About a week after I had tendon transfer surgery in my hand, the voice in my head woke me at 4 a.m. Apparently, it was time for a pop quiz regarding my goals in having the procedure. "What's goal number one?" the voice asked. Though I was half asleep, I dutifully answered: "To not be in pain." With that, I rose out of bed and went into the bathroom, realizing I was right on schedule for taking a pill. In the past couple days, I'd started thinking maybe I should wean myself off the medication. I felt mildly heroic when I went a half hour beyond the time frame when I should probably take another dose. And then the pain would kick in and I'd lose all regard for that kind of thinking.
So my 4 a.m. voice reminding me of my #1 goal was the real hero. When I got up for the day a couple hours later, it seemed to me I had three goals, although I don't know if I'd ever articulated them. (The committee in my head can be very busy sometimes, even when the agenda is filed in the subconscious.) I remembered the second goal pretty easily: to have better function in my hand. But the third, what was that?
A few days earlier I had started writing out loud every morning when I get up, using voice recognition software. I bought the software a couple of months ago but barely used it, figuring I'd wait until I had to. That time had come.
Oddly enough, this thing I put off so long, thinking it would be a nuisance, has helped me write again. I still haven't quite gotten used to speaking into a headset. But when I consider how much more difficult it could be, I am grateful. I think of those artists who paint with their teeth or their feet because they don't have hands. Thank God I don't have to do that. The idea of "disability," of not being able to do something you love — something tightly bound to your identity and sense of usefulness in the world, to personal satisfaction and joy — is hard to accept.
When you love what you do, you resist being disabled. You get a medical procedure, slather limbs in castor-oil-soaked flannel. You learn how to hold a paintbrush between your toes or your teeth, if that's what it takes. Like I said, I'm relieved all I have to do is speak into a headset.
That morning a couple weeks ago, I couldn't think of the third goal. I finally gave up, removed the headphones, shut down my laptop, and went to make coffee. On my way into the kitchen, I remembered the third one: oh, yeah, so I can write again.


I have a soft spot for crochet baby blankets. My own children have more than 5 each and they love them so much.
This pattern gives the blanket life with the waves and the finished product is light, perfect for a babe. This would be great for a gift this holiday season.
Make one for a baby this Christmas!


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'No Mercedes in the back of our car next year', says McLaren's Brown
Phillip van Osten 05/05/2017 at 18:52 06/05/2017 at 12:25
McLaren boss Zak Brown has ruled a return to Mercedes power in 2018 as the Woking-based outfit will honour its current contract with engine partner Honda.
Plagued by reliability issues and pinned down by dismal power, McLaren-Honda is dealing with a third year of under-performance since the Japanese manufacturer returned to F1 in 2015.
Zak Brown insists that both partners are working hard to solve its troubles although no rapid fix is around the corner.
"No Mercedes in the back of our car," Brown said, referring to rumors of a switch to the German manufacturer's power for 2018.
"Obviously the Formula 1 results right now are frustrating but the culture's great, the people are great and the things that we're doing, we're being brave and taking some big decisions," said Brown.
"It's great working with the executive committee, they're providing some great leadership for the whole organisation. So we're happy here.
"We're frustrated we're not winning Formula 1 races – that's not going to change overnight - but we're working hard and it's going to be sweeter when we do win."
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What is the state of swine health and research?
The 2015 Allen D. Leman Swine Conference was the focus of various swine health & disease issues plus research to help both veterinarians and farm management /staff. Also this year, the Pijoan Lectures continue with Dr. Linda Saif sharing info on coronaviruses and their global threats to humans and animals and Dr. Carol Cardona providing a review of the H5N2 epidemic [fyi link].
The complete agenda and informational guide can be found in the online conference program or pre-conference program.


Good luck talismans can be a powerful tool to attract happiness, creativity and internal resources required to achieve your goals – however, there are two main conditions when it comes to performing these rituals.
Firstly, your intentions should be good, with no harm intended to anyone or anything – this is simply how good luck works.
In addition, good luck talismans don't tend to work unless the person using them is putting in the effort and hard work to reach their dreams. The latter makes many witches skeptical – however, this is just how this ancient magic works. Good luck isn't something generated from thin air – it comes from a person's skills, actions, experience and knowledge applied at the right time and place. Your talisman will help you find the right moment – but it can't change the core of your character, so this is something for you to work on.
With that in mind, today you will find out how to perform a powerful Good luck talisman spell!
An object you want to transform into your lucky charm, such as a piece of jewelry. It can be anything so long as it's made ethically (otherwise the negative energy will interfere with the ritual) and is small enough to be carried around discretely at all times.
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Summit Community Day
For the past two years, Intercultural Journeys (IJ) has been headquartered in Mt. Airy's Summit Presbyterian Church. We share our space with the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra, Philadelphia's first multi-ethnic professional orchestra, led by Music Director and Founder Jeri Lynne Johnson.
Intercultural Journeys will be partnering with fellow church tenant Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra to present renowned Jordanian singer and Intercultural Journeys' collaborator Farah Siraj as part of the first Spirit of Summit Community Day being hosted by the Summit Presbyterian Church on Sunday, October 27.
IJ's upcoming season will include performances with IJ's Founding Artistic Director and Philadelphia Orchestra cellist Udi Bar David, erhu virtuoso Jiebing Chen, and world-renowned Native American flutist R. Carlos Nakai.
This past season was the organization's tenth, which ended in April at this year's Philadelphia International Festival for the Arts (PIFA). From an artistic perspective, the season was one of their most ambitious. It began with a concert as part of Peace Day Philly's celebration in September and included their first Carnegie Hall appearance in November 2012. This was followed by a triumphant collaboration concert at William Penn Charter School with Tony and Emmy-Award winning performer, Mandy Patinkin, in March of 2013. Intercultural Journeys continued its collaborative efforts with the Arabic, African-American, Asian, and Latino communities and artists with performances including Charlotte Blake Alston, John Blake, Jr, Jiebing Chen, Ricardo Morales, Rolando Morales-Matos, and the Dalí String Quartet.
Founded in 2007, the the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra's mission is to take the audience beyond spectatorship to participation in the artistic experience. The BPCO is the first world-class professional orchestra to reflect the cultural diversity of the Delaware Valley region.
The BPCO's concert programming connects countries, cultures and communities in exciting ways. Through creative use of technology, groundbreaking educational programs, and collaborative partnerships with the city's most prominent education and cultural institutions, the BPCO is attracting newcomers and enchanting classical music aficionados alike. The Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra is proving that when the arts deeply engage a community, that community will enthusiastically participate in the arts.
In October, both organizations will be participating in the first Spirit of Summit Community Day being hosted by the Summit Presbyterian Church on Sunday, October 27, from noon to 5:00pm. For more information, go to the church's website.
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WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned on Wednesday that Israel's building of settlements in occupied territory was endangering Middle East peace, expressing unusually frank frustration with the longtime American ally.
In a swiftly issued statement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Kerry of showing bias. He said Israel did not need to be lectured to by foreign leaders and looked forward to working with incoming President-elect Donald Trump, who has vowed to pursue more pro-Israeli policies.
In a 70-minute speech with mere weeks left in his tenure, Kerry said Israel "will never have true peace" with the Arab world if it does not reach an accord based on Israelis and Palestinians living in their own states.
Kerry's remarks, and Netanyahu's reply, marked the closing chapter of an increasingly bitter U.S.-Israeli relationship during President Barack Obama's administration over differences on settlement-building and the Iran nuclear deal signed last year.
Ties reached a low point last week when Washington cleared the way for a U.N. resolution that demanded an end to Israeli settlement building, prompting Israeli government officials to direct harsh attacks against Obama and Kerry whom they insisted had orchestrated the resolution.
His parting words are unlikely to change anything on the ground between Israel and the Palestinians or salvage the Obama administration's record of failed Middle East peace efforts.
The Israeli leader said Kerry "obsessively dealt with settlements" and barely touched on "the root of the conflict – Palestinian opposition to a Jewish state in any boundaries".
The Israelis are looking past Obama and expect to receive more favourable treatment from Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20. But they fear Kerry's remarks will put Israel on the defensive, and prompt other countries to apply pressure, including by adding fuel to the boycott, divestiture and sanctions movement against Israel, especially in Europe.
He has vowed to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which would upset many countries, and has appointed as ambassador a lawyer who raised money for a major Jewish settlement.
Kerry's speech provided some insights into an issue that he personally feels passionate about and had hoped to resolve during his nearly four years as secretary of state.
The United States abstained in the Dec. 23 U.N. resolution, in what many see as a parting shot by Obama.
In Jerusalem, Israel approved construction of a multi-storey building for settlers in annexed East Jerusalem on Wednesday, an NGO said, after postponing authorization of hundreds of other homes.
Netanyahu, for whom settlers are a key constituency, has said his government has been their greatest ally since the capture of the West Bank and East Jerusalem in a 1967 war.
Some 570,000 Israelis now live in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, together home to more than 2.6 million Palestinians. Peace talks have stalled since 2014.
Emphasizing that Washington could not impose an outcome, Kerry outlined principles for a two-state solution which envisioned secure and recognised international borders between Israel and a viable and contiguous Palestine – based on the 1967 lines before it seized the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. The two sides would agree to land swaps.
Kerry also called for an agreed resolution for Jerusalem as the "international recognised capital of the two states".
Kerry's speech drew praise from pro-liberal Jewish group J Street but was rejected by the Republican Jewish Coalition, a political lobbying group for Jewish American conservatives.
"We salute the clear, courageous and committed speech of John Kerry in favour of peace in the Middle East and the solution for the two States, Israel and Palestine," French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said.
Ramallah-based political analyst Diana Buttu lauded Kerry's criticism of settlements but criticized the peace agreement parameters.
"However, the parameters that he laid out for a permanent peace agreement perpetuate the same framework and process that have failed to advance the cause of peace for more than two decades now," Buttu said in a statement.
In substance, Kerry's proposals did not depart from long-standing U.S. views on the building blocks of a future deal, and echoed elements of a speech former President Bill Clinton gave in 2001 as he prepared to hand over power to George W. Bush.


