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Broadway Bound Musical Theatre Company
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Vista Theatre Project
The reviews are in! Click here to read August Krickel's take on OLIVER!
The Broadway Bound Vista Theatre Project played to capacity houses for each performance of Lionel Bart's exuberant musical OLIVER!, which ran July 9-12 in the Columbia Music Festival Association's ArtSpace at 914 Pulaski Street.
A Tony Award-winning classic, OLIVER! is the musical retelling of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist. The story tells of a child who is sold by a London orphanage because he asks for more food. The boy eventually escapes to the streets of London, finding adventure and seeking a loving home.
The show is animated with high-spirited dance numbers and filled with unforgettable tunes, including "You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two," "Where Is Love?," "Consider Yourself," and "As Long As He Needs Me."
Jadon Stanek played the title role of the orphaned Oliver, with Lee O. Smith as the miserly Fagin, Shelby Sessler as the goodhearted Nancy (a role handled by Hannah Mount for the June 11 matinee), Mattie Mount as the Artful Dodger, and Allen Inabinet as the evil Bill Sykes. Tracy Steele and Cindy Durrett were the comically villainous Mr. Bumble and Widow Corney, Charley Krawczyk and Jami Steele were the funereal Mr. and Mrs. Sowerberry, and Scott Stepp was the kindly Mr. Brownlow, joining pickpockets, workhouse children, and Londoners of all ages in the 50-member cast that brought Dickens' characters to life.
OLIVER! was directed and choreographed by Dedra Daniels Mount, with musical direction by Christopher Cockrell. Shelby Sessler designed the period costumes, and Scott Stepp oversaw creation of the multi-purpose set.
A silent auction of Oliver Twist-inspired items was held before each performance as a fundraiser for the Broadway Bound Vista Theatre Project, a new non-profit community-based musical and dramatic performing arts organization created to present quality family entertainment and to provide opportunities for children and adults to develop talents in all aspects of theatre arts.
OLIVER! was sponsored by Ken & Cheryl Wheat, with additional support by Ed & Megan Davis, Ann Burns, Jordan Samuels, and the family of Dale & Heather Wolan.
Performances were 8 p.m. July 9-10; 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. on July 11; and 3 p.m. on July 12. Tickets were $15.
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All of eScholarship This Dept.
Center for the Study of Democracy
The Center for the Study of Democracy at UC Irvine publishes working papers on topics of empirical democratic studies. Like the Center itself, the topics may range from the problems of democratic transitions to the expansion of the democratic process in advanced industrial democracies. The series is multidisciplinary in its research approach, as well as diverse in its definition of democratization topics.
Graeme Boushey, Director
3151 Social Science Plaza
democracy@uci.edu
Nathan K. Chan
Associate Editor, CSD Research Series
nkchan@uci.edu
There are 204 publications in this collection, published between 1996 and 2021.
CSD Working Papers (179)
The Parallel Development of Democracy and Markets
Shin, Doh Chull
In East Asia, as in other regions of the world, democratic politics and free market economy have emerged as the twin goals of national development. This paper examines public's reactions to the dual or parallel transformation of authoritarian politics and crony capitalism into market democracy by considering jointly citizens' basic orientations toward democracy and capitalism. Which subgroups are most and least supportive of the parallel development of democracy and capitalism? What factors motivate people to embrace capitalist democracy most and least powerfully? How does their embrace of capitalist democracy compare with their peers' in advanced capitalist democracies in the North American region of the Pacific Rim? The paper addresses these questions with further analyses of the World Value Surveys conducted in seven East Asian countries—China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Vietnam—and two North American countries—the United States and Canada.
Culture, Calculation, and Being a Pretty Good Citizen: Alternative Interpretations of Civil Engagement
Verba, Sidney
This is the 2000-01 Eckstein Lecture at the Center for the Study of Democracy, UC Irvine. This paper consides the applicability of rational actor theory as well as cultural explanations to citizen engagement with politics. Citizen participation in politics is a crucial component of democracy, and studies of citizen participation have been a mainstay of political science analyses of democratic politics. Rational actor theory is one of the dominant modes of analysis in contemporary political science. But citizen participation and rational actor theory have had an uneasy relationship with one another. The paper considers these alternate models of civic engagement as applied to research on political participation in America.
Limiting Frames of Political Games: Logical Quantitative Models of Size, Growth and Distribution
Taagepera, Rein
Politics takes place in time and space–both the immutable physical space and the institutional space that politics can alter, but with much inertia. To express the effects of such limiting frames, I have developed a number of logical quantitative models. By "logical quantitative" I mean models that can be constructed without data input, on logical grounds, and then can be quantitatively tested. Here I try to make my approaches and results more understandable so as to enable others to apply this particular set of methods to further problems in political science and related fields. My topics can be divided into the following four categories:
a) The size of countries, assemblies and electoral districts matters for their functioning. Exactly how does country size affect the size of its legislative assembly, its foreign trade/GNP ratio, and the sizes of cities?
b) Sizes of populations, countries and defense budgets change over time–growing, declining, interacting. How do more universal patterns of growth and duration enter those empires and cabinet coalitions? How do social phenomena such as population explosion and hyperinflation proceed?
c) The number and size distribution of political parties is affected by institutional frameworks. According to which logical models?
d) Finally, conversion from people to representatives takes place in several forms. Popular votes translate into assembly seats for different parties. Populations of countries affect their seat shares in supranational assemblies. The conversion is usually less than proportional, under-representing the smaller parties, yet over-representating the smaller nations. What are the hidden rules of conversion?
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Political Expenditures and Power Laws: A Spatial Model of the Lobbying Process
Maheshri, Vikram
I develop the theory of power laws and allude to their prevalence elsewhere in the scientific world. I use actual data on US special interest groups to identify a broad, empirical regularity in the distribution of their lobbying expenditures, which naturally gives rise to a spatial model of the lobbying process. I discuss the policy implications of these findings and stress the superiority of this approach in describing aggregate special interest behavior relative to the stylized, strategic workhorse models in this field. Supplemental mathematical background is provided in two appendices.
