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Spam: More Than Just a Nuisance for Nonprofits
Marnie Webb
Editors' Note: Nowadays, spam is a problem for everyone with e-mail. Furthermore, it is a problem that threatens to change the landscape for organizations, such as nonprofits, that depend on the immediacy and low cost of e-mail to reach fragmented and diverse constituencies. These attributes, which have been a key to rapid adoption of e-mail by nonprofits, are being eroded as organizations are increasingly inundated with spam and viruses. We must learn to manage incoming spam in order to keep our organizations from "crashing." We must also learn to navigate the new spam-filled environment, while maintaining a vital communications channel and avoiding the spam label, ourselves.
The Scope of the Problem
In the time it takes you to read this sentence, thirteen separate pieces of spam will have been reported to Spam Cop, a Web site dedicated to helping users report unwanted and unsolicited e-mail. In one 24-hour period, 1,198,166 messages were reported as spam, and in the month of February, 2004, more than 47 million messages were submitted to their site.1
Estimates vary on the percentage of spam messages in relation to all e-mail. Spam Filter Review, a site that identifies and tracks spam filter products, estimates that 40 percent of all e-mail sent is spam.2 Brightmail, a company that makes a spam filter product, reports that 62 percent of all e-mails sent in February, 2004 were spam.3
All of this begs the question: What is spam? There is no hard-and-fast definition; and increasingly the lines are being blurred between spam, viruses, and legitimate messages, which promises to make this issue more complex and costly. According to GetNetWise, spam is "unsolicited 'junk' e-mail sent to large numbers of people to promote products or services. Sexually explicit unsolicited e-mail is called 'porn spam'." Both terms may be used to refer to inappropriate promotional or commercial postings to discussion groups or bulletin boards.4
Spam has become much more than just an annoyance. It can clog our inboxes and gunk-up all of our Internet communications mechanisms. And, beyond our own inboxes, it can hit message boards, comment areas on Web sites, and listservs, causing our systems to shut down and others to reject our messages. In June 2003, according to a BBC report, MessageLabs, a spam filtering company, identified an example of a virus being sent by spam. The virus didn't just send out messages to individuals in the infected computer's e-mail address book; it opened a back door that enabled the spammers to use the infected machine to send out unsolicited mail.5
Viruses and spam often intersect in a way that allows spam messages to display third-party e-mail addresses. These addresses may be harvested from an infected computer's address book. The address may be taken when a machine is hijacked and used to send spam messages. In either case, it can be made to appear that your organization is sending unsolicited e-mails on a variety of subjects.
This article does not cover all of the complexities faced by nonprofits regarding spam, but there are two main concerns that nonprofits face: their ability to protect their systems and their employees' time from spam, and their ability to get messages out to new constituencies who are battling spam problems of their own.
Are You a Spammer?
Nonprofits must view their e-mail communication strategies within the context of a spam-filled environment. Not only must your messages be compelling enough to be opened, they must also avoid falling victim to filters and blacklists. Being labeled as a spammer can prevent your organization from getting its message to its audience. Worse, removing your name from blacklists, renegotiating a relationship with an Internet service provider (ISP), or rebuilding goodwill with a constituency that felt you e-mailed them without their explicit permission, can be costly and sometimes impossible to do.
Bill Pease, Chief Technology Officer at GetActive Software, talks about the need for nonprofits to attend to their practices of both list building and message deliverability as key factors in maximizing their ability to get their message out without acting as, or being labeled as, spammers.
List-Building Practices
"It is often tempting to cut corners in building e-mail lists," says Pease. However, doing so can negatively impact the ability of your organization to send legitimate e-mail messages to your constituency. While many people think of e-mail lists like direct-mail lists, they are vastly different. You don't need permission to send people direct mail, but in the e-mail arena, you do need permission if you don't want to be labeled a spammer.
According to Pease, you can choose from a spectrum of options for building your list. The spectrum ranges from using strict procedures to ensure you have permission to email subscribers, to building lists without acquiring explicit consent from recipients. From the perspective of Internet service providers and anti-spam activists, the "gold standard" mechanism for building your list is known as double opt-in. This method asks users to sign up, and then asks them to confirm their sign-up in a second action. This method is often avoided because many organizations are concerned that people will drop off between the first and second confirmation. However, with this method you can be assured that those responding really wanted to join in the first place.
In the middle of the spectrum are list-building techniques that involve obtaining some level of permission from recipients, but exactly what has been consented to is often ambiguous. One example would be the common practice of acquiring names via co-registering. For example, when users sign up on a Web site, they may indicate that they are willing to receive messages from a third party. Typically, people are given an option to select third parties within their interest area; however, they are not given the names of the organizations that will be contacting them. For example, a user may indicate a willingness to receive messages from environmental organizations. Later, however, when they actually do receive e-mails from a specific environmental advocacy group, they may not connect it to the permission they gave earlier. As a result, they may complain that the group who contacted them is a spammer. It is critical to be constantly aware of the potential complaint rate your messages are likely to generate. Even relatively few complaints can result in new spam controls that prevent messages from getting to the intended recipients.
Such mechanisms for indirectly acquiring permission, according to Pease, "…really don't stand up under scrutiny, and these days are more and more risky. These days it doesn't take as much to start generating enough complaints to get you temporarily blacklisted. There's a lot at stake in ensuring that you have permission [to send messages]."
In a presentation at the 2003 San Francisco Regional Conference of the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network (N-TEN),6
Pease offered the following advice for list building:
• Request explicit permission whenever you collect an e-mail address.
• Link brand or publication name to every opt-in request.
• Document all opt-ins, especially those collected off-line.
• Use double opt-in for online recruitment.
Message Delivery
"The other thing," says Pease, "that is very obvious these days for nonprofits…is that email messaging has become an extremely technical, rapidly changing field. There's a wish that it was still the early days of the Internet when there was no spam, and e-mail was a great way of communicating. Nonprofits are used to thinking this is a cheap and free and easy way to get into everyone's inboxes. That isn't true any more." Pease points out that while e-mail itself may be free, deliverability is not.
In fact, deliverability services—assistance in ensuring that the message gets to the recipient—is a service for which e-mail service providers are charging. Organizations often use bulk e-mail practices that trigger spam prevention software, and navigating these "requires a lot of technical and relationship expertise," according to Pease. Examples of these types of practices include the following: sending e-mail to large numbers of Bcc (blind carbon copy) addresses, sending bulk e-mail via a dial-up connection, and sending bulk e-mail via free services such as Yahoo! or Hotmail. An e-mail service provider can help you avoid these types of pitfalls.
In addition, it is becoming more and more important to ensure that you maintain good list hygiene if you want major ISPs to accept your email messages. Proper management of bouncing email, for example, is now critical to maintaining good relationships with ISPs. If you do not cease messaging to addresses that are bounced because of an invalid e-mail address, and quickly address spam complaints from an ISP's subscribers, you risk having all of your messages blocked.
The Other Side: Keeping the Spam Out
The Monday morning routine is simple: start the computer, download your e-mail, sip your coffee, hit the delete key for roughly half of the e-mails you received since Friday, and then groan with the realization that you've hit the delete key one too many times. If you're lucky it is simply annoying; but if you're unlucky, virus-carrying spam messages can open up your system to use by a spammer. Consequently, you can be targeted—and blocked—as a sender of unsolicited e-mail. Both of these scenarios interfere with your staff's ability to do mission-based work.
Many companies are debating the best ways to filter spam before you see it.7 These discussions, while interesting, will probably not impact you or your organization for several years.8 In the meantime, you can concentrate on two basic ways to protect your resources: organizational best practices and software solutions.
