Basecamp Classic: What's an archived project? Why should I archive? How can I archive a project?
You can archive a project in any paid plan. An archived project is a project that is frozen in time and can't be changed. All the data is left intact, but you can't add, edit, or remove anything until you un-archive it.
Since they're not active, archived projects don't appear on your dashboard. The fewer active projects you have, the faster and more responsive Basecamp will be. This is especially true on large accounts with more than 75 active projects.
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2. Next click the name of the project you want to un-archive, then the "Project Settings" link at the top of the screen.


AC Replacement: What Will Determine the Efficiency of Your New System?
If you are thinking about replacing your old air conditioner, there are multiple factors that you should consider before installing a new appliance. One of these crucial aspects is the energy efficiency. Often, homeowners assume that they will enjoy lower electrical bills and promote sustainability by choosing an energy efficient AC unit. While the energy star rating is an important element, it does not necessarily mean that you will attain optimal efficiency. Consider this short discussion on the other factors which will determine the 'greenness' of your new air conditioning system.
The size of the air conditioner does matter if you want to achieve exceptional energy efficiency. Therefore, you should have a professional HVAC contractor assess your home and recommend the right unit size for the size of your space. Some homeowners assume that large appliances with high energy star rating are better for climate control. Typically, these products will cool the interior space faster, but they demand more electricity than is necessary. Also, big AC units will continuously cycle on and off, increasing energy consumption and the rate of internal wear. On the other hand, if you choose a small appliance, it will be forced to work continuously, raising internal strain and accelerating degradation.
If you are installing a replacement air conditioner, you will probably choose to use the old ducting network in your home. Air duct products can be expensive, so this choice can reduce your total project expenses. However, these features might not be in great condition after years of use. In simple terms, the ductwork might have perforations which will allow cool air to escape, increasing energy consumption. Also, the insulation used to shield the sheet metal duct channels might be worn-out. Consequently, there will be heat exchange across the walls, promoting inefficiencies. Therefore, you should hire an AC technician to check the condition of your ductwork and perform repairs before installing the new appliance.
The efficiency of an air conditioner can be affected by the air vent delivery system. If the vents are not in a good state, they will not complement the operation of the new appliance. For optimal performance, you should ensure that the vents are clean and free of blockages by furniture and interior décor. If possible, the vents should be placed at the ceiling to minimise obstruction and promote optimal air circulation. After all, cool air tends to sink. Finally, make sure that these openings are approriately sized for individual rooms.


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Charles Baissac, né le  à Port-Louis (Île Maurice) et mort le  à Beau-Bassin Rose-Hill (Île Maurice), est un auteur mauricien, spécialiste du créole mauricien et du folklore de l'Île Maurice.

Biographie

Basile Charles Baissac appartient à une famille originaire de France. Son grand-père, professeur de français, s'est installé à Maurice.

À onze ans, son père pharmacien l'envoie en France poursuivre ses études, d'abord au collège de Lorient puis au collège Henri-IV, à Paris. Il commence ensuite des études médicales, mais il les abandonne vite pour des études littéraires.

En 1854, il rentre à Maurice. Il travaille comme précepteur et enseigne dans des collèges privés. Il fait paraître des chroniques théâtrales sous le pseudonyme de Basile Vespus. En 1870, il est engagé comme professeur au Collège royal, où il enseigne le français à partir de 1875. Ce poste lui donne la stabilité financière qui lui permet de se consacrer à son œuvre d'écrivain et de folkloriste.

Il a donné la première étude solide du créole mauricien et permet de connaître l'état de ce créole au . En collectant de nombreux contes et sirandanes, il les a préservés de la disparition. Il est aussi l'auteur d'œuvres littéraires personnelles : pièces de théâtre, poésie.

En 1892, le cyclone du 29 avril détruit sa maison ; il se réfugie alors à Beau Bassin, où il meurt le 3 décembre. Il est enterré à Port-Louis, au cimetière de l'Ouest, où sa tombe a été classée comme patrimoine national en 1970.

Charles Baissac a été fait chevalier de la Légion d'honneur à titre posthume. Il est le grand-oncle des agents secrets britanniques Claude de Baissac et Lise de Baissac.

Œuvres
Étude sur le patois créole mauricien, Nancy, Berger-Levrault, 1880 (rééd. : Genève, Slatkine, 1976, 2011 - La Réunion, Surya Editions, 2011).
Récits créoles, Paris, Oudin, 1884. Lire sur gallica.
Le folk-lore de l'Île-Maurice, Paris, Maisonneuve et Larose, 1888, rééd. 1967 (texte créole et traduction française). Lire sur Wikisource.
Sirandann sanpek. Zistwar an Kreol. 28 hundred-year-old Folk Stories in Kreol with English Translation alongside, Port-Louis, 1989.
Zistoire Prince Sabour et autres contes mauriciens, Quatre Bornes, 1995 (en français et créole).
Histoire des quatre cloches et autres contes mauriciens, Quatre Bornes, 1995 (en français et créole).

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
  Elisabeth Steiner, « "L'approbation d'un juge comme vous est de celles dont on a le droit d'être fier" : Der Briefwechsel zwischen Schuchardt und Baissac », Grazer Linguistische Studien, 74, 2010, . En ligne.
 Carpooran Arnaud, « Ce que les études créoles mauricianistes doivent à Charles Baissac », Cahiers internationaux de sociolinguistique, 2017/2 (), .

Liens externes

 Base de données du patrimoine mauricien.
 Potomitan. Site de promotion des cultures et des langues créoles.
 HAL. Archives ouvertes :  Jean-Philippe Watbled, « Charles Baissac et son étude sur le patois créole mauricien (1880) : langue, grammaire et idéologie ».

Naissance en septembre 1831
Décès en décembre 1892
Naissance à Port-Louis (Maurice)
Décès à Beau-Bassin Rose-Hill
Écrivain mauricien du XIXe siècle
Folkloriste mauricien
Collecteur de contes
Décès à 61 ans

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Gimcrack was a small grey horse at 14.2 hands sired by Cripple, a son of the Godolphin Arabian, his dam Miss Elliot was by (Grisewood's) Partner.
Despite his small stature, Gimcrack was widely successful, winning 27 of his 36 races in a turf career spanning 7 seasons. Gimcrack won his last race in 1771, at age eleven, and he retired to the Grosvenor stud.
Gimcrack is best known from the paintings of George Stubbs.
The Gimcrack Club, in York was founded in 1766 in his honour, and the Gimcrack Stakes, also at York, are therefore also named after the horse.
It is hard to imagine any racehorse today being remembered, never mind celebrated, nearly 250 years from now.
Yet, Gimcrack, an 18th Century equine icon who became the subject of a famous George Stubbs masterpiece, has achieved that distinction.
And earlier this week, at York racecourse, England, the 247th Gimcrack Dinner took place to honour the winner of the G2 Gimcrack Stakes, a two-year-old race run over six furlongs at the Ebor Meeting every August.
It is one of the most elite gatherings in British racing, and invitations are much sought-after.
Just under 200 guests dine at a table that began as a gigantic horseshoe, though underwent reshaping due to the design of the modern dining room.
Nevertheless, tradition is maintained, right down to certain members wearing red hunting coats rather than black tie. The spirit of Gimcrack, winner of 27 races, lives on.
Another great tradition is that the owner of the winner of the Gimcrack Stakes is obliged to deliver a speech at the official dinner.
In 1970, American owner Paul Mellon was so caught up in the success of his colt Mill Reef, and the occasion itself, that he spoke for well over one hour, keeping guest of honour, His Royal Highness the Prince Of Wales, waiting until after midnight to say his few words.
This year, the winning horse was Sands of Mali, trained by Richard Fahey and ridden by Paul Hanagan.
Godolphin's Blue Point won the Gimcrack in 2016, which served as a prelude to contesting a series of races at the highest level.


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Le , aussi connu sous le nom Chitei no ki, est un des textes kanbun représentatifs du milieu de l'époque de Heian. Appartenant au genre zuihitsu, il est écrit par Yoshishige no Yasutane (:ja:慶滋保胤) en 982. Ce texte est une précieuse source d'informations pour comprendre les enjeux sociaux au sein de la capitale à cette époque.

