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My name is Matthew Knight, a Roman Catholic seminarian for the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon, studying in the SF Bay Area. Come take a walk with me as we discuss life, faith, liturgy, priestly formation, poetry, philosophy, theology, and a whole lot more! Podcast updated weekly on Sundays.
2 December 2018 | First Sunday of Advent | Menlo Park, Calif. And so we come around again to the beginning of another liturgical year. The season of Advent is a graced time to reflect on the awesomeness of God's providence, His will which orders all of creation, and how well I am submitting myself to that will. "True humility is to listen to what God wants, and then do it," says St. John of the Cross. Let this Advent be a true season of renewal of our trust in the Lord, that He will do all He has promised! Opening music: "Air: But who may abide the day of his coming," Messiah, Part One, composed by George Friedrich Handel, performed by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, 2010. All rights reserved.
25 November 2018 | Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe | Palo Alto, Calif. Hunger is something you can't help but experience: not just occasionally, but over and over again, like an alert on your phone you can snooze, but never dismiss. No matter how good your Thanksgiving dinner, you'll be hungry again the next morning (if not rummaging for a turkey and stuffing sandwich at midnight!) But does this relentless demand of our bodies for food reflect anything about the needs of our spirit? That's right: it's time to talk about our hungry hearts. (Opening music not provided by Bruce Springsteen.) Opening music: "Ave verum corpus," composed by William Byrd, performed by the Tallis Scholars, 1993. All rights reserved.
18 November 2018 | 6th Resumed Sunday after Epiphany | Menlo Park, Calif. What is the role of women in the Catholic Church? What about the role of the priest? How can we reach young people? How do we proclaim God's saving truth in a secular culture? And how does the liturgy fit into all of this? Join me and a friend this week as we talk about all of this and more over a cup of tea! (Note: Tea not included. For optimal enjoyment, make yourself a cup before listening.) Opening music: "Gloria in excelsis Deo - Allegro," Missa in Angustiis ('Lord Nelson Mass'), composed by Joseph Haydn, performed by the English Concert and Choir, 1988. All rights reserved.
11 November 2018 | 5th Resumed Sunday after Epiphany | Menlo Park, Calif. It's 11 a.m. on 11/11 -- traditionally (think medieval tradition) the first day of winter, although you wouldn't know it on this sunny day in the San Francisco Bay! After a month or more on hiatus, the podcast is back with reflections on my institution as lector last week, the unique nature of ordination and the Catholic priesthood, and the number one thing which annoys me more than ANYTHING! But you'll have to listen to the whole show to learn my secret weakness... Opening music: "Dirait-on," movement V. of 'Les chansons des roses,' composed by Morten Lauridsen, performed by the Chamber Choir of Europe, 2009. All rights reserved.
1 October 2018 | St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face | Menlo Park, Calif. Why am I driving down Highway 101 in the dark at 6:00 in the morning? Because it's my sister(-saint)'s feast day, and I have to be with the rest of the family for Morning Prayer and Mass, that's why! Join me and St. Thérèse on the road to chat about vocation, discernment, and the universal call to holiness. "My vocation is love!" — And so is yours! Opening music: "Bless the Lord," performed by *Ncense, 2008. All rights reserved.
23 September 2018 | 18th Sunday after Pentecost | Menlo Park, Calif. One of the hallmarks of the modern world is division. Conservative or liberal? Progressive or traditional? Sadly, some even go so far as to try to divide Christ from the Church—as if the Head were taking us one direction and His Body going the opposite way! But just as a living person's head can't be separated from his body (and hopefully you'll all take this on faith without trying to verify it yourself!), Christ can never be separated from His living Body on earth, the Church. In this episode, I discuss how faith in Christ entails faith in the Church He founded, and how living out of this truth in simplicity and hope can help us overcome our own divisions to be a better witness to the world. Opening music: "Te Deum - Hymnus (tonus monasticus)," sung by the Benedictine Monks of the Abbey of Saint-Maurice & Saint Maur, Clervaux, Luxembourg, 1987. All rights reserved.
17 September 2018 | St. Albert of Jerusalem, Bishop, and Lawgiver of Carmel | Menlo Park, Calif. If you want to be a better athlete, you need an exercise plan. If you want to be a better student, you need a plan of study. So what if you want to be a better Christian—a holier (and therefore happier) son or daughter of the Father? What you need is a plan of God's love: a plan to know, love, and serve Him a little better each day. In this episode, I share my plan, and some advice for coming up with your own. Also: two elements which are essential if you want to advance quickly in the spiritual life; the one reason we puny human beings can know, love, or serve God at all (hint: it doesn't come from ourselves!); and my response to a popular anti-Catholic myth... Opening music: "Laudes: Hymne - Puisqu'Il est avec nous," composed by Philippe Robert, performed by the Choeur des Moines de l'Abbaye de Tamié, Savoie, France, 2010. All rights reserved.
10 September 2018 | Monday in the 16th Week after Pentecost | Menlo Park, Calif. Long journeys make great analogies for the spiritual life. What are we supposed to do with hardships, detours, and delays along the road? When you have no money to pay the toll? What about when you're falling asleep at the wheel? Along those lines, let me tell you the story of my whirlwind weekend trip to Oregon and back for a friend's ordination this Saturday... Opening music: "Loving Shepherd of thy Sheep," arr. John Rutter (1991), performed by the Cambridge Singers and City of London Sinfonia, Cambridge, 2006. All rights reserved.
2 September 2018 | 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time | Menlo Park, Calif. Let's take a walk on the Eastern side of the Church (or at least of Menlo Park!) This morning, as I make my way across town to a Byzantine Catholic Divine Liturgy—more on that later—I want to share with you a bit about my first experience this year in ministry, as well as some thoughts about the right relationship between worship of God and service of the poor. Opening music: Excerpt from the Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great, sung by the parish community of St. Basil the Great Byzantine Catholic Church, Los Gatos, CA, 2018. All rights reserved.
26 August 2018 | External Solemnity of the Immaculate Heart of Mary | San Jose, Calif. We're all aware of the scandals coming to light in the Church even as we speak. In this episode, I want to share my response to those scandals as a seminarian and son of the Church, as well as the fruits of a great spiritual conversation I had today with a good friend. "Since Our Lord has so few friends," says St. Teresa, "let those few be good ones!" Opening music: "Salve Regina," performed by the Friars of the Dominican House of Studies, Washington, DC, 2014. All rights reserved.
21 August 2018 | St. Pius X | Menlo Park, Calif. The show resumes after a long break and many changes. Featured in this episode: "What I Did With My Summer Vacation," what I'm doing now that I'm back in school, and reflections on everything from sacred music to the Enlightenment, providence, and the love of God as the interpretive key for our lives. Plus, get lost with me in a new city in real time! All this and more on the other side of the play button. Opening music: "O Sanctissima," arr. Kevin Allen (2013), performed by Matthew Curtis, 2014. All rights reserved.
6 March 2018 - Tuesday in the Third Week of Lent - Mt. Angel, Ore. - Part 2 Continuing where Part 1 ended, I discuss my early discernment with the Dominicans, my time as a postulant and novitiate in Carmel, and how God ultimately led me back to the Archdiocese of Portland. Hint: it's all about desire (one above all!) Opening music: "Veni Creator Spiritus," Sequence for the Solemnity of Pentecost, sung by Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles, Alhambra, 2016. All rights reserved.
6 March 2018 | Tuesday in the Third Week of Lent | Mt. Angel, Ore. After a long break (hey, I've been working hard — no time to walk and talk!), the podcast resumes with some thoughts on discernment and desire, as well as discussion of my philosophy thesis: the relationship between poetry and philosophy, which seems to be about all I think about these days! This was a longer episode than usual, so I've broken it into two parts. The second will be available in a day or so. Opening music: "Veni Creator Spiritus," Sequence for the Solemnity of Pentecost, sung by Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles, Alhambra, 2016. All rights reserved.
15 February 2018 | Thursday after Ash Wednesday | Mount Angel, Ore. "The time of penance has come, the time to atone for our sins and to seek our salvation!" Lent has begun, just as the days are beginning to get lighter, the cherry trees are starting to blossom, and the birds are singing in the branches. Coincidence? I think not… Opening music: "Miserere mei, Deus," arr. Gregorio Allegri (1638), performed by King's College Choir, Cambridge, 2011. All rights reserved.
30 January 2018 | Tuesday in the Fourth Week after Epiphany | Mount Angel, Ore. On this rare sunny morning under a cloudless blue sky, let's talk about life on other worlds. C.S. Lewis' Space trilogy can teach us something very important about our own spiritual life here on "the Silent Planet." Opening music: "Alma Redemptoris Mater," motet for four voices, arr. Palestrina (1604), performed by King's Singers, Cambridge, 2016. All rights reserved.
24 January 2018 | St. Francis de Sales | Mount Angel, Ore. This semester, I'm blessed not to have any classes at 9:00 any day of the week, so I'm going for a daily run or walk—come hell or high water or fierce Oregon rains! I've also decided to start a podcast. I'd tell you more but I haven't time just now. Would you like to go for a walk with me?