Family Matters: Testing the Effect of Political Connections in Italy
Asquer, Raffaele;
Calderoni, Federico
Using a new dataset of Italian publicly traded companies between 1994 and 2008, this paper aims to quantify the value of different types of political connections. Conducting an event study on stock returns, we examine how the stocks of connected companies perform before and after the politicians to whom they are connected are either elected to Parliament, or appointed as government ministers. First, we check whether political connections in general lead to abnormally positive returns. Then, we ask whether political connections have a different effect on stock returns, depending on whether companies have politicians themselves (direct connection) or some of their relatives (indirect connection) among their administrators. Finally, we test the hypothesis that connections are effective only when the politicians are members of the governing coalition. Contrary to most studies, political connections are not always associated with positive stock returns. Taking stock performance as a proxy for the benefits of connections, we conclude that only certain political connections are in fact valuable to companies. Being connected with the (future) governing coalition has the predicted positive effect, whereas gaining or maintaining a connection with the opposition coalition has no effect, or even a negative effect. Also, only indirect connections are found to increase the company's value, while direct connections are not. However, given the size and composition of our sample, we cannot confidently conclude that indirect connections do differ from direct ones.
The Role of Political Parties in Electoral Competition
Suarez Serrato, Juan Carlos
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A Series of Unfortunate Events or Some Karma? 2018 Election and Brazil's Persistent Conservative Alignment
Salgado, Eneida Desiree
The Changing Nature of Mass Belief Systems: The Rise of Concept Ideologues & Policy Wonks
Wattenberg, Martin P.
President Park Geun-hye and the Deconsolidation of Liberal Democracy in South Korea: Exploring its Cultural Roots President Park Geun-hye and the Deconsolidation of Liberal Democracy in South Korea: Exploring its Cultural Roots
Electoral Choice in Multidimensional Party Systems
Berning, Carl;
Dalton, Russell
Partisan Dealignment and the Personalization of Politics in West European Parliamentary Democracies, 1961-2016
Garzia, Diego;
Ferreira da Silva, Frederico;
De Angelis, Andrea

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By John Anderson
Anderson Report Backpacks
Lighten Your Load For Hunting Season
September 1, 2018 | View PDF
Margie Anderson
You'll probably spend a lot of time glassing, so don't scrimp on optics. Last year we hauled these big binoculars all over the countryside. Check out the rocks. They're serious ankle busters if you're not wearing good boots. There are plenty of lightweight boots that have great soles.
I'm not as young as I used to be. Last deer season, Margie and I lugged our heavy AR's all over the mountains in very rough and rocky terrain, and it was no fun. By the time you figure your backpack, optics, tripods, rifle, ammo, and water, you could be carrying 40 extra pounds around, mostly uphill and downhill. And that's BEFORE you have to carry a deer out.
Heavy Loads
For instance, Margie was carrying a big pair of Docter Optics 7X50 binoculars, a backpack that sagged off her shoulders and threw her off balance, a 9-pound AR, and a big tripod, as well as food and water, the first aid kit, field dressing equipment, etc. I was carrying about the same amount of gear, and even though my AR is slightly lighter, it wasn't enough to really make a difference. Plus, my backpack was even worse-fitting than hers. After last year's hunt we decided something had to give.
The first things we replaced were those awful backpacks. After quite a bit of research, and asking all of our hunting buddies for advice, we bought a couple of Badlands backpacks. These things are fantastic: The Diablo Dos has the highest strength-to-weight ratio of any hunting pack on the market, and features a Hypervent™ suspension that allows cool air to pass freely between you and your pack and a load-transferring frame for comfortable load carry. It pretty much eliminates shoulder fatigue and overheating.
It's got three horizontal rear compression straps, a redesigned and highly functional hip and belt pocket design and a new built-in rifle/bow boot. Plus, it has a lifetime unconditional warranty. Perfect. Check out Badlands packs at http://www.badlandspacks.com
Next, The Optics
Next, we tackled optics. We had both been carrying heavy, old binoculars, so we decided to go to pocket models. We made the decision not to scrimp on the optics since they are so important. I chose Kowa Genesis 10x22's, weighing in at just over 11 ounces. They are crisp and clear, even with my far-less-than-perfect eyesight.
Margie chose Swarovski CL Pocket binoculars, 10x25. They weigh in at just a hair over 12 ounces, and she loves them. We also bought two Bino Bandits, which are little hoods that fit over your binoculars and fit flush to your face, blocking glare, wind, etc. They are very helpful for reducing eye strain and improving visual acuity.
Check out the binoculars at http://www.kowaproducts.com and http://www.swarovskioptik.com , and you can get Bino Bandits on Amazon or at http://www.alpineproducts.com.
More Adjustments
You really can't cut down on how much water you carry without risking your health, but you can use a hydration bladder instead of metal bottles. We usually just eat peanut butter sandwiches or protein bars when we're hunting, and those aren't heavy, and we really didn't want to cut anything out of the first aid kit, so that stuff all stayed the same.
Lightweight hiking boots help, but make sure you don't scrimp on sturdy soles - you don't want to feel every rock you step on out there. Also, be sure to get them high enough to help support your ankles - it's easy to twist an ankle on rocky terrain.
Now, The Rifles
Seriously, the rifles were bothering us more than anything. The slings we were using were top drawer, but that doesn't help much when the rifle itself is all hard angles and digging into your back, side, or front. It seems like we spent a lot of time trying to get them into a comfortable position for climbing.
I decided the best thing to do would be to save the AR's for target practice, and build a lightweight hunting rifle that we could share. After all, we always hunt together so why carry two rifles?
I started with a .243 caliber for low recoil, and got the Remington Model 7. We took it to McMillan Stocks (www.mcmillanusa.com ). They made us a gorgeous, lightweight custom stock in their Hunters Edge pattern. You can choose where you want the sling mounts, and we chose to get one on the side as well as on the underside of the stock where everyone else puts them.
When you attach the sling to the side of the butt stock, the rifle rides against you flat, without the scope or the butt bumping into you all day long. It's pretty awesome. McMillan fit that custom stock to the rifle beautifully, even fitting it to the custom trigger.
