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I Took A Break From the Daily Grind And Went On A Volunteer Travel Trip
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Like the majority of the working world, I found myself getting tired of my daily routine and was looking to reset my battery. I knew I wanted to do something different, but I wasn't quite sure what I was looking for.
Growing up in the Midwest, "vacation" in my family meant lying in the sun on a patch of sand all day.
Then, while mindlessly scrolling through Instagram, I stumbled upon a gorgeous picture of the Zion National Park. I tracked down the IG handle and looked them up online; Have Fun Do Good, 'adventure through the Grand Canyon, Zion National Park, Antelope Canyon and Lake Powell. Payment plans recently added.' And that was it; I'd never thought about anything less. I made my first payment and booked my flight within 15 minutes of finding HFDG. It felt so good to be spontaneous and unsure of what possibilities that August volunteer travel trip could bring.
Then, the second-guessing set in….
The thought of a hiking-heavy vacation worried me a bit. I mean, I'm good for about 20 minutes on the Stairmaster, but unstable rocks?! Dry heat?! Critters?! Throw in a bunch of random strangers judging every panting breath was enough to keep me anxious for a while.
But, the photos on the HFDG site made me eager to explore these new places, and ultimately, I (obviously) over-estimated the Bear Grylls-style hiking we would be doing. In truth, all my concerns were immediately put to rest when I was greeted with a hug the moment I met the HFDG team. So, I hopped in the van (with 10 strangers and one friend from Chicago) and we set out on our first leg of travel.
While we drove across the desert and got to know one-another, the crew explained what we'd be in for the next few days. Despite being a self-proclaimed "go with the flow"-er, I figured having a rough itinerary created for me would likely be the best use of my time, especially considering I had never been to this part of the country before. This was why HFDG ended up being such a great fit for me; we had a loose plan regarding what activities we'd partake in, but the team was incredibly open to suggestions and flexible based on the interests and energy level of the group. What was to follow would not only "reset my battery," but also leave me with much more to be thankful for in my nostalgic, "sad-it's-over" post-trip state.
From Thursday to Sunday, we volunteered at a Flagstaff food kitchen, caught the sunset at Mather Point in the Grand Canyon, pulled Russian Thistle out of Zion, trekked through the Northgate Peaks/Wildcat Canyon Trail, cooled off in a lesser-known ZNP swimming hole, toured Antelope Canyon and sunbathed on the slabs of rock at Lake Powell. I wish I could describe in words how stunning, awe-inspiring and humbling it was, but even photos can't compete with the colors, textures and true scale of these natural "wonders."
These visits — in conjunction with our volunteer work at Zion — taught me a great deal about preservation and I came to appreciate our National Park Service more than I thought possible. For instance, I learned there are entire teams in the NPS dedicated to studying, tracking and removing exotic plants. In Zion alone there are over 220 square miles to cover and dozens of species Dave (our Vegetation Management guide for the day) and his crew aim to control. Not only that, but they all know it is impossible to fully eradicate most of these invasive plants from the park. Why do they do it, then? So that others can enjoy the National Parks for years to come. And while it may not seem like we made a huge dent on our small strip of land de-weeding, Dave thanked us for saving them a significant chunk of time– time his team could now use to focus on the "re-vegging" component of their duties. There is no "instant gratification" in this line of work; it's done for the sole fact that it's necessary in order to maintain Zion's condition. And I'm extremely grateful there are rangers like Dave who care enough about the future of these parks to keep them in the best possible condition.
While our work at Zion and the Flagstaff Family Food Center was rewarding, the best part of this trip for me was by far the people. Over that long weekend, I received amazing insight into building your own business, racked up a huge list of Netflix suggestions, heard enough "thistle" puns to last a lifetime and laughed so hard I was rolling on the floor (seriously, I ROFL'ed, you guys). Our chats each night helped instill in me of all of the awesome sights, sounds and feelings I got to experience each day. And while we had all come from such different walks of life, their taste for adventure, open minds, humor and kindness reminded me that meeting new people or "expanding your circle" doesn't always have to come with a negative connotation.
And there ya have it. What started as a quick excursion to get some fresh air and take some cool pictures transformed into undeniable proof that one person "doing good" can make a huge impact, that sharing experiences with our fellow humans is the zest of life and that practicing gratitude for all of it is key. Thank you, Have Fun Do Good, for letting me come along for the ride. Can't wait to book the next one.
This post was submitted by Katie McGarrigle, a volunteer traveler on one of our Have Fun Do Good. The original post can be seem here
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Adam Kunes
Adam Kunes incorporates his entrepreneurial spirit and passion for service into everything he does. Adam participated in Semester at Sea, a 100-day undergraduate cruise around the world. This experience opened Adam's eyes to the world and shaped his views on what it means to truly give to others. His participation in many service-oriented trips both during Semester at Sea and at home inspired the concept for HFDG. Adam hopes his efforts will allow others to realize the opportunities to volunteer are endless and that service can be fun.
Adam Kunes August 26, 2017
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Burton, of Heatb, Dr. of Physick and Mary Hen- on the cursus publicus. When the courier left the son, of St. Delpike parish in York, by License." post road, he was entitled to a paraveredus, which Dr. Burton died on Jan. 19, 1771, and was buried means and was intended to mean a horse pressed in the church of the Holy Trinity, in Micklegate, into the public service for use away from the York. His wife, who died on Oct. 28 following, regular post road. The veredus served on the post aged fifty-eight, was interred near her busband. road ; the paraveredus served on the cross road, An admirable memoir of the learned author of the and was private property, temporarily supplied by
Mopasticon Eboracense 'appears in the Yorkshire the local authority for imperial uses. A glance at Archæological and Topographical Journal, 1871-2, the Theodosian Code,'De Cursu Publico,' especially Lond., 1873, vol. ii. p. 403.
with the luminous notes of Gothofredus, will prove
DANIEL HIPWELL. convincing. The terms survive to this day, veredus 17, Hilldrop Crescent, N.
being the German Pferd (which is not derived from BURIAL BY TORCHLIGHT.-In the Athenæum froi in French, and palfrey in English. The
paraveredus), while paraveredus has become paleof Feb. 4 (No. 3406, p. 148) are the remarks :
palfrey was the horse supplied to the king or bis "In the seventeenth century and the earlier part of representative, and thus came to mean a noble and the eighteenth, burial by torchlight was custom among the
upper classes. We know of one case gentlo horse, as distinguished from a war horse ; which has occurred almost within the memory of living but this meaning came only with the days of people."
chivalry. The cursus publicus, together with the There is detailed support for this assertion in supplementary service on cross roads, had disMr. A. F. Robbins's Launceston, Past and Pre- appeared ; the public veredus, as state property, sent,' in which it is stated (pp. 298-9), in explanation was gone ; but the obligation of towns and comof an entry in the parish sexton's note-book, that, wunes to supply paraveredi for royal use, at a burial by torchlight, the church was " Crowded especially on state occasions, remained, chiefly in with Spectator's, Some Very Disorderly":- France, though traces of it are found in England
"This was of Christopher Morshead Lawrence, who and elsewhere. Originally, then, the vulgar Gerdied at the age of sixteen, and was interred at eight man Pferd and the gentler palfrey are post-office o'clock in the evening on March 2, 1816. His father, terms ; for the cursus publicus was a real post Humphry
Lawrence, who died at Whitely, Lifton, on office, though used for government purposes only April 2, 1811, had received a similar funeral, the remains being met at the head of Race Hill, at balf.past eleven at
or mainly. The post office fell with other night, by the mayor corporation, and tradesmen of the things when the barbarians broke over Europe. town, and, amid muffled peals, escorted by torchlight to In 1464, to give the date of the first postal law in St. Mary Magdalene's, where they arrived exactly at more recent days, the modern post office began, in midnight, and were buried in the family vault."
France, and with it came new words in the place The following extract from the St. James's of veredi, &c., the first use of post in the present Gazette of April 30, 1886, brings the matter down sense being, perhaps, the term "chevaucheurs en to a much more recent date :
postes" (post-riders) in the French ordinance of "The burial by torchlight a few nights since of 1487. The word immediately became the proMr. Robert Staples, a landlord and magistrate of perty of all Europe, meaning a messenger, and Queen's County, recalls one of the most striking ecenes then simply baste, as in many English writers of in. The Antiquary,' where the Countess of Glenallao was the sixteenth century, in Shakespeare, and in interred in the Abbey of St. Ruth's to the smoky light the English Bible. How the later postilion was of many flambeaus.' Until the early years of the present century, torchlight burials were by no means coined, is not clear. It is a little hard to imply uncommon...... The prohibition of burials first in churches dissent from Lewis and Short, Skeat, Ducange, and and next in churchyards had much to do with the Grimm ; but their postal articles do not always practical extinction of an old and picturesque custom."
tally with the service they denoted. A solution DONAEVED.
appears in the Cod. Theod., in the decrees of the PalFREY AND Post.–Palfrey is undoubtedly Roman emperors, and in the bistory of the postal the modern form of the Low Latin paraveredus; establishment, both ancient and more recent. but does the latter really mean an extra post borse,