Contexte
Yasutane prend son inspiration du Chi shang pian (池上篇) de Bai Juyi et du livre de Kane Akira portant le même titre.

Ce court texte est contenu dans le douzième volume du Honchō monzui et se compose de deux parties principales. La première est un commentaire sur les problèmes sociaux. Les descriptions de la capitale sont dignes d'attention : la partie ouest est tombée en ruines et les habitants se pressent dans la partie est. En raison de ces problèmes, la seconde partie expose comment Yasutane se réfugie dans la solitude. Il se construit une petite maison où il peut vivre une vie libre loin des soucis du monde.

Influences
Le Chiteiki est d'abord cité comme étant la principale influence du Hōjōki (1212) écrit ultérieurement par Kamo no Chōmei. Dans le Hōjōki, Chomei imite un certain nombre de dispositifs littéraires trouvés dans le Chiteiki, décrit les mêmes problèmes sociaux et se retire finalement dans la solitude où il se construit une petite cabane.

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Voir aussi

Bibliographie
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Articles connexes
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Littérature japonaise du Xe siècle


The FL-DS is a versatile case that offers both enclosed and open merchandising of fresh-cut flowers and arrangements. With the addition of the optional slat-wall to the case ends, the FL-DS also has areas for display and cross-merchandising of non-refrigerated products. When floorspace is a concern and must be maximized, look no further than the all-in-one FL-DS.


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XERCES_CPP_NAMESPACE_USE

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//		CParseHandlerScalarOp::CParseHandlerScalarOp
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//		Constructor
//
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CParseHandlerScalarOp::CParseHandlerScalarOp(
	CMemoryPool *mp, CParseHandlerManager *parse_handler_mgr,
	CParseHandlerBase *parse_handler_root)
	: CParseHandlerOp(mp, parse_handler_mgr, parse_handler_root)
{
}

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//		CParseHandlerScalarOp::~CParseHandlerScalarOp
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//		Destructor
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//		Invoked by Xerces to process an opening tag for a scalar operator.
//		The function serves as a dispatcher for invoking the correct processing
//		function of the actual operator type.
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CParseHandlerScalarOp::StartElement(const XMLCh *const element_uri,
									const XMLCh *const element_local_name,
									const XMLCh *const element_qname,
									const Attributes &attrs)
{
	// instantiate the parse handler
	CParseHandlerBase *parse_handler_base =
		CParseHandlerFactory::GetParseHandler(m_mp, element_local_name,
											  m_parse_handler_mgr, this);

	GPOS_ASSERT(nullptr != parse_handler_base);

	// activate the specialized parse handler
	m_parse_handler_mgr->ReplaceHandler(parse_handler_base,
										m_parse_handler_root);

	// pass the startElement message for the specialized parse handler to process
	parse_handler_base->startElement(element_uri, element_local_name,
									 element_qname, attrs);
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								  const XMLCh *const element_local_name,
								  const XMLCh *const  // element_qname,
)
{
	CWStringDynamic *str = CDXLUtils::CreateDynamicStringFromXMLChArray(
		m_parse_handler_mgr->GetDXLMemoryManager(), element_local_name);
	GPOS_RAISE(gpdxl::ExmaDXL, gpdxl::ExmiDXLUnexpectedTag, str->GetBuffer());
}

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Happy christmas eve everyone!! I actually think I enjoy christmas eve more than christmas, the anticipation with the kids is way too much fun! Cookies, milk and even reindeer food will be out tonight and I can't wait for Santa to come to see what goodies he has brought! this past week andrew has been home which is awesome since he has been away in the weeks for work, we have watched a ton of movies, went to movies, went to the nutcracker, baked, went for a hike, and went sledding and skating! The kids have loved this time and we still have another week, yay!!


I can't be the only one who's had my fingers crossed all year that Cameron Crowe is finally going to treat us well again. Somehow even six years after the failure of Elizabethtown that movie still hurts, having come from the man who gave us Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire and Say Anything not that far into the past. But this year he's back with We Bought A Zoo, the story of a man grieving his wife's death who, along with his two kids, buys and moves into a rundown zoo. It sounds like it has the exact mix of humor and sadness you want in a Cameron Crowe movie, plus the added bonus of zoo animals; only the latter is on display, though, in the first batch of images from the film that debuted at USA Today.
Check out three of the five below, including a truly storage composite shot of the entire cast with some fearsome animals cavorting around in the background. That's also an impossibly lean Scarlett Johansson leaning against that tree trunk, in case you were curious. You can click on them for a link to the full gallery at USA Today.
So yeah, it has nothing to do with We Bought A Zoo, but it's a reminder that between Crowe and Damon and that awesome looking tiger, we've got a lot to look forward to from this movie, which opens December 23.


Anne Ohman and Anna Brown join me to answer listener questions. We dive into the seeming transition from following their interests to earning a living, how passionate kids engage with the world, partnering with our children around chores, and helping a child learn something that's challenging for us.
I am mother to a 13-month-old boy and a real newbie to unschooling. My husband and I only came across the term when we started looking into alternative education for our son about 6 months ago, but from the moment we started to read about Unschooling we knew it was a good fit for our family. I want to thank you so much for this fantastic podcast and especially the Q&A sessions, which I find extremely interesting, challenging and inspiring.
The question I have isn't so much about unschooling our son, but actually about unschooling for adults. This is something I have seen mentioned but I haven't read or heard much about the idea. My husband and I are both artists and it seems to me that the way we create art is similar to how children learn naturally through play, exploration and the freedom to immerse themselves in whatever they are drawn to. There is a similarity too in the atmosphere that is most conducive to the creation of art and the atmosphere that is required to allow unschooling to happen, i.e. an atmosphere of equality, trust, respect, honesty and support. However, difficulties tend to arise in the life of an artist when our often slow creative process comes up against the need to earn a living. In fact, the only difference I can see between the life of an unschooled child and that of an adult artist is that one is provided for and the other has to provide for themselves.
So, my question is this: how do children who have been unschooled make the transition from following their interests freely to having to earn a living? I am sure that most children who have been unschooled find a walk of life that is enjoyable to them, and can support themselves eventually through doing what they love best, but inevitably, earning money from a pursuit changes the nature of the activity and puts a 'worth' on it. So, for example, an artist may find that they wake up one morning and have the impulse to take out their dusty watercolour set and go painting, but they have a commission they need to finish and so the impulse has to be ignored. The activity of creating the commission suddenly becomes less enjoyable as the natural creative flow has been blocked.
As an artist (unschooled adult!) and a deschooling mother I'm very curious to know if there are mental approaches that can make the relationship between work and money easier to handle. Can unschooling carry on into adulthood?
I would love to hear your thoughts and experiences around this idea.
Hi! Firstly I'd like to thank you for these podcasts. I like to listen to them when I go for morning walks before my boys wake up and my husband has not yet left for work.
I have 2 boys. We came to unschooling because my eldest made it so! He is an incredible child full of energy and love, but he made it pretty clear from the beginning that learning was on his terms. We decided that he wouldn't be a great fit for school and launched into deschooling. That was 3 years ago.
So, now my children are 7 and 3 1/2. I am seeking help on how to respond to my eldest. Whenever he gets hurt or upset, his reaction is quite ferocious! He is extremely loud and hollers/squawks for quite some time. It is noticeable to people within our vicinity to the point that they think he is extremely hurt. He plays football (soccer), which he loves, and his father is his coach. My husband is becoming a little embarrassed by his reactions. I'm wondering how we can help him. We've never told him that it's not ok to cry of course, and my husband is extremely affectionate with our children. When my son feels better, it is sudden and like nothing happened – there is no gradual recovery. It's like he's switched on or off.
I have always seen him as a child that feels things and does things with such passion. He has gone through periods where the morning sunlight bothered him so much he'd scream in pain; he's quite particular with feeling/textures like wearing clothes or eating food; he doesn't like being touched by others but demands close contact with me and wrestling with my husband; he makes high pitched sounds whilst watching YouTube on his iPad and randomly yells, transitioning has also been something that can cause upset. Most of these things worsen for a period and then improve, but the noises and reactions have not.
He has a lot of energy and is quite the extrovert, however he does not connect with a lot of kids—it's like they are afraid of his unpredictability or they just don't like him because he is seemingly 'loud and proud.' However, he has more empathy than any other child I've met and is always the first to ask someone if they are ok or help them up on the pitch.
We've been ok with him quitting activities—he often has a problem with the teachy nature of such things. He does not want to quit football (soccer) and becomes quite distressed at the idea of doing so. I'd like some ideas on how to help him with this sensory distress in an unschooling home. I am concerned that asking these questions elsewhere will lead to suggestions of diagnoses, labels and therapy. I do not wish to view my son through such a lens and would like to help him cope or manage in the world in which he lives whilst embracing that these behaviours are just a part of who he is.
We have been unschooling now for over a year and a half and are loving our lifestyle. We are continually deschooling ourselves and moving towards respectful parenting. My husband and I were hoping to get a concrete response to some situations that we deal with on a consistent basis.
1. I'm getting dinner ready, the dishwasher is clean but there are dishes in the sink and I need help getting things in order to get food ready for everyone. Usually the kids sigh or complain about not wanting to help. What am I supposed to do in a situation like this when I need the help and no one is contributing.
2. At the end of the day we like the house picked up before everyone is in bed and most of the mess is from the kids throughout the day. They rarely want to help pick things up that they were playing with and most nights are not pleasant during this time.
We are understanding the concept of respectful parenting and partnership but there are specific situations that are just making us draw a blank. Thank you, ladies!
My son has been playing with coding and wants to learn how to code in Lua, which is the language that Roblox uses. After looking at lots of different options for him to learn coding, he is very clear that he wants me to learn to code and then teach him what I know and help him write scripts specifically for Roblox. He has fantastic ideas for in-game mods, but we have found it difficult so far to write scripts that work like he wants them to. I would love some encouragement and/or stories from your lives about how you've helped your children learn about something that is challenging for you. Thank you!


