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Clever (TV series)
Motif (music)
Idea (genus)
Clever may refer to:
Charles P. Clever (1830–1874), a Delegate from the Territory of New Mexico
Todd Clever (born 1983), American rugby union player
Clever Ikisikpo, Nigerian politician
Clever, Missouri, a city in Christian County, Missouri, United States
CLEVER project, a research project in Web search
Clever (TV series), a short-lived Australian television series
CLEVER Vehicle, A three-wheeled narrow tilting vehicle
Clever Hans, an Orlov Trotter horse that was claimed to have been able to perform arithmetic and other intellectual tasks
Cugel the Clever, protagonist of the fantasy novels The Eyes of the Overworld and Cugel's Saga
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Clever was a short-lived Australian television series hosted by Georgie Parker which aired Sunday nights at 6.30pm on the Nine Network. The show was a quiz show that featured science and technology based questions and in studio experiments.It was canceled due to lack of ratings after only five episodes. Channel 9 tried to revive the show for the summer months, but all plans fell through.
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The CLEVER (for "compact low emission vehicle for urban transport") is a type of tilting three-wheeled motor vehicle that was developed in a collaboration between the University of Bath, BMW and a number of other partners from across Europe. CLEVER is designed as an alternative to conventional means of personal urban transport. The narrow body endows it with some of the manoeuvrability and congestion avoiding capability of a motorcycle, whilst offering comparable weather and impact protection to a car. Carbon emissions are reduced as a function of low weight and a small frontal area. The narrow track width requires that CLEVER tilts into corners to maintain stability; thus it is fitted with a Direct Tilt Control (DTC) system that uses hydraulic actuators linking the cabin to the non-tilting rear engine module.
CLEVER measures only 1 meter wide and has a maximum speed of approximately 50 mph. It runs on compressed natural gas, achieving a predicted 188 miles per gallon fuel efficiency. Construction of the first of five prototype vehicles was completed on Friday, April 21, 2006. Shortly after construction, track testing of a prototype vehicle revealed that, in certain transient situations, the DTC system could not guarantee stability of the vehicle. As of April 2012, research into alternative tilt control strategies for the CLEVER vehicle is still on-going at the University of Bath.
In philosophy, ideas are usually construed as mental representational images of some object. Ideas can also be abstract concepts that do not present as mental images. Many philosophers have considered ideas to be a fundamental ontological category of being. The capacity to create and understand the meaning of ideas is considered to be an essential and defining feature of human beings. In a popular sense, an idea arises in a reflexive, spontaneous manner, even without thinking or serious reflection, for example, when we talk about the idea of a person or a place. A new or original idea can often lead to innovation."
The word idea comes from Greek ἰδέα idea "form, pattern," from the root of ἰδεῖν idein, "to see."
Innate and adventitious ideas
One view on the nature of ideas is that there exist some ideas (called innate ideas) which are so general and abstract that they could not have arisen as a representation of any object of our perception, but rather were in some sense always present. These are distinguished from adventitious ideas which are images or concepts which are accompanied by the judgment that they are caused or occasioned by an external object.
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In music, a motif (pronunciation) or motive is a short musical idea, a salient recurring figure, musical fragment or succession of notes that has some special importance in or is characteristic of a composition: "The motive is the smallest structural unit possessing thematic identity".
The Encyclopédie de la Pléiade regards it as a "melodic, rhythmic, or harmonic cell", whereas the 1958 Encyclopédie Fasquelle maintains that it may contain one or more cells, though it remains the smallest analyzable element or phrase within a subject. It is commonly regarded as the shortest subdivision of a theme or phrase that still maintains its identity as a musical idea. "The smallest structural unit possessing thematic identity". Grove and Larousse also agree that the motif may have harmonic, melodic and/or rhythmic aspects, Grove adding that it "is most often thought of in melodic terms, and it is this aspect of the motif that is connoted by the term 'figure'."
A harmonic motif is a series of chords defined in the abstract, that is, without reference to melody or rhythm. A melodic motif is a melodic formula, established without reference to intervals. A rhythmic motif is the term designating a characteristic rhythmic formula, an abstraction drawn from the rhythmic values of a melody.
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Idea is a genus of butterflies known as Tree Nymphs or Paper butterflies. The member species are concentrated around southeast Asia. See Sevenia for the genus of African tree nymphs.
Listed alphabetically.
I. agamarschana (C. & R. Felder, [1865]) – Andaman Tree-nymph
I. blanchardi Marchal, 1845 – Black-trimmed Rice Paper
I. durvillei Boisduval, 1832
I. electra (Semper, 1878) – Electra's Tree-nymph
I. hypermnestra (Westwood, 1848)
I. iasonia or I. jasonia (Westwood, 1848) – Ceylon Tree-nymph
I. idea (Linnaeus, 1763) – Rice Paper
I. leuconoe Erichson, 1834 – Paper Kite
I. lynceus (Drury, [1773]) – Tree-nymph
I. malabarica (Moore, 1877) – Malabar Tree-nymph
I. stolli (Moore, 1883) – Common Tree-nymph
I. tambusisiana Bedford-Russell, 1981 – Bedford-Russell's Tree-nymph or Sulawesi Tree-nymph
Idea at the Natural History Museum Butterflies and Moths of the World project
Flickr Images tagged Idea Nymphalidae.
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Cathedrals Made of Bricks
Caryl Churchill is the only writer working now who says and does something genuinely new with each new play.
By Lucy Kirkwood
To introduce this month's playscript, Caryl Churchill's new four-play collection Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp., we're publishing a version of a speech playwright Lucy Kirkwood (The Children, Chimerica) gave at the Writers' Guild of Great Britain in January when it bestowed its highest award on Churchill.
My house is full of books and they are badly organized. So as I prepared to write this speech about the recipient of tonight's special award, I set aside time just to find my collections of Caryl Churchill's plays, thinking it might take a while.
It didn't. There, right at the top of one pile, was Plays: Three. On top of another, Plays: Two. Plays: One, and Plays: Four were also in easy reach, in dog-eared copies already on my desk. I'm not sure why I was surprised: Like so many other playwrights, I keep her works as close as I keep the tea bags and the emergency cigarettes. They are necessary.
To anyone working in the theatre today, the outstanding contribution of Caryl Churchill is beyond question, to the extent that the word "contribution" doesn't quite seem up to the job. Her invention is ceaseless. Her influence is profound. In the course of a writing life that spans 60 years, she's changed the dramatic landscape of two centuries, and evolved more than any other British playwright our conceptions of what a play even is. She's even changed the way we write them down.
In the words of [playwright and academic] Dan Rebellato, "She never repeats herself. She always seems to be asking the question, what's the world like, and what form of play do I have to write to express it? She has invented 40 or 50 different play forms that everyone else uses, and meanwhile, she's moved on."
Rebellato goes on to note that the overlapping dialogue she invented is now used by everyone except her. She's used doublings, one actor playing many parts, or many actors playing the same part, to political and metaphysical effect over the years, but also just for the sheer theatrical fun of it. Her writing is omnivorous, and slips between naturalism, fantasy, and verse with unwavering confidence.
Although Owners, produced in 1972, is usually recognized as her first play, in fact she'd written roughly 20 others before that. But it was her collaborations with Monstrous Regiment and Joint Stock, beginning in 1976, which were to be a turning point in her practice. She describes these experiences as having permanently changed her attitudes to herself, her work, and others.
With Monstrous Regiment she made Vinegar Tom, a play about witches with no witches in it, and with Joint Stock she made Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, a play about a revolution that didn't happen, and followed this with Cloud Nine, a deeply theatrical play about the relationship between sexual and colonial politics, with a structure that leaps from Victorian Africa to '70s London. It is incisive and vicious, very funny, and cautiously optimistic about our ability to free ourselves from the repressions visited upon us from above and within. It ran for two years in New York, and was followed by Softcops, inspired by the work of Michel Foucault. In the '80s, with Top Girls and Serious Money, she took on the Siamese twins of Thatcherism and London's financial industry, and in Fen she looked at potato pickers in the bleak flatlands of East Anglia. The Skriker collides the modern and the mythical to give form to the ungovernable forces in women's lives. In A Number, a man is confronted by clones of his dead son, in a play not really about cloning, and Blue Heart consists of two plays, one of which has a virus.
It should be clear by now we're talking about a writer of protean gifts, completely lacking in complacency. Simply put, she is the only person writing today who says something new in both form and content every time she puts pen to paper.
Her work is profoundly political, but never didactic, charged with metaphorical power, not journalistic editorial. Far Away, which, in Dan Rebellato's words again, "feels like it invented British 21st-century playwriting in some ways," is my own favorite play and the first work I want to share with any young person interested in theatre. It is constructed of scenes depicting a series of universal domestic scenarios: a child waking in the night, afraid. A workplace romance. Taking a lover home to meet your family for the first time. And yet its 26 pages are pregnant with vast and troubling themes. It is a play that seems to be about something different every time I read it: the corrosive effects of a climate of fear, our ability to mute the sound of horror happening beyond our shores, the atrocity that occurs when we are convinced we are on the right side of history.
The structure is consummate, the images searing and the language like knives. As two characters, Harper and Todd, make increasingly extravagant hats—that, we slowly learn, are to be worn by prisoners on the way to execution—Harper observes: "It seems so sad to burn them with the bodies." And later she offers as good and as provocative a reflection on a life in the theatre as I can imagine, noting: "You make beauty and it disappears, I love that."
Caryl's formal invention has been on display again more recently in Love and Information, constructed from fragments that express with audacity the rhythm of how we live now, and in Here We Go, a play about death that uses abbreviations and repetitions to stare down the barrel of our decay with all the verve the title implies.
But I often feel in our eagerness to admire her cathedrals, we overlook the exquisite craft of the individual bricks. Not only the dazzling, indelible images her plays throw up: a dinner party of women from throughout history, a woman who's just been murdered appearing in a doorway, a shape-shifter presiding over a feast of glamour, two peasants seeing themselves in a mirror for the first time in their lives.
But also in her dialogue. She's not a writer with a house style. The roots of her language are in the demotic, lifted from the playground, the office, the bus, the nursing home, the butchers, and given precise, sculpted form. But her language is poetic in its refusal of artificial elegance, and shot through with flashes of violence, sorrow, and comedy, at once dense and digestible, like a Christmas cake that has been fed brandy since January. Next time I get a tattoo, I would happily get them to ink one of her extraordinary lines on my arm, maybe:
If it's a party, why was there so much blood?
Or perhaps most appropriately for this particular evening:
The only judges I recognise are ones I've appointed myself.
She's written versions of Seneca and Strindberg, opera librettos, worked with choreographers and composers, written for the radio, television and stage, and been performed across the world. Her plays are studied at schools and universities and in 2013, Royal Holloway University named its new theatre after her.
Increasingly her work is notable for its economy, not because she has less to say but because her craft is such that she can pack more into a line of dialogue than most of us can express in a whole scene. I watched her most recent full-length play Escaped Alone with exhilaration, but also despair, as I realized the play I was myself writing took two hours to say what Caryl Churchill had expressed in a single speech about cats.
Escaped Alone is a play about four women who have lived a long time, chatting in a garden, tempered with visions of apocalypse. It is a play that once again has a radical, questing form. It is surprising and alive and intelligent and very funny. It is a play that feels both absolutely clear and completely mysterious. And like so much of her work, it offers, unsentimentally, a suggestion that in an increasingly unstable world, humans retain a capacity for both joyful song, and terrible, terrible, terrible rage.
It is breathtaking to write a single play that has such qualities. It is, frankly, showing off to have written so many of them.
In the spirit of trying to sum up with her economy why this award is so deserved, I finally turn to the words of her friend and regular collaborator, director James Macdonald, who puts it simply like this: "She's just doing the best writing, isn't she? Why make it any more complicated?"
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The Weekend In Esports: European Counter-Strike And Hadocon VIII
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It's a relatively quiet weekend in competitive gaming given the American holiday and the general winding down of the year over all. As a result, Europe takes center stage with the conclusion of the Blast Pro Series and WESG 2017 qualifiers.
Below you'll find where and when you can catch all the weekend's biggest events in competitive gaming. Let us know what you'll be watching in the comments or if you think there's something we might have missed.
The BLAST Pro Series: Copenhagen 2017 finishes up this weekend with the fifth and final round having played out earlier today. The Pro Standoff of the $250,000 event kicked off at 11:30AM EDT with the grand finals to follow at 1:00PM.
You can stream those matches here.
The WESG 2017 Europe Finals for CS:GO are also going on. The quarterfinals began earlier today as well with the last of them to wrap up at 1:00PM EST with Godsent vs. BEL. The grand finals are scheduled for 1:00PM on Sunday with that tournament streaming here.
The WESG 2017 has its European qualifying tournament this weekend. The quarter finals began this morning with the semifinals picking up at 4:00AM EST Sunday. The finals for the event will then take place later that same morning at 10:00AM.
Fortunately, you can also catch fighting game action across the spectrum with Hadocon VIII. Featuring Tekken 7, Marvel vs. Capcom, and a few other games as well, the California tournament gets underway later today with everything streaming live in the below feed with a full schedule here.
Online qualifiers for the Battle for the Stones tournaments continue this weekend. Action started in Brazil around 7:00AM EST this morning with matches continuing into the afternoon.
The EU Nexus games pit some of the continent's best non-HGC talent against one another and it concludes tomorrow. The semifinals will get underway at 7:00AM EST on Sunday with the grand finals to follow at 12:00PM.
You can stream that tournament here.