Trigger, Sling
I dropped a Timney Trigger in the rifle (www.timneytriggers.com ). It adjusts from a 1.5-pound pull to a 4-pound, whatever suits you. Then I added a Blue Force Gear Vickers Combat Application Sling. It's lightweight and pretty awesome. Blue Force Gear has a lot of great slings as well as tons of other stuff – check it out at http://www.blueforcegear.com
Scope, Ammo
Finally, I chose a Leupold 4.5-14x30 Wind Plex CDS scope and mounted it with Talley scope mounts. We'll be shooting Winchester Ballistic Silver Tips and Hornady Superformance® SST, both in 95 grain. I'm also thinking of trying Copper Creek Ammo. They make custom loads. We'll check them all out and see which ones the gun likes best.
This is how I looked last year. Check out that heavy gun, tripod, and the saggy pack. Ugh.
Final tally: Our new hunting rifle weighs in at 7 pounds, and feels like even less thanks to the sling position. With the new rifle, the new packs, and lightweight optics, this year's hunting trip is shaping up to be a lot more comfortable than last year.
More Information At These Sites
• Leupold Scopes http://www.leupold.com
• Talley scope mounts http://www.talleymanufacturing.com
• Winchester ammunition http://www.winchester.com
• Hornady ammunition http://www.hornady.com
• Copper Creek ammunition http://www.coppercreekammo.com
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You Say It First (Hardcover)
An addictive, irresistible YA novel about two teens from different worlds who fall for each other after a voter registration call turns into a long-distance romance—from Katie Cotugno, the New York Times bestselling author of 99 Days. Perfect for fans of Mary H.K. Choi, Robin Benway, and Nicola Yoon.
One conversation can change everything.
Meg has her entire life set up perfectly: she and her best friend, Emily, plan to head to Cornell together in the fall, and she works at a voter registration call center in her Philadelphia suburb. But everything changes when one of those calls connects her to a stranger from small-town Ohio.
Colby is stuck in a rut, reeling from a family tragedy and working a dead-end job. The last thing he has time for is some privileged rich girl preaching the sanctity of the political process. So he says the worst thing he can think of and hangs up.
But things don't end there.…
That night on the phone winds up being the first in a series of candid, sometimes heated, always surprising conversations that lead to a long-distance friendship and then—slowly—to something more. Across state lines and phone lines, Meg and Colby form a once-in-a-lifetime connection. But in the end, are they just too different to make it work?
You Say It First is a propulsive, layered novel about how sometimes the person who has the least in common with us can be the one who changes us most.
Katie Cotugno is the New York Times bestselling author of Top Ten, 99 Days, 9 Days and 9 Nights, Fireworks, and How to Love. She studied writing, literature, and publishing at Emerson College and received her MFA in fiction at Lesley University. Katie is a Pushcart Prize nominee whose work has appeared in Iowa Review, Mississippi Review, and Argestes, among others. She lives in Boston. Visit her at www.katiecotugno.com.
"Cotugno's latest slow-burn romance digs deep…. Thoughtful and thought-provoking, this is a must-read for teens questioning their futures or their own hearts."
— ALA Booklist (starred review)
"A realistic and captivating story that speaks to the issues relevant to teens today….Romance, politics, family drama, and more—this one has it all."
"Cotugno writes with equal sympathy about opinionated characters with differing life experiences and worldviews. For collections where the smart-girl romances of Miranda Kenneally, Jenny Han, and Nandini Bajpai do well."
"In You Say It First, Katie Cotugno explores the messy victories and sweet imperfections of falling in love across party lines. Meg and Colby are brave and scared, flawed yet true to themselves, and as their relationship grows, we see how the wrong person can come along at exactly the right time. Katie's writing is always full of empathy, humor, and hope, and this book is no different. I absolutely loved it."
— Robin Benway, National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Far From the Tree
Young Adult Fiction / Romance


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Morgan Stanley plans further staff cuts on weak outlook
The investment bank posted sharp drop in second-quarter revenue, expects payroll to decline by another 1,000 workers this yr
Reuters Last Updated at January 20, 2013 04:33 IST
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Morgan Stanley became the latest bank to announce more layoffs to shrink expenses as Wall Street prepares for an extended period of weak global economic growth and low trading and dealmaking volumes.
The investment bank, which posted a sharp drop in second-quarter revenue, expects its payroll to decline by about another 1,000 workers this year to meet a broader target of reducing staff levels by 7% from December 2011 levels, Chief Executive James Gorman said on Thursday.
Morgan Stanley is one of several big banks to outline further belt-tightening measures this week when reporting quarterly results. The industry is facing increasing pressure from shareholders to boost profitability as the European debt crisis, companies' reluctance to issue debt and equity, and slow stock and bond trading weigh on revenue.
Rivals including Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Bank of America Corp, and Deutsche Bank AG are also embarking on fresh rounds of staff cuts in their trading and underwriting businesses. Goldman expanded its cost-saving target by $500 million as the outlook has dimmed for near-term revenue growth.
"People have gotten more aggressive on containing costs than they had been a month or two ago," said Alan Johnson, a Wall Street compensation consultant. "You look out into the future and it just doesn't look like it's going to get better any time soon."
So far this year, US banks have outlined plans to cut another 17,323 employees, in addition to the 63,624 job cuts detailed last year, according to outsourcing firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
Morgan Stanley is targeting a workforce reduction of 7% from the 61,899 employees it had at the end of 2011, Gorman said on a conference call with analysts. At June 30, Morgan Stanley had 58,627 workers, leaving it with around another 1,000 left to go.
The bank will achieve its goal through staff cuts and "applying a very high bar" for replacing workers who leave, Gorman said.
Times are tough enough that the bank is shrinking its balance sheet, too. Morgan Stanley hopes to cut its risk weighted assets by an eye-popping 30% by December 2014 from their September 30, 2011 levels of $346.79 billion.
With $317.19 billion worth of risk-weighted assets remaining at June 30, the bank has another $74.44 billion reduction to go.
Over the past year, banks have begun taking dramatic steps to reduce expenses, examining everything from bonus pools to mobile phone bills and office supplies.
Last year was the first in which banks delivered zero bonuses to some employees in an effort to contain costs, said Johnson, who has tracked industry pay for decades. Boards and shareholders are demanding better results and expect banks to fully downsize by the end of this year, he said.
"The collective view is that this is going to be a struggle and whatever size you should be, you should get there by January 1, 2013," said Johnson.
A weak quarter
In addition to broader industry challenges, Morgan Stanley had its own difficulties last quarter, which weighed on its profits.
