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The Swan at Lavenham, Suffolk
I know that finding a great place to stay, one packed full of history and character, will be top of your wish list when planning your Tudor road trip. I recently wrote about West Stow Hall, a fabulous bed and breakfast just outside, and to the north of, Bury St Edmonds. The Swan at Lavenham, some 20 minutes south of the town is another gem that is worthy of serious consideration if you are thinking about exploring this truly beautiful and historic county.
The Swan was an old coaching inn but is now a luxury hotel and spa, describing itself as 'one of the finest luxury hotels in Suffolk' and rated 4.5 stars on Tripadvisor. I recently had the pleasure of exploring its delights, and that of the surrounding village, on my own recent Tudor adventure.
A Brief History of Lavenham
The village of Lavenham, in Suffolk, is a veritable time capsule. Quaint streets are lined with timber-framed houses, many decorated in pretty pastel plaster; some small, some grand, all sloping unevenly this way or that as if inebriated by the passage of time.
A medieval merchant's house in Lavenham
The history of the village, and why its medieval and Tudor architecture is so perfectly preserved, is an interesting one. During the Middle Ages, Lavenham was one of the most proserous towns in the country. It paid more taxes than either York or Lincoln. So great was the affluence of its citizens that on a visit to the town, Henry VII fined some of the locals for their ostenatious display of wealth.
During my visit, as I strolled around the now sleepy village, a friendly local, passing the time of day in the market square, recounted the village's sorry decline. He told me how the town was made wealthy on account of its wool trade. Then, in the sixteenth century, Dutch immigrants began to manufacture cheaper cloth in the nearby Essex town of Cholchester. Lavenham's fate was sealed; it vibrant trade in wool declined rapidly; fortunes were decimated.
Many medieval buildings have survived in Lavenham due to the village's sudden loss of wealth in the mid sixteenth century
This sudden change meant that, subsequently, the townsfolk of Lavenham did not have the funds to continually upgrade their houses in accordance with the latest architectural fashions. Perfectly symmetrical, double-fronted, Georgian brick houses were an impossible dream. And so, thankfully for us, Lavenham's medieval vibe prevailed.
Today, the village has come full circle, but for very different reasons. It is no longer the wool trade which brings wealth into the town but the tourist trade. Film-makers also regualrly use its medieval quirkiness as a backdrop for their creative endeavours. For example, Lavenham was used to film scenes in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, providing inspiration for the fictitious Godric's Hollow.
Lavenham is now renowned as being one of the best preserved medieval villages in the country, full of architectural gems, including; an impressive wool church (built in the 1520s) with the tallest church tower in England and some fine internal, carved oak parclose (like a screen); a stunning Guildhall, which dominates the market place, and the rich terracotta-coloured Little Hall, a fine example of a medieval wool merchant's house.
An example of a fine Tudor 'wool' church.
The Swan at Lavenham
'Enter through our heavy oak beamed archway into one of the finest hotels in Suffolk. Step into our stylish lounges where elegant sofas and armchairs lie invitingly in cosy nooks or next to our vast open fireplaces – it's the perfect start to your memorable stay.' The Swan Inn
As I mentioned above, this fifteenth century hotel was once a coaching inn, with stabling for around 50 horses. The stables are long gone, and images hung up in the Wool Hall show the building in the early twentieth century, clearly in a state of near delapidation. How things have changed!
The frontage of the Swan Inn at Lavenham
The Swan is now a luxury hotel and spa. Whilst I didn't sample the spa, I was impressed that it had available an afternoon detox tea; a kind of variation on the quintessentially English cream tea but with vegan and gluten free options (being a veggie, gluten free girl, this rare find was impressive!).
However, of course, what most delights are the oak beams and wibbly-wobbly floors and ceilings, all of which fill the place with bags of Tudor character. The other outstanding feature of The Swan is its customer service; friendly, courteous and attentive.
One of the bedrooms on offer for your stay at The Swan
There are rooms to suit a variety of budgets, although none would be classed as 'budget'. Bedrooms, the downstair lounge areas, and the restaurant are all elegantly furnished. A large log burner must make for a cosy winter getaway. The quality of the restaurant's fare is renowned in the village, although again, perhaps not for those on a budget.
I'd give The Swan a strong 8/10 and would not hesitate to recommend it for those of you visiting the Bury St Edmonds area to visit some of the remnants of this beautiful county's rich medieval and Tudor history. Other than Kentwell and its 10 day Tudor festival, other sites of particular interest to the Tudor enthusiast are: The ruins of St Edmundsbury Abbey; Framlingham Castle and the remnants of Westhorpe Hall.
Do let me know if you have visited or stay there in the future; leave a comment or email me at sarah@thetudortravelguide. You can also post photos from your own Tudor road trip with the hashtage 'thetudortravelguide' on Instagram or tag me on @TheTTGuide in Twitter. I love to see how this blog has inspired you!
The Swan: Click on the link for further information on rooms and availability.
The Guildhall: According the the National Trust website, who now own the Guildhall: 'You can discover the stories of the people who have used the Guildhall through its almost-500 years at the heart of its community, and learn about the men and women who have shaped the fortunes of this unique village.'
The Little Hall: Run by the Suffolk Buildings Preservation Trust, Little Hall is one of the oldest and best preserved buildings in Lavenham. A 14th century house, built for the Causton family of clothiers.
Lavenham Blue Vintage Tea Room: centrally located opposite the Guildhall on Market Lane. Run by the lovely Amanda, who told me that three years ago she was inspired to turn her front room into a tea room and follow her dream. She lives upstairs, whilst her vintage-themed tea room and selection of fabulous village-made cakes are a feast for the senses. She has never looked back. It is full of vintage charm and friendly to vegans and gluten-intolerants.
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5 thoughts on "The Swan at Lavenham, Suffolk"
tonyriches says:
Enjoyed travelling back in time to Lavenham recently – and the staff at the Tourist Information Centre are really helpful. I
The Tudor Travel Guide says:
Excellent tip! Always go to the TIB!
Thank you for your interesting article. Next time also visit neighbouring Long Melford where you can see more gems, such as Bulls Inn and at St Mary's church Chapel of Cloptons and The Lady Chapel.
Ho Marianne, thanks for posting! I have indeed visited Long Melford. In fact was there this time for Kentwell which will be the subject of the next blog. 😁However, your suggestion for anyone reading this blog is an excellent one. Thank you!
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Q: How to remove first X lines from file up to the first occurrence of particular string? I have many PostgreSQL dump files such this and because I import these files automatically into another database server (H2) and SET command is not compatible with this database, I need to remove all lines up to the very first INSERT command.
How can I do it in shell script?
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-- PostgreSQL database dump
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-- Dumped from database version 9.6.8
-- Dumped by pg_dump version 9.6.8

SET statement_timeout = 0;
SET lock_timeout = 0;
SET idle_in_transaction_session_timeout = 0;
SET client_encoding = 'UTF8';
SET standard_conforming_strings = on;
SELECT pg_catalog.set_config('search_path', '', false);
SET check_function_bodies = false;
SET client_min_messages = warning;
SET row_security = off;

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-- Data for Name: workgroups; Type: TABLE DATA; Schema: public; Owner: postgres
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Thank you.

A: You can do it using sed:
sed -n '/^INSERT/,$p' file.sql

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*It says print the data from the line which begins with INSERT ... to the end.

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To modify the file instead of viewing it:
sed -n -i.bk '/^INSERT/,$p' file.sql

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*It would keep the original files with .bk suffix.

To run it on all files:
sed -n -i.bk '/^INSERT/,$p' ~/path/to/sql_dir/*.sql

For example:
Foo
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INSERT Foo
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INSERT Foo
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A: You can do this using awk:
awk '/^INSERT/{x=1}x==1' <in >out        # including the INSERT line
awk 'x==1{print}/^INSERT/{x=1}' <in >out # including the INSERT line

This reads the file in line by line and sets x=1 if a line beginning with "INSERT" is found. If x is 1, it prints the currently processed line – in the first expression {print} was omitted as it is the default action. The output is saved in the file out, leave out >out to print to the terminal instead.
Source: awk: print lines after match to end of file

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Now im a keen carp angler and was wondering if there were any other anglers amongst the ranks?
That's a negative. It has 10 years since I had a fishing rod in my hands. Though I've heard it should be quite relaxing... If that's the case I should get started with it.
Not really into fishing meself. The few times I had a fishing rod in my hands I never caught anything. Besides, I'm not comfortable with handling fish.
are you into carp angling or predator or is it just angling in general you like?
I have done some Carp Fishing in my time.
We dont normally eat the carp over here as the fishery owner would prob shoot you for it lol, but im guessing u go after pike and zander?