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"Far too many workers are injured and killed in preventable incidents at dairy farms in Wisconsin," said Mark Hysell, OSHA's area director in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. "This program will enable OSHA inspectors to visit dairy farms and ensure that all required measures are taken to protect workers."
OSHA's local emphasis programs can be found throughout the country, and seek to address hazards that pose a particular risk to workers in a certain area. The measures developed for the Wisconsin outreach program can also be applied to farming and agricultural operations nationwide, as the agricultural industry ranks among the most dangerous in the U.S., according to OSHA.
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a year of living christianly
writer.former fundamentalist.christianly fellow
Month: February, 2008
Sex ahead…you've been warned
9) Christianity has a morbid, unhealthy preoccupation with sex.
10) Christianity produces sexual misery.
To answer these I've decided to unpack a little about the Christian view of sex. Here are the points I want to deal with:
It is good.
It is meant for enjoyment as well as procreation.
Committed, never casual. Hence marriage.
One partner.
Between man and woman only.
It is not a matter of state.
Sex is a good thing. God made it. Humans could have been made to reproduce in any number of different, easier ways, but God invented sex. Let's get this fact clear right from the start. In the Christian worldview sex is not a bad thing. It is inherently good and holy and sacred. It has its place, and when used outside its place it becomes a dangerous, hurtful thing, but when in its place it is beautiful and God-glorifying.
A casual reading of the Song of Solomon shows that sex and sexuality is not solely meant for procreation. Many conservative scholars believe that the Song is a picture of Christ, primarily. I disagree. While it is true that the relationship between Christ and the Church is sometimes pictured as a marriage, it is never pictured as erotic. Eroticism has not place in the relationship between Christ and the Church. But this Song is all erotic. So I think it's about a man and a woman and their loving and sensual relationship. This Song makes it clear that one of the purposes of sex is for enjoyment.
Like many things that are both good and fun, sex has been abused. It was meant to be an expression of the love a man shares with a woman. Today, in most places of the world, it is now a fun pass-time. Sex was never meant to be casual. Our sexual desires have been perverted. Some people would claim that monogamy is an unnatural thing and our sexual drives are made so that we can increase our population. But that makes little sense to me because if a man was to indulge his sexual desires whenever they hit then he would produce a small village of babies in very little time. This massive over-population would be destructive to our species. It seems to me that sex, for the vast majority of animals, is only for procreation, but for us it's different. Men naturally desire sex with many women, not because of their natural procreation instinct, but because their sexual drive has been screwed up. Sex is a solemn, holy thing and it is best within marriage, where it is coupled with love and respect and intimacy. I have heard people complain that monogamy is a boring thing. But they fail to realize that the more you get to know and love and understand and commit to a person the better sex becomes. Marriage provides that matrix for sex.
The Bible is clear that sex is only between a man and a woman. Paul, in Romans, says that homosexuality is a perversion of the sexual drive. There is really no getting around it. If you believe to Bible to be what it claims to be you need to admit that homosexuality is a sin. Now, I do not believe that a man with homosexual desires can just 'turn it off'. Many people say that the homosexual drive is just something that people are born with, and I think I agree. Just like some people are born with a short temper. But just because someone is born with it does not make it right. A homosexual man who comes to Christ will have to fight the same battles as a man born with a bad temper. He will have to fight against the inborn impulses of his body. A homosexual is no more a sinner than anyone else.
Christianity was never meant to be a state religion. I do not think we should try to legislate the moral guidelines of our faith in a secular culture. Homosexuality and promiscuous sex was rampant at the time of Paul, but he never suggested that we picket and protest. He just made it clear that those things were not proper for followers of Christ.
So that's my response to 9 and 10. I believe the Christian view of sex does not lead to sexual misery but to fulfillment. What sort of sex life sounds more fulfilling? Where all of your sexual energy is channeled through the one person you love and respect more than anyone in life, when you keep yourself for that one person and know that she does the same for you? Or where you just follow the whims of your body and bounce from partner to partner. Think about this: if you obeyed your other 'natural' urges whenever they popped up would you be better off or worse? Our natural urges can never be used as an absolute guide because they are fallible. I think that even if I were not a Christian I would still consider sex to be a thing that should be reserved for one partner, because it seems that it was made to be that way.
As anyone with a disproportionately large head knows, someone who laughs at your large melon is a real pain in the neck (pun intended). So this massive head with a tiny stalk of a body was quickly filled with rage. He tried to rush up to Shan and smack him in the face, but his tiny arms couldn't reach him. He tried kicking, but it had the same effect. Shan watched all this and laughed all the louder. Finally the Big Giant Head (for that was his name) got an idea that actually could cause some damage. He pulled about a pound of phlegm from the back of his throat and spat on Shan.
Shan was struck and stuck to the ground. The mucusy goo acted as an adhesive and itched horribly. It was pretty gross.
"Oh big giant head man!" He called out. "Your forgiveness I implore! It wasn't my fault about the bleach!"
"I saw you open the bottle and pour it out!" Said the angry head. "Who's fault could it have been if not yours?"
"It was the authors, I swear it. I never wanted to do that. I think that the uncreative fool couldn't think of anything that actually fit with my character so he didn't bother thinking about it at all and made me dump the bleach and left the mess to the next author. I swear I didn't mean to."
"Who are these authors you speak of?" Asked the head.
"Men, three men who delight in tormenting me. I know not where they come from nor why they pull my strings, but they are the source of all my ailments and struggles in life. Cursed authors!" Shan spat.
"My, my, my." Said the head. "This is a sad story of yours. These author-folks certainly sound like villains. We should put a stop to their madness before you pour more bleach on someone."
"So take my hand, dear head, and travel with me. Together we will find the three authors and kick their combined asses."
The moment he dumped the liquid however, Shan recoiled in horror. What on earth was he doing? Everybody knows that the eye is one of the more sensitive places on the body and to pour an entire bottle of corrosive liquid on one could only lead to more severe consequences.
And sure enough, before Shan could even eek out an apology to the eye, a soul-obliterating roar erupted from the ground under his feet. The ground began to shake and tremble and Shan did the only thing that one could do under the circumstance, namely, run in wild circles while waving his plunger towards the heavens, hoping against hope that some distant god would see him and grant him the ability to wield the forces of lighting.
But it turns out that the lighting god was out running an errand at that moment and Shan succeded only in alerting the god of unfortunate accidents, who placed a root directly where he was running. And so he lay there in the dirt, whimpering to himself as the gigantic head began to emerge from the topsoil.
However, the head appeared to be the only thing that had emerged. Oh it was an imposing head to be sure, at least 30 feet across and covered in mud, but it was just that, a head, and seldom do people become injured by disembodied heads. I'm sure they do sometimes, but for this to happen, the head would have to be able to spit venom or posess the ability to shoot laser beams from their eyes. . .this particular giant was unable to do either.
So Shan stood there marvelling as the giant head spluttered out obcenities in his general direction. Now, instead of being scared, he was becoming increasingly interested and eventully decided to have a walk around the head to see if he could find a body to go with it.
As he paced around to the rear of the head, Shan saw something that made him suddenly burst into uncontrollable laughter. The head indeed had a body. . .but it was no more than 4 feet tall!
"I see." Said Shan, affording himself a little chuckle. "I know how you feel." He chuckled again. "I see you." He was doubled over now, laughing hysterically. The two eyes made massive and impatient rolls.
After about five minutes Shan was himself again, though it would have been better if he were someone else. He stood and looked at the two massive eyes and tried to figure out what to do. He noticed that the eye he had uncovered was a little dirty, so he took out the small bottle of bleach he kept with him.
Suddenly the power in the author's house went out. Knowing there was little time left the author caused Shan to dump his bleach on the dirty eye and save his work, lest his less-than-competent batteries die.
And a seven and an eight
7) Christianity is cruel
The man who is kind benefits himself, but a cruel man hurts himself. – Proverbs 11:17
