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US the biggest threat to world peace in 2013 – poll
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The US has been voted as the most significant threat to world peace in a survey across 68 different countries. Anti-American sentiment was not only recorded in antagonistic countries, but also in many allied NATO partners like Turkey and Greece…. Read More ›
Korean Central News Agency Press Release on the Execution of Jang Song Thaek
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South Korea moves to ban pro-North party
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A far left-wing South Korean political party could be banned from contesting elections for its pro-North Korean stance in a move critics say smacks of President Park Geun-hye's father's suppression of democracy during his long stay in power. The Unified… Read More ›
What it's like to spend a night in a North Korean house
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North Korean homestay offers unparalleled scenery, interaction with locals BY SUSAN AHN A state-owned "homestay" program on North Korea's Chilbo Mountain invites foreigners to eat, sleep and experience the local lifestyle. Chilbo Mountain is located in the nation's northernmost North Hamgyong… Read More ›
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SEOUL – North Korea on Sunday angrily denied reports that it had executed several state performers to cover up the past of its first lady, calling the media accounts an "unpardonable" crime. The denial came a day after the North… Read More ›
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Son Jong-hun has spent 11 years in South Korea, but despairs over the treatment of North Koreans here BY HYOWON SHIN SEOUL – A North Korean defector and activist –– who has spent more than a decade in Seoul –– plans… Read More ›
S. Korea hits Pyongyang with 'final proposal' on Kaesong industrial zone
Seoul is set to close all production lines in the troubled Kaesong industrial zone if negotiations with Pyongyang bring no positive fruit. Suspended production in Kaesong has left 53,000 North Koreans jobless and caused $935 million losses to business. After… Read More ›
Red lines and other double standards
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By Stephen Gowans According to the White House, Israel has the right to defend itself (1). I would argue that it doesn't. Based on the theft of another people's land and denial of their right to return to the homes… Read More ›
North Korea removes missiles from launch sites
In a sudden de-escalation of tension on the Korean Peninsula, Pyongyang has removed two of its ballistic missile units from their launching positions, US officials confirmed. Two Musudan missiles, capable of hitting targets 2,500 miles away, were withdrawn from a… Read More ›
Editorial: Why North Korea Needs Nuclear Weapons
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By Stephen Gowans Is North Korea's recent nuclear test, its third, to be welcomed, lamented or condemned? It depends on your perspective. If you believe that a people should be able to organize their affairs free from foreign domination and… Read More ›
An Interview with North Koreans
by Stansfield Smith I recently returned from a late March trip to North Korea [Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK)], along with 45 others, through Koryo Tours. On that tour I had the opportunity to discuss with the Korean tour guides… Read More ›
DPRK's "State of War" Declaration Is a Faulty Translation: Not an Official Policy Statement from Kim Jung Un
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C. Vann Woodward
Comer Vann Woodward
(1908-11-13)November 13, 1908
Vanndale, Arkansas, U.S.
Hamden, Connecticut, U.S.
Columbia University (M.A.)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Ph.D.)
Bancroft Prize (1952)
Pulitzer Prize for History (1982)
Johns Hopkins University (1946–1962)
Doctoral advisor
Howard K. Beale
Notable students
Barbara J. Fields, Sheldon Hackney, Steven Hahn, Richard J. Jensen, James M. McPherson, Edward L. Ayers
Comer Vann Woodward (November 13, 1908 – December 17, 1999) was a Pulitzer-prize winning American historian focusing primarily on the American South and race relations. He was long a supporter of the approach of Charles A. Beard, stressing the influence of unseen economic motivations in politics. Stylistically, he was a master of irony and counterpoint. Woodward was on the left end of the history profession in the 1930s. By the 1950s he was a leading liberal and supporter of civil rights. His demonstration that racial segregation was a late 19th century invention rather than some sort of eternal standard made his The Strange Career of Jim Crow into "the historical Bible of the civil rights movement", said Martin Luther King Jr. After attacks on him by the New Left in the late 1960s, he moved to the right politically.[1]
1 Early life and education
2.1 The Strange Career of Jim Crow
2.2 Origins of the New South, 1877–1913
2.3 Appointments, teaching and awards
3 Move to the Right
4 Death and legacy
5.2 Major journal articles
C. Vann Woodward was born in Vanndale, a town named after his mother's family and the county seat from 1886–1903. It was in Cross County in eastern Arkansas. Woodward attended high school in Morrilton, Arkansas. He attended Henderson-Brown College, a small Methodist school in Arkadelphia, for two years. In 1930 he transferred to Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where his uncle was dean of students and professor of sociology. After graduating, he taught English composition for two years at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. There he met Will W. Alexander, head of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, and J. Saunders Redding, a historian at Atlanta University.[2]
Woodward enrolled in graduate school at Columbia University in 1931 and received his M.A. from that institution in 1932. In New York, Woodward met, and was influenced by, W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, and other figures who were associated with the Harlem Renaissance movement. After receiving his master's degree in 1932, Woodward worked for the defense of Angelo Herndon, a young African-American Communist Party member who had been accused of subversive activities. He also traveled to the Soviet Union and Germany in 1932.[3]
He did graduate work in history and sociology at the University of North Carolina. He was granted a Ph.D. in history in 1937, using as his dissertation the manuscript he had already finished on Thomas E. Watson. Woodward's dissertation director was Howard K. Beale, a Reconstruction specialist who promoted the Beardian economic interpretation of history that deemphasized ideology and ideas and stressed material self-interest as a motivating factor.[4]
In World War II, Woodward served in the Navy, assigned to write the history of major battles. His The Battle for Leyte Gulf (1947) became the standard study of the largest naval battle in history.
Woodward, starting out on the left politically, wanted to use history to explore dissent. He approached W. E. B. Du Bois about writing about him, and thought of following his biography of Watson with one of Eugene V. Debs.[5] He picked Georgia politician Tom Watson, who in the 1890s was a populist leader focusing the anger and hatred of poor whites against the establishment, banks, railroads and businessmen. Watson in 1908 was the presidential candidate of the Populist Party, but this time was the leader in mobilizing the hatred of the same poor whites against blacks, and a promoter of lynching.[6][7]
The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Woodward's most influential book was The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955), which explained that segregation was a relatively late development and was not inevitable. After the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education, in spring 1954, Woodward gave the Richards Lectures at the University of Virginia. The lectures were published in 1955 as The Strange Career of Jim Crow.[8] With Woodward in the audience in Montgomery, Alabama, in March 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr. proclaimed the book "the historical bible of the Civil Rights Movement."[1] It reached a large popular audience and helped shape the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
Jim Crow laws, Woodward argued, were not part of the immediate aftermath of Reconstruction; they came later and were not inevitable. Following the Compromise of 1877, in the 1870s and 1880s there were localized informal practices of racial separation in some areas of society along with what he termed "forgotten alternatives" in others. Finally the 1890s saw white southerners "capitulate to racism" to create "legally prescribed, rigidly enforced, state-wide Jim Crowism."[9]
Origins of the New South, 1877–1913
Scholars especially praised Origins of the New South, 1877–1913, which was published in 1951 by Louisiana State University Press in a prominent multivolume history of the South. It combined the Beardian theme of economic forces shaping history, and the Faulknerian tone of tragedy and declension. He insisted on the discontinuity of the era, and rejected both the romantic ante-bellum popular images of the Lost Cause School as well as the overoptimistic business boosterism of the New South Creed. Sheldon Hackney, a Woodward student, hails the book, explaining:[10]
Of one thing we may be certain at the outset. The durability of Origins of the New South is not a result of its ennobling and uplifting message. It is the story of the decay and decline of the aristocracy, the suffering and betrayal of the poor whites, and the rise and transformation of a middle class. It is not a happy story. The Redeemers are revealed to be as venal as the carpetbaggers.
The declining aristocracy are ineffectual and money hungry, and in the last analysis they subordinated the values of their political and social heritage in order to maintain control over the black population. The poor whites suffered from strange malignancies of racism and conspiracy-mindedness, and the rising middle class was timid and self-interested even in its reform movement. The most sympathetic characters in the whole sordid affair are simply those who are too powerless to be blamed for their actions.
Appointments, teaching and awards
Woodward taught at Johns Hopkins University from 1946 to 1961.[11] He became Sterling Professor of History at Yale from 1961 to 1977, where he taught both graduate students and undergraduates. He did much writing but little original research at Yale, writing frequent essays for such outlets as the New York Review of Books.[12] He directed scores of PhD dissertations, including those by John W. Blassingame; former chair of the African American studies program at Yale; Daniel W. Crofts, former chair of the History Department at The College of New Jersey; James M. McPherson; Patricia Nelson Limerick, Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder; Michel Wayne, Professor of History at the University of Toronto; Steven Hahn, Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania; John Herbert Roper, Richardson Chair of American History at Emory & Henry College; and David L. Carlton, Professor of History at Vanderbilt University.
In 1974, the United States House Committee on the Judiciary asked Woodward for an historical study of misconduct in previous administrations and how the Presidents responded. Woodward led a group of fourteen historians and they produced a 400-page report in less than four months, Responses of the Presidents to Charges of Misconduct.
In 1978 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected Woodward for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities. His lecture, entitled "The European Vision of America,"[13] was later incorporated into his book The Old World's New World.[14]
Woodward won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for Mary Chesnut's Civil War, an edited version of Mary Chesnut's Civil War diary. He won the Bancroft Prize for Origins of the New South.
Move to the Right
Peter Novick says, "Vann Woodward was always very conflicted about the "presentism" of his work. He alternated between denying it, qualifying it, and apologizing for it."[15] British historian Michael O'Brien, the editor of Woodward's letters in 2013, says that by the 1970s:
He became greatly troubled by the rise of the black power movement, disliked affirmative action, never came to grips with feminism, mistrusted what came to be known as "theory," and became a strong opponent of multiculturalism and "political correctness."[16]
In 1969, as president of the American Historical Association, Woodward led the fight to defeat a proposal by New Left historians to politicize the organization. He wrote his daughter afterwards, "The preparations paid off and I had pretty well second-guessed the Rads on every turn."[17]
In 1975-6 Woodward led the unsuccessful fight at Yale to block the temporary appointment of Communist historian Herbert Aptheker to teach a course.[18] Radicals denounced his actions but a joint committee of the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association exonerated the process and found that there was no evidence that political criteria had been used. In 1987 he joined the conservative scholars who made up the National Association of Scholars, a group explicitly opposed to the academic Left. Woodward wrote a favorable review in the New York Review of Books of Dinesh D'Souza's Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus. It said that Duke University used racial criteria when it hired John Hope Franklin; Franklin and Woodward publicly feuded.[19] Hackney says, "Woodward became an open critic of political correctness and in other ways appeared to have shifted his seat at the political table."[20]
C. Vann Woodward died in Hamden, Connecticut in 1999.
The Southern Historical Association has established the C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize, awarded annually to the best dissertation on Southern history. There is a Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Chair of History at Yale; it is now held by southern historian Glenda Gilmore. (Peter was Woodward's son, who died at age 25 in 1969.[21])
Tom Watson, Agrarian Rebel (1938)
The Battle for Leyte Gulf (1947, new ed. 1965)
Origins of the New South, 1877–1913 (1951) borrow for 14 days
Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction (1951, rev. ed. 1991)
The Strange Career of Jim Crow. (1st ed. February 1955; 2nd ed. August 1965; 3rd ed. NY:Oxford University Press, 1974). ISBN 978-0-19-501805-9. borrow for 14 days
The Age of Reinterpretation (1961). pamphlet
The Burden of Southern History (1955; 3rd ed. 1993) at archive.org
The Comparative Approach to American History (1968), editor
American Counterpoint (1971). essays
Mary Chesnut's Civil War (1981), editor. Pulitzer prize.
Oxford History of the United States (1982–2018), series editor.
The Private Mary Chestnut: The Unpublished Civil War Diaries (1984) edited, with Elizabeth Muhlenfeld.
Thinking Back: The Perils of Writing History (Louisiana State University Press, 1986). memoirs
The Old World's New World (1991). lectures
The Letters of C. Vann Woodward. edited by Michael O'Brien, (Yale University Press, 2013)
Major journal articles
"Tom Watson and the Negro in Agrarian Politics". Journal of Southern History, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Feb., 1938), pp. 14–33.
"The Irony of Southern History". Journal of Southern History, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Feb., 1953), pp. 3–19.
"The Political Legacy of Reconstruction". Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 26, No. 3, The Negro Voter in the South (Summer, 1957), pp. 231–240.
"The Age of Reinterpretation". American Historical Review, Vol. 66, No. 1 (Oct., 1960), pp. 1–19.
"Seeds of Failure in Radical Race Policy". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 110, No. 1 (Feb. 18, 1966), pp. 1–9.
"History and the Third Culture". Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 3, No. 2, Reappraisals (Apr., 1968), pp. 23–35.
"The Southern Ethic in a Puritan World". William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Jul., 1968), pp. 344–370.
"Clio With Soul". Journal of American History, Vol. 56, No. 1 (June, 1969), pp. 5–20.
"The Future of the Past". American Historical Review, Vol. 75, No. 3 (Feb., 1970), pp. 711–726.
"The Erosion of Academic Privileges and Immunities". Daedalus, Vol. 103, No. 4, (Fall, 1974), pp. 33–37.
"The Aging of America". American Historical Review, Vol. 82, No. 3 (Jun., 1977), pp. 583–594.
"The Fall of the American Adam". Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Nov., 1981), pp. 26–34.
"Strange Career Critics: Long May they Persevere". Journal of American History, Vol. 75, No. 3 (Dec., 1988), pp. 857–868.
"Look Away, Look Away". Journal of Southern History, Vol. 59, No. 3 (Aug., 1993), pp. 487–504.
^ a b Hackney, 2009
^ John Herbert Roper, C. Vann Woodward: Southerner (1987) ch 1–2
^ Roper, C. Vann Woodward (1987) ch 3
^ Hackney, (2009)
^ C. Vann Woodward, "Tom Watson and the Negro in agrarian politics." Journal of Southern History 4#1 (1938): 14–33. in JSTOR
^ Woodward, Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel (Macmillan, 1938).
^ Roper, C. Vann Woodward, pp 171–200
^ Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1974 edition), page xii.
^ Hackney (1972) p. 191
^ Roper, C. Vann Woodward (1987) pp 134–135, 141
^ Roper, C. Vann Woodward (1987) p 197
^ Jefferson Lecturers at NEH Website (retrieved January 22, 2009).
^ C. Vann Woodward, The Old World's New World (Oxford University Press, 1991), ISBN 978-0-19-506451-3.
^ Peter Novick, That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession (1988) p 359
^ Michael O'Brien, ed., The Letters of C. Vann Woodward (2013) p. xl
^ Hackney, 2009, p 32
^ Roper, C. Vann Woodward (1987) pp 268–284
^ John Hope Franklin, Mirror To America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin (2005), pp 325–328.
^ Woodward, Susan Lampland. "In Memoriam: Pete Woodward". Yale University Class of 1964. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
Boles, John B., and Bethany L. Johnson, eds. Origins of the New South Fifty Years Later (2003), articles by scholars online review
Ferrell, Robert. "C. Vann Woodward" in Clio's Favorites: Leading Historians of the United States, 1945–2000. ed by Robert Allen Rutland; (2000) pp 170–81
Hackney, Sheldon. "Origins of the New South in Retrospect," Journal of Southern History (1972) 38#2 pp. 191–216 in JSTOR
Hackney, Sheldon. "C. Vann Woodward: 13 November 1908 – 17 December 1999," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (2001) 145#2 pp 233–240 in JSTOR
Hackney, Sheldon. "C. Vann Woodward, Dissenter," Historically Speaking (2009) 10#1 pp. 31–34 in Project MUSE
Kousser, J. Morgan and James McPherson, eds. Religion, Race and Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward (1982), festschrift of articles; also lists most of his PhD students
Lerner, Mitchell, "Conquering the Hearts of the People: Lyndon Johnson, C. Vann Woodward, and 'The Irony of Southern History,'" Southwestern Historical Quarterly 115 (Oct. 2011), 155–71.
Potter, David M. "C. Vann Woodward," in Pastmasters: Some Essays on American Historians, ed. Marcus Cunliffe and Robin W. Winks (1969).
Rabinowitz, Howard N. "More Than the Woodward Thesis: Assessing The Strange Career of Jim Crow," Journal of American History (1988) 75#3 pp 842–856. in JSTOR
Woodward, C. Vann. "Strange Career Critics: Long May They Persevere," Journal of American History (1988) 75#3 pp 857–868. a reply to Rabinowitz, in JSTOR
Roper, John Herbert. C. Vann Woodward, Southerner (1987), biography
Roper, John Herbert, ed. C. Vann Woodward: A Southern Historian and His Critics (1997) essays about Woodward
Woodward Papers at Yale with short biography
Oral History Interview with C. Vann Woodward from Oral Histories of the American South
Obituary and interview with Woodward's student, James McPherson, 24 December 1999 David Walsh on the World Socialist Web Site


