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Bishop Anthony B. Taylor issued the following statement Aug. 6, 2015.
Pope Francis has repeatedly described abortion as the product of a "widespread mentality of profit, the throwaway culture, which has today enslaved the hearts and minds of so many."
Over the last few weeks we have been scandalized by a series of videos which reveal the extent to which this mentality governs the actions of Planned Parenthood in the United States, but it is worth noting that this inhumane behavior is not limited to that organization.
Indeed, although other abortion facilities may not all harvest fetal organs and tissues for further study, there are many facilities not affiliated with Planned Parenthood (including one in Little Rock) that nonetheless conduct procedures which, if they were to be made public in video format, would be rightly condemned as gruesome, inhumane and unconscionable.
But this shocking video footage does remind us that, in addition to directly attacking human life at its most vulnerable condition and exploiting women at a most vulnerable moment in their life, it now appears to be standard practice among some abortion providers to profit further from this tragedy through the sale of fetal organs and tissues, marketing the bodies of the human persons whose lives they have taken.
These actions are a grave offense against the dignity of human life and rightly merit the condemnation of all.
If the revelations about Planned Parenthood have reopened the wounds of anyone who has participated in an abortion, please know of my personal concern for you and my prayers for you.
Jesus can offer you healing through the ministry of the Church and I would like to invite you to participate in Project Rachel, the post-abortion healing ministry of the Catholic Church, which is open to all regardless of religion or lack thereof.
If you would like more information about Project Rachel here in Arkansas, please contact Anne Dierks at (501) 664-0340, ext. 357. For general information about Project Rachel nationwide, visit the Hope After Abortion website.
Sincerely in Christ,
Bishop of Little Rock

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Spades equaled squats, Clubs meant crunches, Diamonds for jumping jacks and Hearts for pushups. Flip a 10 of Hearts, and that's 10 pushups on the spot. Five of Club spells five crunches. Jacks, queens, kings and aces all count for 10 reps, too.


