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Vargics Imre (Temesvár, 1834. – Temesvár, 1904. november 25.) jogi doktor, ügyvéd, országgyűlési képviselő.

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Temesváron született, ahol atyja jó hírű orvos volt. 1848-ban mint V. osztályos gimnáziumi tanuló beállt honvédnek és végig küzdötte a szabadságharcot, ahol az őrmesterségig vitte. 1849-ben visszatért az iskolába és a gimnáziumot Szegeden folytatta. A jogot Nagyváradon és Pesten végezte, ahol a doktori és ügyvédi oklevelet megszerezve, Temesvárt mint ügyvéd telepedett le. Majd két évtizedig Dél-Magyarország birtokosainak legkeresettebb jogtanácsosa volt és Temesvár város, valamint Temes vármegye közéletében vezérszerepet vitt. 1872-től a temesvári és 1878-tól 1901-ig a rittbergi (végvári) kerület országgyűlési képviselő tagja volt. 1899. május 16-án az országgyűlési Szabadelvű Párt egyik alelnökévé választotta. Utolsó éveiben szinerszegi (Temes megye) birtokán könyveinek és gazdaságának élt.

Irodalmilag ifjú korában mint költő, később mint publicista a jogi és politikai téren működött; programm-beszédei a helyi lapokban, országgyűlési beszédei a Naplókban jelentek meg.

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 A Pallas nagy lexikona, az összes ismeretek enciklopédiája. 1-16 k. (17-18. pótk. Szerk. Bokor József). Bp., Pallas-Révai, 1893-1904.
 Toth, Adalbert: Parteien und Reichtagswahlen in Ungarn 1848-1892. München, R. Oldenburg Verlag, 1973.