C. W. ERNST. as Lewis and Short, Skeat, and others tell us ?
Boston, Mass. We all know that horses were kept by the state for use on the cursus publicus of the Roman
TENNYSON, 1834. — The Oxford University empire. These horses were animalia publica, Magazine, No. 1, March 1, 1834, p. 92, thus that is, owned by the state, and employed as compares the reviews of Tennyson in Blackwood's occasion required. There was no occasion for Magazine and the Quarterly Review:extra horses on the cursus publicus ; in a case of
"Compare the article on Tennyson in the Magazine, need the public stock was iocreased at the public coarse-abuse ; do mitigation-no praise of any sort :
with that in the Quarterly Revier. Here virulent-even cost, and a horse so added was called veredus, like there, ridicule where ridicule was due-praise in its right any other Roman post horse that carried couriers place'; the best things extracted for commendation-ine
vorst for blame; all fair and above board. No one now the last of the set being secured by a buckle and doubts which was the fairer; if Alfred Tennyson is still strap, after the fashion of some modern gaiters ? more laughed at than wept over, it is for the game reason that the philosophy of Democritus was more easily learnt | My reason for asking the question is that in a than that of Heraclitus; any body can laugh-some eyes rough Plough Monday play, lately noted down are naturally dry."
from the dictation of a village lad, when "the In No.3, November 1, 1834, p. 446, it is said Soldier" threatens "the Fool" with the words, that the title of Graham's Vision of Fair Spirits' "I'll make your buttons fly," the latter retorts, was "suggested by Alfred Tennyson's 'Vision of " All my buttons is loops," a responge which seems Fair Women.'" W. C. B. to require explanation.
Z. Y. X. "PREVENTATIVE."-I am surprised to find that
CHILDREN THE CHAPEL STRIPT this gross vulgarism is gaining ground, in spite of WAIPT."—Is there any copy of 'The Children of its being so plainly against analogy, another in the Chapel Stript and Whipt,' 1569, known to stance of the loose way in which too many people exist? It is mentioned by Warton, and it would express themselves in these days of school boards greatly help me could I meet with it. and what not. An adjective ending in tative is
C. C. STOPES. usually formed from a substantive ending in -tation, HENRY MADDOCK.-I should be very grateful as argumentative from argumentation, augmen- to any reader of `N. & Q.' who would furnish tative from augmentation, representative from representation, &c., whereas from such substan. Henry Maddock (died 1824), author of a 'Life of
with biographical information concerning tives as attention, invention, deception, prevention, Lord Chancellor Somers,' and some other works. &c., are formed adjectives like attentive, inventive,
J. M. Rigg. deceptive, preventive, &c. Indeed it would seem
9, New Square, Lincoln's Inn. that, as some might say, we needed no ghost to tell us that. Yet this spurious word, like so many
HERALDIC.-ID Whalley's Northamptonshire,' others, has passed muster and is getting more and vol. ii. p. 131, the following coat appears, viz.: more into use, though there is not an " Academy "Lane, impaling Argent, three chevrons engrailed in Eoglaod, as there is in France, to spoil the good sable, which is not to be found in Papworth's old mother-tongue by authority.
Ordinary, the only one at all similar being Arg., F. E. A. Gasc. tbree cbev. engr. az., for Cother. Can any correspondent supply information as to the above coat?
H. M. Queries.
SHAKSPEARE AND GREEN.-In small volume We must request correspondents desiring information published anonymously, entitled 'The British on family matters of only privato interest to affix their Theatre, Dublin, 1750, there is a brief bionames and addresses to their queries, in order that the graphical notice of " Mr. William Shakespear." In answers may be addressed to them direct.
it the writer makes the following statement : OCTAGONAL FONTS, WHEN INTRODUCED.-In
" His first Acquaintance with the Play-house is said to
have commenced about this Time, where it is not un. the Rochdale parish churchyard has recently been natural to suppose he was introduced by Thomas Green discovered an ancient stone font. It is two feet the Comedian, who, we have learned, was born in the bigb, eight feet seven inches outside diameter at same Town with our Author. But as this is only Conits widest part, across the top it measures two feet jecture, we shall not think it improper to alledge Reasons eight inches, the basin being one foot eleven for such a Presumption. In the Interlude to the . Two
Maids of Morelack, Green, who acted the Clown, enters inches wide and twelve inches deep. On the singing and repeating Verses. One of the Country Girls brim (wbich is four and half inches wide) are the says to him, Wby how now Tom ! how long have you four holes showing where the staples or iron rods been in this Veine ? Green answers, were inserted to wbich was attached the lid or I prattled Poesie in my Nurses Arms, cover (fonts before the Reformation being locked).
And born where late our Swan of Avon sung At one side of bottom is the hole through which
In Avon's Streams, we both of us have lavéd, the water was drawn off. This font is made of The other takes him up short,
And both come out togetherDative coarse sandstone, is without any ornamenta
Ho the sweetest Swan, and thou a cackling Goose." tion, but is massive and symmetrical and it is There is a foot-note, written possibly by the owner octagonal. When did this shape first come into of the book : "No such passage is there to be use ? Are there any examples of Saxon or Norman fonts wbich are octagonal ?
found, however he probably met those lines in HENRY FISHWICK.
some ancient play, but forgot the name.—Malone."
Malone, who made this comment, evidently held LOOPS. - Was it customary at any date to no high' opinion of the industrious compiler of this fasten garments with loops instead of buttons, each little work. In the fly-leaf is written "The author loop having the succeeding one drawn through it, of this book was Chetwood—who also wrote the
* Life of Ben Jonson' and ' History of the Stage.' lesson to be in every man's mind, and have also Malone gives this character of him in the present in Holland their poor-boxes." Pepys thought work, 'Chetwood deserves but little credit, baving this worthy of being recorded by him, and indeed certainly forged many of his dates.'" Have these it is ; but the following inscription, which I found lines or the play ever been traced ?
in St. Michael's Church, Derby, deserves also to W. A. HENDERSON. be mentioned : "Forget not to give, but give Dublin,
and forget." A list of inscriptions of this kind Phenix' AND 'Phenix.'– I recently bought haps some of your readers will send in those they
would, in my opinion, be of great interest. Per"The Phenix; or, a Revival of scarce and valu; have remarked in their own circle. able Pieces from the remotest Antiquity, &c.'
CHAS, BURION. (1707), expecting to find in it an account of The
51, Sale Street, Derby. Troubles at Frankfort,' the third edition of this tract having been published in the 'Phenix' of ROYAL MIXED MARRIAGES.—When was the that date (see Introduction to Petheram's reprint last of these, before that of Sigmaringen, between in 1846). The title-page of my 'Phenix' gives po a Romanist and a Protestant ? E. L. G. promise of a second volume. Are the two works totally distinct in their contents as well as in their
" Jingo."—Can the use of the word "Jingo spelling of the fabulous bird, or did "a Second be traced in English to a time prior to the return Phenix like the First arise"? G. L. FENTON. of Wellington's troops from their campaign in the Clevedon.
Basque provinces (1813)! Dr. Brewer says it was
introduced with the arrival of the Basque moun. Father ARTHUR O'LEARY. - In the Scottish taineers used by Edward I. in his Welsh wars; Review for January, it is stated by the critic, but I doubt the existence of any record to this in dealing with Fitzpatrick's Secret Service under effect.
C. E. E. CLARK. Pitt' (second edition, Longmans & Co.), that
[See 7th 8. vii. 440; ix. 115, 337, 396.] Father Arthur O'Leary, the celebrated patriot priest of Ireland, was à D.C.L. of Oxford" Cousin Betty."—What is a "Cousin Betty," (Scottish Review, p. 242). What authority is there as used by Mrs. Gaskell in the following passage in for this statement? whicb, if true, is very curious, chapter xiv. of 'Sylvia's Lovers '?for O'Leary says that in those days of sectarian "I dunnot think there's a man living or dead, for prejudice he existed as a friar only by connivance. that matter, as can say Fosters wronged him of a penny, Mr. Froude essays to show that Father O'Leary or gave short measure to a child or a Cousin Betty." was a spy (* English in Ireland,' ii. 413, Lib. Ed.).
JAMES HOOPER. Mr. Fitzpatrick devotes several chapters to an
Norwich. examination of his remarkable career.
"A Book CALLED CENE.'"- In tho 'Firma FRED. WALCOTT.
Burgi' of Thomas Madox (pp. 111-2) is given an BARTON. - Can any reader oblige me with in- account of a curious transaction, in which Stephen, formation as to the parentage and immediate Prior of Launceston, in 1398-9, with several of descendants of William Andrew Barton, who pur- his canons and other persons unknown, came in the chased the estate of Deanwater, in Cheshire, in night, armed as for war, into the town of Liskeard, 1616 ? He is commonly said to bave been of the and rescued from arrest its vicar, Henry Frend, and family of Barton, of Smithells, in the county of carried away, among other articles, unum librum Lancaster, but his name does not occur in Whit- vocatum Cene pretii xiiis. iiiid." What would aker's pedigree of that family. Assuming his have been this book called Cene," which was origin to be as stated, are the Bartons, of Stapleton worth a mark ?
ÞUNHEVED. Park, in Yorkshire, his later descendants, the only remaining representatives of the Lancashire family?
THE CELEBRATED WAITE.—Readers of Moore's W. G.
'Life of Bryon' have long been familiar with the
name of Waite. "Went to Waite's. Teeth are all 'ANTAGONISM.'—Can anyone say when and where right and white ; but he says that I grind them a lecture so named was delivered ? The lecturer was in my sleep, and chip the edges " ( Journal,' some prominent public character, and the date Feb. 19, 1814). Six years later (Nov. 18, 1820): must have been at least some five or six years ago. The death of Waitė is a shock to the teeth, as The lecture was probably given in London.
well as to the feelings of all who know him." I L.
