). Senior also directed TimeLine's Dolly West's Kitchen as well as this spring's critically acclaimed production of The Overwhelming for Next Theatre.
Previews April 22 and 23 at 8 p.m., gala benefit on April 24 at 7 p.m., opening Night April 25 at 7 p.m.
Written by Bertolt Brecht, translated by David Harrower, directed by Shade Murray.
Strawdog's 2009- 2010 season will close with Bertolt Brecht's The Good Soul of Szechuan. A trio of gods passes through Szechuan and bestows great wealth on the poor prostitute Shen-Te in recognition of her pure and charitable heart. Shen-Te struggles to maintain her decency as greedy locals and fair-weather lovers take advantage her good soul. Brecht's classic receives a new translation from Scottish playwright David Harrower, author of Strawdog's Jeff Award-winning production of Knives in Hens. Company member Shade Murray returns to Strawdog, where he previously directed their Detective Story (Jeff Award-winning Best Production, Director and Ensemble in 2003), Marathon '33 (Best Ensemble 2006), and R.U.R.- Rossum's Universal Robots (2008). Murray was assistant director for Steppenwolf's acclaimed production August: Osage County. He also won a 2006 Jeff Award for The Chosen at Writer's Theatre.
Strawdog Late Night features a variety of programming (Theatre Wars, live music, comedy, improv, roasts) in the newly-renovated Hugen Hall Cabaret space within the theatre, following each night's mainstage performance at 11 p.m., 10 p.m. on Sundays. Admission for Late Night starts at $5 and varies for visiting artists. A cash bar available. Some events are free. Check www.strawdog.org for current listings.
Strawdog has received numerous Non-Equity Jeff Awards, including awards for Hurlyburly (1999)- Outstanding Ensemble, Outstanding Actor Michael Dobbs, Outstanding Supporting Actress Stephanie Manglaras, Outstanding Supporting Actor Bart Petty; Detective Story (2003) – Outstanding Production, Outstanding Director Shade Murray, Outstanding Ensemble, Outstanding Set Design Ray Vlcek; Three Sisters (2005) – Outstanding Set Design Brian Sidney Bembridge; Marathon 33 (2007) – Outstanding Ensemble and A Lie of the Mind (2008) – Outstanding Original Music Mikhail Fiksel and Gregor Mortis.
Public transportation to Strawdog is available on the CTA via the Red Line Sheridan stop, plus 36-Broadway and 80-Irving Park buses. There is a $6 honor parking at Horace Greeley School, 832 W. Sheridan, weekends after 5 p.m. Strawdog Theatre Company is committed to ensemble acting and an immersive design approach, offering Chicago the premiere storefront theatre experience. We develop new work, re-imagine classic plays, explore new fusions of music and theatre, ask provocative questions and deliver the unexpected to our audience. We provide a home for our celebrated ensemble to work and play with the most sought after artists in Chicago theatre along with the best new talents in the city. Strawdog is a proud member of the NortHalsted Area Merchant Association and the League of Chicago Theatres.
Strawdog Theatre Company is committed to ensemble acting and an immersive design approach, offering Chicago the premiere storefront theatre experience. The company develops new work, reimagines classic plays, explores new fusions of music and theatre, asks provocative questions and delivers their audience the unexpected. The company is also proud to provide a home for their celebrated ensemble to work and play with the most sought after artists in Chicago theatre along with the best new talents in the city. The Strawdog ensemble has consistently produced shows built on authentic human connections, in their 70-seat home in Lakeview, offering the audience "the whole wide world in a little black box." Strawdog is a proud member of the NortHalsted Area Merchant Association, The Chicago Storefront Theatre District and the League of Chicago Theatres. For more information on Strawdog Theatre Company visit www.strawdog.org.