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Johanna Boyd, Stirling Council Leader said: "Our vision is to position Stirling as an economic and cultural powerhouse, and this key collaboration with CodeBase, along with our recently announced City Deal takes a significant step towards that goal. Our aim is to transform skills development, employability, social innovation, sustainability, and productivity, with a substantial impact on positive health, wellbeing and attainment for all our people.
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Diphlu River Lodge believes in responsible tourism and in giving back to the environment. This commitment is a real and visible part of the structure and functioning of Diphlu River Lodge.
ABN Foundation
With the aim to support education, environment protection efforts and rural community development, a total of 5% of every room booked with Diphlu River Lodge will be contributed to the ABN Foundation to fund these causes.
So far, under the ABN Foundation, we have built a new tuition centre in West Bengal; renovated a school near Kaziranga National Park; partnered with World Wildlife Fund to run naturalist training programs; and more.
At Diphlu River Lodge, we even grow our own organic rice, vegetables and mustard. Guests will be able to see the crops growing within the Lodge premises.
Recycling
Diphlu River Lodge recycles grey water that drains into the central pond and is used for irrigation. Organic waste is converted to compost.
Minimization of single-use plastics
Around the Lodge, you'll find oxy-biodegradable plastics in waste bins, Kama Ayurveda toiletries bought in bulk and then filled into wooden dispensers, glass water bottles in your cottages and more such examples of finding suitable alternatives for single-use plastics.
Architecture & interior design
Designed to resemble a Mishing (indigenous Assamese tribe) village, our cottages and common areas are built with natural materials like bamboo and wood, and has been purposefully designed to blend seamlessly into its green surroundings. The Lodge has no fencing between its premises and Kaziranga National Park, maintaining the animal corridor.
Our in-house team of women and men weavers from neighbouring villages are responsible for all the woven objects of the Lodge, like the wall hangings, cushion covers, bed runners and more. The Lodge is also adorned with unique artefacts liked wood-carved pangolins and rain jackets woven from thatch from other states in Northeast India.
Most of the staff at Diphlu River Lodge are from villages in and around Kaziranga National Park and the remaining few are from other parts of Northeast India.
It has been our company policy since inception to handpick staff from nearby villages and offer them with hospitality and English language skills training before officially joining the team. Their friendly, gentle natures are undoubtedly the Lodge's biggest asset.
Diphlu River Lodge is a member of Responsible Tourism Society of India and Center for Responsible Travel (CREST) Worldwide.
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The Villas of Tower Grove Park
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Tower Grove Park has been a St. Louis treasure for nearly 150 years, a backdrop for countless family reunions, festivals, sporting events, and more. Park officials recently unveiled a new master plan outlining major facility and recreation upgrades in the next 20 years. It builds on the original vision for the park laid out by Missouri Botanical Garden founder Henry Shaw. His was a vision that, if carried out to its full extent, could have created a much different park than we all know today.
The Influence of Henry Shaw
Mr. Shaw gave Tower Grove Park to the city of St. Louis in 1868, and it would open to the public a few years later in 1872. Despite giving up ownership, Shaw sat on the park's board of commissioners and was instrumental in its planning and development.
Many of the features seen in the park today were put in place under his direction, including the stone entrance gates, the gazebos, and the pond with its iconic ruins. Other projects, like a hedge maze and observation tower, no longer exist in the park but have been recreated on Garden grounds. And one park proposal never made it much past the planning stage.
The Lands of Henry Shaw around Tower Grove, circa 1872. Notice the "Reserved Strip" along the perimeter of Tower Grove Park.
The Reserved Strip
The original plans for Tower Grove Park included a 200-foot wide "reserved strip" along the park boundaries. It was intended for a row of villas — a design popular in Shaw's native England. The idea was to rent out the land itself under long-term leases to be renewed every 30 years. The accompanying rent would act as a source of revenue to support the Garden.
Although popular in England, Americans weren't keen on the idea and the plan was abandoned. Mr. Shaw offered to release the strip to the city on the condition an iron fence be built around it, similar to the fence around Lafayette Park. Officials refused, and a lengthy court battle ensued over the future of the property. Nearly 50 years after it was first proposed, Shaw's two-hundred-foot strip was turned over to the city in 1925 in exchange for $500,000.
"The point is that the city has for many years used it and continues to use it as its own, that the garden is justly entitled to a fair revenue from this land, and that the city should pay it. The failure to do so is a grave injustice and gross ingratitude to a great civic benefactor and a great civic benefaction. At the very least Henry Shaw is entitled to a square deal from the city for which he has done so much."
37th Annual Report of the Director, Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin, 1926
The strip went largely undeveloped, although it was not neglected. Today it is home to many of the park's sports and recreation fields. "Henry Shaw was certainly a visionary when it came to Tower Grove Park, and the 200-foot setback was no exception," says Bill Reininger, the Park's executive director. "Although Shaw's idea for villas didn't take off, that land allows the Park to offer evolving recreation opportunities to the public while preserving our Victorian core."
A Model Home
Although the villa concept failed to take off, the "model home" for this scheme still exists today. The home was completed in 1869 on the southeast corner of Tower Grove and Magnolia Avenues, for a cost of about $11,000. The two story home combines elements of neoclassical and Italianate styles popular at the time.
In addition to serving as a visual enticement for other potential villa owners, the home was intended as a residence for the park superintendent. James Gurney, chief gardener for the Missouri Botanical Garden, would be the first to take up permanent residence in the home in 1895. Three generations of the Gurney family would live there while serving as superintendents of the park.
The Magnolia Home
There is another home along Magnolia Avenue that bears some mention here, although it was not part of Shaw's original setback. This other parcel of land, south of Magnolia from Kingshighway to present-day Alfred Avenue, was under different ownership at that time. This home was therefore not part of the planned villas. It was built in the early 20th century, and the city would acquire this final parcel of land a short time later. The Magnolia Residence, as it is known among park employees, would remain a private home for decades (former residents include a group nuns from the St. Louis Archdiocese).
The nearly 150-year-old park is about to undergo a big transformation. The recently released master plan calls for new trails, natural areas, and other enhancements.
Shaw's old reserved strip will see new attention to its athletic fields, and the addition of sand volleyball and basketball courts. The Superintendent's home, no longer a residence for the park director, is envisioned as a wedding and event venue. The master plan also considers several possibilities for the Magnolia Residence, either as new office or classroom space, or as a potential new home for the park director.
Despite changes on the horizon, the master plan pays equal attention to preserving the park's existing historic significance. Although his villas didn't pan out, the spirit of Shaw's vision for Tower Grove Park is in evidence and will surely endure for generations to come.
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Transactional vs. Aspirational Membership
How do you think about the relationship between your members and your association?
Is it transactional? Do you deliver high quality services direct to the member at a value equal to or higher than what the member pays in dues or fees?
Or is it aspirational? Do you create communities of change around aspirational goals that can only succeed through collective action?
It's actually a trick question. Successful associations don't approach this as an either-or proposition, because failure waits at both ends of the continuum.
Associations weighted too heavily towards the "transactional" side risk losing in the inevitable competition against more nimble for-profits providing the same services. Associations weighted too heavily towards the "aspirational" side risk losing all but the most passionate members.