Organizational best practices
The first step in managing spam is to engage your staff in a discussion about spam. Ask them to talk about how and why it is a problem or challenge in their work, and then share with them a list of your own ideas. Be mindful of your organization's purpose. Consider the best interests of your organization in terms of eliminating spam as well as in terms of your own privacy policy and communications. It is essential to balance the need to protect your staff time and your system resources with your need to be available to the outside world.
Although there is still no standard approach to e-mail privacy, encourage staff members to protect their information. A first-line defense would be to ensure that you and your staff don't unwittingly give information to those who would misuse it.
A particularly harmful trend that is gaining in popularity is identify theft. The practice of gathering names, passwords, credit card numbers and other private information, sometimes referred to as "Phishing," can be costly and dangerous. Spammers create messages that appear to be from a legimate source (PayPal and Earthlink are two recent examples). They ask users to enter personal information, threatening that their accounts can be closed or limited if the information is not supplied immediately. Once obtained, spammers can do great harm; and often the person who provided the information is unaware until after serious damage has been done.9
Beware of responding to any unknown e-mails, including those offering to allow you to "unsubscribe." Many unsolicited e-mail messages include a helpful line that says something like: "Do you want to be removed from our e-mail list? Click here." While some e-mail messages do carry legitimate unsubscribe buttons, the majority do not. By clicking, you have confirmed that you have an active e-mail address that is being read and acted upon. The safest approach is to simply delete
the message.
Many spammers utilize programs that harvest e-mail addresses off public Web sites. If your organization has many e-mails listed, you may want to highlight them and then examine ways to reduce the number of addresses you make available on the Internet. These e-mail addresses can include the contact e-mails on your organization's Web site, public archives of listserv messages, or lists of conference attendees.
Alternate approaches to minimizing the number of e-mails that could be harvested include establishing a single alternate contact such as [email protected] and removing all of the staff addresses. (You can find out more about hiding addresses from spammers at http://spam.abuse.net/userhelp/#hide). Some organizations also assign their staff two e-mail accounts: one to use privately—shared on business cards and with regular and known correspondents—and another for use in more generic public places: on listservs, when registering for conferences, and when signing up as a user on various Web sites.
Organizational best practices are designed to allow legitimate e-mail to reach you and, at the same time, to minimize your potential to be a target of spam. The downside of many best practices is that they can't keep up with spammers' ever-evolving ability to get at your inbox; they may limit the ability of people to contact you; and they may require an additional level of technical savvy on the part of your staff.
Spam filtering software provides an automatic mechanism for separating the e-mail that has the characteristics of spam from the e-mail that has the characteristics of legitimate e-mail. While spam filtering software can provide a very good shield for an organization, it is not a panacea. It has two main problems: false negatives and false positives.
False negatives are often seen as the lesser problem. These are simply spam messages that are not tagged as such, and so get through to the users inbox. False positives can be more problematic. These are messages that should not have been labeled as spam—they may have been sent to a large Bcc list or have come from an unknown sender—and they are filtered out of the inbox.
When implementing a software-based solution, it is best to include a trial period. During this period, e-mail should not be deleted before the user can view it. E-mail may be tagged (a phrase added to the subject line, for example) so that users can set up filters in their e-mail clients. Potential spam also may be collected in a central place so that users can review it before it is deleted.
During the trial period, ask your staff to comment on the effectiveness of the software. Many filtering solutions
offer an option to adjust the controls; they may be made more or less permissive. For a summary of how such
filters work, as well as their pros and cons, see the PowerPoint presentation by Eytan Urbas of MailShell at http://www.nten.org/conferences-2003-sf-fightspam.
Not all methods are appropriate for all organizations, so before selecting a software solution ask questions about how it works and whether it is an appropriate approach for your nonprofit. Most organizations will use a combination of methods—rules-based software that has the capacity to develop both black and white lists. This may also be used in conjunction with collaborative networks in which all users report back on identified spam so that, with critical mass, certain senders can be added to black lists, or rules can be tweaked to better identify spam. In all cases, the best software solutions update their spam rules on a regular basis. Many of these updates require little or no effort on the part of the user. These updated rules help to catch spammers who continually find ways around existing rules by doing things like altering spellings, spoofing known e-mail addresses, or mimicking the rules for legitimate e-mails.
In addition, you should be sure that the spam software you decide upon gives you an opportunity to adjust specific rules to meet your needs. An organization dedicated to providing information about sexually transmitted diseases, for example, may receive a significant amount of e-mail with the word "sex" in the subject line. These organizations may wish to remove a rule that identifies those e-mails as likely spam.
You can find lists of spam filtering software at http://directory.google.com/ Top/Computers/Internet/Abuse/Spam/
Filtering/?il=1
Legislative solutions
Legislative solutions involve efforts to make the sending of unsolicited spam illegal. Various states have several efforts underway. You can track these efforts on Web sites such as Spam Laws at http://www.spamlaws.com/index.html and SpamCon Foundation at http://law.spamcon.org/.
Nothing's Perfect
None of these mechanisms will ensure that spam does not interfere with your organization's ability to act on its mission. Thinking about these issues as you set up systems, however, will ensure that you and your staff can mitigate that effect in a thoughtful and engaged manner.
1. Spamcop.net: Statistics on Spam Trends, http://www.spamcop.net/ spamstats.shtml
2. SpamFilter Review: Spam
Statistics 2004, http://www.spamfilterreview.com/spam-statistics.html
3. Brightmail: Spam Percentages
and Spam Categories, http://www.brightmail.com/spamstats.html
4. GetNetWise: Guide to Internet
Terms: A Glossary, http://www.getnetwise.org/glossary.php#S
5. BBC News: Technology: "Spam virus 'hijacks' computers," http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/ 2987558.stm
6. http://www.nten.org/conferences-2003-sf-spamham
7. BBC News: Technology:
"Row over how to junk spam," http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3492354.stm
8. Security Pipeline: News: "Gartner: Microsoft's Anti-Spam Plans Will Take Years," http://informationweek.
securitypipeline.com/news/18201583
9. New York Times, March 24, 2004, "Online Swindlers, Called 'Phishers'; Lure Unwary," by Saul Hansell.
Marnie Webb has been working on technology issues with nonprofits and schools for the last twenty years. She is currently the Director of Consulting Services for CompuMentor, the home of TechSoup.
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We have already talked about the Trail hunting and sporting thermal riflescope series from Pulsar. Indeed, you can find a very detailed article and review here. The LRF version adds an accurate and powerful integrated laser rangefinder, capable of measuring distances up to 1000 m, rifle cant and incline. It also calculates the THD (True Horizontal Distance), taking into account the site angle of the zeroed rifle barrel.
Enter the freely available Stream Vision app from Pulsar, a companion software for Android and iOS that can run on most smartphones and tablets, and the very interesting Ballistic Calculator section in the app.
The Stream Vision app takes advantage of the 2.4 GHz WiFi connection that is built in the Trail series of riflescopes and many other Pulsar devices, such as the Helion and the Accolade thermal vision devices. Initially the Stream Vision technology allowed video streaming from the Pulsar enable optic to the connected device, showing what the device displays in the eyepiece, share videos on Social Media, and remotely control and manage the device; today, it adds the capability to update the firmware on every compatible Pulsar device when necessary, it features the mentioned Ballistic Calculator and a Motion Detection function – to be used for surveillance or perimeter protection, for example.