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... say I am a pretty good cook. I have cooked for friends and family and even posted a few budget recipes of my own, and that gives me a lot of pride.
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[Image: "Clouds, Sun and Sea" (1952) by Max Ernst, courtesy Phillips.]
There's an interesting space where early modern, mostly 19th-century earth sciences overlap with armchair conjectures about the origins of human civilization. It's a mix of pure pseudo-science, science-adjacent speculation, and something more like theology, as writers of the time tried to adjust new geological hypotheses and emerging biological evidence—Charles Lyell, Charles Darwin, etc.—to fit with Biblical creation myths and cosmogonic legends borrowed from other cultures. Was there really a Flood? If humans are separate from the animal kingdom, how did we first arrive or appear on Earth?
It is not those particular questions that interest me—although, if I'm being honest, I will happily stay at the table for hours talking with you about the Black Sea deluge hypothesis or the history of Doggerland, two of the most interesting things I've ever read about, and whether or not they might have influenced early human legends of a Flood.
Instead, there are at least two things worth pointing out here. One is that these sorts of people never really went away, they just got jobs at the History Channel.
The other is that impossibly long celestial cycles, ancient astronomical records, the precession of the Earth's poles, and weird, racist ideas about the "fall of Man" all came together into a series of speculations that seem straight out of H.P. Lovecraft.
Take, for example, Sampson Arnold Mackey and his "Age of Horror."
[Image: Diagram from The Mythological Astronomy in Three Parts by Sampson Arnold Mackey.]
As Joscelyn Godwin writes in a book called The Theosophical Enlightenment, Mackey—a shoemaker, not an astronomer—was fascinated by "the inclination of the earth's axis and its changes over long spans of time. Astronomers have known at least since classical times that the Earth's axis rotates once in about 25,920 years, pointing successively at different stars, of which the current one is Polaris, the North Star. One result of this cycle is the 'precession of the equinoxes,' according to which the spring-point of the sun moves around the twelve signs of the zodiac, spending about 2160 years in each sign."
Of course, the assumption that these signs and stars might somehow influence life on Earth is the point at which astronomy morphs into astrology.
Godwin goes on to explain that—contrary to "most astronomers" of his time—Mackey assumed the Earth's precession was dramatic and irregular, to the extent that, as Mackey speculated, "the earth's axis describes not a circle but an alternately expanding and contracting spiral, each turn comprising one cycle of the precession of the equinoxes, and at the same time altering the angle of inclination by four degrees."
The upshot of this is that, at various points in the history of our planet, Mackey believed that the Earth's "inclination was much greater, to the point at which it lay in the same plane as the earth's orbit around the sun."
This sounds inconsequential, but it would have had huge seasonal and climatic effects. For example, Godwin explains, "At the maximum angle, each hemisphere would be pointed directly at the sun day and night during the summer, and pointed away for weeks on end during the winter. These extremes of light and dark, of heat and cold, would be virtually insupportable for life as we know it. In Mackey's words, it was an 'age of horror' for the planet."
The flipside of this, for Mackey, is that the Earth would have gone back and forth, over titanic gulfs of time, between two angular extremes. Specifically, his model required an opposite extreme of planetary rotation in which "there would be no seasons on earth, but a perpetual spring and a 'golden age.' Then the cycle would begin again."
None of this would have been recent: "Mackey dates the Age of Horror at 425,000 years in the past, the Golden Age about a million years ago, and its recurrence 150,000 years from now."
Nevertheless, Godwin writes, "It was essential to [Mackey's] system of mythography that the Age of Horror should have been witnessed and survived by a few human beings, its dreadful memory passing into the mythology of every land."
For Mackey, the implications of this wobble—this dramatic precession between a Golden Age and an Age of Horror, between the darkness of Hell and the sunlight of Paradise—would have been highly significant for the evolution of human civilization.
In other words, either we are coming out of an age of eternal winter and emerging slowly, every minute of the day, every year of the century, into a time of endless sunlight and terrestrial calm, or we are inevitably falling, tipping, losing our planetary balance as we pass into near-permanent night, a frozen Hell of ruined continents and dead seas buried beneath plates of ice.
[Image: The August 2017 total eclipse of the sun, via NASA.]
One of the weirder aspects of all this—something Godwin himself documents in another book, called Arktos—is that these sorts of ideas eventually informed, among other things, Nazi political ideology and even some of today's reactionary alt-right.
The idea that there was once a Hyperborean super-civilization, a lost Aryan race once at home in the Arctic north, lives on. It's what we might call the cult of the fallen Northener.
[Image: "Cairn in Snow" (1807) by Caspar David Friedrich.]
What actually interests me here, though, is the suggestion that planetary mega-cycles far too long for any individual human life to experience might be slowly influencing our myths, our cultures, our consciousness (such as it is).
My point is not to suggest that this is somehow true—to say that astrologers and precession-truthers are right—but simply to say that this is a fascinating idea and it has within it nearly limitless potential for new films, novels, and myths, stories where entirely different ways of thinking emerge on planets with extreme seasonal inclinations or unusual polar relationships to the stars.
[Image: From Pitch Black, via Supernova Condensate.]
Think of the only good scene in an otherwise bad movie, 2000's Pitch Black, where the survivors of a crash on a remote human planetary outpost discover an orrery—a model of the planet they're standing on—inside an abandoned building.
Playing with the model, the survivors realize that the world they've just crashed on is about to be eclipsed by a nearby super-planet, plunging them into a night that will last several months (or weeks or years—I saw the film 20 years ago and don't remember).
Just imagine the sorts of horrors this might inspire—an entire planet going dark perhaps for centuries, doomed by its passage through space.
[Image: Adolph Gottlieb, courtesy Hollis Taggart.]
In any case, the idea that the earliest human beings lived through something like this hundreds of thousands of years ago—an imminent night, a looming darkness, an Age of Horror that imprinted itself upon the human imagination with effects lasting to this day—would mean that what we think of as human psychology is just an angular epiphenomenon of planetary tilt. Call it orbital determinism.
(Very vaguely related: a planet without a sun.)
Author Geoff ManaughPosted on May 21, 2020 May 21, 2020 Categories BLDGBLOGTags Adolph Gottlieb, Arctic, Astronomy, Bad Anthropology, Black Sea Deluge Hypothesis, Caspar David Friedrich, Cosmogony, Doggerland, Earth, Earth Sciences, H. P. Lovecraft, Joscelyn Godwin, Max Ernst, Mythology, Nazis, Occult, Orbital Determinism, Orrery, Pitch Black, Precession of the Equinoxes, Prehistory, Pseudoscience, Racism, Sampson Arnold Mackey, Science Fiction, The Age of Horror, Theosophy
4 thoughts on "The Age of Horror"
Chuck Stephens says:
Nightfall by Isaac Asimov
BDB says:
Pitch Black is based (as in, they took only the astronomical concept) on Nightfall.
You are wrong, Pitch Black is not a bad movie. A bit cheesy on the Vin Diesel performance, but for the given budget it's one of the better hard sci-fis out there. Cinematography is certainly above the average. Shame sequels didn't hold up to that. But anyway, what i really came here to write is recommendation of Broken Earth by N. K. Jemisin – fantasy novels that work with these themes in it's worldbuilding, and what's more, are one of the few fantasy books out there these days i found really fresh.
And thanks for your articles, they are great.
Angiportus Librarysaver says:
A planet whose axis is not tilted, or only a couple of degrees, might not be the paradise that these people envisioned. Sunlight hitting the poles would always be coming in at a low angle, attenuated, more so than an arctic or antarctic summer now, and glaciation starting on the poleward side of mountains might be severe.
Some claim that without a moon, the earth would be so susceptible to axial tilt shifts that complex life would be impossible. Another person whose name I forgot claims that any such change would take 10 million years, and life could adapt even to Uranoid conditions. I suspect there's a lot of factors we don't know about yet, but it is fun to speculate.
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CROSS RIVER, N.Y. -- Residents in Katonah-Lewisboro's three elementary school attendance zones voted roughly the same as the district overall in Tuesday's budget and board elections.
The zones, which polling places are based off of, are divided by Katonah Elementary School (KES), Increase Miller Elementary School (IMES) and Meadow Pond Elementary School (MPES).
Until Lewisboro Elementary School (LES) was closed in 2014 due to declining district enrollment, there were four polling places available. Because the LES attendance zone was divided between the IMES and MPES zones, the polling places for the latter two reflect additions of residents from the former.
Voters in all three zones picked challenger Julia Hadlock, incumbent Jeffrey Holbrook and incumbent Richard Stone for three seats up for election this year. Incumbent Peter Treyz, who was ousted after three terms of service, lost in all three of the zones.
The proposed 2016-17 budget, along with a proposition to pay for buying new buses, each easily passed on a district-wide basis. Both measures passed in all three zones.
Write-in votes were cast for 12 people who are not candidates for the school board. Some of them are people who have been active in the district for years.
Former board member Charles Day, who served from 2011-14, received one write-in vote in the KES zone. Carmen Delessio and Rory Burke, who each made unsuccessful runs for the board in the past two years, received three and five write-in votes, respectively. In Delessio's case, he garnered two votes in the IMES zone and one vote in the MPES zone. Burke garnered three votes in the MPES zone and two in the IMES zone.
Lewisboro Deputy Supervisor Peter DeLucia received a single vote in the MPES zone. Real estate mogul Donald Trump, who is busy running as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, received a single write-in vote from someone in the MPES zone.
Below are the voting results by polling place and district-wide. Asterisks denote winners in school board races.