possess the copy of a long letter which Contessa INSCRIPTIONS ON POOR-Boxes.—Pepys, in his Guiccioli wrote to her father, June 20, 1837, in Diary' (Sept. 23, 1662), relates that he was told which there is a paragraph relating to a preby Sir G. Carteret "how in most cabarets in scription that Waite had given her for strengthenFrance they have written upon the walls, in fair ing the gums : "Mi è stata data dal celebré Waite letters to be read, ' Dieu te regarde,' as a good mio dentista a Londra, e dentista di Lord Byron."
I believe Waite married in 1819. What was the previous to the compilation of the Domesday number of his house in Old Burlington Street; survey, but those of Scotland are, for the most and where can I find further references to this part, of far more recent date. An English student lasóionable dentist? RICHARD EDGCUMBE, of Scottish history (and, strange as it may seem to 2, Reichs Strasse, Dresden.
the Philistine herd, there are such folk) is puzzled
ever and anon by territorial divisions which he FOLK-LORE OF Gems. - Will some kind corre
can find in no modern map. Surely some Scottish spondent of 'N. & Q.' refer me to a work or works antiquary should take pity on us who have the treating of the folk-lore of precious stones ? misfortune to have been born and brought up E. LAWS. south of Tweed.
ASTARTE VALLANCE Family. — Will any reader of
REFERENCE IN MACAULAY.-In an admirable 'N. & Q.' kindly give me any genealogical in. little essay on Culture,' by the late Mr. Thomas formation respecting the family of Vallance, of Topsham, Devon ? From papers in my possession Danmore, in the 'Universal Instructor," I find in
the closing sentences of it he says :it appears that a member of it married a descendant of Matthew Miller, of Glenlee, Ayrshire.
« The aim of the student should be to possess a mind
such as that attributed to one of the greatest scholars Maidstone.
of the present century, of wbom Macaulay say8: · His WEDDING WREATHS. —
mind was a vast magazine, admirably arranged. Every
thing was there; and everything was in its place...... The "In the earliest times of our Christian story our fore- article which you required was not only there, it was fathers crowned both the bride and groom with chaplets ready. It was in its own proper compartment. Iu a of flowers; but when the wreath had become a religious moment it was brought down, unpacked and dissymbol and scared ornament, its use was confined to played."" female spouses."—Extract from · Brides and Bridals,' by
Might I ask whether any of your readers could J. Cordy Jeaffreson. When did this take place ? I find from Smith's enlighten me who it is that Macaulay is here
WM. WHYTE. Dictionary of Christian Antiquities' that both speaking of? * bride and groom were crowned as late as 860 A.D. BIRD FAMILY.—John Bird was born probably in the Western Church, and probably later in the between the years 1620 and 1630; his mother, Eastern, as the crowning was a much more important Judith, was living and remarried in 1653. She part of ibe marriage ceremony there than in the bad dower of lands in Chester (both the county East. Was it over the custom for the groom to palatine and the city). Can any correspondent wear a wreath in England ? Selden, in his 'Uxor help me to identify him or to discover where his Hebraica,' seems to imply this when he says:- parents were married ?
F. D. "But it is clear enough from that saying of Sidonius Apollinaris that the custom of crowning bride and
HUNTER FAMILY.-I sbould feel greatly obliged groom was prevalent in the most ancient times, both in if any of your readers could enlighten me on the the east and west, as it is in some places to-day among following points :ourselves."
1. Is there any portrait extant of Major-General Can this refer to England ? What is the custom Robert Hunter, of Croyland Abbey, Lincolnshire, of the modern Greek Church? Does the bride who was Governor of New York, and finally of wear a wreath ; if so, of what material ? ;
Avis. Jamaica from 1728 to 1734 ? Where was he
buried ? CARTER'S TRUE RELATION.'-Who was Sir 2. Was Major John Banks Hunter, son of the C. K., to whom M. C. addresses "The Author's celebrated surgeon John Hunter, ever married ? Letter to the Publisber" in the rare little first If so, to whom; and what were the date and place edition iesued without a publisher's name? The of his marriage; and did he have any family? Are title runs :
any of bis descendants now living; and when and "A Most True And exact Relation of That as Honour where did Major Hunter die ? able as unfortunate Expedition of Kent, Essex, and 3. Were George and Robert Hunter, sons of Colchester. By M. C. A Loyall Actor in that Engage- Robert Hunter, of Kirkland, who married, in ment, Anno Dom. 1648. Printed in the Yeere 1650."
1791, Miss Jean Boyd, of Carlung, ever married ? The same C. K. writes the address" To the If so, to wbom, and what family had they ? Reader." I. C. Gould.
VENATOR, Loughton.
"Rook TÆE ROBber.'—Who was the author of SCOTTISH COUNTIES.— I inquired some time ago a work entitled "Rook the Robber; or, London of a Scottish Writer to the Signet where I could Fifty Years Ago. By the author of 'The Daughter find any account of the origin of the Scottish of Midnight. With thirty illustrations. Drawn counties. Although a man of antiquarian tastes, by W. H. Thwaites. London, John Dicks, 313, he could give me no information. The Eoglish Strand, and all Booksellers"? No date, but preshires, with one or two exceptions, were in being sumably somewhere about 1850. A story in the
G. W. M. Reynolds style, running to 240 double- obedience to, those great natural laws on which column pages in small type. Also, who was their happiness and wellbeing for the most part W. H. Thwaites ? Was be the same person as depend." These laws are not only moral, but phyMr. Thwaites, who furnished the illustrations to sical, chemical, mechanical, physiological, social, &c. • The Lamplighter'in 1855 ?
I was surprised and pleased a few days ago, on GEORGE C. BOASE. opening for the first time 'The Life and Letters 36, James Street, Buckingham Gate, S.W.
of George Eliot,' edited by Mr. Cross (now edition, MRS. ANN FRANKS. -The following announce written about the beginning of 1848:
no date), to read the following extract from a letter ment is to be found in the Gentleman's Magazine for December, 1771 : "Mrs. Ann Franks, aged possible. Great subjects are used up, and civilization
"The older the world gets, origioality becomes less Dear 100, at Dulwich. Granddaughter to Theo tends ever more to repress individual predominance, philus, Earl of Suffolk." Can any readers of bigbly-wrought agony, or ecstatic joy. But all the * N. & Q.'inform me who were her parents ? I gentler emotions will be ever new, ever wrought up into have been anable to find them in the peerages I more and more lovely combinations, and genius will bave consulted.
C. H. J. G.
probably take their direction."
I have my doubts as to "the gentler emotions
being over now." The poetry that will express Beplies.
them in the future is likely to be but an echo,
many times reverberated, from the poetry of the THE POETS IN A THUNDERSTORM.
past. (84 S. ii. 422, 482; iii. 22, 95, 175.) Since writing the above, I have read, at the I should be sorry to differ in opinion from 80 last reference, MR. BAYNE's acute critical remarks scholarly a writer as your correspondent C. C. B., on descriptive poetry. I beg to assure him that seeing that I am in sympathy with him as to the it has never been assumed by me "that no relations between poetry and science, as expressed living poet is equal to description of dataral in his own eloquent words (8th S. ii. 133): beauty," or that no one attempts such work."
"Until it has been proved that knowledge kille feels What I said was that if the poetry of the future ing, and that truth is incompatible with beauty, we must should aim at anything higher than a reflex of the helieve that the more we know the richer will be our poetry of the past it must borrow wings from science. life, and therefore the nobler our poetry."
My argument is that the best marbles have been When I remarked (ante, p. 22) that descriptive sculptured, the best pictures painted, the best poetry is exhausted, I was vain enough to suppose poetry and prose bave been written. The world that those readers of 'N. & Q.' who are interested bas not produced a second Phidias, a second in the subject would remember the argument Raffaelle, or a second Shakepere. When Goethe brought forward by me (8th S. ii. 132) in support produced his Götz von Berlichingen,' be took of the opinion that art and literature had already Shakspero as bis model, but was compelled to attained the highest degree of perfection of which admit that he could not soar so high ; or, as Gerbuman effort is capable ; that the finite mind deal. vinus puts it, "He had once wished to emulato ing with finite subjects is capable of exhaustion ; bim; but be felt that the great poet would sink but that science, which is infinite, and incapable bim to the bottom." Even the attempt in the of exbaustion, will profitably occupy the mind of Wilhelm Meister' to remodel "Hamlet' always the future, to the manifest advantage of humanity, appeared to me in the light of an ingenious failure. because much, if not most, of the suffering to Among other outrageous changes, he proposed to which mankind has been, and is, subject is due reduce the acting play to three acts, "the last two to the infraction of natural laws of divine origio ; lagging sorrily on, scarcely uniting with the rest.' and that they are divine is proved by the rigour one reason wby Goethe failed was that the with which they inflict their own penalties. And dramatio ground bad been already tilled, and so they do this upon the ignorant as well as upon the many barvests gathered in from it that the soil instructed transgressor, and even extend the was exhausted ; and the success of Faust' proved penalties to the third and fourth generation. But, that a comparatively fertile spot bad still been by a merciful provision, the recuperative force left to the rare and judicious cultivator. But as which follows a return to obedience to the outraged time went on the open spaces became more and law is more prompt in its action than the slow, more rare; they had been occupied and built over. death-like working out of the penalty, thus "show. And this is true not only of the drama, but of the ing mercy unto thousands that keep My command epic, the lyric, the descriptive. Dramas, epics, ments."
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Q: Customizing MonoDevelop to enhance productivity and coding enjoyment I'm new to C#, and although my office machine is based on windows, my netbook only has linux on it. I installed monodevelop, and so far everything is working fine.
I was just wondering if you had any tips or must dos for any person who is using monodevelop for c# / asp.net programming
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*Feel free to recommend open or closed source tools that are useful with mono develop