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Driver Roll Up The Partition Please: RUSSELL SIMMONS Sits Down With BILL O'REILLY Who Decided BEYONCE Is Ruining Lives
There are just some things we won't touch, read, smell, eat, listen to, or….in this case: Watch (unless of course it's for research purposes for us to rant and have public gripes about simply because a network permits us a platform with which to air our left-wing wrangles, judgments, and other forms of "conservative" coonery for ratings to increase our popularity, income and ratings).
Take for instance Bill O'Reilly.
He needs no introduction (and I won't bother-I haven't the time).
But here of late, his latest gripe is with Beyonce.
Before I explain, I will say this about O'Reilly: his invitation to promote your product or service on his show doesn't come without sure-fire, airtime "incident" by which he uses as a segue to present your purpose for being there (under the guise of quick promotion and national plug) but then he goes in on you, the issue/subject at hand.
That's his m-o for ammo.
He recently invited Russell Simmons onto his show who, he sort of made the ambassador for Beyonce Knowles and her "Partition" video. And before getting to his main point…he starts in complementing her on the brilliance with which she delivered the Star Spangled Banner but (and I say this with all sarcasm) found it perplexing that someone worth over $350 million dollars would compromise her artistic integrity and decision to express herself like such-when there are millions upon millions of teenage girls looking up to her-after all, she's responsible for raising these "kids" who, once logged on to the likes of Facebook, Twitter, and especially Instagram, the things so many of them do, say, and post for "likes," bares the kind of watching well over a 3 minute Beyonce video laden with racy lyrics.
For his gripe's premise, O'Reilly uses "fractured families" and "unwanted pregnancies" as his reason for having such a problem with the influential singer ruining lives with this video.
I must say, I was impressed with how Russell Simmons not only responded (by using science and logic and how certain artistry is playing on that-hence the attraction to just what Beyonce is saying in the song). But over that, he (Russell) offered a spiritual/holistic remedy to combat it (how he does with his own children), yet, O'Reilly insists on being a "crusader who cares" for the children who aren't afforded/in the know/ privy to the techniques and exercises Russell uses with his own kids. And as a result of that, O'Reilly
*balls my fist in solidarity and fight position*
…insists that Beyonce-ought-change her tune in order to save other people's teens (who…nice how Russell caught the insertion and threw it back at him in the end): are of all other races too…not just black.
Nothing annoys me worse than for someone who is chronic left-wing conservative (and who, himself, had his own public cheating/immoral scandal some years ago where he himself made immoral and bad decisions as a married man), yet takes it upon himself to have a left wing gripe and the audacity to use a race of people as "victims" to assist in making his point-when he could care less about the same race and group of people he has a gripe with Beyonce [about offending and stunting their growth].
What was even more a slap in the face was how the initial segue was the fact that the President-Obama-(whom he blatantly hates and publicly disrespects) is on a crusade with his "My Brother's Keeper" initiative "to help at risk youths especially minority kids …without parental guidance" (as O'Reilly so eloquently states)…and he uses that to pull a Beyonce card and play with that [to use that as the shameful example of the same thing that President Obama is trying to help fight].
Have your gripe, but don't crusade for, and with specifics and certain people/groups of people by that which you don't even champion and could care less about–just have your gripe and make your point [about a situation or issue].
The intelligent and savvy way to do it is to have your gripe and force people to read between the lines that is…if you're truly intelligent. And if you are-you can do it (which too, thwarts their ability to pokes holes in you, your story, your character, and what you're really about).
I don't have a problem with people who have strong opinions. But O'Reilly is so half-cocked and happens to think he's intelligent and savvy and he is NOT. That's why I don't respect him. Build your case and debate it without pawning off who and what you really don't care just to make your point to further support your gripe.
Well, I'll say no more.
Watch how this contraption unfolds:
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In the twenty-four year span since then, Phi Sigma Rho has grown to twenty-seven chapters from coast to coast (and counting!).
Left: Sister Rebecca Habib, founder Abby McDonald, sister Chrissy Dillon, and founder Rashmi Khanna at National Conference at Purdue University.
In the fall of 2003, I contacted Reiko Yoshida, Expansion Director of National Council at the time, to initiate a Phi Sigma Rho interest group at the University of Houston. With a little advertisement around campus, the interest group grew to the original ten Alpha Class members of Phi Sigma Rho Colony at UH. Under the direction of Jessica Williams as our Alumnae adviser, the Alpha Class members learned the secrets and traditions of Phi Sigma Rho and were inducted in to the sorority on June 19, 2004. In the fall of 2004, we found a wonderful faculty adviser as well, Dr. Julie Trenor; and in December of 2004, we were officially recognized by the Unversity through the Department of Campus Activities. Due to a business move for Jessica Williams, we received a new colony alumnae adviser, Nicole Sprenkle, in the Spring of 2005. In May of 2005, we submitted our official chapter of Phi Sigma Rho.
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The Sephardic-haredi Shas party's delegation to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin recommended that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who leads the Likud party, be tasked with forming the next government.
Religious Affairs Minister Yitzhak Vaknin (Shas) wished Rivlin's wife Nechama a speedy recovery and said, "I think that the Netanyahu-led government did its job properly. He is worthy of continuing to run the State of Israel."
Deputy Finance Minister Yitzhak Cohen (Shas) said, "From the start of the campaign, we were completely transparent and we said we recommend Binyamin Netanyahu for the next Knesset's prime minister. We believe Netanyahu can lead the country as he has previously, so our recommendation is to task Binyamin Netanyahu with the formation of the next government. We hope that this will bring Israel only good."
Shas MK Meshulam Nahari told Rivlin: "We recommend Binyamin Netanyahu for Prime MInister. That was our message before the elections. This last term was good and we want to continue on the same path, and therefore we recommend Netanyahu for Prime Minister."
Shas MK Yakov Margi echoed Nahari's words: "We've been through a difficult election, and it's behind us now. We have one nation and one state. We want the work done in the previous government to continue along the same lines, and like we said during the elections, we recommend Netanyahu for Prime Minister."
"Is your recommendation conditional on the next government working along the same lines the previous government did?" Rivlin asked the MKs.
"The previous government emphasized retaining the status quo on issues rife with conflict," Vaknin answered. "We will not help another government which will harm that which is holy to Israel, such as Shabbat (the Sabbath), which is important for the unity of Israel."
At the end of the meeting, Rivlin noted that 44 of the required 61 MKs have recommended Netanyahu continue as Prime Minister.
"On Wednesday afternoon, I will decide who to task with forming the government," Rivlin said.


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The Battle of Sheriffmuir (, ) was an engagement in 1715 at the height of the Jacobite rising in England and Scotland. The battlefield has been included in the Inventory of Historic Battlefields in Scotland and protected by Historic Scotland under the Scottish Historical Environment Policy of 2009. Sheriffmuir is a remote elevated plateau of heathland lying between Stirling and Auchterarder on the north fringe of the Ochil Hills.

Background
John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar, standard-bearer for the Jacobite cause in Scotland, mustered Highland chiefs, and, on 6 September, declared James Francis Edward Stuart (the "Old Pretender") as King of Scots. With an army of about 12,000 men Mar proceeded to take Perth, and commanded much of the northern Highlands. Following unsuccessful skirmishes against John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll (based at Stirling), Mar was eventually persuaded to lead his full army south, on 10 November. Spies informed Argyll of Mar's actions, and he moved his army of about 4,000 to Sheriffmuir, near Dunblane. The two armies met on the battlefield on 13 November 1715.

Battle
Argyll was seriously outnumbered by the Jacobite army (which was somewhat diminished from its previous numbers), and his left wing, commanded by General Thomas Whetham, was far shorter than the Jacobites' opposing right. Argyll's right wing attacked, and managed to drive the Highlanders back, but Whetham's soldiers were overpowered by a much larger force. Argyll came to the aid of Whetham's men. By evening, both armies were seriously reduced, and although Mar had a great advantage in numbers, he refused to risk the entirety of his army, allowing Argyll to withdraw.

The battle was inconclusive, with both sides claiming victory.  However, in strategic terms Argyll had halted the Jacobite advance.  Those government regiments present that were titled 'King's' were awarded the White Horse of Hanover as a badge of battle honour. The engagement only served to demoralize the Jacobite army who, with their superior numbers, felt they should have decisively won. Mar's French and Spanish supporters in particular withdrew their forces.

Aftermath
The modern Scottish archaeologist and TV commentator Neil Oliver states that in hindsight the Jacobite failure of the rising of 1715 seems astonishing in that the Jacobite leader, the Earl of Mar, could easily have moved past the Duke of Argyll to link up with the English Jacobites and Catholics in the north of England, had he had the merest sense of how to fight a campaign rather than lead a parade.