The threat of a severe debt rating downgrade clobbered its bond trading business during the second quarter. The bank also faced broad criticism for its handling of the Facebook initial public offering: The shares sank 27% on their first day of trading.
Moody's Investors Service downgraded the bank less than many investors had feared, and Morgan Stanley's bond-trading business has picked up in the third quarter, but economic headwinds still make the environment difficult, Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat said in an interview.
The results initially appeared better than analysts expected, but as analysts' reactions to the report trickled in, it became clear that the results were a disappointment.
Morgan Stanley's earnings of $564 million, or 29 cents per share, compared with an average estimate of 43 cents per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Revenue in all three of Morgan Stanley's main businesses -- investment banking, wealth management and asset management -- dropped in the second quarter.
Overall revenue fell 24% to $6.95 billion. Those figures include a $350 million gain from changes in the value of Morgan Stanley's debt relative to Treasuries, known as a debt valuation adjustment, or DVA.
The earnings compare with a loss of $558 million, or 38 cents per share, a year earlier, when the bank took a charge linked to converting preferred stock owned by Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group into common stock.
The bank's bond trading business was the worst performer. When excluding DVA adjustments, the business posted a 60% revenue decline, to $770 million, a much bigger drop than Wall Street rivals, mainly because of fears about its impending downgrade.
Analysts said the results were a continuation of Morgan Stanley's shaky performance in recent years, particularly in fixed-income trading. After losing billions on investments linked to subprime mortgages in 2007 and 2008, the bank pulled back on bond trading, missing an opportunity to mint money in 2009 when bond markets became active again.
Since then, Morgan Stanley has been hesitant to make significant staff cuts as it aims to boost market share in key trading areas, but it has had uneven success.
"These results reflect somewhat of a familiar pattern at Morgan Stanley, with quarters of outperformance often followed by underperformance," said Roger Freeman, a bank analyst at Barclays.
Morgan Stanley will have to deliver several consecutive quarters of outperformance and establish a clear market-share trend to assure investors enough to close the valuation gap between itself and its main rival, Goldman Sachs, Freeman said.
As of Wednesday's close, Morgan Stanley was trading at 51% of its stated tangible book value as of June 30. Goldman closed at 77% of its June 30 stated tangible book value.
Morgan Stanley's gloomy results weighed on its shares Thursday. The stock closed down 5.3% at $13.25.
Moody's impact
For much of the second quarter, investors fretted about whether Moody's would downgrade Morgan Stanley by three notches, which would leave the bank's rating just two steps above "junk" status. In the bond-trading business, clients are often reluctant to work with counterparties that seem less than rock-solid.
The downgrade came in late June and was not as bad as many investors had feared - the bank's main rating was cut two notches to "Baa1," three steps above junk.
But for the second quarter the damage was done. The threat of a downgrade stung, Porat told Reuters.
"We spent a lot of time with clients and counterparties addressing questions they might have - and that's time that otherwise would have been spent focusing on getting new business," she said.
"As the quarter wore on, in particular as Moody's extended the timeline for making its decision, it really just put more weight on the whole situation. Clients seemed to take this wait-and-see approach."
The bank has had to post $3.7 billion of collateral since the downgrade, but business has improved and the pace of collateral calls has slowed since late June, Porat said. So far in July, the bank had to post just $800 million more collateral.
"We're certainly seeing that the weight of that Moody's decision has lifted," she said.
Morgan Stanley has been focused on increasing its trading exposure to "flow products" that have high volumes and less risk, while reducing exposure to more complex securities that are treated unfavorably under new capital rules.
Shannon Stemm, a financial services analyst with Edward Jones, called the bank's asset reduction targets "aggressive" and said it will be difficult to increase trading profits while also reducing risk.
Stemm voiced concern about client business moving away from Morgan Stanley to competitors during the quarter, and how long it might take for that business to return.
Morgan Stanley's 60% decline in bond-trading revenue compared with a 17% drop at JPMorgan, a 4% drop at Citi and a 37% increase at Goldman Sachs.
"All of these companies are at the mercy of the macro environment, but within that some are winning and some are losing," said Stemm. "It was very clear this quarter that Morgan Stanley was on the losing end."
First Published: Fri, July 20 2012. 03:32 IST


I have an 11-year-old above ground pool in good shape except the plastic post caps are breaking.
They are a 2-piece cap which hooks over the front edge of the 5-6" rail then screws onto the vertical post.
The 2 pieces have 2 screws to attach the 2 halves and 1 screw at the bottom of the bottom half that screws to the upright post. They have a part number 13348, and say made in USA.
I would need about 25 of these.
Hi Dean. I will include a couple links to the only two parts stores I know of. Maybe you will find what you need or something close enough that might work.
Here is more reading about finding pool parts.
Aqua Pools in Bedford VA carries part # 13348 and 13637 for $10.99 each.
I have checked your information and actually it is Aqua Pros in Bedford, Va thanks sooo much for the information. Oh and for those that may need it their phone number is (540) 586-8364.
Aqua Pros in facts carries these top caps. Please call them, they can get as many as you need!!!!
I have worked here @ AquaPros for 12 years and we CAN NOT get the top caps. I have had several people contact us for these and it is a waste of time. Sorry. Happy Hunting.
I need these also!! My pool is a Vogue Iliad....plz let me know anyone!!
They are the 6" standard and are about $10 total for top and bottom pieces.
I have an Above ground pool 24" round and the rails and caps need replaced they are resin and I'm missing a lot of them (caps). It's a fold over liner! Can I buy any kind of top rail and cap? i don't remember what kind of pool it is! I've had the pool for 15-16 years! please help want to update! I bought new pump and stairs and liner and sand filter!


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Senior Advisor to the Crisis Management Center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland (former Senior Advisor to the OSCE Secretary General, Director of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy), Ambassador, Ph.D. (Switzerland)
Ambassador Fred Tanner is the Director of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP). Previously, he has held the position of Director of Academic Affairs and Head of Faculty.
Prior to his assignments with the GCSP, he was a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. On secondment from the Swiss Development Cooperation, he was the Director of the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies in Malta. Over the course of his distinguished academic career, Ambassador Tanner has held teaching and research positions at various universities including Harvard, John Hopkins and Princeton.