Can I ask you a question? Is reading this newsletter just one more thing on your to-do list? Is it adding to your already unmanageable inbox overflow? Are you just plain over it? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, I encourage you to unsubscribe. Truly. It won't hurt my feelings. I promise.
When I launched this newsletter nearly five and a half years ago (?!) I sent it to an assortment of family, friends, colleagues, and students. The response was warm and supportive (as one might expect from a hand selected audience) - and I was encouraged.
Over time, the audience grew as members of that initial group recommended the writings to people in their network. Others stumbled onto my website and found the content a good match. Members of the infertility community, new students, and complete strangers reached out to say they found value in the offerings, and it warmed my heart.
But some early members decided the content wasn't relevant to them. Others determined after joining that the material wasn't what they needed or wanted. They unsubscribed. And my little heart hurt. EVERY ONE one of those rejections felt personal and consequential.
But little by little, I found myself less distressed. When I let go of my fear of rejection, I became better able to enjoy the process. I decided to reduce the frequency of my output to a level that felt sustainable and allowed ideas to steep a little longer. I gained greater confidence in discerning what I wanted to say and knowing the message would reach the audience who needed/wanted to hear it. It took time, but the transition was immensely freeing. And I think it has applications far beyond newsletter readership.
Rejection is part of the journey for us all. People enter and leave our lives for reasons as diverse and varied as the individuals themselves. And while these transitions can at first feel uncomfortable, we have a choice: we can allow rejection to send us into spirals of self-doubt, or we can try to learn from it.
Consider your current relationships. Is fear of rejection causing you to second-guess yourself or try to be someone you are not? Try letting go of your need for approval and instead invest that time and energy in relationships and endeavors that encourage you to be YOUR best self. Or maybe you are reluctant to part ways with someone because you fear the effect of your rejection on them. Consider whether you can do them - and yourself - a favor by flexing your rejection muscle (gently), thereby enabling them to grow on their own terms.
It has been an emotional week in the New Beginnings household. I celebrated a milestone birthday over the weekend, and I felt all. the. things.
I fully recognize I am neither the first nor the only human to enter a new decade. This is not uncharted territory. I have been privileged to witness firsthand as family members and friends navigated this shift - setting beautiful examples of graceful transition. Some were intentional and proactive: declaring bold goals and embarking on new adventures. Others took it in stride: acknowledging the day as nothing more than another step on their journey.
But as we bid farewell to the latest of our series of houseguests - sandwiched between a flurry of fun weekend jaunts both near and far - I took a deep breath. And as my body and mind truly settled for the first time this quarter, I was seized by panic: I've done no planning! I'm not prepared! I'm missing a huge opportunity for intentional living here!
How can I achieve goals I haven't even set?! How can I fix everything that is wrong if I don't identify it? I've read the books and listened to the podcasts: If we want to be successful, we MUST be prepared! We MUST retreat, reflect, envision, and execute! And we MUST document the process and pristine outcome with an effortlessly flawless photo on social media!
As strongly as I felt the pull to wallow in regret for this missed opportunity, life's rhythms didn't accommodate a distraction-free retreat to figure it all out. Instead, the routine events of the week propelled me forward. I found joy in helping a friend with a project, gained confidence by pushing myself out of my comfort zone professionally, and reveled in the presence of a not-so-tiny-anymore miracle who will be celebrating a birthday of her own next week.
I also folded laundry, washed the car, paid bills, and stocked the refrigerator. And I was reminded that as much as we may crave some externally defined ideal, we live in a real world where sometimes the steps come out of order - or late - or not at all. The earth continues to rotate and revolve, kiddos continue to grow, lists and to-dos continue to accumulate - and this cycle is its own version of perfection.
Every one of our inconveniences, unremarkable experiences, and complicated relationships are part of life. And all carry within them the potential to help us grow in wisdom and grace - expanding our perspective beyond ourselves and the microscopic corner of the universe we inhabit.
At some point, I will take time to consider whether I could benefit from simple changes to my rhythm in this new chapter. But in these opening days of a new decade, I am resolving to conclude that life - with all its imperfections - is exactly as it should be. Whether you are in the midst of transition or a period of stability, I encourage you to explore the idea that your life - just as it is in this very moment - IS perfect. Won't you join me?
Those of you who know me can attest to my love for planning, order, and organization. The same is true for my husband. And - for better or worse - we have passed these traits down to our daughter. After returning from the second of two back-to-back weekend vacations, our daughter announced at the dinner table, "Isn't it so nice to get back into routine?!"
As much as her father and I love travel, we couldn't disagree. Reliable rhythms are important to us. Weekends, in particular, follow a schedule that bring us great joy: Poetry Saturdays, Dance Party Sundays, and relaxing afternoons with neighbors in the courtyard are something to which we all look forward.
On a recent weekend, the weather prevented a courtyard outing, so we brought the playdate into our home. While my daughter and her friend invented their own imaginary worlds, I started preparing dinner. An hour later, the friend's father arrived, with his son in tow, to pick her up. The girls pleaded for "five more minutes" to finish up their latest adventure, and we offered our neighbor a glass of wine. Not much time had passed when his wife arrived, wearing their third child, to check on the status. As I poured her a glass I heard myself say, "Would you all like to stay for dinner?"
But the spontaneous nature of the gathering overrode the pressures of perfectionism. We hastily threw together a snack plate to keep everyone sated while we worked. Our neighbor disappeared and returned with cheese and wine to share. Laughter filled the air.
When everything was ready, we sat down to a table set with mismatched plates and napkins. By the end of the evening, the floor was littered with crumbs. But a lovely evening was enjoyed by all. One spontaneous invitation yielded a wonderful opportunity to connect with people whose company we enjoy and offered a glimpse into a different way of being that felt at once both exhilaratingly novel and surprisingly comfortable.
At the forefront of a new year, I am aiming to experience more of this. To be more spontaneous. To extend - and accept - more invitations for impromptu connections. To leave more uncommitted windows in our family calendar and let go - if only occasionally - of the plans and routines that ground us.
How about you? What would it look - and feel - like to let go of the tight grip you wield over your schedule? To extend an invitation before mapping out a menu? To accept a last-minute offer of a glass of wine or cup of coffee? Can you allow yourself to explore spontaneity?
A new year. A blank slate. A fresh start. Sounds wonderful, doesn't it? Something embedded deep within us craves the chance to brush ourselves off and start over. And at the outset of a new year, the possibilities seem endless.
In the New Beginnings household, the year ahead is brimming with potential. We will celebrate a milestone birthday and a significant anniversary. We will help the babe navigate a major transition. We will attend more (?!?) weddings and embark on an epic family adventure. In between, we'll pause to acknowledge some quarter birthdays and (hopefully) settle into a life rhythm that serves us well. Along the way there will undoubtedly be unexpected delights. There will be moments of monotony. There will be disappointments. We will rejoice, we will rest, and we will grieve.
And as these experiences arise - from the marvelous to the mundane - I am embracing a spirit of exploration. Welcoming the opportunity to fully experience each development - whether good, bad, or indifferent. To relish the thrill of soaring, learn the lessons that come from falling down, and absorb the replenishment of the quiet interregnums. To enter situations both new and familiar with curiosity.
How about you? What do you want to explore in the year to come? Is there a destination you want to visit - or revisit? Is there a skill you want to learn - or refine? Is there a person you want to meet - or get to know better? What is holding you back?
Can we start with a check in? How have you been? How was the past month? Did the breathing exercise help? If so, great! If not - or if trying to remember how or when to do it was just one more looming task on your list - then ditch it. It won't hurt my feelings. Let's be honest: I won't even know!
In fact, this month, I would like to invite you to get rid of a few things - perhaps even many things. Wouldn't it feel good to shed some of the unnecessary clutter clamoring for your attention as we hurtle toward the end of the calendar year? Doesn't something about it just seem right - even seasonal?
As it happens, the trees in Washington, D.C. are shedding more than their leaves this season. Acorn-strewn streets and sidewalks have transformed otherwise casual strolls into veritable obstacle courses.
The deluge is due to what arborists call "masting." Most years, oak trees produce just enough acorns to feed surrounding wildlife - playing their role in the circle of life. In a masting year, however, the oaks produce and shed more acorns than the squirrels and their furry friends can consume, ensuring some will take root and grow into new trees - replenishing and renewing the forest.
Because I think it sets a beautiful example for us. Like the oaks, we bear a responsibility for the care and feeding of our wildlife - whether our families, communities, or workplaces. But unlike the oaks, we humans are not programmed to regularly invest in our own welfare. We instead pour nearly every ounce of our precious energy into our life and work. If we are lucky, we have just enough left over to meet our basic needs, but over time our wells run dry - to the detriment of not only ourselves but also those who depend on us.
Perhaps you are the exception to the rule: you already have replenishment rhythms in place and feel fully equipped to graciously and generously pour into those around you. But I suspect at least a few of you are feeling depleted - in which case, I recommend you enter your own masting season.
For many of us, that involves shedding those things that no longer serve us. It might be the monthly volunteer commitment that fills you with more dread than purpose. Maybe it takes the form of a relationship that produces more frustration than encouragement. Perhaps it is something as simple as choosing a beautiful treat from a local bakery for that upcoming holiday potluck instead of spending hours in the kitchen to bake it yourself.
Others may instead need a simple change of routine to create more space. Can you find time for meditation, contemplation, or prayer by turning off your headphones or car radio on your daily commute? Are you willing to swap out five minutes of social media to instead take a few deep breaths?
Whatever form it takes, I encourage you to take stock and take action. Identify one way you can renew your reserves for the month ahead. You - and those around you - will be glad you did.
Before you dive in to the following note, I invite you to take a deep breath. I mean it. Literally. Pause. Put your hands on your knees. Breathe in as deeply as you can (even more deeply than you think you can), and then let it out (with an audible sigh if you're willing!).
How did that feel? Maybe try it again. We all need this (and other tools) in our kit right now. I've heard it from clients over and over. I've seen it in the agitation simmering under the surface in routine exchanges at the grocery store and coffee shop. I have felt it myself: angst and anxiety about the state of the world. It feels heavy. It seems overwhelming. It's both vast and deeply personal. It is hard to know how to go about "life as usual."
So when the time came to board planes twice in as many weeks for weddings we had committed to attend, I struggled. After a season of heavy travel and on the heels of an unsettling tragedy just blocks from our home, I considered changing course and staying put. Though I wanted to be there for the brides and their families, the pull of home - of hibernation - was strong.
But as we considered the women we had the opportunity to celebrate, we decided to proceed as planned. And I couldn't be happier that we did: both occasions proved powerful (and greatly needed) medicine. For two weekends, we focused on incredible young women of character and integrity. We celebrated lives well lived and paths less traveled. We connected with family and friends. We met fascinating people. We explored a beautiful, historic Southern city and a rugged, rustic Midwestern retreat. We steeped ourselves in joy.
It felt like an escape from reality, but as the weekends unfolded it occurred to me that this, too, IS reality.
Because while turmoil, distress, and unease so often dominate our mindspace, they do not have an exclusive right to determine our experience of the world. Moment by moment, joy lingers patiently on the periphery waiting to be noticed. Ready to spring into action.
Sometimes it comes with great fanfare in the form of major milestones and grand events. But just as often - if not more so - it whispers through a sun-dappled day after weeks of rain, a chance to catch up with a dear friend, or an unexpected kindness from a stranger.
We cannot control our circumstances or environment, but we can choose where to focus our attention. As we head into a new month (with one more wedding celebration to go!), I am looking for more chances to smile. To surround myself with laughter. To breathe deeply. To anticipate - and share - joy. Won't you join me?
As we prepare for the official arrival of Fall, I find myself wistful about the season to which we are bidding farewell. The past few months have been magical. Our Summer was replete with travels to places near and far: training up to New York for a quick mother-daughter weekend to celebrate the end of the school year, taking in the College World Series with family and friends in the Midwest, relaxing in the mountains with dear friends, visiting others at their cozy lakeside retreat, and embarking on our first family trek across the pond. The brief interludes between these adventures were filled with time at the pool, playing at the park, and hours and hours of reading. It was a season of familiar joys and new discoveries. Exciting adventure and delicious boredom.
Upon our return from our final jaunt, however, I was ready for routine. I eagerly sat down with the calendar to map out our Fall. As I noted the events, engagements, and activities to which we have committed; sifted through the flurry of Fall wedding celebrations taking place from coast to coast (and points in between); and reviewed new professional opportunities that have presented themselves in recent months, my enthusiasm began to evaporate. The season had yet to begin and already I felt overextended and overwhelmed. Week by week I witnessed as all possible windows for a spontaneous coffee date with a friend or a lazy family weekend closed one by one.
My craving for the security of structure battled with a desire to carry forward the delicious ease of Summer. As I sat in the tension between the two, it occurred to me that what I really need in this season is neither a rigid routine nor a free flowing spontaneity, but a rhythm that incorporates both - a stable but flexible underlying design that provides predictability AND space for improvisation.
So I started over. I considered questions: What activities and commitments truly nourish me? What commitments give - rather than drain - my energy? How can I serve and contribute in ways that bless our community without leaving me depleted?
With those answers in mind I began saying "no" and "not now." I passed along enticing, but impractical, professional opportunities to fellow teachers. I declined invitations to appealing, but inconvenient, events. I decreased the number of enriching, but exhausting activities for the kiddo. I crafted (what I THINK will be) a more sustainable rhythm. With windows to connect. With space to be still. And an acknowledgement that when the balance shifts too far in either direction, I can revisit and revise.
Last month we enjoyed our annual escape to the mountains with dear family friends. In the weeks leading up to the trip each year both families create and execute a detailed plan to ensure we have everything we could possibly need to eat, wear, and play for the week. With cars packed to their limits, we set out for the nearly four hour drive with logistical details and mental lists still swirling in our heads. But within an hour of arriving, our lungs are full of mountain air and our hearts are light. Before long, we lose sight of any agenda we had for our time together and experience a powerful shift into a more restful, peaceful state.
It was in this blissful mindset that my husband and I set out early one morning for a family "nature walk" with our budding explorer. Having become familiar with the wildlife in the area over the past five years, we prepared her for sightings of bears, deer, unique birds, and unfamiliar plant life. Less than five minutes into our walk, however, she spied a small worm making its way s...l...o...w...l...y... across the road. My husband and I acknowledged it and proceeded with our mission, but she was transfixed. "I think it's a baby worm! Where do you think its mama is? Can we follow it?"
My initial inclination was to push back. There are so many far more interesting things to see! We have worms in D.C. We haven't even reached the beginning of the trail. Let's go! I tried (calmly) to impart this sentiment, but she was having none of it. So we stopped. And followed a worm.
I would love to tell you I was able to tap into her sweet and sincere fascination with the simple creature. I tried to be fully present with her in that moment, but it was to little avail. I fell immediately back into planning-executing-checking-boxes mode and impatiently scanned the horizon for something more "special." I wanted her to see the beauty of nature I knew lay just steps ahead of where we stood.
It wasn't until we returned to the house and she regaled our friends with an elaborate account of our worm sighting that I was seized by a pang of regret. With the benefit of hindsight, I wanted to rewind time, abandon my agenda, and share her wonder. While a worm isn't MY idea of unique wildlife, it was special in her eyes. And that should have been sufficient.
How often does our (often misplaced) focus on a particular vision of how things "should" be cause us to miss a beautiful moment? How many times have we failed to fully experience something special with someone we love because of our unwillingness to appreciate the simple pleasures in life?
As we enter the final month of Summer, I encourage you to pause, set aside your agenda, and open your eyes - and minds - to the simple joys around you. I am committing to let go of what I think is "best" and allowing the day/journey to unfold in surprising ways. Won't you join me?
I recently had the good fortune of reconnecting with a dear friend from my youth. I remembered her fondly as a remarkably talented and accomplished young lady, and her path has continued along the same trajectory for the 15 years since we were last together.
We made plans to meet for tea while she was passing through our nation's capitol. I had a general knowledge of her aims and accomplishments, and as the date approached, I engaged in some social media sleuthing to fill in the blanks.
My initial enthusiasm began to wane as I envisioned our conversation. Here is a woman who not only pursued her passions but also excelled in the execution. From her prestigious academic pedigree as a student and professor at the most elite institutions of higher education in our country to her ambitious efforts to change the way music is experienced, I found myself feeling inadequate. We shared many interests in our youth and started our journeys at an academy focused on empowering young women to pursue - and achieve - their dreams while contributing to the greater good. She was doing just that. And I was doing...what exactly??
I entered our date with trepidation. She looked marvelous - more confident and composed than in our youth - and as I learned more of the details of her current station in life, I was in awe. Dividing her time between my beloved Big Apple and the idyllic climes of Northern California. A heady romance with a leading intellectual. A thriving career in the arts and academia. Achievements. Acclaim. Accolades.
But as we spoke, something within me shifted. It was wonderful to celebrate her success. It was captivating to consider an alternative present that more closely mirrored hers. But my desire to make excuses and justify my current path disappeared. I began to relax into an increasing certainty that where - and who - I am today is where - and who - I should be. I found myself at peace.
Each of us has a different path to follow, but we all share the same journey. Your life may be exactly as you imagined it - or even better than you dreamed, but no one is immune to comparisons. Next time you find yourself seized by the temptation to measure yourself against someone or something external, can you instead embrace and celebrate who and where you are today? Can you free yourself to experience peace?