On 23 December, the Old Pretender, who had been exiled in France, landed at Peterhead, his cause largely lost. He met with Mar at Perth, but was unable to rouse the disheartened army. Argyll, reinforced and invigorated, soon advanced north, while the Jacobite army fled to Montrose, and the Pretender returned to France. The army moved to Ruthven, and dispersed.

The period was fatal in the extreme to the Jacobite Pretender. The whole body of his adherents in the south had fallen into the hands of generals Willis and Carpenter at Preston, and Inverness, with all the adjacent country, had been recovered to the government, through the exertions of pro-government clans including the Earl of Sutherland, Fraser Lord Lovat, the Rosses, the Munros and the Forbeses.

Casualties
The number of the slain on the side of the Jacobites has been stated to have been between two hundred and eight hundred, among whom were John Lyon, 5th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and the chief of the Clan Ranald of Clan MacDonald, and several others of distinction. James Maule, 4th Earl of Panmure, and Drummond of Logie were among the wounded. It meant that the Jacobite army had to withdraw to Perth. Argyll considered himself the victor and struck a medal to commemorate his feat.

Of the government army, there were killed, and wounded, upwards of six hundred. Archibald Douglas, 2nd Earl of Forfar, was the only person of eminence killed on that side.

A famous Jacobite song, "Sheriffmuir fight", was written about the battle. As with many such songs, the battle is presented as a noble victory for the Jacobite army. The song was collected by, and perhaps written by, James Hogg in 1819.

Robert Burns and "The Battle of Sherramuir"
The Battle was the subject of "The Battle of Sherramuir", one of the most famous songs written by Robert Burns. The song was written when Burns toured the Highlands in 1787 and was first published in the Scots Musical Museum, appearing in volume III, 1790.  It was written to be sung to the "Cameronian Rant".

Burns knew that the battle ended so inconclusively that it was unclear which side had won and the poem is the account of the battle by two shepherds taking contrary views. One of the shepherds believes that "the red-coat lads wi' black cockades" routed the rebels, painting a fearful picture of how they managed to "hough the Clans like nine-pin kyles".  The other shepherd is just as convinced that the Jacobites "did pursue / The horsemen back to Forth, man" with the eventual result that "... mony a huntit, poor Red-coat / For fear amaist did swarf, man."

Dissatisfied with the first published version of the poem, Burns re-wrote it sometime after 1790.  The revised version was published after Burns' death by his editor, James Currie MD in The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns: With Explanatory and Glossarial Notes; And a Life of the Author (1800).

References

Sources
 Smurthwaite, David, Ordnance Survey Complete Guide to the Battlefields of Britain, Webb & Bower Ltd., 1984
 Mileham, Patrick (2000), Difficulties Be Damned: The King's Regiment - A History of the City Regiment of Manchester and Liverpool, Fleur de Lys

External links
 Battle of Sheriffmuir at ScotWars.com
 Battle of Sherrifmuir at BattlefieldTrust.com
 Battle of Sheriffmuir at Clan Cameron.com
 John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll@ElectricScotland.com
 Digitised copy of the Plan of the Battle of Sheriffmuir, fought 13 November 1715 by Thomas Lascelles published in 1719? from National Library of Scotland
 Digitised copy of Battle of Sherra-moor in James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, Vol.III, 1790, from National Library of Scotland. JPEG, PDF, XML versions.