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Where You Once Belonged
Author(s): Kent Haruf
Set in a fictional Colorado town, Kent Haruf's Where You Once Belonged brings to life small town America and the characters that keep the community together.Heavy-built Jack Burdette is quite literally too big for his boots - and too big, certainly, for the small-town attitudes of Holt, Colorado. But when he fails to make the grade as a college footballer, and takes a job with the local farmers' cooperative, it seems he has finally settled into the rhythm and routine of everyday life. Outward appearances can be deceptive, however, as Jack proves: returning from a weekend conference with a new wife in tow, then leaving her behind and skipping town with a bundle of other folks' money. Nearly a decade later, no one has forgiven or forgotten, and when Jack reappears, resentment runs high. Once again though, it is Jack whose presence - even more than his eight-year absence - proves the most devastating.
"Taut and deadly. . . . A terse and beautifully wrought narration." --"Los Angeles Times"
"A beautifully told parable--simple and stark and true." --"Newsday"
"Where You Once Belonged speaks with the authenticity of . . . Hemingway and Faulkner." --"The Denver Post"
"Haruf's brooding, pondering style translates into first-class writing." --"Rocky Mountain News"
Kent Haruf's honors include a Whiting Foundation Award, a Stegner Award, a Frank Waters Award, and a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation. His novel "Plainsong "won the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize, and the "New Yorker" Book Award. He lives with his wife, Cathy, in his native Colorado.
Publisher : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Dimensions : 210mm X 140mm X 13mm
Produced in : United States
Availability date : June 2000
Edition : Vintage Contemporaries ed
Dewey classification : FIC
Author : Kent Haruf

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A cool guitar groove in the style of rock. It fits in with almost any rock song and nicely connects with other elements of a guitar solo.
Each 2nd note in the segment is played by the hammer on, the 3rd and 4th are picked with the plectrum while palm muting the strings.
To press the two strings down simultaneously you can use your single ring finger if it's more comfortable for you.
Add artificial harmonics where you see fit, I added them to the string bend and to the next note after it.
As you see in the video, when I play along with the jam track, after the lick is finished I continue playing the improvisation consisting of just the two simultaneous notes at the 7th and after that at the 5th fret, on the 3rd and the 4th string.
Sometimes playing a couple of notes with an interesting rhythm introduces some cool phrasing. I deliberately played my improvisational piece a very little out of the beat (with a very short delay relative to the drum track) to create accentuation.
This soloing begins with the pretty fast sequence that I play twice, first note in it is picked by the pick (at the 8th fret on the 1st string), and all the subsequent notes are played by hammer ons and pull offs that make it much easier to play quickly.
Pick the 3rd string at the 14th fret with the upstroke and bend the string for	half a tone.
Note: to get more appropriate sound, experiment with the different pickup switch positions.
Usually, the pickup closest to the fingerboard captures milder classic rock and bluesy shades of the tone.	While the one closest to the bridge, more edgy and sharper sound. With the bridge pickup though, it is easier to get harmonics.
The main feature of this lick is performing whammy bar dips on a few notes where it is really feels right.	A big amount of the delay or/and reverb effect provides kinda spacious and singing qualities to the guitar sound.
After I pick the 2nd and 4th note, I let them sound a little and slightly push the vibrato bar down, and immediately release it.
The note inside the brackets in the middle of the lick is very short (it is called a 'ghost note'), after I pick it down, I immediately slide the finger to the 17th fret - the string rings out of the sliding no need to pick it with the plectrum, and pull off to the 14th fret.
Using the finger sliding and the pull off makes the job easier for the picking hand.
I let the last note in the lick sound for some time while performing a series of whammy bar dips.
I used palm muting on the lower strings in the video.


