This version is the new stable, supported version of SyncEvolution. Compared to the last 1.4.99.4 pre-release only minor changes were done (see below). This section summarizes the changes since the last stable release, 1.4.1.
Based on community feedback and discussions, the terminology used in SyncEvolution for configuration, local sync and database access was revised. Some usability issues with setting up access to databases were addressed.
Interoperability with WebDAV servers and in particular Google Contacts was enhanced considerably. Access to iCloud contacts was reported as working when using username=foobar@icloud.com and password, but is not formally tested. Syncing with iCloud calendars ran into a server limitation (reported as 17001498 "CalDAV REPORT drops calendar data") and needs further work (FDO #72133).
Contact data gets converted to and from the format typically used by CardDAV servers, so now anniversary, spouse, manager, assistant and instant message information are exchanged properly. Custom labels get stored in EDS as extensions and no longer get lost when updating some other aspects of a contact. However, Evolution does not show custom labels and removes them when editing a property which has a custom label (BGO #730636).
Scanning for CardDAV/CalDAV resources was enhanced. It now finds additional calendars with Google CalDAV. For Google, the obsolete SyncML config template was removed and CalDAV/CardDAV were merged into a single "Google" template.
Using Google Calendar/Contacts with OAuth2 authentication on a headless server becomes a bit easier: it is possible to set up access on one system with a GUI using either gSSO or GNOME Online Accounts, then take the OAuth2 refresh token and use it in SyncEvolution on a different system. See the oauth2 backend README for details. syncevolution.org binaries do not include this feature.
The PIM Manager API also supports Google Contact syncing. Some problems with suspending a PBAP sync were fixed. Suspend/abort can be tested with the sync.py example.
Performance is better for local syncs and PBAP caching. The most common case, a two-way sync with no changes on either side, no longer rewrites any meta data files. CPU consumption during local sync was reduced to one third by exchanging messages via shared memory instead of internal D-Bus. Redundant vCard decode/encode on the sending side of PBAP and too agressive flushing of meta data during a normal sync were removed.
The EDS memo backend is able to switch between syncing in plain text and iCalendar 2.0 VJOURNAL automatically.
Graham Cobb fixed some all-day conversion issues in activesyncd. The updated version is part of the 1.5 release on syncevolution.org.
The word "source" implies reading, while in fact access is read/write. "datastore" avoids that misconception. Writing it in one word emphasizes that it is single entity.
While renaming, also remove references to explicit --*-property parameters. The only necessary use today is "--sync-property ?" and "--datastore-property ?".
--datastore-property was used instead of the short --store-property because "store" might be mistaken for the verb. It doesn't matter that it is longer because it doesn't get typed often.
--source-property must remain valid for backward compatility.
As many user-visible instances of "source" as possible got replaced in text strings by the newer term "datastore". Debug messages were left unchanged unless some regex happened to match it.
The source code will continue to use the old variable and class names based on "source".
Various documentation enhancements: Better explain what local sync is and how it involves two sync configs. "originating config" gets introduces instead of just "sync config".
Better explain the relationship between contexts, sync configs, and source configs ("a sync config can use the datastore configs in the same context").
An entire section on config properties in the terminology section. "item" added (Todd Wilson correctly pointed out that it was missing).
Less focus on conflict resolution, as suggested by Graham Cobb.
Fix examples that became invalid when fixing the password storage/lookup mechanism for GNOME keyring in 1.4.
The "command line conventions", "Synchronization beyond SyncML" and "CalDAV and CardDAV" sections were updated. It's possible that the other sections also contain slightly incorrect usage of the terminology or are simply out-dated.
Previously, only syncURL=local://@ was allowed and used the "target-config@context name" config as target side in the local sync.
Now "local://config-name@context-name" or simply "local://config-name" are also allowed. "target-config" is still the fallback if only a context is give.
It also has one more special meaning: "--configure target-config@google" will pick the "Google" template automatically because it knows that the intention is to configure the target side of a local sync. It does not know that when using some other name for the config, in which case the template (if needed) must be specified explicitly.
The process name in output from the target side now also includes the configuration name if it is not the default "target-config".
When configuring a new sync config, the command line checks whether a datastore is usable before enabling it. If no datastores were listed explicitly, only the usable ones get enabled. If unusable datastores were explicitly listed, the entire configure operation fails.
This check was based on listing databases, which turned out to be too unspecific for the WebDAV backend: when "database" was set to some URL which is good enough to list databases, but not a database URL itself, the sources where configured with that bad URL.
Now a new SyncSource::isUsable() operation is used, which by default just falls back to calling the existing Operations::m_isEmpty. In practice, all sources either check their config in open() or the m_isEmpty operation, so the source is usable if no error is enountered.
For WebDAV, the usability check is skipped because it would require contacting a remote server, which is both confusing (why does a local configure operation need the server?) and could fail even for valid configs (server temporarily down). The check was incomplete anyway because listing databases gave a fixed help text response when no credentials were given. For usability checking that should have resulted in "not usable" and didn't.
The output during the check was confusing: it always said "listing databases" without giving a reason why that was done. The intention was to give some feedback while a potentially expensive operation ran. Now the isUsable() method itself prints "checking usability" if (and only if!) such a check is really done.
Sometimes datastores were checked even when they were about to be configure as "disabled" already. Now checking such datastores is skipped.
These messages get printed at the start of processing each SyncML message. This is not particularly useful and just adds noise to the output.
When configuring a WebDAV server with username = email address and no URL (which is possible if the server supports service discovery via the domain in the email address), then storing the credentials in the GNOME keyring used to fail with "cannot store password in GNOME keyring, not enough attributes".
That is because GNOME keyring seemed to get confused when a network login has no server name and some extra safeguards were added to SyncEvolution to avoid this.
To store the credentials in the case above, the email address now gets split into user and domain part and together get used to look up the password.
A local sync or Bluetooth sync do not need the 'username' property. When it is set despite that, issue a warning.
Previously, the value was checked even when not needed, which caused such syncs to fail when set to something other than a plain username.
When syncing memos with a peer which also supports iCalendar 2.0 as data format, the engine will now pick iCalendar 2.0 instead of converting to/from plain text. The advantage is that some additional properties like start date and categories can also be synchronized.
The code is a lot simpler, too, because the EDS specific iCalendar 2.0 <-> text conversion code can be removed.
It used to be necessary to specify a CA file for libsoup to enable SSL certificate checking. Nowadays libsoup uses the default CA store unless told otherwise, so the check in SyncEvolution became obsolete. However, now there is a certain risk that no SSL checking is done although the user asked for it (when libsoup is not recent enough or compiled correctly).
Google has turned off their SyncML server, so the corresponding "Google Contacts" template became useless and needs to be removed. It gets replaced by a "Google" template which combines the three different URLs currently used by Google for CalDAV/CardDAV.
This new template can be used to configure a "target-config@google" with default calendar and address book database already enabled. The actual URL of these databases will be determined during the first sync using them.
The template relies on the WebDAV backend's new capability to search multiple different entries in the syncURL property for databases. To avoid listing each calendar twice (once for the legacy URL, once with the new one) when using basic username/password authentication, the backend needs a special case for Google and detect that the legacy URL does not need to be checked.
New backend implements identity provider for obtaining OAuth2 access token for systems without HMI support. Access token is obtained by making direct HTTP request to OAuth2 server and using refresh token obtained by user in some other way. New provider automatically updates stored refresh token when OAuth2 server is issuing new one.
Static build was broken for gSSO and UOA (wrong path name to .la file) and gSSO was not enabled properly (wrong condition check).
When using "raw/text/calendar" or "raw/text/vcard" as SyncEvolution "databaseFormat", all parsing and conversion is skipped. The backend's data is identical to the item data in the engine. Finding duplicates in a slow sync is very limited when using these types because the entire item data must match exactly.
This is useful for the file backend when the goal is to store an exact copy of what a peer has or for limited, read-only backends (PBAP). The downside of using the raw types is that the peer is not given accurate information about which vCard or iCalendar properties are supported, which may cause some peers to not send all data.
