While the 1855 Classification of Bordeaux helps consumers identify wines from the region that are essentially the best in Bordeaux, one thing is for certain: the classified growths of today are producing wines that are much different from those of 1855. The ranking is arguably not most accurate gauge of quality—this is not to say that the classified growths are not of superb quality, but rather, I suggest that because quality was indicative in 1855 of price, and wineries were classified according to the sales ledgers of négociants, the quality of todays classified growths should not be taken at face value. The only way to judge, is to taste.
"Jonathan," I mumbled, already self-loathing.
"Sure thing," I lied, straight through my teeth. As he was signing, I decided to never, ever, never open that bottle. I will auction it off on ebay in 20 years. Take that Aykroyd!
In January of 2009 I traveled to Napa Valley with Michael Cirino, Andrew Rosenberg, and Brian of A Razor, A Shiny Knife.
Our first stop was in Yountville, to casually drop in on the French Laundry (ya know, just to say hi) and to meet the chefs and tour the kitchen. We were granted the audience because the night before we had re-created the Keller-Achatz 21-course meal (which was designed to celebrate the release of their respective cookbooks), for half the cost and twice as much fun at a borrowed apartment in the Mission District of San Francisco.
After the French laundry, "Fu#%ed our faces," as Cirino was fond of saying, walked a short distance down the road to Maisonry, a square-stoned structure full of pricey antiques and one particular wine you can't but anywhere else but for the vineyard itself—Blackbird. We were met by the Wine Director, Thys Tepp, whom I had met at Cavallo Point in Sausalito a month earlier. Thys tasted us through four flights.
We then lunched at La Coupole, he said, as if he thought suddenly he were Hemingway. [Pause]. Actually we lunched at Auberge du Soleil, photographed above—a stately meal, fit for kings, and after successfully serving 21 courses of food, we all felt a little like kings.
Back in St. Helena, we polished off the day with wine and cheese, soaking in the 65-degree weather. On the way back to San Francisco Airport, we made a pitt-stop: In & Out Burger—a first for most of us.
Seven hours later, back in New York, the scent of Napa and mustard flowers were etched into our wine-stained teeth and best pressed tweeds.


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Formation of neuroblasts in the embryonic central nervous system of Drosophila melanogaster is controlled by SoxNeuro
Marita Buescher, Fook Sion Hing, William Chia
Development (2002) 129 (18): 4193–4203.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.129.18.4193
Sox proteins form a family of HMG-box transcription factors related to the mammalian testis determining factor SRY. Sox-mediated modulation of gene expression plays an important role in various developmental contexts . Drosophila SoxNeuro, a putative ortholog of the vertebrate Sox1, Sox2 and Sox3 proteins, is one of the earliest transcription factors to be expressed pan-neuroectodermally. We demonstrate that SoxNeuro is essential for the formation of the neural progenitor cells in central nervous system. We show that loss of function mutations of SoxNeuro are associated with a spatially restricted hypoplasia: neuroblast formation is severely affected in the lateral and intermediate regions of the central nervous system, whereas ventral neuroblast formation is almost normal. We present evidence that a requirement for SoxNeuro in ventral neuroblast formation is masked by a functional redundancy with Dichaete, a second Sox protein whose expression partially overlaps that of SoxNeuro. Genetic interactions of SoxNeuro and the dorsoventral patterning genes ventral nerve chord defective and intermediate neuroblasts defective underlie ventral and intermediate neuroblast formation. Finally, the expression of the Achaete-Scute gene complex suggests that SoxNeuro acts upstream and in parallel with the proneural genes.

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If it is not charging you first need to make sure your charger is good. If it is not replace it, if it is then your headset batter is probably bad and you will need to replace the headset.
It says that they are compatible.
2) Turn on bluetooth on your phone. Then "search" for the (now with light on) headset. (If the light is off, repeat step 1). The moto should discover the headset, and connect. It may prompt you for a pin...and the default pin code is 0000.
I have a Jabra VBT3050.
Dont know what laptop your talking about but you have to see if your laptop even has bluetooth. if it doesnt have one your going to have to buy a bluetooth adapter.
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I need to get my Jabra, type:OTE3 to my Virgin Mobile cell phone ?
Hold the volume up (+) button down along with the call button for 5-10 seconds (until the led lis solid). Then, while the led is lit up, initiate the pairing on your phone. It should pair this time. It worked for my phone, which was having the same problem you described.
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CHAPELLE DU ROSAIRE DES DOMINICANES DE VENCE
" Continuing with the weeks focus on Chapels… from a Master of Color… the Light of Faith. A visit to Vence and the Henri Matisse Chapel. In this video we learn about Matisse and the Chapel project.
By E.A. CARMEAN JR.
The chapel is arguably the greatest religious art and architecture project of the 20th century.
Jesus' Parable of the Mustard Seed, with its imagery of a seed growing into a plant big enough for birds to perch in, is often seen as foretelling the growth of Christianity. Arguably the greatest religious art and architecture project of the 20th century, Henri Matisse's Chapel of the Rosary, provides another reading.
While recovering his health in 1943, Matisse had hired a young nurse who four years later became a novitiate in the Dominican Sisters of Monteil.
Once, Sister Jacque-Marie mentioned to Matisse her order's dream of a new chapel. Four years later, the Chapelle du Rosaire des Dominicaines de Vence, perched above the French Mediterranean coast, was consecrated by the local bishop. In a statement read at the occasion, Matisse wrote, "I consider it my masterpiece."
Planned principally for the sisters' daily prayers, the chapel is modest. Yet it is replete with Matisse's glorious creations, from the images on walls and the vestments worn by the clergy, to the altar and its liturgical objects.
Matisse's stained-glass windows are the center and glory of the chapel.
There are two tall windows behind the altar, and another set of 15 windows divided into two groupings—six along the nave; nine placed behind the sisters' stalls in an area adjacent to the sanctuary.
THE COLOR PALETTE
For an artist long held as a master of color, the windows' palette of only three hues—yellow, green and blue—may seem restrictive; but Matisse planned on the complementaries of red, orange and purple being cast by the filtered light's shadows, even testing this effect in his studio.
Matisse's colors provide a corresponding Christian iconography, with yellow a symbol of the sun and heavenly light; green of plant life and the earth; and blue of the sky, the sea and the Madonna.
The sanctuary is commanded by a towering figure of St. Dominic, the patron saint of the sisters' order, who was said to have been given a rosary by the Madonna, thus making those prayers the center of Dominican practices. Matisse's model was Father Couturier wearing his cowl.