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From roommate relationships to hall traditions, your experiences can help you develop in ways you never imagined, all while being surrounded by a supportive community of like-minded believers to take this journey with you. Of course, the foundation of this tight-knit community is formed in the residence halls where new and returning students, from freshmen to seniors, experience life together. You can build relationships with others from around the state or around the world; friendships that will enrich your life and last a lifetime.
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I'm currently revising my book, it's a daunting task. I've read lots of posts and articles on the 'best' way to revise. Then all the articles talking about when you are actually 'done' revising. What I've realized is that everyone's process is different just like every book is. I'd like to share the process I'm using as a collaboration of ideas I've come across.
Here are the steps I'm currently taking as I trudge through the swamp of revision.
Format. Create your chapters and make it look like a book. It's so exciting to print it off, I go to a printer so I can say, 'This is my book.' You worked hard, show it off a little.
Plug plot holes. First time through my story I only concentrate on making everything flow between chapters and fixing any plot problems. For me, this actually changed my story so much I'm glad I hadn't changed anything else yet.
TIP: Walk away from your story for a little bit. I suggest at least 15 minutes per page (So 100 pages is 1500 minutes or 25 hours.) This keeps your mind ready to see mistakes.
Check for clarity. I read through with a highlighter and mark up anything that does not sound authentic or I mentally stumble over. I suggest you do the read through while marking it up and fix it afterward. This keeps your mind in flow without stopping every paragraph to re-write.
Check your words. This is different from clarity because you are looking at the descriptions and words you use. You want to use the best word for what is in your head. Did he walk upstairs or did he trudge upstairs? Trudge is far more expressive. Are you using all five senses in your writing? Keep your dictionary handy for this part.
TIP: "Sin & Syntax" is my go to reference book for this part.
Check grammar and spelling. I put this near the end because you are changing words and format up to this point. However, I do fix some as I go in prior steps just because they bug me.
KEY: Focus on one thing at a time. Don't try to look for all the problems on the first read through.
Read it aloud. This by far is the hardest part. But you are so close. Reading out loud forces your mind to catch things you will have missed in prior edits.
Congratulations! You have revised a book and are ready for beta readers! I personally do not get any beta readers prior to a thorough revision. No one (especially an agent or publisher) wants to read a book with the above issues rampant on every page. Best to be polite and do the work now.
What process do you use for revision? Did any of these suggestions work well for you?
I think you're right that every writer's revision process is different, but your key is the one thing all should have in common: focus on one thing at a time. It gets so messy and time consuming when you don't.
I'm so glad you have the same experiences! I really do go crazy if I try and look for everything at once.
Thanks so much! I'm working on it and totally agree with you. A good beta reader is a gem! I'll be checking your site for tips for sure. Thanks again!