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I booked the same week of the tour.
I personally love water activities and this is one thing I had never done before.
Actually one of the workers directed us there.
The crew is very hands on. We saw so many dolphins its an experience everyone should take the time out of they're busy schedule and do. It was beautiful they were very attentive to us, the Captain had so much history on the dolphins.
I believe my favorite dolphin was Jellybean she showed up and showed out she even went surfing in the waves next to the boat. They told us the history of the Sunny Lady and some great restaurant ideas.
It was our first time there. We're already planning to take the kids to see there reactions. It's suitable for all ages, you'll love it.


ADDAC System modular synth founder & composer André Goncalves (PT) & vocalist Casper Clausen (DK) from Efterklang and Liima have been collaborating on various projects over the past couple of years in Lisbon where they both live. Latest on André's Musica Eterna I & II. Casper recently released 1982 with his band Liima, their second studio album, including a couple of songs that they wrote in their residency at Jardins Efémeros 2016.
At this years edition of Jardins Efémeros, André and Casper propose to develop and present a brand new collaboration during their artistic residency. At a closer look, the ideia of André and Casper composing together would not be so obvious, taking in account their distinct musical paths, but previous spontaneous collaborations were very surprising for both musicians and tickled their curiosity for what would happen if both would dedicate enough time to create a combined body of work. This residence allows the opportunity to set up and work in a multispeaker environment, creating a sound installation throughout the whole festival. Where visitors are invited to experience the creative process as it happens. The musician's bodies on display in a continuously open impromptu recording session, leaning towards an idea of transparency and continuity between the creation process and the final presentation.
Casper Clausen (DK) aka Captain Casablanca is the singer and founding member of the danish outfit Efterklang & danish/finish Liima. He's also founding member of the radio art collective The Lake Radio. Liima was artist residency at the Jardins Efémeros Festival in Viseu 2016, and part of the material they wrote there was released on their second album entitled 1982. At the moment Casper is living in Lisbon and there he is working on a solo record.