Ambassador Tanner is currently a member of the United Nations Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters – an expert group comprised of members from all regions of the world chosen for their knowledge and experience in the field of disarmament and international security. He is also a member of the International Advisory Council of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe, an international platform uniting leading experts on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons as well as on arms reduction and limitation. In addition, he serves as a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the NATO Defense College in Rome and of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria, and is a member of the Transatlantic Security Task Force of The German Marshall Fund of the United States.
Ambassador Tanner was a member of the High-level Expert Panel on Early Warning and Rapid Reaction of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie and served on the Foundation Council of the Gulf Research Center in Dubai. Mandated by the OSCE Chairmanship, he was the Honorary Chairman of the Committee for Security Studies in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Ambassador Tanner holds a PhD and a Master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a Bachelor's degree from the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies at the University of Geneva. He has published numerous books and articles on a broad range of topics relating to international security and peace including on disarmament and arms control, security challenges facing the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Middle East, conflict prevention, resolution and peacebuilding, as well as on Switzerland's security.


Jacopo Brancati, born in 1966, is a photographer and journalist specializing in maritime history and ethnology. After obtaining a Political Sciences master's degree at the University of Genoa, he oriented his photographic approach towards ethnology and social sciences. He is a correspondent for the French magazine Chasse-Marée and for the Italian Arte Navale. Associate member of the International Council of Maritime Museums, he carries out projects exploring the activities of seafaring people in their environment under different historical and geographical perspectives for the European maritime museums. His aim is to contribute to the study, protection and enhancement of European maritime cultural heritage. Its photographic works have been exhibited in France, Finland, Italy.


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The 1991 Critics Consensus Award Nominations
Jodie Foster and Kasi Lemmons in The Silence of the Lambs
Two films lead the nominations for the critics' picks in 1991 cinema: Barry Levinson's Bugsy and Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs. The latter went on to demolish its competition in top categories at the year's Oscars, and is represented in those same five categories here where it reigned supremere there: Best Picture, Director, Actress, Actor and Screenplay. Here, of course, is the Critics Consensus Awards, where I'm collating data from the critics' year-end awards and polls for each calendar year for the past five decades, assigning points values to said data, and declaring awards and nominations for all 50 of those frames. Of note in '91 is that three of four acting categories boast two nominees from the same film (Best Actor being the exception), while for the second consecutive year only two Best Picture nominees were also up for that Oscar (the two nomination-leaders, predictably). Two individual occurrences of category splitting can be found this year, for the first time ever, in Leading Actor Anthony Hopkins and Supporting Actress Mercedes Ruehl - both secured enough points to be nominated in Leading and Supporting each, but per CCA rules were placed in the category for which they received more points. Category splitting is actually fairly rare here (and increasingly so), and this is its sole double occurrence in a single frame. You may notice the absence of Oscar winner Jack Palance in Supporting Actor - our first acting Oscar recipient to fail to make the CCA cut. This year also marks the first appearances of the Coen brothers, who (mild spoiler alert) will go on to become the CCA's most-nominated persons to date. And Gus van Sant's My Own Private Idaho, which was nominated for no Oscars, lands in Picture, Director and Actor, impressively. Later, I'll reveal the '91 award winners, but your nominations for now are as follows:
Barton Fink (Ethan Coen and Joel Coen)
Bugsy (Warren Beatty, Mark Johnson and Barry Levinson)
My Own Private Idaho (Laurie Parker and Gus van Sant)
The Silence of the Lambs (Ronald M. Bozman, Jonathan Demme, Edward Saxon and Kenneth Utt)
Thelma & Louise (Mimi Polk Gitlin and Ridley Scott)
Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs)
Terry Gilliam (The Fisher King)
Barry Levinson (Bugsy)
Oliver Stone (JFK)
Gus van Sant (My Own Private Idaho)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Geena Davis (Thelma & Louise)
Jodie Foster (The Silence of the Lambs)
Susan Sarandon (Thelma & Louise)
Alison Steadman (Life Is Sweet)
Juliet Stevenson (Truly Madly Deeply)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Warren Beatty (Bugsy)
Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs)
Joe Mantegna (Homicide)
Nick Nolte (The Prince of Tides)
River Phoenix (My Own Private Idaho)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Jane Horrocks (Life Is Sweet)
Diane Ladd (Rambling Rose)
Juliette Lewis (Cape Fear)
Amanda Plummer (The Fisher King)
Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
John Goodman (Barton Fink)
Steven Hill (Billy Bathgate)
Samuel L. Jackson (Jungle Fever)
Harvey Keitel (Bugsy)
Michael Lerner (Barton Fink)
David Cronenberg (Naked Lunch)
Callie Khouri (Thelma & Louise)
Zachary Sklar and Oliver Stone (JFK)
Ted Tally (The Silence of the Lambs)
James Toback (Bugsy)
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Q: How to programatically go back in a navigation based application I have created a navigation based application, so when the user clicks on a button, the page navigates to another page (with a back button on it)
In sencha touch how to programatically, go back (to the previous view in the navigation stack), and also erase the values contained in fields (in the previous view).
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A: To go programatically back to the previous view in the navigation stack, you can use the method pop(),
navigationView.pop();

on some button click handler.
To erase the values contained in the fields of the previous view(if it's a formpanel), you can use the reset() method on formpanel like this,
Ext.getCmp('formpanel-id').reset();

This will reset all the values of your formpanel.

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The Jeff Lorber Fusion
Water Sign
AllMusic Review by Alex Henderson
By the mid-'80s, Jeff Lorber placed improvisation on the back burner and took a highly commercial, radio-oriented approach that offered little evidence of his skills as a soloist. But early in his career, the electric keyboardist specialized in very accessible yet free-spirited and creative jazz/funk/R&B stressing improvisation and spontaneity. Water Sign, one of Lorber's strongest dates, unites his working group of 1979 (which includes Danny Wilson on electric bass and Dennis Bradford on drums) with high-quality soloists like Freddie Hubbard (flügelhorn), Joe Farrell (flute), and Dennis Springer (tenor and soprano sax). Whether digging into the gritty jazz/funk grooves of "Tune 88," "Toad's Place," and "Right Here" or a piece as charming as "Sparkle," the players don't hesitate to stretch out and say what needs to be said.