The California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI) at UC Santa Barbara invites applications for the Elings Prize Postdoctoral Fellowships in experimental nanoscience.
Successful applicants will work with, and receive partial support from, experimentalists on the CNSI faculty; applications must be coordinated with the relevant faculty supervisor(s).
Fellowship recipients must have completed a Ph.D. in science or engineering prior to their arrival at CNSI.
All applicants must be potential postdoctoral researchers who intend to perform their research at UCSB under the direction of a CNSI faculty member. Current UCSB graduate students and postdoctoral researchers are not eligible to participate in this competition.
Graduate Students who will have obtained their PhDs prior to the submission deadline date (see below) are encouraged to apply for the current competition.
Male and female citizens of ALL countries may apply. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer.
Eligible research can be in any area of the physical sciences, biology, or engineering.
The fellowships provide a salary of $60,000/yr for two years, renewable for a third, along with benefits and research funds.
Only applications submitted online will be considered in the application review process. All application materials including letters of recommendation and research plans are due by the published application deadline. A letter of recommendation may be submitted by the proposed advisor.
A cover letter summarizing the applicant's background, indicating the area of proposed research, and listing the experimental group(s) with which the research will be pursued.
A one-page research summary, to be completed in coordination with the proposed faculty supervisor.
Three supporting letters of recommendation to be submitted by the recommenders directly through the fellowship website at: https://fellow.cnsi.ucsb.edu/. Recommenders may submit their letters online only. When the names and email addresses of the recommenders are entered into the online application, they will receive a message instructing them how to electronically submit their recommendations.
Applicants must indicate in their cover letter the experimental group(s) with whom they would be interested in working; prior contact with potential experimental advisors is mandatory. An alphabetical list of the faculty may be found on the CNSI Faculty page. Collaborative research projects are highly encouraged.
To apply, visit the official website of the CNSI (link to it is below), and click on the 'APPLY NOW' button.
Note that finalists for the fellowships will be notified in March, with final selection soon afterwards.
The University of California at Santa Barbara and the University of California at Los Angeles have joined to build the California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI) which will facilitate a multidisciplinary approach to develop the information, biomedical and manufacturing technologies that will dominate science and economy in the 21st century.


