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Van Dijk preparing for 'special game' against Germany
The Netherlands is aiming to be more compact and disciplined in defence against Germany, according to Virgil van Dijk.
Stephen Creek
24 March, 2019 00:36 IST
Netherlands and Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk - Getty Images
Virgil van Dijk said the Netherlands' clash with Germany in the European Championship qualifiers will be "a special game" and targeted a repeat of the 3-0 Nations League triumph his side enjoyed in October.
The Liverpool defender opened the scoring at the Johan Cruijff ArenA when Ronald Koeman's men brushed Germany aside, Memphis Depay and Georginio Wijnaldum adding late goals in a comfortable victory.
The two sides drew 2-2 in Gelsenkirchen the following month, with Van Dijk scoring a stoppage-time equaliser as the Netherlands came from two goals down to claim a draw that ensured it topped its Nations League group.
Looking ahead to Sunday's clash, Van Dijk told reporters: "It's a special game with lots of history. It's always got that extra thing, that's what everybody should feel.
"I do feel that myself. We're now in a period where points do matter a lot. Tomorrow will be a special game.
"I think you always need to prepare well when playing for your national team or your club. But this time you need to do that. I'm not worried about that at all, I'm sure all my players will be well-prepared."
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Q: Call only one specific function in a Lua script from c Is it possible to only call one specific function in a Lua script from C. Currently, I have a Lua script which calls a C function. Now, I need this C function to call just one Lua function from the mentioned script.
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The C functions look like this:
#include <lua.h>
#include <lauxlib.h>
#include <lualib.h>

static double E1(double x) {

    double xint = x;
    double z;

    lua_State *L;
    L = luaL_newstate();

    luaL_openlibs(L);

    luaL_loadfile(L, "luascript.lua");

    lua_pcall(L, 0, 0, 0);

    lua_getglobal(L, "func");
    lua_pushnumber(L, x);

    lua_pcall(L, 1, 1, 0);

    z = lua_tonumber(L, -1);
    lua_pop(L, 1);

    lua_close(L);

    return z;
}

static int Ret(lua_State *L){

    double y = lua_tonumber(L, -1);

    lua_pushnumber(L, E1(y));

    return 1;
}

int luaopen_func2lua(lua_State *L){
    lua_register(
                    L,
                    "Ret",
                    Ret
                    );
    return 0;
}

The Lua script looks like this:
 require "func2lua"

 function func (x)
     -- some mathematical stuff
     return value
 end

 x = 23.1

 print(Ret(x)) -- Ret is the C function from the top c-file

A: Yes you can. C function will need a way to get that function. Depending on your requirements you can either pass that Lua function to C function as one of arguments, or store that Lua function where C can reach it - either in global environment (then C will lua_getglobal() that function), or in some predefined table, belonging to that script.