The cruelty of Christians is no more proof against the validity of Christianity than Hitler's actions prove Germans are cruel. Those who killed and tortured in the name of Christ were not actually doing it in his name. Because his name and his character are completely against cruelty. He is meek and mild, a gentle master. The main characteristic of Christianity is love, regardless of what people did years ago or how many misguided people do cruel things in its name. The normal practice of Christianity is messed up; this much is true. But Christ is still too great a treasure to be abandoned.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
8) Christianity is anti-intellectual, anti-scientific
The author seems to think that dangerous superstitions a thousand years ago existed only within the Christian world. This is not true. Every people group of that time had superstitions that cost people lives. Think of Aztec human sacrifice as one example. No one calls the Brazilians cruel today because of what the people in that country did a thousand years ago.
Every high school science student learns important characteristics of scientific knowledge. Scientific knowledge is tentative (always subject to change based on new observations), limited (science cannot study all things like the perception of beauty or metaphysical truths), and based on observation. Knowing this about scientific knowledge I maintain that there is no contradiction between the faith of Christ and science. The author claims that the Bible speaks of scientifically impossible things happening, like the dead being raised. But according to science nothing can be proved impossible unless every entity and influence of a system is controlled or, at least, accurately measured. Science has never claimed to hold all the secrets of the universe because that simply goes outside of scientific purpose. Science is based on observation and some things are not observable. It is not scientifically impossible for a dead man to be brought back to life. Just scientifically confusing. Science cannot see what would bring a dead body to life, but that lack of knowledge does not force science to declare it impossible. Can the dead be raised? Can water be turned into wine? Can five loaves feed an army? Only by a force that we have no scientific knowledge about. And science cannot deny the existence of such a force.
Shan's back was to the massive, winking eye-lid, so at first he didn't notice it (being intent on the indescribable creature). Suddenly, Shan heard a faint, whirring noise, and felt goosebumps rise on his skin. Turning his head over his right shoulder, Shan finally saw the great eye-lid, and jumped with terror from his seat. His heart shot his blood through his body at triple the normal speed, and he ran behind a nearby tree for cover. Sweat had soaked through the back of his shirt, and he had to wipe his brow more than once before he had calmed down enough to think. In time, Shan wandered back over to the eye-lid, and realized that it didn't pose much of a threat. He attempted to communicate with the eye, but of course it didn't have ears, and was not very good at reading such tiny lips. Shan attempted to communicate with the eye for about twenty minutes, opening his mouth as wide as he could to show the shape of the words. In the end though, Shan became very frustrated, and the eye resorted to sharp movements to the right (from Shan's perspective). Then it dawned on him. Why was there only one eyeball? "I suppose," he thought, "that if it is a strange enough thing for me to find an eye this big, and stuck in the ground, there may be things that only have one eye." On further speculation he decided to try asking the massive eye. Once he had its attention, he repeatedly pointed to his own eyes, alternating between pointing at one then the other, and pointing at both at the same time. The eye squinted to take in the sight, and one might speculate that, had it at some time possessed an eyebrow, it would be raised in expression of curiosity. In response to Shan the eye continued jerking the pupil to the right. In turn Shan pointed to the right. The eye blinked furiously. Shan pointed again. Furious blinking. Point. Blink. Shan walked three or four paces to the right of the eye and felt the ground with the plunger stick; It was very soft, like mud (except less wet). He jabbed the pole as far as he could into the mud (about one foot) and hit something. He looked over at the massive eye-ball, but it had not seemed to notice. He moved over a foot closer to the eye and jabbed again, hitting nothing. He moved to the other side of his first attempt, and (being tired and a good deal muddy by now) threw the pole into the ground once more. It almost disappeared from his hand (being an extremely long plunger of five feet, for those extra messy days). The eye spasmed and blinked with the furious vigor and hate that it had shown when it had first seen Shan.
Shan began shovelling as best he could with the plunger stick. Mostly it churned up the ground so he could get his hands on the moist soil and move it away. He worked for well over three hours without stopping, and having found nothing continued to work on and off for another three hours, taking breaks whever possible. By this point Shan was beginning to wonder if there was an entire giant buried beneath the forest, and was puzzled about why he hadn't hit a nose, or any other body part. By the end of the six hours though, he had his answer. He was attempting to pry a very stubborn rock from the bottom of this now gaping hole, when he realized that it was writhing. He cleared away the dirt from around the rock, and found that it was indeed the other eye.
By the power vested in me…
6) Christianity breeds authoritarianism
The problem with authoritarian governments is that there is no leader on the planet who is good enough, strong enough, informed enough or wise enough to wield ultimate power. Some leaders are better than others, but none have ever been worthy of complete trust and absolute power. Therefore authoritarianism, as a government model, will never be adequate for running a country. If a Christian tries to make his government move toward this system there will be problems, always.
But that's not really what this article is talking about. It seems that he's really condemning Christianity for forcing non-Christians to adopt Christian morality.
For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God judges those outside. – 1 Cor. 5:12,13
It is not for the Christian to judge the morality of those outside the Church. Christianity was never meant to wield power in a government. In its inception Christianity was marginalized and it seems, through Church History, that the times when the Church is marginalized and deprived of worldly power are the times when it is spiritually the most alive and vibrant.
I do not think it is the place of the Church to dictate certain points of morality to those outside the Church. I do believe that Christians always have a responsibility to preach love, truth, justice, purity and (above all) the Gospel. But it does not seem right to convince the government to outlaw premarital sex because the vast majority of people do not follow the Leader we follow. I would point out to a friend that fornication is against God, but I would not have him thrown in jail. There are no Christian countries today, we cannot expect them to have Christian laws.
The Christian nations of the past were populated by and run by Christians. It was their responsibility to make laws; obviously they based their laws on their worldview. In the same way secular lawmakers today base their laws on a secular worldview.
In some cases, however, I think Christians should speak up. Matters like abortion are not strictly moral concerns. The life of a child is at stake and anyone (Christian or not) who believes a fetus is a human being should be concerned in this. The article mentions prostitution as a victimless crime. I disagree. Anyone who has known a prostitute or has heard a prostitute's story will know that the victim in this crime is the prostitute herself.
It seems I should mention homosexual marriages as well. I think Christians who oppose homosexual marriage should think about why. I disapprove of homosexuality (though not of homosexuals). While I believe homosexual acts are sinful I do not suggest that homosexuals be punished by the government in any way. And yet I would still argue against homosexual marriages. Not because gay people should not marry, but simply because a conjugal union of two men is not marriage. It is something else.
But on the other hand, many people talk about the sanctity of marriage even though they have been divorced many times and committed adultery. I think that marriage is not longer a sacred thing in the west. Which is actually consistent, because secular governments, by their definition, deny the sacred. Morally and spiritually, I do not believe that men should marry men. Nor do I believe people should engage in premarital sex or any of the other things God says he is against. But as regards government, I do not think the legislation of a secular country should be involved in this.
Does Christianity promote authoritarianism? Yes, it certainly does. But the authority is God, never men. Men are never trusted to handle the legislative power of God. This is why God tells us again and again to never take matters in our own hands. He will take care of things himself in his own way. Christians are, indeed, to be positive influences in society, but we are not meant to be kings here.
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Q: Grabbing all tabbable / focusable elements in a document I am improving accessibility in a web-app.
I would like to cycle through all potentially tabbable / focusable elements
I note that jQuery has its own pseudo-selector, :tabbable but this isn't native.
I've never used jQuery much and I'm in no hurry to start.
I also note that in these two blog posts:

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*2017-07-17: How to get the first and last focusable elements in the DOM

*2020-01-29: Getting keyboard-focusable elements
the (similar) solutions look like:
const keyboardfocusableElements = document.querySelectorAll(
  'a[href], button, input, textarea, select, details, [tabindex]'
);

I'm guessing we might be able to add a few more items:

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*audio

*button

*canvas

*details

*iframe

*input

*select

*summary

*textarea

*video

*[accesskey]

*[contenteditable]

*[href]

*[tabindex]
though perhaps some of these elements only become tabbable / focusable when they include the tabindex attribute...?
Sticking with the list immediately above (for now), leaves us with the following:
const tabbableElements = document.querySelectorAll(
  'audio, button, canvas, details, iframe, input, select, summary, textarea, video, [accesskey], [contenteditable], [href], [tabindex]'
);

which isn't terrible, but you'd be forgiven for thinking there might be something more elegant.
Is there a conciser approach to grabbing all potentially tabbable / focusable elements in a document?
Something like a CSS Level 4 pseudo-selector ? (I've not found anything along those lines...)

A: It occurred to me I should head over to jQuery and see what they were doing for:

*

*:tabbable

*:focusable
jQuery states:

Elements of the following type are focusable if they are not
disabled: <input>, <select>, <textarea>, <button>, and
<object>. Anchors are focusable if they have an href or tabindex
attribute. <area> elements are focusable if they are inside a named
map, have an href attribute, and there is a visible image using the
map. All other elements are focusable based solely on their tabindex
attribute and visibility.

So, the approach I'm going with is to find all the elements which satisfy the conditions above - and any other conditions I may choose to add - and ensure, manually, that each has an explicit tabindex attribute.
Then I can use:
document.querySelectorAll('[tabindex]');

to select all potentially tabbable / focusable elements.
I remain open to other approaches, but, although only semi-automated, this seems the most practical way forward I can come up with for now.

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Vitally important topic in our modern world. Whilst you can easily grasp the message of the book quickly I quite enjoyed the Science behind the results and the repetition of the key message. The narrator has a great voice and I had no trouble listening to this for lengthy periods of time. I've even started running again!


Councillors by Graham Jones - more info.
'Councillors' by Graham Jones - additional information.
A drama touched by elements of comedy and farce, as you might expect from a combination of marriage and politics. Set in a house in South Wales.
Bill Owen is a little set in his ways, and distressed to have to dress up smart for his older son's wedding. Edward Owen is marrying a girl with family connections and he doesn't want his family letting him down. But local politics is all anyone can talk about, despite the wedding.


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Miles Bridges Throws Mouthguard at Fan During Loss to Hawks; Gets $50,000 Fine
Posted on April 15, 2022 April 15, 2022 by Eric Magana
The Charlotte Hornets' season came to a disappointing end during the play-in tournament at the hands of the Atlanta Hawks.
Unfortunately, Hornets forward Miles Bridges didn't get to see the end of the game after being ejected with two technical fouls.
With Charlotte down 112-81 in the fourth quarter and its season all but over, Bridges was hit with two technical fouls for arguing a goaltending call with an official, automatically ejecting him from the game.
As Bridges walked from the court to the tunnel, he saw a taunting Hawks fan stretching out his arms and lashed out by hurling his mouthguard at the fan.
Unfortunately, he missed.
More, unfortunately, he hit a female fan sitting near his target in the face with the mouthguard.
The original target was smiling on camera; however, the woman hit was not as happy.
The video below shows Bridges hurling his mouthguard after walking off the court.
Miles Bridges was ejected after arguing this goaltend call. pic.twitter.com/ijvc7SxlNF
— ESPN (@espn) April 14, 2022
That sequence landed Bridges a fine from the NBA in the $50,000 range.
Bridges posted a request via Twitter asking to contact the fan after the game, calling his actions "unacceptable."
Somebody get me in contact with the young lady. That's unacceptable. https://t.co/MlLZjMgcBF
— Miles Bridges (@MilesBridges) April 14, 2022
Bridges' mouthguard toss was hardly the Hornets' only miss in the game, as the team finished 34 of 90 from the field (37.8 percent) with 14 turnovers on a miserable night in Atlanta.
With the 132-103 loss, the Hornets end their season via a blowout in the 9-vs.-10 play-in game for a second straight year.
Miles Bridges, 24, had 12 points on 5-of-11 shooting with four rebounds and four assists.
His night ended in horrendous fashion after a solid season from the young forward.


Babalola Falemi, known in music circles as Sauce Kid and Sinzu, was sentenced last week to two years in federal prison after stealing $15,388 during a visit last summer to the Treasure Valley.
The "UnderG" crooner obtained stolen bank card numbers and identifying information for their owners. He then encoded the account numbers onto blank plastic cards. .
After using an automated system to change account PINs, he was able to withdraw cash from bank ATMS and buy merchandise from stores between July 23 and 26. .
All of the losses took place at Boise ATMs owned by Idaho Central Credit Union and at Albertsons stores in Meridian, court documents alleged. .
Police arrested Falemi at the Boise Airport as he was about to board a flight. He was caught with a card encoding device and most than $6,000 in cash. .
Falemi was initially charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud, 8 counts each of bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, and possession of 15 or more fraudulent bank cards. .
He pleaded guilty to one of the counts of aggravated identity theft. In exchange for his guilty plea, prosecutors dismissed the other counts. Senior U.S. District Judge, Edward J. Lodge, also placed him on one year of supervised release after his prison term.
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est une actrice japonaise, née le  à Fukuoka et morte à Tokyo le .

Biographie
Au cinéma, Tsuru Aoki fait carrière essentiellement aux États-Unis et contribue à trente-neuf films muets américains, sortis entre 1913 et 1922. Elle tourne la majorité d'entre eux (dont des courts métrages) aux côtés de Sessue Hayakawa, son époux de 1914 jusqu'à sa mort en 1961.

Citons The Curse of Iku de (et avec) Frank Borzage (1918), Le Souffle des dieux (The Breath of the Gods) de Rollin S. Sturgeon (1920, avec Arthur Edmund Carewe et Ethel Shannon) et Black Roses de Colin Campbell (1921, avec son mari et Myrtle Stedman).

Mentionnons aussi le film français La Bataille d'Édouard-Émile Violet et Sessue Hayakawa (1924, avec ce dernier, Gina Palerme et Jean Dax). Ses deux ultimes films muets (avec son époux) sont britanniques et sortent en 1924.

Retirée ensuite pour se consacrer à sa famille, Tsuru Aoki revient toutefois à l'écran pour une ultime prestation, dans le film de guerre américain Saipan de Phil Karlson (avec Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen et Sessue Hayakawa), sorti en 1960.