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C. Suntharalingam, Part I: Tamil Story Telling on the Citizenship Bill
December 20, 2017 editor அரசியல், வரலாறு 0
Ratnajeevan H. Hoole
Cooked up Commitments to Hill-country Tamils
Ceylon Tamil leaders treated the hill-country Tamils perfidiously during the 1948 Citizenship Bill. Today, having wrapped ourselves up in the nationalist flag and it has become important for us to maintain that we were always with them. I had been asked to review Grandfather's Letters edited by C. Suntharalingam's (CS's) grandson. I found myself quickly immersed in a web of lies on who voted how on the Citizenship Bill, especially CS himself. The review necessitated first a study of voting records of the time.
Let me begin with Prof. Bertram Bastiampillai in the Daily News (20.08.2005):
"Suntharalingam … walked out of the legislature … on the second reading of the Indian Residents Citizenship Bill on 10 December, 1948. Prime Minister wanted Minister Suntharalingam's explanation. [He] immediately resigned in protest.
"Suntharalingam cleverly saw in the measure a plan to decitizenise and disenfranchise a majority of hill country residents who had made Sri Lanka their home … This was an obvious flagrant injustice. Suntharalingam had the courage of his conviction to forego a ministerial portfolio."
This is the general, but false, view of CS. The truth is that CS had already voted to decitizenize the hill-country Tamils when he voted Aye for the Citizenship Act on 25.08.1948. The Hansard (25.08.1948, cols 1969-70) gives the division at the second reading. Ayes 58, Nays 35. Of the Ceylon Tamils, Ministers CS, and C. Sittampalam, and Members SU Ethirmannasingham and V. Nalliah voted Aye. Voting Nay were SJV Chelvanyagam, C. Vanniasingam, AL Thambiayah, K. Kanagaratnam, V. Kumarasamy and T. Ramalinkam. The bill was passed on 02.09.1948, (Hansard col. 2003).
The Left opposed it. The Ceylon Tamil Congress (CTC) had promised S. Thondaman of the Indian Tamil Congress (ITC) to support them. So six from CTC voted Nay. CTC leader, GG Ponnambalam was the exception. He was negotiating to become a Minister, so he developed a fit of coughing and left the chamber as the Citizenship Act came up for division.
The Three Bills and Hansard Records
There were really three bills affecting Tamils. The first was the Ceylon Citizenship Act (18/1948). It stipulated that for citizenship one had to prove his father was(orhis paternal grandfather and paternal great grandfather were) born in Ceylon. It was impossible for most hill-country Tamils to prove, thereby rendering them stateless. It was a low point in our race relations – when Pieter Keuneman was speaking against the Bill, SWRD Bandaranaike cast a snide remark on "the brown Hollanders" (Hansard, col. 1707, 19.08.1948).
The Second bill affecting Tamils was the Indian and Pakistani Residents Citizenship Bill (3/1949) which too the ITC wanted opposed. It provided for citizenship by registration by those Indian or Pakistani residents in Ceylon who had an uninterrupted residence in Ceylon, immediately prior to 01.01.1946, for a period not less than ten years for unmarried persons and seven for married persons. The ITC and CTC opposed the Bill. The Ceylon Tamil Ayes were G.G. Ponnamablam, K. Kanagaratnam, V. Nalliah, S.U. Ethirmannasingham, T. Ramalinkam and A.L. Thambiayah. The Nays were S.J.V. Chelvanayakam, S. Sivapalan and C. Vanniasingam. That is, six Ceylon Tamils for and three against.
The Third bill, Ceylon Parliamentary Elections (Amendment)(48/1949) was a sequel to the Citizenship Act and gave the franchise only to citizens and thereby stripped hill-country Tamils of their vote which they had enjoyed till then. CS Voted Nay. Ponnambalam voted Aye with C. Sittampalam,V. Nallaih, A.L. Thambiayah and S.U. Ethirmannasingam. Again the majority of Ceylon Tamils were for depriving hill-country Tamils of the vote. (Hansard, Cols. 551-2, 20.10.1949.).
Tamils Concoct Voting Records
Beginning with the Bastiampillai account, because the bills are a blot on the Ceylon Tamil commitment to hill-country Tamils, the history of that period is clouded in untruthful defences of those who abandoned the hill-country Tamils. ApparthurayVinayagamoorthy, a Tamil Congress MP untruthfully wrote (Daily News, 08.11.2003)
"[Ponnambalam's] political opponents carried on a persistent campaign of vilification and character assassination against him stating he was responsible for the disfranchisement of several Indian Tamils in 1948.This is absolutely incorrect. The act which disfranchised the Tamils of Indian origin was the Ceylon Citizenship Act No. 18 of 1948 and the ACTC and its leader G. G. Ponnambalam vehemently opposed this act and voted against it."
We know this to be untrue from the Hansard insofar as Ponnambalam's part is concerned.
Bastiampillai says Suntharalingam's son Gnanalingam, during a SLAAS debate with Kumar Ponnamabalam, referred to GGP's unjust act regarding the Bill in contrast to another Tamil Minister's [his father's] bold response in forfeiting a portfolio than endorse an unjust act like GGP.But CS had voted for the Citizenship Act months earlier on 24.10 1948. Some days later, according to J.L Fernando (Three Prime Ministers of Ceylon, MD Gunasena, 1963, p. 27), GGP "The Damila[Ponnambalam] bowed low before the Sinhala Lion," DS Senanayke, and was made a Minister, thereby striking one million Central Tamils off the electoral registers". The correct number was more like 700,000.
CS resigned as Minister much after he voted to deny citizenship to the poorest Tamils. He resigned only during the Indian Residents Citizenship Bill (in December, 1948) after rendering many of us stateless. Bastiampillai's and Gnanalingam's sleight is to confuse the Citizenship Bill of August with the latter bill of December. Lankan scholarship makes heroes of those we like regardless of the record.
Suntharalingam: Ceylon for the Ceylonese
Ponnambalam was simply ready to do anything for power. But Suntharalingam? Could it be that CS voted for the Citizenship Bill out of collective cabinet responsibility and then broke off because he saw the iniquity? This view could be sustained except for CS's explanation in Parliament detailed in the Hansard (14.12.1948, cols. 599 –).
DS Senanayke (DSS) is furious that CS had absented himself from the chamber after a division had been called on the second bill (Indian and Pakistani Residents) on 10.12.1948. DSS says in his letter dated 11.12.1948 to CS,
"As you are undoubtedly aware, the proper procedure for a member of the cabinet as long as he remains in the Cabinet, is to vote with the Government on any Government measure that comes before the House. If any Minister does not wish to associate himself with any particular measure that is brought forward by the Cabinet he must not appear as a member of the Cabinet at the time the measure is taken up, and his clear duty then is to send in his resignation. On the other hand, a Minister who does not resign is required to vote with the government though he may tender his resignation immediately afterward. It is really difficult for me to believe however glaring the circumstances may appear to be, that you would be guilty of improper conduct. I shall therefore be glad if you will let me know as early as possible the reasons that prevented you from discharging your obligations as a Member of the Cabinet."
CS states he does not agree that he is obliged to vote with the government and that he had been unable to find any such precedent. In explaining his objections to the Bill he has no word for the rights of hill-country Tamils. "Speaking of his dreams of a Free Ceylon," he adds that the "national economy had been gravely jeopardized by British Capital, British entrepreneur, Ceylon land and Indian labour [sic.]. In this sorry scheme where did the Ceylonese come?, he asks, going on to say,
"Since [25 years ago] I have been closely associated with the Hon. Mr. D.S. Senanayake in most public questions, one of which has come to be known as the Indo-Ceylon problem. If he was in his seat today, he would have admitted that the provisions in the Land Development Ordinance restricting the alienation of Crown land to Ceylonese were introduced at my suggestion – I almost said at my insistence. If I refer to these events, it is because I wish to give this House an insight into what I have always regarded as the fundamental principles on which the national economy of Ceylon should be founded. Indeed, the principles can be summed up in one phrase: Ceylon for the Ceylonese."
Wounding India'sSelf-respect Affecting their honour
In his mind, Ceylon is not for the estate labour then. What then is his objection to these bills? It is relations with India. He refers to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, coming as an emissary of Mahatma Gandhi, not being happy with features of the Bill, and his [CS's] playing a "small but significant" role behind the scenes to secure an adjustment with "the concurrence and approval of the Hon. Mr. D.S. Senanayake." He quotes his letter to Senanayake on 02.12.1948 just before the vote on the second bill where he states,
"I have been unhappy about this question since I know that Jawaharlal Nehru had not agreed to certain features in the Bill. I need hardly state we will be committing a grave wrong if Jawaharlal Nehru felt that our bill wounds the self-respect of India and affects their honour. I have endeavoured to convince my colleagues in the Cabinet that the points of difference that now exist are trivial in their economic consequences but are fundamental in their political repercussions. We cannot, if we can avoid it, have in our Statute Book an Act which will be a source of constant irritation to the people of India. As the friendship between India and Ceylon is an issue, I beg of you to give this matter some favourable consideration and concession. You know my attitude in this matter for the last quarter of a century; and I would submit, in fairness to all concerned, we should have in view the happiness of Ceylon and India and not leave to our successors a legacy of ill-will."
CS tries to meet DSS who is sick and is unable to. He writes to DSS and gets a "brusque" reply insisting that traditions be kept by his resignation. Contrary to Bastiampillai, he tried to hold on to being Minister and DSS insisted that he go.
Thus most Ceylon Tamils MPs voted against their hill-country brethren. CS felt no sympathy for the plantation labour. Like many upper-class Tamils, he looked only to placating Nehru and India. Only SJV Chelvanayagam and his MPs showed consistency on standing up for hill-country Tamils. G.G. Ponnabalam was ready to do anything for office, even if it meant tricking his Congress MPs into thinking he was against the bills while he negotiated positions for himself.
C. Suntharalingam: Tamil Story Telling On The Citizenship Bill
யாழ் நகரில் புளட் அமைப்பின் அலுவலகமாக இயங்கிய வீட்டில் இருந்து துப்பாக்கிகள் கண்டெடுப்பு
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Finding My Way: Preliminary findings from a RCT evaluating an internet self-help program for cancer-related distress
Finding My Way: Preliminary findings from a RCT evaluating an internet self-help program for cancer-related distress (#90)
Lisa Beatty 1 2 , Emma Kemp 1 , Tracey Wade 1 , Paul Katris 3 , Jane Turner 4 , Patsy Yates 5 , Desmond Yip 6 7 , Addie Wootten 8 9 10 , Sylvie Lambert 11 , Phyllis Butow 12 , Bogda Koczwara 2 13
College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Medical Oncology, Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Western Australian Clinical Oncology Group, West Perth, Western Australia, Australia
School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, Australia
School of Nursing, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia
Medical School, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Medical Oncology, The Canberra Hospital, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Australian Prostate Cancer Research, Richmond, Victoria, Australia
Department of Urology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkeville, Victoria, Australia
Epworth Prostate Cancer Centre, Epworth Healthcare, Richmond, Victoria, Australia
