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Churches of Tasmania
A personal blog of photographs and histories of all churches in Tasmania - both past and present.
No. 754 - Warrane - St Philip's Anglican Church and Hall
Warrane is an eastern shore suburb of Hobart established by the Housing Department in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Warrane is an Aboriginal word meaning 'blue sky' and this was adopted for postal purposes for the Montague Bay area before it was transferred to its present locality in the 1940s. The foundation stone for St Philip's was laid by the Bishop Cranswick on Sunday 17 October 1954. The Hobart Mercury reported: "The Bishop was assisted by the Rev. Arthur Cloudsdale, who has returned from missionary service in Central Tanganyika, East Africa. The Archdeacon of Hobart (the Ven. W. R. Barrett) read the lesson, after which an address was given by the Bishop. This was followed by an ad-dress by the Rector of St. Philip's (the Rev. T. A. Cloudsdale). The new church hall is to be used as a' community centre in Warrane, and the first to use it will be the church women's guild. Other guests at the ceremony were Mrs. Cranswick, the Minister for Tourists and Immigration
No. 753 - Sorell - St Thomas' Catholic Church - "Sunshining Throughout"
Sorell is one of Tasmania's oldest towns with the region first settled in 1808. Sorell was formally established as a township in 1821 and was named after William Sorell, who served as Lieutenant-Governor from 1816 to 1824. By the 1840s Sorell had an Anglican and a Presbyterian church while the Catholic community relied on visiting priests from nearby Richmond for regular Mass. The first request to the government for an allotment on which to build a Catholic church was made by Bishop Willson in 1850. Progress towards building a church was delayed until 1863. A foundation stone was ceremonially laid in 1864 and the church was completed in the same year. The building's construction was overseen by Father William Dunne of Richmond. The stone was quarried free of charge from land belonging to Mrs Lord of Richmond. Andrew Counsel donated land for the church and also made a contribution of £200 towards the cost of construction. The building is one of the earliest churches designed Hen
No. 752 - South Launceston Kingdom Hall
The South Launceston Kingdom Hall is located on Rose Lane and overlooks the busy Southern Outlet. It is one of two Kingdom Hall's in Launceston. The Jehovah's Witness diverges from the mainstream doctrines of Christianity in that it is a non-trinitarian tradition. Jehovah's Witnesses believe their denomination is a restoration of first-century Christianity. It is a 'closed' church and its practices have led its critics to regard it as a sect. The historical persecution of members of the Jehovah's Witness in many countries, including Australia, has no doubt contributed to the denomination keeping a low profile in the media. For this reason the history of the Jehovah Witness in Tasmania presents a challenge to research. The following information is derived from the Jehovah Witness's official tract, The Watchtower: "In the early 1900s a member of the International Bible Students Association, as Jehovah's Witnesses were known, was distributing Bible study publications in Tasman
No. 751 - Kangaroo Valley Mission Church (1895-1934)
Kangaroo Valley is a previous name for the Hobart suburb of Lenah Valley. Before the 20th century Kangaroo Valley was an orcharding area that centred on what was then Augusta Road which led up to the Lady Franklin Museum. The Kangaroo Valley Mission Church was located within sight of the classical temple 'Ancanthe', built by Lady Franklin in 1842. In 1894 the first Anglican services held at Kangaroo Valley took place in an apple shed loaned by Mr Alomes. The shed had no windows and this "proved rather inconvenient, the door having to be kept open". In early 1895 fundraising began to build a "suitable place of worship". Public subscriptions enabled the opening of a small weatherboard church in June that year. The church was officially opened on Sunday 16 June by Archdeacon Whittington. The Tasmanian News reported: "There was a large number of persons present, and the Archdeacon was assisted by the Revs. A. Cass and W. Dodson. …. [the building]… is a short distance from Lady Franklin's
No. 750 - Launceston - Punchbowl Christian Centre
Punchbowl is a suburb to the south east of the city of Launceston. The area is well known by Launcestonians for the Punch Bowl Reserve which centres on a natural rock fissure and waterfall. In earlier times it was known as The Devil's Punchbowl. The Punchbowl Christian Centre was previously known as the Punchbowl Bible Chapel and was one of four Christian Brethren churches established in the city. The church's origins date back to the 1950s however it was not until 1961 that a chapel was built on Punchbowl Road. This building was outgrown by the late 1980s and in 1990 a new church was built on the site of the old Punchbowl Zoo. A condition of the church's acquisition of the site was that the building also had to serve as a community centre. A multipurpose building was constructed which included an auditorium with a capacity to seat 1000 people. The church was built by Peter McCormack and was officially opened in July 1991. The original Punchbowl Bible Chapel is now used by the Assem
No. 749 - Sandford - Congregational Church (1862-1974)
Sandford is a semi-rural district of Greater Hobart on the South Arm Road approximately 15 kilometres from Bellerive. It was previously known as Muddy Plains before the name was changed to Sandford in 1886. In 1885 the local correspondent for The Tasmanian News wrote: "It is….the intention of the inhabitants to get the name of the place changed. It is, to begin with, ugly and inappropriate, besides which there are several other places in this colony bearing the same name. Our member has been asked to move in the matter, and the hope is expressed that he will not fail to take the necessary steps to get the name of the place changed. "Sandford" has been suggested, and I believe would be acceptable to the majority of the residents". Some sources claim that when the Bishop of Tasmania, the Right Reverend D. Fox Sandford, visited Muddy Plains in the mid 1880s, he commented on the inappropriateness of its name, and jocularly said, "Why not call it after me." There were o
No 748 - Wynyard - The Uniting Church - 'A criterion of moral and spiritual prosperity'
Wynyard is a town on the northwest coast approximately 20 kilometres west of the city of Burnie. The area around Wynyard was originally named Table Cape by the explorers Bass and Flinders. The name was changed to Wynyard in the 1850s, in honour of Edward Buckley Wynyard, Lieutenant-General of the New South Wales Corps. In his capacity as commander of troops in New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land and New Zealand, Wynyard visited Table Cape in 1850-1. Until the 20th century Wynyard remained a small town with a population of less than 500. The history of Wynyard's first Methodist church (The United Free Methodist Church) has been told in a previous article on 'Churches of Tasmania' [ see No. 736 ]. With the Australian Methodist Union of 1902, the Wesleyan Methodists, who worshipped in Wynyard's Town Hall joined with the Free Methodists to form a single congregation at the Dodgin Street church. It was only a matter of time before the small weatherboard church on Dodgin Street was outgrown
No. 747 - Lenah Valley - St Andrew's Anglican Church (1961-2016)
Lenah Valley is a suburb of Hobart situated in the foothills of Mount Wellington north of the city centre. Lenah Valley was originally known as Kangaroo Bottom and later as Kangaroo Valley. Lenah is the native Aboriginal word for kangaroo. Anglican ministry in Lenah Valley began in the Kangaroo Valley Mission Church which operated from 1895 until 1934. After World War Two the congregation worshipped in the Lenah Valley Community Hall. A committee was formed in 1955 and plans for a new building were drawn up in 1958. The foundation stone was laid in May 1960 and the church was opened by Bishop Cranswick on Saturday 15 March 1961. The brick church was built at a cost of $40 000. In 2011 St Andrew's commemorated its 50th anniversary. Two years later, on 1 July 2013, the Anglican parishes in New Town and Lenah Valley were united to form a combined parish. In December 2016 St Andrew's joined with the St James' and St John's Newtown congregations. In 2018 St Andrew's was listed for sale a
No. 746 - Howrah - Good News Christian Church (1960)
Howrah is a suburb of Hobart situated on the eastern side of Bellerive on the shores of the Derwent River. It is named after "Howrah House", a property built in the 1830's on the Clarence Plains by a retired Indian Army officer, Captain James Fielder. Howrah is a suburb of Calcutta, where Captain Fielder was stationed. The Howrah Good News Christian Church is associated with the Christian Reformed Churches of Australia (CRCA), formerly known as the Reformed Churches of Australia, of the Reformed Presbyterian tradition. The Reformed Churches in Tasmania grew after World War Two when Dutch immigrants settled mostly along the north west coast of the island. Approximately 3500 migrants settled in the State in the 1950's forming Tasmania's largest non-English speaking migrant community. As generations of migrants were assimilated into Australian society the church's Dutch connection is no longer important and Reformed Churches are a culturally diverse group, reflecting th
No. 745 - Lottah's Catholic Churches (1885-1891 & 1914-1922)
Lottah is a former mining settlement located in the Blue Tiers about 35 kilometres west of St Helens. There are now few signs of the once thriving town. Tin was discovered in the vicinity of Lottah in about 1875. The Anchor Tin Mine became operational in 1880 and the township of Lottah developed around it. At its peak Lottah had several hundred residents, a school, two hotels, two churches, a number of businesses and a football club. Two Catholic churches were built at Lottah. The first church was built in 1885 and a second church, built in 1914, was removed to Pyengana in 1922. The original church, which was a converted billiard hall, was destroyed in a fire in 1891. In May 1885 Lottah's correspondent for the Hobart Mercury reported the construction of the township's first church: "In local news I may mention that Father Mary has purchased a building at the junction for his church, and it is now being altered and enlarged. It is already assuming the appearance of a nice church.
No. 744 - Launceston - Punchbowl - Eternal Life Christian Church
Punchbowl is a suburb to the south east of the city of Launceston. The area is best known for the Punch Bowl Reserve, which centres on a natural rock fissure and waterfall. In earlier times it was known as The Devil's Punchbowl. The Eternal Life Christian Church on Punchbowl Road is a part of the Assembly of God denomination. It was previously the Punchbowl Bible Chapel, one of four Christian Brethren churches established in Launceston. A timber chapel was built by the Brethren in 1961 but this was outgrown and sold after the Brethren built a new church at Punchbowl in 1991. After the building was acquired by the Assembly of God, a brick facade and tower was added. The original timber church remains and can been seen from the side and rear of the building. Additional information about this church is welcomed as all articles will be updated. I can be contacted through this page or my Facebook page "Churches of Tasmania" which is linked here: < Churches of Tasmania >
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[video of the week] Lankum – The Wild Rover
Taken from Lankum's new album 'The Livelong Day', out 25th October on Rough Trade Records.
A very different interpretation to that which is well known, "this particular version of The Wild Rover was first heard from the singing of Dónal Maguire, who in turn got it from fellow Drogheda man Pat Usher, and the recording was subsequently released on an album entitled The Usher Family in 1974." There are countless renditions of this tune, it is a song very much rooted within the dirt and peat of Ireland, but the revelation of a little known final verse takes it from a jovial pub tale to one of sadness and destitution. The actual crux of the song becomes desperate, a matter of life or death."
Director Ellius Grace explains the thinking behind the video; "I wanted to visualise the mythical Irish landscape in the video, to respond to the feeling of ancient Ireland that the track conveys so strongly. The video is an ominous journey through a landscape that is coming alive, a dark trip into the mythical unknown. Void of people and living things, the flora begins to take over, morphing and stretching our view as we travel. I took inspiration from folk horror. Rocks and textures stretch and flex at first imperceptibly, and then get out of control and take over. For colour grading, I looked to classic depictions and paintings of the Irish landscape. I wanted to channel these very deliberate visions of the countryside as a place of both beauty and darkly storied unknown, steeped in our nation's folklore."
