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Action/Adventure Book Recommendations: Middle School
Book Scavenger Series
Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
For twelve-year-old Emily, the best thing about moving to San Francisco is that it's the home city of her literary idol: Garrison Griswold, book publisher and creator of the online sensation Book Scavenger (a game where books are hidden in cities all over the country and clues to find them are revealed through puzzles). Upon arriving, however, Emily learns that Griswold has been attacked, and no one knows anything about the epic new game he had been poised to launch. Then Emily and her new friend James discover an odd book, which they come to believe is from Griswold himself. Racing against time, Emily and James try to uncover the secret at the heart of Griswold's new game - before Griswold's attackers find them.
The Unbreakable Code by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
Mr. Quisling is definitely up to something mysterious, and Emily and James are on high alert. First, there's the coded note he drops at a book event. Then they uncover a trail of encrypted messages in Mark Twain-penned books hidden through Book Scavenger. What's most suspicious is that each hidden book triggers an arson fire. As the sleuthing friends dig deeper, they discover Mr. Quisling has been hunting a legendary historical puzzle: the Unbreakable Code. This new mystery is irresistible, but Emily and James can't ignore the signs that Mr. Quisling might be the arsonist. The clock is ticking as the arson fires multiply, and Emily and James race to crack the code of a lifetime.
The Alcatraz Escape by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
Legendary literary game-maker Garrison Griswold is back in action - this time with "Unlock the Rock." For his latest game, Griswold has partnered with the famous - and famously reclusive - mystery writer Errol Roy to plan an epic escape room challenge on Alcatraz Island.Emily and James are eager to participate, but the wave of fame they are riding from their recent book-hunting adventures makes them a target. Threatening notes, missing items, and an accident that might not have been an accident have the duo worried that someone is trying to get them out of the game at any cost.When Emily's brother is caught red-handed and blamed for all the wrong doings, Emily is certain Matthew is being framed. With Matthew's record on the line, Emily and James can't afford to leave this mystery uncracked.
All Fall Down by Ally Carter
Grace Blakely is absolutely certain of three things: 1. She is not crazy. 2. Her mother was murdered. 3. Someday she is going to find the killer and make him pay. As certain as Grace is about these facts, nobody else believes her -- so there's no one she can completely trust. Not her grandfather, a powerful ambassador. Not her new friends, who all live on Embassy Row. Not Alexei, the Russian boy next door, who is keeping his eye on Grace for reasons she neither likes nor understands. Everybody wants Grace to put on a pretty dress and a pretty smile, blocking out all her unpretty thoughts. But they can't control Grace -- no more than Grace can control what she knows or what she needs to do. Her past has come back to hunt her . . . and if she doesn't stop it, Grace isn't the only one who will get hurt. Because on Embassy Row, the countries of the world stand like dominoes, and one wrong move can make them all fall down.
See How They Run by Ally Carter
Some Secrets Are Better Left Unfound. For the past three years, Grace Blakely has been desperate to find out the truth about her mother's murder. She thought it would bring her peace. She thought it would lead her to answers. She thought she could put the past to rest. But the truth has only made her a target. And the past? The only way to put the past to rest is for Grace to kill it once and for all. On Embassy Row, power can make you a victor or a victim; love can turn you into a fool or a fugitive; and family can lead you forward or bury you deep. Trust is a luxury. Death is a very real threat. And a girl like Grace must be very careful about which secrets she brings to light.
Take the Key and Lock Her Up by Ally Carter
For the past three years, Grace Blakely has been desperate to find out the truth about her mother's murder. She thought it would bring her peace. She thought it would lead her to answers. She thought she could put the past to rest. But the truth has only made her a target. And the past? The only way to put the past to rest is for Grace to kill it once and for all.
Action/Adventure Books
Doll Bones by Holly Black
Zach, Poppy, and Alice have been friends forever. And for almost as long, they've been playing one continuous, ever-changing game of pirates and thieves, mermaids and warriors. Ruling over all is the Great Queen, a bone-china doll cursing those who displease her. But they are in middle school now. Zach's father pushes him to give up make-believe, and Zach quits the game. Their friendship might be over, until Poppy declares she's been having dreams about the Queen--and the ghost of a girl who will not rest until the bone-china doll is buried in her empty grave. Zach and Alice and Poppy set off on one last adventure to lay the Queen's ghost to rest. But nothing goes according to plan, and as their adventure turns into an epic journey, creepy things begin to happen. Is the doll just a doll or something more sinister? And if there really is a ghost, will it let them go now that it has them in its clutches?
The Metropolitans by Carol Goodman
The day Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, four thirteen-year-olds converge at the Metropolitan Museum of Art where an eccentric curator is seeking four uncommonly brave souls to track down the hidden pages of the Kelmsbury Manuscript, an ancient book of Arthurian legends that lies scattered within the museum's collection, and that holds the key to preventing a second attack on American soil. When Madge, Joe, Kiku, and Walt agree to help, they have no idea that the Kelmsbury is already working its magic on them. But they begin to develop extraordinary powers and experience the feelings of King Arthur, Queen Guinevere, Morgan le Fay, and Lancelot- courage, friendship, love . . . and betrayal. Are they playing out a legend that's already been lived, over and over, across the ages? Or can the Metropolitans forge their own story?
Lalani of the Distant Sea by Erin Entrada Kelly
When Lalani Sarita's mother falls ill with an incurable disease, Lalani embarks on a dangerous journey across the sea in the hope of safeguarding her own future. Inspired by Filipino folklore, this engrossing fantasy is for readers who loved Grace Lin's Where the Mountain Meets the Moon and Disney's Moana. Life is difficult on the island of Sanlagita. To the west looms a vengeful mountain, one that threatens to collapse and bury the village at any moment. To the north, a dangerous fog swallows sailors who dare to venture out, looking for a more hospitable land. And what does the future hold for young girls? Chores and more chores. When Lalani Sarita's mother falls gravely ill, twelve-year-old Lalani faces an impossible task--she must leave Sanlagita and find the riches of the legendary Mount Isa, which towers on an island to the north. But generations of men and boys have died on the same quest--how can an ordinary girl survive the epic tests of the archipelago? And how will she manage without Veyda, her best friend?
The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon
Caleb Franklin and his big brother Bobby Gene are excited to have adventures in the woods behind their house. But Caleb dreams of venturing beyond their ordinary small town. Then Caleb and Bobby Gene meet new neighbor Styx Malone. Styx is sixteen and oozes cool. Styx promises the brothers that together, the three of them can pull off the Great Escalator Trade--exchanging one small thing for something better until they achieve their wildest dream. But as the trades get bigger, the brothers soon find themselves in over their heads. Styx has secrets--secrets so big they could ruin everything.
Trash by Andy Mulligan
In an unnamed Third World country, in the not-so-distant future, three "dumpsite boys" make a living picking through the mountains of garbage on the outskirts of a large city. One unlucky-lucky day, Raphael finds something very special and very mysterious. So mysterious that he decides to keep it, even when the city police offer a handsome reward for its return. That decision brings with it terrifying consequences, and soon the dumpsite boys must use all of their cunning and courage to stay ahead of their pursuers. It's up to Raphael, Gardo, and Rat--boys who have no education, no parents, no homes, and no money--to solve the mystery and right a terrible wrong.
Codename Zero by Chris Rylander
There are places in the world where heroes are born. There are places where brave men and women fight a never-ending battle against evil in order to keep our country and all other countries safe. There are places where the fate of our planet is being decided, even at this very moment, the consequences of which will echo through history. None of these places is in North Dakota. Carson Fender, seventh grader and notorious prankster, knows this. He's lived in North Dakota for his entire life, going to the same boring school every day, the same boring movie theater every week, the same boring state fair every year. Nothing ever changes, and nothing ever happens. That is, until today. Because today a desperate man hands him a package with a dire set of instructions. And that package is going to lead Carson to discover that there's a secret government agency operating in his small, quiet North Dakota hometown. And that this agency needs his help.
The Emperor's Riddle by Kat Zhang
Mia Chen is on what her mother calls a Grand Adventure. She's not sure what to make of this family trip to China, and didn't want to leave her friends for the summer, but she's excited about the prospect of exploring with her Aunt Lin, the only adult who truly understands her. Then Aunt Lin disappears, right after her old nemesis, a man named Ying, comes to visit. Mia knows that years ago, when Aunt Lin and Ying were sent to the Fuzhou countryside to work as laborers, the two searched for an ancient treasure together--one that still hasn't been found. She's suspicious that their shared history might be linked to Aunt Lin's disappearance. When Mia discovers an old map filled with riddles in Aunt Lin's room, she quickly pieces together her mission: find the treasure, find her aunt. Now, Mia, along with her big brother, Jake, must solve the clues to rescue the person she knows best in the world--and maybe unearth a treasure greater than her wildest dreams.
