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Rolling Smoke Bar-B-Que, from Food Truck to Marketplace
We love trying out and supporting new, locally-owned businesses around the neighborhood, and it doesn't hurt when they are serving up some mouth-watering, smoked-on-site BBQ and made-from-scratch sides! From food truck to Stanley Marketplace, here's the scoop behind Rolling Smoke Bar-B-Que.
Rolling Smoke Bar-B-Que was born in 2013 after owner, Terry Walsh, was laid off from his corporate job. After years of praise for his backyard BBQ cooking, Terry decided to use his love for BBQ to open a food truck in order to bring his delicious BBQ to Coloradoans to enjoy. The food truck was a success! In October of 2015 Terry met Mark Shaker, the man behind Stanley Marketplace in NE Aurora near Stapleton. Rolling Smoke was the last tenant to sign a lease inside Stanley, and their first brick-and-mortar location opened in 2017.
Rolling Smoke serves traditional BBQ meats, such as Pulled Pork, Beef Brisket, St. Louis Pork Ribs, Honey Bourbon Sausage, Hot Link Sausage… and everyone's favorite, Burnt Ends. All meats are slow smoked on pit smokers on the west side of the marketplace, using hardwood to give an authentic BBQ experience. Meats are dry rubbed prior to smoking and no sauces are applied prior to serving a plate to guests. They also offer a variety of delicious sides, such as Baked Beans, Coleslaw, Potato Salad, Collard Greens, and our favorite, Smoked Mac-N-Cheese (it's delish!), all of which are slow-cooked and made from scratch daily.
This past October, Rolling Smoke was featured on The Food Network show SEARious Meats, which was a fun and exciting experience for the BBQ joint, according to Terry.
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Phone: 720-573-4142
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a problem appears when using function wizard. When i type = then click on the cell on another spreadsheet, reference is ok (=$Sheet1.B4)
but with function wizard, result is $#REF!.A1
Steps to Reproduce:
open calc
create a new sheet, sheet2
on first cell of Sheet2 (A1), clic on function wizard.
select a function (example : upper)
argument : clic on sheet1, cell A1
$#REF!.A1 appear in formula, instead of Sheet1.A1
- when using vlookup function , for the matrix array, it displays $#REF.A1:Sheet1.C3
Actual Results:
$#REF!.A1 appear in formula instead of $Sheet1.A1 when using formula wizard
Expected Results:
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: Yes
Additional Info:
i can reproduce this on LO 184.108.40.206 / windows 10 and LO 220.127.116.11 / windows 10
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0
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It gives little write-ups about up and coming movies, telling who stars in them, the basic story line, and when they are to be released.
Now, being single, I don't often go to the movie theatre by myself. On occasion, my sister and I will go. But most often, I wait until it is out on the TV pay per view thingie and watch in the comfort of my own home.
The popcorn is a lot cheaper, and the bathroom much closer.
But the cover of this particular issue razzle dazzled my eyes... Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland... ooooo, I can't wait! It is even being released as a 3D Imax film! The photo spread was very reminiscent of how things look when dropping acid, before the hallucinations really set in... Not that I speak from experience or anything. ahem
Some of the photos in this little spread made me realize that this probably isn't a film to take the little ones to see. And being a Tim Burton flick, you can bet it will have its own special twist!


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Chicago's many parks, gardens, and natural areas are gorgeous year round — but they're particularly stunning in the fall. That's when you can see stunning red, orange, and gold foliage that turns the city into a picture-perfect autumn scene.
Here are some of the best spots to see fall colors in and near Chicago:
Millennium Park and Lurie Garden
See fall splendor right in the heart of downtown. Chicago's Millennium Park is bursting with color each fall, from the leaves changing color near Cloud Gate (aka "The Bean") to the hidden Lurie Garden teeming with native plant life.
Just south of Millennium Park, the Art Institute of Chicago is framed by two charming courtyards. The North Garden and the South Garden, located along Michigan Avenue, both feature sculptures, fountains, solitude, and breathtaking fall colors.
Lincoln Park
Located along the lakefront, scenic Lincoln Park is a local go-to for fall foliage. Stroll along the Nature Boardwalk at the south of Lincoln Park Zoo, an urban oasis framed with skyline views. Or walk through the manicured gardens outside the Lincoln Park Conservatory (pop inside if you're craving a bit of summer warmth). And the North Pond area, near Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, stays lush all autumn long.
Morton Arboretum
Can't get enough of all those autumn leaves? Get your fall fix at Morton Arboretum, a sprawling living museum that's home to more than 4,000 different types of trees.
The Arboretum also offer tons of cool fall events, like the Fall Color Festival that celebrates the "most brilliant season at Morton Arboretum".
Winnemac Park
Get a taste of fall in the Midwest at Winnemac Park. The Ravenswood park features 2.7 acres of native prairie habitat, bursting with local flora and fauna that take on golden hues each autumn. And with hundreds of trees scattered throughout the park, there's plenty of leaf peeping to be done.
Jackson Park
One of Chicago's most historic parks is also one of its most scenic. Nestled on the lakefront edge of the bustling Hyde Park neighborhood, Jackson Park is best known as the site of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Fall is the perfect time to explore the park's Garden of the Phoenix, an authentic Japanese garden set on a tranquil lagoon.
Humboldt Park
Located in the vibrant Humboldt Park neighborhood, this sprawling park contains scenic lagoons connected by a prairie river, a sprawling garden, ball fields, soccer fields, and a stunning boat house. Meander the winding paths or (if you're there before Sept. 30) rent a paddleboat and see the fall colors from the lagoon.
Chicago Botanic Garden
More than one million people visit the free Chicago Botanic Garden — and a good chunk of them go in the fall. That's when you can see Chicago Botanic's 27 gardens, four natural areas, nine islands, and six miles of lake shoreline bursting with autumn splendor. Plus, a fun roster of fall events (like the popular Night of 1,000 Pumpkins) are all the more reason to take the trip out to suburban Glencoe.


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Pneumonia is an infection which affects the lungs. Coughing, a fever, and difficulty breathing are common symptoms. Sickness can vary from mild to severe. Those already sick, babies, and older adults are more prone to severe sickness.
An x-ray or blood test may be used for diagnostics. Pneumonia will go away and can be treated. Bacterial Pneumonia may be treated with an antibiotic.
As always, get plenty of rest and sleep. Always drink plenty of water and fluids. Coughing can be alleviated with a cough medicine. Stronger cough syrups are available by prescription if necessary.
As pneumonia is a common complication of other illnesses, avoid those who are sick and always wash your hands or use an alcohol based hand sanitizer.
If you feel you have pneumonia-like symptoms, skip the ER and visit AFC Urgent Care. We are a walk in center staffed with board-certified doctors and medical staff. Our center has an on-cite lab and x-ray equipment to help with diagnostics without the need to travel elsewhere. Visit AFC Urgent Care in North Andover today at 129 Turnpike St or call 978-470-0800.


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Net-Zero Goal
The ultimate goal of the Sustainability Action Plan and the Clemson University Commission on Sustainability is to make the University carbon neutral by the year 2030. Described as the Net-Zero goal, becoming carbon neutral means achieving zero net carbon emissions by balancing carbon dioxide released with an equivalent amount of renewable energy. This can also be achieved through offsetting emissions by things like planting trees that, in turn, could help prevent future greenhouse gas emissions. This ambitious goal will require multiple large-scale projects and can be accomplished through initiatives in six major areas:
- Carbon-free energy sources
- Energy system efficiency
- Building energy efficiency
- Conservation/resource management/waste elimination
- Carbon offsets
- Transportation energy efficiency
Within these areas, carbon neutrality will require a series of more than 20 major initiatives, each with multiple sub-activities. These include changes to major infrastructure, building systems, commute behavior, forest management, and many others.
The plan is aggressive. It shows how the University eliminates or offsets more than 160,000 tons a year of carbon emissions in one generation while allowing for growth and change of the institution. There will be significant hurdles to clear in order to achieve the plan goals, but it can be done. As of 2013, approximately 64% of the University's greenhouse gas emissions are generated either through purchased electricity or on-campus stationary sources like buildings. This makes the issue of energy the single most important subject to be addressed regarding carbon emissions. Both the source of energy and how it is used must be taken into consideration. Achieving neutrality by using 100% renewable energy should be the end goal; however, it is not an optimal solution economically at this time. The actual solution will be much more involved and complex.
In 2013, the gross carbon emissions from Clemson were 160,212 MTCDE (Metric Tons of Carbon Dioxide Equivalent). As the starting figure from 2009 below shows, the projected tonnage of emissions is projected to increase beyond 200,000 MTCDE if Clemson were to continue at this rate. Fortunately, Clemson University has made great efforts in reducing its carbon footprint, and will continue to do so in order to reach the ideal avoided emissions as seen below. More information about Clemson's carbon footprint can be found in the Clemson's FY2016 Sustainability Solutions Presentation.
To put into perspective, one metric ton of carbon dioxide is equivalent to:
- Driving 2,475 miles in a car
- Heating 0.26 homes for a year
- Powering a 60 watt compact fluorescent light bulb continuously for 4,900 days
Clemson has already made progress towards reaching the Net-Zero goal with the construction of Lee Hall III, a high energy efficiency building which has the potential to generate 100% or more of its own energy. It utilizes geothermal energy, and will be installing photovoltaic cells in the future to make it one of the most sustainable buildings in the United States. The University began replacing coal with natural gas in 2000 and eliminated burning coal for campus heating in 2011, which previously accounted for 6% of our energy use and has now greatly reduced carbon emissions.
Many other buildings on campus have also reached LEED certification.
- Academic Success Center – Gold Certified in March 2013
- Clemson Rowing Training Facility – Silver Certified in August 2009
- Freeman Hall Addition – Gold Certified in May 2017
- Clemson University Football Operations – certification in progress
- Life Sciences Building – Gold Certified in August 2013