When sending a VEVENT, DESCRIPTION was set to the SUMMARY if empty. This may have been necessary for some peers, but for notes (= VJOURNAL) we don't know that (hasn't been used in the past) and don't want to alter the item unnecessarily, so skip that part and allow empty DESCRIPTION.
When receiving a plain text note, the "text/calendar+plain" type used to store the first line as summary and the rest as description. This may be correct in some cases and wrong in others.
The EDS backend implemented a different heuristic: there the first line is copied into the summary and stays in the description. This makes a bit more sense (the description alone is always enough to understand the note). Therefore and to avoid behavioral changes for EDS users when switching the EDS backend to use text/calendar+plain, the engine now uses the same approach.
The Synthesis API does not say explicitly, but in practice all map items get updated in a tight loop. Rewriting the m_mappingNode (case insensitive string comparisons) and serialization to disk (std::ostrstream) consume a significant amount of CPU cycles and cause extra disk writes that can be avoided by making some assumptions about the sequence of API calls and flushing only once.
Encoding/decoding of the uint8_t array in D-Bus took a surprisingly large amount of CPU cycles relative to the rest of the SyncML message processing. Now the actual data resides in memory-mapped temporary files and the D-Bus messages only contain offset and size inside these files. Both sides use memory mapping to read and write directly.
For caching 1000 contacts with photos on a fast laptop, total sync time roughly drops from 6s to 3s.
To eliminate memory copies, memory handling in libsynthesis or rather, libsmltk is tweaked such that it allocates the buffer used for SyncML message data in the shared memory buffer directly. This relies on knowledge of libsmltk internals, but those shouldn't change and if they do, SyncEvolution will notice ("unexpected send buffer").
The sync meta data (sync anchors, client change log) get updated after a sync even if nothing changed and the existing meta data could be used again. This can be skipped for local sync, because then SyncEvolution can ensure that both sides skip updating the meta data. With a remote SyncML server that is not possible and thus SyncEvolution has to update its data.
It is based on the observation that when the server side calls SaveAdminData, the client has sent its last message and the sync is complete. At that point, SyncEvolution can check whether anything has changed and if not, skip saving the server's admin data and stop the sync without sending the real reply to the client.
Instead the client gets an empty message with "quitsync" as content type. Then it takes shortcuts to close down without finalizing the sync engine, because that would trigger writing of meta data changes. The server continues its shutdown normally.
This optimization is limited to syncs with a single source, because the assumption about when aborting is possible is harder to verify when multiple sources are involved.
When set to 0 or less, the chunk size is not getting adapted at all while still using transfers in chunks.
This avoids the redundant parse/generate step on the sending side of the PBAP sync.
By default, the new API freezes a sync by stopping to consume data on the local side of the sync.
In addition, the information that the sync is freezing is now also handed down to the transport and all sources. In the case of PBAP caching, the local transport notifies the child where the PBAP source then uses Bluez 5.15 Transfer1.Suspend/Resume to freeze/thaw the actual OBEX transfer.
If that fails (for example, not implemented because Bluez is too old or the transfer is still queueing), then the transfer gets cancelled and the entire sync fails. This is desirable for PBAP caching and Bluetooth because a failed sync can easily be recovered from (just start it again) and the overall goal is to free up Bluetooth bandwidth quickly.
The main advantage is that processed data can be discarded immediately. When using a plain file, the entire address book must be stored in it.
The drawback is that obexd does not react well to a full pipe. It simply gets stuck in a blocking write(); in other words, all obexd operations get frozen and obexd stops responding on D-Bus.
This adds "protocol: CardDAV" as a valid value, with corresponding changes to the interpretation of some existing properties and some new ones. The API itself is not changed.
Suspending a CardDAV sync is possible. This freezes the internal SyncML message exchange, so data exchange with the CardDAV server may continue for a while after SuspendPeer().
Photo data is always downloaded immediately. The "pbap-sync" flag in SyncPeerWithFlags() has no effect.
Syncing can be configured to be one-way (local side is read-only cache) or two-way (local side is read/write). Meta data must be written either way, to speed up caching or allow two-way syncing. The most common case (no changes on either side) will have to be optimized such that existing meta data is not touched and thus no disk writes occur.
A SuspendPeer() only succeeded while the underlying Bluetooth transfer was active. Outside of that, Bluez errors caused SyncEvolution to attempt a cancelation of the transfer and stopped the sync.
When the transfer was still queueing, obexd returns org.bluez.obex.Error.NotInProgress. This is difficult to handle for SyncEvolution: it cannot prevent the transfer from starting and has to let it become active before it can suspend the transfer. Canceling would lead to difficult to handle error cases (like partially parsed data) and therefore is not done.
The Bluez team was asked to implement suspending of queued transfers (see "org.bluez.obex.Transfer1 Suspend/Resume in queued state" on linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org), so this case might not happen anymore with future Bluez.
When the transfer completes before obexd processes the Suspend(), org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject gets returned by obexd. SyncEvolution can ignore errors which occur after the active transfer completed. In addition, it should prevent starting the next one. This may be relevant for transfer in chunks, although the sync engine will also stop asking for data and thus typically no new transfer gets triggered anyway.
CTRL-C while waiting for the end of a sync causes an interactive prompt to appear where one can choose been suspend/resume/abort and continuing to wait. CTRL-C again in the prompt aborts the script.
This adds GetPeerStatus() and "progress" events. Progress is reported based on the "item received" Synthesis event and the total item count. A modified libsynthesis is needed where the SyncML binfile client on the target side of the local sync actually sends the total item count (via NumberOfChanges). This cannot be done yet right at the start of the sync, only the second SyncML message will have it. That is acceptable, because completion is reached very quickly anyway for syncs involving only one message.
At the moment, SyncContext::displaySourceProgress() holds back "item received" events until a different event needs to be emitted. Progress reporting might get more fine-grained when adding allowing held back events to be emitted at a fixed rate, every 0.1s. This is not done yet because it seems to work well enough already.
For testing and demonstration purposes, sync.py gets command line arguments for setting progress frequency and showing progress either via listening to signals or polling.
The is new API and flag grant control over the PBAP sync mode.
Occassionally, syncevo-dbus-server locked up after receiving a CTRL-C. This primarily affected nightly testing, in particular (?) on Ubuntu Lucid.
When using GIO, it is possible to avoid the DBusServer listening on a publicly accessible address. Connection setup becomes more reliable, too, because the D-Bus server side can detect that a child died because the connection will be closed.
When using libdbus, the traditional server/listen and client/connect model is still used.
When aborting, our AbortHandler gets called to close down logging. This may involve memory allocation, which is unsafe. In FDO #76375, a deadlock on a libc mutex was seen.
To ensure that the process shuts down anyway, install an alarm and give the process five seconds to shut down before the SIGALRM signal will kill it.
After changing PBAP to send raw items, caching them led to unnecessary disk writes and bogus "contacts changed" reports. That's because the merge script relied on the exact order of properties, which was only the same when doing the redundant decode/encode on the PBAP side.
Instead of reverting back to sending re-encoded items, better enhance the contact merge script such that it detects contacts as unchanged when just the order of entries in the property arrays is different. This relies on an enhanced libsynthesis with the new RELAXEDCOMPARE() and modified MERGEFIELDS().
The more complex "avoid data loss during merging" scripting ran for longer than 5s limit under extreme conditions (full logging, busy system, running under valgrind), which resulted in aborting the script and a 10500 "local internal error" sync failure.
The shared providersignon.so ended up being compiled with "gsso" as prefix for the username. There also was a problem with invalid reference counting.
These binaries include the "sync-ui" GTK GUI and were compiled for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid), except for ActiveSync binaries which were compiled for Debian Wheezy, Ubuntu Saucy and Ubuntu Trusty. The packages mentioned above are meta-packages which pull in suitable packages matching the distro during installation.