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Arbitrator Bias: Have Halliburton and Sun Yang taught us what's at stake for ADR?
Analysis Europe
Bernardo Cartoni
This short article aims to address the topic of arbitrator's bias by considering two recent and landmark decisions: the Halliburton case (Halliburton Co v Chubb Bermuda Insurance Ltd [2020] UKSC 48) and the Sun Yang case (Tribunal Fédéral Suisse, Ire Cour de droit civil, 22.12.2020, Sun Yang v. AMA (WADA) and FINA, 4A_318/2020).
Those two cases are very complex (Sun Yang, in particular, involved several decisions which are best understood by reading the decision itself). However, in a nutshell, in the Halliburton case the United Kingdom Supreme Court addressed the issue of multiple appointments and the duty to disclose information. In Sun Yang the Swiss Supreme Court dealt with the issue of comments spread by an arbitrator on social media regarding people with the same nationality as one of the parties involved and the fact that the related "duty of curiosity" (devoir de curiosité) lay with the challenging party (Sun Yang, para 6.5., p. 13).
Here we are dealing with two duties that mirror or complement each other: the arbitrators' duty to disclose information and the parties' duty to be curious and ask for information.
The Duty of Disclosure
In Halliburton, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom held a challenge by the US oilfield services multinational Halliburton against an arbitrator baseless. This was because the arbitrator failed to disclose his appointment in two other arbitrations involving an overlapping subject matter and an appointment by the opposite party – Chubb Bermuda Insurance Ltd (formerly Ace Bermuda Insurance Limited) – that gave rise to an appearance of bias. Although the Supreme Court held that the arbitrator breached his duty of disclosure, he was not to be removed from the arbitral tribunal in charge to decide the Halliburton case (Halliburton, 147, 149 and 150).
Due to the paramount importance of the legal issue at stake, the Supreme Court allowed the intervention of five well-known arbitral institutions – ICC, LCIA, LMAA, CIArb and GAFTA.
The opening of Lord Hodge's opinion stated:
It is axiomatic that a judge or an arbitrator must be impartial; he or she must not be biased in favour of or against any party in a litigation or reference. A judge or arbitrator, who is not in fact subject to any bias, must also not give the appearance of bias: justice must be seen to be done (Halliburton, 1).
We might compare this to Sun Yang, where the Swiss Supreme Court held that:
It does not require disqualification only when bias of the judge is established, as a provision of the domestic forum can hardly be proven; it is sufficient that the circumstances give the appearance of bias and give rise to an apprehension of biased activity on the part of the judge (Sun Yang, p. 15).
The duty of impartiality – as Lord Hodge pointed out it is a 'cardinal duty' – is enshrined in Sec. 33 English Arbitration Act 1996. This obligation includes the duty of disclosure, that is a part of this duty. Indeed, the Supreme Court upheld the Court of Appeal's opinion that it is an actual legal duty and not merely good arbitral practice. As the Court stated: "It is also an essential corollary of the statutory obligation of impartiality: an arbitrator who knowingly fails to act in a way which fairness requires to the potential detriment of a party is guilty of partiality" (Halliburton, 78). Notably it added, "one way in which an arbitrator can avoid the appearance of bias is by disclosing matters which could arguably be said to give rise to a real possibility of bias" (Halliburton, 70).
But what has to be disclosed? The Court of Appeal stated: "disclosure should be given of facts and circumstances known to the arbitrator which, in the language of section 24 of the Act, would or might give rise to justifiable doubts as to his impartiality" ([2018] EWCA Civ 817, 71). To this, the Supreme Court added that an arbitrator should "make reasonable enquiries as to whether there are facts or circumstances [unknown to the arbitrator] which might lead the fair-minded and informed observer to conclude that there was a real possibility of bias" (Halliburton, 107), as provided for in the IBA Guidelines on Conflict of Interest (Part I, General Standard 7(d)).
Precedents have established that any facts that give rise to doubts regarding an arbitrator's bias have to be considered by a "fair-minded and informed observer" (Porter v Magill [2002] 2 AC 357, 103) that is "neither complacent nor unduly sensitive or suspicious" (Johnson v Johnson (2000) 201 CLR 488, 53) on a case-by-case basis.
Accepting multiple appointments on overlapping cases is not a solid ground for challenging an arbitrator as such. But, as pointed out in Halliburton, it "may, depending on the relevant custom and practice, give rise to an appearance of bias" (Halliburton, 131).
So, it is up to each arbitrator to promptly and fully disclose to the parties each fact or circumstance that can cast justifiable doubt on their impartiality.
The Duty of Curiosity
Now, turning to the Sun Yang case, we have to face another form of lack of impartiality – arbitrator's comments on social media. This case accentuated the challenging party's duty of curiosity.
In this case, Mr Sun Yang – a famous Chinese olympian swimmer and gold medallist – filed a request for the revision of an award by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) due to its chairman's lack of impartiality. The chairman was Mr Franco Frattini, an Italian judge and former minister.
It was brought to light that, prior to the CAS case, Frattini had published numerous objectively harsh and prejudiced comments about Chinese people and culture on Twitter. I do not repeat them here, but there were quoted in the court decision (pp. 9-10,18).
Sun's counsels submitted that he became aware of Frattini's abusive and discriminating comments only on 15 May 2020, when they appeared on a website.
The opposite parties submitted that these comments were already on Twitter before the CAS case and that Sun should have searched for them at the time of Frattini's appointment. They referred to art. R34 Code of Sports-related Arbitration with the assumption that Sun's challenge was time-barred. The Code reads that an arbitrator "may be challenged if the circumstances give rise to legitimate doubts over her/his independence or over her/his impartiality." In such cases "The challenge shall be brought within seven days after the ground for the challenge has become known".
The Swiss Supreme Court held that the challenging party has a duty of curiosity, but that this duty is not unlimited.
It stated that "[t]he parties are certainly obliged to carry out certain investigations, in particular on the Internet" (Sun Yang, p. 13), citing Despina Mavromati and Matthieu Reeb's The Code of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (2015, no. 68 ad Art. R34) and Antonio Rigozzi and Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler's, International Arbitration – Law and Practice in Switzerland (2015, n. 8.138 ff). The core passage of the decision that followed, however, is worth quoting at length:
While they can certainly be required to use the main computer search engines and to consult sources likely to provide, a priori, elements revealing a possible risk of bias on the part of an arbitrator, such as the websites of the main arbitral institutions, of the parties, of their counsel and of the law firms in which they practice, the law firms in which certain arbitrators work, and – in the field of sports arbitration – those of the Respondent Foundation and of the sports institutions concerned, one cannot, however, expect them to systematically and thoroughly scrutinize all the sources relating to a given arbitrator … Moreover, while it is true that it is possible to easily access the data appearing on open access websites with a single click, this does not mean that the information in question is always easily identifiable (Sun Yang, p. 13).
To support this conclusion, the Court cited Karim El Chazli's L'impartialité de l'arbitre, Étude de la mise en oeuvre de l'exigence d'impartialité de l'arbitre (2020, p. 325 and 330 ff, which refer to French case law).
What's at stake for arbitration?
Based on this, we may conclude that arbitrators have to disclose every fact or circumstance that could potentially give rise to doubt of their impartiality, including a duty to research regarding possible conflicts of interest. Meanwhile, it is up to the parties to make appropriate research on arbitrators' background, past statements and tweets that could lead to the successful challenge of the biased arbitrator.
The significance of this is also, of course, that the credibility of arbitration, as a system, to solve disputes is rooted in the actual independence and impartiality of the arbitrators.
Image credit: Image Credit: Christine Smith, under Creative Commons 4.0 license.
Tags: Bernardo Cartoni Chubb Bermuda Insurance Ltd Court of Arbitration for Sport Franco Frattini Halliburton Sun Yang Supreme Court of the United Kingdom Swiss Supreme Court
Bernardo Cartoni, FCIArb, is an arbitrator at Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre. www.kancelariacartoni.pl.