Lankum honour the sacredness of traditional Irish tunes, but allow them to metamorphose, to grow and breathe like the heavy, ancient breath of the Uilleann pipes which seethe beneath the tracks of their third studio album (and second with Rough Trade) 'The Livelong Day'. "Drone is a big part of traditional music because the Uilleann pipes are indigenous to Ireland, so we're ramping up that history and taking it as far as we can." This is the idea found at the core of the universe created in The Livelong Day; expanding and emboldening, that which is already playing out in history. Alongside the traditional songs on the record, there are two originals, the haunting 'Young People' and the tragic beauty of 'Hunting The Wren'. The latter was composed by Ian as part of a writing challenge with Lisa O'Neill, in which Ian gave Lisa the subject of Violet Gibson, an Irish woman who went over to Rome and skim-shot Mussolini on the nose (it features on her album Heard A Long Gone Song), while Lisa gave Ian the song subject of the Wrens of Curragh. Mirroring these marginalized women, who were described as 'free-thinkers, prostitutes, alcoholics, vagrants, ex-convicts and harvest workers' and created their 'nests' out of furze in the rough plains of Curragh, County Kildare, is the wren – a bird hunted and tyrannized in Irish folklore.
It is effortless to connect with the songs of 'The Livelong Day' because it is an album devoid of ego. Despite the intensive historical and musical research that goes into selecting, writing and arranging these songs, the rare knowledge that they may have or their intricate musical skill, these songs are never indulged or overfilled. There is an understanding that If you can play one note, just one note and let it drag its feet with the weight of feeling, it can make a song even more affecting in its sparseness. "In this album compared to last, we wanted more percussive elements, more rhythm, more movement but at the same time we were more confident just going into the studio and seeing what happens, and leaving space open for experimentation." While there isn't a theme or concept as such, there is a tone that runs through it: "it's a combination of being desperately depressing and hopeful at the same time."
"We don't want to be fossilising or archiving these songs we want to be pushing and accelerating them further, and the multi-sensational quality that these songs have create a visual atmosphere that you can step into and actually find it very difficult to bring yourself out of." 'The Livelong Day' exists as both a narrative and a soundscape, and the way in which these songs live and ring true in our 'modern' lives makes total sense. This indefinable quality is what makes Lankum truly anarchic. Humanity always has, and always will, feel. What could be more relevant than pain, joy, suffering, liberation? All foundations for the human condition can be found within these songs.
http://lankumdublin.com/
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Unpacking objects: 100% (87/87), done.
While working on some example code for an upcoming Lambda Island episode I ran into an issue, a problem with dependencies. It's the kind of thing that easily happens, and I was quickly able to solve it and move on with what I was doing.
But then I thought: people run into this kind of things all the time, and unless you have some experience it's not obvious at all what the problem is, or how you go about solving it. It can be a real energy drain.
So I decided to take a step, and documented exactly what I did to figure this out and solve it.
The project is called "Booklog", and you can find the code on github. Grab the branch "dependency-error" to recreate the problem.
In this case the last thing I had done was adding Buddy to the project, a library that handles authentication and authorization. Buddy is split into several projects, here I'm using buddy-auth and buddy-hashers.
:description "Keep track of the books you read, a sample project to demonstrate Buddy."
So far so good, I've started a new REPL, to make sure the newly added dependencies are downloaded and available on the classpath.
Now I try to require the buddy.auth.backends namespace, and boom, there's the error.
In this case you only get a one line error message, in other circumstances you are more likely to see long stacktraces. There's a lot of information in this one line, probably enough to point you in the right direction, but if you do want to see the full stacktrace then you can check the *e variable, which contains the last error that was raised.
In my case I was actually working from Emacs and CIDER. So I'm in this namespace, adding buddy.auth.backends to the list of required namespaces. And when reloading the file (in CIDER that's C-c C-k), I'm greated with this *cider-error* buffer.
When something like this happens first take a step back and think about what you were doing. What changed? If you can go back to a previous version of your code that still works, then you can compare the two, this should give you some pretty good hints.
In my case I was trying to require Buddy. If the require isn't there everything still works, but once I add it things blow up.
This isn't always so obvious. Say you revisit a project after letting it rest for 6 months. You start by bumping the dependencies in your project.clj to their latest version, and then try to start a REPL. Boom!
In this case it's not as obvious that requiring Buddy is causing problems, but on the other hand you do have a great data point: it has to be something with the dependencies.
Half of bugfixing is just carefully reading error messages, so let's have a better look at these stack traces. The two things to look for are: what went wrong, and where in the code did it happen.
Errors in Java, and hence also in Clojure, are called exceptions. They have types, like clojure.lang.Compiler$CompilerException or java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError.
Sometimes one exception triggers another one, which might trigger another one, and so on. You can see this in the stacktrace where it says "Caused by …". In this case a clojure.lang.Compiler$CompilerException was caused by a java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError, which in turn was casued by a java.lang.ClassNotFoundException. In other words: the Clojure compiler had a problem, because it failed to find a definition for a given class, because trying to load the class failed.
So the root cause is that it didn't find a class that was expected to be there, namely com.fasterxml.jackson.core.FormatFeature. That's a pretty good indication that something is wrong with the dependencies.
The next question is: where did it happen. Now in a sense it happened in many places, every line in that stack trace is a call in the code that failed to complete. Notice that most of them are functions internal to Clojure. It's not that likely that the bug is actually in Clojure, so you want to scan the stacktrace to find instances of library or application code.
The interesting bits are usually the last place in library code that was called, and the last place in our own code that was called. Stacks grow upwards, the last thing added is at the top, and it's no different with stack traces, so the first thing to look for is the top-most line that points at library code.
The first third party library in the stacktrace is Cheshire, a library for encoding JSON. It seems it was trying to invoke require.
Further down you find buddy, which was also doing a require, so it seems buddy was trying to load cheshire.
So all of this here is just Clojure requiring a single namespace. No wonder these stacktraces are so bloated. Hopefully tooling will get better at filtering these out, in the meanwhile we have to make the best of it.
If you cut out all the noise, like I did here, then you can see that the problem ultimately originated in the first line of the booklog.application namespace, which is where the namespace declaration is that loads Buddy, which loads some internal namespaces, one of which depends on Cheshire. And apparently Cheshire needed this FormatFeature class but couldn't find it.
It's possible that Cheshire doesn't probably declare its dependencies, and that that's why the class isn't there, but it's unlikely. More likely is that the dependencies are in a bad state because of how library dependencies interact.
The best place to start looking for dependency problems is lein deps :tree. This shows you a detailed overview of all dependencies that are being loaded. Each library might pull in other libraries, which is visualized by this tree structure.
Note that a single library could be a dependency of many other libraries, but Leiningen will only show it once in the tree.
If you scroll back to the top you find a list of warnings about "possibly confusing dependencies". Multiple libraries might have the same dependency, but they don't necessarily depend on the same version. This means Leiningen needs to make a choice: does it pick the version required by library A, or the one asked for by library B?
There's no perfect solution, Leiningen needs to guess. That's why it's warning you that maybe its choices aren't ideal.
The relevant section for us is this part. Both Transit and Buddy indirectly depend on com.fasterxml.jackson.core. Transit wants version 2.3.2, whereas Buddy (through Cheshire) asks for 2.8.6.
Now you can see how this plays out in the actual tree of dependencies. Underneath Transit you see jackson-core, being pulled in at version 2.3.2. Underneath Buddy jackson-core isn't listed, even though it's a dependency of Cheshire. So Transit is getting priority here, and overriding the version requested by Cheshire.
There are two ways to solve this. The easiest is to explicitly add the right version as an application dependency. Direct dependencies like these get preference, so this overrides both the Cheshire and the Transit dependency.
You can verify this with lein deps :tree. The warnings for jackson.core are now gone, although there are still others that you could look into. Now instead of being shown as a dependency of Tranist, jackson.core is listed as a top level dependency, with the version we asked for, "2.8.6".
You can think of this as the brute force approach, just hard code a version to make the problem go away, but it has its drawbacks.
Before the version of jackson-core was declared twice, once by Cheshire and once by Transit. now it's declared three times. If you end up updating Transit or Buddy, or you add other libraries to your project, the chance of conflicts will only get bigger.
The better approach is to give Leiningen a gentle push in the right direction. Leiningen already showed you how to do that as part of the warnings. You can add an :exclusions vector to a dependency declaration. This tells Leiningen it should not bother with this transitive dependency. It's as if Buddy or Cheshire never depended on this library at all.
This way the dependency through Transit will be favored, and it will use version 2.3.2, instead 2.8.6.
That's not what you want though, version 2.3.2 is exactly the one that caused issues.
In this case Leiningen's suggestion isn't great, but with what you know now, you can also decide to do it the other way around, tell Leiningen not to bother with the Transit dependency, but to favor the one from Buddy/Cheshire instead.
Now 2.8.6 gets used. It's the newer version of the two, but it still has the same major version number. This makes it highly likely that it's backwards compatible with version 2.3.2. Many library authors promise to only introduce breaking changes in major releases, this is part of the versioning conventions known as "semantic versioning".
You can verify once more with lein deps :tree that all looks good now, and indeed if you run the project this time the error is gone.
You could leave it at that and move on. After all, your problem is solved, and you have work to do. It's likely that someone else will run into this problem as well though, given that Transit and Cheshire are both popular libraries. It might even be you a few months from now.
The root cause here is that Transit hasn't kept its dependencies up-to-date, so you can open an issue or pull request to have that fixed.
When engaging in open source like this there are three things to keep in mind: be friendly, be helpful, and be patient. More often then not the person on the other end is volunteering their free time because they enjoy doing open source. Don't ruin that feeling!
Be helpful by providing as much relevant information as possible. In this case I can mention the old and new version, and the fact that it clashes with Cheshire, which shows that this is a real-world issue.
You could go one step further and run the project's tests against the new version to see if anything breaks, after which you submit a pull request. This is assuming the project accepts pull requests, which is not the case for Cognitect projects like Transit.
Finally, be patient. In this case Alex Miller was very quick to update the version and do a new release, but sometimes this takes time. Resist the urge to "ping the maintainer", or "bump the thread". It's unlikely they didn't see it. The fact that the issue is documented is already helpful for others running into it.


