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The "Volunteer" Chapter One
I don't know what took me so long to do this here on my own blog, but here is the first chapter of The "Volunteer" in its entirety. The entire novel is available in paperback and Kindle editions on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Volunteer-Novel-D-H-Jonathan/dp/1534635246/
Chapter One: The Proposal
"Forgive me for disturbing your weekend," Dr. Hallum, the president of Coachella Valley University, said to me after introducing himself. I was still trying to fathom why a university president would be calling a lowly undergraduate student's personal cell phone and not just any undergraduate student but one facing a suspension for academic dishonesty.
"That's OK," I said after swallowing my mouthful of meatloaf.
I was in a mostly deserted dining hall, eating lunch on a Sunday, the last day before spring break ended. I had flown back here via the Palm Springs airport the day before after spending an anxious week with my parents at home in Texas. I had only ever seen Dr. Hallum once, at my disciplinary hearing two days before the beginning of this spring break.
"This is highly unusual, which is why I'm calling you personally, but there may be a way for you to have your suspension rescinded."
My heart jumped in my chest. "Really?"
"Yes. Dr. Lorraine Slater is hoping to launch a landmark study, and she needs a… Well, she needs some assistance. She's the chair of the Sociology Department, you know."
I didn't know, but I said "Uh huh" anyway. "What about my scholarships?"
"If you cooperate fully with Dr. Slater, your whole record would be expunged. It'll be like the incident never happened. So your scholarships would continue, provided you maintain the GPA requirement."
This sounded too good to be true. Daddy had told me throughout my life, over and over again, that if something sounded too good to be true then it probably was.
"What would I have to do?" I asked, trying to keep the skepticism out of my voice.
Dr. Hallum cleared his throat. "Well, it's not something I can really talk about. Dr. Slater wants to go over it with you herself. In person. Can you be in her office at 8:00 tomorrow morning?"
"Yes, I can."
"Good. Oh, she did want me to have you Google something. 'Andrew Martinez, Berkeley, 1992.'"
I scrambled to find a pen in my purse and jotted the terms down on a paper napkin as I repeated them back to him, the napkin ripping twice as I tried to write.
"Yes, that's it. And one other thing; what's your shoe size?"
"Six and a half," I replied, wondering why he would possibly need to know that.
"All right. That's it then. Remember, Dr. Slater's office at eight AM tomorrow. It's in the sociology department office in Carlisle Hall."
"OK," I said. "Thank you so much for this opportunity."
"Well, you may not want to take it. But whatever you decide, I wish you the best of luck."
I may not want to take it? How bad could it be? I had visions of having to write some kind of full thesis as I scarfed down the rest of my lunch and rushed back to the dorm. I bounded up the stairs to my room, and I resolved that no matter how ridiculous the offer sounded, I had to take it, even if the work required killed any semblance of a social life. Getting my degree was the long term goal, and I was going to do what I had to do to achieve that.
When I got into my room, I sat down at my computer and typed in the search terms. Google came up with a long list of results starting, of course, with a Wikipedia article. I read with curiosity and wonder how, in the early 1990's, Andrew Martinez had attended his classes at the University of California at Berkeley wearing nothing but a pair of sandals and a backpack. I had to laugh at the photos of him walking across campus naked. Apparently, he got away with this for quite a while and had become a minor celebrity, appearing on a few nationally televised talk shows.
Martinez was once quoted as saying, "When I walk around nude, I am acting how I think it is reasonable to act, not how middle-class values tell me I should act. I am refusing to hide my dissent in normalcy even though it is very easy to do so."
I learned from that Wikipedia article that his naked student act ended in December 1992 when UC Berkeley explicitly banned public nudity on campus. The city of Berkeley passed a new ordinance against public nudity the following year, and Martinez was, of course, the first person arrested for violating it. He started wearing clothes after that but struggled with various things for the rest of his life, including problems with mental illness, and committed suicide in a jail cell in 2006.
The whole story was both funny and sad, and I wondered what it had to do with Dr. Slater's offer. I figured I would have to be her research assistant as she wrote a dissertation or book on the guy. I sincerely hoped I wouldn't have to write the book myself.
I spent the rest of that afternoon unpacking from the trip home and working on a paper for one of my lit classes. Sleep was difficult to come by that night, especially when Diane, my roommate, returned from her San Diego vacation at one AM.
"Sorry," she kept saying every time she bumped into something in the dark.
I thought about telling her to just turn the light on, but I thought that if I kept pretending I was asleep maybe sleep would finally come. If it ever did, it was not the restful sleep that made getting out of bed difficult. When my phone's alarm went off, I got up only because lying in bed hadn't been doing me any good. The shower didn't revive me much, and after brushing my teeth and hair, I shuffled back to my room in my robe and slippers in a haze. With the effort to keep my eyelids up, my eyes didn't want to focus. This was no way to go to a meeting that would determine my entire future, so I took one of Diane's energy drinks from her mini-fridge, resolving to pay her back for it when I saw her awake later. I drank it as I got dressed, deciding against my normal campus attire of jeans and a tank top. Instead, I put on my sleeveless yellow dress with the full pleated skirt, which I have always liked because it hides how thick my thighs and butt are.
I am only 5'4", and I have always thought that my body was too wide for my height (or lack thereof). My ex used to tell me that my legs looked like those of a bodybuilder due to my years of softball and Tae Kwon Do, but I could still never get over my self-consciousness about them. I rarely wore shorts even in the hot climate of the Coachella Valley. At least my breasts were a somewhat normal size and shape.
The energy drink seemed to be helping as I noticed that eight o'clock was nearing. I checked my purse to make sure my room key, cell phone, and wallet were inside, slung the strap over my shoulder, and headed toward Carlisle Hall. During the walk over, I reiterated to myself that it didn't really matter what Dr. Slater asked me to do; I was going to take her offer, avoid suspension, and finish my degree program.
The Sociology Department office was on the second floor of Carlisle Hall, right at the top of the main stairwell. I went inside, and a receptionist in a white blouse looked up and smiled at me.
"Good morning," she beamed with far too much enthusiasm for the Monday after spring break, looking at me from head to toe, almost as if she were evaluating me.
"Hi, I'm Danielle Keaton," I said, and I couldn't help but hear the nervousness in my own voice. "I have an eight o'clock appointment with Dr. Slater."
"Oh yes. Just have a seat, and I'll tell her you're here."
I turned to where she gestured and sat in one of the three chairs against the wall across from her desk. I clasped my hands together to keep them from shaking and said a silent prayer that I could handle whatever it was I would have to do. The receptionist continued to glance from her computer screen toward me every few seconds, smirking whenever she did. I looked at the two paintings on the wall behind her and tried to pretend that she wasn't there.
After a couple of minutes a tall woman with graying red hair emerged from one of the inner offices. I recognized her as one of the three members on the disciplinary board at my hearing. She beamed at me, holding her hand out.
"Danielle!" she said. "I'm Lorraine Slater."
I stood and shook her hand. "Hi."
Dr. Slater looked at the receptionist and made some kind of facial gesture, but I couldn't see what it was.
"How was your spring break?" Dr. Slater asked me as she led me into her office.
"To be honest, it could have been better."
I walked in, and Dr. Slater closed the door behind me. Her office was small with several photos and degree certificates on the wall behind her desk. There was one window, and it looked down upon the commons, a large open space in front of the library. Her desk was clear except for a small gym bag.
"I can understand that. Did you go home to Texas?"