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The Cargo Cults of USA – Part II
Posted on 16 July 2014 by Laleh Khalili
In an extraordinary essay titled "The Smell of Infrastructure," Bruce Robbins argues that the scaffolding of our lives, the infrastructure that carries shit and coal and lobsters and water and electricity is often made invisible. He has a rousing call to arms:
Infrastructure needs to be made visible, of course, in order to see how our present landscape is the product of past projects, past struggles, past corruption—for example, how public transport lost out to the private automobile only because tax dollars were diverted to roads, effectively lowering the price of cars. But we also need to make infrastructure visible as a guide to the struggles of the present (p 32).
That is what John McPhee does in his divine Uncommon Carriers, which is his beautiful ethnography of coal trains and hazmat trucks, river and lake barges, and extraordinarily, of UPS. I think most of the chapters in this volume have been New Yorker essays, but it's their adjacency that makes them so powerful. This is a kind of ballad of transport, a decidedly humanist take on the technological sublime, and although its politics are nowhere as radical as Alan Sekula's extraordinary work, it carries something of the poetry, something of the humility and curiosity and intelligence that make Sekula's work so much the best thing there is out there on transportation.
My own favourites in the volume are the chapters on the coal trains – miles long and incredibly powerful- and on the riverine transport. We learn a lot about how coal trains have become the norm in the central plains of the US. And I was surprised to read that with the mines in Wyoming's Powder River Basin becoming "the largest coal mines in the history of the world" (p 194), the decline of rail in the US was arrested; or that "the coal thing would revolutionize American railroads, slow the spread of creeping desuetude, reverse -to a large extent- their antiquation. Before the end of the twentieth century, it would all but jam solid the busiest trackage"; or that this "was the direct economic result of the Clean Air Act of 1970" (p 193).
The chapter on riverine trade is a beautiful complement to the chapter on rails, not least because McPhee's direct comparison with the rails reminds me so much of China Mieville's Railsea (a kind of landbased Moby Dick taking place on a tangled skein of rails):
All day long as I look out from the pilothouse I can't help thinking, and thinking again, that this river is as natural as a railroad track. Its corridors are framed in artifice. The pool above the damn at LaGrange is eighty miles long. The State of Illinois and the US Army Corps of Engineers have accomplished such extensive alterations that restoration is beyond reason. [..Within the river's] straightened sides it is really a canal, and it has been a route of freight transportation since Colonial times. […] Navigational dredging began in the eighteen-fifties, but the rearrangement of nature did not really become earnest until the eighteen-nineties and the early twentieth century, when many hundreds of miles of levees were constructed not only along the river but also around segments of its floodplains -those bottomland lakes, ponds, marshes, and sloughs- which were drained by a system of ditches and pumps, "reclaiming" acreage for agriculture (p 94).
McPhee writes about the military usage of these rivers, and of course all transportation infrastructure in the US are considered strategic assets [pdf]:
But what really strikes me in the book is the chapter on the logistics firm, UPS:
UPS once leased old gas stations, furnished them with sawhorses under four-by-eight plywood sheets, and used the old gas stations as centers for sorting packages. How they have the Worldport, as they call it -a sorting facility that requires four million square feet of floor space and is under one roof. Its location is more than near the Louisville International Airportl it is between the airport's parallel runways on five hundred and fifty acres that are owned not by the country, state, or city but by the UPS. The hub is half a mile south of the passenger terminal, which it dwarfs. If you were to walk all the way around the hub's exterior, along the white walls, you would hike five miles. You would walk under the noses of 727s, 747s, 757s, 767s, DC-8s, MD-115s, A-300s – the fleet of heavies that UPS refers to as "browntails." Basically, the hub is a large rectangle with three long concourses slanting out from one side to dock airplanes. The walls are white because there is no practical way to air-condition so much cavernous space (p 163).
What is striking about this is the extent to which the infrastructure we consider public is no longer such a thing. That the ownership of the "public" spaces and access to such ostensibly public goods as airport runways has passed to mega-corporations such as UPS is completely normalised.
McPhee also beautifully conveys the way the space is used inside the UPS hangar has become a kind of a parody of a dystopian vision of industrlialisations, something like Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times:
or Monsters Inc.:
Here is McPhee:
A hundred and twenty-two miles of belts and monorails… You see packages in every direction moving on a dozen levels and two principal floors, which are perforated by spaces that allow the belts to climb to all levels and descend ultimately to the level of the airplanes. Over all, this labyrinth, which outthinks the people who employ it, is something like the interior of the computers that run it. Like printed circuitry, seven great loops, each a thousand feet around, are superposed at right angles above other loops… Unending sequences of letters and small packages zip around these loops, while the larger packages follow one another on the belts, each package tailgating the one in front of it but electronically forbidden to touch it…. Somewhere around each primary loop is one of three hundred and sixty-four positions where a given parcel will suddenly depart for another loop, where there are three hundred and sixty-four additional positions, at one of which the package will continue its quest to school up with like-minded packages (pp 166-167).
But what is fascinating is something I had no idea about. That UPS is now expanding into provision of services that have other companies' names on them (sometimes even, UPS provides these services under nondisclosure agreements): "Over recent years, FedEx, of Memphis, has been chasing UPS in ground transportation of packages with about the same intensity that UPS has displayed in competing with FedEx in overnight deliveries… The root criterion impelling UPS and FedEx appears to that a healthy business grows, expands, and must go on indefinitely expanding, or it dies" (p 169). And this expansion entails taking over for repair of Toshiba laptops in UPS hangars, it stores and ships Bentley parts and specialist pet food. It warehouses and dispatches Jocket underwear. "UPS calls this relatively new part of its business UPS Supply Chain Solutions" (pp. 171-172).
What is most despiriting in the story McPhee tells is the story of the workers who work for UPS:
Some five thousand workers come nightly to the sort, but few of them ever touch a package, which is largely what the hub is about, as it carries automation off the scale of comprehension. After a package comes out of a can [a standard aluminum container] and is about to zing around in belts and chutes and into on-ramps and down straightaways as fast as an athlete can run, the first of the two handlers -package under eyeball- applies the live human factor, making a couple of crucial but not irreversible decisions: the package is to be placed on the correct choice among three adjacent belts, and the package is to go off on its ride label-side up. Sortation used to require a more complex application of human thought, but in the development of the UPS air hub the intellectual role of the workers "out in the sort" underwent a process of "de-skilling." "When they made the hub, they de-skilled a lot of positions," a UPS manager explained to me. "Label-side up. That's pretty much the extent of the training for these folks" (p 164).
In the context of capitalism, automated or semi-automated work is soulless, repetitive, exhausting. It requires no thinking, makes the labourers expendable. And interestingly, the meteoric expansion of automation has meant that with the declining need for labour, a great deal of capital can be "re-shored" in industrial countries, precisely because labour costs are not an issue [of course there is controversy about automation – and many a Marxist argues that such automation can be emancipatory, though of course in a socialist context. But where "work is scarce," Peter Frase argues in The Jacobin, "political horizons tend to narrow, as critiques of the quality of work give way to the desperate search for work of any kind."]
But the workers who only have to place the packages label-side up are not the only people working for UPS. There is also a skilled workforce that tries to correct ordinary human error in labeling of packages:
A package going through Louisville is scanned as many as six times in the hub alone… The label is read, the weight and dimensions registered. The label is digitally photographed. If something is wrong, as is not infrequently the case, the system calls the package an "exception." […] In the Telecode Office, a large room at the edge of the core, row of telecoders bend toward computer monitors and study bad labels in digital imagery. Telecoders have twenty to thrity seconds to rectify the labels in an electronic way, which, usually they are able to do, tapping at their keyboards. […]
A large percentage of the people at the computers appear to be college students, and that is what they are. While automation has de-skilled the sort from the human point of view, shrinking the population around the belts, it is at the same time burning the midnight oil of college students in order to overcome its blemishes. Automation alone will not do everything for eight million packages a week, and UPS is so needful of reliable part-time employees that it has embraced the field of education as if it were a private university. It recruits students. It pays tuitions. It gives medical benefits and assistance with housing.[…] UPS is both the founder and the endowment of Metropolitan College, which has classrooms at the hub and also outsources its students to the University of Louisville, Jefferson Community College, and Jefferson Technical College. One semester at a time,the college signs contracts with the students, committing them to attend classes by day and work in the small hours for the UPS Next Day Air operation.Whether this is an academic bonanza or indentured servitude is in the eye of the scholar (pp 176-177).