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Országgyűlési képviselők (1875–1878)
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Atomic Blonde (2017)
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An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
Verdict: Good
Atomic Blonde is yet another exercise of style over substance. These can be considered masterful for certain films (The Neon Demon) or borderline mediocre for others (Only God Forgives). Unfortunately, I found this to be in the latter category. Yes, I was ever so slightly underwhelmed. I wanted more but everything felt so restrained, like being tied up by Charlize Theron...view that as good or bad entirely up to you. Lorraine, the damn sexiest spy that ever lived, is sent to Berlin to retrieve a list of agents from an individual known as "Spyglass" in which she meets up with fellow station officer David Percival. But, as with most spy films, we've got a whole lot of backstabbing and a whole lot of tape recording. Penned the female John Wick, Atomic Blonde has several beautifully crafted action scenes and I'm sure everyone who has seen it will agree that the stairway fight was possibly one of the best scenes this year. Edited to look like one long take, it was flipping majestic to watch. Charlize Theron, as we all know, is sexy, sassy and a badass. She's no different here, it's as if heaven sent down an action Goddess...in the form of Theron. Perfection, this was her film and she owned it. Having said that, her character is either consuming alcohol, smoking or submerging herself in an ice cold bath...so maybe not perfect? James McAvoy and the rest of the supporting cast were good. Adored the 1980's Berlin setting and the soundtrack was ace. I admired David Leitch's style once again, great use of neon lighting. All of this is great but one problem, the plot was so so so dull, monotonous, lifeless and dare I say boring? Urgh, I wanted to love this but I couldn't. It was such a generic boring spy story that I practically forgot about it as soon as I left the cinema. That, is not a good thing...at all. Also the narrative for the first half was all over the place, switching back and forth constantly between scenes was rather jarring. Disappointing in the script department. Apart from those massive blunders, it's actually not too bad. Just...underwhelming.
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My Little Brother
When we were younger my brother and I both listened to punk music, but he dyed his hair and tore the sleeves off his shirts while all I wanted was a T-shirt with a plastic Corvette logo.
He spent most of his time being himself, while I once spent an entire morning begging my mother to rename me "Dave or Steve" like everybody else in my class.
It's his birthday today.
He's been having a weird mix of good and bad over the past year. He lost a great job, but found another… which he lost just a couple of months ago. He's also getting married in February*, to an incredible woman who he has been dating for close to four years.
*…they both work in the hospitality industry, so they know how to keep costs down.
My brother and I share the same past I write about here. But he's never been able to talk about it with anyone. At least not someone trained in asking the right questions at the right time.
Any clarity I've gotten, any perspective I've been able to gain surrounding my family, has come from having a relationship with a psychiatrist for the past four years. My brother saw the same doctor about eighteen years ago, and when he came out of his appointment he told our mother he was cured.
I don't think he's ever gone to see another one.
Sometimes when I think of what we've gone through, of what he's going through now, I see him as being alone. As if he's fighting his own battle somewhere without even the little support I've received.
We have the same roots. The same things happened to him which happened to me. Because it's my blog I use personal pronouns to describe events. My family. My life. But every time I write "me" I mean "us". Because it was our father who abandoned us.
Because it was our extended family who neglected us.
My brother never exhibited any of the symptoms of manic depression. But we have both been trying to make sense of the clinical stuff for about the same amount of time.
He says he doesn't remember much, if anything, from when we were kids living in and around the collective. I'm sure it doesn't help that when we were very young we moved a lot. But you don't have to remember in order to live with the effects.
We were really the only constants in each others life, but when our mother took us away he was able to bounce better than I was. And that took him places where I couldn't go. And that pissed me off.
My brother is one of those rare people who can turn thirty strangers into lifelong friends just by walking into a room and willing it to happen. But he's been able to do it since he was born. When we were kids we were abandoned by all the people our mother escaped from. So that, when I was nine and my brother was eight, we were all we had.
But the thing about extroverts is they don't stay alone long. I've both admired and resented the way he can make friends so easily, because I was the introvert with the severe abandonment issues watching my brother, who shared those issues, deal with them in an entirely different and fairly nonchalant way.
When we were both finally in high school together, for example, I still hadn't made many friends. I think I may have had two. By his second year my brother was a star athlete with multiple regional track and field records, and he was a volleyball and basketball all star.
He and I were still very similar, though. It was mostly a matter of degree. We were both heavy binge drinkers before we were seventeen. But where me and my friends would spend a weekend getting high, playing Risk and shooting guns at a barn, his younger crew would be barhopping or crashing parties.
The problem with writing about other people on this blog is I can bring up the points I feel necessary to tell a story, or to explain their actions but it's like pulling letters out of the alphabet. I can write "t d x w" and be right, but still piss the person off because they think I've gotten the order wrong or ignored all the letters which give the ones I've chosen context.
The thing is it's not high school anymore and he still hasn't dealt with any of the "father" stuff and I think it's weighing him down. So when he starts to feel depressed about losing a job, it quickly spirals from there because there's so much he hasn't been able to deal with. So the issues are still there to take him deeper into depression than the situation might require. And our way of dealing with deep depression is to ignore phone calls and emails from family, and retreat into ourselves.
When people don't talk about their problems everything turns into assumptions. And generally those assumptions end up being wrong and inevitably keep us from being healthy in the choices we make and the things we try to do.
For the past four years I've been able to voice my assumptions twice a month in my psychiatrists office. Just saying stuff out loud allows me to determine whether it's bullshit or fact. For the past two years I've also had this blog. Editing what I write until it's as close to the truth as I can possible come to has helped me get rid of most of the bullshit, lies and obfuscation I've built up around a lot of my problems.
We were both abandoned by the same father, both had the same mother who was trying to recover from her own problems while raising us, and we both were neglected by our extended family. And we dealt with those problems in very different ways, but at times they've been equally self-destructive…
Because we didn't fucking know any better. It's not like we had a lot of instruction growing up. My little brother has done remarkably well. He started out as a bartender and became part of the management team for several of Canada's top hotels. Despite everything I've won awards for doing my job. But we both end up spending sixty to seventy hours at our offices, trying to do what we think is right to get the job done better. Then we get fired.
We both have resumes filled with jobs we were able to keep for only a few months. We both have the intelligence and skills, but it's like we level off and can't keep up an interest in what we're doing. Or something. Most of my job losses have been related to the disease. But we both tend to be very frenetic when we first start a job.
We adopt the job, like it was our child. Like it was our product. I was putting in sixty hours a week at the first newspaper I worked at after college. Not only was I reporting, but I created their photography department and I was laying out a third of the paper.
Which was great, until they hired a new managing editor who couldn't see the value in a photo and thought reporters should be on time and only be reporting. So I got fired.
It's like we're both a half of who we're supposed to be. We both missed so much of the instructions we're meant to be taught when we're children. It's like, in some ways he and I imitate what we think adults are meant to be doing. But we can only keep it up for so long, and then we get caught.
We were raised in a collective/political commune in a way which left us on our own most of the time. Then after the divorce our mother had to work long hours because there was no alimony or child support. She did the best she could for us, and it was pretty good most of the time, but we were still on our own everyday after school until dinner or the early evening.
I don't think that's the reason though. I don't know exactly why we do the things we do. I don't really know why we were both binge drinkers. I don't really know why we both disappear from family when we're depressed. I don't know why we've both had such a difficult time staying with the women we care about.
What I do know is that I love my brother. He's an intelligent, funny, witty, artistic man who has both a family and a fantastic woman who love him.
And if he's having problems he should come home so we can play Call Of Duty. And to make it fair I'll only use the handgun, and one hand on the controller.
Happy birthday little brother.
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9 Responses to My Little Brother
Your love shines bright through this post. Happy bday Gabe's little bubba!!
I love that picture, and I envy the love. Happy day!
raino says:
this is an excellent post. i wonder if he (your bro.) actually realizes how well you know him. i hope that he does more of what you have done to get some help, to understand the past or to make some sense of it. and move on. our childhoods, good or bad or a little of both, make us what we are today as adults.
Immi says:
Happy Birthday to your little brother 🙂
Thanks… from what I can tell he's still locked in his basement making animal porn with toy scissors, paste and coloured paper. It's what he does. I know he took a look at the tribute I posted on my photo site, but I'm sure it's the paper stuck to his fingers preventing him from emailing me a thank you.
This post started off as just a happy birthday thing, but took on a life of it's own. I think it became more about us and me than him. But I gave him his own blog for his birthday, so he can do us and him over there.
nursemyra says:
great post Gabe. and a very happy birthday to your little brother
Best wishes for your bro, Gabriel.
Cured after one shrink visit? LOL. I love that.
scottgladstone says:
I want to see the shrink he did.
Best wishes to yer lil bro.
Oh and in my experience the younger kids always come out better. My little sister is a fucking whizz-kid
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Thoughts on Our Ten-Year Blogiversary
What the hell were we thinking with that banner?
And just like that, a decade passed.
Exactly ten years and one day ago, Lorenzo burst into our loft apartment, stormed over to Tom's desk (where he was staring at the non-ringing phone, awash in the delusion that he could will it to ring and that a potential client with a hugely lucrative project would be on the other end), threw down his gym bag and – flush with endorphins and Powerade – shouted, " I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU SAY WE'RE STARTING A BLOG!"
It was such a 2006 kind of thing to say.
We've told this story more than a couple of times (including in today's podcast), so we'll skip past Tom's eye-rolling at Lorenzo's idea and go straight to the part where he finally gave in with a warning: "Just get it out of your head right now that anyone will read it or that we'll ever make money off it." This was a period, after all, when it seemed like every other day, you were hearing about some mom or some college student or some political activist or some unemployed jack-or-jill-of-all-trades who found lightning-bolt success, fame and fortune by starting a humble blog. In the time just before the rise of social media, anyone who had anything to say or express on the internet – and just enough self-determination and/or self-absorption to do the work involved – started a blog. In fact, we can't truly say we were part of the first wave of blogging. We were the bandwagon-jumpers, not the pioneers. Hence, Tom's caution to Lorenzo, who has a tendency to be grandiose in his thinking. Tom knew his man well enough to know that there were dollar signs and book deals swimming around in Lorenzo's brain, even before the first post was written. Even before we knew what we'd be writing about.
Exactly ten years and two days ago, we had been together ten years as a couple, we had both quit our jobs in advertising and academia a couple years earlier (because we were both burnt out completely), and we'd started a consulting business that kept us busy, if not exactly flush with cash. We were also in the middle of what would be one of the darkest and most difficult periods of our lives. The reasons don't matter. We all have problems and ours at the time were not in any way interesting. But we've found over the years, in talking to other successful bloggers, that "hard times" is a very common denominator in the origin tales of their respective endeavors. Again: this is what people who had something to say or were missing something in their lives did before they had Facebook or Twitter or Instagram as their standard options for self-expression and ranting.
The truth of the matter is, when we look back at the very earliest posts we wrote, we can feel the tenseness and anxiety behind them. That sort of emotional state can often spur on creativity, but we think in the case of a blog launch it's just as likely to be the main driver behind the constant slog of producing content. Blogging – daily, multiple times a day blogging – is less about the creative spark (to be perfectly blunt) and FAR more about having the stamina to keep producing content. Every successful independent blogger became one not just because they had something to say, but because they had an insane drive to keep finding ways to say it. For some, that drive was purely mercenary; a career ambition right from the outset. But in our observation, a far greater number of successful independent bloggers – and by that we mean people who independently own their sites and provide the content for them as their primary income and career, over several years' time – were going through something serious at the time they launched and that, more than anything else explained their success. It certainly explained ours. We are in no way presenting ourselves as people who have figured life out, but we can say with certainty on this one point that bad shit can sometimes produce good results in the long run, if you can find a way to weather it and channel it.
(This is beginning to sound a bit more grandiose than we intended.)
Exactly ten years ago today, we settled on an idea:
"How about Project Runway? We love the show and hardly anyone is writing about it."
"An entire blog about a reality TV show? Who would read that?"
"We could make it funny. We just have to find an original way of doing it."
