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Artist in Residence Class of 2023
This year's class represents a delightfully diverse range of instruments, styles, and genres.
Feb 08, 2023 - Jun 28, 2023. Starting: 08:00 PM
Meet the Artist in Residence Class of 2023! Tickets for artists' individual shows and free workshops are on sale now!
CELLIST & COMPOSER
ERIN MURPHY SNEDECOR
Erin Murphy Snedecor is a multi-genre cellist who specializes in contemporary chamber music, composition, and collaborative performance. While her training is primarily classical, she has used the influence of rock, folk, and electronica to improvise and compose in new styles, leading to many unconventional collaborations and performances. Most recently, Erin released an album of original music under her solo moniker, Zooxanthellae, available on Off Latch Press.
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Supported in part by Richard & Melba Reichard♪, Ava Kaufman, and Victoria J. Perkins
IRISH TRADITIONAL VOCALIST & MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST
KEVIN ELAM
Kevin Elam is a multi-instrumentalist and 2019 All-Ireland Champion in Men's Singing. Although he boasts a strong background in classical piano and a degree in Jazz studies from George Mason University, Kevin is rooted in Irish traditional music.
In addition to playing the tin whistle, guitar, mandolin and banjo, Kevin has also honed his skills as a singer and interpreter of Irish traditional song. In August of 2019, he was awarded first place in Men's English Singing at the 2019 Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, held in Drogheda, Ireland, and took home the coveted Dalaigh Shield, an award only won by one other American in its 65-year history.
Over the past several years, Kevin has performed at the Kennedy Center, the National Gallery of Art, and the Library of Congress, as well as at the Washington Folk Fest, Appaloosa Festival, and many other festivals in the mid-Atlantic region. Kevin has given classes and workshops on traditional music throughout the Eastern US, including with the prestigious faculty of DC's premiere Irish traditional music camp, MAD Week.
In 2020, Kevin received a grant from George Mason University's Young Artist Commissioning Project, and consequently recorded his debut album, If I Were A Small Bird, released in September 2021. Kevin also studies early music and sings Renaissance polyphony and other choral repertoire with DC-based men's ensemble the Suspicious Cheese Lords, and with the Choir of Ascension & Saint Agnes Episcopal Church.
Supported in part by Hope Eastman & Allen Childs♪, Dale Rosenthal & Michael Cutler♪, and Linda & Van Hubbard
JAZZ VOCALIST
DOMINIQUE BIANCO
Downbeat Award-winning, 22-year-old Dominique Bianco is a multi-faceted vocalist specializing in jazz and contemporary genres. Originally from Staten Island, New York, Dominique was a finalist in the 2022 International Ella Fitzgerald Vocal Competition and has shared the stage with renowned musicians such as Julius Rodriguez, Joe Farnsworth, Mark Whitfield, Peter Washington, Benny Benack III, Elijah Jamal Balbed, Emmet Cohen Trio including Kyle Poole and Russell Hall. Dominique has been mentioned in publications such as Downbeat Magazine, Jazz Times, The Baltimore Sun, WBGO, WPFW, Capital Bop, Parklife DC, The Baltimore Times, and interviewed in Voyage Baltimore Magazine. Performing at prestigious venues including Blues Alley, The Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Keystone Korner, Smalls NYC, Pearl Street Warehouse, An Die Musik, Union Stage, "Charm City Django Festival 2022", The Cutting Room NYC, Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and Blues Alley with Jose Andre, to name a few.
Dominique Bianco released her debut EP "I'm All Smiles" on November 13th, 2022. This record features NYC-based jazz trumpeter Benny Benack III and DC saxophonist Elijah Jamal Balbed. Her debut EP was recorded at Grammy Award-Winning Bias Studios in Springfield, Virginia. Growing up in a musical environment, she has always searched for obscure melodies to dissect and make her own, and she hopes this new record will advance her career to new highs with many more records to come.
Supported in part by Ellen & Michael Gold♪, Karen Deasy, and Carolyn & Martin Shargel
GUITARIST & COMPOSER
CONNOR HOLDRIDGE
A DMV native, Connor Holdridge's music is anything but limited by the region he grew up in. His musical influences range from the jazz soloing styles of Django Reinhardt and Dexter Gordon to the overdriven blues/rock guitar of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimmy Page. Alongside saxophonist Gabriel Wallace, Connor co-leads "The Hot Mess," a quartet whose repertoire is inspired by Django's early 1940s ensembles. Connor has also been featured with local jazz artists such as Michael Joseph Harris and Nataly Merezhuk.
Connor's own compositions seek to explore the possibilities in sound using two French guitars, upright bass, and cajon. His sound draws upon various musical cultures and takes inspiration from a younger generation of acoustic guitar players with more modern influences.
Supported in part by Karen Lefkowitz & Al Neyman, Margaret McDowell, and Myrna Sislen
MULTI-GENRE DRUMMER
JO PALMER
Jo Palmer grew up amidst the vibrant Jazz scene that resides within Hartford, Connecticut. Coming from a musical family, Jo was introduced to music at an early age. He attended Berklee College of Music and later The New School For Contemporary Music, to pursue the art of contemporary drumming with an emphasis on rhythms coming from the African Diaspora (jazz, Afro-Cuban, reggae, blues). Jo has performed with artists such as Les Amazones D'afrique, and Amiri Baraka. He plans to continue his professional study of music together with promoting humanitarian work through world travel and cultural exploration.
Supported in part by Bayo & Funke Oyewole♪ and Dr. J. Alberto Martinez & Anna Pigotti
JAZZ PIANIST
Joshua Jenkins has been playing the piano since he was seven years old and began performing in public at the age of twelve. A proud alum of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, he holds a Bachelor of Music from Temple University, where he also majored in Spanish.
Alongside fellow Ellington students, he performed on stage at the Kennedy Center and Strathmore Music Center with artists such as Ledisi, Patti LaBelle, and Sting. While studying in Philadelphia, he gave various classical solo and chamber recitals, and worked with several jazz ensembles. Joshua studied pipe organ for several years under the tutelage of organist Clyde T. Parker, having performed numerous times on this instrument at People's Congregational Church in Washington, D.C.
Joshua was the Jazz Ensemble Director of CAAPA (the Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts) from 2018 to 2020. He has a keen interest in Afro-Cuban drumming and has visited Cuba several times to conduct research and take lessons. Having worked with a wide array of musicians and ensembles throughout the Washington, D.C. area, he is intent on continuing to expand his performing career.
Supported in part by Daniel & Sarah Gallagher♪, HelenLouise Pettis♪, and Tina & Arthur Lazerow
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22 hearses carry more than 1,000 flower arrangements to Walmart Memorial site
by: Andra Litton and Stephanie Shields
Posted: Aug 18, 2019 / 11:15 PM CDT / Updated: Aug 19, 2019 / 01:47 AM CDT
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — On Friday, the flowers kept coming and coming to La Paz Faith Center. The overwhelming number of flowers, estimated to be more than 1,000 arrangements, came from all over the world to honor Margie Reckard, one of the 22 victims of the Walmart shooting.
Reckard's husband, Antonio Basco, made a public plea for El Paso's support just days before her services. He said Margie was his only family and he wanted to make sure he wasn't alone at her service.
El Paso showed up. An estimated 3,000 people gathered in a solemn line that snaked for blocks around the Central El Paso church. Basco tried to shake hands with or hug every single person who came to pay their respects.
22 hearses delivered more than 500 flowers to the Walmart memorial site where 22 people were killed. This organized by Operation Hope and Perches funeral home. Tune in to @KTSMtv at 5:30 and 10 for the story pic.twitter.com/SoKXtJXSFq
— Stephanie A. Shields (@StephA_Shields) August 18, 2019
Then there was the question of what to do with the more than 1,000 flower arrangements. Sal Perches, of Perches Funeral Homes, who helped transport and bury several of the Walmart shooting victims, came up with the plan of gathering 22 hearses from funeral homes across the city.
Sunday morning, the more than 1,000 floral arrangements were loaded into the hearses at La Paz Faith Center in Central El Paso and made the 5.5-mile procession down Montana, then south on Airway to the Cielo Vista Walmart.
There, the El Paso community gathered to unload the floral arrangements and place them at the makeshift memorial site.
The symbolic display, organized by Perches and Operation HOPE's Angel Gomez, was a final gesture from all El Paso Funeral Homes who stepped up to help in the last two weeks.
22 hearses on their way after delivering flowers to the Walmart memorial. The organizers say they hope this can close a chapter of a dark tragedy and move towards healing together. #ElPasoStrong pic.twitter.com/svLCTJuLWb
Within hours of the Walmart shooting, Gomez was in contact with several El Paso funeral homes that he'd worked with in the past.
Perches Funeral Home, Sunset Funeral Home, Martin Funeral Homes East and West, and Socorro Funeral Home all offered their services, free of charge, to the families of the 22 victims killed in the mass shooting.
The funeral homes agreed as a group not to accept a dime from the families or the El Paso Victim's Assistance fund for their services. Money donated to the El Paso Community Foundation's Victim's Fund was used to help families who needed travel arrangements for services.
Saturday, the last victims of the Walmart shooting, including Margie Reckard, were laid to rest. The 22 hearse procession was a means to move forward from the grieving stage and into a healing stage for the El Paso community.
The flowers will be on display at the makeshift memorial until they wilt, they will then be taken by the Zaragoza Rotary Club to the El Paso Zoo where they will be turned into compost which will be used throughout the city.
"This site is important to El Paso and we must strive to keep it clean & respectable in honor of the victims & all those impacted by this tragedy," said City Representative Henry Rivera, District 7.
Each week's cleaning maintenance will be performed on Friday at 7 a.m.
WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — The Wichita Falls City Council met in a regular session on January 19, 2021. If you missed the meeting, you can watch it and view the meeting agenda below.
by Bret Vetter / Jan 18, 2021
WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — The 2020 school year has been a whirlwind for teachers and staff across Wichita Falls ISD.
Despite months of having to shift from in-classroom learning, online, and hybrid learning, teachers have faced the challenges head-on.
by PJ Green / Jan 18, 2021
WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a champion for the Civil Rights Movement in America.
His courage, thoughtfulness and loving nature helped destroy the bondage that segregation had on America.
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US women's hockey beats Canada, wins first gold since 1998