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For such a small word, "data" hold a lot of potential. Data solve problems, promote understanding, facilitate discovery, and can germinate the next big idea.
In our series, Data in Action, we highlight the uses of NCEI's treasure trove of environmental data gathered from the surface of the sun to the depths of the ocean, and everywhere in between. Our data support innovation, enterprise, and decision-making in science, business, health, and many other fields.
NCEI: Data in Action
All types of organizations and people need information from our data archives for a variety of reasons. Needs drive the uses of environmental data, not just the requirements of scientists who conduct research. Last year alone, customers directly accessed more than 9 petabytes of environmental data online from NCEI. A petabyte is equal to 1 million gigabytes; data in a single petabyte equals about 3.4 years of 24/7 full high-definition video recording.
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NCEI Data Supports Actuaries Climate Index
A partnership of actuaries in the United States and Canada uses NCEI data to produce the Actuaries Climate Index (ACI). The ACI is a tool to help actuaries, public policymakers, as well as the general public, make decisions that could be impacted by extreme weather and sea level. The objective is to provide perspective and information about key climate impacts that have happened since 1961. The Index examines changes in the frequency and duration of extreme temperatures (highs and lows), heavy precipitation, drought, and strong wind, as well as changes in sea level.
The ACI uses the Global Climatology Historical Network-Daily (GHCN-D) database to develop indices of temperature, drought, and rainfall. GHCN-D, a summary of daily of land-based observations of several variables such as temperature and precipitation, also forms a foundation for other datasets used by ACI.
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Initially, LDEO used NCEI's online portal, the geophysics trackline web viewer, to download data to populate the app. Since the initial download 10 years ago, NCEI has stewarded more than 1,000 new surveys, too many to discover, download, and ingest by LDEO without assistance. To address this challenge, NCEI and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) created a new way to retrieve data that quickly assimilates large data requests into custom packages. The change makes data discoverable by users of GeoMapApp, as well as prepares NCEI for future large requests.
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So You're Not a Priest? Scholars Explain What They Do to Outsiders: Russell T. McCutcheon
Posted on September 15, 2016 by mattsheedy
In this series with the Bulletin, we ask scholars to talk about how they describe what they do to outsiders by sharing a story or two, and reflect on how this has affected their identity as scholars of religion. For other posts in this series, follow the link.
by Russell T. McCutcheon
I think there's been enough posts in this series to afford me the opportunity to tweak it, just a bit, and update something I wrote a while ago concerning how colleagues react when they find out that you're interested in not religion but in the very category religion itself.
Writing in the introduction to Manufacturing Religion (published in 1997) I phrased it as follows (p. 6):
For some scholars of religion, such a metatheoretical focus will no doubt be troubling or possibly even perplexing. I say this because, on a number of occasions, I have been asked by colleagues, "But where do you get your hands dirty?" I take it that they are asking me what historical religion, which specific myth, or what particular ritual do I study. No doubt after coming clear as to what the book is concerned to address, some readers will still be asking what I simply refer to as the "dirty hands" question. "All this is fine and good, but what has it got to do with religion?" Another form of the question revolves around talk of hard data: Where is your hard data? Have you been in the field? Where is your ethnographic evidence? The prominence of this sort of questioning in the discourse has direct relevance for the critique I develop, for it presumes that religion, myths, and rituals are simply and self-evidently "out there," unique and easily identified, like ripe fruit on a tree just waiting to be picked.
I then concluded that making the discourse on religion one's data "is generally not received very well by some scholars" (p. 7). Hence my choice of a quote from Bourdieu's Homo Academicus to open the book: "the sorcerer's apprentice who takes the risk of looking into native sorcery and its fetishes … must expect to see turned against him the violence he has unleashed."
One of my first experiences of just such a poor reception was when I was first asked that "dirty hands" question: it was during a job interview at the AAR, in one of those curtained hotel ballrooms, for a tenure-track position as Western Michigan (an opening specifically aimed at hiring in the area of method and theory). I was pretty new to the interview game back then and this may have been my first experience with a hiring committee. It was 1994 or maybe 1995; I was an Instructor, back then, at the University of Tennessee, and I was either about to defend or had only recently defended my dissertation up in Toronto. What made all this unique was that Western Michigan was hiring in an area that almost no one took seriously back then—long before all those now mandatory "method & theory" courses were invented in grad schools across the continent and so prior to everyone listing on the CV "method & theory" as one of the competencies. So for that small group of us (many of whom were indeed at Toronto) who identified with what was then a pretty new specialty in our field, it was a little exciting. Jump ahead a bit and we learned that the search was cancelled and (as I recall) re-advertised the following year with "method and theory" now merely listed among the various things the successful applicant might be able to do.
So I'm guessing that, like so many other occasions, "m&t" had been the occasion for an internal arm-wrestling match in the department—it's a hunch based not just on how the ad changed over the course of a year but also on the evidence provided by that dirty-hands question. For I was asked that very question by faculty who really didn't seem to get what they'd advertised for—or who were using the occasion of an interview to contest it. "So and so in our department does Japan, so and so does Africa, I do such and such—so where do you get your hands dirty?" was how I remember it being posed to me. My answer concerning studying methods and theories, and thus studying the works of scholars of religions themselves, and doing fieldwork at conferences and in journals, didn't go over so well, for it just elicited a paraphrase of the same question, asked of me yet again, as if repeating it—much like talking loudly and slowly to a foreigner—might help me to understand it better. Not unlike an interview I had some years later, to be Dean of an honors college, and at which I was asked so many questions about recruiting that I had to pause and ask if this was indeed an interview for the position of Dean, I was then asked so many questions about what religion I actually studied that I paused and, as I recall still, said something like "This is a position in method and theory, no?"
Needless to say, I didn't get the job.
While this hardly rises to the level of the violence of which Bourdieu wrote, failing to obtain a way to feed yourself because your interests deviated from the norm is as close as I'd like to come to it in my professional life.
So yes, seated on a plane, trying to explain being a scholar of religion as opposed to a theologian, to your happenstance seatmate, does present some challenges; but I think that they pale in comparison to the difficulties entailed in trying to explain to colleagues—colleagues, which implies that we work together, supposedly share common tools and intellectual interests—that one studies the fact that some people call certain things religious (or not).
Given the ease with which we know that we're not studying, say, mana, but, instead, studying people who happen to talk about mana—and thus rather easily making the shift to seeing our work as anthropocentric—suggests that, if pressed, our colleagues should be able to figure out that the shift from religion to "religion" is not that difficult to make. For as the case of mana so nicely illustrates, just because people themselves talk about something as a feature of their world does not necessarily mean that we, as scholars, must naively accept its existence and, as the people themselves may see it, its ontological status. After all, there's all sorts of people who claim to be masculine or feminine but there's also plenty who are interested in studying gender as an historical phenomenon itself—it's not that controversial, at least to many scholars (in fact, it's now even a little passé for some). But tell another scholar in our field that you study the category religion itself and, well, there's a good chance they'll roll their eyes, tell you you're obsessed with the category religion (as someone once did with me, looking over my online C.V. at an NEH event where I was a guest), or maybe, as a scholar more senior than I did just last week, tell you that you're in a rut. They may even blurb a book in which your work appears and use their few sentences on the back cover as a chance to undermine the point of the essay you wrote for the volume.
Not outright violence, yea, if by that we mean bloodshed, but each is a curious moment of disciplining—each a situation in which your research interests are not misunderstood but actively contested and delegitimized.
The arm wrestling of that job interview never really went away.
So when it comes to making the shift from religion to "religion"—to being interested in the possible motives or effects of using that organizational term in either this or that manner—it's still pretty controversial work. And that I've persisted in this interest makes me a little controversial as well—for example, apart from being told I'm in a rut—could you imagine saying the same to anyone who spends twenty or more years studying, say, religion in America?!—it has gained for me the reputation that I'm out to kill religious studies departments or the field as a whole. In the early years I always thought it was an association that had something to do with my friendship with the late Gary Lease, who played a central role in the demise of the program at Santa Cruz (for more, see his essay in the special issue of MTSR that he guest edited (7/4 [1995]). But since I've been working in a Department that has so successfully reinvented itself since 2001 (e.g., we've more than doubled the size of our tenure/tenure-track faculty [now at 10] and, given the success so far of our proposal, we hope to begin offering a rather novel MA in the Fall of 2017) it still puzzles me that this impression persists. (Just how much of my work has such a person actually read, I often ask myself.) In fact, people who get jobs working here are routinely quizzed, or so they tell me, by friends who want to know what it's like working with someone who's trying to eliminate the field; perhaps it's because we've succeeded by being a different sort of department, and thus the fear these queries signify is for the future of the study of religion practiced as what at least Don Wiebe would simply term a crypto-theological endeavor.
But critiquing that pursuit hardly prevents us from redescribing the field.
So I find that in the midst of conversations with colleagues, there's a lot of background noise, baggage, or whatever you wish to call it, that impedes a quick description of what it is that I actually study. Defying the boxes into which we usually place ourselves comes, at minimum, with the price of raised eyebrows—it really would be so much easier if I could just say that I study Buddhist rituals or Native American origins stories. But even for those who seem to think they get it, they often assume it's just the word that we study, as if things have natural lives without words to name them. (Wasn't that Wilfred Cantwell Smith's point in asserting that faith predated the so-called cumulative tradition?) "Surely people were religious even if they didn't have the word religion, no?" It's a remarkably Platonic approach, if you think about it, one that many would see as sadly outdated if applied to other topics, but this essentialist viewpoint still reigns in our field. "Sure there's no functional equivalent to 'religion' in this or that language," someone might admit, "but of course those people were religious. They believed in gods, didn't they?" But what if by words we instead meant the terminological iceberg tips of socio-semantic frameworks that enable us not just to identify something but, as part of that process, to distinguish this from that and then to rank that over this? For then to say that one studies the word religion says far more than some tend to think when they first hear it. Now we study not the term religion, as if it is separate from some pan-human quality, but, rather, we examine the very fact that we (and, yes, sometimes it is all about us) come to know others, and thus ourselves, by applying this word in discrete situations, as if it names something deep in the human heart (or brain, maybe genes). Perhaps it's a little too grandiose to phrase it this way, but now the study of "religion" is but one way into the study of signification itself, linking us closely to such other cutting-edge fields as semiotics and identity studies.
But that's just not the right story for those who wish to study the sacred—either to embrace it or debunk it (the two positions that still seem to define many of the debates in the field). This third option—the very ability to signify something as sacred, as set apart, as inviolable, etc.—strikes me as a far more interesting route, ensuring that I have conversation partners all over the university, united not by our object of study but by our shared curiosities and the common tools that we use to satisfy them.
Interdisciplinarity at its best.
But sitting across from those faculty at that job interview, over 20 years ago, or reading that recent email in which I'm told I'm in a bit of a rut, are not examples of such conversations. Instead, they're somewhat akin to the situations others in this series have recounted: of the seat mate on the long haul flight, who doesn't quite understand what it is that we do. But the resemblance is, as I say, only somewhat, for I think that the examples I've cited are moments where the wrestling match has been quite evident all along, making plain that our conversation partner's usually unimpeded ability to divide the world (and its people) up in a manner assumed to be natural, has just been curtailed somewhat, and that the very situated interests that animate their system of distinction are showing, just a bit, around the edges.
That's why they slap back and try to spank you, misattribute things to your work or call it journalism and tell people—right in front of you sometimes—that it's passé.
The trick is not taking it personally and turning those momentary jousts—whether on a jet or in a conference session—into fieldwork opportunities, seeing them as e.g.s that illustrate how the game is played.
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Q: WSGI as AuthFormProvider Is it possible to use 'wsgi' as an AuthFormProvider in Apache2.4?
As a first attempt I edited the examples found here.
The configuration now looks like this but does not work:
<Location "/test">
    AuthType Form
    AuthFormProvider wsgi
    AuthName "test"
    AuthFormLoginRequiredLocation /login.html
    WSGIAuthUserScript /path/to/django/wsgi.py
    WSGIAuthGroupScript /path/to/django/wsgi.py
    Require Group test
    Require valid-user
    Session On
    SessionCookieName xyz path/
    SessionCrypotPassphrase 123456789
</Location>