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Till date, RailTel has completed work of providing Wi-Fi to 200 railway stations with the support of the government of India's Universal Service Obligatory FundSantacruz Railway station.Pic/Twitter RailTel Santacruz railway station on the Mumbai suburban network has become the 1,600th station in India to have a fast and free public Wi-Fi access provided by RailTel. "Mumbai Suburban Railway has seen the major milestones were achieved for the Railway Station Wi-Fi project. The journey of RailWire station Wi-fi started from Mumbai Central. Then Reay Road became the 1000th station's couple of days back and now Santa Cruz has been declared as the 1600th station in the country to have fast free RailWire Wi-Fi. This Wi-Fi is a boon for millions of passengers commuting through Suburban Railways every day," Ravinder Bhakar, Western Railway's chief public relations officer said.
the fast track journey RailWire Wi-Fi by RailTel is now Live at 1600 Railway Stations across the country. Santacruz Railway station in Mumbai is the 1600th Station to become a RailWire Wi-Fi zone.
Providing public Wi-Fi at 24X7 crowded stations is a huge challenge and unprecedented in India. RailTel has provided high-speed Wi-Fi at 985 stations with own/other funding and at 415 A, A1 and C category stations, associating Google as the Technology partner for Radio Access, while using the RailTel backbone for broadband connectivity. RailTel has also completed work of providing Wi-Fi 200 stations with the support of the government of India's Universal Service Obligatory Fund," Puneet Chawla, CMD/RailTel said. More stations lined up RailTel started providing the free public Wi-Fi service at the Indian railway station with a vision of turning Railway stations into a platform for Digital Inclusion. In the next phase, RailTel has roped in Tata Trust for providing Wi-Fi at remaining 4,791 B, C, D and E category stations across the country. The idea behind providing free Wi-Fi to these very small stations catering to mainly rural/low population density areas is to provide the people with state of the art Wi-Fi facility. Easy and low-cost availability of Smartphones in the market coupled with free Wi-Fi at railway stations in the rural area will go along way in the digital growth for rural India. While private operators find it hard to create telecom infrastructure in Rural areas due to high capital expenditure involved, RailTel is penetrating the hinterland of the country to bring state-of-the-art Telecom Infra for the rural population bridging the digital divide of urban and rural India. How to use: Free Wi-Fi services to passengers are being provided under 'RailWire'- the retail Broadband initiative of RailTel. Designed to offer users the best Internet experience, RailWire Wi-Fi will be available to any user who has a smartphone with a working mobile connection for KYC considerations. To use the Wi-Fi the user has to switch on the Wi-Fi mode in the smartphone and select the RailWire Wi-Fi network. After the RailWire homepage network automatically appears on the smartphone, the user has to enter his or her mobile number on this homepage. The user will get a one-time password (OTP) in the form of SMS in the message box which has to be entered in the home page of RailWire. After entering OTP Users will be able to access high-speed internet & can start internet browsing.