The Pulsar Trail XP50 LRF is based on a state of the art Ulis 17 µm pixel pitch FPA (Focal Planar Array) microbolometer sensor.
The riflescope we received for this test is the top of the line Pulsar Trail XP50 LRF. This thermal riflescope is based on a state of the art Ulis 17 µm pixel pitch FPA (Focal Planar Array) microbolometer sensor with a 640x480 pixel resolution, 50 Hz refresh rate, and a 50mm objective lens; this combination yields a native magnification of 1.6x, with digital zoom up to 8x.
We mounted the Trail XP50 LRF on a Remington 700 Police bolt action hunting rifle in .308 Winchester.
We also used an Apple iPhone 8 Plus 256 GB with the latest version of the Stream Vision app (3.1.5).
For the test of the Pulsar Trail XP50 LRF we mounted the riflescope on a Remington 700 Police bolt action rifle, chambered in .308 Winchester; we used RWS and Geco ammunition for all live fire tests. As already noted in our original review, with the Remington rifle it may be advisable either to mount an adjustable cheek piece on the stock or use a cheek raiser accessory.
The Pulsar Trail XP50 LRF does not interfere with the rifle action.
To fully test the Trail and laser range finder integrated in the riflescope we chose a 500-yard shooting range on the outskirts of Rome, in Italy. We zeroed the Trail using the exceptionally simple Pulsar one-shot zeroing.
The reticle displayed in the digital domain and can be chosen out of a set, even on the fly. Each click is 34mm at 100m, and 200 clicks are available for elevation and windage; a total of 6,8 meters of adjustment is available at 100m!
As thermal targets we used air activated hand warmer bags, that heat up to 40° Celsius and appear as very bright spots in the Pulsar Trail's display. The hand warmers are perfectly visible even at 500 yards away and provide a very definite and crisp bullseye aiming reference, both for range finding and shooting.
As thermal targets we used air activated hand warmer bags like these.
The hand warmers heat up to 40° Celsius and appear as very bright spots in the Pulsar Trail's display.
Ranging is simple, fast and accurate. We compared the results with two other laser rangefinders, with no difference in the readings.
Time to test free Stream Vision app: we were especially curious to test its ballistic calculator. Once we paired the Trail XP50 LRF to the app using Wifi, we switched to the Ballistic section and added a new preset, entering the projectile parameters from the included catalog. The app lists most popular hunting and sporting ammunition brands and loads, including the RWS load we used; GECO is still not listed as brand (except for a .22LR load), but the app is continuously being updated and loads are added every time.
We used an Apple iPhone 8 Plus 256 GB with the latest version of the Stream Vision app (3.1.5).
It is possible to choose G1 or G7 as ballistic profile, and also whether to take into account spin drift. In the riflescope section, muzzle speed, sight height and other vital parameters can be set, and in the outdoor tab, environmental parameters can also be set. Once saved, the preset can be selected, and the result of the calculation can be displayed as a numerical come up value (in different units, clicks, MOA, mil, cm…), or as a complete ballistic table up to 500m.
Again, we compared the results given with a high-end ballistic app and, with negligible differences, all come ups for distances up to 500m are spot-on; obviously we also tested the app on the range, adding the come ups for distances starting from the 100m zeroed distance up to the extent the shooting range allowed, with very satisfactory results.
Performance on an iPhone 8 plus is lightning fast, but we also tested it on an iPhone SE and the app is still plenty snappy. On Android, performance is similar.
The Stream Vision app and Pulsar Trail LRF are being constantly updated, and very interesting functions are going to be added soon, especially for the long-range shooting and ballistic calculation information exchange between the app on the Smartphone and the riflescope.
Our experience with the Stream Vision app is quite positive and we can't wait to see what Pulsar has in store for us in 2019! Stay tuned!
For more informaton, please visit the Pulsar website.


Earlier in the month I posted about our trip to the Toganojaya Restaurant in the mountains of north-west Kyoto. After having lunch and a bit of play at the river below it, we continued on a drive deep into the mountains. We drove for hours, but never left Kyoto City proper.
They take off from the top of a nearby mountain (here) and flights run from anywhere between 15 minutes to six hours. I suppose that the limiting factor is wind to some extent, and one's bladder to a greater extent.
George Paragliding Play is Fun!
In the end, George was able to return safely.
I see that bolts were used in the heavy cross members used in the construction of the weight that holds the top set of thatching down, so it's not old or anything, but still pretty.


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Q: Recursion closure in groovy json I am trying to fetch all the values from a json whose key name is "label" and want to store in a list.
My problem is, the position of label key is not fixed.Sometimes it comes under parent node sometimes in child and sometime under child to child.We can use recursive closure in groovy but i don't know how?
Json::
[
  {
    {
        "id": "2",
        "label": "NameWhatever"
    },
    {
        "id": "123",
        "name": "Some Parent Element",
        "children": [{
                "id": "123123",
                "label": "NameWhatever"
            },
            {
                "id": "123123123",
                "name": "Element with Additional Children",
                "children": [{
                        "id": "123123123",
                        "label": "WhateverChildName"
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "12112",
                        "name": "Element with Additional Children",
                        "children": [{
                                "id": "123123123",
                                "label": "WhateverChildName"
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "12112",
                                "name": "Element with Additional Children",
                                "children": [{
                                        "id": "12318123",
                                        "label": "WhateverChildName"
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "12112",
                                        "label": "NameToMap"
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    }
]

A: Based on similar question
import groovy.json.JsonSlurper

def mapOrCollection (def it) {
    it instanceof Map || it instanceof Collection
}

def findDeep(def tree, String key, def collector) {
    switch (tree) {
        case Map: return tree.each { k, v ->
            mapOrCollection(v)
            ? findDeep(v, key, collector)
                : k == key
                ? collector.add(v)
                    : null
        }
        case Collection: return tree.each { e ->
            mapOrCollection(e)
                ? findDeep(e, key, collector)
                : null
        }
        default: return null
    }
}

def collector = []
def found = findDeep(new JsonSlurper().parseText(json), 'label', collector)
println collector

Assuming variable json contains the given json input from question, prints:
[NameWhatever, NameWhatever, WhateverChildName, WhateverChildName, WhateverChildName, NameToMap]

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• The trades beckon for RORC Transatlantic Race leaders
• Maiden yacht re-starts sail to India after repairs
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The trades beckon for RORC Transatlantic Race leaders
The battle between the multihulls has entered another phase, with both Giovanni Soldini's Maserati Multi 70 and Peter Cunningham's MOD70 PowerPlay crossing the rhumb line at sundown on day two. As dawn broke on the third day of the RORC Transatlantic Race, the two duelling trimarans tacked south. However, Maserati chose to take a hotter angle to the northwesterly breeze, whilst PowerPlay was heading downwind. The main objective for both was to escape their area of high pressure to the solid 20 knots of wind that awaits them; the difference in opinion will play out today. At 0830 UTC on day three both boats were ramping up the boat speed, preparing for the downwind sleigh ride to come.
News in from the Class40 Division confirms a great battle between Catherine Pourre's Eärendil and Henrik Bergesen's Hydra: "The first 24 hours have been a little uncomfortable upwind in 12 to 16 knots and we took a reef in during the night," commented Catherine Pourre. "All-in-all it was okay in terms of speed as we managed to recover from our not-so-good start. We passed Hydra upwind when it was a bit stronger. They did a good job afterwards as they stayed close and we have been match racing. It is fun really and we are enjoying it immensely on board as we managed to stay a bit ahead of them, staying between them and the islands to the south."