"Yes," I said as she went around and sat behind her desk. She motioned for me to sit in the chair facing her.
"How were your parents?"
"They were OK," I said as I sat down.
"Now, it was your uncle who passed away, right?"
It had been my Uncle Robert's sudden and fatal stroke that had started my downfall. I had gotten a late start on a history paper, and I had intended to pound it out over the weekend before its February 26th due date. But Uncle Robert died the Thursday before. He and I had never been close, but he had been my mom's only brother. I felt compelled to fly home to Dallas that weekend to be with her. So I canceled my Saturday date with Kevin (I hadn't been that excited about going out with him anyway) and booked a flight home.
The day before I flew out, Amanda Johnson, valedictorian of her Oregon high school class and with a perfect 4.0 grade point average throughout her college career, had come into the print shop where I worked wanting to print out an assignment on the color laser printer. I helped her open the file from her USB drive and get it formatted and printed. The name Dr. Finfrock on the cover sheet had caught my eye, and I realized that she was in the same course I was in, although in a different section. I distracted her long enough to make a copy of the file on the PC's hard drive, which I then copied over to my own USB drive.
I flew home that Saturday morning and spent a difficult weekend with Mom before flying back late Sunday night. I had just a few hours to get that paper ready, so I changed the font and what I hoped would be enough of the text on Amanda's paper, removed her illustrations, which hadn't been required for the paper anyway, put my name on it, printed it, and turned it in. What I had failed to change was the citation page, which listed sources for those illustrations (with the phrase "Used by Permission" notated as well).
A week later, Dr. Finfrock asked me to stay after class and confronted me about it. I confessed, telling him about my uncle and the difficult time my mother was having. He told me that that was no excuse, which was something I really couldn't argue with, and that he would have to refer the matter to the dean. The resulting hearing had been, for me, an ordeal of humiliation. I did the only thing I could do, falling on my own sword and absolving Amanda Johnson of any guilt. But I had received a one semester suspension, which wouldn't have been so bad if it hadn't also resulted in the loss of my scholarships. Without those scholarships, I could never hope to afford to continue at Coachella Valley University. My plans of finishing my undergraduate degree with no debt and then starting law school had been shattered.
"I'm sorry for your loss," Dr. Slater said.
"Thank you." I nodded and forced a smile.
"Did you tell your parents about the trouble you've had?"
"I just couldn't bring myself to do it," I said with a shrug. "My mom was still dealing with Uncle Robert's death, and Dad had a big project going on at work."
"Well, maybe you can get out of this without ever having to tell them a thing."
"That would be so incredibly wonderful!"
She leaned back in her chair, and her face turned serious. "Did you read anything about Andrew Martinez?"
"Yes, I did. It was… interesting."
"Yes, he was an interesting guy. I was a graduate student at Berkeley the semester that he was running around naked."
"Really!" I said. "Did you know him?"
"No, we never talked. But he did fascinate me. I used to follow him around campus, at a distance of course, and study people's reactions to him. I was sad to see the university enact that prohibition on nudity just to get him to stop. It was a blow against true freedom of expression."
She stopped for a moment and looked out the window and down at the students walking across the Commons. With a sigh, she leaned forward and put her arms on her desk.
"I think attitudes are changing though," she said. "Brown University hosts an annual nudity week, designed to promote body acceptance. They have naked yoga sessions, nude body painting sessions, and other clothing optional events on campus."
"That sounds interesting," I said when she paused, trying and failing to imagine such a thing at any school I had ever attended.
"Yes. Outside of academia, ESPN Magazine publishes an annual Body Issue with photos of top ranked athletes posing nude."
She pulled a copy of one out of her desk drawer and slid it toward me. The cover featured a photo of a nude Venus Williams. She was in profile, arms over her breasts and her hip thrust out toward the camera, the curve of both buttocks very visible. I didn't even know ESPN had a magazine; I had thought they were just a television network. Dr. Slater continued speaking as I thumbed through the magazine.
"Discovery Channel has a very successful reality show called Naked and Afraid where two survivalists, a man and a woman, have to live for three weeks in the wilderness without clothes, food, or water. Have you ever seen it?"
I shook my head no.
"VH-1 has a show called Dating Naked, one of those silly reality shows like The Bachelor except that everyone is naked. There's also a show about a realtor who specializes in property in an upscale nudist community in Florida. The genitals on all of these are pixelated of course, but I have a feeling that in ten or twenty years, these kinds of shows will be airing unaltered. And in the last few years, World Naked Bike Rides have been held in many cities. Nudity in public has also been prevalent at several different events in the San Francisco Bay area despite a city-wide ban on nudity that was imposed within the last few years. In fact, a small group of committed 'urban nudists' is vigorously fighting the new ordinance."
Dr. Slater seemed to be in full lecture mode. I was trying to make sure I remembered the names of these TV shows she had recited, and I shifted nervously as I closed the magazine on her desk and pushed it toward her. "Should I be taking notes?" I asked when she paused.
"Oh no, no, not at all. This is just background information for the project I'm launching, an in-depth study of people's reactions to nudity and how those reactions change after continued exposure. If you volunteer and participate for the full project, your suspension will be cancelled, and your scholarships continued, pending your grades of course. I couldn't get you your job in the print shop back, but you might feel comfortable with a new campus job in the art department that pays a lot more."
"OK," I said tentatively. A higher paying job didn't sound like much of a punishment, so I was worried about a catch. "What, exactly, would I have to do?"
"Well, you would be confined to campus. But you live in the dorm and eat in the cafeteria, so that shouldn't be a problem. As for a social life, I know there are dances in the Student Union as well as other events. You could go to those if you wanted."
"I'm OK with that," I said, eager to get my scholarship restored.
"As for what you will be doing, you'll be attending classes like you normally do. I'll have a team of six research assistants who will take shifts monitoring your interactions."
Dr. Slater stopped talking and looked at me, as if trying to gauge my response. I was still perplexed.
"Is that it? Going to class. Is that really all I have to do?"
"Yes, that's all you have to do. The research assistants will monitor people's reactions to your nudity and keep all the records. They'll take video, and you'll be wearing a tiny microphone that will transmit to a receiver that the RA on duty will have. That will record all the audio that we can then go back through in detail."
She kept talking, but I didn't hear any more of what she said. My head was spinning.
"Wait," I said, holding up my hand. "Did you say my nudity?"
"Yes. If you accept this assignment, you would be required to spend the rest of the semester without any clothing."
Dr. Slater had an intense expression as she looked at me, and I realized that, as outrageous as her proposal sounded, she was serious.
"You mean go to classes naked?" I said, thinking aloud more than anything. "I could never do that. No. Not in a million years. That's crazy."
"Are you sure? Andrew Martinez did it."
"And he was crazy. The articles that I read said he was diagnosed with mental illness."
"Several years after he left Berkeley," Dr. Slater said. "And after policymakers had squashed his freedom to be who he really was, to make a bold statement about our society. It's sad really that he was never accepted. We as a society can be cruel to those who are truly different, who don't fit into what is considered the norm."
Silence descended on the room as Dr. Slater sat and watched me as I thought. I had been going to Coachella Valley University for a year and a half. I had friends. I had two guys that I had dated briefly during my freshman year. And there was Kevin who had been trying to get me to go out on a date with him for over a month. How could I ever just let them all see me naked? And not only once, but on an ongoing basis for the rest of the semester? Today was March 16, and the semester ended in the middle of May. That was two months. I couldn't think of a time that I had ever been naked for longer than two hours; now this woman was asking me to run around naked for two months, and in public?