"You remember that Fug Yourself blog I showed you, right? I really like how those girls can straddle that line between being bitchy and being fun without being nasty. We should do something like that. Only gayer."
"And about Project Runway."
"Fine. And about Project Runway."
Please feel free to cast Chris Pine and Gael Garcia Bernal in the inevitable Oscar-winning biopic version of the above scene. We did, one time when we were drunk and telling this story.
Now, this could be the part where we insert a whole bunch of self-congratulatory stuff and try to present a series of bumbles and guesses as the fulfillment of a personal destiny. Let's not. Long story short: We turned to blogspot, as so many did in 2006, launched a little dog-and-pony show we called "Project RunGay," (a name that, truth be told, we found clumsy and awkward practically from the get-go) lucked into an immediate audience and a little press (because the summer of 2006 was probably the high point of Project Runway's pop culture standing), and just kept on going from there, because of the aforementioned insane drive to shout something, anything into the void. It wasn't the stuff of legends, by any means. We were flying by the seat of our pants and it was literally another five years before we realized we had a potential career on our hands. It would be great to cast our beginnings as some culmination of our unique and exciting talent and our fresh and inspirational voices, but starting our blog and having it take off isn't really something we go around bragging about because so much of it came down to luck, happenstance, and a light bout of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Which isn't to say we're not proud of a few things, and we're going to take the occasion to indulge ourselves by listing them. We're proud of (and supremely thankful for) the many readers and fans who have supported us. We're pleased, and sure, a little proud of some of the fabulously fun events we've been lucky enough to attend, from premieres to fashion shows. We're happy and thankful to have had the opportunity to meet an array of chic and interesting (and yes, sometimes vapid and venal) movers and shakers in the fashion and celebrity worlds. And way near the top of the list, we are proud, grateful and humbled to have had the chance to realize a life-long dream and become authors – and to have the opportunity to continue that work on our second book. But we have to be honest, as proud and happy as the aforementioned things make us feel, none of it has made us so proud as this very day.
TEN YEARS, BITCHES. Over EIGHTEEN-THOUSAND posts. And in all that time, it's always been just the two of us doing the work, building our audience up to the millions and keeping them there over many years. That is not a particularly common achievement. Please excuse a brief bout of strutting.
*strutting*
Okay, we're done.
One final thing, before we stop talking about ourselves (this time): We find this milestone worth ruminating on because when you come up on a decade of something – especially something that changed your life – it's hard not to look back over it and note the changes that occurred around it. The internet and pop culture landscape is very, very different from when we first hung out our blogging shingle. A big part of the reason we got out of reality TV blogging is because things like social media gave the audience a chance to fiercely rally around competitors in real time, in a way that wasn't available to them in 2006. This led, quite naturally in retrospect, to much more fiercely debated arguments and fiercely held alliances among the fanbases of many reality TV shows. This had the dual effect of making a fan blog recap like ours less important to the viewership of the show while in turn making the readership of those recaps far more combative and argumentative. Obviously, we're not talking about all reality show fans. But online fandom shifted after 2010 or so and when that shift happened for reality TV, we found we had much less to say about it. That's neither a good or bad thing, just an observation of how things have changed.
Another: The next-morning TV recap is dying a slow death that has accelerated rapidly in the last year or so. We talk about this a bit in today's podcast, but the gist of it is, both from our own observations and from watching what other TV reviewers and recappers have been doing and saying, there simply isn't a big enough readership for them any more. People don't get up en masse the morning after a show aired to find entertaining and incisive reviews and recaps the way they did as recently as three years ago. We don't have "event TV" anymore and the majority of the online audience isn't consuming their TV on an agreed-upon schedule. People watch TV whenever they want and they can sit through an entire season of a show in a weekend if they feel like it. They're not stopping after each viewing to find a rundown of what just happened before they binge the next episode.
And why not, let's keep going: It's becoming increasingly obvious to us from our perch that independent blogging tends to only work in the long term when blogs keep their overhead as low as possible in this increasingly scary market. That means that the smaller a blog's staff, the higher the likelihood of surviving over the long term. The internet graveyard is littered with more venture-capital-fueled content-providing startups than anyone wants to admit, but it's also full of an increasingly large number of very good smaller sites that couldn't sustain a staff or pay freelancers based on traditional revenue-generating models. How content-provision is going to pay for itself has always been an issue with the internet economy and it always will be, but this is a rare instance in business where the smaller a company is, the better a chance it has to weather economic shifts. This means that, for now, independent blogging succeeds when the people who own the blog are also the primary providers of content for the blog. It's 2016 and even Gawker is struggling to keep the lights on.
Okay, sure. One more: We were wrong a year or two back when we said that people are going to start losing interest in the red carpet. We thought it was going to become greatly reduced in popularity as a celebrity or fashion topic. But it turns out once again that social media has thrown a curveball, because now it's not just design houses tweeting out who's wearing their stuff, it's stylists and the stars themselves taking their fans through the styling process on Instagram. This has only led to an increase in demand for red carpet commentary, to our pleasant surprise. It has also led to the highest level of strict style conformity we've seen since we started writing commentary on the topic. Everyone is trying to dress just like everyone else. It's more like sophomore year of high school than ever.
And finally, our super, for-reals last observation: If there's any one thing we can attribute to our longevity it's this: we paid attention when the culture shifted, each time it shifted. And believe us, it shifts rapidly online. We're pretty sure we never used the term in our blogging, but ten years ago, we would have had to be told why "hot tranny mess" wasn't some funny, bitchy gay witticism. We would have had to be told how it's not cute to call a short skirt or a tight dress "slutty" when you're writing about fashion. In fact, we were told. Just as we were told how to talk about people in a more respectful way while still providing some entertainment. Just as we were told that the fashion and entertainment journalism industries white-wash the definition of beauty and tend to render anyone who falls outside the limited scope of it invisible. Just as we were told what kind of language we can use and what kind we absolutely shouldn't when talking about fashion for plus-sized women. Or hair style choices for black women. Or how so much fashion criticism is gender-based. Or how our culture gives itself permission to criticize the bodies of women. And we tailored our writing and tailored our coverage in each case, as the years went by. We listened to our readers and to various other voices, telling us how to do better.
Believe us, we love what we do, but we don't have any illusions about what it is. We provide 5 minutes of distraction from someone's day, sometimes several times a day, on matters that are mostly frivolous at best. And we've still got a long way to go in being the kind of inclusive and tolerant, but still fun and entertaining voices we want to be. But we lied to you just now. Hitting our ten-year blogging anniversary isn't actually what we're most proud of. This blog made us better people. THAT'S what we're most proud of.
And thank you so, so much for your help in the matter.
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Famed fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld allegedly declared (I say allegedly since I found the quote on the internet): "Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality." Our clothing choices say a lot about who we are, or at least how we want to present ourselves to others. Some of us like to dress up, and some of us want to go casual. Our clothing speaks to the culture in which we live and often our station in life. Sometimes our clothing projects an image of who we wish to become. Our clothing choices are ultimately statements of our identity. We may decide to be bold in our choices or try to blend in. Sometimes those choices are made for us.
Many people wear a distinctive uniform. Police, military personnel, fire-fighters all have distinctive uniforms. Go to a hospital and you will see a variety of uniforms that help identify a person's job. A physician wears a longish white coat. A surgeon wears blue scrubs. Nurses and nurses' aids each wear different colors of uniforms. If you're like me and count yourself among the uninitiated, you might not be able to tell the difference, but those working in the hospital do know the difference. I expect that patients also figure it out.
Some of my clergy colleagues like to wear a clergy collar. When they wear that collar with its distinctive white band, everyone seems to know what their job is. Since I don't wear one, I have to identify myself as a pastor, which might make me a "plain-clothes" pastor.
If you go to the mall and do some people watching you will see a great diversity of styles. You might see a man wearing a turban, while a woman might wear a scarf over her head. It might be a hijab which marks her as a Muslim, but a different scarf might reflect a Hindu or Sikh background. Yes, our clothing choices say a lot about who we are.
This morning we're returning to our conversation about the meaning of salvation, and in our reading from Paul's letter to the Galatians we hear a word about clothing. Paul tells the Galatians that "you have clothed yourselves with Christ." You did this when you were baptized into Christ. So, if clothing speaks to our human identity, then being baptized into Christ speaks to our spiritual identity.
It's important that we understand the context of these words from Paul. He was writing to a church faced with the question of whether Gentiles had to be circumcised before they could be considered fully Christian. Paul told this church that if they were baptized they were now God's children. Their baptism served the same purpose as circumcision had among the Jewish people. As it was written in Deuteronomy, the children of God "are a people holy to the Lord your God; it is you the Lord has chosen out of all the peoples on earth to be his people, his treasured possession" (Deut. 14:1-2). In baptism Gentile Christians are like branches grafted onto a vine. Therefore, in baptism they have been clothed with Christ and become the heirs of Abraham and Sarah. That means the promises made to them and their descendants have been passed on to us.
When we declare that Jesus is our savior, we're not just talking about getting into heaven. We're talking about taking on a new identity. Or, as Paul told the Corinthians, in baptism we become a new creation, where "everything old has become new!" (2 Cor. 5:17).
When Paul talks about being clothed with Christ, he's talking about something similar to what Jesus tells the disciples in John 15. Jesus tells them that he is the vine and they are the branches. He tells them and us that even as we abide in him, he abides in us. That is, we draw our sustenance from Christ. He is the source of our identity and our purpose, and as branches that draw life from the vine, we're tasked with bearing fruit. That fruit is this: it is love (John 15:1-17).
But getting back to clothing, when Paul connects it with baptism, he's reflecting on ancient Christian baptismal practice. Early Christians would have candidates for baptism strip off their clothes and enter the baptismal waters naked. They would usually be immersed three times in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Then, after they exited the waters of baptism they were given a new white garment to signify their new life in Christ. I probably should point out that women and men were baptized separately from each other, and that a woman deacon baptized the women. Obviously, we don't follow this practice anymore, but the symbolism of receiving a new set of clothes is quite clear. First, when the candidates take off their old clothing, they are letting go of the old life. When they enter the waters of baptism, they experience the washing away of their sins. When they leave the waters and receive the new set of clothes they take on a new identity as one of God's children.
To be clothed with Christ is to be in union with Christ, and according to biblical scholar Richard Hays, "those who are 'in Christ' share in his divine sonship and take on his character. The baptismal imagery here then, points to the transformation of identity that the Galatians have undergone." [NIB, XI:272]. When we're baptized and clothed with Christ, were doing something more than simply joining an organization that meets weekly to share in certain rites and ceremonies. To be clothed with Christ is to take on a new way of life.
Back in the 1980s the General Assembly of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) was asked to vote on how Jesus is our savior. That question got referred to the "Commission on Theology," which wrote up a lengthy report for the next General Assembly. I wasn't at either of these General Assemblies, but I have a copy of the report. In that report we're told that to say "'yes' to the Gospel is also to enter a life of obedience, striving – with the aid of God's grace – to speak and act in accord with God's loving purpose for the world" ["Salvation in Jesus Christ," Consultation on Christian Unity, 1989, p. 8].
Imagine two people coming into your meeting. One has a gold ring and fine clothes, while the other is poor, dressed in filthy rags. Then suppose that you were to take special notice of the one wearing fine clothes, saying, "Here's an excellent place. Sit here." But to the poor person you say, "Stand over there"; or, "Here, sit at my feet."(James 2:2-3 CEB).
Even though our culture makes distinctions between people, in Christ we are all one. We all wear the same uniform, the garment given to us in our baptism. It isn't that there aren't differences present in society or even the church. We are black and white, male and female, Jew and Gentile, gay and straight, rich and poor, but ultimately we are also one in Christ.
The question that was posed to the Galatian church had to do with whether social distinctions influenced a person's place in God's realm. Paul said no, you don't have to become a Jew to be clothed with Christ. You don't have to be free to be clothed with Christ. You don't have to become male to be clothed with Christ. All of these distinctions have no place in the church and have nothing to do with our salvation. We are, Paul writes, Abraham's offspring, and therefore we are heirs of the promises made to Abraham and to Sarah. That means that having been clothed with Christ in baptism, we are called to be a blessing to the nations (Genesis 12:1-3).
Church -- the invisible in the visible.
What Must I Do to Be Saved?