*Settings I should change / modify to get a better coding experience?

A: MonoDevelop requires you to do coding in most cases, as it only supports visual designer for GTK# projects. Therefore, you should try to learn ASP.NET MVC which suits the case.
If you plan to use ASP.NET WebForms, you'd better use Windows, and Visual Web Developer (Express if you cannot afford Professional and upper).

A: You could use #ifdef .. to make one Project which can be compiled with Mono + VC#

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This na 15 players wey we for muip feel say fit help you shine for fpl both short term and long terms based on as the league don be so far.
The Brazilian gk don dey fit pep style to dey attack from back even as him knack assist for aguero wey him take open scoring against huddersfield. Na the only gk for pl wey fit do that tin and also get clean sheet potential at the same time. Na good buy.
Apart from the fact say Etheridge don keep one clean sheet and him no cost, him get 100% pk save rate so far, him don catch two penalties wey him don face this season and dat na 5 points per save which go cover up if him no keep clean sheet. The Cardiff city number 1 na the keeper to get for your team as first choice which fit help you save money or good back up.
Cook don nak 80+ points for managers for the past three seasons for fpl, na very cheap buy and the only Bournemouth defender wey dey likely to deliver points even if clean sheet no dey.
Fpl managers no too look him side last season as per say injury knack am for most of the season but he don dey show the reason why guardiola splash boku money on top him head. three assists, one clean sheet and enough bonus points na wetin him don deliver in just two gameweeks. Even as fpl managers dey rush am, you gats follow them rush am o because e be like say pep no go like rotate this kind quality.
Na left winger for team sheet but fpl still classify am as defender which be him previous position, so this na opportunity for fpl managers to bank on person wey get more attacking freedom and go still collect benefit if clean sheet dey.
We been dey think say as sarriball don come, the left back no go get the kind attacking freedom him get under conte but as the tin dey go e be like say he get more freedom sef with the dms wey dey cover for am, he don knack whooping 24 pnts so far and we believe say na must buy.
Life dey go smoothly for the former Watford forward, he gel like say everton na the club wey God make for am, he don deliver the past two weeks and with favorable fixtures wey dey ground, him fit help boost your fpl.
As people dey rush salah, we no expect say na mane go start season on fire, he don knack 3 goals so far and na cheap and perfect substitute for salah for now.
As kdb don wounjure and fit dey out for 3 months, the playmaking job go dey silva head and as per say people dey fear guardiola rotation, na one player wey pep go surely dey start.
Na midfielder for fpl but if spurs dey play, him dey showcase as second striker because of him good eye for goal, 14 points so far and e still dey count.
Head bursting freekick from far wey e score against everton don showcase the portugese ability, him don dey prove as bargain and good short term plans for managers for fpl.
After that hattrick wey him knack last GW, managers don dey regret say them no buy am, pep rotation no affect am and e be like say na guardiola major striker for the season, na must buy if you wan revive your fpl.
Him no start the season the way fpl managers take reason am because of some helele fixtures but as the next five arsenal fixtures dey favorable…we dey advice fpl managers say make them still get faith in the prolific striker.
Wilson na confirm third choice striker as per say him cheap and na him be the penalty taker for Bournemouth ,make fpl managers reason him side as him don knack points for each gameweek so far.


