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Paavo, CSO shine in Mahler's Fourth
Paavo Järvi reached heaven in Mahler's Symphony No. 4 even before the finale, which describes a child's view of heaven.
Paavo, CSO shine in Mahler's Fourth Paavo Järvi reached heaven in Mahler's Symphony No. 4 even before the finale, which describes a child's view of heaven. Check out this story on cincinnati.com: http://cin.ci/1f4Pf33
Janelle Gelfand, jgelfand@enquirer.com Published 2:07 p.m. ET Feb. 21, 2014
In his return to the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra on Thursday, Järvi's reading of Mahler's Fourth was a reminder of his remarkable interpretations of Mahler, as well as how well this orchestra plays under his baton.
The orchestra's music director for a decade, now music director laureate, Järvi knows how to elicit playing that is precise, and yet also projects a spirit of freshness and spontaneity. That was evident from the first notes of the Love Scene from Berlioz's "Roméo et Juliette" which opened the program, a performance that was memorable for its gentle beauty.
That vivid musicality was richly apparent in Mahler's Symphony No. 4 in G Major, which came after intermission.
Gustav Mahler is known for his sprawling symphonies, calling for massive forces and summoning a universe of sounds and emotions. But his Fourth Symphony is unexpectedly intimate. On a smaller scale, it clocks in at just under an hour.
The finale is a vocal setting for soprano soloist of "The Heavenly Life" from the folk collection known as "Des Knaben Wunderhorn." Unfortunately, this was the only weak link in Thursday's performance. When soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian bowed out due to illness, Heidi Grant Murphy stepped in with about a day's notice, and the result was unsettled.
At the start, the listener was immediately immersed in the Austrian composer's world, merging nature sounds and celestial sleigh-bells. In Järvi's hands, textures were light and warmly atmospheric, yet there were also moments of surprising exuberance. The conductor lingered on lyrical themes, and allowed every detail of the music to shine through.
In Mahler, sinister overtones are never far away. In the second movement, concertmaster Timothy Lees picked up a fiddle tuned a step higher, for an eerie solo in what the composer described as a "dance of death."
What followed next was one of the most sublime moments in all of music. Järvi found a depth to the beauty of the slow movement, and also caught the underlying sadness that colors so much of Mahler's music. It was enhanced by a warmly shaped oboe theme (Lon Bussell). The audience didn't breathe.
Throughout its many moods, the orchestra rose to the occasion wonderfully, with fine contributions from soloists and a sheen in the strings. A dramatic burst of brass and timpani introduced the finale as Murphy made her entrance. It's too bad that her pure, light soprano failed to project in her mid-range, but her high notes soared.
In the evening's first half, 24-year-old pianist Zhang Zuo put her dazzling technique to work in Mendelssohn's Concerto No. 1 in G Minor. A native of Shenzhen, China, she already has won a fistful of competitions.
Her reading was exuberant, brilliant and very fast – especially the lightning-quick finale. She was able to leap through virtuosities, smiling all the while. Still, for me, her touch was often steely and lacked the sparkle that makes Mendelssohn such a joy to hear.
The concert repeats at 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday in Music Hall. Tickets: 513-381-3300, www.cincinnatisymphony.org
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H.R. 2274: To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a veterans conservation corps, and for other purposes.
H.R. 2274 is a bill in the United States Congress.
To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a veterans conservation corps, and for other purposes, H.R. 2274, 116th Cong. (2019).


to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
1. will, impart, leave, bestow, grant, consign.
Old English becweðan "to say, speak to, exhort, blame," also "leave by will;" from be- + cweðan "to say," from Proto-Germanic *kwithan, from PIE *gwet- "to say, speak."
Original sense of "say, utter" died out 13c., leaving legal sense of "transfer by will." Closely related to bequest. "An old word kept alive in wills" [OED 1st ed.]. Old English bequeðere meant "interpreter, translator." Related: Bequeathed; bequeathing.


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What happened to Import Word Document?
Julia B -Doc Queen Jan 11, 2023
All of a sudden the option to import a document is gone. It was previously under Advanced Details but now is nowhere I can find. Anyone know?
Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_ Community Leader Jan 12, 2023
Hi @Julia B -Doc Queen ,
you can go to import tab after clicking create button
Elizabeth Barr Atlassian Team Jan 11, 2023
This functionality was updated in December. Please take a look at this support page for details: https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/import-content-into-confluence-cloud/
Chris Callac Jan 17, 2023
Except that this does not work the same way as it used to. Previously, you were able to import a Word document to replace an existing page. Replacing the existing page would then keep all document links pointing to the newly imported content, and keep all existing labels which were already attached to the page being replaced.
The new import feature simply creates a new page, with a new name, and does not appear to be able to replace an existing page.
@Elizabeth Barr What about in the Legacy Editor? It's gone from there as well, but this solution doesn't seem to apply. Not sure why they're messing with it.
Engaging with the announcement post (https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/Announcing-changes-to-Microsoft-Word-import-in-Confluence/ba-p/2204406) may be a good option for those who still have questions. Hope that helps.
Andreas Schmidt Jan 26, 2023
There is the problem of the new word import. It makes it impossible to import large documents, and split based on headings that maintain the link integrity of the imported object.
Is there a workaround for this? Is there a way to switch to the advanced details approach with upload choices?
G subramanyam Community Leader Jan 11, 2023
Hi @Julia B -Doc Queen welcome to the Atlassian community.
On Confluence cloud as well on the DataCenter v8 the option is availlable. Would you share the error screenshot for better assistance.
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John Harvey was a Scottish football player and manager.

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U2 has performed 2 times in Parc des Sports Charles Ehrmann. Those performances included unique songs and an overall total of 46 songs.
Parc des Sports Charles Ehrmann is a football stadium, located in Nice, France. For sporting events, it seats 8,000 spectators. It is sometimes used by the OGC Nice, for practice or friendly matches, and by their reserves team the Eaglets. For large concerts, it is used in conjunction with the indoor concert hall Palais Nikaia, whose doors are opened and permit large crowds of up to 50,000 to view the stage inside the hall. U2 played at at the stadium in 2005 and 2009, the latter of which holds the attendance record for the stadium with more than 55,000 people in attendance.