A: For a start, you must be using mod_wsgi 4.3.0 for WSGIAuthGroupScript to work with Apache 2.4. The internals of Apache 2.4 changed from 2.2 and this was only realised recently. The issue was only addressed in the latest version of mod_wsgi. If you are stuck on an older mod_wsgi version from a Linux distribution and refuse to update, then you will be out of luck.
Second, you must use:
Require wsgi-group test

Under Apache 2.4, you cannot use:
Require group test

if using the WSGI auth provider.
This is again because of changes in Apache 2.4.
Overall I would suggest you post your question to the mod_wsgi mailing list and I will deal with it there. Here on StackOverflow is a terrible place for any sort of lengthy back and forth discussion which I can easily see this turn into.
For what its worth, I have been keen to investigate mod_session interaction with mod_wsgi but never got the chance so certainly interesting in helping to explore this if you jump over to the mod_wsgi mailing list instead.

A: The solution is that I had to update to mod_wsgi 4.3.0 and change the configuration as Graham Dumpleton mentioned in his answer (or here).
In addition to the update I removed the directive AuthFormLoginRequiredLocation and added an ErrorDocument directive instead.
The working configuration now looks like this:
<Location "/test">
    AuthType Form
    AuthFormProvider wsgi
    AuthName "test"
    ErrorDocument 401 /login.html
    WSGIAuthUserScript /path/to/django/wsgi.py
    WSGIAuthGroupScript /path/to/django/wsgi.py
    <RequireAll>
        Require wsgi-group test
        Require valid-user
    </RequireAll>
    Session On
    SessionCookieName xyz path/
    SessionCrypotPassphrase 123456789
</Location>