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"Music for times of the year" collects some of the most appreciated pieces by Lorenzo Tempesti, a composer specialized in soundtracks. The twelve tracks follow one another as in a hypothetical calendar, in which each month, starting from January, is associated with an atmosphere that follows the colors, the climate and the events associated with it. We then move from the piano pieces in the style of Clayderman and Einaudi, to the more ethnic ones, of African origin, Celtic / Irish and samba, to those related to the ambient / new age style, to end up in a dance song.


Like the hot stuff and south of the border? These 'Primal Peppers' awning lights have spicy written all over them.
Primal Lite products interact with consumers providing them with a means of expressing their own humor, creativity and imagination. Primal Lite products have achieved a broad appeal due to their variety of uses - from patio and awning lighting, holiday and party lighting.
Each set contains: a string with 20 bulbs, 20 colorful covers and 2 extra bulbs, one which can make the string blink!
Each string of lights is double plugged to accommodate three additional sets. UL listed for indoor and outdoor use.


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Denison Yacht Sales sets up charter division
5 June 2011• Written by Malcolm MacLean
Alex Clarke at Denison Yacht Sales tells me that they've been working on establishing a charter division for six months now and now finally the puzzle is complete with the appointment of Ali Kaufman to head the department.
Ali moved to Fort Lauderdale 12 years ago and has immersed herself in all facets of the yachting industry ever since. Starting her career as a stewardess onboard both private and charter yachts, Ali knows first hand what it takes to ensure the best possible yachting vacation and a successful yacht charter program.
After a few years on the water, she decided to combine her stew experience with her degree from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. She became a design consultant for yacht refits and eventually started her own yacht interior design company. Ali has done refit work on vessels ranging from 48' sport fishermen to 150' megayachts.
Alex goes on to say that they've partnered with Velocity Jets to offer an all-inclusive 'Luxury Bundle', providing clients with the option to fly on a private jet to their choice of charter yacht anywhere in the world.
Charter yacht of the week: World's largest high-performance sailing ketch, Aquijo
Super-speedy superyacht Fast and Furious now for charter
The best yacht charter deals available right now
Below Deck season nine: Everything you need to know about the superyacht charter show
Charter yacht of the week: Crystal-encrusted Parillion joins charter market for the first time
Pop Art superyacht Mary-Jean II back on the charter market


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Eikoh Hosoe
(Yonezawa, Yamagata, 1933 - )
Lives Tokyo, Japan
A rebel in subject matter and process, Eikoh Hosoe is one of the most significant of a group of young post-World War II Japanese photographers who emphasized the medium's expressive rather than documentary nature.
In the mid-1950s, Hosoe began staging fictional narratives, blazing a trail for the fabricated photography of the 1980s and 1990s. His most famous narrative, Kamaitachi, blends childhood memories of the war with the myth of its title character, a weasel demon that inhabits the rice fields. This collaboration with Tatsumi Hijikata, founder of the radical Butoh dance movement, is a cinematic dance-drama. Even the prints, bleached to erase detail and heighten contrast, are unconventional.
Around 1960, Hosoe began addressing the naked body and sexuality, themes that are central to later art in both East and West. Man and Woman depicts the eternal battle between the sexes. Its treatment of woman as an equal was as shocking as its male and female nudity. Hijikata's dance troupe posed for that series and for Embrace, a series about sensual and sexual contact.
Hosoe's best known series is Barakei (Killed by Roses), a wild yet poetic portrait of Japanese writer Yukio Mishima. A celebrated intellectual, Mishima wanted to be seen as a "man of the body." These prints, too, are non-traditional, incorporating montage, multiple exposures, bleaching and other manipulation.


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Suffolk police back rape awareness week
SUFFOLK police has launched a campaign today in support of National Rape Awareness Week.Posters containing messages such as 'Rape - short word, long sentence' and 'Let your hair down, not your guard' will be distributed across various locations in the county.
SUFFOLK police has launched a campaign today in support of National Rape Awareness Week.
Posters containing messages such as 'Rape - short word, long sentence' and 'Let your hair down, not your guard' will be distributed across various locations in the county.
Latest figures show that alcohol is a contributing factor in two thirds of rapes reported in Suffolk, so police are keen to highlight the issue of rape in relation to the consumption of alcohol. Men are urged to avoid committing these types of offences, and women from making themselves vulnerable, especially in the lead up to the festive season.
Detective Chief Inspector Neil Luckett said: 'Suffolk is a safe place to live, but we would just like to remind people to take care whilst they are out enjoying themselves and that men should not take advantage of women who may be vulnerable through alcohol consumption.
'Our figures show that in 61pc of reported rapes, alcohol has been consumed by both the victim and the offender, and in 84pc of recorded rapes, the victim knows the offender. In virtually all other cases there has been some contact between the victim and offender in the previous 24 hours. Although we do not want to stop people having fun in the lead up to Christmas, we would urge men and women to drink responsibly and get home safely.'
Suffolk police said it recognises that rape conviction rates remain low in Suffolk as well as nationally and said there is a lot of work being done to improve it.
The force said it is committing to tackling rapes, bringing the offenders to justice and preventing them from committing further offences.


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community journalist
Teen starts nonprofit so every child has a Halloween costume
By Matteo Iadonisi
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, New Jersey -- Many remember the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy during the year 2012. It especially touched the homes and hearts of East Coast residents.
Ten-year-old Stephanie Masapollo of New Jersey didn't understand how this affected families until Halloween was postponed.
With the help of her parents, she turned her initial disappointment into a mission to help those in need.
She founded a nonprofit called "Costumes for Kids," which collects Halloween costume donations to make sure no child is left out of the fun on October 31.
The first year, they gathered about $1,000 worth of costumes.
Now a senior at Washington Township High School, Stephanie's idea is still going strong. She helped organize costumes to donate to students at J.W. Lilley Elementary School so they could participate in their Trunk-or-Treat activity.
Donations come from local families and businesses such as Kadar Orthodontics.
Anyone interested in contributing to Stephanie's mission can reach out to costumesforkidsnj@gmail.com.
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Lucknow IPL franchises have decided their name for the franchise!
by Aaditya Sibal January 26, 2022 January 26, 2022
Lucknow and Ahmedabad are the two new franchises added to the IPL in 2022; both sides announced their players as retentions. This has resulted in KL Rahul being elected as the team's captain; along with Marcus Stonis and Ravi Bishnoi; being elected by Lucknow's franchise. Furthermore, Ahmedabad decided to retain the trio of Hardik Pandya as the captain; along with the duo of Rashid Khan and Shubman Gill. Even though the duo has elected world-class players; many exceptional players have been left out and will enter the mega auction. These include players such as David Warner, Shreyas Iyer, Avesh Khan, and Kagiso Rabada; however, these players are expected to fetch a high price in the upcoming auction!
Over the last few days, Lucknow has decided to name the franchise. The organization has made a move to decide that they want to call themselves 'Lucknow Super Giants'; they did so by hosting a Twitter contest. Around 8000 people participated in this contest; however, the fans were extremely disappointed with the outcome and the new name. This is because many believed it was pre-planned and this contest was a waste of their time; what do you feel about the move made by the franchise?
Lucknow and the IPL team budgets for the mega auction!
All the franchises had a budget of 90 crores before the start of the retention process; Punjab Kings enter the mega auction with the highest budget of 72 crores; they are followed by the pair of Sunrisers Hyderabad with 68 crores and Rajasthan Royals with 62 crores. Furthermore, new franchises, Lucknow Super Giants have a budget of 58 crores, and Ahmedabad has a budget of 52 crores along with Virat Kohli's RCB has a budget of 57 crores.
The trio of Chennai Super Kings, Kolkata Knight Riders, and Mumbai Indians has a budget of 48 crores each; lastly, there is Delhi Capitals with the least budget of 47.5 crores! who do you think has the best retention list before the start of the 2022 season of the IPL?
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India cricket ex-coach compares Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma!
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I am a writing contributor at Powersportz. I cover many topics to keep you up to date with the latest news in the sporting world.
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Does your child love growing plants?
Do they want to learn how to grow food locally and organically in the Comox Valley?
A new 4-H club is forming at G.P. Vanier High School for youth ages 9-18. Meetings will be held on the second Wednesday of each month from 4-5:30 at the school.
The Vanier 4-H Club will take advantage of the garden across the street on Headquarters, formerly the Compost Education Garden. Participants will be able to adopt their own bed to grow out plants for their own projects. There will be opportunities to enter produce into local fairs and also grow vegetables for the cafeteria program at the school.
"I'm really excited about the idea of youth growing food at the garden that goes into the cafeteria and feeds other young people," said Tanya Best.
A volunteer at a number of school garden projects on the North Shore, Best is looking forward to putting her skills to work here in the Comox Valley.
"My sons are both at Vanier so this is a great way for me to connect with the school," she said.
4-H is a youth leadership program with clubs spread across Canada, where young people enrol in projects and learn from the guidance of volunteer leaders. The new Vanier 4-H club will initially be horticulture-focused, but youth have already expressed an interest in beekeeping, photography, and environmental stewardship. Students in Grade 11 and 12 can also receive high school credits through 4-H projects.
Apart from recruiting young people into the club, Vanier 4-H is also looking for adults to volunteer with youth. Interested individuals must clear a police background check and undergo an interview with senior 4-H leaders.