Filmographie partielle
(CM = court métrage)
 1913 : The Oath of Tsuru San de Lucius Henderson (CM) : Tsuru San
 1914 : The Village 'Neath the Sea de Thomas H. Ince et Jay Hunt (CM)
 1914 : La Colère des dieux (The Wrath of the Gods) de Reginald Barker : Toya San
 1914 : The Death Mask de Thomas H. Ince (CM) : Princesse Nona
 1914 : The Geisha de Raymond B. West (CM) : Myo
 1914 : L'Honneur japonais (The Typhoon) de Reginald Barker
 1914 : Star of the North de Thomas H. Ince et Jay Hunt (CM) : rôle-titre
 1914 : O Mimi San de Charles Miller (CM) : rôle-titre
 1914 : A Relic of Old Japan de Thomas H. Ince et Reginald Barker (CM) : Katuma
 1914 : Desert Thieves de Scott Sidney (CM) : Owanono
 1914 : The Last of the Line de Jay Hunt (CM) : La jeune femme au bord de l'eau
 1915 : The Chinatown Mystery de Reginald Barker (CM) : Woo
 1916 : The Honorable Friend d'Edward LeSaint : Toki-Ye
 1916 : Âmes d'étrangers (Alien Souls) de Frank Reicher : Yuri Chan
 1917 : Œil pour œil (The Call of the East) de George Melford : O'Mitsu
 1917 : Each to His Kind d'Edward LeSaint : Princesse Nada
 1918 : The Curse of Iku de Frank Borzage : Omi San
 1918 : Le Sacrifice de Tamura (The Bravest Way) de George Melford : Sat-u
 1919 : The Dragon Painter de William Worthington : Ume-Ko
 1920 : Locked Lips de William C. Dowlan : Lotus Blossom
 1920 : Le Souffle des dieux (The Breath of the Gods) de Rollin S. Sturgeon : Yuki Onda
 1920 : A Tokyo Siren de Norman Dawn : Asuti Hishuri
 1921 : Black Roses de Colin Campbell : Blossom
 1922 : Le Serment (Five Days to Live) de Norman Dawn : Ko Ai
 1924 : La Bataille d'Édouard-Émile Violet et Sessue Hayakawa : Marquise Yorisaka
 1924 : The Danger Line d'Édouard-Émile Violet (version américaine de La Bataille) : Marquise Yorisaka
 1960 : Saipan (Hell to Eternity) de Phil Karlson : Maman Une

Galerie photos

Références

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Actrice japonaise du muet
Naissance en septembre 1892
Naissance à Fukuoka
Décès en octobre 1961
Décès à 69 ans
Décès à Setagaya
Mort de la péritonite

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← In West Texas' Toxic Plants, Menace and Beauty Meet
In a Year of Drought, Birds Become a Warning, and a Prompt to Change →
photograph by Jennifer Bristol. A Scott's oriole on an ocotillo, at a parking lot at Big Bend National Park.
NATURE NOTES:
Exploring Nature Near at Hand, with "Parking Lot Birding"
Originally broadcast on September 24, 2020
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By Andrew Stuart
"Without leaving home," the Tao Te Ching says, "you can know the whole world." It's a lesson the covid pandemic has taught many of us, who've found our appreciation of the natural phenomena in our immediate surroundings heightened while we've had to stay put.
It's in this spirit of discovering nature near-at-hand that Jennifer Bristol wrote "Parking Lot Birding: A Fun Guide to Discovering Birds in Texas." The new book, from Texas A&M Press, celebrates the accessibility of thrilling encounters with nature. It's especially timely right now, when birds are making their fall migrations.
Bristol isn't a lifelong birder – though she is a long-time naturalist. She had a career with Texas Parks and Wildlife. But her outdoors activities were fast-paced: swimming, horseback riding, "racing headlong down mountain trails," she writes. Birding seemed a bit… low-key.
But when she was thrown from a mustang and injured, she had to find gentler outdoors activities. Soon, she'd caught the birding bug. She went all in, recruiting her family to compete with her in the Great Texas Birding Classic.
She approached her new passion with a characteristic vigor – but soon made a discovery.
"In the beginning, if there was a trail, we were hiking it," Bristol said. "We thought, okay, that's where we need to go to really see the maximum amount of birds. Sometimes that was true. But the majority of times, as we got back closer either to the campus of the nature center, the bird blind, the boardwalk – or the parking lot – we'd start seeing more birds. We started joking: 'Oh, we must be getting close to the parking lot! We're seeing more birds!'"
It wasn't necessarily that there were more birds in these human-modified places. Rather, a parking lot provided a vantage into the woods, grasslands or wetlands.
"I want to make the disclaimer: I in no way advocate for more parking lots," Bristol said. "It's just a place that's easier to see the birds. But it's all those conservation lands behind the parking lot – at the nature centers, at the parks, the wildlife refuges – that are so important."
Bristol wrote an outline during a South Texas birding trip, and "Parking Lot Birding" was published this spring.
The book describes 90 birding "hot spots" around Texas, and birds to look for during various seasons. Some spots include short trails, and all were selected to be easy for people with limited mobility, or families with children.
In Midland, there's the I-20 Wildlife Preserve. Ducks are the stars here, Bristol said. The preserve's playa lake sustains ruddy ducks, mallards and American coots year-round. Beginning in December, there are wintering wood ducks, cinammon teals, canvasbacks.
In the Trans-Pecos, Bristol's favorites include spots in Big Bend and the Guadalupes, the Lawrence E. Woods Picnic Area in the Davis Mountains, and Balmorhea Lake – where 300-plus species pass through during the fall migration. Bristol said the Trans-Pecos is distinctive for its quiet – which allows birders to hear the "conversation" of bird calls and songs.
The fall migration in West Texas begins with hummingbirds – who typically pass through in August. They're followed by swallows, then warblers and orioles, and finally ducks and sandhill cranes.
Migrating birds are dying in large numbers here this fall. Wildfire smoke may be a factor, but it's likely due to starvation: drought, exacerbated by climate change, has denied birds the bugs they need.
While human actions are having devastating effects, Bristol said we can also lend birds a hand.
"We can set out bird feeders, we can put out water, we can plant native plants, to give them fuel and a resting place," she said. "All those things are so important. We can either alter our spaces to have a negative impact, or we can alter our spaces to have a positive impact."
Bristol suggests beginners find a spot they like – and return through the seasons to see how the birds change. Bristol's next book focuses on cemeteries – the birding in West Texas cemeteries – from Fort Stockton to Terlingua – is "off the charts," she said.
It's a reminder – we don't have to go to the wilderness to experience the wild.
"I'm always blown away by the variety of wildlife that surrounds us, that pre-covid, sometimes we were so busy we forgot to notice," Bristol said. "Now that we have more time on our hands, it's easier to reconnect."
Bristol's book is available at Front Street Books in Alpine, for order at other West Texas bookstores, and online from A&M University Press.


Denise and Jarret flew to Maui from Canada to get hitched. They had a small beach ceremony with family and friends, and a few days later we went on an adventure exploring Maui's lush north shore. I absolutely love exploring Maui's hidden spots with my clients. It's a great way to experience places you wouldn't see near the resorts and it's fun!
Denise and Jarret were all in for an adventure. They crossed a knee deep river, climbed on slippery rocks and trees, stood in the middle of Hana Highway, and even braved the chilly river water to get the shot. I am so grateful for their adventurous spirits and willingness to do anything I asked them. ;) Off the beaten path shoots surrounded by the beauty of nature are my ultimate fave.
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Q: I want to change a text to display the level in my game in unity3d using an "int valueLevel" I am making a quiz game in Unity3d and I would like to show in which level the player is depending the questions he/she has answered.Just so that I can see if it works I was trying to make every question count as a Level(and afterwards I would figure it out).I know which lines of code I want to use but I don't know where to put them in order to work properly.
these are the lines I want to use:
levelValue = levelValue + 1;
Level.text = "Level:" + levelValue.ToString();

this is my code:
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using System.Linq;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;

public class GameManager : MonoBehaviour {

public Question[] questions;
private static List<Question> unansweredQuestions;

private Question currentQuestion;

public Text Level;

[SerializeField]
private Text factText;

[SerializeField]
private Text trueAnswerText;
[SerializeField]
private Text falseAnswerText;

[SerializeField]
private Animator animator;

[SerializeField]
private float timeBetweenQuestions = 1f;

int i = 0;
int levelValue = 0;

void Start()
{

    if (unansweredQuestions == null || unansweredQuestions.Count == 0)
    {
        unansweredQuestions = questions.ToList<Question>();
    }

    SetCurrentQuestion();

}

void SetCurrentQuestion()
{
    int questionIndex = i;
    currentQuestion = unansweredQuestions[questionIndex];
    i = i + 1;

    factText.text = currentQuestion.fact;

    if (currentQuestion.isTrue)
    {
        trueAnswerText.text = "ΣΩΣΤΟ";
        falseAnswerText.text = "ΛΑΘΟΣ";
    }else
    {
        trueAnswerText.text = "ΛΑΘΟΣ";
        falseAnswerText.text = "ΣΩΣΤΟ";
    }

}

IEnumerator TransitionToNextQuestion ()
{
    unansweredQuestions.Remove(currentQuestion);

    yield return new WaitForSeconds(timeBetweenQuestions);

    SceneManager.LoadScene(SceneManager.GetActiveScene().buildIndex);

}

public void UserSelectTrue ()
{
    animator.SetTrigger("True");
    if (currentQuestion.isTrue)
    {
        Debug.Log("CORRECT!");
    }else
    {
        Debug.Log("WRONG!");
    }

    StartCoroutine(TransitionToNextQuestion());
}

public void UserSelectFalse()
{
    animator.SetTrigger("False");
    if (!currentQuestion.isTrue)
    {
        Debug.Log("CORRECT!");
    }
    else
    {
        Debug.Log("WRONG!");
    }

    StartCoroutine(TransitionToNextQuestion());
}
}

A: Assuming the code is the same for every question, I suggest you set the
int levelValue = 0;

to static like this:
private static int levelValue;

In C# the default value of an uninitialized int is Zero.
The increment of levelValue should happen right before you change level if you want the counter to start from 0 (For example count how many questions you have answered)  OR in the beginning of the script if you want the levels to count from 1 (For example what question you are right now).
In first case it should be something like this:
IEnumerator TransitionToNextQuestion ()
{
    unansweredQuestions.Remove(currentQuestion);

    yield return new WaitForSeconds(timeBetweenQuestions);
    levelValue++;
    SceneManager.LoadScene(SceneManager.GetActiveScene().buildIndex);
}

or in the later case:
void Start()
{

    if (unansweredQuestions == null || unansweredQuestions.Count == 0)
    {
        unansweredQuestions = questions.ToList<Question>();
    }
    levelValue++;
    SetCurrentQuestion();
}

Now about where to set the Text value, you can either put it in the Update method of unity
void Update(){
    Level.Text= String.Format("Level: {0}",levelValue);
}

or in your Start method.
Also a tip for your code:
use the operator ++ when you want to increase an int value by one.
example
i++; //THIS has the same effect as this  i = i + 1;

Good luck with your project and feel free to contact me for any additional information or questions you might have.