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Alexander Stephens
February 22, 1862 - statewide
A vice presidency can be thankless at best. But when you don't want the job, and you don't get along with your president, it's even worse.
Georgia's Alexander Stephens reluctantly supported secession in 1861. To his horror, he was elected Confederate vice president by the Provisional Congress, which hoped his election would persuade other Southern moderates to support the Confederacy. A general election confirmed his selection in November 1861. President Jefferson Davis worked closely with Stephens at first, but that didn't last. Davis' support for a strong central government and nationalist policies like the draft further alienated Stephens, a states' rights man. He outspokenly opposed the president. As the war continued, Stephens supported a negotiated settlement. He met President Lincoln at Hampton Roads in 1865, but that conference came to nothing.
Despite grave misgivings, Stephens served until the bitter end after his official inauguration as Confederate vice president on February 22, 1862, Today in Georgia History.
Civic Ideals and Practices, Civil War, government, nineteenth century, politics, president,
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Stephens was later elected governor of Georgia and died in office.
Alexander Hamilton Stephens letters and clipping
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Dead Horses and Benjamin Jaffe
Join us for an evening of indie folk music with Dead Horses and Benjamin Jaffe, of HONEYHONEY, on Friday, May 17. Benjamin Jaffe will open the show at 9 pm. Purchase advance tickets for $10 or pay a $12 cover day of show. Tickets do not guarantee you a seat. Please call (501) 244-9660 to reserve a table. You must purchase advance ticket to confirm your table reservation.
ABOUT DEAD HORSES
At fifteen, Dead Horses frontwoman Sarah Vos' world turned upside down. Raised in a strict, fundamentalist home, Vos lost everything when she and her family were expelled from the rural Wisconsin church where her father had long served as pastor. What happened next is the story of Dead Horses' stunning new album, My Mother the Moon, a record full of trauma and triumph, despair and hope, pain and resilience.
Blending elements of traditional roots with contemporary indie folk, Dead Horses writes music that is both familiar and unexpected, unflinchingly honest in its portrayal of modern American life, yet optimistic in its unshakable faith in brighter days to come.
Described by NPR Music as "evocative, empathetic storytelling," My Mother the Moon earned a spot in No Depression's "Best Roots Music Albums of 2018" list, and Rolling Stone Country declared the Wisconsin-based duo an "Artist You Need to Know."
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ABOUT BENJAMIN JAFFE
Years before he hit the road as one half of the Americana duo HONEYHONEY, Benjamin Jaffe kickstarted his career as a solo artist. He was a young Massachusetts native living in Los Angeles, rolling his sharp songwriting, multi-instrumental chops and vocals into songs that were honest and experimental. A decade later, he returns to that career with Oh, Wild Ocean of Love his first full-length release as a solo artist.
Trading the rootsy stomp of HONEYHONEY's three albums for an indie-alternative sound, Jaffe widens his approach with Oh, Wild Ocean of Love. These songs make room for a broad range of influences, from the polyphonic rhythms and improvisational freedom of jazz music to the soul and swagger of Motown. There are R&B ballads like "Everlasting Peace," where Jaffe layers his voice into gorgeous stacks of multi-part harmony, and dissonant rockers like "Dominator," where he shines a light on his skills as an inventive electric guitarist. Throughout the tracklist, Jaffe plays nearly every instrument himself, bouncing between drums, keyboards, bass, and guitar. The result is an album that doubles not only as a rejuvenation of the career he put on hold years ago, but also a showcase of the chops he's sharpened during his time with HONEYHONEY.
For the record, HONEYHONEY's time is far from over. Jaffe and bandmate Suzanne Santo both appear as recurring characters in the new TBS series The Guest Book, doubling not only as member of the show's cast, but as musical guests, as well. They perform in each episode, with Jaffe producing much of the material. While the band temporarily scales back its touring operations, though, Jaffe restarts his solo engines, exploring a sound he only hinted at during his busiest years with the band.
Inspired by a wide of sounds and texts — including Paul Simon, Beck, Randy Newman, Father John Misty and The Essential Chuang Tzu — Oh, Wild Ocean of Love explores the wreckage left by a relationship that's poorly-defined and headed south. It's an album about the full spectrum of love: love for yourself, for others, and even your maker. An album about lessons learned. An album about the realization that even in these chaotic times, it's ok to relax. Meanwhile, Jaffe continue to broaden his career beyond the confines of the recording studio and the stage. He composed, recorded and produced the film score for Joy Joy Nails, a short film that screened at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, building on a resume in TV and Film that includes work on the cartoon, "Spongebob Squarepants" and various other shows and films. He also continues to find charitable avenues for his music, years after HONEYHONEY performed alongside the high-school symphony of Jaffe's alma mater in order to raise money for the school's arts program. Oh, Wild Ocean of Love is the latest chapter in a story that's still being told, and Jaffe has rarely been so compelling.
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Brussels Commuter Describes Evacuation After Terrorist Attack
Evan Lamos tweeted this photo of the evacuation of passengers from a Metro train. They walked on the tracks through the smokey tunnel to the next station. (@evanlamos)
The attack this morning at Brussels' Maelbeek subway station was the deadliest of the three blasts that hit the city today. More than 20 people were killed and over 100 injured.
Evan Lamos works for Euractiv.com near the European Union headquarters. He was on the subway behind the one that was attacked, and was evacuated through a smoky tunnel.
"I think the city is probably reacting in similar ways to situations in the past, where we've had threats, where everyone is trying to figure out what the right reaction for them is, where they should go, whether they should get away from things or stay where they are," Lamos told Here & Now's Robin Young.
He added: "It's a little bit surreal to think that, had I been a little bit earlier by just a few minutes, then I would have been on that metro. I'm still waiting for that to hit me."
Lamos documented most of his terrifying commute on his Twitter account.
On the Metro between Schuman and Maelbeek. We have just been stopped due to an "incident on the line". Can hear soft thudding in distance.
— Evan Lamos (@evanlamos) March 22, 2016
Smoke in the tunnel as we evacuate.
This was the scene a short while ago, between the Arts-Lois and Maelbeek metro stations in Brussels. pic.twitter.com/aTZjqsF7Gt
Was able to help carry this brave little guy out from the Metro line to Arts-Loi. pic.twitter.com/vHRIlORz2v
Here's another video of the scene in the Metro, while waiting to evacuate. pic.twitter.com/WAf0b6Divi
Evan Lamos, Brussels resident and multimedia director at Euractiv.com. He tweets @evanlamos.