GANGNEUNG, SOUTH KOREA - FEBRUARY 22: Gold medal winners Meghan Duggan #10 and Hilary Knight #21 of the United States celebrate after defeating Canada in a shootout in the Women's Gold Medal Game on day thirteen of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Gangneung Hockey Centre on February 22, 2018 in Gangneung, South Korea. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

After an absolute nail-biter of a match, which went to overtime and then a penalty shootout, the US has finally broken Canada's stranglehold on women's Olympic hockey.
Team USA won the shootout 3-2, with forward Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson scoring the winning goal. The women in blue poured onto the ice after Canada's Megan Agosta couldn't reply, handing the Americans the gold.
It was an incredibly close match throughout, with Canada leading 2-1 well into the third period, only for Team USA's Monique Lamoureux-Morando to pull it back, pushing the game into overtime.
The US Women's Hockey team hadn't won gold since the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, so tensions were even higher than usual against their regional rivals.
Canada has won every gold medal since then, and Thursday's match was the third time the teams had met in an Olympic final.
Ahead of the match, they had already played once in these Olympics. Canada won that preliminary round 2-1 despite being out shot by the Americans 45-23.
Pay battle
Team USA's win comes after their victory off the ice. After a fight for better pay they scored a contract that rivals that of the men's national team .
Most of the women on the team said they had to work one or two other jobs in addition to training and competing because they were making so little from being on the national team.
It was a hard won victory, with the athletes boycotting the International Ice Hockey Federation World Championship and USA Hockey threatening to bring in scabs.
They drew support from players' associations for the NFL, NBA, WNBA, MLB and the NHL, and finally, in March 2017, reached an agreement for parity with the men's team, though the exact details have not been released.
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To Be Well-Adjusted or To Be Alive and Well
"It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
One of the attributes we associate with healthy people is that they are well-adjusted. What does that mean? Does it mean they know how to conform to the majority and do so with some measure of ease? The definition of well-adjusted is, "successfully altered or moved so as to achieve a desired fit, appearance, or result." If this is the case, then we need to remove "well-adjusted" from our collective definition of health.
Being well-adjusted doesn't serve the individual; it serves only those who want the bulk of society to behave like a flock of sheep—easily herded, no questions, no independent thought and, above all, no mission or purpose. We aren't supposed to be robotic, yet we humans function (if you can call it that) in this world as if we've been brainwashed or somehow hypnotized into behaving against our own and our collective good.
Societies thrive when individuals think and create freely; when we all feel that we have something of value to offer; when we feel wanted, needed, and like we maintain an important place in our tribe. Every one of us is here for greater purposes. Each of us has a palette of gifts to offer and when we honor and respect this in ourselves and each other, beautiful things can happen.
Unfortunately, too many of us have bought into the very system that is killing us. We've left our own connection and greater good behind. Instead of finding our inner drummer and marching to his or her beat, we've allowed those who not only don't care about us, but who want to keep us down, squelch our life force.
If being well-adjusted means selling our very souls to forceful greed, we'd better put that adjective on the laundry list descriptive of illness, not health.
People say it's too hard to swim against the current; there are too many systems already in place so it's futile to try to fight city hall. Not so. Let's never give up. When we awaken and begin to think and feel for ourselves, when we welcome back our creativity, and remember who we are by rekindling our connection to Spirit, there is nothing we cannot accomplish.
Do not strive to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Strive for wholeness. In wholeness, we find what we are all longing for—our loving, beautiful, and connected Self.
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Can you imagine what the Dawn mission might discover at Ceres in the next few weeks and months? What does this vast world hold for explorers and scientists today? What do you imagine the surface of Ceres will look like? How do you imagine that Ceres formed? When do you imagine Ceres came into being? Over what time frame?
NASA's Dawn mission wants you to share your ideas! Send in your creations in the form of art, music, poetry or video. Selected submissions will be featured in the Imagine Ceres gallery.
To learn more about the "Imagine Ceres" project, including how to submit your ideas, visit http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/dawncommunity/imagine_ceres_about.asp.
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Participants will get an overview of the resources in the "NASA's Beginning Engineering, Science and Technology, or BEST, Students: Next Generation Educator Guide." This guide contains nine activities simulating NASA technology demonstration missions. Discussion will include classroom modifications.
Participants will be introduced to activities for teaching Newton's Laws of Motion, energy, light and gravity. Upon completion, attendees will have a set of physics activities and a plan for incorporating them into classes.
On March 6, 2015, NASA's Dawn spacecraft became the first to orbit a dwarf planet. Dawn is currently orbiting and studying Ceres. This webinar will explore the Dawn mission, what has been learned so far and NASA education resources that can be integrated into your curriculum.
The fellowship award includes tuition offset, student stipend, and funding for an annual Center Based Research Experience. The result is an annual award of up to $50,000 for a student pursuing a master's degree or $55,000 for a student pursuing a doctoral degree. Fellowship awards are made in the form of training grants to academic institutions and are for a duration of no more than three academic years.
A pre-proposal teleconference will be held on Thursday, March 31, 2015, at 4 p.m. EDT. The link for the session is https://ac.arc.nasa.gov/nifs/. The teleconference technology is Adobe Connect. Please check the technology Adobe Connect Technical Specs before the teleconference at https://helpx.adobe.com/adobe-connect/tech-specs.html.
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The 21st Century Teacher Academy is a unique professional development opportunity for K-12 educators. The academy is designed to immerse teachers in the best practices and methodologies on how to create and implement real-world, project based learning, or PBL, curriculum using NASA's missions. This program is sponsored by the Office of Education and Public Outreach at NASA's Ames Research Center, and funded by NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate. The workshop will take place at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, mission is sponsoring a pair of workshops for educators of students in grades 6-9. Each workshop will focus on lunar science, exploration and how our understanding of the moon is evolving with the new data from current and recent lunar missions.
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Individual (16 students) around a surface in square without the camp to be determined (free investment all around). The professor refers to the players by throwing the dice 12-sided (figures), either the die 6 colors. It doesn't give any signal to start (The students take of themselves). To retrieve the beret (Ball alveolar), students can first be eliminated by only touching the legs of their opponents with their sticks in the foam. 2 balls lightweight game.
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[pts][upal][swe][olds] THUS HAVE I HEARD. On one occasion the Blessed One was living at Sāvatthī in Jeta's Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika's Park. Now on that occasion the venerable Kumāra Kassapa was living in the Blind Men's Grove.
[pts][upal][olds][swe] "Bhikkhu, bllikkhu, this ant-hill fumes by night and flames by day.
"Bhikkhu, you should go to the Blessed One and ask him about this riddle. As the Blessed One tells you, so should you remember it.
Bhikkhu, other than the Tathāgata or a disciple of the Tathāgata or one who has learned it from them, I see no one in this world with its gods, its Māras, and its Brahmās, in this generation with its recluses and brahmins, its princes and its people, whose explanation of this riddle might satisfy the mind."
That is what was said by the deity, who thereupon vanished at once.
[pts][upal][olds][swe] Then, when the night was over, the venerable Kumāra Kassapa went to the Blessed One. After paying homage to him, he sat down at one side and told the Blessed One what had occurred.
Then he asked: "Venerable sir, what is the ant-hill, what the fuming by night, what the flaming by day?
Who is the brahmin, who the wise one?
What is the knife, what the delving, what the bar, what the toad, what the fork, what the sieve, what the tortoise, what the axe and block, what the piece of meat, what the Nāga serpent?"
[pts][upal][olds][swe] "Bhikkhu, the ant-hill is a symbol for this body, made of material form, consisting of the four great elements, procreated by a mother and father, built up out of boiled rice and porridge, and subject to impermanence, to being worn and rubbed away, to dissolution and disintegration.
"The brahmin is a symbol for the Tathāgata, accomplished and fully enlightened.
The wise one is a symbol for a bhikkhu in higher training.
The knife is a symbol for noble wisdom.
The delving is a symbol for the arousing of energy.
"The bar is a symbol for ignorance. 'Throw out the bar: abandon ignorance. Delve with the knife, thou wise one.' This is the meaning.
"The toad is a symbol for the despair due to anger. 'Throw out the toad: abandon despair due to anger. Delve with the knife, thou wise one.' This is the meaning.
"The fork is a symbol for doubt. 'Throw out the fork: abandon doubt. Delve with the knife, thou wise one.' This is the meaning.
and the hindrance of doubt.
'Throw out the sieve: abandon the five hindrances. Delve with the knife, thou wise one.' This is the meaning.
the consciousness aggregate affected by clinging.
'Throw out the tortoise: abandon the five aggregates affected by clinging. Delve with the knife, thou wise one.' This is the meaning.
tangibles cognizable by the body that are wished for, desired, agreeable, and likeable, connected with sensual desire,  and provocative of lust.
'Throw out the axe and block: abandon the five cords of sensual pleasure. Delve with the knife, thou wise one.' This is the meaning.
"The piece of meat is a symbol for delight and lust. 'Throw out the piece of meat: abandon delight and lust. Delve with the knife, thou wise one.' This is the meaning.
"The Nāga serpent is a symbol for a bhikkhu who has destroyed the taints. 'Leave the Nāga serpent; do not harm the Nāga serpent; honour the Nāga serpent.' This is the meaning."
The venerable Kumāra Kassapa was satisfied and delighted in the Blessed One's words.
 Ven. Kumāra Kassapa was an adopted son of King Pasenadi of Kosala, born of a woman who, not knowing she was pregnant, had gone forth as a bhikkhunī after having conceived him. At the time this sutta was delivered he was still a sekha; he attained arahantship using this sutta as his subject of meditation.
 According to MA, this deity was a non-returner living in the Pure Abodes. He and Kumāra Kassapa had been members of a group of five fellow monks who, in the Dispensation of the previous Buddha Kassapa, had practised meditation together on a mountain-top. It was this same deity who spurred Bāhiya Dāruciriya, another former member of the group, to visit the Buddha (see Ud 1:10/7).
 The meaning of the deities' imagery will be explained later on in the sutta itself.
 Kummāsa: The Vinaya and commentaries explain it as something made of yava, barley. Ñm had translated the word as bread, but from MN 82.18 it is clear that kummāsa is viscous and spoils overnight. PED defines it as junket; Homer translates as "sour milk."
 MA: Just as a bar across the entrance to a city prevents people from entering it, so ignorance prevents people from attaining Nibbāna.
 Dvedhāpatha might also have been rendered "a forked path," an obvious symbol for doubt.
 MA states that the four feet and head of a tortoise are similar to the five aggregates.
 MA: the axe and block (asisūna, at MN 22.3 rendered "slaughterhouse") are used for chopping meat. Similarly, beings desiring sensual enjoyments are chopped up by the axe of sensual desires upon the block of sense objects.
 The symbolism is explicated at MN 54.16.
 This is an arahant. For the symbolism, see n.75.