Aljazeera has aired a video from a purported Iraqi group claiming they have freed Egypt's embassy adviser Muhammad Mamduh Qutb.
A member of the group calling itself Usd Allah (God's Lions) said Qutb was freed because he was "loyal to Islam and had good manners".
Aljazeera reported that the group had refused to accept large sums of money in return for freeing the captive.
in response to comments by Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmad Nazif that Egypt was ready to offer its security experience to the interim Iraqi government, a videotape aired on Aljazeera channel said.
The Egyptian government later clarified it was "absolutely not considering" deploying troops in Iraq.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abu al-Ghait on Monday expressed gratitude to the Iraqi people for helping to secure Qutb's release.
"I thank the Iraqi people who contributed towards the release of the Egyptian diplomat," he said.
Abu al-Ghait said the diplomat, currently at the Egyptian embassy in Baghdad, was in good health.
He said he had also congratulated Qutb's family on his safe release which Abu al-Gheit said followed "intense contacts" by the Egyptian side with different Iraqi officials.
He added the freeing of Qutb was likely connected to his work on promoting "brotherly relations between the Iraqi and Egyptian people".


There are good customers and clients of most businesses – and then there are the super fans and evangelists. These super fans can pledge their allegiance in a number of ways, most of which involve ink of some sort. On one end of the spectrum there would be "ink" related to people writing and talking about a brand on-line and off. On the more extreme end are people willing to permanently tattoo (brand) their physical body.
In between the personal expressions and promotions of the two ink extremes fall promotional stickers. Stickers are non-permanent tattoos for personal objects (cars, laptops, helmets, equipment, etc.). Stickers are still a personal badge applied/worn with pride about a particular relationship or personal endorsement, just in a less permanent or extreme way.
The idea for this sticker branding post emerged out of reading an article titled; Forget bumper stickers, some Patriots fans express their loyalty to the team through tattoos. I think there is one very important take-away from this article on tattoos as it relates to effective promotional stickers.
Tattoos are very personal and thus one "size" (or design) does not fit all. Different fans have different relationships with the brand and different ideas of the degree and style in which their personal badges should be expressed. Businesses have much more control over the available style, design and applications of promo stickers then they do for tattoos so it is essential for brands and organizations to acknowledge the personal preferences of their fans and offer multiple options for sticker badges during their sticker campaigns (whether free handouts or retail sale items).
Remember, for effective promotional sticker campaigns it is essential that this sticker branding marketing tool is created for your fans, not based on your own advertising, signage and branding ambitions. It can be helpful when creating promotional stickers to consider them like tattoos. The more you can dig into the personal options preferred by your best customers and advocates the easier to design stickers that are displayed as badges and personal endorsements. Impressions, conversations and increased sales will follow naturally.
Does the musician Jeff Nich. have promotional stickers?
Jeff Nich's band, The Thirsty Brothers has stickers if you'd like a few (no need to buy). Though perhaps you should skip the stickers and go straight to the tattoo? Be the first on your block (and in the world) to get a Jeff Nich tattoo. On a different front, Jeff's book on promotional stickers is almost complete!


Take a look at the best road trip apps, that won't add any cost to your road trip. From the best music apps to the the best places to stop off for a coffee. Taking a road trip has never been easier.
This is the perfect guide for planning day trips in unfamiliar territory. Find parks, bars, shops, and landmarks along your route without worrying about detours and excessive aimless wandering. (Though, if you ask us, wandering on the aforementioned route sounds perfect).
Songza allows you to search for music based on genre, artist, mood, activity, or decade. The playlists are insanely specific — think "driving in the left lane" and "shopping at a vintage store" — so whether you're on the road to reunite with an old flame, start a new life chapter, or kick off the vacation of a lifetime, your soundtrack will be right here.
Looking for a navigation app that offers multiple routes, real-time traffic updates, notifications about speed traps, and the ability to compare gas prices? Well, here ya go. Waze is community-based, which means it's updated by drivers just like you, getting real about what's happening on the road. And it's available for iPhone, Android, or Windows phones. It also won the 2013 Webby award for the "Best Connected Product." But, it's really about those speed-trap notifications. Thanks, other drivers!
An obvious choice, but not for the reasons you may think. In addition to its seemingly limitless music selection and "subscribe to playlist" feature for friends, Spotify's offline streaming function means that endless access to thousands of albums and artists is available regardless of your location or data situation.


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using System;

class SonicHarvester : Harvester
{
    private int sonicFactor;

    public SonicHarvester(string id, double oreOutput, double energyRequirement, int sonicFactor) : base(id, oreOutput, energyRequirement)
    {
        this.SonicFactor = sonicFactor;
        this.EnergyRequirement /= this.SonicFactor;
    }

    public int SonicFactor
    {
        get { return this.sonicFactor; }

        private set
        {
            if (value < 0)
            {
                throw new ArgumentException($"Harvester is not registered, because of it's {SonicFactor}");
            }