League of Seven
The League of Seven by Alan Gratz
In an alternate 1875 America electricity is forbidden, Native Americans and Yankees are united, and eldritch evil lurks in the shadows. Young Archie Dent knows there really are monsters in the world. His parents are members of the Septemberist Society, whose job it is to protect humanity from hideous giants called the Mangleborn. Trapped in underground prisons for a thousand years, the giant monsters have been all but forgotten--but now they are rising again as the steam-driven America of 1875 rediscovers electricity, the lifeblood of the Mangleborn. When his parents and the rest of the Septemberists are brainwashed by one of the evil creatures, Archie must assemble a team of seven young heroes to save the world.
The Dragon Lantern by Alan Gratz
Archie Dent is convinced that he and his friends Hachi and Fergus are the first three members of a new League of Seven: a group of heroes who come together to fight the Mangleborn whenever the monsters arise to destroy humanity. His belief is put to the test when they are forced to undertake separate missions. Archie and his faithful Tik-Tok servant, Mr. Rivets, pursue a shapeshifting girl who has stolen the Dragon Lantern, an ancient artifact with mysterious powers. And Hachi and Fergus travel to New Orleans to find Madame Blavatsky, the only person who knows the circumstances surrounding the death of Hachi's father. In the course of their adventures the three heroes meet potential candidates to join their League. At the same time, they learn deep-rooted secrets that could destroy the League forever.
The Monster War by Alan Gratz
Having discovered the monstrous secret of his origins, Archie Dent is no longer certain that he is worthy to be a member of the League of Seven. But with new enemies to face, he realizes that he may not have the luxury of questioning his destiny. Wielding the Dragon Lantern, the maniacal Philomena Moffett has turned her back on the Septemberist Society, creating her own Shadow League and unleashing a monster army on the American continent. Archie and his friends must race to find the last two members of their league in time to thwart Moffett's plan and rescue humanity once more.
The Tunnels by Roderick Gordon; Brian Williams
14-year-old Will Burrows has little in common with his strange, dysfunctional family. In fact, the only bond he shares with his eccentric father is a passion for archaeological excavation. So when Dad mysteriously vanishes, Will is compelled to dig up the truth behind his disappearance. He unearths the unbelievable: a secret subterranean society. "The Colony" has existed unchanged for a century, but it's no benign time capsule of a bygone era--because the Colony is ruled by a cultlike overclass, the Styx. Before long--before he can find his father--Will is their prisoner.
Deeper by Roderick Gordon; Brian Williams
Wandering the dark, dry warrens beneath the Colony with his best friend, Chester, and his brother, Cal, boy archeologist Will Burrows stumbles across the Stux's dastardly plan to enslave all Topsoilers by unleashing Dominion-a debilitating viral weapon. But before Will can put a stop to the plot, he's got to evade not only a couple of killer Rebecca clones but also a bunch of sharpshooting bounty hunters led by non other than his long-lost biological mother! Where is Will's dad? What's at the bottom of the mysterious Pore? How much lower can they go?!
Freefall by Roderick Gordon; Brian Williams
DEEPER sent Will and Chester into FREEFALL-- tumbling through the subterranean Pore with the evil Rebecca twins in hot pursuit, both toting phials of the lethal Dominion virus. When, where, will they ever land?! Just when the drop seems infinite, the boys hit bottom, and find themselves in a realm of near-zero gravity atop a giant spongy fungus stuffed with artifacts from some lost golden age. But they are not alone. And above ground, black-clad Styx are sprouting like poison mushrooms, dead-set on spreading their plague!
Closer by Roderick Gordon; Brian Williams
Closer to victory...or closer to death? An army of darkness is on the march: Who won't escape with their life? The fourth book in the New York Times Bestselling TUNNELS series!At long last reunited with his dad, Will now spends his days exploring the "land of the second sun," decoding the cryptic glyphs carved into its three mysterious temples--or eyeing the wild animals with renegade girl Elliott. Chester, meanwhile, has finally returned Topsoil, where his homecoming is rapidly becoming a horror show. But an army of darkness is on the march. And the ruthless Rebeccas have once more cheated death. With a corps of cold-blooded Limiters at their command, they're determined to hunt Will to the bitter innards of the earth. This time, who WON'T escape with their life?
Robyn Hoodlum Adventures
Shadows of Sherwood by Kekla Magoon
The night her parents disappear, twelve-year-old Robyn Loxley must learn to fend for herself. Her home, Nott City, has been taken over by a harsh governor, Ignomus Crown. After fleeing for her life, Robyn has no choice but to join a band of strangers--misfit kids, each with their own special talent for mischief. Setting out to right the wrongs of Crown's merciless government, they take their outlaw status in stride. But Robyn can't rest until she finds her parents. As she pieces together clues from the night they disappeared, Robyn learns that her destiny is tied to the future of Nott City in ways she never expected.
Rebellion of Thieves by Kekla Magoon
Robyn Loxley can't rest now that she's the #1 Most Wanted Fugitive, Robyn Hoodlum. The harsh Nott City governor, Ignomus Crown, may have increased the reward for her capture, but this won't stop Robyn from masterminding her biggest mission yet: infiltrating the governor's mansion to rescue her parents. The perfect opportunity arises when the Iron Teen contest comes to Sherwood. If Robyn scores high enough, she'll beinvitedto a dinner at the mansion. But performing well in the contest could put her directly in Crown's sights. Can she and her crew of misfit friends pull off such a grand scheme, or are they walking into bigger trouble than they can handle?
Reign of Outlaws by Kekla Magoon
When twelve-year-old Robyn Loxley set out to save her parents, she never could've predicted that she would become Robyn Hoodlum, leader of the rebellion against the harsh government led by Ignomus Crown. But Robyn's attempt to free her parents has failed, and on top of that, her friends have been captured. And now Crown has given her 72 hours to turn herself in--or else. Now Robyn must decide between sacrificing herself, saving her parents and friends, or advancing the rebellion. With the stakes higher than ever, will Robyn be able to succeed?
Mysterious Benedict Society
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart; Carson Ellis (Illustrator)
"Are you a gifted child looking for special opportunities?" Dozens of children respond to this peculiar ad in the newspaper and are then put through a series of mind-bending tests, which readers take along with them. Only four children--two boys and two girls--succeed. Their challenge: to go on a secret mission that only the most intelligent and inventive children could complete. To accomplish it they will have to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules. But what they'll find in the hidden underground tunnels of the school is more than your average school supplies. So, if you're gifted, creative, or happen to know Morse Code, they could probably use your help.
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart; Diana Sudyka (Illustrator)
The Mysterious Benedict Society is up against a new mission, significantly closer to home. After reuniting for a celebratory scavenger hunt, Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance are forced to go on an unexpected search--a search to find Mr. Benedict. It seems that while he was preparing the kids' adventure, he stepped right into a trap orchestrated by his evil twin Mr. Curtain. With only one week to find a captured Mr. Benedict, the gifted foursome faces their greatest challenge of all--a challenge that will reinforce the reasons they were brought together in the first place and will require them to fight for the very namesake that united them.
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma by Trenton Lee Stewart; Diana Sudyka (Illustrator)
Join the Mysterious Benedict Society as Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance embark on a daring new adventure that threatens to force them apart from their families, friends, and even each other. When an unexplained blackout engulfs Stonetown, the foursome must unravel clues relating to a nefarious new plot, while their search for answers brings them closer to danger than ever before.
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Riddle of Ages by Trenton Lee Stewart; Manu Montoya (Artist)
Some time has passed since the inimitable quartet of Reynie, Sticky, Kate, and Constance have had a mission together. But with the arrival of a new Society member -- and a new threat -- they must reunite to face dilemmas more dangerous than ever before, including the villainous Mr. Curtain and a telepathic enemy tracking their every move, not to mention a dramatically preteen Constance. In its triumphant return, the Society encounters all new challenges, but the series' trademark sly humor, sweet camaraderie, hairsbreadth escapes, and mind-bending puzzles are all as engaging as ever. Fans of the series will be thrilled to see the Society has grown up a little with them, while a new generation of readers will fall in love with this irresistible series.
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Q: variable is referenced from scope, but not defined LINQ expression tree I'm trying to get this LINQ expression:
Result = Result.Where(Function(Row) _WhereExpressions(0).InElements.Contains(Convert.ToString(Row(0))))