Something is missing in our world. Increasing and alarming signs point to how we have lost our balance, our footing, and our foundation. What does "Mystery" mean? Where is it to be found today? What kind of shift in our thinking is called for?
NEW. Philip Levine presenting "The Pearl Within: Discovering the Riches of the Underworld"
Modern culture is dying from lack of nourishment. The inner world is considered empty or threatening. So much around us is designed to distract us. It takes great courage to try to live one's own life, to follow one's own path as revealed from within.
Who lives inside of each of us? How much of our selves do we know? This will be an evening to appreciate the soul and its challenges and rewards.
A retired psychotherapist after 17 years, and an active astrologer for over 40 years (MA in clinical and counseling psychology). Responsible for Sirius Astrological Services which provides personal calendars and appointment books, as well as personalized reports.
Preface to my book "The Pearl Within"


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Published: November 2, 2021, 8:10 PM
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Fox scores ratings win as World Series viewership rebounds
Published: November 2, 2021, 8:10 PM Updated: November 2, 2021, 11:54 PM
Houston Astros relief pitcher Ryne Stanek celebrates the last out in the seventh inning of Game 5 of baseball's World Series between the Houston Astros and the Atlanta Braves Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) (David J. Phillip, Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
LOS ANGELES – Baseball was especially good to Fox, with the Atlanta-Houston World Series lifting the network to its first weekly ratings win in the young TV season.
The series rebounded from last year's contest, which hit an all-time viewership low that was attributed to the pandemic and competition from the 2020 presidential election.
The Houston Astros must-have win Sunday over the Atlanta Braves, then leading the series 3-1, was the standout so far in the potential seven-game series, according to Nielsen figures out Tuesday.
The 9-5 Astros victory drew 13.6 million viewers — a 35% jump over the 10 million who watched 2020's Los Angeles Dodgers Game 5 defeat of the Tampa Bay Rays.
Last year, the Dodgers went on to a six-game win over the Rays that posted a TV rating down 32% from the previous World Series low, the San Francisco Giants' four-game sweep of the Detroit Tigers in 2012.
Bragging rights also went to football and NBC last week, with NFL regular-season games earning the top two spots for the week.
Overall, Fox averaged 11.9 million viewers in prime time, followed by NBC with 5.4 million. CBS had 3.9 million, ABC had 3.5 million, Univision had 1.3 million, ION Television had 970,000 and Telemundo had 930,000.
Fox News Channel was the most-watched cable channel in prime time with an average 2.21 million viewers. It was followed by ESPN with 2.17 million, Hallmark with 1.28 million, MSNBC with 1.11 million and HGTV with 857,000.
ABC's "World News Tonight" led the evening news ratings competition, averaging 8.1 million viewers. NBC's "Nightly News" had 7 million, and the "CBS Evening News" had 5.2 million.
For the week of Oct. 25-31, the top 20 prime-time programs, their networks and viewerships:
NFL Football: Green Bay at Arizona, Fox, 20.3 million.
NFL Football: Dallas at Minnesota, NBC, 15.7 million.
MLB World Series Game 5, Fox, 13.6 million.
"The OT," Fox, 13.3 million.
MLB Pregame (Sunday), Fox, 12.5 million.
NFL Pregame (Sunday), NBC, 11.8 million.
NFL Football: New Orleans at Seattle, ESPN, 11.19 million.
NFL Pregame (Thursday), Fox, 10.46 million.
NFL Pregame (Sunday), NBC, 9.2 million.
"Young Sheldon," CBS, 7.2 million.
"60 Minutes," CBS, 7.11 million.
"Saturday Night Football: Penn State at Ohio State," ABC, 7.1 million.
"The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 6.9 million.
"Chicago Fire," NBC, 6.801 million.
"Chicago Med," NBC, 6.8 million.
"The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 6.7 million.