RFID has been characterized as a "disruptive technology" that has the potential to revolutionize numerous key sectors. A key advantage of passive RFID applications is the ability to wirelessly transmit automatic identification and related information using very little power. This paper presents an experimental investigation to inform the optimal configuration for programming passive ultra-high frequency (UHF) RFID media in dynamic applications. Dynamic programming solutions must be designed around the tag's functionality, the physical programming configuration and environment. In this investigation, we present a methodology to determine an optimal configuration to maximize the systems programming efficiency for dynamic applications.
Proffitt, Donnie E. II, "EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION TO INFORM OPTIMAL CONFIGURATIONS FOR DYNAMIC NEAR-FIELD PASSIVE UHF RFID SYSTEMS" (2013). Theses and Dissertations--Mechanical Engineering. 29.


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Ronald L. Lawson Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Queens College, CUNY
Papers on Seventh-day Adventism, with some comparisons with Mormons and Witnesses
From Separation to Integration: The Odyssey of the Seventh-day Adventist Hospital System in the US
July 16, 2019 July 7, 2019 Posted in Adventism and Politics, Church and State, Growth, Trajectory of Adventism
The Adventist prophet, Ellen White, had a comprehensive health vision in 1863, from which she concluded that there was an intimate relationship between physical and spiritual health. Her subsequent writing on this subject greatly influenced church leaders, who within three years opened the first Adventist health-related center, "for the care of the sick and to give instruction re the preventative and restorative properties of such neglected elements as exercise, nutrition, sanitation, fresh air, fresh water and sunshine" (Wisbey 1992: 13). It rejected medicine as then practised, especially the use of drugs.
Presented at the meeting of the Religious Research Association, Montreal, November 1998.
Click here for a PDF version of this paper: Seventh-day Adventist Hospitals in the United States
From this beginning grew Battle Creek Sanitarium, which, under the leadership of John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of cornflakes and peanut butter, attracted the famous and wealthy to water treatments, massage, and vegetarian food. Ellen White dubbed the Adventist medical work "the right arm of the message" and "the entering wedge." Since patients typically stayed at the Sanitarium health resorts for several weeks during the latter nineteenth century, this allowed time for the devoted Adventist staff to minister spiritually as well as physically to patients.
Sanitariums multiplied across the US during these decades, all still typically serving the well-to-do rather than, for example, the indigent chronically ill, who were the focus of most Catholic hospitals. To staff the growing empire, Kellogg founded first a nursing school and then a medical school at Battle Creek. These also provided "medical missionaries" to staff the growing array of mission hospitals that were being founded on the other continents. By 1901 Adventists were operating 75 sanitariums and mission hospitals.
The "sans" provided employment for members, encouraging their education and upward mobility because of the positions there that needed to be filled. They fostered lively churches and quality schools, which were usually built on their grounds. These in turn attracted more Adventists to settle in what often became "Adventist ghettos" surrounding the hospitals. These institutional churches, with their many professional members, often provided a hefty portion of their local conference's budget.
Both the mission of the Adventist hospital system and its medical radicalism and separation from the medical establishment have changed dramatically over time. Although both the mission and the clientele of Adventist sanitariums were initially very different from those of other church-operated hospitals, both Catholic and Protestant, in the nineteenth century, the trajectory followed has become ever closer to theirs. This trajectory has become ever closer to theirs. This trajectory also strongly mirrors – and has helped shape – the changes in the relationship of the Adventist Church to society, as the tension between the two has declined and it has moved from sect towards denomination (Stark and Bainbridge 1985: 23; Lawson 1995, 1996a, 1996b, 1996c, 1998).
The research reported here is part of a large study of Seventh-day Adventism, which has included well over 3,000 in-depth interviews with church administrators, teachers, hospital administrators and medical personnel, pastors, students, and leading laypersons in 59 countries in all 13 divisions of the world church. The US has received special attention because Adventism originated here, the headquarters are located here, the leaders, most of the missionaries, and the bulk of the funds have come from here, and the membership here has become extraordinarily pluralistic both racially and ethnically and also in terms of social class and variations in belief and behavior.
For data from the past I have drawn extensively from an array of general and specialized histories of North American Adventism, many of which have been written by members of the history departments of Adventist colleges. However, historians typically stop short of the present. I took opportunities to complete oral history interviews in order to fill in relevant gaps. I also drew on church publications – official statistics, books, and articles in periodicals – as sources of data.
I have interviewed extensively in the US. One focus was administrators, including those at the headquarters of the General Conference and North American Division, each of the eight union conferences, and 27 of the 50 local conferences. Many of these interviews dealt in part with issues covered in this paper. The same was true of some of the interviews completed at the 13 Adventist universities and colleges and at some of the congregations and schools – especially those attached to hospitals. However, most of the data utilized in this paper were drawn from interviews at hospitals and healthcare corporate headquarters, which were concentrated in two periods, thus unintentionally providing data from before and after the recent dramatic changes. The first wave of interviews was in 1984-85, when I completed interviews at the former national healthcare corporate headquarters, the regional headquarters, and 16 hospitals. The second wave was completed in 1997-98, by which time the changes had been so great that I felt it was imperative to update data before writing this paper. At this time I conducted interviews at all the main regional headquarters and at 10 key hospitals. I had also followed the changes during the intervening period of turmoil through intermittent interviews.
For the initial wave of interviews in 1984-85, I prepared separate interview schedules for different categories of interviewees, including one for hospital administrators. The in-depth interview format allowed me to interpolate follow-up questions that emerged from my interaction with an interviewee and to take advantage of his/her specialized knowledge as appropriate. The later interviews were more specialized, as I sought out respondents who were familiar with the change decisions and their impact. I prepared special interview schedules for these, often tailoring them individually to fit the focus of the interview.
In order to keep the confidentiality of interviewees, as was promised them, the convention adopted in this study is to refrain from citing the names of interviewees when they are quoted except when they are major figures in the church whose identity cannot be hidden.
Early Changes
Early in the twentieth century, Kellogg, the Battle Creek "San", and Kellogg's medical school were separated from the Adventist Church as a result of a conflict between Kellogg, on the one hand, and Ellen White and the church leadership on the other, over whether the medical "right arm" would come to dominate the church body. Having affirmed the centrality of the church organization at great cost, the church leadership demonstrated its resilience by founding a new medical school at Loma Linda, in southern California.
However, the growing organization of medicine and education in society forced the new medical school to seek accreditation around the time of World War I. This, in turn, forced the Adventist colleges, the medical school's feeder schools, to seek accreditation also, for an accredited medical school could accept students from only accredited colleges.
As changes in the organization of medicine continued, reimbursement from medical insurance became increasingly important and tied to acute care. This reorganization, plus the impact of the Great Depression on the ability and willingness of people to personally finance long stays at sanitariums, caused the supply of patients for the latter to dry up. Consequently, the Adventist sanitariums were forced to switch to the provision of acute care in order to remain financially viable. This switch was reflected in the changing names of the institutions, which typically moved over time from "sanitarium" to "sanitarium and hospital" to "hospital" or "medical center."
Meanwhile, the curriculum of the Adventist medical school became more medically orthodox. Its graduates gradually became less likely to become overseas missionaries, and instead followed medical careers in the US. This too was reflected in a name change, as what had been the "College of Medical Evangelists" became "Loma Linda University" in 1961.
That is, the mission of the Adventist hospital system had already changed considerably and it had lost much of its uniqueness.
Consolidation, Expansion and Crisis In The 1980s
Initially, most Adventist medical institutions were managed by clergy, who were paid denominational "sacrificial" salaries. Each institution was typically linked to the church structure at the level of the local conference, which appointed its board of trustees.
However, as medical institutions in the US entered an era of profit and expansion, Adventists joined in. Hospital managers became professionals, with MBAs, who then sought professional salaries: it was argued that the hospitals must have professional leadership if they were to compete and survive, and that if they were to retain their skilled managers, who were necessary for them to face the competition, they must offer competitive salaries. The church leadership accepted this argument with jealousy and bitterness; however, by this time the hospitals were entirely self-supporting.
The need to compete also encouraged organizational consolidation and linking, so that the hospitals were now linked to the second level of the Adventist organizational structure, the union conferences, of which there are eight in the US. The unions where hospitals were more sparse gradually joined together in hospital management.
There was considerable empire building during the early 1980s. The new regional corporate headquarters expanded their holdings through buying additional hospitals and taking over the management of others; they also added retirement communities and nursing homes.
Finally, a new national administrative layer, Adventist Health Systems US [AHS-US], was added at the apex of the organizational structure. It was claimed that through coordinated buying this would lower costs and achieve other economies of scale, but it was never able to wrest control from the regional headquarters. Nevertheless, Adventists now boasted that theirs was the largest Not for Profit hospital system in the US. Even though this was only the case because the Catholic hospitals had not formed a single system, it gave Adventist administrators considerable satisfaction to claim that their empire building had taken them to such a position of prominence.
It was just at this time that experimental surgery at the Loma Linda University Medical Center hit the headlines, when a heart surgeon implanted the heart of a baboon into an infant, "Baby Fae," who otherwise had no hope of survival. Even though controversy swirled, especially after the infant died, the university hospital's strength in infant heart surgery had been demonstrated, and it went on the establish an eminent position in that field.
However, the rapid expansion of the Adventist system had spread thin the Adventist employees available, so that the proportion of the Adventist staff in the Adventist hospitals fell sharply. While this was true across the system, the Adventist presence was especially low in the newly acquired and managed hospitals. Not only would the expansion have been too rapid for Adventists to fill the positions at the best of times, but the problem was exacerbated because of the trends among the graduates of Adventist colleges, who were no longer restricting themselves to the traditional church-related careers or to church employment. Moreover, since the hospitals were increasingly attempting to cement ties to their local communities, which provided their patients, they increasingly hired from those pools also. They also added non-Adventist notables from their communities to their boards of trustees. It was only the top management positions that were restricted to Adventists, just as these positions were the last bastions of Catholic sisters in Catholic hospitals. But here too the rapid expansion had had the effect of spreading skilled managers thin.
In the mid-1980s the Adventist hospital system was suddenly threatened by a financial crisis that was rooted in overexpansion and mismanagement. Several of the regions had invested heavily in nursing homes and retirement communities, but now found that demand for these was growing much less than they had been led to expect, so that these were causing a huge financial hemorrhage and were in danger of bankruptcy; another region was threatened by a disastrous investment in imaging equipment.
Church leaders feared that the bankruptcy of any church institutions would sully the reputation of the Church. Since the boards of all the institutions in each union conference were appointed by the union, the hospitals in the effected regions (in the Midwest and North/Northeast) were therefore asked to take responsibility for the debts of the collapsing institutions in order to prevent bankruptcies while the latter were sold off at huge losses. However, the non-Adventist trustees on the board of the Kettering Medical Center in suburban Dayton, Ohio, took offense at this demand, and sued to prevent funds that had been raised in their community from being used elsewhere. Ultimately, in an out-of-court settlement, it was agreed that the Kettering Medical Center would not participate in the rescue of the losing institutions. That is, while church ownership of the hospital was affirmed as a result of the case, its degree of control was limited by it.
There was also, at this time, a great fear of ascending liability among church leaders – that because the hospital system was church-owned, if it faltered financially the church headquarters building and other church-owned real estate, including local church buildings, since they too were owned by their conferences, could be seized. It was therefore decided to distance the hospitals from the church organization. Consequently, AHS-US was dismantled, leaving a group of autonomous regional corporations; moreover, in most regions, the union conference committee no longer appointed the hospital boards. Although the union president was usually a member of the board, the boards became self-perpetuating, and the formal influence of the union committees on their decisions was removed. Although the hospital boards have to this point been at pains to demonstrate that the Adventist connection continues, it can no longer be guaranteed that this will continue into the future.
Meanwhile, the medical insurance companies were showing increased interest in cutting costs, and were pressuring hospitals to reduce the time patients spend in hospitals. This meant not only that the latter spent much less time as inpatients, but also that the average patient was much sicker than in earlier years. Chaplains found it more difficult to have meaningful conversations with them and to impact them spiritually.
The emphasis on professional management and empire building, and the shortened stays in hospital and decreased chance that patients would encounter Adventist staff whilst there, had the effect of blurring the mission of the Adventist hospitals. Many of the administrators, although formally Adventists, seemed to be primarily secular businessmen, formal ties to the Adventist Church were weakening, and it seemed as if the Adventist hospitals were proceeding towards total secularization, following the path of many of the hospitals founded by other denominations. Church notables increasingly questioned their mission and raised questions concerning whether it would be better for the Adventist Church to abandon running hospitals.
The Impact of Managed Care During the 1990s
With the stampede towards Health Maintenance Organizations [HMOs] and managed care in the US during the 1990s, hospitals were often forced to form partnerships with others, so that together they might offer a full range of services and compete successfully for the vital HMO contracts. Meanwhile, the competition for contracts forced further cuts in costs, less inpatient time (so that there was less time to show caring to patients and fewer opportunities for personal contacts with them, and much more outpatient and at-home treatment).
The threats by church leaders during the 1980s to pull out of running hospitals were repeated at the highest level by Robert Folkenberg after his election as president of the General Conference in 1990, when he wondered aloud to what extent the hospitals furthered the Adventist mission, asking whether it would not be better to sell the hospitals and put the money instead into education. The General Conference had no direct control over any of these institutions except for Loma Linda University, and the Church had consciously allowed the formal ties at the union level to atrophy; moreover, it was doubtful if government authorities would allow the Adventist Church to take the money, which had mostly accrued from the local communities and government programs, and run. Nevertheless, the bold criticism of the head of the Adventist church had such symbolic power that it was taken very seriously. The result was a series of six rather strained annual conferences in Naples, Florida, between top hospital and church leaders.