The walls' somber notes are provided by the Stations of the Cross, which Matisse placed directly opposite the altar's Tree of Life window, perhaps acknowledging medieval texts that held that the wood of Christ's Cross had come from the Tree of Life in Paradise.
For this Passion series, Matisse turned to Old Master paintings; for example, the Station I image of Christ before Pilate borrows from a work by the Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna.
Matisse participated in virtually every detail of the project, creating the interconnection of elements sometimes called a church's Holy Fabric.
His work included both the altar's simple shapes made of a brownish, porous stone—to suggest the bread of the Eucharist—and the liturgical objects upon it: a crucifix and six candlesticks, and the tabernacle and the ciborium used to hold communion bread. Matisse also designed the vestments, planning each of the half-dozen different chasubles in one of the six church-appointed ecclesiastical colors for Seasons and Holy Days.
Before and after its June 25, 1951, consecration, Matisse's chapel was sometimes disparaged. But praise won out. Pope Pius XII requested a set of the chasubles for the Vatican, and soon so many visitors began coming as to require restricted open hours to preserve the chapel's—and Matisse's—intended purpose of serving the sisters. Amusing—and telling—was the story of an English tourist asking directions to "the chapel of St. Matisse."
As for the artist, Matisse said that "I wanted to create a spiritual space." He did.
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But let's have a closer look at Slim & Trim compared to its competition. The ALDI nutritional label can be found here (a great tip if you can't find the nutritional information of a product online before you purchase it, is to head to Calorie King or Fat Secret with most food and beverage information just one search away).
As you can see, all of the following shakes do contain rather high levels of sugar, with Atkins being the exception. ALDI Slim & Trim comes out at 23.4g of sugar per serve, with Rapid Loss being the highest at 27.6g. To give you an idea of how much sugar that is, a 250ml can of Coca-Cola contains 26.5g of sugar. So, these shakes are not exactly low in sugar, however their protein levels are high which means they will help you feel fuller for longer.
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The subsequent sport concept is to have a three legged race. Everybody partners up and the companions put their legs that are closest to one another collectively and the legs are bonded together. The race is received by whichever team makes it across the end line first. It's definitely fun to watch and fun to partake in.
Two other modes the sport uses are Soul Survivor and Soul King. Soul Survivor takes a group of four and randomly chooses one to develop into a spectre, whose soul job (see what I did there?) is to turn the other gamers in to spectres additionally. The thought is that the sport becomes more difficult as the number of spectres increases and the number of humans decreases. For those of you fortunate enough to recollect playing "zombies" on Halo 2, or even in Trendy Warfare 2, you'll really feel fairly snug in this recreation mode. The distinction is that this sport is ready to hold observe of its development, which keeps the player from having to go to the choice mode and swap colours to characterize a zombie after being killed–or at the very least pretending to do so.
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Other examples of tasks are testing a track in a racing sport, driving round it in numerous instructions, at completely different speeds, crashing into the boundaries, and customarily trying to wreak havoc and discover one thing that wasn't speculated to be there. As you would undoubtedly know gaming is not precisely a cheap pastime. With growing applied sciences and developments in gaming software program the worth is also rising accordingly. And sadly, the more in style and anticipated a new sport may be, the dearer the game will probably be.
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The builders of the game, 'Capcom' have just lately made it clear, that they need to revive the game, and make it more motion-oriented than survival horror. The explanation behind this assertion seems to be the same, as discussed to start with of the article. But regardless of the reasons, one factor is for positive, and that is the franchise, in my opinion will not be going to lose its luster anytime soon. And gamers all over the world are still eagerly awaiting the subsequent installment within the sequence from the builders, which is already under manufacturing.
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"A horror game with an insane protagonist where reality might not be exactly what it seems? How novel!" is what I was saying to myself when I first saw the store page for The Town of Light. I'm exposed to a good deal more horror games than your average bear, and as shocking as the first "he was crazy the whole time!" is, it's become the plot of I'd say 95% of horror releases. Even pretty straightforward shooters like Dead Space have to had a heavy dose of hallucinations to be "psychological." I don't hate the whole trippy psychological spin, but it's become trite. It's to the point that SOMA not being in your head the whole time is bold and innovative.
All repetition gets boring, but it's even worse that most games seem to think that going mad looks like the walls turning into putty and peoples' heads shaking really fast and blurring. I've dealt with mental illness in one form or another for some time now (not personally, as a caregiver), and there's a certain point that the poor misunderstood crazy person being held down by the big mean world becomes almost offensive. There isn't a good guy and bad guy in real life, just a horrible disability and feeble attempts at controlling it.
So it's incredibly high praise when I say that The City of Light is one of the most mature and understanding views of institutionalized mental illness that I have ever seen. It's an unflinching look into the almost impossible task of surviving a 1940's mental institution, from every angle. I was shocked by this game. It refused to look away when things got uncomfortable, and would lead me towards one conclusion just to whip me around in a 180. It's one thing to tell an interesting story, and an entirely other to craft a story that plays with your expectations to make the twists devastatingly impactful.
Set in a digital recreation of the Volterra Asylum, it's pretty clear that things aren't as the initially appear. Our protagonist Renée finds herself on the outskirts of this place, inexplicably drawn to the closed doors of the abandoned facility. As she explores, she finds out more about herself, and her tragic history unfolds. It's standard fare structurally, but the proof is in the pudding. Obviously this isn't a game to be taken literally, but this isn't one of those false trippy psychological experiences that quickly devolves into grayscale and a pseudo-moral message about accepting guilt for your wife's death.
It's a distinction that will probably go over a lot of heads. I don't want to devolve into a criticism of video game audiences, but I think most people assume that anything with a sepia filter and a "deep message" is art and therefore correct. Devs have carte blanche to portray the world however they want to fit their narrative. It's not something that keeps me up at night, but it does make conversation about art games difficult. People defend things that they like too heavily, regardless of the merit of the artistic message.
So when a game gets something as serious as mental illness right, it's a huge deal to me. I mention this because I recognize that this game isn't perfect. Design wise, it's far inferior to how I feel about the narrative. The game crashed several times, consternating me to the point where I almost considered never even playing it. It has an inexplicably large initial load time for a game that's basically one building. It's a pretty game, but given the modern standard of indie game visuals just clocks in at slightly above average.
There are also several parts that I didn't know where to go. Objectives are all necessarily vague, but some ask you to go to rooms that didn't have names on the map. This isn't helped by the in game map and documents all being in italian. It makes following the correct signage problematic. They introduce a mechanic that allows you audibly rehear the objective explanation, but this doesn't help when the initial explanation is confusing. I'm also still grumpy about the part where I had to search a kitchen for an unreasonable amount of time just to realize that what I'm looking for wasn't there. I couldn't have stomached it for one lap. At the point where I'm checking for some lady in sinks and ovens, I'm bored.