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New poll from US Green Building Council shows that more than 90 percent of Americans agree that greater investments should be put toward upgrading US public school buildings with green features
In a poll released at last year's Greenbuild, respondents listed improved energy efficiency and an improved learning environment as the top reasons for schools to be upgraded. Results show increased support for green schools, finding that 8 out of 10 Americans support schools that create a healthy environment conducive to learning, while also saving energy, resources and money.
The study, commissioned by the Center for Green Schools at the US Green Building Council (USGBC) and sponsored by Excel Dryer, Inc., was first conducted in 2011 and again in 2013.
In 2015, saving energy was on par with improved student performance as the two biggest motives for change, followed closely by improved student and faculty health. Additional considerations included reducing environmental impacts, creating jobs, and saving tax dollars.
"These findings confirm that ensuring that all of our children have the opportunity to attend a school that is healthy, safe and efficient is a priority for Americans," said Rachel Gutter, director of the Center for Green Schools at USGBC.
"Green schools save energy and money and put dollars back into the classrooms where they belong. It's staggering to note that utility bills are the second highest operating expense for a school district, second only to teacher salaries; but by implementing energy efficiency measures, precious tax dollars can be dispersed in a more meaningful way toward a quality education for our children."
Ninety-two percent of Americans agree that the quality of public school buildings should be improved, and nearly two-thirds of Americans feel it is very important to improve public school buildings.
"The results from the survey this year show a significant increase in awareness about the importance of conserving energy," said Excel Dryer's Vice President of Marketing, William Gagnon. "We are thrilled to be working with the Center for Green Schools to increase the adoption of energy saving solutions that reduce the carbon footprint of the built environment and also teach our children about the importance of protecting the environment."
The independent survey of 500 US residents was conducted via telephone from Nov. 3-8, 2015 and administered by David Binder Research, a public opinion research organization that specializes in qualitative research.
Source and Photo: US Green Building Council, Leland Francisco through a Creative Commons License


text: BCRC invites everyone to come along and not only support a fantastic charity but also to have a great night's craic. Tickets are available to purchase from BCRC and priced at £10 each which includes a BBQ supper and an evenings entertainment. The event will take place on Friday 30th September 2016 7pm in The Royal British Legion Ballymoney.


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Travis bought me a new bicycle today! How pretty is it?? I'm in love <3
I've been complaining since we got here about how expensive it is to park here, especially on school days, where I have to pay nearly $10 (in coin) to park for the day… Ridiculous! Not to mention when I go to the shops!
So now my plan is to ride my bike to school, to the shops, and to work!
Yay for helping the planet!
Lucky for me, Canberra is a city for cyclists :)
Do you ride a bike in stead of driving places?