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Q: vue - force reload template and then execute action I have vue component which has v-for and button "add".
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<button @click="add()">add</button>

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and I want to focus just added alement, but actually when I'm executing focus() method element doesn't exist - because v-for will upload it after method add() will be done.
How can I force update template and then execute this focus method on last element?

A: Create yourself a little v-focus directive and on inserted use the el argument passed to the directive to call focus() on.

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Saint Sophia, in the world Solomonia Yuryevna Saburova, a Great Princess, was born around 1490, the daughter of the noble Yury Konstantinovich Saburov. Her mother died when she was young, and was raised by her aunt Evdokia Ivanovna (sister of her father). In the year 1505 she was chosen as bride by the heir to the throne, the future Great Prince Basil III. She was chosen at the bride's review of 500 girls presented to the court for this purpose from all over the country (modeled on brides for the Roman emperors).
The wedding of Solomonia and Basil took place on 4 September 1505, in the presence of the groom's father, Ivan III. Metropolitan Simon blessed the newlyweds at the Cathedral of the Dormition in the Moscow Kremlin. Her father was thus elevated to boyar upon his daughter's marriage to the monarch. For the first time in Moscow's history, the ruling monarch took as his wife not a foreign princess or a Russian princess, but a bride from the family of the old boyars.
After twenty years, it became apparent that Solomonia was barren. Basil perfectly understood that if he died childless his brothers would inherit the throne. In order to preclude this scenario, they were incarcerated or forbidden to marry until his own son was born. In the long term, this led to the extinction of the Rurikid dynasty and to the succession crisis known as the Time of Troubles.
Despite her shining beauty, exemplary morals and mild character, Solomonia's failure to beget an heir must have weighed upon Basil's relations with his wife, who turned to foreign doctors for help. In 1525, the grand prince decided to divorce Solomonia with the approval of Metropolitan Daniel and the boyars, although Vassian Patrikeyev, Maksim Grek, and some other ecclesiastical authorities declared the divorce unlawful.
In order to have an heir, Great Prince Basil decided to wed a second time to Elena Glinsky, the daughter of the Lithuanian prince Basil Lvovich Glinsky, and from this marriage Ivan the Terrible was born. And on 25 November 1525 he ordered Solomonia to become a nun. Forcibly tonsured with the name Sophia,* Solomonia was sent under guard to the Nativity Monastery of Moscow. She was then moved to the Protection Monastery in Suzdal, one of the many votive churches commissioned by Basil and his wife in supplication for the birth of an heir. By ascetic deeds she banished from her heart worldly thoughts, and totally dedicated herself to God. Saint Sophia departed to God in the year 1542 on December 18, after serving as a nun for seventeen years.
The rumor about the holiness of the nun quickly spread throughout Russia. Prince Andrew Kurbsky in a letter to Ivan the Terrible calls the blessed princess "a Monastic Martyr." In the manuscript of the Lives of the Saints she is called "Holy Venerable Princess Sophia the Nun, the Wonderworker, who Dwelt at the Protection Monastery." Under Tsar Theodore they revered her as a Saint. Tsaritsa Irene sent to Suzdal, "to the Great Princess Solomonia, also called Sophia, a velvet veil with depiction of the Savior and other saints." Patriarch Joseph wrote to Archbishop Serapion of Suzdal about serving Panikhidas and Moliebens for Sophia.
The Suzdal sacristan Ananias speaks of several miraculous healings at her grave. In 1609, during the invasion of the Poles, she saved Suzdal from ruin, appearing in formidable form to the leader of the military detachment of the Poles, Lisovsky. Fear paralyzed his hand, and he swore to leave the city and monastery alone. In 1610 a peasant woman, Theodosia, was healed after suffering with blindness for a year and a half. In 1646 a girl, Irina Popova, was healed after being paralyzed for several years. That same summer Juliana was healed of a sort of amnesia. Nun Theodora in 1647 was healed after suffering with blindness for two and a half months. That same year Julitta Ivanova, a resident of the village of Kideksha, was healed after being deaf for two years. Febronia of Suzdal in 1648 was healed of paralysis after several years. In 1649 a nun of the Protection Monastery, Alexander (Trusov), was healed after losing her sight. Many other healings took place, and continue to take place through her intercessions.
In 1650, Patriarch Joseph allowed the Archbishop of Suzdal to honor her as a Saint. In the middle of the eighteenth century, the question of canonization arose. Her icon, painted in the seventeenth century, has survived to this day and is considered a wonderworking icon. Finally, with the blessing of the Holy Synod, her name was included in the Orthodox Church Calendar in 1916. In 1984 by a special decree of Patriarch Pimen she was venerated as a local saint of Vladimir and Suzdal, and in 2007 her veneration extended throughout the Church and she was officially included in the Menaion.
The grave of Saint Sophia in the tomb of the Protection Monastery was very revered. On 14 August 1995, the solemn acquisition of her relics took place. On this day, a moleben was performed over the tomb of Saint Sophia, and the ecclesiological archaeological commission, with the blessing of Metropolitan Evlogy, made excavations - the holy relics were discovered and transferred to the Protection Cathedral.
* Sigismund von Herberstein asserts in his Notes on Muscovite Affairs that she was forcefully taken to the convent. He wrote: "Solomonia, it turns out, vigorously resisted tonsure and trampled the monastic robes. Then one of the closest advisors of Basil III, Ivan Shigona, not only expressed to her sharp reprimand, but also hit her with a scourge. After Shigona said that the tonsure is made according to the will of the sovereign, Solomonia reconciled with this fate." However, the Russian chronicles and Metropolitan Daniel tend to underline Solomonia's submission to the fact that she was barren and sought herself to enter the convent, to which Basil III submitted. There were rumors that Solomonia had given birth to a child named George within the walls of the monastery.
Cathedral of the Nativity of the Theotokos in Suzdal where Saint Sophia was tonsured.