These few major points are the only reason this game isn't receiving a perfect score. There are few games with the fortitude to show you communal showers and lobotomies, and a fraction of those are skilled enough to get it right. By the time The Town of Light reached its conclusion, I was too stunned to even be in tears. It might fumble at certain points, but the bigger picture makes these small missteps irrelevant. It never jumps out and goes "BOO", but terrifies and saddens you with the deep horror of real human suffering. For a game with some faults, I could not possibly recommend it enough. It's not getting a perfect score, but it does in my heart.


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Measuring Financial Inclusion: The Global Findex Database
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6025
61 Pages Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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Asli Demirgüç-Kunt
World Bank - Development Research Group; World Bank
Leora F. Klapper
World Bank; World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
Date Written: April 1, 2012
This paper provides the first analysis of the Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) Database, a new set of indicators that measure how adults in 148 economies save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. The data show that 50 percent of adults worldwide have an account at a formal financial institution, though account penetration varies widely across regions, income groups and individual characteristics. In addition, 22 percent of adults report having saved at a formal financial institution in the past 12 months, and 9 percent report having taken out a new loan from a bank, credit union or microfinance institution in the past year. Although half of adults around the world remain unbanked, at least 35 percent of them report barriers to account use that might be addressed by public policy. Among the most commonly reported barriers are high cost, physical distance, and lack of proper documentation, though there are significant differences across regions and individual characteristics.
Keywords: Access to Finance, Emerging Markets, Banks & Banking Reform, Economic Theory & Research, E-Business
Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli and Klapper, Leora F., Measuring Financial Inclusion: The Global Findex Database (April 1, 2012). World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6025. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2043012
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I don't know why, but sometimes little, neat tricks are more impressive than a giant spectacle. Maybe it is because we know there will always be massive displays of talent somewhere in the world, but we sometimes forget that simple, incredible things might be happening right in our own backyard.
It's the surprise factor that makes these little moments so special. It's always a treat to see something amazing when you least expect it.
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In Harbinger Of Things To Come, UK Weathermen Sued Over Pessimistic Forecasts
While some of us grow weary of the incessant optimism among our economist elite - and their error-prone forecasts and Birinyi-ruler extrapolations, the Brits have decided enough is enough. The leisure industry is suing the weather-forecasters for coming up with "such pessimistic forecasts predicting rain." In some of the most perfect analogies for our woeful economists, The Telegraph notes that "The Met Office forecasters need to realise that everything they say has an impact on whether people go on holiday or go for a day out." But the weather service admitted (unlike our overpaid extrapolators) "No weather forecaster is going to get it 100 per cent right all the time. We have to tell the weather as it is that's what our job is." Of course, we have nothing to fear but rain itself and so the industry offers this little gem of honesty: "We're not asking them to bend the truth, but just to be more careful with phrasing." Perhaps we will soon hear this from our esteemed ivory tower academics: While we may have global thermonuclear warfare, it will generate a modest GDP bounce in several countries as a result of more than expected broken windows. All of this simply confirms that 'we can't handle the truth.'
Via The Telegraph: Met Office facing legal action over pessimistic forecasts
A tourist attraction is considering suing The Met Office after it claims a string of pessimistic forecasts kept visitors away.
Rick Turner owner of the Big Sheep in Abbotsham, Devon, said poor forecasting was to blame for lower attendance at his farm attraction business. Mr Turner is so angry he says he'll take the agency to court unless its forecasts improve.
He said: "The Met Office seems to come up with such pessimistic forecasts predicting chances of rain when we're enjoying sunshine."
"The Met Office forecasters need to realise that everything they say has an impact on whether people go on holiday or go for a day out."
But the weather service admitted 'No weather forecaster is going to get it 100 per cent right all the time.'
"The UK is lucky enough to have one of the best weather forecasting services in the world - we should recognise that.
"People just hear the word rain and that puts them off going somewhere for the day.
"We're not asking them to bend the truth, but just to be more careful with phrasing. For example, they could say that while inland areas may have showers, coastal areas are expected to be dry."
Of course, when it comes down to it - its not really about the actual forecast, its who delivers the forecast with the most credibility? Who are you going to trust more, Joe Lavorgna or...


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Moderated the panel discussion Making place in Africa as part of the Africa Architecture Awards 2017. Panelists included : Edgar Pieterse, Lesley Lokko, Luyanda Mpahlwa and Greg Truen.
Moderated the panel discussion as part of the Constructing Future Cities exhibition. Panelists included the artists : Sumayya Vally, Sarah de Villiers, Amina Kaskar, Thozama Mputa and Michelle Mlati.
Presentation to the German Academy for Urban and Regional Spatial Planning on Future Cape Town work and projects.
Participated in a panel discussion as part of the closing event of "The Joburg Action Lab" co-hosted by Urban-Think Tank and the University of Johannesburg as part of the International Lecture Series.
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The Marriage Hearse: Blake, Jesus, and the Critique of Marriage and Family Values
Posted on August 8, 2021 by Golgonooza
Why Mr Blake Cried: Monogamy, Matrimony and the Mind-Forg'd Manacles
In his fascinating exploration of the ideological status and function of traditional marriage and the role of 'family values', Theodore W. Jennings shows how in the Bible Jesus actually radically subverts these institutions and ways of relating, seeking to replace them with more inclusive, equal, and genuinely socially integrative forms of living. It is interesting in this respect that one of the first things that spiritual communities do is to replace the atomising, inward-looking, emotionally toxic and politically hierarchical structure of the 'family' with more open and egalitarian forms of living. Though in contemporary society, as in Jesus's day, 'The Family' is held up as integral to its power structure and affective organisation of stratified, socially isolated, inward-looking, and hierarchical power dynamics, which the institution of The Family both transmits and reflects, another way of living, and of being is possible.
Breaking the 'mind-forg'd manacles' that weld us to these old ways of thinking – and more importantly ways of feeling – was one of the central tasks of Jesus's mission, and was both echoed and developed by the generation of radical poets and thinkers of Blake's day, including Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Rousseau, and of course Blake himself. Before a more awakened and liberated form of society can emerge, Blake suggests, we have to transcend our existing shackles (it is no coincidence that Jennings for example calls one of his chapters 'Marriage, Family, and Slavery' – echoing Wollstonecraft's earlier critique of this institution for the regressive and toxic situations and spaces it generates). And in order to do that, we first need to understand what the concept of The Family actually is.