The movement of the light over 20 minutes.
I've written about it before. I'll write about it again. Twice each year, we witness an alignment of light on a hallway niche soon after dawn. The next full alignment will be in about 10 days, but already the circle of light touches the niche for the first time since last October.
It happens every fall, this week, probably this day. I see it coming, even months ahead. As the day nears, I watch each morning – how soon? This morning, I first woke at 6am. I wanted to get up then. Lucky made me a morning person, against all odds, but cold, like the grave, is stronger than either of us. I looked at the clock again at 7:46am. When 7:47am clicked over, I got up and stepped out into the hall at the perfect moment, the moment of alignment.
How many times a day do we fail to see these moments when light strikes a mundane spot, turning it into an altar? I observe this special moment each fall, a week before Halloween, and again, each spring, about a week after Valentine's Day.
Nature's part in this display exceeds the other parts, but a sequence of steps brought this together. The house built with a door facing east, like half the houses on the block. The niche for a telephone and a laughably thin phone book. The door, added later, with a narrow window at just the right height, just the right shape. The glass pane with two blue spots, a gift from a bridesmaid, added years later to cover that narrow window. The katchina which largely replaced the chaotic clutter I contribute, the little treasures I handle daily and the older stuff I can't let go of. All made sacred by 30 seconds of light twice a year. I'm grateful to bear witness.
For the first time (in 2009), the circle is notched in the upper-left by one of the bars on our new security door, the latest addition to the layers. The gap marks the inevitability of change and loss.
First published 10/25/09. Updated 10/26/10. On 10/26/10, I took the first photos at 7:47am — true story. Seems to be the magic moment.