"That's nuts," I said. I thought of my two options: leaving CVU forever after this semester, my reputation in tatters, or staying and doing this and ruining my reputation in other ways. I felt trapped, like I was being blackmailed or extorted. They couldn't do this to me! "How can this be legal?" I said, breaking the silence in the room. "This, as an alternative punishment?"
"It's not an alternative punishment," Dr. Slater said. "It's an alternative TO punishment. If you do this, you would be performing this department, the university, and the entire field of sociology a huge service."
I was still shaking my head. The idea of someone freely walking around the university bare ass naked was ridiculous. That I would be that naked someone was so far beyond the realm of possibility that I couldn't believe it. Was this meeting even happening? Perhaps I was in a dream, one of those dreams I used to have in high school where I went to school in my underwear without realizing it.
"I can tell you're having a problem with this," Dr. Slater said, "but that's because of the years of social conditioning you've undergone, conditioning that has ingrained in you this notion that our bodies always have to be covered when interacting with others of our own species."
"But what if I get arrested?" I said. "Aren't there indecent exposure laws or something?"
"No, not really. Thanks to court rulings, nudity in public without any lewd conduct is legal in the state of California. That's how Andrew Martinez was able to get away with attending classes nude in 1992. There are quite a few cities who have implemented nudity bans, like Berkeley unfortunately, but Coachella Valley University doesn't fall under any of those."
"Palm Desert doesn't have a nudity law?" I asked.
Dr. Slater shrugged. "It wouldn't matter if they did or not. The university's mailing address may say Palm Desert, but the actual campus is on land that has never been annexed by any municipality. We are in unincorporated Riverside County."
I didn't know what was more unbelievable, that it was perfectly legal to walk around naked or that my university was asking me-—no, requiring me–to do that very thing. Of course, this was California, and I had just read the stories about Andrew Martinez.
"There may be people who will call the police on you," Dr. Slater continued, "but any calls to 911 on campus are routed to the University Police Department. Everyone there is aware of this project and are even helping us compile statistics on the calls they receive, whether it's people calling to complain because they're offended or calling because they're concerned for your safety and well-being. But you will have nothing to worry about, legally."
I thought back to the summer between ninth and tenth grade. I was spending a Friday night with my friend Samantha. She lived in an apartment complex and as we were talking, she said that she had always had thoughts of sneaking out late at night and skinny-dipping in the apartment complex pool. That sounded so exciting to me at the time, and I told Samantha that we should do it. We stayed up until almost two in the morning working up enough nerve just to leave the apartment. Once we did, we made our way to the pool, which officially closed every night at ten o'clock, and climbed over the gate. We huddled in the darkest corner, quickly stripped, and darted into the pool, careful not to splash or make any noise. Being in the water naked had felt strange and wonderful. Samantha and I held onto the side and whispered to each other. I had forgotten what we talked about so long ago, but I remember being startled by the sound of footsteps and seeing the figure of a man walking outside the pool enclosure. I felt real terror right then, and I think Samantha felt it too. We both held our breath and froze. I remember how vulnerable I felt, naked and in the water so far away from any clothing. I couldn't even move for fear of making waves in the water that the guy, whoever he was, would hear. My biggest fear had been of getting in trouble. I had visions of being arrested and taken to jail and of having to call my parents to bail me out. Luckily, the guy kept walking. We thought at the time that he was just some drunk who had walked home from a bar up the street. But we jumped out of the pool as soon as he was out of hearing distance and put our pajamas on over our wet bodies because, like idiots, we had forgotten to bring towels.
I never skinny-dipped again after that. In fact, I always made doubly sure that everything I ever wore was properly buttoned up whenever I was with other people and that I wouldn't have a "wardrobe malfunction" anywhere embarrassing. Now, Dr. Slater was proposing that I just go everywhere without a wardrobe and that the university would be just fine with it.
"If it's legal to just walk around campus naked," I asked, "why doesn't anybody do it?"
"Because it isn't 'socially acceptable,'" she replied, using her fingers to accentuate the quotation marks. "And that's the point of this entire project. Can it become socially acceptable? Which groups of people will accept you; which will applaud you; which will shun you? Will there even be anybody who joins you?"
"Joins me?"
Dr. Slater shrugged. "You never know."
I turned my head and looked out the window at the Commons. Students were walking to and from different parts of the campus. A guy and girl were sitting on the bench beneath the three tall palm trees, talking and drinking coffee. Another girl in shorts and a halter top was lying on her belly on a blanket on the grass, text book opened in front of her as she studied. I tried to picture myself walking through the area with nothing on. What would it feel like to be so naked and vulnerable and free? Something caught in my throat when I thought of the word free. Would being naked really feel free, I wondered. Was I actually considering doing this?
I turned back to Dr. Slater and asked, "Would there be any alerts going out, telling people about the project."
"Oh no. If people knew about the project, they would alter their responses and interactions with you."
"So if I did this, what would I say to people about suddenly going everywhere naked?"
"I'd prefer that you never said anything," she replied. "Just act like you normally do when you're dressed whenever someone talks about what you're wearing. But I know that's not realistic. People will be persistent about something so… unusual. So, you could just say that you wanted to try becoming a full time nudist and that you just discovered that nudity on campus was legal. And if that doesn't work, use some of Andrew Martinez's quotes. That's one of the reasons I had you look him up on the Web."
I turned and looked back out the window. I thought of the people in my dorm, in the food hall where I ate, in my classes, and I wondered what they all would say to me, what they would think. How did I feel about that? Afraid, mostly. I had spent a year and a half building up a network of friends and acquaintances here, both male and female. All of that had the potential for falling apart. But the alternative was leaving the school forever at the end of the semester. That social network wouldn't matter one tiny bit after that. And I didn't come to Coachella Valley University to socialize; I came to get a solid degree that would get me into law school. I had promised myself on the walk over here that I was at least going to try to do whatever it was that Dr. Slater proposed, no matter how outlandish it sounded.
"OK," I said, still looking out the window at the people outside and imagining myself naked among them, my voice sounding far away as if someone else were speaking. "I'll do it."
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Recently I've been meaning to put together a blog post on the production photography for live theater that I've been doing over the past couple years. However, I've just not had the chance to pull images from all the shows for a live theater and production specific portfolio. I have had the time to pull together images from a recent theater festival for which I shot images, the 2015 Live Arts Exchange in Los Angeles, CA. I also decided to try out one of the publicly available photo essay platforms to see how it works.


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"The War on Terror"
» US soldiers kill 16 civilians in Afghanistan: Kabul government
US soldiers kill 16 civilians in Afghanistan: Kabul government
by tts-admin | Mar 12, 2012
Introduction – March 12, 2012
This account presents an entirely different picture to the one carried by the corporate media, which claim that the killing spree was carried by a lone U.S. sergeant. All of which is in contrast to the report below that cites eyewitness accounts of multiple gunmen.
Why the discrepancy? Why didn't the Western corporate media talk to Afghan eyewitnesses like the ones quoted below who talk of "a group of U.S. soldiers" being involved?
Coming so soon after U.S. soldiers were filmed urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters, and only weeks after two senior western military advisors were killed inside one of the most secure compounds in Kabul, the killing represent a new low in relations between local Afghans and Western occupation forces.