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Is Business Insurance A Worthy Investment Or A Total Waste Of Money?
Starting a business is totally not easy. It will require a lot of a planning before you can actually start one. Now, if you have a plan in venturing into it, you might want to consider getting business insurance too. Of course getting one is not free and it will require you to take out some decent cash. But come to think of it, you can never really tell if an unfortunate event will happen or not.
Insurance can save your business from total closure and it can save you from pulling out more cash if ever.
Here are reasons as to why it will be such a wise decision to get business insurance. Also, these will convince you as to why it is totally a worthy investment.
just like all types of insurance, in case something happens such as an accident, it will give you peace of mind to know that you are covered. All business owners should protect your business with public liability insurance, as this is the basic level of protection, as it can help cover any forms of compensation made by the public and legal costs.
for a business that will be having employees, the government will require you to have business insurance. Failure to get one may cause bigger problems for you like paying for fines or termination of your business to name a few.
let's face it, your clients will opt to choose your products or service if they know that they will be safe in the event something bad will happen.
you can never tell when a hurricane will hit your business place; Global Claim Advisors has experience helping business owners get back on their feet after disasters by developing a claim strategy to efficiently manage their claim and get them the settlement they need to recover. In the same manner, if a theft breaks in at night, having insurance can cover repairs and losses for these unlikely events.
other than good compensation, employees would want to work where they know that they will be secured.
a typhoon hit your business area and it would take days before you can return to operations. Having insurance will cover for the loss of income for the time that your business is closed due to uncontrollable events.
there are things in life that a person can't control. Knowing that you are covered and insured can help you get to sleep at night. With a lot of things that you worry about, then you can take one less worry off your list.
you cannot predict what is about to happen (unless you are a fortune teller). You cannot tell if an employee of yours will get injured or if there will be a fire in your shop. It is always best to know that you are insured if such things occur.
Now that you know the importance of getting insurance, here are the types of business insurance that you need to have.
spend on a general liability insurance as this will provide protection for you and your business from injuries, negligence, and accidents. It can help you in payment for property damage and bodily injury.
this will provide insurance for your employees. It will cover medical treatments, disability as well as death benefits. This means that in case something happens to your employee, they can't sue you.
this insurance will cover your business' equipment, furniture, inventory if there will be fire, theft or storm incidents. Whether you own or lease the place where your business is, getting this insurance is extremely important.
if you are using company cars for your business then getting this is a must. This will protect your employees and products in case an accident happens. If your employee, however, uses his own car for business use, then consider getting a non-owned auto liability.
also well known as Errors & Omissions Insurance. This will protect your business from negligence claims due to mistakes or because you failed to perform some service.
Make sure to contact your broker or agent to discuss with you the coverage of the insurance you need. It is important to know that you will be fully covered once something gets out of hand.
Business Insurance certainly is an additional expense for you. However, paying for damages and legal services can cost so much more compared to paying for insurance premiums. Now you don't want that, do you?
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Now Playing! On the Fringe, Off the Grid, On the Edge
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Still from Edward Owens' 'Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts,' 1966. (Courtesy SF Cinematheque)
One of the best features of Black History Month (and all celebrations of underappreciated cultures, for that matter) is the (re)surfacing of forgotten or unknown talents. This week's picks salute a range of folks working the margins.
Edward Owens
Through Feb. 28
SFMOMA online
Edward Owens was a teenage prodigy whose output encompassed films, paintings and collages. He was enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago in the mid-1960s when, fatefully, Gregory Markopoulos joined the faculty. The pioneering experimental filmmaker discovered and influenced Owens' work, and encouraged his Black gay student to head east in 1966. Imagine being welcomed into New York avant-garde circles as a gifted 17-year-old.
For the first monthlong installment of the three-part exhibition Assembly of Images: On Histories of Race and Representation, SFMOMA and SF Cinematheque unearthed a pair of Owens' rarely screened short films that he shot in Chicago. Dreamy and mesmerizing, the silent Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts (1966) imbues Black faces with glamour and longing; it was originally entitled Mildered Owens: Toward Fiction (after its central figure, the artist's mother).
Remembrance: A Portrait Story (originally called No More Tomorrows, 1967) also features the imposing Mildered (with friends Irene Collins and Nettie Thomas) and likewise suggests the gulf between reality and dreams. Owens wrote, "The music is by Marilyn Monroe singing 'Running Wild' from Some Like It Hot, because it's a film portrait of Nettie Thomas. She did floors in white women's homes, like Black women did to support their families in the olden days. My mother is sitting in a wicker chair with an ostrich feather boa, a grey worsted wool skirt, a silk belt. For her portrait, I used 'All Cried Out' by Dusty Springfield..."
The beauty of Owens' images is immediately apparent, but I didn't grasp the power, the love, and the pain in his films until the second viewing. No doubt the scarcity and preciousness of Owens' work affected me; struggling with drugs and an undiagnosed bipolar disorder, Owens stopped making films when he was 20. He returned to Chicago in 1971, where he finished college and lived and worked until his death in 2009.
Frances McDormand in the film 'Nomadland.' (Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures)
Premieres Feb. 19
Chloé Zhao's much-ballyhooed follow-up to The Rider is a movie that, like Kelly Reichardt's First Cow and Eliza Hittman's Never Rarely Sometimes Always, isn't helped by the hype. All three films deserve to be widely seen, but some movies need to be discovered and encountered, taken in and experienced, on their own terms and without the taint of expectations.
So let's just say that Zhao's quasi-hybrid of fictional characters and real people who've given up, left or been pushed out of their homes and taken to the road is a useful Rorschach test for gauging your tolerance and appetite for alternate modes of living. Camped many a mile from both Ken Kesey's traveling band of merry pranksters and Bruce Springsteen's blue-collar road warriors, Zhao's people (embodied by Frances McDormand with a touch of the rebel, the seeker and Rosie the Riveter) are, at least in theory, as free as a bird now.
Freedom is a moving target, though, especially if you make movies for more than a handful of viewers. That's a highfalutin way of saying that I liked Nomadland most when it rambled into the open spaces of experimental narrative, and least when it steered toward the commercial safety of conventional narrative.
Saru Jayaraman at rally against sexual harassment in the film 'Waging Change.' (Courtesy Waging Change)
Waging Change
Feb. 19, 8pm
KQED 9
The pandemic derailed Oakland filmmaker Abby Ginzberg's big plans—a premiere at the Castro, notably—for her eye-opening 2020 documentary about the various ways in which restaurant workers are exploited, harassed and robbed. Absent the virus, Waging Change assuredly would have been used by labor and community organizations coast-to-coast to raise public consciousness and, even better, the minimum wage. (Even without the film, Florida voters passed a gradual hike in the hourly wage up to $15 in 2026.)
The silver lining to the yearlong pandemic, to the degree there is one, is that the spotlight and the conversation has shifted toward the inequities endemic to our society. With a new administration in D.C., a higher federal minimum wage is part of the discussion. Excellent timing for Waging Change, which premieres Friday, Feb. 19 at 8pm on KQED (with a recently added segment on the effects of COVID-19 on the restaurant sector).
There's been a lot of talk in the last couple months about democracy. Ginzberg has been making films about justice for 15 years. I'm far from certain that the latter can insure the former, but surely democracy without justice is no longer a viable state of affairs. As always, tip generously.

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The Theater Department curriculum aims to develop the student's understanding of theater through courses in the theory and practice of performance, the study of theater history and dramatic literature, film, and playwriting. The development of practical skills for theater majors and minors as actors, directors, designers, technicians, and playwrights in actual stage production work is carefully structured by the department staff to coincide with course work in these areas. For the non-major or minor, the curriculum provides several courses at the introductory level (Theater 101, 102, 103, 104, 105). These are aimed at developing the student's understanding and appreciation of theater as an art form. Courses on the intermediate level (Theater 206, 207, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214) provide majors and minors (as well as non-majors) with various opportunities to expand their skills and to deepen their growing understanding and appreciation of theater. These courses will explore both the great works of the dramatic canon from all time periods and cultures, as well as important and challenging contemporary dramas. Majors and minors often pursue graduate study and careers in theater, film, and other allied fields, but for the non-major or minor the study of theater provides a unique opportunity for the student to explore an extraordinary and timeless art form, to learn about the ways plays and productions are created, and, most importantly, to study theater as it reflects and tests moral, social, political, spiritual, and cross-cultural issues.
Senior Comprehensives: Majors must pass three departmental examinations: (1) a three-hour examination on the history, literature, and theory of theater or a project in those areas approved by the department chair; (2) a three-hour examination on the performance aspects of theater (acting, directing, design, playwriting) or a project in those areas approved by the department chair; and, (3) when pursuing the project option, a one-hour oral examination with the faculty of the Theater Department.
Requirements for the Major: Nine courses including Theater 102, 105, 207, 209, 317; three courses from Theater 211, 212, 213, 214; and one course credit from the remaining Theater Department offerings.
Requirements for the Minor: Five courses including Theater 102; one course credit from among Theater 211, 212, 213, 214; one course credit from among Theater 105, 206; one course credit from among Theater 209, 210, 317; and one course credit from the remaining Theater Department offerings.
Productions: Theater majors and minors are strongly urged to participate in the annual season of theater productions staged by the department. The department feels strongly that the serious theater student should have numerous opportunities to test his creative abilities in the myriad facets of theater performance. It is hoped that during the student's four years at Wabash College he will have the opportunity to test in theatrical productions the many concepts he will encounter in his courses. The season of plays selected by the department is chosen with careful consideration of the unique opportunities for students offered by each play. The department expects that the student will work in a variety of performance areas including acting, stage managing, set and costume construction, lighting and sound, playwriting, and directing. Each year, during the second half of the fall semester, as part of the theater season, students will have the opportunity to produce workshop performances in the areas of acting, directing, design, playwriting, performance art, and, where appropriate, film. Students interested in knowing more about these opportunities should consult the department chair.
Prerequisite: Theater 105 or consent of instructor.
Prerequisite: at least one course in theater history or consent of the instructor.
Prerequisite: Theater 102 or consent of instructor.
Prerequisite: consent of theater department chair.