I have this code for it:
convertMethod = GetType(System.Convert).GetMethod("ToString", New Type() {GetType(Object)})
containsMethod = GetType(System.Collections.Generic.List(Of String)).GetMethod("Contains", New Type() {GetType(String)})
Dim listParameter = Expression.Parameter(GetType(List(Of String)), "_WhereExpressions(0).InElements")
expr = Expression.Call(whereMethod, Result.AsQueryable.Expression,
                     Expression.Lambda(Expression.Call(listParameter, containsMethod,
                     Expression.Call(convertMethod, Expression.ArrayAccess(rowParameter, Expression.Constant(index)))), rowParameter))

I get the desired expression, but if I compile, I get the error:
variable '_WhereExpressions(0).InElements' of type 'System.Collections.Generic.List`1[System.String]' referenced from scope '', but it is not defined

The _WhereExpressions(0).InElements is of course declared.
How can I fix it?
Thanks.
EDIT: here are all the declarations:
Dim whereMethod = GetType(Queryable).GetMethods(BindingFlags.Public Or BindingFlags.Static).First(Function(m) m.Name = "Where").MakeGenericMethod(GetType(Object()))
Dim convertMethod As MethodInfo = Nothing
Dim containsMethod As MethodInfo = Nothing
Dim rowParameter = Expression.Parameter(GetType(Object()), "Row")

The _WhereExpressions(0).InElements is a simple list of string, like this here:
Dim idlist As New List(Of String)
idlist.Add("1")
idlist.Add("2")

I read the linked post, but I can't really figure out, how I should solve my problem.
Expression trees have a lot capability, but looks a bit difficult for me.
EDIT2:
This is an example, what exactly I would like to achieve. Just copy and paste in vs:
Dim dt As New DataTable
dt.Columns.Add("f1", Type.GetType("System.String"))
dt.Columns.Add("f2", Type.GetType("System.Int32"))
For i = 0 To 100
    dt.Rows.Add(i.ToString, i * 2)
Next
Dim indexes As New List(Of Integer)
indexes.Add(0)
indexes.Add(1)

Dim lst As New List(Of String)
lst.Add("10")
lst.Add("11")

Dim datarows As New List(Of DataRow)
For i = 0 To dt.Rows.Count - 1
    datarows.Add(dt.Rows(i))
Next

Dim result As IEnumerable(Of Object())
result = datarows.Select(Function(row) indexes.Select(Function(index) row(index)).ToArray)

'I would like this as an expression:
result = result.Where(Function(row) lst.Contains(Convert.ToString(row(0))))

EDIT3: I got it:
Dim lst As Expression = Expression.Constant(list, GetType(System.Collections.Generic.List(Of String)))

A: It is hard to replicate code without knowing the full variables. I think your mistake though is in your understanding of Expression.Parameter. This is mainly used as a way to pass explicit parameters into the lambda: In your example, Row is a good example for when Expression.Parameter should be used. _WhereExpressions isn't an explicit parameter, it is a variable that I assume is in scope that you want to create a closure around.
You should also note that the second variable of the Expression.Parameter method is optional, and for debug purposes only: If you changed it to say: Expression.Parameter(GetType(List(Of String)), "Nonsense.nonsense"), you would probably see the error message change accordingly.
It sounds like you're trying to introduce a closure around _WhereExpressions. Using raw expression trees, this is fairly hard to do. The closest thing to an easy way to do this is to wrap Expression.Constant around _WhereExpressions.InElements. However, you're going to run into trouble if you're executing the compiled expression when _WhereExpressions is out of scope. See Issue with closure variable capture in c# expression.