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Pordenone diary 2008 – day two
October 13, 2008 By urbanora in Cities, Comedy, Festivals, Music, Non-fiction Tags: Silent films	7 Comments
Outside the Teatro Comunale Giuseppe Verdi
Before launching into what we saw on Sunday 5 October at the Giornate del Cinema Muto, a word of praise for one particular innovation. Pordenone shows prints from around the world, which arrive in a multiplicity of languages featured on the intertitles. For years we have benefitted from the skills of translators viewing the prints as we did and providing instant translations through headphones. This year the headphones were gone. In their place we had computer-generated subtitles immediately below the screen. If the film was in English, the subtitles appeared in Italian, and vice versa; if it was in any other language, we got subtitles in both Italian and English. The amount of preparatory work must have been prodigious, but the result was a hugely improved viewing experience. Warm thanks are due to all those who made this possible, and everyone's hearts went out to whoever had translated all of the 160 minutes of the Norwegian film Laila in English, only to discover that the print came with English titles…
This innovation went hand-in-hand with a welcome emphasis on bilingual presentation generally. In Giornates past it has felt as though English speakers were taking over, which must have been greatly trying for the Italians in the audience. Now most (if not all) spoken introductions were translated from one language or the other. One or two speakers need to know when to take a break to give the poor translator a chance to recap, while one speaker was perhaps unnerved by the translator and stopped speaking in mid-sentence, leaving the translator with an impossible task. But we're getting there.
The day started for me (earlier risers had caught the French film Triplepatte) with two mindboggling Baby Peggy shorts, Such is Life (1924) and Carmen Junior (1923). Child star Baby Peggy (played by Diana Serra Carey, ninety years old next month) is beyond rational criticism. These bizarre films give every appearance of having been made up as they went along. A surreal sequence in Such is Life where an unexplained living snowman melted through a street grill was memorable, but had no logical connection with anything around it (the story was based on 'The Little Match Girl', though feisty Peggy wasn't about to do pathos).
Ever since 1997 the Giornate has been working its way chronologically through the works of D.W. Griffith. This year we reached the end of the journey. The films of Griffith's last working years are generally dismissed as the embarrassing efforts of an out-of-date man in his creative dotage – at least, those such as me who hadn't actually seen them believed this. I wasn't alone in such assumptions, and the astonished (well, pleasantly surprised) rediscovery of Griffith's late films was one of the major points of the festival. We started with Sally of the Sawdust (1925). This is a comedy-drama of a circus performer (Carol Dempster), whose mother was thrown out by her parents when she married a man from the circus and who has fallen under the care of entertainer Eustace McGargle (W.C. Fields). What surprised about Sally of the Sawdust was its general competence. That sounds like a dreadful thing to say about the man who established the art of directing films, but by this period in his career one had sensed that he was wilfully opposed to the ways in which studio-dominated cinema was evolving. But for the most part Sawdust is pleasingly competent. It ticks along nicely. Fields is outstanding – in complete command of the screen from his very first shot. We even get to see him juggle. Dempster is, inevitably, annoying and she puts on all her girlish mannerisms (it's an oddity of the film that she seems far too old for such faux-teenage mannersims, though she was only twenty-three when the film was made). Yet even she surprised in a house party scene where is dresses up glamorously and gives a hint of a quite different, and alluring presence, which she might more profitably have returned to. There was also a touching scene where she dances in the way her mother used to for the woman she does not realise is her grandmother. Unfortunately, Griffith's control fails him towards the end of the film, with his taste for old glories taking over as we have two prolonged chases, one with Dempster, one with Fields, which are poorly executed and fail to intertwine as they should have done, ending with a casual resolution of the plot that lets the audience down. But there were signs of promise, and better was to come.
Included in the catch-all 'Rediscoveries' strand were four Max Linder films. Of these Max Toréador (1913) was remarkable for its prolonged scenes filmed in a bullring in Barcelona with Max himself in the middle with the other toreadors genuinely taking part in the bullfighting. It was no surprise to learn that different prints exist with scenes cut according to local sensibilities – the film did not shy from showing the 'sport' in all its bloody cruelty. Rather more enjoyable was The Three-Must-Get-Theres (1922), a goofy parody of Douglas Fairbanks in The Three Musketeers. The try-a-bit-of-everything humour was variable, but the film gleefully sent up the Fairbanks self-satisfaction and panache, laced with a string of anachronistic gags (motorbikes instead of horses, that sort of thing). Max remains one of the geniuses of the silent cinema, a poetic blending of opposites – graceful air with a penchant for pratfalls; debonair confidence with always just a touch of panic in his eyes.
One of the festivals themes was filmmaking in New York, tied in with Richard Koszarski's new book, Hollywood on Hudson. The films chosen were an odd mish-mash, none odder nor mish-mashier than His Nibs (1920-21), directed by Gregory La Cava. Starring obscure comedian Chic Sale (whose gentle comic style suggests he might be worth investigating further, if more films exist), the film was made out of what was going to be a conventional drama, The Smart Aleck. At some point someone realised that the film wasn't working, and decided to build another film around it. So we get a film about a cinema show, with Sale playing multiple parts, including a crusty projectionist. The audience settles down to watch the film-within-a-film, now called He Fooled 'Em All (starring Sale and Colleen Moore), with commentary from the projectionist in the intertitles to prevent the audience from reading out the titles. The projectionist also tells us that he cut out a train journey from the film, because those scenes all look the same, plus some mushy stuff at the end. So some good laughs at the expense of cinema, and an intriguing portrait of a small town film show, but a minor oddity overall.
The highlight of the day – indeed one of the highlights of the week – was quite unexpected. On 28 December 1908 the Messina Straits off Sicily was at the epicentre of a huge earthquake. It was probably the biggest earthquake in Europe ever experienced; around 200,000 died in the region, with Messina itself having its population reduced to just a few hundred. We saw how film responded to this tragedy, through three actualities and two fiction films. The first actuality, from an unknown producer, had the greatest effect – aided by Stephen Horne's eerie music (starting with solo flute before turning to piano). Each shot framed people within the ruins of the city to haunting effect. There was a profound sense of a shock, a dawning realisation of what had just happened. A Pathé news report showed us more, while a Cines film showed us the town being rebuilt in 1910. An Ambrosio drama, L'Orfanella di Messina (1909) depicted a couple who had lost their daughter to illness adopting an orphan girl from Messina, simple yet deeply touching. Finally, and oddly, there was a Coco comedy in which the comedian imagined himself caught up in the earthquake, with collapsing walls and floors in his bedroom. In this simple package of films, we saw how film was used to report on and to help people come to terms with what the country had been through. The sequence moved us all.
The Orchestra della Scuola Media Centro Storico di Pordenone, a school orchestra, was given the chance to show its mettle, accompanying Buster Keaton's One Week (whose inventiveness greatness put the middling efforts of other comedies seen during the day into context) and three cartoons. Heavy on the recorders and percussion, but good accompaniment for all that, with spot-on sound effects. And further evidence of the growing bonds between community and festival.
The Golf Specialist, from criterioncollection.blogspot.com
The evening's screening kicked off with a sound film: W.C. Fields in The Golf Specialist (1930). The Fields theme was a bit of an opportunisitc one, probably chosen because some of his silents turned up in the Griffith and New York strands. The film is a classic, of course, and it was good to have it as a point to which his silent films were pointing. It's a variety sketch in which Fields chaotically fails to demonstrate his golf skills, which tangling with children, animals and sticky paper with progressive absurdity. Delicious cynicism is on view, though there could be more of Fields' sardonic view of the world and a little less of the golfing calamities.
After a modern Romanian silent short on climate change, whose logic eluded me, we had The Show Off (1926), directed by Mal St Clair. Part of the New York strand (it was filmed at Paramount's Astoria studios), it starred the ever unappealing Ford Sterling (the Keystone star that Chaplin famously supplanted) in a relatively straight role. This had some cultural-historical fascination in its picture of office life and suburban aspiration, with Sterling playing all too accurately a vain and selfish social failure. Somehow he becomes aware of the unhappiness of other people about him and implausibly saves the day. Had Fields been given the part, we might have had a film of note. As it was we had a minor work of academic interest, its most diverting feature being Louise Brooks as the girlfriend of Sterling's brother-in-law, looking for all the world as though she had glided in from a different planet.
Look out for Day Three, where we will encounter hands, feet, Satan, puppets and a strongman on his holidays.
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Penfold says:
Agree with your assessments; Sally of the Sawdust is a very decent film, but you are right, the ending is botched; the chase and Fields' effort to get to the court becomes overlong, and dissipates the tension built by that stage….and then the big reveal, of Sally's ancestry, is anticlimactic in its handling.
Triplepatte I did catch; a slight romantic comedy, I found the bored aristo male lead increasingly annoying as the slack-paced film moved along, but it did have a nicely done nightmare sequence with slow-mo-in-negative butterfly catchers after our 'hero' in his sleep. Not Raymond Bernard's better efforts, it did at least feature his star of the later The Chess Player as the romantic interest, the lovely Edith Jehanne.
Really enjoyed The Three Must-get-There's….suitably daft, and a well aimed poke at the genre. Interestingly, it featured a gag reworked by Keaton later in Steamboat Bill Jr; in that, Keaton is buying hats, goes through a load, particularly rejecting his trademark flat pork pie; 5 years earlier, Linder had his D'artagnan figure going through a pile of hats, rejecting his trademark topper….
Anticlimatic is bad enough as it is, but anticlimatic after 150 minutes is a serious cheat. For all that, there was much that I liked about the film. Should also mention the hapless Alfred Lunt, Dempster's love interest. He's not known much to UK audiences, but he went on to become one of the greats of American theatre. But in the film he is utterly wooden, and was so traumatised by the experience that I believe he only made one other film thereafter.
I hope readers will chip in with observations on the films I missed – and indeed with opinions which differ to mine, especially if I say I didn't like a film but you saw virtues in it. Of course, if you want to say that my critiques are spot on, you can do that too…
Donald Sosin says:
SALLY has some very funny moments, IMHO, such as the little gestures Fields makes in passing, for example, dusting himself off after the elephant has scared off his attackers, or the way he keeps an angry guy at bay with one hand while winking at the audience and tapping his cigar ashes off….but I agree, way too long, the chases are endless, Dempster's mugging in the courtroom scene is a yawn…I will be interested to see what you thought of LADY OF THE PAVEMENTS. Kino is releasing Sally soon, by the way, with my score. Best D
flyczba says:
That's one Kino DVD I'm pre-ordering! Rule of thumb: if Sosin's accompanying it, go see it.
I'd say all the Fields scenes in SALLY are good, and I agree it's the little gesture that counts: how about the stone throwing (Dempster wants to throw a small stone at the rich guy's house, is rebuked by her father, who hands her a bigger stone to throw). And Dempster in an elegant gown was a revelation to me, as was the joke on her fake breasts: is Griffith discovering sex ? Is this the same so-frail-shes-going-to-evaporate Dempster from ISN'T LIFE WONDERFUL? Wow.
But one problem is Griffith sets things up and forgets about the pay off: the longish court scenes leads to an anticlimatic "case dismissed"; and where does the Ford chase, with its (I found) hilarious driving and bouncing across fields, lead us ? To Fields reappearing in court, and a wisecrack title (delayed by a Ford). Too long, too loose.
My favourite moment in the film owes everything to Donald Sosin and Joanna Seaton: it's when Dempster sings with her beau at the Carnival, late at night. Close-up, moody music, dreamy moment, and tongue-in-cheek choking: it's perfect Hollywood filmmaking. Hopefully the Kino DVD will also feature a vocalist ?
BTW, if you have another minute, for the few films missed by Urbanora, you can check http://flyczba.wordpress.com.
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Shame on me for having forgotten Joanna Seaton's breathy rendition of 'Shine on Harvest Moon' – tongue-in-cheek and sympathetic all in one. It's still playing in my head.
I agree entirely with Donald about the many funny moments in Sally of the Sawdust, mostly supplied by W.C. Fields – not gags for their own sake, but astute comic business coming naturally out of the action and character. One exception – where Fields and Dempster each go to sleep in next-door ovens for the warmth, and Fields gets locked into his and then the fire is lit beneath. An alarming sense of humour from whoever it was dreamt that up.
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The spring constellations are rising now and our closest galaxy Andromeda, a naked eye object low in the North, becomes visible in the evening sky.