Toad's Place
Jeff Lorber
feat: Jeff Lorber
Tune 88


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With the old style analog telephone line we all have in our homes, it is easy to split a line multiple times. This is because only two wires are used for each line in a phone cable. Computer networking is far more complex. Eight wires are used within a single network cable. While it is sometimes possible to couple two networking cables together, it is not feasible to split the connection.
There are a couple of possible solutions to this problem though, and they are both pretty simple.
Network switches are used to connect multiple computers on a single network. If your goal is only to use a single network wall jack for multiple computers or devices, then a network switch should do the job. Most consumer network switches will automatically uplink to a parent switch so there is usually no configuration needed.
Network routers are used to route internal traffic to another network (such as an internet connection). Most home routers (including wireless routers) have network switches built-in. What this combination of a router with a built-in switch provides is the ability to network several computers and share a single internet connection with them all. If your network router also supports wireless connections, then you can have a combination of wired computers and wireless computers on your network.
Is this legal? If you remember the days of legal issues when splitting cable TV, then you may be concerned with sharing your internet connection with multiple PCs. Unless otherwise specified by your internet provider, it is perfectly acceptable to share your internet connection with all of the computers in your home or office. Of course this doesn't mean you can share your wireless with the whole neighborhood.
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"I'm with u" – Lil Wayne advised Nicki in a textual content.
Earlier as we speak, Nicki Minaj revealed that she was no longer performing on the BET Experience live performance in June after the BET community determined to blast her through the Grammy's final evening. If you missed it, BET despatched out a tweet about Cardi's historic grammy win for Best Rap album, whereas declaring that Nicki "is being dragged for her lacefront" within the course of. Of course the distasteful tweet didn't sit effectively with Nicki, and he or she shortly determined to cancel her present with them. "Young Money will not be aside of the BET Experience or award present," she revealed as we speak.
While Nicki was listening to it from followers for her choice, she acquired some reassurance this afternoon when her boss, Lil Wayne, stated he's standing by her. Nicki shared a screenshot on IG of a textual content Lil Wayne despatched her, saying "I'm with u!" after she advised him about canceling the BET present.
It's unclear if Lil Wayne's "I'm with u" is him saying he is canceling his efficiency as effectively or simply okay along with her choice to take action, however we'll in all probability get a correct assertion from Young Money about it within the coming days or even weeks.


If the rule is to be abolished, the NBA will allow high school players to enter the Draft following their grade 12 year. Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, and Kevin Garnett are all high-profile names who bypassed college to enter the Draft straight out of high school.
The current rule in place prohibits amateur prospects to enter the draft before their age 19 year meaning most kids take a year in college before entering the NBA Draft.
Silver expects the rule to be scrapped by the time the 2021 NBA Draft rolls around.


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The family of cruciferous vegetables includes over 2000 species divided into 230 types.
These include broccoli, green and red cabbage, and kale, cauliflower, Chinese cabbage, Brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, bokchoi, turnips, swedes and even radish, cress, rocket and horseradish.
Cruciferous vegetables contain fibres, folates, carotenoids (including beta-carotene, lutein and zeaxanthin), selenium and a high amount of vitamin C. Broccoli is also rich in vitamins K and B9.
Cruciferous vegetables are recognized for providing some benefits in the face of risks of cancer and of risks of cardio-vascular disease.
Studies have shown that cruciferae such as broccoli provide factors that protect against several kinds of cancer. It has been shown that eating three to five servings of cruciferous vegetables per week leads to significant protection.
According to research, eating broccoli at least once a week may reduce occurrence of colorectal, stomach, lung or prostate cancer. It may even lessen the chances of breast cancer in premenopausal women.
The protective properties of cruciferous vegetables, especially broccoli, are believed to come from sulfur compounds called glucosinolates, and more specifically from their hydrolysis products, isothiocyanates, including sulforaphane.
For the same amount, broccoli contains more nutrients than any other vegetable.
A low energy food, (thirty four kilocalories per hundred grams), poor in carbohydrates and rich in fibres, it is recommended for diabetics and for those trying to cut down on their food intake.
The interest of broccoli, and more specifically its active ingredient, sulforaphane, has been shown in nutritional prevention and nutritional therapy thanks to its antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and cell protection activities.
The levels of sulforaphane vary enormously depending on the species and variety of cabbage. Broccoli is known to be the richest in glucoraphanin, which is converted into sulforaphane, the active molecule of broccoli, by an enzyme. Its level of sulforaphane is in the order of 1 to 100mg/100g.
It is better to eat broccoli raw or very lightly cooked because over-cooking destroys its nutritional qualities and reduces the creation of sulforaphane.
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Tis the season for giving! Right? Sometimes in our world the perception of the holidays get mucked down with consuming MORE, MORE, MORE. We get flooded with finding the best deals, steals, and thrills instead of focusing on simplifying our crazy lives. It is easy to sit back and justify every purchase with a reason why it's a good spend of money, but all the "stuff" just piles up overtime. Don't get me wrong, a gift or two is a wonderful thing but not when you are purchasing them for yourself everyday online! More "stuff" also comes in the form of social media too, as it does not have to be tangible. Decluttering your life can happen in a variety of ways if you are willing to take the challenge.
Every year we get the chance to start over, to feel fresh and clean from the grime that can hold us back, and some of the grime I am referring to is physical clutter. I am not talking about changing your entire life, but instead I am encouraging you to make simple adjustments. The first step to enriching your life is to downsize. Go through your home room by room and get rid of anything that does not bring you value.
Examples of this: Old magazines, shoes, clothing, scratched cd and dvd's, user manuals, old coffee mugs, expired makeup, broken toys, and unused kitchen appliances.
Once you have gone through each room and see items you want to get rid of simple take a trash bag and grab the items. Once they go in the bag, they should not come out. You can donate these items if they are functional, to someone who might give them better use! Just like that, you will be on your way to freedom.
Give yourself 5-10 minutes to go through the home and check for unwanted items. This does not have to take all day!
Focus on putting items in the trash bag, and not taking them back out. Try and fill up the entire bag.
Try and get rid of one item a day for one month.
Pay close attention to your closet. Any clothes you wear turn the hanger the opposite direction, and after six months you will know which clothes need to go.
Have four boxes: Keep, donate, trash, or relocate and stick to them!