Is the corporate media's coverage of the shootings a deliberate exercise in damage limitation, an attempt to conceal the extent of this deterioration?
Reuters – March 12, 2012
Body of child killed in the shooting. Click to enlarge
Western forces shot dead 16 civilians including nine children in southern Kandahar province on Sunday, Afghan officials said, in a rampage that witnesses said was carried out by American soldiers who were laughing and appeared drunk.
One Afghan father who said his children were killed in the shooting spree accused soldiers of later burning the bodies.
Witnesses told Reuters they saw a group of US soldiers arrive at their village in Kandahar's Panjwayi district at around 2 am, enter homes and open fire.
The incident, one of the worst of its kind since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, is likely to deepen the divide between Washington and Kabul.
The US embassy in Kabul said an American soldier had been detained over the shooting. It added that anti-US reprisals were possible following the killings, which come just weeks after US soldiers burned copies of the Koran at a NATO base, triggering widespread anti-Western protests.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the rampage as "intentional murders" and demanded an explanation from the United States. His office said the dead included nine children and three women.
An Afghan minister earlier told Reuters that a lone US soldier had killed up to 16 people when he burst into homes in villages near his base in the middle of the night.
Panjwayi district is about 35 km (22 miles) west of the provincial capital Kandahar city. The district is considered the spiritual home of the Taliban and is believed to be a hive of insurgent activity.
Haji Samad said 11 of his relatives were killed in one house, including his children. Pictures showed blood-splattered walls where the children were killed.
"They (Americans) poured chemicals over their dead bodies and burned them," a weeping Samad told Reuters at the scene.
"I saw that all 11 of my relatives were killed, including my children and grandchildren," said Samad, who had left the home a day earlier.
Neighbors said they awoke to crackling gunfire from American soldiers, whom they described as laughing and drunk.
"They were all drunk and shooting all over the place," said neighbor Agha Lala, who visited one of the homes where the incident took place. "Their bodies were riddled with bullets."
A senior US defense official said Defense Secretary Leon Panetta "was deeply saddened to hear last night of this incident and is closely monitoring reports out of Afghanistan." The White House also expressed concern.
The Afghan Taliban would take revenge for the deaths, the group said in an e-mailed statement to media.
The US embassy in Kabul said an investigation was under way into Sunday's shooting and that "the individual or individuals responsible for this act will be identified and brought to justice".
The commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) General John Allen said he was "shocked and saddened" by the shooting, and promised a rapid investigation.
The Minister of Border and Tribal Affairs Asadullah Khalid, who is investigating the incident, said the soldier entered three homes, killing 11 people in the first one.
"The defense minister … is deeply shocked and saddened by the killings of 15 innocent civilians and the wounding of nine more at the hands of the coalition forces," the Defense Ministry in Kabul said in a statement.
Civilian casualties have been a major source of friction between Karzai's Western-backed government and US-led NATO forces in Afghanistan.
The shootings could intensify friction between Washington and Kabul as NATO prepares to hand over all security responsibilities to Afghans by the end of 2014, a process which has already started.
The Koran burning and the violence that followed, including a spate of deadly attacks against US soldiers, tested brittle ties between the governments of Karzai and President Barack Obama and underscored the challenges that the West faces even as it moves to withdraw.
All foreign combat troops will withdraw by end-2014 from a costly war that has become increasingly unpopular.

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We learned how to use the various APIs. We have also never worked with the combination of React and Flask before, which was interesting to work with. We also gained more insight on creating web scrapers.
What's next for Shop With Space
There are several features and implementations that we want to add to Shop with Space in the future. For the user interface, we could add features such as a radius slider to filter stores by a specified distance. We could also build a broader inventory checker, since with the resources that we could acquire during the hackathon, we could only find a working inventory checker for Walmart. Lastly, we could using machine learning to learn how busy a store is given traffic, popularity, and other factors.
Exporting the video took longer than expected. We have put the video in a shared Google Drive folder in one of the "Try it out" links. There were some complications with the domain name too.
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HooHacks 2020
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Worked on the backend code to call the Google Maps/Places APIs and parsing data. Helped out with debugging here and there and worked on some front-end design.
UVA SEAS '22
Worked on frontend code with Google Maps. Wrote two web scrapers using requests and parsed the data using Beautiful Soup 4.
Justin Gou
Worked on building the React app and integrating the React app with the Flask API.
Andrew Wang
Worked on the backend code to scrape inventory data with BS4 from multiple websites and used the Tomtom and LocationIQ APIs to develop the safety metric algorithm.
Alan Zheng
William Zhang posted an update — Mar 31, 2020 01:08 PM EDT
If you are having trouble with the site loading, make sure you are using https, as Chrome as now started blocking websites from requesting your location over http. https://shopwith.space/
Alan Zheng posted an update — Mar 29, 2020 11:43 PM EDT
Also, there is a slight typo with the website- it doesn't have https at the beginning, so it can't get your location. Try this instead: https://shopwithspace.appspot.com
We uploaded the video in time, so the demo is both in the shared Google Drive folder and as the video demo. We are currently still having some complications with the shopwith.space domain, so the website is currently hosted on the appspot url.
William Zhang started this project — Mar 29, 2020 09:56 PM EDT


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Everyone, from high school students to senior citizens, is invited to join. The music and dues fee is $50 per person, with a discount for additional family members. The music and dues fee for high school students is $25. For more information, call Heather Skidds, Director, at 401-573-7564 or by email at hskidds@gmail.com. No prior experience needed, no audition, just the desire to have fun creating our music together!
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North Kingstown Community Chorus meets weekly from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM at the Quidnessett Elementary School, 166 Mark Drive, North Kingstown, RI 02852. Auditions and North Kingstown residency are not required. Our first adult chorus rehearsal for the Spring 2019 season will be at 6:30pm on January 22 at Quidnessett Elementary School. The Youth Chorus will begin rehearsals at 5:30pm on Tuesday, February 5.
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Home Events + News Human Food Needs Pantry: Helping Montclair Neighbors Since 1982
Human Food Needs Pantry: Helping Montclair Neighbors Since 1982
by Ada Rene July 23, 2021
Ada Rene July 23, 2021
Like many other communities in New Jersey, the township of Montclair faces ongoing food insecurity, with individuals, families, and children needing assistance for services and basic daily necessities. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the issue of food insecurity has unquestionably increased with demand for assistance on the rise. One local organization that continues to lend a consistent and substantial hand in solving our community's food insecurity issue is Human Needs Food Pantry, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit located at 9 Label Street in Montclair that has led the way in serving those in need since 1982. Read on to learn more about the Human Needs Food Pantry in Montclair.
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About Human Needs Food Pantry
From serving just 25 people in its opening year in 1982, HNFP has most recently assisted with over 49,000 visits in 2020, with over 12,000 of those visits tending to children. During the year 2020, the nonprofit also distributed over 593,000 pounds of food, along with many other basic essential products, to those in need.
But there's more. Human Needs Food Pantry is the largest suburban food pantry in Essex County, and 90% of the funds raised go directly to providing food. The nonprofit relies on its volunteers and support from individuals, communities, and foundations in order to continue making a growing impact on the food insecurity challenges that we face.
The Montclair Girl spoke with HNFP's Executive Director, Mike Bruno, about the growth of the Human Needs Food Pantry, the impact of COVID-19 on its client roster, and how our readers can help the nonprofit continue to provide for our struggling neighbors.