Our 2015 Summer Camp at Smoke Farm, dubbed the Urban Morphology Lab, was split into several different groups, with most of the camp working on projects related to the Impossible City, our ongoing effort to build small structures for those experiencing homelessness in Seattle. Part of the camp worked on a bathroom for an encampment in Seattle.
Students and counselors spent the week learning basic carpentry skills, swimming in the Stillaguamish River, and enjoying communal meals, as well as a few bonfires. The bathroom was driven down to Seattle from the farm and installed at a Nickelsville camp in Seattle's Central District.
Another program, led by Micah & Matt Rhodes, outfitted the bathroom with an ADA accessible ramp. This in-city program was part of our ongoing partnership with the Interagency Academy, Seattle's last chance public school system with targeted initiatives for at-risk high school students. The ramp was completed as one program of the Master Builder's Association's annual Rampathon, where community members build free wheelchair access ramps for low-income housing.


As though somebody dumped a bucket of cold water over his head, the curvature of Wei WuXian's smile froze at once.
Standing below the dead tree, the tall figure faced Wei WuXian. If a head sat atop his neck, he'd be staring silently at Wei WuXian for sure.
By the bonfire, the juniors of the Lan Sect saw the shadow as well. Each of them felt their hair stand up. With widened eyes, they went for their swords at once. Wei WuXian put his pointer finger in front of his lips and softly shushed them.
He shook his head, then looked at them with eyes that said "no". Seeing this, Lan SiZhui noiselessly pushed back Lan SiZhui's half-unsheathed sword.
The headless man reached for the tree trunk beside him and felt it for a while, as if he was thinking or trying to figure out what it was.
He walked a small step forward. Wei WuXian could finally see most of his body.
A burial robe hung over the man, somewhat tattered. It was indeed the one that the torso buried in the Chang Clan's cemetery had been wearing.
And, by the man's feet, a pile of shreds lay scattered on the ground. Wei WuXian could tell that this was a couple of torn-up Qiankun Pouches.
Wei WuXian, My mistake. It seems that our dear friend has pieced himself together!
Now that he thought about it, after he and Lan WangJi entered Yi City, so many things had happened that they hadn't played Rest for almost more than two days. During the time that they spent travelling, they only barely managed to suppress the parts again. Yet, since all limbs of the corpse had been collected already, the attraction between each part multiplied. Perhaps they had felt one another's resentful energy and their desire to be put back together grew, now that Lan WangJi was out patrolling, they hurriedly rolled off to the side, barged out of the Qiankun Pouches that had bound them, and pieced into a corpse by themselves.
Unfortunately, however, the corpse still lacked a part. One most important part.
The headless man put a hands to his neck, feeling the clean, crimson cut at his throat. After he had been at it for quite some time and still couldn't find the object that was supposed to be there, as though enraged by such a fact, he suddenly slammed his palm into the tree beside him!
With a crack, the trunk broke at once. Wei WuXian commented in silence, What a temper!
After he spoke, he indeed shouted a couple of times. As soon as he had finished, the headless man spun around and walked in the direction of the Lan Sect's juniors.
With a wave of Lan SiZhui's hand, a gust of wind put out the fire. The boys immediately scattered all around the deserted garden.
Just as Wei WuXian said, after the bonfire died and the people had dispersed, the headless man lost his direction.
He stood still for a few moments. Just as the group was about to sigh in relief, he suddenly started to move again. And, without any hesitation, he walked straight toward one of the boys!
He picked up a pebble beside his feet. With a flick of his wrist, he threw the pebble toward the headless man. The pebble landed at the center of the man's back. He stopped in his tracks and turned around. After he pondered for a moment, as though deciding that this side was more suspicious, he started walking toward Wei WuXian.
Imagining their heads being pulled off by the headless corpse and gruesomely attached to his own neck, the boys shivered in horror. Raising their hands over their heads in unison, they started to slowly "flee" around the garden. It was as though they were playing a treacherous round of hide-and-seek with the ghoul. Whoever that the ghoul seized would have to hand over his head. As soon as he caught of a boy's presence, Wei WuXian would toss out a pebble and draw his attention to himself.
Seeing this, the others joined in as well. Since the corpse lacked a head and couldn't hear anything, each shout echoed more passionate, more miserable than the last. A few moments later, the soft, flowing note of a xiao sounded amid the night. Closely following it was the limpid reverberation of a string.
Two slender figures flashed before the garden's worn-down doors. They were the same jade-like posture, the same snowy shade. One holding a xiao and the other carrying a guqin, the two of them walked shoulder to shoulder. As they saw the headless shadow, both paused shortly.
Lan XiChen's expression was especially surprised, almost to the point of shocked. Liebing's ceased to sound, yet Bichen had already unsheathed. Sensing that a cold, powerful sword glare came at him, the headless man raised his arm and waved again. Wei WuXian exclaimed in silence, It's that move again!
The man was also quite agile. Dodging Bichen's glare with a leap, he backhandedly snatched at it. With this, he managed to grab Bichen's sword hilt!
He held Bichen in his hand and raised it up, as if he was trying to examine what he had just got hold of even though he had no eyes. After the juniors saw that the man somehow stopped Bichen in midair, all of their faces paled. Lan WangJi, though, seemed as calm as ever. Taking out his guqin, he looked down and curved his finger, plucking one string. As if it was a formless arrow, the sound whistled as it whipped toward the corpse. The headless corpse slashed with the sword and fractured the note into pieces. Lan WangJi strummed downward. All seven strings vibrated, singing with even greater power. At the same time, Wei WuXian pulled out his bamboo flute and accompanied with an abnormally shrill pitch. It was as though the sharp blades of swords and sabers rained down from the sky!
The headless corpse lunged again. Lan XiChen had finally returned to his senses. Raising Liebing to his lips, he started to play as well. Wei WuXian didn't know if it was only his imagination, but as soon as the soft, serene tone of the xiao appeared, the corpse's movement paused. For a moment, he seemed to have stood still and listened, then turned around, as though he wanted to see who was the one playing the music. Yet, without eyes or a head, he couldn't see anything at all. Still under the forceful attacks of the flute and the guqin, he looked as if he finally lost all energy, succumbing to the three instruments. With a stagger, he fell to the ground.
To be more accurate, it wasn't that he fell down, but that he fell apart. There were the arms, the legs, and the torso, broken and scattered over the carpet of dry leaves.
With that, he didn't ask anything else. Leading the rest of the juniors, he went to another area of the garden, preparing to restart the fire and sleep.
Before Lan XiChen could reply, Lan WangJi already nodded slowly.
When they were "playing hide-and-seek", the headless corpse kept on repeating the same movement—with a loosely-closed fist, he waved his arm and slashed the air. It looked as though he was brandishing a type of weapon.
At the first idea of a weapon, Wei WuXian thought of a sword. But as someone who used the sword himself and had dueled other swordsmen, he had never seen any sword expert use their sword in such a way. The sword was the "gentleman of all weapons". Anyone who used the sword would pay attention to an air of grace or dignity. Even the sword of an assassin would need to have some agility amid the cruelty. In the art of swordplay, there were more of "lunge" and "stab", and less of "hack" and "slice". However, the headless man's movements were too heavy. There was an abundance in malice and the slashes of the arm lacked elegance.
But, if he wasn't holding a sword, but a saber—and a hefty saber with a strong killing intent—then everything would make sense.
The sword and the saber were different in both usage and temperament. The weapon that the man had used before he died was probably a saber. As fierce as the saber was, it valued power instead of style. When he was searching for his head, he was searching for his weapon as well. This was why he kept on repeating the moves of wielding a saber and even grabbed Bichen, using it as though it were his weapon.
Moreover, this corpse didn't have any special markings such as a birthmark. And now after he had been cut into pieces, it was impossible find out who he was. It was only natural that Nie HuaiSang couldn't recognize it in the Saber Hall. In fact, even Wei WuXian couldn't guarantee that if he cut off his own leg and threw it everywhere, he'd be able to recognize whose leg it was. It wasn't until the torso and the limbs were temporarily pieced into a corpse capable of movement by the resentful energy that Lan XiChen and Lan WangJi finally recognized him.
Without having to say who this person most likely was, everyone had understood.
The light of the bonfire casted everchanging shadows over the three faces. All was still in the abandoned garden.
It wasn't difficult to understand why Lan XiChen defended this person. To be honest, even Wei WuXian himself didn't have a terrible opinion of the person they were suspicious of. Perhaps because of his background, he had always treated others with kindness and humility. He was the type of person who never offended anyone, the type who could make everyone around him feel comfortable talking to him, let alone ZeWu-Jun, who had been friends with him for years?
The time before Nie MingJue's death was precisely the peak of the QingheNie Sect's advances toward the LanlingJin Sect. Who would've Nie MingJue's death benefited the most?
Death by a qi deviation under the public's eyes… It looked like such a reasonable, unavoidable regret, but was the truth really so simple?
Ghoul: This was previously referred to as ghost. It has been changed due to the fact that ghosts do not have physical form while ghouls sometimes do.
Liebing: Literally translated to "cracked ice".
Hi, as someone who reads the chinese version, I realised that you guys actually skipped translating a few parts? Like the part in the original novel chapter 46 where Nie HuaiSang and Lan XiChen were reminiscing about Nie MingJue. At that time, Han GuangJun and Wei WuXian asked for the two of them to meet them and upon opening the door, the saw the figure of Nie MingJue (the dismembered corpse). That is how the actual chapter 46 ended. Hence, I just want to know if you guys don't translate everything in the chapter or?
You're correct: the "original novel" did include such a scene. However, we're not translating the original version, but in fact the newer edited version, which cuts out some scenes and adds some other scenes (including an entire added first kiss). The original version that you mentioned can only be found in TXT format at the moment, while we're translating directly from the JJWXC website, in support of the author's amazing work.
Ah, I see. I personally feel that translating from the original version might actually be better since there some minor important details missing from the newer edited version haha.
Anyways, if you haven't read the newest version, then I strongly suggest you do so. I still remember the uproar within the community when people found out about Chapter 69's dash of awesomeness.
when are you going to add new chapters? It has already been 25 days.
Hmmm, I don't know… Now that I'm at 25 already, why not just wait until it hits the whole-month benchmark? 5 days don't matter much, anyway. I should totally go enjoy my vacation!
It may be sarcastic or may not be sarcastic what you said (I think it was?), but to be true – vacations really are important. So yes, if you feel like it, you totally should go and enjoy them – and then hopefully be back to us with all energy and good mood successfully replenished : )) Breaks are understandable, hard to bear for readers, but definitely understandable. Ok, Meow. I'm not saying anything more. Just stay warm!
It didn't change the fact that this one here is patiently waiting <3 Can wait a little longer tho.
Awwww thanks! Be prepared for a pleasant surprise, then.
Were you on vacation? I'm glad, I can not read Chinese, so I probably will not be able to read the original or the official version; so I thank you very much K.san for your work. I hope you have a nice vacation!!!
Oh no, I feel like I have to stop reading already, seeing that the comments are getting more and more recent as I progressed through the chapters! I only started reading two days ago and I'm going through them quite quickly as I couldn't get enough of them! What a dilemma..but then again, thank you so much for all the effort that went through in translating this novel!
Please do not forget to take adequate rest and enjoy your lives, you're doing this for free, so we are not in the right place to demand when will the next chapter will come out. I'm really thankful.
I just found this novel because of the anime, and thank god I did cause I really love it, can't wait for the updates.
Thank you so much for translating this novel. I love it so much and never would have gotten the chance to read it – for the lack of any Chinese language skills ^^; Wish I could read Chinese as I prefer the OV if possible, but you're doing such a great job. Again: Thanks a lot!!!
P.S. Question: Will be be bundling the rest of the chapters (after ch. 45) in an epub edition, too?
Man, that would be so terrifying, having to dodge that! And the suspicions begin!