There is more to the business of global warming than meets the eye. Some companies are bastardizing sustainability simply to reap a profit.
Business opportunities associated with climate change are increasing as are profit opportunities for businesses focused on sustainability. However, a new book shines light on the cynical underbelly of climate adaptation. The book is titled, "Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming". Journalist McKenzie Funk spent six years traveling the world gathering information to write the book.
Funk's book exposes companies that position themselves to profit from a warmer world. Such opportunists welcome climate change as a gateway to tremendous profits.
He cites, Deutsche Bank's investments in climate mitigation technologies while pointing out that their "Climate Change Fund," includes companies that are banking on a warmer world. As explained by Funk, "the warmer the world...the bigger the windfall."
Funk also reviews companies that are poised to exploit resources being exposed by melting Arctic ice. Vast sums of money are being invested in adaptation. The sinister inference in the book is that some companies have a vested interest in a warmer world.
Adaptation efforts in the absence of mitigation should be met with skepticism. We must not allow ourselves to make the false choice between adaptation and mitigation. It is not an either or proposition. We must both curtail our emissions and prepare for the consequences of climate change.
The book points to the glaring injustice of the world's poor many of whom will be disproportionately impacted by climate change. This is the win-loss scenario, in which some benefit while others lose.
Sustainability efforts cannot be divorced from social impacts. Exploiting profits at the expense of the environment and people misses the point completely. Business which is premised upon the suffering of others is patently unsustainable not to mention unconscionable.
These amoral profit oriented ambitions are an anathema to the spirit of sustainability. The calculus behind sustainability implies that a successful venture must benefit people, the planet and profits. In isolation, the profit motive serves the same soulless enterprise that created the climate crisis in the first place. Value in the context of sustainability prioritizes people and the planet alongside profits.
Sustainability is premised on the notion that we succeed together, if we fail to meet this challenge we invite catastrophe. It should be no consolation that profits may insulate us for a time, as these short term profits will ultimately give way in a world ravaged by climate change.
Investors should be wary of those firms who are banking on the win-loss scenerio. The smart money should go to those who see the long term value of win-win scenerios.
The business world is rife with examples of Greenwashing. Such companies seek to profit from climate change under the guise of sustainability. Unless we hold corporations and governments accountable, we can expect this trend to continue. To do this we must delineate those who feign sustainability but are only interested in profits, from those who strive to profit by earnestly practicing sustainability.
It is facile to reduce this discussion to the simplistic polarity of good versus evil. Funk's book calls us to deeply explore the value equation upon which a business is premised.


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Health notice! 🙂 Not glamorous, but cost effective.
Once you've got your socks, you basically just fill them full of rice, or beans, or anything that won't slip through the nylon weave that will provide some weight. I personally use rice, because it's inexpensive and easy to store. I drink a lot of coffee, so I usually have a bunch of leftover coffee creamer containers. I saved one, washed it out, and filled it full of rice – it has a pour spout, so filling the sock up to whatever weight is easy.When you've filled your sock up, you just knot the top of the sock tightly, and slip the excess around the outside.
Creamer container turned rice dispenser.
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Hope this is helpful – I know it's saved me a lot of trouble when working with bigger projects!


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They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard (deutsch: Sie bringen die Hobbits nach Isengart) ist ein 2005 veröffentlichter Videoclip des Künstlers Erwin Beekveld, der zu einem Internetphänomen wurde und insbesondere unter den Fans der Filmtrilogie Der Herr der Ringe Kultstatus genießt. Die verschiedenen Varianten des Videos – darunter auch eine zehnstündige Version – wurden über 46 Millionen Mal aufgerufen. Erstmals erschien das Video als Flash-Animation auf der Website Albinoblacksheep.com und wurde danach hauptsächlich über YouTube verbreitet.

Das Video besteht aus einem Zusammenschnitt von kurzen Fragmenten aus den Filmen Der Herr der Ringe: Die Gefährten und Der Herr der Ringe: Die zwei Türme, die in Loops angeordnet sind. Als Hintergrundmusik wird eine Techno-Version der Filmmusik von Howard Shore verwendet. Zu sehen ist Schauspieler Orlando Bloom in der Rolle des Elben Legolas, der beständig und rhythmisch den titelgebenden Satz "They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard" wiederholt. Unterbrochen wird er zum einen von Gollum (gesprochen von Andy Serkis), der mehrfach mit den Sätzen "What did you say?" (deutsch: "Was hast du gesagt?") und "Stupid fat Hobbit" (deutsch: "Dummer fetter Hobbit") zu hören ist, sowie von Marton Csokas in der Rolle des Celeborn, der sich wiederholt nach dem Aufenthaltsort von Gandalf erkundigt. Darüber hinaus sind in ihren Rollen als Hobbits Elijah Wood als Frodo Beutlin, Dominic Monaghan als Meriadoc Brandybock, Billy Boyd als Peregrin Tuk und Sean Astin als Samweis Gamdschie zu sehen; ebenso Viggo Mortensen als Aragorn und Cate Blanchett als Galadriel.

Der Musikwissenschaftler Michael L. Klein (Professor und Chair an der Temple University) führt They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard in seinem Buch Music and the Crises of the Modern Subject als Beispiel für ein Meme und Mash-Up als vorherrschende Kreativitätsform in der Postmoderne an.

Im Juni 2013 veröffentlichte Regisseur Peter Jackson zum Abschied Orlando Blooms vom Set für den Film Der Hobbit: Die Schlacht der Fünf Heere ein Video, in dem Bloom als Legolas verkleidet zu They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard singt. Dieses Video fand weltweit ein Echo in den Medien und wurde bis Dezember 2015 über 11 Millionen Mal angesehen.

Weblinks
 Original auf Albinoblacksheep.com
 Eintrag auf Know Your Meme mit Verweisen zu Remakes und Parodien
 Goodbye Orlando (Parodie von Orlando Bloom)