And if you did discover the joys of robotics to your child? With 5 different game modes and a remote control. With its Robo Barrel (storage cylinder) and its remote control, TIPSTER is a robot for children from 4 years old is very easy to use.
Turn your Tipster and acquainted with your new friend! Once Tipster is turned on, it will make a noise and comments, to encourage you to interact and play with him. You can choose either drive Tipster everywhere to play an interactive game. Tipster can also carry small light items while moving.
Tipster has a remote control that allows to drive anywhere or activate games.Tipster has three pairs of wheels and can turn on the spot. To control point the remote control at the IR sensor located on the top of his head.
Try to place and balancing as many Mini Robot and scale accessories as possible, or even your own toys on Tipster, before the music stops. Once the music stops, Tipster will turn on the spot, by launching accessories anywhere!If you want to play with a friend, trying to see who can put the most items on Tipster!
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Q: Evaluating improper integrals of odd functions with hyperbolic and circular elements The integral
$$
\int_{0}^{\infty}
{\sin\left(\omega t\right) \over \cosh^{2}\left(t/\sqrt{2\,}\,\right)}\,{\rm d}t
$$ with $ \omega >0 $ is an odd function in variable t.
This precludes any contour type integration method for the same. The function for some chosen $\omega$ in the domain gives a nice curve that simply oscillates in a very small band about the t axis as it goes to infinity.
This implies that the integral exists (Riemann Integral, of course), but neither Maple or Mathematica is able to evaluate it.
I have tried a series type expression for the function and attempted to evaluate the integral as the sum of integrals of individual terms of the infinite series which also does not give any values for $\omega >3.9.$
Are there any known methods or possibilities to evaluate this type of integral- possibly by complex ananlysis?

A: Using a CAS, I have been able to first compute the antiderivative of the integrand (I suppose that Mathematica could give it); it is quite ugly.
Starting from there, I computed the integral as
$$\frac{1}{2} \omega  \left(-\psi ^{(0)}\left(\frac{1}{2}-\frac{i \omega }{2
   \sqrt{2}}\right)+\psi ^{(0)}\left(1-\frac{i \omega }{2 \sqrt{2}}\right)-\psi
   ^{(0)}\left(\frac{i \omega }{2 \sqrt{2}}+\frac{1}{2}\right)+\psi
   ^{(0)}\left(\frac{i \omega }{2 \sqrt{2}}+1\right)\right)$$ which is real valued function of $\omega$ I have not been able to simplify further.
Plotting the result as a function of $\omega$ does not show any problem; just a nice curve starting at $0$, going through a maximimum value of $0.807934$ for $\omega=1.06508$ and decreasing asymptotically to zero.
For small values of $\omega$, the integral varies as
$$\omega  \log (4)-\frac{3 \omega ^3 \zeta (3)}{4}+\frac{15 \omega ^5 \zeta
   (5)}{32}+O\left(\omega ^6\right)$$
For large values of $\omega$, the integral varies as
$$\frac{1}{\omega }+\left(\frac{1}{\omega }\right)^3+\frac{4}{\omega
   ^5}+O\left(\left(\frac{1}{\omega }\right)^6\right)$$
This is not much  but I hope and wish it could help.

A: Just to show that evaluation is possible with complex analysis, I will outline the following solution.  I warn, though, that I merely get an alternative ugly expression for this integral.  Claude's expression is about as good as we likely will get for this one.
Consider the contour integral
$$\oint_C dz \frac{e^{i \omega z}}{\sinh^2{a z}}$$
where $C$ is the rectangle having vertices $\pm i \pi/(2 a)$ and $R \pm i \pi/(2 a)$, and $a=1/\sqrt{2}$.  Note that we will need to deform $C$ at the origin by a semicircle of radius $\epsilon$ to avoid a pole there.  Then by respective parametrization of each segment of $C$, the contour integral is
$$\int_0^R dx \frac{e^{i \omega x} e^{\pi \omega/(2 a)}}{-\cosh^2{a x}} + i \int_{-\pi/(2 a)}^{\pi/(2 a)} dy \frac{e^{i \omega R} e^{-\omega y}}{\sinh^2{(R+i y)}}\\ + \int_R^0 dx \frac{e^{i \omega x} e^{-\pi \omega/(2 a)}}{-\cosh^2{a x}} + i \int_{\pi/(2 a)}^{\epsilon} dy \frac{e^{-\omega y}}{-\sin^2{a y}} \\+ i \epsilon \int_{\pi/2}^{-\pi/2} d\phi \, e^{i \phi} \frac{e^{i \omega \epsilon e^{i \phi}}}{\sinh^2{(a \epsilon e^{i \phi})}}+ i \int_{-\epsilon}^{-\pi/(2 a)} dy \frac{e^{-\omega y}}{-\sin^2{a y}}$$
As $R \to \infty$, the second integral vanishes.  As $\epsilon \to 0$, the fifth integral has a limit
$$\frac{i \epsilon}{a^2} \int_{\pi/2}^{-\pi/2} d\phi \, e^{i \phi} \frac{1+i \epsilon \omega e^{i \phi}}{\epsilon^2 e^{i 2 \phi}} \sim -i \frac{2}{a^2} \frac{1}{\epsilon} +\frac{\pi \omega}{a^2}$$
In this limit, the fourth and sixth integrals, and the $1/\epsilon$ term, combine to form a Cauchy principal value.  By Cauchy's theorem, the contour integral is zero because there are no poles of the integrand inside $C$.  Therefore,
$$2 \sinh{\frac{\pi \omega}{2 a}} \int_0^{\infty} dx \frac{e^{i \omega x}}{\cosh^2{a x}} = \frac{\pi \omega}{a^2} + i \, PV \int_{-\pi/(2 a)}^{\pi/(2 a)} dy \frac{e^{-\omega y}}{\sin^2{a y}}$$
Again, note that by $PV$, I mean
$$\lim_{\epsilon \to 0} \left [\int_{-\pi/(2 a)}^{-\epsilon} dy \frac{e^{-\omega y}}{\sin^2{a y}} + \int_{\epsilon}^{\pi/(2 a)} dy \frac{e^{-\omega y}}{\sin^2{a y}} - \frac{2}{a^2} \frac{1}{\epsilon}\right ]$$
Taking imaginary parts, I get that
$$2 \sinh{\frac{\pi \omega}{2 a}} \int_0^{\infty} dx \frac{\sin{\omega x}}{\cosh^2{a x}} = \, PV \int_{-\pi/(2 a)}^{\pi/(2 a)} dy \frac{e^{-\omega y}}{\sin^2{a y}}$$
which really doesn't help matters much.  The integrand has an antiderivative involving hypergeometric functions; if you went this route, you would have to take the limit defined above and that seems a lot to ask.  Ugly all around.  Then again, I hope this at least illustrates how complex analysis may be used to derive an alternative expression for the integral.
Note that, when we take real parts, we get a lovely integral for free:
$$\int_0^{\infty} dx \frac{\cos{\omega x}}{\cosh^2{a x}} = \frac{\pi \omega}{2 a^2} \operatorname*{csch}{\frac{\pi \omega}{2 a}}$$