In 2016, Italian car giant, FIAT, launched their new entrant into the family car market and, at the same time, revived the Tipo name which was last seen on a new FIAT in the mid 1990's.
However, the new Tipo bears absolutely no resemblence to the model launched initially in 1988. A lot has changed in the intervening 30 years in terms of engineering, technology and safety, and the new Tipo was designed from the ground up with the task of offering excellent value for money.
The new FIAT Tipo is offered in 3 body styles – 5-door hatchback, 4-door saloon and 5-door estate for maximum practicality. Power is provided courtesy of 1.4-litre and 1.6-litre turbo-petrol engines (T-Jet) or 1.3-litre and 1.6-litre turbo diesels (Multi-Jet). Depending on the engine you choose, the 0-100km/h sprint can be completed in 9.6 to 12.1 seconds. A manual and an automatic gearbox are available in the new Tipo and a choice of solid or metallic colours complete the potential buyer's wish-list.
All models in the new FIAT Tipo range come extremely well equipped with items such as air-conditioning, remote central locking, ABS with EBD, electric windows front and rear, electric mirrors, front armrest, 60/40 split rear seats, drivers seat height adjustment, multiple airbags, chrome exterior door handles, body coloured bumpers and mirrors, auto-opening boot, Bluetooth, full size spare wheel and audio controls on the steering wheel. 'Easy' specification also includes front fog lights, leather steering wheel & gear knob, cruise control, rear parking sensors, chrome grille, 5' touchscreen with USB & AUX ports & DAB radio, 16" alloy wheels and LED daytime-running lights. The high-spec 'Lounge' model also comes with auto lights & wipers, automatic climate control, rear camera, auto dimming rearview mirror, chrome window surrounds & grille surround, satellite navigation and 17" alloy wheels. However, FIAT have now added a limited edition flagship 'S-Design' model in 5-door hatchback guise, which is based on the 'Lounge' specification but also benefits from Xenon headlights, 18" diamond-cut alloy wheels, body coloured door handles, passenger seat height adjustment, Techno leather seating with black fabric inserts and gloss-black door mirror casings & exterior trim. Available with either a 1.4-litre turbo-petrol or 1.6-litre turbo-diesel engine, the latest addition to the Tipo family injects a dash of sportiness to the hatchback range.
My test car was the new FIAT Tipo 5-door 1.4-litre 'T-Jet' petrol (120bhp) model in 'S-Design' specification and I could not believe the excellent value for money that this car offers. Taking design cues from FIAT's stunning 124 Spider Roadster, the new Tipo is graced with a sporty, wide front grille, flanked by stylish narrow headlights. The upright rear of the new Tipo hatchback provides excellent space within the car for passengers and their luggage. The 440-litre boot can be easily extended by dropping the rear seats to reveal a fully flat floor. FIAT's smooth petrol engine can sprint from 0-100km/h in just 9.6-seconds, while leading to a top speed (where permitted) of 199km/h. Fuel consumption from the petrol engine is as low as 5.0l/100km on an extra-urban driving cycle and as low as 3.3l/100km in diesel guise.
With ex-works prices starting from just €17,995 the new FIAT Tipo is a very welcome addition to the FIAT stable. The sporty 'S-Design' model can be yours for just €23,745 and represents outstanding value for money. For a limited time, all Tipo diesel models are equally priced with their petrol equivalents – a saving of €1,750, plus an additional 'welcome bonus' of up to €2,500 is available on selected petrol and diesel models – based on registrations made before July 31st, 2018. There has never been a better time to buy a new FIAT Tipo.
All-New Ford Focus – Visionary, Ingenious & Remarkable.
New Škoda Fabia 5-Door Monte Carlo 1.0-litre 110bhp – Simply Fabulous.


It doesn't matter if you're fly fishing for rainbow trout at Detroit Lake or waiting to catch a flight in Detroit, Michigan – with our Mobile Banking app, you can access your accounts from your smartphone wherever you may roam.
View our mobile deposit video tutorial on YouTube!
Mobile Banking requires that you are enrolled in our Internet Banking service first. To set up Internet Banking, you can enroll online, or come in to the branch and we would be happy to help you register your account.
And now, Bill Pay is available on Mobile Banking. Members will see this in their apps to download.
Delivery By Date is an estimated date the payment will be received by the payee. This date will show when members are making a bill payment on their mobile device.
Process Date is the date the item amount will be withdrawn from the member account. After the submit button has been clicked, the member will see the process date (withdrawal date from account) in the "Bill Pay History" tab.
NOTE: Any new payees will need to be created through Internet Banking, within seconds the new "Payee" will show up in the Mobile Bill Pay "Payee List."


Supermarket chain Tesco has announced plans to create and offer 20,000 new jobs to the public during the next two years.
The jobs will be created via the expansion of existing stores and by opening new ones throughout the UK.
The company already employs almost 300,000 people across the country. The new positions are thought to be both part-time and full-time.


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Midwest Lacrosse Conference
NCAA Lacrosse
LaxPower
USILA
Sabre men's lacrosse drops MLC opener in overtime
Marian (2-6, 0-1) 2 3 3 0 0 8
Monmouth (IL) (4-1, 2-0) 4 1 1 2 1 9
A: Mitch Perez - 1
Sv: Chase Cranford - 9
GB: Jeff Knapp - 9
A: Nick Klotz - 1
Sv: Gavin Taquino - 14
GB: Austin Finley - 6
MONMOUTH, Ill. - Marian University men's lacrosse (2-6, 0-1 MLC) led 8-6 heading into the fourth quarter but fell to Monmouth 9-8 in overtime.
The Scots took the early lead after scoring four goals in the first quarter. Jeremy Eisele found the back of the net twice in the opening stanza, the second assisted by Nick Klotz, as Marian trailed 4-2 heading into the second quarter.
It was in the second quarter where Marian found their offensive groove as they knotted the game at 5-5 heading into halftime. Nick Klotz, Eisele and Landen Macco all scored unassisted goals in the quarter, respectively.
Garrett Houlihan then paced the offense in the third quarter scoring three unassisted goals to give the Sabres an 8-6 advantage heading into the fourth quarter. The Scots battled back in the final quarter, however, scoring a pair of man-up goals to force overtime. Monmouth completed the comeback scoring with just 3:17 left in overtime to take home the win.
G. Houlihan's third quarter hat trick and a hat trick from Eisele paced the offense. Austin Finley led the Sabres with six ground balls, while Andrew Desilva also had five ground balls.
In goal, Gavin Taquino faced 23 shots making 14 saves for a 60.9-percent save percentage.
Marian plays their first home game in program history Wednesday, March 21 at 7 p.m. taking on Cornell.
--FightBlueFight--
Marian University was founded in 1936 by the Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes in Fond du Lac, Wis. The institution has one of the lowest student-faculty ratios in the state and strives to live its core values as a community committed to learning, dedicated to service and social justice and joined together by spiritual traditions. Marian offers undergraduate, adult, masters and doctoral degree programs at its main campus and in facilities throughout Wisconsin.


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Q: Induction heating An induction cooktop has a high frequency power source that is applied to a coil. I was wondering if you could take the high frequency electronics on a cooktop and instead of a coil take a 30 or 90 foot long wire and attach to rebar to heat it to a temperature of only about 30 degrees Celsius?

A: This is really an engineering question - but ultimately, it comes down to two questions:

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*What is the impedance of the system you propose - and is it similar to the impedance that the electronics was designed for?

*Is the power that the electronics generates sufficient to heat the rebar (that really depends on the mechanism for cooling the rebar... if it's in still air, it probably won't lose a lot of heat when it's only 10°C hotter than the environment).

The key here is that most rebar is ferromagnetic - which means that the skin effect is very strong, and the RF current will flow in just the surface so that the impedance is quite high. But without a lot more details, one cannot say anything with certainty. And once you have the details, you're firmly in engineering territory.

A: Certainly.  You could do it with a single turn and scan progressively or multi-turn and heat statically.  Face hardening of valve faces or cams on a cam shaft are examples of it being done commercially. In those cases they achieve over 850 C.  In your case you would need only a few watts.  Obviously you must insulate the wire from the bar.

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Navy League presents scholarships
By by The Garden Island | Thursday, May 3, 2007, 12 a.m.
The Navy League of the United States, Kaua'i Council, awarded its yearly scholarships at a recent presentation. This year $2,500 was given for two essays. The first place award of $1,500 went to Brooke Tagupa of Kaua'i High School. Second
The Navy League of the United States, Kaua'i Council, awarded its yearly scholarships at a recent presentation. This year $2,500 was given for two essays. The first place award of $1,500 went to Brooke Tagupa of Kaua'i High School. Second place award of $1,000 went to Kelli Okamoto of Kapa'a High School.
The subject matter of the yearly essays is often daunting but the students who participate and win do a fine job in their research and writing. This year's essay was entitled "Wings of Gold, Naval Aviation in the 21st Century."
Those who judge the essays often learn a great deal about naval subjects through the research of the young essayists.
Brooke and Kelli were joined by their families for the presentation event. Brooke shared the day with her mother and father, Leona and Sixto Tagupa and her grandmother, Marcela Maximo. Kelli was with mother and father, Nellie and Charlie Okamoto.
Sandy Gage, scholarship chairman, presented the scholarships at a luncheon at Kaua'i Community College prepared by the Culinary Department at KCC.
Lei serious business on May Day
Outstanding Older American to be named today


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namespace iem {

using ClientRequest = boost::network::http::client::request;
using ClientResponse = boost::network::http::client::response;

// IEM HTTP session. Session requires a username and password at construction,
// and any account specific requests for IEM require a session object. Session
// must perform an authentication before any other requests can be made. Logout
// is not required, but encouraged.
// Example:
//   Session s("username", "password);
//   s.authenticate();
//   ...
//   s.logout();
class Session {
 public:
  // IEM Session requires username and password at construction
  Session(const std::string& username, const std::string& password);
  // Session is unique and therefore cannot be copied, but moves are acceptable
//  Session(const Session&) = delete;
//  Session operator=(const Session&) = delete;