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// Copyright (c) 2007-2017 ppy Pty Ltd <contact@ppy.sh>.
// Licensed under the MIT Licence - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ppy/osu/master/LICENCE

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using OpenTK;
using OpenTK.Graphics;
using osu.Framework;
using osu.Framework.Allocation;
using osu.Framework.Audio;
using osu.Framework.Audio.Track;
using osu.Framework.Configuration;
using osu.Framework.Graphics;
using osu.Framework.Graphics.Containers;
using osu.Framework.Graphics.Sprites;
using osu.Framework.Graphics.Textures;
using osu.Framework.Graphics.Transformations;
using osu.Framework.Input;
using osu.Framework.MathUtils;
using osu.Game.Beatmaps;
using osu.Game.Configuration;
using osu.Game.Database;
using osu.Game.Graphics;
using osu.Framework.Graphics.Primitives;
using osu.Framework.Threading;
using osu.Game.Graphics.Sprites;

namespace osu.Game.Overlays
{
    public class MusicController : FocusedOverlayContainer
    {
        private MusicControllerBackground backgroundSprite;
        private DragBar progress;
        private TextAwesome playButton, listButton;
        private SpriteText title, artist;

        private List<BeatmapSetInfo> playList;
        private List<BeatmapInfo> playHistory = new List<BeatmapInfo>();
        private int playListIndex;
        private int playHistoryIndex = -1;

        private TrackManager trackManager;
        private Bindable<WorkingBeatmap> beatmapSource;
        private Bindable<bool> preferUnicode;
        private WorkingBeatmap current;
        private BeatmapDatabase beatmaps;
        private BaseGame game;

        private Container dragContainer;

        public MusicController()
        {
            Width = 400;
            Height = 130;

            Margin = new MarginPadding(10);
        }

        protected override bool OnDragStart(InputState state) => true;

        protected override bool OnDrag(InputState state)
        {
            Vector2 change = (state.Mouse.Position - state.Mouse.PositionMouseDown.Value);

            // Diminish the drag distance as we go further to simulate "rubber band" feeling.
            change *= (float)Math.Pow(change.Length, 0.7f) / change.Length;

            dragContainer.MoveTo(change);
            return base.OnDrag(state);
        }

        protected override bool OnDragEnd(InputState state)
        {
            dragContainer.MoveTo(Vector2.Zero, 800, EasingTypes.OutElastic);
            return base.OnDragEnd(state);
        }

        [BackgroundDependencyLoader]
        private void load(OsuGameBase osuGame, OsuConfigManager config, BeatmapDatabase beatmaps, AudioManager audio,
            TextureStore textures, OsuColour colours)
        {
            unicodeString = config.GetUnicodeString;