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M. Scott Peck
Morgan Scott Peck (May 22, 1936 – September 25, 2005) was an American psychiatrist and best-selling author who wrote the book The Road Less Traveled, published in 1978.
Morgan Scott Peck
(1936-05-22)May 22, 1936
September 25, 2005(2005-09-25) (aged 69)
Psychiatrist, writer
The Road Less Traveled, People of the Lie
Peck was born in New York City, the son of Zabeth (née Saville) and David Warner Peck, an attorney and judge.[1] His parents were Quakers. Peck was raised a Protestant (his paternal grandmother was from a Jewish family, but Peck's father identified himself as a WASP[2] and not as Jewish).[3][4][5]
His parents sent him to the prestigious boarding school Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, when he was 13.[6] In his book, The Road Less Traveled,[7] he confides the story of his brief stay at Exeter, and admits that it was a most miserable time. Finally, at age 15, during the spring holiday of his third year, he came home and refused to return to the school, whereupon his parents sought psychiatric help for him and he was (much to his amusement in later life) diagnosed with depression and recommended for a month's stay in a psychiatric hospital (unless he chose to return to school). He then transferred to Friends Seminary (a private K-12 school) in late 1952, and graduated in 1954, after which he received a BA from Harvard in 1958, and an MD degree from Case Western Reserve University in 1963.[6]
Peck served in administrative posts in the government during his career as a psychiatrist. He also served in the U.S. Army and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. His army assignments included stints as chief of psychology at the Army Medical Center in Okinawa, Japan, and assistant chief of psychiatry and neurology in the office of the surgeon general in Washington, D.C.[6] He was the medical director of the New Milford Hospital Mental Health Clinic and a psychiatrist in private practice in New Milford, Connecticut.[6] His first and best-known book, The Road Less Traveled, sold more than ten million copies.
Peck's works combined his experiences from his private psychiatric practice with a distinctly religious point of view. In his second book, People of the Lie, he wrote, "After many years of vague identification with Buddhist and Islamic mysticism, I ultimately made a firm Christian commitment – signified by my non-denominational baptism on the ninth of March 1980..." (Peck, 1983/1988,[8] p11). One of his views was that people who are evil attack others rather than face their own failures.[7]
In December 1984, Peck co-founded the Foundation for Community Encouragement (FCE), a tax-exempt, nonprofit, public educational foundation, whose stated mission is "to teach the principles of community to individuals and organizations." FCE ceased day-to-day operations from 2002 to 2009. In late 2009, almost 25 years after FCE was first founded, the organization resumed functioning, and began offering community building and training events in 2010.[6]
Peck married Lily Ho in 1959, and they had three children. In 1994, they jointly received the Community of Christ International Peace Award. In 2004, they were separated and later divorced. Peck then married Kathleen Kline Yates.[6]
While Peck's writings emphasized the virtues of a disciplined life and delayed gratification, his personal life was far more turbulent.[6] For example, in his book In Search of Stones,[9] Peck acknowledged having extramarital affairs and being estranged from two of his children.
Peck died at his home in Connecticut on September 25, 2005, after suffering from Parkinson's disease and pancreatic[6] and liver duct cancer. Fuller Theological Seminary houses the archives of his publications, awards, and correspondence.
The Road Less TraveledEdit
The Road Less Traveled,[7] published in 1978, is Peck's best-known work, and the one that made his reputation. It is, in short, a description of the attributes that make for a fulfilled human being, based largely on his experiences as a psychiatrist and a person.
The book consists of four parts. In the first part Peck examines the notion of discipline, which he considers essential for emotional, spiritual, and psychological health, and which he describes as "the means of spiritual evolution". The elements of discipline that make for such health include the ability to delay gratification, accepting responsibility for oneself and one's actions, a dedication to truth, and "balancing". "Balancing" refers to the problem of reconciling multiple, complex, possibly conflicting factors that impact on an important decision—on one's own behalf or on behalf of another.
In the second part, Peck addresses the nature of love, which he considers the driving force behind spiritual growth. He contrasts his own views on the nature of love against a number of common misconceptions about love, including:
that love is identified with romantic love (he considers it a very destructive myth when it is solely relying on "falling in love"),
that love is related to dependency,
that true love is linked with the feeling of "falling in love".
Peck argues that "true" love is rather an action that one undertakes consciously in order to extend one's ego boundaries by including others or humanity, and is therefore the spiritual nurturing—which can be directed toward oneself, as well as toward one's beloved.
In the third part Peck deals with religion, and the commonly accepted views and misconceptions concerning religion. He recounts experiences from several patient case histories, and the evolution of the patients' notion of God, religion, atheism—especially of their own "religiosity" or atheism—as their therapy with Peck progressed.
The fourth and final part concerns "grace", the powerful force originating outside human consciousness that nurtures spiritual growth in human beings. In order to focus on the topic, he describes the miracles of health, the unconscious, and serendipity—phenomena which Peck says:
nurture human life and spiritual growth,
are incompletely understood by scientific thinking,
are commonplace among humanity,
originate outside the conscious human will.
He concludes that "the miracles described indicate that our growth as human beings is being assisted by a force other than our conscious will" (Peck, 1978/1992,[7] p281).
Random House, where the then little-known psychiatrist first tried to publish his original manuscript, turned him down, saying the final section was "too Christ-y." Thereafter, Simon & Schuster published the work for $7,500 and printed a modest hardback run of 5,000 copies. The book took off only after Peck hit the lecture circuit and personally sought reviews in key publications. Later reprinted in paperback in 1980, The Road first made best-seller lists in 1984 – six years after its initial publication.[6]
TheoriesEdit
DisciplineEdit
In The Road Less Traveled,[7] Peck wrote of the importance of discipline. He described four aspects of discipline:
Delaying gratification: Sacrificing present comfort for future gains.
Acceptance of responsibility: Accepting responsibility for one's own decisions.
Dedication to truth: Honesty, both in word and deed.
Balancing: Handling conflicting requirements. Scott Peck writes of an important skill to prioritize between different requirements – bracketing.
Peck's book begins with the statement "Life is difficult" (Peck, 1978/1992,[7] p13). Peck argues that life was never meant to be easy, and is essentially a series of problems which can either be solved or ignored.
Peck defines discipline as the basic set of tools required to solve life's problems. He considers these tools to include delaying gratification, assuming responsibility, dedication to the truth, and balancing. Peck argues that these are techniques of suffering, that enable the pain of problems to be worked through and systematically solved, producing growth. He argues that most people avoid the pain of dealing with their problems and suggests that it is through facing the pain of problem solving that life becomes more meaningful.
Delaying gratification is the process by which pain is chosen to be experienced before pleasure. Most learn this activity by the age of five. For example, a six-year-old child will prefer eating the cake first and the frosting last. Children will rather finish their homework first, so that they can play later on. However, a sizable number of adolescents seem to lack this capacity. These problematic students are totally controlled by their impulses. Such youngsters indulge in drugs, get into frequent fights, and often find themselves in confrontation with authority.
Peck states that it is only through taking responsibility and accepting the fact that life has problems, that these problems can then be solved. He argues that neurosis and character-disorder people represent two opposite disorders of responsibility. Neurotics assume too much responsibility and feel responsible for everything that goes wrong in their life, while character-disordered people deny responsibility, blaming others for their problems. Peck writes in the Road Less Traveled that "It is said 'neurotics make themselves miserable; those with character disorders make everyone else miserable'" (Peck, 1978/1992,[7] p38). Peck argues that everyone is neurotic or character-disordered at some time in their life, and the balance is to avoid both extremes.
Dedication to the truth represents the capacity of an individual to modify and update their worldview when exposed to new information discordant with the old view. For example, a bitter childhood can leave a person with the false idea that the world is a hostile and inhuman place. However, with continued exposure to more positive aspects of the world, this existing worldview is challenged and needs to be modified to integrate the new experiences. Peck also argues that dedication to truth implies a life of genuine self-examination, a willingness to be personally challenged by others, and honesty to oneself and others.
Peck considers the use of these interrelated techniques of discipline as paramount, if the difficulties and conflicting requirements of life are to be dealt with and balanced successfully.
Neurotic and legitimate sufferingEdit
Peck believes that it is only through suffering and agonizing using the four aspects of discipline (delaying gratification, acceptance of responsibility, dedication to truth, and balancing) that we can resolve the many puzzles and conflicts that we face.[7] This is what he calls undertaking legitimate suffering. Peck argues that by trying to avoid legitimate suffering, people actually ultimately end up suffering more. This extra unnecessary suffering is what Scott Peck terms neurotic suffering. He references Carl Jung 'Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering'.[10] Peck says that our aim must be to eliminate neurotic suffering and to work through our legitimate suffering in order to achieve our individual goals.[7]
People of the LieEdit
First published in 1983, People of the Lie: The Hope For Healing Human Evil (ISBN 0 7126 1857 0) followed on from Peck's first book. Peck describes the stories of several people who came to him whom he found particularly resistant to any form of help. He came to think of them as evil and goes on to describe the characteristics of evil in psychological terms, proposing that it could become a psychiatric diagnosis. Peck points to narcissism as a type of evil in this context.
EvilEdit
Peck discusses evil in his book People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil,[8] and also in a chapter of The Road Less Traveled.[7] Peck characterizes evil as a malignant type of self-righteousness in which there is an active rather than passive refusal to tolerate imperfection (sin) and its consequent guilt.[7][8] This syndrome results in a projection of evil onto selected specific innocent victims (often children), which is the paradoxical mechanism by which the People of the Lie commit their evil.[8] Peck argues that these people are the most difficult of all to deal with, and extremely hard to identify.[8] He describes in some detail several individual cases involving his patients. In one case which Peck considers as the most typical because of its subtlety, he describes Roger, a depressed teenage son of respected, well off parents.[8] In a series of parental decisions justified by often subtle distortions of the truth, they exhibit a consistent disregard for their son's feelings, and a consistent willingness to destroy his growth. With false rationality and normality, they aggressively refuse to consider that they are in any way responsible for his resultant depression, eventually suggesting his condition must be incurable and genetic.
Some of his conclusions about the psychiatric condition that he designates as "evil" are derived from his close study of one patient he names Charlene.[8] Although Charlene is not dangerous, she is ultimately unable to have empathy for others in any way. According to Peck, people like her see others as play things or tools to be manipulated for their own uses or entertainment. Peck states that these people are rarely seen by psychiatrists, and have never been treated successfully.
Evil is described by Peck as "militant ignorance". The original Judeo-Christian concept of "sin" is as a process that leads us to "miss the mark" and fall short of perfection.[8] Peck argues that while most people are conscious of this, at least on some level, those that are evil actively and militantly refuse this consciousness. Peck considers those he calls evil to be attempting to escape and hide from their own conscience (through self-deception), and views this as being quite distinct from the apparent absence of conscience evident in sociopathy.[8]
According to Peck an evil person:[7][8]
Is consistently self-deceiving, with the intent of avoiding guilt and maintaining a self-image of perfection
Deceives others as a consequence of their own self-deception
Projects his or her evils and sins onto very specific targets (scapegoats) while being apparently normal with everyone else ("their insensitivity toward him was selective" (Peck, 1983/1988, p 105[8]))
Commonly hates with the pretense of love, for the purposes of self-deception as much as deception of others
Abuses political (emotional) power ("the imposition of one's will upon others by overt or covert coercion" (Peck, 1978/1992, p298[7]))
Maintains a high level of respectability, and lies incessantly in order to do so
Is consistent in his or her sins. Evil persons are characterized not so much by the magnitude of their sins, but by their consistency (of destructiveness)
Is unable to think from the viewpoint of their victim (scapegoat)
Has a covert intolerance to criticism and other forms of narcissistic injury
Most evil people realize the evil deep within themselves but are unable to tolerate the pain of introspection, or admit to themselves that they are evil. Thus, they constantly run away from their evil by putting themselves in a position of moral superiority and putting the focus of evil on others. Evil is an extreme form of what Scott Peck, in The Road Less Traveled, calls a character and personality disorder.[7][8]
Using the My Lai Massacre as a case study Peck also examines group evil, discussing how human group morality is strikingly less than individual morality.[8] Partly, he considers this to be a result of specialization, which allows people to avoid individual responsibility and pass the buck, resulting in a reduction of group conscience.
Though the topic of evil has historically been the domain of religion,[8] Peck makes great efforts to keep much of his discussion on a scientific basis, explaining the specific psychological mechanisms by which evil operates. He was also particularly conscious of the danger of a psychology of evil being misused for personal or political ends.[8] Peck considered that such a psychology should be used with great care, as falsely labeling people as evil is one of the very characteristics of evil. He argued that a diagnosis of evil should come from the standpoint of healing and safety for its victims, but also with the possibility even if remote, that the evil themselves may be cured.
Ultimately Peck says that evil arises out of free choice. He describes it thus: Every person stands at a crossroads, with one path leading to God, and the other path leading to the devil. The path of God is the right path, and accepting this path is akin to submission to a higher power. However, if a person wants to convince himself and others that he has free choice, he would rather take a path which cannot be attributed to its being the right path. Thus, he chooses the path of evil.