At 0830 UTC on Day Three of the RORC Transatlantic Race, Eärendil had pulled three miles ahead of Hydra. Stephane Bry's French-Finnish team racing Sirius was 27 miles behind the leader.
In the IRC fleet, My Song was leading on the water by 53 miles from Franco Niggeler's Swiss Cookson 50 Kuka3, which pulled off a great strategic call last night. Kuka3 passed very close to the south side of El Hierro reaching a speed of over 8 knots; presumably after picking up land breeze emanating from the islands 1,500 metre high peak. Trevor Middleton's British Sun Fast 3600 Black Sheep is going well. The team saw significant gains yesterday by staying in the pressure to the north of the fleet, and on the third day of racing the high pressure ridge has moved north, giving the smallest boat in the race more wind to head south to the full trade winds.
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Maiden yacht re-starts sail to India after repairs
The famed racing yacht Maiden has re-started its round-the-world tour following repairs.
The yacht's crew had to pause the first leg of their tour from Hamble to Kerala in India after just 36 hours when a number of issues were found onboard.
The all-female crew, who had sailed to Plymouth for repairs, resumed the first leg of their 54,000-mile voyage on Saturday.Maiden is reported to be currently heading to the Gibraltar Straits. A statement posted online said the "skipper and crew were all well and delighted to be on their way".
Tracy Edwards said: "It was always expected that there would be some teething problems on the first heavy weather sail. We were glad we had found the issues now rather than later."
Maiden set sail on 7 November as part of "The Maiden Factor" campaign to promote girls' education. The yacht and its crew are expected to call at 22 destinations over two years on a global campaign to promote girls' education.The crew are sailing with a baton which is filled with messages of hope and encouragement written by pupils from the UK to girls around the world who are unable to access an education. The notes are being carried on Maiden in the baton to each stopover, then children's messages will be added in each country and passed on to the next one - like a relay.
Led by Tracy Edwards, Maiden made history in 1990 when its female crew became the first to sail the Whitbread Round the World Race.
The team won two legs of the race and crossed the finish line second overall.
The 58ft (17m) boat was sold shortly after the race and was found in disrepair in recent years in Mahe, Seychelles, before being taken for a refit in Hampshire.
The project is being supported by Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein of Jordan in memory of her father, King Hussein I.
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You're Invited! St. Thomas International Regatta - March 22-24, 2019
Sailing to the Caribbean this season on the Route de Rhum or RORC Transatlantic Race, or the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers, Caribbean 1500, Salty Dawg Fall Rally to the Caribbean, or North Atlantic Rally to the Caribbean? We invite you to race with us in the St. Thomas International Regatta (STIR).
This 'Crown Jewel of Caribbean Yacht Racing' offers something for everyone. STIR 2019 offers classes for CSA (Caribbean Sailing Association-handicap rule) Racing, Cruising and Bareboats; Large Multihulls; Beach Cats and One-Design over 20-foot LOA. The one-design IC 24's may be the largest one-design fleet of any Caribbean regatta! Charter an IC24 from the St. Thomas Sailing Center ($2200 for boat with good sails; $2700 with new sails; (stsc.styc.club) for the 3-day STIR, practice day and 30-day Bluewater Membership at the regatta host, St. Thomas Yacht Club (STYC).
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Star Junior World Championship
Registration to the first ever Star Junior World Championship is now open on the official Star Class website. The Junior World Championship will be organized by the International Star Class Yacht Racing Association and will take place in Miami, at the Coral Reef Yacht Club, from February 3rd to the 6th 2019. It is open to any skipper who hasn't reached his or her 31st birthday before the first race of the event. The skipper will be able to find a crew without age limitations, in order to being able to match some less experienced skippers, even coming from a non-Star background, to a more skilled crew capable of introducing the younger sailors to Star racing.
The event will start on February the 3rd with team registration, weigh in, and inspection of boats. Following on Monday, February the 4th, to Wednesday the 5th two races per day are scheduled on Biscayne Bay.
Registration opened on November the 19th and several teams have already entered: the runner ups at the 2018 Eastern Hemisphere Championship in Trieste, Thomas Allart (NED) and Kilian Weise (GER), Danny Cayard (USA) who might sail with his father Paul Cayard as crew just like they did at the Star Worlds in Denmark in 2017, the Argentinian born Thomas Hornos (USA), and local sailor Zachary Hansman (USA).
The Star World Champion, Jorge Zarif, is trying to fit the event in his busy Olympic calendar and so are the Scottish - Italian born - Laser Olympic sailor Lorenzo Brando Chiavarino, and Argentinian Finn sailor Facundo Olezza.
Eligible boats must enter by completing the on-line application by January 10, 2019, at https://2019jrworlds.starchampionships.org , after this deadline it will still be possible to enter the first Star Junior World Championship but with a late fee.
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Oisín van Gelderen is First Irish Sailor to Break 50-knot Speed Barrier
National Windsurfing Champion Oisín van Gelderen of Dublin has become the first ever Irish sailor to break the 50-knot speed barrier, during his final week competing at the Luderitz World Speed Sailing Challenge in Namibia, Africa.
As Afloat.ie previously reported, Van Gelderen joined the fastest sailors in the world for the last three weeks in Luderitz, with the aim of increasing his Irish Sailing Speed record (measured over 500m), and trying to break the elusive 50-knot barrier. The Luderitz course (a canal dug in a lagoon at the edge of the desert) has been specially designed to take advantage of the gale to storm force winds common in this part of Africa.
Van Gelderen significantly improved his record, on his second day at the event, in winds gusting 90 kph (Beaufort Force 9 - Strong to Severe Gale). But it wasn't until this week that he reached his aim: he exceeded 50 knots, hit a high of 50.8knots (94kph), and set an official WSSRC ratified National record of 47.97 knots (88.85kph) over 500m.
National and World Sailing Speed Records are to be ratified by the WSSRC (World Sailing Speed Records Council), and are measured as an average speed over a 500m distance.
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The Royal Thames Yacht Club Job Vacancy
Sailing Office Events Coordinator
The role of the Sailing Office is to deliver the Club's Sailing Programme and all the supporting communication and administration.
The role is primarily office based at 60 Knightsbridge but also involves running events both in Cowes and at Queen Mary reservoir in West London. A certain amount of flexibility is required such as occasional weekend working and evening events/meetings (for which appropriate days in lieu are given).
The sailing office at Royal Thames is a busy small team and the role requires:
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Ability to cope under pressure in a wide variety of situations both in the office and at events maintaining a friendly and effective demeanour.
- Tolerance to different working styles within the office to ensure good teamwork.
- Good creative skills to ensure the best communication to a wide diversity of members.eg creating the weekly newsletter to members.
- Managing social functions that are sailing related
- Keeping the website up to date.
- A knowledge of sailing is desirable as is a willingness to learn more about the different disciplines within sailing such as fleet racing, team racing and cruising.
The role is varied and requires the ability to get involved in a wide variety of tasks where a friendly, constructive attitude to the members of the club are key.
Send CV to include current salary and covering email to .
Closing date 10thDecember.
Moose on the loose - Doyle Sails
Volvo Ocean Race winner Mike Sanderson has been racking up the air miles (again) in his new role at the helm of Doyle Sails International
The back end of a busy northern hemisphere summer has seen Mike Sanderson, aka Moose, test-sailing in the Solent aboard Alex Thompson's IMOCA 60 Hugo Boss, competing at Porto Cervo in the Rolex Maxi 72 Worlds and jetting to Newport, Rhode Island for the commissioning of John 'Hap' Fauth's Maxi 72, Bella Mente.