The second way to be more with less, is to detox from things that may bring you down or take time away from important people. For me personally, I did a social media detox for one month after our son was born to spend more time on him. It also helped me focus on my family, and reminded me to be grateful for what I have versus comparing to others. If you are in need of simplicity, then set a small goal to clear the clutter both in the home and on your phone.
Examples of this: Social media, unhealthy relationships, working after work is over, and negative self talk.
Tis the season for giving, and this could result in your time as well. Sometimes an act of kindness goes a lot farther than an item wrapped in a box. Giving your time to help those in need is another empowering, economical, and environmentally friendly way to be in the spirit without acquiring more. Being overwhelmed and under inspired does not have to continue anymore. Stop working harder, sleeping less, and spending more and trade it for a more purpose driven existence. Get rid of clutter and give yourself more grace, love, and space to live freely! Living a more simple life means simply loving yourself a little more! You have the power to be more with less, so get to it!


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When LeBron James signed with the Los Angeles Lakers in July 2018, some doubted his motives. They felt that James came to L.A. more for off-court business and pleasure than for basketball.
But in a recent interview with ESPN's Dave McMenamin, the three-time NBA champ affirmed how pleased he is to be wearing the Purple and Gold.
"I am a Laker," James said with a smile. "I am definitely a Laker. I feel it. I'm happy as hell to be one."
Although James did extremely well statistically last year, it was a very disappointing season for him. He suffered the first significant injury of his career, and afterward he was criticized by the media and even his teammates for poor leadership and body language.
It all ended with the Lakers missing the playoffs for the sixth consecutive season.
Fast forward several months later, and the Lakers are now tied with the Milwaukee Bucks for the NBA's best record this season at 21-3.
James has played as big a role in that as anyone, as he's averaging 25.9 points a game while leading the league in assists at 10.8 per game.
The Lakers aren't just winning with defense, they're also wearing down teams with one of the best fast breaks in basketball. James deserves most of the credit for that. He's handling the ball and pushing the pace as much as he ever has, a sign that his passion is still alive and well.
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Buhari media chat on oil subsidy,chiibok girls,Army/Shiite clash.
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Buhari media chat.
President Buhari this evening hosted his maiden Presidential Media Chat since assuming office on May 29 this year. The journalists that interviewed are: Kayode Akintemi (Channels TV), Munir Dan Ali (Daily Trust), Ngozi Anyaegbulam (Media World International), and Ibanga Isine (Premium Times). During the chat, he spoke on many issues. Read all that after the cut...
How are we doing with the fight against corruption?
Buhari:
"Thirty years ago as Head of State, we collected those we perceived to be corrupt and put them in protective custody, until they prove they were not guilty. At present, those suspected of being corrupt are innocent until they are proven guilty.
"We have documents showing Nigerian crude oil was lifted illegally and proceeds are put into personal accounts instead of Government account. We are in court with suspected corrupt persons and we cannot comment until the court are through.We can only appeal to Nigerians to be patient."
"Our constraint is that the accused persons have to defend themselves in court to defend themselves. So, we cannot release their names to the public until the issues are completed in court. Whatever we recover will be presented in court. "The documentation in court include bank statements and documents from Customs Service that are to be presented in court. Until then, we ask Nigerians to have patience."
"We have to be patient and await outcome of courts decision. Government will only react through the Ministry of Justice after the courts have finished with matters before them. "We have documents showing where monies have been lodged."
Is there need to rejig the EFCC, ICPC?
"We have to be very sure of the documents we get and we have to cross check records sometimes across countries and in the EFCC. Those who were engaged in the theft of oil were people of substance and have the wealth to hire the best of lawyers to defend them.
We need to submit fool-proof documents to succeed in prosecution.
How many people have ICPC prosecuted in the past? That is why we are being thorough now. By the end of first quarter of next year, we would be in a position to tell Nigerians how far we have gone. By the end of the first quarter of next year, we will tell Nigerians how far we have gone on the fight against corruption. I swore by the Holy Koran to defend the country's constitution and the law. So, we will not put any body above the law".
Asset declaration not so public after all, not fully made.
"I have declared my assets four times in the past. You have the constitutional right to go to the relevant government agency to go and seek for it. "They were deposited at the Ministry of Justice. If Ministry of Justice cannot produce my asset declaration form, then they too should answer some questions.
"Why me alone, why not others who were governors and Ministers as well. I think I don't have to ask them to give, it is your constitutional role."
Buhari says he swore by the Holy Quran to fight corruption
"By the end of the first quarter of next year, we will tell Nigerians how far we have gone on the fight against corruption. I swore by the Holy Koran to defend the country's constitution and the law. So, we will not put any body above the law."
On allegations that some members of his party that have been accused of corruption are being shielded from investigation, he said
"I don't tolerate corruption and I did not pick anyone that will corrupt my government. It is the right of Nigerians to take them to court. I have not taken anybody who is facing corruption charges. I cannot make the mistake of appointing anyone with corruption. Whoever is found to be corrupt would not only be sacked but prosecuted."
On the missing Chibok girls, Buhari said his administration is working towards their rescue
"We want to be sure that the girls are complete, safe and sound before we attempt any form of negotiation on the girls. We are still keeping our option. If a credible leadership of Boko Haram is ready for negotiation without any condition we are ready to listen to them. We are working with Niger, Chad and Cameroun on the girls. We have no credible intelligence of where they are. "
On the Shiite/Army clash, he said
"The President of Iran spoke to me about the situation. But, I told him that as a government we have a system we must follow. "As the head of the Federal Government, I told him I will have to wait for the official report from the Kaduna State government from their investigations. To be fair to the both sides, we have to wait for the report of the inquiry. I expect the Kaduna State government will bring the report on the inquiry because the crisis happened in its domain. There are all sorts of allegations. So, we just have to wait for the report. I was in touch with the governor of Kaduna state and the president of Iran talked to me about it. We have a system of investigation as a government and as the head of the federal government, I have to wait for official report before I comment. The Police and the SSS are doing their own role of finding out what happened. In any incident where lives and property were lost there is a standard way of doing things and people would be asked to come and give evidence. How can any group create a state within a state? I saw a clip in which some dissidents were virtually hitting the chest of Generals."