Peck also discussed the question of the devil.[8] Initially he believed, as with '99% of psychiatrists and the majority of clergy' (Peck, 1983/1988,[8] p182), that the devil did not exist; but, after starting to believe in the reality of human evil, he then began to contemplate the reality of spiritual evil. Eventually, after having been referred several possible cases of possession and being involved in two exorcisms, he was converted to a belief in the existence of Satan. Peck considered people who are possessed as being victims of evil, but of not being evil themselves. Peck however considered possession to be rare, and human evil common. He did believe there was some relationship between Satan and human evil, but was unsure of its exact nature. Peck's writings and views on possession and exorcism are to some extent influenced and based on specific accounts by Malachi Martin, however the veracity of these accounts and Peck's own diagnostic approach to possession have both since been questioned by a Catholic priest who is a professor of theology.[11] It has been argued that it is not possible to find formal records to establish the veracity of Father Malachi Martin's described cases of possession, as all exorcism files are sealed by the Archdiocese of New York, where all but one of the cases took place.[12]
LoveEdit
His perspective on love (in The Road Less Traveled) is that love is not a feeling, it is an activity and an investment. He defines love as, "The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth" (Peck, 1978/1992,[7] p85). Peck expands on the work of Thomas Aquinas over 700 years ago, that love is primarily actions towards nurturing the spiritual growth of another.
Peck seeks to differentiate between love and cathexis. Cathexis is what explains sexual attraction, the instinct for cuddling pets and pinching babies' cheeks. However, cathexis is not love. All the same, true love cannot begin in isolation, a certain amount of cathexis is necessary to get sufficiently close to be able to truly love.
Once through the cathexis stage, the work of love begins. It is not a feeling. It consists of what you do for another person. As Peck says in The Road Less Traveled, "Love is as love does." It is about giving yourself and the other person what they need to grow. It is about truly knowing and understanding them.
The four stages of spiritual developmentEdit
Peck postulates that there are four stages of human spiritual development:[13][14]
Stage I is chaotic, disordered, and reckless. Very young children are in Stage I. They tend to defy and disobey, and are unwilling to accept a will greater than their own. They are extremely egoistic and lack empathy for others. Many criminals are people who have never grown out of Stage I.
Stage II is the stage at which a person has blind faith in authority figures and sees the world as divided simply into good and evil, right and wrong, us and them. Once children learn to obey their parents and other authority figures, often out of fear or shame, they reach Stage II. Many so-called religious people are essentially Stage II people, in the sense that they have blind faith in God, and do not question His existence. With blind faith comes humility and a willingness to obey and serve. The majority of good, law-abiding citizens never move out of Stage II.
Stage III is the stage of scientific skepticism and questioning. A Stage III person does not accept things on faith but only accepts them if convinced logically. Many people working in scientific and technological research are in Stage III. They often reject the existence of spiritual or supernatural forces since these are difficult to measure or prove scientifically. Those who do retain their spiritual beliefs, move away from the simple, official doctrines of fundamentalism.
Stage IV is the stage where an individual starts enjoying the mystery and beauty of nature and existence. While retaining skepticism, he starts perceiving grand patterns in nature and develops a deeper understanding of good and evil, forgiveness and mercy, compassion and love. His religiousness and spirituality differ significantly from that of a Stage II person, in the sense that he does not accept things through blind faith or out of fear, but does so because of genuine belief, and he does not judge people harshly or seek to inflict punishment on them for their transgressions. This is the stage of loving others as yourself, losing your attachment to your ego, and forgiving your enemies. Stage IV people are labeled as Mystics.
Peck argues that while transitions from Stage I to Stage II are sharp, transitions from Stage III to Stage IV are gradual. Nonetheless, these changes are very noticeable and mark a significant difference in the personality of the individual.
Community buildingEdit
In his book The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace[13], Peck says that community has three essential ingredients:
Based on his experience with community building workshops, Peck says that community building typically goes through four stages:
Pseudocommunity: In the first stage, well-intentioned people try to demonstrate their ability to be friendly and sociable, but they do not really delve beneath the surface of each other's ideas or emotions. They use obvious generalities and mutually established stereotypes in speech. Instead of conflict resolution, pseudocommunity involves conflict avoidance, which maintains the appearance or facade of true community. It also serves only to maintain positive emotions, instead of creating a safe space for honesty and love through bad emotions as well. While they still remain in this phase, members will never really obtain evolution or change, as individuals or as a bunch.
Chaos: The first step towards real positivity is, paradoxically, a period of negativity. Once the mutually sustained facade of bonhomie is shed, negative emotions flood through: members start to vent their mutual frustrations, annoyances, and differences. It is a chaotic stage, but Peck describes it as a "beautiful chaos" because it is a sign of healthy growth. (This relates closely to Dabrowski's concept of disintegration).
Emptiness: In order to transcend the stage of "Chaos", members are forced to shed that which prevents real communication. Biases and prejudices, need for power and control, self-superiority, and other similar motives which are only mechanisms of self-validation and/or ego-protection, must yield to empathy, openness to vulnerability, attention, and trust. Hence this stage does not mean people should be "empty" of thoughts, desires, ideas or opinions. Rather, it refers to emptiness of all mental and emotional distortions which reduce one's ability to really share, listen to, and build on those thoughts, ideas, etc. It is often the hardest step in the four-level process, as it necessitates the release of patterns which people develop over time in a subconscious attempt to maintain self-worth and positive emotion. While this is therefore a stage of "Fana (Sufism)" in a certain sense, it should be viewed not merely as a "death" but as a rebirth—of one's true self at the individual level, and at the social level of the genuine and true Community.
True community: Having worked through emptiness, the people in the community enter a place of complete empathy with one another. There is a great level of tacit understanding. People are able to relate to each other's feelings. Discussions, even when heated, never get sour, and motives are not questioned. A deeper and more sustainable level of happiness obtains between the members, which does not have to be forced. Even and perhaps especially when conflicts arise, it is understood that they are part of positive change.
The four stages of community formation are somewhat related to a model in organization theory for the five stages that a team goes through during development. These five stages are:
Forming where the team members have some initial discomfort with each other, but nothing comes out in the open. They are insecure about their role and position with respect to the team. This corresponds to the initial stage of pseudocommunity.
Storming where the team members start arguing heatedly, and differences and insecurities come out in the open. This corresponds to the second stage given by Scott Peck, namely chaos.
Norming where the team members lay out rules and guidelines for interaction that help define the roles and responsibilities of each person. This corresponds to emptiness, where the community members think within and empty themselves of their obsessions in order to be able to accept and listen to others.
Performing where the team finally starts working as a cohesive whole, and to effectively achieve the tasks set of themselves. In this stage individuals are aided by the group as a whole, where necessary, in order to move further collectively than they could achieve as a group of separated individuals.
Transforming This corresponds to the stage of true community. This represents the stage of celebration, and when individuals leave, as they invariably must, there is a genuine feeling of grief, and a desire to meet again. Traditionally, this stage was often called "Mourning".
It is in this third stage that Peck's community-building methods differ in principle from team development. While teams in business organizations need to develop explicit rules, guidelines and protocols during the norming stage, the emptiness stage of community building is characterized, not by laying down the rules explicitly, but by shedding the resistance within the minds of the individuals.
Peck started the Foundation for Community Encouragement (FCE) to promote the formation of communities, which, he argues, are a first step towards uniting humanity and saving us from self-destruction.
The Blue Heron Farm is an intentional community in central North Carolina, whose founders stated that they were inspired by Peck's writings on community. Peck himself had no involvement with this project.
The Exosphere Academy of Science & the Arts uses community building in their teaching methodology to help students practice deeper communication, remove their "masks," and feel more comfortable collaborating and building innovative projects and startups.
Characteristics of true communityEdit
Peck describes what he considers to be the most salient characteristics of a true community:[13]
Inclusivity, commitment and consensus: members accept and embrace each other, celebrating their individuality and transcending their differences. They commit themselves to the effort and the people involved. They make decisions and reconcile their differences through consensus.
Realism: members bring together multiple perspectives to better understand the whole context of the situation. Decisions are more well-rounded and humble, rather than one-sided and arrogant.
Contemplation: members examine themselves. They are individually and collectively self-aware of the world outside themselves, the world inside themselves, and the relationship between the two.
A safe place: members allow others to share their vulnerability, heal themselves, and express who they truly are.
A laboratory for personal disarmament: members experientially discover the rules for peacemaking and embrace its virtues. They feel and express compassion and respect for each other as fellow human beings.
A group that can fight gracefully: members resolve conflicts with wisdom and grace. They listen and understand, respect each other's gifts, accept each other's limitations, celebrate their differences, bind each other's wounds, and commit to a struggle together rather than against each other.
A group of all leaders: members harness the "flow of leadership" to make decisions and set a course of action. It is the spirit of community itself that leads, and not any single individual.
A spirit: The true spirit of community is the spirit of peace, love, wisdom and power. Members may view the source of this spirit as an outgrowth of the collective self or as the manifestation of a Higher Will.
The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth (Simon & Schuster, 1978) ISBN 978-0-7432-4315-5
People of the Lie: The Hope For Healing Human Evil (Simon & Schuster, 1983) ISBN 978-0-684-84859-4
What Return Can I Make? Dimensions of the Christian Experience(Simon & Schuster, 1985) (republished by Harpers in 1995 under the new title, Gifts For the Journey: Treasures of the Christian Life) ISBN 978-0-671-52502-6
The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace (Simon & Schuster, 1987) ISBN 978-0-684-84858-7
A Bed By the Window: A Novel of Mystery and Redemption (Bantam Books, 1990) ISBN 978-1-86359-035-8
The Friendly Snowflake: A Fable of Faith, Love and Family (Turner Publishing, 1992)ISBN 978-0740718823
A World Waiting To Be Born: Civility Rediscovered (Bantam, 1993) ISBN 978-0-553-37317-2
Meditations From the Road (Simon & Schuster, 1993) ISBN 978-0-671-79799-7
Further Along the Road Less Traveled (Simon & Schuster, 1993) ISBN 978-0-684-84723-8
In Search of Stones: A Pilgrimage of Faith, Reason and Discovery (Hyperion Books 1995) ISBN 978-0-7868-6021-0
In Heaven As on Earth: A Vision of the Afterlife (Hyperion, 1996) ISBN 978-0-7868-8921-1
The Road Less Traveled and Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety (Simon & Schuster, 1997) ISBN 978-0-684-83561-7
Denial of the Soul: Spiritual and Medical Perspectives in Euthanasia and Mortality (Harmony Books (Crown), 1997) ISBN 978-0-609-80134-5
Golf and the Spirit: Lessons for the Journey (Harmony Books, 1999) ISBN 978-0-609-80566-4
Glimpses of the Devil: A Psychiatrist's Personal Accounts of Possession, Exorcism, and Redemption (Free Press, January 19, 2005) ISBN 978-0-7432-5467-0
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The Road He Traveled: The Revealing Biography of M Scott Peck by Arthur Jones (Rider Books, 2007)
"'Road Less Traveled' Author Dies at 69" – obituary in San Francisco Chronicle, September 28, 2005
"Pop psychiatrist who ignored his bestselling advice on adultery" – obituary in The Guardian, September 25, 2005
The Foundation for Community Encouragement
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INDOOR: Helped lead WashU to a record finish, fifth place, at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field National Championships with two All-American honors by placing second in the mile with a school record time of 4:07.99 and as a member of the third place distance medley relay team with a time of 10:00.31 ... USTFCCCA Midwest All-Region in the mile with the region's fifth fastest time, 4:08.41 ... Earned all-UAA honors with a winning time of 4:11.65 in the mile and the second fastest 800m (1:55.35) ... Ran to a season-best time in the 3,000m run, 8:28.04, at the Friday Night Spikes Opener on Jan. 11 which is the third fastest in program history ... Named the UAA Indoor Track Athlete of the Week on Jan. 14, Jan. 28 and March 11 ... Academic All-UAA.
OUTDOOR: Named the UAA Outdoor Track Athlete of the Week on April 1.
INDOOR: Ran to All-American honors as a member of the runner-up men's distance medley relay team (9:57.81) ... Earned all-UAA honors with first place finish in the one-mile (4:13.28) and second-place finish in the distance medley relay (10:09.41) ... USTFCCCA Indoor Midwest All-Region as a member of the second fastest distance medley relay team (9:48.55) in the region and as an individual with the third fastest mile (4:10.09) in the region ... WashU's top performer in the mile on the season, posted a time of 4:13.28 at the UAA Championships on Feb. 25 and also as a member of the distance medley relay team ... Named the UAA Indoor Track Athlete of the Week on Jan. 15 and as part of the men's distance medley relay team on March 12 ... Named the UAA Outdoor Track Athlete of the Week on April 2 and May 7 ... Academic all-UAA.
OUTDOOR: Ran to All-American honors as a member of the runner-up men's distance medley relay team (9:57.81) ... Earned USTFCCCA Midwest All-Region honors by running the fastest 1,500m (3:45.86) in the region at the Billy Hayes Invite (5/4) ... Helped the Bears to the University Athletic Association (UAA) Outdoor Track & Field Championship with event titles in the 1500m (3:57.61) and the 800m (1:54.01) ... Set the school record in the 1500m run at the Billy Hayes Invite on May 4 at Indiana University with a time of 3:45.86 ... Awarded the Elite 90 Men's Outdoor Track & Field award at the NCAA Division III National Championships in La Crosse, Wis. ... WashU's top performer on the season in the 800m (1:52.82) and the 1,500m (3:45.86) ... Named to the Google Cloud Academic All-District 5 Team by CoSIDA ... Named to the Google Cloud Academic All-America First Team by CoSIDA ... Academic all-UAA ... UAA President's Council Scholar-Athlete... USTFCCCA All-Academic.
2016-17: Earned All-American honors with a fifth place finish at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field National Championships in the 1,500m run with a time of 3:54.33 to help the Bears place ninth overall ... Earned all-UAA honors as a member of the winning 4x800m relay team (7:46.24) ... Named UAA Track Athlete of the Week on April 10 and May 8.
HIGH SCHOOL: Team captain and four-year letterwinner in cross country and track & field at Parkway South High School ...Two time First Team All-State (2014-15) and one time First Team All-Metro ... Personal-bests: 5K cross country-15:48 ... Physics Student of the Year and Bright Flight award winner.
PERSONAL: Majoring in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Energy Engineering ... Son of Nick and Sandra Matteucci.