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Fourth Generation Inclusive
Historical Documents of Genealogical Interest to Researchers of North Carolina's Free People of Color
Slightly tinged.
Ann Revels, formerly Ann Chesnutt, filed claim #20191 with the Southern Claims Commission. She was 55 years old and lived near Fayetteville, where she cultivated 15 acres of land.
"I had one son that left Fayetteville about 1852. He went to Texas. I had not heard from him for 2 years before the war commenced. … I then had a letter from him in Kentucky he said he had been in the confederate army but he did not say whether by compulsion or how. I did not contribute anything for his support or military equipments."
"I was not married during the war but I married in 1867. … I have 6 children: George Washington aged 42 years today if living. Andrew Jackson aged 40 years he was 2 1/2 years in the United States Army during the war he went in the Army from Ohio. Sophia aged 37 years. Mary Ann aged 30 years. Dallas aged 25 years. Amanda Chesnutt aged 17 years. George Washington I have not heard from for about 3 years. The balance of my children are living in and within 10 miles of Fayetteville."
"I owned the property before I married my husband. I was born free. I made what I had by my hard work."
Witnesses were: David A. Bryant, 50, Fayetteville farmer; Albert Hammons, 58, Fayetteville carpenter; William H. Haithcock, 46, Fayetteville carpenter (who testified that Ann "prayed the United States government might whip out the south and liberate the slaves." Ann's husband, Jonathan Revels, a 51 year-old farmer, testified that he and Ann were married in 1867 and stated that he was employed by Ann "pretty much all the time especially farming season from 1861 till the Army came."
William S. Taylor, 25, painter, and Mary B. Taylor, 53 and a second cousin to Ann, who lived about 300 yards away.
"The claimant was a single woman during the war and owned the property in her own right. She has since married Revels who is a white man. She was slightly tinged with negro blood."
Ann Chesnutt Revels was the grandmother of writer Charles W. Chesnutt.
The 1870 censustaker of Cross Creek township, Cumberland County, considered Jonathan Revels to be colored and listed him, wife Ann and stepdaughter Amanda Chesnutt as mulatto.
[Bizarre Side Note No. 1 — Amanda Chesnutt married Robert Holliday and had a son, Robert Sumner Holliday, in 1873. Robert graduated Shaw University, then medical school at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. He set up practice in Statesville NC, where he met and in 1918 married Mary Charlton of West Virginia, a Hampton Institute graduate who served as Iredell County's supervisor of colored schools. Mary Charlton Holliday became an abiding mentor to my grandmother, Margaret B. Colvert Allen (1908-2010), and encouraged her to attend her alma mater. My grandmother met my grandfather at Hampton Institute (now University) and all five of their children, plus three grandchildren, matriculated there.]
Surnames: Sampson County, 1850.
The following surnames are found among free people of color listed in the 1850 census of Sampson County:
ALMONDS, ANDREWS, ARMWOOD, BARFOOT, BEGMAN, BELL, BIZZELL, BLACKWELL, BREWINGTON, BRYAN, BURNET, CALDWELL, CARTER, CHANCE, COOPER, DECKS, DUDLEY, DUNCAN, ELLIS, FAIRCLOTH, GOFF, GOODMAN, HAISE/HAYS, HALL, HATCHER, HARDIN, JACKSON, JACOBS, JOHNSON, JONES, KING, MANLEY, MANUEL, MAINER, MATLAN, MATTHEWS, MOZINGO, NEWSOM, PARKER, ROWELL, SCOTT, SIMMONS, TEW, THOMAS, TYLER, WEST, WHITFORD, WIGGINS, WILLIAMS, WILSON and WINN.
Freedom/unfreedom, part 2.
On 13 February 1788, Mary Crooms, a mulatto orphan approximately 2 years old, bound to Curtis Ivey until age 21 to learn to spin and sew.
On 9 February 1789, the Court ordered that Stephen Stanley, to whom a certain child sworn by a certain Mary Blackwell, be discharged from his recognizance and fine, it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the child is mulatto.
On 10 November 1789, Negro Robin freed by Michael King for sundry and meritorious services, agreeable to an Act of Assembly.
On 14 November 1792, Shadrack Clements, mulatto boy formally bound as apprentice to James Spiller, has served his time and is now freed.
On 10 November 1795, Leavy Heathcock, mulatto boy about 5 years old, bound to Jesse Lee until age 21 to learn to be a cooper.
On 9 August 1796, the children of Hannah Williams, a free mulatto, who are base-born, named Charlotte, Olin and John, bound out to Felix Hines, Claborn Ivey and Patrick Carr, respectively, each child to get one year of schooling and bound till age 21.
On 14 February 1797, Jacob Williams, free negro child about 8 years old, son of Lucrita Williams, base begotten, bound to Thomas Sowell until 21.
On 9 May 1797, John Williams, free negro boy about 5 years old, bound to Robert Butler.
Minutes, Sampson County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions.
Minnie Simmons Budd.
MINNIE SIMMONS BUDD was born in 1887, near Dudley NC, to Hillary Bunn Simmons (1855-1941) and Ann Elizabeth Henderson Simmons (1861-1900). Her father's parents were George W. Simmons (ca1820-1919) and Axey Jane Manuel Simmons (1823-1885); her mother's were Lewis Henderson (1836-1912) and Margaret Balkcum Henderson (1836-1915). She married Jesse Manuel Budd (1884-ca1960), son of John Budd and Alice Jones, and they migrated to Philadelphia before World War I. Minnie died there in 1961.
Original in possession of Lisa Y. Henderson.
A mere question.
Samuel Scott v. Joseph Williams, 12 NC 376 (1828).
Samuel Scott sued Joseph Williams for assault and battery and false imprisonment. Jane Scott, an allegedly free woman, had been indented to Williams' father, and Samuel was "given" to Williams by his father as a slave. Samuel proved at trial that he was the son of Jemima, who was the daughter of Jane Scott, and the question was whether Jane was free. The trial judge instructed the jury that Jane's "colour might enter into their consideration" in making the determination. "If she was of a black African complexion, they might presume from that fact, that she was a slave; if she was of a yellow complexion, no presumption of slavery arose from her color." The jury returned a verdict for Scott with substantial damages, and Williams appealed. Williams argued that the jury instructions were incorrect and that damages ought to be minimal as "it was an action brought to decide a mere question of property between innocent persons." The Supreme Court demurred, refused to grant a new trial, and affirmed the judgment.
Caswell County Will Books: A & B
Book A, September Court Session, 1781. Sarah George binds unto Richard Moore a mulatto child named Harbert, aged 2 years, 8 months on 20 Aug 1781. Wit: L. Johnston, Richd. Smith, James Douglas.
Book A, June Court Session, 1782. Rebecca Cousins, a free-born Negro, is apprenticed to Robert Daney.
Book B, September Court Session, 1782. Edward Upton and Jane, his wife, bound her son William Long, a mulatto, to Samuel Bracken. Wit: Thomas Brooks, Thomas Rice.
Book B, October Court Session, 1790. Mournin, a mulatto orphan aged 3 years next March, was bound to Andrew Haddock.
Caswell County Will Books, North Carolina State Archives.
You will get paid for it.
William S. Taylor filed claim #19425 with the Southern Claims Commission. He lived in Fayetteville, where he worked as a house painter. During the war, a major, two lieutenants and chaplain came to his house, took what they wanted and said, "Oh! Sam you will get paid for it."
Harry Clark, age 60, a Fayetteville housepainter; George D. Simmons, 38, a merchant; and Taylor's wife of 30 years, Mary B. Taylor, testified for him.
Where are they now? Nos. 6, 7 and 8.
P.M. was born in the mid-1960s in Wilson NC. She is descended from:
(1) Rhoda Reid [ca1795-ca1865, Wayne County] via John Reid [1826-ca1890, Wayne County] via Isaiah Reid [1853-??, Wayne County]
S.T. was born in the early 1960s in Wilson NC. She is descended from:
(1) Celia Tabourn [??-??, Nash County] via Lemon Tabron [1837-ca1895, Nash/Wilson County]
S.B. was born in the early 1960s in Wilson NC. He is descended from:
(1) Richard Hagans [1828-ca1890, Edgecombe County] via Lawrence Hagans [1850-1826, Edgecombe/Wilson County]
(2) Alice Ann Faithful [1829-??, Edgecombe County]
Surnames: Duplin County, 1850.
These surnames appear among free people of color listed in the 1850 federal census of Duplin County:
ALDRIDGE, ARMSTRONG, BATTS, BLIZARD, BOON, BRINSON, BROCK, BROOKS, BROWN, BRUNSON, BUD, BURNET, CARTER, CHANCE, CHERRY, COLLILE, CUMMINGS, DAVIS, DEAVER, DOVE, EDWARDS, FLANNIGAN, FOREHAND, GARNES, GREEN, HAZE, HERRING, JACOBS, JAMES, JOINER, JONES, MATHIS, McCULLER, MOORE, MURRAY, NICKENS, NOWELL, NUSOM, PARKER, PIERCE, QUIN, RATLIFF, RHODES, ROUSE, SAVAGE, SIMMONS, SMITH, STOCKS, SUMMERLIN, TAILER, TEACHEY, THIGPEN, THOMPSON, TILER, WADE, WATKINS, WELLS, WILEY, WILLIAMS, WINN, WOODS and WOSTERS.
R.I.P. Ira Berlin.
Taxes due on one slave.
He is devoted to his call in the ministry.
His papers have never been seen.
She had been ailing for some years.
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History. Genealogy. Culture.
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Katherine and I made the 5 minute drive from home to the location of the Battleground show to set up this evening. We got most of it done but hunger drove us to leave without deploying the French.
The rest I can do in the morning without any pressure. More to follow.
Cant wait for the after action report Colin - should be outstanding!
Bloody hell Colin that looks sensational! Can't wait to see the game unfold.
A good looking effort! Enjoy your day at the show, look forward to reading your report later on.
Looks the bees knobblies, have a fine day.