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Tewkesbury Park: a Cotswold golfing haven offering something for all
GolfMagic heads to Gloucestershire to check out terrific Tewkesbury Park...
Andy Roberts
GolfMagic took a trip to tranquil Tewkesbury Park earlier this month, pitching up to 176 acres of pristine parkland placed in front of panoramic views over the charming Cotswolds.
Ball striking drill
The beauty of Tewkesbury Park lies not only its immaculate par-73 golf course setting, but also its hotel facilities too.
This place truly offers something for all, whether that be non-golfing friends, family or loved ones, with delicious food, spacious and cosy rooms, and an incredible spa and leisure facility that features an indoor pool, sauna, steam room, gym, squash and tennis courts. There's even a little par-3 course too for any beginner golfers taking a trip here.
Steeped in history, the present hotel building at Tewkesbury Park is believed to have been erected by John and Mary Brilliana Wall in the late 18th century. It's a building that has stood the test of time and the hotel celebrates this from the moment you walk through its double doors.
Designed by famous golfer and course designer Frank Pennick, the course was opened in 1976.
This classic parkland track boasts many natural features and plenty of water hazards to keep you on your guard. Wooded areas and water are particularly frequent on the front nine, while the back nine opens up a bit more and gives you some scoring opportunities.
An elevated tee box welcomes you to the course on the par-5 first, and while it was nice to start with a par, especially following some late-night vodka cokes in the bar, it was a little frustrating to take three from the front edge of the green!
The par-4 second is reachable off the tee at around 300 yards, but not when you carve it way right into the trees like we did. Thankfully we found our ball, but it was a chip out sideways and a very disappointing bogey. The prudent play - next time we come back - is a long iron to the top of the hill and a flick of a wedge into the green.
Big fan of @tewkesburypark, fun little course and superb hotel and spa facilities, well worth a look if you're in Gloucestershire anytime soon
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One of the standout holes for us would have to be the third, which plays as a par-5 off the yellows and par-4 off the whites. The hole measures some 500 yards and plays over the hill, with a beautiful view of Tewkesbury Abbey in the distance, which is actually the line to take off the tee. Big hitters will be able to reach the dancefloor in two shots, but a devilish little pot bunker down the left side will prevent you from doing just that - as we found out!
Another memorable hole, and probably fair to say the signature hole on the course, is the beautiful par-3 fifth. Club selection is particularly important here, with water short and a downhill approach from the tee. You'll also want to check where the wind is as you won't feel it a great deal on its secluded tee box. We hit a great 9-iron into six-foot putt for birdie, but as we mentioned about the speed of the greens a little earlier, we unfortuntely left our ball in the jaws of the hole for par!
A tiny par-3 at seven gives you a real chance of birdie with a pitching wedge from the tee, but go long here and you'll be lucky to escape with a bogey.
You'll also definitely take pars at the uphill par-4 ninth and tricky downhill par-3 10th, particularly the latter with a giant tree guarding the front right of the green. The par-4 11th is no bargain either, playing 420 yards with trouble left and a collection of trees down the right flank.
But it's not all about saving par around here, thankfully Tewkesbury Park provides you with some respite from really about the 12th into the house. A good drive down the par-5 12th will give you a real birdie chance at around 500 yards, but unlike the opening hole, this one plays uphill.
Get your drives away at both the par-4 13th and 14th, dodging some well positioned trees and dense rough in places, and you'll have a short iron into the green, particularly at the 14th.
The par-5 15th is a lovely hole as it plays back alongside the hotel. We sent our tee shot into the rough down the right under the trees, which meant a lay-up into the fairway, but again, get your drive away well here and the big hitters amongst you will have every chance to reach the green in two blows.
We also really enjoyed the final three holes, with the uphill par-3 16th guarded by the hotel. Given we didn't fancy calling Autoglass, we unfortunately found the green but came up well short of the back pin position.
A drive and short iron awaits at the par-4 17th, playing into a beautiful little green with perfectly manicured bunkers guarding the green, and the sensible play on the short par-4 18th is to lay-up with an iron to the top of the hill and send in about a 50 to 60-yard wedge into the green.
Golfers looking for the ultimate luxury golf break now have six brand-new historic suites to choose from, each offering five-star levels of opulence, detail and traditional quality rarely found in English golf hotels.
Three other individually-designed 'Indulgence' rooms can also be found in the 18th Century manor house, and the remainder of Tewkesbury Park's bedrooms now offer a minimum of four-star style, comfort and interiors.
The friendly No. 19 café is a favourite post-golf haunt, or you can indulge your love of gastronomy with fine dishes in the hotel's new 'Mint at TewkesburyPark' restaurant while enjoying stunning views of some of England's most beautiful countryside.
We also could not be more impressed with the level of service in the spa facility too with a great deep sports massage getting into those tight neck and back muscles. The indoor pool was also particularly pleasant.
Tewkesbury Park is in all respects a first-class proposition in 2019 for UK golfers looking for a memorable golf break.
Located just five minutes from M5 junction 9, the venue is located on the doorstep of Tewkesbury and within easy reach of Cheltenham, Gloucester and Worcester.
A testing but fair golf course awaits for the avid golfer, with a real premium on finding the fairways and keeping out the wooded areas that blocked many entries into the green. Birdie chances certainly await on the back nine though, so bring your A-game here and you can expect to shoot a nice score.
One of the impressive features of the course was its bunkering, with Tewkesbury Park fresh off a major bunker refurbishment programme.
The greens were perhaps a little slower than ideal - it took about six holes to adapt to the speed - but we take nothing away from their condition since they rolled nice and true for the majority of the round.
A friendly pro shop stocked with all the latest ground-breaking new product also adds appeal, as too its academy course, practice range and putting green. You can also jump in a golf buggy should that be something you fancy to help speed up your round.
While the golfing experience was impressive enough, it's easy to see why Tewkesbury Park was voted 'Best UK & Ireland Hotel for Weddings, Parties or Special Occasions' at an awards dinner in Mayfair last year.
The restaurant, bar area and its 93 bedrooms are something to behold here. It's just an incredibly warm experience from the moment you set foot through the electric double doors.
We are confident the full package offered by Tewkesbury Park will leave you feeling satisfied, relaxed and eager to come back for more.
For more information and to book your stay and tee times, visit www.TewkesburyPark.co.uk
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The Split in How Americans Think About Our Collective Past Is Real—But There's a Way Out of the 'History Wars'
A girl in class with her social studies book. Southington, Conn., May 1942.
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By Dana Schaffer and Pete Burkholder
April 29, 2021 10:28 AM EDT
What are Americans supposed to know about the history of their country? Whose stories should be taught in classrooms, whose should be omitted and who decides? Such questions inform recent education bills like Louisiana's HB564 and Iowa's HF802, which prohibit the teaching of "divisive concepts" and are just two of the latest entrants in an often-contentious dialogue reaching back to the founding of the Republic itself. But while there's been a steady stream of opinions from politicians, pundits and professors about where to find "Historical Truth," it's always been hard to know how exactly the American public would answer these questions.
Our recent national survey of people's understandings and uses of the past, the full results of which will be published this summer, gives voice to the unheard masses. A collaboration between the American Historical Association and Fairleigh Dickinson University, and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the poll of 1,816 Americans reveals the tensions of a nation riven by racist violence and political anxieties. Yet, those same results are reason for optimism, revealing commonality and paths forward for a divided nation.