Actress and singer Hilary Duff was robbed of hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of jewelry while away on vacation — and social media may be to blame.
Thieves broke into her Beverly Hills home as the former Disney star was taking some time off in Canada.
Duff, who now stars in the TV Land series Younger, has been posting pictures and videos from her vacation that include her doing a handstand dive into a lake and her son Luca tubing.
All the while, her California home remained empty, and thanks to her social media, robbers knew it.
Security expert Steve Kardian told Inside Edition that the best way to avoid being targeted by thieves is to refrain from posting on social media, at least until you return.
"Wait until you are home from vacation," he said.
Duff is still on vacation, but her rep released a statement on her behalf.
"This is a scary and upsetting situation for anyone to go through, but Hilary is thankful that her family, her staff, her home and her pets are all safe," the rep said. "That said, she has a significant security team in place that will work with the authorities on this incident and handle security measures moving forward."


The unique extraction system featured in the PAL-2RC allows the light fitting to be removed from the pool with no tools.
For complete order details on the PAL-2RC and PAL underwater light accessories available, click here.
2. Fit the PAL-2RCA concrete wall housing into place in the steel work using wire to secure the housing into position with the mounting lugs around the housing. Ensure the PAL-2RCA concrete wall housing is Level and Square with the pool wall and there is at least 170mm from the front of the concrete and the back of the housing to ensure the PAL-2RC light assembly can be glued in correctly when the concrete shell is complete. NOTE: There are 4 lines on the housing indicating the approximate position where the front of the concrete should finish allowing the light assembly to fit correctly. (4x Construction Lines shown below).
3. After blowing the wall and concrete is set, trim the pipe down to flush with the wall as shown below.
4. Before the pool finish is applied the PAL-2RC should be glued into the PAL-2RCA assembly using PVC glue to seal and locate the fitting into position.
5. With the fitting in position in the Concrete Wall the Pool Finish can be applied up to the front face of the fitting as shown on the assembly drawing. Note: The disposable Lens Cover fitted to the PAL-2RC will protect the fitting while the finish is being applied. The protective lens cover is replaced by the normal lens cover supplied with the PAL-2RC when the pool is ready to be filled with water.
1. Remove the "Clip-On" Lens Cover on the PAL-2RC and twist the body in a anti-clockwise direction to retract the fitting from the housing.
4. When reassembling the PAL-2RC fitting ensure the "O" ring is sitting correctly and replace the lens, clamping ring and (6) six lens screws and ensure the screws are not overtightened.


Two pyramid skeletons linked at their triangle base, the Dipyramid Earrings embody twin crystals, balanced in symmetry. Strong and light-weight.
Black Steel has a rugged feel and visible surface striations.


Here at North East Art Collective our aim is to showcase the best of local talent. We offer the work of over 150 artists and designers living and working within our regional boarders, and we aim to showcase as much of what we have to offer in store online. For all we don't always achieve this we give it the best effort we can.
Our artists present their views and their passion of the region and all it has to offer in their ever-changing styles. We hope you find something perfect for your home. If we can help in any way possible please don't hesitate to contact us using this form.


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Lady Gaga: Just Dance
Independent Publishers Group
Helia Phoenix
Orion Publishing
https://www.pubmatch.com/independent-publishers-group.html
More About This Title Lady Gaga: Just Dance
The incredible story of an artist who is just trying to change the world—one sequin at a time Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, better know as Lady Gaga, was always destined to be different. A talented musician as a child, she learned piano at age four and wrote her first ballad at age of 13. Turning her back on the world of typical teenage girls, she partied hard and made friends with gogo dancers and drag queens, much to the despair of her parents. But she was a born performer, destined to be on the stage. Unlike fake starlets who become famous overnight, Gaga earned her success the hard way, working night after night at sleazy bars and clubs, performing at every club in New York, getting booed offstage, and in the process, finding herself—as a singer, a dancer, a performer, and an artist. She has shocked the public with her crazy outfits, individual sense of style, and headstrong manner. She has sold millions of records, performed to millions of people, and through it all, she has won hearts with her brashness and honesty.
Helia Phoenix is music journalist who has written for the Guardian.
Biography & Autobiography > Music


One Month. Sixteen sessions. One-third of the way through Fit4Change and PLS. 1/3. By now, you're seeing results. You've lost weight. Your clothes are looser. You don't feel like you are going to barf when you do burpees. You are stronger and more mentally fit. Are their still sucky moments? Oh yeah. You will find that you will still have hard days even 12 weeks into the 12-week program. That's called growth. You are seizing the moment and making the most of it. You know that the only time you can get better is not in the past or future. No it's in the present. The present is a gift. The gift of an opportunity. You wake up an do things other people won't do at times when they won't even get out of bed. You're nuts. You are choosing to change your life. And you are. You choose better food. Better drink. Better friends.
It's about choices. One month ago, you made a choice. Now you are seeing the results. And you are better for those results.
Congratulations. I'm proud of you. 1...2...3...Next level!