            this.sonicFactor = value;
        }
    }
}

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Nudist restaurant is closing its doors
Michael Strahan and Sara Haines cover the news that O'naturel, a nudist restaurant in Paris, France, is set to shut down due to a lack of customers.
Transcript for Nudist restaurant is closing its doors
Have you ever gone to a restaurant and ordered oysters and asparagus and a nice steak? Yeah. You're making me hungry. Then you're, like, this would be a better experience if I was naked. Have you ever done that? Well, apparently that's why this restaurant is closing. Not enough people were willing to did that either. It is a nude fine dining restaurant and they were banking on being open a little over a year ago and they thought it was going to work, but they announced they were going to close for good because they couldn't put enough naked butts in the seats. Yeah. Due to poor sales, but the customers would come in, go to the cloak room, you shed all your clothing, put your phone away because they didn't want you taking photos of other people. There's one good part to the story. But it was 60% male and 40% female. Shocker. Shocker. They said France is the world's top nude destination. They have a naked standup comedy. That's funny right out of the Gates. I mean, you just hope you're not in the audience and the guy goes -- ha ha! That's not good. Then they have naked museum visits. So you become the art? Yeah. You become the art. But I mean, it's a Absolutely not. I barely shower naked and my idea of au natural is not wearing makeup on weekends. I don't need M butt in a seat at restaant. They change the covers, don't they? If I'm looking at my body, I'm probably going to eat less. It's a sad truth. I'm telling you. Here's what's going to happen to me. I'm going to walk into the restaurant like that. No, Michael. Hey. I'm not the only one naked in here. Might as well go with it if you are in there, right? Yeah. I can't. I can't. The food's never going to be good enough for that.
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In the middle of busy Sunday brunch, employees at a popular Upper West Side restaurant in Manhattan discovered something unexpected in the kitchen.
Japan restaurant explosion injures dozens
More than 40 people were injured Sunday when a massive explosion rocked a restaurant in northern Japan, according to local news reports.
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Books Can Save A Life
"Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive." Barry Lopez
Valorie Grace Hallinan
What I found in Sweden, Part 3
July 22, 2019 By Valorie Grace Hallinan in Books, Excavating a Life, Family History, History, Memoir, Nonfiction, Travel Tags: ancestry, Fritsla, genealogy, grandparents, Jung and the Ancestors, Sweden, Swedish ancestry, Swedish immigrants, Swedish roots, The Mauretania, The Titanic	10 Comments
"Ray of Sunlight" by Norwegian artist Erik Werenskiold, Gothenburg Museum of Art. The landscape in this painting reminds me of the little forest behind Backens Skola, where my grandfather and his sister, Josefina, went to school. I hope my grandfather had a good friend there as this boy does in the painting.
…And as the smart ship grew
In stature, grace, and hue,
In shadowy silent distance
grew the Iceberg too.
– Thomas Hardy, The Convergence of the Twain
Morfar – Life, death and the Titanic
"Every individual born to the Dagara [an African ethnic group] is mentored and supported into maturing into an adult who fulfills their purpose. From the moment a person is born, others within the community had a responsibility to assist that person in delivering their gift to the world. Everyone in the community is responsible for and has an integral role in insuring that each person's genius is awakened, nurtured, and mentored. If this is not done, the person as well as their genius dies. If any individual's gift is not delivered it then falls to that person's descendants to do so." – Sandra Easter, Jung and the Ancestors: Beyond Biography, Mending the Ancestral Web
I had goosebumps three times on our trip to research family history in Sweden: when our cousin, Jan, showed us the Bible my great, great, great grandfather gave to Älekulla Church; when Louise led us to my grandmother's house on the North Sea; and when my son and I were invited to Gunvor and Irene's home in Fritsla to see what we could find out about my grandfather's family. This is the story of our time in lovely Fritsla, the ancestral town that embraced Andrew and me.
Ivar Emmanuel Häkansson, my grandfather, was born in Fritsla in 1892 and lived there the first few years of his life. Of my four grandparents, I knew the least about him. Grandpa (or Morfar, as we called him when we were children) had been a loner, a hard worker but a solitary man who liked his drink. By the time I knew him, he rarely spoke. Morfar had no family back in Sweden with whom he kept in touch, unlike my grandmother, who exchanged letters with her Swedish siblings over the years. When I began my trip to Sweden, I knew only that Morfar had apparently been orphaned in a flu epidemic and sent to live with his maternal aunt and uncle in another Swedish town, Orby, at a young age.
I had mixed feelings as Andrew and I approached Fritsla, a small, quiet town nestled in the countryside. My Swedish friend, Amelie, whom I'd met on the plane, and her father, Pär, had done some research about my grandfather's family, and they emailed biographical information to me when I was in Stockholm. I'd learned my grandfather's childhood had been filled with more grief and loss than I'd expected.
They had discovered that Morfar's family lived in an area of Fritsla known as Aratorp, where my great grandfather, Håkan Nilsson, had been a farm hand. Using Google Maps, Andrew and I headed to that area first. We couldn't find a specific house or farm, but there was a street with the word Aratorp in it, and we followed that until it became a dirt road ending in meadows and woods. Perhaps my grandfather had been born on a farm or in a tenant home that had once stood nearby.
We couldn't find the specific place in Fritsla where my grandfather lived – but this is the general area.
Fritsla, where my grandfather was born, is a lovely rural town with well-kept, classic Swedish farmhouses.
Next, we went to Fritsla Church near the center of town, where Morfar had probably been baptized. It was closed, so we walked around the cemetery, reading the old Swedish names on the headstones. If one or both of my grandfather's parents had died in Fritsla, they were probably buried here.
On our first visit to Fritsla Church, it was closed.
By this time, it was noon. Andrew and I decided to stop at the café in the village for lunch, and that is when we got our lucky break.
Centralkafét is an old-fashioned café attached to a gorgeous little floral shop, Fritsla Blomsteraffär. While Andrew and I picked out what we wanted from the sandwiches and salads in the plate glass display case, I mentioned that my grandfather had been born in Fritsla, and we were researching family history.
After we finished eating, our waitress, Camilla, introduced herself, as did Ulrika, the baker and florist. They wanted to know more about my grandfather. Before we knew it, they'd called the church, and they'd called someone else.
"The church is open for cleaning this afternoon," Camilla said. "You can go in and see it."
"And you should meet Gunvor," Ulrika added. "She's our local history expert. She said you can head over now if you'd like."
We wandered into Centralkafét, attached to a floral shop in Fritsla. Here, we met Camilla and Ulrika, who connected us with Irene and Gunvor.
In Centralkafét. A Google translation: "Lovely hometown, we love you, we who in Sweden build and bridge."
Gunvor's home turned out to be one of the quaint older homes Andrew and I had admired while driving around. She and her daughter, Irene, were gracious and welcoming, and I felt an immediate connection. Gunvor, especially, had the strong, patrician bearing and the lilting Nordic accent I remembered from the ladies who attended our Swedish Lutheran church when I was growing up near Cleveland, Ohio.