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subordinate courts: appellate courts, higher courts, and municipal and district courts; courts of special jurisdiction include the Administrative Court, Appellate Commercial Court, and 2 levels of misdemeanor courts
note: in 2003, specialized panels on war crimes were established within the Serbian court system; the panels have jurisdiction over alleged violations of the Basic Criminal Code and crimes against humanity, international law, and criminal acts as defined by the Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Alliance for a Better Serbia (electoral coalition including LDP, LSV, SDS)
Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians or SVM [Istvan PASZTOR]
Bosniak Democratic Union of Sandzak or BDZS [Jahja FEHRATOVIC]
Communist Party or KP [Josip Joska BROZ]
Democratic Party or DS (vacant)
Democratic Party of Serbia or DSS [Milos JOVANOVIC]
Dveri [Bosko OBRADOVIC]
Enough is Enough or DJB [Branislav MIHAJLOVIC]
For a Just Serbia (electoral coalition including DS, NS, DSVH, VVS)
Greens of Serbia or ZS [Ivan KARIC]
League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina or LSV [Nenad CANAK]
Liberal Democratic Party or LDP [Cedomir JOVANOVIC]
Movement of Socialists or PS [Aleksandar VULIN]
New Party or NOVA [Zoran ZIVKOVIC]
New Serbia or NS [Velimir ILIC]
Party for Democratic Action or PDD [Riza HALIMI]
Party of Democratic Action of the Sandzak or SDA [Sulejman UGLJANIN]
Party of United Pensioners of Serbia or PUPS [Milan KRKOBABIC]
People's Party or NARODNA [Vuk JEREMIC]
Serbia is Winning (electoral coalition including NDSS, NS, PS, PSS, PUPS, SDPS, SNP, SNS, SPO)
Serbian People's Party or SNP [Nenad POPOVIC]
Serbian Progressive Party or SNS [Aleksandar VUCIC]
Serbian Radical Party or SRS [Vojislav SESELJ]
Serbian Renewal Movement or SPO [Vuk DRASKOVIC]
Social Democratic Party or SDS [Boris TADIC]
Social Democratic Party of Serbia or SDPS [Rasim LJAJIC]
Socialist Party of Serbia or SPS [Ivica DACIC]
Strength of Serbia or PSS [Bogoljub KARIC]
Together for Serbia or ZZS [Dusan PETROVIC]
United Serbia or JS [Dragan MARKOVIC]
note: Serbia has more than 100 registered political parties and citizens' associations
Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia or NUNS
Journalists Association of Serbia (Udruzenje novinara Srbije) or UNS
Obraz (Orthodox clero-fascist organization)
BIS, BSEC, CD, CE, CEI, EAPC, EBRD, EU (candidate country), FAO, G-9, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MONUSCO, NAM (observer), NSG, OAS (observer), OIF (observer), OPCW, OSCE, PCA, PFP, SELEC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNMIL, UNOCI, UNTSO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO (observer)
chief of mission: Ambassador Djerdj MATKOVIC (since 23 February 2015)
chancery: 2233 Wisconsin Ave NW
chief of mission: Ambassador Kyle SCOTT (since 5 February 2016)
three equal horizontal stripes of red (top), blue, and white - the Pan-Slav colors representing freedom and revolutionary ideals; charged with the coat of arms of Serbia shifted slightly to the hoist side; the principal field of the coat of arms represents the Serbian state and displays a white two-headed eagle on a red shield; a smaller red shield on the eagle represents the Serbian nation, and is divided into four quarters by a white cross; interpretations vary as to the meaning and origin of the white, curved symbols resembling firesteels or Cyrillic "C's" in each quarter; a royal crown surmounts the coat of arms
white double-headed eagle; national colors: red, blue, white
name: "Boze pravde" (God of Justice)
Serbia has a transitional economy largely dominated by market forces, but the state sector remains significant in certain areas. The economy relies on manufacturing and exports, driven largely by foreign investment. MILOSEVIC-era mismanagement of the economy, an extended period of international economic sanctions, civil war, and the damage to Yugoslavia's infrastructure and industry during the NATO airstrikes in 1999 left the economy worse off than it was in 1990. In 2015, Serbia's GDP was 27.5% below where it was in 1989.
After former Federal Yugoslav President MILOSEVIC was ousted in September 2000, the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) coalition government implemented stabilization measures and embarked on a market reform program. Serbia renewed its membership in the IMF in December 2000 and rejoined the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Serbia has made progress in trade liberalization and enterprise restructuring and privatization, but many large enterprises - including the power utilities, telecommunications company, natural gas company, and others - remain state-owned. Serbia has made some progress towards EU membership, gaining candidate status in March 2012. In January 2014, Serbia's EU accession talks officially opened and, as of December 2017, Serbia had opened 12 negotiating chapters including one on foreign trade. Serbia's negotiations with the WTO are advanced, with the country's complete ban on the trade and cultivation of agricultural biotechnology products representing the primary remaining obstacle to accession. Serbia maintains a three-year Stand-by Arrangement with the IMF worth approximately $1.3 billion that is scheduled to end in February 2018. The government has shown progress implementing economic reforms, such as fiscal consolidation, privatization, and reducing public spending.
Unemployment in Serbia, while relatively low (16% in 2017) compared with its Balkan neighbors, remains significantly above the European average. Serbia is slowly implementing structural economic reforms needed to ensure the country's long-term prosperity. Serbia reduced its budget deficit to 1.7% of GDP and its public debt to 71% of GDP in 2017. Public debt had more than doubled between 2008 and 2015. Serbia's concerns about inflation and exchange-rate stability preclude the use of expansionary monetary policy.
Major economic challenges ahead include: stagnant household incomes; the need for private sector job creation; structural reforms of state-owned companies; strategic public sector reforms; and the need for new foreign direct investment. Other serious longer-term challenges include an inefficient judicial system, high levels of corruption, and an aging population. Factors favorable to Serbia's economic growth include the economic reforms it is undergoing as part of its EU accession process and IMF agreement, its strategic location, a relatively inexpensive and skilled labor force, and free trade agreements with the EU, Russia, Turkey, and countries that are members of the Central European Free Trade Agreement.
wheat, maize, sunflower, sugar beets, grapes/wine, fruits (raspberries, apples, sour cherries), vegetables (tomatoes, peppers, potatoes), beef, pork, and meat products, milk and dairy products
automobiles, base metals, furniture, food processing, machinery, chemicals, sugar, tires, clothes, pharmaceuticals
2.92 million (2017 est.)
16% (2017 est.)
expenditures: $16.93 billion
note: this is the consolidated budget, including both central government and local goverment budgets (2017 est.)
4% (9 October 2017 est.)
automobiles, iron and steel, rubber, clothes, wheat, fruit and vegetables, nonferrous metals, electric appliances, metal products, weapons and ammunition
Italy 14.6%, Germany 13.1%, Bosnia and Herzegovina 8.3%, Romania 5.7%, Russia 5.4% (2016)
machinery and transport equipment, fuels and lubricants, manufactured goods, chemicals, food and live animals, raw materials
Germany 12.9%, Italy 10.4%, China 8.4%, Russia 7.9%, Hungary 4.6%, Poland 4.4% (2016)
Serbian dinars (RSD) per US dollar -
88.41 (2013 est.)
7.594 million kW (2016 est.)
59% of total installed capacity (2016 est.)
2.2% of total installed capacity (2016 est.)
0 bbl/day (2016 est.)
77.5 million bbl (1 January 2017 est.)
586.3 million cu m (2016 est.)
2.25 billion cu m (2015 est.)
56.55 million Mt (2015 est.)
total subscriptions: 2,620,888
general assessment: replacements of, and upgrades to, telecommunications equipment damaged during the 1999 war resulted in a modern digitalized telecommunications system
domestic: wireless service, available through multiple providers with national coverage, is growing very rapidly; best telecommunications services are centered in urban centers; 4G/LTE mobile network launched in March 2015
international: country code - 381 (2016)
annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 2,424,886
annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 2.748 million mt-km (2015)
YU (2016)
standard gauge: 3,809 km 1.435-m gauge (3,526 km one-track lines and 283 km double-track lines) out of which 1,279 km electrified (1,000 km one-track lines and 279 km double-track lines) (2015)
paved: 28,000 km (16,162 km state roads, out of which 741 km highways)
587 km (primarily on the Danube and Sava Rivers) (2009)
Serbian Armed Forces (Vojska Srbije, VS): Land Forces (includes Riverine Component, consisting of a river flotilla on the Danube), Air and Air Defense Forces (2016)
18 years of age for voluntary military service; conscription abolished December 2010; reserve obligation to age 60 for men and age 50 for women (2013)
Serbia with several other states protest the US and other states' recognition of Kosovo's declaration of its status as a sovereign and independent state in February 2008; ethnic Serbian municipalities along Kosovo's northern border challenge final status of Kosovo-Serbia boundary; several thousand NATO-led Kosovo Force peacekeepers under UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo authority continue to keep the peace within Kosovo between the ethnic Albanian majority and the Serb minority in Kosovo; Serbia delimited about half of the boundary with Bosnia and Herzegovina, but sections along the Drina River remain in dispute
refugees (country of origin): 20,346 (Croatia); 9,081 (Bosnia and Herzegovina) (2016)
IDPs: 219,633 (most are Kosovar Serbs, some are Roma, Ashkalis, and Egyptian (RAE); some RAE IDPs are unregistered) (2016)
stateless persons: 2,373 (includes stateless persons in Kosovo) (2016)
note: 678,493 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015 - December 2016); Serbia is predominantly a transit country and hosts an estimated 3,800 migrants and asylum seekers as of March 2018
transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin moving to Western Europe on the Balkan route; economy vulnerable to money laundering
Economic Indicators for Serbia including actual values, historical data, and latest data updates for the Serbia economy.