Hunts Point WPCP - Bronx, N.Y.
Jett Industries, a subsidiary of Kiewit Corporation, was awarded the contract for the refurbishment of four digester tank interiors, replacing roofing on the digester and sludge storage tanks and related mechanical work at the Hunt Point Water Pollution Control Plant for NYCDEP.
Mechanical work included installation of upgraded polymer chemical feed system, with six blending units, five storage tanks, progressive cavity pumps and 1,200 linear feet of double walled CPVC piping with heat tracing and pipe insulation. The interior and yard piping infrastructure was upgraded and rehabilitated with installation of 5,500 linear feet if 1" to 14" pipe and replacement of 125 plug valve ranging from 6" to 14" requiring asbestos and lead abatement.
Digester work included dewatering solids and cleaning out the tanks in order to complete the new interior liners by applying 3,000 linear feet Linabond system. Installation of new digester mixing equipment, gas safety equipment and centrifugal sludge pumps, plunger pump and seal water skid system.
Project work also required installation and integration of a new plant wide control system of both existing and new equipment with capability of remote monitoring.


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11th mathematics exercise questions with answers, Mathematics
Linear Inequalities – Class XI – Exercise 6.1 [1 0 – 26]
November 29, 2016 Ashoora Arif
Solve the given inequality for real x: 3(x-2)/5 ≤ 5(2-x)/3
The given inequality is 3(x-2)/5 ≤ 5(2-x)/3
⇒ 3(x-2)/5 ≤ 5(2-x)/3
⇒ 9(x-2) ≤25(2-x)
⇒ 9x – 18 ≤ 50 – 25x
⇒ 34x – 18 ≤ 50
⇒ 34x ≤ 68
⇒ 34x/34 ≤ 68/34
⇒ x ≤ 2
Thus, all real numbers x, which are less than or equal to 2, are the solutions of the given inequality.
Hence, the solution set of the given inequality is (–∞, 2].
12: Solve the given inequality for real x: 1/2(3x/5 + 4) ≥ 1/3 (x – 6)
The given inequality is 1/2(3x/5 + 4) ≥ 1/3 (x – 6)
1/2(3x/5 + 4) ≥ 1/3 (x – 6)
⇒ 3 (3x/5 + 4) ≥ 2 (x – 6)
⇒ 9x/5 + 12 ≥ 2x – 9x/5
⇒ 24 ≥ 10x – 9x/5
⇒ 24 ≥ x/5
⇒120 ≥ x
Thus, all real numbers x, which are less than or equal to 120, are the solutions of the given inequality.
Hence, the solution set of the given inequality is (–∞, 120].
Solve the given inequality for real x: 2(2x + 3) – 10 < 6 (x – 2)
The given inequality is 2(2x + 3) – 10 < 6 (x – 2)
2(2x + 3) – 10 < 6 (x – 2)
⇒ 4x + 6 – 10 < 6x – 12
⇒ 4x – 4 < 6x – 4x
⇒ 8 < 2x
⇒ 4 < x
Thus, all real numbers x, which are greater than or equal to 4, are the solutions of the given inequality.
Hence, the solution set of the given inequality is [4, ∞).
14: Solve the given inequality for real x: 37 – (3x + 5) ≥ 9x – 8(x – 3)
37 – (3x + 5) ≥ 9x – 8(x – 3)
⇒ 37 – 3x – 5 ≥ 9x – 8x + 24
⇒ 32 – 3x ≥ x + 24
⇒ 32 – 34 ≥ x + 3x
⇒ 8 ≥ 4x
⇒ 2 ≥ x
15: Solve the given inequality for real x: x/4 < (5x-2)/3 – (7x-3)/5
The given inequality is x/4 < (5x-2)/3 – (7x-3)/5
⇒ x/4 < 5(5x-2)-3(7x-3)/15
⇒ x/4 < 25x – 10 – 21x+9/15
⇒ x/4 < 4x-1/15
⇒ 15x < 4(4x-1)
⇒15x < 16x – 4
⇒ 4 < 16x – 15x
Thus, all real numbers x, which are greater than 4, are the solutions of the given inequality. Hence, the solution set of the given inequality is (4, ∞).
16: Solve the given inequality for real x: (2x-1)/3 ≥ (3x-2)/4 – (2-x)/5
The given in equality is (2x-1)/3 ≥ (3x-2)/4 – (2-x)/5
(2x-1)/3 ≥ (3x-2)/4 – (2-x)/5
⇒ (2x-1)/3 ≥ [5(3x-2)-4(2-x)]/20
⇒ (2x-1)/3 ≥ [15x-10-8+4x]/20
⇒ (2x-1)/3 ≥ [19x – 18]/20
⇒ 20(2x-1) ≥ 3(19x – 18)
⇒40x – 20 ≥ 57x – 54
⇒ -10 + 54 ≥ 57x – 40x
⇒ 34 ≥ 17x
Solve the given inequality and show the graph of the solution on number line: 3x – 2 < 2x +1
The given inequality is 3x – 2 < 2x +1
3x – 2 < 2x +1
⇒ 3x – 2x < 1 + 2
⇒ x < 3
The graphical representation of the solutions of the given inequality is as follows.
18: Solve the given inequality and show the graph of the solution on number line: 5x – 3 ≥ 3x – 5
The given inequality is 5x – 3 ≥ 3x – 5
5x – 3 ≥ 3x – 5
⇒ 5x – 3x ≥ – 5 +3
⇒ 2x ≥ -2
⇒ x ≥ -1
Solve the given inequality and show the graph of the solution on number line: 3(1 – x) < 2 (x + 4)
The given inequality is 3(1 – x) < 2 (x + 4)
3(1 – x) < 2 (x + 4)
3 – 3x < 2x + 8
3 – 8 < 2x + 3x
-5 < 5x
-5/5 < 5x/5
-1 < x
20. Solve the given inequality and show the graph of the solution on number line:
x/2 ≥ (5x-2)/3 – (7x-3)/5
x/2 ≥ 5(5x-2)-3(7x-3)/15
x/2 ≥ 25x-10-21x+9/15
x/2 ≥ 4x-1/15
15x ≥ 2(4x – 1)
15x ≥ 8x – 2
15x – 8x ≥ 8x – 2 – 8x
x ≥ – 2
x ≥ – 2/7
The graphical representation of the solutions of the given inequality is
Ravi obtained 70 and 75 marks in first two unit test. Find the minimum marks he should get in the third test to have an average of at least 60 marks.
Let x be the marks obtained by Ravi in the third unit test.
Since the student should have an average of at least 60 marks,
70+75+x/3 ≥ 60
145 + x ≥ 180
x ≥ 180 – 145
x ≥ 35
Thus, the student must obtain a minimum of 35 marks to have an average of at least 60 marks.
22: To receive Grade 'A' in a course, one must obtain an average of 90 marks or more in five examinations (each of 100 marks). If Sunita's marks in first four examinations are 87, 92, 94 and 95, find minimum marks that Sunita must obtain in fifth examination to get grade 'A' in the course.
Let x be the marks obtained by Sunita in the fifth examination.
In order to receive grade 'A' in the course, she must obtain an average of 90 marks or more in five examinations.
82+92+94+95+x/5 ≥ 90
368+x/5 ≥ 90
Thus, Sunita must obtain greater than or equal to 82 marks in the fifth examination.
Find all pairs of consecutive odd positive integers both of which are smaller than 10 such that their sum is more than 11.
Let x be the smaller of the two consecutive odd positive integers.
Then, the other integer is x + 2.
Since both the integers are smaller than 10,
x + 2 < 10
⇒ x < 10 – 2
⇒ x < 8 —————–(i)
Also, the sum of the two integers is more than 11.
∴x + (x + 2) > 11
⇒ 2x + 2 > 11
⇒ 2x > 11 – 2
⇒ 2x > 9
x > 9/2
x > 4.5 —————-(ii)
From (i) and (ii), we obtain . Since x is an odd number, x can take the values, 5 and 7.
Thus, the required possible pairs are (5, 7) and (7, 9).
24: Find all pairs of consecutive even positive integers, both of which are larger than 5 such that their sum is less than 23.
Let x be the smaller of the two consecutive even positive integers.
Since both the integers are larger than 5,
x > 5 ………………….. (1)
Also, the sum of the two integers is less than 23.
x + (x + 2) < 23
2x + 2 < 23
2x < 23 – 2
2x < 21
x < 21/2
x < 10.5
From (1) and (2), we obtain 5 < x < 10.5. Since x is an even number, x can take the values, 6, 8, and 10.
Thus, the required possible pairs are (6, 8), (8, 10), and (10, 12).
25: The longest side of a triangle is 3 times the shortest side and the third side is 2 cm shorter than the longest side. If the perimeter of the triangle is at least 61 cm, find the minimum length of the shortest side.
Let the length of the shortest side of the triangle be x cm.
Then, length of the longest side = 3x cm
Length of the third side = (3x – 2) cm
Since the perimeter of the triangle is at least 61 cm,
x cm + 3x cm + (3x – 2)cm ≥ 61 cm
7x – 2 ≥ 61
7x ≥ 63
7x/7 ≥ 63/7
x ≥ 9
Thus, the minimum length of the shortest side is 9 cm.
A man wants to cut three lengths from a single piece of board of length 91 cm. The second length is to be 3 cm longer than the shortest and the third length is to be twice as long as the shortest. What are the possible lengths of the shortest board if the third piece is to be at least 5 cm longer than the second?
[Hint: If x is the length of the shortest board, then x, (x + 3) and 2x are the lengths of the second and third piece, respectively. Thus, x = (x + 3) + 2x ≤ 91 and 2x ≥ (x + 3) + 5]
Let the length of the shortest piece be x cm.
Then, length of the second piece and the third piece are (x + 3) cm and 2x cm respectively.
Since the three lengths are to be cut from a single piece of board of length 91 cm,
x cm + (x + 3) cm + 2x cm ≤ 91 cm
⇒ 4x + 3 ≤ 91
⇒ 4x ≤ 91 – 3
⇒ 4x ≤ 88
4x/4 ≤ 88/4
x ≤ 22 ———–(1)
Also, the third piece is at least 5 cm longer than the second piece.
∴2x ≥ (x + 3) + 5
⇒ 2x ≥ x + 8
⇒ x ≥ 8 ————–(2)
From (1) and (2), we obtain 8 ≤ x ≤ 22
Thus, the possible length of the shortest board is greater than or equal to 8 cm but less than or equal to 22 cm.
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Lo Ovalle is an underground metro station on Line 2 of the Santiago Metro, in Santiago, Chile. The station was opened on 21 December 1978 as the southern terminus of the extension of the line from Franklin. On 22 December 2004 the line was extended further south to La Cisterna.