            Children = new Drawable[]
            {
                dragContainer = new Container
                {
                    Anchor = Anchor.Centre,
                    Origin = Anchor.Centre,
                    Masking = true,
                    CornerRadius = 5,
                    EdgeEffect = new EdgeEffect
                    {
                        Type = EdgeEffectType.Shadow,
                        Colour = Color4.Black.Opacity(40),
                        Radius = 5,
                    },
                    RelativeSizeAxes = Axes.Both,
                    Children = new Drawable[]
                    {
                        title = new OsuSpriteText
                        {
                            Origin = Anchor.BottomCentre,
                            Anchor = Anchor.TopCentre,
                            Position = new Vector2(0, 40),
                            TextSize = 25,
                            Colour = Color4.White,
                            Text = @"Nothing to play",
                            Font = @"Exo2.0-MediumItalic"
                        },
                        artist = new OsuSpriteText
                        {
                            Origin = Anchor.TopCentre,
                            Anchor = Anchor.TopCentre,
                            Position = new Vector2(0, 45),
                            TextSize = 15,
                            Colour = Color4.White,
                            Text = @"Nothing to play",
                            Font = @"Exo2.0-BoldItalic"
                        },
                        new ClickableContainer
                        {
                            AutoSizeAxes = Axes.Both,
                            Origin = Anchor.Centre,
                            Anchor = Anchor.BottomCentre,
                            Position = new Vector2(0, -30),
                            Action = () =>
                            {
                                if (current?.Track == null) return;
                                if (current.Track.IsRunning)
                                    current.Track.Stop();
                                else
                                    current.Track.Start();
                            },
                            Children = new Drawable[]
                            {
                                playButton = new TextAwesome
                                {
                                    TextSize = 30,
                                    Icon = FontAwesome.fa_play_circle_o,
                                    Origin = Anchor.Centre,
                                    Anchor = Anchor.Centre
                                }
                            }
                        },
                        new ClickableContainer
                        {
                            AutoSizeAxes = Axes.Both,
                            Origin = Anchor.Centre,
                            Anchor = Anchor.BottomCentre,
                            Position = new Vector2(-30, -30),
                            Action = prev,
                            Children = new Drawable[]
                            {
                                new TextAwesome
                                {
                                    TextSize = 15,
                                    Icon = FontAwesome.fa_step_backward,
                                    Origin = Anchor.Centre,
                                    Anchor = Anchor.Centre
                                }
                            }
                        },
                        new ClickableContainer
                        {
                            AutoSizeAxes = Axes.Both,
                            Origin = Anchor.Centre,
                            Anchor = Anchor.BottomCentre,
                            Position = new Vector2(30, -30),
                            Action = next,
                            Children = new Drawable[]
                            {
                                new TextAwesome
                                {
                                    TextSize = 15,
                                    Icon = FontAwesome.fa_step_forward,
                                    Origin = Anchor.Centre,
                                    Anchor = Anchor.Centre
                                }
                            }
                        },
                        new ClickableContainer
                        {
                            AutoSizeAxes = Axes.Both,
                            Origin = Anchor.Centre,
                            Anchor = Anchor.BottomRight,
                            Position = new Vector2(20, -30),
                            Children = new Drawable[]
                            {
                                listButton = new TextAwesome
                                {
                                    TextSize = 15,
                                    Icon = FontAwesome.fa_bars,
                                    Origin = Anchor.Centre,
                                    Anchor = Anchor.Centre
                                }
                            }
                        },
                        progress = new DragBar
                        {
                            Origin = Anchor.BottomCentre,
                            Anchor = Anchor.BottomCentre,
                            Height = 10,
                            Colour = colours.Yellow,
                            SeekRequested = seek
                        }
                    }
                }
            };

            this.beatmaps = beatmaps;
            trackManager = osuGame.Audio.Track;
            preferUnicode = config.GetBindable<bool>(OsuConfig.ShowUnicode);
            preferUnicode.ValueChanged += preferUnicode_changed;

            beatmapSource = osuGame.Beatmap ?? new Bindable<WorkingBeatmap>();
            playList = beatmaps.GetAllWithChildren<BeatmapSetInfo>();

            backgroundSprite = new MusicControllerBackground();
            dragContainer.Add(backgroundSprite);
        }

        protected override void LoadComplete()
        {
            beatmapSource.ValueChanged += workingChanged;
            workingChanged();
            base.LoadComplete();
        }

        protected override void Update()
        {
            base.Update();

            if (pendingBeatmapSwitch != null)
            {
                pendingBeatmapSwitch();
                pendingBeatmapSwitch = null;
            }

            if (current?.TrackLoaded ?? false)
            {
                progress.UpdatePosition((float)(current.Track.CurrentTime / current.Track.Length));
                playButton.Icon = current.Track.IsRunning ? FontAwesome.fa_pause_circle_o : FontAwesome.fa_play_circle_o;

                if (current.Track.HasCompleted && !current.Track.Looping) next();
            }
        }

        void preferUnicode_changed(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            updateDisplay(current, TransformDirection.None);
        }

        private void workingChanged(object sender = null, EventArgs e = null)
        {
            progress.IsEnabled = (beatmapSource.Value != null);
            if (beatmapSource.Value == current) return;
            bool audioEquals = current?.BeatmapInfo.AudioEquals(beatmapSource.Value.BeatmapInfo) ?? false;
            current = beatmapSource.Value;
            updateDisplay(current, audioEquals ? TransformDirection.None : TransformDirection.Next);
            appendToHistory(current.BeatmapInfo);
        }

        private void appendToHistory(BeatmapInfo beatmap)
        {
            if (playHistoryIndex >= 0)
            {
                if (beatmap.AudioEquals(playHistory[playHistoryIndex]))
                    return;
                if (playHistoryIndex < playHistory.Count - 1)
                    playHistory.RemoveRange(playHistoryIndex + 1, playHistory.Count - playHistoryIndex - 1);
            }
            playHistory.Insert(++playHistoryIndex, beatmap);
        }

        private void prev()
        {
            if (playHistoryIndex > 0)
                play(playHistory[--playHistoryIndex], false);
        }

        private void next()
        {
            if (playHistoryIndex < playHistory.Count - 1)
                play(playHistory[++playHistoryIndex], true);
            else
            {
                if (playList.Count == 0) return;
                if (current != null && playList.Count == 1) return;
                //shuffle
                BeatmapInfo nextToPlay;
                do
                {
                    int j = RNG.Next(playListIndex, playList.Count);
                    if (j != playListIndex)
                    {
                        BeatmapSetInfo temp = playList[playListIndex];
                        playList[playListIndex] = playList[j];
                        playList[j] = temp;
                    }

                    nextToPlay = playList[playListIndex++].Beatmaps[0];
                    if (playListIndex == playList.Count) playListIndex = 0;
                }
                while (nextToPlay.AudioEquals(current?.BeatmapInfo));

                play(nextToPlay, true);
                appendToHistory(nextToPlay);
            }
        }

        private void play(BeatmapInfo info, bool isNext)
        {
            current = beatmaps.GetWorkingBeatmap(info, current);
            Task.Run(() =>
            {
                trackManager.SetExclusive(current.Track);
                current.Track.Start();
                beatmapSource.Value = current;
            });
            updateDisplay(current, isNext ? TransformDirection.Next : TransformDirection.Prev);
        }

        protected override void PerformLoad(BaseGame game)
        {
            this.game = game;
            base.PerformLoad(game);
        }

        Action pendingBeatmapSwitch;

        private void updateDisplay(WorkingBeatmap beatmap, TransformDirection direction)
        {
            //we might be off-screen when this update comes in.
            //rather than Scheduling, manually handle this to avoid possible memory contention.
            pendingBeatmapSwitch = () =>
            {
                Task.Run(() =>
                {
                    if (beatmap?.Beatmap == null)
                        //todo: we may need to display some default text here (currently in the constructor).
                        return;

                    BeatmapMetadata metadata = beatmap.Beatmap.BeatmapInfo.Metadata;
                    title.Text = unicodeString(metadata.Title, metadata.TitleUnicode);
                    artist.Text = unicodeString(metadata.Artist, metadata.ArtistUnicode);
                });

                MusicControllerBackground newBackground;