The survey data suggest the divisions are real when it comes to how we think about our collective past. For example, 69% of respondents self-identifying as Democrats believe that women generally receive too little historical attention, while fewer than half that number (34%) of Republicans agree. That trend continues for other groups: racial and ethnic minorities, as well as the LGBTQ community, are seen by Democrats as shortchanged by historians, by a two- or even three-to-one margin, relative to their Republican counterparts' views. Meanwhile, Republicans are up to twice as likely as Democrats to say that religious groups, the Founding Fathers and the military get inadequate historical consideration. Most strikingly, 84% of Republicans believe that history should celebrate our nation's past, while 70% of Democrats think history should question it.
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Nor are divisions simply a matter of political affiliation. White respondents are more than twice as likely as people of color to feel that the histories of racial and ethnic minorities garner too much attention. Those with a college degree see men dominating the thoughts of historians at nearly twice the rate that non-degreed respondents do. Age is likewise a factor, with people in the 18-29 bracket calling for more attention to LGBTQ history by a 19-point margin, relative to those in the 50-64 age range. The "history wars" are thus polarizing beyond the party affiliations within which they are typically framed.
Yet, if the survey results' divisions are evident, so are the points of commonality. Asked whether it was acceptable to make learners uncomfortable by teaching the harm some people have done to others, over three-fourths of respondents said it was. That breakdown largely remained, across age groups, college education, gender or geographic location. Even by political affiliation the similarities held steady, with 78% of Democrats and 74% of Republicans supporting the appropriateness of confronting painful history. (The only outlier here was among Hispanic respondents, where just 58%—though still a clear majority—defended making history learners uncomfortable.)
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Perhaps most importantly, our findings offer a possible path out of the history wars by changing the focus from what sets of facts are taught to how they are taught. To be clear: we firmly support teaching the histories of peoples and events that have been omitted from traditional narratives. But we also recognize the impossibility of covering everyone and everything in the past, especially given the conflicting viewpoints expressed above.
As it stands, two-thirds of our survey respondents felt that "history" is primarily just an assemblage of facts. Moreover, our respondents voiced disdain for the facts-centric approach most of them encountered in high school, and which continued, though to a lesser extent, in college. But, although facts do form the basis of historical inquiry, they are only that—a means to various ends, as opposed to ends unto themselves. Unsurprisingly, by an eye-popping ratio of greater than seven-to-one, respondents reported more interest in learning history as a form of inquiry as opposed to mastery of factual content.
Such inquiry-based pedagogies have been advocated (though unevenly adopted) for years, with the American Historical Association, selected school programs and individual teaching mavericks taking leading roles in curricular change. But our survey indicates that the predominant modes of instruction, to say nothing of content, remain out-of-step with methods that make students want to learn more about the past.
History education, like politics, shouldn't run on the basis of polls. Yet it's worthwhile to consider the extent to which Americans are asking for evidence-based techniques that embrace the ambiguities of the past, and that challenge their understandings of history itself. More so than any education policy based on favoring a particular narrative or viewpoint, such a realignment holds the potential for making the past more accessible and applicable—and more unifying for the American public.
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Pete Burkholder is professor of history at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, NJ. He serves on the national advisory board of the Society for History Education, and the editorial board of The Teaching Professor.
Dana Schaffer is deputy director at the American Historical Association. She has overseen numerous public history projects and conferences, and she also serves on the board and is chair of the advisory committee of National History Day.
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This was my fourth trip to Haiti to run a small mountain clinic for a week with four other nurse practitioners, most of them from the University of Illinois in Chicago (UIC). These trips are also service-learning experiences for nurse practitioner students from UIC, whom we team up with and teach as we see patients. Our entire team is part of Little by Little, a non-for-profit organization that focuses on improving the health of children and families in Haiti. Through Opus Dei I have learned to always see my work in health care as an opportunity to serve others. Being able to use my work to serve the poor in Haiti has been a special privilege for me.
This year, we saw over 1,000 patients in five days from January 7-12 in the little village of Gramothe on the side of a mountain just outside Port-au-Prince. Many Haitians we saw walked over a day's distance and spent the night in the open air waiting for us to see them.
Our final day for the clinic was January 12. We saw our last patients by 4pm, cleaned up and left. Most of us decided to walk home, relax in the sun, stop to see some children from the village one last time and just enjoy our final day before our flight Wednesday morning. We made it down the mountain, walked some distance along the dry riverbed filled with white rocks and boulders, and started trekking up the winding road on the next mountain past some very simple homes and several long cinder block walls. At 4:53, just after passing one of the walls, the ground starting shaking, almost knocking us down, and a very loud rumble started.
At first we didn't know what was happening. Once we realized it was an earthquake, we ran back to the house as fast as we could. Everyone was outside, safe but very scared. Our immediate thought was for the people in Gramothe. Six of us hopped on three all-terrain-vehicles (ATVs) and headed down our mountain, across the riverbed, and back up the other mountain towards the village and clinic. Most of the people in the village were outside; no one was seriously hurt, and although their homes were damaged, the damage was not severe.
Willem from our group took a little girl we found injured from a falling rock to a small nearby hospital. He discovered the hospital had just one doctor and several nurses. By that time, over a hundred injured people were starting to fill the hall and spilling out onto the parking lot. He rushed back to bring us to the hospital to start helping in any way we could.
It was not until this moment that the magnitude of what had happened started to sink in. Two people took a truck up to our own little Gramothe clinic to pack whatever supplies we had left up there. The rest of us hopped on a second truck and someone suggested we start praying. We prayed most of the way to the hospital. I had a prayer card of St. Josemaría with me and through his intercession I asked God many times to give us the strength we needed to handle whatever faced us that night. At the hospital we formed a human chain to be able to get in the doors and down to a room at the far end. It was shocking to walk past so many injured people, most of whom had had some part of a building fall on them.
We saw and stabilized more than one hundred severely wounded patients that night, working well past midnight. The injuries are indescribable but I will never forget the faces of the patients and families we saw. They were faces searching for hope – any kind of hope – and help for themselves and their loved ones. We were very short on supplies but used anything we had: cut-up scrubs were used as bandages, tourniquets and slings, pipes were used to splint fractures, and pieces of T-shirts were used to wash wounds. After we saw everyone who had been waiting, the first large aftershock rocked the building and we left and went home. The church in Gramothe was still lit up and singing voices could be heard in the dark, praising God in the midst of the tragedy.
Over the next two days, we set up a mini-clinic in the yard of our host family and continued to treat many wounded Haitians who walked to us or were carried into the yard on old mattresses. Many of these wounds needed to be treated in an operating room in the United States, but we did the best we could. On Thursday as we saw patients, we could hear songs from the Gramothe village church: it was the funeral of the first little girl we helped in the riverbed after the earthquake.
We returned to the States on January 16. I have settled back into life in Chicago and am back at work as a pediatric nurse practitioner. I continue to pray for the people in Haiti in such desperate need, and thank God for giving us the opportunity to help them as much as we could both before and after the earthquake.