In the context of the US, where education is everything and everything costs money, money spent for education binds the workers to the firm: "The [student] loan is the only thing that relates to staying time [i.e.working at UPS] – four years for eight thousand dollars" (p. 179). Many of these workers "are single parents, seventy per cent are female, and the median age is thirty-four" (p. 180).
And there are the on-call hyper-skilled workers as well:
Every night around the network, UPS has something thirteen airplanes and thirty-two crew members ready but unassigned. They sit and wait for trouble to arise… The UPS term for this is "hot spares." In Louisville or elsewhere, the light lights up, a siren goes off, and a loud-speaker says, "Activate the hot spare!" Hot-spare crews report to work each evening and go out to the ramp to pre-trip their plane. They they wait. They arrive at seven and go home at three in the morning. If they are triggered by a call to "replace a mechanical" or "rescue that volume!," they have thirty minutes to get their planes off the ground (p 183).
Many of these pilots have been trained by the military – paid for publicly, and the training and skills are taken to the UPS.
There is something about this whole package: unskilled, semi-skilled, and hyper-skilled workers embedded in a vast network which includes the military and universities (both as providers of training to the work-force) whose elucidation is to me the signal achievement of McPhee's UPS chapter.
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Police fatally shoot man found on subway tunnel tracks
4 years 4 months 6 days ago Friday, March 13 2015 Mar 13, 2015 March 13, 2015 1:03 AM March 13, 2015 in News
Source: Associated Press
By: Hunter Robinson
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Transit police in Washington, D.C. fatally shot a man after responding to a call about an "unauthorized person" on the tracks in a subway tunnel.
Metro Transit Police spokesman Mike Tolbert said the shooting happened at the Potomac Avenue station Thursday night. Tolbert said he had no details about the man, what he was doing in the tunnel, or what prompted police to shoot him. He said no officers were injured.
Tolbert said the Transit Police received the call a little before 9 p.m. He said Washington, D.C., police are leading the investigation into the shooting.
The Potomac Avenue station was closed following the shooting. Tolbert said the orange, silver and blue lines that normally stop there were bypassing the station in both directions.
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Ferugson Police look for shooter after two...
Ferugson Police look for shooter after two officers wounded


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Reclaiming our word: a revolution
Andrew Breland, The Elephant in the Room
Most people reading this will expect a long-winded response to the gun rights/gun control debate happening in Washington and across the country. After all, what is a Republican to do but defend the Godly, prophetic positions of the NRA and lambast the liberal/socialist/statist/progressive kings who want to take away my rights to buy a weapon with which I can destroy the tank attacking my house?
Alternatively, perhaps I want to buy a weapon with which I can shoot down that hospital helicopter that flies over my residence hall, annoyingly keeping me awake at 10 o'clock every night.
Instead, I have a bigger, more pressing issue to attend to: revolution.
Most Americans balk at that word. What is a revolution? What does it mean? In this country, revolution takes on the connotations of overthrowing the government or other controlling paradigm. History, though, presents a different definition.
Throughout history, we examine such feats as the Industrial Revolution, the Agricultural Revolution, and the Sexual Revolution. We study and pore over records of "revolutionary" discoveries in medicine, physics, art, and music. Maybe the more effective definition of the word comes from John Lennon, who once compared a revolution to changing the world.
But therein lies the problem. A revolution is not simply something that changes the world. If that were the case, then every day, in every city, in every country, a revolution occurs. Then some people have the ability to cause massive revolutions, without even realizing it.
Imagine what the world would do if the Procter and Gamble Corporation ceased to produce Pantene. Imagine what the world would say if Twining's of London changed their tea recipe, or if Zinedine Zidane retired from playing soccer. No, that definition of a revolution does not work either.
During the first few days of classes, I have been subject to lectures on subjects ranging from the development of a children's literature genre, modern perceptions of mental illness, and the beginnings of population growth after the Black Death.
But out of everything this week, the fact that remained with me was nothing academic: that is, nothing that will help my grade. Instead, it was an assertion that the American Revolution was not a revolution at all.
Read that line again. The American Revolution was not a revolution at all. Curious, is it not? Even more curious is the assertion that accompanied it, that the French Revolution was a true revolution that changed the course of Western civilization.
For the Americans without the desire or time to research the French Revolution, an extremely condensed description is that over the course of 10 years, from 1789 with the fall of the French monarchy to 1799 with the rise of Napoleon, France was in turmoil adapting and testing the newly published ideas of the Enlightenment and Renaissance in different governmental systems. A deeper description would include details of the Reign of Terror, the French Republic, and the political dealings that led to the eventual ascension of a dictator in France.
The difference in the American and French Revolutions comes in the first, simpler definition though. The American Revolution was about self-governance and improper taxation. The French Revolution was concerned with a total reformation of the social and political paradigm in France.
Prior to the Revolution, Napoleon was a French soldier with ambition. After, he was Emperor of France. On the American side, leadership never changed. George Washington, the former British commander and member of the Continental Congress, became the commander of the American forces and later President of the U.S. John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress, became Governor of Massachusetts. Leadership never changed hands, only got shifted around.
There will be those who argue that the American Revolution was about important things. Self-determination, representative government, and democracy are chiefly among them. And I could not disagree. But thanks to French thinkers and revolutionaries, we have separation of powers, checks and balances, the "social contract," and a worldwide movement for peace. If nothing else, the French Revolution inspired the world to pursue a lasting peace, rather than a continual struggle for supremacy.
(The virility of that statement is certainly questionable, vis à vis the Berlin Conference, Prussian Wars, and July Revolution, the latter of which you can learn about, in a rough sense, in "Les Misérables.") A revolution is not simply world changing, but world altering, ushering in a new era or paradigm – a new model of what "it" means.
The American Revolution will always be just that, a revolution. And the French version is no different. But the thought certainly presupposes something else. It presupposes that we should abandon personal quibbles and unimportant minutia of our daily lives and turn our attention to the larger issues in society.
But what can we do?
Perhaps we should stop bickering over the size of guns in our closet and begin to address the problems that lead individuals to kill one another. Perhaps we could work together to find a solution to the nation's largest problems; there are many. And maybe, just maybe, we could do something extraordinary: return our country to its position on the world's stage, the pinnacle of a forever-long hierarchy, a model for the future.
Now that could be revolutionary.


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Childrearing
The process by which the child gains the knowledge and skills needed to function successfully in adult society is called socialization. The chief agency of socialization in modern western societies is the family, since it has full and nearly exclusive access to the child doing the early, most formative years. Other agencies, particularly the school and the church, supplement the family's socialization role.
Childrearing is therefore a function of all those agencies and institutions that affect a child's learning process: school, church, peer groups, family, television, motion pictures, and all other settings that provide educational experiences. Nevertheless, the most basic learnings -- language, personal habits, work skills, values, etc. -- are gained in the family context before other agencies have much access to the child. Although it is generally agreed that the family is still the primary socializing agency, social scientists have noted that many family functions are being transferred to other agencies, in part at least. Nurseries and child-care centers are only the most recent of 20th-century agencies to take over aspects of child training. A major issue is whether the shift of childrearing functions away from the family enhances or impedes the process of preparing, children for adult life (Bender, 90).
At the heart of the socialization process is the inculcation of the basic beliefs, values, attitudes, and social mores that will guide the individual into socially accepted and responsible adult roles. That is, a well-socialized individual will accept, rather than reject, the values of society, and not become a social deviant.
Within a religious context, the highest values are those centered in doctrinal beliefs and in the ethical and moral standards advanced by the churches. Therefore, the goal of childrearing within religious groups, Mennonites as well its others, is to help each generation of children and young people to reach a level of spiritual maturity that will cause them to accept and remain within the framework of their religious heritage. It appears that parents in all societies hope their children will adopt and support the faith of their fathers and mothers in general, if not in all particulars. If the children reject the faith, it is somehow a reflection upon the process of parenting.