To be successful, you must find a way to balance these two concepts. You must provide valuable services while bringing members together to achieve something larger than those services.
It isn't easy. But understanding that you're trying to do both gives you an advantage over those who don't. Use that advantage wisely.
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We Can Only See the Destination By Moving Towards It
These words came out of my mouth in a conversation with one of my staff people yesterday. Our association is venturing into a new area of activity--something we all know is necessary, but for which few of us have any natural aptitude. Understandably, everyone is looking to me for direction, for a clear picture of where we are going.
"We can only see the destination by moving towards it," I said, by which I meant several key things.
We're all in this together. This is a team project. What we're doing will change the very nature of our association and how we define value for our stakeholders. It doesn't live solely within one functional area--and none of us have enough expertise to shepherd the rest of us through it. We need everyone in the organization to be a part of what's going on.
We're co-creating the future. The future is undefined--and that's a good thing, not bad. It means we have more, not less, control over what's going to happen and how we're going to benefit from it. We must progress, yes, but we can progress at a pace that we define, and the measures of our success will be mutually determined, not handed down from above.
We need to interact with the environment to understand what can and should be done. Given the current state of our knowledge, creating a detailed and long-term plan of action is both unrealistic and counterproductive. For each step we take forward, we must stop and reassess our assumptions and understanding of the emerging world around us before taking the next one. We are not moving on a well-traveled highway between two cities we've known all our lives. We're making our way across a marshy swamp in a dense fog. When we move forward onto one dry rock, we have to pause and look around before stepping on the next one.
This is not the way we're used to operating. I get that. But if we're going to create something new--and get to a place we've never visited before and for which we have no directions--we need to find a new way of doing things. And we can only find that way, not by standing still and predicting what we must do, but by moving towards it with openness and courage.
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The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
This is one of King's shorter works. Only 264 pages in the paperback I read. Unfortunately, it takes King 100 pages to figure out whose story he's telling.
Trisha rebuckled the pack's flap before she could weaken, then wrapped her arms around it again. Now that she wasn't thirsty anymore, what should she imagine? And she knew, just like that. She imagined Tom Gordon was in the clearing with her, that he was standing right over there by the stream. Tom Gordon in his home uniform; it was so white it almost glowed in the moonlight. Not really guarding her because he was just pretend…but sort of guarding her. Why not? It was her make-believe, after all.
Trisha is a nine-year-old girl who has gotten lost in the woods, and has been listening to a Red Sox baseball game on her Walkman to keep her from being too frightened. Tom Gordon is a closing pitcher for the Red Sox, and her favorite player.
What was that in the woods? she asked him.
She's been seeing things in the woods—scary things; and is uncertain if they are real or just in her imagination.
Don't know, Tom replied. He sounded indifferent. Of course he could afford to sound indifferent, couldn't he? The real Tom Gordon was two hundred miles away in Boston, and by now probably asleep behind a locked door.
"How do you do it?" she asked, sleepy again now, so sleepy she wasn't aware that she was speaking out loud. "What's the secret?"
Secret of what?
"Of closing," Trisha said, her eyes closing.
She thought he would say believing in God—didn't he point to the sky every time he was successful, after all?—or believing in himself, or maybe trying your best (that was the motto of Trisha's soccer coach: "Try your best, forget the rest"), but Number 36 said none of those things as he stood by the little stream.
You have to try to get ahead of the first hitter, was what he said. You have to challenge him with that first pitch, throw a strike he can't hit. He comes to the plate thinking, I'm better than this guy. You have to take that idea away from him, and it's best not to wait. It's best to do it right away. Establishing that it's you who's better, that's the secret of closing.
This comes on page 103, and it is both the moral of the story, and the first time I believe that Trisha is actually a nine-year-old girl.
Up to that point, you see, King doesn't treat her like any nine-year-old girl I ever heard of. Or maybe he tries to, but her inner voice and the voice of the narrator are so intertwined and can't tell them apart.
…when she got to be Pete's age her face would probably be one great pimple if she didn't lay off the sweets…
…she now looked back on her panicky plunge through the woods with the mixture of indulgence and embarrassment adults feel when looking back upon the worst of their childhood behavior…
…it had been a crappy day, all right, très crappy…
…her pack, of which she had hardly been aware up until now, began to feel like a large, unstable baby in one of those papoose carriers…
…at last, moving as wearily as a woman of sixty after a hard day's work (she felt like a woman of sixty after a hard day's work)…
These are all in the narrator's voice—in the sense that they are not direct quotations attributed to Trisha or italicized words to depict Trisha's actual thoughts—but they are all so close to Trisha's point of view, and, to my way of thinking, so obviously connections and language that an adult mind would employ, that they really prevented me from getting into the story and seeing Trisha as King undoubtedly wanted me to see her—as a frightened nine-year-old girl in a whole lot of trouble. What did I see instead? I saw Stephen King, the aging novelist who has written one too many books that rely on the same narrative arc pretending to be a nine-year-old girl.
Here's the absolute epitome.
She got moving again. Three quarters of the way down, a bug—a big one, not a minge or a mosquito—flew into her face. It was a wasp, and Trisha batted at it with a cry. Her pack shifted violently to her downhill side, her right foot slipped, and suddenly her balance was gone. She fell, hit the rock slope on her shoulder with a tooth-rattling thud, and began to slide.
"Oh shit on toast!" she cried, and grabbed the ground.
Oh shit on toast? That's what a nine-year-old girl who's lost in the woods says when she loses her footing and begins sliding down a rocky hill? Oh shit on toast?
King does sporadically use a technique that helps, putting the thoughts and expressions that more appropriately belong to adults in the echoed voices of adults Trisha knows.
…Of course, if pigs had wings, bacon would fly. Her father said that…
…At least she wasn't going to die from the stings, or she'd probably be dying already. She had overheard Mom and Mrs. Thomas from across the street talking about someone who was allergic to stings, and Mrs. Thomas had said, "Ten seconds after it gut im, poor ole Frank was swole up like a balloon. If he hadn't had his little kit with the hyperdermic, I guess he woulda choked to death…"
But he does this far too infrequently to make Trisha's constant flashes of King's own vernacular adult wisdom believable. It really was the most distracting part of the first hundred pages.
The second hundred pages are better, and I especially liked the climax, where Trisha confronts and defeats a wild bear—blurred by her disorientation after a few days of hunger and dehydration and King's typical storytelling tricks—into perhaps a malevolent entity called the God of the Lost, by pitching her Walkman at it in classic Tom Gordon style and bopping it right on the nose. Tom's lesson—that you have to take the thought that your opponent is better than you away from him as quickly as you can—comes full circle in a nice and fulfilling way.
And in this regard, I realize that Trisha has to be nine years old in order for the story to work. She can't be anything else. Can you imagine an adult, lost in the woods, conjuring up a projection of his favorite baseball player to be his guardian and pathfinder in a time of desperation?
King never tries to convince us that Tom Gordon is actually with Trisha in the woods. He knows better than anyone that it isn't really Gordon that's protecting her. It is Trisha's child-like sense of hero worship that gives her the courage to push forward and do what she does. And given the themes King has written about so many times before, that is a concept worthy of his narrative gifts.
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Accessibility vs. High Fidelity