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Who Invented the Microscope?
Person Inventing Microscope
Hans and Zacharias Janssen
Hans Lippershey
Motivation Behind the Invention of the Microscope
What Did the First Microscope Look Like?
How Long Did It Take for Scientific Application
A microscope is a helpful tool that allows users to look at magnified objects at a cellular or even molecular level.
There are a few different kinds of microscopes, but the invention of the compound microscope is what started it all.
The invention of microscopes paved the way for future scientists to learn more about how the body works and discover life-saving theories such as the germ theory of disease.
While this instrument has played a vital role in science, there is some controversy over how this helpful instrument came to be and who invented the microscope.
This article will cover who first invented the microscope and explain why two names always come up when it comes to that topic.
We will also discuss the motivation behind the invention of the microscope and what it first looked like.
Finally, this article will cover how long it took for the tool to be used in scientific applications.
The microscope is a principal instrument in science, and credit is due to the inventor of this helpful tool. So who invented the microscope?
When it comes to who invented the first microscope, there are typically two names that come up.
Due to conflicting evidence, there is no concrete answer on who exactly invented the microscope.
This section will look at the two men that historians believe to have had a big role in inventing the microscope: Zacharias Janssen and Hans Lippershey.
Most historians credit Zacharias Janssen, a spectacle maker, as the inventor of the first compound microscope in 1590.
However, since he was only a teen at the time, historians also believe that his father, Hans Janssen, played a big role in the invention.
Hans Janssen was also a spectacle maker at the time, running a business in Middleburg, Holland.
During that period, many people were familiar with optics and lenses and used them daily.
For this reason, spectacle makers spent a lot of time and devotion on optics research, leading to the invention of the microscope.
Hans Lippershey was a spectacle maker and was from the United Netherlands.
While many historians credit him with inventing the telescope, others believe he also had a hand in inventing the first compound microscope.
At around the same time as Hans and Zacharias Janssen, Hans Lippershey also invented a device similar to theirs, which resembled the compound microscope.
While a man named William Boreel claimed that Lippershey stole the Janssen's ideas, historians do not necessarily believe this account since Boreel may have been biased.
There is also no evidence that Lippershey stole ideas.
Now that we know who invented the microscope let's dive into the motivation behind the invention.
Before microscopes, there was no easy way for people to study objects close-up other than using a simple magnifying glass.
However, a whole new world of possibilities emerged with the invention of the microscope.
Humans are curious creatures by nature. Presumably, one of the main motivations for the invention of the microscope was curiosity, a longing to understand how things work.
The first compound microscope could magnify objects up to ten times.
While this number is quite low compared to modern microscopes, scientists could start a lot of new research with this helpful tool.
While it took a while for more competent microscopes to emerge in mainstream research, researchers in the 17th century used microscopes to study things like insects and even bacteria.
While we cannot ask Zacharias Janssen or Hans Lippershey why they invented this optical instrument, we can assume that the tool came to be to study the world more in-depth.
One of the most important things that microscopes allowed scientists to do is learn more about diseases and how the body works.
The vital information they learned through the use of microscopes would eventually save countless lives.
The first compound microscope that Janssen invented in the 1590s looked a lot different than modern microscopes today.
Instead of a complex machine that is typically quite heavy to carry, the first microscope was simply a handheld cylinder tube.
The instrument contained three draw tubes (a tube within another tube) and separate lenses inserted into each end of the microscopes flanking tubes.
Much like regular microscopes today, this tool had an eyepiece lens and an objective lens.
The eyepiece lens on Janssen's first microscope was bi-convex; these lenses were quite common for the time.
However, the objective lens was a more complex piece since it was a plano-convex lens. These lenses were uncommon in the late 16th century.
As mentioned above, this instrument was a handheld device since it was simply a single tube.
To focus this tool, you would have to slide the drawtube until it produced a clear picture; you could slide it in or out to do so.
If you slid the drawtube fully out, the device would magnify the object by ten times. On the other hand, if the microscope was not fully extended, it produced a magnification level of three.
While there are no original models of the first microscope around today, it is obvious by the description that the first microscope looked drastically different from the modern compound microscopes we use today.
The first microscope that Zacharias Janssen invented was impressive for its time. However, the tool had quite a few limitations. First of all, the image quality was very low.
Even though the tool could magnify objects up to ten times, the image that the tool produced was blurry and obscure.
For this reason, it took some time for scientists to start using microscopes regularly for scientific application.
Developers needed some time to master the design and produce a better product that could handle higher resolutions.
It took around 100 years for the microscope to become widespread in use. It wasn't until the late 1600s that a more competent microscope appeared in mainstream science.
The newer microscopes that appeared during this time had much higher resolutions and magnification levels.
For instance, some microscopes could magnify objects and specimens up to 270 times.
When these new microscopes started to appear, scientists around the world started to use the instruments for scientific application.
In 1667, a man named Robert Hooke, a natural scientist used a microscope to study various small insects, plants, and other specimens.
With the help of a strong microscope, he published a book called "Micrographia," which included dozens of hand-drawn pictures of organisms he observed.
The book was one of the first prominent movements in science due to microscopy, with many more discoveries to come throughout the years.
When asking who invented the microscope, historians often attribute the invention to Zacharias Janssen and Hans Lippershey.
While there is no concrete evidence regarding who first invented the compound microscope, both men are believed to have played crucial roles in the development of the instrument.
Before the invention of the microscope, people could only use a magnifying glass to study specimens up close. However, these small tools were not enough to satisfy human curiosity.
With the development of microscopes, scientists could learn more about diseases, plants, insects, and other things like how the body works.
The first microscope looked a lot different than modern microscopes. The compound microscope designed by Zacharias Janssen was a hand-held tube-looking device.
Like modern instruments, the first compound microscope had an eyepiece lens and an objective lens.
Since the first compound microscope had low resolution and often produced blurry images, it took about 100 years for people to use them for scientific application.
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Commission of Inquiry
BVI will be financially covered if another disaster hits
in All News / By: Davion Smith on April 13, 2018 at 7:31 AM /
Premier Dr D Orlando Smith
The British Virgin Islands will have quick access to needed funds for recovery if another natural disaster devastates the territory.
This will become possible through the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF SPC); an organisation in which the BVI is working to become a member.
The CCRIF SPC is a regional catastrophe fund created for Caribbean and Central American governments, to limit the financial impacts of devastating natural disasters.
The organisation helps to mitigate cash-flow problems in disaster-affected countries, and offers coverage for hurricanes, earthquakes, cyclones, excess rainfall, among other disasters.
Ready for 2018
Premier Dr D Orlando Smith told journalists on Thursday that he anticipates the BVI will become a member country of the CCRIF SPC in time for the upcoming hurricane season that begins June 1. He said the territory will be eligible for funds from the CCRIF SPC if a disaster hits this year.
"We are at the moment having a discussion with the organisation and I'm sure it (a membership agreement) will soon be accomplished," said Premier Smith at a media conference yesterday, April 12.
This is welcomed news for the BVI, which was determined to be 'too rich' to benefit from UK financial assistance after Hurricane Irma last year.
This subsequently retarded the BVI's recovery process during the initial stages.
Since then, however, international authorities have amended its policy so countries like the BVI can receive assistance when it is affected by a 'catastrophic humanitarian crisis'.
Meanwhile, current member countries in the CCRIF SPC include Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Nicaragua, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines, Trinidad & Tobago, and Turks & Caicos Islands.
Editor's Note: The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility is a 'segregated portfolio company' so it has opted to add the letters 'SPC' to its abbreviated name, CCRIF
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So why we only now doing this?
@Wes says:
Because everyone in Government fighting to be the leader and playing politics while the country suffer. All the noise we heard in HOA weeks ago we didn't hear one solution or precautionary measure from the grumbling members, just a bunch of hogwash. These are the things we want to hear from our leaders about not the other petty power fighting nonsense.
I agree. Just a bunch of grandstanding and BS-ing.
EastMan says:
Question. How much are we paying for the privilege? What are the conditions?
GM says:
The NDP exaggerated the GDP that is why we couldn't get help form some other countries because they said that we were rich and could handle our own affairs
Charnele says:
Now you want the Caribbean countries, when it's beneficial to you. Usually the people of the BVI Don't think the Caribbean people are worthy treating them like dirt. Now you suddenly realise you need us when it's convenient to you.
Tolian to the Bone says:
@Chanele, Ma'am, because of Caribbean people travelling here for a better life, which is everyone's right under Heaven, we are outnumbered in our country. We are overrun, gridlocked, called down and stepped on by persons moving to our shores, white and black. Trust me it is not a good feeling. There is sometimes another side to the story. We have to endure strip clubs and brothels along with trying to keep our family's moneys in our husband's pockets as he traverses the streets of the BVI. It's okay. You are not alone. As a BVIslander I feel set upon and ill-treated in my beautiful home.
E.Leonard says:
The BVI lying latitude 18 degrees, 25', 5.12" N and longitude 64 degrees, 35', 7.55 W makes it highly vulnerable every year to being hit by hurricanes and other tropical systems. August and September 2017 made this a very clear reality; on 07 August, it was inundated by a historic flood and on 07 and 20 September, it was ravaged by two catastrophic, Cat 5 hurricanes, Irma and Maria, respectively. Further, the BVI is also prone to other natural disasters, ie, earthquakes, tsunamis……..etc.
Consequently, the BVI should always have had insurance in place to quickly address post disaster(s) damages and recovery. Clearly, the BVI does not have adequate resources in reserve for self insurance to cover post disaster(s) recovery efforts. Thus, it is a forward looking and lesson learnt move by the Premier to procure insurance to quickly cover incurred damages and losses.
Moreover, predisaster preparedness must be tackled with the same energy as post-disaster prepareness, ie, securing public and private property, providing structurally sound rideout shelters, identifying and training assessment teams, providing early and ongoing communications (radio, TV, telecommunications), issuing timely watches and warnings…….etc, assisting/transporting needy residents to structurally sound shelters, developing and implementing a strong and functional resources distribution plan(s), moving and propositioning critical equipment and other assets to higher ground (also outside territory), signing mutual aid agreements with regional and other locales, putting in place a strong property insurance process and programme, providing education and training on the importance of insurance, putting in place a consumer protection agency ……….etc.
Observer says:
This sounds good, however, we are still waiting for the promised assistance to repair and prepare following last year's devastating hurricanes.
Unfortunate says:
Takes a disaster for us to realize that we can work together. Why wasn't BVI a member of this organization from the outset?
And while we are on that, when is the BVI going to become a full member of the OECS or are we satisfied to continue being an associate member?
rastarite says:
No need for house insurance now… Govt covering everything
Lodger says:
How much will the annual premium be for this insurance? Nothing in life is free. Interesting point that we exaggerated our GDP and appear rich. It is now obvious that a large proportion lives well below the GDP. Poorly built, uninsured properties show the true level of our development. Where does all the money go?
nalyd says:
We do need as much financial security as we can get, but who exactly set the fund up? That would be nice to know.
real seekabay says:
Don't really trust nothing coming out this blokes mouth right about now.
Thanks for sourcing for way(s) out.We pray that we don't witness such devastating monster natural disasters. We pray for God's protection.But BVI needs to get intimate with God, imbibe and practice God's love.
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Holy Diver (song)
"Holy Diver"
Single by Dio
from the album Holy Diver
"Evil Eyes"
"Don't Talk to Strangers"
7", 12"
Sound City Studios, Los Angeles, USA
Dio singles chronology
(1983) "Rainbow in the Dark"
"Holy Diver" is a song recorded by heavy metal band Dio. It was released in August 1983 as the lead single from the band's debut album of the same name. Although it only reached number 40 on the Mainstream Rock chart at that time, today it is one of Dio's most popular songs. When played on the radio, many stations cut the extended instrumental intro sequence. Following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the song was placed on the list of post-9/11 inappropriate titles distributed by Clear Channel. In 2009, Holy Diver placed 43rd on VH1's Top 100 Hard Rock Songs.[1]
Dio said the lyrics are about a Christ figure on another planet who sacrifices himself to redeem his people. When the people learn that he intends to leave them to save people on other planets, they selfishly ask him to stay.[2]
1 Music video
2 Chart positions
3 Killswitch Engage version
3.1 Music video
3.2 Track listing
3.3 Chart positions
3.4 Personnel
4 Other versions
Music video[edit]
The music video for "Holy Diver", directed and edited by Arthur Ellis, features Dio as a hairy barbarian adventuring through a desolate church (the then recently burnt-out St Mark's Church, Silvertown in east London, which is now a music venue). First he strikes a shrouded figure and his hobgoblin friend with his sword, but instead of killing them he turns them into rats. He later visits a blacksmith who is forging a sword. He throws his sword in the trash and deftly catches the newly forged one. Walking through a corridor, he encounters three seated hooded figures. As the camera pans across them, the third slowly raises its head to reveal eyes resembling those of a cat. The final shots show Dio exiting the church.
Chart positions[edit]
Germany (Official German Charts)[3] 52
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[4] 60
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[5] 72
US Billboard Rock Tracks 40
Killswitch Engage version[edit]
Single by Killswitch Engage
from the album As Daylight Dies (Special Edition)
Adam Dutkiewicz, Joel Stroetzel
Killswitch Engage singles chronology
"The Arms of Sorrow"
(2007) "Holy Diver"
(2007) "This Is Absolution"
Killswitch Engage covered the song for the compilation High Voltage!: A Brief History of Rock for Kerrang! magazine. The song was later re-released for the special edition of As Daylight Dies. A live version of the song is also featured on the Special Edition of their 2009 album Killswitch Engage, then in 2014, the song was re-released on the compilation album entitled Ronnie James Dio This Is Your Life. This version of the song as well as the original composed by Dio are DLC for the guitar video game Rocksmith 2014.
The band released a music video for their version. Directed by Brian Thompson,[6] the video features a comical take on Dio's original music video.
Track listing[edit]
1. "Holy Diver" (Dio cover) 4:10
US Mainstream Rock (Billboard)[7] 12
Howard Jones – lead vocals
Adam Dutkiewicz – lead and rhythm guitar, vocals, keyboards
Joel Stroetzel – rhythm and lead guitar, backing vocals
Mike D'Antonio – bass guitar
Justin Foley – drums, percussion
Other versions[edit]
Pat Boone, on his album In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy, with Ronnie James Dio himself on backing vocals.
Otyg recorded a version and have also performed it live.
Eläkeläiset (Humppa band from Finland) reinterpret it in their song Humpparaakki on their album Humppamaratooni.
Sum 41 played the song on acoustic guitar for the MTV show Jammed.
Children of Bodom paid homage to this theme including its initial riff in the intro to their song "Downfall" in live shows; this can be heard and seen in the Chaos Ridden Years live album/DVD.
Sons of Butcher have also performed it live.
Tenacious D has performed parts of the song live.
Nightwish has performed the song during a soundcheck for a live concert.[8]
HolyHell has done a cover of the song at some live performances.
Axel Rudi Pell, a good friend of Dio's, recorded a ballad cover on his compilation album, The Ballads IV in 2011 with Johnny Gioeli on vocals.
Holy Mother played a cover of it in the tribute album Holy Dio.
Ryan Adams covered the song live, solo and with just an acoustic guitar on March 3, 2012 at Regent Theatre, Melbourne, Australia.
Veronica Falls teamed up with Jeremy Warmsley of Summer Camp to cover the song live at a gig in Sheffield, England on 6 February 2013.
Pain of Salvation perform a jazz version of it on their 2014 album Falling Home.
Steve 'N' Seagulls play a country-version on their album "Farm Machine".
Dan Reed covered the song live at The Winchester Music Hall in Lakewood, Ohio. in 2010.[9]
Swiss heavy metal group Burning Witches has covered the song live and it appears on their EP "Burning Alive" as a live version. In 2018, the band recorded a studio version for their album "Hexenhammer".
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^ "RONNIE JAMES DIO interview on religion and the Devil 2004 | Raw & Uncut". BangerTV. YouTube. December 15, 2015. Retrieved November 22, 2018.
^ "Musicline.de – DIO Single-Chartverfolgung" (in German). Media Control Charts. PhonoNet GmbH.
^ "Swedishcharts.com – DIO – Holy Diver". Singles Top 100.
^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
^ "Holy Diver | Killswitch Engage | Music Video". MTV. Viacom Media Networks. August 6, 2007. Retrieved January 3, 2013.
^ "Killswitch Engage Chart History (Mainstream Rock)". Billboard.
^ Nightwish Soundcheck - Airport + Holy Diver
^ Dan Reed at The Winchester Music Hall in Lakewood, Ohio.
Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Jake E. Lee
Vivian Campbell
Claude Schnell
Craig Goldy
Rowan Robertson
Teddy Cook
Scott Warren
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Doug Aldrich
Inferno: Last in Live
Evil or Divine: Live in New York City
Holy Diver: Live
At Donington UK: Live 1983 & 1987
Live in London, Hammersmith Apollo 1993
Diamonds: The Best of Dio
The Very Beast of Dio Vol. 2
"Rainbow in the Dark"
"The Last in Line"
"Rock 'n' Roll Children"
"Hungry for Heaven"
"King of Rock and Roll"
"Electra"
A Special from the Spectrum
Sacred Heart "The Video"
Hear 'n Aid
Tribute albums
Holy Dio: Tribute to Ronnie James Dio
Magic: A Tribute to Ronnie James Dio
Dio (Jorn album)
Ronnie James Dio – This Is Your Life
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Q: how to hide a dropdown menu once selected in angularjs Hello i am new to angularjs and make a demo of dropdown menu ,I want to hide it once any of menu selected,please help me how to do this?
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A: A fiddle would have been better. Nevertheless, you can achieve this by using a flag/variable. This variable gets updated whenever you select or dropdown is shown. Once you select an option, set the variable's value to false/true and then in the HTML tag use ng-show="yourVariable" .