Since within the Mennonite context individuals are not incorporated into the body of the church through infant baptism it becomes doubly important that the religious socialization process be successful. Otherwise the developing youth will not accept through individual choice membership in their parents' church. Mennonites have thus supported a strong teaching program, both within the home and the church, that emphasizes the spiritual values to be inculcated.
To understand the Mennonite context, it may be helpful to posit two contrasting approaches to childrearing: a conservative view and a liberal view. The conservative view holds that the body of religious knowledge has already been given and it is the task of each generation of parents to "train up children in the way they should go," so that when the children are older (i.e., adults) they "will not depart from it" (Proverbs 22:6). It is assumed that the desired results will be achieved through a strong indoctrination program. This is a somewhat pessimistic view which holds that, left to their own devices, i.e., to the freedom of self-determination, children will go wrong. The time-tested standards of right and wrong have been determined by religious authority of the Bible and the church leadership, and are not to be questioned or altered. The child will become a responsible adult only if properly trained and, if necessary, disciplined. Certain social boundaries are imposed so that the child will not be faced by "the temptations of the world." In its more extreme manifestations, child training and discipline is embedded in a doctrine of "spare the rod and spoil the child." If the child shows tendencies to rebelliousness, his "will must be broken." The authority of parent over child is buttressed by a larger system of authority figures, normally male, who administer the "rules and discipline" and order the social structures of church and community beyond the family.
The liberal approach posits a more optimistic view of the individual, rooted in the findings of mid-20th century social psychology and psychiatry. This argues that, given an emotional climate of love, trust, and acceptance in the home, the developing individual will come to accept the values of' the social system, not because he is required to do so under pain of punishment if he does not, but because he has warm and kindly feelings toward those people (parents, teachers, etc.) who model and teach the system's prevailing values. There is an emphasis on the need for the individual to accept these values on the basis of mature personal choice rather than imposition by authorities. Imposition by authorities in this view, is thought more likely to lead to a child's perceived lack of freedom and consequent rebelliousness.
Hutterite, Amish, and Mennonite families are ranged along a continuum between these contrasting philosophies of childrearing. The Hutterite, Old Order Amish, Old Order Mennonite, and Old Colony Mennonite family systems reflect the conservative view. Various social and cultural boundaries (language, church-operated schools, denial of radio, television, etc.) are maintained in order to limit the child's contact with the outside world. Few occupational choices beyond farming or closely related trades are available. Travel is limited. The whole socialization process is based on the assumption that the outside world is evil, and children can be safely reared only within the limits of the isolated colony or religious community in which the children receive clearly defined and unmixed messages as to what is right and what is wrong with respect to how life is to he lived and how one should think and believe.
The more modernized Mennonite groups reflect the liberal view of child development, being influenced by the social sciences (psychology, professional education, family sociology) and the philosophies of individualism and personal freedom. Mennonite educators stress the importance of positive reinforcement rather than negative sanctions; parental guidance by word and example, rather than corporal punishment; and the child's assumption of responsibility for her own choices and decisions as early as her age and maturity will permit. The qualities of love, acceptance, security, and a sense of belongingness are emphasized ("Christian Family Relationships," 1959). A Mennonite psychiatrist found that rigidities and strict discipline of children in some families yields parent-child conflicts that result in alienation, depression, and other child personality disorders (Loux, 1961).
In support of these views, Kauffman's survey of Midwest Mennonite families indicated that teenagers were more likely to accept Mennonite values when the parents themselves had a high acceptance of' those values and when the quality of emotional relationships between child and the parents was higher (Kauffman, 1960). The same study revealed that the quality of interpersonal relationships (child-parent, husband-wife) was somewhat greater when authority was shared more equally between father and mother than when one parent dominated the other. Thus childrearing outcomes appear to be improved when traditional patriarchal models of family organization and discipline are replaced with more democratic, authority-sharing patterns. Subsequent research indicated that the quality of child-parent relationships is best when the child perceives a high level of affection from parents, combined with a perceived low level of disciplinary control. Child rebelliousness is more likely to result when the child experiences a high level of parental control and a low level of parental affection.
Mennonite doctrine holds that the infant or small child is not sinful by nature, but that at "the age of accountability" the child should acknowledge his sin, accept the sacrificial atonement of Christ for his sin through confession and forgiveness, and be baptized into the fellowship of the church (Mennonite Confession of Faith, 1963). In the absence of infant baptism, in some congregations it is customary for parents to present themselves and their infant in a service of dedication in which they pledge themselves to rear the child in the Christian faith. The appropriateness of this ceremony is stated in the 1963 Mennonite (MC) Confession of Faith.
Baptism is one evidence of parental success in childrearing, since the major goal of bringing the child to acceptance of the parents' faith is thereby signified. Among the more conservative groups, baptism occurs just prior to marriage, signifying the individual's readiness to come under the rules and discipline of the church. Among the more acculturated Mennonite groups, baptism usually occurs in the teen years. The 1972 church member survey indicated that the age of baptism is as early as nine or ten years in a few cases, but with median ages as follows: Mennonite Church (MC), 14.0 years; General Conference Mennonite Church, 16.4; Mennonite Brethren, 16.4; Brethren in Christ, 14.1; Evangelical Mennonite Church, 14.9 (Kauffman and Harder, 70). The higher age at baptism of the Mennonite Brethren and General Conference Mennonites appears to reflect the older age at baptism typical of more recent immigrants from Europe.
During the era of revival meetings in the United States and Canada (ca. 1920 to 1960), greater emotional pressures were put upon children and teenagers to make "commitments to Christ," and this resulted in a gradual lowering of the age at baptism, so much so that by the 1960s there was concern among these groups that children were joining the church before they were mature enough to understand the seriousness and significance of the act. Subsequently there has been a gradual increase in the age at baptism (Harder, 1971, p. 37).
Among Mennonite and related groups, it appears that the Hutterites have the lowest rate of defection of youth from their religious heritage. Hostetler reports that less than two percent of the total population, but about seven percent of males over 15 years of age, defected between 1918 and 1950. Thus the socialization of Hutterite children and youth appears to be very effective. Also the rate of mental disorders is reported to be unusually low among Hutterites (Eaton and Weil, 1955).
Among the Old Order Amish of Lancaster County, the loss rate for persons born prior to 1940 was 22 percent (Hostetler, 1980, p. 106). Data on 554 children born to Mennonite (MC) parents between 1938 and 1964, indicated that in 1979, 30 percent were not members of Mennonite churches. Twenty-four percent were members of other Christian denominations, while six percent were not members of any church, three percent having never been baptized. Other studies of membership losses, and reasons therefore, were made by Hostetler (1954) and Harder (1971, 1982), but comparable loss rates by birth cohorts were not obtained.
If success in childrearing is measured by success in the retention of offspring within the religious body, it appears that the more conservative groups have the most success. Quite different conclusions might be reached if other criteria of successful childrearing are used; for example, the proportion of youth who enter missionary, evangelistic, or service programs. Further studies need to be made before more general conclusions can be reached as to what patterns of childrearing yield the most desired results.
See also Children; Christian Education
Amstutz, H. Clair. Becoming Parents. Scottdale, 1952.
Bender, Ross T. Christians in Families. Scottdale, 1982: 78-105.
"Christian Family Relationships," Proceedings of the Study Conference on Home Interests Sponsored by the Mennonite Commission for Christian Education, held at Goshen College 28-31, 1959, unpublished, copy at Mennonite Historical Library (Goshen).
Eaton, Joseph W. and Robert J. Weil. Culture and Mental Disorders. Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press, 1955: 46-54.
Glimpses of Amish-Mennonite Homes (ca. 1906).
Harder, Leland. Factbook of Congregational Membership (GCM). Tthe author, 1971: 20-29.
Harder, Leland. Fact Book of Congregational Membership, 1980-81 (GCM). Tthe author, 1982.