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Elgin will be well represented when Girls State is held in Lincoln this June. The names of the two students chosen to attend, as well as the alternate, have been announced.
Selected to attend from Pope John XXIII Central Catholic High School was junior Elizabeth Selting. She is the daughter of Lynn and Amy Selting of rural Elgin.
Chosen to attend from Elgin High School was junior Jaime Hoefer. She is the daughter of Robert and Jaci Hoefer of rural Elgin.
Named as the alternate was Baylee Wemhoff, a junior at Elgin High School. She is the daughter of Greg and Joyce Wemhoff of Elgin.
Sponsors for the local students attending Girls State are Elgin Legion Post #229 Ladies Auxiliary and the Elgin Community Club.
Girls State will be held June 5-11 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln downtown campus. They will join hundreds of other high school juniors from across the state. Girls State is held in conjunction with Boys State.
The annual citizenship program, sponsored by the Nebraska American Legion, is designed to provide youths a better understanding of how city, county and state governments operate.
Special lectures and addresses will be delivered by experienced public officials and professional leaders throughout Nebraska. Invitations have been sent to the Governor and Secretary of State offices for special appearances at this year's program. Also, national acclaimed motivational speakers are also scheduled to address the entire group.
American Legion Cornhusker Girls' State is set up as a functional "51st state" and each boy learns how government subdivisions operate by actually doing the job.
Participants will campaign for offices, hold elections, take part in band and chorus, compete in athletics, and be involved in other varied activities as part of the citizenship training program. They will set up their own state government and draft bills.


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Zlatko Horvat (born 25 September 1984) is a Croatian handball player for Dabas KK and the Croatia national team.

Career
Since 2003 Horvat's Zagreb has not lost a match in the domestic league and cup. Horvat has reached the quarter final of the EHF Champions League in 2002–03, 2003–04, 2008–09, 2011–12, 2014–15 and 2015–16.
In 2013 Zagreb had won the SEHA League.

He represented his country at the European Championships in 2006 and 2008 as well as the 2009 World Championship, winning two silver medals with the team. He also played for Croatia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China and the 2012 Summer Olympics where Croatia won bronze.

Honours
Zagreb
Dukat Premier League
Winner: 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17
Croatian Cup
Winner: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
SEHA League:
Winner: 2012–13
Third place: 2011–12, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16
EHF Cup Winners' Cup
Finalist: 2005

Individual
Most 7m goals in 2013–14 SEHA League — 35 goals

References

External links

1984 births
Living people
Handball players from Zagreb
Croatian male handball players
Olympic handball players of Croatia
Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
RK Zagreb players
Olympic bronze medalists for Croatia
Olympic medalists in handball
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Croatia
Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games medalists in handball
21st-century Croatian people

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Home jobs archive Chief Executive, Halle Concerts Society
Chief Executive, Halle Concerts Society
Closes 31st October 2019
Type Full time
Salary Paid (£50k+)
Contact Alison Lever alison.lever@halle.co.uk
The Hallé, the long established and internationally renowned symphony orchestra, is resident at The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, a city fast becoming a European cultural centre of significance. We are seeking a leader to take us through an exciting period of development, with opportunities provided by the newly extended facilities at St Peter's in Ancoats. The Chief Executive will extend the Hallé's plans and vision for the future, continuing the Orchestra's commitment to excellence across all of its activity and strive to work with the whole community to broaden its audience and participant base.
The Hallé employs around 120 musicians and administrative staff and its activities include more than 140 concerts and events each season in Manchester, throughout the UK and overseas. We also have an extensive education programme, which reaches thousands of children every year and a range of choirs and youth ensembles.
Reporting to the Board, the successful candidate will have overall responsibility for the strategic direction and administrative and financial management of the Society. They will be responsible for ensuring artistic excellence and the long-term financial sustainability of the Society, enabling the Society to continue to grow its international reputation and contribution to the dynamic growth of the City Region.
The successful candidate will have previous experience leading at a senior level in the orchestral, arts or creative industries, working with creative people, developing and implementing business plans, managing significant budgets and networking at the highest levels in the community. They will have strong, inspirational leadership and strategic/financial management skills with an inclusive management style which builds relationships internally and externally.
For more information about this role, including a full job description and how to apply, please visit our website at www.halle.co.uk/about-us/careers. First interviews will be held in early December 2019.
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Q: Is there an observable operator that is similar to forkJoin but only errors out if all of the request fails? For example
    return Observable.forkJoin([
            getData1(),
            getData2(),
            getData3(),
            getData4()
        ])

If one of them fails, the subscriber that subscribes to the forkJoin observable fails, is there an operator that only fails if all of them fails?

A: It's part of the design of rxjs that ANY error causes the chain of observables to fail.
It sounds like the condition you are trying to trap is not really a failure, but a normal case - if you change the sub-observables to detect the error and then return a value which can be detected down stream with something like a map or a filter, then you will be able to achieve what you are looking for.

A: if you're interested in getting error from inner observables, materialize might be way to go:
const pluckError = (obs: Observable<any>) =>
  obs.materialize().filter(x => x.kind === 'E')

Observable.forkJoin(
  obs1.pipe(pluckError),
  obs2.pipe(pluckError)
 ....
)

It is important to note outer observable shouldn't raise error as it'll terminate whole observable, but you can catch / or get Notification metadata using materialize and only pick up error to make forkjoin completes.

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Billy Paul Bodin (born 24 March 1992) is a professional footballer who plays for League One club Oxford United. He plays as a forward or as an attacking midfielder. Born in England, he represents the Wales national team. Bodin is the son of former Wales international Paul Bodin.

Bodin began his career with Swindon Town, spending periods on loan to Torquay United and Crewe Alexandra. After signing permanently and playing for two seasons at Torquay he spent a season at Northampton Town. He played for Bristol Rovers for two and a half years before joining Preston North End in January 2018, where he remained for a further three seasons.

Having represented Wales at several youth levels, he was called up to the Wales senior squad for the first time on 15 March 2018.

Club career

Swindon Town
Bodin began his career with Swindon Town, moving from the youth set-up, where he finished top scorer in both the youth side and the reserves during the 2009–10 season, to become a professional in April 2010. Bodin was an unused substitute on the Swindon bench on 20 March 2010 in their 1–1 league draw against Norwich City.