The growing formal independence of the hospitals and the earlier criticisms by church leaders had in fact already raised the question of in what ways Adventist hospitals differ from the for-profit hospitals which dominate the market today. This spurred the Sunbelt corporate headquarters, which runs the hospitals in the Southern and Southwestern Unions, to sponsor a series of conferences re-examining their mission. These decided that their mission was to offer quality healthcare in a context of special caring. This focus was thus generically Christian rather than peculiarly Adventist in thrust, and it underlined the extent to which Adventist hospitals had lost their uniqueness. In sharp contrast to the focus of the Adventist Church, the hospitals did not emphasize proselytizing. Such a goal would have been bad for business and, given that the proportion of Adventist staff in patient contact positions was now typically less than 20%, and much lower in the newly added hospitals, it would also have been impracticable. Indeed, in order to offer "special caring," Adventist hospitals are relying on attracting to their staff non-Adventist Christians who enjoy showing care, even praying with patients, which the hospitals encourage, when given the opportunity. However, the pressure to cut costs is having the effect of making the nursing staff more busy, and so leaving them less time to show special care to the patients. It is thus increasing the threat to the key remaining aspect of mission.
Almost every managerial position continues to be held by an Adventist, and these seem to be more committed to the Adventist Church and the spiritual mission of the hospitals as they have defined it than were their predecessors in the mid-1980s. This new commitment has several roots: the threat of the church to pull out of hospitals and the questioning of the commitment of the hospitals to mission, especially in a context of waning formal control by the Church, have led to a burgeoning determination, at least among the current generation of corporate managers, to demonstrate their commitment; moreover, mission statements are fashionable today in the corporate world, where it is believed that having a sense of mission pays off. Consequently, the hospitals, which were previously plain and devoid of symbols, with little to indicate to a visitor that he/she was in a church-run hospital, are increasingly hanging religious paintings, photographs, and slogans in their corridors. They are also changing their names to include the word "Adventist," so that their connection to the Adventist Church is clearer.
Meanwhile, church leaders have also gained a new appreciation of the Adventist hospitals. Recent surveys show that Adventism is much better known and positively regarded in cities with Adventist hospitals than in matching cities without them. This was especially noticeable in the wake of the negative media publicity Adventists received from the Branch Davidian crisis in Waco, Texas (Lawson 1995): those familiar with Adventist hospitals were much less prone to place a "cult" label on Adventists. Church leaders have also realized that the Adventist hospitals interact with more non-Adventists than any other Adventist program. They may regret the absence of a strong Adventist content to such contacts, but they do realize that the reputations of the hospitals for quality and compassionate care create a positive image.
Although it is reported that Catholic hospitals would rather close than perform abortions, there is little sign that Adventist hospitals have drawn a line in the sand over any peculiar belief. The diet offered patients was originally completely vegetarian, but once most of the doctors serving the hospitals were non-Adventists, and some of these demanded meat for patients, the hospitals compromised. However, they continued for many years to make a point of serving only meatless dishes in their cafeterias. Recently, however, some hospitals have begun to compromise on this issue also. Similarly, Saturday, the Adventist Sabbath, used to be a quiet day in these hospitals, with only emergency surgery performed, little physical therapy, the business office closed, and reduced staff. However, HMOs have no patience with extra days in hospital in order to accommodate religious practices, so that once again there have been compromises. Elective surgery on the Sabbath is now defended by management on the basis that Jesus seems to have made a point of healing on the Sabbath, and that he did not restrict such healings to medical emergencies. However, the Adventists in the pews are confused by news of such changes.
Managed care is switching the focus of the US medical system from caring for the sick to maintaining wellness. Ironically, this change has propelled Adventist hospitals to some of the themes embraced earlier by their sanitariums. They are often grasping this opportunity with enthusiasm, and are setting out to show that they have special interests and skills in this area. A striking example is at the community of Celebration, near Orlando, where Disney, the sponsor, has set out to create a model of what a successful twenty-first century community can be. There was considerable competition from the major hospital chains to win the contract to plan and run the medical center there. However, the contract was won by Florida Hospital, the largest of all the Adventist hospitals, which is located in Orlando. The new facility places considerable emphasis on maintaining wellness: there is a full gymnasium, lectures and programs aimed at helping people maintain health, etc., all of which are open to all residents of Celebration, in the same complex as hospital wards. The sponsor insisted that the gymnasium be open seven days per week, thus including the Sabbath; it an effort to lessen disquiet among Adventist laypersons, the hospital management opted to to contract its operation out to a non-Adventist company.
The pressure from HMOs to form partnerships in order to compete for contracts and to help reduce costs was especially great where Adventist hospitals were isolated, for there they could not link with one another. A few have not been able to survive this competition, and have been sold or closed. An excellent example of the issues at stake was seen in the case of New England Memorial Hospital, in suburban Boston, which had been formed originally as the New England Sanitarium. The debts here were too great for it to find a Not for Profit partner, for it needed an infusion of cash as it teetered on the brink of bankruptcy. Fearful of losing not only the hospital, but also the church building and school that shared the site, as is so often the case with the long-term Adventist hospitals, the management agreed to an 80% buyout by a For Profit corporation. Its small continuing interest allowed it to insert protections of the church and school and of its right to continue to control the chaplaincy services into the contract. In contrast, Adventist hospitals have proved much more resilient where they are concentrated, as on the West coast and in the South and Southwest. Here the regional systems have taken advantage of the pressures felt by other hospitals to expand their holdings while remaining in managerial control.
In the battle to survive, some highly unexpected partnerships have been formed by more isolated hospitals. In 1995, PorterCare Adventist Health Services, an Adventist system in Colorado consisting of three hospitals, and the larger Catholic Sisters of Charity Health Services Colorado joined together to form a new corporation, Centura Health, in order that both could survive in an increasingly competitive market. This shocked many Adventist laypersons, for Adventist eschatology expects persecution in the US from a church-state alliance led by the Catholic Church. However, Adventist officials involved in this decision argued that Adventist hospitals had more in common with Catholic hospitals than any others because both had religiously shaped missions. All my interviews there indicated that the partnership is proceeding smoothly, even though the Catholic majority holding gives them the right to choose the corporation's president and a majority on the board (interviews). Similarly, an Adventist hospital in Kansas City joined a corporation dominated by a group of Episcopal hospitals.
As the pendulum has swung from inpatients to outpatients and home-care, and from care of the sick to promotion of wellness, the Adventist hospitals have ended their isolation and are becoming increasingly involved in their communities.
Administrators are now expected to immerse themselves in the communities served by their hospitals, and play prominent roles in such organizations as the United Way, the Coalition for the Homeless, substance abuse centers, etc. The hospitals are also entering into partnerships with community groups, often churches, where they have trained them and helped establish parish nursing programs. Some of them have also launched programs reaching out to the underserved, which was not a focus in earlier years. However, this is still not a major concern. When I asked one Colorado hospital administrator about the cultural differences between the Sisters of Charity hospitals and the Adventist hospitals, he commented that while the Catholics retained their traditional concern for the poor, the Adventists had traditionally served the better off, and their hospitals had functioned as a vehicle for the upward mobility of those employed there.
Nevertheless, the Adventist hospitals are much more involved in their local communities than are the typical Adventist congregations, for they have the added incentive that such involvement has become necessary to their survival and success. In their turn, the congregations often express dismay about the failure of the hospitals to spread the distinctive Adventist message.
A major hospital document, "Our Mission into the Next Century," speaks of creating close ties to communities, of being active with the needy, of forming partnerships of those who are not against Adventists, of thinking differently about "the world," etc. It notes that such thrusts are different from what Adventists have often practised and suggests that in adopting such an approach Adventist healthcare can have a positive impact on the Adventist Church at large (). At this point these changes are so recent that they have yet to make such an impact on many congregations.
The early radicalism and isolation of the sanitariums, when the medical work was "the right arm of the Adventist message," has passed. The Adventist hospitals have become very similar to others, molded by financial reimbursement systems, fashion, and their wish to survive amid the competition, and thus to preserve the careers of the hospital administrators. In the mid-1980s, when I completed my first wave of interviews, I concluded that the Adventist hospitals had set out on a course that would result ultimately in secularization and separation from the Adventist Church.
However, even though the legal ties to the Church have loosened since then, and the peculiarly Adventist standards have been compromised further, there is today a greater sense of connection to the Church and commitment to mission as it has been newly defined. In part this is because mission has become fashionable since it is believed that it helps build consumer commitment. In part it is because the HMO-engineered switch from acute care to preserving wellness makes Adventist hospital managers feel that this is their day – even though market forces are responsible for having returned them to their roots. As Adventism moves from sect towards denomination, from isolation from society towards integration with it, its hospitals have again assumed the bellwether role, helping to lead the Church along this trajectory.
Lawson, Ronald. 1995a. "Seventh-day Adventist Responses to Branch Davidian Notoriety: Patterns of Diversity within a Sect Reducing Tension with Society." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 34: 3, 323-341.
Lawson, Ronald. 1996a. "Onward Christian Soldiers?: Seventh-day Adventists and the Issue of Military Service." Review of Religious Research, 37: 3, March: 97-122.
Lawson, Ronald. 1996b. "Church and State at Home and Abroad: The Evolution of Seventh-day Adventist Relations with Governments." Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 70(2) Summer, 279-311.
Lawson, Ronald. 1996c. "The Fragmenting of Apocalypticism within a Denominationalizing Sect: The Case of Seventh-day Adventism." A paper presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Nashville, November.
Lawson, Ronald. 1998. "Seventh-day Adventism and the American Courts: A Review of Major Cases, Changing Issues, and Outcomes." Journal of Church and State, 40: 3, 553-588.
Stark, Rodney, and William Sims Bainbridge. 1985. The Future of Religion. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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EXPLAINED: The German words that come from Slavic languages
Antonia Harrison - [email protected] • 27 Feb, 2022 Updated Sun 27 Feb 2022 09:20 CEST
Any Slavic language-speaker will have noticed the huge number of German loan words, but there are hardly any slavic-origin words in German. But let's take a look at a few which have stuck in Germans' everyday lexicon.
What's the influence of German language on Russian?
It's hard to get two sentences in as a Russian speaker without slipping in a Germanic borrowing. The language is saturated with German terms, which range from 'galstuk' (cyrillic: галстук) from the German 'Halstuch' (scarf or tie) to 'masshtab' (масштаб) from 'Maßstab' (scale).
Meanwhile, the Russian 'abver' (абвер) comes from 'Abwehr' (defence) and even 'gastarbajter' (гастарбайтер) derives from the very specific German 'Gastarbeiter' (guest worker). These words often have slightly different meanings in Russian than in the original German.
Many of these German words became embedded in Russian through the Volga Germans (Wolgadeutsche or Russlanddeutsche) that Catherine the Great brought into Russia during the 1700s, as well as through Westernisation. By contrast, there are so few Slavic borrowings in German in part because Slavic migrations tended to move south rather than west. Other Germanic languages such as Yiddish show far more of a Slavic influence than German does.
Here are a few German words which have Slavic origins and which still feature in everyday German speech.
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die Datsche
The term 'Datsche' is borrowed from the Russia 'dacha' (cyrillic: дача), which refers to a smaller seasonal home in the country where urban dwellers retreat, typically during the summer, to reconnect with nature and temporarily escape modernity. The Russian 'dacha' comes from the common verb 'davat'' (давать), which means 'to give', since dachas originated from the practice of Russian tsars throughout the 1600s of giving small plots of land in the country as gifts to loyal or favoured subjects.
An allotment garden with 'Datschen' in the north-west of Leipzig. Photo: picture alliance/dpa/dpa-Zentralbild | Jan Woitas
In the GDR, as in other countries of the Eastern Bloc, a large number of Datschen were built for inhabitants of the cramped Soviet-style living blocks in big cities to flee to on their free weekends.
Usually located no more than one hour away from the Datsche-owner's usual residence, Datschen were built on publicly owned land, including land formerly owned by refugees who had fled to West Germany, and most people had access to them. It is thought that there were around 3.4 million dachas in the GDR.
die Grenze
It is thought that the word 'Grenze' is derived from the Old Polish 'granica', displacing the old German word 'Mark' (or, in Old High German, 'marka'/'marcha').
Most Slavic languages retain some variation upon this word today: Russian and Bulgarian share 'granitsa' (cyrillic: граница), Czech uses 'hranice', Croatian, Polish and Bosnian have kept 'granica', and the Romance language Romanian borrowed 'graniţă' from its Slavic neighbours.
READ ALSO: 11 German words that come from the Greek language
die Krawatte
The word's similarity to the traditional 'cravat', a forerunner to the modern necktie, is easy to notice. However, fewer people know that this word originated in the 17th century, when a large number of Croatian cavalry came into contact with the French during the Thirty Years' War whilst fighting on the side of the Catholic League. The French took a shine to the Croatian necktie, an item of their signature attire, and named it 'cravate' after the regiment, derived from the Croatian 'hrvat'. It quickly came into fashion and spread across Western Europe.
In Germany, the terms 'Halstuch' or 'Halsbinde' are now more frequently used to describe the traditional necktie, whilst the word 'Krawatte' refers more frequently to the modern, longer or business tie.
Foreign Minister Heiko Maas wearing a 'Krawatte' or tie recently. Photo: picture alliance/dpa | Kay Nietfeld
der Wodka
This one is hardly an unexpected borrowing: Germany is the second largest importer of Russian vodka in the world after the UK.
In Russian, the word 'vodka' (cyrillic: водка) comes from the common Slavic 'voda' (вода), meaning water, with the diminutive ending 'ka' (literally 'little water), whilst in Polish the term was used to refer to any clear distilled drink. From its humble origins as the drink of choice for rural farmers, vodka is now at the centre of a booming commercial industry in Germany: in 2020, the production value of vodka in Germany in 2020 was almost 90 million euros.
Many city names in eastern Germany have a Slavic origin, including Berlin, Leipzig and Dresden. Additionally, hundreds of small villages in eastern Germany have notably Slavic names and traditions. It is thought that the name Berlin originates from the old Slavic word 'berla', which denotes a settlement surrounded by a wooden wall.
Meanwhile, the name 'Leipzig' is derived from the Slavic 'Lipsk', meaning 'settlement where the lime trees stand', though more recently some young people have renamed the city 'Hypezig', referring to its rich creative scene and nightlife.
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package com.sforce.android.sample;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.TextView;
import com.sforce.android.soap.partner.BaseResponseListener;
import com.sforce.android.soap.partner.Salesforce;
import com.sforce.android.soap.partner.fault.ApiFault;
import com.sforce.android.soap.partner.sobject.SObject;