  // Don't throw exception on destruction!
//  ~Session() {
//    if (this->cookie_ != "") {
//      this->logout();
//    }
//  }

  inline const std::string username() const { return username_; }
  inline const std::string password() const { return password_; }
  inline const std::string cookie() const { return cookie_; }

  // Request a session cookie. This must be called before any other session
  // calls. If a valid session exists, then this method will request a session
  // that invalidates the existing one
  const ClientResponse authenticate();

  // Requests that the current session cookie be invalidated
  const ClientResponse logout();

  // Requests orderbook information for the specified market
  const std::vector<OrderBook> orderbook(const Market& market);

  // Requests position change messages for the specific contract
  const std::vector<HoldingMessage> holdings(const Contract& contract);

  // Requests outstanding orders for the specified contract and side
  const SingleOrders outstanding_orders(const Contract& contract,
                                        const Side& side);

  // Request to place a single market or limit order
  const ClientResponse place_order(const Single& order);

  // Request to place a fixed or market price bundle order
  const ClientResponse place_order(const Bundle& order);

  // Request to cancel a single limit order. Order must have its id set.
  const ClientResponse cancel_order(const Single& order);

  // Returns a list of new trader messages for the specified market. New is
  // defined as all messages since remove_messages(...) was last called.
  const std::vector<TraderMessage> messages(const Market& market);

  // Clears the list of new trader messages for the specified market.
  const auto remove_messages(const Market& market);

  // Returns a list of trader messages for the specified market.
  const std::vector<TraderMessage> portfolio(const Market& market);

 private:
  std::string login(const bool force_login);
  ClientRequest market_client_request(const Market &market,
                                      const std::string &query);

  const std::string username_;
  const std::string password_;
  // TODO(rheineke): Cookie and client should be wrapped (each?) in a mutex
  std::string cookie_;
  boost::network::http::client client_;
};

// snprintf function for a session object
int snprintf_session(char* const str, const Session& s);

// Unique session with a custom deleter to automatically log out
using UniqueSession = std::unique_ptr<const Session,
                                      void (*)(const Session* const)>;

UniqueSession make_unique_session(const std::string& username,
                                  const std::string& password);

// Private functions exposed for unit testing
const std::vector<OrderBook> _read_orderbooks_html(const std::string &body,
                                                   const Market& market);

Price _parse_price(const std::string &px_str);

position_t _parse_quantity(const std::string &qty_str);

const ClientRequest _single_order_request(const Single &order);

}  // namespace iem

#endif  // CPPIEM_IEM_SESSION_HPP_


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KCAL Gospel Showcase returns to help housing-insecure JCS students
Published 10:41 am Thursday, December 1, 2022
Along with America's housing prices, the rate of unhoused Americans continues to rise. According to their count, there are currently 341 students who classify as homeless in Jessamine County Schools (JCS). Each year, KCAL Old Time Radio staff, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, comes together to help these students with a gospel showcase.
Homeless Liaison of Jessamine County Schools (JCS), Shainey Marcus, said that the average age of unhoused people in America is nine years old. JCS does receive some funding for Title I schools, which are schools with high poverty rates. But, schools can only use these funds for academic purposes. Only a minimal amount is set aside for the welfare of students.
Marcus says most kids aren't just out on the street or in shelters. It can be unsafe for women and children in abandoned buildings, shelters, and cars. So, these groups will often double up with friends, family, and "well-meaning citizens." according to Marcus. "Kids will find kids to hang out with."
The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, labels many situations as homelessness. At JCS, 300 of the 341 children double up with other families. 26 JCS students are in hotels and motels. Two students have been at the JCS homeless shelter since moving out. Fifteen of their students are in unsheltered situations- in a car, a camper, abandoned buildings, or condemned buildings.
In the fall of 2019, Doug Fain, the director, and producer at KCAL Old Time Radio, interviewed Marcus on WNJK 105.9 and decided to adopt the JCS homeless program permanently. This means that from then on, KCAL gives all proceeds from the gospel showcase to the homeless program at JCS.
Marcus said that even when families find housing, they could be evicted soon after from having to pay for essentials, which can keep families from being able to rent.
"They'll need things like simple things like you, and I have all the time we don't think about it," Marcus said. These families move in, and besides food, they need essentials like utensils, oil, and milk. "If you've been homeless for quite some time, or you've had to live with someone else, you move into a place with nothing generally."
Unlike Title I federal monies, donations can go towards helping families with children and unaccompanied children with necessities. It can be the difference between walking to school in flip-flops on a Winter day or being able to stay warm.
"This year. [Shainey] told me there was a young lady who was, I guess, a senior at one of our high schools, living in her car. She was alone. She called Shainey one day frantic because her tire had blown out, and she didn't have a way to get to school, and she didn't know what to do. So they put new tires on her car so she could get around. That's our money that helped her do that," Fain said. "You know, they've done all kinds of things like that with this cash. And we are so excited to hear these stories. It's very sad. But it makes us feel really good, and all the people who donate it because we know we did it. And we did it with a night that everybody loves."
So far, Fain and the KCAL team have raised $15,000 for these students. Even through COVID, the group hosted the gospel showcase on Facebook Live, raising about $4,000. When the event was back in person last year, the showcase raised more than $5,000, the highest amount they've raised in a single show thus far.
Everything that goes into the gospel showcase is donated: the performers' time, the work of the KCAL team and other volunteers, the posters, the Jessamine Christian Church space, and the audio equipment.
The show's performance centers around Jesus Christ but welcomes everyone. This year, there will be 14 performances, and each one will perform two songs.
"We've got Roger Garrison, the song leader at church in Lexington, who does more of the traditional hymns. Whereas Mario sings more contemporary stuff, Billy Holland sings songs he wrote on his own. Two for the Cross is more country. You know, the genre is there. Nero's Fiddle is Appalachian. They use a dulcimer and stuff. I mean, it's completely different sounds, and everybody enjoys everything," Fain said.
The show starts at 7 p.m. on Friday, December 2, at the Jessamine Christian Church on 130 Courchelle Drive. The event is free, but Fain encourages donations during intermission. Fain said the showcase is always a packed house. Those who plan to attend should be there earlier than 7 p.m. The proceeds will be given directly to Marcus and Superintendent Matt Moore at the show's end.
Marcus said much of the donations from the show will go towards buying gifts for teens who usually get left out of holiday gift donations. She will also spend donations on warm clothes and help children in emergencies. "Like we had these two children, they were small little girls in elementary school; they were fleeing a violent situation in Florida, they were living in a camper here and had no clothes, they had no winter clothes at all. So we bought them like, you know, little boots and coats and because they came with nothing." Marcus said.


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Q: Error reading raster tiles into R I'm getting an error when merging raster tiles inside a custom function.  The following code works every time:
files = list.files("data_folder/")
tiles = list()
for(f in files) tiles = c(tiles, list(raster(readGDAL(paste0(dir,f)), layer=1, values=T)))
ras = do.call(merge, tiles)

But when I try to run this inside a function:
read_and_merge_rasters = function(dir){
  files = list.files(dir)
  tiles = list()
  for(f in files) tiles = c(tiles, list(raster(readGDAL(paste0(dir,f)), layer=1, values=T)))
  return(do.call(merge, tiles))
}

.. it reads the files in ok (confirmed by print report) but then fails with the error: Error in as.data.frame.default(x) :
  cannot coerce class "structure("RasterLayer", package = "raster")" to a data.frame
I can't think where/why as.data.frame is being called.  Any idea why this is happening?  Thanks in advance.

A: You can try this approach (not tested, since you didn't not provide a reproductible example).
read_and_merge_rasters <- function(dir) {
    library(raster)
    files <- list.files(dir, full.names = TRUE)
    tiles <- lapply(files, raster)
    do.call(merge, tiles)
}

You also have check that your differents raster in your directory are comparable (extent, origin and resolution).

A: There are multiple merge functions. do.call will tend to send it to merge for data.frames unless you set the names of the first two arguments:
tiles <- lapply(files, raster)
names(tiles)[1:2] <- c('x', 'y')
x <- do.call(merge, tiles)


E-3 AEW (Airborne Early Warning) aircraft require aerial refuel to extend their on-station time.
The following video shows a U.S. KC-135 Stratotanker with the 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron, refueling a RAF E-3D Sentry over Iraq.
Both aircraft were involved in missions in support of Operation Inherent Resolve and the fight against the terrorist group ISIL.
Even though E-3s perform AAR quite regularly, the size of both the refueler and the receiver make the operation a bit more difficult, at least according to Sentry pilots.
A few years ago we posted a video of a NATO E-3A that almost hit the tail of the tanker and its flying boom during air-to-air refueling operations.
In that case, the AWACS came within a few meters from the KC-135 and performed a quite aggressive evasive maneuver pulling several negative g-forces to gain quick separation from the refueler.