The station was the southern terminus for a quarter-century prior to inaugurating the Line 2 expansion to La Cisterna. Nevertheless, it still remains a key transit hub for many South and Western Santiago commuters.

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Santiago Metro stations
Railway stations opened in 1978
Santiago Metro Line 2


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package clideployment

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/blang/semver"
	"github.com/containerum/chkit/pkg/context"
	"github.com/containerum/chkit/pkg/util/activekit"
	"github.com/containerum/chkit/pkg/util/ferr"
	"github.com/ninedraft/boxofstuff/str"
	"github.com/octago/sflags/gen/gpflag"
	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
)

func DeleteVersion(ctx *context.Context) *cobra.Command {
	var flags struct {
		Deployment string `desc:"deployment name, can be chosen in interactive menu, required in force mode"`
		Version    string `desc:"deployment version, can be chosen in interactive menu, required in force mode"`
		Force      bool   `desc:"suppress confirmation" flag:"force f"`
	}
	var command = &cobra.Command{
		Use:     "deployment-version",
		Aliases: []string{"depl-version", "devers", "deploy-vers", "depver", "deplver"},
		Short:   "delete inactive deployment version",
		//	Long:    help.MustGetString("delete deployment-version"),
		Example: "chkit delete deployment-version --deployment $DEPLOYMENT --version $VERSION --force",
		Run: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) {
			var logger = ctx.Log.Command("run deployment version")
			var version semver.Version
			var deplName = str.Vector{flags.Deployment}.Append(args...).FirstNonEmpty()
			if deplName == "" {
				if flags.Force {
					ferr.Printf("deployment must be provided as arg or --deployment flag in force mode!\n")
					ctx.Exit(1)
				}
				logger.Debugf("getting deployment list")
				var deploymentList, err = ctx.Client.GetDeploymentList(ctx.GetNamespace().ID)
				if err != nil {
					ferr.Println(err)
					logger.WithError(err).Errorf("unable to get deployment list")
					ctx.Exit(1)
				}
				if deploymentList.Len() == 0 {
					ferr.Printf("You have no deployments in namespace %q!\n", ctx.GetNamespace())
					ctx.Exit(1)
				}
				logger.Debugf("selecting deployment")
				(&activekit.Menu{
					Title: "Select deployment",
					Items: activekit.ItemsFromIter(uint(deploymentList.Len()), func(index uint) *activekit.MenuItem {
						var depl = deploymentList[index]
						return &activekit.MenuItem{
							Label: depl.Name,
							Action: func() error {
								logger.Debugf("selected deployment %q", depl.Name)
								deplName = depl.Name
								return nil
							},
						}
					}),
				}).Run()
			}
			if flags.Version == "" {
				if flags.Force {
					ferr.Printf("version must be provided as --version flag in force mode!\n")
					ctx.Exit(1)
				}
				logger.Debugf("getting versions of deployment %q in namespace %q", deplName, ctx.GetNamespace())
				var deploymentVersions, err = ctx.Client.GetDeploymentVersions(ctx.GetNamespace().ID, deplName)
				if err != nil {
					ferr.Println(err)
					logger.WithError(err).Errorf("unable to get deployment versions")
					ctx.Exit(1)
				}
				deploymentVersions = deploymentVersions.Inactive()
				if deploymentVersions.Len() == 0 {
					ferr.Printf("Deployment %q in namespace %q has no inactive versions. Only inactive versions can be deleted!\n", deplName, ctx.GetNamespace())
					ctx.Exit(1)
				}
				logger.Debugf("selecting deployment version")
				(&activekit.Menu{
					Title: "Select version",
					Items: activekit.ItemsFromIter(uint(deploymentVersions.Len()), func(index uint) *activekit.MenuItem {
						var depl = deploymentVersions[index]
						return &activekit.MenuItem{
							Label: depl.Version.String(),
							Action: func() error {
								logger.Debugf("selected deployment version %q", depl.Version)
								version = depl.Version
								return nil
							},
						}
					}),
				}).Run()
			} else {
				var err error
				version, err = semver.ParseTolerant(flags.Version)
				if err != nil {
					ferr.Printf("invalid --version flag: %v\n", err)
					ctx.Exit(1)
				}
			}

			if flags.Force || activekit.YesNo("Are you sure you want to delete version %v of deployment %q?", version, deplName) {
				logger.Debugf("deleting version %q of deployment %q in namespace %q", version, deplName, ctx.GetNamespace())
				if err := ctx.Client.DeleteDeploymentVersion(ctx.GetNamespace().ID, deplName, version); err != nil {
					ferr.Println(err)
					logger.WithError(err).Errorf("unable to delete version %v of deployment %q", version, deplName)
					ctx.Exit(1)
				}
				fmt.Printf("Version %v of deployment %q in namespace %q deleted\n", version, deplName, ctx.GetNamespace())
			}
		},
	}
	if err := gpflag.ParseTo(&flags, command.PersistentFlags()); err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	return command
}


An ordinary boy, dressed head-to-toe in safety gear, stumbles upon an abandoned junkyard. To his surprise – and eventual delight – a ragtag gang of wild-at-heart kids take him, bouncing and tumbling, on the adventure of a lifetime.
The world-famous Flying Fruit Fly Circus presents JUNK, which will soon take the stage at the Gold Coast's Home of the Arts in celebration of the circus troupe's 40th birthday.
The award-winning show, which comes complete with circus skills, acrobatics and shadow puppetry, is a whimsical whirlwind of childhood nostalgia and childlike wonder. A leap back to the days when kids weren't wrapped in cotton wool.
Inspired by the childhood of elderly Australians, JUNK has been inspiring audiences with its breath-taking artistry since 2016, and has enjoyed sell-out seasons at the Sydney Opera House, Arts Centre Melbourne and beyond.
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Take a journey back in time, following the lead of a group of ordinary kids doing extraordinary things, and remember: "To invent, all you need is a pile of junk and a good imagination" (Thomas A. Edison).