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The Montclair Girl: Can you share the origin of the Human Needs Food Pantry?
Mike Bruno: HNFP began in 1982 in a Baptist church helping a very small number of people, eventually becoming an incorporated non-profit and growing into what we are today.
MG: How has the team grown since the nonprofit's establishment?
MB: From a handful of volunteers back in the beginning, we now have a 14 member Board of Trustees, 5 staff members, and over 80 volunteers who are the driving force for our pantry packing bags, picking up donations, delivering food, and serving on our Board.
MG: HNFP provides several services to those in need. Beyond food, what resources does the non-profit provide?
MB: Beyond food, we provide a wide variety of services including clothing, nutritional supplements like Ensure & Glucerna, diapers, wipes, feminine products, basic necessities like bathroom tissue, personal products like soap, shampoo, toothpaste & toothbrushes, etc.
We deliver food to over 250 homebound clients every single week who are unable to get out on their own. We also provide school supplies and even pet food. Prior to the pandemic, we provided bimonthly medical screenings for our clients done by nurses at Mountainside Hospital which we hope to return to soon. We even try to assist with improving [clients'] employment situations by helping with resumes and more.
MG: Community is the core of many nonprofits and organizations. How has working closely with our community evolved over the years?
MB: The community is the backbone of our organization from which we draw our volunteers, food donations, and monetary support. The expansion of our social media has allowed us to put our needs out to the community and respond in the most amazing fashion helping us meet them.
MG: What have been the most rewarding aspects of maintaining and growing HNFP?
MB: Simply seeing the people we serve feel some relief from struggling to feed themselves and their families. So many people come to us feeling devastated that they reached the point of needing assistance, and seeing them feeling better when we take a small part of that burden from them is what it's all about.
MG: The pandemic shifted gears for many local organizations and businesses. How has it impacted the nonprofit?
MB: Aside from the dramatic increase in the number of people we served, we have tried to stay true to our original mission of providing food and other services. You could say we've "stayed in our lane" and stuck with doing what we do best. We remained open throughout the pandemic thanks to the people who worked despite the threat of COVID-19.
Since the onset of the pandemic, we have added over 1,200 additional households to our client roster. We also now see people from beyond Essex County coming to us for help and are serving people from Passaic, Hudson, Morris, Bergen, Monmouth, Somerset, and beyond. The number of people devastated by this is heartbreaking.
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MG: What are the current volunteer and donation opportunities?
MB: Food and monetary donations allow us to continue providing for our struggling neighbors. You can visit the Human Needs Food Pantry website for all information including volunteer opportunities.
MG: What are the next steps for the organization?
MB: We are always looking for new ways to help the people we serve and we hope to expand our services to provide additional types of assistance in the future. However, at present, we are looking for additional space as we have "maxed out" our current facility, so that is a priority for us. We continue to be focused on doing whatever we can for those who are dealing with food insecurity and poverty. We've been here serving people for almost 40 years, and we'll be here as long as people need us!
Human Needs Food Pantry is open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8:30AM to 12:00PM for donation drop-offs, and from 12:00PM to 2:30PM for client pick-up. You can visit the nonprofit's main website to learn more about events and check out the Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages for updates.
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Some folks asked me last week why we chose to interview former Governor Walter Peterson for our cover story. While I don't get to decide who or what we write about, I thought our editor Amy Diaz made a good choice. The story was interesting because it explored the opinions of one of the state's most senior statesmen and, more importantly, one who believed in compromise.
All too often our political process gets bogged down in ideological differences, personal animosities or political grandstanding. It's been a decade since the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled that solely funding education through town property taxes was unconstitutional, and yet the problem is still not solved. Most funding solutions have only gotten support from primarily one party or the other. Some wealthier donor towns have sued the state over the system. Clearly it's not been a case of consensus.
Whatever the problem, our elected officials should ask if it's fair to all citizens. In the case of the education funding problem, funding education through local property taxes doesn't seem to be very fair. Why should a child going to school in Manchester get an education of lower quality than a child in Bedford or Amherst?
Money does make a difference. We live in a capitalist economy where the best in each field follow the best-paying jobs. Therefore, if Amherst or Bedford pay their teachers more than Manchester, they will get better-quality teachers. Teachers are rational economic actors too and it should be expected that they follow good-paying jobs, better equipment and newer schools. Teachers in poorer towns and cities face more obstacles in teaching, including kids with more emotional problems, more learning disabilities and likely more school violence.
The same goes for parents. In decidingwhere to raise their kids, they consider the quality of local schools. Whether rightly or wrongly, parents — those who can afford to — decide all the time to move out of Manchester or to a more desirable school district in the city. One only needs to look at real estate listings for homes in the Smyth Road School district to understand how important a good local school is in selling a home. The result is that wealthier parents move to towns and districts with better schools. Of course every parent should do this. But what about those who can't? Should children be punished because their parents can't afford to move to Amherst or Smyth Road School district?
An education system should be fair.
New Hampshire's system doesn't pass that test.
As Governor Peterson said in our story, we can solve this unfairness if we work together and find a solution that is fair to all and makes sure our kids all get a good education.
Now that Gov. John Lynch has won a second term that should be the top of his agenda.


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COMING to auction soon is a signed Laurel and Hardy programme from the comedy duo's theatre performance in Rhyl.
The programme is from the Queen's Theatre and dated 1952.
This will be in Rogers Jones & Co auction on March 23 in Cardiff.
Ben Rogers Jones, auctioneer and partner at Rogers Jones & Co, said: "The estimate is £250 to £350 and it came in from an autograph collector.
In 1952, during the week starting Monday, July 21, the theatre, in West Parade, presented the comedy double act.
Colin Jones posted on website Rhyl Life that at the time of their Queens appearance, Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957) were past the peak of their careers but still "masters of simple comedy".


← Fort Collins public art project underway….
Wayyyyy too hot to paint outside on the public art project.
I know- I'm a wimp- but since I can't sleep well, getting up early enough to put in a few hours has been a challenge to say the least. That's OK. Rode my bike around to see what's up in a few studios of friends/acquaintances around town. The studio tour in Ft. Collins used to be organized by the local "contemporary"art museum, and just made a reappearance this year. I was not too keen on signing up since my studio had just moved home, and I kind of saw this as just another First Friday multiplied. ie: Art tourism. Some nice interactions, but nothing too tangible to show for all the time, effort, money spent. OK- I'm a cynic- so kill me.
But it did allow me to pop in and see the working space of several people I'd lost touch with.
Elizabeth Morrisette's lovely above-garage space, with a great little deck off the side, accessed by a spiral staircase.
She's an inspiration for recycling in creative ways!
Then it was on to check in with Susan Sternlieb. Spirited platters and serving dishes with unique hand stamped and colored designs. And before heading home, Carole Hossan who has some lovely rabbit themed watercolor/ink wash pieces, as well as her incredible calligraphy on display.
It's always intriguing to see how others mesh (or don't) their working/studio life into the home. Anne Bossert and Micheal Allison were the most obvious examples. They both work at home, and there seemed to be a seamless integration of their work and home decor/environment.
Loved the colorful walls too! Nice work everyone!
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The American Dance Alliance hosted the first competition of the season on Saturday December 8. The Bob Graham Education Canter's Bobcat Dance Team and their coach Mayri Martinez had the opportunity to participate in several categories. The team received three superior awards for jazz, lyrical and contemporary. They also took home 3rd place and 4th place for their duets and 4th place for ensemble. They were awarded best costume for the jazz routine, "Be Our Guest." Overall, the girls looked beautiful and had amazing performances. Coach Martinez was commended for all of her hard work and leadership, It most defiantly paid off!