Read an interesting blog post about the changing nature of music industry. According to the author, after generations of working to make the music being produced more accessible, the industry is changing its focus to deliver the highest quality sound experience possible. The internet and the MP3 player has made music almost universally accessible, and so the market is switching to high fidelity as its primary value proposition.
It got me thinking about some obvious and some not-so-obvious parallels in the association business. Many, if not most associations seem focused on accessibility--getting more prospects to join and getting more members to use more of its services. Growing the membership, increasing attendance at conferences and events, expanding the scope and influence of the association--these are objectives that perennially appear on many of our strategic and action plans.
But I wonder if, like the music industry, high fidelity is increasingly the better model for associations to be following. The internet has affected our industry in many similar ways, not only making our knowledge and intelligence services more accessible, but giving our members access to more information that doesn't necessarily come from our association. The challenge of keeping up with the quantity of information available--and its accessibility--is increasingly difficult.
In this environment, the discriminating member is not necessarily looking for more, they are looking for better. More is easy. More is everywhere. But better is rare and difficult to find. An association that focuses on providing the highest quality experience, even at the expense of more and more accessible services, is going to have a competitive advantage.
And that idea leads me to my most interesting questing. Is it possible to do both? Can your association pursue both accessibility and high fidelity? I tend to think not, that this is fundamentally an either-or proposition, and something that every association leader should think carefully about before committing to a particular course of action.
Unlike the music industry, success for associations can probably still be found down either path, but trying to walk both of them is likely to leave you lost in the woods.
Association Turf Battles
Having just renewed my CAE certification, I thought I'd offer this week's post in the form of a CAE exam question.
A program committee has an idea for program improvement that relates directly to one of the association's special interest groups. The program in question is not something the special interest group has worked on before. To avoid confusion and unnecessary duplication of effort, the association CEO should:
A. Facilitate a conversation between the chair of the committee and the chair of the special interest group, where the program idea and methods for appropriately engaging members of special interest group can be discussed.
B. Communicate with the staff liaison to the program committee and the staff liaison to the special interest group to make sure both understand the program objective.
C. Expect that the staff liaison to the program committee and the staff liaison to the special interest group will fight over whose project it is, and accuse each other of trying to dump more work on the other's plate.
D. All of the above.
The correct answer, unfortunately, is D.
Is it because the environment we function is unpredictable, and opportunities for positive change are too often perceived as threats to the status quo?
Is it because everyone's plate is full, and taking on more tasks, especially those that are unfamiliar and not assigned by a direct supervisor, is too horrible to contemplate?
Is it because the CEO hasn't consistently communicated expectations for collaboration and teamwork, and hasn't held people accountable for their previous resistance to these values?
Perhaps "all of the above" is the correct answer here, too.
The Wandering Hill by Larry McMurtry
This is Book 2 of McMurtry's Berrybender Narratives, the first of which was Sin Killer, which I listened to as an audiobook back in 2006. I liked Sin Killer, mostly because I saw it as a kind of homage to Cooper and his Leatherstocking Tales, seeing more than a little Natty Bumppo in the character of Jim Snow, the Sin Killer.
And there are pieces of that same storyline in The Wandering Hill. Near the beginning, after Jim slaps his wife Tasmin for cursing, we learn more about Jim's upbringing, and why he is so rigid against sin of any kind.
Jim didn't answer. He wished Tasmin could just be silent, and not always be spilling words out of her mouth at such a rate. Lengthy talk just made it harder for him [to] hold the simple articles of faith in his mind, the faith that Preacher Cockerell had beaten into him at an early age. Preacher Cockerell never hesitated: he took the horsehide whip to his own wife and children as readily as he took it to Jim. Sin was to be driven out and violence was the way to drive it. Sin was also constant; violence had to be constant too. Preacher Cockerell whipped in the morning, whipped in the noontide, whipped at night; when members of his congregation sent their unruly young to him, he whipped them too. Jim grew up fearing the whip but not doubting the justice. Before the morning meal and the evening, Preacher Cockerell read from the Holy Book, terrible passages about punishment, sin, hell, Lot's wife, the whore of Babylon, wars and floods and banishment, all the punishments that man deserved because of his sinful nature. Preacher Cockerell even whipped himself, for he had fallen into adultery with the wife of Deacon Sylvester. For such a sin even the whippings had not been enough, so Jehovah sent the lightning bolt that fried Preacher Cockerell and turned him black; the same lightning bolt threw Maundey Cockerell and Jim Snow aside as if they were chaff from the grain. For three days Jim lay unmoving; he seemed to float in red water, though there was no water where he was. Even the Kaw was low that year. Maundey Cockerell lived, but her mind died, destroyed by the heavenly flash. From that time on Jim had felt it was his duty to punish sin, whenever he met it in the violent men of the West, red or white; the Indians feared him because of the ferocity of his attacks. He was particularly feared by the medicine men, because it was the heresy of their spells and potions that angered him most.
Which I was initially intrigued by because, as clichéd as the background may seem to be, it certainly provided a contrasting moral construct than the one Natty pursued in books like The Pathfinder. For the Sin Killer, evidently, moral action is driven by blind dogma and violence, not by any heightened understanding of the natural world and the forces that shape it. Upon reading this, I was excited to see how this moral guidance would play itself out, as Jim Snow and Tasmin Berrybender seemed destined to enact some kind of epic clash between moral understandings of the world they decided to co-inhabit as man and wife.
And then, even more interesting, was the character of Pomp Charbonneau (the historical infant that Sacagawea had birthed and carried with her on the famous expedition of Lewis and Clark, now grown into a young man and fictionalized for this series), who McMurtry seems ready to set in opposition to the hard and judgmental morality of the Sin Killer.
Though glad, of course, that Hugh Glass was alive, Pomp felt no inclination to join in the party. Tasmin, in her annoyance, had stated an awkward truth about him: he was not often lustful, and he had rarely been able to join in the spirit of any group celebration. The English girl stated clearly what he himself had never quite articulated: he stood apart, not hostile or critical of the lusts or greeds of others; his gaze contained no stiff judgments, as her husband the Sin Killer's fierce look was apt to do. Pomp would have liked to love a woman, feel a brother to a man, and yet he never had—or at least, he hadn't since the death of Sacagawea, his mother; and that had occurred when he was only a boy.
But neither of these promises are kept—at least not in this volume of Berrybender Narratives. Pomp Charbonneau and even Jim Snow are more like minor characters in the story that follows, spending most of their time away from the story's main character, Tasmin. There's a hint of a coming conflict at the very end of the novel, when Pomp is injured in a climactic Indian attack, and has to have an arrowhead removed via frontier surgery before he floats off toward death.
Pomp, drifting in deep and starless darkness, heard Tasmin speak softly in his ear, saying she was here, she was here; but he couldn't answer. The easeful darkness held him in its lazy power; he floated downward, deeper and deeper into it, as the soaked leaf sinks slowly to the bottom of a pool, to a place deeper than light. Helpless as the leaf he sank and sank, until, instead of Tasmin's voice, he heard, "Jean Baptiste…Jean Baptiste!" Then the darkness gave way to the soft light of dream, and there was Sacagawea, his mother, sitting quietly in a field of waving grass, as she had so many times in his dreams. Though her dark eyes welcomed him, the look on her face was grave.