As CEO of Doyle Sails International, Sanderson is revelling in the variety and challenge of working with major sailing programmes of this type. Also in the mix are America's Cup and round the world campaigns, as the successor to the Volvo Ocean Race continues to take shape.
Sanderson's CV includes two-time Volvo Ocean Race winner, four-time America's Cup competitor, bronze medallist in the solo transatlantic Open 60 class and ISAF World Sailor of the Year, enabling him to bring a wealth of expertise and knowledge to these programmes.
Full article in the December issue of Seahorse
Murrays' Punt Wins The Hunt In Round One Of The Great British Sailing Challenge
Ben Schooling might have won round one of the Selden SailJuice Winter Series last weekend, but the Musto Skiff sailor was beaten into first place in his division of the Great British Sailing Challenge (GBSC). In the Fast Asymmetrics, it was the father and son duo from Ullswater Yacht Club, Colin and Oly Murray who won the gold medal in their Norfolk Punt, relegating Schooling to second place overall.
While the Selden SailJuice Winter Series is scored conventionally using the Great Lakes Handicap numbers, taking your best results from all races and discarding your worst, the GBSC scoring is done completely differently. Devised by Simon Lovesey of SailRacer who was running the GPS tracking at the weekend, the scoring for the GBSC relies on Dynamic Handicapping. "Perhaps the best way of describing it is as a 'Flying Lap', where we take each boat's best single performance around the race course. Whereas normal PY handicapping such as the RYA or the Great Lakes is a measure of time on time, we're taking a measure of time on distance. And whereas conventional results are based on your performance across the weekend, we're taking your best performance in an individual race, a bit like your best lap when Formula One drivers are trying to qualify for pole position on the starting grid."
This perhaps explains why Schooling was able to dominate the weekend with an outstandingly consistent performance - with the exception of his discarded result - while the other Musto Skiffs were unable to match the winner's consistency. Andrew Stickland was 17th out of 111 boats, yet finished just one place behind Schooling in the Fast Asymmetric category of the GBSC scoring. His individual race performance was almost as good as Schooling's.
The next event in the Selden SailJuice Winter Series and the GBSC is the Datchet Flyer coming up on 8 & 9 December.
Medal Winners In Round 1 Of The GBSC (Draycote Water)
Fast Asymmetric
1. Colin Murray/ Oly Murray, Norfolk Punt, RMSC RNSA
2. Ben Schooling, Musto Skiff, Helensburgh SC
3. Andrew Stickland, Musto Skiff, Thorpe Bay YC
Fast Non-Asymmetric
1. Roger Gilbert/ Ben Mcgrane, 505, Netley SC
2. Peter Gray/ Simon Forbes/Sam Jones, National 18, Staunton Harold SC
3. Sam Mettam/ Tim Saunders, Fireball, Papercourt SC
Slow Asymmetric
1. Jasper Barnham/ Serena De Nahlik, 2000, Snettisham Beach SC
2. Simon Horsfield/ Katie Burridge, 2000, ASA
3. Stephen Cockerill/ Sarah Cockerill, RS400, Stokes Bay SC
Slow Non-Asymmetric
1. Tom Gillard, Solo, Sheffield Viking SC
2. Tim Hand, Solo, Swarkestone SC
3. Lawrence Creaser/ Maciek Matyjaszczuk, GP14, Hayling Island SC
1. Jamie Mason, Laser Radial, Blithfield SC
2. Abigail Larr, Laser 4.7, Northampton SC
3. Lydia Barber, Laser Radial, Blithfield SC
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Jean-Luc Van Den Heede rounds Cape Horn
Jean-Luc Van Den Heede led the Golden Globe Race fleet of solo sailors round Cape Horn at 19:16 UTC on Friday having extended his lead on all but 2nd placed Dutchman Mark Slats during a week when those trailing up to 8,500 miles behind all faced serious trials.
Both Australian Mark Sinclair and Russia's Igor Zaretskiy are now heading for ports in Australia to clean off barnacles and make repairs. Sinclair, who is also running perilously short of drinking water, is heading for Adelaide, his home City after being thwarted by sharks on two occasions during the past week from diving over to scrape the hull of his Lello 34, Coconut.
Zaretskiy reported yesterday that he had motored to check drag the hull of his Endurance 36 Esmeralda and determined that the barnacles are now reducing her speed by 2.5knots. He now intends to slip the yacht at the old whaling port of Albany on the South West corner of Australia. When they stop, both skippers will be relegated to the Chichester Class, leaving just 6 of the original 17 starters still competing for Golden Globe honours.
The lack of breeze that frustrated progress in mid fleet for much of last week has been replaced by 20-30knots winds from the South and West, but Estonian Uku Randmaa, Britain's Susie Goodall and American/Hungarian Istvan Kopar all face continuing problems.
In a special radio hook-up with members of the International Cape Horners Association attending their annual meeting in Portsmouth UK yesterday, Jean-Luc Van Den Heede reported that repairs to the damaged rig on his Rustler 36 Matmut were standing up well. "I am on course to pass west of the Falkland Islands and have winds on the beam. I am taking it easy with three reefs in the mainsail. If I was racing, I would only have two. I do not want to stress the mast any more than necessary and will have to nurse it all the way back to Les Sables d'Olonne."
The 73-year old Frenchman confirmed that this had been his 10th rounding of Cape Horn. "Six times the right way (west to east) and four times the wrong way (against the prevailing winds). "The last time was in 2014 when I was cruising in the area and we stopped to meet the lighthouse keepers. Conditions were good this time round and I was doing more than 8 knots when heading up through the Straits de la Maire."
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2003 Swan 70-003 Blue Pearl. 1,350,000 EUR. Located in La Spezia, Italy.
Blue Pearl is the third Swan 70 and was delivered in 2003. Until 2006, the boat was stored ashore and unused while her original owners built a larger Swan yacht. Sold to her current owner in mid 2006, she was set up for a mutli-purpose program of competitive racing and comfortable cruising.
Nautor's Swan Brokerage - Giorgio Passarella
2011 Reichel Pugh 45 - "Katsu". 215000 EUR. Located in Italy.
KATSU offers a huge amount of potential on the race track, whilst not overly-compromising on comfort below decks. Great successes under ORC and IRC, she is a potent weapon offshore and is a much more forgiving platform, that is far more manageable compared to the newest breed of flyers.
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1925 Johan Anker 49Ft Q-Class Sloop - Leonore. 600000 EUR. Located in France.
This thoroughbred sailing yacht continues to turn heads and offer only transom views. Q-Class yachts offer fun racing for a bunch of friends in boats that look gorgeous - at the dock or on the water - with performance that lives up to looks.
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Mario Vespasiani
Mario Vespasiani was born in 1978 in le Marche. Mario attended the Arts Institute. In 2004, Mario won the prestigious prize, "Pagine Bianche d'Autore." His constant research revolves around scientific documentation from catalogues, text material by critics, interviews and internet. Mainily he concentrates on the ambiquity of the finished work, where bursts of vivid and exuberant colours and images are clearly evident. "Brush strokes and brilliance, height and energy have been his forte ever since he took his first steps in the world of art." Mario's work maybe better studies through three elements: Photography, Television and Computer produce both the sttic image and the necessary dynamism. By absorbing inspiration from these three elements he manages to create his own personal message. The movements in front of the painting emanate the agility of a feline, an omnivorous and restless body transmitting the sensation that behind its single glance you will fin the condition that creates a lasting impression. I have so often attempted to compare the talents of other artists to that of Mario's, but the evidence was unique. A mix of humanity and humilitiy, both unpredictable and sensitve but above all generous. He is based in Ripatransone, a small but idyllic medieval town in the Marche region, offering the essential contrasts of light and panoramic views, which is just the right inspriation he can ask for.