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The OTHER question about Scotland.
Posted: September 16, 2014 in Political musings
Tags: civic compliance, civics, concepts of government, government, independent Scotland, Margaret Thatcher, opinion polls, Scotland, Scottish independence, Scottish independence poll, Scottish independence referendum, Scottish referendum, vote, Westminster, What if Scotland narrowly votes No
Given the tightening in the opinion polls in recent days, including two with the Yes vote ahead, (although one was a very small sample), there has been a sudden rash of fevered speculation about what would happen if Scotland votes "Yes" to independence on Thursday, UK time.
All the way along we have been predicting a narrow win – perhaps a very narrow win – for the No vote, even when polls were showing a huge lead for the Noes.
But we confess the current volatility in the Scots electorate is giving us some pause for thought.
It's clear from looking around the edges of the debate that there is considerable momentum for the Yes side as people get nearer and nearer to the day. Their rallies have been rowdy, good natured and well attended. In contrast, "No" activities have seemed mean and mealy-mouthed. A strong air of hurt rejection characterises much of the No campaign, whether it be the ludicrous announcements of some retailers and banks that they will relocate to England if the Yes vote gets up (they won't) to the ever more strident allegations from English politicians that an independent Scotland is heading for economic ruin and an uncertain currency future, and probably outside of the EC at that. So there, and yar boo sucks.
This angst is all playing right into the hands of the Yes campaigners, of course, who simply call this further evidence that the English think of the Scots as less intelligent, less capable and less important in the world scheme of things – which is exactly what the English do think, of course. Democracy is an interesting thing, sometimes. Sometimes the people can see quite clearly what politicians deep, core opinions are, and they use their vote accordingly.
Anyhow, this "making your mind up" thing just before the actual day is a growing feature of elections and votes of all kinds, evidenced worldwide, born of less ironed-on support for one party or another, or one position and another.
We've seen it a lot recently: the last minute swing to the Liberal-National Coalition that toppled the last Victorian state government in Australia, the small but significant decline in Lib Dem support prior to the last General Election in England, a swing to Obama in the last few days of the last presidential election, Kevin Rudd doing better than expected at the last Federal Election in Australia, especially in Queensland, the pushing of the FDP below 5% in the last German elections as their supporters fled to both right and left in the last 10 days … yes, the "last minute swing", to someone or other, is now so common as to be almost predictable. Politicians know it – it's why you rarely hear a pollie say nowadays "Yeah, I reckon we're home and hosed, we've got this," because they know that's a sure-fire formula for last minute desertions or abstentions.
So, given the general ineptness of the No campaign, a Yes victory is possible. They have the all-important "Mo". We also suspect that the polls are somewhat under-estimating the Yes vote, as it is the nature of people's responses to pollsters that they tend to report supporting the status quo more enthusiastically than they report supporting radical change. Radical change nevertheless sometimes occurs – witness the recent rise in support for the National Front in France, for example, which well outstripped its opinion poll performance.
What no-one appears to have discussed, however, is what will happen next week if the Noes win, but by a wafer thin margin. 50.5% to 49.5% for example.
Scotland will be seen to be split down the middle – and we're also betting that the split will reflect historical strains in Scottish society that have never quite been resolved. We expect the Yes vote to do better amongst the University-educated, (Scotland has a fine tradition of intellectualism), amongst the poor and disenfranchised (for whom it is a useful way to express a generalised disgust with those that govern them, and Westminster in particular), and the "old Scots" – those that self-identify as members of the great Highland nations, that were never entirely subdued by the English.
Roman Catholics will also, we predict, heavily favour "Yes" over Protestants, the young will be more enthusiastic than the old, and so on.
Does it matter? Yes, it does. A Scotland that is still part of the Union, but where that Union is patently obviously deeply unpopular with large swathes of the population, is a Scotland where government's legitimacy will be essentially harmed. The No vote needed to win big to put this to bed, and they're not going to.
A notable feature of the debate in the last couple of years has been the idea that "Westminster" is somehow inherently flawed – unwieldy, or corrupt, or unresponsive, or all three. To combat that malaise, which is very real, a substantial effort to create yet more effective devolution of power will become a core priority in the wake of a narrow No win, but it would delivered to a country that will be exhausted with concepts of constitutional change.
Whilst many believe that the British peoples would do well to become a federated nation with much greater powers devolved to the English regions, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, the general public's appetite is likely to be a long way behind that idea and focused on other more pressing issues like jobs, and economic health generally. Not to mention the fact that another uncertain Middle Eastern war apparently looms.
So Scotland might well be left with just the slightest taste of "freedom" on its lips, but essentially nothing substantial changed at all. That's not going to be good for the basic compact between Government and the governed that lies at the heart of good civic compliance.There is nothing inherently and enduringly stable about British society than any other – remember the poll tax riots?
And in simple terms, all that means is that all the talk of this being a "once and for all" decision – an oft-repeated construction which suits both sides right now – might be, and probably is, a little hasty. If the No vote only wins by a poofteenth and a bit, we don't expect this issue to go away.
What would we do, if we were resident in Scotland today? (One of the peculiarities of this vote is that you get a vote if you live there, wherever you're from, but not if you were born there and now live elsewhere. Who dreamed up that little nonsense?)
Well, we have always been deeply wary of the way the British civil service works to mangle and strangle necessary change.
"But I love you." "Look, it's not you, it's me."
Westminster often moves turgidly slowly to enhance public freedoms, and to emancipate those whose position is hemmed in by lack of opportunity or rights. Far from being a notable and consistent reforming body, steadily pursuing the path to enlightenment, Westminster actually behaves erratically, sometimes going through great bursts of action (say, the establishment of the National Health Service, the de-criminalisation of homosexuality, the freeing of the colonies, the abolition of the death penalty – or in purely economic terms, Margaret Thatcher's rolling back of trade union power, and her selling council houses and public assets) interspersed with periods of rigidity and retreat (how ridiculously long it took to emancipate women, a century of mistakes in Ireland, the failure to reform British industry pre-Thatcher along European enterprise lines being the most obvious recent example, the fact that the landscape is still blighted by urban decay in so many old Victorian cities, and perhaps lagging so far behind Europe in creating new "Green" industries to replace old ones).
At the Wellthisiswhatithink desk, we believe, as an article of political faith, that Government that is nearer the people it governs is usually better Government. Faster, more quick to make necessary change, better informed to resist foolish change.
That's why we are, on balance, convinced of the Yes camp's arguments. We don't think an independent Scotland inside the EU would really be all that different to the Scotland that is inside Britain now, and we are reasonably certain the EU would (after some huffing and puffing) admit an independent Scotland, just as we believe they will admit an independent Catalonia eventually. Independence would be a boost to Scottish morale, and give the Scots the absolute right to chart an innovative and successful course, without constantly looking over the shoulder to see what someone in Birmingham, Kidwelly or Ballymena thinks. And if they don't work it out, well, the residents of Lyme Regis, Pembrook or Derry won't be paying for their errors, will they? That seems just fine to us.
Re-writing boundaries is a continual project: there's no reason to believe that where we stand now is where we always will stand. We need to roll with the punches, and move on, as friends. What we need to be very aware of is that will be most urgently required not if Scotland votes for independence, but if it very narrowly doesn't.
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Posted: September 8, 2014 in Political musings, Popular Culture et al
Tags: European Union, name the new Scottish currency, No vote, pound, punt, Scotland, Scottish independence, Scottish referendum, Yes vote
One of the more interesting things about the current debate in Scotland over the referendum on independence (which is becoming closer, although we still predict, at this stage, that the Yes vote will just fail – but watch this space) is the confusion about what will happen to the currency if Scotland votes yes. Coletta Smith at the Beeb wrote an interesting article laying out the options, which we provide a briefly edited version of below.
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As the people of Scotland weigh up how to vote in the independence referendum, they are asking questions on a range of topics from the economy to welfare.
The Scottish government says it will continue to use the pound post-Yes, but the UK government, supported by the other Unionist parties, says it cannot. They say a "currency union" will no longer be acceptable.
So what is a currency union?
It's when countries with different political systems decide to share a currency. The Euro is the biggest example of this, but it's perhaps not the best comparison as so many countries were involved with widely different types of economy. Greek's rural islands are a long-way from Germany's industrial powerhouses. Scotland and the rest of the UK's economies are much more alike. So what are the pros and cons of sharing the pound?
There is an understanding when you join a currency union that you give up some of your economic power. Scotland wouldn't be able to change its interest rate, even if the economic picture in Scotland was different to the rest of the UK. It also means that limits may be placed on the amount it can spend in its budgets – that's to help prevent situations like the Eurozone crisis.
Currency Unions can also fall apart if people feel that one country is much stronger than the other, as we saw in the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993.
On the plus side it would make life easier for citizens of Scotland not to have to change currency; it would make life easier for businesses on both sides of the border who would only have to operate in one currency, and it would mean the Bank of England would still be the lender of last resort.
That would mean that Scotland's large financial services sector of banks, insurance and life assurance companies would still be supported by an organisation with much bigger resources than the Scottish government.
But will Scotland be able to use the pound? The foundation of disagreement can be found by going back to February this year when the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats made a joint statement saying that if Scotland votes for independence, they would not be able to still use sterling – whichever party was running the UK.
The Chancellor George Osborne believed that would be the end of the issue, and called on the Scottish government to announce a Plan B for the currency.
However, the response came back that the statements were "bluff and bluster" and that if a Yes vote happened a more practical decision would be reached.
There is simply no way of knowing whether that is true or not. It is possible that after negotiation the UK may agree to share the pound. But for now, this central issue of the referendum is the one with the least clarity for voters.
So what are the other options?
If it turns out that Scotland isn't able to use the pound in a formal currency union, there are a few other options. They include;
Keep the pound – Countries across the world do this with the dollar, like Hong Kong and Panama. They call it "dollarization", so this option has become known as "sterlingization". It has all the advantages of simplicity, but would mean Scotland having no control at all over interest rates and other monetary policy decisions. It would be a little like being on a roller coaster, you're in for the ride even though you don't have any access to the controls.
New currency – Way back in history Scotland used to have its own currency. It would mean the Scottish government would have total control, but would be a huge change and an unknown quantity so it might not be trusted. There is a fear that people might pull their money out of the new Scottish currency and move it into the rest of the UK, which would be seen as a safer bet. Scotland would also be totally responsible for bailing out its own banks and savers should anything go wrong. Some pro-Yes backers, including Jim Sillars and Dennis Canavan are in favour of a Scottish currency.
Different currency – Could it be the the Euro or even the dollar? The Euro might not be all that popular these days, but once-upon-a-time Alex Salmond was keen for Scotland to join the Euro, describing Sterling as a "millstone around Scotland's neck". Although the Euro has weakened dramatically in recent years, it's unlikely to stay that way forever. Others suggest Scotland should use the dollar, and become a petro-economy. That's because a big chunk of Scotland's economy depends on oil and gas – an industry which operates in US dollars – and that it might not be the wildest idea in the world to adopt the dollar as its currency.
The White Paper reminds voters that even if a formal currency union was created between Scotland and the rest of the UK "it would of course, be open to people in Scotland to choose a different arrangement in future". Ends …
Fascinating stuff. The Wellthisiswhatithink crew think that if – big "if" – Scotland votes yes, then the right thing for the Scots and the rest of Britain would be for them to have their own currency, linked to their own economic policies. That seems only fair to the Scots, as well as the English, the Northern Irish, and the Welsh.
Which leaves the fun opportunity to name it.
Our vote would be to call it the Scottie, and have a pair of little terriers on the reverse face like the Black and White whisky label. They're so cuuuuuute! Then again, we are not entirely engaged in the matter and cannot honestly say we have given the matter exhaustive thought.
What do you think a new currency should be called?
Send us your suggestions and we'll see they're passed on.
We are reminded the Irish named their independent pound the "Punt".
Apparently, they wanted it to rhyme with the colloquial term for "Bank Manager".
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 — гравюра на дереве японского художника Кацусики Хокусая. Первое произведение из серии «Тридцать шесть видов Фудзи». Картина выполнена в стилистике укиё-э. Считается одним из самых знаменитых и самых популярных произведений японского изобразительного искусства за пределами самой Японии. Некоторые полагают, что на Западе эта гравюра известна лучше, чем любое другое произведение азиатского искусства в целом.

В центре сюжета, на переднем плане, изображена огромная волна, нависшая над лодкой; в центре заднего плана расположена гора Фудзияма. Действие происходит в заливе Йокогама. В техническом отношении «Большая волна» является образцом айдзури-э, написанных берлинской лазурью.