As always in his dreams of Sacagawea, Pomp wanted to rush to her, to be taken in her arms, as he had been as a child; but he could not move. The rules of the dream were severe—old sadness, old frustration pricked him, even though dreams of his mother were the best dreams of all.
As usual, when she visited him in dreams, Sacagawea began to talk in low tones of things that had happened long ago.
"When we were on our way back from the great ocean I took you up to the top of those white cliffs that rise by the Missouri," she said. "I wanted you to see the great herds, grazing far from the world of men; but you were a young boy then, not even weaned, and I held your hand so you wouldn't step off the edge of life and go too soon to the Sky House, where we all have to go someday. Now that old Ute's arrow has brought you to the edge of life again, but the woman who whispers to you wants to pull you back, as I pulled you back when you were young."
Sacagawea was looking directly at him—Pomp wanted to ask her questions, and yet, as always in his dreams of his mother, he was gripped by a terrible muteness; he could ask no question, make no plea, though he knew that at any time the dream might fade and his mother be lost to him until he visited her in dreams again. With the fear that his dream was ending came a sadness so deep that Pomp did not want to wake up to life, and yet that was just what his mother was urging him to do—she wanted him to listen to Tasmin.
"I did not wean you until you had seen four summers," Sacagawea told him. "My milk was always strong—I filled you with it so that you could live long and enjoy the world of men, the world I showed you when we stood together on the white cliffs. Obey the woman who whispers—it is not time for you to come to the Sky House yet…"
Then, with sad swiftness, his mother faded; where her face had been was Tasmin's face, leaning close to his. Pomp tried to smile, but couldn't, not yet. Even so, Tasmin's eyes shone with tears of relief.
"There…it's out—and he's not bleeding much," Father Geoffrin said. "I think our good Pomp can live now—if he wants to."
Tasmin had been watching Pomp's face closely. Her heart leapt when he opened his eyes.
"I'll see that he wants to!" she said, overjoyed that her friend had lived.
Father Geoffrin—priest, surgeon, and cynic—raised an eyebrow.
"I expect you will, madame," he said. "I expect you will."
That's how the book ends. The juxtaposition between Pomp's mother and Tasmin is, of course, symbolic, but the Father Geoffrin's allusion at the very end is fairly direct. It's too bad that I'll have to wait until Book 3 to see this confrontation of moral attitudes.
So if not that moral confict, what does The Wandering Hill focus on? Well, the wandering hill, for one.
"I guess I'll stay with you," he said, a little awkwardly—but Pomp seemed not to mind the awkwardness. He was staring at a small, conical hill about half a mile away. The hill was mostly bare, but had a gnarled tree—cedar, probably—on top, a single tree with a dusting of snow.
Pomp looked troubled.
"That hill looks familiar," he said—"but it ought to be farther south. There's a hill just like that down by Manuel Lisa's old fort, where my mother is buried."
Jim looked at the tree—it seemed to him that he had seen a hill remarkably similar to this one—hadn't it been near the South Platte?
"Maybe it's the wandering hill—they say you usually find it where there's been killings," Pomp said.
Jim had heard of the wandering hill several times—it was a heathenish legend that many tribes seemed to believe. The hill was said to be inhabited with short, fierce devils with large heads, who killed travelers with deadly arrows made of grass blades, which they could shoot great distances.
"If that's the hill with the devils in it they'd have a hard time finding grass blades to shoot at us, with all this snow," Jim said.
Pomp was still staring at the strange, bare little hill.
"My mother believed in the wandering hill," he said. "She claimed to have seen it way off over the mountains somewhere—near the Snake River, I think."
"Well, I thought I saw it once myself—on the South Platte," Jim admitted. "What do you think?"
Pomp shook his head.
"I don't know," he said. "I just don't remember that particular hill being here the last time I came this way."
If the novel hadn't been named after it, this little section on the wandering hill may have gone unnoticed. But the title makes it stand out, and you begin to wonder what role the Indian legend is going to play in the narrative that follows.
The answer, surprisingly, is very little—until the very end, when the hill makes another appearance, convincing an Indian warrior that the English party traveling near it possesses some unknown kind of magic that is keeping the devils inside their hill. Magic of such power, he reasons, must be fought, and great honor would be bestowed on the warrior who could wrest it away from the English—and that prompts the attack in which Pomp is wounded.
In between these two events, there is nary a mention of the hill, making me wonder how relevant it really is to the story line.
There was only one other symbolic theme I stumbled across. It comes when the painter in the Berrybender party—George Catlin—is convinced to paint a nude portrait of Tasmin and another woman in the group, both exceedingly pregnant.
George Catlin scarcely noticed the incident, so absorbed was he in planning the composition; though idly suggested by Tasmin, it had now quite taken hold of his imagination. Motherhood, if delicately yet boldly executed, might be the canvas that would make his name. Perhaps it should be hung in some great building in Washington—the Capitol, perhaps. The more he thought about it, the more excited he became. The allegorical dimension should not, in his view, be ignored. Were not these two Englishwomen, after all, giving birth to Americans—and, by extension, to the new America itself? Would not they represent the newer, grander America even then being born in the West?
McMurtry is also an artist not likely to ignore the allegorical dimension of his work, and this passage and a few that follow are proof of it. The Berrybenders in the West are indeed an allegory of the new America being born, forged both out of the rugged frontier and overmastered by the self-assumed sophistication of English and, more broadly, European cultures. At one point Tasmin herself wonders which life would be best for her newborn son:
What did she want for Monty: the English life with its order and pattern, or the frontier life with its vast beauty and frequent danger?
Sadly, it's a choice that the reader also has to make, as I don't think that McMurtry has blended these ideas as well as he might've in his fiction. I'll read the next volume in the series, but I won't rush it to the top of my pile.
Stop Using the Word "Just"
I recently made a decision. A resolution of sorts. I'm trying to eliminate the word "just" from my vocabulary. Especially when I'm talking to my staff, my members, and my volunteers.
Let me try to explain. My association isn't the largest association on the planet, but like every other association I know of, we have a ton of stuff going on. Metrics to track, programs to manage, objectives to achieve. And for me more specifically, I have staff members to support, members to communicate with, volunteers to inspire.
In that mix of needs and competing priorities, any human, consciously or otherwise, is bound to make some choices and set some priorities. Sometimes it's a necessary strategy for getting things done--or for staying sane.
And this is when the word "just" creeps in. That metric is just a temporary indicator. That program is just an experiment. That objective is just something to strive for. That staff person is just an assistant. Those members are just associate members. That volunteer is just a troublemaker.
Perhaps you can already see the problem with this kind of thinking. "Just" minimizes whatever it is you're thinking about. It puts it in a mental category that can be more easily dismissed or ignored. And although there may be times when that type of thinking is appropriate or necessary, it's another thing entirely if phrases shaped around this line of thinking ever escape your lips.
To the people most directly affected, nothing is "just" anything. Of course things have relationships to other things, but first and foremost they are what they are in and of themselves. That metric is not just a temporary indicator to the staff person whose reward system is based on it. That program is not just an experiment to the manager who is afraid of failure. That objective is not just something to strive for to the person looking to advance inside the organization. That staff person is not just an assistant to the members who engage with the association through his efforts. Those members are not just associate members that can be taken for granted. That volunteer is not just a troublemaker that can be ignored.
Make choices. Prioritize, by all means. But when speaking from a position of leadership, never refer to anything as "just" something else. It sends signals you do not intend.
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Monte San Martino est une commune italienne de la province de Macerata dans la région Marches en Italie.
Monte San Martino compte 783 habitants.