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It's far too snowy and cold these days to take outdoor outfit photos. So instead, I have unearthed for your viewing pleasure, these silly selfies taken last year. Just me, a tinfoil tiara, a photobombing cat & my handsome prince!
aww, those are really cool! your whole little family. and lots of emotions as a free bonus, hehe.


Last week I traveled to Asheville for a dinner meeting with several city and county managers from western North Carolina. On my way to Asheville I stopped in Morganton and had lunch with their city manager, Sally Sandy. I won't try to recount the wide-ranging conversations, but let me hit a few of the highlights.
City of Morganton. I met Sally Sandy at her office in City Hall, which is located in a beautifully renovated hosiery mill in downtown Morganton. It reminded me of our building because the architect nicely integrated the old and the new. The building renovation was a public-private partnership and it includes a number of private condominiums. Morganton is struggling like lots of North Carolina communities because their economy was built around manufacturing (furniture and textiles) that is no longer thriving, at least not in this country. The city has invested in downtown businesses, including the restaurant where we ate lunch, and on the surface the situation looks reasonably good. Many of the downtown businesses are struggling to make it, however, and the city is trying to figure out its economic future. Morganton has been blessed with stable political leadership, but it is an enormous challenge for leaders who literally grew up in a different economy to make the transition to a new one. The community has assets that many do not have—like Western Piedmont Community College—and yet it still is an enormous struggle.
Buncombe County, Asheville, Waynesville, Black Mountain, Madison County. I had dinner later that evening with the managers from these local governments—hosted generously by Wanda Greene, the Buncombe County Manager. A couple of our MPA alumni joined us—Marcie Onieal (Black Mountain) and Jeff Richardson (Assistant Manager in Asheville).
The following messages were reinforced strongly in all of my conversations. It is a tough time for these local governments. This year the City of Morganton furloughed city employees for five days, and that likely will be true again next fiscal year. That translates into a 2% pay cut each year. They are not filling many vacant positions, but at the same time elected officials are unwilling to eliminate services. It means that lots of employees are doing more than one job. They value the ability to call on the School more than ever. Sally Sandy said that they are using our expertise as a way to fill some of those vacant positions. The managers see payment of our membership dues as a good investment. They recognize and appreciate the fact that we are providing more services than ever before—they are especially grateful for the webinars and the blogs.
It will be extremely difficult for most of them to send staff to Chapel Hill for training—their elected officials will not permit it. The managers made a special plea for more regional training for the foreseeable future. If we can come to them, or at least reasonably close to them, they will pay the registration fees and participate. Sally Sandy recently participated in training in Asheville on the fiscal condition analysis tool, which she described as the best training she had ever attended. If a course is held in Chapel Hill, however, the travel costs make it impossible for most of them to take part. These folks value the training and want it for themselves and their staff, but they need it closer to home until their financial picture improves.
It always is inspiring for me to meet with our clients in their communities. They are proud of their work and incredibly dedicated. They value you and the work you do for them.
I recognize that we are taking many programs on the road, and it is more time-consuming for us to provide regional training. Our partnership with Western Carolina University (managed by Fleming Bell) offers a vehicle for taking many of our programs to that part of the state, but the need for regional training is just as great in other parts of North Carolina. In thinking about your teaching for the near term, I hope you will seriously consider offering courses on a regional basis if traditionally they are available only in Chapel Hill—even if it means reducing the length of the course to make it possible. I know that many of you are doing exactly that, and I appreciate it. More importantly, our clients need our help to make it through this challenging time, and they will greatly appreciate it.
Thanks for the extra plug for the Western North Carolina programs. At a class on parliamentary procedure that I taught tonight at Haywood Community College in Waynesville, I heard the same request, as I often do. Interestingly, one of the participants and requestors is a member of the Board of Governors. His name escapes me, but I'll get it from Vickey. Some of the other participants were newly elected county commissioners from Jackson.
I agree with your concern about other areas of the state. I would like to extend my procedure programs in the spring to the far east. Judging from the excellent support that Vickey and I received from Haywood CC (indeed, they suggested the program), I am optimistic that the School can work with other community colleges or perhaps COGs to cosponsor such workshops.


As Milan Kundera's insight reminds us, the struggle against power "is the struggle of memory against forgetting."
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History Makers is an organization of broadcasters and producers from around the world concerned with the challenges and opportunities faced by factual broadcasting. Bill Moyers was the keynote speaker at the 2011 convention on January 27, 2011, in New York City.
The theme of this year's Notacon is games. Video games, tabletop games, game theory, game development... Join Us!
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In what I consider the most important positive environmental development in America in the 21st Century, on December 15, 2010, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley convened the First White House Environmental Justice Forum, where leadership of the recently-reconvened Federal Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice (EJ IWG) met with over 100 environmental justice leaders (typically long-suffering EJ victims), in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, at the White House complex, to develop new federal interagency strategies and interactions with citizens to right current EJ wrongs in America, in anticipation of worse to come as results of climate change.
This Forum was the public interface, and culmination of a year of expansive activity in the White House, throughout the Obama Administration, and nationwide, to advance EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson's priority to "expand the conversation on environmentalism and work for environmental justice" in America, in clear recognition of harm caused disadvantaged citizens by current Environmental Injustice (aka Environmental Racism... Environmental Genocide... from the mouths of victims), and showing clear US government concern over "Climate Gaps" (e.g. in Heat Islands), and over those worsening, causing more environmental injustices, to be exacerbated by future Climate Change and resulting Climate Injustices that will harm life on Earth, in this age of human-caused global warming.
Question of the Day: Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow?!?!
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"Clare threw around poverty that irresistible charm which only women can communicate to religious or civic heroism"
Submitted by Norm Roulet on Fri, 11/26/2010 - 02:30.
Shortly after my daughter Clara was born, nearly 11 months ago, I shared her birth with the world on YouTube - realNEO homemovie 1 Women in HypnoBirth in Waterbirth Delivering Baby Happy - and on realNEO and it has since been viewed by nearly 110,000 people.... showing 300-400 people a day (and growing) how pure and simple birth and human life may be, to help the modern world rediscover the dignity of the human person. Feedback and inquiries from expectant mothers (and fathers) shows me the modern world heard us, and Clara helped many babies enjoy the best possible starts in life.
Barrio (806 wine bar) in Tremont Seeks to Avoid Inspection, But Why?