Just make sure you update the value of this variable whenever you open the dropdown and select an option.

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Sometimes you eat food that just blows your mind. I loved this Chicken in Almond Sauce from Oaxaca.
Although it was delicious, it was a little time consuming. I had to fry raisins, almonds, garlic, onions, sesame seeds, plantains and a piece of bread one ingredient at a time until browned and smelling awesome.
All of that was blended with spices and cooked for some time with tomatoes. It was topped off with green olives and pickled jalapeños.


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Your home is possibly your most valuable asset, protect it with mortgage insurance.
In South Africa mortgage insurance is highly regulated by government due to the massive number of people in need of houses. The housing problem has been existed for many years. After the first democratic election in 1994, government introduced RDP houses to close the gap between those with homes and those too poor to afford to buy a house of their own.
However, RDP scheme only managed to hand out a certain number of houses across the country and still did not make a dent to the massive housing problem in the country. The programme was also hit by a number of controversies such as low-quality materials being used, corruption pertaining to the awarding of houses among other things.
Some people have been on the housing lists for eighteen years and are still without a roof over their heads. Squatter camps mushroom every day in the outskirts of big cities such as Johannesburg. There was a need for a further solution and new housing model to tackle these ever increasing problems.
One of the proposed and rolled out solutions was government subsidies, however, not everyone qualifies. Some people earn too much and others earn below the required amounts, leaving only a very few and a very select group of individuals able to afford and qualify for this subsidy.
The Department of Finance introduced mortgage insurance to help people who are really in desperate need of houses. It is also a means intended to reduce the gap in the housing market. The majority of people do not have access to finance to buy their own houses.
The South African Department of Finance is collaborating with financial institutions such as banks to help change this state of affairs. Banks are the primary beneficiaries of mortgage insurance. The financial institutions inclusion was prompted by the need for accurate fiscal control which is something banks are well known for.
Consequently, the mortgage default insurance will act in accordance with South African Financial Laws. The Department of Finance, the Banking Association of South Africa (BASA) as well as the Department of Human Settlements were involved in discussions to ensure success of the project once it launched.
In March 2013 the Department of Finance reviewed the mortgage insurance policies to ensure that there were no serious differences with local insurance policies.
Government, in particular, the Finance Department promised to do whatever it takes to ensure that the money intended for mortgage insurance was released on time by the financial institutions and monitoring would be put in place so that targets can be met.
All in all government has promised to put together a strategy in place for the overall success of mortgage insurance and perhaps the consumer will be able to benefit this time around.
The intended launch of the Mortgage Default Insurance Fund (MDI) by the National Housing Finance Corporation has been hailed as the long-awaited solution to the thorny issue of access to housing as well as mortgage financing for the blue-collar workers and the poor families.
Through the innovative MDI "lower-income" buyers have a prospect to meet the criteria for housing finance that in normal circumstances they would not be eligible for. However, it seems the government is stalling on the scheme first announce by President Jacob Zuma back in 2011.
The Treasury is the body that has to make a decision on when to launch the insurance scheme. It was reported in the media that there was the revised the version of the MDI handed to the Treasury. The Treasury also still has to give a go ahead and sign on the application by the Housing Finance Corporation NHFC to the Financial Services Board for a licence to act as an insurance for scheme.
Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI) has people up in arms because it does not assist the person paying the premium but rather the bank or financial institution offering a loan to the homeowner. Those unaware of this type of insurance may think it protects them, but it instead protects the lenders.
It is quite an expensive insurance; PMI premiums that the homeowners have to pay, are large and exceed car and homeowners insurance premiums by far. The policy does not offer any protection to the policyholder.
However, there is an also a lesser known mortgage insurance that pays off your mortgage in case you pass away. The most popular yet unhelpful to the borrower is the PMI that insures the financial lenders in case the policyholder fails to continue with payments for the mortgage.
The lender usually requests the borrower to take out the private mortgage insurance policy because they do not have the minimum 20 percent down payment required. Lenders view borrowers who fail to pay a down payment as risky and will require that they insure their mortgage with private mortgage insurance. The lender requires insurance to counter a non-payment.
TPMI usually varies depending on your loan amount as well as credit risk. Also, Private Mortgage Insurance is based on a percentage of your monthly mortgage payments.
Due to various factors lenders are not willing to lend to owners who are likely to default, so those who are considered high risk will normally be in this category and required to take out a Private Mortgage Insurance.
There are several ways to avoid taking out a Private Mortgage Insurance policy. Before you approach a lender make sure you have the 20 percent or more down payments. This way you will avoid Private Mortgage Insurance.
If you have enough money pay more than 20 percent. If you do not have the 20% down payment, consider asking your parents to assist. This way you won`t have to worry about taking a second loan/mortgage. It will also help reduce your monthly premiums and the lender will feel the risk of default is reduced.
Once you have paid twenty percent and only owe eighty percent of your mortgage repayments you can cancel the PMI. Unfortunately, it may take a while for you to pay the twenty percent due to the fact that most of the initial payments will go straight to interest and very little goes to your principal.
However, if after two years you have not defaulted and have always paid on time, some lenders will let you cancel the PMI. Another option is to pay a higher interest rate on your home loan. Thirdly, another way to evade PMI insurance is to take another loan for the extra amount you require.
This will make your loan amounts to be 80/20 or 80/10/10 or 80/15/5, remember the amounts 10 and 5 will be the down payment you bring to the table. Preferably those amounts should be money you have saved for on your own. If this is the option you are going for, you will have to add the costs of all the loans together.