Композиция «Волны» — это гармоничное сочетание стиля традиционной японской гравюры и западной техники перспективы. Благодаря этому произведение обрело большой успех сначала в Японии, а потом в Европе, где она стала объектом вдохновения для многих творцов, например импрессионистов.

История

Гравюры укиё-э во времена Хокусая

Первые гравюры появились в Японии в XIII веке. В основном их тематика была религиозной, а уже после XVII века — светской, так как ксилография позволяет намного шире распространить произведение. Например, первый тираж

Распространение таких светских гравюр (укиё-э) сопровождало рождение нового социального класса — зажиточной городской буржуазии. Появился этот класс в эпоху Токугава благодаря тому, что одноимённой сёгунской династии удалось объединить страну и восстановить в ней мир. Городским богачам очень понравились приятные для глаз и не очень дорогие гравюры, на которых изображались их любимые темы: от гейш знаменитого квартала Ёсивара, до описанных в древних стихах красот Японии.

Серия, в которую входит «Волна», описывает природу и повседневную жизнь простых японцев, а потом отлично соответствует духу традиционных японских гравюр: «укиё-э» с японского переводится как «образы изменчивого мира». Но при этом серия и само произведение с эстетической точки зрения уникальны для тех времён. Это первые известные работы в жанре мэйсё-э, то есть изображения знаменитых мест. Фактически, Хокусаю, возможно, впервые удалось добиться действительно убедительного смешения укиё-э и западных гравюрных пейзажей.

Появление гравюры в свет
«Большая волна в Канагаве» впервые была представлена публике в 1832 году, и является первой гравюрой из серии «Тридцать шесть видов Фудзи», а также самым известным произведением Кацусики Хокусая. Оттиски гравюры находятся в Метрополитен-музее в Нью-Йорке, Британском музее в Лондоне, и ещё одна в доме Клода Моне в Живерни, Франция.

Сюжет
На гравюре изображена огромная волна, нависшая над лодкой близ префектуры Канагава. Лодки без груза направляются на юго-запад, так что можно предположить, что рыбаки возвращаются со столичных рынков в деревню. Морякам не повезло попасть в сильный шторм, возможно тайфун, так что им вряд ли удастся спастись.

Небольшие баржи типа , показанные на гравюре, использовались во времена Хокусая, в основном, для ловли и перевозки рыбы. В действительности они были приблизительно 12 метров в длину, так что высота основной волны достигает примерно 14-16 метров.

Гора Фудзи виднеется вдалеке и является фоном к основному действию на картине. Как и все остальные гравюры из этой серии, «Большая волна в Канагаве» представляет собой вид на гору Фудзи при определённых условиях. Главная вершина Японии видна сразу из нескольких провинций, что и обыграл Хокусай. На данной гравюре, например, она изображена со стороны Токийского залива. Эта гора на протяжении веков восхищала людей, сюда паломничали синтоисты и здесь пытались достичь просвещения буддисты. Её часто рассматривают как символ красоты в целом. Возможно поэтому и сейчас Фудзияма является одним из главных символов Страны восходящего солнца.

Волна бросает лодки, как спички. По мнению искусствоведов, несчастные моряки, цепляющиеся за борта хлипких лодок, пригодных только для прибрежного плавания, могут олицетворять всё человечество.

Влияние

Западного искусства на гравюру
Хокусай почерпнул от западного искусства как минимум 2 аспекта: перспективу — немного сдержанную, но всё равно достаточно реалистичную — и использование берлинской лазури, которая прибыла в Японию только в 1829 году.

Перспектива

Традиционной дальневосточной живописи не присуща знакомая нам по европейскому искусству перспектива. Как и в древнем Египте, размер персонажа или предмета зависит не от их положения, а от их важности для сюжета: персонажи могут быть изображены большими, ибо они важны для сюжета, а деревья и горы — маленькими, чтобы не отвлекать зрителя от важного.

Японцы узнали о перспективе из европейских медных гравюр (особенно голландских) в начале , которые завозились в страну через порт Нагасаки — единственный открытый для иноземной торговли порт в эпоху Эдо. Первыми воспользовались новой техникой Окумура Масанобу и Утагава Тоёхару.

Несомненно, успех «Волны» на западе не был бы столь громким, если бы зрители не увидели знакомый им приём: в каком-то роде это западная картина, но в японской обработке.

Гравюры на западное искусство

Японское искусство прибыло в Европу в середине а. Видения дальневосточных художников были совершенно новыми, так как разрушали каноны европейской живописи. Началась мода на японизм. Одним из главных японских художников, повлиявшим на европейское искусство был автор «Волны», Хокусай.

«Тридцать шесть видов Фудзи», в частности, вдохновили многих западных художников. Гравюры этой серии найдены в коллекции многих великих творцов: Винсента ван Гога, Клода Моне, Эдгара Дега, Огюста Ренуара, Камиля Писсарро и других.

Не только художники, но и музыканты вдохновлялись одной из самых известных японских гравюр. Например, на обложке партитуры «Моря» Клода Дебюсси изображена частичная репродукция «Волны». Дебюсси также хранил экземпляр этой гравюры в своём рабочем кабинете.

Но наибольшее влияние работа Хокусая оказала на Анри Ривьера, аниматор кабаре «Чёрный кот», иллюстратора и гравера. В  году он опубликовал серию литографий под названием «36 видов на Эйфелеву башню», а также гравюру «Волна, ударяющаяся о скалу и падающая аркой», на которой невооружённым взглядом можно заметить большое сходство с «Волной в Канагаве».

Фильмография
 «Нависшая угроза», фильм  из цикла «Палитры» (Франция, 1999).

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки

 Кацусика Хокусай. Большая волна в Канагаве. Из серии «Тридцать шесть видов Фудзи».
 Штейнер Е. С.. «Японское искусство: мир зыбкой гармонии». 1-я лекция — видеолекция о японском искусстве на примере картины «Большая волна» (эфир на канале «Культура» от 11 октября 2010 года)

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Newly transferred and restored from original 35mm nitrate film elements, Hal Roach's endearing comedy about a grateful elephant-who refuses to part with the humble doctor who's cured her-finally makes it's way to Blu-ray from ClassicFlix.Medicine man J. Thorndyke McCrackle (Harry Langdon) has a problem, a BIG problem: his main attraction, an elephant named "Zenobia", is sick. Wasting no time, he enlists the help of local doctor Henry Tibbett (Oliver Hardy) who cures his patient... but all too well as she refuses to leave his side!Now devoted to her healer, Zenobia's unwelcome attachment proves bothersome not only to the good doctor himself, but also to his daughter Mary (Jean Parker) who is engaged to the son of socially prominent Mrs. J. Mortimer Carter (Alice Brady). With her engagement already precarious due to Mrs. Carter's disapproval, Mary's chances of marital bliss now seem hopeless as her prospective mother-in-law plans to scuttle the arrangement by publicly disgracing the doctor and his family.When Zenobia went before the cameras in late 1938, half of Hal Roach's famous comedy team-Stan Laurel-had left the studio in a contract dispute. But Oliver Hardy was still on the payroll, so Roach made the decision to team him with legendary comic Harry Langdon, who at the time was working on the "Lot of Fun" as a gag writer. Laurel eventually returned to the fold and any talk referencing the team of "Hardy & Langdon" soon faded from the lexicon of the Roach PR team.Adapted from H.C. Bunner's novelette Zenobia's Infidelity, the comedy-drama was the second feature to be directed by Gordon Douglas-who had helmed many successful Our Gang shorts during his stay at Roach. The film also co-stars Billie Burke as Hardy's devoted wife Bessie, and features James Ellison, June Lang, Hattie McDaniel and Step'n Fetchit among the supporting cast.
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You will be welcomed by a Madhuchanda Travel representative at Hyderabad railway station/airport who will accompany you to the hotel. Pay a visit to tombs and the Golconda fort. Be a part of the sound and light show arranged in the fort for the visitors. After the spectacular show, return to the hotel and rest yourself for the next day's journey.
After breakfast, get ready to visit and witness the largest tourist and recreation center – Ramoji Film City. After a long day at the film city, return to the hotel and submerge in the comfortable beds of the hotel.
Pay an early morning darshan at Malikarjuna Swamy temple (Srishailyam) and return to hotel for breakfast. After breakfast, check out from the hotel, visit the Srishailyam dam by ropeway and have fun by boating on the backwaters of the dam. 12:00 noon onwards, you will proceed to Hyderabad and will have an overnight stay at Hyderabad.
After breakfast, visit to many places of Hyderabad like Salarjung Museum, Charminar, Mecca Masjid, Snow World, NTR Park, Lumbini Park and also enjoy the laser show. Reach the Hyderabad railway station/airport for your onward journey.