Gunvor soon realized we needed a true expert's help and so she called Jan-Åke Stensson, the local genealogist who, believe it or not, came right over with his laptop and his extensive knowledge of Swedish ancestral records. Gunvor, Irene, Jan-Åke, Andrew, and I sat at the kitchen table and talked for a couple of hours.
Jan-Åke told us about Swedish history – how a quarter to a third of the Swedish population immigrated to America. My grandfather, though, had not been part of this great migration, according to Jan-Åke. He left Sweden later, during a time of greater prosperity. (Given my grandfather's situation – as you'll see below – I understand why he wanted a fresh start in America.) Jan-Åke also explained Sweden's confusing surname conventions before 1900, which makes doing Swedish ancestral research challenging. We talked about the many Swedes of my grandfather's time who owned no land of their own, but were farm hands and tenant farmers.
We learned about Irene and Gunvor's relatives, too, and how the great exodus from Sweden split their family tree. Irene told us her grandfather (or possibly her great grandfather – I don't recall) had an enormous number of siblings – well over a dozen. Every single one of them – except for her (great) grandfather – came to America. Because of this, a loneliness haunted him all of his life. I'd never really thought about the personal losses incurred by those who stayed behind. As Irene told us this story, I had a sense of a culture splitting in half, and the psychic cost on both sides. Sitting next to my son, I was moved by the idea that, over a hundred years later, we were reconnecting with our lost culture and ancestry.
Before we departed, Irene gave us a tour of her mother's gardens and their rustic outdoor dining room. I wanted very much to linger and deepen our new friendships – I told myself I'd return one day. Andrew and I prolonged our Fritsla stay a bit by returning to the café for fika (Swedish dessert and coffee) and to tell Camilla and Ulrika about our visit with Gunvor and Irene.
I had a sense of a culture splitting in half, and the psychic cost on both sides.
A week or so later, Jan-Åke sent me the biographical information below, confirmed independently by Amelie and her father, as well as by my cousin, Jan.
When we'd visited Älekulla with Cousin Jan, where my grandfather's ancestors went back several generations, I'd sensed a deep connection to the land, church, and community.
But my grandfather's family, headed by his father, Häkan Nilsson, was buffeted by illness, uprootedness, and, likely, poverty. My great grandfather, Häkan, moved from job to job to job (mostly as a tenant farmer and a farm hand) and from town to town, trying to support the family.
I hadn't known that my grandfather had so many siblings. Morfar was the youngest of seven children – and by the time he was nine years old, all of his brothers and sisters and both of his parents would be dead.
Eight years before Morfar was born, Häkan and his wife, Edela (or Edla) Brita Lardsdotter, lost a son, Karl, at age 7 months, when they were living in the town of Orby.
They moved to Fritsla in February of 1892 with at least five of their six children, and my grandfather was born on June 5.
Morfar's oldest brother – Häkan and Edela's firstborn, Johannes – died at age 19 in Orby (cause unknown) when Morfar was two years old. I do not know if Johannes was emotionally close to my grandfather, or if they barely knew each other.
When my grandfather was four years old, his father, Häkan, died of tuberculosis, on June 14, 1896 in Fritsla – a few months after he had started a new job as a farm hand, and a week after my grandfather's birthday. Eleven days after Häkan died, my grandfather's brother, Linus, died of tuberculosis at the age of sixteen. Three weeks after that, on July 16, my grandfather's sister, Anna Eleanora, died of tuberculosis at the age of eighteen. (As I write this, it is the 123rd anniversary of her death.)
Three years later, my grandfather moved to Orby with his two sisters, Hilda and Josefina, and his widowed mother, Edela. His mother died of an unknown cause six months later on April 9, 1900. Perhaps she died in the flu epidemic my grandfather spoke of.
Morfar, now 8, and Josefina, 11, were sent to live with their maternal aunt and her husband, Lotta and Johan August Svensson. Morfar's sister, Hilda, age 15, was sent to be a maid for a local tenant farmer, where she died of an unknown cause a little over a year later.
According to local historical records, Morfar's uncle, August, was well liked by the neighborhood children, and he once helped save a girl who was drowning in a bog. He had only one arm, and had been a railway builder and night guard at the local power plant. When Morfar and his sister, Josefina lived with him, he was a tenant farmer, owning no land, with children of his own to raise. Who knows what my grandfather's uncle was really like, because Morfar had always said his uncle was mean.
On May 11, 1902, Josefina died at age 13 of an unknown cause, and my grandfather lost his last living family member. Pär and Amelie found this quote by the pastor in the local history records: "The parents of the girl are both dead, and herself, she is destitute!" ("Flickans båda föräldrar äro döda, och själv är hon utfattig!")
My grandfather turned nine a few weeks later.
We returned a second time that afternoon to Fritsla Church and it was open. I found it to be much more austere than the church in Älekulla, which had extensive, almost primitive religious murals and paintings. Many of these old churches have been rebuilt, remodeled, and/or extensively restored, and so have changed in appearance over the centuries.
My great grandfather, Håkan Nilsson, and my grandfather's brother and sister, Linus and Anna Eleanora, were probably buried in this cemetery within weeks of each other after dying of tuberculosis.
"The parents of the girl are both dead, and herself, she is destitute!"
Backens Skola, where my grandfather and his sister, Josefina, went to school, now a museum. My son and I were given a private tour by Adam, one of the museum's caretakers.
My grandfather and his mother and siblings moved to Orby, Sweden after TB took three in the family. He was confirmed at Orby Church on March 6, 1907, long after his mother died.
When he was fifteen, Grandpa went to work as a farm hand on this property in Kinna, Sweden. He was here for four years, then went to work on a farm in Orby a few months before he left for America.
Morfar left Sweden forever on April 4, 1912 when he was nineteen, bound for America. He'd always said he was supposed to sail on the Titanic, but he was delayed, possibly by a strike in England. He sailed on the Mauretania instead, a few days behind the Titanic, probably third class. His ticket would have cost about $17.
I'm still checking dates, but the Mauretania left Liverpool, England on April 10, bound for New York a few days behind the Titanic. The Mauretania happened to be carrying the Titanic's cargo manifest. It was docked in Queensland, Ireland when word came that the Titanic was sinking. First-class passengers held a vigil for the Titanic's victims and raised $500 for the families. Second-class passengers held their own vigil.
I wonder if word came down to the third-class passengers in steerage about the Titanic. If somehow it did, I can only imagine what Morfar must have thought. Maybe he'd always had survivor's guilt for being the only one in his family still alive. Perhaps he'd always expected the other shoe to drop – that, inevitably, he'd lose his life, too.
In 1997 or 1998 near Cleveland, Ohio, some of Morfar's many great grandchildren gathered in their pajamas in front of the TV to watch The Titanic. While Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio hoped desperately for a lifeboat in those icy waters, I can now imagine another scene – a nineteen-year-old Swedish boy, somewhere below deck on another boat far away. Maybe, upon finding out about the Titanic, Morfar looked upon his having sailed on the Mauretania instead as a sign, a gigantic, long-awaited affirmation from the universe. Yes, he was supposed to live. A whole new life awaited him in America.