Thean Hou Temple is one of the oldest and largest temples in Southeast Asia. Southwest of the city, it is a popular tourist attraction and is located along Jalan Klang Lama. Overlooking the Federal highway, the six-tiered Buddhist temple is also known as the Temple of the Goddess of Heaven.
Dedicated to Tian Hou, a goddess said to protect fishermen, the temple is also a shrine where many come to worship Guan Yin, the Goddess of Mercy. Built by KL's Hainanese community in 1894, it is set on a hill and offers wonderful views of the city.
Thean Hou Temple's structural design represents a successful combination of contemporary architectural style and traditional designs with intricate embellishments and ornate carvings and murals.
The front entrance has a multi-arched gateway with red pillars, to symbolize prosperity and good fortune. Also, the temple has dragon-inspired columns and pagoda rooftops, and an extravagant prayer hall with three altars.
You can often see both devotees and visitors burning joss sticks, kneeling in prayer and placing offerings at the feet of the statues. During Chinese festivals such as Wesak Day and Mooncake festival, thousands of devotees frequent the temple.
Thean Hou Temple is a popular wedding venue among KL's Chinese locals and even conducts fortune telling readings as well as traditional Chinese exercise and martial arts activities such as Qigong, tai-chi and wushu classes. Minibus #27 from the Klang bus terminal takes you to Jalan Syed Putra and the temple is only a short walk away.
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Self-evolving killer robots are almost here, and experts want a debate
By Matthew Griffin Security and Privacy 22nd August 2017
Few realise just how fast we're approaching the tipping point for autonomous warfare, but in a time when we can't control, or even predict the evolution of AI and "Smart" systems the time for debate, arguably, was ten years ago.
As it increasingly looks like the persistent and, more importantly, rapid rise of fully autonomous, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) based warfare systems, such as self-guiding and intelligent "fire and forget" cruise missiles, autonomous fighter jets and hypersonic bombers, hunter-killer drones, nuclear submarines and warships, let alone robots, continues to get moved down the list of priorities to be discussed at the United Nations (UN), who, for the fifth year in a row, cancelled their debate to discuss how to regulate these platforms, this time because Brazil owed them money for the meeting rooms, 116 of the world's leading experts from 26 countries have written an open letter calling for an outright ban on the development of they're loosely referring to as "Killer Robots."
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Led by Tesla's Elon Musk and Google's Mustafa Suleyman they are all calling for an outright ban on autonomous weapons, and as the UN keeps stalling on the issue with even China, Israel, the UK and the US, with Russia opposing, agreeing that something has to be done you could say that the issue is becoming "increasingly pressing."
The UN's first formal vote to debate Killer Robots passed with a majority earlier this year, but over five years on from the first emergence of these new breed of AI infused, autonomous platforms, progress has resembled something that moves like tar, and now the group of founders of a host of some of the world's leading AI and robotics companies are calling on the UN to put the brakes on an arms race that, in many respects, already looks like it's gearing up to run at full tilt.
In their letter, they warn the UN's Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW), the committee responsible for regulating weapons, that this arms race threatens to usher in the "Third revolution in warfare," after gunpowder and nuclear arms.
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"Once developed, lethal autonomous weapons will permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and at timescales faster than humans can comprehend. These can be weapons of terror, weapons that despots and terrorists use against innocent populations, and weapons hacked to behave in undesirable ways," they wrote, "we do not have long to act. Once this Pandora's box is opened, it will be hard to close."
As readers of this site will see from my updates, which arguably only scratch the surface, I'd suggest that the box has already been opened, but fortunately, despite the fact the world's militaries already have the capability to take the human out of the loop they haven't. That said though all it would take is, ostensibly, the flick of a switch, and I'm not kidding, a good example of this would be Lockheed's recent demonstration of what they call a "fully autonomous kill chain."
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Experts have previously warned that AI has already reached the point where the deployment of fully autonomous weapons is feasible within years, rather than decades, and while AI can be used to make the battlefield a safer place for military personnel, for example, fighting wars from the "comfort of their own countries," experts fear that offensive weapons that operate on their own would lower the threshold of going to battle and result in greater loss of human life – and that's before the systems get hacked, or, as looks like will be increasingly the case, take on a mind of their own and "spontaneously learn," or gain the ability to program themselves… but that, and the "Black Box" behaviours of AI is a different story, for now anyway, and I don't want to bore you. Yawn.
And, of course, I won't mention how recently a robot and a new type of "creative AI" came together to create and 3D print a self-evolving robot. Soooo boring!
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The letter, launching at the opening of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) in Melbourne last Monday, has the backing of high profile figures in the robotics field and strongly stresses the need for urgent action.
The founders call for "morally wrong" lethal autonomous weapons systems to be added to the list of weapons banned under the UN's convention on certain conventional weapons (CCW) brought into force in 1983, which includes chemical and intentionally blinding laser weapons.
"Nearly every technology can be used for good and bad, and AI is no different. It can help tackle many of the pressing problems facing society today, such as inequality and poverty, the challenges posed by climate change and the ongoing global financial crisis," said Toby Walsh, professor of AI at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, "However, the same technology can also be used in autonomous weapons to industrialise war. We need to make decisions today choosing which of these futures we want."
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Musk, one of the signatories of the open letter, has repeatedly warned for the need for pro-active regulation of AI, calling it humanity's biggest existential threat, but while AI's destructive potential is considered by some to be vast it is also thought be distant, but they'd be wrong, very wrong, because technology has a habit of moving faster than anyone realises, and it even catches me off guard at times and I'm a Futurist. 3D printed brains, artificial alien life forms, designer babies, biological teleporters, disease fighting nano-submarines, tractor beams, you get the idea, and I haven't gotten to the good stuff yet…
"Unlike other potential manifestations of AI which still remain in the realm of science fiction, autonomous weapons systems are on the cusp of development right now and have a very real potential to cause significant harm to innocent people along with global instability," said Ryan Gariepy, the founder of Clearpath Robotics.
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This is not the first time the IJCAI, one of the world's leading AI conferences, has been used as a platform to discuss lethal autonomous weapons systems. Two years ago it was used to launch an open letter signed by thousands of AI and robotics researchers including Musk and Stephen Hawking similarly calling for a ban, which helped push the UN into formal talks on the technologies.
The UK government opposed such a ban on lethal autonomous weapons in 2015, with the Foreign Office stating that "international humanitarian law already provides sufficient regulation for this area," and it said that the UK was not developing lethal autonomous weapons and that all weapons employed by UK armed forces would be "under human oversight and control".
While the suggestion of killer robots conjures images from science fiction such as the Terminator T-800 and Robocop's ED-209, lethal autonomous weapons are already in use.