On 2 October 2010, Bodin followed in his father's footsteps by making his first-team debut for Swindon Town as a late substitute in a 2–1 League One defeat to Dagenham & Redbridge, replacing Thomas Dossevi. Swindon were relegated to League Two after finishing 24th, and Bodin expressed hopes for first-team opportunities the following season.

Having returning to Swindon in early January 2012 from a loan spell, Bodin scored his first goals for the club, the final goal in a 4–1 victory over Southend United on 31 January 2012 and another in the next game, a 3–0 win over Crawley Town on 14 February 2012. His third goal came against Dagenham & Redbridge in a 4–0 win on 6 March 2012.

Torquay United (loan)
On 25 August 2011, Bodin joined Torquay United on loan until January 2012. He made his Torquay debut in a 1–1 draw with Dagenham & Redbridge on 27 August 2011, coming on as a substitute and winning a penalty, which was converted by Rene Howe. On 13 September 2011, he scored his first goal for the club in a 2–2 draw against Cheltenham Town, and he scored again the following week in a 3–3 draw against Rotherham United. His next goal came on 29 October 2015 in a 1–0 win over Hereford United, and he scored again on 5 November 2011 in a 3–0 win over Crewe. After his goal against Hereford United, manager Martin Ling predicted big things for Bodin since becoming established in the first team. On 2 January 2012, Bodin scored his 6th goal in a 2–1 win over Plymouth Argyle. Bodin's good performances led Torquay unsuccessfully to seek a loan extension until the end of the season. After leaving Torquay, Bodin paid tribute to Ling, crediting his tactical changes with stopping the club's nosedive at the start of the season.

Crewe Alexandra (loan)
In March 2012, he was loaned to Crewe Alexandra for the remainder of the season. Bodin made his debut for the club in a 1–0 win over Hereford United on 24 March 2012.

Torquay United
On 2 July 2012, Torquay United signed Bodin for an undisclosed fee believed to be around £70,000, beating Crewe who had also attempted to sign him. Bodin suffered knee ligament damage whilst playing for Torquay against Dagenham & Redbridge in April 2014. His contract expired during the summer of 2014.

Northampton Town
In January 2015, Bodin joined Northampton Town on a deal until the end of the season having spent time at the club during his knee ligament injury rehabilitation. Bodin made four substitute appearances for the Cobblers before leaving in the summer.

Bristol Rovers

2015–16 season
Bodin went on to sign for Bristol Rovers in July 2015 on a short-term deal, following a successful trial at the club.
He scored his first goal for Rovers in a 3–0 away win against Hartlepool,  his second against Morecambe in a 4–3 win away from home, and his third, a spectacular effort, in a 1–4 loss to Newport County. He also scored against Dagenham & Redbridge and high-flying Plymouth Argyle, to finish the season with 5 goals, helping his side to achieve promotion to Football League One. On 9 June 2016 he signed a new two-year deal to stay at Rovers.

2016–17 season
Bodin did not score in the 2016–17 season until a volley in a 3–2 defeat to Chesterfield in November. By the turn of the year he was on four goals, thanks to a Boxing Day hat trick in a 4–1 victory over Coventry City, all scored with his left foot: a shot from the edge of the box into the far top corner, a long shot from 25 yards and a penalty. He scored a fine goal against Northampton Town during a 5–0 thrashing, but it was overshadowed by teammate Ellis Harrison's four.

2017–18 season
Bodin scored his first two goals of the season with a brace on 8 August 2017, in a 4–1 EFL Cup victory over Cambridge United, his second match of the campaign. His first two league goals of the season came in a 3–2 victory away to Bury: a header from a cross from Joe Partington to make it 2–0 and a close-range effort to make it 3–0. On 7 October 2017, Bodin opened the scoring as Rovers defeated his former club Northampton 6–0  away from home; however, in doing so he suffered an injury that kept him out of the team for over a month.

Bodin departed Bristol Rovers on 3 January 2018, having scored 13 goals in the first half of the season for the club.

Preston North End
On 3 January 2018, Bodin joined EFL Championship club Preston North End for an undisclosed fee, signing a two-and-a-half-year contract with the club. He was assigned shirt number 39 on his arrival at Deepdale. He made his debut on 6 January 2018 in a 5–1 victory away at Wycombe Wanderers in the FA Cup 3rd round. The injury problems that had plagued Bodin in the earlier part of his career returned during his time at Preston and he missed the entirety of the 2018–19 season with an anterior cruciate ligament injury.

In October 2019 he signed a new contract with PNE until summer 2021. On 13 May 2021, it was confirmed that Bodin would be leaving the club at the end of his contract.

Oxford United
On 30 June 2021, Bodin signed for EFL League One side Oxford United as a free agent on a one-year contract. In his first season, in which Oxford narrowly missed out on a play-off place, he scored six times in the league and once in the FA Cup. He expressed his wish to sign a new contract at the end of the season. On 9 June 2022, Bodin signed a new two-year deal.

International career
Bodin is eligible to play for Wales as his father, Paul Bodin, was born in Cardiff and he earned 23 caps for the senior team between 1990 and 1994. Bodin has represented Wales at Under-17, Under-19 and Under-21 level. In January 2013 he was selected in the Wales U21 squad for the friendly match against Iceland on 6 February 2013

He was called into the Welsh senior squad for the first time on 15 March 2018. He made his debut on 26 March 2018, coming on as a 67' minute substitute in the China Cup 1–0 final defeat to Uruguay.

Personal life
His father, Paul Bodin, is a former professional footballer.

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours
Swindon Town
 Football League Two: 2011–12