Administration

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Communes limitrophes
Amandola, Montefalcone Appennino, Penna San Giovanni, Santa Vittoria in Matenano, Servigliano, Smerillo

Écoles
Le pays possède une école maternelle, une école primaire et un collège, accueillant un peu plus d'une centaine d'étudiants.

Sport
Le village dispose d'une équipe de football (ASD Monte San Martino) qui joue dans la troisième catégorie (dernière catégorie italien) et une équipe de futsal (ASD Athletic Molino).

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Commune dans la province de Macerata

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November 27, 2011 · 10:50
What the 'End' of the European Union Could Mean for the Middle East
By Riccardo Dugulin – 27 November 2011
Source: http://www.thelocal.de/
At the beginning of September, President Sarkozy and Mr. Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, visited Libya. For better or for worse, France and the United Kingdom will remain intrinsically linked to the Libyan conflict. On another level, European institutions have grown largely ineffective with regard to the Syrian quagmire. Restrictions and sanctions have been implemented through decisions taken by the Council of the European Union, with the last round of sanctions implemented on the 14th of November. 2011. Banning arm sales and imposing travel restrictions and asset freezes to a very limited number of regime officials, does not send a message of strength and determination from EU officials. These two tendencies present a clear dichotomy: the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty first was represented by an increased presence of the EU in the broader region through the development of its European Neighborhood Policy. Recently, this mindset has diminished, with national governments slowly retaking their share of foreign policy independence. Amidst the worst political and economic crisis the EU has known since its inception, national interest, both domestic and foreign, is forcing its way back into the game.
As the survival of the EU is at stake, the main institutions and mechanisms will devote less of their budgets to foreign investments. The primary objective is now to stabilize the internal market and safeguard a relative strength of national governments and EU institutions. Furthermore, the daily preoccupations of European citizens are almost exclusively centered upon their economic well being, consequently limiting their elected officials' capabilities in developing important foreign policy maneuvers. Moreover, technocrats not linked to popular elections are starting to take over governments with a special target provided and requested by international financial institutions and supranational bodies. This last point is essential as the governments of Italy, Greece and to some extent Belgium, are now led by economic 'technicians' appointed to steer the economies back on the right track. European foreign policies, up until now linked to the willingness of many member states to engage in consensual international action, are weakened as a result of the necessity to focus on internal economic austerity and integration.
In a moment when the core treaties of the EU are being questioned, the following issues are raised: what does this present situation imply for the EU's Arab neighbors? In a region rocked by the ups and downs of the Arab Spring, how will the EU's relative absence from the conflicts be interpreted?
In the short term, the relative disengagement of EU institutions from the Middle East does not come as a surprise. The EU has rarely acted in a united way regarding international matters. The shock created by the 2002-2003 lack of coordination while facing the Iraqi crisis underlined a reality: while dealing with the Arab world, the EU will remain an aggregate of competing interests and not the area of common goals it describes itself to be.
If political unity towards the Middle East has never been a point of strength of the EU, its institutions have nevertheless developed a number of key partnerships in different technical fields with their Arab counterparts. A pertinent example of such cooperation may be found in Erasmus Mundus project which has been expanded to North Africa and the Gulf countries. Since 2009, European universities and their Arab partners in the six GCC states have been working on building closer institutional ties with the objective of creating common bachelor, master and doctoral programs. This has been started under the patronage of the EU through the delegations of the EU in the Gulf. Such a policy outreach is an example of programs which will in the long term suffer from reduced budgets and recalibrated interests. Scholarships and grants will be reduced thus diminishing the overall success of these operations. In this regard, the current crisis of the EU will slow its efforts to participate in the development of higher education or other social fields in its direct neighborhood.
Over the coming years, the EU will lose its institutional attraction as the stability of its economic and political structures will further be questioned by its regional partners. Because of this, its image as a normative power will largely suffer. This aspect of the relation with its regional neighbors will leave a normative vacuum. One may think of the different Action Plans the EU provides its partners with while enacting its neighborhood policy. The section of political reforms and social freedoms is a key to relations with the EU, but if Arab countries do not consider the EU as a valuable asset any longer, bilateral deals with single governments will retake the front stage thus limiting the question of expanding the respect of human rights and human freedoms. The treaties between Italy and the Qadhafi government were examples of such fallacies. A defense deal made between the German government and the Saudi royal family further highlights this case, as hundreds of Leopard tanks have been sold to the Kingdom in the Spring of 2011, a contract which goes against some fundamental European policies of selling weaponry to states that may use it for crowd control purposes.
In a period of budget cuts, institutional weakness and inward oriented government, the relations between the EU and the Middle East are likely to have a lesser importance than state to state cooperation and partnership. In the defense and security fields, the expectation gap concerning the EUFSP project is likely to grow, and the over reliance on NATO will shape the defense structure in the Mediterranean for European states and their partners. Economically, the EU remains a valuable partner but as recent Qatari investments have shown, the interest by wealthy Arab economies is in single states and private enterprises, and not in large crippled European bureaucracies. Perhaps the major change will result from the decrease of the EU role in promoting socio-political reforms and encouraging change in its neighborhood. In the wake of the unfinished Arab revolutions, a return to state-to-state realpolitik may render conditional the development and promotion of social justice and democracy in a region that is still rocked by large popular unrest.
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Tagged as Arab Spring and the European Union, EU-Arab world relations, European Neighborhood Policy, European sanctions, European Union, sanctions
One response to "What the 'End' of the European Union Could Mean for the Middle East"
ilfdinar
the Maghreb/the "Arabs" may just partner up with emerging states such as Brazil, Russia,China, definitely Turkey. south Africa and so on
Europe needs to balance democracy and republicanism with the need to discipline their finances it looks like "perfect democracies" right now are not growing


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Q: Outbound SIP calling with a TwiML Bin: Voice Configuration Request URL Twilio documentation says to set the outbound URL into the "Voice configuration Request URL" but I cannot find this field. Does everyone clueless about this?