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Samsung's SGR-A1 sentry gun, which is technically capable of firing autonomously, but is disputed whether it is deployed as such, is in use along the South Korean border of the 2.5m wide Korean Demilitarized Zone. The fixed place sentry gun, developed on behalf of the South Korean government, was the first of its kind with an autonomous system capable of performing surveillance, voice recognition, tracking and firing with mounted machine gun or grenade launcher.
But it is not the only autonomous weapon system. The UK's Taranis drone, in development by BAE Systems, is intended to be capable of carrying air-to-air and air-to-ground ordnance intercontinentally and incorporating full autonomy. The unmanned combat aerial vehicle, about the size of a BAE Hawk, the plane used by the Red Arrows, had its first test flight in 2013 and is expected to be operational sometime after 2030 as part of the Royal Air Force's Future Offensive Air System, which is destined to replace the UK's human piloted Tornado GR4 warplanes.
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Meanwhile Russia, the US and other countries are developing robotic tanks that can either be remote controlled or operate autonomously, and these projects range from autonomous versions of the Russian Uran-9 unmanned combat ground vehicle, to conventional tanks retrofitted with autonomous systems, and the US's semi-autonomous, and "fully autonomous capable" $4Bn 600ft US DGD-1000 destroyer the USN Zumwalt, and the US Navy's fully autonomous mine hunter, the Sea Hunter, and fully autonomous Reaper drone squadrons, stood up earlier this year by the US Navy out of Jacksonville, Florida, are already operational, and Boeing recently announced the scaling up of their Echo Voyager autonomous submarine program.
And the less we say about the autonomous "nuclear capable" Russian submarine that was found being tested off the US East coast recently, the better.
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When you create a fully autonomous toaster there's probably little cause of alarm, but when you create a fully autonomous, or even "semi-autonomous" military complex, that's then potentially run by it's own autonomous AI, not too unlike the one that the US Pentagon is now deploying to protect their critical systems, or the one that could automate "75 percent" of the US spy agencies, that's capable of wiping out countries, well, it's probably time for a debate. As for me, I have to dash, my fully autonomous coffee maker's just alerted me my drink's ready. Until tomorrow Futurista's – get it, it's a take on Barista's, and more on that concept in a few months time.
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Mount Seymour Hiking Trails
After hiking 160 miles in 18 pairs of hiking socks, we chose the men's and women's Darn Tough Light Hiker Micro Crew as the best hiking socks for most people.
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These are some of the best of the best challenging hiking trails around Squamish. Black Tusk tops this list for so many reasons. The difficult final ascent is tough, yet rewarding.
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PHILADELPHIA – The Wissahickon Environmental Center is inviting adults in the area to take a moon-lit trail hike in the park next month. The center is hosting an adults-only "Hunter's Moon Full Moon H.
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we intersected with the Continental Divide Trail and hike down a couple of more miles of switchbacks on Trail 9 to Upper Seymour Lake. Remember that anything you pack in should get packed out. Always.
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LABOR FOR KENNEDY
IBEW, Teamsters & Machinists Endorse Joe Kennedy III for Senate
Boston, MA -- Just one day into his Senate candidacy Joe Kennedy III proudly announced the endorsements of three key Massachusetts labor unions: IBEW Local 103, Teamsters Local 25 and the Massachusetts State Council of Machinists. All three cited Kennedy's strong record of standing up for working families.
"There is no greater fight in this country today than for the working men and women our economy has left behind," said Kennedy. "For generations, American unions have served as a firewall between workers and abuse, exploitation, and injustice. I'm proud to carry this fight in my campaign and to center the voices of working people in the weeks and months ahead."
Kennedy has championed economic justice since being elected to Congress. From American manufacturing to vocational education, fair wages, corporate accountability and collective bargaining, he has fought tirelessly to ensure that working men and women have a voice in Congress. Across Massachusetts he has stood in solidarity with striking workers at National Grid and Stop & Shop, hotel staff in the Seaport and Martha's Vineyard bus drivers.
Over the last year his calls for a 'moral capitalism' that puts economic power back in the hands of American workers have gained national attention.
Statement from IBEW Local 103:
"Massachusetts and our nation need a champion for workers in the U.S. Senate who will be there for years, even decades, to come. The time for a new wave and new generation of leadership in Washington D.C. is right now -- not next year, not six years down the road, but now. IBEW Local 103 members believe that the candidacy of Joe Kennedy III represents a unique, generational opportunity to give Massachusetts working families and labor unions a strong voice in the U.S. Senate for the long-term. The next generation deserves to have a Kennedy fighting for labor unions and working people at the highest levels of government for years to come. This has made a tremendous difference for prior generations -- and the next generation deserves the same."
Statement from Teamsters Local 25:
"Since his election to Congress, Joe Kennedy has been a strong advocate for workers' rights and protections. Teamsters and all Massachusetts working men and women deserve and need a Senator who will put their interest first, protecting fair wages and benefits and provide emerging industries with a workforce for the future. Teamsters Local 25 strongly supports Joe Kennedy and is proud to endorse him for U.S. Senate."
Statement from Massachusetts State Council of Machinists:
"The Massachusetts State Council of Machinists feel that you are the candidate that will best represent the issues and challenges that are facing the working families of the Machinists Union and those in Massachusetts. Thank you for demonstrating to us that you have the ambition and courage to stand up for working families in Massachusetts."
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Designing for Disposal, Part 3: Recycling Stations
By Jeri Dansky - July 17, 2014
In my work as a professional organizer, I find that almost all of my clients are concerned about recycling, and I applaud them for this. But this means we need more than a single receptacle for trash. While multiple waste baskets or trash cans will work, designers have created some more elegant answers.
The Ginebra bin from Made Design, designed by Pascual Salvador, would work well for an end user whose municipality uses single-stream recycling and who just wants to separate recyclables from non-recyclables. The lid on the bin is an optional feature; sometimes lids help, other times they just get in the way. There's a metal base to collect any spilled liquids.
The Trio recycling bin from Materia has three sections: one for paper, one for cans and bottles, and one for trash. While the paper slot is obvious, and the circle cues designers (and many end-users) into the proper slot for bottles and cans, the triangle shape for trash is befuddling—and may undermine the bin's usefulness.
Each section of the Trio has its own liner, so each can be emptied independently of the others, as needed. The clover shape means this is not a bin that tucks away nicely in a corner; rather, it would be good for larger spaces where the end users want to call attention to the recycling.
In the kitchen, end users may want to separate compostable material from other trash, and that's what the Bratatia twin bin is intended for. There's a larger bin for regular waste, and a smaller bin for compostables, with color coding to reinforce which bin is for each kind of waste. The bin is available in two sizes, since end users have different needs regarding space restrictions and the amount of trash they create.
Hailo provides both two- and three-section recycling bins. Again, there's color-coding to distinguish the bins. The handle here is a nice feature; it allows bins to be easily emptied without the need for a liner. This is nice for end users who prefer to go as green as possible, and who can trust that the recycling bins will only get filled with totally empty bottles and cans.