public class SforceQueryMoreExample extends Activity implements OnClickListener{
	TextView sObjectType;
	TextView type;
    TextView mText;
	TextView queryString;
	TextView queryLocator;
	Button queryButton;
	Button queryMoreButton;
	Button doneButton;
	Context context;
	OnClickListener doneOcl, queryMoreOcl;
	/** Called when the activity is first created. */
	@Override
	public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
		super.onCreate(icicle);
		setContentView(R.layout.querymore_example_layout);
		setTitle("Sforce Toolkit Demo - QueryMore Example");
		context=getApplicationContext();
		sObjectType = (TextView)this.findViewById(R.id.sObjectType);
		type= (TextView)this.findViewById(R.id.type);
		type.setText("Account");
		queryString = (TextView)this.findViewById(R.id.queryString);
		queryLocator = (TextView)this.findViewById(R.id.queryLocator);
		queryButton = (Button)this.findViewById(R.id.queryButton);
		queryMoreButton = (Button)this.findViewById(R.id.queryMoreButton);
		doneButton = (Button)this.findViewById(R.id.doneButton);
        mText = (TextView) this.findViewById(R.id.txt);
        mText.setText("Results Displayed Here");
		doneOcl=new DoneButtonClickListener();
		doneButton.setOnClickListener(doneOcl);
		queryMoreOcl=new QueryMoreButtonClickListener();
		queryMoreButton.setOnClickListener(queryMoreOcl);
		queryButton.setOnClickListener(this);
		Salesforce.init(context);
	}