Crewe Alexandra
Football League Two play-offs: 2011–12

Bristol Rovers
Football League Two third-place promotion: 2015–16

Wales
China Cup runner-up: 2018

References

External links

1992 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Swindon
English footballers
Welsh footballers
Wales youth international footballers
Wales under-21 international footballers
Association football forwards
Swindon Town F.C. players
Torquay United F.C. players
Crewe Alexandra F.C. players
Northampton Town F.C. players
Bristol Rovers F.C. players
Preston North End F.C. players
Oxford United F.C. players
English Football League players
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President-elect Donald Trump has selected retired Marine General James Mattis to exercise civilian control over the Department of Defense. Originally known as the Department of War, it was renamed Department of Defense in 1949. But war is precisely what Mattis, known as "Mad Dog," has enthusiastically done throughout his career.
In 2005, Mattis declared, "It's fun to shoot some people." That was one year after he oversaw the Battle of Fallujah in Iraq, which began in April 2004, after four Blackwater Security Consulting mercenaries were killed and their bodies mutilated. In retaliation, US forces attacked the city and killed 736 people. At least 60 percent of them were women and children, according to independent journalist Dahr Jamail, who interviewed doctors at Fallujah General Hospital and at other small clinics inside the city both during and after the April siege.
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To his credit, Mattis has been clear-eyed about blowback from US policy on Israel. He noted the United States is paying a "security price" in the Middle East because the US is considered biased in favor of Israel, and Israel is in danger of becoming an "apartheid" state.
Mattis criticized Israel for building settlements in the occupied West Bank, saying they "are going to make it impossible to maintain the two-state option." He added that the settlements might weaken Israel as a Jewish and Democratic state and could lead to apartheid.
Indeed, former high-level FBI interrogators, including Ali Soufan and Dan Coleman, maintain that a person being tortured will say anything to get the torture to stop — even providing false information. The best results, interrogators add, are obtained with humane methods.
"If there's any concern at all [about Mattis], it's the principle of civilian control over the military. This role was never intended to be a kind of Joint Chiefs of Staff on steroids, and that's the biggest single risk tied to Mattis," a former senior Pentagon official told The Washington Post. The framers of the Constitution were wary of putting the military in charge of making foreign policy, which explicitly resides in the executive branch; that is, the president as commander-in-chief and his secretary of defense.
Let's hope Trump can maintain that position in the face of inevitable militaristic advice from Mattis, Flynn and Pompeo. Trump frequently makes contradictory statements about foreign policy. During the campaign, he insisted that he opposed the Iraq War and Libya regime change, when in fact he supported both. In fact, Trump called for all US troops in the Middle East to overthrow Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi.
It is our challenge to hold Trump's feet to the fire in every way we can — speaking out, writing, demonstrating, and pressuring Congress and the White House. We cannot relent in demanding peace.
Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, former president of the National Lawyers Guild and on the advisory board of Veterans for Peace. Her books include Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law; The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse and Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues.
Visit her website: MarjorieCohn.com. Follow her on Twitter: @MarjorieCohn.


American heavy metal act Red Fang released their fourth album Only Ghosts via Relapse Records on 14th October. Take equal parts stoner and sludge metal, throw them together with a pinch of progressive metal and you'll be on the right track.
Sit the band alongside the heavier elements of Baroness and Torche with earlier Mastodon and you'll have a pretty accurate pigeonhole. There's moments on Only Ghosts where Red Fang go close to bettering all three – the riffs in 'Not for You' being a perfect example – but on the whole it comes in just shy of being a really good modern metal album.
Don't get us wrong, this is 100 times better than the vast majority of heavy metal albums released in recent times – it just comes in in the second tier. For a fan that isn't 100% invested in the band it won't win them over, for the initiated they'll see this as the band's finest work to date.
Overall it has a more polished and progressive feel than 2013's Whales and Leeches and feels like more of a return to form. There's still some real ferociousness lurking in the background, the aggression and bombastic energy of 'The Deep' shines out as the track with the most impact. Opener 'Flies' sets the album up nicely while the throbbing bass and driving riffs of 'No Air' are highlights amongst the difficult vocal.
The regular version of the album has a great closer in the form of 'Living in Lye' – you see the more progressive side of Red Fang. Big driving riffs sit alongside a more atmospheric and structured sound. The deluxe version has the brilliant stoner metal of 'Dumb Guy' and the ferocious power of 'One Hit Two Hit', part of you has to question why the two best tracks only appear on the deluxe version. In today's world of streaming services, it doesn't really matter, although you'd be forgiven for feeling aggrieved if you'd purchased the standard version. Let down slightly by a couple of dud tracks, Only Ghosts still comes in as an impressive metal album.