Introduction: The Nature of Marriage and Family Values
All families embody, and serve to reinforce, wider social and political structures of power and authority
The traditional "family" is the bulwark not only of patriarchy but also of heterosexism. We are increasingly aware of ways in which the family is a scene of violence and abuse, of the violation of persons and the distortion of person's lives. The emergence of psychotherapy disclosed for many persons the coercive and distorting function of family life. As trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk notes, "for every veteran who comes back messed up, there are at least 30 kids who get abused, molested, abandoned, and neglected at home. As a society, we mobilize against threats like ISIS, but most American kids are not the victims of foreign terrorists; they're the victims of the social conditions in which they mature." Growing sociological knowledge of child and spouse abuse also suggests that the family is dangerous to the well-being of vast numbers of human beings, old and young, male and female, gay and straight.
Inhibiting us from a radical critique of this institution, however, is the supposition that the family is somehow at the core of biblical ethics. Certainly churches in the modern period have universally portrayed themselves as the mainstay of marriage an family values.
In the following discussion, I want to demonstrate the ways in which the Jesus tradition, as we have it in the Gospels, transmits a fundamental critique of marriage and family values. I first address the way in which the Gospels represent Jesus as fundamentally opposed to the institution of the family. This opposition appears to stem from Jesus's profound critique of all structures that mediate and enforce the social status quo, a social world that is passing away as the divine reign of justice, generosity, and joy takes shape in the world.
That the Jesus tradition is fundamentally critical of marriage and family value places it in tension with other developments in early Christianity as represented by Paul and later letter writers of the New Testament. But Pauline acceptance and post-Pauline valorisation of some of the family values of antiquity should not be allowed to obscure for us the radicality of the narrative traditions about Jesus that consistently subvert these values. Noting the parallel between the valorisation of certain family values and acquiescence in the institution of slavery in later New Testament documents helps us to abdicate how the Gospel tradition's critique of family structures may have wider relevance.
The Critique of the Institution of the Family
Free from the Family! at last! Liberation from the atomisation and spiritual death of human community through the compartmentalisation of affective life. (Image: The Resurrection, c. 1805).
We turn first to the critique of the institution of the family in the Jesus tradition. In all the Gospels, Jesus is represented as adamant in his critique of this institution and its values.
In the Gospel of Mark, the theme of family is explicitly broached in the third chapter when Jesus's family come to extract him from the crowds of 'sinners' and the needy who have gathered about him.
Then Jesus entered a house, and again a crowd gathered, so that he and his disciples were not even able to eat. When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, "He is out of his mind." (Mark 3:20-21)
Then Jesus' mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him. A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, "Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you." "Who are my mother and my brothers?" he asked. Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, "Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does God's will is my brother and sister and mother." (Mark 3: 31-35)
The reply of Jesus to his family's summons does not seem calculated to allay the suspicion that he has "gone out of his mind". But his reply does serve to establish a clear distinction between what we may call "family of origin" and the new "family" of those who are committed to the will of God, which is the establishment of the reign of justice and generosity and joy.
"Who are my mother and my brothers?" he asked. Jesus presents a radical critique of, and alternative to, orthodox notions of human relationships and shared human communities.
As it turns out, this distinction has already been prefigured in the text by the call of the first disciples who, in order to follow Jesus, abandon the ties of work and family (Mark 1:16-20). Thus of James and John we are told that they "left their father Zebedee in the boat, with the hired men, and followed him" (1:20). The alternative – either the will of God or family of origin – is being established within the structure.
The only kinship tie that Jesus will acknowledge is that of shared mission in performing that which God wills or purposes. All other ties are abolished. Whoever stands with Jesus is his mother. The one who does as Jesus is his sister. The one who does what God desires, and no other, is brother to Jesus.
The figure of Jesus radically subverts and progresses the previous notion, or template, for 'God' (as an authority figure whom one must obey). The new covenant is one of mutual forgiveness and inter-involvement, which necessarily means the end of all privatised and authoritarian notions of the human family. (Image: Christ Offers to Redeem Man, c. 1807-1808). Blake rarely depicts "God" as a Father – usually this sort of designation is applied to Urizen, the left hemisphere version of God – authoritarian, patriarchal, "above", aloof – "Nobodaddy", as Blake sometimes calls him. As Blake notes in Jerusalem, signalling the arrival or realisation of the new paradigmatic relationship, a radical shift from God as "father" to God as "friend": "I am not a God afar off, I am a brother and friend". Many fathers in our culture are, sadly, of the Urizenic sort – due to the structural demands of the system on them.
And what is God's will? Nothing is claimed here of special religious duties. Instead Jesus has concretely demonstrated the divine will: that outcasts are befriended, that the maimed are healed, that the demon possessed return to sanity. And whoever does this is Jesus' brother, mother, and sister.
Your mother. What prevents us from seeing this, from helping or identifying with the outcast, is precisely the ideology of "family of origin", the mind-forged manacles that keep us separate and competitive, under the deceit of attachment and closeness. We see the cruelty and humbug of this cant all around us in our alienated, isolated, and unhappy world.
Blood ties are irrelevant. The woman who bore him and the siblings who shared the same womb have the same access to fellowship with Jesus as any other and on the same condition: join with those around him who are learning to do what God wants, which is making creation whole again.
A second episode common to Mark and Matthew concerns Jesus's return to his "hometown":
Jesus left there and went to his hometown, accompanied by his disciples. When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed. "Where did this man get these things?" they asked. "What's this wisdom that has been given him? What are these remarkable miracles he is performing? Isn't this the carpenter? Isn't this Mary's son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?"
And they took offense at him. Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own town, among his relatives and in his own home." He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. He was amazed at their lack of faith.
What our societies do to prophets. In 1809, Blake mounted his only exhibition, of 13 works. The exhibition received few visitors and only one review, by Robert Hunt in The Examiner, who described the prophet in his own country as "an unfortunate lunatic, whose personal inoffensiveness secures him from confinement, and, consequently, of whom no public notice would have been taken". We have learned nothing about recognising our prophets, because the underlying structures and ways of thinking, that Jesus was trying to call attention to, remain unchanged and unchallenged.
Jesus is known "at home" as an ordinary tradesman and as a member of a rather large family. Nothing extraordinary is to be expected of that which is familiar. Indeed from the standpoint of this settled community, Jesus may be a "dropout", having left home, work, and family to live as a vagabond. His own family regards him as crazy (3:21), and he has in turn repudiated them in favour of his vagabond and dropout friends – a group that includes untouchables, certified lunatics, and assorted persons of ill repute. As one would expect of God-fearing hometown folk, "they were scandalised by him" (Mark 6:3).