A job interview can open the door to a better life with a lot more money in the bank and a fulfilling career. It is no wonder, then, that we feel anxious and nervous before we face a recruiter for the first time. The possibility of rejection is a scary reality. We worry about not answering the questions correctly, blanking out, looking foolish, or that we wore the wrong outfit. We can, however, address all of these issues and use our anxiety to help instead of hinder us.
out nervous habits that will distract the interviewer such as fidgeting, or tapping a foot or a pen.
Eat something light before the interview to keep you from being light-headed or distracted by hunger. Avoid eating a heavy meal can make you feel sluggish. Avoid caffeine and alcohol.
Check yourself in the mirror after eating and drinking. You do not want to have food residue on your teeth or stains on your clothes from dribbling coffee.
Do not try to force yourself to become calm as that will just increase your stress level. Use other methods such as listening to music or deep breathing. Get a good night's sleep the night before the interview. It is normal for anxiety to cause dry mouth, health palpitations, shaking, and sweating.
Prepare a question or two in case the recruiter asks if you have any questions about the job, the company, etc.
Anxiety can cause your breathing to become shallow. Practice breathing in for four counts, holding for two counts, and exhaling for 4 or more counts. Yoga has a number of helpful breathing techniques.
Anxiety causes tense muscles in areas such as the neck and shoulders. Sighing, holding the breath and exhaling in a sigh, can also relax tense muscles before leaving for the interview. Maintaining proper posture just before the interview can also boost confidence and reduce anxiety.
When you are anxious, your head may be spinning with random thoughts. Writing these thoughts down can be therapeutic and will reduce your anxiety. You can write down answers to common interview questions as well. List your accomplishments and go over them to boost your confidence.
Your thoughts may be expressing negative ideas such as "You are not going to get this job" or "You are going to make a fool of yourself." Thinking this way heightens anxiety levels. You should challenge and replace these thoughts with self-affirmation of your confidence and belief in your abilities and experience. Don't be too hard on yourself or worry about the possibility of being rejected – focus instead on your abilities and accomplishments.
Avoid "catastrophic" thinking, that is, thinking that the world will end if you do not get the job and you will never get such a good opportunity again. This kind of anxiety puts a lot of pressure on you to perform well and increases the chances that you will fall on your face. If you do not succeed, you may beat yourself up for missing or flubbing something. Instead, decrease your anxiety by assuring yourself that if this interview does not work out, other opportunities will come your way. Some of them may be even better than the job you did not get.
The possibility of a life-changing event such as getting a job we want will naturally cause some anxiety. We can choose to use that anxiety to spur us on to be prepared and keep us alert, rather than allow us to be anxious with negative, disabling thoughts that may sabotage our efforts.
10 Ways to Calm Your Interview Anxiety, Katharine Brooks Ed.D.
Definitely no smoking before the interview. Good tip.
Thanks Carola for a great hub on overcoming anxiety before a job interview. Situations like job interviews, when people feel that they are being evaluated, usually bring on anxiety.
Proper preparation is extremely important and I like the tips you gave. I especially like the one on avoiding catastrophic thinking because how we think, affects how we feel and behave.


Well, I wouldn't mind just seeing them climb up the mountain and talk with each other, etc., even if there are no accidents or such. In fact, if I ever figure out how to do things on YouTube, besides making a series of Wooden Railway stories from the Railway Series, I'd do a mini-series on the Culdee Fell Railway.
Not a bad idea actually; tell me when it comes out if you decide to do it.
Yeah, I definitely will. I would just need to figure out YouTube and such. If I ever do, it won't be till a few years, I'm guessing.
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Frankthetriviaman wrote: Problem is, with only 4 stories and reverend Awdry himself admitting he couldn't think of anything else to write with then, would it be practical for them to make all those new models for just 4 stories?
I think if they started adapting RWS episodes, they would do it like S3 and mix them with original episodes, so if they made models, the writing team would make their own stories.
Sorry skarloeyrailway( did not mean too.
I would like Gordon Goes Foreign, the whole of Gordon the High-Speed Engine (especially for Pip and Emma) Small Railway Engines + Jock the New Engine, the Missing Coach and Mountain Engines. I JUST WANT MORE RAILWAY SERIES STORIES!!!
Yes, like I said, definitely Mountain Engines.
It would seem that the general consensus here is that we want to see Super Rescue and Mountain Engines adapted.
Yeah. So, perhaps we ought to tell the writers.
SiF ran a poll for HiT a while back about what we wanted to see in the future (S20 I think), so they are willing to listen. I can't remember if RWS Stories were part of that poll though. I think it was just engines and locations that we want to see back, including RWS characters and locations.
That's cool. Maybe they could do one for RS stories, too.
JRCS wrote: SiF ran a poll for HiT a while back about what we wanted to see in the future (S20 I think), so they are willing to listen. I can't remember if RWS Stories were part of that poll though. I think it was just engines and locations that we want to see back, including RWS characters and locations.
Nice list; and since Rex Mike and Bert are coming, Jock and Frank should be introduced too.
Bear, Frank and Jock could possibly be for Season 19 (earliest) or Season 20 (latest). Bear has to come after Daisy and BoCo return.
Well maybe that means super rescue will get adapted soon?
Frankthetriviaman wrote: Well maybe that means super rescue will get adapted soon?
I really hope that will happen! I love Super Rescue!
Triple header... That was a good story actually. But can it be stretched into a nine minute episode?
Triple Header could be stretched out with a lot of conversation between Thomas, Percy and Duck.
I would like to see Very Old Engines adapted.


Certain injuries may be classified as catastrophic injuries and could have an overwhelming and destructive impact on an individual's life. Such injuries may affect the day-to-day life of a person, as well as their family members.
If you sustained a catastrophic injury due to the negligence of another party, compensation may be available for injuries and losses. A Thornton catastrophic injury lawyer could help you determine a strategy to build your case and recover the compensation you deserve. Often, the full extent of the harm and the long-term effects are not immediately apparent. As such, working with a professional team of experienced personal injury lawyers could be very helpful.
These injuries may result from incidents such as motor vehicle collisions, medical malpractice episodes, and accidents in the workplace. If the injury is caused by defective products, negligent or reckless actions, or the intentional wrongdoing of another, the individual who sustained injuries may be entitled to recover damages through financial compensation.
Although individuals suffering from these types of injuries may never fully return to the life they led before the injury, recovering compensation may help them take the next steps in life with security.
To better understand the financial impact a catastrophic injury may have throughout an individual's life, it may be prudent to consult a Thornton catastrophic injury lawyer.
Occasionally, individuals suffering from an injury or illness might fail to seek compensation because they may not be certain if someone else is legally at fault. However, accidents may often occur because an individual or company failed to take a precautionary measure they were obligated to perform, or otherwise acted recklessly. At-fault parties could include a product manufacturer, a negligent car driver, an Uber driver, a doctor, a property owner, and various other parties.
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Over the weekend I had the privilege of meeting a self-proclaimed skeptic named Paul. Working in ministry in East Texas I spend most of my time around either Christians or people who believe in the existence of God on some level, so it's always interesting to get to speak to people who have a perspective so different from mine. I met Paul in between sessions in which Dr. Brad Harrub and I spoke on Darwin, evolution, and dinosaur fossil evidence for creation, and though he was friendly enough, the purpose for his attendance became clear – he was there to challenge us.
He patiently sat through the lessons to wait for the Q&A period, and though he asked his questions in different ways, his basic message kept coming back to one main point that is being used against Christians all over the world these days. He wanted to know why we "don't believe in science." In his eyes, what we were presenting about God and the evidence for a young earth was against everything science shows.
As with any debate, though, the first thing one must do is define the terms. If by "science" you mean a consensus of academia in scientific fields, then yes, we're anti-science. But that's not science, is it? The term should instead refer to the evidence and information that we discover through exploration and discovery. Science does not belong to any one particular interpretation. Science is objective. Despite that fact, evolutionists still claim that their side is scientific and any theory that disagrees with theirs couldn't possibly be scientific in any way.
Unfortunately, the definition typically used by evolutionists is that first one. In other words, they think we're anti-science because nearly all of the people with advanced education in scientific fields disagree with young earth creationism. As Paul the skeptic wanted to know, why do we persist in disagreeing with so many educated people?
Well, history has told us that the consensus of scientists means very little. It was a consensus of smart people that told Galileo he was wrong when he proposed a heliocentric system. It was a consensus of scientific minds that decided that blood letting was the best way to heal diseases. Just because a group of people in the sciences believe something to be true doesn't make it so. Science remains science, and man's interpretation remains susceptible to mistake.
Where we make our biggest mistake, though, is assuming that those types of errors remain in the past. Through our pride we consider ourselves so much smarter and so far ahead of them scientifically. In some ways we are, but that doesn't mean we can't be wrong. Consider their own theories of evolution and origins. All dinosaur life was supposed to have been destroyed by an asteroid 65 million years ago. Now many scientists propose that the dinosaurs are simply alive today in the form of birds, the creatures they supposedly evolved into. There are still debates as to whether the universe is eternal or 13 billion years old. Or, take another area in which they've preached the idea that science is not to be challenged. Scientists told us that the polar ice caps could be gone by the early 2010s, and yet here we are. Additionally, if we're simply tallying up votes of smart people, give me the side that is represented by Newton, Mendel, and Kepler over the side that has Bill Nye, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and Richard Dawkins.
As always, we see that science is flawless and man's ability to interpret it is anything but. We're looking at the same evidence. The difference is in the worldview we bring to the evidence, because nobody has the ability to objectively look at data. However, if there's been one constant in scientific discovery over the centuries, it's that God continues to be right. Evolutionists continue to rewrite their theories, develop new fossil hoaxes, and deny clear scientific evidence all the time, but the word of the Lord endures forever. The Bible isn't anti-science. It can't be, and it never will, since God created both.
So how do we end this mindless debate? We point out the contradiction in the terms used. We make ourselves well-versed in the scientific evidence for the Bible. We point out their ability to make mistakes. And, we point out the biases and preconceived notions that the evolutionists bring to the discussion. Until they realize that it's not science vs. the Bible, but it's the Bible's interpretation of scientific evidence vs. their interpretation of it, they will continue to use the wrong terminology to never have to face their own biases.