"Each individual life matters. From the perspective of the ancestors, each descendent is the whole reason they have existed at all. We are each individual 'historic fragments' whose lives are interwoven into the lives of our ancestors reaching back to the beginning of creating. Knowing where one comes from in the broadest and deepest sense informs who one is and the direction of one's life. Within these connections, as one finds oneself in the crowd of ancestral spirits, the meaning of our suffering is revealed in ways that assist us in embracing our fate and embodying and fulfilling our destiny. Simply said – the ancestors, as part of our larger community, support and guide us in living the life we were born to live. This work connects us in ever widening circles to our origins, has the potential to reconnect us with the soul of the world and ultimately leads us back to ourselves and our individual, unique and necessary life." – Jung and the Ancestors
Me (in 1956 or so) napping on Grandma's lap during one of our visits to Grandpa when he was in the hospital for what my mother later told me was tuberculosis. I wonder if the TB had been latent for years, perhaps contracted in Sweden when members of his family had it. Seems a coincidence he would contract the disease so many years later in America. He was cured of the TB with antibiotics, as far as I know. He lived another 15 years or so and passed away from other causes.
Children were not allowed to visit patients. I thought I remembered seeing Grandpa wave to us when we went to see him. He is the figure in the upper left window. Considering how young I am in the other photo, perhaps this is a false memory, and I'm recalling these photos. Memory can be a shadowy, indistinct realm.
In Fritsla Church
Darlingside recently came to central Oregon and they are wonderful. Some of their lyrics inspired me to imagine what Ivar Emmanuel Häkansson might have been thinking as he left Sweden forever, made his way by train to England, and boarded the Mauretania for America. Are there stories in your own family history you are perhaps meant to unearth?
Many thanks to Amelie Sandin, Pär Sandin, Jan-Åke Stensson, Jan Andersson, Camilla Haglund, Ulrika Söderhagen, Gunvor Johansson, Irene Svensson, Adam Nyman, and all the kind Swedes we met. The few hours we spent together were too short. Thank you to Sandra Adamson Easter for writing Jung and the Ancestors, a treasure I'm still unpacking.
Ivar Emmanuel Häkansson
Next up, in my final post about exploring our ancestry, I'll write about our trip to Sicily (my father's ancestral land), my cousin's Sicilian wedding, and what my son and I gained from our family heritage search in Sweden.
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Linda Joy Myers says:
This is all so incredibly beautiful–the way you introduce to the background and the story, to taking us there to all those important places–the land a buildings a testament to their presence there, where you imagine them. Very meaningful I'm sure to know more of the real people in your history, and how they were affected by history.
Thanks Linda Joy!
Nena Benhoff says:
I can see you in your Grandma's face.
Our trip to Germany looking for Bill's ancestor's homes sound a lot like your experience. We found the town and church but no cemeteries due to the WW11 bombings. Also his ancestors left in 1856.
Thanks, Nena. There is a lot of hunting around and dead ends of you travel like that. Oftentimes seems like landmarks and churches and such can be meaningful in unexpected ways. Of course, your story of family research & history is incredibly fascinating.
Judy Day says:
Val I find this so moving on two levels. There's your grandfather's story of loss, survival and persistence from the past. And here's your story of discovery and connection. I have an image of you and Andrew as fishermen who have reeled in something of great value with the help of people you could tell you where the fish you are seeking are likely to bite!
The ship Mauritania played a part in my father's life too. I'm not sure though it may have been the Aquitania (or both???!!) He traveled as a child with his family to England and back twice in the 1920s to visit relatives his parents had left behind in the old country.
Thanks, Judy, for these great words. I find that fascinating about your dad. Do you have memorabilia and photos from his trips? I found that you can google these ship names and Wikipedia usually has a full history of each one, plus you'll find other sources too. I hope in my next post about Sicily to summarize some of what the trip meant what I think it might mean for the rest of us. There are so many ways to find out about family history now without traveling.
To say you went on a very personal journey doesn't quite cover it. But, I know one thing – the word, family, means a lot of different things now. 🙂
Thank you, Judy.
How lovely to read this, I found this as my neighbour Ulrika Söderhagen posted it on Facebook. So happy you got to meet some of all the friendly people of Fritsla.
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Sunday school programs at churches don't just happen. They take a lot of work and planning on behalf of the Sunday school teachers and the people in the church's leadership. The people that head-up Sunday school programs at churches are generally called Sunday school superintendents. Without these individuals overseeing education ministries, Sunday school classes would quickly become disorganized and ineffective, and attendance would drop. Superintendent job descriptions vary from church to church, but there are some common duties.
Sunday school superintendents must survey and evaluate the needs in the Sunday School programs at their churches. This is done by talking with teachers, church leaders and attendees. Possible needs could be additional classrooms, breaking over-crowded classes up and making additional classes available, implementing new curriculum and areas of study, adding new teachers and assistants to the classes, and more. The needs must be evaluated by importance and prioritized. Important needs should be met as quickly as possible. This involves skills in long-range planning and the ability to follow through on those plans.
Sunday school superintendents also must select teachers for individual Sunday school classes and equip them with the training, literature and other materials necessary to meet the needs of Sunday school students.
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An important role of Sunday school superintendents is visitation, evangelism and other activities that will grow participation in the church's Sunday school program. Superintendents should strive for at least a 10 percent enrollment growth each year.
Sunday school superintendents must stick to a budget and be able to meet the needs of the classes within the budget. The money that is designated for Sunday school programs is usually decided on by church leadership with input given by the superintendent. If superintendents cannot meet the needs of their Sunday school programs with the monies that are allocated, they need to submit an official request for more funds to the church leadership at a business meeting. Superintendents should be ready to show where the money that is disbursed to the Sunday school department is being spent and show where the requested money will be allocated.
Sunday school superintendents come under the authority of the church leadership and must be accountable for decisions made in the capacity of superintendent. Likewise, Sunday school superintendents must hold teachers and Sunday school volunteers they oversee accountable for their decisions.
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Prove that for every integer $m>1$
  $$\cot\frac{\pi}{2m}\cot\frac{2\pi}{2m}\cot\frac{3\pi}{2m}\cdots\cot\frac{(m-1)\pi}{2m}=1$$