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Browsing Library of Congress Call Numbers : "PR4821.J3 H8" to "PR4821 .J4 L36" (Overview; Exclude extended shelves)
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PR4821.J3 H8 La casa del pantano, novela escrita en inglés por Florence Warden [pseud.]; tr. al castellano por Antonio Cuyás y Armengol. (Nueva York, D. Appleton y cía, 1887 [1886]), by Florence Warden (page images at HathiTrust)
PR4821 .J3 W4 The Wharf by the Docks (1896), by Florence Warden (Gutenberg text)
PR4821 .J3 W5 A Witch of the Hills (2 volumes; London: R. Bentley and Son, 1888), by Florence Warden
Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
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PR4821 .J4 A45 1849 Agincourt: A Romance (Works of G. P. R. James, v20; London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1849), by G. P. R. James (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
PR4821 .J4 A46 1864 Agnes Sorel: A Novel (New York: Harper and Bros., 1864), by G. P. R. James (Gutenberg text)
PR4821 .J4 A72 1849 Arabella Stuart: A Romance from English History (Works of G. P. R. James, v19; London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1849), by G. P. R. James (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
PR4821 .J4 A77 1903 Arrah Neil: or, Times of Old (London: G. Routledge and Sons Ltd., 1903), by G. P. R. James, contrib. by Laurie Magnus (Gutenberg text)
PR4821 .J4 A87 1838 Attila: A Romance (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1838), by G. P. R. James
Volume I: Gutenberg text
Volume II: Gutenberg text
PR4821 .J4 B42 The Black Eagle: or, Ticonderoga (new edition; London and New York: Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge, 1859), by G. P. R. James
multiple formats at Google
PR4821 .J4 C27 1847 The Castle of Ehrenstein: Its Lords Spiritual and Temporal; Its Inhabitants Earthly and Unearthly (Collection of British Authors v115; Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz Jr., 1847), by G. P. R. James (Gutenberg text)
PR4821 .J4 C42 1855 Charles Tyrrell: or, The Bitter Blood (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1855), by G. P. R. James (both volumes: Gutenberg text)
PR4821 .J4 C66 1851 The Convict: A Tale (London: Simms and M'Intyre, 1851), by G. P. R. James (Gutenberg text)
PR4821 .J4 D27 Darnley (London: G. Routledge and Sons Ltd., 1903), by G. P. R. James, contrib. by Laurie Magnus (Gutenberg text)
PR4821 .J4 D34 De L'Orme (Works of G. P. R. James, v16; London: Parry and Co., 1848), by G. P. R. James (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
PR4821 .J4 D37 The Desultory Man (Collection of Ancient and Modern British Novels and Romances, v147; Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1836), by G. P. R. James (Gutenberg text)
PR4821 .J4 F67 Forest Days: A Romance of Old Times (Collection of Ancient and Modern British Authors, v386; Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1843), by G. P. R. James (Gutenberg text)
PR4821 .J4 F674 The Forgery: or, Best Intentions (London: Simms and M'Intyre, 1853), by G. P. R. James (Gutenberg text)
PR4821 .J4 G5 1855 The Gipsy: A Tale (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1855), by G. P. R. James (both volumes: Gutenberg text)
PR4821 .J4 G51 The Works of G. P. R. James, Esq., Revised and Corrected by the Author, With an Introductory Preface (21 volumes; London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1844-1849), by G. P. R. James (page images at HathiTrust)
PR4821 .J4 G68 1848 Gowrie: or, The King's Plot (Works of G. P. R. James, v17; London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1848), by G. P. R. James (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
PR4821 .J4 H34 Heidelberg: A Romance (3 volumes; London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1846), by G. P. R. James (all volumes: Gutenberg text)
PR4821 .J4 H35 Henry of Guise: or, The States of Blois (3 volumes; London: Printed for B`Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1839), by G. P. R. James
Volume III: Gutenberg text
PR4821 .J4 H84 The Huguenot: A Tale of the French Protestants (London: Printed for Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1839), by G. P. R. James (all volumes: Gutenberg text)
PR4821 .J4 K5 The King's Highway , by G. P. R. James (Gutenberg text)
PR4821 .J4 L36 Leonora D'Orco: A Historical Romance (copyright edition; Leipzig: A. Dürr, 1860), by G. P. R. James (Gutenberg text)


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Trianz recognized as digital solutions leader by ISG
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Trianz
Digital transformation consultancy Trianz has been named a leader in research firm ISG's Provider Lens Digital Business – Solutions and Services Partners Archetype Report.
The Santa Clara-headquartered consulting firm focuses on a holistic approach to digital transformation, with capabilities spanning benchmarking, strategy development, digital experience studios, implementation, and managed services.
"Building agile digital platforms and solutions that align with unique business objectives requires experience that spans industries and entails numerous use cases," said Nipun Kumar, director of digital studios at Trianz. "We have made significant investments to reinforce our expertise and capabilities across domains so that we can provide our clients with end-to-end solutions. This recognition from ISG confirms the value of these investments as well as our ability to help clients execute rapid digital transformations."
Founded in 2001, Trianz has 1,500 employees across 11 offices in the US and international locations in the United Kingdom, Australia, United Arab Emirates, and India.
"We have recognized Trianz for its extensive and practical understanding of what it truly means to digitally transform an enterprise," said Jan Erik Aase, director and principal analyst, ISG. "Through their innovative execution, application of cutting-edge digital technologies and overall commitment to excellence, Trianz has helped its clients achieve impressive, tangible business results."
ISG also recently named Trianz a "rising star" among public cloud solutions and services providers. The company was specifically recognized for its expertise in managed public cloud services on the AWS platform, where it recently added a DevOps Competency to its list of AWS competencies. Trianz is currently an Advanced Consulting Partner in the AWS partner network.
"We are very proud to be recognized by ISG as a Rising Star. It further serves to validate our commitment and ability to execute a unique multi-cloud strategy at a global scale," said Ganeshan Venkateshwaran, president at Trianz.
Trianz was earlier this year named one of America's Best Management Consulting Firms by Forbes for the third consecutive year.
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No, I'm Still Not Over Korrasami
You've probably noticed our Legend of Korra (LoK) kick this past week over here, and for good reason. Saturday will mark the one-year anniversary of its series finale. And, though I can't think of a single other show for which this is done, the ending of LoK was so riveting, so satisfying, so thematically rich, and so validating, that it truly does feel like something worth celebrating.
It's that last point that I want to focus on though…the validation. You see, the final two seasons of LoK—in addition to an in-depth healing arc, antagonists with complicated philosophies, messaging about compassion and balance, amazing fights, complicated familial dynamics, and the transition into adulthood/maturation—included a love story between the series protagonist, Korra, and her best friend, Asami. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about my Shipping Guilt™, and how reducing a narrative down to its romances is anathema to me. But while there's much about LoK I could gush about, the relationship between these two women (dubbed "Korrasami" by the fans) is something that really is worth discussing on its own. And perhaps even weirder still, something I actively want to discuss on its own.
For what it's worth, I expected to be over it by now. I mean, watching Korra and Asami's relationship grow and deepen was engaging. Even more, this was a show with a TV-Y7 rating; despite the fact that there were obvious romantic beats to their relationship during in the final two seasons, the idea that this was something that was ever going to actually make it onto our screens seemed unlikely, at best. So when the finale rolled around, and Korrasami unambiguously sailed…yeah. That's a feeling I still remember.
But you know, it's one year later. I've rewatched it a number of times and analyzed it every which way. Hell, the parts of the narrative I'm the most engaged with right now have absolutely nothing to do Korra and Asami's relationship, but instead revolve around the political and corporate details that were heavily glossed over in between Seasons 1 and 2 (sometimes it's best not to ask with me). Why is this what I'm choosing to to celebrate?
The thing is, it doesn't take much to suck me back into the Korrasami narrative. An out-of-context gif here, the use of "snazzy" as a compliment there. It doesn't matter how small, I'm somehow gripped again, drowning in those dreaded "feels" I managed to avoid my whole life.
So why does this ship have that effect on me? I think there's a few reasons, none of which are trivial. For one, Korra and Asami's relationship was not only the natural conclusion for both characters, but the perfect thematic fit. In my recent piece about writing implications, I discussed how given the inherent difference placed on her within the narrative, Korra was (in many ways) a queer-coded character from the get-go. Having her end up in a place where that was translated into our language demonstrated the way showrunners Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino (Bryke) learned to listen to her. Perhaps this sounds trite, but it just felt "right" that Korra was made explicitly bisexual.