Hostetler, John A. Amish Society. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980: 172-77, 106.
Hostetler, John A. Hutterite Society. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974: 201-20, 273.
Hostetler, John A. The Sociology of Mennonite Evangelism. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1954: 175-83, 220-46.
Hutterian Brethren, ed., Children in Community. Rifton, N.Y.: Plough, 1963.
Kauffman, J. Howard. "A Comparative Study of Traditional and Emergent Family Types Among Midwest Mennonites." Ph.D. diss., U. of Chicago, 1960: 126-34.
Kauffman, J. Howard and Leland Harder, eds. Anabaptists Four Centuries Later: a Profile of Five Mennonite and Brethren in Christ Denominations. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1975.
Loux, Norman. "The Home and Personality." Christian Living (March 1961: 28-30.
The Sword and Trumpet, e.g., "The Responsibility of Training Children," in vol. 55, no. 3 (Harrisonburg Va., March 1988).
J. Howard Kauffman
Kauffman, J. Howard. "Childrearing." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1989. Web. 18 Jan 2022. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Childrearing&oldid=102137.
Kauffman, J. Howard. (1989). Childrearing. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 18 January 2022, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Childrearing&oldid=102137.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 5, pp. 137-139. All rights reserved.
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University of California President Janet Napolitano's office is accused of being "tone-deaf" during UC tuition increases.
SACRAMENTO — University of California President Janet Napolitano's office spent more than $4,000 on one employee's retirement party and thousands more on other going-away, staff-appreciation and holiday parties, perks that are not typically seen in the public sector and that raise questions about lavish spending practices as the university increases tuition and fees on students.
The new details come after state auditors found $175 million in secret reserves in the office of the president, money that lawmakers said should have been disclosed to the public and the Board of Regents, which oversees the 10-campus university system.
Financial records obtained by The Chronicle through the state auditor's office Monday give some insight into spending habits in the UC president's office, but the auditor's office warned that the records it received from the university are incomplete. Auditors who examined the finances of Napolitano's office said they were blocked from accessing many documents they say would have shed light on how some of the $175 million was spent.
The itemized records that were produced show that Napolitano's office spent generously on employee retirement parties — including more than $4,200 on a retirement party in 2015 for Laine Farley, who was then the director of the UC's California Digital Library. The Chronicle identified 20 parties for departing employees that cost more than $500 between 2014 and 2016. Ten of those were more than $1,000.
Also included in the itemized spending was a dinner tab worth more than a year of tuition. The president's office paid $13,000 for dinner and security at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco for 86 people in January 2016 to honor two departing members of the Board of Regents, Fred Ruiz and Paul Wachter. Dianne Klein, a spokeswoman for Napolitano, said the regents dinners are paid for through a private endowment, not state funds.
The January 2016 dinner was one of many the president's office hosted for governing board members and guests, which were usually tied to regents meetings, Klein said. From November 2015 to May 2016, for example, the president's office paid $36,400 to host the regents dinners, as they are called in the itemized records.
Other spending highlighted in the audit was $862,000 spent on Napolitano's Oakland apartment over the past four years. That cost includes the $11,500 monthly rent for the 3,400-square-foot apartment, which is also paid through endowment funds. Klein said Napolitano, as part of her employment, is required to live in a university-owned or -leased home, and that the apartment is used for official university business.
Among the documents the auditor says UC never fully produced were those detailing foreign and out-of-state travel, catering, airfare and entertainment expenses. UC said auditors failed to ask for the right budget codes in making their request. The records that were turned over to auditors show that the president's office paid for employees to attend meetings and conferences in Bermuda, Iceland, Germany, China, India, Australia, France, Italy, Mexico and many other destinations.
Auditors said that even when they did receive financial records, vague information on other spending left them unable to determine the appropriateness, such as at least $2 million spent on cell phones and iPads over four years.
The number of cell phones and other devices issued by the president's office increased 29 percent from 2012 to 2016 . During the same period, under orders from Gov. Jerry Brown — who was working to decrease state costs — the state was drastically cutting the number of cell phones issued to state workers by an estimated 30 percent.
Acosta and other GOP lawmakers sent a letter to legislative leaders urging them to subpoena financial records from Napolitano's office. Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, D-Paramount (Los Angeles County), declined their first request. On Monday night, the Republican lawmakers sent a second letter asking Rendon to reconsider in light of The Chronicle's story that raised questions about the accuracy of Napolitano's testimony to state lawmakers.
State Auditor Elaine Howle charged that the president's office interfered with the audit and tampered with surveys intended to provide independent opinions from the 10 campuses.
"In my 17 years as state auditor, we have never had a situation like this," Howle told lawmakers during a 4½-hour hearing last week in the state Legislature to go over the findings.
Napolitano said campuses asked her office for help with the survey and apologized that the actions were seen as obstruction. However, emails released by the auditor's office, including a new batch of emails released Friday to The Chronicle, show that Napolitano's office went far beyond offering guidance, instead editing surveys and emailing campuses that they expected to see the final draft before surveys were sent to auditors.
Monica Lozano, chairwoman of the Board of Regents, said a third party will review the possible tampering.
"I hope this is a wake-up call to the Board of Regents to provide greater oversight," said Assemblyman Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, who originally asked for the state audit of Napolitano's office.
Ting and Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi, D-Torrance (Los Angeles County), plan to introduce a bill that would make it a crime to intentionally interfere with an audit in California.
"There appears to be a culture of arrogance and the need for frugality in spending state dollars," Muratsuchi said.
The audit's findings come as UC will raise annual student charges beginning this summer by $336, or nearly 3 percent, to $12,630. That includes tuition and a student services fee, which are expected to generate $143 million next year for the UC system.
Critics of the UC administration say it's tone-deaf to ask students and their parents to pay more when spending in the president's office has been steadily rising in recent years. Auditors said administrative spending in the president's office increased by 28 percent, or $80 million, from fiscal years 2012-13 to 2015-16.
"Tone-deaf is a good way of describing it," said Assemblyman Jose Medina, D-Riverside.
Napolitano's office has 60 days to provide written documentation to the auditor's office on how it is implementing recommendations from the audit. Napolitano said her office will accept all 33 recommendations from the state auditor on improved accountability and efficiency. Progress updates are also required in six months and a year.


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b) Council held that the CA was guilty of professional misconduct under Chartered Accountants Act, 1949 and recommended to the High Court that the name of the CA be removed from the Register of Members for a period of two years.
1) There was evidence on record that CA was signing the balance sheet of various companies in the capacity as a director and was also operating the bank accounts and signing various applications submitted to the bank.
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Sing Broadway
Course Dates: 29/07/19 - 02/08/19
Location: KS - Keeley Street
Richard Hartley Wilson
Gabriel Keen
Learn to perform your favourite songs from popular Broadway shows, from standard classics to modern musicals. Gain confidence in performing, and enjoy singing solo and in ensemble. Tutor: Richard Hartley Wilson.
What is the course about?
This course will cover a range of solo songs and ensembles from popular Broadway shows, in a variety of styles. If you have a particular song you have started learning, or would like to learn, please bring this to the course. You will also learn new songs chosen by the tutor.
What will we cover?
- Major songs from popular shows, both solos and ensembles.
- How to sing with feeling for the style of the song and understanding of its place in the show.
What will I achieve?
By the end of this course you should be able to...
- Perform a Broadway show tune (solo, and in a group) with confidence and in character.
- Sing as part of group in harmony.
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
From beginner to advanced, the course is open to anyone interested in singing and performing show songs.
You need to be able to sing in tune and in time, and to follow instructions in English.
How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?
- Each class will start with a physical and vocal warm up.
- You will learn through singing together and solo, with feedback from the tutor.
- You will need to be able to do some practice between the sessions.
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
If you have a song you wish to bring to the course, please provide two copies of the sheet music. The tutor will supply music for all other songs.
Please bring a notebook & pencil, and a folder for your music.
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
We offer choral singing throughout the year: Choral singing for pleasure and Choir at lunchtime (multiple dates available, please check carefully before you book).