When I sat down this morning to work on my blog, my mind was a perfect storm of anxiety and anger. Mental hurricanes can sneak up on me causing me to be high strung and live with an undercurrent of anger which comes dangerously close to the surface. I, for sure, could not think straight enough to write a coherent thought. My husband could sense my fury and carefully backed out of the room.
The truth is when I get wound up like that, I often don't know why. I could look at my calendar and blame it on my hormones or my busy schedule but brushing over it like that will not bring relief. I could try to manage it by sheer will power because self-control fails to bring back any level of peace.
So, today I'm giving you a sneak peak at how I deal with my messiest emotions and inner hurricanes. Here are six steps to still your inner storm.
The first step is to STOP and pay attention to what you are feeling. This verse implies that the peace of Christ serves as an umpire or referee in our hearts. If the peace leaves, the whistle is blown and match play should stop. Pause, take a deep breath and ask God for help.
For me this morning, when I felt the rage building in my heart and looked at my blog topic this morning (Colossians 3:15) I knew I had to pause and take account for each piece of the storm flying around in my heart. If I simply tried to steer through the inner hurricane using my "self-control" alone, there would have been a lot of collateral damage.
Next, consciously invite God's presence through giving thanks and offering Him praise. Purposefully thanking God in detail for the blessings in your life interrupts the stream of negative thoughts or feelings which may have taken over your mind and reminds you that life is not all that bad. Follow your thanksgiving with adoration. Offering God praise for His character, His power and His worthiness pushes the remaining distractions away and centers your heart on His enormity and goodness.
This morning my thanksgiving started with God's physical provision for us—our home, our finances, our vehicles, etc. Next I thanked him for my husband's kindness and my relationship with my kids. I turned on some worship music (in this case IHOPKC Worship – One Thing Live "Worthy of it All") as I prayed and praised God with words like "hallelujah" and phrases like "I praise Your Name" before I began to worship Him for some of His specific qualities (goodness, sovereignty, worthiness, power, attention to the details in my life, etc.).
With the negative thoughts put in their place and God put into His place as preeminent, now it is time to deliberately give Him every care. When this verse says "cast", it means to throw intentionally. It is time to make a list of your cares and negative emotions and hurl them one by one "on Him because He cares for you." Fight the temptation to casually lump all your worries together and toss them over to God. Now, think of yourself as a pitcher in major league baseball and each negative thought or emotion is a ball. Every pitch is a fastball thrown right into the catcher's mit. Pick up each worry and ugly emotion and chuck it right at God. He wants to bear your burdens.
For me, this list either gets spoken out loud or written in my computer or in my journal. It seems better for me to write it, usually in list form. Today, I tried to dump out my specific fears, worries, anger, disappointment, and any areas where I feel like a failure. I write down what areas of my life are making me feel overwhelmed and any relational tension/disturbance I'm dealing with. Somehow getting it all outside of my brain and on paper helps me to begin to be rational again. I can pray about each item specifically and actively throw it onto God's shoulders.
By now you may be feeling better, but don't stop there. Let God search your heart for sin. This step is critical because mixed in with all those thoughts of anger, fear, disappointment, offense, anxiety and self-hatred are cracks in your spiritual armor. Our sinful reactions in life give the enemy access to wreak havoc in our hearts and minds. It is important to let God examine you and show you what, in all this mess, is your own sin. When you repent of your junk and rebuke whatever access the enemy has gained into your life, you are healing up the cracks in your armor and sealing the peace of Christ back inside.
Today I am repenting of entitlements which have snuck in to poison my perceptive. If I am a servant of Christ, then my truest joy and satisfaction comes when I am obedient. My peace of mind does not come from the false comforts I seek like watching shows in the evenings or hoping my husband will do something especially romantic for me. Today I'm also confessing the way I've let my to-do list eclipse my view of God's ability to empower and lead me. He loves to help me and when I spend more time worrying about my list than asking for God's input or help, I head straight to self-hatred and live with a undercurrent of disgust toward myself. It is poison, I'm telling you. Child like faith is way better. So I'm taking the time to confess my sin and rebuke whatever demonic influence my sin has let in the door to my heart.
When we repent of our sins, it is critical to take a moment to consciously receive His forgiveness. Let Him replace the old nature with your new one. Receive the healing and refreshment that come when we confess and repent of our sins. Specifically let Him crown you with love and compassion. I don't know about you, but when my inner rage is burning all my tender and empathetic emotions are no where to be seen. It is difficult for the peace of Christ to return where His nature (love and compassion) has been banished. Let God crown you again. Love and compassion are gifts He grants. You don't have strive into them. He will place them in you and empower you to live in their fullest fruit.
For me today, the coronation process means purposely receiving His forgiveness. I am also forgiving and blessing the people who have disappointed or inconvenienced me. I'm letting the influx of faith I feel invade my heart and mind completely and letting myself dwell on and feel the way Jesus satisfies my heart. I already feel so much peace and I'm letting Him continue to renew me.
Everything we've done so far has dealt with our internal struggle—it's been a spiritual transaction. The last step is to get practical and do a little problem solving on that long list you wrote of your worries. Resist the urge to leave God out of this process. Instead, lean into Him. Ask for wisdom. You may not be able to solve each issue immediately, but take the time to ask God about each item and listen, expectant for Him to guide you.
This morning, 90% of my list of worries can be solved simply by blocking off specific times in my schedule to work on each item. I have a talk to write, a book launch party to plan, a mess to pick up in my office, a slough of administrative tasks for our family, a bunch of laundry to deal with, a study guide to write for my book, a birthday party to plan, dinner to prep, etc. The Lord repeatedly reminds me that I have all the time I need. I just need to use it strategically. It is so much easier to see the clear path when the hurricane in my heart has been tamed.
If and when I do need to follow up on any relational issues, now I can tackle those conversations without all the pent up anger and go into them with a clear game plan from the Lord.
I hope this little journey inside my crazy heart and brain have been helpful for you today. Messy emotions are completely normal and are actually a true gift from God. All the anger, disappointment and inner grumbling signal to us that the peace of Christ is gone and we need to heed the warning. It is time to stop and ask for His help.
Be honest with Him and be thorough. Let Him into every ugly thought and seemingly enormous worry. He loves to redeem and make things whole. He will usher in faith where there was despair, a clear plan where there was chaos, and joy where there was sadness. The peace of Christ will return to your heart and stand guard, protecting you.
Beautiful and much needed today! Thank you beautiful you.