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Byker Grove – where are they now?
As the cast and crew prepare to celebrate 25 years since the BBC1 drama began, we take a look at what the actors playing PJ and Duncan, Nicola Dobson, Charlie Charlton and more have been up to since they left the show
By Kasia Delgado
Tuesday, 21st October 2014 at 12:52 pm
Remember PJ & Duncan? Schoolgirl Nicola Dobson? Heart-throb Ben Carter? To celebrate 25 years since the first episode of the hugely popular Byker Grove was broadcast, the former cast and crew of the BBC1 drama set in a youth club on Tyneside are having a reunion next month to celebrate the classic childrens series.
But what has the cast been up to since they said goodbye to the beloved Geordie youth club?
Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, played PJ and Duncan
After leaving the BBC1 drama, the duo went on to record two albums under their Byker Grove names. In 1995 they began presenting their own CBBC show, The Ant & Dec show and won two BAFTAs. The pair went on to host SMTV Live and CD:UK, later moving to primetime with Pop Idol, Britain's Got Talent and Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway. Since 2002, the pair have hosted jungle reality hit, I'm A Celebrity which starts again next month.
Jil Halfpenny, played Nicola Dobson
In 1999, the actress started playing Rebecca Hopkins in Coronation Street before later moving to Albert Square in 2002 to join EastEnders. As well as a string of other dramas including Waterloo Road, Peak Practice and the recent BBC1 six-parter, In The Club, she won the second series of Strictly Come Dancing. Halfpenny has had a musical theatre career and played beautician Paulette in The West End's Legally Blonde.
Donna Air, played Charlie Charlton
After joining the Grove aged 10, Air launched herself as a pop star in pop duo Crush, touring all over Asia and Europe before hosting a daily MTV show, The Big Breakfast, Live From Studio Five and Popstars The Rivals Extra. She has appeared in several films including The Mummy Returns and Bad Day. Last year, Air came 4th in ITV's reality diving competition Splash.
Denise Welch, played Polly
In 1997, she was cast as Natalie Horrocks (later Barnes) in Coronation Street before leaving the show in 2000. Since then Welch has appeared in Holby City, The Bill, Doctors and From 2006 to 2010 she played French teacher Steph Haydock in BBC's Waterloo Road and was a panelist on Loose Women until last year.
Andrew Hayden-Smith, played Ben Carter
The actor went on to become one of CBBC's main presenters until 2006. He also appeared in three episodes of Doctor Who and is recently made a short film, Fall Out. He recently joined the cast of Banana, Russell T Davies's new E4 drama series and in January this year he began writing a grooming column in Attitude magazine.
Charlie Hunnam, played Jason
The actor gained fame as Nathan Maloney in Russell T Davies's Queer as Folk and moved to LA at 18, playing a baddie alongside Nicole Kidman in 2003 film Cold Mountain and appearing in Pacific Rim, Children of Men and 2012's Deadfall. Since 2009 he's boosted his Hollywood profile playing Jax in Sons Of Anarchy. Last year it was announced that Hunnam would play Christian Grey in the Fifty Shades film but he later withrdrew, saying it was due to clashing schedules for Sons of Anarchy.
If you were a Byker Grove fan, vote for the series in our Childrens' TV Champion to get it through to the next round.
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A canonical turbulent boundary layer on a large flat plate has been investigated for Reynolds numbers 4 × 104 ≤ Reδ2 ≤ 5.5 × 104. This experimental investigation includes hot-wire measurements of the mean and fluctuating velocity profiles and of two-point velocity correlations in the wall-normal direction. Complementary Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) measurements in a plane given by the streamwise and the wall-normal direction provide additional information about the instantaneous velocity field.
The comparison between these two measuring techniques is of special importance since we are not aware of published PIV measurements at comparable Reynolds numbers. In addition, the validity of Taylor's hypothesis towards the high Reynolds-number range was investigated.
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DAVID BYRNE ANNOUNCES UK ARENA TOUR
Byrne will be performing songs from his critically acclaimed album American Utopia, as well as classics from his solo career and his days with Talking Heads. A twelve-piece band will also join Byrne on stage for an Annie-B Parson choreographed concert that he has called "The most ambitious show I've done since the shows that were filmed for Stop Making Sense." Annie-B Parson also choreographed the St. Vincent and David Byrne collaboration tour around Love This Giant.
The American Utopia World Tour began in the US in March, before moving on to Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Mexico, Canada and back to the US (including one of the highlight sets at this year's Coachella). The European leg of the tour begins on June 14 in the UK with six sold out concerts, followed by dates in the Czech Republic, Croatia, Austria, Germany, Netherlands, France, Poland, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, before returning to North America for additional dates from July to October. Currently totalling over 80 performances, the full list of upcoming tour dates around the world can be found here.
Praise for the American Utopia World Tour:
'Already the toast of Coachella, Byrne's new road show was a knockout.'
– David Fricke, Rolling Stone
'One of the most inspired, intriguing, energetic and joyful concerts in recent memory. To call it unique hardly does it justice.' – Calgary Herald
'It's honestly hard to believe the amazingness of Byrne's live show. Byrne radiates a joy while performing that few – if any – musicians can match.'– Seattle Weekly
'Decades into his career, Byrne remains an unpredictable, vital artist. There aren't many who can say that.' – LA Weekly
'A marvel of staging and motion that was at once utterly novel and oddly comforting, the evening proved a celebration of Byrne's music at its most rhythmic and transcendent.'
American Utopia World Tour Band:
David Byrne: vocals
Chris Giarmo: backing vocals
Tendayi Kuumba: backing vocals
Karl Mansfield: keyboard
Angie Swann: guitar
Bobby Wooten: bass
Mauro Refosco: Tamborim Tree, shaker
Davi Viera: bongos
Gustavo Leite: conga
Tim Keiper: bells/metalwork
Aaron Johnston: bass drum, snare, hi-hat
Daniel Freedman: bass, snare / hi-hat
Benjamin Clementine will be Byrne's special guest for the UK and Irish dates. Clementine also recently completed a run of North American dates on Byrne's tour. Byrne explains, "I was introduced to Benjamin Clementine's music through a friend. I was floored! I asked him to perform in the 2015 Meltdown Festival I curated in London and am honored to have him join me at various stops along the American Utopia Tour!"
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After how Ubisoft cheated us in Watch_Dogs, a lot of PC gamers are a bit skeptical about any upcoming PC release. One game that has amazed everyone with its visuals is The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, a game that puts Watch_Dogs (even the E3 '12 preview graphics) to shame and is considered as a 'true' next-gen game. But will CD Projekt RED pull another Watch_Dogs like a gimmick on us? Time will tell, but we feel that it won't disappoint.
Speaking with Eurogamer, executive producer John Mamais confirmed that the PC Version of The Witcher 3 will look way better than its console counterparts (on Ultra settings). Mamais described that The Witcher 3′s ultra settings is a true epitome of graphical fidelity and will be referred to as 'the peak in games', he has also detailed the features that will be implemented in the game.