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This excerpt was taken from We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter, by Celeste Headlee. Headlee is the host of the daily news show On Second Thought on Georgia Public Radio.
The Mistake I Made With My Grieving Friend
If you wanted to know how to support someone sturging with grief this article is bloody brilliant. It talks about 'conversational narcissism'. Where we insert ourselves into the conversation instead of listening. Great read.
This excerpt was taken from We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter, by Celeste Headlee. Headlee is the host of the daily news show On Second Thought on Georgia Public Radio.
A good friend of mine lost her dad some years back. I found her sitting alone on a bench outside our workplace, not moving, just staring at the horizon. She was absolutely distraught and I didn't know what to say to her. It's so easy to say the wrong thing to someone who is grieving and vulnerable. So, I started talking about how I grew up without a father. I told her that my dad had drowned in a submarine when I was only 9 months old and I'd always mourned his loss, even though I'd never known him. I just wanted her to realize that she wasn't alone, that I'd been through something similar and could understand how she felt.
But after I related this story, my friend looked at me and snapped, "Okay, Celeste, you win. You never had a dad, and I at least got to spend 30 years with mine. You had it worse. I guess I shouldn't be so upset that my dad just died."
I was stunned and mortified. My immediate reaction was to plead my case. "No, no, no," I said, "that's not what I'm saying at all. I just meant that I know how you feel." And she answered, "No, Celeste, you don't. You have no idea how I feel."
She walked away and I stood there helplessly, watching her go and feeling like a jerk. I had totally failed my friend. I had wanted to comfort her, and instead, I'd made her feel worse. At that point, I still felt she misunderstood me. I thought she was in a fragile state and had lashed out at me unfairly when I was only trying to help.
But the truth is, she didn't misunderstand me at all. She understood what was happening perhaps better than I did. When she began to share her raw emotions, I felt uncomfortable. I didn't know what to say, so I defaulted to a subject with which I was comfortable: myself.
I may have been trying to empathize, at least on a conscious level, but what I really did was draw focus away from her anguish and turn the attention to me. She wanted to talk to me about her father, to tell me about the kind of man he was, so I could fully appreciate the magnitude of her loss. Instead, I asked her to stop for a moment and listen to my story about my dad's tragic death.
From that day forward, I started to notice how often I responded to stories of loss and struggle with stories of my own experiences. My son would tell me about clashing with a kid in Boy Scouts, and I would talk about a girl I fell out with in college. When a co-worker got laid off, I told her about how much I struggled to find a job after I had been laid off years earlier. But when I began to pay a little more attention to how people responded to my attempts to empathize, I realized the effect of sharing my experiences was never as I intended. What all of these people needed was for me to hear them and acknowledge what they were going through. Instead, I forced them to listen to me and acknowledge me.
Sociologist Charles Derber describes this tendency to insert oneself into a conversation as "conversational narcissism." It's the desire to take over a conversation, to do most of the talking and to turn the focus of the exchange to yourself. It is often subtle and unconscious. Derber writes that conversational narcissism "is the key manifestation of the dominant attention-getting psychology in America. It occurs in informal conversations among friends, family and co-workers. The profusion of popular literature about listening and the etiquette of managing those who talk constantly about themselves suggests its pervasiveness in everyday life." Derber describes two kinds of responses in conversations: a shift response and a support response. The first shifts attention back to yourself, and the second supports the other person's comment. Here is a simple illustration:
Shift Response
Mary: I'm so busy right now.
Tim: Me too. I'm totally overwhelmed.
Support Response
Mary: I'm so busy right now.
Tim: Why? What do you have to get done?
Here's another example:
Shift Response
Karen: I need new shoes.
Mark: Me too. These things are falling apart.
Support Response
Karen: I need new shoes.
Mark: Oh yeah? What kind are you thinking about?
Shift responses are a hallmark of conversational narcissism. They help you turn the focus constantly back to yourself. But a support response encourages the other person to continue their story. These days, I try to be more aware of my instinct to share stories and talk about myself. I try to ask questions that encourage the other person to continue. I've also made a conscious effort to listen more and talk less.
Recently, I had a long conversation with a friend of mine who was going through a divorce. We spent almost 40 minutes on the phone, and I barely said a word. At the end of our call, she said, "Thank you for your advice. You've really helped me work some things out." The truth is, I hadn't actually offered any advice; most of what I said was a version of "That sounds tough. I'm sorry this is happening to you." She didn't need advice or stories from me. She just needed to be heard.
Is Love Enough?
Is love enough? Lisa Hunt-Wotton
This week for me was a dark, but illuminating space if that makes sense. We are in a disturbing season on planet earth in so many areas its enough to make you want to hide under the bed and never come out. The world seems to have been turned topsy-turvy and all the absolutes that we used to count on are shifting. People we used to trust seem to be on the other side of the fence and leaders that we could count on are… well… lets just say, less than worthy of being followed.
This week I had several uninvited and robust discussions with people about same-sex marriage. I was clobbered with bible verses and thrown to the mat over what were obviously very important views for these people. Several people threw the love word at me. Yes, if you can throw love. 'Love does not come into the picture here, we are talking about the preservation of marriage' (bit ironic that one). OR 'I do love them, I just don't love what they do'. 'There is a lot more to consider in this issue than just love'.
I was a little shocked to be honest and began to question my own theology.
Have I got this all wrong?
Is there more to consider than love?
Am I watering everything down?
Is love too weak a position to have these days with 'the world escalating to the New World Order (where all sorts of unspeakable things are going to happen) and we (Christians) are in danger of being overthrown and jailed for what we believe." (Yes this was said to me)
Many sleepless nights ensued. When finally I felt a whisper of hope. Literally a whisper of hope which woke me up yesterday.
Love, faith and hope remain but the greatest of these is love. (I Cor 13)
Where is the good news people? We are supposed to be the people of good news. Even I am scared of Christians at the moment. Where is the faith, the hope and the love? No wonder people are abandoning religion at staggering rates. Some of you are terrifying.
The greatest of these is love. Love is not weak, it is not an alternative theology and Yes it pretty much is all that you need to consider.
GOD IS LOVE – hello. It is who He is.
"Love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God … for God is love" (1 John 4:7–8).
Love is the greatest commandment (Mt. 22:36-40)
Love is the greatest thing. (1 Cor. 13:1-3)
Without love, nothing matters. (Gal. 5:6)
The fruit of the Spirit is love. (Gal. 5:22)
IF we are to throw the sacred texts like weapons at people then please get it right.
Jesus has to be the interpretative key to everything in the Bible.
Jesus was asked this: "Teacher, what is the most important commandment in the Law?" Jesus answered:
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind. This is the first and most important commandment. The second most important commandment is like this one. And it is, "Love others as much as you love yourself." All the Law of Moses and the Books of the Prophets are based on these two commandments.
School of Love
How many years have you spent studying love? How many workshops, conferences, books, schools have you attended on love? We were never called to be church goers, or even Christians. We are called to be disciples. Disciples are students and our teacher Jesus, came to teach us about love.
I would like to see less doctrinal wrangling in the church and more love. Brian McLaren,
We are called to love
Jesus teaches us to love God and to love others. Imagine how the statistics of rape and domestic violence would fade away if we truly learned to just love our families? But He didn't stop there. He asks us to love the 'other'. The outsider, the outcast, the stranger, the alien, and even the enemy. With the SAME love. To treat EVERYONE the way that we want to be loved and the way that we want to be treated. There is not longer US and THEM there is only US.
How does this stack up with our behaviour, language, engagement and response toward the other? To refugees, muslims, LGBTI, homeless, other ethnicities. Is it loving? Jesus' rather clear teaching on love of enemies has been consistently ignored by all the mainline churches.
Conversation of love. "Tell me your story? What has life been like for you? Help me to understand. How can I support you, sit with you, listen to you? What breaks your heart? What is hurting right now?
We should see all people as brothers, sisters, neighbours, loving them as ourselves, standing with them in unity. Loving someone includes understanding them. Walking alongside them through all of life's ups and downs.
Think of your child, your grandchild, your partner, your best friend. You don't abandon them, or cut them off or turn your love off like a tap if they make a mistake or stumble. True love is selfless, it is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking.
John offers an insight that resolves the paradox: if you don't love your neighbor whom you have seen, you can't love God whom you have not seen (1 John 4:20). His words recall Jesus's own words: "Just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me" (Matthew 25:40). (Source)
"Sacred texts always maximize your possibilities for life and love, which is why we call them sacred. I am afraid we have for too long used the Bible merely to prove various church positions, which largely narrows their range and depth. Instead of transforming people, the Biblical texts became utilitarian and handy ammunition. Rohr.
Love for the other also extends to love for creation. When God told Noah to make an ark, is was not just to save humanity. It was to save all of creation. All the differences, paradoxes and opposites shut up inside a boat with the door locked. What a picture of the preservation and celebration of diversity and otherness.
In conclusion, I would have to say that love IS the only thing to consider. Love is enought. If I am wrong, then I will gladly be wrong on the side of love.
"Jesus does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do them". (Saint Therese of Lisieux)
"All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself because God is love". (St. Maria Teresa of the Cross [Edith Stein])
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How Men Face Their Trauma
This is an excellent read, tailored to men about how men heal from trauma. I found this really helpful. I hope that you do to. Lisa.
Sean Swaby tells his story of trauma and healing.
Ask a man if he has experienced any trauma and he will probably just shrug his shoulders. He will tell you he's never faced any of it, so go ask the next guy.
The reality is that most men have experienced some level of psychological trauma.
What is trauma?
Trauma can be defined as situational or chronic.
- Situational trauma is a car accident, one incident of harm or an overwhelming experience (such as witnessing someone being hurt, shot, or murdered).
- Chronic trauma is where a person experiences ongoing traumas that include (and are not limited to): emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse and even spiritual abuse. For a more exhaustive list, click here.
According to PTSD United, 70% of us have experienced at least one trauma. If you dig into the statistics, you soon realize…
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The Virtual Reformation
What is happening in the world today? Brilliant article by Jane Caro about how the world got into the state that it is in at the moment.
The Virtual Reformation
In this new 'Age of Anxiety', where the world's future appears unprecedentedly bleak and volatile, historical parallels between our times and the Protestant Reformation can draw some comfort – and some alarm.
In 2017 we live in a world that is gripped by fear.
Social researcher Hugh Mackay has dubbed our times an 'Age of Anxiety'. All the old certainties have been turned upside down and the only thing that we are told we can rely on is an ever-increasing pace of change.
To a jittery population that is cold comfort. In our existential dread we thrash about for people to blame: the left, the right, Muslims, refugees, feminists, believers, unbelievers, terrorists and that reliable old omnibus – political correctness. The one thing we all agree on is that the future looks alarming and unpredictable. We are, we believe, in uncharted waters.
But perhaps that is not so. Perhaps human beings have been through something like this before.
In 1440, Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press and changed the world. Prior to this technical marvel, every book had to be handwritten, predominantly by monks laboring in scriptoriums.
Information was controlled by a tiny number of educated scholars, most of whom were priests of the Catholic Church, and almost all books were Bibles. The rest of the population were mostly illiterate. Information was guarded zealously and people were woefully ignorant.
Those in power liked it that way. The many Bibles and religious texts that were laboriously produced by hand were written in Latin, a language ordinary people did not understand. When people participated in worship – and it was compulsory – religious ceremonies were conducted in that same dead language, with the priest behind a screen, his back to the congregation.
Worshippers were only permitted to participate in a pre-ordained, ritualistic manner. Indeed, it was one of the tenets of the Catholic Church that ordinary people should neither read the word of God nor pray to God directly. Their only contact with their maker had to be through a man of God: a priest.
Everything else was heresy. In this way, the priests and the Church controlled virtually all information for centuries. And through controlling information, of course, they also controlled the population.
In my other life, I have written a trilogy of young adult historical novels about Elizabeth I, and this has meant I had to research her life and times. As I did I began to see powerful resonances with the present.
Elizabeth Tudor's very existence was a direct consequence of the dramatic changes occurring within the power structures and organisation of the world at that time. Changes that were the result – as I suspect they always are – of a technological innovation.
In the 1500s it was the printing press. Elizabeth Tudor was born in 1533, during the tumult that followed the first information revolution. We are currently living through the second.
It was the invention of the printing press that gave rise to the Protestant Reformation. Suddenly, books (most of which remained Bibles) could be produced more rapidly and in greater numbers, and at much lower cost.
With more books available, supply created demand. People, particularly those with means, began to learn to read. Even before Martin Luther nailed his 'The 95 Theses' to the church door in 1517, cracks were beginning to appear in the ironclad control the Catholic Church had previously exercised over access to information and knowledge.
Even the language of knowledge started to change. Luther translated the Bible into the German vernacular, and William Tyndale translated it into English. Such was the Church's fear of the spread of information that both men were excommunicated. Tyndale was eventually condemned as a heretic. He was strangled and his body burnt at the stake.
But even in the face of such draconian consequences, the public continued to demand their own direct relationship with God and their right to read the Bible in their own language.
What people were really agitating for, perhaps, was access to information and knowledge. They were no longer willing to know only what the priestly class wanted them to know.
Elizabeth I's mother, Anne Boleyn, a devout and evangelical Protestant, is famous as the coquette who held a King's ardour at bay for a decade until he eventually made her Queen. It was Henry VIII's determination to get a divorce from his Catholic first wife, Catherine, so he could marry Anne that led to his countries' break with Rome and the establishment of the Protestant Church of England.
Henry was a Protestant for political, dynastic and sexual purposes, but Boleyn was a true believer. Her tenacious commitment to ideas, such as each Christian's right to a direct and personal relationship with God, was one of the reasons she made so many powerful enemies.
In response to the Protestant schism and the threat it posed to their power and control, the Catholic Church burnt heretics, hunted them down and tortured them. The Spanish Inquisition was formed to stamp out heresy. Huguenots were massacred in France and wars were fought between Protestant and Catholic nations. Elizabeth herself lived under a Catholic fatwa. (Protestants, of course, were brutal and fanatical, too.)
The Catholic Church had to learn to share power…with the growing secular society that emerged as a result of widening education.
None of it worked. The Catholic Church had to learn to share power. Not only with Protestants but with the growing secular society that emerged as a result of widening education. From ruling half the planet, to such an extent that Pope Alexander VI actually divided the new world in two and gave one half to the Spanish and the other to the Portuguese, Catholicism became just another branch of Christianity.
As education and knowledge spread, Enlightenment followed the Reformation, and then all the liberation movements that emerged thereafter, including the abolition of slavery, child labour, and increased rights for women. After all, if every man could have his own relationship with God, why not every woman? Why not every slave?
This democratisation of the word of God led inexorably to democracy itself; predicated on the idea that all men (even, perhaps, women) were created equal. Everyone ended up entitled to not just a relationship with God but with a vote and a say. One followed inevitably, I think, from the other. As those in power understand only too well, once a few difficult questions began to be asked, a great many more would follow.
The internet is at least as revolutionary as the printing press and we can already see the effect it is having on today's information gatekeepers. In the West, these are no longer the churches, although they battle on manfully.
The mainstream media, particularly newspaper proprietors – the high priests who used to set the daily political agenda – big business, banks, retailers and governments are all feeling the loss of control. Many are thrashing about in protest, trying to hold onto a power that they once acquired so effortlessly that they may have begun to see it as a divine right.
Now that everybody with a smart device has access to the media as well as the ability to create content themselves, things that used to be kept quiet are getting out; everyone can have a direct relationship with what used to be privileged information.
Most recently, WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden have brought that home to the powers that be in no uncertain terms. I can't help wondering if Julian Assange, Snowden and Chelsea Manning are the William Tyndales of our time. They can expect – and indeed have received – no mercy if they are.
Wherever you look in the modern world, old certainties are collapsing. Bricks and mortar retailers are struggling to hold onto customers and profits. The music industry has returned to concerts and touring to make money, not just because of internet piracy but because even when fans legally purchase their download, prices (and so profits) have collapsed. The troubadour, it seems, is back.
The same is true for books, films and TV. Advertisers are in a cold sweat about how to catch viewer's attention in these days of fragmenting media, Apple TV, Netflix, IQ, live pause and fast forward. Those that rely on making a profit to exist are badly shaken.
Rupert Murdoch began his attack on the new media landscape by berating public broadcasters like the BBC and ABC, aware that their publicly subsidised model allowed them to offer viewers much better service than his stations could afford. Public broadcasters are now under siege around the world.
Murdoch's desperation about holding on to the readers and viewers has led to staff at some of his newspapers using the new technology to break the law and invade the privacy of those who attract the attention of a fickle public. Arguably it is the sense of having lost control that drives people to take escalating risks.
Newspapers – direct products of the invention of the printing press – appear to be on the brink of extinction, at least in hard copy and on weekdays. And news stories no longer break on the evening news or in first-edition headlines, or even on radio. They break on Twitter, Instagram and on Facebook.
The witnesses to momentous events now upload their smart phone photos and videos instantly. Who needs an expensive camera crew anymore?
Newspapers – direct products of the invention of the printing press – appear to be on the brink of extinction.
Even that indomitable old dame feminism has found herself firmly back on the political agenda, thanks to women's unmediated voices on social media. When the women of India find the courage to march in the streets to protest the endemic rapes in that country because access to social media (even the poorest have smart phones) has at last given them a voice, you know the world is changing.
The current outpouring of rage by women over the treatment of the Stanford rapist is also an expression of the new capacity to speak up and speak out. LGBTQI activists are asserting their rights just as emphatically, further panicking those who see power as a zero sum game.
Polish women have marched in their thousands and gone on strike in their millions in protest against proposed draconian laws against abortion. Their combined voices are forcing politicians and church leaders to take notice.
The response of today's powerful class to their comprehensive loss of control mirrors that of the Catholic Church five hundred years ago. They are furious and they are fighting back.
Politics have moved sharply to the right. Only three decades ago, it was a conservative Fraser government in Australia that reacted with compassion and generosity to the first boat people from Vietnam. Today even Labor appears to be in some kind of competition with its conservative counterparts as to who can be most cruel.
The election of Donald Trump, the triumph of Brexit, the re-emergence of Pauline Hanson – all are signs of such fear-based responses.
It is human nature to react to a sense of losing control by clamping down twice as hard on anything you can control. Hence the triumph of the measurement-maniacs in areas such as health, education, government policy and management theory. I have even read an article touting a new quantitative process for 'objectively' measuring success in the arts.
Worse, what now goes by the once liberal term of 'reform' often looks much more like old fashioned authoritarian 'control' when scrutinised. As author C. J. Sansom warned in the preface to his dystopian novel Dominion, forget fascism and communism, what we may be facing now is the development of toxic democracies based on nationalism and xenophobia, both favourite boltholes for the frightened and insecure.
The election of Donald Trump, the triumph of Brexit, the re-emergence of Pauline Hanson – all are signs of such fear-based responses. If things feel out of our control, we turn to leaders who find us scapegoats to blame.
But it is in climate change denial that the powerful most resemble the Catholic Church of the 15th century. Faced with the literally earth-shattering realisation that the old economic model of continuous growth is starting to decline and that the planet's resources are not infinite, many of those running the world have reacted by closing their eyes and covering their ears.
Like the Inquisitors of old, they prefer to accuse climate scientists of heresy and conspiracy than listen. Using somewhat more subtle tactics than burning or torturing, they have still managed to intimidate many – including our public broadcasters – into a nervous silence or, at best, spurious attempts at balance.
Professor Brian Cox debating One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts on the ABC's Q&A was a recent example. I won't labour the point by mentioning Galileo, but you get the idea.
Of course, such tactics didn't work for the Catholic Church then and won't work for the powers that be now. But if history is any guide (and it's the only one we've got) we should expect the powerful to fight back hard and to fight dirty for some time before they bow to the inevitable.
The fear and loathing around debt and deficit, the constant pressure on public services, particularly those that serve the vulnerable, are examples of desperate attempts to take back control.
Living in a constant state of 'crisis' helps keep people docile. Frightening them into compliance by taking away social safety nets is another way, as is exhausting them by making jobs insecure and asking them to work until they drop.
Increasing the barriers to further education is another method of keeping control in the hands of the already privileged. Noam Chomsky put it like this in a speech on the cost of public education in May 2011:
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt they can't afford the time to think. Tuition fee increases are a disciplinary technique, and, by the time students graduate, they are not only loaded with debt, but have also internalised the disciplinarian culture. This makes them efficient components of the consumer economy.
I'm not saying political leaders have done all this consciously, or as some sort of conspiracy, but, as I was taught in my advertising career long ago, if you want to know why someone does something: follow the benefit.
The part of the world, however, where the impact of this latest information revolution may be most powerfully felt did not experience a reformation last time around.
As I was taught in my advertising career long ago, if you want to know why someone does something: follow the benefit.
We can see that already in what used to optimistically be called the Arab Spring. Not just the explosions of dissent in Egypt, Libya, Syria and, more surprisingly, Thailand and even Hong Kong, but also the general resurgence of fundamentalist Islam (and Christianity, for that matter) makes perfect sense when looked at through the prism of history.
In 15th century Europe the once all-powerful church tried – vainly, as it turned out – to shut down access to newly available information and to continue to control the population. In the 21st century, extreme anti-information movements, like the Taliban and Al Qaeda, Boko Haram and now ISIS, are attempting to do the same thing.
They will fail just as they did five hundred years ago. So will the authoritarians and the previously all-powerful information gatekeepers in the West. The only question is how long it will take until they do.
We do not have the same luxury in terms of time that we had in the 15th century. Climate scientists believe it may already be too late to cap global warming at two degrees and no one really wants to contemplate what effect uncontrollable global warming may have. Add to that the super-destructive weapons that technology has put into the hands of modern humans and I cannot help fearing what state the world may be left in once the virtual reformation has run its course.
In the words of George Santayana: 'Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.'
My only hope is we repeat them in a hurry.
Jane Caro is an author, novelist, journalist, broadcaster, columnist and social commentator. She spent thirty years as an advertising writer and her creative work has won many national and international awards. Her most recent book is Plain-Speaking Jane (2015).
Happy Fathers Day
Happy Fathers Day to all the Dads out there including my own and to my husband Philip.
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life. Dawn French
This is a simple DVD Tribute to Dads. Enjoy
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man. Ben Okri
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Over a Million Refugees Reached Europe by Sea in 2015, the U.N. Says
More than 80% landed in Greece, with most of the rest making landfall in Italy
You can also read more about the issue and the work of Samaritans Purse here.
Friday Arts Day: Treatment
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Posted: 28 Oct 2015 01:47 AM
Come to this amazing art tour of the Western Treatment Plant!
It's free and going to be awesome and will fill up fast. I've created Scratch'n'Sniff cards and a new video work that I'm excited about. The other artists are Catherine Bell, Megan Evans (whose work I'm in love with), Shane McGrath, Techa Noble and Spiros Panigarakis. The whole thing has been curated by David Cross and Cameron Bishop. Here's the details:
The TREATMENT project has enabled six artists to explore and interpret the Western Treatment Plant.
The project tour provides an opportunity to explore the landscape, history, science and innovation at the Western Treatment Plant through art. Organised by Deakin University School of Communication and Creative Arts, and supported by Melbourne Water and Wyndham City Council, the artists have spent six months exploring the plant's sights, sounds, textures and even smell to create their artwork.
Their artworks will be temporarily displayed at the plant during November with the free bus tours being used to move the audience throughout the site.
The art tour will be run over two days:
Dates: Saturday 14th & 21st November 2015
Bus Tour Times: 10am, 11.30am, 1pm, 2.30pm and 4pm. Tours are 80 minutes.
Location: WTP Discovery Centre, New Farm Road, Werribee
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Mark Poole explores current plans to restructure the Scottish Premier League, but are TV demands too much of a stumbling block?
In an effort to halt the decline in interest, revenue and quality in the game, the Scottish Premier League is working on a blueprint to restructure the competition. They recognise that the current format, with the 12-team top flight that splits into two after everyone's played each other three times, isn't working. The SPL will only confirm that they are looking at various options, including the possibility of an expansion and play-offs, and that no further details can be discussed until later this year.
Many fans favour a return to a simple league of 18 or 20 teams, just like before the Premier Division was introduced in the 1970s, because the monotony of playing the same teams four times every season is one of the main factors turning them off the game. But, because of TV money, they're unlikely to get their wish. Although SPL broadcasting revenue is less than a third of what it was nine years ago, the league and the clubs seem unwilling to risk it further by having fewer than the four Old Firm fixtures Sky demand each season; the four Old Firm games a season that are making one of the world's biggest grudge matches the one thing no one ever thought it could ever be – boring.
So the far more likely option would be to continue with a format that includes the artificial split, either tweaking it or undertaking a far more radical overhaul. Both would be likely to involve appropriating some of the lower-league teams – who are currently governed by the Scottish Football League – into an expanded and oft-discussed two-tier SPL, of between 24 and 28 clubs.
The tweaked version would probably involve two divisions of 14, with the SPL1 sides all playing each other twice before splitting into a top six and bottom eight, for two more games against the teams they're left with, possibly with some sort of relegation and promotion play-off. The teams in SPL2 would all play each other three times. While an increase in the number of teams that could be promoted and relegated each season would be a step in the right direction, it's hard to see what other benefits this format would bring over the current failed model.
The more radical overhaul springs from the drawing board of Hearts managing director Campbell Ogilvie. Earlier this year he proposed – and you may want to take a deep breath before reading on – two divisions of 12, in which all the teams play each other twice before the bottom four from SPL1 join the top four from SPL2 to form what I like to call SPL1½, before everyone plays each other two more times.
All the points the SPL1½ teams have accumulated in their first 22 games are wiped out, with the top four promoted to SPL1 and the bottom four relegated to SPL2 on the basis of just their final 14 games. Which may or may not be fair. And what would the teams left at the bottom of SPL1 with no hope of securing a European spot have left to play for in their last 14 games if they can't be relegated? Or the top teams left in SPL2 if they can't be promoted? Would this new structure make you more interested in Scottish football?
Of course a new league format is only one part of a bigger picture and couldn't solve the biggest problem, as identified by former first minister Henry McLeish's recent Scottish Football Review – lack of investment at the grassroots of the game and a consequent lack of talent. But an 18- or 20-team top flight would bring a break from the mind-numbing predictability that's putting supporters off. When you've lost eight times against Celtic or Rangers last season, do you want to see them again? How much enthusiasm can Hearts fans muster for four more Kilmarnock or Motherwell fixtures after playing them each 40 times in the last decade?
Most of the teams that would join an expanded top flight are established and well known and should acquit themselves well against most of the current SPL sides. Ross County and Raith Rovers competed in the Scottish Cup semi-finals last season, Queen of the South were in the final a couple of seasons before that, Falkirk knocked Hearts out of the League Cup just a couple of weeks ago. Like Falkirk, Dundee, Partick Thistle and Dunfermline all have recent SPL experience.
And a bigger top flight would diminish the ever-present nightmare threat of relegation for many SPL sides, enabling them to ditch defensive tactics and make concrete plans for the future rather than taking short-term measure after short-term measure, in a desperate struggle to avoid that financial trap door. But the final decision comes down to the clubs. And while there's any Sky money left on the table, it doesn't matter what the fans want.
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Deborah brings a wealth of insight into both the public and private sectors from her prior experience as general counsel to the Research Triangle's regional transit authority, from a decade spent in private practice focusing on infrastructure, energy and utilities and from her leadership of a statewide nonprofit organization and her longstanding service to the state of North Carolina as an elected representative. She also taught for more than a decade as a Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke University School of Law and worked as an ethics consultant for the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke.
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Deborah's commitment to the community runs deep. She assists the Green Chair Project, regularly speaks to groups across North Carolina, and is an advisory member for the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition.
Honors & Awards
- Recipient, "Women in Business" Award by Triangle Business Journal (2018)
- Fellow, University of North Carolina Institute of Politics (Fall 2017)
- Recognized as a "Citizen Lawyer" by the North Carolina Bar Association (2014)
- Defender of the Environment, NC League of Conservation Voters (2013)
- Defender of Justice, NC Justice Center (2012)
- Legislator of the Year, Southeast Association of Telecommunications Officers & Advisors (2012)
- Honorary Doctorate in Public Administration, Peace College, Raleigh, NC (2011)