The response of Jesus is an ironic commonplace that agrees well with experience in all ages. Characteristically Jesus claims for himself no other role than that of teacher and prophet. In this context, "prophet" only means one who speaks audaciously inverting hallowed traditions (like Amos or Hosea), and who performs deeds of power (like Elijah and Elisha). The vocation of Jesus is in these ways identical to that of his predecessors and is, moreover, fully shared with his followers (3:14-15).
"Mine": The Family as Private Property
Like all social prophets, Marx and Engels – like Blake and Jesus – saw the ideological (or "mind-forg'd") processes and chains that keep the System in place. The institution of modern marriage, for example, grew out of earlier property law, the wife being considered in the same terms as cattle. It is remarkable how many people today accept the possessive, property-based, basis of the institution as both natural or normal. In his book, trying to counter the contemporary marriage hearse, Engels demonstrates that the oppression of women has not always existed, and is not the product of inherent traits. Neither has marriage, or "family values", as Mary Wollstonecraft had earlier shown (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, 1792).
The link between the family and the familiar – between the family of origin and the resistance of the status quo to radical transformation – is becoming clear. Yet this radical transformation is precisely what the mission and message of Jesus is enacting and announcing.
The contrast between the mission of Jesus and the kinship ties of this age has been played out first in the contrast between Jesus's own family of origin and the new family he is gathering about him, and then in the impotence of his mission within the familiar structure of the hometown where is he seen in terms of his family of origin. Now is the time to make evident the same contrast for the understudies or disciples of Jesus.
Then Peter spoke up, "We have left everything to follow you!" "Truly I tell you," Jesus replied, "no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last first."
Those people who are with Jesus are exclusively those who have left everything, who have divested themselves or both possessions and family ties. Note that family ties here are "sandwiched" between material goods: "House" introduces the series and "fields" ends the series. The intervening list of family terms – brothers or sisters or mothers or fathers or children – is thus set squarely within the economic sphere of possession, of security within the world. The question here is not of abolishing ties of affection but of abolishing the family as an economic and social reality that secures one's life in the world.
The promise of Jesus is made to those who have renounced ties to possessions and family. The promise is that those people who have renounced these possessions will receive "a hundredfold". That is, those who have left brothers and sisters will receive hundreds of brothers and sisters. Those who have left mothers and children will receive hundreds of mothers and children.
The Woman Taken in Adultery, by Blake (c. 1805). Jesus radically challenges not only contemporary Law (adultery was a legal offence to the property-based social relations), but also the narrowness and rigidity of heart that underlay and underwrote it.
We may note that while the disciples are said to leave fathers, they are not said to receive fathers, still less "a hundredfold". The only parents they get are mothers, which is consistent with the tendency of the Jesus tradition to abolish the structures of patriarchy. The rights and claims of "paternity" that are the basis of patriarchy are abolished. Jesus's program for his disciples clearly entails the abolition of distinctions among them and thus the abolition of hierarchical relationships (Matt 23:8-12).
The Domestication of Life
The Gospel of Mark similarly sets out a very clear line of opposition between the Jesus movement and the claims of family of origin. This opposition appears first as the leaving of home to follow Jesus. It then becomes the theme of explicit teaching when Jesus not only renounces the claims of his own family of origin but points to the establishment of a new family constituted by all who identify themselves with the coming of the divine reign.
This old family that "domesticates" life is represented as making impossible the enactment of the transformation of reality indicated by the coming of the divine reign.
"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—a man's enemies will be the members of his own household." (Mark 10:34-36).
The saying makes clear in no uncertain terms that Jesus does not intend to promote domestic harmony, nor to improve family relations. Rather his deliberate intention ("I have come") is to provoke discord in this domestic sphere.
"This old family that 'domesticates' life is represented as making impossible the enactment of the transformation of reality indicated by the coming of the divine reign." (Images: from Martha Rosler's remarkable House Beautiful artworks, revealing the dreadful gulf between the private and public at the time of the Vietnam War, and how the one enabled and was complicit in the other).
What really seems at stake here is the way in which families and family members define their own interests. It is against this interest that the follower turns. In this sense, the follower hates the family and is opposed to what seems to be in the best interest of the family as family – just as persons may be said to hate themselves in the sense of turning against their own self-interest, their own desire for self-preservation. Precisely this concern for self-preservation must be opposed if one is to take up the dangerous business of following one who deliberately courts the outrage of the authorities, to the extent of daring them to crucify him.
The hating of mother and father then – to take this position as the starting point – is not an animus toward them as human beings, but precisely as mother and father; in their role as family members with special rights and expectations and demands. This special position of the family is radically and fundamentally opposed, and the same holds true for brothers and sisters. As family members, they claim a special loyalty that must be resolutely and ruthlessly opposed. Clearly Jesus places a high value on children as children, but what is opposed here is the special relationship to "my child" as opposed to any child whatever. The special claim of this one as opposed to all the others is to be opposed.
"My child" being given "my presents" under "my tree" in "my house beautiful".
Not mine. No relation.
The supposition that a child is "my child" is fundamentally the source of a great deal of destructiveness in the family. First, such an outlook allows a person to ignore the needs of all other children in the name of acting for one's own. The notion that a certain child is mine also leads me to make unreasonable demands upon the child. That this person is a child is not enough. The child must also be made an instrument of my ambition as a mother or a father. The child must bear the burden of being my future, an extension of me. For that reason, families are so often the most dangerous places on earth for children.
The perversity of the orthodox: "The child must be made an instrument of my ambition as a mother or a father."
The stability of familial institutions is directly linked to the stability of religious and social institutions. Indeed we may say that the family is the base, and religion the superstructure and ideology of the basic social structures of life: cultural, social, political, and economic. The family is the place where these values are inculcated, and religion is the manner of validating and sanctioning them. Jesus's enactment of a new social order of open friendship, of solidarity and generosity, shatters the social world that both family and religion serve and protect. From the standpoint of both, Jesus is impious; Jesus is crazy".
The relation between Jesus and his mother in the Gospel of John corresponds with what we find elsewhere. Mary is present for and instigates Jesus' first "sign" at Cana. This fact is sometimes cited as indicating a special relationship between Jesus and his mother, but a closer inspection of the text quickly dispels such an impression. When the wine was gone, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no more wine." "Woman, why do you involve me?" Jesus replied. "My hour has not yet come." (John 2: 3-4).