I am not sure how to start this problem. Some help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

A: Hint. Note that for $0<x<\pi/2$,
$$\cot(x)\cot(\pi/2-x)=\frac{\cos(x)}{\sin(x)}\cdot \frac{\cos(\pi/2-x)}{\sin(\pi/2-x)}=\frac{\cos(x)}{\sin(x)}\cdot \frac{\sin(x)}{\cos(x)} =1.$$
Moreover for $k=1,\dots, m-1$,
$$\frac{k\pi}{2m}+\frac{(m-k)\pi}{2m}=\frac{\pi}{2}.$$

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by Sam Rosenfeld
It's perilously close to conventional wisdom in the media that al-Qaeda wants John Kerry to win the November election. In the next 10 weeks, get ready for a concerted effort by the right to fix that notion in place.
The meme originated, unsurprisingly, with the usual right-wing suspects. Rush Limbaugh kicked things off right after the election-eve terrorist bombings in Spain, asserting on March 15 that terrorists "want Kerry, they want the Democrats in power. They'd love that -- I mean, based simply on what they're saying and how they're reacting to what happened in Spain."
In June, Dick Morris wrote a New York Post column with the characteristically subtle headline "Terrorists for Kerry." Morris explained to his readers that "the real test of American resolve will not be our willingness to stay in Iraq, but our desire to keep [George W.] Bush in office … . It is obvious that Osama [bin Laden] and his allies all want Bush out. It might profit Bush's supporters (though not the president himself) to point out this obvious fact to the American people."
Needless to say, Bush's supporters have been happy to heed the call (and MediaMatters.org has carried out the thankless task of compiling all such statements comprehensively).
The idea got a lot of encouragement from government officials, both anonymous and named. On April 18, CNN's Suzanne Malveaux paraphrased National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice as saying that al-Qaeda "may have looked at the situation in Spain, where you simply had -- essentially had a pro-American, pro-Iraq war leader ousted for someone who took the opposite position." A month later, another CNN correspondent, Kelli Arena, made her now-notorious remark about there being "some speculation that al-Qaeda believes it has a better chance of winning in Iraq if John Kerry is in the White House."
Arena cited no source for that speculation, but by June she might have been able to stake her claim on the authority of the president himself. Bush explained to Tom Brokaw on June 6 how worrisome it was "that the al-Qaeda killed innocent people in Spain, and the al-Qaeda leadership think that they affected the outcome of the election … . It worries me that the al-Qaeda leadership says, 'Well, we may be able to affect the election of the United States. We may be able to, you know, change the outcome of democracy by killing.'"
Nobody in government rendered the claim more explicit (or ludicrous) than an unnamed U.S. intelligence official quoted last week in a breathless Washington Times piece. According to the official, terrorists had adopted the mantra of pragmatic Democrats: "The view of al Qaeda is 'anybody but Bush.'"
Meanwhile, Chris Matthews has brooked no comparisons among mainstream pundits in his penchant for raising the "bin Laden for Kerry" specter. On July 8, he asked Senator John Breaux what would happen if it turned out that al-Qaeda was "trying to get people to vote Democrat for president to basically make their case worldwide? Doesn't it put your party in a terrible position of having al-Qaeda rooting for you?" He revived the same line of questioning a month later on his show.
Anyone out there think we've heard the last of this? As the campaign gets more heated, so will the inclination of the Bush team and its right-wing media surrogates to amplify the fear of a terrorist attack and insinuate that what the terrorists really want is to derail Bush's re-election. If they don't want to get mau-maued any more than they already have, mainstream journalists will want to keep a few things in mind.
First off, attempts to draw conclusions about the upcoming election from what happened in Madrid stem from two faulty assumptions about that attack. The first is that al-Qaeda attacked Spain because of the country's involvement in Iraq; according to Lawrence Wright's August 2 New Yorker article "The Terror Web," terrorists may have been plotting a bombing in Spain since late 2000. The second, more significant misassumption is that Spanish voters threw out the Populist Party government of José María Aznar because they were heeding the perceived message of the terrorists; in fact, it appears as likely that the Aznar government's early attempts to pin blame for the attacks on Basque terrorists eroded trust in the candidate enough to move a few percentage points to the Socialists.
More to the point, responsible journalists will want to remind themselves that there is not a shred of credible evidence documenting al-Qaeda's preferences in the election one way or the other. This shouldn't be a shock; after all, the ideological differences between the two major American parties probably aren't quite sufficient in scope to sway the hearts of radical Islamic theocrats.
But hey, forget ideology for a moment and think strategy. Let's speculate: If you were bin Laden, and you had enjoyed a year and a half respite from America's full, undivided attention, as special ops forces, intelligence operatives, and spy satellites were diverted from the pursuit of al-Qaeda to the invasion of Iraq, for which candidate might you feel the most gratitude? If you were bin Laden, and had watched the United States turn its invasion of Iraq into a cause célèbre for Islamic terrorists worldwide, which candidate might you deem the most useful and effective as a recruiting tool for your organization?
None of this is rocket science. The question for the mainstream media in the next few months is whether they can withstand the barrage of right-wing insinuations, administration speculation, color-coded alerts, and curiously timed press conferences designed to filter this single notion -- that al-Qaeda wants our president to lose the election -- into the regular stream of campaign coverage. It's a noxious claim, and the media shouldn't swallow it.
Sam Rosenfeld is a writer for the online edition of The American Prospect.
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Forty-three-year-old Andrew Kittams was found guilty in court of driving salmon from closed waters while commercial seine fishing. He was fishing at Hidden Falls Hatchery which is on Baranof Island.
Sergeant Aaron Frenzel is with the Alaska Wildlife Troopers in Juneau and helped investigate the case. He says multiple boats try to fish at hatcheries like Hidden Falls because the fish are gathered there.
Kittams's crew was documented there on board the fishing vessel Sara Dawn using explosives to drive salmon from the closed area into an active seine set.
Frenzel has been a wildlife trooper for about 15 years and has dealt with fishermen using explosives to herd fish before but says he's never seen it happen from a closed hatchery area where Kittams was fishing.
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It's exciting to see women aiming for and winning leadership roles especially knowing the challenges they've had to contend with along the way. Even though most organisations are putting effort into building gender balance, there are some things women will still face which men don't.
So, what are the issues and what can be done about them?
US company, PEW Research Center reports women are held to higher standards than their male counterparts. They need to do more to demonstrate their abilities than men. A survey by The Australian newspaper reported the same results, with around 79% of women saying they also had to prove themselves more than their male colleagues. This plays on weaknesses most women have, which is the reluctance to self-promote or to ask for what we want.
Don't hold back and wait for your achievements to be noticed. Speak up and show what you're good at. Demonstrate how you meet the standards and indeed exceed them. Above all, call out double standards when you see them. Until you do, they'll go unnoticed, but when you reveal them you may find your male counterparts become your biggest allies in your fight.
When you realise these results were collated from the opinions of the general public, you can see how big the stereotyping problem really is. Men do the business, women do the caring.
Women have the skills to do what's regarded as extraordinary. The more women do it, the more common it will become, and public perception will gradually change. But it won't take just one or two women to step up. They only become 'exceptions to the rule' and, in many cases, are pointed to as evidence that there is no gender problem. This is a long-term problem with a long-term solution and we all need to play our part in bringing in the change.