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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine production minister Dante Sica said on Monday that U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement he would re-impose tariffs on aluminum and steel exports from the country was "unexpected" and he was seeking talks with U.S. counterparts.
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Don't Ignore
This week, April 22-29th marks National Infertility Awareness Week here in the U.S. The theme from Resolve, the nation's infertility association is Don't Ignore. I love the theme, it resonates with us doesn't it? Infertility is such an intimate, private issue making it hard to voice how we feel (even to our spouses), wouldn't you agree? So since we don't voice how we feel, even though our emotions are 'telling all', we sense we're forgotten. It's what I call 'suffering silently, but screaming loudly.'
The only way not to feel ignored is to make our voices heard. I realize it's hard to do when we're in the gripping emotional state of infertility. So instead of posting a prayer for today I thought I'd include some helpful links, information you can pass on to your family and friends. I don't know if you are like me but at times I've found it easier to express how I feel through writing instead of speaking. Feel free to print out the links below and share it with your family member or friend.
What is infertility? http://www.resolve.org/infertility-overview/what-is-infertility/
Infertility Etiquette for Family and Friends: https://dancinguponbarrenland.com/infertility-etiquette-what-to-do/family-response/
In the meantime please take a moment and read Psalm 139:1-18.
Most of all, I want you to know you are not ignored by your Heavenly Father. He is not ignorant to the fact of your suffering, nor does He ignore your hearts' cry or turn away from your anguish. He loves you with an everlasting love!
I'm asking God to wrap His loving arms around you today and continue to pray for you. Hang in there and I will too!
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Dear Lesli & All Readers…
I pray today that you feel like God listens to you. I pray that you are keenly aware of how closely He hears your cries. I pray that He will hold you close & make you feel important. I pray for those that are around you to be compassionate and understanding. I pray for YOU!
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I pinned these cuties last year on Pinterest, but I never got around to making them until this year. They were simple to make and the kids (and adults) loved them. Any flavor cupcakes and white icing will work for these, but I used chocolate cupcakes and peppermint icing.
Snowmen Cupcakes
Source: Cupcakes Take the Cake via Pinterest
Batch of Cupcakes (any flavor)
White Icing (any flavor)
1 cup Sparkling White Sanding Sugar
Chocolate Chips (2 per each cupcake)
Mini Chocolate Chips (5–6 per each cupcake)
Orange Sprinkles (1 per each cupcake)
Bake cupcakes and let cool. Ice the tops with white icing.
Dip the tops of the icing into the sanding sugar until covered.
Press 2 chocolate chips for eyes, 1 orange sprinkle for a nose, and 5–6 mini chocolate chips for a mouth into each cupcake.