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Goodspeed's Gratiot County Historical Blog
Gratiot County's History is Just Around the Bend – Catch a Ride and Hang On!
Gratiot's Finest Hour – February 1945: "The Cost of War, The Cost of Life"
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Above (clockwise from left): shoe rationing in St. Louis; Red Cross advertisement from February, 1945; Private Ed Kalinowski of North Star was one of several men whose deaths were announced that month; hardware advertisement from Alma; Professor Hans Richter's death took many in Alma and at Alma College by surprise.
Gratiot's Finest Hour, February 1945: "The Costs of War"
As Gratiot County continued into the fifth year of the war, the costs continued to mount. More Gratiot County men continued to die in service to the county and nation. The results of the previous December's fighting in the Ardennes in France and places in the Pacific, like the Philippines, illustrated the price paid to end the war.
There would be no end of rationing soon. Farmers needed to grow more crops in 1945, even though they risked losing farm help due to the draft. As more and more young men left the county, letters home to wives, parents, and family members described the loneliness and dedication needed to win the war.
It was February 1945 in Gratiot County.
Rationing Goes On
As the War Production Board demanded that towns comply with energy conservation, Gratiot County tried to follow suit. On February 1, the St. Louis City Council ordered all display lights turned off. Theaters like the GEM in St. Louis were allowed to light up as long as they only used 60-watt bulbs. The single biggest issue dealing with energy conservation in February dealt with "brownout enforcement." Consumers Power Company officials revealed that 22 businesses in the county were slow to enforce "brownout." However, the officials reported that Gratiot business owners usually did not understand the provisions of the brownout order instead of being openly disobedient. The Alma Chamber of Commerce worked diligently to inform business owners of the goal of one hundred percent compliance. Shop windows could not be lit; neither could honor rolls, church lights, clocks, or gasoline pumps.
Ration calendars with county office hours in Ithaca and point values appeared in the newspapers. The county rationing office in Ithaca operated six days a week with reduced hours on Saturday. Anyone turning in waste fats could earn up to two meat ration points and four cents per contribution. While inspections on tires were no longer compulsory, they were required if a person wanted new tires. Commercial vehicles were supposed to be inspected every six months or 5,000 miles, depending on which occurred first. In one week in early February, the rationing board issued 87 grade one tire certificates. At the end of the month, the board gave 145 more. Rationing continued even as the government limited passenger tire quotas due to "military necessity."
Various other things continued to be rationed as ways to support the war effort through conservation. Ration free shoes were available for three weeks at Strouse's Shoe Store in St. Louis. People in the county needed to enjoy their current meat supply as they may disappear by midsummer. The St. Louis Boy Scouts went and collected almost five tons of waste paper during their wastepaper drive. The Michigan Office of Civilian Defense set a goal of one million Victory Gardens in Michigan for 1945.
Then there were some unpleasant things about rationing. Gratiot County, along with the rest of the nation, entered a midnight curfew starting February 26. To comply with the "brownout order," theatres, dance halls, saloons, and sports arenas all had to close by midnight. Many people debated the current status of Eastern War Tie versus Central Standard Time in Michigan. Which was better? Detroit wanted Eastern, but Gratiot farmers wanted "Sun time," a half-hour faster than central time. The debate went on. Finally, Morris Goldfelder of North Star changed his plea in Bay City Federal Court. Goldfelder admitted that he had diverted 40,000 pounds of cheese and sold it to civilians, rather than keep it for the Armed Forces. It was unclear what Goldfelder's penalty ended up being.
Farming in Gratiot County
Gratiot Farmers needed to raise beets for the 1945 farming season to help with the war effort. All county farmers heard that the War Food Administration made growing beets the highest goal in Michigan for that summer because of low sugar stocks. Even if the United States liberated the Philippines in 1945, it would send little sugar to the United States. Cuba also anticipated a short supply of sugar in 1945.
The St. Louis Beet Growers Association held its 14th annual reorganization meeting at St. Louis High School. It re-elected Frank Oberst of Breckenridge as president. Almost 600 farmers came and received a complimentary meal and heard that there were "patriotic reasons" to grow more sugar beets in the county. Three local churches –the Methodist, Lutheran, and Christian churches in St. Louis – fed the crowds. Beet farmers heard that if they paid cash and purchased fertilizer, it meant saving between three and six dollars per ton. At this meeting, a total of 3200 acres in Gratiot County were under contract to grow beets. Also, farmers heard that Texas and Mexican Nationals would be available to work in the fields. So would German prisoners of war.
In another instance, 400 farmers and their families met at the thirtieth annual St. Louis Co-Operative Creamery Company meeting. This group also met in the St. Louis High School auditorium.
The Gratiot County Farm Bureau held a Victory Meeting at Muscott's Hall in Ithaca. A total of 578 Farm Bureau families had paid memberships in this organization.
The main concern for county farmers was the news that 175 farmers faced military examinations in January for induction. Even more, recently went in February. Farmers left behind worried about the effect of the loss of these men for the upcoming farming season.
In other news, one hundred county farmers met at the Gratiot County Conservation League's park cabin. They heard Gratiot County conservation officer Harold Barrow report that hunters took approximately fifty foxes since the five-dollar bounty started. Parks Allen analyzed nine of the animals to determine what the fox had been eating. Allen said the county's fox diet appeared to consist of rabbits, pheasants, mice, and domestic fowl. Fox hunting during the winter of 1943-1944 became the county's number one outdoor sport and earned the nickname "the sport of kings." As a result, hunters from outside Gratiot County poured in from places as far away as Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor to hunt fox, especially Sundays.
The Work of the Gratiot County Red Cross
As news proclaimed that over 10,000 trained men and women served overseas in the American Red Cross, local Red Cross efforts continued. In Ithaca, the Red Cross Service Window displayed souvenirs from places like India, Turkey, Iran, the Pacific, and France. The Klein Brothers from Ithaca sent several items to their parents, and these things, in turn, appeared on display. Anyone in the county who wanted to display war souvenirs only had to call Telephone 158 in Ithaca and leave word they had items to share. Several Red Cross meetings in the county during February took place to anticipate the upcoming March Red Cross Fund Drive.
The Draft in Gratiot County
The Gratiot County draft board continued to struggle with the issue of Gratiot County farm youth and the war. The board had to decide which young men, ages 18 to 26, went into the Army or the Navy. The board, in turn, considered the extent to which these young men were irreplaceable. Were they essential to the war effort, and did their absence from a farm affect food production? By February 12, the board had to send another contingent of men to Detroit for their inductions. If they could not fill the quota, the board had to consider farm youths classified as 2A and under the ages of 26 to 30. The next step would be to take men who were 2A over the age of 30.
Some state politicians reacted strongly to the enforcement of the Tydings Amendment. This legislation urged draft boards to do everything necessary to take all physically fit farmers into the armed forces. One legislator cried out in the press, "Those boys were just shanghaied into the military. Some day the draft board may wake up and find out they want something to eat for breakfast, and at noon, and night."
The Gratiot County Herald ran a column entitled "The Draft and Farmers Rights." The editors informed readers that farm youth had certain rights after complying with registration with the board. Deferments took place in three ways: first, if the youth had continuous farm history; second, if he could not be replaced on the farm; third, if he was needed on the farm that due to anticipated production would be average or above average. However, the paper informed readers in bold print, "EACH FARMER MUST PRESENT HIS OWN CASE before the draft board."
In another column, the Herald also urged readers to remember that those Gratiot County men and women who served on the draft and ration boards were "unsung heroes." These men also deserved a pat on the back for carrying out their duties during times of controversy.
Gratiot residents learned the names of the 45 men who left the county in January. Thirty-four went to Fort Sheridan to join the Army; eight went to the Navy, and three to the Marines. Among those sent to the Army included Dionicio Perez Sanchez and Edward Ralph Goggin of Alma. Duane Ruehle of Ithaca entered the Navy, and Clare R.V. Craig of Perrinton went into the Marines.
Letters Home to Gratiot County
Private Charles Starry, Jr. wrote home he had walked 500 miles in India just before Christmas. Also, he stated that planes in his area dropped turkeys in boxes for Christmas and that the natives suffered from different diseases. Starry's mother believed her son had walked the Burma Road and probably made it to China. His diet at that time mainly consisted of rice, bananas, and cocoanuts. Corporal Donald Wright of St. Louis came home after two years in the Pacific. He had lost all of his personal effects in the Philippines. A newspaper reported that Lieutenant Colonel William Kyes of Elwell had just completed eleven months the India – Burma Theater. In all, Kyes completed 91 missions and 766 flying hours. He flew with the 7th Bombardment Group of the 10th Air Force.
Jerry Carlson also wrote to his parents from somewhere in the Pacific that he missed pumpkin pie and fresh milk, having long since grown tired of powdered milk. Upon crossing the equator, Carlson joked that he received a close haircut, a paddling, and a bath in salt water. All of this was a ritual for those at sea. Chief Petty Officer Robert Ode could not write in detail about being in the Philippines. Ode saw General MacArthur come ashore and stood next to MacArthur's jeep, onshore when movies were taken of the General's arrival. Ode urged his family to look in the background of any footage they saw as he wrote his name on the front of his helmet. A photograph of Marine Private Wayne Sowers of St. Louis appeared on the front page of the St. Louis Leader-Press. Sowers had been wounded at Guam and received the Purple Heart. Cardwell Hoard of Pompeii wrote home from aboard the USS Bunker Hill. He saw action at Ellice Island and Saipan. Hoard enlisted in the Navy on March 1, 1944, but later would be killed in action in 1945 aboard this ship.
The news came in about the three Wright Brothers from St. Louis, Max, Dan, and Gordon, each of whom was in different war areas. Max had been in Marseille, France; Dan served in the Fiji Islands and was now discharged, and Gordon served in New Caledonia. Another brother, Lawrence, awaited training at an airbase in Iowa.