A: (Basically repeating Alan's answer and comment with a bit more newbie angle, but I cannot comment yet as I don't have the required reputation)
The "A Call Comes In" action for your SIP Domain is, as Alan explains in his comment, for the calls originating from the endpoint or UA. Hence, the simple example TwiML routing the call to a e164 works here.
Calls originating in the PSTN are handled by the TwiML (or other action) set to handle calls coming in to your number, ie. in Programmable Voice -> Numbers -> Manage Numbers -> # -> A Call Comes In.

A: Choose, "A Call Comes In" and set the drop down to Webhook, then paste the URL into that edit box, click Save.

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Bruce Jenner's Mom Says Kris is a Controlling Monster
Ronald Silva November 14, 2014 3:05 am January 1, 2017 0 905
It surely seems that Bruce Jenner's Mom is not a fan of her former daughter-in-law. Apparently, Bruce Jenner's mom actually said that Kris is a controlling monster. Esther Jenner decided to open up about her former daughter-in-law and she had nothing good to say about Kris.
Esther talked about the marriage of her son in an interview with Mail Online. "I don't know why she is. I don't think she treated anybody very well," Esther claimed about Kris. "She could insult you with a big smile on her face, I know," she went on to reveal.
"What do you do with a person like that? You're going to avoid them if possible. She was backstabbing as far as my grandchildren were concerned, and that is something I can't stand. She's domineering – it's do it her way, or there's no way. I had very little to do with Kris. I stayed away from her as much as I could."
Esther Jenner also said that her son is much happier since he separated from his wife. Esther claimed that she can actually hear in his voice that he is happy. She also revealed that Bruce spends a lot of time with his children, and he can be himself again. The 88 old mother of the star said that Bruce does not feel alone, but he actually has freedom.
"Since he has got his freedom he has his own checkbook and doesn't have to ask Kris for money which he's had to do, he couldn't even buy one of his little helicopters without asking her for money. He's not shy about telling you that she controlled the money," Esther said. She went on to say that she was really happy when she heard that her son decided to separate from his wife. She revealed that she just hopes that Kim will change her name back to Kardashian, as she does not want this woman to carry the family's name.
Esther said that she never liked Kris, as she was never a good wife to her son. She claimed that Bruce took care of the couple's two babies, while Kris was out with her girlfriends. Esther also revealed that Kris never liked Bruce's children from his former marriages.
Well, it surely seems that at least someone is happy that Kris and Bruce Jenner are no longer a couple.
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Q: Defining a custom placeholder variable of type Double in Matlab Is it possible to define a custom placeholder variable of type Double in Matlab, with its properties being similar to the inbuilt NaN or Inf? Lets call the desired placeholder variable as PhV, which should have the following properties:

*

*Algebra of PhV: PhV (+) expr = PhV, where 'expr' is an element of type Double or a PhV itself, and the binary operation '(+)' can be one of the algebraic operations in the set {+,-,*,/,^}

*Type of PhV: it should be of type Double

For example NaN satisfies both the properties mentioned above, and we can use NaN in a double array. Also when using fprintf for NaN, we can use the numeric format specifiers (%d or %e) and it appears as NaN in the output.
I am using Matlab2006b on a 64 bit GNU/Linux, though I would like to know if there is a way we can do it in Matlab, in general.
Thanks in Advance.