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As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I love archeology and would have enjoyed the work immensely, but there is no time in this life to do the things I would ever want. It was the above figurine which caught my attention which was unearthed in Samaria on the border of Tyre and who the experts thought it was.
Because Carbon-14 dating cannot give a more exact date for the statue's creation other than sometime in the 9th century, the field of potential candidates is large. Yahalom-Mack posited it could be kings Ben Hadad or Hazael of Damascus, Ahab or Jehu of Israel, or Ithobaal of Tyre, all characters appearing in the biblical narrative.
I did a quick inquiry on the figurine and it points to this is Jehu, the namesake of President Donald Trump. Interesting it appeared in 2017 when Donald John took power.
For those who are faithful readers they will remember the reliefs this blog published not that long ago as to the face of Jehu, interestingly, the relief matches the above.
This kind of creating figurines was denounced in the Bible and warned of as idolatry. For this to be Jehu is most interesting as it violates the Law and yet there seems to have been a sort of Jehu doll available.
Jehu was supposed to execute all of these sins away, and yet it is known that he failed in removing the system that God chose him to remove.
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AKRON — On Thursday, University of Akron President Matthew Wilson was named a finalist for the same position at Utah Valley University.
"The Board was aware that President Wilson might be included in a different university's search for a president," said Roland H. Bauer, Chair of UA's Board of Trustees, in a media release. "We wish him well in this current opportunity. As we have stated previously, we — the Board and University of Akron leadership — are focused on building on our many strengths, addressing our challenges and making UA even more distinctive. That commitment is shown in our expedited process to select someone to serve as interim president, and it will enable us to have a smooth transition and launch a national search."
Utah Valley University posted on its website that Wilson was one of four finalists to become the university's next president. The other finalists include Bradley J. Cook, the current provost at Southern Utah University; John Rosenberg, the Washington Irving Professor of Spanish and American Relations at Brigham Young University; and Astrid S. Tuminez, the regional director for corporate, external and legal affairs in Southeast Asia for Microsoft.
The four finalists are scheduled to meet with the public April 19.
The new Utah Valley University president will take over from current President Matthew S. Holland, who has taken a position as a mission president in the North Carolina Raleigh Mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints starting in July 2018. He will leave June 2018. Holland has been with UVU since 2009.
Wilson also had been one of the four final candidates for the president's seat at the University of Central Florida. UCF named Dale Whittaker, its current provost and executive vice president, the next head of the university.
Regardless of whether Wilson gets the position in Utah, he will step down as The University of Akron president on July 31, a decision that was announced in late March. According to information provided by the university, Wilson plans to re-join the faculty in the university's law school.
Wilson, who lives in Hudson, was named the university's 17th president in October 2016, after serving as interim president for about three months, according to information provided by The University of Akron. He replaced Dr. Scott L. Scarborough, who served from July 2014 to May 2016.
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With bluegrass in their DNA, brothers Ronnie and Rob McCoury push the genre forward in the tradition of their legendary father, Del McCoury. Fiddler Jason Carter, bassist Alan Bartram, and guitarist Cody Kilby joined the brothers in 2009 to form the Travelin' McCourys, which was awarded the 2018 Instrumental Group of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association. Additionally, Ronnie has received the IBMA Mandolin Player of the Year for eight consecutive years. The band released their self-titled debut album in May 2018.
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Hi All,
When viewed in Firefox on a Mac, the drop down menu works perfectly. I am having a problem with my navigation when viewed in Safari on a Mac. I am not sure about how things function on a PC.
When viewed in Safari, the drop down menu appears unaligned with the buttons it corresponds to. For example, on the following page http://www.oharenoise.org/new/mission.htm when you mouseover "About Us" the corresponding menu shows up under "Home."
The other problem (only in Safari, as far as I know) I am having occurs on the homepage, viewed here. When you mouseover "About Us", "Newsroom", "Residential", "School" or "Technical" the drop-down menu appears in front of the Flash slideshow perfectly, until the slide changes pictures and then the menu falls behind the slide.
Any idea why either of these issues are occurring?