On the possible devaluation of the Naira, Buhari said
"Personally, I don't support the devaluation of the Naira. We handed over a secured country in 1979, but by 1984, nobody knew how much Nigeria was owing. The situation now is aggravated by the downturn in the petroleum industry. It is now per barrel and we have debt service of about N1.5 trillion and we have commitment on the ground. We have to reorganize the NNPC. We have to introduce the TSA. There were 45 accounts in the NNPC alone. Ministry of Defence had about 70 accounts. We have got about N1.5 trillion through the TSA. The oil downturn is very unfortunate for this government. Check previous records. Over 90% were recurrent. No country can develop without capital projects. We were in very very bad shape. I will not support devaluation of the Naira. I need to be convinced that there is need for the country to devalue the Naira. Is it against the dollar or pound? We have our priorities. To provided money to fund the projects we have already outlined, and not for those who want hard currency to import textile and toothpick."
Regarding the continuous detention of Sambo Dasuki and Nnamdi Kanu: Buhari said, "If you see the atrocities those committed against this country, we can't allow them to jump bail."
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The full bracket for The Hymn Society's 2019 Hymn Tournament. Image courtesy of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada
'Greatest hymn'? Sacred song enthusiasts vote in 'madness' tournament
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(RNS) — Four months after March Madness, hymn lovers are awaiting the outcome of a different kind of tournament that will answer this question: "What's the greatest hymn of all time?"
Will it be "Holy, Holy, Holy!"? Or how about "How Great Thou Art"?
Or one of six others in the Elite Eight that were announced on Tuesday (July 2)?
Brian Hehn, Director of The Center for Congregational Song. Photo by Serkan Zanagar
The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada decided to use the tournament as a way to draw attention to the music that fills church sanctuaries every weekend. Its contest, where enthusiasts have voted since May on its website and on Facebook, was inspired by a Catholic podcast, "Open Your Hymnal," which had a spring tournament focused specifically on hymn tunes.
This contest focuses on both the texts and the tunes of beloved hymns.
Brian Hehn, director of the hymn society's Center for Congregational Song, said the tournament has been a kind of "teaching moment" that allowed the society's members to have some fun and helped the uninitiated to learn that there are a variety of hymn styles.
Hymns were divided into different divisions, each with eight entries.
"Holy, Holy, Holy!" was the No. 1 seed and "O for a Thousand Tongues" was No. 8 in the strophic division, which features hymns with a different text in each stanza and no refrain.
The top-seeded song in the refrain division was "When Peace, Like a River," known best for the repeated phrase, "It is well with my soul."
Another division includes chants (such as "O Come, O Come, Emanuel") and cyclical songs (like South African hymn "Siyahamba").
The last of the divisions, in which "In Christ Alone" was the No. 2 seed, features a grab bag of choices from hymn society staffers along with employees of Christian Copyright Licensing International, which focuses mainly on contemporary worship songs.
The Strophic Division and Refrain Division of the bracket. Image courtesy of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada
Like March Madness, the hymn tournament has included some early upsets. For Hehn, it was amazing that "Amazing Grace" was in that number.
"Because it's such a staple in pretty much every tradition's song repertoire, it's surprising that 'Amazing Grace' didn't make it into at least the semifinals," he said.
"It made it to only the second round," said Hehn, where it was defeated by "Holy, Holy, Holy!"
The hymns were ranked, or seeded, in four divisions based on their popularity in resources such as Hymnary.org, the top 100 list of CCLI and the National Association of Pastoral Musicians' list of "Songs That Every American Catholic Should Know."
"When Peace, Like a River" trounced "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms" with a 77%-23% vote in the first round but was then defeated in a 58%-42% vote by "O Come, All Ye Faithful." That Christmas hymn is now up against "My Hope Is Built/On Christ the Solid Rock," which soundly defeated "Here I Am, Lord" in a 62%-38% tally.
The Chant and Cyclical Division and the CCLI and Staff-Pick Division of the bracket. Image courtesy of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada
The Elite Eight are: "Holy, Holy, Holy!"; "Be Thou My Vision"; "O Come, All Ye Faithful"; "My Hope Is Built/On Christ the Solid Rock"; "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel"; "Of the Father's Love Begotten"; "Holy God, We Praise Your Name"; and "How Great Thou Art."
The tournament is fueled by votes from more than 800 people, most of whom Hehn said are affiliated with the 1,200-member society, including church music professors, hymn writers, other musicians and pastors.
The final rounds will play out when about 250 hymn enthusiasts gather in Dallas for their annual conference in mid-July. Voting in person and via Facebook will continue during three more rounds there and Hehn plans to announce the winner on July 18.
Anyone who submitted a bracket to the society with the correct winner before the voting started will win bragging rights — and a free membership for the next year.
About Adelle M. Banks
Adelle M. Banks is production editor and a national correspondent at RNS. She joined the staff in 1995 after working for more than 10 years at daily newspapers in the upstate New York communities of Binghamton and Syracuse, The Providence Journal and the Orlando Sentinel.
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Above : New backwoods shelter area - staff pretending to be really busy for the camera!
Despite the widespread availability of cheap, waterproof tents, many campers at Fordell prefer to sleep in much more basic conditions - no doubt having been inspired by Ray Mears and others. The site has had a backwoods cooking area for many years which is well used, but this weekend the staff started work on a new backwoods area elsewhere in the site where groups will be able to bivi overnight in minimal style and hopefully still keep fairly dry.
The new area is in an unused part of land near the abseil wall and will have a large open-sided shelter (see photo above) using a big tarp, with a smaller wooden-framed shelter for sleeping in next to it (bottom photo). Although not quite blending in with the trees (since you don't tend to get pink and green trees in Fife) the tarp shelter looks like it will do the job and will also enable groups to have a small fire underneath on top of some slabs.
After numerous ideas for the smaller shelter were discussed and rejected, it was decided to build a timber-framed structure which would then have canvas stretched on top - hopefully then allowing perhaps 10 people to sleep underneath. After a few mis-measurements and non-linear sawing from the less DIY-skilled members, in stepped woodworking pro Henry to finish things off and teach the youngsters a thing or two about hammering nails in without them bending!
By sunday evening most of the work had been completed with a few more things to finish off - photos of the final shelters will appear soon and they will no doubt be thoroughly tested by groups shortly.
Above : Due to a shortage of posts, 4 of the staff had be sunk into the ground to use as uprights for the new shelter.