Men have a way of doing things which includes building alliances, sourcing votes before meetings, and preparing their positioning beforehand. There's nothing wrong with this. It's all about strategy, like playing chess and getting your pieces into the right spaces. You can't win if you don't play the game. Give yourself a fair chance. Learn the strategy and use it.
More women than men end up leaving work to raise a family. It shouldn't be a case of child or career. Men don't usually have to make the same choice. Women who take leave or finish work to have a child need to plan their workplace exit and re-entry carefully. Stay up to date with technology and workplace changes and maintain contact with your networks.
In general, women are more cautious about risk than men and often question their own judgement. Men take risks, confident they'll handle the outcome, no matter what it is. You'll never move forward if you're not prepared to take a calculated risk on occasion. Remember, you're taking it for a reason – to achieve an outcome. Learn to focus more on the outcome and less on the risk.
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The Vatican and The Borgias
Let's unveil some outrageous details of this legendary family.
Today, you may enjoy the fictional version of this Italo-Spanish noble family's stories on Netflix by watching seasons of "The Borgias" starring Jeremy Irons but we thought you might love to learn more about the real-life contribution to history of the Borgia Family and how it includes one of the most scandalous Popes in the Vatican's history.
Rising to power during 15th and 16th centuries, this historically scandalous family was deeply involved in the political as well as religious landscape so much so it produced two Popes: Pope Callixtus III and Pope Alexander VI.
Rodrigo Borgia, known as Pope Alexander VI, was to become one of the most scandalous Popes in Vatican history. Before being elected Pope in 1492, while being a cardinal, he had 4 children with Vannozza de Cattanei during their illicit relationship.
As Pope, Alexander VI employed his diplomatic skills and political savvy to enrich the Borgia family directly and overspend the Vatican's resources. Favoring his family through nepotism, The Borgia Pope appointed Giovanni Borgia as captain of the Papal Army and choose Cesare Borgia, as cardinal. As for his other children with Vannozza de Cattanei, he decided to marry them into wealthy and powerful families in a perfect play for power.
Out of his established power plays, by far the most intriguing was the choice to marry the 13-year-old Lucrezia Borgia into the Sforza family who at the time ruled Milan.
However, when the Sforza family became useless to his quest for power, The Borgia Pope proceeded to have the marriage annulled by having Lucrezia declare it had never been consummated and forcing Giovanni Sforza to declare he was impotent. This lead her soon to be ex-husband to imply incest, as he powerfully stated the Pope and Cesare merely wanted Lucrezia all to themselves.
During the reign of his father as Pope the then cardinal Cesare Borgia held the infamous Banquet of Chestnuts at the Vatican Palace. Italian Renaissance chroniclers, such as Johann Burchard, reported The Pope had 50 courtesans in attendance to entertain the guests and that his children, Cesare and Lucrezia, were also present at the party that included rumored orgies. Despite these rumors and his self-confessed immorality, the Borgia Pope was considered one of the most excellent Popes since Saint Peter by his successors Sixtus V and Urban VIII.
Although infamous for their immorality, which included simony, murder and adultery to name a few, the Borgias were lovers of Art. It's notable that if it weren't for Cesare Borgia, the Mona Lisa might have never been created by Leonardo da Vinci who started painting it in 1503 while still under the cardinal's employ. To support Leonardo, Cesare gave him a passport that ordered all who were shown to obey Leonardo's demands. The Mona Lisa we see today was made possible by Cesare Borgia's allowance of perfect creative freedom to Leonardo.
Although he passed away before its completion, it was Pope Alexander VI who persuaded Bramante, with whom he had very close ties, to join Michelangelo in working together on the new Saint Peter's Basilica.
The Borgia family's constant descent into sin was one of their most powerful characteristics and eventually led to their heritage being set aside by the Vatican as well as Rome through time. The frescoes masterfully painted by Pinturicchio and commissioned by the Borgia Pope himself to decorate his apartments were covered by black paint and hidden from viewers once the family lost prestige. The once-banned and neglected rooms of the sumptuous Vatican Borgia Apartments, displaying the frescoes painted by Pinturicchio, have nowadays been turned into galleries that host the modern art collection. This is perhaps fitting as The Borgias also played an important part in Italy's history as patrons of the Arts who greatly contributed to the Renaissance.
Offering a glimpse into the historical impact the Borgia family had not only on the Vatican but on the Italian Renaissance art heritage as well, The Vatican Museums' Borgia Apartments are well worth being explored.
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When you see a gathering of vultures know that it is not all about love and hate. It's not about discussing what they wish to do or could have done. They gather because there is a carcus that has to be eaten. The Zambian Government system is a gathering of vultures.
Government should be a system where the few are are given all the power and tasked to raise resources and manage them on behalf of the majority. Once collected, these few have the moral obligation to ensure that they distribute these resources fairly for the benefit of even the poorest of the poor in the remotest parts of the country.
What we see here in Zambia is the opposite. The priority of government is now to eat whatever has been collected first and pass the left overs to all of us later. We have a government that prioritises its operations above the interests of those it serves. In the end we see a system where junior officials' corruption is protected by higher officials.
The supervisor of every corrupt activity is a politician. Let me remind you that government is divided into three parts. We have the Politicians at the top who represent the president as ministers. Then we have Permanet Sectretaries who breathes out the policies of the politicians into the civil service.
Here is an example of what I meant when I said politicians supervise corruption. Most Grade I government Secondary Schools charge user fees. Most of these Schools have more than 1000 pupils. Each pupil pays about K800 (Day school). 800X1000=800,000 (8 billion old currency). They even have GCE centres which charge exorbitant centre fee charges. They also hire out classes and halls to churches. In one year alone one school can have more than one trillion Kwacha.
But if you go to thes government sponsored schools, its hard to see where the one trillion goes to. The toilets are bad, classrooms have no mwandaba(cobra) and toilets are worse than public ones. But observe the head. They are building mansions and buying cars that their income can't support.
The head does that under the nose of DEBS office. That implies they eat together. This explains why officials from DEBS always visit or are in contact with these schools and walk away with brown envelopes, drinks and the like from these schools.
DEBS is also protected by PEO and Headquarters. If people complain to PEO or headquarter about mismanagement which is obvious, empty promises are made and the head remains put. Why? Because they are partners in crime.
Above this is the minister of education. Recently, the minister spoke about the high fees in government schools. What has he done? Nothing. Because he depends on the system to award himself contracts and other matters of similar interest. Since the President wants to win in western province, he will also pretend he knows nothing! Yet he is fully aware of the rampart theft and explotation occuring under him. It benefits him indirectly. The auditor's report is gabbage. The President and the vultures under him take no action to address concerns raised or discipline erring officers. Their view is that investigating corruption is being vindictive and an act of political persecution.
I have no time to talk about the orphans and street kids we call police officers. Neither do I have the time to talk about the drug theft that occurs in hospitals. It is obvious from what we have seen is that the worst enemy to Zambia is government. Interms of status, I can compare government to Boko haram and ISIS. In its current state it is a danger to the economy and the existance of all of us. We need a leadership that will eradicate the vulture mentality in government! RBB once said there is no corruption in Zambia. Could it be the opinion of Bashi Tasali too since they have the same feathers?