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'Izz al-Dīn 'Abu Hamīd 'Abd al-Hamīd bin Hībat-Allah ibn Abi al-Hadīd al Mutazilī al-Mada'ini (), also known as Ibn abi'l-Hadid (30 December 1190 – June 1258; 586–656 AH), was a Shafe'i Mutazili scholar and writer during the Middle Ages. He studied under Abu'l-Khayr Musaddiq ibn Shabib al-Wasiti (died AD 1208/605 AH) and is best known for his commentary on the Nahj al-Balagha, which he titled Sharh Nahj al-Balagha.

Birth
Ibn Abi'l-Hadid was born on Sunday, 1st Zulhijja, 586 AH/  30 December 1190 AD in the city of al-Mada'in, now Salman Pak, Baghdad Governorate, Iran.

Views
Regarding the fabrications of Hadiths, he said that lies had been introduced into the hadith collections of Shi'ites in order to favour their Imam, Ali, or due to their enmity with other religious groups. Regarding the early Caliphate, Al-Hadid explains Ali's position during the early Caliphates in his commentary in his Sharh Nahjul Balagha. According to him Ali did not approve of the Rashidun Caliphate and did not follow them in prayers. Sunni Sihah Sittah are full of lies as well.He further states that he follows the example of Ali and does not go beyond that, going as far as to curse Muaawiyah.

Works
Comments on the Peak of Eloquence (); a commentary on the Nahj al-Balagha, a collection of traditions attributed to Ali ibn Abi Talib. A 20-volume edition was published by Muhammad Abu l-Fadl Ibrahim (Cairo: 'Isa al-Babi al-Halabi) between 1959 and 1964.

See also
List of Islamic scholars

References

External links
http://www.al-islam.org/thaqalayn/nontl/Nar4-7.htm

1190 births
1258 deaths
Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam
Mu'tazilites
13th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate
13th-century Arabic poets
13th-century Muslim scholars of Islam
13th-century jurists
13th-century Arabs

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Q: why is the user authentication unsuccessful? i am trying to build login page using django authentication system
below is the views
from django.contrib import auth
def auth_view(request):
    username = request.POST.get('username','')
    password = request.POST.get('password','')
    print request.POST
    user = auth.authenticate(username=username, password=password)  #returns user object if match else None
    if user is not None:
        auth.login(request, user)  #make user status as logged in now using django login function
        return HttpResponseRedirect('/todos')
    else:
        return HttpResponseRedirect('/accounts/invalid')

login.html
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Login page</title>

login page

<form action="/accounts/auth/" method="post">{% csrf_token %}
    username: <input type="text" name="username" value="" id="username">

    password: <input type="password" name="password" value="" id="password">

    <input type="submit" value="Login">

</form>

urls.py
 ...
 urlpatterns = [
     url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
     url(r'^', include('invoices.urls')),
     url(r'^todos/', include('todos.urls')),
     url(r'^accounts/login/$', todos.views.login, name='login'),
     url(r'^accounts/auth/$', todos.views.auth_view, name='auth_view'),
     url(r'^accounts/logout/$', todos.views.logout, name='logout'),
     url(r'^accounts/loggedin/$',todos.views.loggedin, name='loggedin'),
     url(r'^accounts/invalid/$', todos.views.invalid_login, name='invalid_login'),

]

The variable user returns None even if the user/password is correct.when i change this line user = auth.authenticate(username=username, password=password) to actual user and password eg. user = auth.authenticate(username="peter", password="P@$w0rD275") it is successfully logged in
command line out put
>>>result=auth.authenticate(username='admin', password='adkd92')
>>>print result
None
>>>result=auth.authenticate(username='admin', password='admin123')
>>>print result
admin

A: Perhaps you have a simple typo, you have extra comma , at end of following lines:
username = request.POST.get('username',''),  # <---
password = request.POST.get('password',''),  # <---

Remove it and it should be fine I guess.