                (newBackground = new MusicControllerBackground(beatmap)).Preload(game, delegate
                {

                    dragContainer.Add(newBackground);

                    switch (direction)
                    {
                        case TransformDirection.Next:
                            newBackground.Position = new Vector2(400, 0);
                            newBackground.MoveToX(0, 500, EasingTypes.OutCubic);
                            backgroundSprite.MoveToX(-400, 500, EasingTypes.OutCubic);
                            break;
                        case TransformDirection.Prev:
                            newBackground.Position = new Vector2(-400, 0);
                            newBackground.MoveToX(0, 500, EasingTypes.OutCubic);
                            backgroundSprite.MoveToX(400, 500, EasingTypes.OutCubic);
                            break;
                    }

                    backgroundSprite.Expire();
                    backgroundSprite = newBackground;
                });
            };
        }

        private Func<string, string, string> unicodeString;

        private void seek(float position)
        {
            current?.Track?.Seek(current.Track.Length * position);
            current?.Track?.Start();
        }

        protected override void Dispose(bool isDisposing)
        {
            if (preferUnicode != null)
                preferUnicode.ValueChanged -= preferUnicode_changed;
            base.Dispose(isDisposing);
        }

        const float transition_length = 800;

        protected override void PopIn()
        {
            base.PopIn();

            FadeIn(transition_length, EasingTypes.OutQuint);
            dragContainer.ScaleTo(1, transition_length, EasingTypes.OutElastic);
        }

        protected override void PopOut()
        {
            base.PopOut();

            FadeOut(transition_length, EasingTypes.OutQuint);
            dragContainer.ScaleTo(0.9f, transition_length, EasingTypes.OutQuint);
        }

        private enum TransformDirection { None, Next, Prev }

        private class MusicControllerBackground : BufferedContainer
        {
            private Sprite sprite;
            private WorkingBeatmap beatmap;

            public MusicControllerBackground(WorkingBeatmap beatmap = null)
            {
                this.beatmap = beatmap;
                CacheDrawnFrameBuffer = true;
                RelativeSizeAxes = Axes.Both;
                Depth = float.MaxValue;

                Children = new Drawable[]
                {
                    sprite = new Sprite
                    {
                        Colour = OsuColour.Gray(150),
                        FillMode = FillMode.Fill,
                    },
                    new Box
                    {
                        RelativeSizeAxes = Axes.X,
                        Height = 50,
                        Origin = Anchor.BottomCentre,
                        Anchor = Anchor.BottomCentre,
                        Colour = Color4.Black.Opacity(0.5f)
                    }
                };
            }

            [BackgroundDependencyLoader]
            private void load(TextureStore textures)
            {
                sprite.Texture = beatmap?.Background ?? textures.Get(@"Backgrounds/bg4");
            }
        }
    }
}

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Indianomics: Can RBI do any more for the financial sector?
videos | Apr 24, 2020 2:08 PM IST
By Latha Venkatesh | Apr 24, 2020 2:09 PM IST (Updated)
Does the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) have more bullets and what next from the fisc if the Reserve Bank is reaching a dead-end on some issues? To answer these question Latha Venkatesh is in conversation with Ananth Narayan, Professor at SPJIMR, V Srinivasan, Former Deputy MD at Axis Bank, and HR Khan, Fmr Deputy Governor of RBI.
There is fresh news of pain in the financial markets from the mutual fund sector. The NBFCs continue to say that they are not receiving any money from banks for the inevitable asset-liability mismatch because of the moratorium granted to their borrowers. The stock markets are reflecting the pain of the financials. A lot has been done, there is no taking away from that.
It was only on March 25th and 26th that the overnight money in the market the repo rate was going at 5.15. Today overnight money even according to the policy rate is 3.75 that is a huge almost 150 basis point policy rate cut and then if you go to the actual overnight money which is in the TREPs then it is as low as 2 percent so the cost of money has fallen by 300 basis points, money is as cheap as 2 percent. But it is not available to those who most need it as is very obvious which is why you have so many people seeking redemptions because corporates want money, they have no revenues.
So where does this leave us in terms of the next steps from the regulator – has he fired all his bullets? Does the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) have more bullets and what next from the fisc if the Reserve Bank is reaching a dead-end on some issues? To answer these question Latha Venkatesh is in conversation with Ananth Narayan, Professor at SPJIMR, V Srinivasan, Former Deputy MD at Axis Bank, and HR Khan, Fmr Deputy Governor of RBI.
First Published: Apr 24, 2020 2:08 PM IST
Indianomics


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The Most Reverend Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church, is scheduled to preach Sunday at a revival sponsored by the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts.
Curry is first scheduled to appear at First United Methodist Church in Pittsfield at 1 p.m.
He will then preach at the Hanover Theater in Worcester at 5 p.m.
Curry is the first black leader of the Episcopal Church in the United States. His fiery sermon at the May 19 royal wedding offered a contrast to the more solemn Anglican style that most guests were used to.


Cineplex has done it again! Following last year's short film 'Lily and the Snowman' and the accompanying cover of the Genesis classic "Follow You Follow Me", re-imagined by Vapor Music feat. Adaline and Julie Crochetiere, the team has brought Ben to life in their new film 'A Balloon For Ben'.
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The single is now available for sale and stream across Canada.


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Gregory James Joly (né le  à Rocky Mountain House ville de l'Alberta au Canada) est un joueur professionnel de hockey sur glace.

Carrière en club
Il commence sa carrière dans la , aujourd'hui Ligue de hockey de l'Ouest en 1971 avec les Pats de Regina. Trois saisons plus tard, il remporte avec son équipe junior la Coupe Memorial de 1974. Lors de cette même saison, il remporte le trophée Stafford-Smythe du meilleur joueur de la Coupe alors qu'il est le capitaine de l'équipe et sélectionné dans la première équipe de la saison (seconde année consécutive) mais également de la Coupe Memorial

Au cours de l'été qui va suivre, il se présente au repêchage amateur de la Ligue nationale de hockey et est choisi en tant tout premier choix du repêchage par les Capitals de Washington, nouvelle franchise de la LNH. Signant immédiatement un contrat avec les Caps, il manque une partie de sa première saison à cause d'une blessure sur un coude. Il réalise tout de même une aide pour son premier match dans la LNH. Bien qu'il soit défenseur en temps normal, il joue en attaque pour les Capitals. Il va jouer deux saisons avec ces derniers avant de rejoindre en  les Red Wings de Détroit en retour de Bryan Watson.

Il joue un peu dans la Ligue américaine de hockey avec les Indians de Springfield au début de la saison 1976-1977 mais joue la majeure partie du temps avec les Red Wings. Le  1978, lors des séries éliminatoires contre les Canadiens de Montréal, il se blesse le poignet gauche lors que quatrième match de la série et ne reviendra pas au jeu avant la fin de la saison. Finalement, il se fait opérer et ne revient au jeu qu'en février de la saison suivante.

Au cours de la saison 1979-80, il joue ses premiers matchs avec les Red Wings de l'Adirondack et finalement en 1981, il remporte sa première Coupe Calder avec ces derniers. Il gagne sa seconde Coupe Calder en 1986 et mettra fin à sa carrière à la suite de cette saison.