According to Mamais, the game's Ultra settings will feature better tessellation, a more feasible physics engine, detailed post-processing and more realistic fur. We know for a fact that the realistic fur will be enabled using Nvidia's PhysX suite (part of Gameworks program) So it will be interesting to see whether AMD users will be able to enjoy this feature as was rumoured earlier.
Mamais also claimed that the console version graphics are invariably equivalent to the higher settings of the PC version. Being graphically intense,the game will be running at 900p/30fps on consoles (though the team would love to hit 1080p on both PS4 and Xbox One).
In short, the PC version will look better just as Mamais suggested. But there's a catch; PC gamers need to have a lot of firepower in terms of their rigs if they want to enjoy The Witcher 3 with its Ultra settings.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is currently planned for a February 2015 release!


Do you feel you have an adequate understanding of the logic of the sciences?
Are you more safety-conscious than you should be, about as safety-conscious as you should be, or less safety-conscious than you should be?
What would be the top two advantages or benefits to living in a small town of two to four thousand people? What would be the top two drawbacks or disadvantages?
In general, do people think they have more control over their lives than they actually do, about as much control as they actually do, or less control than they actually do?
How important to you is politics irrespective of whether you enjoy discussing politics?
Do you love human nature?
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I don't know who originally said these things, but it seems safe to assume the last one wasn't said by Donald Trump.
Wonderful quotes! And so true. Thanks for sharing those.
What would be the top two advantages or benefits to living in a small town of two to four thousand people? What would be the top two drawbacks or disadvantages? A close-knit community, what do you makes an impact. Disadvantages would be embarrassing things i did would be heard all over the town, and people there might not be knowledgeable about the outside world.
" i just throw myself on the catapult" I am so going to encourage you to write poetry now.
probably yes. but with effort, just right.
mostly…but that mob mentality glitch scares the ever-loving crap out of me.
Spot on about small towns. And I fear the mob mentality too. Thanks for responding!
I really enjoy these questions. It opens up new trains of thoughts, and that's a wonderful thing. Thank you for posting them!
That's so sweet of you for mentioning it, Abby! Thank you so much!
SCIENCES: As much as anyone, I suppose! I certainly spend enough time thinking within and about the scientific mindset. I'm not always sure it IS a single, unitary mode of thinking, when so many epistemologies seem to sneak by beneath its aegis, some more convincingly than others! But I am content with my rendition of the whole, and I would hope reasonably aware of its context relative to others.
SAFETY: I am, even I would admit, overly safety-conscious, especially in certain situations. In many respects my social anxiety disorder is a physical manifestation of a fear of harm, and it has often, even routinely, prevented me from taking advantage of many opportunities in life. But fear is a tricky beast. And I would not want to swing so far in the other direction that, like some, I am shocked and gobsmacked when my actions result in harm to myself or others. In short, I know that I have a bias, but it is the bias I would choose to have when considering its natural opposite.
SMALL TOWNS: This is not a theoretical question for me, I grew up in a town of 3,000. I'm not sure everyone experience small town life in the same way; it matters a lot whether that town is wealthy or poor (like mine), and it matters a lot where you sit in the hierarchy of power within that town. In a little community, family identity matters a lot, and only a monumental effort could possibly change it for either an individual or their family. This is an advantage or a disadvantage depending on how you look at it. Life is very predictable in a small town, and that can be very comforting in a way. Social malfunction is not erased by small town living (as many urbanites often seem to imagine it would be), but you do tend to know what to expect. Everyone knows who the drug dealers are, what streets to avoid, whose wife or children are getting hit by a drunk boyfriend. It doesn't stop any of it from happening, but there's less chaos than you experience in a big city. Here in Fremont, where I now live, crime is something that might just sort of happen to you; in Waterford, where I grew up, "random" crime did not happen. It always wore a familiar face, for better or worse.
Small towns are demonstrably easier on the environment, and I think they encourage inter-cultural contact more than most people realize. While cities may be more diverse, they are also more anonymous, and neighborhoods can become insular in a way that is inherently impossible in a little town. Small towns can be very difficult to leave, and even harder to come back to later if you do leave. They are loci of linguistic specialization, and carry a mountain of symbolic value even for people who have never lived in one. Have you ever noticed how the great urban religions – Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, etc – idolize, even sort of fetishize rural life?
CONTROL: I think pretty much everyone over-estimates the amount of control they have over their life. Your words and thoughts are all borrowed from others, or else they would have no meaning; you are, at most, a syncretist of cultures.
POLITICS: Politics can be not important at all, or the most important thing in the world, depending on how fatal it is currently getting.
HUMAN NATURE: It is my constant obsession and fascination in life. I do love it, but not in the trivial sense of liking everything it does. I love it more like you love a partner over the long term of a relationship, with all of the little elations, rages, confusion, and enlightenment in turns.
I especially love your response to the human nature question, Andrew. I think it clarifies a lot about you and about the best take one might have on the matter.
ROFLMAO! You're both a constant delight and you're as crazy as a dancing June bug, Carla, but I love you. Of course, you're not yet — yet — as crazy as me (but I do see progress being made on that).
As you might recall, I took my degree in philosophy, and without trying to be insufferable about it, may I suggest that both the strength and weakness of formal or academic philosophy is that it has but one rule — and one rule only — whatever position you take must be logically arrived at. Strict logic is the name of the game.
Within the bounds of that single rule, anything goes. Naturally, that leads to all sorts of lunacy at times. Because strict logic can easily go awry when it is not reality-checked against empirical evidence. The sciences are just as rigorous when it comes to logical reasoning as philosophy, but the sciences, as you know, check everything against empirical evidence.
Having said all of that, philosophy now and then does get something right. Strange discipline though. No wonder I liked it.
Of course you're right, Paul. I just like to have Fun with Philosophers. In fact, Garnet (remember Garnet?) immersed her self in philosophy about a half-dozen years ago, and I memorialized the incident in an entertaining essay. Although the essay is hidden way back my 'Garnet's Secret' blog on Blog Spot, I have transferred it here to my WordPress blog for your reading pleasure. Check it out!