The saying of Jesus to Mary is more abrupt than the translation indicates. The phrase is one of pure dismissal, closer to "what are you to me?" But equally telling is the fact that Jesus does not refer to her as his mother but rather as "woman" – the same form of address as the one he uses to the Samaritan woman and to the woman taken in adultery. Mary is here treated by Jesus precisely as any woman whatever. She has no special claim on him by virtue of being his mother.
The Oedipal Family: The Reality of the Family
Our review of Gospel texts concerning the family shows that the subversion of this institution is a consistent characteristic of the Jesus tradition. This institution is rejected because it is the basic unit of society as presently constituted, the basic form of the old world. As such, the family is characterised by division (between "my own" relatives and the others) and by the domination that follows from possession.
This attitude toward the institution of the family is not like the one generated in ascetic traditions. The Jesus tradition is consistent in its celebrative rather than ascetic attitude toward life, a perspective that is well represented in the episode concerning the wine at Cana. Nothing here smacks of a suspicion directed against enjoying life. Rather, we find a critique of that which limits this enjoyment to this who "belong" to one's own family group.
The repudiation of "family values" characteristic of the Jesus tradition may be heard as good news by those who are regularly denigrated because their very existence is regarded as a threat to these values. Gay and lesbian Christians may have particular reason to be glad of the attitude taken toward this system of exclusion and "compulsory heterosexuality" on the part of the Jesus tradition.
But this word also speaks to others as well who find themselves the victims of the institution of the family. We are increasingly aware that sentimental portraits of family life all too often disguise the way in which the family is the scene of violence and violation. By way of its "Babylonian captivity" to the institution of the family, the church has too often been silent about, and complicates in, the violence against women and children that this institution perpetuates.
The Oedipal Family: The Reality of the Family. Freud did much to expose the pathology underlying the modern family structure, and his work has been continued and developed by such later figures as Wilhelm Reich, R. D. Laing, and Herbert Marcuse. As Adam Curtis notes in The Trap (see video above), "Laing argued that the modern family, far from being a caring, nurturing institution, was in reality a dark arena where people played continuous selfish games with each other." As Laing himself remarked, "The so-called 'normal' families that I studied in the course of this work – it was like walking into carbon monoxide gas chambers. People induced their children to adjust to life by poisoning themselves to a level of subsistence existence that they called 'life'."
He believed that the struggle for power and control that he had uncovered in the family was inextricably linked with the struggle for power and control in the world. "In a violent and corrupt society, the family had become a machine for controlling people." Laing was surely right to see a connection between these inner and outer worlds, and between the domestic and the political; the one constantly shaping and being shaped by the other. Not only was the orthodox family toxic for the individuals within it, as Freud, Laing and Jesus suggest, but it was also toxic for wider society, as the Jesus movement recognised. To make the one more liberating, equal, inter-dependent and social necessarily makes the other so.
This is an excerpt from The Man Jesus Loved, by Theodore W. Jennings, Jr. To find out more about the book, please click here.
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Frequently, as the new year begins and we start focusing on our intentions, we cannot help also focusing on what we believe we DO NOT have – the opposite of what we are intending to create the remainder of the year.
That conflict can create stress and almost always brings up resistance. We do NOT want to admit that things ARE they way they ARE, even though of course, they ARE!!!
And that is THE key to maintaining happiness! Accept what IS. Make peace with what IS. Find the blessing in what IS. It doesn't mean you have to stay there – that's why you are ARE setting intentions for what you want to create.
But it also doesn't mean that you keep beating yourself up, making yourself wrong, or trying to hide from the present. Anything we make wrong or try to hide from we actually ADD to the energy of it! That's what creates the energetic resistance!
When you can make whatever it is just plain OK – FOR NOW — then you take the charge out of it. The energy can keep flowing! Resistance BLOCKS energy from flowing and blocked energy cannot create what you want – the flow is stopped during the time you are resisting.
Here's a little exercise you can do anytime you notice you are focused on what you DON'T have or what you DON'T want.
Get some paper and a pen. Make 2 columns on the paper. Now on the left side of the page, make a list of all the things you don't like. Leave a few lines between each item.
I don't like the number on the scale.
I don't like how my kids/parents/spouse are behaving.
Even though I don't like this situation, I accept it now exactly as it is.
to show me the blessings and to help me change my perspective now.
There will be some extra "oomph" if you write that prayer for EACH item on your list – but – if you are in a hurry – then just write it at the end and if possible, say it out loud also. You want to add as much energy and feeling to the prayer as possible.
When you feel complete with the exercise, go on about your day with a smile, EXPECTING your heart and mind to be changed.
Expect miracles and you WILL receive them! And dooo, please-oh -lease – send me an email and let me know!!
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Marine Corps F-35Bs Complete Cross-Deck Operations with Royal Navy
November 17, 2021 Topic: F-35B Region: United States Blog Brand: The Buzz Tags: United States Marine CorpsHMS Queen ElizabethIzumoNaval AviationFifth-Generation Fighters
A squadron of U.S. Marine Corps F-35Bs completed cross-decking with the HMS Queen Elizabeth in November, following other cross-decking operations with the Royal Navy and the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force.
by Peter Suciu
Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 211, also known as the "Wake Island Avengers," conducted a first-of-its-kind "cross-deck" operation with the Lockheed Martin F-35B Lighting II in August. The fifth-generation stealth aircraft launched from the HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Royal Navy's flagship aircraft carrier, and landed on the U.S. Navy's amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA-6). During the exercise, the Marine Corps F-35Bs were loaded with ordnance, refueled and readied to take part in a strike mission.
A similar cross-deck operation was conducted earlier this month, as U.S. Marines from the Wake Island Avengers were transported from HMS Queen Elizabeth to the U.S. Navy's Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD-2) to recover and refuel their F-35Bs. This was a further demonstration of the strategic importance of F-35 capable allied carriers, as well as highlighting the interoperability of the F-35B facilities among the two close naval partners.
"The fact the U.S. and the U.K. can operate their fifth-generation jets and other aircraft from the same deck at the same time is a huge strategic advantage for both countries," said Royal Navy Commodore Steve Moorhouse, Commander of the British carrier strike group. "It is a compliment that the U.S. is comfortable with the U.K. carrier strike group commanding the largest U.S. fifth-generation air wing afloat today."
According to the U.S. Navy, aircraft attached to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 165, simultaneously landed on the Royal Navy carrier to demonstrate increased interoperability, information sharing, and expanded access across the region as allies, as well as credible and capable forces operating in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations.