For end users with limited floor space, a vertical recycling solution may work well. This cabinet from Manufactum uses color-coding on the inside, but there's no indication on the outside as to which bin is on which level.
These stacked recycling boxes aren't as attractive as the Qualy Block stacking cans we've mentioned here before, but they're a simple solution for small spaces. (Each bin is only about 10 inches tall, so they won't hold a lot.) The lids fold in half if the side opening isn't large enough for some of the recyclables. The one drawback is that there's no indication of which bin holds which kind of trash.
End users can address the lack of labeling on some recycling bins by adding their own labels.These vinyl labels come from Mad Hatter Graphics.
Designed by Gianluca Soldi, the Ovetto from Habitare Art Design is a novel three-bin recycling option. Items are inserted through the circular holes and drop into the bins below. There's also a a plastic bottle crusher on the top, to help save space. The Ovetto rotates, so it can be placed in a corner. It's made of recycled polypropylene, which seems appropriate for a recycling product.
One reviewer said the design helped get her children interested in recycling—a good reminder that children should be considered when designing home recycling stations. But another reviewer complained about numerous design issues: waste missing the liner bags, liners not staying in place, and difficulty in cleaning the interior. While this reviewer also noted that his autistic child loved the product, the attractive design didn't compensate for a product that didn't meet the reviewer's basic needs. Perhaps the reviewer was just misusing the Ovetto in some way—but then again, how hard should it be to use a recycling bin properly?
The Mode Premium Home Recycling Center includes a mechanical compactor for aluminum cans and plastic beverage bottles. It's another recycling station that reviewers say appeals to children.
Trashy, from Metrik Studio, provides a recycling station built into a kitchen island. A recycling bin and compost bin are accessed by sliding the lid to the side; a garbage bin pulls out on the side. There's also a small drawer to hold new liner bags and/or used batteries. In consideration of different ways end user might use Trashy, it's available with either casters or legs, and with an optional butcher block top. Trashy would work for end-users who have the space, and want their recycling station to be as inconspicuous as possible.
End users who don't have room for Trashy but who still prefer to have their recycling bins hidden away—for aesthetic reasons, or to keep them away from pets—may be interested in products like the Oko Recycling Center from Vauth-Sagel.
End users may well want to mix and match the products they use to collect recyclables; no one product will work in all rooms, and meet all needs. Old News from Creatables, developed in conjunction with designer Jonas Forsman, provides an easy way to collect and haul old newspapers and magazines. It's made from the excess felt from production of indoor tennis courts.
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Pokhara is a beautiful city, situated in a valley created by the rising of the snow-capped Himalayan Mountains that seem to pierce the sky in the distance.Pokhara trip has always been on top destination place.
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Pokhara is the third largest city in Nepal, located 200km to the West of Kathmandu. Three out of the ten highest mountains in the world, including the renowned Annapurna are within 30 miles of the city, making it Nepal's top trekking destination. The best time to visit Pokhara is from September to November and the again early May. Places to visit in pokhara are; Fewa Lake, Begnas lake and Rupa lake, Barahi temple, World Peace Pagoda, Seti Gandaki, Devi's Fall, Gupteswar Gupha (cave), Mahendra Gupha(cave), Chameri Gupha (Bats Cave), The Old Bazaar, Bindbyabasini Temple, Matepani Gumbha (Buddhist Monastery), Bhadrakali Mandir, Regional Museum, International Mountain Museum, Gorkha Memorial Museum, Annapurna Museum.
Plenty of adventure sports and activity options are vailable on this trip. like:- paragliding, bungee jumping, white water rafting, trekking, and more in the mountains.
Try yoga at sunrise on top of a hill, or row across the still waters of Phewa Lake. Hiking to the Shanti Stupa. Finally, in the evenings there are many more restaurants to help you relaxing after a day on the wards or at the weekends.
must have proper identity cards and some money, debit & credit cards.
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So today Emily and I worked my last day of work for about 10 days. We are ready for a break, who isn't really. It seems like our world is built around a "dog eat dog" mentality – this is nothing new, the trouble is, is when it carries over into our more sacred times of the year. Earlier in the year I posted about Halloween and how it had the possibility of being viewed sacramentally. Granted Halloween requires more creative thinking to view it sacramentally than Christmas or Easter does – or so it seems at least on the surface.
Then again, I am not so sure its all that easy to take part in Christmas sacramentally either. While I was stocking textbooks earlier today I heard an automobile driver lay on his/her horn for more than a block out of frustration and impatience, we received a nasty email from a very impatient professor yesterday concerning the store's policies, and we had a gentleman come into the store last night and repeatedly insult, and lie to one of our clerks about being faculty so he could receive the faculty discount. Tis the season.
from their famous album – "Let it Be." I listened to it today during lunch, I was filled with sorrow and a bit of despair when I realized this Christmas we Americans are singing.
All thru' the day I me mine, I me mine, I me mine.
All thru' the night I me mine, I me mine, I me mine.
All thru' the day I me mine.
All thru' your life I me mine.
The culture surrounding Christmas has undermined the possible sacrament that it could be. We are so distracted by gifts, we either pride ourselves in how much money and time we put into a gift, or we pride ourselves in how little we spent and how "we really don't care much for gifts." I know – I am guilty, I love gifts…I love to know that people are thinking of me, have put some thought into trying to figure out who this "Wess really is" and "what he might like." I also understand how giving gifts became so important.
First – and rightly so, it is because Christmas signifies gift giving, Christ the Messiah – the Son of God was given to us as a gift from Yahweh – to save us from our sins, our pride, our distractions away from God.
Secondly – the wise guys brought gifts to the babe in the manger to show their reverence to him who came.
Thirdly – Gifts more negatively have become so important because they cost something, namely cash. And cash is what makes America go 'round.
For the first two – we take part in some of the sacrament of Christmas when we too give gifts to those we love (who doesn't like to give a gift to our loved ones). But it is the third part that has spoiled and so undercuts much of what happens – so much so that all good-tidings, brotherly and sisterly love, and joy are succumb to marketing, greed and a last minute gift-rush that leaves all the Christ-like virtues behind the shed in the backyard.
But what about that babe?
Who flipped worlds upside down. How does the babe flip Christmas around this year or any year for that matter?
For one thing – there are no gifts to be given or received that has not already be given to us. What this means is that the significance of Gift giving must be lowered – for we have already received our gift this year – a babe wrapped in a manger.
But to leave it here is to still put all the attention on gifts…that is gifts that are centered on ourselves.
There are other themes that must be reminded in the Christmas story.
A teenage virgin mother who faces the fear and scandal of having a child out of wedlock.
God places his trust in a Galilean woman (a very lowly position in society) to carry out his mission.
It is the powerless and social outcasts who assemble to celebrate the birth of a homeless child.
Hope comes through peace not power, prestige, riches or any other expected source of good.
Yahweh has his people in mind, he wishes to redeem creation.
Christmas also reminds us that we are, as Christians, different from the rest of the world because we believe in a baby to save the world. This foolishness, this scandal of the Christmas story is to also placed into the center of our thinking about Christ's birth. It is God himself who continues to shatter our expectations while still offering hope and joy to the world.