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Home » News » Global Marine Group presented prestigious Shipowner of the Year Award by Offshore Support Journal
Global Marine Group presented prestigious Shipowner of the Year Award by Offshore Support Journal
The Global Marine Group (GMG), a market leader in offshore engineering services to the telecommunications, renewables and oil & gas industries, announces being named the Offshore Support Journal's (OSJ) Shipowner of the Year 2018. GMG was presented with the title at the annual awards ceremony, held earlier this month in London, with over 500 delegates from the offshore industry in attendance.
An unprecedented 8,300 online votes were submitted across the ten categories, in the eighth year of these prominent industry awards. The OSJ Shipowner of the Year category recognises a company which above all others demonstrates excellence in the operation of its vessels and has, in the past year, demonstrated an exemplary record of achievement in at least one of the following categories: business development and growth of safety, quality, efficiency or environmental sustainability.
"To be recognised by our industry peers in this category is a real tribute to the entire team here at Global Marine Group," said Ian Douglas, Chief Executive Officer of Global Marine Group. "This achievement emphasises our fleet's exemplary track record of successfully executing projects around the world, and across multiple sectors."
GMG's cable ships have installed over 300,000 kilometres of fibre optic cable, and today, the Company operates in three of the world's six telecommunications maintenance zones, and has completed 33 percent of global fibre optic cable repairs. Collaboratively GMG has installed 387 inter-array cables and 421 cable pull-ins across 40 European offshore wind farms.
Mr. Douglas continued, "Last year we introduced our third business unit, Global Offshore, into the Group and added the Global Symphony to our fleet to support our trenching and power cable laying capabilities. Our crew transfer vessel (CTV) fleet has conducted operations at all of the UK's offshore wind farms, and in January this year, we announced a joint venture in Taiwan, where our expertise will support the exponential growth of this Asian market. I am proud of our Group commitment to engineer a clean and connected future."
This award follows GMG's recent success at the Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) Conference held in January 2018 where the Company was announced as runner up in the Lifetime Innovation Award Category for its contribution to Universal Joint (UJ) and Universal Quick Joint (UQJ) technological developments.


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MTR Express orders Flirts for Stockholm - Göteborg open access service
SWEDEN: The MTR Nordic subsidiary of Hong Kong's MTR Corp has ordered six Stadler Flirt electric multiple-units for use on open access inter-city services which will compete with national operator SJ between Stockholm and Göteborg. Delivery is scheduled for autumn 2014, with MTR Express services to begin once commissioning is completed.
MTR plans to operate 110 services a week on the 455 km Stockholm - Göteborg route, calling at Flemingsberg, Södertälje, Hallsberg, Herrljunga and Falköping. 'Our strategy is to bring a fast, new premium-quality service to Swedish inter-city passengers', said MTR Corp CEO Jay Walder. 'We believe this will not only be attractive to existing rail passengers, but will also draw other business and leisure travellers to choose rail over other modes of transport to commute between Sweden's east and west coasts'.
The SKr700m rolling stock supply and maintenance contract announced on November 13 is Stadler Rail's first order to deliver trains to Sweden. The five-car aluminium-bodied EMUs are to be built in Switzerland. The 15 kV AC units will have a maximum speed of 200 km/h, and will be fitted with the L10 000 automatic train protection system.
According to Stadler, the EMUs will have an 'especially high-quality interior' for comfortable travel across long distances, including a buffet car. 'We will offer the most environmentally-friendly option and focus on comfort and service that will suit both those who travel for business and private travellers', said Johan Söör, Business Development Director at MTR Nordic.
The EMUs will be winterised with floor heating, heat recovery systems, double-wall interior gangways and snow scrapers between the bogies and car body, similar to trainsets Stadler has supplied to Norway and Finland.
MTR has operated the Stockholm metro since 2009, and is now expanding into the inter-city rail market. The company intends to begin recruiting around 70 staff for MTR Express in early 2014. 'We are a long-term player in the Nordic market with world-leading expertise and strong financial backing from our owner in Hong Kong', said Peter Viinapuu, CEO of MTR Nordic. 'Over time we aim to increase our presence in Sweden and the Nordic countries with further rail activities.'
Express Rail Link high speed train unveiled
CHINA: The first of nine high speed trainsets which MTR Corp has ordered for the Hong Kong - Shenzhen - Guangzhou Express Rail Link was rolled out by CSR Qingdao Sifang on November 6.
Stadler and Newag win PKP Intercity train order
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MTR proposes Stockholm transport investment
SWEDEN: Stockholm metro operator MTR, consultancy SWECO and construction firm Skanska have proposed a SKr169bn investment in public transport to tackle a 50% increase in population in the Swedish capital predicted by 2070. MTR and its partners hope that the Stockholm 2070 study will start off a planning process that ...