Trophées et honneurs personnels
Ligue de hockey de l'Ouest
1973 - Première équipe type de la saison
1974 - Première équipe type de la saison, de la Coupe Memorial, trophée Stafford-Smythe et vainqueur de la Coupe Memorial
Ligue américaine de hockey
1981 - Coupe Calder avec les Red Wings de l'Adirondack
1984 - seconde équipe type de la saison
1985 - première équipe type de la saison
1986 - Coupe Calder avec les Red Wings de l'Adirondack

Statistiques
Pour les significations des abréviations, voir statistiques du hockey sur glace.

|1971-1972||Pats de Regina||LHOu||67||6||38||44||41|| || || || ||
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|1972-1973||Pats de Regina|| LHOu ||67||14||54||68||94|| || || || ||
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|1973-1974||Pats de Regina|| LHOu ||67||21||71||92||103|| || || || ||
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|1974-1975||Capitals de Washington||LNH||44||1||7||8||44|| || || || ||
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|1975-1976||Robins de Richmond||LAH||3||3||2||5||4|| || || || ||
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|1975-1976||Capitals de Washington||LNH||54||8||17||25||28|| || || || ||
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|1976-1977||Indians de Springfield||LAH||22||0||8||8||16|| || || || ||
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|1976-1977||Red Wings de Détroit||LNH||53||1||11||12||14|| || || || ||
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|1977-1978||Red Wings de Détroit||LNH||79||7||20||27||73||5||0||0||0||8
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|1978-1979||Red Wings de Détroit||LNH||20||0||4||4||6|| || || || ||
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|1979-1980||Red Wings de l'Adirondack||LAH||8||3||3||6||10|| || || || ||
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|1979-1980||Red Wings de Détroit||LNH||59||3||10||13||45|| || || || ||
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|1980-1981||Red Wings de l'Adirondack||LAH||62||3||34||37||158||17||4||12||16||38
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|1980-1981||Red Wings de Détroit||LNH||17||0||2||2||10|| || || || ||
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|1981-1982||Red Wings de l'Adirondack||LAH||36||3||22||25||59|| || || || ||
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|1981-1982||Red Wings de Détroit||LNH||37||1||5||6||30|| || || || ||
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|1982-1983||Red Wings de l'Adirondack||LAH||71||8||40||48||118||6||1||0||1||0
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|1982-1983||Red Wings de Détroit||LNH||2||0||0||0||0|| || || || ||
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|1983-1984||Red Wings de l'Adirondack||LAH||78||10||33||43||133||7||0||1||1||19
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|1984-1985||Red Wings de l'Adirondack||LAH||76||9||40||49||111|| || || || ||
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|1985-1986||Red Wings de l'Adirondack||LAH||65||0||22||22||68||16||0||4||4||38

|365||21||76||97||250||5||0||0||0||8

|421||39||204||243||677||46||5||17||22||95

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Naissance en mai 1954
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Premier choix au total au repêchage d'entrée dans la LNH
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Joueur des Robins de Richmond
Joueur des Indians de Springfield
Joueur des Red Wings de Détroit
Joueur des Red Wings de l'Adirondack
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In Your Light : The Line of Best Fit meets Bruce Peninsula
Words by The Line of Best Fit
When we spoke to Neil Haverty of Bruce Peninsula back in 2009, the band had just been Polaris long-listed for their debut album A Mountain is a Mouth. Back then Haverty spoke about the logistics of putting a multi-membered project together both in the studio and on the road, introduced us to some of the band members' other projects, and placed a lot of stock in the band's capacity to be adaptable in the face of change. This skill has been vital to the band in the two years leading into the release of their sophomore record Open Flames.
The Line of Best Fit: As a whole, the record seems more driven, songs feel more taut and muscular – like the sometimes overwhelming energy of A Mountain Is A Mouth has been harnessed in a more subtle but direct way. I know the aim was to write quicker this time round – did that happen?
Neil Haverty: "Definitely, it was intentional to tighten up and tuck in a bit more with these songs. We made A Mountain Is A Mouth out of the first 10 songs we ever made as a band. None of us had ever been part of something like this band before and for the first couple of years, I think we were operating on instinct alone and just throwing it all at the wall and seeing what stuck. There was definitely a lot more reckless abandon in regards to overdubbing on the first record. Every song had about 100 tracks and I'd say about half of those you can't even really hear. The vocals were all done in a church, often with all of us singing at the same time, and that sort of overwhelms any other sounds we were trying to cram in there anyways. And it took us a year and a half to make it because it always felt like it 'needed something else'.
The whole approach leading up to Open Flames felt streamlined and we realized really early in writing it that we had to keep it that way to keep sane. Getting bogged down on little parts of a song dooms it to the unfinished pile so we tried to not let anything linger there for too long. We were all pretty open minded to changes and let it happen whenever someone wanted to trim the fat. It was really exciting that way because you couldn't get too attached to something you were working on, because at any point another member could come in and chop out a lyric or move a bridge from the back to the front of the song. That's hard to let happen at first but eventually, as the song grows up into something better than you envisioned it to be, it seems like the only way to work.
We were all guns blazing on A Mountain Is A Mouth and that's something we felt we had to do then. It was a strength-in-numbers thing. You know, "If we all shout together, somebody will hear us". This time we knew a handful of people were already listening and it wasn't about some grand introduction, so we just focused on the songs and refining what we're trying to do. I really do feel like Open Flames is a whittled and crafted reinterpretation of the kind of music we were starting to get at with A Mountain Is A Mouth and this record plays to our individual strengths and talents a lot more than the last one."
How does it work with writing – do you, Matt and Misha all bring stuff to the table or do you work together with all the other band members?
"It always starts with one person with an initial kernel. That could be a melody from me, a drum beat from Steve, some lyric from Misha etc. After it gets presented and tossed around to the rest of the core band (which includes Matt and Andrew, as well as the three I just mentioned), that first person usually takes it back and does more homework on it and pushes it so it's further along for the next practice. Once the core five can sort of play it from front to back, we start to teach our imagined choir parts to the rest of the band and they put their own stamp on it. Usually we're demoing all along. You should hear all the falsetto harmonies that Matt and I do to emulate what we think the girls might sound like! Actually, they're totally embarrassing, so I hope you never do."
The Small Town Murder Songs soundtrack consists almost entirely of your songs. How did the soundtrack come about, and is it something you would be interested in working on more in the future? Did you write 'As Long As I Live' specifically for the film or was it just one of the songs they chose?'
"The director, Ed Gass-Donnelly, approached me at one of our shows and said he was a big fan of the band and that he was making a movie and wanted to talk about us contributing some music. We have always loved the idea of being a 'soundtrack band' so we jumped on the chance. I went to work the next day and came home and Misha and Matt had transformed a drum pattern that Steve had recorded into the song . We had just started recording Open Flames but as soon as it started to come together we were all pretty sure it would end up on the record. We finished the version for the movie and submitted it and then kept working on it after that to give it some verses and a bit more structure. We liked it so much, it ended up being the first track of the record and the first video we put out!
What shocked us was that it totally snowballed from there. We knew he was gonna use as the main theme but he kept asking us for more songs. Slowly but surely he had replaced nearly every song in the movie with one of ours. There's one non-BP song that stayed in, a recording of Sacred Harp singing. We were gonna record a version of it but didn't have time in the end so he used the original. The rest is all us, which is pretty mind-blowing. It was a very proud day to go to a Toronto International Film Festival premiere for something we ended up being a very big part of.
We all want to do more movie work. We've been close to signing on to a couple other projects but nothing has worked out just yet. Fingers crossed for the future."
Your diagnosis with leukaemia came just after the record was finished – and obviously came as a shock to everyone. Did you revisit the album afterwards and change anything, or add bits?
"No. We got the master the day before I was diagnosed. I'm really thankful for that… I really don't know what would have happened if the record was left open-ended. I mean, I'm sure the others would have finished it up but I'm very happy it was done already because the record and the illness can be two totally separate chapters."
You're now officially in remission, with the record out and the band on a grand tour of Canada. How are the shows going? Is the record working out live as you'd hoped? What is the touring make up of the band at the moment?
"It was a blast. I think we're a better band than ever. It all seems sort of effortless now and maybe that's just that we're generally putting less pressure on ourselves. Lots of people have asked me if it's been hard to relearn the songs and get into them after so much time away but I think that's been a real blessing. We were only just getting the hang of them when we recorded these songs anyways.
The major positive of so much distance is that we're not sick of them. Usually you make a record and you listen to each song a million times and when you're done you don't want to hear them again for a very long time. That makes it hard to get behind them when it comes time to play them live. In this case though, I was excited to listen to the record again and when I did, I wasn't just listening to all the flaws or things I would change. It took me a year to enjoy A Mountain Is A Mouth after we were done recording it. I love Open Flames every time I hear it. That's a really nice feeling."
During your recovery you put together a project called Bruce Peninsula Fire Sale, featuring covers, one offs and live videos performed by various different members of the band. It must be amazing to see how parts of the BP family have been succeeding. Last time we spoke, you talked about Snowblink, Ohbijou, Timber Timbre and Katie Stelmanis of Austra. We've worked with you to put together a stream of the artists you've been involved with, can you tell us a little about the other bands that feature on it?
"I think everyone really stepped up to the plate for that covers project and that the band hit some real home-runs with the Fire Sale material. It was a really exciting project for me to be a part of while I was recuperating. The crazy website, the videos, the slow roll-out – those are all things we had talked about as a band for ages and we actually got the chance to try them.
Almost all of our members, past and present, were recruited for Bruce Peninsula because we were fans of the music they made in other projects. Most of the people that have left left because their own projects took off and they didn't have any more time to lend us. We just feel lucky to get a little bit of their magic injected into what we do. We're probably the only band in existence to have as many former members as we do current, but turnover is just sort of part of this band, it seems.
We've been doing shows lately where we go back and forth between Bruce Peninsula songs and songs from the individual members' solo projects and its been a really good time and made for some pretty special shows. We all get to sit back for parts of the set and listen to each other play and there's been some cross-pollination on each others' songs too. I don't think we imagined this sort of thing when the band first started but I think it's a natural development considering that all these solo projects have run simultaneously all along. If you add up all of the Bruce Peninsula material and throw in some solo repertoire, we can pretty much play all night!
I think this might be the first time someone has collected all of our stuff for one big mixtape. I hope people like it! Thanks for making it happen."
Finally, What are your plans for 2012 – are you planing on heading to the UK sometime soon?
"The plan is just starting to come together for 2012. We are working on setting up shows on the actual Bruce Peninsula and we're eyeing a few places in Canada that we haven't been. We'd love to get to the Territories this year, so we're working hard on that. We're trying to do a bunch of things we've never done before. I really, truly hope that includes a trip to Europe. I think that has been the top goal of our band since day one. It's looking pretty good for a trip this Fall. We're crossing our fingers. I'd love to hear from more folks over there who want to see us or have suggestions of places we just can't miss. Send us an email. When it comes to touring foreign lands, no tip or word of encouragement is too small."
Open Flames is available now and can be heard in its entirety at Bruce Peninsula's Bandcamp page.