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Mechatronics Repair Kit S-TRONIC 0b5 398 048 D Audi A4 A5 A6 A7 Q5 Dl501 DCT. The description of this item has been automatically translated. Repair Kit for Audi Mechatronics. 0 B-5 transmission (DL501). Repair Kit (0 B 5 398 048 D). Repair Kit for head slide for slide box. > Sensor module PCB1 and PCB2 with screws. 1 set of fasteners for printed. 1 x solenoid valve N436 (valve of 4 in 1 part transmission–> for pressure control). 1 x magnetic valve N440 (valve 4 in the part 2–> for pressure control). 1 x Megnetventil N471 (valve for cooling). Various seals and screens for solenoid valves. The is in this repair kit unfortunately solenoid N472 not included. This solenoid valve you can also individually to order. And there's the suitable oil change Kit. Fits the following vehicles. The EU number is available in the vehicle behind the letter K. Audi A4 (B8) built from 11/2007 – EU no. Audi A4 (B8) year 11/2015 – EU no. E1 2001 / 116 0430 35… E13 2007/46 1084 19… Audi A5 (B8) built from 11/2007 – EU no. Audi A6 (4 G) built from 02/2011 – EU no. Audi A6 allroad (4 G) built from 05/2012 – EU no. Audi A7 (4 G / 4 G 1) year 12/2010 – EU no. Audi Q5 (8R / 8R1 / 8R2) built from 11/2008 – EU no. Audi S4 (B8) built from 11/2007 – EU no. Audi S5 (B8) built from 11/2007 – EU no. Audi S6 (4 G) built from 08/2011 – EU no. Audi S7 (4 G) year 12/2010 – EU no. Audi SQ5 (8R / 8R1) built from 11/2008 – EU no. Please indicate always your automotive data when ordering! Or key numbers in the vehicle registration number 2.1 and 2.2. Are you not sure? More alloy wheels automotive parts or TPMS sensors on request. Comes complete with invoice and from U. We are obliged to packaging of our products bearing not the mark of a system of comprehensive disposal (such as the "green dot" Duales system Germany AG or the "RESY" icon), in accordance with the provisions of the Ordinance to to take back and their reuse or disposal to ensure. We call you then a municipal Collection point or a waste disposal company in your Environment that accepts the packaging free of charge. This should be cannot be, have the Possible, on the packaging to send us. The packaging of us again used or in accordance with the provisions of Disposed of the German packaging Ordinance. 0B5 398 009 C. 0B5 398 009 D. 0B5 927 413 B. 0B5 927 807 C. The item "Mechatronics Repair Kit S-TRONIC 0b5 398 048 D Audi A4 A5 A6 A7 Q5 Dl501 DCT" is in sale since Saturday, December 1, 2018. This item is in the category "Vehicle Parts & Accessories\Car Parts\Transmission & Drivetrain\Gearboxes & Gearbox Parts". The seller is "comzu-shop_de" and is located in Pfarrweisach. This item can be shipped to all countries in Europe.
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AuthorBaize, Sheila J.
Issue Date1990
AdvisorStreitmatter, Janice
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AbstractThe purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between high school interscholastic athletic team participation and self-esteem when considering three indexes of academic achievement. A self-report student survey was designed to elicit demographic and academic achievement information, including gender, ethnicity, grade point average, number of missed school days, and number of behavioral referrals during the last school year. Additionally, the Rosenberg (1965) Self-Esteem Scale and the Savin-Williams and Demo (1983) Self-Esteem Inventory were incorporated to measure levels of self-esteem. The sample included 477 seniors from two comprehensive high schools in southwest Arizona, evenly split across gender and athletic status (participant and non-participant). Analyses of the data indicated that both the Rosenberg and Savin-Williams self-esteem measures yielded similar results in that males scored significantly higher than females on the self-esteem measures, and that students participating in high school interscholastic athletics scored significantly higher than did non-participating students. In examining the data when considering the indexes of academic achievement, females, on average, have higher GPA's than males, and high school athletes have significantly higher GPA's than their non-participating peers. Results also reported that males miss fewer school days than females, and athletic participants miss significantly fewer school days than non-participants. Additionally, on average, males receive more behavioral referrals than females, and again, athletic participants scored significantly better than non-participants as they also receive fewer behavioral referrals. In knowing that self-esteem differences exist, additional analyses focused upon the indexes of academic achievement while controlling for these known self-esteem differences. Results indicated that when factoring out the self-esteem differences the same results were maintained. Students participating in high school athletics have higher self-esteem scores, maintain higher grade point average, miss fewer school days, and receive fewer behavioral referrals.
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Degree NameEd.D.
Degree Leveldoctoral
Degree ProgramTeaching and Teacher Education
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Let the iTunes-ization of short fiction begin.
Starting on Monday, Amazon will sell two stories, one by Christopher Buckley and the other by Edna O'Brien, through its Kindle store. The stories have been selected and edited by the staff at The Atlantic, the venerable magazine that once published short fiction in its print pages monthly.
Priced at $3.99 each, the stories, which will bear the Atlantic logo, are exclusively available on the Kindle, Amazon's electronic reader, and will not appear in the print version of the magazine. The Atlantic's editors plan to offer about two Kindle stories every month.
Scott Stossel, deputy editor of The Atlantic, said the new arrangement would allow the magazine to offer more stories than it can in its annual fiction issue, and to make a little extra money. The magazine, founded in 1857, stopped publishing monthly fiction in 2005.
Mr. Stossel said the new Kindle format would allow writers to experiment with work that was either too long for a magazine or too short for a traditional book. In the age of the Kindle, Mr. Stossel said, "you can do publishing that's not constrained by the limitations and costs of the printed page."
Mr. Buckley's story, "Cynara," a coming-of-age tale about two young men working on a charter sailboat in the early 1970s, is 15,000 words, a length that would have been prohibitive for The Atlantic in its print edition, but most likely too short for a book deal.
"Sure, ideally, I would like it printed on archival paper and bound in red morocco with gold embossed for a limited edition and signed by the author," Mr. Buckley said. But if the Kindle edition "grabs some eyeballs and I guess grabbing eyeballs is what the Internet is all about then I'm all for it."
Russ Grandinetti, the vice president who handles Kindle content at Amazon, said this was the first deal with a magazine publisher to select short stories for sale. This year Stephen King wrote a short story exclusively for Kindle, dealing directly with Amazon.
The authors with the Atlantic agreement have been paid a four-figure fee and will split sale proceeds with both The Atlantic and Amazon. Although the authors may at some point obtain the rights to republish the stories as part of a collection or in another magazine, the stories cannot appear in any other e-reader format.
On amazon.com, readers who search for the authors' books will also be shown links to the Atlantic-branded short stories.
Mr. Grandinetti said Amazon was keen to do other similar deals, either with magazines, publishers or authors directly. "Whether it's authors or publishers, I think there are a lot of short stories that now can be released as individual titles," he said.
For authors who sign with The Atlantic for the Kindle deal, their contracted work is limited to that one format, since those who don't own a Kindle — or an iPhone, on which readers can install a Kindle app — won't be able to read it. But Curtis Sittenfeld, the author of the novels "Prep" and "American Wife," who sold a short story to The Atlantic that will be offered for the Kindle in January, said that had she sold it to a small academic journal, it would have had "limited distribution anyway."
For Ms. O'Brien, one of Ireland's best-known writers, the Kindle deal drags her into the 21st century. Ms. O'Brien, who writes all her novels, stories and plays longhand, then dictates them to a typist, said she had never even seen a Kindle.
She submitted her story "Shovel Kings," about the lives of Irish workers who dug the tunnels for the London Underground, to her agent to see if she could get a traditional print deal. Instead, The Atlantic offered her the Kindle opportunity.
"I'm totally open to acquainting myself with all that's modern out there," she said.