If you are interested in joining a solo singing class, or vocal technique class please contact the music office for advice.
For more details about our vocal programme please take a moment to read our blog: Choosing a singing class at City lit which lists our full sequence of singing classes. You could also drop in to one of our advice sessions where we can hear you sing and help you choose the right course. Please bring a piece to sing with simple piano accompaniment.
General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00.
See the course guide for term dates and further details
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Tutor Biographies
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Course Code: MF931
Full Mon-Fri, eve, 29 Jul - 02 Aug '19
Duration: 5 sessions
Concession: £91.00
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Andrzej Szmidt (ur. 1933 w Lyonie, zm. 18 grudnia 2006 w Warszawie), polski poeta, członek Stowarzyszenia Pisarzy Polskich, laureat literackiej Nagrody Czesława Miłosza z 1992 roku (za tom wierszy "Skrzypeczki").

Ukończył polonistykę na Katolickim Uniwersytecie Lubelskim.   Od 1958 związany z miesięcznikiem Więź, gdzie prowadził dział poezji.  Zadebiutował w 1966 tomem poezji "Malowanki". Następnie ukazały się: "Złożenie broni", "Szczoteczka do sumienia", "Wyrok nieprawomocny", "Skrzypeczki", "Modne ubranko", "Wiersze wybrane', "Zapiski".

Jego wiersz pt. "Taki pejzaż" śpiewały Ewa Demarczyk i Wanda Warska.
Jest pochowany na cmentarzu Powązkowskim (kwatera 267-2-24).

Przypisy

Absolwenci Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego Jana Pawła II
Członkowie Stowarzyszenia Pisarzy Polskich
Pochowani na cmentarzu Powązkowskim w Warszawie
Polscy poeci
Urodzeni w 1933
Zmarli w 2006
Ludzie urodzeni w Lyonie

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It feels like it has been a big week here at Devoted Quilter!
...and it happened yesterday morning. 100,000 pageviews!! Thank you all so much for visiting me here :) If it weren't for you, I'd just be talking to myself!
Also yesterday, I finally stopped procrastinating and got everything set up for a Devoted Quilter newsletter. How often do I really want to do something, but put it off and off and off because I don't know exactly how to do it, or where to start, only to try and then find it's not really all that hard? I really should learn this lesson and stop the procrastinating!
It's funny the things that can hold me up sometimes. Picking a name seemed like a major hurdle, though I'm not sure why. I finally just googled 'newsletter name ideas' and when I saw the word bulletin I knew I'd found my name. I love that the word has an association with church too!
I was also hung up on what date to send it out. I knew I only wanted a monthly newsletter, not weekly or even twice a month. That part was easy. But when in the month should I send it? The first of the month seemed too crowded...everyone sends out their new BOM blocks on the first of the month. I don't want to get lost in the flood of new quilting stuff coming into inboxes all on the same day. The 15th of the month, while less crowded, felt uninspiring. I briefly considered the last day of the month, but wasn't really feeling that, either. Then I thought of the 16th. Now, to most people, the 16th would seem like an odd choice, but I've always felt a certain fondness for the 16th of the month. My birthday is the 16th of July, my mother's the 16th of April, my grandmother's the 16th of May and my husband's the 16th of June. I thought for sure at least one of our children would have a 16th of the month birthday, but alas, they all landed on different days. For my newsletter, though, the 16th of each month is perfect!
So, The Bulletin will be a monthly round-up of Devoted Quilter news and links to fun things to make, sent on the 16th of each month beginning in May. The links in each issue will be themed, so if you think of any great theme ideas, you can let me know. There will probably be recipe links too, because we all need good food to fuel the sewing. To receive The Bulletin each month, add your email address on this sign up form.
Are you still with me? I promised a surprise in the post title, didn't I? The whole time I was watching my stats page, calculating when I thought I'd hit the 100,000 mark (sometime in May, I thought), I was also wondering what I could do to celebrate. I'd like to send you all a little something to say thanks, but obviously I can't do that. But I can give you all the chance to win something!
To show my profound appreciation for your visits to my blog, for your friendship and your many kind comments, I'm giving you the chance to win my Denim Hexies mini quilt.
This giveaway will stay open for one week and I'll use the random number generator to pick a winner the evening of Thursday, May 5th.
Good luck, and don't forget to sign up for The Bulletin!
I love, love, love this quilt!
As a reminder, this quilt started because I wanted to see if it was possible to do EPP with denim (spoiler alert - it is possible!). I used 1" hexagons to make these three flowers.
Then I machine appliqued them to a solid white background.
Then I started flow quilting the white background. That's when I completely fell in love with this little quilt! It's really fun to quilt the life into it!
I used Connecting Threads 100% polyester thread in Honey (affiliate link) for the flow quilting, which was a little scary at first on that solid white fabric, but I really like how it turned out.
I had thought I'd use one or more of the yellows for the binding, but when I finished the quilting I felt like the quilt needed a darker binding to act as a frame. Thankfully, I had enough of the blue swirl fabric I used for the backing.
I have an exciting plan for this quilt, which I'll be sharing in a couple of days, so be sure to check back! I'm also working on a binding tutorial using pictures I took while binding this quilt, so that should be finished and posted soon.
I'll be linking up with Sew Cute Tuesday, Let's Bee Social, NTT, TGIFF, Can I Get a Whoop Whoop and Finish it up Friday.
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No one likes to be rejected. We want people to like us and accept us. When it comes to our work, we want people to think we're doing a good job, whether it's for our paid work or our quilting or parenting or whatever. None of us would like to have a superior step in and tell us we've been rejected because we're doing things wrong.
It does happen sometimes, though. People are fired from their jobs. Authorities step in and remove children from homes that are abusive or neglectful. The Bible even tells the story of a man who was rejected by God because he did not do what he was told to do.
King Saul was supposed to attack the Amalekites and completely destroy them, killing every living thing (human or animal) and destroying all of their possessions. Saul and his army attacked and won the battle, but then Saul made some adjustments to the plan. "He took Agag king of the Amalekites alive, and all his people he totally destroyed with the sword. But Saul and the army spared Agag and the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs—everything that was good. These they were unwilling to destroy completely, but everything that was despised and weak they totally destroyed" (1 Samuel 15:8, 9).
Soon after the battle, Saul met up with the prophet Samuel and said, "The Lord bless you! I have carried out the Lord's instructions" (v. 13). Oh, how we deceive ourselves! Saul really thought that his plan was better than God's plan, since Saul's plan included a sacrifice to the Lord of all the animals they had kept from the Amalekites.
he has rejected you as king" (vv. 22, 23).
'He has rejected you as king'. How awful those words must have sounded to Saul! Just imagine how awful they would sound if they were spoken to you.
Of course, we haven't been chosen to be king (or queen!) over the nation, have we? We have all been chosen by God to be something, though. I believe that we all have a purpose in God's kingdom and that God has a special job for each one of us. 1 Corinthians 12:12-30 tells us that the church is made up of many people, just as the body is made of many different parts, all of which are essential to the proper functioning of the church.
What is your role? What has God called you to be and do? Some have big, public roles to fill, roles where it's obviously God's work that they're doing, like musicians and pastors. Others have small, lesser known roles, like accountants and grocery store clerks, where maybe it's less obvious that God's work is being done. But all of these roles are equally important to God and all of them offer opportunities for sharing the good news about Jesus. All of these roles, whether public or not, are part of God's plan for His church.
But in order to be effective in our role, no matter what role we fill, we must commit to following God's plan rather than changing it to what we think is best. Like Saul, we can easily deceive ourselves into thinking that our way is better than what God has called us to do, but God doesn't want us trying to improve the plan. He calls us to obey and heed His plan, not our own.
And if we insist on changing God's plan and doing what we think is best? Then it's possible we will be told, "He has rejected you" for that role. I don't think we can even begin to imagine how awful that would be. I know I would prefer to hear, "'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!'" (Matthew 25:21).
I haven't shared my EPP stars in a while, but I've been working away at them (mostly only when we're driving somewhere) and my collection is growing.