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Let's $\ds{\mu \equiv {1 \over \root{2}}}$:
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&\color{#00f}{\large\int_{0}^{\infty}
{\sin\left(\omega t\right) \over \cosh^{2}\left(\mu t\right)}\,{\rm d}t}
=4\Im\int_{0}^{\infty}
{\expo{\ic\omega t}\expo{-2\mu t} \over \pars{1 + \expo{-2\mu t}}^{2}}\,{\rm d}t
\\[3mm]&=4\Im\int_{0}^{\infty}\expo{\ic\omega t}\expo{-2\mu t}
\sum_{n = 0}^{\infty}\pars{-1}^{n}\pars{n + 1}\expo{-2n\mu t}\,{\rm d}t
\\[3mm]&=4\sum_{n = 0}^{\infty}\pars{-1}^{n}\pars{n + 1}
\Im\int_{0}^{\infty}\exp\pars{\bracks{\ic\omega - 2\pars{n + 1}\mu}t}\,\dd t
\\[3mm]&=4\sum_{n = 0}^{\infty}\pars{-1}^{n}\pars{n + 1}
\,\Im\pars{-1 \over \ic\omega - 2\pars{n + 1}\mu}
={2 \over \mu}\sum_{n = 0}^{\infty}\pars{-1}^{n}
\,\Im\pars{n + 1 \over n + 1 - \ic\omega/2\mu}
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{\pars{-1}^{n} \over n + 1 - \ic\omega/2\mu}
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{{1 \over 2n + 1 - \ic\omega/2\mu} - {1 \over 2n + 2 - \ic\omega/2\mu}}}\
\\[3mm]&={\omega \over 4\mu^{2}}\Re\sum_{n = 0}^{\infty}
{1 \over \pars{n + 1/2 - \ic\omega/4\mu}\pars{n + 1 - \ic\omega/4\mu}}
\\[3mm]&=\color{#00f}{\large{\omega \over 2\mu^{2}}\bracks{%
\Re\Psi\pars{1 -\ic\,{\omega \over 4\mu}}
-\Re\Psi\pars{\half -\ic\,{\omega \over 4\mu}}}}\,,\qquad
\mu = {1 \over \root{2}} = {\root{2} \over 2}
\end{align}


I've been thinking about the ideas in this post for some time now. They've been sort of stirring around in my mind as I wait for the time to write them down. They've been two separate ideas for a while, clearly delineated, but somehow they got mixed up together as I wrote, and I realized they weren't separate ideas at all, but two sides of the same coin. Recently I've been reading the Psalms, my favorite book in the Bible. They are a haven for me. They have always brought me peace. When I started reading them, I expected to be showered in light and rest always. And yes, the Psalms are full of that. But I didn't expect to encounter ugliness and self-righteousness and downright cruelty in my favorite book. I've always known that the Psalms are full of King David's grief and prayers to be saved from his enemies. But I don't think I remembered how much. I read Psalm 26 this morning, and most, if not all of the twenty-six psalms I've read so far include some reference to David's own righteousness, or a plea for God to destroy his enemies, or vindictive outrage.
I do not sit with men of falsehood, nor do I consort with hypocrites. I hate the assembly of the evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked. I wash my hands in innocence and go around You altar, O Lord, proclaiming thanksgiving aloud, and telling all Your wondrous deeds... Do not sweep my soul away with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men, in whose hands are evil devices, and whose right hands are full of bribes.
Reading it made me cringe. This is a man of God? Look at his pride! "I shall walk in my integrity" -- as if we had any kind of integrity of our own, as if it didn't all come from Jesus. Of course, I know I'm a hypocrite to think that David is prideful, but I have been trained since my childhood that confidence in my own goodness and integrity is to be avoided, because in my natural state, I'm messed up. I'm broken. I have no kind of good character in and of myself. Even though I still fight pride on a regular basis, I want to fully believe that I have nothing good in myself.
So this completely goes against the direction my entire being has been led in.
Part of me can explain away David's words: Well, I say, they hadn't seen Jesus yet. He didn't know about grace. The Jews lived under the law that dictated how they were to live. Of course he thought it was his own effort. But that explanation doesn't fully satisfy me.
This year at church I'm co-leading a college GC, and last night we had GC leader orientation. Jacob, one of the guys' GC coaches, got up and talked about REAP, a tool used to more effectively study the Bible. He mentioned that he had been reading the Psalms, too -- that morning he had read Psalm 18. He said that he, too, was disturbed by David's overweening self-righteousness. He asked himself why David's words bothered him, and he noticed that David was confident in his standing before the Lord. David has gone down in church history as a man after God's own heart, and so he was. And because he sought the Lord, he had exactly zero doubt in who he was before his God. He knew that because he followed God and pursued God's glory, he was in good standing. And he knew something else, something he mentions only in passing in Psalm 26, but that stuck out to me as if it was written in boldface capital letters. He knew God was gracious to him.
This morning I was struck anew by the boldness of David, but I realized the truth of what Jacob was talking about. David had utter confidence in his integrity before God -- not because of anything he had done, but because God was gracious to him as he did his best to walk in integrity.
Reading and thinking about all of this led me to a question: Am I bold before the Lord? David was because he knew his identity in God's eyes. I know mine, too, and I believe it is happier than David's: redeemed, declared totally forgiven, slate wiped clean, daughter of the Creator-Warrior-Lover-King. But how does it affect me? How does my identity impact the way that I live?
Because, you see, if I truly believe in who I am and Whose I am, it changes everything.
If I really believe that I'm a Princess (because I am), it makes everything different.
If I am a daughter of God (let those words sink into your soul for a minute), then I am equipped to go boldly before the Throne of Grace and ask my Father-King in Heaven for what I need. This is not "name it and claim it" -- I am not to ask for whatever I want and then expect it to come to me. This means going to God and being specific with my requests and then trusting Him to take care of me. If I'm His child, it means I can be specific with what I ask. I can ask Him anything at all, no matter how silly or strange or downright outlandish it seems. He hears me, and I can say these things to Him, because I'm His daughter. Because I'm safe with Him.
Because I'm the daughter of God, it means I can tell Him anything. I'm learning to do what the Psalms say: to pour out my heart before the Lord. There are times I, you know, think about things but don't actually talk about them. And because God knows my mind and everything that goes on in it, He already knows what I'm thinking and feeling. But, guys, He actually wants me to talk to Him about it. What a concept! He wants me to tell Him about it. He wants me to boldly say what's on my mind, and the best thing? I can -- because I'm safe in Jesus.
Sometimes I feel that I can't say certain things to God. My answer to myself is this: why ever not? He knows me anyway. And if He's made me bold and brave (newsflash: He has), then I am well-equipped to say these things to Him. Plus, there is no safer place. He is the Safe Place. If we cannot be bold with Him, with whom can we be bold?
And oh, my friends, boldness is part of being adventurous. Being bold before the Lord and pouring out your heart before Him -- what could be more terrifying and presumptuous-feeling, yet utterly thrilling and freeing than that? We go before Him with fear and trembling, like Esther before the throne of the king, but He opens out His arms to us, His children, and accepts us as we are, no matter what. We enter the throne room (P.S. Throne rooms remind me of great halls and great kings, and they're adventurous, too) feeling small, but when we are small in the presence of God and are still so bold as to pour out our hearts on the marble floor of the throne room, baring ourselves to His piercing, loving gaze -- oh, my friends, what is more adventurous than that?
I'm learning to be bold before my Maker. To know with all of me that my voice is heard and that I am fully loved. To remember that my status as a child of Heaven means I can be bold in every moment of my life: in my walking and talking, in my practice, in my quiet, in my loud, in my relationships, in my solitude, in joy, in grief, in laughter, in difficulty, in ease, in everything. Because if I'm really made to be bold and brave, then I am bold and brave. And nothing in the world can change that.
Don't you love Him? He's made us to conquer fear and trembling whether we feel ready or not. And that means that whether we feel ready or not, we can be bold. We have been equipped. We have been prepared and equipped to be adventurers, in something as quiet and private as prayer. And if we can be bold in the throne room of the King, then we are even more ready to have adventures.