	public void onClick(View v) {
        Salesforce.query(queryString.getText().toString().trim(),new QueryResponseListener());
	}

	public class DoneButtonClickListener implements OnClickListener{
		public void onClick(View v) {
			setResult(RESULT_OK);
	        finish();
		}
	}

	public class QueryMoreButtonClickListener implements OnClickListener{
		public void onClick(View v) {
	        String qLocator=queryLocator.getText().toString();
	    	Salesforce.queryMore(qLocator, new QueryMoreResponseListener());
		}
	}
	  public class QueryResponseListener extends BaseResponseListener{
	      @Override
		  public void onComplete(Object qresults) {
	    	    HashMap<String, Object> queryResults=(HashMap<String, Object>) qresults;
				List<SObject> sObjectList=(List<SObject>) queryResults.get("records");
				final String qLocator=(String)queryResults.get("queryLocator");
		    	StringBuffer collateRecords=new StringBuffer();
		    	collateRecords.append("Number of Records Retrieved:").append(Integer.toString(sObjectList.size()));
		    	final String display=collateRecords.toString();
		    	SforceQueryMoreExample.this.runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
		            public void run() {
		            	queryLocator.setText(qLocator);
		                mText.setText(display);
		            }
		        });
	      }
	      @Override
	      public void onSforceError(ApiFault apiFault){
	      	StringBuffer sb=new StringBuffer();
	      	sb.append("Exception message:").append(apiFault.getExceptionMessage()).append("\n").append("Exception Code:").append(apiFault.getExceptionCode().toString());
	      	final String display=sb.toString();
	      	SforceQueryMoreExample.this.runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
	            public void run() {
	                mText.setText(display);
	            }
	        });
	      }

	      @Override
	      public void onException(Exception e){
	      }

	  }
    public class QueryMoreResponseListener extends BaseResponseListener{

        public void onComplete(final Object qmresponse) {
        	HashMap<String, Object> qmResult=(HashMap<String, Object>)qmresponse;
			List<SObject> records=(ArrayList<SObject>) qmResult.get("resultArray");
	    	final String qLocator=(String) qmResult.get("queryLocator");
	    	final String size=(String)qmResult.get("size");
	    	final String isDone=(String)qmResult.get("isDone");
			int numberOfRecords=records.size();

			final String display=Integer.toString(numberOfRecords);
	    	SforceQueryMoreExample.this.runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
	            public void run() {
	            	queryLocator.setText(qLocator);
	                mText.setText("Number of records retrieved:"+display+"\nSize="+size+"\nDone="+isDone);
	            }
	        });
        }