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New Permit Fees for New Buildings and Alterations Take Effect on March 5, 2018
By Penny Laughlin
A few weeks after New York City updated the permit fee structure for new buildings and alterations through Local Law 56 of 2016, the Department of Buildings (DOB) explained the new fees in a Service Bulletin. That same bulletin indicated that the old rates would remain in effect "until system updates are completed."
That day of reckoning—and recalculation—arrives on Monday, March 5, 2018.
Here's how the new permit fees will affect construction projects:
Amendments and Corrections. For all amendments and corrections that affect fees, the entire job will have to be re-calculated according to the new fee structure.
Filings (Old Filing Fee Structure). Jobs that were pre-filed or uploaded in eFiling prior to June 9, 2016 (the effective date of Local Law 56 of 2016), will fall under the previous fee structure.
Filings (New Filing Fee Structure). All jobs created or uploaded in eFiling on or after June 9, 2016, will be subject to the new fees. Subsequent filings made on or after this date will be calculated under the new permit fee structure, regardless of their original filing date.
Permit Fees – New Buildings
The fee structure now includes three building classifications: 1,2,3-family dwellings; buildings fewer than seven (7) stories and 100,000 s.f. or less; and all other buildings seven (7) stories or greater or more than 100,000 s.f.
For New Buildings, the permit fees are calculated as follows:
For 1,2,3-family dwellings, new applications decrease from $0.12/s.f. to $0.06/s.f. The $100 minimum remains unchanged.
New applications for buildings fewer than seven (7) stories and 100,000 s.f. or less will be calculated at the same rate of $0.26/s.f., but the minimum fee increases from $100 to $280.
For buildings seven (7) stories or higher or more than 100,000 s.f., new applications increase from $0.26/s.f. to $0.45/s.f. In addition, the minimum fee increases from $100 to $290.
Permit Fees – Alterations
The new fee calculation rates for alterations are as follows:
For 1,2,3-family homes, the fee calculation rate drops from $5.15 for each $1,000 in excess of $5,000 to $2.60 for each $1,000. Minimum fees remain the same.
Buildings fewer than seven (7) stories and less than 100,000 s.f. will no longer have a secondary fee calculation rate (e., $20 for each $1,000 of the next $2,000).
For Alteration Type 1 applications on buildings of seven (7) stories or higher or more than 100,000 s.f., the fee calculation rate increases from $10.30 to $17.75, with a minimum fee of $290.
Alteration Type 2 and 3 applications for these larger buildings (7+ stories or more than 100,00 s.f.) have the same calculation rates and minimum fees.
If you have questions about the impact of the new fee structures on your existing projects, please call Metropolis Group at 212.233.6344.
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Play Xbox One X At Auckland's Armageddon Expo
by jonathan · October 16, 2017
Gaming fans heading to Armageddon Expo will be the first in the country to experience the world's most powerful console, with opportunities to play the Xbox One X's holiday headliners Forza Motorsport 7 and Assassin's Creed Origins in true 4K – two weeks ahead of the console's global launch on November 7.
Forza Motorsport 7 will be showcased in native 4K and HDR at 60 fps in the Samsung Zone on Samsung's stunning 75" QLED TV screens. The game's over 700 cars include the largest collection of Ferraris, Porsches, and Lamborghinis which have never have looked better. Experience the stunning detail and seamless, fluid gameplay of Forza Motorsport 7 through Samsung QLED's 4K HDR and fast response screen technology.
Assassin's Creed Origins (playable on Xbox One X at the Ubisoft stand) journeys into Ancient Egypt, the most mysterious place in history, during a crucial period that will shape the world. For the last four years, the team behind Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag has been crafting a new beginning for the franchise. Players will discover secrets behind the Great Pyramids, forgotten myths, the last pharaohs, and the origin story of the Assassin's Brotherhood. They will fight in a completely new way and choose their Assassin skills while exploring the full country of Ancient Egypt, engaging in multiple quests and gripping stories. Assassin's Creed Origins will be available across the Xbox One family of devices starting October 27, 2017 and as an Xbox One X Enhanced title alongside the console's launch on November 7, 2017. For details on two Xbox One S Assassin's Creed Origins Bundles available this holiday, visit the Microsoft Store.
Halo continues to be a defining game for Xbox across generations, with two of the game's biggest stars – Steve Downes (the voice of Halo's Master Chief), and Jen Taylor (the voice of Cortana) joining fans at Armageddon Expo. Steve and Jen will feature in Armageddon's Animation panel at 1pm on Sunday October 22, with autograph opportunities available throughout the show. Halo 5: Guardians and Halo Wars 2 will both be enhanced for Xbox One X at launch on November 7.
The Xbox One X will launch in New Zealand on 7 November for a recommended retail price of $749 with over 130 Xbox One X enhanced titles available.
The Armageddon Expo is on from October 20 to 23 at the Auckland Showgrounds. For more information visit www.armageddonexpo.com.
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Le  est un domaine féodal japonais situé dans la province de Hida et également appelé domaine de Takayama (高山藩 Takayama-han). La région est contrôlée par le clan Kanamori.

Liste des daimyos
Le clan Kanamori dirige le domaine de 1586 à 1692 quand le domaine passe sous le contrôle du nouveau gouvernement national.

Clan Kanamori
 Kanamori Nagachika
 Kanamori Yoshishige (金森可重)
 Kanamori Shigeyori (金森重頼)
 Kanamori Yorinao (金森頼直)
 Kanamori Yorinari (金森頼業)
 Kanamori Yoritoki (金森頼時)

Source de la traduction

Hida-Takayama

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Courts rule against CFPB, declare structure unconstitutional
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia this morning overturned a $109 million fine against PHH Mortgage and called Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) "unconstitutionally structured." According to League sources, this is certain to resurrect efforts on Capitol Hill to restructure CFPB and limit its authority.
The Court also said that "the (CFPB) director enjoys more unilateral authority than any other officer in any of the three branches of the U.S. government, other than the President …This is a case about executive power and individual liberty. Because of their massive power and the absence of presidential supervision and direction, independent agencies pose a significant threat to individual liberty and to the constitutional system of separation of powers and checks and balances."
CFPB had fined PHH Mortgage for referring customers to insurers who purchased reinsurance from a PHH subsidiary, a practice CFPB said amounted to illegal kickbacks. PHH sued, saying CFPB overstepped its authority.
The LSCU will keep you informed as more details emerge on this high-impact issue.
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WMGK Philadelphia Audio interview with Debbi Calton about Baron's upcoming appearance at Rock Art Show, March 31st 2012.
Classic Rock Magazine Baron wins the VIP Award.
Genesis Publications On the camera-smashing at the Classic Rock Awards.
Houston Press Extensive book review.
Fox 7, Austin, Texas Austin welcomes Baron for the Texas Book Festival.
Blog Critics Extensive book review.
KIRO FM Audio interview on Seattle's #1 radio station.
The Music Network Australia's #1 source for music industry news and information.
Channel 9 News, Australia Morning TV chat.
Nine-To-Five, Australia On the upcoming photo exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne and the short-lived rock gods he remembers most.
Not So Late Show Video interview at the site of the exhibition.
Kansan.com Write-up of the lecture at the Lawrence Arts Center.
WPIX Morning News TV interview, tales of Bill Cosby and Ike & Tina Turner.
KBAC 98.1 Radio Free Santa Fe. Why publish this now?
AV Club On intimate moments.
Q104.3 NY Tales of access to the musicians.
NBC 10 Show Philadelphia TV interview, tales of Haight Ashbury.
Rolling Stone Extensive gallery and stories.
Newsweek/Daily Beast Extensive gallery, great selection.
Westwood Patch Pics from the book signing at Gallery 270.
104.9 The Eagle Ohio Baron comes home.
Majik 105.7 Ohio On meeting Jann Wenner.
WLW Ohio Tales of who made the cut in the book.
WZRR Alabama Tales of Jeff Beck's hot rod.
KZOK 102.5 Seattle Reflections on those who have passed on.
KPRI 102.1 San Diego Baron's first camera; photography today.
Marin Independent Journal Book review.
The Independent UK book review.
For a story about Baron and the photos in the Russian edition of Rolling Stone, click on the link below. Утес дальше!
Baron in the Russian edition of Rolling Stone.