Why didn't Comsat Angels, critically-adored post-punks, "make it"? Maybe because they tried to. Here, a second set of deluxe reissues includes a rarities compilation, plus the 1990s output that earned them back their cred.
Comsat Angels belong to a sizeable group of post-punk guitar band shoulda-beens who got a bad deal in their time. Despite critical acclaim and devoted cult followings, these bands suffered through bad luck with record labels and indifference from the buying public, with nods from subsequent, more successful bands the only consolation. A few, like the Church, the Go-Betweens, and the Chameleons, turned their small-scale status to their advantages, manufacturing fruitful second acts. But many, such as the Sound, the Wild Swans, Kitchens of Distinction, Swervedriver, and Catherine Wheel, simply faded away.
Comsat Angels took a third approach, one that's easily overlooked by fans who cite the band's relative lack of respect: After three critically-heralded but commercially lukewarm albums, they spent most of the 1980s shamelessly remaking their sound in a quest for American stardom. At one point, they even changed their name. But, unlike the Psychedelic Furs, whose sound theirs most resembles, Comsat Angels never even had a hit single to show for it. As novelty t-shirts go, theirs would have read "We sold our souls to the '80s and all we got was a lousy song on the Real Genius soundtrack."
As it did for the Sound and the Wild Swans, England's Renascent label has stepped in to rescue Comsat Angels from history's dustbin. Last year saw deluxe reissues of those first three classics, and this trio completes the vault-emptying process with 1992's return-to-form My Mind's Eye, '95 swansong The Glamour, and To Before, a newly-assembled collection of outtakes and rarities.
Before splitting, the band disowned its 1983-1990 output. A bit strange, then, that that's the era To Before draws most heavily from. To be fair, about a quarter of the two-disc set covers the band's early years, revealing a band still trying to find its feet. 1979's debut "Red Planet" EP, included in full, alternates snappy new wave (check the cowbell on the title track!) with artful meandering that more accurately predicts the Comsats' signature sound. A few songs reveal that sound fully-formed -- chilly, atmospheric guitars and keyboards hinging on Kevin Bacon's (no relation to the actor) thundering bass grooves and Mik Glaisher's drumming, which often leans toward the tribal. "Have You Seen" and the quasi-reggae, Talking Heads-influenced "The House That…" are the strongest of the compilation.
But the lasting impression of To Before is how, along with producer Mike Howlett, the Comsats tried to morph into a watered-down Flock of Seagulls/Simple Minds amalgam, synth and synth-drum heavy with occasional delay-pedaled guitars. "You Move Me" is a pretty good '80s new wave anthem, but that's about it. Even worse than the synth-pop, though, is the circa 1990 material released under the band name Dream Command. Kudos to bandleader/compiler Steve Fellows for having the humility to actually include three pieces of horrible, booming, pseudo-serious alt-rock from the Fire on the Moon album. What, other than lack of direction and shame, could have made Comsat Angels want to turn into Mr. Mister? Finally, "There's Something Going On" reveals that the band briefly considered jumping on the UK indie-dance bandwagon in '91. This is definitely not the way to be introduced to Comsat Angels.
My Mind's Eye, however, may be. Against the odds, the album summons the entire delicate atmosphere that the previous decade's worth of material had been largely missing, while avoiding the suffocating bleakness of some of the earlier work. From the opening squall of feedback to Fellows' reclamation of his effortlessly, elegantly wasted croon, "Driving" almost single-handedly makes up for the lost years. It's a statement of confidence and renewed focus that's further validated by the strength of what follows. A deceptively diverse album, My Mind's Eye encompasses airy space-outs like "Always Near", "Shiva Descending", and "I Come from the Sun", the pure guitar pop of "Field of Tall Flowers", and more muscular rockers like "Beautiful Monster" and the title track. True, "Route 666" skirts with self-parody (as if Dream Command hadn't already done that), but the previous seven tracks confirm a stunning artistic resurrection. In the long run, though, by finding their guns again and sticking to them, Comsat Angels created something timeless.
Another comedown seemed inevitable, and The Glamour does a fine job of avoiding one. Recorded after the only lineup change in the band's 16-year history (Bacon was replaced and a second guitarist added), it's a bit heavier, a bit more obvious, a little less magic. Here, it's been expanded from a single disc to a double with the addition of seven tracks, five of them previously unreleased. Fellows claims this new version is "closer to how it should have been," and it's hard to argue. "I Hear a New World" creeps along seductively, while "Sailor" and "The Naila Game" showcase the moody guitars that initially earned the band comparisons to the Cure. "Valley of the Nile" almost matches "Shiva Descending" for Eastern-flavored enchantment. A reference to Kurt Cobain's death is made in the original liner notes, and indeed, "Goddess", "Audrey in Denim" and the title track skirt as close to grunge as the band's guitar effects would allow. If a song title like "Psychedelic Dungeon" sounds too obvious, that's because it is, and too much of disc two sounds like mood-rock-by-numbers to make The Glamour an unqualified success. Still, it ensured the band exited on a relative high.
As is always the case with Renascent releases, these reissues sport classy, careful packaging and sound, and the bonus tracks and Fellows' direct involvement ensure they render the previous versions obsolete. The two studio albums are credited as being produced "by sheer force of will" and "by no one", and at times sound like it -- tinny and slight. But, after the Comsats' 1980s, who could blame them? In the end, they got their souls back.


I forgot to post this on my own blog, but back in June I had the pleasure of sharing some time with Rebecca Twomey at Criteria for Success' podcast called "Let's Talk Sales".
It was the first podcast I had ever participated in and thought it was a lot of fun – if you'd like to take a listen, follow this link!
If anyone has a great podcast that's looking for speakers, let me know about them, or tell them about me – I'd love to do a few more. I think it's a great way to get your name out there. Who knows, maybe I'll start my own podcast!


What is at stake in the Afghan government's efforts to make peace with the Taliban?
Saleh and his former government colleague Hanif Atmar have been vocal in their opposition to government attempts to forge a deal, with Atmar, the interior minister until he resigned in the autumn, calling the talks "political insanity".
The two men, well respected as effective administrators during their years in Karzai's national security team, are leading a vociferous opposition. Their insight into the Taliban, appeal to young people and undeniable eloquence has put the government's political agenda in an awkward position.
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— 2 PLN per each started hour up to 4 hours, and above that time 20 PLN per hour.
— on the opposite site of the street – 20 PLN per car no matter for time.
Parking cards ordered by Exhibitors or bought at the entrances to parkings entitle to park on assigned parkings during the fair. They should be activated before starting of exhibition (Thursday, or Friday in the morning) at the entrance to parking.
This is forbidden to park lorries or trucks (above 3,5 t) during the exhibition (6-8.09.2018) on the parking next to Exhibition Halls. The nearest parking for lorries is located at Ordona 2a Street.
(see the car park location map - parking lot for lorries indicated by symbol: Pc).
The parking in forbidden place is charged according to the Rules of Road.