Last month, VMFA-242, Marine Aircraft Group 12, and the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing also took part in a cross-deck operation with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), involving the first-ever landing of the F-35B aircraft onboard the JS Izumo, the lead vessel of a class of helicopter carriers. These operations highlight how allied ships could be utilized as intermediate refueling points during a mission.
"The evolution underscored our continued effort to shift away from static, built-up airfields towards Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO)," U.S. Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Simon Doran said in a press release. "Doing so as part of the United Kingdom Carrier Strike Group 21 strengthens our alliances and partnerships through the development of interoperable capabilities, combined operations, theater security cooperation, and capacity-building efforts."
While the origin of the term "cross-deck" or "cross-decking" remains obscure; it had historically referred to ships that were moored closely side-to-side at a dock or an anchor, where it was possible to go "across the decks" from ship-to-ship via a gangplank. In recent years, the naval jargon has come to mean the ad-hoc sharing of resources between naval vessels, notably the use of carrier decks or vessel-borne helipads to host aircraft of foreign allies.
Peter Suciu is a Michigan-based writer who has contributed to more than four dozen magazines, newspapers and websites. He regularly writes about military small arms, and is the author of several books on military headgear including A Gallery of Military Headdress, which is available on Amazon.com.
Image: Reuters.


Nature is an incredible thing. It's so beautiful, so powerful, so divine. It gives life, it takes life. Unfortunately, nowadays we, people don't recognise the importance of nature in our lives. Moreover, we don't respect it, we abuse its resources and what is sadder, we destroy it.
In today's post, I decided to put together a list of some of the most astonishing places on Earth and show the beauty of our planet in all its glory.
Erta Ale is one of the most beautiful volcanoes in the world and also one of the hottest places on earth. Known as the 'smoking mountain' and also the 'gateway to hell', Erta Ale is one of the last constantly active volcanoes. It's quite special for the fact it is a very rare combination of volcanoes and lava lakes.
The last eruption of the volcano was in 2005.
The name Waitomo comes from two Māori words – wai, water and tomo, hole or shaft. The beautiful glow in the cave comes from the glow worms known as Arachnocampa luminosa, living inside the cave.
The worms are the size of mosquitoes.
Torres del Paine National Park is located in Patagonia in southern Chile. This incredibly beautiful national park collects natural gems- mountains, glaciers, lakes, and rivers. People from all over the world come to visit this beautiful place, which is one of Chile's largest national parks. Paine means "blue" in the native Tehuelche (Aonikenk) language and is pronounced PIE-nay.
A paradise on earth. The bizarre mountains and the blue waters look like they've come straight off the pages of a fairytale book.
Millions of tourists visit Torres del Paine every year. 76% of them are foreign, with European forming the biggest groups.
The Zhangye Danxia landform area is known as 'the eye candy of Zhangye'. No wonder where this nickname is coming from; Zhangye Danxia is a unique combination of different colours, which is so rare it almost seems magical.
Playa del Amor, also known as the Hidden beach, is part of the Marieta Islands, located near the coast of Mexico. The big hole in the surface, reveals a hidden beach with crystal water and golden sands, looking straight to the cloudless sky.
The Marieta Islands have never been inhibited, which is making them an ideal destination for relaxing and getting in touch with Nature.
Trolltunga- this magnificent rocky ledge has always reminded me of Lion King (remember when Rafiki lifted little Simba above his head and presented him to the animal kingdom as the heir to the Lion throne). The beauty of the landscape is magnificent and breathtaking, showing Nature in all its glory.
Trolltunga is rising 700 metres above lake Ringedalsvatnet.
No doubt, some of you have seen pictures of this incredible sight from Vaadhoo Island in the Maldives. At night, the beach looks like a mirror that reflects the star sky, also known as the sea of stars. This mesmerizing view is the work of a rare species of phytoplankton known as dinoflagellates.
Vaadhoo only has around 550 inhabitants.
A fiord is defined as a u-shaped glacier-carved valley which has been flooded by the sea.There are 14 fiords that form the south-west corner of the South Island. According to a Maori folk tale, the fiords were created by a giant stonemason called Tute Rakiwhanoa, who hued out the steep sided valleys with his adzes. Rudyard Kipling calls the park the 8th wonder of the world.
The Prskalo waterfall is located in the Kučaj mountains in the eastern area of Serbia. The waterfall is 12-15 metres of height.


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Flashcards: Purpose and Effect of Phrases or Sentences in Natural Science Passages
Adapted from Essays on Early Ornithology and Kindred Subjects by James R. McClymont (1920)
The voyagers named it the Angra de Santa Elena, and it may have been the bay which is now known as St. Helen's Bay. But it is worthy of note that the G. de Sta. Ellena of the Cantino Chart is laid down in a position which corresponds rather with that of Table Bay than with that of St. Helen's Bay.
The Portuguese came into contact with the inhabitants of the country adjacent to the anchorage. These people had tawny complexions, and carried wooden spears tipped with horn—assagais of a kind—and bows and arrows. They also used foxes' tails attached to short wooden handles. We are not informed for what purposes the foxes' tails were used. Were they used to brush flies away, or were they insignia of authority? The food of the natives was the flesh of whales, seals, and antelopes (gazellas), and the roots of certain plants. Crayfish or 'Cape lobsters' abounded near the anchorage.
The author of the roteiro affirms that the birds of the country resembled the birds in Portugal, and that amongst them were cormorants, larks, turtle-doves, and gulls. The gulls are called "guayvotas," but "guayvotas" is probably another instance of the eccentric orthography of the author and equivalent to "gaivotas."
In December the squadron reached the Angra de São Bràs, which was either Mossel Bay or another bay in close proximity to Mossel Bay. Here penguins and seals were in great abundance. The author of the roteiro calls the penguins "sotelycairos," which is more correctly written "sotilicarios" by subsequent writers. The word is probably related to the Spanish "sotil" and the Latin "subtilis," and may contain an allusion to the supposed cunning of the penguins, which disappear by diving when an enemy approaches.