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Lordstown Power Plant to Offer Hands-on Education
WARREN, Ohio – When construction on the Lordstown Energy Center is completed in 2018 and its turbines begin to spin, the provision of electricity to communities throughout northeastern Ohio won't be its only task.
As Clean Energy Future LLC President Bill Siderewicz sees it, the power plant will also play in role in educating students through the Mahoning Valley. He envisions tours for high school students, internships for college students — even mentors for students interested in pursuing careers in energy.
"We see this as ranging from kindergarten to graduate school," he said. "We've all been influenced by people around us and we hope to be the spark that gets someone studying a new topic because of what they saw."
Speaking Thursday at the Greater Western Reserve Boy Scout Council's annual Trumbull County Friends of Scouting breakfast, Siderewicz told the audience of supporters and Eagle Scouts that the benefits of the plant extend beyond the tangible results of power provided, taxes paid and community events attended.
"I see it as an incredible learning opportunity for Lordstown High School, local community colleges and students at Youngstown State [University]," he said. "This is hands-on learning, seeing and doing. They study statistics, algebra, chemistry and those are wonderful topics, but when you see it in action, it bridges knowledge and know-how."
Once completed, the power plant will have three turbines – two running on natural gas, the third on steam – producing up to 940 megawatts, enough power to furnish 850,000 homes with electricity. The turbines, each weighing more than 600,000 pounds, will spin at 3,600 revolutions per minute as temperatures exceed 2,200 degrees. Engineers will use an automated system to monitor most functions at the plant.
For students, Siderewicz looks to interns from YSU, citing it as an example, seeing or working with the system and machinery. Such firsthand involvement, he said, is far better than simply reading a textbook about generating electricity.
"If there's a junior at YSU studying electrical engineering, they can work at the plant for a couple of months between semesters and get a real hands-on understanding of how theoretical engineering relates to practical engineering," he said.
Organizations such as the Boy Scouts could also benefit from the Lordstown Energy Center's operation as mentors are brought into the fold and scouts visit the plant.
"The people working there will potentially be mentoring our scouts," said Jessica Gaskell, district executive for the Arrowhead District, which serves Trumbull County and part of eastern Portage County. "We can get new merit badge counselors and more involvement from the community, as well as give our scouts new experiences to earn merit badges that are related to this project."
Benjamin Hartman, an Eagle Scout with Troop 4090, said that while Boy Scouts as a whole provide members with valuable experiences and teaches important skills, opportunities to visit and work with places such as the Lordstown Energy Center are equally important.
"[Boy Scouts of America] teaches dedication, responsibility and hard work. Doing things like this sets us apart," he said. "If two resumes come in that are the same but one says, 'I did this as a Boy Scout,' then that's the one that will be chosen."
At the breakfast, Siderewicz also outlined details of the project, categorizing information into 16 Boy Scout merit badges, such as American Labor, Chemistry, Engineering, Safety and Welding.
"Welding is a lost art in some parts of the world, but it's a strength here in the Valley," he said of the final badge. "There's an amazing capability here that goes back to the steel mills."
The purchase of the land was completed in early April after nearly two years of talks with investors and government officials, but now that construction on the site has begun, Siderewicz said he's excited for both the plant and for the communities it serves.
"We'll be producing some of the lowest-cost electricity in Ohio, which is an economic boost to the Valley. [There are] many jobs occurring in a short period of time with hundreds of union workers on our site getting meaningful paychecks, along with our contributions to the community such as taxes and services," he said. "For me personally, that's what's exciting."
Pictured: Bill Siderewicz addresses the Boy Scouts breakfast.
Growth Report 1: WYSU-FM Adds Podcast, Joins Statewide Newsroom
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Youngstown State University's WYSU-FM radio station added a political podcast to its offerings in 2022. "Policies and Politics: Views from the Industrial Heartland," hosted by YSU professors Tim Francisco and Paul Sracic, examines the issues, ideas, culture…
Westminster College Gets $250K in ARPA Funds
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. – The Lawrence County Board of Commissioners has approved $250,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funding to expand and enhance Westminster College's nursing program. The federal funding will be used for the creation of a nursing simulation…
KSU Online Programs Listed Among the Best
KENT, Ohio – Five of Kent State University's online programs were recently named on the list of U.S. News and World Report Best Online Programs. Kent State's online Master's in Nursing program moved up three spots to hit at No.…


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Perhaps the most challenging game on this list, the sequel to Dragon Quest Monsters Joker, and the fifth game in the Dragon Quest Monsters spin-off series, Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 vastly improves the gameplay of its predecessor.
The Dragon Quest Monsters series has always had a strong focus on breeding, even before Pokémon had the option. Breeding powerful monsters takes a lot of trial and error to get what you want, due to having very few rules. Because of the detailed breeding system, catching every new monster you encounter is obligatory if you want to create a monster with the best stats and skills. Monsters may also have hidden bonuses that won't be obvious to new players at first.
Another factor that motivates catching many monsters is the difficulty of the game. Sometimes you won't be able to progress to the next part of the game until you have a monster strong enough or have reached a high enough rank. The game expects you to stay on top of everything, so if you aren't properly prepared for an especially challenging battle, you may have a difficult time getting past it.
Featuring a more challenging difficulty than most other monster collecting RPGs and an extensive post-game, Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 is great for any monster collecting RPG or Dragon Quest fan looking for a new challenge.
Hopefully the Nintendo 3DS sequel, Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 3, will be announced for Western release soon.


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Eleanor de Clare (ur. październik 1292 w Caerphilly w hrabstwie Glamorgan w Walii, zm. 30 czerwca 1337), angielska arystokratka, najstarsza córka Gilberta de Clare, 7. hrabiego Hertford, i Joanny z Akki, córki króla Anglii Edwarda I. Po śmierci brata Gilberta w 1314 r. odziedziczyła wraz z siostrami (Elizabeth i Margaret) rodowe posiadłości rodu de Clare.

Eleanor urodziła się w walijskim zamku Caerphilly. W maju 1306 r. poślubiła w Westminsterze Hugona Despensera Młodszego (1286 - 26 listopada 1326), syna Hugona Despensera, 1. hrabiego Winchester, i Isabel Beauchamp, córki 9. hrabiego Warwick. Hugon i Eleanor mieli razem czterech synów i pięć córek:
 Hugh le Despenser (1308 - 1349), 2. baron le Despenser
 Gilbert le Despenser (1309 - 1381)
 Edward le Despenser (1310 - 1342)
 John le Despenser (1311 - 1366)
 Isabel le Despenser (1312 - 1356), żona Richarda FitzAlana, 10. hrabiego Arundel, miała dzieci
 Eleanor le Despenser (ok. 1315 - 1351), zakonnica w opactwie Sempringham
 Joan le Despenser (ok. 1317 - 1384), zakonnica w opactwie Shaftesbury
 Margaret le Despenser (ok. 1319 - 1337, zakonnica w opactwie Whatton
 Elizabeth le Despenser (1325 - 13 lipca 1389), żona Maurice'a de Berkeleya, 4. barona Berkeley, miała dzieci

Mąż Eleanor cieszył się łaskami nowego króla, Edwarda II. Okres fortuny w życiu Eleanor zakończył się w 1326 r., kiedy to królowa Izabela wraz ze swoim kochankiem, Rogerem Mortimerem, obaliła Edwarda II. Mąż Eleanor został stracony w listopadzie 1326 r. Sama Eleanor została uwięziona w Tower of London, gdzie przybywała do lutego 1328 r. W kwietniu tego roku pozowolo jej osiąść w jej posiadłościach, z których złożyła hołd lenny.