On a thematic level, while only the last season of LoK was titled "balance," that had always been, perhaps, the central theme to the entire Avatar franchise. The delicate balance of benders and the nations always featured as a backdrop to the main plot since the days of Avatar: The Last Airbender (ATLA). Season 4 of LoK explicitly expanded on this, outright stating the ways in which the series's antagonists had philosophies that were not inherently bad, just taken to the extreme. Then there was the matter of Korra finding her own, internal sense of balance and peace as she worked through her trauma.
Her relationship to Asami, however, hammered home this theme. Korra represents ancient spiritual wisdom where Asami represents modern technological innovation. Korra (as the Avatar) is the champion of the downtrodden, where Asami is wealthy. Korra is sheltered where Asami is wordly. Korra bends every single element where her girlfriend bends none. There's the way their strategization and fighting styles play off one another too: Korra is very "shoot first, aim second," decisive, and at times hot-headed, while Asami is reserved, meticulous, and at times known to hide from her problems (see: not visiting her father for 3 years). Korra has a vision for the world, and Asami has the ability to bring it into the material, as was demonstrated by her infrastructure work that married the spirit vines and the modern city.
It was as if Asami was scripted to be Korra's perfect balance; no two characters could possibly be more suited for one another. Which makes the fact that they were originally scripted as "rivals"competing in a love triangle even more hilarious. And again…this is why the Korrasami ending "felt right." It was thematically cohesive not just with the season, but with everything Bryke had built.
But I think even looking beyond narrative "worth," if you will, the reason Korrasami still has me is that, well…this might sound odd. It was a restrained story. As I said earlier, this kind of depiction had not been done on TV shows with a Y7 rating. At least certainly not with the protagonist being the one to explore a relationship with someone of the same gender. Therefore at the time, it seemed like something that probably couldn't be explicitly shown. When Bryke scripted the final two seasons, they worked in the idea that Korra and Asami's "trajectory could be heading towards a romance." It wasn't until they got close to finishing the finale that they realized they were making an assumption about what could be depicted, and sought to challenge it, as they successfully did with the explicit, clear-as-day ending that we got.
So, why the hell am I so excited about a show that wrote a love story between two women in such an understated way? Because that's exactly what made Korrasami so special. The constraints holding Bryke back from writing the story they wanted were based on heteronormative assumptions—the same types of assumptions that make it complicated for individuals experiencing same-gender attraction to sort out their feelings. I've talked about this before, but not immediately understanding feelings, more subtle flirting and looks, greater ambiguity surrounding the friend/partner dynamic…those are very common features in modern-day queer narratives, especially between two women. And because of Bryke's self-imposed restrictions, this was what they had to turn to.
It wasn't your typical tropey love story. It wasn't the boombox being held over someone's head, or the good ol' "we're stuck in this cave and based on mythology we only loosely understand there's a 0.3% chance that kissing will save our asses so let's give that a shot." And while sometimes these tropes are cute, it's just not what normally happens in real life. Especially when the case is two women experiencing attraction towards one another in our heteronormative society.
As I said before in my "Korrasami is GREAT Writing" piece:
From my (limited) experience, figuring out sexual intrigue with someone of the opposite gender is almost immediately done through touch, testing the boundaries, seeing what gets reception. This is what tends to be depicted in television and movies (e.g. Mal and Inara's clear sexual tension being established with one touch in the pilot episode of Firefly).
With someone of the same gender, it's much more complicated. It takes a lot of wading through emotional closeness to attempt that physical level, especially when the context is both parties still figuring out their attraction. And even then, because women can touch each other without it being perceived as homoerotic in the way that men are usually told that they can't, things can get misinterpreted. Yeah, you can feel the tension, just like you can with the opposite gender, but there's so much more second-guessing involved. And at the same time this person has probably become your best friend, so there's an inherent hesitancy there.
This is why Bryke being forced to turn towards developing Korra and Asami's emotional connection led to, in my opinion, one of the most realistic and organic love stories ever told.
Of course, there were still those moments I think everyone can relate to, such as showing off for the person you're interested in, maybe without a full understanding of why you're even acting like that:
I think more importantly, there were those moments of lightness between the two. It wasn't some clichéd slogfest of tortured emotions, full of "ommgggg you do have feelings for me!" drama, or some kind of forced "wow when you talk about sand being irritating it really makes me want to kiss you." We actually were shown why Korra and Asami were interested in each other, and those reasons were clearly well, well beyond "oh look, hot person." They could laugh together about a rather crappy shared experience. They supported each other in battle without hesitation (and with ridiculous synchronization). They truly enjoyed spending time in the other's company, and that was something we saw since the first season.
That's not to say Bryke even shied away from messiness. They wrote in a conflict between the two women, just to demonstrate that even under stress, even in cases of disagreement, these two never resort to shouting matches or to negating the other's feelings—something that featured strongly in both of their past relationships.
But overall, it was the quiet moments between them that were the most poignant. It was the moments where they'd provide emotional support. It was Asami offering to watch Korra's body as she meditated into the Spirit World. It was Korra praising Asami to her dad. It was Asami telling Korra that she was there for "anything" the Avatar might require. It was Korra suggesting a vacation that Asami dearly needed. Their entirely relationship was just nice. It was based on mutual respect, understanding, and support. There was no single event that made them recognize their feelings for one another, and no plot devices to get them together (*cough* love triangle *cough*). They fell in love slowly, and without ceremony, because sometimes that's just what happens.
Weirdly enough though, it's a story rarely told. Especially between two women. The way these narratives usually go is that you have one girl, probably the protagonist, who starts out the story thinking she's straight. Bonus points if she grew up sheltered and her outfits reflect that. Then there's some sort of gold star lesbian with dark hair and sarcasm who shakes the squeaky protagonist to her core and makes her see the agonizing truth about her sexuality. Oh yeah, even more bonus points if she has some Nice™ white bread boyfriend who she doesn't want to hurt. Sometimes it ends well (But I'm a Cheerleader, Imagine Me & You), sometimes it ends horribly (The L Word), though frankly more often than not it's only told in allusions (Foxfire, Bend it Like Beckham).
Sure, we also get the occasional gay side-character, or the lesbian moms in an already committed relationship. And it's not to say those stories don't matter either. But the fact that it was the protagonist of LoK with whom we experienced it? That's huge.
More importantly, Korra's overarching self-discovery, growth, and maturation pretty much was the central story of the show Unlike the externally-focused epic of ATLA that featured major character growth, LoK was an internally-focused character-based narrative that featured epic plotlines. It's a small difference, but one that matters.
And even better, Korra falling in love with Asami was not some angsty feature of this journey. It was not something she needed to ruminate on, or seek advice about. It was just something that happened organically along the way, and the fact that Asami was a woman didn't even seem to be something worth giving a second thought.
Korra chose to spend the rest of her life with the one person who could balance her like no one else, the one person she felt she could open up to about her emotions, and the one person who was unquestionably there for her at all times. She didn't need to end up with anyone…she just wanted to. Because that's what happens. Nothing was forced; nothing overshadowed the narrative. It was just that in this fantastic, fantastic show, a love happened to grow and develop between two characters who were almost inherently meant for each other.
So yeah, that's why I'm still not over Korrasami.
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Kylie is a Managing Editor at The Fandomentals on a mission to slay all the tropes. She has a penchant for complex familial dynamics and is easily pleased when authors include in-depth business details.
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