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Home News Mark Cuban and Stephen Ehrlich advise how to get into crypto
Mark Cuban and Stephen Ehrlich advise how to get into crypto
American billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban and the CEO of Voyager Digital cryptocurrency broker Stephen Ehrlich shared tips for novice investors in the digital asset market.
"It's never too late [ to join the crypto market] and, actually, now is the right time. I still think it's the first half of the first quarter on crypto adoption," Ehrlich said.
According to him, about 220 million people already own digital assets. Voyager CEO expects the indicator to grow to 1 billion in four years. "So that shows you where we can actually go with crypto and crypto adoption," he explained.
"You don't have to spend a lot of money in order to learn. It's not like the stock market where it's almost impossible; with the exception of a few platforms, to start with $10," Cuban added.
Ehrlich noted that it is always better to start financial investments small, increasing their positions as they learn.
"You are spending your money, so always be careful. […] Things like Shiba Inu (SHIB) and Dogecoin (DOGE) are not investments," Cuban warned.
The digital version of gold
At the end of October, Voyager announced the signing of a five-year partnership agreement with the Dallas Mavericks basketball club owned by the billionaire. It was made in order to raise crypto awareness among NBA fans through different fan interaction events.
Recall that previously in an interview with CNBC, Cuban urged newcomers to pay attention to Ethereum (ETH). According to him, the second most capitalized cryptocurrency "has the most prospects in terms of investments". He still considers Bitcoin (BTC) as the digital version of gold, which is better than the physical one.
Earlier in February, Cuban bought Dogecoin for $5 for his 11-year-old son Jake and called the asset the cheapest economic educational tool that "also entertains". At the same time, the billionaire stated "If I had to choose between buying a lottery ticket and #Dogecoin …..I would buy #Dogecoin".
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Lockwood de Forest (1850-1932) was the protégé of the celebrated nineteenth-century landscape painter Frederic E. Church. Church trained de Forest in landscape painting during the early 1870s and engendered in his pupil a passion for exotic places and exotic decorative arts objects. This interest led de Forest first to the Holy Land and Egypt and finally to India, in 1881, where he went on his honeymoon for over a year to study and look for objects to import to the United States. An introduction to Muggunbhai Hutheesing, a Jain merchant whose family had recently commissioned an elaborate carved temple in Ahmedabad, in Gujarat, India, and still employed many of the most skilled craftsmen, led to the de... more.
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Hanoi celebrates 590 years since King Le Thai To's coronation
A ceremony was held by Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi on May 27 (13th day of the fourth lunar month) to mark 590 years since the coronation day of King Le Thai To, the founder of the Le so Dynasty (1428 – 1527).
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The palanquin procession marks 590 years since the coronation day of King Le Thai To on May 27 (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – A ceremony was held by Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi on May 27 (13th day of the fourth lunar month) to mark 590 years since the coronation day of King Le Thai To, the founder of the Le so Dynasty (1428 – 1527).
In 1416, Le Loi, posthumously known by his temple name Le Thai To, and prominent figures gathered at the Lung Nhai Oath Ceremony in the land which is now Thanh Hoa province to vow to liberate the country from the rule of the Chinese Ming invaders, who attacked the country in 1407.
He launched the Lam Son Uprising in 1418 and it came to success in 1427, after 10 years of countless hardships and many resounding victories, forcing the Ming invaders to retreat.
On the 15th day of the fourth lunar month in 1428, Le Loi came to the throne under the name Thuan Thien at Kinh Thien Palace in Dong Quan Fortress (now Hanoi), and renamed the country Dai Viet, a name used to exist from 1054 to 1400.
The ceremony marking his coronation featured a palanquin procession with the participation of over 1,000 people and the incense offering at the King Le Thai To Statue relic site.
A representative of the administration of Hoan Kiem district said the ceremony aimed to commemorate the great merit of Le Loi during the 10-year uprising against the foreign invaders. It was also meant to help preserve and uphold traditional spiritual cultural values and educate people about tribute to ancestors.-VNA
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The Long Tong (going to the field) Festival opened in Chiem Hoa district of the northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang on January 29 after a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tennis: Vietnam against Indonesia for Davis Cup World Group II berth
According to the Vietnam Tennis Federation (VTF), Vietnam will play Indonesia in the 2023 Davis Cup World Group II Play-offs on February 4-5 at the Hanaka Paris Ocean Park in the northern province of Bac Ninh.


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Assets of 89 pc of councillors recontesting Delhi civic polls increased by 3 to 4 437 pc ADR
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Assets of 75 councillors of the 84 who are again contesting the municipal elections in Delhi have increased by three to 4,437 per cent, according to a report by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).
Assets of Nandini Sharma of the BJP from the 149-Malviya Nagar ward have increased by Rs 25.58 crore -- from Rs 24.25 crore in 2017 to Rs 49.84 crore in 2022 -- the ADR report said.
Assets of Shikha Roy of the BJP from the 173-Greater Kailash ward have risen by Rs 6 crore -- from Rs 6.81 crore in 2017 to Rs 12.81 crore in 2022.


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Course Directors: David McRobert and Paul Muldoon
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Complete Course Syllabus
Supplementary Course Materials: John Livingston Lecture Series: ES-6111 (1988)
Papers:
Attitudes About Sustainable Development in Yukon (1988)
Coming to Grips with the Economic Impact of 3Rs Programs: A Preliminary Assessment. (1992)
Economic Mechanisms to Promote 3R's in Ontario (1991)
The Environmental Registry, The Right to Request an Investigation and Environment Protection Actions under CEPA: Implementation Issues and Lessons From Experience with Ontario's Environmental Bill of Rights (EBR) (1999)
Greening Canada's Passenger Transportation Systems: The Environmental, Economic and Social Benefits of a National Rapid Train System for Canada (1990)
Institutional Capabilities for Resolving Bilateral Land Use Conflicts: A Bioregionalist Critique (2001)
Legal Liability Issues for Trail and Greenway Managers: An Overview of Canadian Laws (1993)
The Nuts, The Bolts And The Rest Of The Machinery: A Guide To And Update On Ontario's Environmental Bill of Rights (2001)
Occupational Health and Safety in Ontario's 3Rs Sector: Emerging Issues and An Overview of the Workplace Health and Safety Agency (1994)
Ontario's Blue Box System: A Case Study of Government's Role in the Technological Change Process, 1970-1991 (1994)
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An extract from Sisters, edited by Siobhán Fitzpatrick and Mary O'Dowd (Royal Irish Academy)
Sisters traces the public and private lives of nine sets of sisters. Artists, publishers, writers, educationalists, philanthropists, revolutionaries, suffragists — women who overcame barriers, even within their own families, to their participation in public life.
Their stories have often been overlooked by the mainstream historical record.
The essays in Sisters take readers on a journey through the centuries—from the 1600s to the turbulent years of the independence struggle in 1900s Ireland—and uncover the influence, support and rivalries of family.