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Six Biloxi Shuckers Named 2019 MiLB.com Organizational All-Stars
by Biloxi Shuckers November 22, 2019, 10:13 am 176 Views 0 Votes
Six members of the 2019 Biloxi Shuckers have been named MiLB.com Organizational All-Stars for the Milwaukee Brewers. The Shuckers have now produced 29 MiLB.com Organizational All-Stars in their five years in Biloxi.
Third Base – Weston Wilson
After earning a late promotion to Double-A in 2018, Wilson started 2019 as one of the hottest hitters in the Southern League, earning Southern League Player of the Month honors for April after slashing .295/.380/.591 with six doubles, a triple, six home runs, 18 RBI and 20 runs scored in 24 games. The High Point, NC native was named a Southern League Midseason All-Star and started the All-Star Game for the South Division at third base.
For the 2019 season, Wilson hit .231 with 19 doubles, three triples, 19 home runs, 58 RBI and 70 runs scored. He led the Shuckers in home runs with 19 and finished tied for second in the Southern League in runs scored and fourth in home runs. Taken in the 17th round of the 2016 draft out of Clemson, Wilson finished in the top 10 in the Brewers organization in home runs (T-2nd), extra-base hits (6th), total bases (7th), walks (7th) and RBI (10th). It is his first MiLB.com Organizational All-Star honor.
Outfield – Trent Grisham
Grisham adds another honor to his breakout 2019 season that started with the Shuckers and ended in Milwaukee. Over his final 20 games with Biloxi, Grisham reached base safely in 19 games and hit safely in 15 of them. He homered in four consecutive games from May 31 to June 3 and was named the Southern League Player of the Week for the week of May 27 to June 2 after slashing .409/.571/1.136 with five doubles, three home runs, 12 RBI and eight runs scored.
The Fort Worth, TX native was selected as a Southern League Midseason All-Star and promoted to Triple-A San Antonio following the All-Star Break. At the time of his promotion, Grisham led the Southern League in walks (44), was second in RBI and extra-base hits (30), tied for second in home runs (13) and third in total bases (119) and OPS (.875). Over 34 games with the San Antonio Missions, Grisham slashed .381/.471/.776 with eight doubles, three triples, 13 home runs, 30 RBI and 37 runs scored, earning a call up to Milwaukee on August 1.
Taken with the 15th-overall pick by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 2015 draft, Grisham was named the Robin Yount Brewers Minor League Player of the Year for 2019. This is his second MiLB.com Organizational award of his career after being named an Organizational All-Star in 2015. Grisham ended up leading the Brewers Minor League system in home runs (26), was second in extra-base hits (54) and total bases (223), tied for fourth in RBI (71) and triples (6), and fifth in runs scored (71).
Outfield – Cooper Hummel
An everyday player for the Shuckers for a majority of the season, Cooper Hummel went through two impressive stretches with Biloxi in 2019. From July 11 to August 13, Hummel hit 12 home runs in 29 games, including the first multi-home run game of his career on August 2 against Jacksonville, when the switch-hitter homered from both sides of the plate. The 24-year-old then finished the season on a 25-game on-base streak, tied for the longest on-base streak in Shuckers franchise history.
All told, Hummel slashed .249/.384/.450 in 121 games with eight doubles, five triples, a career-high 17 home runs, 56 RBI and 62 runs scored. The Portland, OR native finished second in the Southern League in on-base percentage, third in walks (62), fourth in OPS (.834) and seventh in runs scored. He also ranked fourth in the Brewers organization in OBP, fifth in walks, tied for fifth in home runs and sixth in slugging. This is Hummel's second consecutive MiLB.com Organizational All-Star honor.
Utility – Clayton Andrews
A two-way player, Andrews pitched in 17 games for Biloxi while also appearing as a position player in seven games for the Shuckers. On the mound, the 22-year-old went 3-0 with a 2.59 ERA, allowing nine runs in 31.1 innings of work while walking 15 and striking out 33.
Taken in the 17th round of 2018 draft by the Milwaukee Brewers, Andrews started for the Shuckers in centerfield and hit for himself as a reliever, compiling 32 at bats with Biloxi. The Petaluma, CA native hit .281 with a double, a triple, two RBI and five runs scored in 17 games at Double-A. After participating in the Arizona Fall League, Andrews was selected to play for Team USA in the Premier12 tournament. This is his first MiLB.com Organizational All-Star honor.
Right-Handed Starter – Trey Supak
The 2019 Southern League Most Outstanding Pitcher, Supak concludes the 2019 award season with yet another honor. Across 20 starts with Biloxi, Supak was one of the most dominant starters in the Southern League, compiling an 11-4 record with a 2.20 ERA and holding opponents to a .192 batting average against. Despite earning a promotion to Triple-A on July 26, the La Grange, TX native led qualified pitchers in the Southern League in ERA, batting average against and WHIP (0.87) and was tied for first in wins.
Supak turned in a pair of extraordinary performances during 2019, coming one out shy of a no-hitter on May 30 against Tennessee and on July 16 against Chattanooga. The righty pitched at least six innings in 14 of his 20 starts with the Shuckers and failed to pitch at least five innings on just two occasions during the season. He was named the Southern League Pitcher of the Week twice during the 2019 campaign, and started the Southern League All-Star Game for the South Division at MGM Park. He was also named a 2019 Southern League Postseason All-Star and led the Brewers organization in innings pitched (152.2), batting average against and WHIP. He captures his first MiLB.com Organizational All-Star honor.
Relief Pitcher – Nate Griep
Already the all-time saves leader in Shuckers franchise history after his 2018 campaign with the club, Nate Griep was yet again the most dominant closer in the Southern League in 2019. Across 43 appearances, the 26-year-old went 6-1 with a 1.98 ERA, converting 22 of 27 save opportunities and holding opponents to a .169 batting average. The former Kansas State Wildcat was almost unhittable in the month of May, allowing a total of four baserunners in 12 appearances during the month while making eight perfect outings. The righty was named the BC® Powder Southern League Reliever of the Month for May and was also named a Southern League Midseason All-Star, his third consecutive Midseason All-Star honor.
Taken in the 8th round of the 2015 draft by the Milwaukee Brewers, Griep was also named a Southern League Postseason All-Star as the best reliever in the league for a second consecutive season. He led the Southern League in saves and was third in the league in games (43) among pitchers. It was also the fourth straight season that Griep has earned Postseason All-Star accolades, after earning the honor with Wisconsin in 2016 in the Midwest League and with Carolina in 2017 in the Carolina League. In 203 regular-season games, Griep has recorded 110 saves in 127 save opportunities and has lost just five games since converting to a closer role full time in 2016. He was also named a MiLB.com Organizational All-Star in 2017.
Additionally, first baseman David Fry was named a MiLB.com Organizational All-Star. Fry spent the entire 2019 regular season with Class-A Wisconsin, but was promoted to Biloxi for the Southern League BC® Powder Championship Series, appearing in three games for the Shuckers against the Jackson Generals.
Former Biloxi Shuckers Keston Hiura (2018) and Mauricio Dubon (2017) also took home MiLB.com Organizational All-Star honors at second base and shortstop, respectively. Hiura made his Major League debut with the Milwaukee Brewers on May 14 and was named the National League Rookie of the Month for July. Dubon debuted with Milwaukee on July 7 and was traded to the San Francisco Giants on July 31.
With the 2020 Biloxi Shuckers schedule announced, Full Shuck Nation Memberships, Half Shell Shuck Nation Memberships, flex plans and group outings for the 2020 season are available by calling 228-233-3465 or by visiting the Biloxi Shuckers front office.
Player photo credit goes to Mike Krebs.
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