As I have mentioned in previous posts I sometimes I like to squirrel away things to wear at a later date, particularly when those items come from big high street shops and therefore means that lots of people might be wearing that item. My latest item to be brought back to life is this dress- an yes my second outfit post!
 This dress was a summer piece, but as soon as I walked out of the Manchester Primark I saw several people wearing the dress, and although each in their own way, I knew I wanted to keep mine for a little later on, once the novelty had worn off. It also has long sleeves, which I dislike in the summer.
The belt is also a summer find brought into the colder winter months which now seem to be upon us, and I like that it adds a little colour to the look.
As it's been so cold here, I could think of no better way to make myself feel better than to pull something nice on and to snuggle up in plenty of layers. And as I made my way to lectures in this little number along with my very lovely new mac (more on that at a later stage!) and my favourite black scarf I felt much better about the ever colder weather.
So anybody else adopt my strategy to beat the blues? I like to use this tactic for exams too, who else is with me?
What do you think of revival of summer?


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Another good thing is it's great for meal prep! I like to cook the chicken, then divide it into four portions. That's lunch for four days!
The recipe itself is really easy too. You mix the ingredients together for the sauce, cook the chicken, then add the sauce to the chicken.
While the chicken is cooking I usually start chopping up the pineapple, cilantro, red onion and lettuce.
I make sure I have enough of everything for four meals. I like using containers that have multiple compartments since the pineapple can get kind of watery. I don't want my cilantro and lettuce to get soggy.
The wraps I use are the Ole Xtreme high fiber tortilla wraps. I love them because they are only 1 Freestyle point each.
If you use a different type of tortilla make sure you check to see if it changes the points.
To assemble the wraps I lay out a tortilla, add lettuce, chicken, pineapple, red onion and cilantro. Then I roll it up like a burrito. That's it!
When I'm eating the Hawaiian chicken wrap for meal prep I usually put the chicken in the microwave for about 20-30 seconds.
I love that this wrap is only 3 Freestyle points. That leaves plenty of room for me to have a side with it, or a snack later on.
In a small mixing bowl add the pineapple juice, soy sauce, ketchup, brown sugar, garlic and ginger. Whisk it together.
Spray a heated pan with no-stick cooking spray and add the chicken. Season with salt and pepper. Cook until the chicken is no longer pink in the center.
Remove the chicken from the pan, then add the sauce to the pan.
In a small bowl mix together the cornstarch with 1 tablespoon of water.
Once the sauce starts to simmer, add the cornstarch mixture. Stir continuously until the sauce thickens. Add the chicken back in. Cook for two more minutes.
To assemble the wrap: Lay out a tortilla, add lettuce, chicken, pineapple, red onion and cilantro. Wrap the tortilla like a burrito.