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Shopping for gaming headphones is typically a pretty different experience than looking for more casual day-to-day headphones. Gaming headsets tend be flashier and bulkier than headphones you'd use at the office or during your morning commute. Headphones designed with gaming in mind give less thought to portability, placing instead greater emphasis on microphone quality and customizability. It can be hard to choose the right gaming headset for your needs, especially when considering wireless models. We've tested over 157 wireless headphones and below are our top 5 recommendations for wireless gaming headsets.
The best wireless gaming headset we've reviewed so far is the SteelSeries Arctis Pro Wireless. They're well-built gaming headphones that utilize a USB wireless transmitter to provide a low-latency wireless connection for gaming, but also support Bluetooth for compatibility with mobile devices.
The SteelSeries Arctis Pro Wireless sound good. They have impressive audio reproduction and are very well-suited to not only video game soundtracks and film scores, but also a wide range of music genres. They can mix audio from two sources at once, so you can chat on your smartphone via Bluetooth while gaming on a console at the same time. The Arctis Pro Wireless have a great swappable dual-battery system which is perfect for long gaming marathons.
Although the Arctis Pro Wireless are compatible with the SteelSeries Engine like other Arctis products, the Pro Wireless doesn't have microphone volume control. The Arctis Pro Wireless are also quite expensive and might not be worth the investment for everybody. If being able to adjust the volume of your microphone is important to you and you're looking for a less expensive headset, check out the SteelSeries Arctis 7 2019 edition.
If you're looking for very comfortable gaming headphones, the Astro A50 are worth considering. They sound great and come with an excellent microphone for multiplayer games. They also have a convenient wireless dock with many connection options and have very low latency (32ms) for gaming and watching movies.
The A50 have a good wireless range and a 13-hour battery life, which should be more than enough for most gaming sessions. They're compatible with the Astro Command Center which allows you to customize their sound with an EQ and save different presets. They also have dock charging, which is easy-to-use and looks great on your TV stand.
Unfortunately, they can't be used without the base station since they have no wired mode. They also take about 6 hours to fully charge, which is less than ideal, but you can use them while they're charging if you plug them in with a micro-USB cable. Their auto-off feature to save battery life is also a tad too aggressive and might be frustrating at times. Despite these limitations, the Astro A50 are still great wireless headphones that should please most gamers.
If you're the type of gamer that really likes to tweak your settings and have different profiles for each game that you play, then get the Logitech G933 instead. They use a USB dongle that works great for PC gaming or the PS4. The companion PC app gives you a ton of customizable settings: an EQ for sound, DTS 7.1 surround sound options, as well as mic monitoring. They also feature 3 programmable buttons that can be mapped to specific commands, which is a nice touch that sets them apart from other gaming headsets.
The integrated rechargeable battery delivers about 12.5 hours of life, which is about average, but they have an auto-off timer that can help save power. The USB dongle provides excellent wireless range (48ft) and extremely low latency (22ms), great for watching TV between games.
However, like most gaming headsets, they aren't very portable, and the included USB dongle doesn't support microphone input when used with the Xbox One. Thankfully, they come with a 1/8" TRRS cable, which you can plug into an Xbox controller for mic support. You can also use them passively with the included audio cable when the battery runs out.
If you prefer a gaming headset that won't stand out among more casual headphones, the HyperX Cloud Flight might just be for you. These gaming headphones have a fairly casual look and you can remove the boom mic so they look even more like everyday headphones.
The Cloud Flight have a very good, well-balanced sound and an excellent microphone that delivers great recording quality and captures speech very well. Their battery life is very good, but somewhat situational; if the LEDs are turned off they have almost 30 hours of continuous playback and can recharge in as little as 3.6 hours. They have a good wireless range (38ft) and very low latency (20ms), great for gaming and watching videos.
Unfortunately, they're not compatible with a companion app, so their sound can't be customized. Also, like most gaming headsets, the Cloud Flight aren't very portable, but they can be used wired as a backup connection option if the battery dies or if you want to use them with your phone outdoors. All things considered, the HyperX Cloud Flight are very good gaming headphones, especially if you're looking for a headset you can use casually.
If you're a gamer on a budget and don't want to break the bank over a wireless gaming headset, get the Corsair HS70. They're decent gaming headphones that are comfortable and very well-built for their price. They sound great and are also a very good choice for critical listeners who like to enjoy music at home too.
The Corsair HS70 have an impressive battery that provides 15 hours of continuous playback and charges in under 2 hours, which is very quick for gaming headphones. You can customize their sound in the Corsair Utility Engine (iCUE) software by plugging them into your PC. They have a great wireless range of 45 feet and low latency (28ms), which makes them perfect for gaming from your couch.
Unfortunately, the Corsair HS70 have a mediocre microphone for gaming headphones. It should still be fine for most, but if you're a gamer on a budget and you care a lot about mic quality, you may want to consider a wired headset like the HyperX Cloud Stinger.
This guide may have been updated. To see all our measurements and our current recommendations for wireless gaming headsets, please go here.


I do not write about my pet peeve a lot. I have written about it here, here, here, here and here.
When it comes to the driving of South Africans, in my opinion, I think we are of the worst drivers in the world. Not just in terms of handling our cars, but also in driving attitude.
One of my pet peeves is that some drivers drive as if they have an absolute right to the road and they will drive in which ever lane they want to at whatever speeds they want to. It is becoming very common for slow road users to insist on driving in the right hand lane (the fast lane). For those who claim that we do not have a fast lane, explain to me why the rules of the road say: Keep Left Pass Right? This is to enforce the free flow of traffic, so that some numb-skull does not hog any lane and thereby slowing traffic down.
In fact, this behaviour is becoming epidemic to the point that some drivers, no matter how slow they are, will drift to the right-hand lane and will not budge for any amount of cars getting stuck behind them. This is selfishness to the extreme, and it points to a personality that has not reached maturity yet!
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Q: Analytic function in upper half plane. Let $f$ be an analytic function in the upper half-plane with $|f(z)| <1$. Now if $f( \iota  )=0$ then find the maximum possible value of $|f(2 \iota)|$.
Clearly Reflection principle is not working as real values at real is not given.
Then how do you find its maximum value? No idea is working. I think the function will be constant. Please suggest how to find this value?

A: The transformation $T(z) = \frac{z-i}{z+i}$ sends the upper half-plane $H$ to the unit disc $D$. Hence $g := f \circ T^{-1} : D \to D $. Also, $g(0) = f(i) = 0$, so $g$ satisfies the conditions of Schwarz's lemma. Hence $\lvert g(w) \rvert \leqslant \lvert w \rvert $, for all $w \in D$. Since $T$ is a bijection, it is easy to see that $T(2i)=1/3$ and hence
$$ \lvert f(2i) \rvert = \lvert  f(T^{-1}(1/3)) \rvert = \lvert g(1/3) \rvert \leqslant 1/3. $$
(You can show equality occurs by setting $f$ up so that $g(w) = w$.)


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This is a silver thimble. It is marked TCG, for the Thimble Collectors Guild, S(T), the makers mark for Swann thimbles and is hallmarked Birmingham silver 1991. The thimble is as new and has an engraved band.
This is a silver thimble. It is marked TCG, as it was made for the Thimble Collectors Guild, S(T), the makers mark for Swann thimbles and is hallmarked Birmingham silver 1997. The thimble is as new.
This is a German silver thimble. It has an 8 pointed star on the top and a band of foliage. The thimble is in good condition.
This is a silver thimble. It is marked J S and S for James Swann thimbles and is hallmarked Birmingham silver. The thimble is in good condition.
This is a silver thimble. It is marked TCG, as it was made for the Thimble Collectors Guild, S(T), the makers mark for Swann thimbles and is hallmarked Birmingham silver 1992. The thimble is as new.
This is a silver thimble. It is hallmarked around the band; TCG, as it was made for the Thimble Collectors Guild, Edinburgh Silver 1989. The thimble is as new.
This is a silver thimble. It is hallmarked TCG, as it was made for the Thimble Collectors Guild, S(T), the makers mark for Swann thimbles and Birmingham Silver 1997. The band has a hand chased floral pattern. The thimble is as new.


Good Sunday everyone. Our weekend is wrapping up with an upper level low slowly pulling away from the bluegrass state. This system has been responsible for scattered showers and storms over the past few days and may crank a few more out today. What about the week ahead? We have you covered.
Our next threat for showers and thunderstorms will sweep in on Wednesday ahead of a cold front. This front will usher in some cooler air for the end of the week and that may hang around into next weekend. Temps look seasonal for this time of year.