Eleanor zamieszkała w zamku Hanley, z którego została w styczniu 1329 r. porwana przez Williama de la Zouche, jednego rycerzy, który wcześniej pojmał jej męża oraz oblegał syna w Caerphilly. Eleanor i William wkrótce się pobrali. W odpowiedzi król Edward III kazał skonfiskować posiadłości Eleanor i aresztować małżonków. Eleanor została ponadto oskarżona o kradzież klejnotów z Tower. W lutym 1329 r. ponownie znalazła się w więzieniu, najpierw w Tower, a następnie w zamku Devizes. W styczniu 1330 r. została uwolniona i otrzymała królewskie przebaczenie za cenę oddania Koronie najlepszej części jej posiadłości.

Kiedy w 1330 r. Edward III obalił rządy swojej matki i Mortimera, Eleanor zwróciła się do niego o przywrócenie jej całości rodowych włości. Edward wyraził na to zgodę w 1331 r., jednak Eleanor musiała zapłacić 10 000 funtów. Sumę tę zmniejszono później do 5000. Eleanor zapłaciła, ale nie doczekała się zwrotu ziem przed swoją śmiercią.

W międzyczasie pojawił się kolejny problem. Po ślubie Eleanor z de la Zouche'em lord Grey ogłosił, że wcześniej poślubił Eleanor. Obie strony sporu kilkakrotnie odwoływały się do papieża. Spór został w końcu rozstrzygnięty na korzyść Zouche'a. Pozostał jej mężem do swojej śmierci w lutym 1337 r., na kilka miesięcy przed śmiercią Eleanor. Małżonkowie mieli razem dwoje dzieci:
 William de la Zouche, (1330 - po 1360), mnich w opactwie Glastonbury
 Joyce Zouche, (1331 - po 4 maja 1372), żona Johna de Botetourta, 2. barona Botetourt

Eleanor de Clare jest bohaterką książek The Traitor's Wife: A Novel of the Reign of Edward II Susan Higginbotham oraz Feudal Family: The De Clares of Gloucester Edith Brouwer.

Bibliografia
 Michael Altschul, A Baronial Family in Medieval England: The Clares
 Mary Anne Everett Green, Lives of the Princesses of England
 Roy Martin Haines, King Edward II
 Richard K. Morris and Ron Shoesmith, Tewkesbury Abbey: History, Art, and Architecture
 William Rees, Caerphilly Castle and Its Place in the Annals of Glamorgan

Dynastia normandzka
Arystokracja brytyjska
Urodzeni w 1292
Zmarli w 1337

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PADs present the opportunity to develop innovative services that generate better social outcomes.
PADs bring together capital and expertise from public, private and not-for-profit sectors to achieve improved social outcomes.
Payments are based on achieving agreed social outcomes rather than focusing on inputs or activities.
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Home - Eat To Live has closed
Posted: Friday 14 July 2017, 10:30 pm
The fantastic veggie and vegan friendly restaurant Home - Eat To Live has officially closed after one year of operations.
It's with a heavy heart we announce this news, as we were big fans of the environmentally friendly establishment and its delicious plant-based cuisine. This is the second shock closure this week, after Seafood Room shut it's doors. However, we're infinitely more gutted to lose such an Earth conscious restaurant.
It's not clear as to why Home - Eat To Live has closed and the announcement on their Facebook page didn't shed much light, only giving details on how to get refunds on Home membership cards. You can also follow owner Christian's personal page here to stay in touch with the community.
The fickle world of Hong Kong gastronomy strikes again...


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Christmas Blessings Box, $45. www.wolfermans.com. Every Christmas morning, my mom and dad cook us kids a breakfast feast. I wouldn't mind adding some more carbs into the mix with delectable English muffins and cinnamon rolls.
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Resolution for a Food Revolution
I don't make New Year's resolutions, but I've got no problem making them for others. Sure it's already three weeks into the year, but I'm gonna make a resolution for chefs, and as I've learned, they're not always the most scrupulous bunch. It's a good bet that whatever personal resolutions many local chefs made for 2007, they've already been violated like Ned Beatty's character in "Deliverance."
So I propose a new resolution, which requires no abstinence from sin or substance–I'd like to see local food stars commit to making well-prepared, well-farmed and creative food affordable in 2007.
Chicago may be a town adorned with well-heeled aristocrats, but the core of our heart is still sausage-fingered blue-collar laborers and ethnic itinerants, many who have only cleaned the detritus from the tables that hold $300 meals. These everyday Chicagoans take pride in ingenuity, culinary or otherwise, but they still crave value.
2006 was the year of Chicago food. Chefs Homaro Cantu, Grant Achatz and Graham Elliot Bowles were featured in a trove of magazines from Fast Company to GQ. Achatz's restaurant was named the best restaurant in America by Gourmet magazine. With that spotlight comes an influx of customers, coffers full of cash and a pretty tall soapbox. I know that food-business margins are thin, and that we're not minting a cabal of millionaires. Those who were lauded slaved away in hellfire kitchens working ungodly hours. They should certainly bask in whatever spoils come their way, but they shouldn't get spoiled.
Chefs in other cities have set an example. Thomas Keller, often cited as one of the world's top chefs and who owns some of the most expensive restaurants in America, is about to roll out his vision for a burger joint in California this year. James Beard award-winner Tom Colicchio opened up fast casual mass-market options like 'wichcraft in New York, which serves up slow-roasted pork or grilled-cheese sandwiches with black trumpet mushrooms. These sandwiches come at a $9 price tag, which surely isn't cheap, but it's a hell of a lot more accessible than the $46 Berkshire rack of pork served at his flagship restaurant Craft.
In Chicago, there have been stirrings. Rick Bayless of Frontera Grill and Topolobampo opened Frontera Fresco at Macy's, serving rustic tortas and tamales topped with small-batch salsas for $8 or less. Regarding this democratization of food, Bayless recently told me, "I don't want to turn my back on people who appreciate good food, but can't afford those $300 meals."
Stephanie Izard, owner/chef at the acclaimed Bucktown spot Scylla, announced a new menu with entrees priced under $20 and a bevy of $5 side dishes. She says, "I've found a way to show my creativity, but to offer things at a lower price point. You don't need to start with really expensive ingredients to make something good. You should focus on cooking it well, seasoning it well and being creative, so people have access to reasonably priced food."
Much has been made of Paul Kahan's (of Blackbird and Avec) forthcoming casual pork- and beer-focused gastropub. This is precisely because, irrespective of the color of our collars, Chicagoans are a hearty lot full of tavern spirit, and given a choice we'd rather come as we are for good food and good beer at attainable prices from a great local chef.
But for every Doug Sohn (of Hot Doug's) who brings his culinary prowess to the masses with spiffy sausages and duck-fat fries, it seems there are three more chefs contemplating the next $100 prix-fixé meal. Two years ago, Charlie Trotter extended his empire with a posh spot at an exclusive resort in Cabo San Lucas and he now plans a restaurant in a Gold Coast hotel in 2007. The Gold Coast needs another luxury restaurant about as much as Nicole Ritchie needs a Dexatrim tablet.
To be fair, Trotter's been an incredible philanthropist and he opened Trotter's To Go, which offers a taste of his skill at attainable prices. Still, I bet a local caterer and relative culinary unknown like Greg Christian, who's trying to improve lunch for Chicago's school children (chronicled in last week's cover story), could use a guy with Trotter's momentum and might to make the change. At the very least I'd love to see a Trotter tavern.
When I interviewed Chef Bowles last year and asked him about the importance of making cuisine affordable, he said, "If I could fill this dining room with a thousand people who were into what we were doing, why would you want to limit it to twenty people? Not that it's food for the proletariat or anything, but the more that people understand about food, they'll pass it on to other people."
In 2007, I challenge our food stars to pass it on, to take those well-deserved gains and reinvest them in making better food available to many more.
This article first appeared in Newcity Chicago in a slightly different form