Ingram School of Nursing, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
School of Psychology, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
School of Medicine, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Background: Online self-help holds promise for overcoming access barriers to conventional therapist-administered psychosocial interventions. Our group has previously reported on a single-site RCT of a web-based program for cancer patients which suggested immediate and enduring reductions in distress for intervention participants. This presentation reports on preliminary data from an ongoing national multi-site RCT of a 6-module internet Cognitive Behaviour Therapy-based support program ('Finding My Way'), in reducing patient distress.
Methods: Cancer patients treated with curative intent (target n=188) are randomised to receive either (a) the 6-module Finding My Way intervention or (b) an internet attention-control. Outcome measures of distress (cancer-specific and general), coping, and health-related quality of life are administered at baseline, post-treatment, then 3- and 6-months later, with opportunities for feedback available after accessing each module.
Results: As of June 2014, out of 133 approached eligible patients, 59 (44%) had enrolled and 47 (35%) had declined, with the remainder still to complete enrolment. Most common reasons for declining participation included the patient coping well enough (19%) or not being interested (19%). Enrolled participants (mean age 53.75 years) were mainly women (92%) with breast cancer (78%), married (75%), and employed (61%), with various educational levels. Of the 40 participants who had received all modules, 45% had accessed all 6 with a further 25% accessing 5 out of 6 modules. Across modules, information was rated as at least somewhat helpful by 88-100% of intervention participants and 95-100% of attention controls, while worksheets were rated as at least somewhat helpful by 75-100% of intervention participants. Updated results will be presented and challenges of multi-site recruitment to an online intervention across cancer types will be discussed.
Conclusion: Preliminary data suggest satisfaction with the web-based content; however, interim data suggest uptake of the program is somewhat limited and polarised toward female participants.
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Beatty, L
Kemp, E
Dr Emma Kemp is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Psycho-oncology and Cancer Survivorship at the Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer, Flinders University. She completed her PhD in Psychology in 2014.
Wade, T
Katris, P
Turner, J
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Yip, D
Wootten, A
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ILAN BEN ZION and LAURIE KELLMAN Wednesday, 27 October 2021 11:00 AM
JERUSALEM (AP) — A settlement monitor said Wednesday that an Israeli committee approved about 3,000 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank, a day after the Biden administration issued its strongest condemnation yet of the proposed construction.
Word of the approval came from Hagit Ofran from the anti-settlement group Peace Now. An Israeli security official who was not authorized to speak publicly also said the plan had been approved, but details were not immediately released by the Defense Ministry.
It was the biggest announcement of its kind since the end of the Trump administration, which tolerated settlement growth and abandoned the decades-long U.S. position that the settlements were illegitimate. Israel embarked on an aggressive settlement spree during the Trump years, advancing plans for more than 12,000 settler homes in 2020 alone, according to Peace Now, the highest number since it started collecting data in 2012.
The ministry's higher planning council, which authorizes West Bank construction, convened Wednesday to authorize the new housing units, with roughly half of them getting final approval before building starts.
If confirmed, Wednesday's decision is bound to raise friction with the United States and Europe, anger the Palestinians and test Israel's fragile governing coalition of ultra-nationalists, centrists and dovish parties that oppose settlements.
Only a day earlier, the U.S. State Department said that it was "deeply concerned" about Israel's plans to advance new settlement homes, including many deep inside the West Bank.
"We strongly oppose the expansion of settlements, which is completely inconsistent with efforts to lower tensions and to ensure calm and damages the prospects for a two-state solution," State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters in Washington.
The Palestinians seek the West Bank, along with the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem — areas Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war — for their future state. The Palestinians view the settlements, which house some 700,000 Israelis, as the main obstacle to peace, and most of the international community considers them illegal.
Israel views the West Bank, home to more than 2.5 million Palestinians, as the biblical and historical heartland of the Jewish people.
The committee was also supposed to approve 1,600 housing units for Palestinians who live in areas of the West Bank that are under full Israeli control, outside the enclaves administered by a Palestinian autonomy government. Palestinians and rights groups say those homes are a small fraction of demand.
On Sunday, Israel announced construction tenders for 1,355 housing units in the West Bank, the first move of its kind since President Joe Biden assumed office pledging to take a harder line on the settlements. It also appeared to run contrary to the new Israeli coalition government's own vows to reduce tensions with the Palestinians.
The move drew condemnation from the Palestinians, dovish members of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's diverse governing coalition, the EU and the U.S.
Kellman reported from Tel Aviv, Israel. Associated Press writer Joe Krauss contributed from Jerusalem.
A settlement monitor said Wednesday that an Israeli committee approved about 3,000 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank, a day after the Biden administration issued its strongest condemnation yet of the proposed construction.Word of the approval came from Hagit Ofran...
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Sibiu (, German: Hermannstadt, Hungarian: Nagyszeben) is a city in Transylvania, Romania with a population of about 170,000. It straddles the river Cibin, a tributary of the river Olt.
It is the capital of Sibiu County.
Sibiu is situated near the geographical center of Romania. Set in the Cibin Depression, the city is near to Făgăraş Mountains (about 20 km away), the Cibin Mountains (12 km), and Lotrului Mountains (about 15 km), which border the depression in its southwestern section. The northern and eastern limits of Sibiu are formed by the Târnavelor Plateau, which descends to the Cibin Valley through Guşteriţei Hill.Cibin river and some roads of national and international interest run through Sibiu, which is also an important city for the railway transportation, as the meeting point of east-west and north-south routes.
Sibiu's climate is temperate-continental with average temperatures of 8 to 9° C. The multi-annual average of rainfall is 662 l/mp, and the number of days of hard frost is about 120/year.
The city was founded in 1190 by Saxon colonists settled in the area. It was probably built near a Roman settlement, one that would have come to be known during early medieval age as Caedonia, which might have been deserted at the time of the Saxons' arrival.
In the 14th century, it was already an important trade center. In 1376 the craftsmen were divided in 19 guilds. Sibiu became the most important ethnic German city among the seven cities that gave Transylvania its German language name of Siebenbürgen, and it was home to the Universitas Saxorum, the Assembly of Germans in Transylvania.Common opinion in the 17th century ascribed Sibiu the quality of being the easternmost city to be part of the European sphere; it was also the eastern terminus of postal routes.During the 18th and 19th centuries the city also became one of the most important centers for ethnic Romanians in the region. The first Romanian-owned bank had its headquarters here (The Albina Bank), as did the ASTRA (Transylvanian Association for Romanian Literature and Romanian's People Culture). After the Romanian Orthodox Church was granted status in the Habsburg Empire from the 1860s onwards, Sibiu became the Metropolitan seat, and the city preserved its title as the third most important center for the Church in modern Romania. Between the 1848 Hungarian Revolution and 1867 (the year of the Ausgleich), Sibiu was the meeting-place of the Transylvanian Diet, which had taken its most representative form after the Empire agreed to extend voting rights in the region.
After World War I, when Austria-Hungary was dissolved, Sibiu became part of Romania; the majority of its population was still ethnic German and Hungarian. After 1990 most of the city's ethnic Germans emigrated to Germany. Among the roughly 2,000 who have remained is Klaus Johannis, who is currently mayor of Sibiu.
Milestones in Sibiu's history
1292 - The first hospital in what is now Romania was opened.
1380 - The first attested school in what is now Romania.
1494 - The first pharmacy in what is now Romania.
1534 - The first paper mill in what is now Romania.
1544 - The first book in Romanian language was printed in Sibiu.
1551 - Conrad Haas' experiment with rockets, the world's first.
1671 - Methane gas was discovered near Sibiu.
1782 - Franz Joseph Müller discovered tellurium.
1795 - The first lightning rod in Southeastern Europe was installed in Cisnădie.
1797 - Samuel von Hahnemann opened the world's first homeopathic laboratory.
1817 - The Brukenthal Museum, the first museum in what is now Romania, was opened.
1896 - The first ose of electricity in Romania, and the first power line in Southeastern Europe.
1904 - The second city in Europe to use an electric-powered trolly.
1928 - The first zoo in Romania.
1989 - The second city in to take part in the Romanian Revolution.
As of approximately 2002, Sibiu has a population of about 170,000. The ethnic breakdown is as follows:
Romanians 95%
Hungarians 2%
Germans 1,6%
other 1,4%
Most of the population is of the Romanian Orthodox religion. Protestants and Roman Catholics represent 4% of the population.
25% of the population are over 50 years old
18% of the population are college or university graduates
Sibiu is one of the most prosperous cities of Romania, and also receives one of the highest rates of foreign investment in the country. It is an important manufacturer of automotive components (Bilstein-Compa, Takata, Continental, and SNR Roulments). Other local industries are machine components, textiles, agro-industry, and electrical components (Siemens).
One of the main concerns for the city is attracting new investors to locate their businesses in Sibiu, and an industrial park has been recently completed. The city also contains Romania's largest stock exchange outside of Bucharest, the Sibiu Stock Exchange.
Employment breakdown by economic sector
Industry - 49%
Commerce - 15%
Construction - 7.5%
Health - 7.5%
Education - 7%
Transport - 6.5%
It has an international airport with daily connections to Germany, Italy and Austria, most of them via Timişoara.
Tursib is the city's transport system who operates one tramway line to Răşinari, 5 trolleybus lines and about 20 bus lines. It is also an important hub for the international bus links with the biggest passenger transporter in Romania, Atlassib, based here.
The city is also a hub for the Romanian railway network, CFR, with links to Braşov, Râmnicu Vâlcea, Alba Iulia and Mediaş. It has an important diesel powered locomotives depot and a freight terminal.
In 2007 Sibiu will be the European Capital of Culture (together with Luxembourg). It will be the most important cultural event that has ever happened in the city and a great number of tourists are expected, both domestic and foreign. [1].