This extract concerns the seventeenth-century Boyle sisters and their letters.
by Dr Ann-Maria Walsh
The custom of fostering out children was a practice commonly associated with early modern aristocratic households, and sisters Alice, Mary and Margaret spent part of their childhoods with Sir Randall and Lady Anne Clayton, who were also neighbours and close associates of the Boyles.11
Mary, who later became the countess of Warwick, acknowledged in her autobiography that, while her mother had died when she was very young, Lady Clayton had ensured that she was 'soberly educated'. 12
Apart from being provided with a religiously themed education, noble daughters in Anglo-Irish families like that of the Boyles were also instructed how to compose and write letters, to speak and write in the French language, to occupy themselves with needlework, to engage in polite conversation and, most importantly, how to manage multiple residences and landed estates.13
The family records confirm that professional tutors were a constant presence in the Boyle household, and it is therefore plausible that the three Boyle girls who remained in the natal home, Sara, Lettice and Joan, might have inadvertently benefited from the kind of 'text- based learning' that was taking place within that same domestic space.14
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Sibling closeness
While noble sons and daughters may have been educated apart and with different objectives in mind, what is sometimes ignored or forgotten is the 'relationship between those separately educated sons and daughters'.15 In the case of siblings Sara and Richard, three letters illustrate how they availed of that medium to maintain their close affinity, irrespective of their actual geographic distance.16
The colourful content and the shortened intervals between those particular letters reflect Richard's determination to include Sara, albeit remotely, in his educational grand tour of Europe.
More generally, the letters underscore how the practice of family writing might have helped to transform childhood friendships into fruitful adult relationships.
Diary notes and correspondence exchanged between three of the other Boyle siblings, Katherine, Mary and Robert, highlight how they seemingly encouraged and stimulated each other's overlapping interests in religion, medicine, science and writing.17
Nine writers trace the public and private lives of nine sets of sisters. Artists, publishers, writers, educationalists, philanthropists, revolutionaries, suffragists — thinkers all. Independent women with hopes and ideals who overcame barriers, even within their own families, to their participation in public life. Their stories have often been overlooked by the mainstream historical record.
Strategic matches
Patrick Little notes how Richard Boyle started planning his daughters' futures as early as their infanthood, by studying genealogies and employing antiquarians to research the pedigree of families with potential suitors.18
Five out of the seven daughters were strategically matched with Irish-based nobles, while the third and seventh daughters, Lettice and Mary, married the sons of influential English lords.
All of those marital manoeuvres increased the Boyles' landed presence across the territories of Britain and Ireland, as well as broadening the family's network of noble alliances and important political contacts.
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Unhappiness
For the Boyle daughters, most of their marriages resulted in misery and unhappiness, but the archival evidence also reveals the different ways in which the women came to rely on their pens to adjust and to cope with adversity.
A letter from Sara, dated late October 1623, illustrates how she adapted to the changed reality of her life.19 Two years earlier Sara had been married to Sir Thomas Moore, heir to Garrett Moore, 1st viscount Drogheda, but in the intervening period Sara remained with the natal family until Sir Thomas returned from his European grand tour and was ready to escort his new wife the two hundred miles north to their marital home.
When Sara wrote to her father reassuring him of her safe arrival at Mellifont Abbey, County Louth, she used the opportunity to signal her continuing filial duty through the carefully ornate italic script and deferential tone.
Sara also included in the letter a request to retain her father's 'gildinge [gelding]' that had carried her with great 'ease' to Mellifont, so that she could work towards becoming a 'beter horsewoman'. The reference to the horse that Sara had grown familiar with over the course of the journey from Lismore suggests that she was conscious of the need to put on record her intention to self-improve, and to take on the responsibilities associated with her new role as a landed noblewoman.
The letter thus perceptibly marks in an official sense that pivotal moment of change in a woman's life, when she transitioned from child and dependent on her father to adult married woman. The consequences of the move to Mellifont also meant that the link between Sara and her siblings would necessarily become stretched.
The importance of the letter is thus reinforced as a physical point of contact with the natal family, and as a mechanism to track the writer's progress while she adjusted to both her alien surroundings and to her new identity as Lady Sara Moore.
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11 Dorothea Townshend, The life and letters of the great Earl of Cork (London, 1904), 58. 12 Mary Rich, Autobiography of Mary Boyle, Countess of Warwick(London, 1848), 2. 13 See example of child's letter in, TDC, C, CM/24.107, Katherine Jones to Richard Boyle, 1st earl of Cork [?1638–41].
14 A.B. Grosart (ed.), The Lismore Papers, 1, ii, (5 vols; London, 1886), 249. On 16 May 1629 the earl of Cork records that 'Mr ffrye' had come to Lismore to be hisson Richard's tutor. On the subject of women's literary skills within families see, Rebecca Krug, Reading families: women's literate practice in late medievalEngland (Ithaca and London, 2008), 12–13.
15 Naomi J. Miller and Naomi Yavneh, 'Introduction: Thicker than water: evaluating sibling relations in the early modern period', in Miller and Yavneh (eds),Sibling rela- tions and gender in the early modern world: sisters, brothers and others (Aldershot, 2006), 1–14: 2.
16 TDC, C, CM/17.146,151,154, Three letters from Richard Boyle, Viscount Dun- garvan to his sister, Lady Sara Digby, 8 June, 6 July, 30 July 1633.
17 Mary Rich, Memoir of Lady Warwick (London, 1847), 243. Rich references numer- ous occasions when she enjoyed meeting with her siblings.
18 Patrick Little, 'The Geraldine ambitions of the first earl of Cork', Irish Historical Studies 33(130) (November 2002), 151–68.
19 TDC, C, CM/14.189, Lady Sara Moore to Richard Boyle, 1st earl of Cork, endorsed 1 November 1623. Sara's marriage to Sir Thomas Moore was short-lived; he died of smallpox a month after their arrival at Mellifont. Three years later Sara married Sir Robert Digby.
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The 2022 PGA Championship golf tournament
Tiger Woods catches a ball on the first green during the third round of the 2022 PGA Championship. Woods withdrew from the tournament after struggling in his third round.
Mito Pereira of Chile tees off from the twelfth tee during the third round of the 2022 PGA Championship.
Will Zalatoris reacts to his drive on the 17th hole during the third round of the PGA Championship.
Will Zalatoris plays his shot from the seventh tee during the second round.
Rory McIlroy plays his shot from the second tee during the second round.
A young spectator views players through binoculars during the second round.
Tiger Woods plays his second shot on the first hole as a gallery of fans look on during the second round.
Erik van Rooynen (left) and Harry Higgs (right) clean off the green on the twelfth hole during the second round.
Xander Schauffele plays a shot from a bunker on the fifth hole during the second round.
Fans dressed in matching Hawaiian shirts and shorts watch the action during the second round.
Collin Morikawa on the 18th tee during the second round.
A squirrel runs across the fairway on the 16th hole during the second round.
Justin Thomas hits from the rough on the 16th hole during the second round.
Patrick Cantlay putts on the 15th green during the second round.
Spectators walk uphill to the first and 10th tee boxes in the second round.
Rory McIlroy watches his tee shot on the 15th hole during the first round of the PGA Championship.
Adri Arnaus of Spain walks on the 10th hole during the first round.
Tiger Woods reacts after his shot from the eighth tee during the first round.
Hideki Matsuyama plays his shot from the 13th tee during the first round.
Scottie Scheffler lines up a putt on the second green.
Ryan Vermeer searches for his golf ball on the 16th hole during the first round.
Adam Scott plays a shot on the eighth tee during the first round.
Cameron Smith plays a shot from a bunker on the eighth hole during the first round.