I still don't know exactly what I'll do with them, so I just keep making more!
I have 63 made so far, which sounds like a pretty good number. They make a nice stack here, too, right?
So then I thought, if I want to make a throw-sized quilt, it would need to be about 60" wide...my table is 60", so why don't I lay them out on the table and see how many it would take to make a row.
20! It would take 20 stars to make one throw-sized row, meaning I have enough stars made so far to make 3 rows, with 3 stars left to start the 4th row. Hmmm. This may never make it to throw size! Then again, I'm not bored of making them yet, and I certainly haven't run out of fabric, so who knows!
Last night I finished quilting my denim epp hexie mini quilt (more on that next week) and I wanted to make something quick. It seems like all my projects lately are rather time-consuming. There's the quilt I'm making for our bed, which is scheduled to be in Make Modern magazine in September, so I'm not going to be sharing a lot of that here, though there are sneak peeks now and then on Instagram (I'm @devotedquilter). There are the EPP stars and the denim hexie quilt, which is small but has taken a lot of time for the quilting. I wanted something fast for a change!
Enter Jenn at Quarter Inch from the Edge, who shared a link to this tutorial for a pincushion that attaches to your sewing machine. Brilliant, right? I'm always finding I forget to grab my pincushion before I sit down at my machine (I have to put everything away when I'm done sewing since I work at the kitchen table), so having one stuck right on my machine is wonderful.
I copied Jenn's modification and used elastic instead of the ribbon ties recommended in the tutorial and this whole project took me very little time. Seriously, stitching the opening closed after stuffing the pincushion took as long as everything else combined. It was exactly the quick finish I was looking for, and it's functional too!
I have to say that life is pretty good in the Parsons' household. Paul and I both have work, the boys are all healthy, we have an abundance of food, there is wood stacked out back to heat the house and spring is on its way. Oh, and I've been doing lots of fun quilting! I hope you can list a similar abundance of good things in your life. But have you ever stopped to think about how the good things in life sometimes make us forget about God?
Moses knew about this prosperity-induced forgetfulness, and he warned the Israelites about it in Deuteronomy 8. He told them, "The Lord your God is bringing you into a good land—a land with brooks, streams, and deep springs gushing out into the valleys and hills; a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey; a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills" (Deuteronomy 8:7-9). In other words, God would bring them into a land where they would have everything they needed. They would not only lack nothing, but they wouldn't even have to start from scratch because the land had already been settled. The Israelites would simply move in and enjoy vineyards and land ready to be cultivated. No taming the wilderness needed.
But listen to what Moses said next. "When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. Be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day. Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery" (vv. 10-14). He knew what would happen. He knew their hearts and how quickly they would turn away from God, forgetting that everything comes from Him.
Of course, that's exactly what happened. Over time, the Israelites turned away from God over and over, choosing instead to worship the gods of the people around them. To regain their attention, God allowed other nations to rule over His people, including the nation of the Midianites, and "Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out to the Lord for help" (Judges 6:6). They were living in a land where they should have had everything they needed and wanted, but because they forgot God they lost everything. Then, when they had nothing, they remembered their God again.
More than anything, God wants our attention to be focused on Him. When life is easy, sometimes it's also easy for us to be distracted by all the good things we have. We 'eat and are satisfied' and we forget about God. But then, when life gets hard, we remember Him. We cry out to Him for healing or for financial help or in anguish for a child in trouble. Many people will say that the hard times in their lives brought them closer to God. King David even said, "It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees" (Psalm 119:71).
My question is, why wait? Why wait for the hard times before turning to God? Why not focus on Him when life is good? Moses told the Israelites, "When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you" (Deuteronomy 8:10). Let's live our lives full of thanks and praise to God for the good things He has given us.
Keeping our focus on God when life is good doesn't mean we'll never encounter sickness or trouble, but it does mean God will never have to send the Midianites to impoverish us to get out attention.
Want to start now? Leave me a comment sharing some of the good things God has given you.
Nathan has developed the habit of saying sorry A LOT. Now, normally I would not consider this to be a problem since apologizing when you've done wrong is a good character trait. But Nathan is saying he's sorry at times when he hasn't done anything wrong, like when he asks me to get him something he can't reach and says, "I'm sorry for making you get up," or when he wants me to read to him and he apologizes for that. The thing that really get me, though, is when he does do some little thing wrong and he apologizes for it over and over and over. Even when he knows we're not upset with him, and he knows we've heard and accepted the first apology, sometimes he just can't seem to move on and be okay with what happened. He keeps feeling bad about it. Sometimes it's even weeks or months later when he apologizes again.
Do you do that with God? Do you keep feeling guilty and apologizing over and over for the things in your past? I know I've done it with things before. And yet, God isn't upset with us over those things anymore because He heard the first apology. Not only that, but once He forgives us for our sins, He doesn't remember them anymore!
Don't get me wrong, God isn't some forgetful old man whose memory has holes in it. No. He's still omniscient and knows everything, but He chooses not to remember our sins once we have repented of them.
Psalm 103:12 says, "As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us." They're gone. Not to be dragged back into view again and again to remind us of how we've failed in the past. Gone. As far away as we can possibly imagine, that's how far away our sins are once we've been forgiven.
Romans 8:1,2 says, "Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death." Read that again. No condemnation.
Do you truly believe that? Or do you feel like God has a list somewhere of all the times you've sinned, a list that He checks frequently to keep his memory fresh? God tells us in these verses that there is no list because we are in Christ Jesus. Once we have repented and accepted Jesus' sacrifice for our sins, there is no record kept of them. God no longer condemns us because those sins are forgiven and He chooses not to remember them.
But what about you? Have you chosen not to remember your past sins? Or are you like Nathan, bringing them up again months later, or even years later, and feeling the need to apologize for them all over again? If that's you, then let this thought settle into your heart and mind...God doesn't want you to apologize for that sin again. It's already been forgiven and now He chooses not to think of it anymore. Now it's time for you to forgive yourself and give yourself the freedom to move on with no condemnation, from God or from yourself.


Starting a new internship can feel like a lot of pressure when you are an introvert. Establishing a business network, reporting to your superiors, and dealing with the constant interactions of the job can be exhausting. There is a lot of emphasis on being outgoing and outspoken in order to do well on your internship. The only problem is that there are a lot of people who aren't naturally extroverted. Actions that are forced or contrived won't be genuine. If you are an introvert and are worried that the success of your internship may be in jeopardy, worry no more. Here are a few ways for you to excel at your internship as an introvert.
Introverts tend to be good listeners, writers, and researchers. Use your strong suits to your advantage by being the best on the team. Whenever something needs to be researched or written, put your absolute best foot forward for the task, even if you weren't asked. Show your superior your talents so that you can be considered for future opportunities. Whenever you are given instructions, take notes so that you won't have to keep asking for direction. Your boss will note how well you listen.
Introverts typically need time to process information before they can give a well thought out answer or solution. Let others know that you will get back to them or need more time to think about the situation before you can give your input on a project. The pressure to think on your feet may be too much for the average introvert. Although it may be tempting to spew out answers before you've thought them through, don't. You want to be your best during your internship so make sure all that you contribute is a valuable asset.
Don't burn yourself out with too much human interaction. If you are easily drained from long periods of shared space, take some time to yourself. Lunchtime is a great time to go inside yourself and recharge for a little while. Take advantage of other breaks you have been given to take a short walk or think quietly at your desk. Taking this time out can help you to perform better at your job and not get too frazzled at work.
Be warm and inviting with an occasion smile. Introverts lonely nature can appear cold and stand-offish.
Cooperate in team settings. Someone may get the wrong impression if you don't contribute in a team setting.
Be attentive. Whenever you converse with your colleagues, be responsive and look alive. As an introvert who expresses thoughts internally, it may come off as unresponsive.
Have fun. Introverts are prone to over think the situation and draw up their own conclusions. Stay level headed, focused, and have a little fun during your internship.
Are you an introvert in Rhode Island looking for your next internship opportunity? Visit www.bridge.jobs to search for tons internships in the area.