The city of Sibiu and its surroundings are one of the most visited areas in Romania. It holds one of the best preserved historical sites in the country, many of its medieval fortifications having been kept in excellent state. Its old center has begun the process for becoming a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004. Sibiu and surrounding area have an important museal offer of 12 institutions which are housing art collections, paintings, decorative arts, archaeology, anthropology, history, industrial archeology and history of technology and natural sciences. Also, the city lies close to the Făgăraş Mountains - a very popular trekking destination, close to the Păltiniş resort - a popular winter holiday destination, and it is at the heart of the former Saxon communities in Transylvania renowned for its fortified churches.
There are over 35 hotels in Sibiu, with different classifications. The most exquisite hotel is the Împăratul Romanilor hotel, located in the center of the old part of the city. Continental Hotels Romania owns two important hotels in the city and in 2006 it will upgrade one of them and rebadge it under the Ibis name with an Accor franchise. Also at least two brand new hotels are scheduled to open by 2007.
Much of the city's aspect is due to its position, easily defensible, but allowing horizontal development. The old city of Sibiu lies on the right bank of the Cibin River, on a hill situated at about 200 m from the river. It consists of two distinct entities: the Upper City and the Lower City. Traditionally, the Upper City was the wealthier part and commercial outlet, while the Lower City served as the manufacturing area.
The Lower City
The Lower City (Romanian: Oraşul de jos) comprises the area between the river and the hill, and it developed around the earliest fortifications. The streets are long and quite wide for medieval city standards, with small city squares at places. The architecture is rather rustic: typically two-storey houses with tall roofs and gates opening passages to inner courts.
Most of the exterior fortifications were lost to industrial development and modern urban planning in the late 19th century; only one or two towers still exist. A building associated with newer urbanism of the period is the Independenţa Highschool.
This area has the oldest church in the city, dating back to 1386.
The Upper City
The Upper City (Romanian: Oraşul de sus) is organised around three city squares and a set of streets along the line of the hill. As the main area for burgher activities, the area contains most points of interest in Sibiu.
The Large Square
The Large Square (Romanian: Piaţa Mare, German: Großer Ring) is, as its name suggests, the largest square of the city, and has been the center of the city since the 16th century. 142 m long and 93 m wide, it is one of the largest ones in Transylvania.
Brukenthal Palace, one of the most important Baroque monuments in Romania, lies on the north-western corner of the square. It was erected between 1777 and 1787 as the main residence for the Governor of Trasylvania Samuel von Brukenthal. It houses the main part of the National Brukenthal Museum, opened in 1817. Next to the palace is the Blue House, an 18th century Baroque house bearing the old coat of arms of Sibiu on its façade.
On the north side is the Jesuit Church, along with its dependencies, the former residence of the Jesuits in Sibiu. Also on the north side, at the beginning of the 20th century an Art Nouveau building was constructed on the west part, now it houses the mayor's office.
Next to the Jesuit Church on the north side is the Council Tower, one of the city's symbols. This former fortification tower from the 14th century has been successively rebuilt over the years. The building nearby used to be the City Council's meetingplace; beneath it lies an access way between the Large Square and the Small Square.
On the south and east sides are two- or three-storey houses, having tall attics with small windows known as the city's eyes. Most of these houses are dated 17th to 19th centuries, and most of them are Baroque in style.
The Small Square
As its name says, the Piaţă Mică is smaller in size, being rather longer than wide. Its north-west side has a curved shape, unlike the Large Square, which has an approximately rectangular shape. Accordingly, Piaţă Mică plays a smaller part in the city's present-day life.The square is connected to the other two squares and to other streets by small, narrow passages. The main access from the Lower City is through Ocnei Street, which divides the square in two. The street passes under the Liar's Bridge - the first bridge in Romania to have been cast in iron (1859).
To the right of the bridge is another symbol of the city, The House of the Arts, an arched building formerly belonging to the Butchers' Guild. On the left side of the bridge is the Luxemburg House, a Baroque four-storey building, former seat of the Goldsmiths' Guild.
The Huet Square
Huet Square is the third of the three main squares of Sibiu. Its most notable feature is the Evangelical (Lutheran) Cathedral in its center. It is the place where the earliest fortifications have been built. The buildings around this square are mainly Gothic. On the west side lies the Brukenthal Highschool, in place of a former 15th century school.
The city of Sibiu was one of the most important fortified cities in Southeastern Europe. Multiple rings were built around the city, most of them out of clay bricks. The south-eastern fortifications are the best kept, and all three parallel lines are still visible. The first is an exterior earth mound, the second is a 10-meter-tall red brick wall, and the third line comprises towers linked by another 10-meter-tall wall. All structures are connected via a labyrinth of tunnels and passageways, designed to ensure transport between the city and lines of defense.
In the 16th century more modern elements were added to the fortifications, mainly leaf-shaped bastions. One of these survived to this day, as the Haller Bastion (all the way down Coposu Boulevard).
Passage of the Stairs
The steep Passage of the Stairs leads down to the lower section of Sibiu. It descends along some fortifications under the support arches. It is the most picturesque of the several passages linking the two sides of the city.
Sibiu is one of Romania's most culturally lively cities. It has two theatres and a philharmonic orchestra. The Radu Stanca National Theatre [2] is one of the leading Romanian theatres. With origins dating back to 1787, it attracts some of the best-known Romanian directors, such as Tompa Gábor and Silviu Purcărete. It has both a Romanian-language and a German-language section, and presents an average of five shows a week. The Gong Theatre is specialised in puppetry, mime and non-conventional shows for children and teenagers; it also presents shows in both Romanian and German. The State Philharmonic of Sibiu [3] presents weekly classical music concerts and also lesson concerts for teenagers. The concerts take place in the newly renovated Thalia Hall, a concert hall and theatre dating from 1787, situated along the old city fortifications. Sporadic organ concerts are organised in the Evangelical Cathedral and thematic concerts are presented by the Faculty of Theology choir at the Orthodox Cathedral.
Sibiu's museums are organised around two entities: the Brukenthal National Museum and the ASTRA National Museum Complex. The Brukenthal Museum consists of an Art Gallery and an Old Books Library located inside the Brukenthal Palace, a History Museum located in the old town hall building, a Pharmacy Museum located in one of the first apothecary shops in Europe, dating from the 16th century, a Natural History Museum and a Museum of Arms and Hunting Trophies.
The ASTRA National Museum Complex focuses on ethnography, and consists of a Traditional Folk Civilisation Museum—a 96-hectare open-air museum located on a forest south of Sibiu—a Universal Ethnography Museum, a Museum of Transylvanian Civilisation and a Museum of Saxon Ethnography and Folk Art. It also has a project of opening a Museum of the Culture and Civilisation of the Romany People. There is a Steam Locomotives Museum close to the railway station, sheltering around 40 locomotives, two of which are functional.
A great number of festivals are organised yearly in Sibiu, the most prestigious being the Theatre Festival organised each spring at the end of May. The one in the summer of 2005, gathered over 2,500 participants from 68 countries; over 300 shows were presented. Also, the oldest Jazz Festival in Romania is organised here, as well as a festival for young classical music artists, a documentary film festival, a medieval arts festival and many more smaller cultural events. [4]
Sibiu is an important centre of higher education, with over 26,000 undergraduate students in 2004.
The Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu was founded in 1990, with five faculties: Engineering and Sciences; Letters; History and Law; Medicine; Food and Textile Processing Technology. Nowadays, it has many departments.
Andrei Şaguna Faculty of Theology
Faculty of Letters and Arts
Nicolae Lupu Faculty of History and Patrimony
Simion Bărnuţiu Faculty of Law
Hermann Oberth Faculty of Engineering
Victor Papilian Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Journalism
Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Food Industry and Environmental Protection
The University College
Department for Distance and E-Learning
Sibiu also houses the Nicolae Bălcescu Land Forces Military Academy, the most important military academy in Romania, as well as some private universities.
In Sibiu there are 20 educational institutions on the secondary level, the most prestigious of which are:
Colegiul Naţional Gheorghe Lazăr - mainly sciences and informatics
Colegiul Naţional Samuel von Brukenthal - German language highschool
Colegiul Naţional Octavian Goga - mainly social sciences
Liceul Teoretic Onisifor Ghibu - informatics, social sciences and sports
Colegiul Pedagogic Andrei Şaguna - training for schoolteachers
Liceul Teoretic Constantin Noica - social sciences and sciences
Famous natives
Andrei Codrescu, writer
Sabina Cojocar, gymnast
Iancu Sasul, Moldavian Prince
Nicolae Manolescu, Romanian literary critic and politician
Hermann Oberth, space flight technology pioneer
Nicolaus Olahus, archbishop of Hungary
Radu Vasile, former Prime Minister of Romania
Alina Ciorogariu, Miss Tourism World 2003
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Sibiu European Cultural Capital 2007 - Official Site
Sibiu Photo Gallery
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Their Wedding: Christina always day dreamed of having her wedding in the magical island of Santorini in the Cyclades. Santorini has a magical aura to it, many say it's because of the volcano and the energy it lets out, but there is a myth about Santorini Island that all us locals know and that is that the first time you lay eyes on this island its energy is either going to keep your heart here forever or you will never come back, and more often than not the first applies to all. Harry & Christina contacted me about their dream destination wedding in Santorini and we started planning immediately. From the beginning they knew exactly what they wanted, they were in love with each other more than ever before and the most important thing for both of them was becoming husband & wife.
There whole wedding had a more laid back, fun and bohemian feel to it. Christina looked stunning in her bridal gown and floral crown and Harry couldn't stop staring at her all day long. It really was magnificent to watch all their emotions pouring through such subtle details. We held the wedding ceremony at Anastasi in Imerovigli, overlooking the Caldera and Skaros Rock and then there was an intimate family dinner at Caldera Dolphins. The whole day had an utter romantic intimate feel to it yet at the same time it was literally like being with family on a special occasion, no pressure, no nerves…..everyone really enjoyed themselves and everything just came so naturally to all. To Harry & Christina, you are one-of-a-kind and we know that, no matter what, you will always have this bohemian hippy aura coming out of your souls and love towards each other so be happy and enjoy the rest of your life together.