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May 15, 2018
What do breast cancer and pension age have to do with one another? Let alone with a tech startup? The answer lies in letters or, more generally, situations where women continue to be at a disadvantage.
Letters? In two recent headline cases, letters, which were supposed...
January 11, 2018
Some people complain to their friends, some take to Twitter, others write to their MPs. The NHS is the pride and letdown of many users and staff. However when founders Rob and Tom decided they'd had enough of personal experiences and news stories highlighting seemingly...
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Most people know the feeling, furtively typing into some search engine when you just don't feel right. The hope that scepticism will kick in when the results give them symptoms aligning with that of some serious condition. You roll your eyes when you read another tablo...
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The election campaigns are over for the time being but the real issues that they were fought on, particularly the NHS, rumble on in the background as politicians haggle for complex intra- and extra-party deals. A selection of facts from recent publications...
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On 12 May 2017, just after 4pm UK time, news that various NHS Trusts had been affected by a ransomware attack broke across major media channels. News channels had previously been engulfed in every incremental development of the general election campaigns and the sackin...
November 16, 2016
We are delighted to announce that we have been selected to join the Startup programme at the Open Data Institute.
The ODI was founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Nigel Shadbolt in 2012 and its mission is to connect, equip and inspire people around the world to innov...


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Alex: Matauranga MaoriJuly 28, 2011
I checked out books from the library for the first time today.
So I was at the library this afternoon, struggling to find the books I was looking for, when I saw one of the books was marked in the system as being in the Matauranga Maori section. I had no idea what matauranga meant (it means education, knowledge). So I wandered around the first floor of the library when I noticed it: half of the floor set back and labeled with a large sign beckoning from the drop ceiling "Marautanga Maori."
I ended up only taking two books on ta moko home with me. Voracious as I am, I know myself and I know that if I could only have them for a month, I may accidentally skip homework in favor of pouring myself into these books. Upon arriving at home I had to once again restrain myself from tearing open my backpack like a child on Christmas morning. I dutifully did my homework, and then sat down and devoured an entire book just this evening. My hunger was so great I totally forgot myself, I had no conception of the passing time. As it turns out, my hunger was actually so great because I had forgotten to eat anything.


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The Tunisian campaign of the cultural and academic boycott of Israel claims, a bit improbably, that a vessel under the Turkish flag regularly transported containers from the port of Haifa to Tunisia through the Spanish city of Valencia, working the the huge Israeli shipping company Zim.
Electronic Intifada last week said that the Zim website mentioned the planned itinerary of the Cornelius A ship to land in the port of Radès. The Zim webpage does not say anything about that now; the current news articles say that they erased the itinerary.
But it seems unlikely that the Tunisian navy stopped the ship. According to the Marine Traffic website, the Cornelius A was last in Algericas on Sunday and is now in the middle of the Mediterranean, nowhere near Tunisia.
The real story is probably that Tunisian BDS pressured the government to not allow the ship to dock, the Turkish company came up with an alternative plan and nothing dramatic happened at sea.
The story says that the ship was originally scheduled to land in Tunisia on Sunday.
The Tunisian boycott initiative expressed its deep satisfaction at what it described as aborting a "serious normalization process with an institution of the Israeli regime."
Tunisian BDS group TACBI issued a bizarre statement that "Since its establishment in 1945, ZIM has transferred Israeli settlers from around the world to occupied Palestine." Their problem with ZIM isn't "occupation" but the fact that originally it saved hundred of Jews and helped transport them to the Land of Israel.
TACBI also claims that ZIM "plays an important role in transferring weapons and equipment to the occupation army to use in its wars and massacres against the Palestinian people."