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Review: It Ain't Me, Babe by Tillie Cole
It Ain't Me, Babe by Tillie Cole
Sinning never felt so good…
A fortuitous encounter.
A meeting that should never have happened.
Many years ago, two children from completely different worlds forged a connection, a fateful connection, an unbreakable bond that would change their lives forever…
Salome knows only one way to live—under Prophet David's rule. In the commune she calls home, Salome knows nothing of life beyond her strict faith, nor of life beyond the Fence—the fence that cages her, keeps her trapped in an endless cycle of misery. A life she believes she is destined to always lead, until a horrific event sets her free.
Fleeing the absolute safety of all she has ever known, Salome is thrust into the world outside, a frightening world full of uncertainty and sin; into the protective arms of a person she believed she would never see again.
River 'Styx' Nash knows one thing for certain in life—he was born and bred to wear a cut. Raised in a turbulent world of sex, Harleys, and drugs, Styx, unexpectedly has the heavy burden of the Hades Hangmen gavel thrust upon him, and all at the ripe old age of twenty-six—much to his rivals' delight.
Haunted by a crushing speech impediment, Styx quickly learns to deal with his haters. Powerful fists, an iron jaw and the skillful use of his treasured German blade has earned him a fearsome reputation as a man not to be messed with in the shadowy world of outlaw MC's. A reputation that successfully keeps most people far, far away.
Styx has one rule in life—never let anyone get too close. It's a plan that he has stuck to for years, that is, until a young woman is found injured on his lot… a woman who looks uncannily familiar, a woman who clearly does not belong in his world, yet a woman he feels reluctant to let go…
This one is definitely not a heart warming read that make your heart flutter. Don't expect flower or roses or some other similar shit. This one was a gritty, angsty, raw, violent and intense read that make my heart pounding madly and did a whole load of cursing.
Mae aka Salome was a sex slave imprisoned in a religious cult since she was a child. She grown up being sexually abused and fearing the life outside of the commune, until one day something happened and triggered her to make a life changing decision. She decided to flee.
Styx aka River was the Hades Hangmen MC's President and was known as the infamous Hangmen Mute because he never speaks except to his VP, Ky. Styx had a stutter that make him unable to speak in front of others, but only to his closest confident.
Mae and Styx met once fifteen years ago, across the commune fence and formed an unbreakable bond and connection. Years later, they met again under a different circumstances. Mae was injured and frighten of her life out of commune and Styx can't believe he found his wolf eyes girl again.
"Well, I hope that I don't fall in love with you,
'cause falling in love just makes me blue."
Due to his responsibility as the club President and the danger they were in, Styx decided to put Mae under one of his men care, Rider. At this time, Styx was with his usual club girl, Lois. I don't understand why did some people said Styx cheated, which in fact he was not with Mae at this point. So according to my evaluation, there is no cheating. You don't even get the details of the sex, so don't worry about it.
"You have light within you, Styx, and I feel it shining through like the rays of the midday sun. It is beautiful."
For the first time, Mae was experiencing freedom and life. She realized that people outside are not the devil as she perceived them to be and the true evil are the elders in the cult. While, Styx was avoiding her, she strike up a close friendship with Rider, the man who was assigned to take care of her. But she never once stop missing Styx and his kindness towards her.
"You say it aint youwho is good and who will keep me safe, but you already have."
The possibility of a love triangle make me damn uncomfortable. I'm the kind of reader who hates reading that stuff. There were some angst going on and what make it bearable for me is that Mae was very decisive on who she love from the very beginning. In her heart, there is only Styx, the boy she met all those years ago. Styx was being aggressive when he knew of Rider's intention but I like the fact that he fight for what belongs to him. He is the gang President after all and violence in inevitable. Nonetheless, I was hoping Mae handled the situation much better if she was not so naive about human nature.
I'm not enjoying the hint of love triangle here. Urg! But after I finish the book, I came to understand we need those unpleasant stuff to happen to make the climax work and make me felt so emotionally invested, to make me turn page after page anxiously.
Considering there were so much fornication going on in the club, I was surprised by the lack of sex scene between Styx and Mae. There were some intense sex, but there isn't a really long drawn one that make my toe curl. Anyway, there were so much shit going on that it don't bother me that much.
There were some pretty nasty violence and the climax took place when Mae was hunted down by the elders. Will Styx be able to save his old lady? We also have some big revelation and surprises along the way. I really hope that asshole die.
This is a standalone with a HEA, but the epilogue hinted at something more at work next. Seriously, Flame, the psychopathic one need his own book, but I was hoping it won't be another chick from the religious cult. Anyway, we will see how it goes.
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