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The B&B provides several common rooms. The cooking hearth is the center of attraction in the tavern room. The enclosed porch is an inviting place to read a good book, or you may want to take a stroll around the yard and enjoy the perennial flower beds and herb garden. A full country breakfast is served every morning, including coffee/tea, juice, fresh fruit, breads and a hot entrée. Coffee and Tea are available in the dining room for early risers.


Authorities in Florida are crediting a group of local inmates for volunteering to pitch in after a devastating hurricane tore through the state.
Whether motivated by a desire to help or to get a break from jail, their efforts — along with countless others — were appreciated by area officials and residents.
The group of five inmates had recently completed a training course while behind bars that allowed them to operate heavy machinery needed in the cleanup.


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Kōhai (Jap. 後輩) ist der japanische Begriff für jemanden, der nach einem selbst in eine Organisation eingetreten ist. An der Universität ist damit ein Erstsemester für einen Drittsemester ein Kōhai. Der Begriff wird an der Schule, an der Universität, in Unternehmen und in Sportvereinen verwendet: überall dort, wo eine hierarchische Gruppenorganisation existiert. Im Kampfsport ist der Begriff auch außerhalb Japans gebräuchlich.

Das Gegenstück zum Kōhai ist der Senpai. Die Dauer der Zugehörigkeit hat dabei Vorrang vor dem Lebensalter, ein 22-jähriger Erstsemester wäre trotzdem der Kohai eines 19-jährigen Drittsemesters.

Aufgabe des Senpai ist, den Neulingen Orientierung und Ratschläge zu geben und eine Vorbildfunktion auszuüben. Außerdem wird vom Senpai erwartet, dass er zahlt, wenn man gemeinsam trinken geht. Andererseits wird vom Kōhai erwartet, dass er dem Senpai Respekt erweist. In Sportvereinen geht das teilweise so weit, dass der Kōhai aufs Wort zu gehorchen hat, und grenzt an absichtliche Schikanierung.

Im Gegensatz zum Senpai ist Kōhai keine Respektsperson und der Begriff Kōhai wird zwar Dritten gegenüber zur Beschreibung einer hierarchischen Beziehung, aber nicht als Anrede verwendet. Man verwendet stattdessen -kun oder -san.

Kampfsport
Gesellschaft (Japan)
Japanischer Titel
Personenbezeichnung (Sport)


So, I have always been drawn to entrepreneurism. Ever since I was young, I always had a business idea (lemonade, jewelry, cleaning, pet-sitting) and a couple of years ago I won a Young Entrepreneur competition and met some incredible people through that process. Since then, I've been torn between getting my business off the ground and wanting to help others get their business off the ground (or show them off if they're already soaring). So, I am starting a new line of blog posts that will be about businesses that I love and want to show off. Most of them will be small local businesses, but I wanted to start off with this business based out of Utah.
I wanted to find stationery wizards who could accommodate the awesome couples I get who are having unordinary wedding days, and Basic Invite is SO customizable, I feel like it's absolutely perfect.
Insane Amount of Colors - Basic Invite is one of the only places I've seen so many customizations for designs like this. Once you select a design you can change the color of each element on the card to over 180 different color options. So, you can make sure the card is exactly how you want it - down to the littlest detail. I chose mostly blue and green colors for the invites I designed because of the Blue Ridge Mountains, but it's insane cause you can go through so many colors and choose the exact shade and combo you want and see it instantly.
Custom Samples - Finding samples that are actually customized is hard to do - mostly when you order samples it's with whatever the heck is printed on it, but with these I could change the colors and everything that was written on the invite and see exactly what it would look like, which is awesome so you don't have to order 100 of them and then realize there's something up that you don't necessarily like.
I had fun with the custom samples.
Colorful Envelopes - Basic Invite has over 40 different colors when it comes to their envelopes so that they can make their invitation stand out even before it is opened. I LOVE colorful envelopes. I used black for my own wedding and wrote all the addresses in gold ink.
But the best part? All of their envelopes are peel and seal!! This is seriously the best part because for my wedding invitations (and Christmas and everything else) we had to lick the envelopes and Johnny and I were miserable. We kept talking about Seinfeld and the unfortunate cheap envelope situation, and tried to come up with other ways to seal them (wet sponges, hahaha). When I ordered samples I didn't get any colorful envelopes, but based on the high-quality colors of the invitations, I'm sure the envelopes are just as amazing.
Cohesive Invitation Sets - Each of their wedding invitations is part of a set. They have everything from save the dates to wedding invitations and enclosure cards, wedding menus, wedding programs and even matching thank you cards!
Free Address Collection Service - If you're as bad as I was at getting addresses, this is really freaking helpful. They will help you GET addresses from guests! You just share a link, collect addresses, and get free envelope printing.
I hope you enjoyed this little bit of planning help!
Emma & Jeddah planned an incredible and intimate wedding day for themselves. They booked the entire Hotel Laurance in Luray where their families stayed over the weekend - with plans to explore the town and the mountains for the rest of the weekend. The day of their wedding, they got ready in the hotel casually with the kids and dogs running around the hotel. When I showed up, Emma and Jeddah and a few others were sitting outside on the deck having a drink. Emma already had her hair and makeup done, but wasn't in her dress yet.
Eventually they parted ways to get ready and Emma got into her dress while Jeddah went on up to Skyline Drive. Emma rode with both their families together on a bus to bring them all up to their ceremony spot on Shenandoah National Park. It was a remarkably quiet day up there, even though the weather was perfect and it was a Saturday. Once we got there, we chose their ceremony spot and everyone gathered around. They said their vows when the time seemed right and then took family photos before everyone (except Emma, Jeddah, their dogs and I) went back to Hotel Laurance for cocktail hour. We explored the overlook where they had their ceremony and took their photos together before heading back down to join everyone for drinks and an amazing dinner.
Their dinner was wonderfully relaxed. They had a few dances, but mostly it was speeches and toasts and stories told by whoever felt so inclined.
A mix of wedding and weekend getaway in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
The alarm was set for 3:30am and I honestly have no idea how many miles it ended up being, but it was so peaceful and meaningful and fun. Stephanie and Steve incorporated their favorite books into what felt like multiple ceremonies throughout the hike.
Stephanie's favorite book is "Cat's Cradle" and in it is the boko-maru – the supreme act of worship by the Bokononists, which is an intimate act of contact between the naked soles of the feet of two people - so part of their elopement was this little ceremony.
They climbed rocks, took their shoes off, crossed across streams, and read. It was amazing. All before 9am, and then they went back to their cabin and hot tub.