	    @Override
	    public void onSforceError(ApiFault apiFault){
	    	StringBuffer sb=new StringBuffer();
	      	sb.append("Exception message:").append(apiFault.getExceptionMessage()).append("\n").append("Exception Code:").append(apiFault.getExceptionCode().toString());
	      	final String display=sb.toString();
	      	SforceQueryMoreExample.this.runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
	            public void run() {
	                mText.setText(display);
	            }
	        });
	      }

	      @Override
	      public void onException(Exception e){
	      }

  }
}


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Photo of OC students at party with swastika image sparking outrage
By Leanne Suter
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- A photo taken at a teen party in Newport Beach is sparking outrage in the community over its depiction of anti-Semitic imagery.
The photo depicts a series of red plastic cups arranged in the shape of a swastika and students standing around giving what appears to be a Nazi salute.
The picture was taken at a recent party and at least some of the partygoers are believed to be students at Newport Harbor High School.
The Newport-Mesa Unified School District and the Newport Beach police are investigating the photo and the party, in which there may have also been underage drinking.
Community members and other students are dismayed at the behavior depicted in the photo and how it reflects on the community.
"It's really sad," said local resident Stephanie Holland. "My grandmother's Jewish and it makes me sad and sick to my stomach that kids would do this."
The school district said it is still gathering information and issued a statement:
"We were recently made aware of social media postings involving some students who created inappropriate anti-Semitic symbols, and possible underage drinking. While these actions did not occur on any school campus or school function, we condemn all acts of anti-Semitism and hate in all their forms.
We continue to gather information regarding the conduct of these students and work with law enforcement.
We remain focused on educating students on all aspects of life's challenges and are committed to holding students accountable, educating them on the consequences of their choices, and the impact these actions have on our schools and community at large.
We are asking that parents please partner with us in helping students make good decisions, be respectful of others, and to always use good judgment."
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A good car stereo will be the mainframe or entertainment and navigation in your car. Depending on the features you want, and the money you want to spend, you will be able to narrow down the search. Just what kind of features will you find in a car stereo? Check out below and see the numerous options from Abt.
Safety is the number one priority on the road. This is why more and more cars come equipped with Bluetooth technology. If you have an older car and Bluetooth isn't factory installed, you can get a new car stereo with Bluetooth capabilities. Most Bluetooth applications require the purchase of add-on Bluetooth receiver modules, which enable calls to be routed from a connected cell phone through the stereo to the car's speakers. Add-on Bluetooth kits often include an external microphone, which can be attached to the car's dashboard or sun visor. Some systems do come with Bluetooth calling capabilities built in.
As this is primarily a guide on car stereos, we won't go into too much detail on the technical details of GPS: those looking for an in-depth analysis of GPS can check out our GPS buying guide. However, navigation does deserve a mention as many double-DIN aftermarket car stereos (and some single-DIN ones) come with navigation as an optional or standard, integrated feature. Most touch screen and LCD in-dash audio/ video players come with navigation as a standard feature or offer it as an option via an add-on GPS module.
HD Radio offers incredible clarity in audio by offering digital broadcasting technology. Stereos with built-in HD receivers work by sorting out the multiple signals and reproduce it all to present the listener the original broadcast. If listening to the radio in ultimate clarity is your number one priority, look for a car stereo featuring HD radio capabilities.
The most basic solution for in-car iPod playback is a generic line-in jack and patch cord, which enables drivers to stream music from their players via the stereo to the car's speakers.
Always use the RMS rating (measured in watts) rather than the peak power rating. RMS is an indication of a system's continuous power used for consistent output rather than its maximum capability.
If your stereo has DVD playback, you can listen to movies through the system. If you want video playback, you must make sure you have a monitor or pop-out screen attached to the unit.


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Following sightings in Washington State last week, it was reported that the giant heads were planned to be located next to the Space Needle in Seattle, but The Grand Tour twitter channel admitted today that the plan hasn't quite worked out. So the heads have been diverted and the three eight foot tall stone statues were paraded through Sydney this morning on a hiab flatbed truck bearing Amazon and The Grand Tour logos. First seen leaving a boat at White Bay, they were craned onto a freight truck before passing local landmarks including Sydney Opera House and Harbor Bridge. The Grand Tour will launch on Amazon in Australia and more than 200 countries and territories this month.
Amazon has not yet revealed the final destination of the statues, but trucks containing other body parts including Jeremy, James and Richard's arms, legs and crotch have also been spotted. Speculation that epic statues were being erected in Seattle has since turned to Australia, with fans taking to social media to guess where the final resting place of the statues could be.
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Andrew McDonald black mid cut asymm washed horse leather boots have a slim line silhouette with a rounded toe box. The boot has been hand crafted with a matte washed horse leather upper, all leather sole, insole and lining. An exposed blake stitch sole construction and stacked leather heel with a heel counter features alongside an asymmetrical lace up fastening and tonal stitching finishes. Contemporary in design and technical in construction, this is an ideal piece for everyday wear.


"This is the coolest cooler of them all!" That's what advertising experts said when they saw Holofridge. It was developed with a single goal - to make your product stand out.
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Thanks to the most advanced transparent technology which Holofridge has, it displays crystal clear image while at the same time offers stunning see-through effect.
Holofridge provides viewer with image quality unprecedented in the field, thanks to our LGP (Light Guiding Plate) technology. Vivid colors and crystal clear HD experience even when the fridge is completely full – that's what Holofridge is all about.
No external cables aroung the fridge walls. The screen and other vital electronic components are incased in the door. The end result? Reliability. Unlike most of the competition Holofridge is simpler to handle and more robust.
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Today we made marrow & ginger jam.
Mainly because we were given a HUGE marrow from our allotment neighbours, which has lived in our fridge for a week taking up an entire shelf. I may well have posted a photo previously. If not, I've got a photo somewhere... It was 22" long and weighed the same as a small child.
Marrow & ginger jam, I am glad to report, is utterly fabulous, and entirely better than one would expect it to be.
Marrow and ginger jam is, indeed, fabulous. It is also a very good way to use up over-large courgettes with tough skins.
I'd say that this marrow was more of a giant zucchini than a squash, though they do share some characteristics.
The marrow flavour is quite subtle in with the ginger, and is mainly used to bulk out the jam, but it really is very tasty, honestly!
And mine. I have been making it for years and it is a truly exquisite jam. My Other Half was sceptical about it until he tried it, and now he insists I make several pots every summer.
Put the puree in a large pan and add the sugar. Heat gently until all the sugar is melted - check on the back of a clean spoon and you'll be able to see if the sugar crystals have gone. Make sure you don't heat it too vigorously until the sugar is all melted into the mix.
Heat to 85 degrees C, which should sterilise the mix, stirring occasionally.
Heat up to about 105 degrees C for about 20-30 mins. Test on a plate which you've had in the freezer - drop a bit of the mix on the plate and see if it starts to set.
BE CAREFUL! hot sugar is, erm, hot. And sticky. And VERY painful if you get it on the skin.
Wash and dry some jars. Pop them in the oven at about 150C to sterilise.
Pour the jam into the jars, put a lid on *but don't tighten it* and leave to cool.


The Department of Labor's chief says it's in "compliance assistance" mode now, but will take enforcement action against firms that aren't moving to comply with the fiduciary rule. So reports ThinkAdvisor.
Speaking before a House committee Wednesday, DOL secretary Alexander Acosta described the fiduciary rule as "in effect." Labor will let firms work on implementing the standards, but those engaging in "willful violations" will face the department's enforcement authority, he said.
Clients don't have an individual remedy in case of fiduciary violations, Acosta conceded. The enforcement mechanism, lawsuits, isn't operational since the DOL wants an 18-month delay of that part of the rule.
DOL has enforcement power "over fiduciary compliance for recommendations to plans and participants, but not to IRAs," Fred Reish, partner with Drinker Biddle & Reath, tells ThinkAdvisor.
If there's a gray area, the DOL would have to review the firm's efforts to determine whether to bring an action.
The Department of Labor's chief says it's in "compliance assistance" mode now, but will take enforcement action against firms that aren't moving to comply with the fiduciary rule.