Healthy skin is the essence of youthful beauty. Knowledge of proper skincare is a must to protect the youthful skin and younger beauty. Today the market is swarming with numerous beauty care products confusing you about which one to buy? All of those claiming to make your skin supple, clear, fair in complexion and regain the younger looking skin.
Do you know these products can actually harm you? The harmful chemicals present in those products can take away your natural beauty over use.
Go through the ingredients before using it on your delicate skin.
Before using any skincare application, you must make serious consideration.
Sticking to branded and costly products are not always wise enough.
Look for the complete list of ingredients printed over the product wrapper.
Check for any harmful chemicals present in it, as all chemicals are not harmful for your skin.
Most of the chemicals can dehydrate your skin, leading to onset of aging signs and diminishing the youthful appearance of your skin.
So beware and prefer more natural ones or products prepared from elements that are naturally available. Hence they do not harm the skin.
Do not forget the manufacturing date and the expiry date. Stay away from old stocks. It's your most delicate part, your skin. A minute mistake may cost you some forever loss.
Avoid exposure to sun as much as possible. Constant exposures to harmful sunrays and Y+UV rays can lead to speeding of the aging process.
Do not forget your sunscreen before leaving house. Sun hats or scarves may also be preferred.
Wearing sunglasses are always advisable, because a pair of sunglasses is your only method of protection for your eyes. You cannot use sunscreen lotions to them. Squirting the eye every time in sun for longer hours can initiate development of wrinkles around those lines surrounding the eye.
Drink at least 8-10 glasses of water in a day. Cut down smoking and drinking habits for better results. Avoid caffeinated beverages.
The basic sin care regimen is a must to be done daily.
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Present and future of our America
Rodrigo Carazo (Costa Rica)*
The american continent means a new horizon for the people of all the other regions of the planet: this is why it has become the major crucible of races, believes, cultures and languages of the world. The diverse origin of the inmigrants has turn the American Continent into a non-comparable human tile.
It was said, many years ago, that if by the end of the XX century Latin America was not united, it would be dominated. It was added that the coordinated action based on the positive political will was the only formula to survive and progress. We think that never, in the history of humanity, it has ever faced so extreme alternatives.
The problems of people are intimately linked to the attitudes and actions of human beings. The will, the human hability, the knowledge, are factors that can contribute in a decisive manner to the change of fortune of the countries.
For all uf us that consider democracy as the best political system developed for the human being, we are distressed by its present stiff-joined situation, as a result of the interested pression of people and groups that look exclusively for their ow benefit. They achieved it by using some sort of capital seed that it is sown all along deceptive campaings preached by communication mass media that they control, or by the financial control upon political parties and their leaders.
It is also distressing the fact that party groups are dependant, instead of popular will, from the machineries that dominate them, that impose, beyond reason and thought and the service to community, what they call party discipline.
The transit to democracy goes through trust, with or without commitment, that such system may achieve a major amount ot common well fare.
We are talking about commitment as the base of the democratic system, commitment towards the more, respect for common fare, real commitment based on ethical principles; we are not talking about fiction, but a true commitment for the achievement of an effective democratic order.
The exercise of democracy demands that the commitment of the leader will not be limited to obedience while attempting to fullfill the wishes of those represented. No: it is a commitment with and through the education, in such a way that it will provide reason to the majority, although the educator, the leader, must bear the criticism and popular mistake, sometimes desiring to receive benefits in the short term, that will produce only damage and pain in the future.
The transit to democracy goes through an education that will vanish the ignorance mantle that blinds so many, education that may illustrate everybody about the meaning of having a government of the people, by the people and for the people. Education that may allow us a participation of the constant citizen excelling; education inspired in a deep faith in human reason that has as starting point the spritual fundaments, the trust in the system and goes through a total commitment with the common wellfare.
Our human tile
The tile without paralell originated by inmigrants of diverse origin, has produced in Amercia two different sectors: the anglosaxon and ours. The North has become the site of the most powerful nation of all times
The South attracted the Iberian people and after them, many others, thus originating the cosmic race that a man, Humboldt, talked us about: race dyed with black, yellow, hindu and all the others, starting from the american race and its first graft: the spanish blood.
We are, to say it in some way, between two groups of nations.
We do not have the strength to pretend to dominate neither of them, no matter how poor it may be, but united we would be able to avoid the domain from the metropolis.
Our culture is the result of the combination of the rich experience of the west, but it has also been nourished with that from the indigenous population full of values that contribute to the own entity that is necessary to reinforce.
The wealth of the South, divided, has allways been transfered along the centuries, to the foreign metropolis of the moment: Spain, Portugal, England, Netherlands, United States of America.
The North of America has become rich because it has remained united and it has known how to attract brains, investments and wealth extracted from the most diverse zones of the Globe. The South turn into poor because it was divided from the inside and from the the outside.
Our America, as Jose Marti call it, has wisely inspired itself from the big cultural, legal, political and social achievements ocurred in other latitudes; we believe it is opportune to take advantage of that experience to benefit ourselves with the scientific and technological improvements.
During years, we have pointed out that the two richness by all means are: natural resources and population, fundamental factors to negotiate with force while facing the North, when striving for a just economy, a dignified treatment and a solidaric interdependence.
In these five centuries that have elapsed from the contact of cultures, Our America has seen the passing through of the its "freedom men", that were able to create aspirations and to generate action. This american land has become a great laboratory of ideas, a rich fountain of thought in diverse languages, an origin of political formulas converted into achievements, or at least in great aspirations for human beings of our time. America was the craddle of the word "independence", that has motivated all subjugated people of the earth. Our America also generated the basic concepts and practices of democracy, that so many nations, including latinamericans are fighting for today. The freedom and justice has been cultivated in Our America in a sigular way and the South has promoted the right of asylum and the fight for democracy against tyrans inspired in the right as well as the left.
It is the intense fight for social justice, for the just distribution of wealth, for true equality of all men, for human rights. From the south, expelled by poverty and violence, the major human exodus in history is being produced today.
The North attracts inmigrants. In its urban centers, the spanish is already widely spoken: evidence of one of the biggest conquests upon material and technological wealth concentrated in the north.
Following the road transited by its richness, a huge army of unarmed poors socially conquests the most powerful potence of the planet, thus enlarging the characteristics of the human crucible of the American Continent which, divided from its origins, is now being united by history.
The North calls the Sout its "backyard"; the South depends in a great deal from the North. The lands of this beautiful chain of islands and the isthmus that detours the Caribbean Sea, constitute a big interest for the North in terms of what is called over there security and peace. For the South, this "backyard" is our house.
The interdependence between North and South is clear and evident; this is why the North pretends to consolidate its hegemony upon the whole Continent. The South, if it really desires a fair and respectful treatment, must integrate. The fair treatment must arise from a respectful relationship, from a permanent dialogue where solutions of mutual benefit may arise, from a relation where no winners or conquered people may also arise.
As long as the North pretends to impose its hegemony and the South suffers from dependence, there will be no posibilities of harmony or peace.
Peace is a right for oneself and others and it only can be achieved when there are formulas that can guarantee it. The South must unite through dialogue and the intelligent application of policies and actions.
The North must understand that the better partner, friend or neighbor is the one treated with respect and justice.
America is a continent geographically integrated. The Americas must make the effort to achieve mutual respect and interdependence based on justice. The future will link more and more the North with the South, both of them will integrate socially and economically, and the harmony that should inspire will only be possible on the basis of mutual respect.
The North must procure friendship through justice, respect and harmony and the South must unite knowing that union is the only way to achieve that respect, that justice in harmony.
A latinamerican community
The last milenium has been the scene of the latinamerican experience that has left valuable lessons that is necessary to benefit from.
This extended period has generated in the countries of Latin America a true identity of humanist interests and ideals; a vocation of independence, its parts united by a common history and culture, reinforced by the language base; by a deep desire of social justice, development, democracy and peace.
On one hand reason, and on the other, the need, have conformed the idea that it is urgent for latinamerican countries, inmerse in a common process with large experience in the exercise of sovereignty and its difficulties, institutionalize their relation based on equal social and political conditions, as well as rights and obligations.
With regards to human, social and economical, as well as cultural, the community of people of Our America constitute a process in motion.
The South was divided by odd interests that took advantage of the prevailing provincialism and the traditional caciquism. Bolívar, whose thoughts are remembered with admiration and respect, gave, almost two centuries ago the solution that seems to impose now: a nation of republics.
Every social and political fact is the result of a process. The division of the south was the result of aspirations and frustrations lived and suffered during almost two centuries after the division. The process is in motion, what is lacking is the political will to consolidate it.
The countries of Our America, as a whole, are not yet bound by materialistic interests in such a way that they may prevent making concessions in favor of the common well fare. They can count with unifying factors that are superior to those that characterized other regions of the planet and they can provide to the enterprise important moral, intellectual and political energies.
A considerable sector of the latinamerican polictics is well trained and in condition to contribute, with responsability, to the ellaboration of common plans and programs, as well as setting them in motion, with the purpose of surpassing the existing structural differences.
* Former president of Costa Rica.
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Sarah Harmer's New Album Is Haunted by Ghosts, Including a Very Familiar One
The Kingston-based singer-songwriter tackles mortality on her first album in ten years, 'Are You Gone,' including that of close friend and collaborator Gord Downie
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By Vish Khanna
On a crisp winter morning in Campbellville, ON, it's bright and sunny inside the Trail Eatery, a cozy joint down the road from where Sarah Harmer grew up in Burlington.
She's been reading a book (arborist William Bryant Logan's Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees) at a table by herself, as other customers quietly munch on eggs and toast, obliviously drinking their coffee while one of North America's finest songwriters sits in their midst.
Maybe they don't see her because she's been away from us a while. Harmer's stunning new album, Are You Gone, is her first since 2010's Oh Little Fire. In the ten years between, she was up to big things.
"[I knew] in the back of my mind that I wanted to keep singing — that it was something I should be doing," she says. "But I was very distracted by pipeline issues, environmental concerns and small-scale organizing of community groups, which really takes as much time as you have.
"I played drums in Music Mall, a Kingston band," Harmer adds, referring to the city she's lived in, or near, for decades now. "I learned a bunch of different skills. In the back of my mind, yeah, I did want to come back to making a record, but I was daunted by the one-time try you get recording a song. It was the hardest decision-making realm of my life."
Harmer did sporadically write songs over the past decade, and then in 2017, she connected with Marcus Paquin, a Montreal-based producer, whom she only knew for his work on Aidan Knight's Each Other, which she appreciates. Paquin wound up being a quiet but encouraging shepherd for Are You Gone, quelling Harmer's second-guessing tendencies during the sessions.
Upon hearing the rough mixes, her friend Howie Beck was so effusive about the songs, Harmer thought she might be onto something. The result is an infectious, but haunting record.
"Are You Gone, to me, felt like it could be applied to a bunch of the songs because there are ghosts — people I write about here — who aren't in my life anymore, but they're still in my mind," she says of the album title. "The idea of energy, life force that we're all surrounded by, and the idea of our feelings for them still existing, even though the physical manifestation has moved on."
For many of us, the ghost in Harmer's "What I Was to You" is sadly familiar: the late Gord Downie.
"He's around," she says. "The first line is actually about another friend of ours, Phil, who was dying. I didn't finish it and had put it away. And then Gord gets diagnosed. I ended up writing about being a 16-year-old and seeing the Hip. My sister was friends with him, and they took me under their wing.
"Gord was a huge influence on me," Harmer adds, studying the bottom of her coffee cup. "Not too consciously, but just because I was listening to him a lot. It's pretty deep in the cortex, but he was definitely a huge one for me."
Are You Gone comes out on February 21 on Arts & Crafts.
Listen to this entire interview with Sarah Harmer via the Kreative Kontrol podcast via Apple Podcasts or below.
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