Page Six columnist Cindy Adams visits the set of the Woody Allen untitled project on October 21.
Woody Allen's filming a newie. Surprise! About young love. More surprise.
The action? Jesse Eisenberg kissing Kristen Stewart. Then, cut. More kissing. Another take. Again, kissing. Some dog two trees away barked. A baby cried. Kiss No. 46. Cut. Then: He kissed her, she kissed him. Each kissed. Afternoon light, fading. A plane overhead. And being right in the path of three terminals, plus a helipad, it was aircraft-after-aircraft sounds.
Letty Aronson, Woody's sister: "It needs patience. Not how Woody likes to work." Woody: "We're lucky. It only rained twice. The meter's going, costs rise, you spend vast amounts of money for hours and hours to get 45-second increments. If I rage impotently, it wouldn't help. This is a New York love story in the '30s. You can't set a romantic scene at Grant's Tomb. I originally picked a boat in the East River, but skyscrapers clashed with the '30s. So, it's the park.
Woody's outfit? The omnipresent wardrobe he wears even at black-tie events: rumpled chinos, cotton shirt, same battered hat you can buy off a pushcart on Canal Street. Another jet overhead bound for someplace like maybe Poland, and Jesse and Kristen asked about that night's wrap party.
A stand-in walked over while elves made up Kristen in a chair off in some cluster of mulch and bent twigs.
"Our schedule's 41 days. Today's the final day," says Woody.
Woody, appreciating his lady star: "No junk makeup on her eyes and lips. The light's soft on her. She's good-looking, and we're better getting shots early so makeup people don't rush out, fix this, add that and put too much junk on her." I finally went home. I think they're still there. And although he sometimes films elsewhere, this scene is Only in New York, kids, only in New York.


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Q: Cannot Subscript a value of type CNLabeledValue with an index of type CNLabeledValue In the new contacts framework, I am trying to add social profiles and I am using a line of code that works in other projects, but for some reason it just does not work in the particular one that I am working in. Here is the code below
let twitterProfile = CNLabeledValue(label: "Twitter", value:
CNSocialProfile(urlString: nil, username: "ios_blog",
userIdentifier: nil, service: CNSocialProfileServiceTwitter))

contactData.socialProfiles = [twitterProfile]

I keep getting this error message: "Cannot Subscript a value of type CNLabeledValue<CNSocialProfile> with an index of type CNLabeledValue<CNSocialProfile>."
If I put it in another project it works, but I would need it to work in mine and for some reason I just keep getting this error.
I would really appreciate if someone could tell me what I am doing wrong.

A: Your problem cannot be reproduced as described. This code compiles and runs just fine:
let contactData = CNMutableContact()
let twitterProfile = CNLabeledValue(label: "Twitter", value: CNSocialProfile(urlString: nil, username: "ios_blog", userIdentifier: nil, service: CNSocialProfileServiceTwitter))
contactData.socialProfiles = [twitterProfile]

It is all very well to say that this problem is caused by other code, and that may be true, but you didn't show us any other code. The code you did show us, works.

A: The solution is, that in the method I was getting an error was a getter and that is why it didn't work.
In order to fix it, you need to use a function.

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Basic life support training rolled out in Ilocos Norte schools
LAOAG CITY — The Schools Division of Ilocos Norte (SDOIN), in partnership with the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) Ilocos Norte Chapter, conducted a basic life support training for all schools here starting with its personnel on Wednesday.
Some 66 SDOIN workers joined the training in time for the observance of the National Hands-only Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Awareness Campaign set every July of each year.
On Friday, the Hands-only CPR training will be rolled out simultaneously to the various schools of the province to enhance the education department's life-saving skills in times of emergency.
PRC-Ilocos Norte Head of Rescue Training Haydie Manalili led the demonstration and training of the CPR procedure with the use of hands only as a means of reviving patients who are victims of heart attack, as well, as those who are unconscious or having breathing difficulty.
"The hands-only CPR will be very useful in helping the patient pump some blood and keep them running in the body while waiting for rescue or ambulance," Manalili said.
Manalili said it is important to follow the three Cs before doing the CPR procedure on a person to check if the patient is unconscious, call a rescue or ambulance for proper medication, and conduct CPR.
"First, we have to check if the patient is unconscious and not breathing by tapping the shoulder, if the patient is not responding, then that will be the time to do the hands-only CPR procedure, if the person is breathing, there is no need to do it" she said.
The month-long campaign led by the Department of Health (DOH) and the PRC aims to educate every Filipino on basic skill of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) as an emergency procedure to save lives.
Sherwin Jay Ian Manuel, PRC coordinator for SDOIN, said the training is simultaneously set on Wednesday to Friday to cater to all the schools within the Ilocos Norte division.
The PRC personnel will proceed to the different schools with the students and teachers as the participants to take part in this training.
As of Wednesday, there are only five schools catered because some municipalities have suspended classes due to the typhoon," Manuel said.
Under Republic Act No. 10871 also known as the "Basic Life Support Training in Schools Act", it shall be the duty of all public and private basic education schools operating nationwide to provide their students with basic life support training through the use of psychomotor training in an age-appropriate manner.
This psychomotor training refers to hands-on -practice to support cognitive learning, such as the CPR procedure.
In compliance with the law, the SDOIN conducts a Red Cross Youth First Aid Challenge, an annual training for students with basic first aid and rescue skills with the help of the PRC.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/
Why First Aid is an Important Life Skill


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Dutch consortium delivers Mekong Delta Plan, Vietnam
Cần Thơ: each farmer transports their own individual harvest to market.
© Royal HaskoningDHV
Future vision and strategy for a safe, successful and sustainable Mekong Delta
A consortium led by Royal HaskoningDHV has drawn up a plan for Vietnam's Mekong Delta that will deliver sustainability and protection for this important agricultural area. The plan describes the strategic vision for the Delta until the year 2100 and involves the industrialisation of agriculture, the sustainable use of land and water and planning based on a shared framework. The plan also contains 'no regret', priority and long-term measures for a sustainable and climate-proof delta.
Dutch Minister Melanie Schultz van Haegen presenting the plan to the Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Văn Ninh yesterday. Other partners in the consortium include Wageningen UR, Deltares, and RebelGroup.
The development of the Mekong Delta is important for the economy of Vietnam. Michel Tonneijck, a leading professional in Flood Control Structures and senior project manager at Royal HaskoningDHV, says: "The Mekong Delta provides most of the rice grown in Vietnam and is one of the largest rice producers in the world. However, as the industrial development of the delta is falling behind other regions in the country, the economic development of the area is also slowing."
Smarter use of the rich natural resources in the delta is a major feature of the plan. The focus is on creating added value, rather than just on agriculture. Tonneijck adds: "At present, each farmer transports their own individual harvest to market. There are much more efficient ways of doing this."
Rise in sea level and salinity
The Mekong Delta is home to 17 million people and has a surface area of 39,000 square kilometres. The use of land and water is very much part of the socio-economic development of the delta, and vice versa. Tonneijck says: "The use of these natural resources is under pressure because of the delta's vulnerable and low-lying position, but also because of the lack of control over processes in agriculture, fishing and industrial development. For example, the extraction of groundwater is causing the ground to sink." At the same time, the region is facing rising sea levels, an increase in river discharge, salinity, and in periods of drought the amount of fresh water decreases even more.
The Mekong Delta Plan contains 12 short-term and long-term measures to deal with land and water management between now and 2100. These include various 'no regret' measures that will benefit the delta, depending in part on climate-related developments. Tonneijck says: "For the northern part of the delta, for example, we advise allowing the river to expand and the creation of controlled flood plains. The cultivation of fish and vegetables should be further diversified and be made flood-proof. As far as the protection of the long coastline is concerned, we are advising that the mangroves should be restored, a process in which aquaculture could also play a positive part. For the delta as a whole, we advise improving the water infrastructure and port facilities, which would make bulk transport over water possible. This would enhance the economic position of the delta."
Cooperative partnership
The consortium's other aim is to make administrative changes to achieve real industrial development based on agriculture. The Netherlands can use its own experience to provide input to cooperative partnership agreements between farmers. Tonneijck explains: "The farmers can work together to lower their costs and use their means of production, land and water more sustainably. This will ultimately lead to the Vietnamese agricultural sector becoming more professional, and being more accountable in terms of the sustainable use of land and water."
Integration of secondary plans
Tonneijck says: "One of the challenges in the plan is to combine small and large-scale measures. During the forthcoming year, the Delta Plan will need to be rolled out further, so the 13 provincial governments and other stakeholders will need to get organised. The Vietnamese government will have to take a leading role in this. The plan is also of great interest to international financers, for whom the government forms an important link. One major challenge, for example, will be to persuade the many stakeholders that room for the river is more important than achieving a third rice harvest."
Almost two years have been spent on the Delta Plan, at a cost of 1.3 million euros, financed by the Partners for Water Programme of the Dutch government. The Mekong Delta Plan is the result of close cooperation between the governments of the Netherlands and Vietnam and was drawn up under the coordination of Mr Cees Veerman, the former Dutch Minister of Agriculture, the chairman of the Delta Committee, and special advisor to the Vietnamese Prime Minister, Dung.
Mekong Delta Plan - Long-term vision and strategy
Area Development & Master Planning
Asset Management for Water
Coastal and River Engineering and Management
Drinking water supply
Flood Risk Management Modelling and Design
Wastewater Management Services
Water for Industry Services
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Career Development Investors are realizing that women should be funded. One organization is making a big difference.
Women represent the largest market opportunity and control $20 trillion in annual spending, as reported at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in January. Women, particularly black women are the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs, and women-led businesses are outperforming their male peers in many venture capital (VC) portfolios.
Investors must be seizing this incredible opportunity, right? Wrong.
Female founders only received 2.2 percent of VC dollars in 2017, as reported by Fortune. That's $1.9 billion out of the $85 billion that was invested in total. The average deal size for a woman-led company was just over $5 million. For companies led by men, that number was almost $12 million. Funding for women of color is less equitable. In 2017, there were almost 7,000 startups that had at least one women founder, but less than 4 percent were led by Black women. When it comes to tech specifically, black women have raised only .0006 percent of all venture funding since 2009, as reported by ProjectDiane 2018.
At AnitaB.org we envision a future where the people who imagine and build technology mirror the people and societies for whom they build it. We bring together tech makers, policy makers and philanthropists to highlight innovations and programs developed by women. We hope the tech community will continue to amplify these efforts. AnitaB.org supports the rise of funding to women-led businesses and initiatives to address systemic barriers to advancement and parity.
One disruptor produced by AnitaB.org that has an immediate impact for women tech entrepreneurs is a program called PitcHER, which provides access and opportunity to women of all backgrounds. In addition to raising awareness for the lack of funding for women entrepreneurs, it also provides resources for building their technology businesses. The inaugural PitcHER competition was held at Grace Hopper Celebration last year and will again be featured at the 2019 celebration in Orlando, Florida, Oct. 2-4.
Participating technology entrepreneurs are introduced to a panel of investors who are looking to support, and make funding more accessible to, women-owned businesses. Companies will compete in various categories for prize money to fund their business development. Each company will pitch its unique potential to a panel of investors. Last year, 155 entrepreneurs submitted applications to the first-ever PitcHER competition and this year we expect to have even more. Applications will go live at the end of March.
PitcHER is a tangible solution, produced by AnitaB.org in partnership with digitalundivided, that provides a platform for women tech entrepreneurs to gain the exposure and funding they need and deserve.