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Green Zing! Potato Salad
We went to a potluck this weekend, and brought the quintessential picnic dish: Potato Salad using Z&B Green Zing! The Zing! and lemon juice really made the flavors pop and contrasted well with the creaminess in the dressing. And roasting the potatoes—instead of boiling them—created great flavor and texture.
It's also very leftover-friendly if you have potatoes you've already roasted, or have other veggies you'd like to mix and match! Also, if you've already made the Green Zing! Sour Cream from the Z&B 'zine, you can use 1 ½ batches of that as the dressing here. Easy peasy!
Here's how I made this Green Zing! Potato Salad:
Pro tip: if you combine when the potatoes are still hot, they absorb more of the flavors of the dressing!
Hope you try this easy and tasty dish at your next potluck, picnic, or cookout! Let us know how you like it!
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Sigh... I've proven to myself once again that I need to always draw to keep my skill developing, otherwise I fall a few steps short and need to start it all again.
Apparently to be a genius at anything you need to clock in 10,000 hours of it which can be narrowed down to 3 hours a day... FOR 10 YEARS. Of course my first thought after hearing that is if I do 6 hours a day it'll go down to 5 years, that's alright, I'll be 31 by then.. oh god.
I've noticed since the drawing course in Italy last year I've lost most of my patience when drawing, I rush into it whilst I used to be so about the details it was meditative.
I've decided I need to be good at calligraphy in order to be a good designer.
I'm also fantisizing about going into fashion designing and being able to sew any kind of clothing I wish.
For that I've decided I need to know how to draw fashion poses and garments. Specifically I've been thinking about drawing models that are plus size as it seems right.
By making a decision now and sticking to skills set I need to develop, who knows, I might be a somebody whose face you don't know but whose name you can't forget. ha!


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|The Price Faculty of Engineering offers opportunities for your company and your employees to participate in courses and programs led by our Engineers-in-Residence. These courses are offered to industry participants as Short Courses1, delivered concurrently as technical electives with senior undergraduate students. Industry participants will receive either a Letter of Participation or a Letter of Accomplishment upon completion of the course. However, industry participants should note that, apart from Fluid Power Systems, these courses do not lead to University credit.
Advanced Graphical Communications is structured around Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T), an advanced graphical communications tool which concisely communicates design intent via 2-D and 3-D drawings. GD&T is a powerful tool in a long-term strategy of design, manufacturing, and quality excellence. In accordance with the ASME Y14.5-2009 Dimensioning and Tolerancing standard, the hierarchy, application and tolerance zones for location, orientation, size and form controls will be covered. Originally developed for mechanical engineering, GD&T is widely used in aerospace engineering and is growing in civil, electrical and electronics engineering. Course content will be reinforced through drawing creation and drawing checking assignments. Participation is via a multi-year funding agreement between the University and your organization by which you can then send two employees/year to the course, or on a per-seat basis without an ongoing funding agreement. For details, contact Engineer-in-Residence Jim Sykes, P.Eng.
|The Applied Aerospace Instrumentation course will provide you with a practical understanding of the role that measurement plays in today's technologically advanced world. Though geared towards aerospace test system instrumentation (with a particular focus on the gas turbine engine industry), this course is of interest to anyone who wants to learn more about the design, implementation, and analysis of the measurement chain. The goal of this course is to introduce you to the design and deployment of measurement systems and all elements of the measurement chain – from sensors, to signal conditioning, to data display. Through practical, industry-based projects, you will gain an understanding of how to apply a measurement system design methodology and how to measure system accuracy. Participation is via a per-seat fee. For details, contact Engineer-in-Residence Kathryn Atamanchuk, P.Eng.
|The Fluid Power Systems: Operation, Circuit Design and Applications course considers the operating principles and performance of standard fluid power components such as pumps, motors, valves, cylinders, etc. Using standard components, appropriate circuits are designed and calculations made to match components with operating conditions in typical fluid power applications. Hydrostatic transmissions, cavitation, accumulators, pump controls for energy conservation, hydraulic fluids and filtration are also covered. Participation is via a per-seat fee. For details, contact Engineer-in-Residence Vlad Kowalyk, P.Eng.
In the Operational Excellence course, participants methodically apply operational excellence and engineering principles and theory to address real industry problems. The emphasis is on the data and fact-based engineering method of problem solving. The course is grounded in the Plan-Do-Study-Act system, covering the seven-step problem solving method (Problem Definition, Examine the Current Situation, Root Cause Analysis, Action Planning and Testing, Study the Results, Standardize the changes and Draw Conclusions), applied statistical concepts (Lean Six Sigma Management), and the fundamentals of teamwork, team dynamics and change management applied to current engineering problems. Participation is via a multi-year funding agreement between the University and your organization, by which you can then send two employees/year to the course and have student teams work on your internal operational excellence challenges. For details, contact Engineer-in-Residence Vern Campbell, P.Eng.
|1 - In the University's taxonomy of non-degree programs, Short Courses/Programs are administered at the unit level (Price Faculty of Engineering) with requirements set by the unit. Completion leads to a Letter of Accomplishment where work is formally evaluated and a Letter of Participation where work is not formally evaluated. Courses do not result in University credit.


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Something worth FIGHTING for!
When I started at the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults about 4 years ago, one of my first projects was to work with Kelly Lance in our office to help build what is now TEAM FIGHT. Needless to say … Continue reading
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Cycle cross country for the young adult cancer fight!
Several months ago, I was introduced to an amazing organization that has been doing unbelievable work in our backyard and in the cancer community since 2002. It's called 4K for Cancer and they are changing the way college students fight … Continue reading


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Hi guys!
In this article I'm going to talk about a 'problem' that involves most people and I'll give you some advice.
Have you eaten too much during the last Christmas holidays?
What about all your efforts to lose weight?
I'm going to give you some advice to get back in shape and return to the 'glories' of early December! Just follow a healthy, balanced diet, preferably detoxifying, for at least ten days. Have at least five regular meals every day, adding fibers to your dishes: sugars and carbohydrates should be limited, so put aside bread and pasta. 😉
- BREAKFAST: breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and needs to be addressed very carefully. Try with a cup of milk or a green tea, or a barley coffee, add one low-fat yogurt and slices of whole meal bread with jam or honey.
- SNACK: mid-morning have a snack with a seasonal fruit: a tangerine, or an apple.
- LUNCH: follow your snack with a hearty lunch, but light!Many vegetables and very few seasoning. Try to eat regularly, but in smaller portions and especially without fried food, oil or salt.
- SNACK: For the mid-afternoon snack the same as before: choose a seasonal fruit.
- DINNER: For dinner, choose from various soups, maybe a vegetable soup or a mixed salad.
It is also very important never to skip a meal during the day. To lose weight you have to eat five times a day, preferably at the same times, and you should never skip a meal. Do not forget to practice at least a little physical activity: a diet alone is not enough.
Try to go to the gym or to the pool, or maybe just have a long walk every day. Following these little tips with good humor and smiles you'll get back in shape in no time. It's a promise! 🙂


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Friday, November 18, 2016
Truth Matters Whether We Like It or Not
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- Tom YahneNovember 18, 2016 at 11:15 AM
You made some very good points, and you are correct that if you dig deeper into research, you have a 'better' chance of finding the truth. Generally, I feel Snopes & TruthorFiction do very good jobs on most subjects, but many times they findings are through other articles wriiten that could be untrue, and sometimes they canfind enough information to confirm or deny it.ReplyDelete
Also, Hillary Clinton has had followers ever since she was the First Lady in the White House. She has dreamed of being the first woman president for a long time. (Actually, that is the main reason I have believed that her and Bill stayed together... that plus the money). There is nothing wrong with having a woman president, just like there was nothing wrong with having an African American president. And I would actually like nothing better than to vote a woman for president, as long as I believe her to be the 'best' candidate. Believe, I have never liked Trump from the day I first heard his name and reseached about him. He has done some good things, many bad things too. But my logic dictated that he was saying somethings, that he did not firmly believe deep down inside of him. He's a little like me in the fact that he can not answer things off the top of his heard. And many of the things he proposed will never be able to come to life because of the other politicians.Replies
Yes, certainly both Clinton and Trump have had fans and followers for years. But there wasn't the depth of partisan rift that the 2016 election spurred.Delete