Private Don Randall returned to Lafayette Township from Luxembourg, France, after being away for three years. Sergeant Charles Brennan wrote to his sister about the snow in France, making him homesick for Gratiot County. Brennan noted that the snow in France was the most the country had received since 1907. While he had seen Paris, Randall still longed to see Wheeler, Michigan. Corporal Archie Houden of Breckenridge wrote home from Belgium that his unit rebuilt ten large railroad bridges in one month, a record for his company. Houden arrived in England in 1942, cleared mine patches and booby traps at Normandy, and now cleared the rubble in French cities as the Germans retreated. Another letter from Private Howard Comstock of St. Louis arrived at the Comstock home in St. Louis. In it, Private Comstock enclosed a clipping written by Buck Dawson. The latter moved along with the 82nd Airborne along the Dutch-German border. The clipping warned that the Germans still had plenty of fight left in them and that the war was far from over in Europe. Staff Sergeant Willard Haag of Sumner arrived home on leave. Haag received his orders to come home while in a foxhole along the German front. He started for the coast within 15 minutes of being notified. Haag served with Patton's Third Army and enlisted in 1940, having been overseas three years and wounded three times. Haag was one of a group of 835 men sent home on the Army's recuperative plan.
Sergeant Robert Hamilton wrote to his wife in Alma about being a chief cook with a B-24 Liberator group in Southern Italy. Air raids took off from this location into places like the Ploesti Oil Fields, as well as cities like Munich and Regensberg, Germany, and Vienna, Austria. Sergeant Donald Breidinger of Alma served as an aircraft loader at Gazes Air Base in North Africa. Breidinger said he had visited cities like Rabat, Dakar, Marrakech, Atar, and Agadir. Staff Sergeant Max Turner of North Star came home on a thirty-day furlough. Turner served 34 months in North Africa and saw action at 609 Hill, Bizerte, and Tunis. Turner also saw action in Italy, which culminated in fighting at the Anzio Beachhead.
Private Doyle Plank of Alma sent home a program from the "Spaghetti Bowl" football game recently played in Italy on New Year's Day. Plank was a radio gunner with the 12th Air Force.
Those Dreaded Initials: WIA, KIA, MIA, and POW
The cost and results of Gratiot County's men at war continued in February 1945. Most of the news dealt with the Battle of the Bulge results, which took place in Europe during December.
In Ithaca, the parents of Private Neil Litwiller learned that he had been wounded in Luxembourg on January 12. Several other Gratiot men also suffered wounds while in Belgium. These included Private Philip Fockler, Captain Robert Greenhoe, and Private Melvin Lutz, all of Alma. Still others among the wounded from Alma were Lieutenant Norman Northrup and Lieutenant Eldon Adams. Northrup suffered back injuries and damaged vertebrae when his jeep was blown up while dodging German mines and maneuvering while under fire. Private Stanley Worden of Alma sustained wounds to his right arm, had one operation, and probably would have another. Worden expected to be moved to a hospital in England. Private Mercer Cook of Alma also was wounded in Luxembourg. Still, he had been sent to a Paris hospital due to having frozen feet. Private Alfred Ueberroth of Alma, who served with the combat engineers, injured his left arm. Private Webster Mayle of Ithaca faced a slow recovery in a French hospital due to serious abdominal wounds he suffered back in early November. It was not known where Mayle was recovering.
Merton Peacock of St. Louis, and one of five Peacock brothers in the war, had been seriously wounded in Belgium and was in a hospital there. It proved to be Peacock's second time in a hospital with combat wounds. On Christmas Day, Sergeant Daniel Dafoe of Alma suffered an injury to his upper right arm from a shell fragment. Now in an English hospital, it was thought that Dafoe would make a normal recovery. Elmo Badder's wife of North Shade Township received the Purple Heart in the mail that her husband was given for being wounded on December 16 in France. Harold Huntoon of Breckenridge sent word to his father that the younger Huntoon had been injured in the hand while fighting in France.
Lieutenant Norman Keon came home to St. Louis on a 21-day service leave pass. Keon had just been released from an Indiana hospital where he had been since August. Keon suffered a serious jeep accident in New Guinea in April 1944. Private Eugene Jellison of Alma came home on sick leave from a U.S. Naval Hospital in North Carolina. Jellison wore two gold stars from being in major battles that included Bougainville and Guam. Jellison had been stationed in New Zealand before this, and he received the Purple Heart.
Private Kenneth Cole of Bethany Township also was in the news. Cole was wounded in November, and he sent a letter home in January that his leg still bothered him. Cole got married in February 1944, went to training camp in May, and made it to France by late September. Upon landing, Cole was hit by a German .88, causing him to be placed in three different English hospitals.
In February, the hardest news to reach Gratiot County dealt with those men who paid the ultimate price for the county and the nation. Private Henry Iler was killed in France on January 3 and was buried in a cemetery in eastern France. Iler's brother also suffered wounds while in the Pacific in 1943. Sergeant John Townsend of Ashley died in Northern Luxembourg a week later while trying to attack a house in a small town that held 50 Germans. Some tough news came to Ithaca with the death of Private Volney Loomis. Loomis was a paratrooper who died of his wounds in Belgium on January 4. Loomis' wife died six weeks after he was inducted into the Army, and the paratrooper's death left behind his small son. Private Edward Kalinowski of North Star, also a paratrooper, died in Belgium on January 20. Kalinowski received citations for gallantry in action when he served in Italy. Corporal Gordon Willoughby of Elba Township was also killed in action on January 19 in Belgium. Private Howard Joley lost his life in France on January 25. Joley was from Ashley. The news came to St. Louis that Private Robert Lucas, a member of the 298th Engineers Battalion, died in Belgium in late December. Lucas' jeep approached an enemy roadblock in Belgium and then tried to turn around when the enemy fired upon him. He was laid to rest in a Belgian cemetery.
Those who died in other instances of service also made the news. Private Clarence Orr, formerly of Alma, died when his C-47 transport plane crashed due to catching fire while in midair in Robinson, Illinois. A funeral for Private Howard Berry, originally from North Shade Township and a student in Ashley and Alma, took place through a "solemn and impressive service" in Carson City. Berry died in late November in France. The wife of Captain Arner Douglas, who was killed on June 2, 1944, over France, received three more letters explaining how her husband died in service to the country. One letter explained how Douglas had just been promoted to Captain before his death.
Newspapers also mentioned those who were missing in action or were held as prisoners of war. Private Arthur Wilson of Breckenridge had been missing since December 28. Sergeant John Parrish of Alma went missing on January 9 while serving as a waist gunner on a B-17 bomber in England. Technician Walter Moore of Alma was also missing in action. Mrs. Paul Paulson of New Haven Township told the newspaper that her husband was missing in Belgium with the 9th Armored Division.
One Prisoner of War now included Howard Baker of Ashley, who had been missing since October 6, 1944. He was now in a German POW camp. Good news came to the family of Private Bruce Meade of Riverdale. Meade had been repatriated and would soon be coming home from Germany. Meade had been a prisoner of war since February 18, 1943. The War Department encouraged the family to send a message to him in 25 words or less. Meade had written home in November that he got the box from the family, which contained maple sugar.
The family of Sergeant Benny Zamarron of Ashley traveled to Selfridge Field to receive his decoration medals. Sergeant Zamarron received recognition for meritorious achievement, even though he too was a prisoner of war somewhere in Germany.
And So We Do Not Forget
The Gratiot County Ministerial Association held its February meeting at the Seventh Day Advent Church in Ithaca…Leonard Refineries opened its new administration building on East Superior Street. It measured 188 feet by 45 feet, with a terrace and broad walkway…The two-story school in Maple Rapids was entirely destroyed by fire on February 1. Total losses amounted to $50,000…State Street Residents in Alma saw their first Robin on February 18…the Gratiot County Courthouse would be closed two days, February 12 and 22, for Lincoln and Washington's birthdays…Ten marriage licenses had been issued in Gratiot County as of February 15. One license belonged to Frank Mikus, age 23 of North Star Township, and Thelma Chmiko, 21 of Elba Township….A memorial service for Professor Hans Richter took place at Alma College. Richter, a German-born native who fled Nazi Germany, took his own life. His disappearance had caused a stir in Alma until his body was found. Richter was well liked by the student body at Alma College…Swift & Company of Alma gave praise to workers who helped the company set new records in 1944 for distributing food and other products. The company had forty employees join the armed forces since Pearl Harbor…"Arsenic and Old Lace," starring Cary Grant, Raymond Massey, and Jack Carson played for three nights at Alma's Strand Theatre.
The Alma Record ran a column about marriage and divorce in Gratiot County. Factors in the number of increasing divorces included hasty marriages between servicemen and women before going off to war, as well as liquor problems…The St. Louis Community Center opened to young people in town. Table tennis and dancing were two features for the young crowd. Strict supervision was expected of youth…Only slight repairs in St. Louis could occur for the city's lighting system. The problem centered around shortages of materials…A total of 35 students from Gratiot County enrolled at Central Michigan College for the winter semester. Edward Lawson entered the V-12 Program…Clayton Sias, age 55, a World War I veteran, a barber for 25 years, and teller at the bank died suddenly of a heart attack. Sias had been a charter member of the American Legion Post…A pair of Native American girls, Elizabeth and Ina Miron, were arrested in Perrinton for disorderly conduct. The two told the judge that they had been working in defense plants in Detroit and Muskegon. They served 30 days and paid a fine of $19.10 each…Several Gratiot County men in the Fifth Infantry were given top priority for a thirty-day furlough, starting February 7…The Gratiot County Polio Fund hoped to raise money through several social events such as a Silver Tea, a card party, and a cafeteria-style supper…L.D.Whittier, former Alma shoe merchant and former member of the Gratiot County Draft Board, started work with the United States Employment Service in Alma…Correspondent Edmund Stevens spoke at the Inter-City Town Hall Library lyceum in Breckenridge. Stevens had just published a new book on Russia after his travels there with Wendell Wilkie.
An explosion at the Alma Piston plant on February 12 brought out the Alma fire department. While the fire was hard to put out, some employees only suffered minor burns…A fox hunt took place on February 25 in South Fulton Township. Anyone who shot a fox had to turn the bounty over to the club. Hunters were to meet up at Guernsey's garage in Perrinton to start the hunt…The annual meeting of the St. Louis Cooperative Creamery was planned for the St. Louis high school gymnasium. A crowd of 600 was anticipated…March 15 is the due date for filing income taxes with the IRS…Robert Bellaire, a former United Press correspondent in Tokyo, told 600 people in St. Louis, and later in Alma, about his experiences as a POW under the Japanese. Bellaire was captured and spent seven months as a POW…Central War Time becomes official in Gratiot County starting March 17. However, Ithaca, Alma, and St. Louis already switched to CST in November…Former St. Louis teacher Barker Brown, his wife and three children were all thought to be freed from Santo Tomas concentration camp in Manilla. Brown's parents anxiously awaited word of their freedom.
And that was Gratiot County's finest hour in February 1945.
Copyright 2020 James M Goodspeed


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