The sotilicarios, says the chronicler, could not fly because there were no quill-feathers in their wings; in size they were as large as drakes, and their cry resembled the braying of an ass. Castanheda, Goes, and Osorio also mention the sotilicario in their accounts of the first voyage of Vasco da Gama, and compare its flipper to the wing of a bat—a not wholly inept comparison, for the under-surface of the wings of penguins is wholly devoid of feathery covering. Manuel de Mesquita Perestrello, who visited the south coast of Africa in 1575, also describes the Cape penguin. From a manuscript of his Roteiro in the Oporto Library, one learns that the flippers of the sotilicario were covered with minute feathers, as indeed they are on the upper surface and that they dived after fish, upon which they fed, and on which they fed their young, which were hatched in nests constructed of fishbones. There is nothing to cavil at in these statements, unless it be that which asserts that the nests were constructed of fishbones, for this is not in accordance with the observations of contemporary naturalists, who tell us that the nests of the Cape Penguin (Spheniscus demersus) are constructed of stones, shells, and debris. It is, therefore, probable that the fishbones which Perestrello saw were the remains of repasts of seals.
Seals, says the roteiro, were in great number at the Angra de São Bràs. On one occasion the number was counted and was found to be three thousand. Some were as large as bears and their roaring was as the roaring of lions. Others, which were very small, bleated like kids. These differences in size and in voice may be explained by differences in the age and in the sex of the seals, for seals of different species do not usually resort to the same locality. The seal which formerly frequented the south coast of Africa—for it is, I believe, no longer a denizen of that region—was that which is known to naturalists as Arctocephalus delalandii, and, as adult males sometimes attain eight and a half feet in length, it may well be described as of the size of a bear. Cubs from six to eight months of age measure about two feet and a half in length. The Portuguese caught anchovies in the bay, which they salted to serve as provisions on the voyage. They anchored a second time in the Angra de São Bràs in March, 1499, on their homeward voyage.
Yet one more allusion to the penguins and seals of the Angra de São Bràs is of sufficient historical interest to be mentioned. The first Dutch expedition to Bantam weighed anchor on the 2nd of April, 1595, and on the 4th of August of the same year the vessels anchored in a harbor called "Ague Sambras," in eight or nine fathoms of water, on a sandy bottom. So many of the sailors were sick with scurvy—"thirty or thirty-three," said the narrator, "in one ship"—that it was necessary to find fresh fruit for them. "In this bay," runs the English translation of the narrative, "lieth a small Island wherein are many birds called Pyncuins and sea Wolves that are taken with men's hands." In the original Dutch narrative by Willem Lodewyckszoon, published in Amsterdam in 1597, the name of the birds appears as "Pinguijns."
In the third paragraph, the information about orthography serves to __________.
Show that mistakes in spelling "gaivotas" as "guayvotas" arose due to arguments over proper roots of words.
Show that the differences between "guayvotas" and "gaivotas" are due to the writer's strange way of spelling things.
Show that the birds we see today are a different species to those mentioned in the roteiro.
Show that the author of the roteiro was more interested in the animals than his or her writing.
Show that the previous documenters of bird-life on the country had little idea of what they were doing.
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The author of the passage mentions the strange spelling of the name for gulls and says they come from the author of the roteiro's "eccentric orthography," or strange way of spelling things.
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Adapted from Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland by George Forrest Browne (1865)
This account states that the cave is in the county of Thorn, among the lowest spurs of the Carpathians. The entrance, which faces the north, and is exposed to the cold winds from the snowy part of the Carpathian range, is eighteen fathoms high and nine broad; and the cave spreads out laterally, and descends to a point fifty fathoms below the entrance, where it is twenty-six fathoms in breadth, and of irregular height. Beyond this no one had at that time penetrated, on account of the unsafe footing, although many distant echoes were returned by the farther recesses of the cave; indeed, to get even so far as this, much step-cutting was necessary.
When the external frost of winter comes on, the account proceeds, the effect in the cave is the same as if fires had been lighted there: the ice melts, and swarms of flies and bats and hares take refuge in the interior from the severity of the winter. As soon as spring arrives, the warmth of winter disappears from the interior, water exudes from the roof and is converted into ice, while the more abundant supplies which pour down on to the sandy floor are speedily frozen there. In the dog-days, the frost is so intense that a small icicle becomes in one day a huge mass of ice; but a cool day promptly brings a thaw, and the cave is looked upon as a barometer, not merely feeling, but also presaging, the changes of weather. The people of the neighborhood, when employed in field-work, arrange their labour so that the mid-day meal may be taken near the cave, when they either ice the water they have brought with them, or drink the melted ice, which they consider very good for the stomach. It had been calculated that six hundred weekly carts would not be sufficient to keep the cavern free from ice. The ground above the cave is peculiarly rich in grass.
In explanation of these phenomena, Bell threw out the following suggestions, which need no comment. The earth being of itself cold and damp, the external heat of the atmosphere, by partially penetrating into the ground, drives in this native cold to the inner parts of the earth, and makes the cold there more dense. On the other hand, when the external air is cold, it draws forth towards the surface the heat there may be in the inner part of the earth, and thus makes caverns warm. In support and illustration of this view, he states that in the hotter parts of Hungary, when the people wish to cool their wine, they dig a hole two feet deep, and place in it the flagon of wine, and, after filling up the hole again, light a blazing fire upon the surface, which cools the wine as if the flagon had been laid in ice. He also suggests that possibly the cold winds from the Carpathians bring with them imperceptible particles of snow, which reach the water of the cave, and convert it into ice. Further, the rocks of the Carpathians abound in salts, niter, alum, etc., which may, perhaps, mingle with such snowy particles, and produce the ordinary effect of the snow and salt in the artificial production of ice.
In the third paragraph, the information about Bell's hypothesis serves to __________.
vilify the author
demonstrate the exponential growth of ice in the cave
demonstrate the habits of the inhabitants of different European nations
discredit Bell
explain the phenomenon described in the second paragraph
The third paragraph is a justification and explanation of the seemingly contradictory phenomenon of the second paragraph. The author is describing how the ice cave is able to retain its cold temperature in summer, as is mentioned in the second paragraph.
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After the two mail cars were cleaned and repainted in Mönchengladbach, they were transported to the construction site, in Ruhr. They hired an architect to make a house plan according to their drawings, got some friends and Marco's father to help restore and convert the train cars into living space, and the building was under way. Converting the cars was much tougher then they expected, and finding an expert that could insulate them and add underfloor heating wasn't easy, but they somehow got it done.
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Computer Clubhouse Competition Final Written Submissions
ArchNet, in partnership with the MIT Media Lab and Professor Charles Correa, have developed an architecture competition in the form of a charrette. The competition is to design a Computer Clubhouse geared towards use by all members of the community, but particularly young people of ages 10-18, in a tropical climate in East Africa. The Computer Clubhouse project is an international network of community technology centers for youth from economically disadvantaged communities. The Computer Clubhouse is to be situated within the context of a school operated by the Aga Khan Education Services in Mombasa, Kenya.
This document details the final concept proposals for each of the teams.
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