Fans watch on the 14th hole during the first round.
Cameron Davis reacts after his tee shot on the third hole.
Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods on the fourth green.
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Rory McIlroy and caddie Harry Diamond walk over a bridge on the third hole during a practice round prior to the start of the 2022 PGA Championship.
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Though it can't be blamed or lessening anything but the matter of the fact is, the iconic RK Studio was built by Raj Kapoor in the Fifties, and Prithvi Theatre was built by Shashi Kapoor and his wife Jennifer Kendal in 1978. The Kapoors mentioned why RK Studio has become a big investment without any returns and that is getting tough for the family to maintain.
This Monday, son of Shashi Kapoor, Kunal Kapoor along with his children Zahaan and Shaira Laura celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Prithvi Theatres. The annual celebration of the Prithvi festival began this year yet again and here are some of the glimpses of the starry affair.
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Kunal Kapoor, Zahaan and Shaira Laura hosted the evening.
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Krita 2.0: a Host of New Features
Boudewijn Rempt has summarised results of development for the next version of Krita, the painting and image editing application for KOffice. Krita 2.0 will contain a host of new features, some of which are unique in the free software world. Below Piotr introduces some of the new features which will be available in this release.
Ported: Krita now runs on Mac OS X and on Windows. Windows and Mac OS X ports are now available. They are easy to get using the Windows installer and Mac OS X macports (via koffice2-devel).
Vector layers: Krita 1.6 made it possible to embed a KOffice KPart as a layer into an image. This makes it possible to have a complete KSpread or KWord document as a layer. In KOffice 2.0, KParts have been replaced by Flake Shapes, as an end result Krita 2.0 has vector layers where you can add any combination of KOffice shapes. Examples of KOffice shapes are vector drawings, text objects or even musical notation objects. These shapes are then rendered at the image resolution and blended with your pixel layers. The same technique is used for vector selections.
More brush engines: Krita is the only paint application that has pluggable brush engines. Thanks to Lukas Tvrdy Krita has got some new engines like:
Sumi-e brush: a generic hairy brush simulation
Chalk: a very acceptable simulation of dry media
Dynadraw: Inspired by Paul Haberli's Dynadraw
Expect more interesting brush engines to appear over the next year.
Image resolution: In 2.0, Krita keeps track of resolution and can always display the image at the correct size on screen. That means that if you have scanned an image at 300dpi and have a 96dpi screen, your image will at 100% zoom be as big physically as on the paper you scanned it from.
Real colour mixing: A mixer canvas as in Corel Painter, but one where mixing the colours would give real-life results. This feature was added by Emanuele Tamponi during Summer of Code 2007. This feature may by postponed to 2.1, please test this feature if you plan to use it.
Clone layers: A clone layer copies part of another layer and inserts it somewhere else in the layer stack. You can then add new effect masks to the copy, for instance to create a blur effect. This feature seems to work but extensive user testing would be appreciated.
OpenGL canvas with on-canvas preview of gradients: If your computer supports OpenGL, you can use the OpenGL canvas. This is faster and uses less memory than the ordinary canvas. For introduction to other new features and answers why development of Krita 2.0 is taking so long please see this article.
Krita now needs a lot of testing to shape up 2.0 release and make it rock solid, so please give it a try and test it extensively. Also, the Krita project is in need of people who would like to help with updating The Krita Handbook. As you see a lot of new features are now available and the manual needs some love, this is a great opportunity for non-coders to contribute and work together to improve Krita and KOffice.
Three years of work on Krita 2.0 has resulted in much better code, extensive set of unit tests and better separation of concerns. Furthermore a better design for many data structures and better user interface. Krita developers hope that 2.0 release would be a great base for future development, the code is better and it is easier to get involved in coding for those who would like to improve this cross-platform painting and image editing application for KOffice.
Shouldn't the scan and screen dpi be the same for the displayed image to be the same physical size as the original ? If not, what's the math to get screen dpi vs scan dpi ?
By moltonel at Mon, 2009/02/09 - 4:44pm
Suppose we want to scale 300
Suppose we want to scale 300 dpi to 100 dpi while ensuring that one inch on the paper is still one inch on screen. So we know:
One paper inch = 300 picture pixels
One monitor inch = 100 pixels
Therefore 1 pixel = 3 picture pixels, which means that the image has to be scaled by 1/3 when painting it on screen. You can see that the scaling ratio is simply the screen resolution divided by the scan resolution (which is available through Exif tags).
By majewsky at Mon, 2009/02/09 - 6:59pm
Well, I always get confused when touching that code myself... But it isn't that hard, actually: a pixel on screen has a particular size, say there 1/100th of an inch. Once that's known, and once you know how many pixels in the image fit in an inch, say 300, you can do the conversion: 100 pixels on screen make an inch, 300 pixels in the image man an inch, so you have have at 100% 3 image pixels in a screen pixel.
By Boudewijn Rempt at Mon, 2009/02/09 - 7:11pm
dpi is for print, not for screen
This is where a lot of people go wrong.
DPI is for print. Measure your screen. Do the math for the resolution you have right now. Then change the resolution of the screen. You just changed the resolution of the paper and the picture changed size without changing the dpi setting.
Here is the easy solution: Forget about all that has to do with dpi and screen. It does not apply. Sure, many screens, especially LCD has an optimal resolution. But the resolution can still be changed.
Here is a good scenario.
You have a picture that is 600x400 pixels. One version is 3000000 dpi. The other is 5 dpi. They will both be the same size on the web. And that is exactly how it should be. If you print it, however, well - that is a different story.
BTW - the filesizes will also be the same. Or at least extremely close :-)
Why does it not apply? The application do not know how big the monitor really is. There are too many unknown factors.
Adding anything like this to the application makes it really look like an amateur application. Photoshop have it correct. DPI is firmly placed in the section for print.
By Oceanwatcher at Sun, 2009/02/22 - 2:15am
Please digg it!
http://digg.com/software/Photoshop_Killer
By Dread Knight at Mon, 2009/02/09 - 9:57pm
I wonder if you realize that
I wonder if you realize that we do have buttons for digg, reedit and the like now? Why are you still opening a second topic, hurting the default one? Just because you think "Photoshop Killer" is a better title?
By Daniel Molkentin at Tue, 2009/02/10 - 9:36am
not the dot story
actually it is not this dot story. it was submitted a few days ago when boud blogged about the new features
By mkraus at Tue, 2009/02/10 - 8:22pm
Krita from mac.kde.org? NO NO NO NO NO.
Krita (or koffice for that matter) are not currently in any disk images available from mac.kde.org.
Krita is available from source (compile it, and dependencies yourself) or macports (have a build system compile it for you) via koffice2-devel. I really wish someone would check with us first before giving out erroneous info.
By illogic-al at Wed, 2009/02/11 - 12:29am
sorry ;/
I didn't checked this when writing this article :( my fault. I've checked Windows port where it is available, and I assumed the same is for mac ;/ sorry...
By Piotr at Wed, 2009/02/11 - 9:39am
story updated
By Jonathan Riddell at Wed, 2009/02/11 - 2:10pm
I've been a fanatical GIMP user, but desiring to stay with Qt, and an app with a "k" in its name, I thought I'd play around with Krita and so far -- it's been great. The layout should make all the /photoshop/tards happy and the features are keeping me quite happy. I can't wait for it to evolve even further. Great work, Krita team.
By klaatu at Fri, 2009/02/20 - 12:48pm