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Mapperton House & Gardens to celebrate its Countesses
Mapperton House & Gardens in Dorset is set to open for its 2019 season with a display highlighting three woman who became Countesses.
Mapperton House & Gardens is home to the Earl and Countess of Sandwich.
The attraction has now opened its doors to visitors for the 2019 season and will remain open to the public until 31st October.
But the highlight of the opening is a new display which focuses on three women who became distinguished Countesses of Sandwich: Jemima Crew, Elizabeth Wilmot and Louisa Corry. As part of a guided tour, visitors will be able to see photos and personal letters from them.
The current Lord Sandwich commented: "These three very different women all made important contributions to the family. Jemima the first Countess, much mentioned in Pepys' diary, brought kindness and intelligence. Elizabeth the third Countess inherited great wit from her rakish father, the Earl of Rochester. And Louisa the sixth Countess, from Enniskillen, ran the estate and collected some of the unique furniture."
Another highlight will be the recently rennovated Coach House cafe opening, which will serve brunches, lunches and teas as well as gourmet sandwiches.
Besides the displays, Mapperton will host a variety of events this year too. These include two charity plant fairs in April and September, two classical concerts in the church in April and July, an Easter trail and fun days, Shakespeare in the Garden in July, a food & well-being fair in September, as well as Halloween fun days later in autumn.
A bit more about Mapperton House & Gardens
Mapperton House & Gardens is home to the Earl and Countess of Sandwich and is a manor house deep in the Dorset countryside. Featuring 15 acres of gardens including both a wild garden and formal topiaries, visitors will have plenty to explore.
Group tickets are available and group organisers can call 01308 862645, email groups@mapperton.com or visit www.mapperton for further details.
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Groups can visit Waddesdon's new wine shop as part of cellar tour
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