In Manhattan, when a client is bitten by a rat in the dressing room of the Garsons Department Store and contracts Weil's disease, the manager Susan Costello is assigned to hire and give all the necessary support to the best exterminator in New York, Jack Carver. The efficient Jack and his assistant Ty find a colony of mutant rats and try to convince the health department administrator and former partner of Jack, Ray Jarrett, how serious the infestation is. But the politician Ray is interested in covering the problem to protect economical interests of powerful groups.
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The CFD coupling flow model is established and refrigerated truck experimental platform is built. The internal temperature field in the refrigerated truck is studied by applying mathematical statistics and the fact that the internal temperature field varies with the environment temperature and the speed of the truck with fresh pork in it is analyzed. The conclusion that the variety of the external temperature has a greater influence on the variety of the internal temperature when the refrigerated truck is at a high speed is arrived. The raise of temperature in the top jet area inside the refrigerated truck is obvious and the internal area temperature near side walls of the refrigerated truck is relatively high.


I am Manisha Parsing living in Dotawada Village, Santrampur Taluka, District Mahisagar. I am 17 years old, and have passed Class 10.
Before the Kishori Group (Adolescent Girls' Group around which the SABLA programme is organised) started in our village, we did not get our Take Home Ration, nor iron tablets regularly. After the group was formed - we are only ten girls in our group - we started having regular meetings in the anganwadi. SAHAJ arranged leadership training for us. I have attended all the training workshops after I joined as a peer leader. After learning about Body Mass Index (BMI), I started measuring height and weight of girls in our group. The anganwadi worker found it difficult to calculate BMI, so we decided to do it ourselves.
The nurse was not giving us Iron tablets regularly, we talked to her over the phone and now she gives us the tablets regularly. We started getting our Iron (Haemoglobin) levels checked. Kishori Divas (Adolescent Girls' Day) was organised by us in our anganwadi.
I feel a lot of change in myself. Initially I used to feel scared to talk to anyone, especially in front of a group. But now I can talk anywhere, in front of any one!
Manisha is one of the 100 peer leaders nurtured by a collaborative project 'Adolescents as Citizens and Change Agents for Social Accountability' being implemented by SAHAJ and partners in four backward districts of Gujarat in western India. The goal of the project is to create a model of leadership and citizenship amongst adolescent girls and boys (11 to 18 years) based on a gender and rights perspective.
Main activities of the project are to: increase awareness about gender, sexuality, and rights; promote collective action by local groups of girls and boys; and, advocate with stakeholders – like parents, government functionaries, and village leaders - on adolescent rights. The project is anchored on entitlements related to three government programmes – SABLA (adolescent girls' empowerment and nutrition programme implemented through the anganwadi centres and the Department of Women and Child Development), ARSH (Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health Programmes implemented by the Health Department) and NYKS (Nehru Yuvak Kendra Scheme implemented by the Youth Department).
Relevance for building citizenship and rights awareness among the adolescents and marked increase in awareness among the adolescents about their entitlements (As reported in Review). The skills imparted equipped them to claim these entitlements.
Successful mobilisation of other youth and member of the community to get new school building, improvements in the anganwadi centres, regular water supply, bus service to their remote villages, computer classes for the youth in the villages and so on, also using the instrument of Right to Information (RTI).
Increased self-expression and 'voice' amongst the girls and boys. They have been able to negotiate for their rights and freedoms within their families, represented their collective issues in public fora like the Jan Samvaads (Public Dialogues).
2. As part of YuvaManch (Youth Platform), they have gone to the state level to ask why the programmes are not working well in their districts. Participation of the young people in public affairs is also beginning to increase going beyond the three select programmes.
The adolescents as a group are effective change makers. The impact of inputs given to this group gets amplified once they acquire the necessary skills and information to claim their rights. However, there is also a need to take a differential approach considering the age group, educational levels, and socio economic and cultural contexts of the children.
Where adolescents are central actors in programme implementation, it is necessary that the parents and community members - such as local elected representatives or members of the Village Health and Development Committees- also be involved. This lends greater seriousness – and credibility - to the adolescents' efforts to demand accountability of service providers. Since adolescents are a vulnerable group, there is a need to undertake additional measures to safeguard them from a backlash.
The poor implementation of NYKS scheme and the ARSH programme resulted in non-response towards peer leaders' efforts to claim entitlements – led to frustration among children.
It was especially difficult to involve school going adolescents in the community based programme. Initially it was difficult for the girls to get permission from their families to attend the group meetings. It took repeated visits and discussions and trust building by the NGO field staff before the girls were allowed to come for the project activities.
It was difficult to have a continued intervention with the adolescents due to seasonal migration.
Confrontation with the duty bearers after the rights and entitlement awareness, followed by threats and intimidation.
Reluctance amongst the ICDS officers to admit the need for external monitoring of the SABLA scheme.