See heads turn as you arrive at your next event with our deadly Adult Womens Zombie Suit. This pretty scary combo will bring a spot of class to any Halloween party.
Includes detailed skater dress with zombie design in black, grey and red,three quarter sleeve fitted lined jacket completes the look.


You see, I'm afraid I didn't take many pictures during my jaunt up north to Yarndale. There was quite simply far too much to look at and absorb, let alone photograph. My mind is still buzzing!
Plus, I was a bit preoccupied. I don't know if you remember my telling you, but I was meeting up with two of my favourite blogging friends for the very first time - Cuckoo (Tales From Cuckoo Land) and Emily (Unravelled).
So there I was, standing at the entrance of Yarndale, under crochet-adorned trees, nervously waiting for my pals. Said nerves disappeared as soon as I clapped eyes on them of course and all I wanted to do was squeeze, squish and poke them both to make sure they were real!
We were so keen to gossip, it was quite hard to focus on all the woolly loveliness surrounding us.
Needless to say, Yarndale was everything I thought it would be and more. Close your eyes and picture an enormous livestock auction mart. Now imagine it absolutely crammed to the gunwales with stall after stall of yarn and yarn-related crafts and goodies. Oh, and people. And bunting of course. Miles and miles of the stuff! Add a very faint whiff of cow poo and you'd be pretty near the mark.
We met and chatted to the lovely and inimitable Lucy of Attic24 in the Knit and Natter Lounge where she was surrounded by her glorious makes and a clamour of folk wanting to speak to her. She really is like crochet royalty (and quite teeny).
We also said "hello" to the delightful Heather (Patchwork Heart) but sadly, and despite keeping my eyes firmly peeled, I didn't see Jacquie (Bunny Mummy)*, Annie (Knitsofacto) or Gillian (Tales From A Happy House). Next year I hope?
I naturally managed a couple of purchases. My only brief was to find some yarn for a cowl, for Blondie Daughter.
"Cream, thick and not itchy please Mummy".
The British Blue Faced Leicester dk wool in 'bluebell' and Alpaca dk in 'sweet pea' are for me. I haven't quite decided what to make with them yet. The chunky undyed Alpaca on the right is for the cowl and is the softest, most luxurious yarn I have ever felt and my daughter is absolutely delighted with it. Mummy did good!
It really was the loveliest weekend. I bloody love this blogging business. Never in a million years did I think it would spill over into real life.
Lucy, you're such an inspiration. I do hope you're having a well-deserved lie down.
I might just pop off and catch up on Downton Abbey now. Despite still being quite tired, I'm not worried about having a particularly early night - the children aren't at school tomorrow as their teachers are on strike. Best to keep my opinions about that to myself I think.
*Jacquie has written a far better account of Yarndale than me, with lots of gorgeous photos; do pop and look if you haven't already.
Hi Heather, so sorry to miss you on Saturday.....hopefully next year ?
Thanks for the link, loved your write up.....wasn't it great.
Glad I'm not the only one who came away with a couple of skeins of gorgeous squishy yarn but no actual pattern!
Thanks so much for your lovely post - I really enjoyed my visit! Your yarn looks pretty gorgeous and I bet you can hardly wait to get stuck into it.
Lovely, lovely post. It was just the best , wasn't it ? I did look out for you but bit like trying to find a needle in a haystack - literally !! It was everything I thought it would be and more. Unfortunately work is getting in the way of my Yarndale post - but I'll grab a few minutes today sometime.
Wasn't it fab!? So much to see it was stall after stall of yarnny delights and meeting lovely bloggers was the icing on the cake. Roll on next year!
Hellooooooooooo! It was a joy to meet you, you three proper made me laugh with your antics! Thanks so much for coming to say hello, and for a super write up here, you've captured it all beautifully. And yes, I am only 5ft 3, so many people thought I would be taller!
Sound like such fun and gorgeous purchases too. No wonder you didn't have many moments to think about photos!
Such happy memories. I want to do it all over again. Lets start planning!
I remember seeing that pic of me and exclaiming that I was happy that I looked mental enough. Now I am sober I am cringing a bit! I never learn.
Your yarn is making me jelly, which is stooopid since I bought enough of my own. You won't know this but Emily IG'd that she has already started her shawl. Hope she begins to blog again.
Wowee! What a a lovely blog you have! Just discovered you roaming around Yarndale blogs and with such beautiful crochet and a super way with words you've got me hooked! I will be back, that's for sure!
Oh my my my .... Yarndale looks absolutely incredible! and it sounds like you had a wonderful and very memorable day.


Eric received a BS in Sociology from the University of Louisville in 1999 and an M.S.I. in Library and Information Services from the University of Michigan in 2003. He joined the Library staff in 2004.
Eric is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the library including management of Access Services (circulation, reserves, interlibrary loan, and document delivery), Bibliographic Services (acquisitions and cataloging), and the Library's financial accounts.


OTTAWA (Reuters) - The leaders of Mexico and Canada will hold talks this weekend on the potential impact that a Donald Trump presidency could have on the NAFTA trade pact, a source close to the matter said on Thursday.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto will meet on the sidelines of an Asian regional summit in Lima, Peru.
They intend to speak to each other more frequently about their NAFTA strategy in the months to come, said the source, who declined to be identified given the sensitivity of the issue.
Trump, who takes office in January, says he will either tear up or push to renegotiate the trilateral North American Free Trade Agreement, under which Canada and Mexico both send the vast majority of their exports to the United States.
"The two men will run through a number of scenarios in Lima and talk about how to address them," said the source.
The Mexican government later said in a statement that Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo will meet Canada's International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland in Lima on Friday to discuss "issues of regional interest" in preparation for a meeting between Pena Nieto and Trudeau at the summit.
It did not provide further details on the leaders' meeting.
Trump is working with close aides to decide who should get key jobs. His key transition officials do not yet have access to detailed briefing documents on national security and economic policy.
The source said it was too soon to say what, if any, common front Canada and Mexico would take to defend NAFTA, given neither country had any idea what Trump's intentions were.
Canadian officials say that if Trump walks away from NAFTA, Canada could fall back on an earlier 1984 free trade deal with the United States.
There are no such options for Mexico, which Trump has also singled out over what he says is the problem of illegal immigration. Trump made building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border a central issue of his campaign.


Vienna: circa 1950. Original pen and watercolor design on single sheet of buff paper, measuring 16.5 x 12.5 inches. Adhesive residue from previous matting around unfinished edges.
Exuberant midcentury watercolor design for wrapping paper to be used by the Viennese seed company Eifler & Company. Rows of brightly colored root vegetables and flowers alternate with lines of text: SAMEN ("seeds") and the name and street address of the supplier. Designer Helga Janetschek-Becker was an accomplished commercial artist, creating packaging for a number of iconic brands, including Salzburg's Mozartkugeln. A surprising survival.